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Kathryn McKnight[center]The Basics
name-
Kathryn McKnight
Nicknames-
Kate
Kitty; by the bold, and a little ill-advised, few and mostly by those in her house. She hates this name and never reacts well to it being used.
Age-
18
Gender -
female
Heritage -
British-American
Kathryn speaks with an American accent regularly leading most to believe she is from America. However, when worked up, her accent drops into a fairly heavy and clear British accent and slang instead. This is, oddly, the direct opposite to her mother. Her mother normally using her normal British accent, yet loosing control and dropping to thick American when worked up.
House:
Gryffindor
She is a female Prefect of her house as well.
Boggart:
A hooded cloaked creature with long gangly limbs and claws.
It's actually the man that bit her in his canine state, but hard to tell because he is cloaked.
Race:
Werewolf
Lycanthropy. Kathrynโs werewolf form has chocolate brown fur and retains her blue-grey eyes.
Sexuality -
Lesbian.
She hasn't explored it yet due to her condition, so has no idea. It depends on who, if anyone, manages to get through to her past her defences. But donโt get your hopes up.
Wand -
12 1/2 inches, Ebony Wood, Thunderbird Tail Feather Core, Flexible
Patronus -
Wolf.
A common patronus in the Gryffindor house, those with the Wolf have a big heart although do have a darker side. This darker side manifests itself in occasional pessimism. Those with this patronus also have a mysterious atmosphere about them and strong instincts to fight for whatโs right.
Blood Status-
Muggleborn
Quidditch -
Yeup! She is her house's Keeper.
Kate became the Keeper for Gryffindorโs Quidditch Team as the excuse of 'team *blank*' helped with things as a precaution. However it turned out that the teen actually had reasonable talent in the flying department. She's held the spot of Keeper through her own marits since her first few matches.
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Deep Down Inside
Positive Personality Traits -
Cunning, sassy(most of the time this is a good thing), strong-willed, ambitious, studious, protective to the point of possesive many times, unselfish, creative, quick learner, loyal, excellent listener, resourceful, understanding, kind, gentle, doesn't judge, romantic at heart, encouraging, affectionate
Negative Personality Traits -
Incurably stubborn, tempermental, strong-willed, introverted, self-sacrificing, doesn't do well with crowds, follows emotions more then her brain, reckless, recluse, spaces out at times and has to be hit (literally) out of it by someone
History -
Kathryn is a girl of british-american background who was born in England to a pair of well-to-do muggles as their only child. As such the little girl being quite spoiled and doted on, healthy but still doted on. Her mother is a nurse who works on a maternity ward of a large hospital. While her father is a former american naval veteran who retiered a few years ago to become a form of manager at a large company. Though both her parents are muggles and knew nothing of magic until the letter arrived on their doorstep, Kathryn's mother always knew there was something special about her daughter. Her father often joked that, in the girl's case, being the black sheep of the family was a term of endearment. He relentlessly brings up the first time the brunette used magic involuntarily. Apparently there is a very good reason the family no longer keeps animals in the house (though the teen's owl Morgana is the one exception as she is a nocturnal hunter and sleeps during the day when her owner is out and about). Anyway! Needless to say both adults had no problems with agreeing to send their little girl to learn magic, as long as she wrote to them everyday about what she had done. This got on the girl's nerves but she agreed just so she could attend the magic school. She is both excited and nervous to be the very first witch in her family. However that happiness was not to last, for a dark cloud loomed over the family and sent the life of the McKnights into chaos.
See when she was fifteen years old, she ended up being bitten by a werewolf. Exactly what happened is unknown, even to her teachers who are all well aware of her canine condition. She refuses to say anything more then she did what had to be done for her parent's sakes and would gladly do it again. However the attack left lasting scars both emotionally and physically on Kate, who has been transforming every full moon for the past two years. She wasn't going to re turn to school after the attack, but the Head of the school assured both her and her parents there was no real reason why Kate could not return to Hogwarts as a student. As long as certain precautionary meassures were taken of course.
It happened during a summer in between her years of attending Hogwarts. It was late on a night of the fullmoon when the young witch was outside practicing a few of the spells she had learned the past year to go over and perfect them. The spell in particular she was practicing was transfiguring a bird feeder her family kept out back in their yard into a rabbit and then back again into the feeder and then back into a rabbit over and over. Her parents were sitting around a small bonfire, when her mother called her to bring smores making sticks which she had forgotten inside the house. Putting her wand away after undoing her transfiguration, Kate ran inside to fetch the long skewers and join her parents. Picking up the skewers and ready to head back out though, the brunette heard her mother scream and dropped them running back outside in time too see both her parents well on alert and a hulking gangly shape over by the feeder she had been practicing her magic on. Without thinking Kate reacted redrawing her wand and running back outside getting between her parents and the creature which turned out to be a fully transformed werewolf. The teen managed to drive the werewolf off while leaving it with a few decent missing patches of fur and the scent of burnt hair following its tracks, but not before it gave her a momento to remember him by too- a narly bite to her left shoulder. That werewolf hasn't been heard from since that night leaving Kate to believe that it is still out there somewhere. Though used to her Lycanthropy, or as much as she could be, the young werewolf still is deadly fearful that one night she will transform and her wolf form will do irreparable damage to her family or someone else. Or worse.....bite them and resign them to the same cruel fate as herself. This fear is so great it effects her boggart and just about kept the teen from returning to school, as she refused to go ahead with her magical education due to the danger she posed to staff and other students alike, until Headmisstress/Headmaster stepped in. Now every fullmoon while at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Kate is escorted to the forest by a staff member before moonrise so that she can transform and run about the forest around the school while in her canine state. Then at first light she is snuck back into the castle and tended to by the healer for a day or so until deemed well enough to return to classes.
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Other-
*The man that bit, and transformed, her is still out there somewhere.
*Kate also happens to keep a female Barn Owl by the name of Morgana.
*Markings/Tatoos/Scars -
Kathryn is covered in scars but keeps them hidden with magic, make up and her clothes. Its a little easier to at school thanks to her house robes.
-Various scars all over:
due to isolating herself during her transformations.
-Sides and Arms:
thin silver scars from claws where she scratches herself. These are the most reachable places.
-Left Shoulder:
a nasty well aged looking scar near where her shoulder meets her neck from where she was attacked and bitten at fifteen.
-Back:
a few minor smaller scars from her transformations as it is a hard to reach place.
*She is particularly gifted with Transfiguration type spells.