Basic Stats
Full Name: Aria Lianne Martinelli
Gender: Female
Nicknames: None
Date of Birth: March 7, 1960
Age: 14
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Sexuality: Straight
Marital Status: Single
Hometown: Birmingham, England
House: Ravenclaw
Year: 4th
Bloodline: Half-blood
Wand: 14 3/4 in, black palm wood, hair of a dryad
Pet: Calico kitten named Miss Fluffkins
Extras: Chaser on the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team
Journal: bookish_dreamer
Played By: Tina Majorino
Family
Father: Devon Martinelli (wizard; works in the Department of International Magical Cooperation; Gryffindor 1953)
Mother: Sophia Martinelli (née Barton; witch; housewife; Hufflepuff 1955)
History
Aria, the only child of Devon and Sophia Martinelli, was born at the family's home just outside of Birmingham, England (the country's second most populated city, actually). Both Devon and Sophia were wizarding folk, so of course they raised their only child with the expectation that she would display magical abilities and be invited to Hogwarts. When the child was at the sweet young age of four, Sophia walked into the nursery and found Aria's dolls tap-dancing for the young girl, much to the child's glee. Sophia had never been more proud of her daughter and relieved at the same time (a niggling fear had gripped her from Aria's birth that, due to Sophia's muggle heritage, Aria might be a squib).
Devon works for the Ministry of Magic in the Department of International Magical Cooperation, and he was sent to Italy for a few weeks in the summer of 1966. He brought along his wife and daughter to see the sights. While they were there, Aria was bitten by a snake (an asp viper, to be more precise) and Sophia and Devon were terrified that they would lose their only child. Thankfully, they were able to rush the young girl to a healer quickly and she was healed with no lasting physical damage. After this incident, they were a bit more protective of Aria, and their fear of her being hurt again caused her fear of snakes to blossom into full ophidiophobia.
Despite her parents' fears and protectiveness, Aria grew into a reasonably well-adjusted girl, although she did tend to let people walk all over her. She was excited, after hearing her parents' stories of Hogwarts, to have received an invitation to the school a few months after her eleventh birthday. She was packed and ready to go by the first week of August. Once at Hogwarts, she was sorted into Ravenclaw and settled in quite well. She befriended the girls in her year quickly — both those within her house and those outside of it — though she was far more shy around the boys and did not quite befriend them so quickly and easily. Of course, she would be perfectly nice, sweet, and kind to anyone, and offer a sympathetic ear to anyone who wished to talk. At this time, Aria has nobody that she would particularly consider an enemy, though she thinks that there might be some who would sneer on her for her easy-going attitude and not-quite-pure bloodline.
Ten Years Later
In ten years, Aria will be: single, and a Chaser for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team. The war hit her closer to home than she'd expected. Her paternal grandparents were killed by Death Eaters in the summer of 1977, and the deaths and disappearances of her former schoolmates, quite frankly, scared her. She turned to Quidditch, a sport she had come to love during her years on the Ravenclaw team, as a solace, an escape from the world of the war. When not involved in Quidditch, she hid behind her books and into her own imagination and dream world, still trying to escape. Her idealism, her belief that people were inherently good inside, was shattered in the face of the war, and she was no longer the innocent young girl who fell for Barnabas Cuffe's smooth talking, or the Ravenclaw Quidditch team's initiation. She did, however, maintain her sweet and kind nature, and through Quidditch, she's developed confidence in herself and her abilities.
