Post by Raven on Jul 22, 2018 23:00:47 GMT -5
Margerie Irene Harris
if you don't stand up for what is right, then you are part of the reason there is so much wrong in the world.
GENERAL INFORMATION
First Name: Margerie Irene
Last Name: Harris (nee Rainwater)
Blood: squib
Parents: Victoria Rainwater & Caleb Travis
Siblings: Elena, Madison
Spouse: William Harris
Children: Amelee (adopted), Jasper, Peyton
Significant Relatives: Adrian Harris (grandson)
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Age: 73
Date of Birth: March 6th, 1982
Spoken Languages: English, Spanish
Pets: Boo, a white cat with wispy fur
Wand: n/a
Profession or House: SSS triage, teaches English and Spanish part time at a children's home
Quidditch position: n/a
Anything else?: BAMF
APPEARANCE
Eyes: brown
Hair: was brown, is now grey, but frequently dyed
Height: 5'6"
Dressing Style: Maggie mostly wears blouses, along with either jeans or skirts. She has long wished to portray herself in a professional manner, and her clothing is an important part of that. Rarely, she can be found in a t-shirt, mostly when lounging in her own home. For bed, she always wears a night gown and slippers, since she finds that most comfortable. As far as jewelry goes, Irene keeps it fairly simple: her earrings rarely dangle when she wears them, and though she had a lip piercing once, it has long since faded away. There is one item of jewelry that Maggie can never be found without - her wedding ring. It is a delicate gold band, with a few small diamonds pressed into it. Her ring has seen a lot, since she has been married for more than forty years.
Face Claim: Una Stubbs
General Appearance: Through her life, Irene has had many hair styles. She lived through short hair becoming a popular choice for women, and while at the time she was still changing things up with her hair and in other ways, she came fondly back to the short pixie cut around the time her grandchildren were born and she's stuck with it ever since. She keeps her hair dyed either brown or red-brown, as she likes how it looks better, saying she appears younger when her hair is coloured.
Appearing younger or not, Maggie has a fair number of wrinkles, most notably her smile lines. Despite claiming that she wants to appear younger, she can't find fault with these, as they are (according to her) a sign that she has lived a life full of joy. Her cheekbones stand out a fair bit, her lips are thin, and her eyebrows are thought to be fairly high. Most notably, though, her eyes are bright, with curiosity as well as understanding. Neither her age nor her glasses (which she wears only when reading) stand in the way of noticing her eyes.
Margerie is fairly thin, and leads an active lifestyle, wanting to remain alive and healthy for as long as she can to watch her grandchildren grow up, and to try to make the world a better place. Despite her age, she is still quite able-bodied. She isn't certain whether it is just determination or if her wizarding ancestors might have something to do with it. Either way, she is going to take full advantage of it while she can.
PERSONALITY
Likes: her family, peppermint, tea and cider, sitting in coffee shops or cafes, Doctor Who, white coffee, Macklemore
Dislikes: prejudice, assumptions, ignorance, country music, the divide between muggle and magical, inaction, jean jackets (the 90s were an ugly time)
Habits/Mannerisms: Covers her mouth with her hand when she is people watching or eavesdropping, whether she is amused or shocked by what she hears. Widens her eyes when she lies or exaggerates - this is deliberate, and does not occur when she doesn't want it to, but she finds it endearing. Fusses over small details. Tidies things or wrings her hands when nervous.
Strengths: Eloquent. Margerie has a way with words, knowing what she should say at any given moment to ensure that she gets her point across and doesn't push too hard. This includes knowing when to stay quiet.
Determined. Not easily swayed from her goals, Maggie will push forward even if everything is pushing her back. If anything, resistance will just make her more determined.
Experienced. At seventy-two years old, Mrs. Harris has spent several years working as an EMT, driving an ambulance with her husband, learning more in-depth medical knowledge along with him, raising three children, and having a number of grandchildren. She's made plenty of mistakes, of course, but she's learned from every one of them. She's a mother, a grandmother, a medic, a teacher, and a leader, and she's earned each title.
