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| Full Name | Morag Sorcha MacDougal |
| Avatar | Jennifer Morrison |
| Sex | Female |
| Birthdate | 25 August, 1980 |
| Blood Status | Pureblood |
| Occupation | Healer |
| Wand | Myrtle, dragon heartstring, 11 3/4", supple. |
| Alumni | Ravenclaw |
| Affiliation | York |
| Player | Amy |
| Journal | dr_misanthrope |
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Home Life
Mother: Iona MacDougal, nee Fairbairn. Missing, presumed dead.
Father: Alastair MacDougal. Missing, presumed dead.
Siblings: Mairead McLaughlin (missing, presumed dead) and Lindsay MacDougal.
Relationships with each:
Morag was closer to her father than her mother. Despite being a fairly busy solicitor, Alasdair was always more active in his children's lives than Iona, who was the resident workaholic. Morag shared her mother's tendency toward OCD behavior, and when left alone together they never seemed quite sure what to say to each other.
She's closer to her brother than she was to her sister, partly because Mairead was already going to Hogwarts when Morag came along. Lindsay adores his little sister, even if he thinks she a bit odd and the fumes of potions have gone to her head. He'll still pick her up and twirl her around, much to Morag's chagrin. Mairead and Morag mainly commiserated over there mother…on the fairly rare occasions they were together and alone without Iona in the room. Other than that, Mairead always felt more like a cousin than a sister, someone she spent most of her life seeing only during hols.
Morag would have chosen a visit with Gordon over a visit with Bridget anytime. Gordon was quiet and liked to stay seated when possible - it made his height of 6'5" less noticeable - and liked to keep conversation to a minimum and on neutral topics like the weather or the crazy old lady who lived in the house next to his and Mairead's. Bridget, on the other hand, is bubbly and rather loud and was overly fond of expounding to Morag the virtues of all the single Healers or solicitors she knew. After the remaining MacDougals moved to York, matchmaking was given a lower priority.
When it comes to her niece and nephew, Morag is still not quite sure whether she likes them better as children or whether she preferred them as infants. She's made an effort to play a larger role in their lives than she might have if she hadn't become their only relative besides their parents. She's taken it upon herself to keep them going in their learning of Gàidhlig. Thomas, with his boisterous but good-natured temperament, has begun to remind her a bit of her father, though prolonged exposure to him makes her crave a nap. Isla is more quiet and is quite content to sit and look at potions texts with Morag.
Home: A medium sized flat in Inner York where she lives with her brother Lindsay, his wife Bridget, and their two children, Isla and Thomas.
Finances: Liveable, though not what they once were.
Personal Life
Personality: The side of Morag that most of the world sees is cool, almost cold, and scientific. She'd prefer to be alone than be around people in a conversational situation. She's polite when such occasions do inevitably arise, but she tends to give people the feeling she'd rather be elsewhere. She has her work area organized just the way she wants it, and woe unto anyone who decides to rearrange anything as a joke.
She's very dedicated to her work. She triple checks her measurements before she mixes a potion, and if it's a tricky one, she'll check four times. She does everything by the book at work.
Morag uses her intellect as a shield, but there is another side of her, once you get past the brains and the polar ice cap. Few people have seen this side, and she has few close friends because of her tendency to block people out. With a trusted few people, she is open relaxed. These people are the only ones exempt from her usually rigid enforcement of her personal space. She can be very caring and tender, even if sometimes she'll be utterly clueless about how to deal with something.
Marital status: Single.
Strengths: Logical, organized, professional, uses her head, good with measurements, frugal, potions, herbology, charms.
Weaknesses: Emotionally closed off, something of a misanthrope, workaholic, somewhat OCD, not so good with defensive magic.
Boggart:
Patronus: Common raven.
Mirror of Erised: Herself as highly respect Healer at a new hospital, standing with a woman - the face is obscured - who has her arms around Morag's shoulders; Morag's family -even the missing ones - stand nearby, smiling in approval.
Amortentia Potion: The sea, old books, wine.
Aesthetics
Appearance: Morag has long, slightly wavy brown hair that reaches almost to the middle if her back. She usually keeps it pulled back somehow when she is at work. She has blue-green eyes and a roundish face, though her expression is usually more on the side of severe than cheerful. She prefers robes and has a penchant for wearing mostly one color at a time - all black, all white, all blue, etc. She doesn't wear much make-up. There's no point to it, in her mind.
Morag mainly wears well-made, off-the-rack robes. She used to occasionally splurge on something more high end. She has a penchant for brightly colored blouses and likes vests. She has a purposeful and fairly fast gait. Morag likes to get where she's going quickly and keep things rolling. Her speech is clipped and concise when at work or around her in-laws; a little more relaxed around her parents and siblings. Morag stands straight and keeps her chin up. She does tend to hunch over a little when she's sitting and working, though.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: On the lower end of average for her height.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green.
Style of dress: More casual than it used to be, but Morag still prefers to look well put together in robes, for the most part. She has taken to wearing some Muggle clothing as a necessity.
History
Morag Sorcha MacDougal entered the world on the twenty-fifth of August in 1980, the third and final child of Alasdair and Iona MacDougal. Her brother, Lindsay, had just turned six in July, and her sister, Mairead, had turned twelve in June. For a time, the clerks at her father's law firm had a running bet as to whether or not a fourth MacDougal child would be born six years later in September. The people who bet on it not happening made a small fortune.
As a child, it seemed to Morag that she was the second of two children rather than the last of three. Her sister was an absence, and when home, more of a babysitter than a sister because of the age difference, which Morag noticed keenly. She didn't feel it as much with Lindsay. She followed him around and watched him do things; she was always more interested in watching him than trying to do what he did. When he left for school, Morag didn't talk to anyone for an entire month. After that, she adjusted to being by herself. She read Mairead's old textbooks - the ones she'd kept, anyway. She liked the pictures of plants in the Herbology one, and the descriptions in the Potions one.
When it was finally her turn to go to Hogwarts, Morag was thrilled. She'd get to see her brother more often, yes, but more importantly, much more importantly, she'd get to learn. Learn how to make the potions she'd read about. The Sorting Hat considered putting her in Slytherin, then decided Ravenclaw suited her a little more. Morag liked the sound of Ravenclaw, an besides, her whole family had been in it. Amazingly, the Potter boy that the world seemed to like to crow about so much lately was in her year, as well. Morag didn't take much notice of him. He was a half-blood, which admittedly wasn't his fault, and a Gryffindor, which sort of was, and thus not terribly interesting except when he got into trouble, which seemed to happen more often than not.
Morag found her calling in her Potions class. She didn't really understand why so few people other than Slytherins seemed to like Professor Snape. He was a highly intelligent man who brooked no foolishness. Also, she liked hearing rumours about him putting the oddly intelligent Muggleborn Gryffindor in her place. Morag did well in Herbology, as well; she'd need to be in order to better understand Potions, she thought. She was good in Charms as well, but never much cared for Defence Against the Dark Arts.
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