Morag MacDougal

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Morag Sorcha MacDougal
Nicknames/Aliases: Mor, but pretty much only if you're related to her. Occasionally Mac if someone is feeling unoriginal or lazy. Mac is safer to use than Mor, though. Colleagues probably prefer to use things like Ice Queen behind her back.

Occupation: Healer. Morag mainly works with injury or illness resulting from potions or plants, but she also works to repair spell damage. She likes her work mainly because she likes fixing things; she finds difficult case particularly rewarding for that reason. Her bedside manner, however, leaves something to be desired.

Home: A flat in Quendryth.

Finances: Upper middle-class, as far as her paycheck goes. She lives comfortably and frugally, though she does splurge on occasion.

Household: Morag lives alone and likes it like that, for the most part.

External
Appearance: Morag has long, slightly wavy brown hair that reaches almost to the middle if her back. She usually keeps it pulled back somehow when she is at work. She has blue-green eyes and a roundish face, though her expression is usually more on the side of severe than cheerful. She prefers robes and has a penchant for wearing mostly one color at a time - all black, all white, all blue, etc. She doesn't wear much make-up. There's no point to it, in her mind.

Morag mainly wears well-made, off-the-rack robes. Occasionally splurges on something more high end. She has a penchant for brightly colored blouses and likes vests. She has a purposeful and fairly fast gait. Morag likes to get where she's going quickly and keep things rolling. Her speech is clipped and concise when at work or around her in-laws; a little more relaxed around her parents and siblings. Her accent is fairly typical of upper-middle class people in Dumfries. Morag stands straight and keeps her chin up. She does tend to hunch over a little when she's sitting and working, though.

What is the first thing people think (or think of) when they see this character? "Oh bloody hell. That's my Healer?" if they're a patient. She's pretty but intimidating and decidedly odd.

First Impression: That's she's pretty but intimidating and decidedly odd.

Internal
Political Views: Morag doesn't really keep up with politics. All she has to do is keep on the good side of her higher-ups. She is something of a blood purist herself, so it isn't hard.

Quirks/Habits:
 * Tends to work on paperwork through her lunch break unless someone takes it upon themself to bring food to her. More often than not, her sister-in-law does so, to Morag's great chagrin.
 * Organizes her clothes by colour.
 * Scowls when concentrating.
 * Looks at people over the top of her glasses.

Strengths: Logical, organized, professional, uses her head, good with measurements, frugal, potions, herbology, charms.

Weaknesses: Emotionally closed off, something of a misanthrope, workaholic, somewhat OCD, not so good with defensive magic, can't produce a Patronus.

Fears: Being outed to her family.

Philias: Potions, her job, women, books, red wine.

Hobbies/Interests: Potions experiments, reading, Cher's music (only contraband she has)

Favourite Belongings: Her wand, her potions equipment, her glasses.

Favourite Places:
 * Dumfries, Scotland: She was born and grew up there. It will always be home.
 * Hogwarts: She expects it's cliche to say school is one's favourite place, but she really did like it there.
 * her flat: It's cozy and it's hers.

Secrets: She a lesbian. And she had a six-month relationship with a Muggle woman.

History
Morag Sorcha MacDougal entered the world on the twenty-fifth of August in 1980, the third and final child of Pure-blood Scots. Her brother, Lindsay, had just turned six in July, and her sister, Mairead, had turned twelve in June. For a time, the clerks at her father's law firm had a running bet as to whether or not a fourth MacDougal child would be born six years later in September. The people who bet on it not happening made a small fortune.

As a child, it seemed to Morag that she was the second of two children rather than the last of three. Her sister was an absence, and when home, more of a babysitter than a sister because of the age difference, which Morag noticed keenly. She didn't feel it as much with Lindsay. She followed him around and watched him do things; she was always more interested in watching him than trying to do what he did. When he left for school, Morag didn't talk to anyone for an entire month. After that, she adjusted to being by herself. She read Mairead's old textbooks - the ones she'd kept, anyway. She liked the pictures of plants in the Herbology one, and the descriptions in the Potions one.

When it was finally her turn to go to Hogwarts, Morag was thrilled. She'd get to see her brother more often, yes, but more importantly, much more importantly, she'd get to learn. Learn how to make the potions she'd read about. The Sorting Hat considered putting her in Slytherin, then decided Ravenclaw suited her a little more. Morag liked the sound of Ravenclaw, an besides, her whole family had been in it. Amazingly, the Potter boy that the world seemed to like to crow about so much lately was in her year, as well. Morag didn't take much notice of him. He was a half-blood, which admittedly wasn't his fault, and a Gryffindor, which sort of was, and thus not terribly interesting except when he got into trouble, which seemed to happen more often than not.

Morag found her calling in her Potions class. She didn't really understand why so few people other than Slytherins seemed to like Professor Snape. He was a highly intelligent man who brooked no foolishness. Also, she liked hearing rumours about him putting the oddly intelligent Muggleborn Gryffindor in her place. Morag did well in Herbology, too; she'd need to be in order to better understand Potions, she thought. She good in Charms as well, but was never that good with the non-theoretical aspects of Defence Against the Dark Arts.

When she was in her third year, she noticed something troubling about herself. While all the other girls were mooning over the boys on the Quidditch teams - and the other ones, but the athletes were perennial favourites - her eyes lingered only on the girls. She tried, but she couldn't see what was so attractive about boys other than the fact that girls were supposed to like them. She tried not to think about it, but found that increasingly hard to do. The Yule Ball during her fourth year was sheer torture. Morag went alone and spent the entire Ball sitting, scowling at the dancers. Everyone assumed she was jealous of the other girls, but she was really jealous of the boys, especially Cedric Diggory. She hated herself for it, but she'd gone and gotten a terribly big crush on Cho Chang. She ignored the older girl's presence in the common room, and managed not to speak a word to her until Cedric died. Morag wondered for a while if the fact that she didn't care that he was dead made her horrible, but what really made her feel horrible was what she said to Cho later when the girl was crying. Morag, in an attempt to exorcise her own feelings for the girl, told her to stop crying as she'd be over him in a month anyway. The crush went away eventually, but in the mean time, Morag managed to get dirty looks from most of the other Ravenclaw girls until they all went home for the summer. She had a few other crushes after Cho, and followed the same pattern of ignoring them or being a bitch to them.

Her seventh year was strange and annoying to her, as most of her year mates left for other schools or to join in the fighting. A number of the teachers went off to the war as well, which left some of the classes in the hands of the seventh years. Most of Morag's classes ended up consisting of teaching the younger years. It wasn't what she'd had in mind for her final year of school, but at least it was challenging. And an exercise in patience.

Morag entered the Healer training program at the height of the war. Most of her learning was hands on, as the hospital needed all the hands it could get with so many trauma's pouring in. She impressed her superiors by keeping a level head under these stressful circumstances, though a few felt that she was able to shut herself off a little too much.

She finished her training in early 2001 and, since some of the people she'd impressed the most had found themselves promoted when Voldemort came to power, she found herself in the rather enviable, if slightly odd, position of being among the management's darlings. It gave her more autonomy than she would have had otherwise, but it also meant she had to know which side her bread was buttered on. Which wasn't really an issue to her.

Currently, Morag spends most of her time on the third floor of the hospital because of her enduring love of potions, but she also works on the fourth floor with spell damage. After all, she saw a lot of that during the war.

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