HENLEY, Josephine

[Josie Henley]

josephine isobel henley,
what are you fighting for?



i'm back in liverpool and everything feels the same
but i worked something out last night that changed this little boy's brain
a small piece of advice twenty two years in the make,
and i will break it for you now, please learn from my mistakes

name: Josephine Isobel Henley, but nobody's ever really called her Josephine except her stuffy old grandmother. It's Josie to everyone, and whatever her siblings come up with for her to her siblings.
age/graduating year: 21 / 2023 (Hogwarts) 2027 (National University of Wizardry, California)
former house: Hufflepuff
alliance: Wands & Wheat, though sympathizes with Revolution
wand: Rowan & Unicorn Hair, 12", Bendy.
occupation: Unemployed; recently left her job with the LA Phoenix, the Wizarding Newspaper for LA.
patronus: Blue heron.
boggart: Her father.
striking features: Grey-green eyes, cropped blonde hair and her erratic style of dress are her most striking physical features beyond her flamboyant mode of speech, which marks her as a native of California.

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personality & history:

About three months after she was born, her parents divorced. She grew up in California with her father and older brother, Shawn, while her mother took the middle siblings away to the East Coast. She only saw Sammy and Kyle on holidays and for a week during the summer, so she never knew them very well, but still loved them and enjoyed the time she spent with them. For awhile, she entertained the notion of going to live with her mother, because she didn't want to become estranged from them, but decided against it.

When she was thirteen, her father died. By this point in time, Jasmine Henley had relocated her children to England, so she moved to England and lived there with her mother, Kyle, and Sammy until she graduated Hogwarts, at which point in time all three siblings returned to LA to deal with the death of their mother and also so Josie could study at the NUWC, which she aspired to do since she was a small child. She graduated earlier this year with a degree in Containment and Control of Magical Creatures.

While they were in California, the Henley siblings became something of household names in the wizarding community, with Samantha's book, Kyle on the Quidditch team, and Josie's loudspoken work in magical animal rights, which the public found quirky and endearing. When they heard about the war in England, they used it as an escape route and moved back to Hogsmeade to help deal with the war.

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anything else: She has a hamster named Goliath, who is actually the fourth hamster she's had by this name as she believes in hamster reincarnation. This one is a female and she frequently refers to it as Mark Four or sometimes Golly. Goliath IV isn't as intelligent as her predecessors, who often preformed owl-like duties for Josie in her Hogwarts Years, but she loves her anyway.

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