Cori is considered... odd, on a good day. While introverted and reserved (thanks to living with overly sensitive Muggles), she is also unapologetically bright and not afraid to fix others' mistakes when they're wrong; she is blatantly honest to a fault and teeters the line of respectively lady-like at times.

Mordecai Dursley, Father [1847-1883]
Maria Dursley, Mother [1850-1883]
Nicodemus Benjamin Dursley, Brother [b. 1877]
- - - Dursley, Brother [b. 1882]

- - - Dursley, Uncle/Guardian [b. 1840-1845*]
- - - Dursley, Aunt/Guardian [b. 1847-1850*]
- - - Dursley, Cousin [b. 1870-1872*]
- - - Dursley, Cousin [b. 1872-1884*]
(*age ranges, all still alive on the Charming Launchpad)

General | At 5’3” with some growth still likely, Cori is leanly built with promise of a graceful figure in the future. Her eyes are dark brown and her hair is almost an equally dark brown that borders on black, which typically hangs around her shoulders in dense, curling waves. Her skin is also a light brown, as she is of Puerto Rican descent through her maternal family.

Deportment | The most pristine, lady-like thing about the youngest Dursley girl is how she carries herself: shoulders back, posture perfectly straight and confident. She tends to keep her hands clasped together in front of her when idle. Every move she makes is purposeful and precise, and she has a natural, unshakeable type of confidence in whatever she does. She tends to not smile very often, but tries not to emote any of her more negative opinions on her face – so her natural countenance is a cool, almost unimpressed stare. Smiles for her are rare, but tend to make her seem younger when she does so. Indeed, from an outsider perspective, Corinne Dursley has all the makings of a proper Victorian lady: she is always modestly dressed and often quiet and restrained. That is, of course, the assumption of fools that can’t see past their own nose.

Fashion | Practically is the name of the game with Corinne, though she must do so within reason of her muggle relatives’ expectations. Personally, she finds the majority of fashionable wear ridiculous; however, as a young lady in the middle class, she cannot escape her future of skirts and uncomfortable shoes. Instead of bringing her reputation into question (for the moment), she strives for simplicity - when she can dress herself, that is. A tailored jacket with a high collar, a simple skirt or two, and an even more lackluster blouse underneath her jackets. She has a habit of to rolling up her blouse sleeves when getting to work (hence a proclivity to wear jackets, to avoid this bad habit), especially when class turns from theoretical to real application. Though her hair has curls to them, but tends to hide them by wearing her hair up in a tight bun more often than not (though it often starts unwinding itself from its trappings rather quickly). She likes gloves and comfortable footwear that allows for… more active usage. She favors monochromatic colors, but does stray to dark blues and greens occasionally.

Handiness | Right-handed

Scent | The chill of fresh frost and old books.

Distinguishing Characteristics | A scattering of beauty marks along her face, especially on the right side of her face.

