Name: Leah Schaeffer<br/>Blood Status: Muggle-born<br/>Age: 17<br/>House: Ravenclaw<br/><br/>(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc235/phillymynx/thCARRK1FL.jpg)<br/><br/>Appearance: Slender with blonde hair and blue eyes, about 5'8" (1.73 meters)<br/>tall.<br/><br/>Personality: Bookish, a realist, and genrally rational (though still given to<br/>teenage flights of fancy), can be somewhat reserved and shy around people she<br/>doesn't know, and is very inquisitive.<br/><br/>Background: Leah grew up in New York City's East Village. Her father was an<br/>editor of the Village Voice and her mother a fringe artist who became an<br/>instructor at NYU. Leah was an advanced student, unlike her year older brother,<br/>and found herself placed a few years ahead in school. While this was great for<br/>her academic achievement, her social life suffered as she felt out of place<br/>amongst the older students. Her brother first showed magic when he was twelve,<br/>and enrolled in the Manhattan School of Magic. However full magical training<br/>didn't begin until age Fourteen and so he transferred into a prep school that<br/>taught a mixture of magical and muggle classes. At thirteen, Leah herself<br/>accidentally caused her bed to start walking around her room, which quickly drew<br/>the attention of the magical authorities. She was also enrolled in the MSoM to<br/>start when she turned Fourteen until then she studed with a tutor to control her<br/>magic.<br/>She enjoyed her time at the MSoM, where again she became a top student and<br/>discovered her natural abilities as an animagus and her talent for artimancy.<br/>When she found out about the student exchange program, which would allow her to<br/>study in one of three different foreign school, she leapt at the chance. One, she<br/>was fascinated by the history of the European schools, especially Hogwarts; two,<br/>she loved to travel; and three, it would get her away from her brother (who seemed<br/>genuinely annoyed that his little sister seemed to have more natural magical<br/>talent than him), that is until she found out Stephen had decided to follow her to Hogwarts!<br/><br/>Her Brother: Stephen, Leah loves him of course but they have a sometimes rather<br/>intense sibling rivalry. Stephen is handsome, social, and athletic and it has<br/>always irritated Leah that her few friends would swoon over him when he was<br/>around. Stephen of course enjoyed using this to needle his younger sister.<br/><br/>The Parents: Both are quite loving and kind, and they seem to have an idyllic<br/>relationship. Her father Eugene is a quiet and even-tempered man with a love for<br/>music and the arts, but also something of a pragmatist. He is very intelligent<br/>and used to spend a lot of time doting on his daughter. Leah is very close to<br/>him. Her mother Brigitte is a very warm hearted woman, a somewhat flighty artist,<br/>she is the muggle daughter of magical parents who early in her life gave her to a<br/>muggle foster family. Somewhat absent minded and an idealist at heart she loves<br/>both her children but is closer to Stephen than the somewhat more rational Leah.<br/><br/><br/>Attributes<br/>Agility: 2<br/>Animal Handling: 3(1 pt)<br/>Athletics: 2<br/>Awareness: 3 (1 pt)<br/>Cunning: 3 (1 pt)<br/>*Logic +1B<br/>*Memory +1B<br/>Deception: 2<br/>Endurance: 2<br/>Fighting: 2<br/>Knowledge: 4 (4 pts)<br/>*Magical Studies +1B<br/>*Research +1B<br/>Magic: 4 (8 pts)<br/>*Transfiguration +2B<br/>Marksmanship: 3 (1 pt)<br/>Persuasion: 2<br/>Reflexes: 2<br/>Status: 2<br/>Stealth: 2<br/>Strategy: 3 (1 pt)<br/>Thievery: 2<br/>Will: 4 (4 pts)<br/>*Discipline +1B<br/>*Dedication +1B<br/><br/>Qualities:<br/>Animagus - Black Cat (Domestic Short Hair - your typical Halloween cat)<br/>Academic Specialty: Arithmancy<br/>Eiditic Memory<br/><br/>Drawbacks:<br/>Flaw - Athletics<br/><br/>Destiny Points: 0<br/>Wand Trait: None<br/><br/>Health: 6<br/>Composure: 12<br/>Combat Defense: 4<br/>Intrigue Defense: 5<br/>Passive Resistance-Physical: 8<br/>Passive Resistance-Mental: 17<br/><br/>Class List:<br/>Astronomy<br/>Charms<br/>Defense Against the Dark Arts<br/>Herbology<br/>History of Magic<br/>Potions<br/>Transfiguration<br/><br/>Electives:<br/>Ancient Runes<br/>Arithmancy