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praveena ezhil iyer, 26, ravenclaw alum, simone ashley FC, CLOSED, original character

Birthday: September 13 Blood Status: Pureblood Gender & Pronouns: Cis-female, she/her Occupation: Auror Sided with: Order of the Phoenix

personality

Positive Traits: dynamic, curious, creative, devoted, independent Negative Traits: single minded, bitter, defiant, uncommunicative, defensive Summary: As a child, it was mostly Praveena’s good traits that dominated her personality. She was lively and intelligent, charmingly precocious for the most part, if sometimes annoyingly curious. She never minded being the only child of two hard working parents, keeping after herself in whatever surroundings they put her in. It wasn’t until she got older that some of her worse traits became apparent. She was forever getting in trouble for one thing or another while at Hogwarts, and she often chose not to share the perfectly reasonable explanation for her actions that would have saved her, and her professors, a world of frustration. She often ends up with blinders on when it comes to the importance of her own goals, and the bitterness of her coming of age still sits heavy in her heart.

childhood (trigger warning: death of a parent)

The match between Ajay Iyer and Priyanka Patil was made by their parents in the hope that Ajay’s steady demeanor might cool some of Priyanka’s passion. Instead, Priyanka’s fire provided the spark Ajay had always been searching for. Together, they became a force to be reckoned with, rising through the ranks of the Ministry on parallel trajectories. As Ajay moved from trainee to auror to head auror to youngest ever Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Priyanka climbed from being an unimportant secretary in the Wizengamot Administration Services to claiming, in a controversial move since by then she was an Iyer by name, the Patil family seat on the Wizengamot itself, the first female member of the Patil family to do so. The Iyers were the shining stars of the Ministry, and everyone had their eyes on them.

It was into this family that Praveena was born at the end of an unseasonably warm September day. From the outset, it was clear that she had inherited her mother’s fire. Praveena was an opinionated infant with a wail that filled the Iyer family’s impressive townhome, and even the Wizengamot courtrooms when Priyanka brought her into work. But as Praveena grew, and learned, and explored, pastimes both of her parents enthusiastically endorsed, it became clear that all her similarities with her mother could not outweigh her admiration of her father. At a young age, Praveena taught herself to control her temper and adopt her father’s calm and deliberate mannerisms. While it was Priyanka who brought the youngest Iyer into work, the end of the day often found her in the corner of Ajay’s office, watching every little interaction with captivated eyes.

Whenever she managed to corner an adult in a one on one conversation, something her parents’ more senior staff and closest associates learned to avoid, she was a bottomless font of questions. Praveena had an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and proved quite adept at synthesizing that knowledge into understanding. She learned to read early and enthusiastically, and her parents chose not to restrict what books she had access to. As a child she lived more on the second floor of the Ministry than in her own home and associated more with adults than other children her age. She was her grandparents’ Monkey’s Paw wish; the perfect balance of her two parents’ temperaments, but in the opposite way of what they’d intended.

By the time Praveena turned eleven, there was no doubt of her future course. The family had known from her earliest signs of magic that she was bound for Hogwarts and it was abundantly clear that she would be suited for no house but Ravenclaw. Ajay and Priyanka had even arranged a respectable marriage for her, under their parents’ guidance, and Praveena herself had settled on a career in the Investigation Department of the DMLE as her goal after graduation. But Praveena’s time at Hogwarts was more of a trial than she expected it to be. She chafed under the strictly regimented existence of school life after the unbridled freedom of her childhood, and she found children were rarely as easy to get along with as adults.

It took time, but Praveena slowly learned balance, channeling her father as she did in all her most stressful times. She learned to split her focus in class so she could listen to the professor’s lecture and work on more interesting studies at the same time. She forced herself to get her required homework done first thing after classes ended so she would have as much time for her own pursuits as she wanted in the evening. She never became popular, but it was through her mother’s blessing that she found friends. As Praveena got older and the clouds of war left the distant horizon and began to loom over the British wixen community, lines were drawn and, thanks to Priyanka’s fierce ideals and unwavering morals, Praveena knew exactly what side she was on. So she gathered a cohort of like-minded students who would become dear, devoted friends. It was never in doubt, Praveena would stand for what was right and good, for equality and justice, just as her parents did.

