Florence Duval

Backstory

Florence's mother was an English witch who had married a French wizard. At the age of 5, Florence moved to a small village in France and due to that, she ended up attending Beauxbatons for her first few years.

School was never really one of Florence's priorities. She was smart and a quick learner, but no matter how much her parents tried to make her, she would not put in any more effort into her schoolwork than was absolutely necessary. She had other priorities; she used to spend hours making art or simply making up stories in her head. Her love for animals was big, too, and she'd simply rather read a book about something that actually interested her rather than something she had to do for school. At school Florence did not stand out at all. She had a few friends but she wasn't popular, she was smart but not the smartest, she wasn't the funniest or the loudest or the prettiest or any of those things. Even after she had dyed her hair - and been suspended for a week for that - there didn't seem to be anything that could make her actually stand out in the crowd of her school.

That all changed when Florence's father unexpectedly passed away. No illnesses, no warnings, nothing. The loss was too big for Florence and her mother to deal with on their own, so they decided to move back to England for the support of her mother's family. They spent the summer there mourning and once it was time to go back to school Florence enrolled in Hogwarts where her mother had attendended years ago.

The feeling of not fitting in was strange to her. In Beauxbatons she felt like she was as average as could be, and no one would ever grant her a second glance. But in Hogwarts, she was the odd, new kid with the pink hair and the foreign accent. She felt like she was getting weird looks from everyone as she had to be sorted along with the first years. It unsettled her and she found herself missing her old life more than she'd ever like to admit.

"Slytherin!" the Sorting hat called out. And so, a new chapter of Florence's life had begun.