Mary Evans

[Mary Evans]

MARY EVANS

The Basics:[/color]
Name: Mary Evans
Age: 18
House: Slytherin Graduate
Blood: Pure
Pet: Eagle owl named Basil
Wand: 9" Dragon Heart-string made of Rosewood
Employment: Reserve beater for the Holyhead Harpies

Physical Description:[/color]
Mary has long red hair that is slightly curly and never stays the way she wants it. She is 5’5” but holds herself properly with a straight back and is always looking up so it appears as if she is taller. Mary has naturally warm green eyes that she can cause to go blank and look hard, from years of practice, when she does not feel like sharing her emotions. She often reminds people of a china doll in appearance with her naturally ivory skin, which she never allows to burn or tans.

Mary has a slender figure with surprising strength, being a beater. She appears small and petite but really she can, and does, hit a bludger with the best of them. Mary also likes to dress simply, classically. She agrees with the words “Fashion fades but style is forever” and so while she will dress to the times it always has a Mary flare which makes it timeless. Granted, Mary has the money to pull off these looks, another thing you can tell just from looking at the arrogant way she holds herself.

Personality:[/color]
Mary simply likes things the way she likes them. She also likes people to stay in the place she put them, even if that means being a little harsh to keep them there. Mary judges people based on the purity of their blood as well as on their family’s status within that pureblood world. Despite this Mary also sticks to her own general opinions about people – if she doesn’t like someone it doesn’t matter what their name is but if she does like them she may be more lenient of her criticism of them. This probably began back when Mary used to believe in acceptance and tolerance of all. Back when she was brainwashed by the house unity propaganda. Ideas she has long since learned to turn away from.

When Mary is friends with someone she spends most of her time joking around, but she is very sarcastic and so people often have trouble knowing when she is serious or not. Mary can be quite outspoken and is not remotely afraid to voice her opinions the majority of the time, something she is learning may not be the best outside of school.

Now she has graduated Mary has been forced to start learning something many say she should have learned years ago, patience. She is on the reserve team for the Harpies and so must not only try to get along with a team she hasn’t picked, but get along with a team of women, most older than her, that she hasn’t picked. Mary had been at the top of the Slytherin team for so long it has been a huge slap being put back down to the reserve team with people older, better, and more experienced than she is. Not that Mary has lost her cockiness, far from it, she’s just working on not being so snappish about it; trying to keep out of trouble.

History:[/color]
Mary was raised in Evans Manor by her parents Judith and Bradley Evans along with a number of caretakers and tutors. All her whims were catered to so long as she put up with her mother’s rants. Judith Evans could be a very demanding person and sometimes difficult to put up with; Mary and Bradley learned to cope though by placating her. This led to Bradley not being much of an individual, which Mary always hated about him. Despite his shortfalls her father had some redeeming qualities to Mary, mostly that he was descended from the Evans family and upheld the family honour for her. He was also always telling Mary she would have to come work with him when she graduated; an offer Mary told him to swallow in her third year because while she never knew what her father did she knew it had to be related to the dark arts.

Though Mary loved the pampering she received at home she was euphoric the day her Hogwarts letter arrived. Being an only child Mary often felt lonely in the large manor. She was constantly surrounded by adults and often felt very left out. Her mother discouraged personal relationships between her and her caretakers and tutors so Mary felt isolated. Hogwarts to her meant the opportunity to make friendships beyond the ones set up by her parents. She would finally be able to decide whom she wished to associate with and who was not worth her time.

Mary’s entire family had been in Slytherin for generations and she believed that she was initially placed there mainly because of that. She had been raised believing that Slytherin was the only place worth being; and Slytherins were the only people worth knowing. She quickly decided that this was not true and began questioning the beliefs her parents instilled in her. By the end of her first year Mary had developed a passion for anthropology. Through this she learned a lot about muggle culture and came to believe that wizards and muggles were not very different at all.

This way of thinking brought Mary through her third year until suddenly something happened. One turbulent summer Mary was forced to make a choice – the life the she had always known in the pureblood wizarding world – or to stick by her new found beliefs. The summer between third and fourth year, when her cousin Jeremy was visiting, Mary did a lot of growing up. By the end of the summer she had been pulled back in, she saw the way muggles would never accept them. And ultimately she realised the power of magic and wizards.

Mary’s fourth year was a difficult one, she had come in thinking to reject all she had spouted about accepting muggles and muggleborns. She really did put in an effort to, kept up friendships with pure-bloods from other houses. In the end Mary found it simply too conflicting – trying to be tolerant all the while knowing deep down she was better for her magical roots. By the time summer came none who were friends with Mary in her third year would have recognized her by the way she responded to others. She was finally the Slytherin her mother had always wanted her to be.