Post by Cho Chang on Apr 18, 2017 16:48:24 GMT -5
Zhāng Qiū (Cho Chang)
by Steph
39
age
Woman
gender
04/28/1979
birthday
blood status
Purebloodsexual orientation
Pan. Very much pan.
epidemic x status
Infected
occupation
Reporter at the Quibbler,
Order of the Phoenix
former Seeker for Pride of Portree
Order of the Phoenix
former Seeker for Pride of Portree
general appearance
A freckled, oval-shaped face, framed by roughly shoulder-length hair, perpetually windburnt light brown skin, and long eyelashes over alert dark eyes, all framed by inky black hair she keeps cropped to her shoulders. 5’2 in height, sinewy and built, though seems deceptively slight when robed. On the sides of her body, she's got several aged burn scars.
former school
Hogwartsformer house
Ravenclawachievements
- Seeker on Ravenclaw Quidditch team
- Didn't fail her NEWTs in her depression
- Didn't fail her NEWTs in her depression
university
Lufkin
university major(s)
Political Science
Journalism
Journalism
years attended
2003 - 2007 (Journalism)
2003 - 2005 (Political Science)
2003 - 2005 (Political Science)
skills
Flight, Charms, DADA, writing, self-defense, nonverbal spells, cooking complex meals
weaknesses
Prone to depression, emotional, soft-hearted, squeamish, cooking simple meals, her children, Mandarin and Cantonese
positive traits
Athletic, articulate, attractive, caring, clever, compassionate, conciliatory, curiosity, hard-working, intelligent magnanimous, methodical, principled, sentimental, social
negative traits
Anxious, brittle, excitable, insecure, over-analytical, opinionated, reactionary
hobbies/interests
Taking care of her children, criticizing Quidditch plays, self-defense, running, the Swedish Broom Race
accomplishments
Nineteen time survivor of the Swedish Annual Broom race
First place champion five times
Second place champion three times
Third place champion four times
First place champion five times
Second place champion three times
Third place champion four times
character history
Zhāng Qiū was born in the mostly-Muggle town of Dundee, in Scotland. She adopted the name ‘Cho Chang’ during her first year in Hogwarts, and from there on, used it as her name while talking to her friends and professors.
With a bright and cheerful personality, she started gathering friends around herself with relative ease. She joined Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team as a Seeker in her Third year in school where she met even more friends, and helped win and end a few Quidditch games-- specifically, a Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff match where she met Cedric Diggory. She also chose Muggle Studies and Arithmancy for her electives, subjects which she found came easily to her.
In her Fourth year, she developed a crush on the Hufflepuff seeker she’d defeated, and struck up a close friendship with him. When a year later he’d became a Hogwarts Champion in the Triwizard Tournament, and asked her to be his date to the Yule Ball, she’d barely hesitated before happily agreeing. The Yule Ball was one of her happiest memories of Hogwarts, and she’d felt as if the night was a half-dream-- full of giddiness and hope. She later was considered what Cedric would miss most, and used as a hostage in the Second Task. The Third Task, however-- Cedric was killed during it, and Cho was heartbroken. Her parents, thinking that separating from the situation might be helpful, took her to Singapore to visit family. Removed then, from her most natural support, Cho floundered and sank harder into depression.
In her Sixth year, she came back to Hogwarts to face the nasty shock that many of her friends had left her, not knowing or not willing to help her while she was so changed from the Cho they knew. Everything in Hogwarts now reminded her of Cedric. Partially as a rebound, part of a desire to find out about Cedric, partially naturally-- she started noticing an attraction to the boy who witnessed Cedric’s death-- Harry Potter. Having been out of the country that summer, she went without noticing the start of a smear campaign against Harry, and found it an awful shock to see what they were saying about the witness to her boyfriend’s murder. Struggling with feelings of unworthiness and desperate to bring hope to his memory, she joined the DA at once. Unwilling to let her friends-- or the sole remaining friend she had-- be slaughtered once again, she pulled Marietta Edgecombe into the DA with her. An unsteady relationship with Harry began, with Cho constantly feeling as if she was disrespecting Cedric’s memory, and unwilling and unable to lose what new bond of connection she’d formed. During a disastrous date in Hogsmeade, she grew jealous and emotional, eventually running out of the date, which she sobbed for hours after about. Some months later, Marietta reported on the DA, and Cho supported her last remaining friend over her boyfriend’s friend, over which she fell out with Harry with, and never quite got back on decent terms with him. Somehow-- she suspected professors taking pity on her-- she passed her end-of-the-year exams.
