Moira Finnigan

NAME:[/b] Hannananana

AGE:[/b] Old

EXPERIENCE:[/b] Lots

HOW'D YOU FIND US:[/b] Own it

OTHER CHARACTERS:[/b] Izzie, Ella, Cammy, Digger, Kale, Gavi, Emi, Pippa & Bronson - I just made Genevieve Vaisey, but I'm replacing her with this character... =X

HOW CAN WE CONTACT YOU:[/b] You know

SECRET WORD OR PHRASE:[/b] woof!
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FULL NAME:[/b] Moira Teagan Adara Finnigan

NICKNAME:[/b] Moe, TT, Teacup, Chacha or Rahrah (she prefers the first over the second), Ada, Finn, Finny, Finnigan, anything really

AGE/BIRTHDAY:[/b] 16; April 10th, 2006

DESIRED HOUSE:[/b] Hufflepuff

BLOOD STATUS:[/b] Halfblood

SEXUALITY:[/b] Heterosexual

WAND:[/b] Alder, phoenix feather, 10 1/2 inches
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HAIR COLOR:[/b] Brown

EYE COLOR:[/b] Grey-blue, but the inside near her pupil is light brown

SKIN TONE:[/b] Fair-toned/normal

BODY SHAPE:[/b] Thin

OVERALL APPEARANCE:[/b] Moira is average height for a sixteen-year-old. She's blessed with being naturally thin and has a semi-flat chest. Her hair is brown (varying between light and medium during the year, depending on how much sunlight she's getting) and is soft, smooth and long. She has an angelic-looking face that is heart-shaped. When it comes to dressing, Moira will wear whatever she feels like - sometimes it's the latest fashion, other times it's something that no one else would think of wearing.

PLAY BY:[/b] Willa Holland
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FAVOURITE CLASS:[/b] Divination

LEAST FAVOURITE CLASS:[/b] Potions

BROOM:[/b] N/A

PET/S:[/b] An owl named Nirvana

HOBBIES:[/b] Hanging out with friends, listening to music, designing clothes/'updating' her current clothes
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LIKES:[/b] Music (especially new music she's never heard before), fashion, tie-dying shirts, meeting new people, thunderstorms, bonfires, the beach, Christmastime, muggle shopping centres (a plethora of clothes and shoes and accessories = amazing), eating, going sledding

DISLIKES:[/b] Birds (they're loud!), [her own] birthdays, exercise, toe-socks, gloves, eating meat & poultry, tofu

BAD HABITS:[/b] Speaking out of turn/interrupting people, her voice getting louder when she's excited, not dressing appropriately for the weather, forgetting to get her hair at least trimmed, eating too much junk

GOOD HABITS:[/b] Remembers to eat several times a day, brushing her teeth at least twice a day (she tries to shoot for three), saying hello to people in the hallway even if she doesn't know them

STRENGTHS:[/b] Keeping an open mind, sympathetic to others needs/wants/problems, gets on better with boys than girls, Divination

WEAKNESSES:[/b] Shopping/shopping sales, chocolate, musicians, cuddly animals

PERSONALITY:[/b]
Moira is, exactly, the middle child. She has three older siblings and three younger siblings. But she's never suffered from the middle-child syndrome. She's always felt as though she got enough attention from both of her parents and if she didn't, she had three older siblings to annoy. (Hey, any attention is better than none, right? At least Moira thought so when she was younger.)

Naturally, being a Hufflepuff, she is very kind and very helpful. She loves to meet new people and make them feel welcome; and she also finds herself attracted to peoples needs or wants or problems. She doesn't necessarily like to listen to them, but she feels for the person. And not like a normal person would. Moira is an empath, so it's difficult for her to ignore what others surrounding her might be feeling. She doesn't know she has this gift, so she doesn't understand why she feels things so strongly and that's quite confusing most days.

