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If you've never read Neverwhere, I'd recommend you go away and do so immediately. Definitely don't read this description first. That said:

Varney, the Bodyguard: For some reason I associated him with a Rhino, so he's all tough and leathery, but very grey and all about brute force.

Hunter: This is a revamp of a previous build, but since they share absolutely no parts, I'm counting this as a new build. She's supposed to be like a lion, so I think this choice of parts works really well.

The Angel Islington: I wanted to give him a suitably angelic appearance, but in keeping with the down-and-out vibe the rest of the figs have. The tattered cloak worked well here.

Croup and Vandemar: These guys are outright nasty, they could be werewolves, or something else. Their initial appearance is quite smart, so I wanted to play with that. I think it worked quite well.

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"Oh girl, what did you do to yo hair?!"
It was not the first thing Dominique wanted to hear as her mother stepped off the Hogwarts Express.
"Had to cut it off..." she mumbled.
Coming out of that hole with the mooncalf, she had had an emergency trim. There had been so many roots and branches stuck in it, she couldn't even get her jersey off to get in a shower. And she just couldn't ask one of the other Slytherin girls for help. Then she'd never get their respect!
And since no-one had thought to develop a spell that mimics the effect of scissors, she had had to do it all by hand.
None of which she had told anyone. The last thing she wanted was to lose Slytherin House any points. It would've been a hell of a lot easier if Dumbledore hadn't given her a knowing look the next time he saw her.
And as for her parents! They had decided to visit Hogsmeade for the holidays. They figured an all-magic settlement in the middle of Scotland would be a reasonably safe place for a wizarding family to stay. Certain parties had been informed, and Professor Slughorn had even invited himself to tea, keen to interrogate Liberté Rosier about her connections to the Picquery family.
Of course, Dominique herself could only disappoint her family. Her mother spent the whole fortnight bemoaning the loss of her hair. Her father didn't seem to care that she had been sorted into Slytherin - something that would've been toasted for days in her cousins' families. Instead he looked very closely at her grades, and was none too happy with what he found.
In fact the happiest time Dominique remembered of the whole fortnight was when she went off to spend her Christmas money in Hogsmeade High Street, and her father started an impromptu snowball fight.
By the next time she saw them, she vowed she would have a full head of hair again.

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It turns out that inter-house English quidditch is very low-quality. Despite the fact a standard team only includes seven players, each house only has a small pool of players to recruit from. Most years a quidditch team has to be drawn from players of all ages. Even then you'll be lucky if your players can get from one end of the pitch to the other holding onto a quaffle and their broomstick at the same time.
So when the time came for Slytherin's first game of the season - against their arch-rivals Hufflepuff, no less - Dominique was determined to support her team and show off her house allegiance any way she could. The best thing she could think of was to conjure up a pair of pom-poms and start cheerleading.
Unfortunately, it turns out that, while it's a standard part of the game across the pond, Great Britain just isn't ready for cheerleaders. After 20 minutes of stony silence from her own stands, Dominique gave up and resorted to watching the game instead. She gave a ruffle of the pom-poms every time a Slytherin player zoomed past.
Hufflepuff were leading 70-50 when the rain started pouring in. She desperately wanted to get inside but felt that, since cheerleading had been her idea, she should at least stay to the end of the game.
Thankfully, that didn't take too long. The Golden Snitch, which had disappeared a long time ago, came hurtling by, chased by both seekers. The was a tussle between the two, but Patricia McMahon, Slytherin's star player, managed to destabilise her rival, and snatch the snitch. It was the start of a tough season for Slytherin, but the end of Dominique's cheerleading career.

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