Understanding. An important piece of gaining wisdom, and of being a parent, is understanding how people work. Maggie is knowledgeable, and she is willing to forgive when she deems that the situation deserves it. Even if she doesn't, she understands where people come from and rarely takes things to heart. After all, she's dealt with plenty of teenagers informing her they hate her.
Versatile. Irene is also keenly aware of how she is perceived and she is very able to manipulate that, even playing down some of her flaws for short times by exaggerating other characteristics or manipulating how she is perceived so that most people will think the flaw incompatible with who she seems to be. She's able to fit in in a wide range of circumstances.
Weaknesses: Stubborn. Maggie will not allow people to sway her from her beliefs. She is more than willing to talk to people and to hear their side, she does not feel the need to argue her point, but when she starts something, she finishes it. Mama didn't raise no quitters.
Skeptical. Something that sets most people at odds with Margerie, at least at first, is that she habitually doubts just about everything she's told. She checks sources, even for things that people have no reason to lie about. She takes very little as obvious, preferring to analyze everything, no matter who has told her.
Proud. At seventy-two years old, Maggie has done a lot. She hasn't wasted any of those years, and her life has showed her that she can do anything with enough determination. Irene will not ask for help for things that she needs, insisting that after everything, she can do it herself. It's only a matter of time before this becomes increasingly impossible.
Self-righteous. Though Maggie will listen to others experiences, it doesn't change the fact that she's self-assured that she knows best. She considers herself open minded and understanding to an extreme, and believes that her ground is the correct one, the only one that will work.
Sentimental. Having many fond memories, Maggie often misses the way things used to be. She gets caught up in loneliness now that her children have moved out, and she misses her family all being together. This overwhelms her. General Character Traits: Maggie is independent, having always decided for herself what was good for her and what wasn't. She was a women's rights activist during the Trump administration and #MeToo movement, participating in marches and helping to raise awareness during events like Slut Walk. She knows firsthand that to be heard, you have to fight for it. She's big on freedom of expression, and believes that people's decisions should entirely be their own, at least so far as it doesn't hurt other people.
Things were difficult for Maggie growing up as a squib. She always felt like an outsider, both in the magical world and the non-magical, especially with such a deep divide as there was in the United States. She learned rather early that she was going to get nothing the easy way, and that things were going to take hard work. She's never been afraid to put forth that effort.
More than anything, Maggie cares deeply about her family. She was always close with her sisters, and after getting married and having children, this became even more important to her. She knows that family is who will always be there, and of course she loves her progeny unconditionally. Though her marriage has required work, as any relationship does, that has only made the amazing relationship she has with her husband better.
HISTORY
Content Warning: Child abandonment, teenage pregnancy, accidental drowning of a child.
Victoria Rainwater was a respectable pureblood girl, at least up until she started having children out of wedlock. Caleb came without the status of some pureblood families, although they didn't know of any non-magical blood in his veins, he didn't have the lineage to prove it. In America, they might have been accepted as a match if they had gotten married, but the pair wasn't particularly interested in that, and given both the time period and the culture they were part of, this got them a lot of bad rep. Their first child, Margerie, was an accident, but they stayed together.
Maggie wasn't an easy baby, but she wasn't extraordinarily hard, either. Like any infant, she took a lot of work, but she was healthy and happy. Victoria was only nineteen when her daughter was born, where Caleb was twenty-four, and Caleb took a more active role in parenting. The young mother was prone to bouts of depression, particularly after the birth. In the first few weeks, it seemed that this would cause minimal issues, but as time went on, they would often get into fights. Gradually, Maggie became a loud infant, and then a very quiet child, although she was prone to tantrums.
