Cassandra Dorny

OOC

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The Professors' Lounge	omgitscassandra	Kari Byron

Basic Stats

Full Name: Cassandra Jane Dorny (née Wood)
Nickname(s): Cassie, Cass
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Date of Birth: September 12, 1977
Zodiac: Virgo
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to Jack Dorny (Dec. 1996)
Bloodline: Halfblood
House & Year: Ravenclaw 1996
Occupation: Stay-at-home mum
Wand: 8.75 in, pine, phoenix tail feather
Pet: Mikey None

Family

Father: Patrick Jonathan Wood (wizard; Gryffindor 1973; magical geologist; b. March 15, 1955)
Mother: Aglaia Regan Wood (née Belby; witch; Ravenclaw 1974; actress; b. August 4, 1956)
Brother: Oliver Patrick Wood (wizard; Gryffindor 1994; flying professor: Remus Lupin Academy; b. July 1, 1976)

Husband: Jack William Dorny (wizard; Hufflepuff 1996; reporter: Daily Prophet; b. December 1, 1977)
Son: Jack William Dorny, Jr. (wizard; grade F at Remus Lupin Academy [Weasley]; b. July 14, 1998)
Daughter: Gwendolyn Anne Dorny (witch; grade D at Remus Lupin Academy [Moody]; b. April 2, 2000)
Son: Michael Oliver Dorny (wizard; grade A at Remus Lupin Academy [Tonks]; b. March 3, 2003)
Son: Ian Patrick Dorny (wizard; b. October 24, 2007)

History

For Patrick Wood and Regan Belby, it was love at first Quidditch game. Fifth-year Regan was commentating the match between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, and sixth-year Patrick was a Gryffindor Beater who fell for her the second he heard a snide remark. Regan put up a good game of hard-to-get, but Patrick won her over in the end. They continued to date throughout the rest of Patrick's years at Hogwarts and in the year that he was out of school and she was still attending. Once Regan finished school, however, they were married. Son Oliver was born in the summer of 1976, followed by daughter Cassandra just over a year later in the fall of 1977.

From the start, Cassandra was incredibly close to her big brother. Her first word, in fact, was "bru" (an attempt at "brother," which was just too long for her to manage). They fought, of course — it was their job as brother and sister to fight — but Oliver always was and always will be Cassandra's best friend. She also learned quick that she could get him to do anything for her, which she still makes use of to this day.

Although Oliver took to quidditch like a fish to water — much to the delight of their parents — Cassandra … didn't. She was, quite frankly, a disaster with both feet on the ground; get her on a broom and it was flat-out dangerous for anybody in the area. Of course, with a family like hers, she grew up with a deep and true love for the sport, she just couldn't play it herself. She actually took a bit after her mum, though she didn't have quite the dramatic streak that Regan did. She did, however, have her mother's thirst for knowledge, particularly random trivia and things like that. She absolutely loved taking things apart and putting them back together: muggle things, wizarding things, any thing that could be taken apart and played with.

When Oliver went off to Hogwarts in 1987, Cassandra was upset: equal parts because her brother was gone, and because she wanted to go to Hogwarts, too. But she had to wait until 1989 to join him. It came as no surprise to anyone in the family that she was sorted immediately into Ravenclaw (though a part of her had wished for Gryffindor, like her brother). She fit in at Ravenclaw right away, though she earned a bit of glaring from her housemates when she cheered for her brother during the Gryffindor / Ravenclaw quidditch match.

There weren't any classes that Cassandra particularly excelled in at Hogwarts. She studied, sure, and did her work, but she wasn't obsessive about earning perfect marks or anything. Unlike Oliver, who knew that he wanted to play quidditch, she never really knew exactly what she wanted to do after school. She wanted to do something where she could work with her hands, maybe keep taking things apart and putting them back together. But then she met Jack Dorny and fell in love.

She and Jack met in their sixth year. Coincidentally, it was because of the Triwizard Tournament: Cassandra was putting her name in (she had just turned seventeen and, as such, was eligible), while Jack wasn't quite seventeen yet, so he couldn't. They were both in the group that cheered as Cedric (Jack's roommate) put his name in the goblet, and the group that watched as the Weasley twins tried to fool the age line. It was after the announcement of the four champions, though, that Cassandra and Jack really got to talking. They were both upset over Harry Potter's name coming out of the goblet, and both found it to be unfair to Cedric. Oh, sure, Cassandra was well-familiar with Harry Potter: the boy who lived, the golden boy of the Gryffindor quidditch team; her brother talked about the team enough, but he was just a kid.

Cassandra and Jack started dating that year, and they were both utterly shocked by Cedric's death. Neither of them was particularly willing to believe that Voldemort was back, but they also couldn't deny that something had happened that night. During their seventh year, they were inseparable. Jack proposed to her at the end of exams, and they were married that December. Any questions about a "reason" for the rushed wedding were answered when it was revealed that, no, Cassandra was not pregnant. Their first child, son Jack Jr., wasn't born until the summer of 1998, shortly after the end of the war. Once they started, though … they didn't stop. Jack Jr. was followed by Gwendolyn in 2000, Michael in 2003, and finally Ian in 2007.

Out of Hogwarts, Jack got a job at the Daily Prophet, and over the years he's worked his way up to being a reporter. Cassandra toyed with the idea of opening up her own repair shop, but once Jack Jr. was born, she devoted her time to taking care of her darling little babies. She didn't mind being a stay-at-home mum: she loved taking care of the kids, and naptimes were just golden (especially those rare moments, when Jack, Gwen, and Michael were all still really young, that she managed to synchonize their naptimes, even if only for a short period). She also feels that having four children is definitely enough, so once Ian is in school, maybe she can pursue opening a repair shop or something.

Of course, through everything, Cassandra was still close to Oliver. She followed his career closely, and cheered rabidly for Puddlemere United (still does!). She was more horrified and upset than anyone else (except, obviously, Oliver) by his attack in 2006. What made it worse for Cassandra was that once he was released from the hospital, Oliver wouldn't let anyone see him, not even her. It took her until June to finangle her way into his flat, and once she did, she was prepared. She told him that he wasn't going to change anything by sitting around doing nothing, and she brandished paperwork at him. Information about the Remus Lupin Academy, which had a space open for a flying instructor. Jack Jr. and Gwendolyn were already attending the school, and she knew that working there would be good for her brother. She refused to take no for an answer.