Characters

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Joseph Howard Dalton



First name: Joseph Howard Dalton
Gender: Male
Date of birth: October 16th (48 years old)

Short Description: A short, stocky, greying man

Physical Description: This diminutive, barrel-chested man stands with slightly hunched shoulders. His short, chestnut brown hair is starting to gain a tinge of smokey grey. A strong chin accentuates his frequently-displayed, inviting smile. His focused, hazel eyes seem to bore into any person he is listening or talking to. A small goatee, resembling an undecided attempt at a beard, wreathes his face.

Personality Description: From years of sitting behind the pub counter he has become a great listener and conversationalist. He is sometimes jocular and sarcastic but can also be a very serious, clearheaded confidant when needed. Generally a kind hearted person, Joseph will show a flash of indifference and an air of cold detatchment towards others' plights from time to time. He doesn't ask many questions but will find himself speaking his mind about things a little too often. He tends to dole out a lot of age-accrued advice as many people come to drink off their problems and spill their secrets to him.


Character History: Joseph was born and raised in Dalton, Lancashire and spent most of his days just playing and enjoying himself with the other children of the area. It was when he was six years old when his magical talent showed through. While playing with some of the other children Joseph broke a window with a particularly errant throw of a ball. As his parents heard the shattered pane fall to the floor Joseph froze, hoping that somehow the glass would be fixed and that everything would be OK. Focusing all his energy and attention on the broken glass, he didn't notice his parents approaching to see the broken window, but as his mother began to scold him she turned and pointed to the formerly broken window and found that it had already been repaired.

Joe was a bit lonely as an only child. He played with the other kids in the town, but all of them seemed to have siblings and he yearned for someone that would always be around for him. He was very excited when he was told by his parents that he would be going off to a school with other kids his age where he would learn to use magic. Sure enough, it wasn't long after he received his Hogwarts letter and headed off to the school that he had made a tight-knit group of friends. Joe seemed to excel in Potions and Transfiguration and found he spent a lot of his free time reading up on different potions and spells he could use to change and mutate things. He would regularly get letters home from his mother telling him everything that was going on and Joe would write back frequently, as he missed his parents often in his early years at Hogwarts. In his fifth year, Joe got news that he would have never expected, when he received the paper for the day there was a small article written about how his father had been arrested by the Ministry of Magic for thefts across Lancashire. Life at Hogwarts became especially hard; he was harassed by other students and labelled 'the son of a thief'. Joe became very angry at his father for doing this to him and his mother and vowed to never speak to him again. His mother had sent him a letter explaining that she would be moving to a different town. He took this very hard since Dalton was all he ever knew. Joe stuck with his group of friends and managed to do pretty well in his OWLs and NEWTs, but upon emerging from school he found that he could not face returning to the town where his family's name was mud. When visiting his mother in Kents Bank she told of him of one of her brothers who ran a pub called The Hanged Man in the village of Little Hangleton who would allow him to live with his family and work at the pub if he liked. Joseph agreed that it would be best and after a tearful goodbye he set off to his new home under the guise of Joseph Dalton; he wanted to remember his old town and did not want to ever be known as that Scoles boy. He enjoyed working at the pub and his uncle Albert's family was very good to him. When Uncle Albert was killed in a duel with one of the other villagers, The Hanged Man was passed onto Joseph and he has run it ever since. Joseph married a young woman from Little Hangleton and she was the love of his life. They had four children; three girls and one boy. Several years later she left him and moved far away as she aspired to go onto bigger and better things but Joe was content with running the Hanged Man. Although this has left him heartbroken and a little bitter he tries to enjoy the family he has as he stays in touch with his ex-wife's family as they had always gotten along pretty well. He has charged his son with watching after his sisters as Joseph is very traditional in that sense.

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Amy Dalton



First name: Amy
Gender: Female
Date of birth: 24/03/1987

Short Description: Tall girl with brown hair.

Physical Description: She has piercing green eyes. Her brown hair falls mid length down her back and is very straight, and always wears it down. She wears a beautiful red corseted dress and a velvet black cloak that is fastened with a silver pin in the shape of a panther. She has fair skin and full red lips.