The only problem was, the entire country knew as well as Praveena where her parents stood. Ajay worked to identify corruption and blood prejudice in his own department, determined to rip it out at the root. In the Wizengamot, Priyanka was one of the only voices advocating for the kind of aggressive legislation that would clip the wings of the budding blood purity movement. They became a problem for the Death Eaters and, in time, they became the Death Eater’s first publicly claimed assassinations. Praveena was fifteen when one of her father’s aurors came to Hogwarts to give her the news. Ajay and Priyanka Iyer had been found dead in their townhome when a green cloud floating over the residence gave neighbors cause for concern. It wasn’t until later that Praveena found out the Death Eaters had also carved “blood traitor” into both of their foreheads.

during the war

With Ajay and Priyanka gone, the Patils took charge of their devastated niece. Praveena stayed with her uncle and aunt when she wasn’t at Hogwarts, but it wouldn’t be right to say she lived with them. Part of Praveena died along with her parents, and what remained became a hollow-eyed fury, fueled by vengeance. Praveena’s plans changed, and she spent the rest of her time at Hogwarts focused on earning a place in the auror training program, working hard to bring her dueling and offensive magic up to scratch. She turned her back on the pureblood society life her grandparents had planned for her, refusing to attend functions and galas with her aunt and uncle and breaking her childhood engagement.

The drive she’d inherited from her father was finally awoken, and her parents’ death became the spark to light her fire as Priyanka’s life had been for Ajay all those years ago. By the time she graduated from Hogwarts, Praveena was the auror program’s most promising new recruit. She might have gone out in a blaze of glory, burning too bright and too fast to last long, but some of the older aurors, aurors who had come up under Ajay Iyer and still honored his legacy, took Praveena under their wings. They taught her her father’s way of being an auror. It was a way driven not by bloodlust but by conviction. You did not fight against hate, you fought for love. And just like all those years ago, Praveena learned from her father, and she slowly became a soldier who could balance righteousness with compassion.

By the time Praveena finished her training and became a fully fledged auror, she was a force to be reckoned with in her own right. She would also quickly become a vocal opponent of Barty Crouch Sr., who’d replaced her father as department head. Praveena joined a small but opinionated group of aurors, many of which were the same aurors who’d taken her under their wings during her training, who criticized Crouch’s extreme measures. They advocated for capturing suspected Death Eaters and giving them fair trials, and only killing as a last possible resort. Praveena herself has always been proud that she can say she’s never used an unforgivable curse. She is not ashamed of the blood on her hands, because she knows she only took lives when she had no other option.

Of course, Praveena has never been naive, and just because she didn’t approve of Crouch’s extreme measures doesn’t mean she never took extreme measures of her own. She’s never been afraid to play outside the rules if a situation called for it, and it was that fluid relationship with authority that led her to the Order of the Phoenix. She was never uncomfortable with the vigilante nature of the group; they were an unavoidable result of the Ministry’s refusal to take necessary action. She got on well with the other members, they were a band of brothers, and sisters and siblings, and she had their backs just like they had hers. But she was still her mother’s daughter, never afraid to say what she thought even if it was an unpopular opinion.

So Praveena’s young adult life revolved around the war. She fought during the day in an official capacity and she fought at night in an unofficial capacity. When she slept she dreamed of her parents, of the comrades she wasn’t able to save, and the civilians she failed to protect, and when she woke she carried on in their honor. She hunted down Death Eaters, brought them in whenever she could, testified at their trials, and escorted them to Azkaban whenever they were convicted. It didn’t bother her that she was repeatedly passed over for promotions. Barty Crouch, Sr. had a bone to pick with her and she didn’t want to be a part of his kind of DMLE, anyway. Besides, it kept her boots on the ground where she could do the most good, and she’d never been that great at riding a desk.

no time like the present

With the war over, Praveena finds herself with an itch she can’t quite scratch. She feels accomplished, having pushed back the darkness that loomed for so long, but she doesn’t feel fulfilled. Something is missing. Sometimes she dreams about her father teaching her Tamil or her mother exploring caves with her when the family vacationed at the sea. Praveena is beginning to realize that she’s lonely. She pushed away what family she had left after her parents died and her friends and mentors at work and in the Order are people she’d lay down her life for, but not necessarily have tea with.