When by five years old, Maggie had still not shown any indication of having magic whatsoever, Victoria started to worry, but Caleb was unconcerned. In what might have been an attempt to focus on better things, Victoria got pregnant again. This time, the small family was in for a surprise: twins. Elena and Madison were fraternal, born when Maggie was six. By the time the twins were two years old, Madison had already displayed accidental magic that could only be hers. Maggie and Elena remained apparently magickless, but at only eight, Margerie wasn't sure what that meant.
It was another three years, a couple days after Maggie's eleventh birthday, when the twins were just four, that Caleb sat her down and explained things. He assured her that nothing would change: though she wouldn't go to Ilvermorny, she would continue going to her current school, and she could write the friends she had who were magical. The realization that she wasn't magical upset Margerie, but what came next was far worse. It was less than a month later that Victoria took four-year-old Madeline and left her two squib daughters behind. Caleb was furious, but he focused all of his energy on making sure that Maggie and Elena knew that they were loved. He moved them into a smaller home in Georgia, closer to his parents, and ensured that if he or his parents couldn't watch the girls, he got babysitters. Though it was incredibly hard, Caleb was determined not to force his oldest daughter to become a stand-in parent in her mother's absence. Still, the experience did cause Maggie to grow up a little more. She was the mature one, and always looked out for her little sister, who she adored.
Realizing that muggle school was the only school she was ever going to attend, realizing that she would have to get through life without the magic that had been part of everything, Maggie threw herself into her studies, determined that if she was going to be a squib, she was going to be the best at it. Being the first in her family, possibly ever, without magic meant that she didn't have anyone to help her make the adjustment, but she slowly got the hang of the muggle world, and taught her sister everything she knew. In high school, she took several AP classes, and had a 3.5 GPA, graduating with honors the same year it was confirmed that Elena was also a squib.
The younger of the two girls took to the muggle world with much less ease than Maggie had. Elena hated being a squib, she hated that she didn't know her mother, she hated her dad's rules, she hated being boring. After a fight between the two, Maggie realized that she didn't have to be quite so perfect, and as she left for university, she decided that, though she was determined to do well in school, she wasn't going to do that at the detriment of her social life.
In university, Maggie learned more and more about the system she was part of, including the corruption and unfairness within it. As well as spending more time making friends, Maggie began to devote a significant amount of time to getting involved in protests and politics. She took women's studies as her minor, and at a party one of her friends organized, she met William Harris. They hit it off immediately, but it was his earnest devotion to learning more about what minorities faced, and not just because she cared about it, but because he did, that won her over in the end. She asked him on a date after a rally they both attended when she was 19. From then on, they were together.
Though William and Margerie were both young when they started dating, and in Maggie's case, fairly inexperienced, they didn't let the "odds" of things working out scare them off. They were serious about each other, committed to communication and honesty. From the get-go, they knew it wouldn't always be the honeymoon phase, it would be work as well, and they were determined to give it their best go. After a year, they mutually agreed to a break, to see if they were still both serious. After two months of seeing other people, a brief medical scare made Maggie realize that there was no one she wanted at her side both through good times and bad than William, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. She told him immediately how she felt, and he reciprocated the feelings. They began seeing each other once again. Maggie never told William about magic.
It was another year before William graduated, getting a job at a care home to start paying off his loans, and with some of the money he saved, he bought Maggie a ring. It wasn't expensive, but it was perfect for her. When he proposed on the anniversary of them starting to date, she said yes, and they slowly began to plan the wedding as Margerie finished her final year at school. After her graduation, she got a temporary job as an emergency dispatcher. They planned their wedding for that autumn, but come August, a wrench was thrown in their plans as Maggie's little sister, who had just turned seventeen, confessed that she was pregnant.