Personality Description: Amy is a shy quiet girl who enjoys reading. But if she is faced with confrontation, she will very much stand her ground if she belives she is right and can defend herself if she needs to. She is very bright. She has an ambition to open her own bookshop in Hogsmead one day. She is very lonely. She is very interested in subjects such as Herbology, Potions and Transfiguration.


Character History: AMy was born in Little Haggleton in 1987 to Maurice and Florance Dalton. She is an only child, so she has always had to stand up for herself. As a child, Amy was a lively kid with lots of friends. When she was 11, her Father had to go away as he had got into trouble with some travellers that had come to the area. Shortly after her Mother died in a fire caused by people looking for her Father. As Amy had no other family, life was very lonely for her, but when her parents were still around, she had lots of friends and was always running around finding new places to explore with them. But when her parents had gone, she hid herself away, not wanting to get close to anyone., until she met Jacob.


Her father was a very skilled Herbologist, which has rubbed off a little on Amy, and he went exploring in the Rainforests of South America and discovered a plant with very unusual properties. When he came home to AMy and her Mother, some Travellers arrived in the Village. One day, while her Father wasaway they came and burned down there house, as they were after Amy's Father. When he arrived home he found Amy sitting on the side of the road, currled up asleep under a tree. He said that they came to the house looking for the plant. He then took Amy to his close friend Arnold's house, to live with him, his wife and son, and that was the last time Amy ever saw her Father. One day her father will return for her, as he is on the run from criminals that are after him.

Sometimes she visits her Mother's grave with grave, with Arnold's son Jacob, and takes a bunch of Lillies as they were her favourite flowers.

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Amber Gertrude Dalton



Name: Amber Gertrude Dalton
Gender: Female
Birth: May 9th, 18 years old

Short description:
A tall, lithe girl with long, light auburn hair and sparkling green eyes.

Physical description:
Her hair is of a light auburn colour, and falls down to her mid-back, in straight, thick strands. Her eyes are deep green and almond-shaped, surrounded by thick, curly eyelashes, and topped by finely arched brows. Her skin is creamy-white without any hint of freckles or blemishes, and it makes a good contrast with her rosy-pink lips, of medium length and thickness. She is taller than the average woman is, and curvy overall, and when looked up close, her arms and shoulders show firm muscles and slightly tanned skin.

Personality description:
Amber is a very cheerful girl, even scandalous. Though she is not a bad person, she can be quite irresponsible and uncaring of her place as a blooming woman. Thus, she is eager to talk to all kinds of thugs, beggars, dishevelled travellers and any new person entering her father’s pub, regardless of their social condition, and make friends quite easily. Amber is not as bright as Adelle nor devoted as Acacia, and certainly, she has never envied Christopher’s position of responsibility, but her outspoken and cheerful temperament makes up for her almost-clumsy view on life. Where she lacks maturity for herself, though, she compensates by being the best barmaid the town has seen, and thus, bringing new clientele to her father’s business, as well as keeping the existent one. She is a natural with clients, and quite capable of managing the many troubles the serving of alcoholic drinks can cause, as well as quite skilled in dodging the drunken when serving drinks, meals – not cooking them, God forbid, for she is awful to do such things – and anything that comes from the talented hands of Acacia, the expert cook. Additionally, she has quite happily provided entertainment for the clients, in the shape of songs and any kind of stage performance in the past, and she is quite good to carry a tune, but never takes it seriously. Amber has never had ambitions of becoming great herself in any branch of magical science or art, and certainly, she doesn’t miss her time at Hogwarts, in which she didn’t do as good as her siblings, save for Quidditch, which was the only thing that caught her shifty attention.

Overall, Amber is the one who tries to cheer up everyone when something stressful or depressing dampens the spirits, and even goes to clown-like lengths to extract a smile from her father, brother and sisters, especially Acacia, who has always been a mystery for her. Such temperament had made her the perfect waitress to the pub, and her innermost wish is to stay in business for as long as possible.

