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[HPHM] Erika Rath Playlist
suggested by @wangxianforever000 // featuring Anouk Hoogendijk as Erika
    “Overture” ~ Bring It On the musical
“We Will Rock You” ~ Queen
“Wizards in Winter” ~ Trans-Siberian Orchestra
“On Fire” ~ T. Powell
“No Way” ~ Six the Musical
“Enjoy the Silence” ~ Depeche Mode
“I Ain’t Movin’” ~ Des’ree
“Starlight Brigade” ~ TWRP
“The Hall of Fame” ~ the Script ft. Will.I.Am
Erika Rath was one of the best Beaters the Ravenclaw Quidditch team saw in its history. From the time she joined the team in her second year, her talent was undeniable, and she would go on to help her team win the Quidditch Cup five out of her seven years at school. Erika’s talent, however, came about not just from her own great physical strength and resilience, but from a lot of hard work. The Raths are a very poised, soft-spoken magical family, running a home with no raised voices or flaring tempers and everything having its place, and are best known for their work in the Department of International Magical Cooperation. Yet from the time Erika was little, she knew she could never fit into the mold set by her grandmother, father, uncles, and older brothers. Instead her one true love soon became Quidditch, which she found a safe place to vent her silent frustrations and bond with others without having to talk a lot. Although Erika’s grandmother and extended family are rather passive-aggressive in their disapproval of her life choices, her father and brothers are fortunately a bit more supportive, in their own understated way. They weren’t the sort to openly contradict the family matriarch or speak out in Erika’s defense, but they would send her Quidditch books and merchandise for her favorite Quidditch team, the Wigtown Wanderers, as Christmas presents. Speaking of the Wigtown Wanderers, Erika’s main rival at Hogwarts was Slytherin Chaser Skye Parkin, who started unfounded rumors about Erika stealing her teammate Carewyn Cromwell’s new Cleansweep between matches. The debacle resulted in Carewyn leaving the Slytherin team and Skye and Erika constantly butting heads for the rest of their school career. Eventually Skye ended up being one of Erika’s teammates when the two joined the Wigtown Wanderers as adults. It took a very long time for them to “bury the hatchet” so to speak, but over time (and with a lot of counseling from Skye’s old friends, Montrose Magpie Chaser Orion Amari and up-and-coming Quidditch commentator Murphy McNully), the two were able to find a way to communicate properly and pull together to bring their team victory. During the Second Wizarding War, Erika even helped Orion go into hiding with his infant daughter Eos and -- alongside Skye, Andre Egwu, Oliver Wood, and other members from the Quidditch league -- returned to Hogwarts for the final battle against Voldemort. Erika and her associates ended up forming something of an “air force,” attacking the Death Eaters, Snatchers, giants, and acromantula from above on their brooms in battle-like formations.
#hphm#hogwarts mystery#erika rath#playlist#just like with orion I gave rath a neutral color palette since she's sometimes ravenclaw and sometimes slytherin#this was a really fun challenge!#I've always liked rath as a character but we still haven't gotten as much material for her as I'd like#even now that she's on the friends list now post-quidditch-season-two#in carewyn's storyline she doesn't play quidditch so I spread out the quidditch season 1 plotline to encompass her entire school career#therefore erika and skye feud until their seventh year when they're going to graduate#and carewyn brings slytherin victory when it's orion's last possible chance to win the quidditch cup for their house#I love the thought of erika who's always been such a bad-ass on a broom#wanting to stick by her friends so much that she'll use all of those skills on a broom and with a wand and bat to protect them#and kick death eater arse too! <3#but yeah the reason I see erika being such a strong and silent type is because her family is so quiet#they don't talk about being unhappy or angry and sort of are these delicate little china dolls of people#who value peace and order at all costs and sort of expect everything to be clean and pristine#erika rebels against a lot of that but at the same time still doesn't exactly know how to communicate well#because she never learned how to talk to people without being supercilious and passive-aggressive#so she speaks bluntly with no filters without understanding how that in turn doesn't exactly help#her arc therefore is kind of learning how to balance out the extreme#being blunt honest and forceful and yet also not being so stubborn rigid and uncompromising that you can't grow#'wizards in winter' is one of my absolute favorite TSO pieces I was so thrilled I got to include it X3
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