Kiery Hemlock

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AGE »» 17
BIRTHDAY »» 21 December 2026
GENDER »» Female
FACE-CLAIM »» Alyssa Milano ✖
BLOOD STATUS »» Muggleborn
WAND »» 11 2/3 inches, Chestnut with Griffin Hair, swishy with a spiraled shaft
LANGUAGES SPOKEN »» English, Gaelic, Latin (minimal), Greek (conversational)
ACCENT »» Received Pronunciation ✖
PET »» Black cat Grimoire

LIKES
xxx»» Nature
xxx»» Magic
xxx»» Mythology
xxx»» Riddles
xxx»» Art
DISLIKES
xxx»» Intolerance
xxx»» Anything ordinary
xxx»» Being trapped indoors
xxx»» Heavily religious people
xxx»» Loud, discordant noise
HOBBIES
xxx»» Drawing
xxx»» Singing
xxx»» Gardening



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OPEN-MINDED
xxx»» Kiery was raised in what her mother refers to as an 'alternative' environment. She was taught that all things are to be questioned, and that you should never accept anything at face-value. The best way to learn, she was told, is to be open to new information, and to always keep an open mind. Kiery embraced this to its fullest, and tries to always give the benefit of the doubt when hearing something new, even if it is in direct opposition to what she already knows. Unfortunately, she tends to be quite gullible as a result, and is easily tricked into thinking some rather odd things.

CURIOUS
xxx»» Questioning everything entails... well, questioning everything, something Kiery is more than happy to do. As a small child, she was always the one prattling off question after question, and endless series of who, what, when, why, how. She lost many a babysitter simply by driving them nuts with her boundless enthusiasm for any and everything. Now, she's more interested in conducting her own hands-on research, which often results in her nose being stuck in a book. That's the preferred scenario, anyway. There have been a fair few times her mother caught her up to some sort of nonsense because she wast testing an interesting theory. Many a household object was ruined in the process, and she very nearly poisoned her mother's familiar on a handful of occasions.

ARTISTIC
xxx»» Kiery loves to draw. She's wildly imaginative, and feels the need to put everything she imagines on paper. She's a bit of a mess, so paints and pastels were never allowed to her. She was lucky if she was permitted to use pens or markers, truth be told, and spent many an afternoon scrubbing the walls clean of that morning's mural. Her mother tries to keep her from doodling all over the flat by purchasing a seemingly infinite number of sketchbooks. Frankly, the amount of money she spends on them, and the crayons and colored pencils used on them, it's a miracle the family doesn't go bankrupt.

EASILY DISTRACTED
xxx»» Kiery's attention span leaves a lot to be desired. When your entire life is presented as a blank canvas of questions to be asked and things to explore, it's easy to lose track of what you're doing. She's forever guilty of starting one thing, then having the sudden impulse to do something else and abandoning that project. Hours later, she'll find her half-finished sketch, or a list of ingredients to a potion she wanted to brew, and have utterly no clue what it was supposed to be when she started. She claims that she's excellent at multi-tasking; in reality, she just can't stay focused on one task long enough to complete it.

QUICK-WITTED
xxx»» Being a veritable sponge for information has made Kiery quite the clever girl. She's quick with a reply to any question, and quite adept at holding her own in a match of wits. Though she can at times drift, and her rapport suffers for it, whenever she's invested in a conversation, she can be very funny. She likes to make jokes, and excels at puns. That other people do not appreciate her puns is of no consequence. She's also very good at solving puzzles, and tends to try and make everything in her life into a puzzle, so to speak, in order to make it more interesting. If she can turn something into a game, she can generally force herself to focus for at least a little while longer.

STUBBORN
xxx»» For all her open-mindedness, for all her desire to learn, there are certain times where something will rub Kiery the wrong way. When this happens, she will dig in her heels and refuse to budge for anything. Typically, such matters involve a moral quandary, where she believes her opponent is behaving in an immoral way. Or, when arguing with someone who stubbornly refuses to yield to her on important matters, she will likewise match their stubbornness with her own. If she is not being listened to, she sees no reason to listen to someone else, end of story.

STRENGTHS
xxx»» Well-read
xxx»» Imaginative
WEAKNESSES
xxx»» Distractable
xxx»» Easily swayed
FEARS
xxx»» Being ordinary
xxx»» Fire



