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Slytherin's Shame |
Name: Merope Gaunt
Age/Birthday: May 31, 1907
House/Year: Slytherin/6th
Year they were living in: 1923
Location: Little Hangleton.
Blood: Direct line of Salazar Slytherin.
Wand: 9", Purple Heart wood, unicorn hair.
Alignment (Order, DE, Neutral?): Her family supported Grindelwald and thus she supports Dark Wizardry publicly. However, in secret, she is extremely neutral. Merope was always used to her father and brother doing dark magic and supporting it, so she was forced to support it.
Cunning and Ambition |
Weaknesses: Merope has more weaknesses than strengths. She cannot perform magic whenever she is upset or nervous, she has problems speaking in public, and she has issues with speaking up. Merope does not take care of her well-being; if she is ill, has a problem, or otherwise, she is unlikely to even utter a word or complain. Because Merope was heavily abused by her family, she became unable to perform proper magic in front of them. She became very used to her way of living in silence and never complained about anything. She is the ultimate passive person, she just doesn't react to any sort of fighting. She allows herself to be pushed and whatever else, because she fears that saying "no" will do nothing to help her.
Strengths: Contrary to what many people believe, Merope is a rather talented witch. She is very skilled in the Dark Arts and Potions. In addition, Merope has strong household skills like cooking and sewing. Merope is also intelligent, though most see her as the exact opposite. Merope would be considered something like Narcissa, but worse. She was a "at-home-witch", usually treated poorly in the ways similar to a house-elf. She did everything for her family that required actual labor, as wells as non-labor magic. She spent most of her nights self-teaching herself through Marvolo's school books and practicing magic on her own.
Appearance:
Merope is very thin and sickly looking. Standing at at 5'3", she has long black, unevenly cut hair and prominent, medium green-coloured eyes. She can be considered unattractive due to her thin build, dirty clothing, and generally unhappy disposition. Her gently carved features have never seen a smile. She is usually found wearing long, dark dresses that tend to be ratty and frayed at the bottom from wearing them for such long periods of time.
Merope also appears to constantly have a "defeated" look.
Friendships and Relationships: She has a very unhealthy obsession with Tom Riddle and absolutely no friends.
Sexual orientation: Straight. She was in love with Tom Riddle.
Family: Marvolo Gaunt, Medusa Gaunt and Morfin Gaunt.
Choose the side you want to be on. |
History: There was a time when Salazar Slytherin's line came down to a family of three, the Gaunts, a family that proudly threw away their money along the generations, until it came down to them struggling to survive on whatever they could grow in their gardens. Marvolo, reluctantly following in his father's footsteps, married his own first cousin. Her name was Medusa Gaunt and she was just as horrid looking as one would think, but they didn't care.
After several years of marriage, Medusa gave birth to Morfin Gaunt. Five years later, Merope Gaunt was born, and with her arrival came the unfortunate death of Medusa during childbirth. That was when Merope's life began to go downhill. From that moment on, Merope was always considered a bad child by her father, and constantly whipped and abused. Merope quickly learned that if she stayed obedient and submissive, the rest of her family would leave her alone. However, it didn't last very long and she seemed to live a tortured life for a good long time.
This life of living in a two room shack with her father and brother seemed to be it for Merope, at least, until she first layed eyes on Tom Riddle, a Muggle from Great Hangleton. She was nearly ten when she first saw him, and the two of them were friends. It was then that Merope fell deeply in love with him. Eventually, Marvolo, whom greatly despised Muggles, intervened, saying awful things about the Riddle boy, but no matter the lies her father told her, Merope still loved Tom.
On one of those days of her life, Merope was brought on business that Marvolo had with a teacher at Hogwarts. Merope ended up being so amazed by Hogwarts that she wandered off and ended up lost in the time paradox.
Personality: Merope is silent, reserved and always submissive. She has never once raised a hand to anyone in her whole life. This world was everyone else's and Merope just lived in it, with no one paying her mind or thought. Merope is painfully shy and unsociable, not to mention afraid of most people around her. She is also very clumsy, especially when near her family or people that make her nervous. She speaks so little that some people would be inclined to think her completely mute, but that is not the case.
However, when Merope is by herself, she is almost like an entirely different person. She can be passive-aggressive, angry and even manipulative. Only when she becomes extremely upset is she likely to act this way. There isn't really much else about her, other than the fact she has some amazing bravery, especially for one who seems to have no trace of it at all.
Why have they time traveled?: (Basically, what makes them a good candidate? Why has the spell chosen them rather than a different student? Do they want to escape their environment, are they insatiably adventurous, or any other reason?) Merope hates her life and desperately wants to escape from it, moreso than most people.
Disclaimer: I am NOT Emily Perkins or Merope Gaunt. She's owned by J.K Rowling. |
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