Find the Horcruxes (ooc)

Hellooooo! It's Jamie. And this is Josie Bones. Exciting stuff!

Anywho!

Josie hails from Marseille, France, and attended Beauxbatons. She is a Savueterre, which is a pure but progressive thinking family - none of that silly purism for them, kthnx. Basically, she was raised to be a good, pureblood girl, even though she had a hard time with that when she was a child. There were too many times she had to sneak into the house because she got her new dress all dirty and didn't want her mother to find out. She did well in school and directly after, she started to tutor magical children to prepare for their schooling - math and reading are where her expertise lie. Soon after, though, she was matched with Jon Bones, they courted, he asked her to marry him, she said yes! She moved up to London and has been living in England for two years, having brought her tutoring with her as she volunteers her time at the orphanage in Diagon Alley teaching the kids there. Also, she just found out she's eight weeks pregnant but no one knows but her! And her midwife, I guess.

That being said, Josie is a pureblood lady and she's damn good at it. She knows that she married well by snagging a Bones, but she also lucked out because she truly loves Jon. Otherwise, she's poised, charming, and polished in social settings that call for it. When she's just with her friends, though, she can definitely relax. She loves to laugh and loves to make people laugh even more. She loves music and dancing and children. Oh, and she also adores Quidditch and thinks it's the Best Thing Ever. She's rubbish at it, but she loves going to matches. In fact, she's that person in the stands that is yelling and screaming and swearing that she should be out there because she could do a better job, etc. She tends to lapse into French during these moments.

This is too long already, but if you want to read more about her... go here!

But, yeah! I'd love connections of every kind, please! She's definitely a part of the pureblood society, so I can imagine that she'd know and be friendly with a lot of the ladies despite differing opinions regarding politics - not that that comes up in polite conversation anyway. Aaand yeah! She's decided that Jon's friends are her friends, so that too. And so on. :)

Hiiiii tis Megs, with Lady #4! (Man, I need to pick up a dude next)

Anyway this is IDA WATKINS! She's the eldest Watkins sibling, (HI EDWARD, HI MERE) a Hufflepuff alumna of 1972, aged 25 almost 26! She was in the choir at school, but other than that was kind of a slacker except in Muggle Studies. She's a pureblood, like the rest of her siblings, but has gone out of her way to find out about other cultures/ways of life and finds Muggle stuff crazy-interesting. It also helps that her steady boyfriend of 2 years/roomie for 1 is a complete geek (philous - Philip Catchlove) so she gets to hear about it whether she chooses to or not.

To pretty much everyone but her parents, Ida is a fairly stereotypical pacifist vegetarian hippie who'd support sit-ins and picketing to stop the war over all this fighting stuff and is very generous with her hugs and kisses and affection. She tries not to preach, but she has a hard time dealing with the idea of violence. But she's probably somewhat high 3/4ths of the time you speak with her, is very laid-back, and kind of the peacemaker/mediator amongst her family. She's a seamstress and budding designer over at Twillfit & Tattings in Diagon, and really digs her job. If you like artsy/crafty clothing, homemade jewelery, or earth tones, she has the clothing designs for you! Though she hasn't actually made much money on HER stuff yet.

For all her support of denying labels and being an individual and the government is probably out to make us conform ideas, she's a hypocrite in her own family, wanting to avoid conflict so much there that she tends to be the quiet one at family get-togethers while the rest of the family talks and if there's an argument, even if she usually supports her brothers and sister over her parents, she'll rarely back them up until afterward. Her mum wants her to get married to Phil SO BADLY, but Ida doesn't think she needs a slip of paper to tell the world she and her man are in love.

Um, TL;DR probably, but, that's that! Friends/Enemies (why the hatred?)/past-lovers?? (as she didn't really do serious boyfriends until Phil came along) Her bio is HERE and you can always contact me at adamnhippie via AIM!

G'day everyone! Kat here with her fifth and sixth characters (because I'm an overachiever!)

This here is Rabastan Lestrange. (Rabbit to his mother and sister only. Friends and his brother call him Rab.) Rabastan is, of course, the second son and the spare to Rodolphus' heir. He's not overly bitter about that as he enjoys not having the extra responsibility and being coddled by his mother. Yes, he is somewhat of a Mummy's Boy - not to extremes but Mummy has always petted and praised him and given him everything he wants, so... yeah. He loves being a Death Eater and is pretty ambitious in that regard though most people would only know the rumours of a pretty dissolute lifestyle. You can find out all about him here

And over here at notquitebroken is Eileen Snape, who is of course Severus' Mum. She's a first generation Pureblood who fell in love with and married a Muggle and... well, it didn't work out too well. Tobias died about a year ago and Eileen may have had something to do with that. Shhh! That leaves just Eileen and Severus in their little home. She's basically been recovering from years of tension and abuse (almost shellshock really) and has decided that a year is enough of that and it's time to find out what freedom is all about and reconnect with the wizarding world. You can find out about her here and I apologise for the epic history. She kind of needed it.

Anyway... plot/friends/frenemies/enemies/potential wives (for Rab) etc etc. Oh, and friends of Severus can expect to have Eileen poke her nose into their business. :D

OMG HI.

Robyn here, with my newest, Griffin Dukelow. He's a halfblood (if only just, muggle mother, muggleborn father) and ex-Slytherin (again, only just, he's 19 and finished school last year). He's an artist who is currently living off his parents, but soon will need to get a job because they're not going to foot the bill for much longer, even if they can afford it. (They only paid for him thus far because he was in Paris studying painting and has only been back for like, 3 months . It's a grace period to get on his feet, which they are disappointed he hasn't taken advantage of by getting a real job.)

He's a purist, despite his blood status, and thinks his parents don't conduct themselves right. He thinks the wizarding world should be more isolated, not mingling and tempting discovery the way muggleborns and half-bloods live. He is a lover, not a fighter, but he does think the DEs have the right idea, give or take.

He thinks people should be happy, though, and one aspect of purism he doesn't subscribe to as devotedly is traditionalism. He isn't grossly improper, but he lacks the hoity toity manners, or any inclination to learn. Personality wise, he's kind of silly and a little impulsive and believes in karma and things happening for a reason and etc, but he's pretty quiet usually. He writes more than he talks, but he's still not like... suuuuuuper verbose.

Ummm. He lives in Hogsmeade next door to Felicity Banges and will probably get a job in a shop there. He needs friends, frenemies, past acquaintances, and all sorts of stuff.

Plot?

Just a few things I thought I should mention:

I didn't write a WWN news cast for Cygnus Black's death, but please know that Sloane would have reported it in a circumspect and factual way, without any mention of family feuds or of the Wilkes. Kat, who I told about it on AIM this afternoon, already mentioned it in Rabastan's post and comments (thanks Kat!).

Also, Natasha and I didn't post an owl for it because we didn't want to open the gates to flood the comm, but as mentioned in their journal entries and comments, Olivia and Chloe sent their sympathies to every Black family members. So if you got a Black family member, you got a very respectful and sorrowful owl from the Wilkes.