Application: Kiera Kim

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Your Name: Kiera "Ahyoung" Kim
House & Year: Gryffindor & Year 6 
Blood Status: Half-Blood
Classes: Astronomy, Transfiguration, Defense Against The Dark Arts, History Of Magic, Potions, Alchemy, Care of Magical Creatures
Extra-Curricular: Quidditch (Chaser) & Hogwarts Orchestra (Viola)
What are three moments in your childhood life you feel have shaped you?:
The first would have to be when my mother told me I was a wizard… For the second time. You see, the first time I was told, I was four and that was a mistake I guess. At the age of four you're still wondering where daddy’s favorite watch goes when you flush it down the toilet.

Anyway I was eight and my brother was thirteen and from what I can’t remember I as far more understanding than he was. I remember a lamp and a chair being broken by day’s end. I guess he may have been upset because he was told so late in life. Maybe it was teenage angst. I don’t know I never asked about it because I didn’t want to upset him by bringing it up again.

So I mean this definitely changed me. Finding out that you were more or not what you thought you were, at the time when you’re figuring out who you are as a person and what you’re supposed to do… It’s a big deal isn’t it?

The second would be my parents splitting. I really wanted to blame brother for it. He made it so hard for our family, acting out and then running away. He didn’t want to be half-blood; he didn’t want to go to Hogwarts ir any school for that matter. My parents excuse was they fell out of love, but for it all to fall apart as soon as he leaves? I still wanted to blame him. I still did blame him.

In the end my father remained in my home country Korea while my mother moved to London to stay with ‘family’. I’m not even sure if they were actually family or not. They were all pure bloods like my mother, and well, despite what I was, my mother said I was also a pure blood. I guess being a half blood was a shameful thing, but being raised in a muggle society, where I was supposed to act as such, it never occurred to me what I was hiding was something that I should be ashamed of.

Well it was important to me, that part of my life that at the age of 13, because it was the first time I ever was able to truly see how wizards lived. It was a surprise to see how something that was a tragedy, ended up to be a bit of blessing instead.

I’m guessing the third would be expected to be entering Hogwarts or something that happened in my first year (or even getting through my first year), but I think what helped shape me even more than that, was receiving my wand. When I got it, or rather when it ‘chose’ me, it was the first time I was able to make magic on my own. Sure I didn’t know any spells yet, but just holding it in my hand and feeling the power was really amazing to me.

I guess what I was, felt real for the first time. I mean your wand is kind of like your lifelong companion as a wizard right? It’s like the main source of your magic. There’s just times when I pick up my wand and think about the first time that I held it. I would say even though those other things were big things that shaped me, I think getting my wand takes the cake.

What are three personality traits you feel help define you and why?:
I’ve been told I tend to get too serious when it comes to work, but I think first of all that’s a lie; I don’t get too serious, and also that it come from how I was raised. My mother was originally in Ravenclaw and my father was at the top of his class even in university. School was always important, so when it comes to homework I tend to buckle down and get serious about it… Ok maybe I do get too serious about work, but it’s what makes good grades right?

I can be brutally honest about a lot of things. My mother says it’s my worst habit, but I don’t believe it’s so bad I think it makes me trustworthy. Would you rather have someone lie to you or someone to tell you the truth? It’s a no brainer really, because if someone lies to you and tell you what they think you want to hear it’ll hurt in the long run. Even if I am a little too harsh sometimes, it’s better to be honest than to sugarcoat it. Sugarcoating I see are also white lies, and well a lie is a lie no matter how you swing it.  

I feel like I sound too much like a mean and/or cold person, but really if you’re friends with me, it’s easy to tell I’m not. I’m honestly more open than I seem on the surface. Granted, I’m not the first person to bake you a cake on your birthday but I will remember it. I’m not going to take you out for ice cream when I think you’re having a bad day, but I’ll listen and maybe give you a chocolate frog (you can’t eat those and not be happy), and I’m always willing to help a friend if they ask for it, except I probably won’t be so quick to give you a kidney… Did I mention that I like to make my friends laugh too? I’m a friendly person; I’m just not likely to show it to strangers.

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I very open to filling most lines and such, but specific to my needs I would like:

1. Her best friend: Someone who understands her despite what may be assumed about her. The one she was there for, and who’s there for her, who she can talk to about everything and knows her secrets. They most likely met as first years. May or may not be in the same house, but bonus points if they are.

2. The Rival: The two started off as rivals in the academic area but it’s pretty much spread into everywhere else as well. They’re always trying to be better than the other, get more points and praise as well. It’s been that way since as long as either could remember. Must be in different houses.

3. ‘Family’: Whether they’re actually related (through her mother’s side), or if they were the pure bloods who she was to think of as ‘family’ when she lived with them after her parents split, they have known her since she was thirteen. If she has no one else to go to she goes to them, or she has a bit of a sibling rivalry with them. Either or, if she thinks of family in Hogwarts, they’re that person.

I can be contacted through Aim or PM but PM is probably best.