Keira Coote

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Euphoria Lane	got_cooties	Rachael Leigh Cook

Basic Stats

Full Name: Keira Taylor Coote (née Bundy)
Nickname(s): None, except the cat-related ones (kitty, pussycat, etc) that Ritchie calls her
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: August 3, 1979
Zodiac: Leo
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to Ritchie Coote (Apr. 1, 1998)
Bloodline: Muggleborn
Hometown: Torquay, Tobay, Devon, England
Residence: 315 Euphoria Lane, flat 3A
House & Year: Gryffindor 1997
Occupation: Hitwitch
Pet: Five cats of varying breeds

Family

Father: Leonard Eric Bundy (muggle; co-owner: family restaurant; b. August 18, 1950)
Mother: Abigail Olivia Bundy (née Matthews; muggle; co-owner: family restaurant; b. April 26, 1951)
Brother: Christian Patrick Bundy (twin; muggle; b. August 3, 1979; d. June 17, 1994)

Husband: Ritchie Coote (wizard; Gryffindor 1997; works for the British & Irish Quidditch League; b. May 20, 1979)

History

Leonard Bundy and Abigail Matthews met in school. They were sweethearts from the age of fourteen, and they got married when they were just nineteen years old. Leonard inherited his family's restaurant in the seaside resort town of Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England, when his father died of a heart attack when Leonard was only twenty-five. Leonard and Abigail stepped up to the task, though, and kept the restaurant afloat, even helping it to boom. A few years later, once they were settled into the routine of running the restaurant, they decided to start a family. Both wanted two children, a boy and a girl, and they got their wish in just one try: fraternal twins Christian and Keira were born on 3 August, 1979 (Christian five minutes before Keira).

The twins had a relatively easy life, growing up. As soon as they were old enough, they both helped out in the restaurant, but the family did well enough that the twins never wanted for anything. Keira and Christian grew up practically attached at the hip. What one twin did, the other did, too. They never went anywhere without each other, and they had their own little language when they were really young. Often, one twin could complete the other twin's sentences. They were each other's best friend, though they did have other friends, of course. Christian was the first to notice that sometimes, weird things happened around Keira, like sometimes, nearby objects would break when Keira was really angry about something. It was utterly disheartening to both twins when a representative from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry showed up at the Bundy home in the summer of 1990 and explained that Keira was a witch, and that she was invited to attend the school, and that she would learn how to use her magic there. Christian asked if he could go, too, but he wasn't a wizard, so the representative had to tell him that he couldn't come.

Keira wanted to stay at home and just go to school with Christian, but Leonard and Abigail decided that it would be for the best if Keira attended Hogwarts: things breaking around Keira at home was bad enough, but she might do bigger things out in public if she didn't go to this school. Also, they worried that the twins would never be truly independant if they spent their whole lives together, so they figured that sending Keira to a different school might help them learn to live without the other twin as a constant figure in their lives. So on 1 September, 1990, Keira boarded the Hogwarts Express with the other Hogwarts students. For the first few months, Keira was absolutely miserable at school without Christian. Once she got to go home and see him for the Christmas holiday, she felt better about going back to school, knowing that she could always go home during the holidays to visit him, she loosened up about the idea of school and felt better about being there, opening up more to her roommates and beginning to make friends at school.

While at Hogwarts, Keira became fascinated with quidditch. Because she and Christian both loved watching football, rugby, and cricket, she quickly searched the library for information on the sport, checking out Quidditch Through the Ages, so that she could write a detailed letter about the sport to her brother. Maybe, she thought, one day when she was a rich witch doing something important in the wizarding world, she could take Christian to see a professional quidditch match.

But at the end of Keira's fourth year, tragedy struck in a wholly muggle way: Christian was out at the beach with his friends, learning to surf, when he ended up drifting away from the others. A particularly large wave crashed over him, knocking him off his board. He dropped underwater as the board rose into the air, and right as he struggled to the surface, the board hit him on the head with a crack, knocking him unconscious. By the time his friends got to him, he wasn't breathing and his heart wasn't beating. The medics were called, but they couldn't resuscitate him. Heartbroken, Keira came home early from school (she'd only just finished her exams) for his funeral.

When it came time for her to return to school the following September, she was like a different person. Before, she'd been rather agreeable, if a bit outgoing and bossy, but her twin's death changed her. She was more moody, and more prone to fighting. She started picking fights a lot, oftentimes just for the hell of it. In addition to the sudden change in attitude, Keira was also driven to make a difference. She threw herself into her studies, wanting to make the grades that would help her get a job that would make a difference in the world. She knew that nothing she could do would bring her brother back, but she felt like she had to live for the both of them, and she knew that Christian had wanted to do something noble with his life, so Keira felt that she had to do something noble with hers.

Although they had been in classes together for years, Keira first REALLY noticed Ritchie Coote in their seventh year. Oh, she knew him, of course, but she'd never really paid much attention to him, especially after her brother's death. But then they started dating in their seventh year. They squabbled quite a bit, but Keira really liked him, at least in part because he was really fit, but also because he could make her laugh, something nobody had really been able to do since Christian had died.

When the War Programmes started, Keira applied for the Auror programme, and she had all the requirements, but instead she was put in the Magical Law Enforcement programme. Although Keira was disappointed, she pushed the disappointment aside and vowed to be the best hitwitch in the whole wizarding world. She and Ritchie were still dating, and with the war waging around them, and Keira a muggleborn training to be a hitwitch, they ended up getting engaged in early 1998, and they got married (of all days) on 1 April, 1998. Their honeymoon was delayed, due to Keira's training. After two years of training, Keira became an "actual hitwitch" in late 1999. Barely a year later, the war was over, and Keira and Ritchie took their very belated honeymoon (which was almost cancelled when Ritchie wanted to bring the cats with them). When they returned, Keira resumed work as a hitwitch, and though she often tried to get into the Auror programme, the fact that she argued with her superiors and was frequently suspended for it kept her from advancing even within the hitwizard ranks.

Once the war and honeymoon were over, Keira started realising that maybe she and Ritchie might have rushed things with getting married so young. She started picking fights with him over even the most silly and mundane things, and she was threatening divorce at least once or twice a month. Of course, with Ritchie's ability to make her laugh, she's never really serious about it. Plus, deep down, she doesn't want to lose him.