WATKINS, EMILY CLAIRE

[emily]

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Name: Emily Claire Watkins
Alias: Em.
Age: 16
Birthday: January 3rd
Gender: Female
Blood: Half-blood
Sexual Preference: Heterosexual
Wand: Unicorn hair, blue spruce, 10 inches
Pet: An owl, but only because it is useful.
Special Ability: None.

Year: Six
House: Ravenclaw

Best Subject: History of Magic
Worst Subject: Transfiguration, but really, if she’s always prepared, she’ll never need it.
Quidditch: Definitely not. She has more important things to do with her time, thank you very much.
Patronus: Yes, a house cat.

Hair: Emily has long, thick, wavy brown hair. She often wears her hair up in a ponytail to keep it out of the way.
Eyes: Brown eyes almost the exact same shade as her hair.
Height: 5’9
Weight: 125 lbs

Emily Watkins usually keeps to herself other than her very small group of friends and family. Many people call her shy or anti-social, but a more accurate description would be that she doesn’t like small talk with people she doesn’t know or doesn’t like just for the sake of filling up time or being polite. She considers school a time to learn and prepare yourself for the future rather than making as many friends as you can who would stab you in the back if it meant they could be more popular while dating loser-guys who treat you horrible while you try to find “true love.” Emily’s school work always comes before her social life, and she spends the majority of her time studying. She enjoys games that require logic or knowledge such as Wizard’s Chess or the muggle Rubik’s cube. She also knows three languages and is learning a fourth. However, other than that, she really doesn’t have any other hobbies. She actually gets excited about homework because it means she’ll have something to do. She doesn’t speak up very often in class, but she’s a bit of a know-it-all and she doesn’t like to be told she’s wrong.

Despite how much time she spends studying and how serious she is about her school work, Emily is not a complete freak. She does have her family, which she is close to, and her small circle of friends. She doesn’t find the need to seek out new friends. She’s perfectly content with those she has. Around these people she talks, laughs, jokes, etc. Emily can be, and often is, very sarcastic, especially to her sister. It annoys Lucy to no end, but Em does it anyways. (In fact, perhaps she does it because of that.) She often makes sarcastic comments under her breath during class. Lucy isn’t the only one she teases; she (usually) means it in good fun. She’s very loyal to her friends. She’s the kind of person who will be your absolute best friend unless you betray her that is. She holds grudges, and doesn’t forgive easily. Despite all this she really is rather easy going. She doesn’t stress too terribly much about the little things. She tends to let people have their way if it doesn’t matter to her, especially her sister. However, she’s also really stubborn if she sets her mind to something. (Especially if you tell her she has to do something.) She can tolerate most people except a few categories. Really obnoxious guys set off her buttons fairly easily, as do girls who throw themselves at guys and act stupid to get their attention.

Despite the fact that Emily and Lucy are so different, are constantly arguing, and never stop teasing each other, the two are really close. They’re protective of each other in different ways. Em cares for her sister in a parental sort of way. She’s the one who worries about Lu’s grades or the guys she’s dating. Lucy tries to get her sister to loosen up a little bit and ‘be a teenager.’ The two aren’t as close as they were when they were kids, but they still make the effort to hang out with each other occasionally. They aren’t as close with Dustin because he’s so much older than them.

Marshal Watkins was only a year out of Hogwarts when he met Claire. Marshal had dreamed of working in inter-ministry relations since he was 12 years old. At age 12 he met one of his father’s friends while at a dinner party. The man talked to Marshal expecting very little as he was a 12 year old male, but found a surprisingly mature, well-spoken young boy. Marshal had always been good at getting people to like him and convincing people to do what he wanted them to do. The man was so impressed that he told Marshal (and his father) that he ought to go in to something diplomatic- like ministry relations. Marshal’s father and the man laughed it off at first, but later Marshal asked his father what exactly that was. When his father explained- he was hooked. Like any good Ravenclaw student he threw himself in to his school work determined to get where he wanted to be. He ignored his mother’s attempts at match making as well as the occasional girl who happened to take a fancy to Marshal. He was determined to start his career before his family, and he did a very good job of that for a while. He was offered an internship the summer before his sixth year, and it was renewed the summer before his seventh. He got the job of assistant to the French Ambassador in Britain, and he was well on his way to becoming an actual ambassador when he met Claire and was thrown off track.

The ambassador sent him to the train station to pick up his daughter, Monica, and her friend. That friend was Claire. Claire West was a pretty thing. She even did some modeling. She had spent the summer in France with Monica doing some modeling jobs. Claire was loud, outgoing, opinionated, spunky, daring, sarcastic, stubborn, and well, argumentative. She wasn’t really the modeling type, but she needed the money and it was the chance to spend the summer in Paris. Who wouldn’t say yes to that? Marshal wasn’t impressed at first. He had seen pretty girls before, even if few were as pretty as this girl. He wasn’t interested in someone with ‘half a brain’ and even if he was, his career was more important now. He could certainly find a pretty girl with a low IQ later if that’s what he wanted. He greeted the girls and took their bags to the muggle car he was to drive them to the Ambassadors home in. The girls didn’t really pay attention to him until he made the mistake of muttering something about how shallow modeling was. He hadn’t meant for the girls to hear him, but Claire had.

Claire couldn’t stand stereotypes, and she had been hit on by the photographer earlier that day who just assumed the models would sleep with him so he would choose their pictures. He had earned a swift kick in a not-so-pleasant area before Claire walked out of the photo-shoot. Most days she would have only had a snide comment to that, but poor Marshal picked the wrong day to irritate Claire West. Her temper flared up and she yelled at him for a good twenty minutes about how he was an ignorant, stereotyping jerk, who needed to learn something about people before insulting them without letting him get a word in edgewise. Marshal was in love by the end of her speech. He was also irritated though, that this girl would dare talk to him like that. So he argued back, and the two never stopped arguing.

They eloped six months after their first argument took place. Which was less than two months after Claire finally agreed to date him. His mother was pleased by his choice until she heard Claire go off on one of her little rants. She was shocked at what had come out of the young lady’s mouth, but his father loved her. In time, so did the mother, even if she was apprehensive at first. They had planned on holding off on children until Marshal got into his career. Their plans were shot to hell when Dustin showed up 10 months later. They were more careful, and Emily was planned and came after Marshal’s career was set in place. He was an Italian Ambassador at this time, though Claire went home to England to have her. Lucy followed a year later. The family spent ten years in Italy. Because they lived in Italy Claire learned to speak fluent Italian. (Her brother and sister know some, but they aren’t fluent.) She also picked up some French from her mother (who loved the language and spoke it often). When Emily was ten Marshal became the official Spanish Ambassador. (For various political reasons that would be too boring to describe.) Emily spends her summers there and has since learned Spanish as well. (It’s not that hard to pick up if you’re fluent in Italian.)

Less than a year later Emily went off to Hogwarts. Their parents decided their children should go to Hogwarts like they had rather than an Italian or Spanish magic school. Emily was sorted into Ravenclaw. When Lucy came the next year, she was sorted into Hufflepuff. As kids Emily and Lucy were much closer than they are now. They were opposites even as children, but then it didn’t matter. If the kids were picking on one of them, they both had their sister to protect them. (Dustin was there too. He could stop the bullies, but not the other little girls when they teased the sisters.) Em and Lu are still close, despite their differences, but they just aren’t as close as they were when they were children because they don’t spend as much time together and they now have separate lives.

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Signed: Samantha