Johnnie Orman

##### Positives

> Johnnie is very perceptive of the things going on around her. She is sensitive to vibes and energies, which consequently affect her moods. It can be quite exhausting. She is also more logical than emotional, and always seems to want the shortcut from point A to point B. She thinks there is an easier way to almost anything. Johnnie is very principled, believing in right and wrong. She has no issue speaking out against bullies. Johnnie is really a very kind person who likes to look after the people around her. She wants people to be happy and though she's not a people pleaser, she does like helping people out (and will complain along the way).
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##### Negatives

> Johnnie is rather lazy - well, she is very lazy. She would lay in bed all day if she was allowed to. She loves to gossip with people around her and likes to be in the know of what she might be missing. Johnnie is a very dramatic and complaining type person, unfortunately. She always has something she doesn't like and she will verbalize it. She doesn't like the many inconveniences that life seems to brew.
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#### History

##### Early Years

> When Johnnie was born, she was a surprise to her parents. The surprise wasn’t that they didn’t know she was coming – oh, they knew. The surprise was that they had thought she was going to be a boy. Her name was meant to be Jonathan, though when they found out it was a girl, they quickly settled on Johnnie, their first little bundle of joy, or terror. She had been a rough pregnancy – keeping her mother sick throughout it, so her mother was more than thankful that her daughter was born healthy, and her father was just the slightest bit disappointed that it wasn’t the son he had been hoping for.
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> Life had been good for the small family. Johnnie had been a handful right from the start, learning how to walk quickly and getting into everything. She talked too much about everything, and cried too much about small things. She was so much of a handful that they almost swore off having more children – at least until Johnnie got a little older. It seemed like the moment that Johnnie could talk and play with the other children in the neighborhood, she was begging her parents to give her a little sister to play with. Soon enough, her dreams were coming true as a sister joined the family (much to her father’s chagrin).
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> Johnnie spent a lot of time outdoors, getting skinned knees and dirt all in her fingernails, but it didn’t matter. She liked to play with the other kids, and when her sister wasn’t napping, she liked to play games with her. Johnnie tended to have a lot of energy, which her parents tried to desperately get out of her through various activities like hiking and sports. It was a skateboard that she received when she was seven that she loved the most. The skateboard became the thing that she brought around with her everywhere, even to school – until the teachers kept taking it away from her until her parents finally got her to stop bringing it there. Johnnie was a good big sister to Gracie, always loving to help her parents when it came to her, even if sharing a room had been hard at first.
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> All of the excess energy that she had seemed to come to an abrupt halt when the preteen years hit and Johnnie would have much rather stay indoors watching the television or playing video games with friends than be outside. She still played a lot with her sister, but her interests in most things were changing as she spent more time on her appearance and less time climbing the highest rock she could find. She argued more with her parents (especially when they constantly got on her case about helping out more with chores), but she still loved her family all of the same. Still, she wanted to spend her time covering up the acne that seemed to blossom overnight, instead of sweating to produce more. She begged her parents constantly for a cell phone, though her parents continued to tell her that she would need to wait until she was working herself to pay for it.
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> During one of her explosive arguments with her parents about everyone else but her having a phone, and how her room was her space and not theirs, things started to fly about the room. No one really mentioned that again, writing it off as some freak thing that happened that they didn’t really want the answers to. The answers would soon come, however, when Johnnie turned eleven.
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> Before she knew it, the news had been delivered to Johnnie and her whole life seemed to explode. There was excitement, and there was fear. There was hope, and there was dislike. She was excited about the news, but she also thought they were crazy for saying that she was a witch when she couldn’t do any magic herself. She feared it because of all the stories she had heard, and the idea of going far away from her family to school was a scary thought when her family was very important to her. She was close to her little sister and didn’t want to think about leaving her. She was hopeful that she was special, because if magic was real, she wanted to be able to do it, too. She had heard the stories of witches being bad – so a part of her was worried that she would be bad simply because she was magical. There were a lot of things that went through her mind in the months leading up to September, and she nearly talked herself out of going at all, if not for her wonder about what she was missing.
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> Although she knew that she was supposed to keep this a secret, she couldn’t help it as she told her best friend – only for them to accuse her of always lying when she couldn’t show them that she was a witch since the wand wasn’t working the same way it had when she first picked it up. Secrets had never really been something that Johnnie was good at, but it was made even worse that her friend didn’t believe her when she had something so cool happening to her. It was made even worse when her friends found out that she was going to a different school and she couldn’t even tell them where so she had to keep lying to them, which she absolutely hated to do.
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##### School Years

