Seren Willows

Backstory

I am a Ravenclaw, a pure-blood, and the eldest sibling in my family. Born to a pure-blood Slytherin family, expectations were high for me to carry on the family tradition. Growing up, the estate library was my nanny. Thousands of books were at my disposal and more often than not kept me quiet and out of my cold-blooded relatives’ way. Books were my escape, and the knowledge they gave me raised a quiet rebellion in me. I did not want to be a Slytherin! For many years I studied with my private tutors, packed on the extra lessons, doing everything in my power to escape my family’s clutches come my 11th birthday. When the day finally came for my sorting, I was nervous beyond all belief. When the hat was placed upon my head he sighed and told me that my family would hate me forever for his decision, but that his decision was one of the easiest he’s ever had to make. When that hat shouted “RAVENCLAW!” I knew that my life would never be the same. And I was right. My family doesn’t talk to me anymore, I’m banned from the estate, and they have threatened to kill my beloved cat Varaxxus (a beautiful black cat with strange blood red eyes that I rescued as a kitten a few years before). My dream is to become the best curse-breaker the Wizarding World has ever seen. I hope to forge a new path, one where my family can’t reach.