It's probably a rumor that people from large families hate gathering together or don't want a huge family of their own. Moira doesn't feel this way at all. She loves to spend time with her family and she's often the one in the kitchen with her mother, baking and cooking on holidays. When everyone is getting on well, Moira loves to hear all of the conversing and laughing filling the house. (However, she does feel out of the place sometimes; she doesn't feel old/mature enough to have serious conversations with her older siblings, but then she doesn't feel like talking about what spells she learnt in Charms with her younger siblings. That's probably the only time she feels like the middle child.) Moira can fit herself into any situation, though.

Having fun is what Moira likes to do best. She doesn't care too much to drink or smoke or do drugs; she believes that a group of friends can have fun without doing any of those things. But that doesn't stop her from being around her friends if they're doing any of the above. Moira will occasionally have a sip of alcohol, but she doesn't prefer the taste. Maybe because of this, she lacks self-confidence. While she acts bubbly and friendly and dresses however the hell she wants, Moira really isn't confident. She tries to work on it, but it usually only gets worse.
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BOGGART:[/b] Never fitting in with anyone or any group

DEMENTOR:[/b] The night she was raped

PATRONUS:[/b] The early admittance she got to a muggle university for fashion design. (She knew nothing about applying to muggle schools.) Obviously, she can't attend because she needs to finish her schooling at Hogwarts, but the fact that a muggle school thought her designs were that good and wanted her right away is overrides the fact that she can't go just yet.

MIRROR OF ERISED:[/b] To be happy in life and perhaps own a clothing line that's all hers

VERITASERUM:[/b]
1) She's never been drunk. (She's never really had anything to drink at all.)
2) She's snogged before. (Just once.)
3) She lacks self-confidence, so she dresses outrageously to compensate.
4) She was raped, got pregnant and had an abortion.

AMORTENTIA:[/b] Gingerbread cookies, freshly washed clothes/towels, hot chocolate

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MOTHER:[/b] Lavender Brown (née Brown), 42, stay-at-home Mum

FATHER:[/b] Seamus Finnigan, 42, Auror

SIBLINGS:[/b]
Tommy Finnigan, m, 22
Brigid Finnigan, f, 21
Cara Finnigan, f, 19
Siobhan Finnigan, f, 13
Patrick Finnigan, m, 12
Mgehan Finnigan, f, 11

OTHER IMPORTANT FAMILY:[/b]
N/A

HISTORY:[/b]
Moira Teagan Adara Finnigan was born on April 10th, 2006 in Ireland, to Seamus and Lavender Finnigan. She is the third eldest daughter to grace the family and is smack dab in the middle of her siblings. She's got three younger siblings and three older siblings. But that has never affected Moira. Born into a family with seven kids, she's always felt lucky to have been able to spend time alone with her parents when the chances have come up. Seamus and Lavender managed the time between the kids quite well, actually. Of course, thought, it wasn't always the perfect life. Money was spread thinner and thinner each year a new child was born.

The four oldest siblings are probably closest (emotionally, etc) than the younger four (if Moira were to be counted in that grouping.) Moira likes to spend time with all of her siblings, but she likes to feel like an adult more and more with each passing day, so she spends most of her free time with Tommy, Brigid and Cara. (But sometimes she feels as if she doesn't fit in with any of her siblings as there are three years between the next eldest and three years between the next youngest, with Moira plopped in the middle. That is about the extent of her 'middle sibling' syndrome.) Maybe it's because of this that she finds she's extremely sensitive to others and their feelings.

During the course of her youth, Moira floated between likes and hobbies. At first, she did what her older siblings did just because it was someone to play with, but by the time she was five, she was already an independent little girl. Moira was sent to a muggle school with her brother and sisters, where she learned all of the basics to make progress through the coming years. She made friends fast because of her happy disposition and open attitude. Even as a child, she had a knack for fashion. Her family didn't have a lot of money, so they didn't always get new clothes each other. Moira decided to take her own clothes or the hand-me-downs and do different things with them. Her mother taught her how to sew as well. The girl also liked to help her mother out in the kitchen, baking and cooking (especially on holidays); she still does to this day.

