ALDRIDGE, Meleny Christina

[meleny]

MELENYChristinaALDRIDGE
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ALEXIS BLEDEL



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Fear of a Name, Only Increases The Fear Of The Thing Itself
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Character Name: Meleny Christina Aldridge
Character Age: 16
Job/Year: Student/Sixth
Wand: Rosewood 8" Unicorn Tail Hair
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Time Period: Trio

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He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo
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Play-By: Alexis Bledel
Hair Shade: Dark-ish Brown
Hair Style: Straight
Eye Color: blue
Build: slender
Dressing Style: Meleny likes to dress in muggle clothes when she's not wearing the Hogwarts uniform. She dresses a bit differently from her twin sister Jezebel who likes black and gothic clothing. Meleny always wears a necklace that her mother gave her for her 11th birthday.

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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Likes: reading
helping people
good magic
defense against the dark arts
Charms
Transfiguration
Herbology
Quidditch
hanging with friends
Potions
Dislikes: mean Slytherins
dark magic
Voldemort and his death eaters
pain and suffering
death
her father and twin sister
pureblood supremacy
Ancient Runes
Divination
Arithmancy
disloyalty
being betrayed or back stabbed
being compared to her sister
Strengths: -friendly
-helpful
-determined
-intelligent
-loyal
Weaknesses: -her friends safety
-intolerant of pain
-too emotional
-overprotective
Overall Personality: Meleny is a very sweet and helpful person. She doesn't have a mean bone in her body and is always willing to help people if they ask for it. She's quite pleasant to be around once you get to know her. Meleny is an even tempered person but even she has bad moods sometimes. She rarely raises her voice at people and would rather calmly and logically solve a problem than rush right into a duel. Otherwise she is very calm and her usual friendly self. She can also be a bit overprotective. Another thing about Meleny is that she is fiercely loyal. Once she picks a side in something she stays loyal to that side forever.

Betrayal and back stabbing is one thing she can't stand.
Meleny is emotional and sometimes isn't afraid to show she's scared, or in pain but when met with an enemy she'll try to decieve them and cover up her weaknesses which includes trying to hide the scar underneath her right eye which is the only one visible. The others are on her body elsewhere and can only be seen when she's either getting dressed or undressing. Usually she's in control of her emotions and knows when and when not to show them but when she's scared or under stress the chain binding her emotions snaps and she becomes a total wreck.

Meleny is considerate and helpful. She has always been thought of as a mother figure to the younger students. She protects them from danger. She's also intelligent. As an older Hogwarts student, she'd help the younger students with their homework in subjects they were having trouble in. She may not be brave but she's overprotective and a bit of a martyr. She values everyone else's lives over her own. She would risk her life if it came down to it. When lives are at stake she doesn't care about getting in trouble but when it isn't absolutely necessary she avoids getting in trouble as much as possible.

Being a twin to the most evil girl she's ever known has made her determined to assert her own independence and break away from her second identity as "Jezebel's twin sister". She hates when people automatically assume that they should stick together just because they're twins. She especially hates it when people compare them.

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Father: Emery Aldridge, 41 in her era, 17 in the past, Death Eater, Slytherin
Mother: Christina Kensington, 34 in her era, 16 in the past, auror/Order member, Hufflepuff, deceased in her era
Siblings: Jezebel Aldridge, 16, Slytherin, Death Eater supporter
Others:
Birth Place: Italy
Current Residence: Aldridge Manor in London (the same manor where her father is living with his parents in the past).
Overall History: When Christina Kensington found out she was pregnant the doctor told her she was carrying twins. Along with Meleny inside the womb was another baby that would grow up to be the second person to make Meleny's life miserable. This was her twin sister Jezebel and she would eventually become Meleny's worst nightmare. Her father had named her and after Jezebel was born Meleny's life became a living hell. The last thing she needed in her life was someone else to degrade and put her down as if her father hadn't already done enough of that. The two of them were constantly at each other's throats.

Christina Kensington and Emery Aldridge had dated while they attended Hogwarts. For awhile she was ignorant about Voldemort's reign until she discovered that her own boyfriend was one. They were briefly engaged before she knew the truth but immediately left him (pregnant with the twins). She felt betrayed and disgusted that he was hiding something so major from her. She didn't want to raise her twins in that way. Christina immediately started auror training so she could protect the people she cares about. Thankfully her daughters were born before she started training so she was glad she she didn't have pregnancy to slow down her training. As soon as she knew he was a death eater she knew marrying him was impossible but she couldn't raise twins on her own on top of auror training. For a few years Meleny remained ignorant of who her father was until Jezebel became curious and asked her mother why she wasn't married. She tried the best she could to explain the situation to her rebellious daughter. Jezebel wanted to know who her father was but Meleny was perfectly content with not knowing so unbeknownst to her mother and Meleny she went searching for him on her own and doing research during her third year of school.

When she was younger, Jezebel just started out as bullying Meleny like the annoying bully in the school yard because she is 10 minutes older than her and wanted to flaunt her seniority. Basically Jezebel has a holier than thou attitude and it got worse when she discovered the Death Eaters when she got older. She came out first and the reason why Meleny is often naive and too trusting of some people is because she was born second. Later on, Jezebel found enjoyment in physically and pyschologically abusing Meleny. Later on, Meleny would also prove herself a blood traitor by choosing the Order over the Death Eaters. Her mother is an auror and Meleny had always planned to follow in her footsteps when shes older by joining the Order as soon as she's old enough and working as either a healer or an auror.