As her twenty-seventh birthday looms, Praveena is thinking less about the fact that her father had become a department head by her age, and more about the fact that he’d already married her mother. She can’t remember the last time she went on a date, but she’s pretty sure it had been a couple courtesy drinks at a bar before a quick trip to someone’s bedroom. More and more her thoughts stray back to her childhood, meandering through memories long put aside of her parents, strolling arm in arm through the Ministry atrium or with their heads bent together over some proposed legislation on the dining table. Without the war to focus on she’s realizing there is a gaping hole in her life, and she’s not as okay with it as she would have expected.

But the thought of filling such a hole, and getting such a late start on it, is daunting, and you’ll always find something to distract yourself if that’s what you’re looking for. Praveena used to be a supporter of Dumbledore; her parents had always respected him, and he’d founded the Order of the Phoenix. He’d also been running against Crouch Sr., and there was no way in hell Praveena would have voted for him. But now, a year out, it’s looking more like the election was less of a victory for goodness and justice and more of a choice between the lesser of two evils. Even worse, she’s not entirely sure she made the right choice.

connections

Alastor Moody: When Praveena’s parents were killed it was Alastor Moody, her father’s youngest and favorite protege, who became the strongest adult presence in her life. It was an odd pairing from the outside, but they made it work. Praveena did not need a parental figure so much as someone who, despite her youth, respected her and didn’t want to shield her from the truth, and Alastor provided that.

Elijah Nott: Betrothed in their youth, Elijah and Praveena got along well everytime their parents pushed them together. The match was considered quite promising, until Praveena decided to turn her back on everything she’d been raised to, including her betrothal. Since then Praveena has been distancing herself from pureblood society, especially her former fiance.

Peter Pettigrew: From their first meeting as a member of the Order, there was something about Peter that didn’t quite sit right with Praveena. She thought they were just nervous, unsure of their place in the group, so she tried to lend a hand. Attempts to adopt a mentor-like role were met with mixed results, and now that Peter has been exposed as a double agent that makes a lot more sense.

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elijah nott, 26, slytherin alum, dacre montgomery FC, CLOSED, original character.

Birthday: October 29 Blood Status: Pureblood Gender & Pronouns: Cis-male, he/him Occupation: Auror Trainee Sided with: Death Eaters

personality

Positive Traits: confident, ambitious, protective, loyal Negative Traits: defensive, impressionable, impulsive, stubborn Summary: Elijah has always had an air of confidence about him, something that he gained from his brother but never learnt to perfect in quite the same way, in secret the cracks begin to show and reveal a lonely young man, who has spent almost his whole life faking it. He never likes to do anything by halves and once he commits to something puts his whole heart into it. He is fiercely protective of those he cares about, something that has caused him no end of problems in his life. He is fairly defensive and struggles to back down from a fight even if he ends up saying something he doesn’t mean and has to apologise later. One of his most dominating traits is how impressionable he is- taking his brother’s word as gospel for so many years and following his lead almost like a soldier following their general. He is prone to making decisions without really thinking them through, emotions often overwhelming him and influencing these moments. Elijah is also as stubborn as it gets, something he knows he will need to work on, now he was about to go into a totally different environment. Elijah knows that he is far from perfect and has many things still to improve on, but overall his heart is usually in the right place, even if at times he can be totally misguided.

childhood (trigger warning: abortion mention)