There was much discussion between Maggie and William, and Maggie and Elena. Maggie talked with her sister about all of the options, and the difficulties of each, and asked her what she wanted to do. Ultimately, although the pair hadn't planned to have children for years yet, Maggie and William agreed to adopt Elena's baby, allowing her to be involved without being totally responsible for the child. Maggie and William postponed their wedding until they had the costs of a new baby under control, fixing up the home they were living in to accommodate the baby. When the time came, Elena named her daughter Amelee Harris. Maggie had never in her life imagined just how much she could love something before holding her child in her arms. When Elena graduated from high school the following spring, she moved into William and Maggie's house temporarily, and that summer, the pair finally got married, with Amelee being their tiny flower girl with her biological mother's help.
Shortly after the wedding, Maggie got a new job at a hospital as a nurse and she began taking self-defense classes, but those were cut somewhat short as she realized that their brief honeymoon had resulted in her getting pregnant for the first time. She continued to take the classes as long as she could without hurting the baby, and went back to it only a couple months after Jasper Harris was born. Within a year of her second child being born, she was trained with a firearm, as well as having some knowledge of Krav Maga. By that point, Elena had moved into her own apartment for good, though she still watched the kids every so often.
It was five years later, when Maggie was thirty-one, that Maggie obtained her black belt in Krav Maga. With children aged six and seven, Maggie suggested to William that they have one more. This time, it took some trying, and Amelee and Jasper were nine and eight when Peyton was born. Maggie took a year off from work to stay home with her children, though she realized she was terribly bad at sitting still, and after seven months she went back to part-time training to ensure she was still fit. Once the year came to an end, she began teaching classes, focusing on lessons for high school students, particularly young girls.
Once Peyton was old enough to start school five years later, the older children entering their teenage years, Margerie and William took to the next adventure, one they had been thinking about and preparing for for some time. Wanting to help more in the world, they applied and began operating an ambulance as emergency medical technicians. It was hard work, with long hours, and they didn't do this for long before they decided they wanted to devote more time to their children. They both volunteered at schools and sporting events, working softer medical jobs until Peyton was sixteen and their older kids were well into adulthood. Then they took to working in the ambulance again.
It didn't take long for William and Maggie to be blessed with grandchildren, who they happily doted on, and spent time with whenever they were able. In 2044, when Maggie was 62, tragedy struck in the form of an accident with Jasper's children. Maggie's youngest grandchild, Peter, drowned in a river. Fortunately, none of the others were hurt.
In the wake of the accident, Maggie was distraught, as all the family was, but she did her best to be there for her son, her daughter-in-law, and her remaining grandchildren. The chaos and uncertainty over the events in question distracted her from the news, and she wasn't told much of the oddities around Ari that followed, but she had begun to suspect based on things she'd seen herself. When Adrian turned eleven, the letter arriving from Ilvermorny, the one that had never come for Maggie, wasn't truly a surprise. If some of the "make believe" stories she'd told her children and grandchildren shared some similarities between Ari's experiences in the magical world, it was mostly overlooked. But finally, Maggie confessed to William that she had once been part of that world.
Five years after Adrian first entered the magical world, Jasper was offered a job in the UK, and Ari followed to attend Hogwarts. However, the whispers of an attack on King's Cross station - an attack that Ari had been injured in - caused Maggie and William to relocate as well. She got a job teaching at a children's care home in Scotland and paid close attention to the events that her grandson was on the edge of. The statute of secrecy was all but destroyed following that attack, too much getting out from between the fingers of the Ministry to be contained... and then there was the Secret Salem Society.
Margerie had no issue with most magical people, they were her family, her friends. She knew magic users were not wholly to blame, that it was a matter of the Ministry's laws, but she saw the issues in those laws: the way that squibs and muggleborns alike were forced to balance on a line it was difficult to walk. She knew how much of an outcast from both worlds it had made her felt, and she'd heard similar stories from muggleborns. When she heard about the SSS, Maggie was cautious, especially knowing that their actions would cause innocent people to be injured, but she learned about their leader's primary goals and decided she wanted to help change the laws the only way she could. She signed on as an SSS medic. Supportive as always, William followed suit.
if you don't stand up for what is right, then you are part of the reason there is so much wrong in the world.