Face Claim | Adria Arjona

1879 Welcome to the World	Mordecai and Maria Dursley welcome a second child into the family, naming their new daughter Corinne Niamh.
1878-1882 A Happy Family	Cori’s childhood is blissfully average and, when she’s three, her little brother is born. Life is quiet, but happily peaceful for the Dursley family. Though she is young - and, nowadays, the memories are hazy at their very best - Corinne recalls, distantly, how happy she was all the time.
1883 Orphans	Just like she cannot remember her parents’ faces, Cori does not remember when or how exactly they died – only that it was sudden and, suddenly, she and her brothers were entrusted to the care of their father’s muggle relations. She’d barely had time to try and get her feet under her when, with the best intentions, her uncle uprooted his whole life (and the family) to move to Irvingly. It was for the best that everything at the time was numbed by grief.
1884 An Inevitability	Cori is enthralled and amazed by Nico’s display, watching the floral print on their Aunt’s curtains bloom into real, beautiful flowers; she even made to clap, at the time, in a childish fit of glee, but the look on her Aunt’s face draws her up short. It is the start of a simple realization: her muggle relatives don’t like magic. (Later, she wishes she’d had the courage to tell Nico she thought what he’d done was pretty and perfect).
1885-1886 Honesty vs. Peace	When Cori’s magic appears – in hindsight, thankfully something subtle: extinguishing a candle silently, motionlessly so that her older cousin would not discover her hidingreading spot in the linen closet – she feels elation. Then elation turns to apprehension, when she can’t control it too well – she barely hides from some other girls in the neighborhood how the stems of her flower crowns, untouched, weave themselves, using her hands and hunching her shoulders – because if Aunty hears? Or her older cousin? That would be unfortunate, to say the least. But after hiding it for near on a year (albeit, unfortunately, not from the likes of nosy little brothers and overly curious younger cousins), it wears on her. Apprehension starts to border on annoyance (especially when the latter of the two boys was nothing sort of wonderous at her talents) and then annoyance dances on the fringe of resentment; she has never been a shy child, never one to let the truth get swept under the rug… Why must she censor herself now? Yet, Cori knows on a fundamental level that magic is something that discomfits not only most of the muggles in Irvingly, but also the two most prominent female figures in her life. The simple wish to not to cause anymore disturbances in her relatives’ daily lives – there had already, according to her older couain, been an argument between Uncle and his wife since the family became immersed in the Wizarding World (though about what, she has no idea), and Cori would very much not like to give her older cousin anything else to blame her and her siblings for (she already has enough to whine about as is) – and the feeling that she is lying causes quite the dissonance in the girl. In the end, she goes to Nico. He offers his support – he is, and has, always been the best big brother – and, begrudgingly, she works out the best time to tell everyone is at dinner one night. The minor disbelief from her aunt sparks enough resentment in her that the one of the candles on the table sputters, bugles, and turns a crisp blue before dying out altogether. There is no doubt that youngest Dursley girl is, indeed, magical.
1889 Glimpsing the Future	Nicodemus gets his letter to attend Hogwarts and leaves in September – Cori sees him off with the rest of the family at the train station. His absence, and their little brother’s lack of magical ability, makes for an interesting home life – meaning, Cori begrudgingly avoids magic altogether, as the only household member able to use it. Despite being content, there is tension. When he comes back over breaks, he’s a Ravenclaw and he talks about his flying lessons and quidditch the most (not one to be left behind, Cori does some reading up on the game when she can). Cori feels eager to join him, to be someplace where she does not have to censor a crucial part of herself.
1890-May 1891 First Year	When her letter comes from Hogwarts, Cori lets her little brother peer over her shoulder as she reads it aloud to her younger cousin and Nicodemus; her older cousin and aunt, noticeably, find somewhere else in the home other than the kitchen to be. Uncle is pleased by the news when he comes home from work, but at this point his opinion does not matter (not as much as it probably should, but she just hasn’t felt close to him for some years). Despite her older brother being in Ravenclaw, Cori has no specific house in mind when she is called up next for the Sorting Ceremony. Hufflepuff is a bit of a surprise, but nothing to be ashamed of in her opinion. Everything is so new and wonderful, it’s easy to ignore the minor annoyances of being a middle class girl that she’d hoped to escape: there’s classes, new things to learn, a large library and everything is, quite literally, magical – plus, she gets to see more of Nicodemus. Overall, it’s a good first year.
Summer '91 Return to Reality	No one really asks her about her time at Hogwarts when she comes home for summer break – no one besides her energetic little brother and her curious muggle cousin, and even then they only dare to question her when it’s just the three of them (or four, when Nico gets wrangled into being interrogated too). Cori quickly realizes that, unfortunately, nothing has changed at home: magic is still something off limits… or so it feels, as her older cousin’s complaints of “poor marriage prospects” and “not wanting to marry a wizard” pop up more often than not; Aunty doesn’t discourage it openly, but Cori can’t stand to see the older woman so uncomfortable in her own home over the smallest things she mentions about Hogwarts, especially when none of it is directed at her; a part of her knows her aunt is trying, as she doesn’t leave the room anymore at the mention of magic, but it just doesn’t feel like enough. Put-out but keeping it to herself, Cori does the same thing she used to do: keeps everything Wizarding in her life all to herself. She counts the day until she can go back to school and be surrounded by other witches and wizards once more.
Sept. 1891-May 1894 Second-Fourth Year	Nicodemus’ friend circle has and, likely will, always be bigger than anything Cori can scrap together; as most of her classmates find out during her second year, she is an acquired taste. In the youthful of 12, she comes off as a touch arrogant as she makes a habit of correcting others during the few study groups she’s in; her housemates and yearmates quickly find that, while Cori is hard-working, she is also fiercely independent in her own reserved kind of way. Her grades are strong and, instead of overburdening herself with too many electives, she chooses to partake in clubs; dueling is only practical and wizard chess is fascinating. She is the first in class for Arithmancy, with a proclivity for numbers and patterns that makes the elective enjoyable. Cori falls into a pattern of studying, classes, and going to quidditch matches to watch her brother finally get to play as Beater. She is a bit of an unorthodox Hufflepuff, as a contrasting personality that could come across as aloof. As her third year draws to a close, she is starting to plan for her future… Her fourth year is spent the same as the previous two; since she never talks about Hogwarts or magic at home, her aunt is blissfully unaware of her dueling club membership and therefore cannot make her stop anytime soon; it’s not lying if no one asks (her fourth year is the year she truly learns that she doesn’t have to share things with others, that simply not saying anything is not in and of itself dishonesty). She still uses a borrowed chess set for matches and, while she would someday like to have her own, chooses to see it as more rewarding when she does win with a set of chessmen not her own. She also starts to learn that simply pointing mistakes does not stop them from occurring again, that further articulation works better before there can be action – so while she does not lose her bluntness, there is typically a follow-up with an explanation or solution to resolve the error in question (whether this makes her seem less… snobbish or arrogant, remains to be seen).
Sept. 1894 Start of Fifth Year	Cori returns to Hogwarts with her brother, Nicodemus. Her little brother, now twelve, still shows no signs of magic – she still loves him, as energetic and nosy as he is, but can’t help but worry for him nonetheless. Her O.W.Ls are approaching and she dreads the continued etiquette classes, the latter of which reminds her that there are societal expectations fast approaching her; soon, people outside of her aunt will start to wonder about her future, what finishing school she’s considering, how she’ll use her education, if she’s got her eyes on any aspiring gentlemen… The idea gives her a headache, but it's unavoidable. So, for now, she plays her cards close to her chest. She needs to do more research, look into things a bit more before she can even start to brace herself for the changes in her life her plans for the future will cause. (There’s no turning back now, however… but perhaps she will speak with Nico first, get his perspective on her thoughts…)

