The Slug Club: Famous Relations

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Activity: Famous Relations
Points: 10 points, participation only.
Deadline: Saturday, 19 September @ 8 PM CST.

If you dig deep enough or far enough back, pretty much everyone can claim relation to someone famous. Slughorn's got himself all caught up on the topic, and is asking all his hopefuls about famous relatives. Care to share a tale with him?

Your job is to briefly (100-200 words) describe a famous relation of yours for Slughorn. If you have any wizard blood at all, this relative should be a wizard (perhaps he'll have heard of them!), but if you're muggleborn, you may use a muggle.

This is an excercise about creativity and imagination - no real people may be used. "Real people" here means people who have existed or are thought to have existed in the muggle world and people who exist within the HP canon. Your relative should be someone you have completely invented yourself. This is to even the playing field for people who may, in fact, have a famous relative, and also because I am sure we will all vomit if we see anyone claiming they are Snape's second cousin by marriage or Dumbledore's great granddaughter. (And there aren't that many minor wizards people could claim relation to, and I don't want us to run out.) You may use real things/places, so long as they don't interfere with canon or known fact. (For instance, you can claim your relative invented Polyjuice Potion, because no inventor has been given, but not that they founded Hogwarts.)

Your entry should include when your relative lived (or how old they are if they're still living), some background details about them (nationality, spouse/children, etc), and a brief explanation of why they are famous, or notable enough that Slughorn may be reasonably impressed.

Good Example
Marvin Meezle is my great-uncle on my father's side. As you may recall, Marvin was a pub-owner on Diagon Alley who discovered the intensifying properties of gilly water when mixed with spirits. Blah blah blah..

Bad Example
I happen to be the granddaughter of Arsenius Jigger, author of a potions text we use in this very school..

You get the idea, yes? Don't forget to sign with your name/house and make sure you have signed the roster before the activity ends.

Any questions, please ask!

Think you're special enough to catch Slughorn's eye? Try out for the Slug Club today!

Comments

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Naturally you've heard of my great-great-grandmother Esme Devereaux, the French witch who single-handedly found the potion that cured the notorious Elf Pox epidemic of 1903. It was a simply dreadful disease and all across the countryside seemingly healthy witches and wizards were being struck down and incapacitated by its mighty hand. Esme, however, did not lose hope in the face of such a daunting task. She came over to Britain when she was only twenty-five and immediately set to work. The cure was incredibly difficult to create and poor great-grandmother lost sight in her left eye. But luckily it worked and she made it a point to teach every healer at St. Mungo's how to make it. Our family takes pride in its potions-making ability and even today our talent is well known.

Hannah//Ravenclaw