Character History:
The memory of her mother leaving the house was the hardest and most painful one Amber has had to deal with, and it caused her more pain than she registered consciously. She would never forget the loud arguing on her parents’ bedroom, followed by an angry door-slam, and the strident sound of a large vehicle taking off. So, as a defence mechanism, she has pushed the memory of such a hard time into the back of her mind and, at present time, it doesn’t haunt her but in her dreams (and other subconscious instances - see below). When her mother left, and after feeling completely abandoned and helpless, she decided to ban from her mind all those painful things about life and fill the spot vacated by the motherly figure by any means possible, and so she devoted her life to bring in and preserve the spirit of happiness and normalcy her family lacked. This new stance on life appeased her, as it didn’t require her to dwell on things that might remind her of her suffering, and she took to discover new and exciting activities to share with her sisters and brothers (like playing Quidditch in the backyard or shooing off the grumpy garden gnomes). Amber fixed her mind in extracting all the fun she could in life, even if it was the last thing she did. This subconscious decision of hers became so engraved in her view of life that it ruled every activity she did, and several times she had to be stopped by authority figures from doing something dangerous or simply mischievous, and after a short time of ‘behaving properly’, she’d fall back into the old habits.

When she received her Hogwarts letter (along with Acacia, if they need to be twins), she was obviously thrilled about this new experience. But as soon as she saw all the books she would have to read, and all those parchment rolls she’d have to write on, her spirits ebbed away. Amber devoted her first year at Hogwarts to explore the territory, and once she discovered the Quidditch pitch, she spent a large percentage of her free and not-so-free time gawking at the older students and their uniforms, broomsticks, plays, etc., along with several girlfriends with similar interests. As soon as she passed first year (her only motivation to do it was, in fact, reaching the year in which she’d be able to tryout for her beloved sport), she asked her father – begged, pleaded, supplicated, implored – to buy her a broomstick for Quidditch. Her father was reluctant to do it, seeing as how she was prone to forget her responsibilities in the face of a new adventure, but he finally stroke a deal with her that, as long as she had good grades on all her subjects, and behave properly, she’d be allowed to play Quidditch. She accepted the deal, and with the close vigilance of Christopher and Acacia, managed to get decent grades while doing what she liked the most.

Scraping a few O.W.L.s and even less N.E.W.T.s, she left Hogwarts after making a lot of friends and acquaintances, having had several boyfriends and broken just as many hearts on the way. Her going back home was somewhat unexpected, because one part of her wanted to see the whole wide world, but the other – and stronger – told her that she might lose her father and siblings just as she had with her mother, and should stay with them for as long as she could. To the day, Amber wouldn’t hear a word about her mother’s leaving the house, and the subsequent sadness, and she’d refuse to talk about any depressing or thought-required subject. She doesn’t really understand why she does this, but the truth is that, deep inside, she still feels abandoned, and subconsciously rejects any situation that might bring distress to her and her family, and disrupt the peace of her home.

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Acacia Valda Dalton



Name: Acacia Valda Dalton
Gender: Female
Birth: May 9th (age/18)

Short description:
A short little lady of dark brown hair and green eyes.

Physical Description:
Of all of her siblings Acacia was the only one to look the most like that of her mother. Being a spitting image of dark brown hair, to the point of looking black ,and eyes a mellow color of sea green.
(Remember I'm guessing since the mama ditched w/o a descript,lol)
The only two things she inherited from her father physically are his smile, and height. Reaching an inch shorter then her brother.

Personality Description:
Although dubbed Thorn, Acacia is quite the opposite. She's an enigma around others but a quiet one. She's never loud or outspoken, but soft and lasting. The reference to a willow fits her quite nicely. Feeling a need to "take care of" her older brother, the traits in which he lacks she's learned to make up for. She's loyal and cares deeply for her family and being the oldest daughter tries to fill the role as the lady of the house. She's easy around anybody, yet only those closest to her really can tell what she's feeling or thinking.


Charrie Histories:


Acacia doesn't really remember much of her early child hood. Though she can vaguely remember her mother leaving. But at the time she only being four years of age didn't really understand. What truly effected her was her brother. Growing up she watched as he changed and worrying even at such an age to watch him as he watched over her and her sisters. After a couple of years when able she started to help her father and his helpers in the pub. Though mostly to bring a smile on the workers faces she liked to be around the colorful people that visited. Unfortunately what she really wanted to watch was when her father made his special drinks. It fascinated her to see them as the helpers brought them out to the tables. He never let her near his kitchen which at the age of 7 led her to experiment on her own.

