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Cecil Honeychurch (choneychurch) wrote in gooseberry,

Cecil Honeychurch
Name: Cecil Honeychurch
Year: Senior
Patronus Form: Bees
Why?: Highly social insects that exist in cooperative communities, bees are associated with family, communication, unity, and stability. Because of their elaborate hives and production of honey, they're also associated with order, hard work, and efficiency. Insert sweet as honey jokes here too. Bees are also personally significant to Cecil. His father has kept, bred, and studied (magical and non-magical) bees Cecil's entire life and he grew up helping to take care of them. His mother frequently used the honey from the bees when cooking, a skill which she taught to Cecil. He even keeps a hive near the gardens at Gooseberry and he cares deeply for the insects. He finds the them comforting because he associates them with home and family. Additionally, his first successful bit of magic involved divining through the movements of a swarm of bees and this was a very important experience for him. In short, Cecil without bees isn't Cecil.
Their happy memory: Everything at school is too complicated right now for Cecil to focus exclusively on happy memories when he thinks of Levi or Diego or his other peers, so he turns to his family instead. He thinks of tending the hives with his father, cooking with his mother, and reading to his younger sisters. The memory that does the trick, though, is one of practicing magic with his father when he was twelve. A late bloomer, he'd just started to develop magical ability (after a considerable amount of worrying that he never would) and even learning the most basic charms had felt amazing. He'd been happy, his proud father had been an enthusiastic teacher, and it had been bliss.
Their attempt: Cecil isn't naturally adept at clearing his mind or controlling his emotions, but he does know a lot of tricks to help with that because of Divination and this helps quite a bit. He's also focused, a serious student, and a hard worker, so no matter how it turns out, he made a good attempt!
Are they in DADA or Occlumency?: Nope.