Name: Samantha Hamilton
Gender: female
Age: 14
Year: 4
House: Ravenclaw
Ethnicity: Scottish/British
Hair/Eye Color: dirty blonde, heavily highlighted to look lighter / green
Pet: A fat, long-haired orange and white cat called [ url=http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm303/asthefireflies/gus.png]Augustus, or Gus for short. He's just a plain animal, no powers. Sam keeps him for companionship. He's a goofy animal, and dumb so he does silly things. He's affectionate, friendly, and loud. He meows a lot, almost as if talking. He loves to be at the center of attention at all times.
[b ]Home Life: Sam is a Muggle-born who grew up in Leeds, Yorkshire, with her mother Tina. She has a thick Northern British accent, and though Leeds is often made fun of, she's proud of her city.
Sam has never known her father, and seeing as there are not relatives on either side, has only known her mother as family.
Tina is a mess. She grew up abused and had a difficult life, and therefore is not very mentally or emotionally stable, and has been horribly depressed most of Sam's life. She blames Sam for her father's absence, and is clingy, demanding, spiteful, judgemental, and vindictive. She directs everything positive and negative at Sam, since she's too depressed to leave the house and has only Sam for human contact. Tina is naturally a social person, so she also expects Sam to be a friend to her. Had Tina been stronger, she would have been kind, generous, funny, a great story-teller. Those qualities shine through on occasion. But for the most part, she drives Sam crazy by having high expectations and by reminding Sam that she's a disappointment. She's volatile and unpredictable, doing as she pleases, including disrespecting Sam and her property when she feels like it.
Sam had a difficult time in Muggle school. She enjoyed studying and, due to watching the BBC programming religiously, had a sophisticated sense of humor from an early age, and was often bullied or ignored, with few friends. She's since learned to hide that humor and prefers using a goofier, more accessible humor.
Her best friend while in the Muggle world is Nicole, whom she met in Year 5, the UK's equivalent to US grade 4. Nicole is everything Sam could have been if she had grown up in a more stable household; popular, funny, confident, and sociable. Though they have few things in common, Nicole and Sam are very close and get along very well, able to talk about anything or nothing with one another.
Diving deeper: Sam is an extrovert, thriving in the company of others. She loves to entertain, to engage others and to make them laugh. What she likes most about herself is that she sees the good in pretty much everyone, and likes and respects everyone. She's hard to anger, but somewhat easily hurt, though she tries not to show it. She's highly impulsive, and lives life to the fullest from moment to moment and very intuitively. In regards to others, she's very caring about others and is always willing to help. She's also fiercely loyal, and hates gossip. She's a lot wiser than she lets on, understanding humanity at such an advanced level that she finds it hard to hate anyone. Her optimism keeps her believing fiercely in the best in everyone; that everyone has infinite potential and can accomplish anything. She's capable of pragmatism and logic, but generally lives very much heart on her sleeve. She's a lot quieter and more mellow one-on-onet than in groups; she's very excitable and gets loud easily when among a crowd.
Sam is fickle, and nothing ever holds her attention for very long. She can be over-sensitive at times when criticized, but does her best to not let it show, and she'll worry endlessly about it. Her impulsiveness, blunt honesty, and lack of tact often leads her to say and do things without thinking, a lot of the time getting herself into trouble and offending others. It could be argued that she only likes everyone because she doesn't know how to look too deeply into anything or anyone. She's also ridiculously unorganized and scatterbrained, constantly procrastinating and refusing to schedule her time because she feels trapped within a routine. She's very irresponsible, and epicly lazy. Her laziness is something she can barely overcome by herself, and it's usually up to Nicole to get her moving if Sam's not in the mood. She also has a tendency to act differently around different groups of people, usually to appear tougher than she actually is, but also an attempt to make herself more likeable if she can.
For all her light-heartedness and joie de vivre, Sam has horrible self-esteem. She's a complete optimistic and idealist about the world and everyone in it, but despairs over herself. A combination of an absent father, a neurotic mother, and lack of friends has made her think very badly of herself. Though she logically knows it's ridiculous, she still believes somewhere that her father left because he didn't want her. Being that her mother was all she had, Sam placed all her self-value on her mother, who is disappointed in much of who and what Sam is. And for a social butterfly to be so isolated at school is against her nature, so she's awkwardly shy and hesitant at times. She's constantly paranoid about what people think of her; whether they dislike her without saying so or whether they judge her based on things her interests, and such. She tries to live as she likes and not worry about it, but it is hard for her. Because of this, she values honesty beyond anything else, and stresses to friends that she wants the truth at all times, even if it will hurt her. She also has a difficult time getting close to people, because she feels she's not worth their time in the end, and doesn't want to bother anyone with her "less-than-worthy" problems. So she barely talks about anything that makes her sad and barely relies on anyone when she feels vulnerable, keeping it all to herself and driving herself crazy. She'll even go out of her way for others because she'd rather inconvenience herself than someone else.
Her greatest passion is her art, and it's what she lives for. She's still not sure what she wants to do with it, but she does know that she wants to create charms to make animating easier. She loves animation, and possibly wants to makes children's cartoons. Sam also enjoys reading psychology and history, but mainly she spends her time with fiction. Young adult fantasy is her particular favorite genre. She loves tea and is a frightening sweet tooth. She values honesty even higher than kindness. She loves the little things in life; light filtering through the trees, the sounds of birds and bugs, random acts of kindness, things like that. She listens to lots of different types of music, but generally prefers the open creativity of independent. She deeply admires people who are different from her; who are serious and subtle and logical. Her deepest secret regret is that she wasn't sorted into Gryffindor; she wishes she could be brave, more than anything else. She loves cats, hates dogs, and plans on decorating the first place she lives by herself completely in bright colors.
Taking a closer look: "Ahh~ But that's so bloody boring..." Sam sighed to herself, flipping through the next year's Transfiguration textbook. It was her least favorite subject and after three years she had still not figured out why. Theoretically, it should be awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping stuff to come from a Muggle background and be able to turn one object into something else, but...
She slammed it shut, frowning as she thought of this year's upcoming lessons. What a chore. At least Charms would be brilliant, doubtless. Her stomach ached with hunger, but rather than go downstairs to get something proper to eat and face her mother, she dug a bag of crisps out from under her bed and started munching dolefully on them. Her mother was angry at her for something else now...something about being too immature. It stands to reason, Sam thought to herself bitterly, I'm only fourteen. Only three more years until she could get out. Until then, three weeks until term started. Sam smiled. Hogwarts was always worth waiting through the summers for.
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