Ji-Hyun Jeun
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| Ji-Hyun Jeun | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 25 May 1993, 24 |
| City of Birth | Bristol, London |
| Blood status | Muggle-born |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Magical Characteristics | |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Hufflepuff |
| Class of | 2011 |
| Character Information | |
| Playby | Ji-Eun Lee |
| Hazel | |
Irrepressibly cheerful and hopelessly optimistic, Ji-Hyun’s sunny personality is at once endearing and frustrating. Although she finds it difficult to concentrate, her stubborn optimism and intelligence prevent her grades from being abysmal, although they’re by no means as high as they could be. A muggle-born with a strong love of electronics, she is nevertheless fascinated by the magical world and all it has to offer. But although she laughs it off, she finds her difficulties with concentration incredibly frustrating, and the instinctive comparisons with older siblings have left her with the constant need to strive harder to be more like them.
History
As the youngest (and, even by the standards of small children, an exceptionally cute toddler) Ji-Hyun was the baby of the family, and even when her habit of dismantling household appliances began her family doted on her no less.
Oddly, her parents were less surprised when she started showing signs of magic – both of her siblings had already demonstrated magical ability, although they’d been a few years older when it first began. But with Ji-Hyun, the discovery was considerably more problematic, because unlike her older siblings, she was able to call on her magic at will. Rather than being limited to a few freak incidents, ones that could be dismissed as accidents or merely strange events, Ji-Hyun levitated her toys around her room, laughing as her parents tried to grab them and keep them on the ground, and had conversations with her toys – ones that stopped the moment anyone else was in the room.
With Ji-Hyun’s arrival, then, a few odd events became suddenly worrying and significant. Her parents, while suspicious of this mysterious force, were canny enough not to make the information public, well aware of the potential problems that telling someone else could hold. That wasn’t to say that they did nothing about it, searching furtively over the internet for a possible explanation, and on one dire occasion visiting a mystic, but their failed attempts to find an answer that wasn’t as arcane and bizarre as magic failed, and all three children were warned that their unusual abilities were absolutely secret from everyone, and that they must never use them outside of the house.
It was a warning that wasn’t totally followed, but for once, it was Ji-Hyun who kept her promise – even the odd events that marred her older siblings’ time at primary school didn’t blemish her record, and instead it was her inability to complete the work set and her (entirely unintentional) distracting behaviour in class that got her into trouble. But despite a patchy academic record, she enjoyed school and made friends swiftly thanks to her cheerful and open behaviour.
When Ji-Hyun was seven, an explanation was finally offered for why she and her older siblings could do certain unlikely things, as a letter was sent informing the family that her elder sister had been accepted into a school for witchcraft and wizardry. At first, it was described as ludicrous – although they had applied to mystics for an explanation of the phenomenon, they’d never taken any of the answers they’d received seriously, and the visits had merely been eliminating possibilities.
Although her parents were keen to see their children go to the establishments of education they were familiar with, Hogwarts’ ability to cater to their unusual talents convinced Ji-Hyun’s mother that it was the only reasonable option for her daughter’s education. But her father, mistrustful of the secrecy of Hogwarts and magic itself, insisted that she would attend a more normal school – and after all, hadn’t they been carefully saving so that their children would be educated in the private sector? The argument escalated, and as August began to near its end they were no closer to determining a final answer, stubbornness at least partially responsible for the lack of development.
It took another incident, although it was their son at the heart of it, to convince both parents that the best thing for their children’s future would be if they went to a school of magic.
But despite their best efforts, the argument had not gone unnoticed by the children. All three were well aware of what it was about, despite the older children also trying to conceal the disagreement from their little sister. Although she wasn't able to understand the causes of her father's concern, she was able to grasp well enough what the argument was about, and like her siblings, waited for the outcome with nervous anticipation. Their last minute trip to Diagon Alley was the happiest day of Ji-Hyun's summer - although not her parents.
The year was tense, her Father still unhappy at the loss of his daughter to the mistrusted world of magic, while both Ji-Hyun and her brother were desperate to find out more about the mysterious school that they would one day attend. Her older sister’s letters were fascinating, poured over and discussed at length by the two children when their parents weren’t around. But although they were sure they would one day pass into this other environment, they were still expected to excel in their current academic setting, not that Ji-Hyun did.
As the time approached where Ji-Hyun was due to receive her letter for Hogwarts, she became increasingly agitated, swinging between the conviction that she wouldn't receive the letter because she had the wrong kind of magic and boundless enthusiasm for the long awaited passage into the world of magic. When it did arrive, Ji-Hyun was ecstatic, looking forward to finally experiencing the world of magic first hand. She was both disappointed and relieved not to be sorted into the houses of either of her siblings, but the enthusiastic welcome she received from her house was a relief to her. Better educated on the wizarding world than most muggle-borns, Ji-Hyun’s knowledge trailed behind that of those who had been brought up surrounded by magic, but as the year progressed, that gap began to close. Still suffering from most of the problems that had made her time at primary school difficult, even Ji-Hyun’s fascination with all things magical wasn’t enough to keep her focused in class, and her grades swung wildly between success and abject failure.
But despite that, Ji-Hyun loved Hogwarts, the mystery of the magical world and the building itself. Her new house, while apparently held in some contempt in various quarters, was welcoming, and she was relieved not to have been put in somewhere like Slytherin. Still, she wasn’t as much of a credit to her house as she would have liked, losing more points than she gained and continuing her poor homework record. It was a relief when the letter containing her grades for her OWL exams revealed that she had (barely) obtained the necessary grades to continue the subjects she wanted to.