In her Seventh and final year, she avoided Harry whenever she could, and kept up practicing spells on her own. She passed her NEWTs successfully, and was horrified to find out she’d slept through Dumbledore’s murder. In the year of the War, she, along with her parents, helped hide Muggleborns, move them out of the country through illicit means and protect their neighborhood from Death Eaters. She found out about the Battle of Hogwarts almost by chance and rushed over to her old school to defend it. She escaped large injuries, and was a witness to the death of Voldemort, which she took a vicious satisfaction in.
Later that year, she participated in the Annual Broom race in Sweden and escaped relatively unscathed. Something about the thrill, the danger, the flames and the determination needed spoke to her. She’d never been an adrenaline-seeker other than the occasional Wronski Feint, but with the wind singing in her ears and the blood pounding in her body-- she’d felt as if she found a true calling.
She participated in the Broom Race the next year as well, laughing and weeping as she crossed the line, coming in at a very respectable third place. During the celebrations, she made a friend in Song Kwan, a Muggle-born wizard from Korea, who worked in the Korean Ministry as an Creature Rights Advocate, as well as the Captain of the Pride of Portee, who suggested she try out for their Seeker. Despite Cho’s protests at her skill, she found herself on the ground for tryouts with other hopefuls, and made the team in 2000, though luckily she didn’t play against her beloved Tutshill Tornadoes. She continued to participate in the Broom Race when she could.
She and Kwan kept in contact, and Cho met Kwan’s younger sibling, Jae-gyu, who was a Muggle that had made a life as a relatively successful scientist. She and Jae-gyu went on a few dates, shortly before Cho made a cissexist joke at a (cis) former classmate. Jae-gyu then stopped seeing Cho, and their relationship was only resolved once Cho corrected a reporter on the use of Jae-gyu’s gender and pronouns. Her later threat-- that she’d shrivel up the reporter’s fingers, ears, and tongue unless the proper pronouns were used-- was put promptly into print, and Jae-gyu and Cho sent each other flowers, Cho’s complete with an apology.
Shortly after that, Cho caught a Bludger to the belly, and fell nearly seventy feet from her broom. During the resulting hospital visit, Cho discovered she had been pregnant. She'd lost the child, but she'd lived. That was what was important, wasn't it? She and Jae-gyu fell into a relationship, and decided to adopt a child. They were young, but-- it wasn't to be a replacement Kneazle, just. . . they wanted to. Wanted to help, and so they married and adopted. She didn't leave the team then, she didn't have to. She wanted to be on the Tornadoes, she'd get good enough she'd be traded there someday.
But another child followed a year after, a girl that they decided to name Song Nari. After Nari’s birth, Cho-- all she could think about was what had happened before, what might happen again. There were two small children in her house now, both under three. She couldn't risk it, not more than once a year. She contacted the Pride of Portee that she would not be able to come back to the pitch, which they accepted easily. Cho used the time she wasn’t spending with her children to attend Lufkin University, where she studied political science and journalism. Shortly after graduation, she gave birth to her and Jae-gyu’s final child, a boy they’d decided to name Zhāng Jian-Min.
With three children now, Cho decided she needed to find a job as quickly as she could. She took one of the first jobs could could use with her degrees; a job as a journalist at the Quibbler. While she’d often scorned the publication in school, it had come in handy a few times, and she decided that she’d try to steer it onto a more sane path. (she was often not successful)
The years passed, and Cho’s life fell into a livable rhythm, with her job, what Annual Broom Race she could get away to in Sweden. With her bloodlines what they were, she faced questioning once or twice, though it was easily brushed away when all she had to do was trot out of her Muggle spouse and Dumbledore’s Army coin, as well as the few scars she’d earned at the Battle of Hogwarts. She was disquieted at the rumors of Harry Potter’s stability, and of Kingsley Shacklebolt’s dismissal.
In 2013, her eldest child came out as a trans boy, and Cho tried to accept him as he wished to be accepted. His deadname and false pronouns slipped out every so often-- too much, in her own eyes. A rift began to grow between Cho and Jin, and only widened as Cho’s marriage with Jae-gyu began to falter: two workaholics never made the best sort of marriage, especially when Cho would vanish into Sweden’s broom race most years-- a race her body was beginning to protest as her injuries started adding up, and growing more numerous.