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CHILDHOOD
xxx»» Kiery is the only child of a single mother, Hecate Hemlock, whose name was most certainly not that when she was born, her parents are quick to tell people. She was named Catherine Monahan, and by their way of thinking, should've kept that name. But, a strict religious upbringing drove Catherine to insanity, and the moment she had a bit of freedom in her life, she rebelled. During her rebellion, she discovered Wicca, found a coven, and never looked back. By the time Kiery was born, she had changed her name to honor 'The Mother of Witches', as she called her, and chose for her daughter a 'suitably witchy' name.
xxx»» Kiery's childhood was a very happy one, filled with much love from her mother. She's not sure of the identity of her father, nor is her mother, for reasons she says they'll discuss when Kiery is older. She was born almost a month early, which her mother claims was 'by the will of the gods' thanks to her birthday falling on the Winter Solstice. From her youth, she remembers having very little blood family, and very little contact with what she did have aside from her mother. Instead, she had a large 'family' of coven members. She has always considered them her true family, and happily informs people that she has several grandparents, as anyone over the age of fifty in the coven qualifies to her.
xxx»» Growing up in such an environment, the discovery of her magic was both less and more notable than for most muggleborn witches. On the one hand, magic was considered old hat to her family, and no one was surprised by it or struggled to explain the odd things that happened around her. On the other hand, they were all thrilled that she was so 'gifted' in the magical arts without training, and doted on her as a prodigy. When she got her Hogwarts letter, of course, it caused a fair bit of confusion. The Hogwarts governor who came to explain had quite the headache when he left, as a result of having to explain that Kiery was a witch, but 'no, not like that, she's a real witch, she's got real magic-'. It was a very awkward, uncomfortable conversation, in which Hecate vowed to hex the man's mouth shut if he didn't stop claiming he knew more about magic than she did. In the end, he did at least manage to convince the woman to let him take them to Diagon for Kiery's school things, by appealing to her ego. Her daughter, he said, would be special in the coven. She would get to go to a magic school. How many other children got to do that?
xxx»» Kiery, meanwhile, was utterly thrilled, though she didn't like the way the man spoke to her mother. She's somewhat offput by the notion of this school. If it's for witches, why is she the only person in her coven to attend? She's the oldest child, and none of the other adults had discovered magic when they were her age, so she eventually settled on that as an explanation, but she's still very curious about what's to come.

SCHOOL YEARS

FIRST YEAR »» Kiery found that the magical world wasn't quite what she expected, and yet still exactly that. On the one hand, she was thrilled and amazed by 'real' magic (her previous understanding of it slipping more and more each day), but on the other hand she was surprised at how normal everyone was. She found herself making friends fairly easily, which thrilled her to no end. Unfortunately, there was a lot of drama with her family and coven, many of whom were offended by the notion that they weren't 'really' magical. When it came time to prove they could be entrusted with knowledge of the magical world, most of them refused to cooperate, including Kiery's mother. As a result, the three coven members who were willing and open-minded enough to work with the ministry were granted guardianship of her, and the memories of the rest of the coven were erased. The winter holidays were the last time she saw most of them.
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» Quidditch Team (Chaser), Theater Club
SECOND YEAR »» Kiery continued to enjoy delving into the study of magic. Her Summer at home was difficult, seeing as she didn't get to go home to her mother, but she adapted readily to living with her new guardians, even though there were some struggles. Once returning to school, she threw herself into her social life, her studies, and Quidditch. A less than spectacular performance on the pitch proved to her that her success the year before had likely been beginner's luck, but she wasn't disheartened, instead deciding she'd simply train until she was once again performing that well.
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» Drama club, Quidditch (chaser), Dueling club
THIRD YEAR »» Kiery's third year was largely uneventful. She continued in Drama Club and Quidditch, although she did drop Dueling. She focused mostly on her studies, and trying to continue to improve at Quidditch so as to not let her team down. Her season wasn't exactly spectacular, but it wasn't terrible, either.
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» Drama club, Quidditch (chaser)
FOURTH YEAR »» Again, nothing particularly notable happened to Kiery this year at school. There was the food fight, of course, which she participated quite enthusiastically in, but other than that it was more studying, more training, more tech working.
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» Drama club, Quidditch (chaser)
FIFTH YEAR »» - - -
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» - - -
SIXTH YEAR »» - - -
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» - - -
SEVENTH YEAR »» - - -
xxxEXTRACURRICULARS »» - - -




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ATTENDING »» Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
HOUSE »» Ravenclaw
CLASS OF »» 2045
HONORS »» Prefect, Quidditch Captain
BEST LESSONS
xxx»» Herbology
xxx»» Potions
xxx»» Flying
WORST LESSONS
xxx»» Transfiguration
xxx»» Charms
xxx»» Defense Against the Dark Arts
OWL SCORES
xxxASTRONOMY »» A
xxxCHARMS »» EE
xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS »» A
xxxHERBOLOGY »» A
xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC »» A
xxxPOTIONS »» EE
xxxTRANSFIGURATION »» A
xxxALCHEMY »» A
xxxART »» O
xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES »» EE
xxxDIVINATION »» EE
xxxHEALING »» A
xxxMYTHOLOGY »» A
xxxSTUDY OF ANCIENT RUNES »» A
xxxWANDLESS MAGIC »» A
xxxWANDLORE STUDIES »» A
NEWT SCORES
xxxASTRONOMY »» EE
xxxCHARMS »» A
xxxHERBOLOGY »» A
xxxPOTIONS »» EE
xxxART »» O
xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES »» EE
xxxDIVINATION »» EE
DREAM JOB »» Owner of an occult store



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SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION »» Lesbian
RELATIONSHIP STATUS »» Taken
SIGNIFICANT OTHER »» Sybille LeBeau

FAMILY
xxx»» Legal Guardian Alicia "Pixie" Howard
xxx»» Guardians Caleb "Cosmo" Brooks, Wendy "Navi" Hampton
xxx»» Mother Hecate Hemlock
xxx»» Grandparents Joseph and Harriet Monahan
COVEN
xxx»» High Priestess Pixie
xxx»» Witch Navi
xxx»» Warlock Cosmo
FRIENDS
xxx»» Best friend Sybille LeBeau
xxx»» Laili Abrams
xxx»» Helena Davisson
ENEMIES
xxx»» - - -
ACQUAINTANCES
xxx»» Ravenclaw House
xxx»» Ravenclaw Quidditch Players
xxx»» Second year students

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