Derryth Merida Ferrier
Slytherin Quidditch Captain General: Name: Derryth Merida Ferrier
Nicknames: Derry, Snaps, Derry Ferry
DOB: 1/1/2066
POB: Edinburgh
Current Residence: Hilltop Farm, Edinburgh
Blood Status: Half blood
Wand: 11.5 inches, cherry, unicorn hair.
Relationship Status: Cats.
Text Colour: #8DA2FF
Appearance: Hair: Ginger Eyes: Hazel-Green Skin: Pale,
Height: < 5ft7
Other: She’s lanky and awkward, still growing. Pretty much the opposite of graceful, and yet to properly grow into her looks, her eyes are a little too big for her face, not that she helps this by having wide, confused eyes eighty percent of the time.
Model: Karen Gillan
Personality:
Derry has chronic anxiety, and is pretty much nervous 98% of the time. She had a stutter when she was younger that still affects her when she’s in stressful situations. She is an avid reader and would probably prefer to spend time with her nose in a book than with other people (she’s slowly getting over this though.) The majority of Derry’s closest friends are guys, she finds them easier to get along with for some reason. This doesn’t mean she doesn’t get on with girls, it’s just that she’s never really understood half the stuff that girls are supposed to do or anything. In fact, getting along with anyone other than the animals in her farm and her parents has been a big step for her this term since she never bothered to make friends at muggle high school. She was bullied when she was younger, but instead of
damaging her (though it did have a huge effect on her anxiety) it has made her pretty much resilient to most things people can throw at her. It’s when people are nice that her brain goes on override and tries to find what’s wrong with things.
Derry frequently forgets how to act around people and just voices her opinions without regards for other people’s feelings. It’s not that she doesn’t care about people, it’s that she forgets that people can hear her. She does have a line though, she’s able to filter her worst comments out by imagining what would happen to her if she actually said them out loud. Despite being quite a shy person, Derry is incredibly determined and will strive to be good at the things she loves... it’s just sometimes a pity that she doesn’t love her lessons that much.
Favourites: Subjects: HoM, Transfiguration
Colour: Cornflower blue
Flower: Cornflowers and daisies
Food: Shortbread, and strawberry flavoured lollipops
Drink: Lemonade
Place: Sat atop the bale of hay in her stables
Hobby: Flying, reading.
Least Favourites: Subject at school: Divination
Food: Broccoli
Place: Her old maths classroom
Other dislikes: She
hates being in the centre of attention, or pretty much anywhere where people could be looking at her. Except on the Quidditch pitch.
History:
Derry’s mother is a muggle, her father a pureblood. Initially, she was brought up without magic, and when it finally began to show itself her parents were reluctant to send her away to school as they’re very protective. She is their only child, and they consider her a miracle since they were told they would be unable to have children. So her father taught her magic at home and she went to a muggle school two days a week before beginning Hogwarts in her fourth year.
Her family often struggle for money, her mother being a theoretical physicist with rare, sporadic funding and her father staying home to look after their farm and teach Derry. They live on a small farm in the hills, with horses and chickens, and Derry went to a small muggle high school in their town, not too far from Edinburgh.
Her father is a pureblood who was disowned after marrying a muggle, his family said they would have nothing to do with him. When it was decided that Derry would go to Hogwarts so that her father could go back to work - they need the money - her father’s family became interested in her once more, and provided money to buy her uniform and school supplies.
Hogwarts: Fourth Year:
Term 34: September 2080 - June 2081
Derry joined Hogwarts when she was fourteen after three years of homeschooling because her parents could no longer afford to teach her at home and miss valuable work time on the farm. She was
not impressed by the general state of Hogwarts that term, with the lack of good food and the dirty common room and the fact she had to
pay for everything. Her family aren’t exactly rich, so she lived mainly by borrowing money from her friends - which was difficult at first, seeing as she didn’t
have any.
After learning to fly the previous summer and
loving it, Derry decided she might as well try out for the Quidditch team on a whim. She’d never been good at a sport before in her life, spending most of her time on the ground falling over and injuring herself, but she really loved flying so she figured “Why not?” She was really surprised when she actually made the team, and focused
so hard on getting good at Quidditch that she neglected a lot of her studying and received harsh reprimands from her parents and warnings that if she didn’t study harder and get better grades next term then she wouldn’t be allowed to play Quidditch anymore.
On top of Quidditch and failing half her lessons, Derry managed to actually
make friends. Quite a lot of friends. Which was definitely something she hadn’t expected. She even made herself a best friend, an
unlikely best friend. Ascanius Stark. Not that they started off on a good foot, since Derry dislikes pet names and Ascanius insists on calling all girls ‘Gorgeous’ or ‘Beautiful.’ Eventually they got to actually having a conversation that didn’t revolve around her having a go at him for not using her name, and settled into friendship. Don’t be fooled though, when one of them gets annoyed with the other it’s like sibling rivalry amplified a million times.
Fifth Year
Term 35: September 2081 - June 2082 : Slytherin Quidditch Captain In Progress