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Help[Games] Re: Harry Potter Congrats: Round 2
in reply to a message by Sekhmet
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DW: Helen Agatha (Moon) Steedman, Halfblood, Age 23
DH: Daniel Gabriel Steedman, Pureblood, Age 25
Helen Agatha Moon was born to a Muggle accountant and a Muggleborn witch who teaches in a Muggle primary school. She grew up aware of magic, seeing it practiced at an annual gathering of her mother's school friends. She had her first show of accidental magic at age six, when she used it to stop a car from hitting another child outside her school. Her father was Catholic, and she followed that tradition throughout her years at Hogwarts, where she was a Ravenclaw.
Upon leaving school, she began training to become a Healer. During her third month of training, she was assigned to care for a child who had bruises on her face and a broken shoulder. She discovered the child was abused, but was forced to let her be returned to her aristocratic Pureblood father. After that incident, she specialized in children and teenagers, and soon realized a pattern in abused Muggleborn children. She left St. Mungos and started an agency to help Muggleborns and their parents become familiarized with magic to help prevent such abuse.
Daniel Steedman was raised by his father, Gabriel Lucian Steedman, and his grandfather, Lucian Everett Steedman. Gabriel and Lucian wanted nothing more than a son to continue their line, and when Daniel was born, his mother (a Pureblood witch from a nearly unknown French family) took Daniel's two older sisters, Tabitha and Louisa, and left.
The three men Steedman lived in a large house, not a mansion but not your average house, in England. The family was quite firmly neutral, not just about the war, but about nearly anything one could think of. Daniel was raised in Pureblood circles and made Pureblood friends at Pureblood parties under the watchful eyes of Purebloods' house elves, but as he neared his Hogwarts years he began to play with Muggle children and went to a Muggle school (if only because the Muggle authorities insisted and Lucian Steedman had too many business opportunities in Muggle society to let Gabriel, who was as strongly against the idea as possible while remaining firmly neutral, break ties with the Muggles).
The Sorting Hat had quite a bit of trouble placing Daniel. It initially wanted to place him in Slytherin, but that house was too drastically unneutral. It then offered Gryffindor, but that house was also too unneutral. The boy was simply not suited for Ravenclaw, the only house the family saw as completely neutral, and so he was made a Hufflepuff.
During his Hogwarts years, Daniel was seen by his professors as anything from a "complete and total brat" to an "extraordinarily promising student, with a few behavioral issues". Either way, he was a handful.
In his fifth year Daniel starred as a Chaser for the house Quidditch team, but was replaced the following year after lacking motivation to do anything but play Quidditch. This of course was far from a perfect solution - in fact, the stubborn young wizard promptly took to doing nothing at all.
Upon leaving Hogwarts, Daniel returned to his family home and spent the next year getting thoroughly drunk. His stern grandfather finally kicked him out of the house, leaving Daniel forced to take a job as a store clerk. He of course lost that position with due haste and decided to sober up a bit while working in Rosmerta's.
Once he was off the bottle entirely, Rosmerta gave him a pay bonus and told him to pursue a real career - "Your talent is wasted serving butterbeer to schoolchildren". Nobody was fooled by the stunt, considering it came after he slipped a seventh year a bottle of diluted Firewhiskey, but Daniel took her words to heart and retook his NEWTS (he had failed all but two) before entering Healer training.
As part of Daniel's Healer training, he interned at St. Mungo's. There he met Helen Moon while caring for a Muggleborn boy about to enter Hogwarts who had been seriously beaten by his parents, who were frightened by his displays of magic. Stunned at the sight of such abuse, he threw up upon leaving the child's room. Helen witnessed the incident and invited him to lunch with the purpose of speaking to him about what had happened with the child. By the end of the meal, he was completely on board with her goal, and planned to join her agency as a Healer when his training was complete. The two continued to meet every Wednesday for lunch, and after a few months they began to date.
Daniel proposed on an April morning, one year to the [Wednes]day after the two met. They were wed four months later, with the boy they had first met over, then twelve years of age, as the ring bearer. Neither set of guardians was entirely pleased with the marriage - the elder Steedmans because their son was marrying a woman they viewed as no more than a Muggleborn, and also because he was participating in a wholly untraditional activity such as interacting with Muggles on a daily basis; the Moons because of the reputation the Steedman family has for quite literally "loving and leaving".
