Alexandria Avery

Backstory

When I first arrived at Hogwarts and sat on the small stall with everyone watching as an old hat was placed on my head I remember the mixed feelings when the hat yelled “Gryffindor!” loudly for the whole school to hear. It had felt like forever for the hat to decide but in reality it was just under a minute. You see my surnames Avery, and my family has been sorted into Slytherin house for generations. Let’s just say that my family wasn’t happy. My favourite classes include Astronomy, Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts. I wouldn’t say that I hated any of the classes here at Hogwarts but my least favourite was definitely History of Magic. I’m quite good at potions too but I can’t say I particularly enjoy the class, you see it was my brothers favourite subject and it reminds me of him too much. My brother is the perfect pureblood son- sorted into Slytherin and follows my parents bigoted beliefs on blood status we used to be very close before I was sorted into the “wrong” house. Growing up in a life of in a rich pureblood family may seem perfect at first glance but I hate being alone in this stupid country house, trapped with my parents but when I was younger I had my brother so it wasn’t too bad until he turned his back on me by our parents orders. Hogwarts is my only escape now. Things got worse when He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named rose to power. My family of course supported him, but when I refused my parents punished me and ended up locking me away. I managed to break free and fled but my parents sent my brother after me and we ended up getting in a duel. He won and nearly killed me but I managed escape him. Truth be told I think he let me go. I ended up waking up at St Mungos a few days later and then returned to Hogwarts a week later. And then a month later I thought in the battle of Hogwarts, a fourth year still weak from what my brother did to me truthfully I was just trying to stay alive. I ended up face to face with my brother again and we ended up duelling for a second time, desperate to survive I somehow managed to find the strength inside of me to win and ended up knocking him unconscious. He’s in Azkaban now, I go visit him sometimes but it’s hard seeing him there. My greatest strength I’d say would be my charm and duelling skills. My greatest weakness would probably be that I’m too trusting and I look for the god in people and often end up missing the bad. After I finish school I’d like to go be a Curse Breaker, I can use my natural ability at charms and I would love to test the boundaries of my magical abilities and travel to new places to explore and meet new people. The most fascinating part of magic is how we can create new spells and push our magic more, meaning that we’ve only understood a part of the magic we are capable of. I want to break curses to prevent people getting hurt and remove some of the evil in the world. I feel like I have a duty to make the world better after my family helped spread evil while being a Deatheaters. But truthfully if I’m being honest what I really want is to have my family back, before I was sorted into Gryffindor me and my brother had been so close and i Miss him and hope that one day we can be a family again. Besides maybe I can find and make a new family on my travels. I have a pet owl named Socks, he was my only friend through some dark times. The only interesting thing about my family is our long ancestry with some successful witches and wizards and my families disagreements and disownment of me. I’m in my Seventh and final year of Hogwarts now, a few years after what happened with Voldemort.