It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice.
Subwoofer Lullaby | C418
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♔ || Name || ♔
Jemima James. Yeah, her parents are kinda embarrassing like that.
♔ || Nickname(s) || ♔
Jem, Jemmie, James, Mima, JJ
♔ || House || ♔
Hufflepuff, although many people mistake her for a Slytherin.
♔ || Year || ♔
2
♔ || Specializes In || ♔
Herbology and Potions. Ask her to make any potion, and she'll brew it with hand-grown ingredients. She's also great at Quidditch, and is the Hufflepuff seeker
♔ || Age || ♔
12
♔ || Gender || ♔
Female
♔ || Sexuality || ♔
Bicurious, puberty is a confusing time.
♔ || Nationality || ♔
1/2 New Zealander 1/2 Scottish (Before you ask, she neither has a strong New Zealand accent or Scottish accent, she has a mixture of the two.)
♔ || Romantic Interest || ♔
Jemima has been friends with people who would fall in love at the snap of their fingers, but she's not like that. It's not often that she has a crush. Unfortunately, she's gotten the occasional incident where a boy reveals they like her, and she doesn't like them back. Not that they're not nice or anything, she just doesn't get into relationships, plus, she's twelve. Her chinese zodiac sign fits her all too well. (Snake, another Slytherin mislead...)
♔ || Height || ♔
4.5 ft
♔ || Weight || ♔
85 lbs
♔ || Face Claim || ♔
Gumi
♔ || Hair Color || ♔
Grassy Green
♔ || Eye Color || ♔
Emerald Green
♔ || Skin Tone || ♔
Pale, but tanned from spending lots of time on sunny New Zealand beaches.
♔ || Build/Appearance/Preferred Clothing || ♔
Jemima has a fairly small build, and it gets mentioned a lot, but Jemima has gotten used to it now. Her short green hair and green eyes have gotten her mistaken for a Slytherin, which she doesn't mind what with her role model, Severus Snape, being from Slytherin, but it does get annoying. She often has a grin on her face, or is seen with another person, keeping them happy. Being from New Zealand but having origins in Scotland, She prefers to wear shorts and short t-shirts on what she considers to be warmer days (16C° and up), and wears jeans and long sleeved tops for colder days. It's not uncommon to see her curled up with a book in a baggy sweater by a roaring fireside in winter. She doesn't mind wearing skirts and such, but she'd rather wear shorts or jeans. Or jean shorts. Her wand is sturdy with a handle of apple wood and a body of maple. It is 12" long and has a unicorn hair core. She's very fond of her wand, and polishes it every week to keep it working as well as it can. She runs through wand polish quite quickly due to this.
♔ || Personality || ♔
Jemima is probably the friendliest person you'll ever meet, and is normally the first person any first years, especially Hufflepuffs, will meet, although she isn't a prefect she is often their guide to the school. Her life motto is "It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice. She loves that motto, as it fits her perfectly. She loves to have at least some attention, even if it's awkward replying to compliments, but always puts others before her, just like the motto says. She always knows when to be bouncy or gentle at the right times, and always loves putting smiles on other's faces, even if they aren't the nicest of people. She's great at it too. She's neither an extrovert or an introvert, she sits on the edge of both, but leans more towards extroversion. The things that holds her back is how much she loves being alone in peace, listening to music or nature, relaxing in light, either artificial or natural. She loves to play her bass guitar by herself, jamming out alone. But despite loving being alone, she has a wide range of friends, ranging from Hogwarts and New Zealand to a fellow witch penpal in France attending Beauxbatons. She can be quite emotional, but always forces herself not to cry, thinking of happy thoughts rather than brooding. But sometimes she just lets it out, and takes a time to chill out as mentioned earlier. She's not very fierce, and doesn't like to argue with anyone, even if they get her really frustrated. She always makes sure to be nice and treat the golden rule quite seriously. Her birthday is the 27th of July, 2001, and all the flowers, birthstones, and zodiac signs fit her almost perfectly, it's crazy! She can get quite jealous of others, but makes sure not to let it show, unless the jealousy involves food. I mean, come on, food! She's very determined to reach her goals and ambitions, and will do nearly anything to achieve them, another thing people use to mistake her as a Slytherin. Jemima is different to most Slytherins however. If the way she achieves her goal harms anyone, she will try and find another way.
