Zoe Bradford

Backstory

Zoe Bradford is a half-blood witch born in Sheffield to a pure-blood father and a muggle-born mother. Growing up she had a love for reading, especially about divination and potion-making, but she had to keep this to herself while attending a muggle primary school. Zoe became the target of bullying by a few muggle children because of her "weird" and introverted personality. Zoe rarely suffered from magical outbursts but ended up levitating a few papers and writing utensils around her after being pushed to the ground. It wasn't a serious outburst but one muggle child was left with a few paper cuts. 

After a few traumatic events in her life which led to her mother leaving her father, Zoe developed an anxiety disorder diagnosed by a muggle therapist. Unbeknownst to the therapist, this anxiety disorder was the cause of occasional magical outbursts. Luckily Zoe had learned to keep outbursts at bay until she could get to a safe place. Soon she was introduced to a ministry official who helped to train her to prevent outbursts and how to lessen their effects.

After coming to Hogwarts Zoe found her love of art and poetry, as well as finding a love for the thestrals who she often visits on the edge of the forest. She takes pride in her gothic fashion and the title of strange which she has so often been given. Zoe mainly keeps to herself but loves to help out her classmates (especially with Divination, DADA, & Potions) and be a person that her friends know they can talk to.