Kate Longbottom

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
The Long Wait	booksandoddness	Emily Browning

Basic Stats

Full Name: Katharine Alice Longbottom
Nickname(s): Kate
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: June 24, 2003
Zodiac: Cancer
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Pureblood
House & Year: Ravenclaw 6th
Extracurriculars: None
Pet: Snowy owl (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Family

Father: Neville Longbottom (wizard; Gryffindor 1998; obliviator)
Mother: Luna Longbottom (née Lovegood; witch; Ravenclaw 1999; editor of the Quibbler)
Brother: Austen Longbottom (wizard; Gryffindor 7th)
Brother: Michael Longbottom (wizard; b. 2011)
Brother: Kevin Longbottom (wizard; b. 2011)

History

Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood were among those who married quickly in the midst of the war. They also had children fairly quickly. Austen first, followed shortly by Katharine. They were happy with just two children for several years, until Katharine was six. That year, Neville's parents both died in St. Mungo's, within a couple months of each other. It was then that Neville and Luna decided that they wanted a larger family, so just under a year later, twins Michael and Kevin joined the family. Although they had planned to have more children after the twins, Luna's father retired from his position as editor of the Quibbler and handed the position to his daughter, who had been working as an assistant editor ever since Kate was two. With her new job, as well as Neville's job as an obliviator, they realized that they would be stretching themselves too thin if they had more children, so they stopped with just the four.

The children were all shown love and affection. Perhaps to make up for Neville's own childhood. They were raised to know the difference between right and wrong, and essentially trained to prefer the right to the wrong. At the same time, they were taught to keep the "blood traitor"-ness quiet, especially given all the laws against half-bloods and muggle-borns. Both Neville and Luna were, of course, members of the Order of the Phoenix, but as their predecessors in the Order had, they didn't exactly flaunt that fact. The children didn't know about the Order at all, much less their parents' involvement in it, for the children's safety.

Kate was always closer to Austen than she was to the twins, in part because their ages were so close, but the twins were seven years younger than she was. He also tended to look out for her whenever other children picked on her for being weird (he took more after the Longbottom side of the family, particularly their grandfather Frank, the former Auror, while she took more after the Lovegood side), for which Kate truly loved her big brother. She was upset when he left to go to school when she was ten, but she was proud of him for being sorted into Gryffindor, their dad's former house. A year later, Kate was ecstatic to join her brother at Hogwarts, though she was a litle sad that she was sorted into Ravenclaw (even though she knew it was the perfect fit for her, she missed her brother!). She contented herself with being able to see him during meals and in the corridors, and they even had special brother-sister time every weekend where they met somewhere — outside if the weather was nice, inside if it wasn't — and caught up with what was going on. And he was always around if someone was picking on her, it seemed.

The adjustment to Hogwarts was a relatively easy one for Kate, in part because of her brother's presence at the school, albeit in a different House and everything. But she settled easily into Ravenclaw, and she absolutely loved the library. During her free time, she was often to be found in there. She didn't make friends easily, because everyone saw her as a weird know-it-all (even the other Ravenclaws), so they generally didn't take the time to really get to know her, but that suited her fine. She was perfectly fine with immersing herself in the worlds she could visit by simply opening books. Books were far less complicated than people, in her opinion.

She loved most of her classes, even History of Magic. She would pay rapt attention to Professor Binns, even while the other students were falling asleep around her. Which made her surprisingly popular whenever exam time came around, but the other students quickly learned that her notes were nearly impossible to read without going crazy, so that sudden popularity at exam time died off after a couple of years. Again, she wasn't too upset by that. Popularity never appealed to her.

Kate was very proud of her older brother when he was made Prefect in his fifth year, but she was entirely unsurprised that she was not given a badge the next year: she knew that she wasn't Prefect material, her head was too often in the clouds, or her nose buried in a book.