♔ || Likes || ♔
- Music, but no specific genre is her favourite.
- Playing her bass
- Herbology
- Potions
- Charms, even though she messes up spells often.
- Her friends
- Nature
- Beaches
- Home, wherever her heart is
- Muggle technology, it's amazing how much they can do without magic, and still think that magic doesn't exist, when they have their own type of magic, technology. Jemima has a lot of muggle things, including her electric bass guitar and her various musical devices.
- Flowers
- Hogwarts
- Her family
- Quidditch (Go Moutohora Macaws!!And Scottish National Quidditch Team!)
- Being mistaken as a Slytherin, even though she doesn't mind too much, it's annoying
- People disrespecting the environment (littering needlessly, not caring about rare creatures, global warming etc.)
- Astronomy, as the tower is extremely tall, and she's afraid of falling to her death. Ironic as she loves quidditch.
- Muggle studies, she'll have the choice to do it next year, but from what she's heard, it's extremely inaccurate and ignorant
- Peeves the poltergeist.
- Bulldogs, they're so slobbery, but to be fair they're kinda sweet.
- Liquorice
- Burrs, they're always stuck to her
- Overly tight clothes
- Strong smells
- Boiling hot days
- Bears, unless they're teddy bears. :3
- Injuries
- Bullies, obviously
Jemima is very talented in herbology and potions, as mentioned earlier, and is very advanced for her year level. She has a potted bonsai tree that she takes wherever she goes, and takes perfect care of it, sometimes meditating with it after a long day of studying. She's one of the best potion makers in Hufflepuff, and one of the best in Herbology too. The Herbology talent probably comes from her dad, who is extremely good at Herbology, and has his own garden with magical plants. Her mother is quite talented in potions too. Genetics. She is also talented in cheering people up, putting a smile on most anyone's face is one of her favourite things to do. She also has the Inner Eye, but hasn't quite realised it yet, as normally it's just deja vus and such, but she does have it. She's good on a broomstick too, and owns a Nimbus 2000. It's outdated, but still goes pretty fast, as her mother did a little tweaking on it. She's the seeker for Hufflepuff and is extremely happy about it, and so are her parents.
♔ || Flaws || ♔
Jemima can get quite jealous, but bottles it up along with any other negative emotions, which isn't great to do. Sometimes she snaps and has a bit of a rage fit, but makes sure to do it where no one will see her. Sometimes, her kindness and caring for others gets in the way of what she wants to do, like personal goals and ambitions. She cares too much. She's quite bad at Charms, but still enjoys the class, and is getting better.
♔ || Fears || ♔
Jemima is afraid of falling from high heights, and hence dislikes Astronomy class because of it. It's not the falling, falling is one of the most exhilarating feelings ever, it's the landing she's scared of. She's also kind of scared of bears, luckily there are none in New Zealand.
♔ || Family || ♔
Isabelle James- Mother, Halfblood, Ravenclaw, Scottish
Gareth James- Father, Fullblood, Hufflepuff, New Zealander
Thomas James- 5 year old brother, Jemima was surprised and grateful her parents didn't call her brother James.
Jessica- Jemima's stillborn twin sister
♔ || Bio || ♔
Jemima Fabio James was born in a magical family bringing joy and a tragedy. Although Jemima's parents Fatimah and Ellery were very happy and proud of their beautiful baby girl, they were wrung with the tragedy of a stillborn twin daughter. Fatimah, her mother was the most grieved, but she knew that to be a good mother she needed to get out of the dark and into the light. Coming from a wizard family, it was obvious Jemima would be a witch. And they were as proud as proud can be when she first rode her own toy broomstick. Her mother was a talented quidditch player, and was a reserve for the Scottish National Quidditch Team before she moved to New Zealand. She then became a player for the Moutohora Hawks. Her father Ellery wasn't the most talented flyer, but was a marvellous Herbologist, and was the proudest father on earth when his daughter grew her first bouncing bulb. But enough about her parents, and more about Jemima. She was raised in the hills of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, close to the beach and sky, her favourite places to visit from time to time. Their house was quite secluded, and had spells all over it to make sure muggles didn't see anything magical in the house whilst wizards and witches did. So, Jemima grew up in safety, with not much risk of any muggle finding out she was a witch in a wizarding world. She was safe to ride around on a toy broomstick until she got a real one, and was brought up being taught about famous wizards and witches, knowing the best potion to use in different situations, and what a wand really looked like. She could be a witch and proud to be one in her very own backyard, which a lot of wizards don't get to because they're nearest neighbours aren't a 15 minute walk away. When she was seven her mother had another child, this time a baby boy, and ever since Jemima has been very sure to take care of him and protect him.