GENERAL INFORMATION
First Name: Margerie Irene
Last Name: Harris (nee Rainwater)
Blood: squib
Parents: Victoria Rainwater & Caleb Travis
Siblings: Elena, Madison
Spouse: William Harris
Children: Amelee (adopted), Jasper, Peyton
Significant Relatives: Adrian Harris (grandson)
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Age: 73
Date of Birth: March 6th, 1982
Spoken Languages: English, Spanish
Pets: Boo, a white cat with wispy fur
Wand: n/a
Profession or House: SSS triage, teaches English and Spanish part time at a children's home
Quidditch position: n/a
Anything else?: BAMF
APPEARANCE
Eyes: brown
Hair: was brown, is now grey, but frequently dyed
Height: 5'6"
Dressing Style: Maggie mostly wears blouses, along with either jeans or skirts. She has long wished to portray herself in a professional manner, and her clothing is an important part of that. Rarely, she can be found in a t-shirt, mostly when lounging in her own home. For bed, she always wears a night gown and slippers, since she finds that most comfortable. As far as jewelry goes, Irene keeps it fairly simple: her earrings rarely dangle when she wears them, and though she had a lip piercing once, it has long since faded away. There is one item of jewelry that Maggie can never be found without - her wedding ring. It is a delicate gold band, with a few small diamonds pressed into it. Her ring has seen a lot, since she has been married for more than forty years.
Face Claim: Una Stubbs
General Appearance: Through her life, Irene has had many hair styles. She lived through short hair becoming a popular choice for women, and while at the time she was still changing things up with her hair and in other ways, she came fondly back to the short pixie cut around the time her grandchildren were born and she's stuck with it ever since. She keeps her hair dyed either brown or red-brown, as she likes how it looks better, saying she appears younger when her hair is coloured.
Appearing younger or not, Maggie has a fair number of wrinkles, most notably her smile lines. Despite claiming that she wants to appear younger, she can't find fault with these, as they are (according to her) a sign that she has lived a life full of joy. Her cheekbones stand out a fair bit, her lips are thin, and her eyebrows are thought to be fairly high. Most notably, though, her eyes are bright, with curiosity as well as understanding. Neither her age nor her glasses (which she wears only when reading) stand in the way of noticing her eyes.
Margerie is fairly thin, and leads an active lifestyle, wanting to remain alive and healthy for as long as she can to watch her grandchildren grow up, and to try to make the world a better place. Despite her age, she is still quite able-bodied. She isn't certain whether it is just determination or if her wizarding ancestors might have something to do with it. Either way, she is going to take full advantage of it while she can.
PERSONALITY
Likes: her family, peppermint, tea and cider, sitting in coffee shops or cafes, Doctor Who, white coffee, Macklemore
Dislikes: prejudice, assumptions, ignorance, country music, the divide between muggle and magical, inaction, jean jackets (the 90s were an ugly time)
Habits/Mannerisms: Covers her mouth with her hand when she is people watching or eavesdropping, whether she is amused or shocked by what she hears. Widens her eyes when she lies or exaggerates - this is deliberate, and does not occur when she doesn't want it to, but she finds it endearing. Fusses over small details. Tidies things or wrings her hands when nervous.
Strengths: Eloquent. Margerie has a way with words, knowing what she should say at any given moment to ensure that she gets her point across and doesn't push too hard. This includes knowing when to stay quiet.
Determined. Not easily swayed from her goals, Maggie will push forward even if everything is pushing her back. If anything, resistance will just make her more determined.
Experienced. At seventy-two years old, Mrs. Harris has spent several years working as an EMT, driving an ambulance with her husband, learning more in-depth medical knowledge along with him, raising three children, and having a number of grandchildren. She's made plenty of mistakes, of course, but she's learned from every one of them. She's a mother, a grandmother, a medic, a teacher, and a leader, and she's earned each title.
