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Name: Bronte
Age: 18
Email: brontesaurus4791@gmail.com
AIM: brontosaurus2
Timezone: GMT+10
Experience: brontesaurus

In Character

Full Name: Morag Katrina MacDougal
Other Names: Mo
Played By: Jenna Boyd One Two
Date of Birth: 21 September 1979
House: Ravenclaw
Years: She just started her first year this September so she'll be attending 1991-1998.
Blood Status: Pureblood
Family: Mother (Sally MacDougal) Father (Brian MacDougal).
Family Dynamics: Morag has always gotten on reasonably well with her parents, despite a few disagreements here and there. Her mother is the one she feels moer comfortable confiding itre but her father is the one more likely to spoil her so the one she goes to if she needs something. She is an only child but always played with neighbours or relatives so isn't too bad at sharing despite being an only child.

Pet(s): None. She'd like one but her parents haven't got her one.
Hobbies: Morag enjoys reading, drawing (although she doesn't claim to be good at it) and spending time with friends or, if she wasn't at Hogwarts, at the beach. She's not really into Quidditch although she does loosely follow it.
Quidditch: No.
Personality: Morag would be what most people would call normal. She's just a normal, nice girl, there's nothing overly special about her. As a Ravenclaw she is pretty bright and plans to try hard in her studies while at Hogwarts.

Sweet and kind would be some of the first thoughts people would have of Morag. She tries to be nice to most, unless they're unpleasant to her or her friends first. Although she tries not to be preachy, she does sometimes get annoyed when people are purposely unfriendly or mean to people without and just reason and has been known to try and convince people to at least attempt to be nicer sometimes. She is an extremely loyal friend who tries to always be there for them when they need her. She will also stand up for her friends if she thinks someone is not being fair to or about them. She enjoys being nice, not only for the sake of it but sometimes being nice can help. If you're a nice person and you need help later on, someone is more likely to want to help (theoretically) so while mostly a selfless thing, she does get personal gain for it (alongside the great feeling you get from knowing you're mostly a great person). She can be shy at first but with those she's close to (and sometimes those she's not if she's in a playful mood) she can be quite silly and really enjoys teasing her friends and herself. She even uses the fact that people think she's really nice to make fun of herself ("I'm too nice to do something like that! I'm just such a lovely person."). She likes to think she's got a good sense of humour, although sometimes she probably finds herself funnier than anyone else does. She does enjoy a bit of a snark sometimes but only in good humour. She shies away from conflict and would rather smooth things over than stir things up, unless she's just teasing.

Morag strongly dislikes people who give purebloods a bad name by being elitists. She finds muggles quite interesting herself, although has very limited knowledge of their culture, and doesn't think that muggleborns or halfbloods should be deemed lesser because they're not pure enough. She also doesn't like it when people generalise about purebloods. Not all purebloods are elitists and she hates that just a select few can give them such a bad name. Although happy to say she doesn’t care about blood, she is grateful for her own status as pureblood and rarely stands up to the people who actually have these elitist views.

As mentioned, unless comfortable around people, Morag can be shy and withdrawn and lacks courage, especially when it coems to standing up for what she believes is right. She's alright with calling people up on being unkind but when it comes to more political confrontations she backs down pretty quickly as she really doesn't like this type of conflict. Afterwards, she feels guilty about not standing up for what she believes in but not guilty enough for her to change her ways and be more confident in standing for what she believes.

Sexuality: Heterosexual.
Past/Current Relationships: None.
Physical Appearance: Morag has long, blond hair that is naturally slightly wavy. She often wears it out or ties it back in a loose bun type thing. She has green eyes and is about 4'9 in height (she says she's still growing though!). She's skinny but is sort of round in the face which gives her a kind of young and cute look.
Affiliations: Neutral - although she's against elitism and all that she's not actively against it enough to be considered as a potential order member, even if she were old enough.
History:Although both Brian and Sally attended Hogwarts the two didn't really know each other as more than someone they saw occaisonally in coridoors or the great hall. It wasn't until a few years out of Hogwarts that they actually really got to know each other. Brian was living in Scotland and Sally was there on a holiday. They met in a cafe and since they recognised each other they started up a conversation before arranging to accidentally bump into each other at the same cafe everyday until the end of Sally's holiday. Needless to say, the two were beginning to quite like each other when Sally had to return home. Only a few weeks later Brian decided to visit her in England. Soon enough the two were dating and eventually Brian moved to England permenantly. After dating for a few years the two got married and had Morag just over a year into their marriage.

Morag's childhood was a reasonably normal one, although as an only child she was never left without something she needed. She wasn't a spoilt brat but she was used to getting most things that she wanted and everything that she needed. Her childhood was also filled with many trips to Scotland, to visit her father's side of the family, something that she loved. Holidays to Scotland were always one of her favourite things and she still enjoys visiting whenever she gets the chance.

When she wasn't holidaying in Scotland, Morag and her family lived in Hampshire. Morag loved visiting the nearby beaches whenever possible and always had fun playing in the water or building sandcastles when she was younger. Except for that time when she was told a story about sea foam and was scared of it for a while. But that's not something she mentions often.

Growing up in a pureblood family, Morag always knew she was a witch and so her incidents with accidental magic hardly surprised either her or her parents. Though, the latter weren't always happy with some of the things she accidentally made happen.

Despite always knowing that she was a witch and bound for Hogwarts she was still excited to receive her Hogwarts letter and couldn't wait to start. Unfortunately for her, more time at Hogwarts will mean less time in for visiting Scotland but she's sure Hogwarts will be fun enough to make up for that!

Upon arrival at school, Morag was sorted into Ravenclaw, something she was very pleased about! Unfortunately, her first experience at Hogwarts was a little embarrassing, with Neville Longbottom walking off the stage with the sorting hat and leaving her standing there, waiting. She supposes it was more embarrassing for Neville, but for an eleven year old, it wasn’t exactly the best way to start at her new school. She's pretty much gotten over that now and has so far enjoyed her first month at Hogwarts.

Desired Occupation: She doesn't know yet and as a twelve year old even if she did she'd probably change her mind 100 times between now and the time she actually has to make a decicion about it.

Samples
A link to a previous journal or thread will suffice if the character has been played before.

Journal: Most of my younger Morag stuff got lost at gj but what is left is at sunnymoragsunnymorag</lj>. Here there are more examples but of older Morag.
Log: Same as with journals, most of my younger stuff has been lost so I'll give an example of both.
Younger!Morag log.
Older!Morag log.