HEMMINGWAY, issa janey

[issa hemmingway]

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issa hemmingway i'm borderline happy, borderline sad general info ALIAS issa bear GENDER cisfemale AGE fifteen BIRTHDATE twenty ninth march ORIENTATION bisexual BLOOD muggle-born biography Full Name Issa Janey Hemmingway House Rourie Year First Relationship Status Single Orientation Bisexual Heritage German/New Zealand Birth place Oamaru, New Zealand Hometown Montmedy, France Patronus Sugar Glider Boggart Death of her sister Veritaserum Issa never took the medication her parents, and the psychiatrist forced upon her to Beauxbaton. She just tells them she did. Idea of perfect happiness Being at school with her sister, surrounded by numerous friends Trait you most deplore in yourself Self doubt which stems from her fear of exclusion Most outlandish lie She and her sister used to swap names, and tell their parents 'I'm not Issa/Olivie. She is!' despite the fact they are not twins, and look nothing alike. Greatest love A music box that her mother gave to her Your hero of fiction Peter Pan Best way to die Quidditch death; bludger to the head History Although Issa was born on the South Island of New Zealand, she doesn't consider herself a local. Her parents Jon and Cora owned a couple hundred acres inland from a port town called Timaru. They grazed sheep, and looked after the few barnyard animals they'd acquired. Daisy the cow kept them supplied with fresh milk, and daily bumps and bruises. Double and Trouble, the two piglets, often attempted escape but never got very far. The orchard flowered during the spring, and died over the winter, always producing enough fruit to keep them the year long. It was a simple life but fulfilling in the best of ways. This was the life into which Issa came. She enjoyed the short time she lived there; gorging herself on the fallen fruits, stumbling after Brandy the dog, and spending the nights curled up with the two cats Angus McTavish McTool and Nelson Horatio Snotgrass. At six months old her father left overseas to Africa to work in Sudan. Shortly after she and her mother followed him there. They lived on a small reserve for five months. Having no memories of the place, or her time there Issa cherishes the stories her mother tells her; they'd been in the marketplace when a local woman had asked her mother if she could hold the little baby, and distracted for only a moment Cora had lost sight of her baby and the local woman. As it turned out the woman had taken Issa to her family home to show everyone what a white baby looked like. After Africa they lived in New Zealand for only one more year, before moving to Australia where her younger sister Olivie was born. The girls jumped from school to school, bouncing from country to country as they spent their holidays visiting grandparents overseas, and never really settling. They spent two years living in Indonesia, in the city of Kupang. Life was simple again. They attended classes with an American lady whose English was entirely different to theirs. The afternoons they spent in the kitchen with Nenna the housekeeper baking muffins, and arguing about whose turn it was to lick out the bowl. On weekends they played with the local children, communicating in a language all of their own, and once a month they participated in the local Hash House Harriers. In the winter of Issa's ninth year they returned to Australia only to leave again nine months later. France was nice enough. They moved into a simple two story house in a town by the name of Montmedy, close to the Belgian border. Jon worked nearby on a local vineyard while Cora started at the Musee, giving guided tours of the old citadel every Saturday. The girls attended a local school, struggling with the language, and frustrated with the prospect of having to make new friends. Because of their lifestyle Olivie and Issa had learned to rely on one another entirely. They knew that no matter what they would always be together, and that was no likely to change. But then of course it did. On her eleventh birthday Issa received a letter from Beauxbaton Academy of Magic. She was a witch. From that day on things seemed to fly by in a blurred rush until she was suddenly being whisked away from her family towards something she didn't understand, and feared. Her first year at the academy was surprising, eye opening, and awe inspiring. She made friends with other young witches and wizards of her age, discovered that she wasn't all that bad at magic, and learned to cope with feelings of homesickness. She wrote daily to Olivie, and once every fortnight to her parents. Holidays with her family became something of a novelty which she delighted in, and the years past. On her eleventh birthday Olivie received her own letter, and joined her sister at the academy.

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JONATHAN HEMMINGWAY NEE WINTERS

Jonathan, or Jon as he prefers to be known, was born on the twenty fifth of April in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. His parents Jonathan Sr and Doris were happy with the news that they had a boy; a girl would have simply been unacceptable. Not long after Jon's birth the family moved to New Zealand, after his father expressed discontent with this new age England. They didn't fancy New Zealand much either, what with the weather and the natives, but Jon enjoyed growing up there. After graduating from high school with top marks, he left home and journied to Wellington to attend university. His best friend Neil would be following him there.

