Bella (Keller) Drechsler

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Name: Bella Keller Dreschler
Age: 22
Birthday: 12 Jan, 2075
Marital Status: Married to Calvin Dreschler
Wand: Sycamore, Unicorn core, 10 3/4 inches, Unbending
Random Fact That May or May Not Be Relevant:
Severe Allergy to Insect Venom (eg Bee stings, scorpion venom, billywig stings, etc.)

Her Story:

Bella Keller is very much a determined and stubborn Gryffindor. After her boyfriend at the time decided to go to Egypt after graduation, Bella decided to research careers she could study in the area. She soon fell in love with cursebreaking. During her fourth year, she prepared herself for a summer course at Cairo WU by self-teaching minor cursebreaking, ancient runes, arithmancy, Latin and ancient Egyptian (dating a Ravenclaw had come in handy.) After that summer, she continued her education at the Cairo campus, starting her cursebreaking coursework, and taking remedial classes to catch up on any subjects she was missing at Hogwarts. Four years of year-round continual schooling (and couple months off the grid doing research, and one thesis requiring several rewrites) later, she graduated from Cairo WU with a double major degree in Cursebreaking and Anthropology - Ancient Civilizations Emphasis.

After graduation, Bella worked in Crete at a Minoan Civilization dig. There she met Thomas Watts, who has been her constant in the workplace ever since. She was engaged at the time and living in Italy. A year later, the engagement fell apart. She moved out, quit her job, and spent a month figuring out what was next for her.

Bella decided to go back to school for her Doctorate in Anthropology. She applied and got accepted to Madrid WU and moved to Barcelona. At Madrid WU, she taught a few introduction to anthropology classes, a few cursebreaking classes, as well as taking a few classes and working on her dissertation. After her first year, she spent the summer in Belize, doing research on her dissertation topic -- the fall of the Mayan Empire -- more specifically, why some areas lasted longer than others. That summer she also reconciled with former fiance Calvin Dreschler. Come fall, she moved to Germany where Calvin had been living, and continued her teaching and coursework at Madrid WU.

That winter, Bella Keller became Bella Drechsler.

The following spring, Bella was contacted by her former thesis adviser about a big discovery. Being as ambitious as she is, the future Dr Drechsler, of course, said she was happy to assist. She’d been traveling back and forth to assist in the research. Now that it is summer, she and her family have moved to Egypt to assist full time. She’ll be documenting and leading this portion of the exploration in conjunction with the lead Gringotts cursebreaker.

tl;dr:

• Bella's undergraduate thesis adviser made an offer she couldn't refuse. So she didn't.
• She's really concerned with everything being properly documented, as her background (and also her history nerd personality) imply.

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Hawke Zunther

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Name: Hawke Zunther
Age: 17
Birthday: 29 Sept, 2079
Marital Status: Single… thanks for rubbing it in
Wand: Rowan, Phoenix Feather, 13 inches, Supple

His Story:

Hawke has always outwardly been an easygoing guy. The downside of that, he has never considered himself particularly interesting. This is compounded by the fact that he’s often with his family, who are all essentially perfect. He’s been struggling with his personal identity and finding something he’s passionate about. He’s particularly worried because this could very well be his last time to figure out what he wants (and to do something different that just being another token rich and pretty Zunther).

A certain Sylvie had expressed interest in this cursebreaking opportunity, and being the certain Sylvie’s friend who did anything for her, they applied along with Juni despite the article mentioning you should have graduated in order to attend.

After a breakup with said Sylvie, Hawke has spent the entire summer being anything but himself. He still decided to come for several reasons (and only most of them have to do with making sure Sylvie doesn’t get hurt). He even prepped by studying up on some local history and by reading some girl’s thesis which included an in-depth section on ancient Egyptian curses and culture. His application was not as creative though. He just copied anything Juni wrote down on hers.

tl;dr:

• He does not belong here.
• But would like to belong somewhere.
• Someone here most definitely did not break his heart.