Megan Jones

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Afresh	littlest_jones	Nina Dobrev

Basic Stats

Full Name: Megan Abigail Jones
Nickname(s): Meg
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: October 10, 1979
Zodiac: Libra
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Ballycastle, Ireland; Montrose, Scotland
House & Year: Hufflepuff 7th
Extracurriculars: Quidditch chaser
Wand: 9.75 in, rowan, unicorn tail hair
Pet: None

Family

Father: Wendall Jones (wizard; Hufflepuff 1963; retired keeper: Ballycastle Bats; Manager: Montrose Magpies)
Mother: Miranda Jones (née Paterson; witch; Ravenclaw 1960; healer)
Sister: Hestia Jones (witch; [House] 1984)
Sister: Gwenog Jones (witch; Hufflepuff 1986; captain & beater: Holyhead Harpies; b. April 4, 1968)

History

Wendall and Miranda Jones already had two daughters: Hestia and Gwenog. They each had careers: Wendall as keeper for the Ballycastle Bats and Miranda in the Artifact Accidents ward of St. Mungo's. A family of four was nice and even. But, in early 1979, when Hestia was at Hogwarts already and Gwen was gearing up to start later that year, Miranda discovered that she was pregnant again. Megan Abigail was born on October 10, just over a month after her older sisters had gone off to school at Hogwarts.

From the start, Megan was a happy baby. She didn't cause her parents any problems, and she was easily-consolable when upset. The happiness of Megan's character continued on as she reached childhood. Her sisters were so much older than her that she really only saw them during their hols from school. Megan was only five when Hestia graduated from Hogwarts and moved out, and seven when Gwenog did the same. Although Gwen and Hestia were closer friends to each other because of their ages, Megan looked up to them and sort of desperately wanted to be their friend, too. But with them so much older than her, it was a rather fruitless desire.

Although her father played for the Ballycastle Bats, and her sister Gwenog played for the Holyhead Harpies, Megan was just not that interested in quidditch, beyond watching her father and sister play. There was a public swimming pool near their house in Ballycastle, and Megan started spending a lot of time there after school and on the weekends. Swimming was more interesting to her than quidditch: how well she did depended entirely upon her own strength and speed. Quidditch always just seemed so uneven: no matter how well the keepers and chasers did, the seeker could tilt the game to their team's favour with the 150-point snitch. Swimming was more of an even playing field, so to speak. And the repetitiveness of the strokes, of controlling her breathing, allowed her mind to wander as she swam. When she couldn't swim, she ran to keep in shape.

1991 brought two big changes to the Jones family. First, when the quidditch season ended, Wendall retired from playing for the Bats. Second, in September, Megan finally started Hogwarts, where she was sorted into her father's and Gwen's former house of Hufflepuff. Because of her open and friendly nature, Megan made friends at school quickly, especially with Susan Bones, one of her new roommates. From the start, Megan and Susan (Bones and Jones … with names like that, they couldn't be anything but best friends?) were close, and they soon became nearly inseparable.

Megan loved school, she loved being surrounded by people her own age, and her classes were all so interesting! She wasn't too interested in trying out for the Hufflepuff team, though she did cheer them on in their matches. She wished that Hogwarts had a swimming pool, but made do with swimming in the chilly waters of the lake. One of the first advanced charms she learned was a self-warming charm, to keep her warm as she swam. She stuck close to shore and the surface, not interested in exploring the depths or disturbing the creatures of the lake, and she always had her wand tucked into her suit, ready to blast away anything that might attack her.

During her first year, Megan got an owl from home with news that rattled her a little: her father wasn't taking to the retired lifestyle well. The Manager of the Montrose Magpies was retiring, and Wendall had accepted the position of his replacement, so they were moving from Ballycastle, the only home Megan had known, to Montrose. Megan balked at that a little: she didn't want to move! But move her parents did, and when Megan returned home that summer, it was to a new home in the heart of the city of Montrose. At least there was another public pool nearby where she could continue swimming during her summers in her new home.

The rest of Megan's years at Hogwarts passed rather uneventfully. She added Muggle Studies to her curriculum in third year, mostly becase Susie was adding it. Also in her third year, she finally joined the Hufflepuff quidditch team as a chaser, at her father's and Gwen's urgings. She mostly chose chaser because it wasn't keeper like her father or beater like her sister: it was a position in which she wouldn't be compared to either of them. In her fourth year, she cheered on housemate Cedric Diggory in the Triwizard Tournament (and though he was quite handsome and many of the other Hogwarts girls had crushes on him, she actually harboured a bit of a crush on one of the Durmstrang boys who had come to Hogwarts for the tournament — not Krum, but a boy who hadn't been picked). Although they didn't have dates for the Yule Ball, she did her own and Susan's makeup and hair for the ball, and Megan had loads of fun just twirling around on the dance floor in her pretty dress.

