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Tahlia Annemarie Weiss
House: Ravenclaw
Age/Year: 14/4th
Birthday: April 8
Birthplace: London, England
Current Home: Swansea, Wales
Blood: Halfblood
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Looks: Tahlia has long reddish blonde hair that reaches down to her waist and icy blue eyes. She is tall for her fourteen years of age at 5’8” and willowy thin, with pale creamy skin and freckles.
Personality: Once upon a time, Tahlia was a bubbly, bright vivacious child who loved to laugh and lose herself in her magic. But after her family tragedy, her mother (a Muggle) convinced her brother in law to wipe Tahlia’s memory of her magic and moved them to a small studio apartment in Boston. With this move, Tahlia’s whole demeanor changed. She missed her father terribly and became more of a tomboy than before, going to baseball games at Fenway and becoming stuck up, snobbish and even aggressive towards her fellow classmates at public school, who she felt were inferior to her. When she finally rediscovered her magic at 14, the old Tahlia came back and she is now much more balanced. She is still shy since Hogwarts is such an adjustment to her, but she is very witty and giggly. She is passionate about learning everything she can about magic to make up for lost time can often be found in a corner of the Ravenclaw Common Room reading.
Likes: kittens, reading, painting, baseball, photography
Dislikes: talking, snowstorms, mold, the color brown and headaches
Fears: lightning & drowning
Wand: rowan and unicornhair 9 ¼ inches
Pet: a grey tabby kitten named Fenway and a snowy owl named Luna
Patronus: a fox
Boggart: her father’s corpse
Classes Taking: Astronomy, COMC, Charms, DADA, Herbology, History of Magic, Potions, Quidditch History, Transfiguration
Favorite Class: COMC
Least Favorite Class: Potions
Quidditch Position: none, but is interested in learning
Other School Activities/Clubs: Student Newspaper
Immediate Family Members: Truman Weiss, father, deceased, former Auror in the Ministry of Magic
Katherine Johnson-Weiss, mother, 33, Muggleborn, high school English teacher in Boston
Carson Weiss, grandfather, 75, wizard, retired and living in Swansea, Wales
Diana Weiss, grandmother, 70, witch, retired and living in Swansea, Wales
Desdemona Weiss, paternal aunt, 37, witch, manager of the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade
Brief History:Tahlia’s parents met in one of the most unconventional ways; Truman spotted Katherine, or Kate just before going into the Leaky Cauldron before his seventh year at Hogwarts and was immediately smitten with her. She was on a summer trip with her parents from the US, but they spent the entire day together (his need for school supplies conveniently forgotten) and they exchanged addresses to write over the next year. Truman had not let Kate know he was a wizard, rather he explained he attended a private boarding school in Scotland. They exchanged letters for the year, and after his graduation he spent the summer in the city of Boston with Kate; by the end of the summer they were engaged to be married. Both families were concerns for their ages; Trumans parents in particular were concerned how Kate would react to Truman being a wizard. Surprisingly when he finally worked up the nerve to tell her she took the news very well, even agreeing to move to London with him so he could begin his Auror training for the Ministry. Three years into their marriage, Kate gave birth to a baby girl they named Tahlia Annemarie. At this point, Truman had completed his training and was a level one Auror.
For six years, the little family happily lived in the bustle of London, and by the time Tahlia turned six she was beginning to show sings of magic. But late one night when Truman was heading home after solving a case concerning a radical group of international wizards, he was jumped and severely beaten by some of the family members of those incarcerated. He was found by a Muggle passerby who called 911 and got Truman to a Muggle Hospital, where he was transferred immediately into the Trauma ward for immediate surgery. They were able to reach out to Kate, as she still had a Muggle cell phone to communicate with her family, and she and Tahlia rushed towards the hospital. She managed to call her brother in law Lyle, who was a Healer at Saint Mungo’s and met them there at the hospital. Soon the doctors came in with the bad news; one of Trumans ribs had punctured through his aorta and the ventilators in the ICU were the only thing keeping him alive; they needed to say goodbye. Devastated, Kate demanded that Lyle fix him but Lyle knew it was too late. They said their goodbyes and took Truman off the ventilator. When leaving the hospital, Kate made a rash decision; she was going to take their daughter back to Boston where they could start fresh. She asked Lyle to wipe Tahlia’s memories of all magic but not of her father. Lyle warned that the memory wipe would most certainly not be permanent but Kate was insistent. So Lyle wiped Tahlia’s memory of all magic and the newly widowed Kate traveled over the Atlantic with her daughter back to her family in Boston.
Seven years later, Tahlia had just turned 13 and her magical abilities were beginning to show themselves, as Lyle had warned. Kate kept moving apartments every year and changed her last name back to Johnson to keep Truman’s family away. When Tahlia accidentally blew up half of the girls bathrooms after being bullied however, Kate realized that her daughter needed to learn how to control her magic. She got in contact with Trumans favorite sister Desdemona who immediately Apparated to Boston to visit. She was able to undo the memory charm Lyle had placed on Tahlia years ago, and the memories of magic came flooding back to her. She was instantly furious with her mother for making her forget she was a witch, instead letting her think that she was just odd and a loner. When Desdemona told her about Hogwarts, she asked if she could travel back to the UK with her and attend the same school her father did to learn and practice magic. Kate realized that this was the path her daughter was destined to follow from the start, and with a reluctant blessing, Tahlia left all that she knew in Boston for a new life with her grandparents in Swansea, Wales; Desdemona’s quarters above the Three Broomsticks were no place for a child to spend her summers. She is now at Hogwarts and dorms with the third year girls in Ravenclaw; though she is behind in her studies she is eagerly and quickly catching up.
Future Plans: Photographer for Quidditch Events at the Daily Prophet
Play-by:Sophie Turner
Roleplayer: Krista