HISTORY
The life of the Spinnet siblings is a tricky one to understand. Alfred and Patina was were both Quidditch players for England and Italy respectively. They met during a World Cup gala that quickly spiraled into a celebrity wedding before the World Cup in Hong Kong had finished and Patina moving to the UK to play for the Catapults while Alfred stayed with the Kestrals. Within a few years, the pair had their first two children and Patina had moved from player to brand spokesman and marketing for the new Nimbus lines that would slowly make their way into the new quidditch scene. It was on a business trip to Australia for an off-season match between Wollongong and Ballycastle she attended to promote the new brooms and a new keepers glove in development that she had a romantic weekend with one of the players on the team. Thinking nothing of it when she was pregnant months later, as she and Alfred were still active, Patina assumed it was her husband’s and thus, a pureblood. And while they never cared for their status, it was something that was noted as tensions in the magical community continued to rise.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The Spinnets were a well-off family, though not right like old blood. With two quidditch-based parents, it was easy to pull in money to offset their five children. Because of this, their childhoods were spent with their families in the West Midlands or traveling to see family in Italy outside of Tuscany. Their family was not overtly religious, which was a bit of a shock from both sides of the family, though also understandable with the Anglican and Catholic divide they would have faced. Instead, the family was raised with Alfred’s mother as a tutor and nanny while her parents worked. And in Italy, Patina’s mother did the same.
As the middle child, it was clear that Alicia would be trying for attention. She was not the oldest, nor the smartest, and she was quick to not be the youngest or the shiest. Thus, her loud and almost demanding personality took hold. She was competitive, bold, and needed to be the center of attention. It was hardly a surprise, in fact, that she was a Gryffindor when she was finally sorted. What was a surprise was how well she fit in with the louder, more abrasive people of her house. Specifically, one charming girl named Angelina. Angie would quickly become Alicia’s best mate and she spent most of her holidays explaining to people this until her third year.
Her second year she made the reserves team for Gryffindor, which had been minorly heartbreaking for her, Still, she was told later on it was that she was still far too green of a player, only having been on a broom in Italy during summer holidays thanks to the ability to conceal their playing. The next year, she would be moved to the full team alongside her best mate and her accuracy would put her as the main penalty shot-taker for the team until she graduated from Hogwarts four years later. Third year was also the time when things changed drastically for her with the introduction of Harry the troublemaker and his mates.
Where there is unity there is victory.
In school, she was a loud and acted as a force of nature. She was smaller than most still, but she had a habit of picking fights blindly. She also stood up to her own friends on the regular, including Oliver when he was determined to play despite the safety risk of the rogue bludger aiming for Harry. She took part in the Dueling Club at the prospect of keeping herself safe and immediately realized it was more fun to go for the ability to ogle the professor rather than learn anything of use. And much like when she yelled at the Slytherin team for calling Hermione a Mudblood, she spent a lot of time telling people off for blaming Harry without proof.
The only time she thought about giving up quidditch was when her best mate became overly obsessive with the need to win and pushed them harder than before over a cup that was not anywhere near as important as finals. She was annoyed with the complete lack of regard for his safety (again) and told him so. Still, in the end, she was able to be there for Gryffindors winning the cup and the dementors leaving the school. She had not been old enough to take part in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, but had encouraged Angelina to do so, excitedly. She, like many of the students, was not pleased with Harry being a champion, but stood by his side as he was still a teammate, even with no season. The death of Cedric, however, was a shock.
Her final year at Hogwarts sparked a small, idealistic stage in her life when she thought she could do anything. She was a rebel with a cause, she was fighting those who were putting them down and stopping education. It was also the first time that she had realized that was not always possible. It was the first slap to her idealistic dreams. And upon completing her time at the school and starting her drafted season on the junior team for the Tornadoes, she did a lot of licking her wounds as a result.
Quidditch and the post school life was a whirlwind. With her family, she was safe from most speculation and was able to keep her head down. With the outbreak of war starting, Alicia found herself wanting to stay away from it, having learned her lesson. And knowing it would be worse to meddle now than it was then. She had her life. She had her freedom. And both could be taken away easily with the wrong move. That did not stop the woman from joining Angelina at the Battle of Hogwarts. She would follow that crazy woman anywhere, it seemed, even to their own doom. And it had a horrible result as a backlash.
While not detained, Alicia spent three months on probation from her team as a possible war criminal. She was questioned over and over before finally being released to the world. As childish rebellion in school was not a capital offense to the new government, the small idealistic battle was treated with a proverbial slap on the wrist and a “don’t do it again.” And she took that to heart, for the government was not the only group watching. Her popularity took a hit in the following months and she was treated like a dangerous substance until she came out, as a pureblood, as for the new establishment and for the reconstruction of the world. It sparked a lot of arguments between her friends, but at the end of the day people understood. She needed to protect herself.
From there, she started to feel the comforts of making that claim. She was the center of attention for a while, landing multiple partnerships, spreads in magazines, and praise. Her jersey became highly sold and she was the front spread for the calendar, as well. Alicia finally was getting the attention she always wanted, and it was nice. The blood registry was able to track her lineage clearly to show her purity on her mother and father’s side, and there was no question at that moment that she was able to ride the world as the pureblood queen of quidditch. But every reign ends.
Enter Casey Summers, a handsome and slightly roguish auror who was slowly losing his belief in the system he loved. Alicia with a god complex was drawn to him, and the fact that he had a stable government job meant she was perfectly fine with dating him, despite the shock of it all when it became known. The real shock was that she found she was pregnant three months into the relationship. At which point, Alicia began to step forward with far too much interest in how their world would fit in together. There was a lot of arguing, a lot of yelling, and far too much assumption on her end. After three months of trying to make it work post-pregnancy news, the pair split and the vicious victim game started. Casey was treated like the brute and mean boyfriend who cared less for his pregnant girlfriend than his buddies. She was at home, crying into her pillows. The custody battle went until a few weeks before Alex was born when the courts ruled in favor of Casey getting full custody.
And the blood test on Alex to determine parentage for the new tracking system showed there was something wrong with their parents documentation. There was not enough genes for Alex to have been born of a pureblood and a halfblood. Alicia, who had been raised to think she was a pureblood was wrong. And it rocked her to the core. Her mother’s affair with the Australian quidditch player rocked their world, Alicia was descended upon by their oldest sibling in an over-the-top argument that ended in her being told she was hated and should just go die. Something Alicia has not gotten over in her shame. Since the news, the woman moved to one of the premiere Diagon lodgings, as she is not permitted to live in New Diagon any longer and has gone in pursuit of finding a pureblood partner who is willing to take her future back to pure status after the turn of events. She goes about this without the comfort of her best mate, Angelina, as she attempted to sleep with Casey’s best mate multiple times in recompense for this disaster. That mate being Angelina’s ex-husband.
Alicia Spinnet
Hear me roar
NAME Alicia Marie Spinnet
HEIGHT 5'06"
HOMETOWN Northumberland