Fifth year brought the detestable Dolores Umbridge to their Defense class, as well as OWLs. Megan had always done better in the reading classes than the practicals, actually found herself slightly preferring the book-centric learning of Defense that year, over the practical-centric, but the professor's personality made it hard for Megan to enjoy the class. She did well enough on her OWLs, however, passing all of them and earning Os in Astronomy, History, and Muggle Studies, Es in Defense and Herbology, and As in Charms, Potions, and Transfiguration. For her sixth year, she opted to only continue in Astronomy, History, Muggle Studies, and Herbology.

By this time, Megan knew what she wanted to do with her life: she wanted to write. She had always loved telling stories (while her sisters were off at school or playing with each other, Megan had taken her toys and made up stories about them), and she loved reading, so it seemed only natural to her. Beyond that, a "day job" to earn money while she wrote, earned more of a careless shrug from her. Megan wasn't particularly ambitious, and she figured she could just be a waitress, or work in a bookstore, or something.

Megan was excited to begin Apparition lessons in her sixth year, and she did rather well in them — though she was absolutely shaken when her best friend splinched herself and lost her leg. Megan refused to leave Susan's side as she recovered from having her leg reattached, and while she was nervous about continuing lessons afterwards, she was just more careful. She wished Susan would continue lessons with her, but understood why she wouldn't.

Now in her final term of seventh year, Megan is looking forward to being done with school. She's a little afraid of what the real world is going to be like but she also has confidence that as long as she has her best friend Susan at her side, she'll manage.

Personality

Megan is very much a girly girl. She loves dressing up, she loves makeup, she loves mani-pedis. But she's down to earth, too. Yeah, she's got her princess-y moments, but that's mostly because she's the youngest in her family and so much younger than her sisters. She's an open and friendly girl, and a die-hard optimist. It's just that most of her interests tend toward the girly, and she doesn't see anything wrong with that — she is a girl, after all!

She's also interested in quidditch, but more because it's been bred into her than out of true interest. Oh, she loves her dad, she loves her sister, and she's always loved watching them play quidditch, but it's not as important to her as it is to them. She mostly only joined the Hufflepuff quidditch team because of them, because she knew it would make them happy. She has no plans of pursuing a career in it after graduating, but it's fun to play on her house's team, and she's about as non-competitive about it as possible.

Her true passion, actually, is reading. Her guilty secret is tacky romance novels, but she also loves the classics, especially Jane Austen. What she'd really like to do with her life is write. She knows she probably won't be able to make a living as a writer, but she's happy to consider a life of menial labour as her day job while she writes in her free time. It's not exactly ambitious, but she's not exactly ambitious, anyway.

Because she exercises so much, Megan actually eats a lot more than it looks like she should. She was actually accused a few years ago of being bulimic, because she was eating a lot, but not looking like she was gaining any weight. She just has a great metabolism because of all the running and swimming and quidditch-playing she does. It tore her up that people were saying such awful things about her, because she's just so friendly. She doesn't like people making up lies about her.

5 Random Facts

Sometimes, Megan feels like she's compared to her older sisters too much. "Gwen was the best at this." "Hestia was better at that." She desperately wants her own identity that's her own and not tied to either of her sisters.
BUT, despite the huge gap between Megan and her sisters, despite that Hestia and Gwen are closer because of their closer ages, she still looks up to both of them and loves them dearly. They are her sisters, after all, and who else do you complain about your parents to who really understands exactly what you're saying?
On the other hand, Susan Bones is her sister of choice, her absolute best friend. Susie is the one who gets to hear Megan's best secrets, the first person she wants to share good news with.
Her guilty pleasure is trashy romance novels. You know the kind, the bodice-rippers, with the scantily-clad woman on the cover, swooning in the bulging-muscled arms of a shirtless man. She hides them under her mattress at school, and under a loose floorboard at home.
Megan has the uncanny and completely unmatched ability to make any food sound healthy, no matter what. Seriously, give her any food, and she will find a way to make it sound like it could be healthy. Chocolate? It has milk in it, right? And milk is good for you. There's a reason every problem can be solved with chocolate.