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Pippa Ann Cross

Age: 17

Birthday: May 7th

Wand: Maple, Pheonix feather core, 8 inches

Pet:Owl named Circe

Physical description:

By all means, Pippa is an average looking girl, caught between beautiful and terribly plain. She distresses over her stawberry-blonde hair, which laps at her shoulders in waves. Her skin is a rich peach in color, freckles dotting about her nose and cheekbones, a few scattered around her arms as well. Her eyebrows are neatly shaped on her square forehead, with wide gray-green eyes filled with happiness. Her nose is rather wide but not prominent, which ends in small nostrils and rosy-pink lips often curled in a flowery smile. Pippa is short but slim, with a nice look of classic beauty in her bodily shape; not too skinny nor too large. She is proud of herself in many things, and has never bothered herself with doubts of her self-image.

Personality:

Pippa is a plethora of attitude, often getting away with too much cheek and wit. She will do anything to annoy her grandmother, oftentimes resulting in lonley nights in her room without supper. But she doesn't care, as long as she gets a smile of something. She will, however, snap at those whose only joy seems to be tormenting others, a large pet-peeve on her part. Despite her cheeky comments she is rather nice, but an occasional barb may escape her when she isn't paying attention. In this respect she is more like a Slytherin, but she isn't as ambitious and cunning as Slytherin are. Like a Ravenclaw she is intent on learning and improving herself, making a loyal freind to whom she likes. Pippa is her own person and she is always reminding others of this, refusing to let her personality slip even a bit.

History:

Pippa comes from a long line of British heirs, decending from Viscounts and respected ladies of wealth and culture, for there are few boys in her family. As such she has been brought up to respect this family trait of charm and beauty whether she wants it or not. Pippa lives with her grandmother, Victoria Cross, for her parents died of cholera when she was thirteen. She is not majorly affected by their loss, yet she occasionally misses the two people who brought her up...when they could. She was often shuffled aside in busy appointments and meetings.

At the moment she loathes her grandmother and everything she teaches, wanting nothing to do with her heritage and everything with independance. But her grandmother will not allow it, correcting her on her attitude and ways of persenting herself. They currently reside in an estate near Wales, but when Pippa is attending Hogwarts they live in a smaller estate just outside of London. Pippa herself can't say much of the school, neither liking or disliking it, veiwing it as somehwere she has to go, yet she preferrs it over her grandmother. She expects to marry someone she loves, not someone Victoria will plop in front of her as she has always done, and when she graduates Hogwarts Pippa intemds to do just that, family history or not.