PROFILING BECOMES HER - One of your character's immediate family members. - One of your character's ancestors. - A moment from the first week of first year. - The first sign of magic. - The first awareness of the double-edged quality of magic. - The first time they spoke to their friends. - The first time they spoke to their enemies. - Most vivid childhood memory. - Worst birthday. Ever.
SITUATIONS ARE MADE OF THESE - A small, defining habit that someone else notices. - What has been their best, strongest show of magic so far? - Describe either your character's home or their slice of space in the dormitories, figuring out your character's living situation with their dorm-mates and siblings. - Write a 'cut scene' from an existing RP log. The log did not have to include your character. - Relive a scene from the books through your character's eyes. - Dinner in the Great Hall. - Your character gets detention! - Your character's views of life after death.
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE - A glimpse of your character through the lense of a fairy tale, a myth, or some other archetypal story. - One word: Reincarnation. - If your character were a real person in the Muggle world... - Take your character and give then someone else's background. Shake, stir, see what happens. - Your character if he or she were the opposite gender! - Your character in another fandom/universe. - Your character as if they were in another House. - Your character as if they were born to Harry Potter's destiny. - Your character meeting other characters from different fandoms.
FUTURE TENSE - Your character's children. - What your character might do for a living. - Your character in the post-apocalyptic future. Yes, that means, 'in a Voldemort-ruled world.'
OUT OF ORDER - Make up an NPC from any year in school, and have that character view your character in either an 1) admonishing light or in 2) rapturous worship. This is about the myth of your character, as viewed by an outsider, NOT the truth. - A DVD Commentary of one of your char's RP logs by that same character. - For those brave players with multiple characters, let's see a roundtable discussion with all of them. Yes, all.