Riley McGranahan
From Np Hogwarts
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Riley McGranahan
- Name: Riley Anne Sophia Marie McGranahan
- Bloodine: Pureblood
- Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
- Class: Upper
- Year: 7th
- House: Slytherin
- Wand: Hawthorne and Sphinx tail hair, 8 1/2 inches
Hawthorn is well-suited for all protective magic and all magic aimed at strengthening one's magical powers, spells of control, or warding, sending, detection, concealment and psychic protection. A sphinx tail hair is not often used in wands, for Sphinx's are very temperamental about that sort of thing. But a wand with this core is exceptional for aggressive sorts of magic; curses, hexes, jinxes and the like.
Personality
Riley isn’t exactly what one would call stable. She physically cannot trust anyone, and hates almost everyone she meets on principle. She was raised to believe that no one was worthy of her, especially not Muggles or Mudbloods. She will, however, pretend to like purebloods because it makes her look good, and nothing is more important to her than her image. She will also do anything to get what she wants. Short of murdering someone, that is. She’s downright cruel to those she feels are inferior, and will never hide her anger. She has a tendency to lose all self-control about the same time she loses her temper, and this has resulted in her doing a lot of rather stupid things. Like fight people who are bigger than her. She’s been in the hospital wing more times than she can remember.
On top of all these flaws, her major one is her fear of commitment. Her mother died and her father’s heart broke to the point he couldn’t love anymore, not even her, so he more or less abandoned her. Ever since, she’s been absolutely terrified that the same thing will happen to her and she’ll get hurt. Therefore she pushes everyone away and refuses to get close to a soul. She’s had a large amount of flings, but never anything important.
Overall, Riley sees herself as a strong girl. She’s never been affected by what people think or say about her. She’s kept herself from being hurt for years. She’s quite talented at getting her way, even if it means manipulating people in the process. She’s not afraid to stand up for what she believes in, and always voices her opinions unless it suits her better interests to keep her mouth shut.
However, each of these strengths are also her weakness. She keeps people away so she doesn’t get hurt, but she’s also never truly happy. She manipulates people, including her friends, so she can trust no one. She figures if she can be this petty and dishonest, then anyone can. She’s very blunt, and almost always tells people the truth about themselves, but in general people don’t like the truth. They’d much rather have everything sugar coated for them. Her biggest weakness, however, is her fear of commitment. And while most guys would love a girl like her (an easy lay, no strings attached), this fear causes her to push the guys that would be good for her away, and she’s missing out on a lot of the good things in life, such as love.
Physical Description
Shoulder length brown hair with blonde chunks, although she likes to change her hair color on random whims. Sometimes it might be blonde, sometimes brown. It depends on her mood. Ah, the wonders of cosmetic charms. Hazel eyes. Very short. About 4’10”. Maybe. She’s rather fair skinned, because she physically can not tan. She’s also ridiculously thin, to the point of looking unhealthy. It’s not that she doesn’t eat. In fact, she eats more than most girls can. She just never gains weight.
History
The only child of purebloods Gerald and Scarlett McGranahan, Riley grew up rather spoiled. She had the best of everything. Her mother more or less let Riley do whatever she wanted because she wanted her daughter to truly live her life before she was forced to marry and have children. Riley was always closer to her mother than her father because her mother was so open and caring and her father was so strict. Sadly, her mother was murdered when she was 10. Her murderers were (or so she was told) unprovoked Mudbloods, and if she didn’t hate them before, she certainly did now. She didn’t know that her parents were Death Eaters until she was older and the prejudice was so deeply pressed into her that she couldn’t even consider that her mother might have been wrong. Ever since the death of his wife, Riley’s father has kept his daughter at a distance. It wasn’t that he didn’t love her. Oh no. He was scared of getting attached and then losing her as well. Riley didn’t see it that way. She felt like he abandoned her. That he didn’t love her because she wasn’t worthy of love. Hence she became terrified of commitment and was determined to never fall in love.
Riley is incredibly jealous of her cousin Samantha Jones. This smudge on her mother’s pristinely pure bloodline had a loving family. People who cared about her. She was happy. And Riley, who’d done everything a proper witch should, was alone and miserable. She more or less tortured the poor girl the whole time they were growing up. And continues to do so. She’s the only person who will call Sam on how cruel she can really be, and this usually leads to some unkind words from the Jones’ girl’s “posse”.
School
House
Slytherin:
Slytherins, the Rulers:
The Rulers are of those that claim to rule over all else. They are generally ambitious and power-hungry. You will note that these are also typical Slyth traits. Salazar Slytherin was without doubt of the Ruler caste.
Classes
Strengths
Riley’s always had an aptitude for charms. There’s something about being able to make a plate tap dance or something along those lines that comes very easy to her. She’s done decently in Transfiguration, DADA, and Potions, but she works ridiculously hard to keep her Potions grade up to par. Her favorite class, however, is Arithmancy. She loves it because there she can actually solve problems. You can’t in real life.
Weaknesses
Riley’s terrible at a lot of things. Potions first and foremost. She manages to keep her grades in the ‘E’ range, but only through much studying, practicing, and tutoring. Potions reminds her too much of cooking, and she’s just as bad at that. She’s also awful at Divinations. And History of Magic for the same reason. She’s the type of person who lives in the here and now, not the future or the past. She’s not a fan of herbology either. She’s never had to keep anything alive other than her cat, and Juliet is rather self-sufficient. She’s also bad at Astronomy. It was a late class and she had trouble paying attention.
Astrology
- Birthday: April 1, 1988
- Sign: Aries: The Ram. Cardinal, fire, yang - planetary ruler: Mars. Keywords: "I AM"
Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac and governs the head. Positive characteristics of Aries include courage, enthusiasm, idealism, charisma, quick wits, an ability to "think on one's feet," leadership potential, exuberant energy, zeal, and innocence. Negative traits include selfishness, tactlessness, egocentrism, an inability to save money, impetuousness, a hot temper, combativeness, oversensitivity, carelessness, and cruelty.
Slytherin Ariens
A Slytherin Aries is a bundle of contradictions. In some ways, they have the potential to be the strongest of their House - the intensity, drive, and brilliant visionary dreams of the Aries combined with the innate leadership skills, the charisma, and the profound sense of self (including the eccentric lack of interest in conforming to what other people think) is stuff of which great magical legends are made. However, a Slytherin Aries has much to learn about politics, knowing who is an appropriate object of trust and who is not trustworthy, knowing when to keep one's mouth shut, and knowing when to avoid acting on impulse in order to use a situation to its best advantage. Although they hate to admit it, these Slytherins are easily manipulated by more cynical, shrewd peers in the Serpent's Den. If they can learn to manage their blind spots, they will go far. Slytherin Aries types can be quite cruel, especially if they have enough physical prowess to bully smaller students; those that are not cruel can still be thoughtless and brutally tactless without actually meaning to cause damage
