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FULL NAME: Lindsay Greer MacDougal
NICKNAMES: Linds, crazy-list-making-girl
DATE OF BIRTH/AGE: December 5
BLOODLINE: Pureblood (though her father's identity is unknown to her she does know he is pureblooded)
SEXUALITY: heterosexual
LOCATION: Aberdeen, Scotland



Appearance.
Anyone plain can be lovely.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Lindsay isn’t the kind of girl that boys fall all over, she’s the first to tell you that. Her blonde hair and hazel eyes are fairly typical in the MacDougal family(aside from her aunt Morag). She keeps her hair shoulder length to keep it out of her way but doesn’t generally take great pains with it. When she’s particularly rushed she pulls it back into two spiky pigtails. She doesn’t see herself as particularly attractive so she doesn’t really work hard to get attention.

She favours bold colours and a rather vintage style when not in her school uniform sticking mostly with blouses and mid-length skirts. She avoids high heels whenever possible. Rarely wears robes unless forced to by someone else. Not because she has particular issues with them but she feels they make her look even dumpier than usual.

She wears a charmed charm bracelet all the time that acts as a kind of pager. Charms flash based on the study/activities schedule which she sets at the start of each year with different charms representing different classes and activities and it heats up if she needs to get there right away.

She talks fast and walks fast. It isn’t unusual for someone to ask her to slow down because she’s talking so fast you literally can’t understand half of what she says. She’s quick to smile and she has one of those wide grins that just can’t be faked.


PB: Allison Mack

School.
I like margins and discipline

HOUSE: Hufflepuff
YEAR: 7th
CLASSES: Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Ancient Runes, Artithmancy and History of Magic
OWL RESULTS: Charms (EE), Defense Against Dark Arts (A), Herbology (EE), History of Magic (EE), Muggle Studies (O), Potions (O), Transfiguration (EE), Astronomy (EE), Ancient Runes (EE), Arithmancy (O)
BEST SUBJECT: Potions
WORST SUBJECT: Charms
ACTIVITIES/CLUBS: Social Committee, Charms Club, Yearbook
PREVIOUS QUIDDITCH POSITION: N/A

HEADS/PREFECTS: 7th Year Hufflepuff Prefect. Lindsay is actually a good choice to be prefect. She's well organized and hard working, she does very well in her classes, she's very responsible but she's also approachable and good with people. She wouldn't be a bad choice for Head Girl because she is willing be the bad guy if she needs to be, conversely she's also willing to go to bat for the students should the need arise.
QUIDDITCH CAPTAINS: N/A

Personality.
I make lists in my sleep.

First and foremost Lindsay is a people pleaser (a people pleaser with a sometimes less than stellar attitude but one nonetheless). Nothing makes her happier than making other people happy. It’s one of the things that makes her a fair prefect though it also can lead to a great deal of frustration when she can’t make everyone happy.

If you need someone to run your life, Lindsay is the girl for it. She has a near perfect memory for anything she hears and is organized to a fault. If you look at the planner that she keeps for school every aspect of her life is written out and often color coded. She has a system which probably wouldn’t work for everyone but she’s refined to perfection for herself. It’s unlikely though that anyone could step into her shoes for even a day without Lindsay there to tell them just exactly what each code and colour actually means.

Her desire to micromanage the lives of people she cares about has often lead to situations that were far from ideal. She seems to feel that she should play matchmaker whenever possible and her friends have probably all fallen prey to her desire to make them happy. As organized as she is in her school life, in her personal life Lindsay is something of a slob. Not dirty by any stretch of the imagination, but messy. She leaves things where they shouldn’t be. And loses things regularly.

She likes a good joke and is especially fond of people who are capable of manipulating language to their benefit. She loves clever people and snarky people but has a very short fuse when it comes to people who are smart arses just to be mean. She generally has a short fuse when it comes to mean people, period. There have been a couple of instances where she (all five feet three inches of her) stood up to people much larger than herself because they were being verbally abusive to classmates who were less willing to stand up for themselves.

She has a sharp tongue which she wields quite effectively when necessary. Though she is aware of her responsibility and tries to keep it reigned in most of the time.

She’s good at covering it up but Lindsay doesn’t really see herself to be all that smart. She isn’t brilliant like the Ravenclaws by any stretch of the imagination. As far as she can tell the only thing she’s really good at is remembering minute details that most people overlook but that doesn’t really make her all that smart in her estimation.

Strengths: organized, hardworking, quick sense of humor, an ability to separate her work life from the rest of her life, good at covering up her insecurities

Weaknesses: easily exasperated with people who aren’t as organized as she is, doesn’t actually have a lot of self-confidence

Likes: sticky notes, highlighters, colored ink, color coding in general, office supplies in general, bright colors (especially green and yellow)

Dislikes: high heels, prejudice, getting caught behind someone who is walking slowly

Biography.
Looking back at the faces I’ve been I’d sure be the first one to say that when I look at myself today I wouldn’t of done it any other way
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HISTORY::Kat MacDougal was always the blacksheep of her family. She was the lone blonde with two dark sisters and the lone Gryffindor in a family full of Ravenclaws. She didn't have the kind of drive that sent her sisters into careers and was completely content working for Madame Malkin. She enjoyed having a good time and went out most nights. It was on one of those nights that she went home with another young pureblood. When she realized she was pregnant she contacted the young man. He wasn't interested in the responsibility of having a child though he did purchase a flat for Kat and help her start her own robe making business. He did all of this only with the promise that Kat never tell their child who he was. Kat was willing to make this sacrifice knowing that it was the best chance that her child would have.

Even from a young age she took control of situations. Some might blame the fact that she was left to fend for herself once she was able to. Regardless of the reasons behind it she started organizing things among her peers when she was very young. It didn’t matter if it was games of statues or playing Hogwarts or any number of other imaginary games it was usually Lindsay who set the framework and it was usually Lindsay who enforced the rules. Though it does have to say that most of the kids went along because she was rarely bossy, just supremely organized even as a six-year-old.

There were no surprises when Lindsay received her Hogwarts letter and even fewer when she was placed in Hufflepuff. Lindsay liked school even though her classes were sometimes a struggle for her. She knew that she wasn’t the smartest girl in her year by a long shot but she worked extremely hard to stay near the top with her marks.

This doesn’t mean that all she does is study. She’s still a frequent plotter for practical jokes and spent many evenings in the Hufflepuff common room playing exploding Snap or chess. She has never seen letting herself have a little bit of fun as being in opposition to her duties as a prefect and nothing she has ever done has been truly mean spirited. Lindsay is by nature a rather social creature though not always the best at approaching people or reaching out for friendship. She tends to instead be the kind who wait on the sidelines until accepted. But once she’s accepted she’s just as likely to take charge as someone who is more generally outgoing.

She takes part in many activities partly because she genuinely enjoys them and partly because it gives her something to do. Something to plan. A reason to feel useful. And in a lot of ways that’s the most important thing for Lindsay, she needs to feel useful.

Her friends came from all houses and all years. She’d never been one to discriminate when it came to sorting or any other seemingly arbitrary thing. She liked to judge people by how they treated their classmates (especially those who weren’t quite so popular).

Sometimes she wonders if any of her classmates are related to her and it has made for some awkward situations in the past. Some boys might have even thought she was a bit of a snob because she refused to date any boys she knew had a pureblooded father. She kind of lived in terror of accidentally dating her half-brother. She asked her mother the summer before her sixth year if she would tell her the name of her father just so she wouldn’t accidentally snog her brother (as her life was not a Greek tragedy) and Kat refused though Lindsay is nearly at the point where she’s going to start looking for herself.