Growing up the younger of the two Nott siblings, Elijah always felt like he was second in everything. It couldn’t be more clear that he was the least favourite child. Overhearing one night when he was home from Hogwarts that his parents hadn’t planned to have him, that he’d been an accident. Hearing that conversation, it had been clear that the only reason he even existed was that his parents didn’t want to ruin the family reputation by having an abortion. It didn’t come as a total shock to Elijah, he had never once been able to capture their attention in the way that his brother had. Nothing he did was ever good enough, but that didn’t stop him trying. The more uninterested they seemed, the more Elijah tried to buy their love. His relationship with his brother was different; his brother always had his back and quickly became Elijah’s role model. When he was young Elijah was often seen following his brother around, trying to copy everything he did and be just like him. It changed a little bit once Elijah was left alone as his older brother started attending Hogwarts. Elijah began to try and expand his friends circle outside of just his brother’s friends, who whilst still friendly to him, were not as interested now that it was just him. Marlene Mckinnon quickly became one of his closest friends. They had been friends already for a while, but grew closer. She was completely different to most of the other people he knew, and managed to bring out a side to him he didn’t know existed. A more relaxed version of himself that truly had fun. With little parental guidance, Elijah and Marlene got up to all sorts of mischief under his family’s nose. His brother’s friends weren’t fond of the friendship which made Elijah hide how close they had gotten from his brother. Not wanting to disappoint him as well. When Elijah started Hogwarts it became harder to maintain the friendship, Elijah wanted to impress his Slytherin housemates and was now back in his brother’s close circle and with all the talk about blood purity, his friendship with Marlene didn’t last more than a couple of years after that. In his second year, Elijah tried out to join the Quidditch team and it quickly became something that he both adored and was extremely talented at. He got good grades in most of his subjects but he didn’t care about them as much as he cared about the game. Spending most of his free time practicing and perfecting his skills. By his fifth year, Elijah was the Slytherin quidditch captain as well as the keeper. There was no doubt in Elijah’s mind that this is what he was going to do for the rest of his life. It was something he was better at than his brother and he knew that he was damn good at it. His teachers were already talking about how he needed to try out for the professional teams after Hogwarts. Whilst his parents didn’t seem to care that much about his success, his housemates did and for the first time in a long time Elijah felt that they wanted to be friends with him because of who he was- rather than because of who his brother was. Following Hogwarts, Elijah did try out for several teams. Overjoyed when he was accepted by the Montrose Magpies- arguably the most successful team in the whole league. Elijah felt good. He’d always had confidence about him, but until now it had only been skin deep. Not something he really believed. Now he felt like he had found who he was supposed to be. Unfortunately for Elijah the joy didn’t last for long- taking an especially nasty tumble during a semi finale. Leaving him with a career ending injury. Elijah reluctantly moved back into his parents house- no longer able to fund his own flat without his Quidditch salary. From there Elijah sunk back into the quieter version of himself - that one that still needed his family’s approval to feel good about himself.

during the war

After losing the only thing he’d ever loved, Elijah was completely lost. He had heard rumours of an uprising against the muggleborns but at first just wrote them off as chatter. Until one day his brother approached him. He had just joined a group called the Death Eaters. It was in it’s very early stages and of course his brother had been one of the first to be invited to join and he was asking Elijah to join too. Elijah’s views on blood purity had always been complicated. His family and everyone around him growing up had insisted on the importance of pure blood and how it was the only way to keep the wizarding world in existence, but at Hogwarts Elijah had met half-borns and muggleborns who were talented too. Elijah had requested to think about it for a while- trying to buy himself time more than anything else. It all changed when for the first time ever, his father asked to speak to him one on one in his office. Cantankerus had all but insisted that Elijah joined, telling him that as a member of the Nott family it was expected of him to stand up for their rights in society. Feeling like he could finally gain his father’s approval Elijah joined the Death Eaters. For a long time, Elijah was numb to the violence and hatred in the group- it was easier that way. Reminding himself that pure blood had to be preserved for the greater good of the wizarding community. He didn’t dare not follow orders, knowing he would probably be killed if he ever showed a moment’s hesitation. As always his brother was excelling- and was at the very top of the ranks. That didn’t help Elijah’s position- he knew that whatever he did affected his brother and no matter what Elijah would never put him at risk. His parents were now regularly asking him about details of missions and what he’d achieved. Elijah had always wanted their attention, but now that he had it- it just didn’t feel right. It felt like he was watching his own life from above- as if someone else was in control of his body. Elijah was not generally a violent person- but being in the Death Eaters had forced him to use both the imperious and cruciatus curse on multiple occasions. Elijah had resigned himself to the fact that this was his life now, trying to make the most of it that he could and silently wishing for the war to be over soon. It was one particular mission that made Elijah realise that he could no longer continue on like this. He was a second in command on a very important mission, one of the highest honors he’d had so far in the group- but the mission got complicated and suddenly he was face to face with Marlene and her brother. The moment he saw the green light headed for Nicholas, Elijah felt the reality of what he’d become involved in. Whilst he still believed that keeping the bloodlines pure was the best way forward; it wasn’t worth killing for. Though he was just a bystander to the killing, Elijah felt responsible for it and could barely contain himself as he watched Marlene sob over her brother’s body- glad for the fact that he never went on a mission without wearing his mask. Elijah didn’t know what to do after- he knew he needed a way out without physically getting out. But who could he turn to. His friends were all Death Eaters, his parents admired him for joining the ranks and for once this was not something that he could speak to his brother about. A few nights of little to no sleep and Elijah found himself writing a letter to Albus Dumbledore. He hadn’t expected a reply- either supposing Dumbledore would be too busy to read it or would just think it was a trap. But Dumbledore did reply- and then there were more letters back and forth. Dumbeldore offering advice and then eventually asking Elijah to send him information about the Death Eaters' plans. Something that Elijah was easily able to get his hands on through his brother. Elijah didn’t like betraying his brother’s trust- but the way Elijah saw it, Dumbledore was his only way out. Especially when the war started to come to an end and it was becoming clear that the Death Eaters were going to be the losing side. That wasn’t Elijah’s reason for agreeing to become a spy though- his guilt over the situation with Marlene and everything else that he had done, that was the reason. He wasn’t sure his actions could ever be redeemed but he could at least try and fix some of them.