Cho and Jae-gyu decided to divorce in mid-2015, after over a year of struggling and trying to make their marriage work out again. They considered themselves much better as friends, and remained friendly with each other. In July of 2016, however, Jae-gyu was visiting Diagon Alley with their children and was caught in the explosions, becoming one of the fatalities of that day.
Cho nearly pulled her children out of Hogwarts, following the Halloween incident, but they refused to leave and transfer to Mahōtokoro, despite the strings Cho had her family pull to have the ancient magical school accept children who spoke only English. They also refused transferral to a Chinese wizarding school, as well as homeschooling. Though she struggled to accept it, Cho allowed them to continue attending-- as long as they would stick up for Muggle-borns and half-bloods they saw being harassed, and kept themselves safe.
After the school lockdown, she forced them to transfer.
With a bright and cheerful personality, she started gathering friends around herself with relative ease. She joined Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team as a Seeker in her Third year in school where she met even more friends, and helped win and end a few Quidditch games-- specifically, a Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff match where she met Cedric Diggory. She also chose Muggle Studies and Arithmancy for her electives, subjects which she found came easily to her.
In her Fourth year, she developed a crush on the Hufflepuff seeker she’d defeated, and struck up a close friendship with him. When a year later he’d became a Hogwarts Champion in the Triwizard Tournament, and asked her to be his date to the Yule Ball, she’d barely hesitated before happily agreeing. The Yule Ball was one of her happiest memories of Hogwarts, and she’d felt as if the night was a half-dream-- full of giddiness and hope. She later was considered what Cedric would miss most, and used as a hostage in the Second Task. The Third Task, however-- Cedric was killed during it, and Cho was heartbroken. Her parents, thinking that separating from the situation might be helpful, took her to Singapore to visit family. Removed then, from her most natural support, Cho floundered and sank harder into depression.
In her Sixth year, she came back to Hogwarts to face the nasty shock that many of her friends had left her, not knowing or not willing to help her while she was so changed from the Cho they knew. Everything in Hogwarts now reminded her of Cedric. Partially as a rebound, part of a desire to find out about Cedric, partially naturally-- she started noticing an attraction to the boy who witnessed Cedric’s death-- Harry Potter. Having been out of the country that summer, she went without noticing the start of a smear campaign against Harry, and found it an awful shock to see what they were saying about the witness to her boyfriend’s murder. Struggling with feelings of unworthiness and desperate to bring hope to his memory, she joined the DA at once. Unwilling to let her friends-- or the sole remaining friend she had-- be slaughtered once again, she pulled Marietta Edgecombe into the DA with her. An unsteady relationship with Harry began, with Cho constantly feeling as if she was disrespecting Cedric’s memory, and unwilling and unable to lose what new bond of connection she’d formed. During a disastrous date in Hogsmeade, she grew jealous and emotional, eventually running out of the date, which she sobbed for hours after about. Some months later, Marietta reported on the DA, and Cho supported her last remaining friend over her boyfriend’s friend, over which she fell out with Harry with, and never quite got back on decent terms with him. Somehow-- she suspected professors taking pity on her-- she passed her end-of-the-year exams.
In her Seventh and final year, she avoided Harry whenever she could, and kept up practicing spells on her own. She passed her NEWTs successfully, and was horrified to find out she’d slept through Dumbledore’s murder. In the year of the War, she, along with her parents, helped hide Muggleborns, move them out of the country through illicit means and protect their neighborhood from Death Eaters. She found out about the Battle of Hogwarts almost by chance and rushed over to her old school to defend it. She escaped large injuries, and was a witness to the death of Voldemort, which she took a vicious satisfaction in.
Later that year, she participated in the Annual Broom race in Sweden and escaped relatively unscathed. Something about the thrill, the danger, the flames and the determination needed spoke to her. She’d never been an adrenaline-seeker other than the occasional Wronski Feint, but with the wind singing in her ears and the blood pounding in her body-- she’d felt as if she found a true calling.
She participated in the Broom Race the next year as well, laughing and weeping as she crossed the line, coming in at a very respectable third place. During the celebrations, she made a friend in Song Kwan, a Muggle-born wizard from Korea, who worked in the Korean Ministry as an Creature Rights Advocate, as well as the Captain of the Pride of Portee, who suggested she try out for their Seeker. Despite Cho’s protests at her skill, she found herself on the ground for tryouts with other hopefuls, and made the team in 2000, though luckily she didn’t play against her beloved Tutshill Tornadoes. She continued to participate in the Broom Race when she could.