Never once forgetting to watch over her family she developed a knack for cooking, which she used as an excuse for her potion experimenting. Though finding only a few harsh reviews in her cooking she casually took up the job of feeding the family willingly.

This is how her life revolved for sometime up until her brother received his letter from Hogwarts. Once he left for Hogwarts life just wasn't quite the same. She could see it clearly in the faces of her family and try as she might she couldn't take the place of her brother. She made sure to owl him often with letters from them all. Life as it was was fine, or so it was thought till Acacia started to notice the restlessness in her younger sister Adelle. Acacia never once mentioned it, feeling it would spark the flame, and kept a closer eye on her sister. She watched as Adelle left yet knew she would be alright. The girl had inherited from their mother.

The very next year she received her own letter from Hogwarts, much to the relief of her as well as her father. Unlike her brother she hadn't shown any sparks of magic that any of them had noticed. She also was not very excited of leaving her home and family. Remembering her brother would be there with her helped.

Going through her schooling she was never a star student not liking to bring attention to herself. Carefully making a small group of friends she began to warm up in her second year. Showing off her passion for potions among her friends she would make them intricate drinks. Her specialty was Red Dragon. A punch type drink covered in a smoke that changed into the form of a dragon. Once drunk the drink would allow you to breath fake flames. This led to her becoming rather swell in Herbology, as she hunted for the right ingredients for her potions. As her final year of schooling came and went she did well on her N.E.W.T.s exceeding of course in herbology and potions, and getting by in her other subjects.

After leaving school instead of returning home as her family thought she would, Acacia took up with a girlfriend and they went off in search of new ingredients to draw peoples imaginations. After two years and parting with her now happily engaged friend she finally returned home. She couldn't wait to see everyone, and wasn't disappointed. Her father finally let her in on his potion secrets and she in return impressed him with her new ideas and flare. Today she can be found hard at work at the family pub just waiting for a new victim to try her new concoction.

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Adelle Emily Dalton



First name: Adelle Emily Dalton
Gender: Female
DoB: Jan 14, just barely 17 years old

Short description: A hazel eyed, chestnut haired young woman

Physical Description: A thoughtful, chestnut haired young woman stands here. Although average height and slender build, her wide shoulders and well-defined muscles suggest active tendencies. Her appearance is enhanced by sharp hazel eyes and a constant habit of biting her lower lip. Her dark hair is streaked by plum colouring and is cut at a youthful length slightly above her shoulders. She carries her back straight and her shoulders down, and looks around often.

Personality description: Being the youngest of the Dalton children, Adelle was slightly spoiled by her father over the years. A young rebel and with a talkative air, this allowed her to grow into her own self as she grew up. She sharpened her memory and social abilities through her older sisters and the regulars at the bar, but became very independant of her family except her brother. She dreams of bigger and better, much as her mother once did, but is prone to changing her mind and staying home because she was raised around her father's strong will and honor.

Character history: Adelle took after both of her parents in personality qualities, but followed her brother on principles and learning. Adelle was born premature by two months and only barely made it alive. Ever since then, her older brother, Christopher, has been keeping an eye out for her. Being a very young child when her mother left, she does not remember anything about her. Because of this, she looked to her older brother for many life lessons. When he was six and preformed his first act of magic, Adelle can remember wanting desperately to do the same. When he went off to school (Adelle was only 8, because of their close birthdays), Adelle began to resent her father and older sisters. She felt that he should have fought to keep her mother and that her sisters should be staying home like her instead of going off to school like her brother was.

When she was eleven years old, Adelle ran away for three months, staying with a close friend in the Reynell family and pretending that her father had forced her out. Despite her father's pleading for her return and his desperation to fix whatever wrong Adelle had thought he had commited, she refused. Her return only occured when her brother- now 14 and to her, the wisest and oldest person in the world- appeared at the Reynell summer house where she was staying with her Hogwarts letter and wise words about why her mother had left. Adelle finally realized that it wasn't her father and sisters who she was angry with, but her mother who had deserted her. She went home with her brother, Christopher, and was welcomed by her father with grateful arms.

