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

[supremacy-born.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've heard about the famous Neimanta family tree of witches and wizards from Eastern Europe. They originated in Latvia, which is where my great grandmother was born before my family moved to England. A country of heathens and druids, Latvia was well known for its magical families and the secret powers and spells that were passed on from generation to generation. My great grandmother in particular, Inese Neimanta, was particularly well known for her romantic spells and curses, which were particularly successful and powerful since they were inherently tied in with the bloodline of our family tree.

Inese was one of the most powerful witch of her time in Eastern Europe, and many wizards sought her favour because they knew that the only way their families could inherit the Neimanta power was by marrying into the family. Yet Inese, as always, chose to act on her emotions and married out of love to a Latvian peasant. It's said that in my family tree, magic is far more powerful on the female side and I'd definitely like to think that I have inherited that from my great grandmother. :)

Eve//Slytherin