Professor Marie Lyness

== Backstory ==
Marie was born in a No-Maj family and was a pretty average child until the age of 9 when she began to lose her hearing. They began learning sign language and is her main form of communication. After losing her first pair of hearing aids to a bully, her family couldn’t afford a second pair. This caused her to mispronounce most of her words and at some points, not be understandable. When she got her letter to Ilvermorny, she didn’t know how to break the news to her very religious parents. So, she told them it was a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts. After much convincing, she was allowed to go. She was chosen by Puckwudgie and Horned Serpent. She chose Horned Serpent for her love of learning. During her first year, some of her friends had a small secret Santa Christmas party. Her gift was a pair of earrings, charmed to be hearing aids. She still wears them to this day, and has no idea who gifted them to her. After her first couple years, she began experimenting with not using her wand or speaking (since it was a bit debilitating to say words she’s never heard or use a wand while trying to talk). It took a lot of practicing and hard work, but eventually she was able to do some simple spells. Throughout her time at Ilvermorny, she kept at this ability and was able to preform most spells wordlessly, and a fair amount of them wandlessly by her graduation. She then became a teacher, with the intent to spread what she has learned to the next generation of wizards. She now teaches deaf studies, and wordless/wandless magic.