Elizabeth Doren

Elizabeth Doren
Gender: Female
Height: Above Average

Blood status: Halfblood
Raised in: Wizarding
Home: Ashbound -- Doren Estate

Boggart: ?

Patronus: Unknown
Though she is the oldest and has had the most time around non-Doren kids, Elizabeth hates that other kids still look at her like an oddball, like she’s different. She is, of course, rather sheltered so she does do some rather strange things. She’s very competitive, more so she can figure out things for herself and see what she’s good at. Elizabeth thinks she has to be better than her siblings in everything, or at the very least do it first. Seeing other big sister relationships is a little weird to her, usually because they seem protective and Elizabeth is very much not overly concerned with what her siblings do.

Elizabeth copies who she’s around so she can be very different with others. Her goal in life is to figure out what she’s really like and figure out what she actually wants to do. She struggles with the influence of her parents and also knowing that, at times, they want her brother and Charlotte to somewhat look up to her. Elizabeth is starting to have some doubts about her parents, but for the most part she trusts their influence. She’s mildly worried that she doesn’t really know what she wants to do in life, but she’s got the grades that will let her have some choice.

Elizabeth is most interested in Charms and Transfiguration; she wants to create a new spell one day, but she isn’t sure how to do that. She knows she has to be successful in life or risk disappointing her parents, but she also enjoys having friends and isn’t sure how to deal with that and with having to ask her parents for almost everything. She can seem, at times, overeager to understand her peers and is more likely to have a few close friends than any actual friends.
The firstborn girl and oldest of the Dorens, Elizabeth learned with tutors and some input from her parents. Elizabeth's voice was always the most vocal, even speaking over the tears of her younger siblings when they were babies if she had to. If there was crying in another room, it was nothing for Elizabeth to pay attention to, and she would answer her tutor's questions. There were house elves that would tend to it too quickly for it to become a bother.

She was quite young when her first forms of magic appeared, about four years old, and her parents were sure to let her know that magic and going to Hogwarts was a privilege she would earn, just like her birthday presents or candy. Elizabeth always wanted to know what an acid pop tasted like, but never got the chance. Her parents always decided that it would be too dangerous, or they would give her another excuse.

Elizabeth's games were educational if there were any at all. There was no need for toys or silly stories when your brain could be focused on something beneficial, like learning more about family history or the history of magic. Elizabeth learned that her expectations for herself should be high, and that she should always present herself before her siblings, that if the tutors wanted her to, she was supposed to help them.

She felt distant from her siblings. Her expectations felt more important, like her parents had some focus on her. Even when Elizabeth got her Hogwarts letter, they had her studying more things so that she could present herself as acceptable to her peers, as well as earn good quality school books instead of second hand ones. Going to Hogwarts first was something of a fear for Elizabeth. She didn't know what other children were like, she barely knew what her siblings were like.

At school, Elizabeth developed a taste for Charms and Transfiguration, as well as a sense of otherness. Her peers were very different from her, and she isn't sure how to reconcile her parents' idea of the perfect daughter with her peers idea of a normal teenager. Still, she strives to hit some sense of normal.