Annise East

## Family

### Family Members:

Father and Master Clockmaker: Charles East, Hufflepuff '92Mother: Rosealee East née Hatter, Ravenclaw '94

## Magical

### Wand:

Walnut wood, unicorn tail hair, firm, 13 and three quarter inches.

### Skills:

Has extensive training as a clockmaker's apprentice.

### Abilities:

She is a beginner Horomagus and possesses a truly simple Somniumpartum

Annise Esther East (b. March 20, 2008) is a prospective student for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a clockmaker's apprentice.

## Physical Appearance

Annise is young, 4'6'' (137cm), and demonstrably pallid. She has straight, dark brown hair, that carries no sheen despite her best efforts. She has blue-grey eyes, wears typically hard worn but well kept clothing, and moves with a noticeably inflexable gait. She also typically carries a pocket watch, though it is of a non-magical nature.

## Personality

Annise is a careful and driven person, who knows that she must work hard to achieve her goals. While she can be quite stilted in conversation, she is perceptive and determined. While theoretically proud of her father's work, she personally dislikes him, and prefers not to think of him apart from in a purely business context. She expects to be taking over from her father later in life, and focuses on that goal, working towards the necessary spells for the profession. Having been away from her age group for a while, she is still nervous in conversation, being both perceptive of others, but hopelessly unable to spot boundaries until she has stepped over them. She attempts to imitate her Mama's speech with her father's clients as a suitable manner. Feeling incapable when speaking to wixes, she finds the company of magical constructs to be a great relief.

When she puts her mind to it, she can be quite innovative, willing to run several creative projects at once, and she has a penchant to intricate puzzles and animated toys. When she has time to be on her own, she guiltily indulges in muggle fiction.

## Background

Annise is the second child of the East family, a clockmaking family with centuries of history and expertise; if you ask Charles East (Annise’s father) about the family, their founding of The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and their Royal Charter. Nonetheless, the family has been in decline for some time, with Charles bemoaning the lack of talent in recent years. When Charles had a son, Eric, he finally had someone to teach the skills and the precision; though unable to teach his son the magic until Eric was older, he could pass on everything else. As she wasn’t going to be Charles’s apprentice, Annise was sent to learn at a local muggle school for her letters and numbers, where she started to learn about the muggles. When Annise was 8, her brother finally turned eleven; it was then with bated breath that they waited for Eric’s Hogwarts letter. And waited. And waited.

Annise isn’t sure where Eric is, but her father keeps insisting that he’s away to learn magic despite the sad looks her mother gives. In the intervening time, however, Charles has turned his gaze upon his daughter as his new apprentice, so Annise has received a rushed course of studies in order to be as good with the clocks as her brother was. When Annise’s letter finally arrived, there was a grand celebration, but her brother’s absence was noted. Now getting ready for Hogwarts, Annise is under pressure to study for her apprenticeship, as well as become good enough with wanded magics to take up the family profession.