Veronica Walsh

##### Positives

> + Trustworthy: Despite not liking people, she's actually quite trustworthy and will keep secrets that she finds out.
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> + Assertive: She defends what she wants, no matter what. Very confident in her own ability, no one can tell her otherwise.
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> + Candid: Don't ask her thoughts if you don't want it because she will be as harsh as she wants, but she is generally truthful and honest. She hates liars.
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> + Intuitive: More often than not, her intuition is on point. Call it vibes, call it feelings, call it whatever - she can generally feel it when something is amiss or when someone is being sincere (even if she still doesn't necessarily trust it because she's been wrong before).
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##### Negatives

> + Abrasive: She cares more for her own feelings than the feelings of others. She's not responsible for how others feel, so they can figure their own out. Often, she comes out harsh.
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> + Cantankerous: Very argumentative and bad-tempered, she's not really a person to mess with anymore because she will absolutely hex you.
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> + Placid: It takes a lot for her to get upset now, and a lot for her to get excited. It's frequently misjudged as her being emotionless.
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> + Censorious: She is incredibly judgmental of the decisions that people make, because she holds everyone responsible for themselves.
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#### History

##### Family History

> Andrew and Hailey were not a storybook love story. In fact, they weren’t a love story at all.
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> Andrew Walsh went to Ilvermorny with big dreams of seeing the world. He did everything he was supposed to do, from attending multiple clubs and quidditch, to doing exceptional in his exams. He was the golden child of the school and everyone saw him and saw someone that was sure to be successful one day. When he graduated, he had saved up enough money from working through his summers to feel like he could take a year off from work to travel the world, and that was exactly what he did with a buddy of his. They figured out easy ways to save money, and to make money, while they took the year actually enjoying life after spending so many years working hard. It was the only time they were really going to have to themselves, and they were going to enjoy it completely.
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> Hailey Graham was an unremarkable girl with unremarkable grades at Hogwarts, and from an unremarkable family. She wasn’t particularly good at anything except for waitressing, and she had no real plans for her life. She had always been working to try to make ends meet (though her gambling problem made that impossible). Bills were always piling up, and her money was always gone as soon as she received it from work, but that was a life she was used to. One day, she would figure out her life, but that day was not today, or the next, or the next.
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> It was during one of her trips to a bar that introduced her to the handsome man who was flirting with half of the bar, but it still made her feel special when his attention turned on her. Bad decisions were made, and they had their fun, nothing serious, for the next few weeks before he was traveling off again. A few more weeks later, she was discovering she was pregnant, and after writing to him, and him never writing back, she realized she was going to be raising their child on her own.
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##### Early Years

> Life for Ronnie wasn’t easy in the slightest. Her mom worked hard to provide for them, but could never give Ronnie the life that she wanted to give her daughter. As she would find out, old habits died hard, and her gambling habit was never one that she could quite beat. Ronnie and her mother went through apartment after apartment, and Ronnie was frequently left with one neighbor after another, or one friend or another, or a temporary boyfriend that her mom had for the time being. The boyfriends never lasted, and they were never really that great for them anyway.
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> There were entirely too many stressors for a child, but she had grown accustomed to it, and seemed to develop a knack for who were good people, and who were not, and reacted accordingly. There was only one boyfriend that her mom had that she actually liked, and she had been hopeful that that would be the person that would turn things around for them, but when she was 11, he had been doing some shopping for her upcoming first year and hadn’t been paying attention to the full moon. Having to run a few errands, he wasn’t set to return until late, but when he did, she ran outside to excitedly greet him and see what he got, only for him to grow fearful at the sound of a howl that filled the air. Before she knew what was happening, a werewolf was running at him, and instead of using the time to defend himself, he used his time to quickly use magic to push her back into her building to protect her.
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> Thankfully, someone else had come out to try to help, but it had been too late, and her mom’s boyfriend lost his life.
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##### School Years

> She didn't particularly want to go to Hogwarts by the time it came around, but she didn't exactly have a choice in the matter. She was a notoriously bad-attitude, loner child, who wasn't too keen on making friends or being liked. She had a lot of feelings, but a lot of those feelings were also linked to her brewing hatred, except for this one boy that seemed to really like her. She didn't really understand it, but he was always really nice to her, and she was developing a little crush on him. In fact, he was one of the only people that could actually make her smile. She hadn't expected that this was the one time that her intuition was leading her astray.
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> He had asked her on a date, and to her surprise, she said yes. She didn't expect that it had been a dare all along, and that she had fallen for it. She never hated anyone more than she hated him for that, haunted by the laughter of her other classmates as she was the butt of the joke. No amount of apology or explanation of him regretting it made her forgive him.
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> Her years went by, and life was even more different than she was used to as her mom went through relationship after relationship, and even worse, started to have more children, until her present boyfriend. It was the only other one that Ronnie didn't mind, though she wasn't going to make things easy on him. After the last good one, she wasn't too keen on getting to know anyone, but he really encouraged her to find something to participate in at school. She really didn't want to, but he made her promise to try out for quidditch and in turn, he would ensure she would never have to babysit her siblings during the summer months or holidays. That seemed like a good thing to her, so she tried out for quidditch, not really expecting to actually be good at it, and definitely not expecting to make the team.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

> None on board at times.
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#### **Friends**

###### Willow Gryffindor

> Best friend, though she thinks she's weird sometimes. They're as different as can be at times.
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#### **Romance**

> None on board at times.
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#### **Enemies**

> None on board at times.
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