Understanding. An important piece of gaining wisdom, and of being a parent, is understanding how people work. Maggie is knowledgeable, and she is willing to forgive when she deems that the situation deserves it. Even if she doesn't, she understands where people come from and rarely takes things to heart. After all, she's dealt with plenty of teenagers informing her they hate her.
Versatile. Irene is also keenly aware of how she is perceived and she is very able to manipulate that, even playing down some of her flaws for short times by exaggerating other characteristics or manipulating how she is perceived so that most people will think the flaw incompatible with who she seems to be. She's able to fit in in a wide range of circumstances.
Weaknesses: Stubborn. Maggie will not allow people to sway her from her beliefs. She is more than willing to talk to people and to hear their side, she does not feel the need to argue her point, but when she starts something, she finishes it. Mama didn't raise no quitters.
Skeptical. Something that sets most people at odds with Margerie, at least at first, is that she habitually doubts just about everything she's told. She checks sources, even for things that people have no reason to lie about. She takes very little as obvious, preferring to analyze everything, no matter who has told her.
Proud. At seventy-two years old, Maggie has done a lot. She hasn't wasted any of those years, and her life has showed her that she can do anything with enough determination. Irene will not ask for help for things that she needs, insisting that after everything, she can do it herself. It's only a matter of time before this becomes increasingly impossible.
Self-righteous. Though Maggie will listen to others experiences, it doesn't change the fact that she's self-assured that she knows best. She considers herself open minded and understanding to an extreme, and believes that her ground is the correct one, the only one that will work.
Sentimental. Having many fond memories, Maggie often misses the way things used to be. She gets caught up in loneliness now that her children have moved out, and she misses her family all being together. This overwhelms her. General Character Traits: Maggie is independent, having always decided for herself what was good for her and what wasn't. She was a women's rights activist during the Trump administration and #MeToo movement, participating in marches and helping to raise awareness during events like Slut Walk. She knows firsthand that to be heard, you have to fight for it. She's big on freedom of expression, and believes that people's decisions should entirely be their own, at least so far as it doesn't hurt other people.
Things were difficult for Maggie growing up as a squib. She always felt like an outsider, both in the magical world and the non-magical, especially with such a deep divide as there was in the United States. She learned rather early that she was going to get nothing the easy way, and that things were going to take hard work. She's never been afraid to put forth that effort.
More than anything, Maggie cares deeply about her family. She was always close with her sisters, and after getting married and having children, this became even more important to her. She knows that family is who will always be there, and of course she loves her progeny unconditionally. Though her marriage has required work, as any relationship does, that has only made the amazing relationship she has with her husband better.
HISTORY
Content Warning: Child abandonment, teenage pregnancy, accidental drowning of a child.
Victoria Rainwater was a respectable pureblood girl, at least up until she started having children out of wedlock. Caleb came without the status of some pureblood families, although they didn't know of any non-magical blood in his veins, he didn't have the lineage to prove it. In America, they might have been accepted as a match if they had gotten married, but the pair wasn't particularly interested in that, and given both the time period and the culture they were part of, this got them a lot of bad rep. Their first child, Margerie, was an accident, but they stayed together.
Maggie wasn't an easy baby, but she wasn't extraordinarily hard, either. Like any infant, she took a lot of work, but she was healthy and happy. Victoria was only nineteen when her daughter was born, where Caleb was twenty-four, and Caleb took a more active role in parenting. The young mother was prone to bouts of depression, particularly after the birth. In the first few weeks, it seemed that this would cause minimal issues, but as time went on, they would often get into fights. Gradually, Maggie became a loud infant, and then a very quiet child, although she was prone to tantrums.
