Student Application
Character Information

Full Name: Dorothy Amelia Glover
Blood Type Halfblood (she won't know till 4th year):
1st:
11
Preferred Hogwarts House:Open

Appearance
A pudgy young girl of average size sits on a bench with one hand on her trolley waiting for the Hogwarts Express train. She pulls the trolley closer as the crowd in the station thickens. Her new calico Butterball seems undisturbed by all the ruckus and continues to purr loudly.

The girl sits back trying to ease her anxiousness. As she leans back uncomfortably a button near her waist pops off. Immediately she blushes and grabs a torn green backpack and rummages through the smaller front pocket. To no avail, all she can find is an old holey hair tie, a key ring with Scotland's flag and two house keys, 3 sticks of gum and some wizard money she had exchanged with "muggle" money. Placing the items back she had an idea. She unwrapped a piece of minty gum and popped it into her mouth, chewing until it was sticky enough and fastened it between the layers of the shirt. It worked well except a small green outline could be seen from the outside. Then she noticed her fingernails, chipped polish concentrated the middle of the nail on short fingernails, she meant to take the polish off, but forgot with all the hustle and bustle going on lately. She leaned forward to test the staying power of the gum and her growing out bangs fell into her face. It stuck well enough still, she thought brushing the annoying dark brown lock of hair behind her ear.

She sat upright again her gray eyes followed the people from underneath bushy eyebrows and a pale complexion. A woman came and sat next to her.
Personality
The woman smiled warmly and sat down next to the girl. Her gaze seemed to be stuck to a group of giggling 6th year girls. Then the woman glanced at the girl sitting next to her. "You remind me of my daughter not that long ago. She too was once a loner and awkward."

The young girl was taken aback by such a remark but politely gives a forced smile. Loner, she was not a loner. She wasn't popular for sure, but she did have one good friend, Eileen. But now, since she no longer goes to "muggle" school she no longer sees Eileen as much. Even over the summer she felt their friendship drifting away. Eileen seemed to resent the fact her friend was a witch. That might be the fact that Eileen came from a very feudal part of Ireland and is a very dedicated Catholic. She remebered clearly what Eileen said about attending a wizarding school, they were sitting on a park bench when she broke the news

"Dorothy, your mother has lost her mind. What kind of school teaches magic? Sounds dangerous if you ask me. You know what the Bible says about witchcraft? Its an abomination to the Lord. And to think. your mom is letting you stay in some school with people she doesn't know, doing God knows what to you! Tell me you're not going!?"

Dorothy sighed, she never handles things well, she usually just clams up nods or shakes her head agreeing and does what she wants without explanation. Her friend would be expecting her at school tomorrow. And after not showing Eileen surely won't talk to her again. I guess I really am a loner she thought.

"So, where's your mum?" The lady's voice shocked Dorothy back into reality.

"Oh, uh, my mom couldn't come...she had to work" Dorothy looked down at her stained canvas shoes and faded plaid skirt
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"I see, such an important thing to miss, too bad."

Now Dorothy could see why the woman's daughter didn't want her around. The woman sensing a bit of tension changed the subject. "So, did you get everything and find it all okay? I always wondered how the muggle born made it through the whole process," she said chuckling lightly.

"They sent someone to us, to explain it all to my mum. She thought it were a joke at first but after some magic tricks and a few explanations of what had been happening to me lately when I was scared or angry made sense. I have read a few books about this world, but I still don't understand it all. Is like finding out that Santa Claus isn't real, except backwards."

"I see." said the woman still watching her daughter. "So are they any classes you are looking forward to?"

Dorothy twisted her lips. I really wouldn't know. I don't understand how they expect us to get a proper job when they teach us things like Charm and Transfiguration. If anything it sounds like some high end etiquette classes. I really like math and science, I'm sure to like Potions and Herbology.

The woman laughed so loudly that Dorothy blushed. By the time she calmed down the train had pulled up to the platform.Dorothy jumped up and shot back a quick "I gotta go" at the lady and pulled her things to the train.





History
Dorothy was born to a very young mother in rural Scotland. Her maternal grandfather owned a potato farm and her mother was very wild when she was 17 sleeping around and getting drunk at the local pubs. The one thing that changed her ways was getting pregnant with Dorothy. Not long after Dorothy was born the grandfather passed away and the mother sold the farm and took the little money she received from that and moved to London in a small apartment. There she took jobs as a waitress or janitor anything to help support her and her daughter. They have a close relationship.

To this day, no one knows who Dorothy's father is.


Place Of Residence {must be in the UK or ROI}: Dorothy lives in a bad part of London. The rent is cheap for a reason, high crime, drug activity, and poverty hits her neighborhood hard. Her and her mother have a cramped and old one bedroom apartment, her mom sleeps on the couch. Dorothy has a box spring and mattress and her closet, the only closet, has three or four outfits most of what she is growing out of. Basically shes dirt poor. But when her mother found out about Dorothy and her special talents she started working overtime and saved up the money she would need for the year.

**[note: I want to start next term, I notice that you are already at he end of the school year and it wouldn't make sense to come at he end of the year. I'd like to begin when the new school year begins, please let me know.]

That's fine, but I'd like you to redo your application so it's not done as an rp, but as a general sort of....description. Check out some of the others if you don't know what I mean.



~Mel

That's fine, I didn't read the other applications, so I really didn't know what was expected. Let me work on that than. And by the way when does the new term start?

'Sok. The new term starts right after the old one ends, because the last time we only let people do summer holiday stuff for a while, the site died O.O So it should start on June 15th.



~Mel