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Character's Full Name: Orlanda "Orla" Lynn Quirke
Birthday and Age: 17 March 1981; 16 years old
Year: Sixth Year Ravenclaw
PB: Amelia Warner or Laura Donnelly
Sexuality: Sraight; heterosexual
Personality:
Orla is a very shy and reserved person, oftentimes proving to be more quiet than talkative, especially in situations where she is uncomfortable or unfamiliar with. She’s easily pleased and doesn’t ask for a lot, even if her father does tend to spoil her on occasion. She dotes on her father, writes him often, and the two of them are inseparable when she's home.
She believes herself to be independent, but if she were ever left on her own, she’d realise just how much she holds onto those people whom she believes will protect her and watch over her. This sort of behaviour is what makes her appear meek and hesitant around people she doesn't know and situations she is unfamiliar with.
Orla is also exceedingly smart, but incredibly naïve, so most intellect is shadowed by how unaware she seems of the world outside around her. Call it selfishness, but it’s really because her father has protected her innocence so much and has kept her rose-coloured glasses on for longer than most others. She was aware that there was a war going on, but often pretended that it wouldn't affect her; that if she stayed home or at Hogwarts, nothing terribly bad would happen to her or those around her.
Despite her reservations and her quiet personality, she can be outgoing around those she knows well enough. Those who get to see this side of her are few, but she does smile a lot and laughs easily. Typically, she has a camera somewhere on her person or in her bag. When she was younger, her father said that she needed a hobby and, after much consideration, she decided she wanted to try photography. Her prints weren't very good in the beginning, but with diligent practice and the use of various different cameras and techniques, she's slowly started to hone her craft to where she's pleased with the photographs she takes.
Brief History:
Orla was born in the early morning hours of 17 March 1983, to two very proud parents. Her mother had always been told that, due to a small heart condition, she may not be able to have children. However, much to their surprise, little Orlanda was born and the two cherished her more than anything in the world. The birth weakened her mother’s condition considerable, but as far as Orla remembers, she had never seen her mother with nothing but a smile on her face. Her father doted on his daughter, oftentimes spoiling her – much to her mother’s dismay, but even her mother would buy her trinkets when the two of them would go into town.
At age five, Orla entered Primary school and began a muggle education. At the time, she only believed that magic existed in fairy tales as her parents didn’t want to get her hopes up of becoming a witch in case she didn’t. However, at age six, a pesky little boy and teased her about her pig-tails and she got so angry that, somehow, she caused pig-tails to sprout out the side of his head! Orla had expected her parents to be cross with her, but when she arrived home that evening, they were rejoiced with the news and told her all about magic and Hogwarts; her father even demonstrating a few tricks to her!
At age seven, Orla’s mother died. She was too young to understand what it mean, but knew that she missed her mother terribly. With her mother no longer around, it was only her and her father, and he worked a steady job at the Ministry, so she would be left in after-school programmes or at a child-care center until he came and collected her. The death of her mother caused her to become a more quiet child. In school, she excelled above the majority of her classmates and was a favourite amongst her teachers. She had friends, but only a close knit of them. This continued until she turned eleven.
On her eleventh birthday, Orla knew that she was to expect a letter from Hogwarts and wasn’t disappointed. There it had came, by owl, addressed solely to her. It was her Hogwarts letter and both her and her father celebrated with cake and ice cream that night.
At Hogwarts, Orla was sorted into Ravenclaw house. Her father had predicted that she would have been and couldn’t have been more proud. She liked it there, the colours suited her and the atmosphere was calm and collected. She was excited to begin learning about magic and devoted herself to it, as all Ravenclaws were stereotyped into being ‘smart.’ She wasn’t the top of her class, but she was in the higher percentages. She had a small group of friends that she associated with and went down to the lake to study with, but she wasn’t a social butterfly like many.
Orla was only a year behind Harry Potter, but knew about him. She respected him and all he had to deal with. While they weren’t friends, anytime she’d pass him in the corridors, she would smile or say hello to him. Despite being relatively shy and quiet, Orla did manage to make a few good friends while at Hogwarts, but she still mostly kept to herself and the dark room she has fashioned in a spare closet at Hogwarts.
She also wasn’t naïve to the war around her. It scared her. To think that there were people dying nearly every day and it wouldn’t stop was unfathomable and she had trouble comprehending it. While she supported Harry’s side, she didn’t exactly join up in the fight - nor did her father for that matter. For one, she was still too young, and for another, she didn’t possess the Gryffindor courage to point her wand and potentially harm another human being. But the war finally ended, much to her own relief and she feels that things are a lot safer now; she can do whatever she'd like and there wouldn't be those who'd scorn her because of her birth.
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