DW: Helen Agatha (Moon) Steedman, Halfblood, Age 23
DH: Daniel Gabriel Steedman, Pureblood, Age 25
Helen Agatha Moon was born to a Muggle accountant and a Muggleborn witch who teaches in a Muggle primary school. She grew up aware of magic, seeing it practiced at an annual gathering of her mother's school friends. She had her first show of accidental magic at age six, when she used it to stop a car from hitting another child outside her school. Her father was Catholic, and she followed that tradition throughout her years at Hogwarts, where she was a Ravenclaw.
Upon leaving school, she began training to become a Healer. During her third month of training, she was assigned to care for a child who had bruises on her face and a broken shoulder. She discovered the child was abused, but was forced to let her be returned to her aristocratic Pureblood father. After that incident, she specialized in children and teenagers, and soon realized a pattern in abused Muggleborn children. She left St. Mungos and started an agency to help Muggleborns and their parents become familiarized with magic to help prevent such abuse.
Daniel Steedman was raised by his father, Gabriel Lucian Steedman, and his grandfather, Lucian Everett Steedman. Gabriel and Lucian wanted nothing more than a son to continue their line, and when Daniel was born, his mother (a Pureblood witch from a nearly unknown French family) took Daniel's two older sisters, Tabitha and Louisa, and left.
The three men Steedman lived in a large house, not a mansion but not your average house, in England. The family was quite firmly neutral, not just about the war, but about nearly anything one could think of. Daniel was raised in Pureblood circles and made Pureblood friends at Pureblood parties under the watchful eyes of Purebloods' house elves, but as he neared his Hogwarts years he began to play with Muggle children and went to a Muggle school (if only because the Muggle authorities insisted and Lucian Steedman had too many business opportunities in Muggle society to let Gabriel, who was as strongly against the idea as possible while remaining firmly neutral, break ties with the Muggles).
The Sorting Hat had quite a bit of trouble placing Daniel. It initially wanted to place him in Slytherin, but that house was too drastically unneutral. It then offered Gryffindor, but that house was also too unneutral. The boy was simply not suited for Ravenclaw, the only house the family saw as completely neutral, and so he was made a Hufflepuff.
During his Hogwarts years, Daniel was seen by his professors as anything from a "complete and total brat" to an "extraordinarily promising student, with a few behavioral issues". Either way, he was a handful.
In his fifth year Daniel starred as a Chaser for the house Quidditch team, but was replaced the following year after lacking motivation to do anything but play Quidditch. This of course was far from a perfect solution - in fact, the stubborn young wizard promptly took to doing nothing at all.
Upon leaving Hogwarts, Daniel returned to his family home and spent the next year getting thoroughly drunk. His stern grandfather finally kicked him out of the house, leaving Daniel forced to take a job as a store clerk. He of course lost that position with due haste and decided to sober up a bit while working in Rosmerta's.
Once he was off the bottle entirely, Rosmerta gave him a pay bonus and told him to pursue a real career - "Your talent is wasted serving butterbeer to schoolchildren". Nobody was fooled by the stunt, considering it came after he slipped a seventh year a bottle of diluted Firewhiskey, but Daniel took her words to heart and retook his NEWTS (he had failed all but two) before entering Healer training.
As part of Daniel's Healer training, he interned at St. Mungo's. There he met Helen Moon while caring for a Muggleborn boy about to enter Hogwarts who had been seriously beaten by his parents, who were frightened by his displays of magic. Stunned at the sight of such abuse, he threw up upon leaving the child's room. Helen witnessed the incident and invited him to lunch with the purpose of speaking to him about what had happened with the child. By the end of the meal, he was completely on board with her goal, and planned to join her agency as a Healer when his training was complete. The two continued to meet every Wednesday for lunch, and after a few months they began to date.
Daniel proposed on an April morning, one year to the [Wednes]day after the two met. They were wed four months later, with the boy they had first met over, then twelve years of age, as the ring bearer. Neither set of guardians was entirely pleased with the marriage - the elder Steedmans because their son was marrying a woman they viewed as no more than a Muggleborn, and also because he was participating in a wholly untraditional activity such as interacting with Muggles on a daily basis; the Moons because of the reputation the Steedman family has for quite literally "loving and leaving".
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