Zara Williams

## History

**Zara Williams** is a Muggle-Born witch. She is the youngest child, and only daughter of Aaron and Mariam Williams. She was born into a Muggle family in the South of Tasmania, Australia in Geeveston. Her family is wealthy, and hardworking. They own a jet boat cruise business, and a restaurant overlooking the Huon river. When the family learned Zara was a witch it changed things in their family dynamic inside their home, but they never let the way the Muggle public saw their family unit determine their happiness.
Zara was eight when she learned she was a witch. She was working in the restaurant her parents owned cleaning dishes in the sink in the back of the kitchen. When she moved her hands over the sink full of water the dishes loaded themselves into the commercial dishwasher. Zara looked over both shoulders to see if there was anyone in the kitchen who noticed. At the moment, there was not. She tried to find some way to make herself understand, but there was no reasonable explanation for it. Except one, that she might have powers. She kept her secret to herself while trying to figure out how *her* powers work, and how to keep herself from getting exhausted, and lightheaded when she practiced. She was informed of her admittance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and she received her letter of acceptance a few months before her thirteenth birthday.
Her earliest memories involve her brothers, mostly her middle brother, Tyson. She remembers being put in a cardboard box, and being left outside for hours all by herself. She thought it was a game they were playing. She did not know he was trying to get rid of her. Zara has always been a little bit too naive for her own good. While working as a waitress in the restaurant at the age of fourteen Zara met a few young patrons around her age who wanted to know the best places to have fun without their parents in Tasmania. Zara did not know any, but her brothers did. She was able to tag along only so that she would not tell their parents where they really went that night.

Zara learned just how out of control the "bad girl" inside of her that she did not know existed could get. She has a dark side, and she learned it runs in the family.

*Battle with addiction*
She started the way most people do, trying just a little cannabis. Her recreational use intensified to the point where she was using everyday. When she could not get "high" enough, she moved on to something stronger, then something stronger than that. Over the next ten years she traded in one drug addiction for another, moving on from Methamphetamine, to Cocaine to Heroin, to various other opioids. Every time she seemed to get better, she would get worse. Zara has been through several alcohol and "non-fatal" drug overdoses. Her family thinks that she is lucky to have lived this long, Zara likes to attribute that "luck" to her magic. It sure was not her will power that kept her alive this long.

## Family Info

 **Mother** | Mariam Williams (née Chapman)
 **Grandmother** | Scarlet Chapman (née Fisher)
 **Grandfather** | Eli Chapman

### Williams

Aaron and Mariam Williams

Aaron and Mariam were very lenient parents. Never the less, Lincoln, Tyson and Zara, their children never wanted to disappoint them. Therefore the three siblings hid absolutely everything from them. Aaron and Mariam tried to encourage honesty and openness in their relationships with their sons and daughter, all they have ever received were lies.

Lincoln and Tyson Williams

Lincoln and Tyson are the bad influences Zara has had corrupting her all of her life. She grew up never really knowing right from wrong or bad from good until she started to do "bad things" herself. She felt the guilt and paranoia more strongly than she ever felt anything in her life. She did not understand how her brothers could "engage", and still interact with people normally.

### Personality

Zara is an observer, if the choice is left to her she is going to sit back, she is going watch everyone else have a good time. She should never be mistaken for being withdrawn or even faint-hearted. She very much likes to, and she does get involved. She loves it when **everyone** can join in, no exclusions. There is something about being able to take in everything from an outside perspective that she thoroughly enjoys. Part of it is because the "distance" makes her feel safe, the more important part is because it is very easy for her to lose self-control. She does not have to worry about that "bad girl" buried inside of her coming out when she is sitting on the sidelines watching life go by. Zara has a weakness for rebellion. Anyone who can walk the walk, and talk the talk can easily win her over. And she recognizes that.

## Possessions

### Abilities

Healing

Charms
Potions
Herbology
Transfiguration