When by five years old, Maggie had still not shown any indication of having magic whatsoever, Victoria started to worry, but Caleb was unconcerned. In what might have been an attempt to focus on better things, Victoria got pregnant again. This time, the small family was in for a surprise: twins. Elena and Madison were fraternal, born when Maggie was six. By the time the twins were two years old, Madison had already displayed accidental magic that could only be hers. Maggie and Elena remained apparently magickless, but at only eight, Margerie wasn't sure what that meant.
It was another three years, a couple days after Maggie's eleventh birthday, when the twins were just four, that Caleb sat her down and explained things. He assured her that nothing would change: though she wouldn't go to Ilvermorny, she would continue going to her current school, and she could write the friends she had who were magical. The realization that she wasn't magical upset Margerie, but what came next was far worse. It was less than a month later that Victoria took four-year-old Madeline and left her two squib daughters behind. Caleb was furious, but he focused all of his energy on making sure that Maggie and Elena knew that they were loved. He moved them into a smaller home in Georgia, closer to his parents, and ensured that if he or his parents couldn't watch the girls, he got babysitters. Though it was incredibly hard, Caleb was determined not to force his oldest daughter to become a stand-in parent in her mother's absence. Still, the experience did cause Maggie to grow up a little more. She was the mature one, and always looked out for her little sister, who she adored.
Realizing that muggle school was the only school she was ever going to attend, realizing that she would have to get through life without the magic that had been part of everything, Maggie threw herself into her studies, determined that if she was going to be a squib, she was going to be the best at it. Being the first in her family, possibly ever, without magic meant that she didn't have anyone to help her make the adjustment, but she slowly got the hang of the muggle world, and taught her sister everything she knew. In high school, she took several AP classes, and had a 3.5 GPA, graduating with honors the same year it was confirmed that Elena was also a squib.
The younger of the two girls took to the muggle world with much less ease than Maggie had. Elena hated being a squib, she hated that she didn't know her mother, she hated her dad's rules, she hated being boring. After a fight between the two, Maggie realized that she didn't have to be quite so perfect, and as she left for university, she decided that, though she was determined to do well in school, she wasn't going to do that at the detriment of her social life.
In university, Maggie learned more and more about the system she was part of, including the corruption and unfairness within it. As well as spending more time making friends, Maggie began to devote a significant amount of time to getting involved in protests and politics. She took women's studies as her minor, and at a party one of her friends organized, she met William Harris. They hit it off immediately, but it was his earnest devotion to learning more about what minorities faced, and not just because she cared about it, but because he did, that won her over in the end. She asked him on a date after a rally they both attended when she was 19. From then on, they were together.
Though William and Margerie were both young when they started dating, and in Maggie's case, fairly inexperienced, they didn't let the "odds" of things working out scare them off. They were serious about each other, committed to communication and honesty. From the get-go, they knew it wouldn't always be the honeymoon phase, it would be work as well, and they were determined to give it their best go. After a year, they mutually agreed to a break, to see if they were still both serious. After two months of seeing other people, a brief medical scare made Maggie realize that there was no one she wanted at her side both through good times and bad than William, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. She told him immediately how she felt, and he reciprocated the feelings. They began seeing each other once again. Maggie never told William about magic.
It was another year before William graduated, getting a job at a care home to start paying off his loans, and with some of the money he saved, he bought Maggie a ring. It wasn't expensive, but it was perfect for her. When he proposed on the anniversary of them starting to date, she said yes, and they slowly began to plan the wedding as Margerie finished her final year at school. After her graduation, she got a temporary job as an emergency dispatcher. They planned their wedding for that autumn, but come August, a wrench was thrown in their plans as Maggie's little sister, who had just turned seventeen, confessed that she was pregnant.
