Alicia Spinnet
OOC
| Game | Journal | Portrayed By |
|---|---|---|
| Six Degrees | spins_it | Lyndsy Fonseca |
Basic Stats
Full Name: Alicia Daisy Spinnet
Nickname(s): Al, Ali
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Date of Birth: May 8, 1978
Zodiac: Taurus
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Sorta dating George Weasley?
Bloodline: Halfblood
House & Year: Gryffindor 1996
Occupation: Chaser: Holyhead Harpies; public spokesperson: Hestia's Hearth
Wand: 10 in, poplar, phoenix tail feather
Pet: None
Family
Father: Harold Spinnet (wizard; Ravenclaw 1966; mortician)
Mother: Maude Spinnet (née Davis; witch; Ravenclaw 1966; midwife)
Brother: Patrick Spineet (wizard; Hufflepuff 1994)
History
Harold Spinnet and Maude Davies spent seven years going to school together in the same house. Seven years of classes together, sharing a common room, eating at the same table for meals. It would be easy to assume that they were school sweethearts who married and settled down to start a family, or even that they were friends all through school, only to discover later that they loved each other. In actuality, Harold and Maude weren't friends in school. They hated each other: Maude didn't like Harold's morbid sense of humour, and Harold viewed Maude as too old-spirited, like an old woman trapped in a young girl's body. After Hogwarts, they went their separate ways: Harold got a job as a gravedigger, hoping to work his way up to mortician one day, and Maude started Healer training, hoping to apprentice with a midwife. It wasn't until several years later that their paths crossed again at a mutual friend's wedding. They both got a little bit drunk and ended up spending a good chunk of the reception talking, and they even set up a date. Even sober on their date, they seemed to be forging a connection. A couple years later, in 1972, they were married. By this time, both had started realising their individual career dreams: Harold was an assistant mortician at a funeral home in wizarding London, and Maude was nearing the end of her apprenticeship with a midwife.
It wasn't long before their family of two became a family of four. First a son, Patrick, then a daughter, Alicia. Alicia grew up learning much about both the beginning (from her mum) and end (from her dad) of life. She saw that everybody is born the same, everybody is the same after death. Everyone is the same, so everyone ought to be treated the same. Nobody is inherently better or worse than anyone else based upon blood alone. These were the ideals that Harold and Maude wanted to instill in their children, and Alicia took it to heart.
Growing up, Alicia also loved quidditch. One of her favourite birthday presents when she was little was a toy broomstick that levitated and let her zoom around the backyard on it. She was, quite frankly, a natural on the broomstick, and she had dreams of becoming a chaser, so another favourite childhood toy was a practice quaffle, which she practiced day and night with, throwing it and catching it with her parents or brother, and trying to get it through the makeshift hoops in the backyard.
Alicia was nine when Patrick went off to school, and she started counting down the days until it was her turn to board the Hogwarts Express. Two years later, she finally did, and she was thrilled to not only be sorted into her brother's house, but that it was Gryffindor, the home of the brave. She tried out for quidditch, and secured a spot as reserve chaser until her third year, when she finally joined roommate and friend Angelina Johnson as starting chaser, along with Katie Bell. And, of course, that was also the year that Harry Potter started Hogwarts, and he was named seeker for the team. Once Alicia was a starting chaser for the team, she also quickly became the chaser who most often attempted penalty shots for the team when the other team committed a foul.
Alicia cared much for her Hogwarts Family: the quidditch team as well as other close Gryffindors. She was horrified and offended when Malfoy used the m-word to refer to Harry's friend Hermione in Alicia's fourth year, and screamed at him for it. She also frequently, over the years, stood up to Oliver when she was worried about her teammates, such as when she suggested they stop a quidditch match in her fourth year and ask for an inquiry when one of the bludgers was insistently going after Harry, afraid that it might kill him.
She wasn't old enough to toss her name into the goblet in her sixth year, for the Triwizard Tournament, but she cheered on Angelina when she did, and when the names were drawn, she gave her support to Harry. That didn't mean she didn't support Cedric, as well, but Harry might as well have been family because of quidditch. She was rocked, as the rest of the school was, by Cedric's death, and she never doubted for a moment what Harry claimed, that You-Know-Who was back. And when Harry started up Dumbledore's Army in Alicia's seventh year, she was there, despite that she was two years older than Harry and most of the other students. She attended as many meetings as she could, without being caught by Umbridge because she was already busy enough with quidditch and helping Angelina find replacements for Harry and the Twin Weasleys after Umbridge banned them.
After finishing school in 1996, Alicia went out for professional quidditch and scored a spot as a chaser for the Holyhead Harpies. But two years later, when her DA coin called past and present DA members back to Hogwarts for the Battle of Hogwarts against You-Know-Who and his Death Eaters, Alicia returned to fight with Oliver, Katie, and Angelina. Aside from a few easily-healed wounds, Alicia mostly got out of the battle unscathed, though a curse that slashed up her legs left her in St Mungo's for a stretch of time.
Once she was released from the hospital, her legs were still a little stiff, and she would forever walk with a bit of a limp, but she was still able to keep her seat on a broom and, therefore, still able to play for the Harpies, and she has remained one of their best Chasers.
Personality
Alicia is one of the nicest people you'll meet, and surprisingly even-tempered for a Gryffindor. Unlike many of her housemates, Alicia won't charge headfirst into things or lose her head; instead, she stays level-headed and pragmatic. There needs to be a plan before just jumping in headfirst. But she was sorted into Gryffindor for a reason: she's brave, and she has very high standards of personal integrity and nobility. She cannot stand people who use the m-word, or who belittle people simply for their birth, whether it be the muggleborns belittled by the purists, or the poor belittled by the rich. She stood up to Umbridge when questioned about Professor Flitwick (one of her favourite teachers from Hogwarts!) and joined the DA to oppose her, not to mention that she fought in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Alicia has a history of making bad decisions on the men front, though. She finds herself drawn to the bad boys, and then gets her heart broken when the bad boy turns out to be, well … bad. She knows that she should go for the good guys, the nice guys, the ones who are less likely to break her heart, but she just cannot resist that pull of the bad boy.
She also has some minor body image issues. With her legs scarred as they are from the Battle of Hogwarts, she doesn't like wearing shorts or short skirts. When the Harpies did the calendar shoot, she got help to put extensive charms on her legs to hide the scars, but she still posed in ways that hid the front of her upper legs, and she immediately pulled on a pair of jeans to cover up her legs as soon as she was done being photographed. She gets nervous about blokes seeing her legs for the first time, and she even hates just looking at her own legs.
Her injury wasn't career-ending, though it forced Alicia to seriously look at what she could do for a job after she could no longer play quidditch. After all, every time she's on the pitch, she runs the risk of a career-ending injury. She doesn't think about that once she's on the pitch, but in the hours leading up to a match, she will sometimes get a little nervous. She's started taking business classes through independent study in her free time around practices, thinking she might like to work in business management someday … or maybe even become a manager of a quidditch team, once her playing career is over. Alicia tries to look several steps ahead, so that she's not left hanging in midair without a broom if something happens.
Alicia is like a PR rep's dream: aside from her disastrous relationships, she never does anything that might introduce negative publicity, but instead does a lot of charity work and is always happy to pose for a picture with a fan or sign an autograph or talk with the press. She's also become the public spokesperson for the non-profit Hestia's Hearth, which provides assistance to families in need.