Aria Martinelli
OOC
| Game | Journal | Portrayed By |
|---|---|---|
| Memories1975 | bookish_dreamer | Tina Majorino |
Basic Stats
Full Name: Aria Lianne Martinelli
Nickname(s): None
Gender: Female
Age: 14-15
Date of Birth: March 7, 1960
Zodiac: Pisces
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Birmingham, England
House & Year: Ravenclaw 4th
Extracurriculars: Quidditch chaser
Wand: 14 3/4 in, black palm wood, hair of a dryad
Pet: Calico kitten (Miss Fluffkins)
Family
Father: Devon Martinelli (wizard; Gryffindor 1953; works in the Department of International Magical Cooperation)
Mother: Sophia Martinelli (née Barton; witch; Hufflepuff 1955)
History
Aria, the only child of Devon and Sophia Martinelli, was born at the family's home just outside of Birmingham, England (the country's second most populated city, actually). Both Devon and Sophia were wizarding folk, so of course they raised their only child with the expectation that she would display magical abilities and be invited to Hogwarts. When the child was at the sweet young age of four, Sophia walked into the nursery and found Aria's dolls tap-dancing for the young girl, much to the child's glee. Sophia had never been more proud of her daughter and relieved at the same time (a niggling fear had gripped her from Aria's birth that, due to Sophia's muggle heritage, Aria might be a squib).
Devon works for the Ministry of Magic in the Department of International Magical Cooperation, and he was sent to Italy for a few weeks in the summer of 1966. He brought along his wife and daughter to see the sights. While they were there, Aria was bitten by a snake (an asp viper, to be more precise) and Sophia and Devon were terrified that they would lose their only child. Thankfully, they were able to rush the young girl to a healer quickly and she was healed with no lasting physical damage. After this incident, they were a bit more protective of Aria, and their fear of her being hurt again caused her fear of snakes to blossom into full ophidiophobia.
Despite her parents' fears and protectiveness, Aria grew into a reasonably well-adjusted girl, although she did tend to let people walk all over her. She was excited, after hearing her parents' stories of Hogwarts, to have received an invitation to the school a few months after her eleventh birthday. She was packed and ready to go by the first week of August. Once at Hogwarts, she was sorted into Ravenclaw and settled in quite well. She befriended the girls in her year quickly — both those within her house and those outside of it — though she was far more shy around the boys and did not quite befriend them so quickly and easily. Of course, she would be perfectly nice, sweet, and kind to anyone, and offer a sympathetic ear to anyone who wished to talk. At this time, Aria has nobody that she would particularly consider an enemy, though she thinks that there might be some who would sneer on her for her easy-going attitude and not-quite-pure bloodline.
Personality
Aria is something of a daydreaming, quiet intellectual. She is nearly always reading, and when she isn't, she's daydreaming. She does, however, have quite the intuitive side to her, able to discern from even the smallest hints how a person is feeling and what might be going on in their mind. She is also very selfless, willing to give up her own time to sit and listen to someone and perhaps offer a bit of advice. She tends to go with the flow more often than not, and she tries not to make waves. Surprisingly (or perhaps not), she is fascinated with the subject of Divination, and has been since she started taking it in her third year. Aria is particularly interested in dreams and their meanings. Very sensitive, Aria is a bit hurt when people are mean to her, though she would never hold that against anyone, she is far too kind and compassionate to hold grudges. On the downside, because she is so selfless, compassionate, and kind, there are those who would take advantage of her and use her as a human doormat, but she would never speak up about it or really put up much of an effort to stop someone from walking all over her. She does, of course, have a bit of a ditzy side, and her train of thought commonly hops around from thought to thought, often without warning and little connection between the two thoughts.
Ten Years Later
In ten years, Aria will be: single, and a chaser for the Holyhead Harpies quidditch team. The war hit her closer to home than she'd expected. Her paternal grandparents were killed by Death Eaters in the summer of 1977, and the deaths and disappearances of her former schoolmates, quite frankly, scared her. She turned to quidditch, a sport she had come to love during her years on the Ravenclaw team, as a solace, an escape from the world of the war. When not involved in quidditch, she hid behind her books and into her own imagination and dream world, still trying to escape. Her idealism, her belief that people were inherently good inside, was shattered in the face of the war, and she was no longer the innocent young girl who fell for Barnabas Cuffe's smooth talking, or the Ravenclaw quidditch team's initiation. She did, however, maintain her sweet and kind nature, and through quidditch, she's developed confidence in herself and her abilities.