There was much discussion between Maggie and William, and Maggie and Elena. Maggie talked with her sister about all of the options, and the difficulties of each, and asked her what she wanted to do. Ultimately, although the pair hadn't planned to have children for years yet, Maggie and William agreed to adopt Elena's baby, allowing her to be involved without being totally responsible for the child. Maggie and William postponed their wedding until they had the costs of a new baby under control, fixing up the home they were living in to accommodate the baby. When the time came, Elena named her daughter Amelee Harris. Maggie had never in her life imagined just how much she could love something before holding her child in her arms. When Elena graduated from high school the following spring, she moved into William and Maggie's house temporarily, and that summer, the pair finally got married, with Amelee being their tiny flower girl with her biological mother's help.
Shortly after the wedding, Maggie got a new job at a hospital as a nurse and she began taking self-defense classes, but those were cut somewhat short as she realized that their brief honeymoon had resulted in her getting pregnant for the first time. She continued to take the classes as long as she could without hurting the baby, and went back to it only a couple months after Jasper Harris was born. Within a year of her second child being born, she was trained with a firearm, as well as having some knowledge of Krav Maga. By that point, Elena had moved into her own apartment for good, though she still watched the kids every so often.
It was five years later, when Maggie was thirty-one, that Maggie obtained her black belt in Krav Maga. With children aged six and seven, Maggie suggested to William that they have one more. This time, it took some trying, and Amelee and Jasper were nine and eight when Peyton was born. Maggie took a year off from work to stay home with her children, though she realized she was terribly bad at sitting still, and after seven months she went back to part-time training to ensure she was still fit. Once the year came to an end, she began teaching classes, focusing on lessons for high school students, particularly young girls.
Once Peyton was old enough to start school five years later, the older children entering their teenage years, Margerie and William took to the next adventure, one they had been thinking about and preparing for for some time. Wanting to help more in the world, they applied and began operating an ambulance as emergency medical technicians. It was hard work, with long hours, and they didn't do this for long before they decided they wanted to devote more time to their children. They both volunteered at schools and sporting events, working softer medical jobs until Peyton was sixteen and their older kids were well into adulthood. Then they took to working in the ambulance again.
It didn't take long for William and Maggie to be blessed with grandchildren, who they happily doted on, and spent time with whenever they were able. In 2044, when Maggie was 62, tragedy struck in the form of an accident with Jasper's children. Maggie's youngest grandchild, Peter, drowned in a river. Fortunately, none of the others were hurt.
In the wake of the accident, Maggie was distraught, as all the family was, but she did her best to be there for her son, her daughter-in-law, and her remaining grandchildren. The chaos and uncertainty over the events in question distracted her from the news, and she wasn't told much of the oddities around Ari that followed, but she had begun to suspect based on things she'd seen herself. When Adrian turned eleven, the letter arriving from Ilvermorny, the one that had never come for Maggie, wasn't truly a surprise. If some of the "make believe" stories she'd told her children and grandchildren shared some similarities between Ari's experiences in the magical world, it was mostly overlooked. But finally, Maggie confessed to William that she had once been part of that world.
Five years after Adrian first entered the magical world, Jasper was offered a job in the UK, and Ari followed to attend Hogwarts. However, the whispers of an attack on King's Cross station - an attack that Ari had been injured in - caused Maggie and William to relocate as well. She got a job teaching at a children's care home in Scotland and paid close attention to the events that her grandson was on the edge of. The statute of secrecy was all but destroyed following that attack, too much getting out from between the fingers of the Ministry to be contained... and then there was the Secret Salem Society.
Margerie had no issue with most magical people, they were her family, her friends. She knew magic users were not wholly to blame, that it was a matter of the Ministry's laws, but she saw the issues in those laws: the way that squibs and muggleborns alike were forced to balance on a line it was difficult to walk. She knew how much of an outcast from both worlds it had made her felt, and she'd heard similar stories from muggleborns. When she heard about the SSS, Maggie was cautious, especially knowing that their actions would cause innocent people to be injured, but she learned about their leader's primary goals and decided she wanted to help change the laws the only way she could. She signed on as an SSS medic. Supportive as always, William followed suit.