[Elosine]

Character Bio Outline: A half blood (muggle mother and wizard father), but her father had disappeared when she was just a baby and so she lived as a muggle with her American mother in the Scottish highlands in a nice, small cottage. She devaloped a love for books at a very young age, and reads very often...perhaps partially due to her being homeschooled. It's been said she's wise beyond her years and she herself doesn't doubt that. Her intelligence has given her a sort of pride, and she tends to be extremely anti-social...Her mother's family comes from Sicily and she also is known to have a fierce temper at times.

Full Name: Elizabeth Rhyanne Ricci

Name or nickname they like to be called by: Liza

House Desired (Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor): Ravenclaw

Gender: Female

Age: 11

Appearance: Dark brown hair, almost black / medium brown eyes with flecks of green in them / very pale skin, you can see veins in places / on the shorter side...about '5"2 / always paints her fingernails black.

Personality: Unnoticably (most of the time) proud, and because she believes most people to be pathetic, ignorant, and dull, tends to be anti-social. However, she's very nice and talkative and funny if she befriends you...and is not an uncaring person at all. She's been called 'goth' more than a few times, but that doesn't really fit her that well. Is a calm person.

Class (as in Pure Blood, Half Blood, or Muggleborn): Half-blood.

Strengths (as in subjects and non-subjects): Potions, Transfigurations, Defence Against the Dark Arts, & Charms.

Weaknesses (as in subjects and non-subjects): Divinations, Care of Magical Creatures, & History of Magic.
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OOC: I'll just get myself sorted...

Most of the new students had been sorted already, but Elizabeth Ricci was one of the few still left waiting to be sorted. She watched as the student who had gone before scampered off to their new house table, so obvioiusly anxious to get out of the center of attention. Liza could cope with being the center of attention - she was more worried about which house she would go to, and how they would recieve her. She had been scorned and scoffed at plenty of times by her village 'playmates' before she came to Hogwarts...She wasn't about to be pushed around here. However, she didn't have much time to dwell because just then the rather severe-looking woman in green robes called out, "Ricci, Elizabeth!"
Liza walked as calmly and steadily as she could up to the old three-legged stool and sat down, waiting for the hat to be placed on her head. It came down qucikly afterwards, and soon all she could see was the inside of the brim. Then suddenly she started, as a smooth voice began speaking in her ear.
"Ah....Elizabeth Ricci...A very strong mind, oh heavens, yes....but so proud and scornful, willing to hate so...You'd do well in Slytherin, no doubt about that at all. But, oh! What is this? You've got compassion.....and you're not very cunning at all....No, besides, your mother seems to be a muggle -pity....Well, I suppose....RAVENCLAW!"

And just like that, Liza was off the stool and walking fast towards the Ravenclaw table, a sea of clapping and cheering blue and bronze. She took an empty seat near the front of the table and began to half-heartedly people-watch. In the back of her mind, though, she was thinking about the curious air of power emanating from the tall, silver-bearded man at the center staff table, and how she didn't like that old, dirty hat much.