When Moira was eight, she was sitting in the front yard during springtime, wishing that grass would grow and flowers would bloom. Much to her surprise, one flower sprouted from the ground - it was her first sign of magic. Moira ran inside to tell everyone in her family. She plucked the flower from the ground and kept it in a box full of possessions - she still has it. All of Moira's life, she's felt very sympathetic towards people - especially if they've had a troubles in their past. She never understood why she's felt this way and she still doesn't totally know; but sometimes she'll actually go through the emotions the other person is going through, especially if she's close to the person.

Moira graduated from her primary school when she was eleven and that September, she didn't go to another muggle school - instead, she followed her older siblings to Hogwarts. It didn't take long for the sorting hat to place her in Hufflepuff - she's a very gentle human being. Moira was a little disappointed, but got over it quickly. The other Hufflepuffs were so nice and inviting, she fit right in. The other students from her house did indeed become her family. Her first two years at Hogwarts flew by. She was an average student, much more concerned about her clothing or chatting with friends than anything else. When her third year came, Moira was allowed to pick two electives. She picked Divination for one of them and fell in love with the class instantaneously. She felt connected to the subject. She's been taking it ever since.

When she was fourteen, Moira had her first kiss. And her first snog. Even though she didn't feel attracted to the guy and she knew he didn't feel anything towards her, she was still ecstatic! It was like a right of passage. Kissing/snogging, make-up, periods... they were all signs that she could be considered a woman. Moira liked to entertain the thought a lot, even though she knew she had a lot of growing up to do. As for snogging, she didn't do it again, but she did kiss other boys. Her fifth year came and it was stressful. OWLs were at the end of the year and she had to a lot to keep up with. Moira knew she needed to settle down that year. She did her best and passed most of the OWLs she had to sit.

Just because she's a witch doesn't mean she doesn't have muggle friends. She does. Moira always has a lot of fun with them, even if they are wild party animals and drink too much. They're nice girls and don't question Moira much about where she goes. At the beginning of the summer, the four of them were walking home from the cinema. The muggle girls parted ways and Moira continued to walk on home to her home. Along the way, however, she ran into a problem. Her house is set in the countryside of Ireland, with no neighbors close by. She'd always felt safe out there, until that night after the film. A man grabbed Moira from behind and dropped her into the field just a mile or so from her house. He raped her in the field, holding a knife to her throat the entire time. When it was over, Moira walked back to her house as if nothing happened. She showered and scrubbed her body for what seemed like hours. That had been her first and only time having sex.

The summer continued and Moira stayed close to the house, feeling under the weather. Her mother brought her to St. Mungo's twice (she was never sick), but they couldn't detect anything. She didn't tell anyone about that night in the field. When Moira did travel into town, it was to buy a pregnancy test from a muggle drugstore. The test turned out positive and she did the only thing she could think of doing: going to see Tommy. Moira told her brother about the pregnancy, asking what to do. She didn't tell him about the rape, but instead that she slept with one of her muggle friends' boyfriend because she'd been drunk. Eventually, the two decided that getting an abortion would be best. But abortions are illegal in Ireland and Moira didn't want to go to St. Mungo's. So she told her parents that Tommy was allowing her, this once, to go with her band to England for a concert. In total, Moira was gone for a week, having crashed with Tommy for that length of time after the abortion. She returned home just days before her sixth year began.

Moira hasn't changed much and that's probably not a good thing. She refuses to think about or deal with the rape and the guilt of getting an abortion. She still hasn't told anyone about the rape and still only Tommy knows of the abortion. Moira is still her bright, happy self. She still designs her own clothes or improves her old ones to her liking. She's finding more and more, since the rape, that she feels people's emotions even more than before. She's doing the best she can to hold onto herself.

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