"If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself."
An Odd Logistician (ISTJ-A, traces of INTJ-A)
Neutral Good || The Investigator (5w6) || Choleric-Melancholic

TRIVIA

• Boggart: Large spiders, typically takes the form of an Acromantla
  
• Patronus: False killer whale
  
• Pet(s): None
  
• Amortentia: Unknown
  
• Elective(s): Arithmancy
  
• Club(s): Dueling, Wizard Chess

ACADEMIC RECORD

Class	OWL	NEWT
Astronomy	—	—
Charms	—	—
Defense Against the Dark Arts	—	—
Herbology	—	—
History of Magic	—	—
Potions	—	—
Transfiguration	—	—
Arithmancy	—	—

September cannot come soon enough.

Cori never misses Hogwarts more than when she is away, stuck here, at home, with her aunt and older cousin; if she must hear one more lamenting exaggeration about the lack of “normal gentlemen” about to marry, she thinks she’ll jinx herself deaf, Wizarding laws be damned.

She turns the page of her book, sitting out in the late summer sun as the clothes dry on the line. Personally, the only thing she finds worth lamenting is the fact all the Dursley women are stuck at home during the day, while the men can come and go as they please; she’s almost finished her book (borrowed from the local library as a late birthday present from her uncle) and, if she wishes to go back, she’ll need a chaperone – and she does not want to take her aunt. The woman is still so squeamish at any reminder of Cori or Nico’s magic, that the young witch is sure she’ll try to find some way of gently putting off a trip over to Salem Square, where muggles and wizard more blatantly intermingle. And even if her aunt was willing to try, that would mean Cori's older cousin would come along, and that would surely make the trip insufferable. No, it would be better to wait for Nico to come home...

Her parents’ faces are lost to the tides of time and memories of them are more so memories of other people telling her about them, nothing concrete; still, foolishly, Cori wanders resentfully what life would have been like if they’d lived. Surely she could borrow books (occasionally, as they were still a touch too expensive to make it common happenstance) with less hassle if her mother was around today instead.

“Corinne?"

Speak of the devil; raising to her feet, the young witch brushes grass and dirt off her skirts with an efficient swiftness that belies years of practice and moves to the line of clothes. When her aunt comes around the corner, Cori is sure she play the role of a proper wife-in-training quiet well, dutifully folding dry clothes and moving damp ones further apart to catch the breeze better.

“Come inside before you catch something,” she tuts, almost motherly, but Cori knows it is because her aunt does not want her spending too much time outside – though she’d never had them before, sun-freckles were not considered attractive and definitely something her aunt worried about her and her older cousin catching. “You can come out and get the rest when you finish ironing.”

Instead of answering verbally, Corinne simply nods – deeply and respectfully, with a faint smile – and starts to put the folded clothes in the basket. As she does, her book finds it way to the bottom, hidden from possible disapproving eyes (Advances in Arithmancy is not a title that would be well received inside the house, afterall).

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