CADWALLADER, anna

[Anna Cadwallader]

anna ophelia cadwallader,
what are you fighting for?


I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone

name: Anna Ophelia Cadwallader
age/graduating year: 27, graduated 2017
former house: Hufflepuff
alliance: Wands and Wheat
wand: Eleven and a half inch Beech wood with unicorn tail hair, springy.
occupation: Currently unemployed, spending what little money she has left.
patronus: a kangaroo
boggart: herself, a frail, aged old lady.
striking features:

‘Striking’ is a pretty strong word to describe any of Anna’s features, but she is generally a well put together girl, her clothes extremely girly. She is of average height and weight, she’s had her ups down downs with weight as she was growing up, but her body seems to have settled to its own and her weight hasn’t changed for a very long time. Her haircut has been the same ever since she had enough hair on her head to pull it off, dark, long with bangs. It is often either left to loosely fall to her shoulders or she keeps it in a messy bun depending of the situation. Arguably the most striking thing about her are her large, bright blue eyes which she had inherited from her father; whose eyes apparently had charmed many of the girls in Hogwarts his way.

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personality & history:

Anna Ophelia Cadwallader is living proof that first impressions don’t count for shit. As noted, Anna appears to be a very normal girl, a young woman who appears to look after herself by ensuring florals take up at least 60% of her wardrobe. The combination of her soft features and the way she carries herself with a certain element of humility often gives people the wrong impression about her. They have no idea that Anna is an unemployed, risk taking, cuss-loving, gambling adrenaline junkie who caused her own business (which she built had very substantially over five years) to crumble in a week.

Raised in a loving home with her parents and her younger brother, Anna’s childhood was something she never took for granted, Anna’s parents had always been rather liberal (her father more so than her mother) and were fully supportive of their children learning from their own mistakes and not restricting them by binding house rules. Instead of this, their parents often told them of little ‘stories’ that had happened to them through their childhood, which served as the moral fibre supplementing Anna and her brother. Anna’s favourite ‘moral story’ was a one about overcoming adversity, and not relying on outward appearance – the story of boy meets girl, the story of how her mother and father got together. Millicent Bullstrode, the angry Slytherin giant of a girl who had a reputation of being a bully and sucking up to authorities such as Umbridge and Sean Cadwallader, the handsome blue eyed Hufflepuff chaser. To cut a long story short, it was a coincidental meeting over the pumpkin patch in Millicent’s sixth year that had the two in fate’s spell, causing them slowly but surely, to change their own perceptions about people – eventually falling in love. Until she was about 7 years old, Anna was never content unless she was told the extended version of this story at least once a week.

Hogwarts was certainly a happy time for Anna, being sorted into the former house of her father and making many friends. Her character was never concrete though, Anna was a completely different person entering Hogwarts from when she finally left after completing her N.E.W.Ts. A huge part of this character building experience was due to something that happened outside school between her fourth and fifth years in the summer holidays. Anna was walking back home around a muggle street in Liverpool (the city where the Cadwalladlers permanently resided) at around 11pm, seeing as it was only at that time that Anna has realised that she had dropped her wand whilst she was shopping earlier that day. Not wanting to tell her parents that she did something so stupid as drop her wand, she went to look for it by herself. It was in a secluded part of the street where she suddenly felt somebody grab her by the arm and hold a knife to her neck, telling her to give him all of the money she had. Seeing as Anna was only out to collect something, she pleadingly explained that she had nothing on her – her eyes shut tightly as she expected nothing short of the white light at the end of the tunnel to appear at that split second. Instead she heard a zapping noise, the clenched arm around her had been released, her assailant slumped on the floor, hit with a stun gun belonging to a muggle police man who was walking towards her, ensuring that she had not been hurt.

It was events like these that significantly shape a character, in Anna’s case – the rush she experienced after coming so close to death was surprisingly something that she would quite happily try again. Two days after the event occurred she went bungee jumping for the first time, and shortly started to sign up to every extreme sport she could think of – she had become addicted to that adrenaline ‘high’- she became an adrenaline junkie. It was this addiction that caused her to slowly take risks in every other element in life, she took a gamble in everything, who she dated, going into exams without revision, lying to authority, and even taking part in real gambling from time to time. She somehow managed to just pass her N.E.W.Ts and was limited in job options in something she really wanted to do, she flitted from job to job, eventually gathering enough money to pool it all and start a small business. It was a business of making and selling synthetic protective gloves for potions that did not involve using dragon scales. It was probably her best risk to date; pooling all of her money to a business she was told time and time again would be a failure; seeing as within the first year, she made seven times the amount of money she did drifting between jobs for three years of her life. Her business grew, but Anna did not feel like it was enough; she decided to try and include in the making process a potion which could (in theory) cause a person’s arm to stretch out so they could grab far off ingredients. This was when her business collapsed, when she spoilt all of the gloves she had made using this potion which ended up being the cause of severe allergic reactions rather than a useful charm. The business was halted, and Anna was, yet again, unemployed. Her name (in her ‘humility’) was never associated with the business in the first place, so even the small press this collapse gained was never really connected to her name.

In her naivety, Anna still believes to this day that things will work out, and that one day she will get her business back. Now she is currently not looking for a job but ‘enjoying her life’, as she would put it, going paragliding every Thursday, ice climbing on a Wednesday – filling up her schedule with risk taking activities. Anna was always more of an optimist than a pessimist, she honestly appears to believe that – much like the policeman that saved her bacon when she was fourteen, that there would always be a cushion for her to land on. This naiveté has lead her to be overly trusting, causing her to be an extremely gullible person indeed – her track record of the boys she has dated has confirmed this. Though it would be quite difficult to frighten somebody like Anna by sneaking up behind her, seeing as she is so in touch with the feeling of fear she has somehow become immune to simple things such as loud noises. Part of this immunity causes her to be a little lax when it comes to making sure she does not make a fool out of herself, she enjoys getting up and singing in the Three Broomsticks on a Friday night. Like the typical Hufflepuff, she actually is a very sympathetic and caring individual, doing anything she can to support if friends if necessary; she has a certain simplistic charm which proved very useful when arranging deals in business.

Anna’s parents had adopted an approach of becoming rather when the war came around – as if there was still something preventing them from falling onto one side of the fence. Their allegiance would probably lie (somewhat reluctantly for Millicent) with the old radicals, more than anything, seeing as collectively they were a halfblood family – but for Millicent to be able to show her face to Hermione Granger in that way was almost insulting to her. So Anna was never really pushed into a certain political direction by her parents, so her alliance was with Wands and Wheat, feeling it conformed the most to what she believed in.



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anything else: she has a pet snake called ‘Hugh’ which she sometimes takes with her when she goes out.

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