[hider  Mary Winthrop]
[b]Name:[/b] Mary Winthrop

[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Age:[/b] 17 (Aug. 8th 1986)

[b]Appearance:[/b]
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[b]Personality:[/b] Mary is a quite girl, though very curious. One would not expect her to know the things that she knows. Unless they saw her library history.

[b]Backstory:[/b] Mary was born to a backwaters hick of a mother who believed God had punished her with Mary. Mary's father was unknown to Mary, and the source of Mary's abilities seen as the worst possibility of a deal between Satan and God. Mary's mother believed she was suffering as Job had, and to free herself of the curse she must cleanse Mary. The woman's definition of cleanse grew worse as Mary's abilities grew. These abilities were never quite under control though. 

Somehow word got to Mary's father, Andrew Winthrop, about her situation. How word got to him was never something he told Mary, but late in the night he took the small 8 year old from her home and freed her. It took Mary sometime before she realized she had side-along apparated. 

The next few years Mary and her father learned from each other. Mary on how to trust people again, Andrew on how the simplest thing can bring joy. Mary was grossly undereducated so Andrew lost no time in catching the girl up in general education. When the letter for Hogwarts came he beamed. Neither knowing what the next year would bring.

(If my math is correct they would have been first years during the 97/98 year. Correct me if I'm wrong)

The years spent at Hogwarts drifted the small family no further apart, and when the opportunity arose to travel Andrew encouraged his only daughter to do it. 

[b]Strengths:[/b] 
-Fast learner
-Quick to plan

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
-Despite years of learning how to trust, Mary is very slow to trust people. Very few know her whole past. That was exasperated by her first year experiences.
-Her judgments can be cold.
-Her comments harsh and cut to the bone.

[b]House:[/b] Ravenclaw

[b]Wand:[/b]
8 9/10 in, stiff, Fir, Unicorn hair

[b]OWLs:[/b]
Charms - O
Transfiguration - O
Herbology - E
DADA - E
Runes - E
Potions - O 
Care of magical creatures - N/A
Astronomy - E
Divination - N/A
Arithmancy - A
History of Magic - A
Muggle studies - N/A

[b]NEWTs[/b]
Charms - O
Transfiguration - O
DADA - O
Runes - E
Potions - O 
Arithmancy - E


[b]Accolades:[/b]
-Several published works for "Transfiguration today"
-An award for excellence in Transfiguration
-Prefect & Head Girl

[b]Other:[/b]
-This is her second wand. Her first was snapped her first year.
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