The Journal of Patricia Stimpson - ((ooc: Background info))

Background information:
Patricia is the eldest of three teenage children born to a pair of laidback hippies. Her father works in an art gallery and her mother spends most of her time fundraising for noble charitable causes. Both are purebloods, and whilst her paternal grandparents are similarly bohemian, her maternal grandparents are more your traditional pureblood family who are not at all pleased with the way their daughter turned out. Patricia has consciously become almost the opposite of her parents - where they are messy, she is clean and neat (verging on the obsessive-complusive); where they are laidback, she is uptight; where they are artistic, she is materialistic; where they have their heads in the clouds, she has hers firmly on her shoulders. To her credit, a great deal of this comes from feeling responsible for her younger siblings. She took to heart her maternal grandparents' criticisms of how the children were being raised and set about putting things right - cleaning, making sure the food on the table has the right nutrients, that torn clothes are mended, and they all have practical shoes (not Lithuanian traditional peasant shoes made out of grass reeds). She shares something of her father's artistic appreciation in her attention to detail and love of pretty clothes and accessories, and something of her mother's drive but applied to goals closer to home than Madagascan street children.
Patricia is a perfectionist, and not only that, but she wants perfection in everything. It is not enough to be wearing the latest fashions if her schoolwork is not up to scratch, and it is not enough to get good grades if she doesn't even have a boyfriend. She is really doomed to disappointment and will stress herself out over the tiniest of things, let alone something huge like NEWTs (hence the fainting during OWLs). She is taking five NEWTs (Charms, Transfiguration, Potions, Arithmancy and Ancient Runes) - a fact which she is very bitter about and bears a grudge against Madam Pomfrey for personally advising the headmaster not to allow her to take six for health reasons (her sixth would have been Astronomy). She'll most likely over-compensate by aiming for straight Os and going insane if she gets a single E.
Hobbies - Charms club, singing (she actually has quite a sweet voice), fussing over people (particularly her younger brother Nigel and sister Emma), shopping, grooming.
Her worst habit is of randomly criticising people. She doesn't mean any harm by it - she'd want people to point out if she was doing things wrong so she assumes they must want to know as well. She has very strict standards and has trouble understanding that other people don't share them. For all that, she can be quite sweet and she does try to be friendly to everybody. She doesn't hold it against people if they don't measure up, as nobody ever does. Similarly, although she does believe that pureblood is better, she wouldn't hold that against people either. She may well rub people up the wrong way by being on friendly terms with people like Monique Travers, though. Hopefully she'll pick up some better friends than that!

Ideas for the character's involvement/contribution to the game:
Patricia is neither a lover nor a fighter. She likely agrees with some of Umbridge's decrees and is not at all opposed to the Ministry interfering in Hogwarts (as Dumbledore is a little eccentric in her view), but she is not keen on some of Umbridge's methods (or her clothes, come to that). Although she is often quite outspoken, she would never take any kind of action of rebellion and wouldn't hesitate to keep her mouth shut if in doing so she could put herself at some advantage. Her main role in the game as I see it is to inadvertently wind people up :-)