At Hogwarts, Adelle did better than the other Dalton children in most subjects. Being a leader in their math and other muggle lessons as a younger child, Adelle was very good in potions, transfiguration, charms, arithmancy, history and other subjects that required a sharp mind. She failed her OWLs, however, in Care of Magical Creatures- she never did like strange chirping animals- and her additional elective of muggle studies. Being raised very mugglish, but with the knowledge of greater powers had made Adelle prone to a lack of interest in all muggle affairs and interests- despite the fact that many of them were her own.

Her NEWT scores, in her selected classes, were very high and Adelle was soon accepted to several post-Hogwarts schooling for important and difficult jobs. However, Adelle followed her brother home to Little Hangleton and told all interested employers that she would be taking a short time away from responsibilities in a search for her 'inner being'. When she became face to face with Christopher, she admitted that she truthfully wanted to find her mother. Her older brother told her it wasn't a very smart idea, but she persisted. Now just barely of age, Adelle is not sure what she is going to do. But she is content to stay with her family in Little Hangleton for a short time in need be.

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Christopher William Dalton



First name: Christopher William Dalton
Gender: Male
Date of birth: February 5th (19 Years old)

Short Description: A short, dark-haired, hazel-eyed man

Physical Description:
Much like his father, Christopher has acquired hazel eyes and the brilliant chestnut hair. He stands without his father’s hunched shoulders, however, and his chest is flat, no sign of muscle or bone. His chin is as strong as his father’s and he have gained his unnaturally strong urge to smile, showing off his brilliantly white teeth.

Personality Description:
Christopher is often remarked as a dying breed of the typical English gentleman. As a youngster, before his mother’s departure, he was taught to be polite, well mannered and never rude, to avoid a similar fate that poor Great Uncle Albert forced himself into. Throughout the years of secretly watching his dad talk to ‘punters’ in The Hanged Man, he learned how to become a great listener, though his wavering confidence amongst larger crowds or strangers made it difficult for him to become a conversationalist like his dad.

Character History:
Christopher was born unto his family as the only boy. The eldest of the four children, Christopher was old enough to remember a fateful night that etched itself into his memory, forever. At a young, fragile age of five he overheard his parents arguing, and eventually a door slamming. He peered his gentle eyes over the windowsill and peered down to watch his mother disappear into a big purple bus and leave his life. His father was distraught, and had only him and his sisters to keep him company through the years. It was then when Christopher made a silent vow.

His talents as a wizard began to show a year later when one sunny morning his father took him and his sisters to the park and play cricket with several other families. His nervousness kicked in as soon as they arrived and he ached to go home, but remained silent. Given a bat and thrown onto the pitch, Christopher watched with wobbly knees as the hard red ball bounced towards him. Shutting his eyes and swinging wildly, he wished the ball to go away. As soon as his bat struck the ball, it had exploded into millions of pieces. The other children were amazed, but as soon as his father saw it all, he grabbed little Christopher by the collar and quickly dragged him out of the park. He had never seen his dad so overjoyed in his life, although the child was still unaware of what had happened.

His dad was even more thrilled when Christopher received a letter to attend Hogwarts’ School. While everything seemed to happen so quickly, Christopher could clearly remember the first time he entered Diagon Alley. It was, in his own words, fantastic. Picking up his wand, robes, money and whatnot, he became the envy of the house by his younger sisters. After a brave goodbye and a bumpy train ride, Christopher stepped into the halls of Hogwarts.

Christopher quickly became an adept in charms and transfiguration, while subjects like Potions bored the snot out of him. He was usually quiet, but had several friends amongst houses. Quidditch was no bother to him, and he generally stuck out of fads that seemed to come and go (for instance, the collectable cards of famous watches and the amazing magic monkey magazine). He passed all OWLS and managed to scrape all passes in NEWTS too, but while his friends all aspired to be Healers and Quidditch players, Christopher returned to Little Hangleton. He made a silent vow one fateful night, to look after his father until his dying day. And nothing in the suprising and unknown earth can break that.