University life suited Jon, and after graduating his had no wish to give up his intependence to move back to his parents hometown, so he applied for work overseas, and acquired a job in Africa. Saudi Arabia followed from there, then Papua New Guinea, and then Germany. It was in Germany that he met Cora Hemmingway. There romance was long, and sometime strenuous. His parents disliked Cora and her wilder ways, and her parents weren't so keen on Jon's lifestyle. But neither Jon nor Cora heeded them, and married after a three year engagement. Cora did not wish to give up her last name upon their union, and so Jon took her surname as him. His parents disowned him after learning this. It was not until Jon was forty that they had their first child. Issa Janey Hemmingway would be born a New Zealander just like her father considered himself to be. Three years later Olivie Hemmingway was born.

Jon is incredibly intelligent, witty and a true family man. He dotes upon his daughters, and serenades his wife daily. He is still the carefree man of his youth, and constantly yearns for adventure. An open book his family would say; there is nothing deceptive, or sly about this man. He is honest, kind and wishes for nothing more than the happiness of his loved ones. It is to he that Issa and Olivie run when in need to comfort and calm, or just to get away from their mothers sometimes overwhelming personality. He can be a little overbearing at times; a bit of a worry wart when it comes to the safety of his two baby girls. Nevertheless they love him.

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CORA HEMMINGWAY

Cora Hemmingway was born on the first of February in Bad Vilbel, Germany. Her parents met in post-war Germany. Their romance was whirlwind, and it was not long before they were married and Cora's mother pregnant with her. Cora grew up in a very wild, spasmodic, and fantastical household. Her parents were rather well off, and therefore had a rather large house. Cora's mother and father, Johnny and Elfie, held parties and get together with all their wild, artistic friends every week. There were friends, strangers, and acquintances in and out of the house daily. It was always busy, and always fun.

Cora's nanny, Resi, was the one constant in her irratic childhood. She looked up Cora, and was always there for her, especially when her parents couldn't be. Resi was the calming effect on the Hemmingway household; everyone went to her when they needed a little peace, and quiet. Cora attended school, and university nearby not wishing to be far from her family. However that changed when she met Jon. She found herself in awe of his tales of adventure, and travels. It inspired within her a hunger to set out on her own adventures, and leave the house she'd become to depend on. Her parents were not pleased to learn of Cora's plans to leave with Jon. They would miss their daughter terribly.

Needless the say Cora did have adventures of her own, but did often travel back to visit her parents, Resi, and the mad house that became her childhood. At thirty four she began a new adventure, that of parenthood. Cora likes to think she makes a great parent. She is fun loving, spontaneous, and generous with everything including her love. She has made it her mission in life to impart her wild ways on her two daughters, to teach them the magic of life, and of her childhood. Of course finding out her two girls were in fact witches only strengthened her resolve. She is chaos, laughter, love, and light. Always spiriting around the house, leaving disaster behind. Her family would have her no other way.

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OLIVIE HEMMINGWAY

Olivie Hemmingway was born on the twenty seventh of March in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia. She was there only three years before they moved to Indonesia. She has only vague memories of her time there; a young boy who had a pet chicken named Babu; the dusty, dirt roads of the village they lived in; the banana trees out the back of the house; Nenna washing her hair in the kitchen. Olivie does remember her sister Issa recieving her letter from Beauxbaton Academy. She'd had to stand on tip toe to catch a glimpse of the blue ink, as her mother flitted about with the letter in hand. She also remembered being devistated that she wasn't allowed to go. She and Issa had never been seperated before.

Life in France, without her sister there to guide her, and entertain her, was different. She'd made friends with some of the local children that attended her school, and enjoyed spending time with them but it was not the same. Issa was always ready to do anything Olivie wanted but others were not. Often she found herself spending time in the old citadel with a bag load of books, just to waste time, and not think about her sisters absence. It became easier with time, and Olivie grew less resentful of her sister, and her situation. Issa wrote to her often, and always came home over the holidays, making up for her time away. She told Olivie stories of the palace; the vast grounds; the creatures in the lake, and enchanted forest; the house-elves; the ghosts that haunted the corridors; her new friends, and the spells she'd learnt. Olivie kept Issa's letters in her bedside drawer, and her stories in her heart.

Olivie is a story fiend. She loves to read, to be read to, to have stories told to her, and to tell stories herself. She has a wicked imagination, and entertains her mother with dasterdly tales often. Olivie shares her mothers wildness of spirit, and love of all things creative. She is however far less chaotic, and has her fathers calming nature. She is closest with her sister Issa, of whom she loves deeply, and hero worships ever so slightly. Being the youngest in the family, and having very few responsibilities growing up Olivie is probably entirely too carefree, which now she also attends Beauxbaton lands her in trouble. Her loverly manner, and charming personality has endeared her to many though, so often she gets away with it.

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