She and Kwan kept in contact, and Cho met Kwan’s younger sibling, Jae-gyu, who was a Muggle that had made a life as a relatively successful scientist. She and Jae-gyu went on a few dates, shortly before Cho made a cissexist joke at a (cis) former classmate. Jae-gyu then stopped seeing Cho, and their relationship was only resolved once Cho corrected a reporter on the use of Jae-gyu’s gender and pronouns. Her later threat-- that she’d shrivel up the reporter’s fingers, ears, and tongue unless the proper pronouns were used-- was put promptly into print, and Jae-gyu and Cho sent each other flowers, Cho’s complete with an apology.
Shortly after that, Cho caught a Bludger to the belly, and fell nearly seventy feet from her broom. During the resulting hospital visit, Cho discovered she had been pregnant. She'd lost the child, but she'd lived. That was what was important, wasn't it? She and Jae-gyu fell into a relationship, and decided to adopt a child. They were young, but-- it wasn't to be a replacement Kneazle, just. . . they wanted to. Wanted to help, and so they married and adopted. She didn't leave the team then, she didn't have to. She wanted to be on the Tornadoes, she'd get good enough she'd be traded there someday.
But another child followed a year after, a girl that they decided to name Song Nari. After Nari’s birth, Cho-- all she could think about was what had happened before, what might happen again. There were two small children in her house now, both under three. She couldn't risk it, not more than once a year. She contacted the Pride of Portee that she would not be able to come back to the pitch, which they accepted easily. Cho used the time she wasn’t spending with her children to attend Lufkin University, where she studied political science and journalism. Shortly after graduation, she gave birth to her and Jae-gyu’s final child, a boy they’d decided to name Zhāng Jian-Min.
With three children now, Cho decided she needed to find a job as quickly as she could. She took one of the first jobs could could use with her degrees; a job as a journalist at the Quibbler. While she’d often scorned the publication in school, it had come in handy a few times, and she decided that she’d try to steer it onto a more sane path. (she was often not successful)
The years passed, and Cho’s life fell into a livable rhythm, with her job, what Annual Broom Race she could get away to in Sweden. With her bloodlines what they were, she faced questioning once or twice, though it was easily brushed away when all she had to do was trot out of her Muggle spouse and Dumbledore’s Army coin, as well as the few scars she’d earned at the Battle of Hogwarts. She was disquieted at the rumors of Harry Potter’s stability, and of Kingsley Shacklebolt’s dismissal.
In 2013, her eldest child came out as a trans boy, and Cho tried to accept him as he wished to be accepted. His deadname and false pronouns slipped out every so often-- too much, in her own eyes. A rift began to grow between Cho and Jin, and only widened as Cho’s marriage with Jae-gyu began to falter: two workaholics never made the best sort of marriage, especially when Cho would vanish into Sweden’s broom race most years-- a race her body was beginning to protest as her injuries started adding up, and growing more numerous.
Cho and Jae-gyu decided to divorce in mid-2015, after over a year of struggling and trying to make their marriage work out again. They considered themselves much better as friends, and remained friendly with each other. In July of 2016, however, Jae-gyu was visiting Diagon Alley with their children and was caught in the explosions, becoming one of the fatalities of that day.
Cho nearly pulled her children out of Hogwarts, following the Halloween incident, but they refused to leave and transfer to Mahōtokoro, despite the strings Cho had her family pull to have the ancient magical school accept children who spoke only English. They also refused transferral to a Chinese wizarding school, as well as homeschooling. Though she struggled to accept it, Cho allowed them to continue attending-- as long as they would stick up for Muggle-borns and half-bloods they saw being harassed, and kept themselves safe.
After the school lockdown, she forced them to transfer.
parents
Zhāng Liang (Reimund Zhang), and Gōngsūn Chūnhuá (Amaryllis Gōngsūn Zhang)
siblings
None.
children
Song Jin, Song Nari, and Zhāng Jian-Min
partner
@ginny
other family
Eleanor Zhāng MacGuffin (paternal aunt)
Zhāng Gouzhi, Zhāng Xiaohui, Zhāng Yuanjun, and Cora Marlowe (first cousins)
Blaise Zabini-- something like second cousin
The Travers-- something like third cousins, a few Shafiqs. Either way, she doesn’t interact with them.