>    Going to Hogwarts had been incredibly challenging for Johnnie at first. She hated that she couldn’t call home whenever she wanted, and instead had to rely on owls to deliver letters, which she hadn’t written since she was in English class and forced to write them. Still, she wrote home more frequently than most because she was terribly homesick. Even though she quickly made friends, she still felt so alone and cried more at night than she would ever admit to anyone. She felt a little bit behind some of the other students who seemed to know all about magic while she was constantly playing catch up, and it took her a bit to start feeling like Hogwarts could be home, too.
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> There were a lot of things at Hogwarts she hadn’t liked – though there were many things that she did like. She didn’t like ghosts (and didn’t like them yelling at her when she inevitably stuck her hand through them just to see what would happen), and she didn’t like the portraits that seemed to make her jump whenever she was alone and something moved out of the corner of her eye. She liked the candy and the food choices that appeared each meal, and some of the classes were pretty cool. The very first spell she did with her wand made her ecstatic and feel like she wasn’t so weird after all. She hated the robes that they had to wear, and the ridiculous amount of stairs that were set on killing her, she was sure.
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> There was one thing she found that she loved the most, though, and that was when she rode a broom for the first time, and watched her first quidditch game. It was the ultimate thing that made her feel like this place couldn’t be so bad, and she determined that one day, she was going to be on her house’s team. It seemed to be the only thing that she wasn’t lazy around, but when it came to flying, all of that childhood energy seemed to come back as she would learn how to fly, and then when she got flying down, she would try to focus on doing other things with it.
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> Flying and focusing on trying to learn the game of quidditch helped her to not be as homesick as she wrote about every part of the experience to her family. Everything she saw in the magical world, she made sure to write home about it, desperate for them to know about this new world she was experiencing, even if they could never see it for themselves. When the homesickness did hit, though, it hit hard. She hated missing Gracie grow up, and she hated going so long without a hug from her parents. She hated that all of her friendships seemed to end with the people she had been friends with because she couldn’t talk about this school, and she hated lying to them. Johnnie didn’t really want friends that she had to lie to about something so important.
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> Johnnie continued to work hard at quidditch and made it as a reserve during her second year, much to her relief. Second year seemed to go by about as well as first year had, but it was her third year that she loved the most. She had made it onto the team as a chaser, and she was absolutely thrilled. Even if they didn’t win the quidditch cup, she loved getting to fly with the team, and loved feeling like Hogwarts was becoming a bit more like home. She even had her first boyfriend (though it hardly lasted, but she had totally been in love with him until they broke up) – that was something she made sure not to write to her dad about, but she definitely wrote all about it to her mum. Just as she had her first love, she had her first heartbreak, and has since decided that quidditch is way easier to deal with.
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> As Johnnie moves towards her fourth year, she’s excited that not only will she be the captain of the Gryffindor team (and hopefully, lead them to victory!), her younger sister will be joining her at Hogwarts. It had been the happiest news for her next to when she had found out that she was a witch, so having her sister join her at the castle was entirely too exciting. She is counting down the days before she can show her sister absolutely everything she had been writing to her about all of those years. Her happiness over being the captain of the Gryffindor team was very short-lived as the announcement of the tournament came about, but her fifth year - that's where she hopes that it is at, especially as she really hopes that her crush likes her back.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

###### Christopher Orman

> Johnnie is a fan of her dad, even though she blames him for the boyish name.
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###### Natalie Orman

> Johnnie likes to hang with her mum - but don't tell her that.
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###### Grace Gael Orman

> Her younger sister, but with how close they are, one would think that they are practically the same age. Johnnie looks after her sister a lot, and is very protective of her. She cares for her deeply and truly considers GG to be one of her best friends, even if there are years between them.
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#### **Friends**

###### Hugo Granger-Weasley

> They're on the same team together, but also, she enjoys spending time with him.
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###### Mairi Campbell

> They're on the same team together and she considers Mairi one of her friends.
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###### Lily Potter

> Roommates, but also friends - Lily is going to be doing Johnnie's makeup (aka Johnnie is going to play the part of a doll for Lily to practice on).
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#### **Romance**

###### Wesley Bennett

> While she also views them as close friends, during the past year, she has realized that she has a crush on him.
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#### **Enemies**

> Nothing yet.
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