Tamika Riggs

Backstory

Legacy, they said. I would follow in my parents footsteps to the school that they had attended those years ago, just as my brother is currently. Was I excited? Maybe, but I think I was a bit more nervous than anything else. My brother Kenji didn't make things easy every time he stopped to talk to his friends, but we managed to get our shopping done.
"You will go into the school with your head held high." my father said to me before I boarded the train.
"Yes, father." I uttered softly, hiding my dismay and embarrassment.
I found a car to myself, stowed my luggage and plopped down on the seat with a heavy sigh. Neko, my calico cat, climbed into my lap and started to purr.
"At least someone is content..." I whispered to her as I stroked her silky fur.
When I got to the school, the hat was dropped down onto my head and over my eyes. I heard muttering inside my head and it seemed to take forever for the hat to decide between Ravenclaw and Slytherin. In the end it chose Ravenclaw and I hurried off to join the clapping masses at a very long table.
Upon sitting on the bench I was told that I was nearly a hatstall with as long as the Sorting Hat sat on my head. I was unsure, at the time, what that meant but I was kind of elated with the conversation...