Singaporean families: The Gōngsūns, Youngs, Lees, Jiangs, Chengs, T'siens, and Shangs
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Zhāng Gouzhi, Zhāng Xiaohui, Zhāng Yuanjun, and Cora Marlowe (first cousins)
Blaise Zabini-- something like second cousin
The Travers-- something like third cousins, a few Shafiqs. Either way, she doesn’t interact with them.
Singaporean families: The Gōngsūns, Youngs, Lees, Jiangs, Chengs, T'siens, and Shangs
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family history
Her mother's family, the Gōngsūns, are a well-known Chinese pureblood family who left mainland China in the mid-1850s, away from the rising rumors of Imperial Japan growing in power. Once in Singapore, they consolidated gold, magic, and influence, steadily rising in the eyes of their peers. Over the next century, however, they lost most of their money as Singapore changed hands to the British, though keeping their name and respect. While the Gōngsūns were not the type of family to endorse such pursuits as the tormenting of non-magical peoples, they still kept the purity of the bloodline, preferring to marry other purebloods of similar status.
The Zhāngs, on the other hand, were a solid Hong Kong pureblood family, able to weather Imperial China, British Imperialism, Japanese occupation, and "restoration" of British control while keeping affluent positions in society. The first accordance of that certain pureblood Zhāng family (for of course, there were others) was recorded in the transfer of Hong Kong from Dongguan County to Xin'an County, where Zhāng Juzheng protested heavily, and attempted to jinx the imperial officer sent to the family home.
Zhāng Hua decided to set out and seek his luck in Britain when he reached the age of manhood, shortly after the British Muggles took control of non-magical China once more. He settled in Scotland, where he opened a small trading company. He later met and married Rén Chou, eventually having two sons with her. A handful of years after reaching manhood, the elder son Liang left to visit relatives in Hong Kong. However, a set of uncoordinated Portkeys left him stranded in Singapore, where he eventually met Gōngsūn Chūnhuá, who hit it off with him beautifully. Once they approached her parents about marrying, the pair encountered some difficulty until it was revealed Liang came from a family that had lost none of their respect and honor throughout Hong Kong's past-- and had managed to keep a good amount of their gold as well, and were relatively prosperous in Britain as well. Though there were some xenophobia with Liang's mother, who was possibly of Japanese descent, the Gōngsūns eventually allowed the lovers to marry-- as long as they would not disgrace their name and visit during summers.
Liang and Chūnhuá agreed, and were allowed to marry, which they immediately did. The couple eventually settled in Dundee, surrounded by Liang's family, and had a daughter, whom they named Qiū.
The Zhāngs, on the other hand, were a solid Hong Kong pureblood family, able to weather Imperial China, British Imperialism, Japanese occupation, and "restoration" of British control while keeping affluent positions in society. The first accordance of that certain pureblood Zhāng family (for of course, there were others) was recorded in the transfer of Hong Kong from Dongguan County to Xin'an County, where Zhāng Juzheng protested heavily, and attempted to jinx the imperial officer sent to the family home.
Zhāng Hua decided to set out and seek his luck in Britain when he reached the age of manhood, shortly after the British Muggles took control of non-magical China once more. He settled in Scotland, where he opened a small trading company. He later met and married Rén Chou, eventually having two sons with her. A handful of years after reaching manhood, the elder son Liang left to visit relatives in Hong Kong. However, a set of uncoordinated Portkeys left him stranded in Singapore, where he eventually met Gōngsūn Chūnhuá, who hit it off with him beautifully. Once they approached her parents about marrying, the pair encountered some difficulty until it was revealed Liang came from a family that had lost none of their respect and honor throughout Hong Kong's past-- and had managed to keep a good amount of their gold as well, and were relatively prosperous in Britain as well. Though there were some xenophobia with Liang's mother, who was possibly of Japanese descent, the Gōngsūns eventually allowed the lovers to marry-- as long as they would not disgrace their name and visit during summers.
Liang and Chūnhuá agreed, and were allowed to marry, which they immediately did. The couple eventually settled in Dundee, surrounded by Liang's family, and had a daughter, whom they named Qiū.
other
She's really hoping third time's the charm for being in love.
face claim
Constance Wustatus of application
completehave you read the rules?
RULES? NAHhow did you hear about us?
WRITTEN IN FANFICTION
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