When they began attending Hogwarts her sister was sorted into Slytherin and that only esclated their sibling rivarly to a higher level. They competed against each other during Quidditch matches in their second and third year. She never misses the chance to call Meleny blood traitor or other insulting names because Meleny also has muggle leanings and likes to dress like one. She also defends them if she sees one being verbally tormented.

As Meleny's hogwarts education progressed and Voldemort became more powerful, it came out that Jezebel was searching for their father when they saw him heading towards knockturn alley while they were shopping in diagon alley. The sisters and mother had a huge fight about it and Jezebel stalked off angrily after him to talk. Christina chased after Jezebel and explained that knockturn alley was a dangerous place. Jezebel was so fed up with her family that she announced to her sister and mother that she would rather live with her father than them. She begged her father to let her live with him even though she knew his job had him on the run constantly.

Meleny was happy about being sorted into Gryffindor because she felt like there were more people like her there and for the first time in her life she didn't feel alone. However it really escalated rivalry with her twin since she was in Slytherin. House rivalry had always gotten on Meleny's nerves. She didn't see why everyone just couldn't get along. To her houses and blood lineage didn't matter and she hated that her sister cared a lot about it.

In her third year Meleny was in her second year at Hogwarts playing for the Quidditch team. She had been playing since her second year. Her position was Chaser. Meleny was excited to play for the Quidditch team but was nervous when she found out her twin sister was playing Beater for Slytherin and one of the matches Gryffindor had was against them. Meleny was scared to play against her own sister because her twin tended to be extremely aggressive to get whatever she wanted. Once from the Gryffindor table Meleny could hear Jezebel plotting with other girls from the Slytherin team to create an accident for Meleny to get into so she can't play in the game. They figured that by taking out a player before the game the Gryffindor team would have to forfeit the game if they can't replace Meleny on time. The day before the game Meleny was in another practice with the Gryffindor team and before she left Jezebel whispered in Meleny's ear in the great hall as she passed by the Slytherin table "break a leg...literally." and cackled wildly to herself. Once the practice was over and half the team was already gone Jezebel appeared on the pitch with her own broom and a beater's bat and literally knocked Meleny off her broom with a stray bludger that was floating around as she was dismounting to help put away the supplies. The incident literally did break Meleny's leg and her arm so she was physically unable to play in tomorrow's game and she had to stay in the hospital wing for quite a while. The incident made Meleny consider quitting Quidditch but she couldn't do that to the team. They already suffered her loss for one game and she couldn't do that to them again.

In her fourth year when the triwizard tournament was going on Meleny became extremely nervous when Harry's name came out of the goblet of fire. Meleny is the type of person who cares deeply about her friends and freaks out when any harm comes their way. She still supported him either way and all of the hate from the Slytherins was getting on her last nerve.

Fifth year had to have been the worst for Meleny due to the fact that Umbridge was the defense against the dark arts teacher. The woman gave Meleny the creeps and her high voice got on her nerves. Not to mention that her teaching methods were the worst thing about her. Meleny was very proud of Harry for having the courage to stand up to Umbridge in class and she really wished she had the guts to do that herself. She may not have been called a liar like he was but she was glad he made Voldemort's return known to the world. Meleny did not want to ever face a detention with her so she decided to behave herself in class even though she was doing everyone an injustice by not teaching defensive spells. When she learned that Dumbledore's Army was being created she was extremely happy and looked forward to every meeting. She was extremely fed up with the daily prophet printing lies about Harry and trying to cover up Voldemort's return that she wrote to her mother asking they cancel their subscription. Meleny believed Harry and didn't talk to anyone who believed the lies the paper wrote.

The drama did not stop for Meleny in her sixth year. Over the summer she uncovered the brutal treatment of house elves like Hermione had in their fourth year. Someone at the ministry told her mother that there was a death eater abusing house elves in his home. The person worked for the department that handled such matters but figured it was a good idea to have an auror working on the case too. Her sister was now living with their father and Meleny stayed with her mother. Her sister was begging her father to teach her the dark arts so he helped her practice on disobedient house elves when he wasn't at death eater meetings. They had the family house elf Norman locked in the cellar. Apparently he had been sent there for refusing to do a job. They locked him down there any time he slipped up and said something bad about Emery or Jezebel. Christina and the person from the department of magical creatures went to her father's mansion to check it out. Meleny could not stand the thought of her mother going there. She knew she could protect herself but she was still worried for her safety. She knew her mother was also worried for her safety and she was even more worried for the house elf so she begged her mother to let her come. She only had five years of school under her belt but she hoped all the extra things she learned last year in Dumbledore's Army would be enough to protect them, When she found him he was badly wounded. Her father and sister had nearly killed him. Norman had been tortured with the cruciatus curse and had been physically beaten. He was practically on the brink of death. Christina contacted a healer from st mungos to tend to Norman.

When Meleny went to back to Hogwarts she woke up to find herself in the past when her parents were in school and dating. Meleny often wondered what it was about her father that her mother was so attracted to during their school days. She knows she shouldn't mess with the past but it would make her future a lot better if her mother had never even met Emery. Of course that means she and Jezebel would not be born. Meleny is secretly fine with the idea of Jezebel never being born but she can't risk erasing her own existence. So Meleny is now in the Hogwarts of 1976 with her twin sister who are both masquerading as distant relatives of the Emery Aldridge of the past.

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Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
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Alias: Shana
Age: 19
Code: There isn't one.