Jemima's hair wasn't always the grassy green it is today, it used to be a bright strawberry blonde, before she meddled where she shouldn't have. Jemima's mother liked to make potions as a hobby, and more often than not there would be a potion simmering in her mother's "sewing" workshop at the back end of the garden, that was really where her mother made potions. One fine summer's day when she was 6, Jemima visited the sewing/potion workshop, but instead of finding her mother to ask for her help with reading a particularly hard paragraph in her storybook, she found a simmering potion in a cauldron. Jemia was curious, and when she was looking in the pot, she accidentally knocked in an ingredient on the top shelf, resulting in a boom and a messy workshop. Her parents rushed in from a cup of tea and biscuits in the front garden to her aid, only to find a broken cauldron, a potion covered workshop and a green-haired daughter. The colour was permanent however, and the cover up for it at Jemima's muggle school was she'd messed around in her mother's workshop (truth), and her mother's fabric dyes had permanently stained her hair green.(lie) Luckily, green is Jemima's favourite colour. So, for the next 5 years, Jemima was considered a total weirdo at her muggle school for having green hair, but soon enough, along with a Nimbus 2000, she got her acceptance letter from Hogwarts on her eleventh birthday. Jemima and her family were absolutely ecstatic, even Thomas. Jemima had waited to go to the magical place her parents talked about with so much joy and respect ever since she first heard of it. A few days later, the whole family used a variation of plane trips and disapparition spells to get them to London. They stayed with relatives before going to Diagon Alley. There, Jemima bought her pet owl Plop, and visited Ollivander's wand shop. Although it was still healing from the return of Voldemort, many wands had been made and it was almost as good as new. Jemima thought it was the most magical place she had ever seen. Ollivander was kind and gentle despite what he'd been through, and helped her find her wand. After a few tries, Jemima was drawn to a certain wand, and it was drawn to her. Quite literally. Her wand had chosen to make it's master visible by dragging itself and Jemima towards each other, and when Jemima grabbed hold of it it shot out a mixture of green and yellow sparks before calming down. It was one of the weirdest things to happen to Jemima in her life, and it was the best thing as well. This wand meant she could cast spells and make potions only available with a wand, this wand meant she was a true witch. She was proud of her maple and apple wood wand, and was amused that it had a core of unicorn hair for no reason other than unicorns.
So, after discovering the magic of platform 9 3/4, she rode the train to Hogwarts, immediately making everyone in her compartment happy while leaving her parents sobbing lumps of pride and joy on the platform. She enjoyed the british wizard sweets, due to not many of them being available in New Zealand. She avoided the liquorice though, magic or not it was gross to her. She finally arrived at Hogwarts, and was sorted into Hufflepuff, and she was extremely happy, although people snickered at her name. She quickly became popular among Hufflepuff with her bright green hair and ability to cheer others up. She quickly became accustomed to the school, and found her way around quickly. She was extremely good in Herbology and Potions, whilst lacking in Charms and Transfiguration. She was dying to be in the quidditch team, but first years weren't allowed to be in the quidditch team. Instead, she read as many books on the subject as she could, and created chants for the Hufflepuff team, inspiring as much house pride as she could in every quidditch match crowd. She had many friends, and kept in touch with her Beauxbatons attending friend Aglaé, but there was one problem wit her first year at Hogwarts. There was no sunlight. But, despite being disappointed with the lack of sunlight, she's recovered in New Zealand, and is back with her bass, speaker, and broom, and is ready to take on any challenge Hogwarts sets her this year.
♔ || Other || ♔
Jemima's owl is called Plop, named after a book character he bears a striking resemblance to. He is a small white and grey Barn Owl.
Jemima doesn't mind swearing, and swears occasionally, but doesn't do it too frequently.
Jemima would like to be either a wandmaker and work alongside Ollivander or have a shop selling potions and plants when she grows up.
She made her bass speaker with her dad over the summer holidays, and it's made of apple and maple wood like her wand. It's very special to her.