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IT'S ALI AGAIN with my second character, Magdalen Gillis. She's an Ebonhide Senior and the Head Girl, so p much the opposite of Levi.



bio: the tl;dr edition

Her mother is a Sacred 28 Pureblood, her father is a half-blood from and old Wizarding family, and her parents lived in Scotland before immigrating to Canada in 1992 once it was rumored that Voldemort was making a return. Maggie was born and raised in Lancaster, Ontario and her mother tried so, so, so hard to fit into the American Pureblood society but the culture was just too different for them to blend seamlessly.

Her mother is the Senior Undersecretary to Canada's Minister of Magic; basically second-in-command. She's been working her way up the Ministry ladder for decades and has her eye set on becoming Minister of Magic; first it was the British MoM but now she's set her sights on Canada. She's more politically conservative, by Wizarding standards, and some people may find her goal of becoming Minister controversial because she has only been a Canadian citizen for less than a decade and a lot of her ideals reflect the British Ministry's.

Maggie went to Ilvermorny prior to Gooseberry and was sorted into Horned Serpent. She began attending Gooseberry her Freshman year and was made Prefect her Sophomore year. At the end of her Junior year, it was widely known that she became incredibly (violently, disgustingly) ill right before exams and ended up missing them. She was allowed to make up her exams after the kids had left for summer break, which some may see as an unfair advantage since she had days to study in solitude.

Maggie's all about dat privileged life and characters are free to make assumptions (or not!) about all the nice things and advantages that have just happened to fall into her lap. She'll argue that she's earned what she has through hard work and MAYBE THAT'S MOSTLY TRUE because she did work her ass off to earn her title of Head Girl. However a prime example of unfair favoritism was last year when she dated the Head Girl, she was scheduled prime Prefect patrol slots that happened to coincide with the HG's. Their excuse was that they worked well together (and, fairly, they did) and Maggie brushed off any blame with "I don't make the patrol schedules."

She's the Mom Friend of Ebonhide and wants to take care of her babies. She's also into DIY and Pinterest culture (whatever the Wizarding equiv of Pinterest is) and so her portion of the dorm is preppy and full of cute, trendy, and overused themes of 2013. She has at least one throw pillow that says "Dream", framed inspirational quotes including one that says "Live Laugh Love", a mini terrarium (or several), decorated DIY mason jars, idea boards, photo boards with ~ALL HER EBONHIDE SISTERS~ on it, and a chalkboard calendar that has every single stupid event listed with commentary like "FUN!! ♥" scribbled into the corner.

Also, she keeps track of everyone's birthdays. Let me know if it's fine for her to know your character's birthday, because she will have written it down and she will remember.

Purebloods or kids from wealthy families from Canada / Northern US that might've known her growing up?

People from Ilvermorny that she knew! Maybe a fellow Senior that she was good friends with, who inspired her to step out of her comfort zone and apply for Gooseberry because that's where they were going?

Either an ex-girlfriend from her Freshman or Sophomore year OR a girl she turned down in favor of dating the Head Girl last year. The latter could also lead to rumors of her being a sycophant (like her mother, lbr.)

PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST AS HYPED ABOUT DIY CRAFTS AND BONDING TIME AS SHE IS. Alternatively, people who are just like "Magdalen, no, Magdalen, pls. I'm still finding glitter from last month's crafts project. Magdalen, stahp."