no time like the present

Once the war finished, things at home became even worse than before. There was a constant tension and his brother had almost become a recluse. Elijah had managed to come out of the war without getting caught- he wondered if it was out of pure luck or if Dumbledore had taken care of it for him. His brother on the other hand had initially been arrested but had managed to get the conviction overturned using the imperius curse excuse. Without his brother’s friendship now, Elijah felt completely alone. He wanted out of the house but had no idea where to start in terms of a new career- turning once again to Dumbledore for advice, having now become Elijah’s number one confidant. Dumbledore had suggested that with Elijah’s good grades he tried out for the auror programme. He was hesitant at first, it would be like walking into the lion’s den. Elijah knew that even though he was never caught it was common knowledge that he had been part of the Death Eater’s ranks. After ultimately deciding that he was used to people not wanting to be around him and could handle it at work too he applied to become a trainee auror. Frank Longbottom had initially asked for a further interview with him, not something that shocked Elijah, but he definitely knew it wasn’t a good sign. It was a surprise then, when not twenty four hours later, he received a letter of acceptance into the programme, signed by none other than Frank himself. It was not hard to work out that Dumbledore had been behind this as well. Dumbledore having his back over and over, made Elijah feel indebted to him. He felt like he needed to pay back Dumbledore’s kindness with his loyalty. Though he knew he still had to be careful about it. He was not ready yet to publicly announce his loyalty to Dumbledore amongst his friends and family. There had been enough upset in his household, without his family finding out that he was now friendly with the man who had killed their idol. Elijah was concerned about working at the Ministry- as much as he had convinced himself he would be okay if nobody wanted to speak to him- he was still the same young boy desperate for love and approval. Finding out that Marlene still worked for the Ministry had not been easy either- almost having a panic attack the first time he had seen her from across the foyer. Elijah is now just trying to find a new path for himself. Still lost and unsure what to do about his friends and family and his heart telling him that their actions were unforgivable. To say he was conflicted would be an understatement. For now, he is just trying to do better, be a better version of himself and trying to make up for some of the pain he caused.

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Lucius Malfoy: Since joining the Death Eaters, Elijah has always been wary of Lucius. He was calculating and smart and Elijah hated that Lucius committed some of the worse acts out of the group and still managed to keep his status in society like he had. Elijah is also concerned that Lucius might suspect that his loyalty to Voldemort didn’t last through to the end of the war. If Lucius was to find out Elijah had been writing to Dumbledore, he didn’t know what might happen to him.

Marlene Mckinnon: Elijah and Marlene were close childhood friends up until the early years of Hogwarts were their views of blood purity began to separate them. It had been simple when they were younger. The fact that his parents cared little for him gave him more freedom in some ways. Looking back he doubted his brother would’ve been allowed to hang out with a family like the McKinnons. Elijah was also there when Marlene’s brother was killed (though he was behind a mask and Marlene didn’t know)- a moment that changed things for him during the war.

Vincent Crabbe: (TBD)

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