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**The Parents**

and other relatives

Environment has a lot to do with a person. None of our characters would be exactly the same if they’d been raised by a different family in a different level of society. As a result, Suze and I thought it would be interesting to give some information about our characters’ parents. This is not required. You only need to do this if you wish to. Supposing that you have thought about your characters’ parents, and you choose to share, then it certainly isn’t necessary to include the long profile that we all have to do for our OCs and CCs. Just reveal whatever you wish! whee

All relatives of all OCs may be described, as may the families of MOST canon characters. For example, we know nothing about the parents of Lily, Remus, Lucius, and most of the other students, so the people playing those CCs get to design them completely.

The CC parents that cannot be designed by people that are playing their children are the Snapes and the Blacks. Sorry for those of you that are playing their offspring, but since we all love browsing HP fan fics and fan art, we must have all noticed that there are a few odd people out there that are Eileen and Walburga fans because a few things are actually known about them, so if you created an entire backstory for those characters now, and later someone joins the RP that wants to play them…Well, I’m sure that you understand why it isn’t permitted. Of course, you are allowed to presume SOME things about them; you have to be able to in order to play your CC child interacting with them. You simply can't assume you know their entire childhood and whatnot.

Anyway, whether you desire to only read about other characters’ parents/relatives, or write about your own, Suze and I hope that you have fun! razz

Peter's Family


Marigold Baxter nee Mortlake

Marigold, Peter's Grandmother, is a Squib. Her brother was a wizard, and her parents were wizards, but she could never get the magic to work for her. Her parents tried loads of things to force her to use magic, but none of them worked. When she broke her leg instead of protecting herself with magic, her parents finally accepted that she was a Squib.

When all the other wizard children went to Hogwarts, Marigold was sent to work with a batty old Muggle lady that cared for everyone's dogs. Marigold always envied those with the privilege of learning magic. But with her first job, she learned that being brisk and authoritative meant that you got the desired behavior out of the young pup.

By the time she was seventeen, she convinced her parents to allow her to apply for a non-magical job in Diagon Alley, selling items in a second-hand store. It was while working in that store a couple years later that Marigold met her future husband, Bartholomew Baxter. They fell in love and courted for a while before marrying.

Always grateful and loving to her husband who managed to look past her Squib nature, she impressed upon her daughter the luck of her ever becoming a wife, let alone a mother. (They were quite uncertain if Squibs could have children since none of them seemed to marry.) Marigold always was organized and made her home quite orderly.

It was only when Ivy left the house to go to Hogwarts that Marigold ventured to raise pets again, this time with a Kneazle. Marigold was extremely proud of her daughter for being a witch and being sorted into the same House that Bart was in.

Even though she is a Squib, if she was a witch, she would have been sorted into Gryffindor. In her priorities, Marigold places an emphasis on being brave in spite of one's fears, and gets frustrated and irritated at her daughter's paranoia.

It may not seem like it at times, but Marigold actually does love Peter. She shows her love by expecting more from him rather than mollycoddling him.

Ivy Pettigrew nee Baxter

Ivy, Peter's mother, had as normal a childhood as her parents could provide. Her parents, however, never tested whether she had enough magic as a child. Marigold absolutely refused to allow any testing of the sort. She did prove herself on her own terms by the age of six. When Ivy was a child, her mother taught her the basics of what she'd need to know at home.

When she turned eleven, Ivy was sorted into Hufflepuff. At Hogwarts, she participated in the Charms club, and the Gobstones team. She excelled in Muggle Studies and had several friends that were Muggleborn. She had a bit of a fascination with Muggles, and that continued after Hogwarts.

Instead of the customary round the world trip, Ivy decided that it would be less expensive and more educational to travel the British Isles and learn more about Muggles.

While stopping over in Canterbury, Ivy and Percival met. Ivy, fascinated by the Muggle ways, pretended she wasn't a witch until it was too late. She found herself married and pregnant before she really thought too much about what she was actually doing. Percival had started to mistreat her, but she was more curious about what caused him to do so, rather than concerned for her own welfare.

Early on, she blamed the abuse on everything else--his job was giving him troubles, he got stuck in traffic, he drank a little too much on the way home--but she refused to blame him. At least, that worked until she woke up from her little honeymoon period of their relationship. Then she started to fear him.

Anything abnormal, any change about their house set him off. The house was supposed to be her domain, her refuge, but it grew into a horror for her. One item out of place could be enough cause for a beating. Ivy's worst memories come from this time in her life. She couldn't reveal herself to be a witch for that was surely abnormal, but that meant she had to heal and act like a Muggle. However, Ivy was very good at acting. She surprised herself sometimes.

And then, Ivy discovered she was pregnant. She hid the pregnancy for the longest time from him, fearing that it would cause the worst reaction from him. But when she could no longer pretend she was just gaining weight or had some kind of sickness--when it was obvious she was pregnant, Percival underwent a surprising change.

He became much more gentle towards her. More considerate of her circumstances, and even tender. She thought this change was for the better, and regretted that she hadn't told him sooner. And so, Peter Percival Pettigrew was born.

About two months after Peter was born, Percival grew increasingly impatient with the babe. He expected Peter to be able to control more than the baby was actually able to control, and he expected too much of Ivy who was more sickly after having the baby. The honeymoon period of anticipating an offspring turned into the drudgery of dealing with the mess, the lack of sleep, and the disorder that a baby caused. He started demanding that Ivy pay more attention to him than the baby. Ivy started to fear for Peter's apparent disfavor and what that would entail and so she secretly started to make plans to escape with Peter.

These plans occupied her while her body healed. When Peter was about four months old, she set her plan in action. She was his perfect wife for two full days (lulling him into a sense of security), but on the morning of the third, she packed her bags as soon as he left for his work, taking only the basics of what she would need for the journey. She grabbed Peter, bundling him up tight, and left, locking the door behind her and leaving the house in near perfect condition.

The next three days were spent trying to find a way to get to her parents' home. On the fourth day she remembered the Knight Bus, and arrived on Bartholomew and Marigold's doorstep looking wet, dirty, cold, hurt, and in other ways distraught, carrying a baby in her arms. Marigold and Bartholomew took her and the child in.

Ivy started to look for work to support herself as soon as she was able. She soon started to work at a number of Muggle restaurants.

Marigold and Bartholomew looked after Peter while she had to work. Marigold mostly, as Bartholomew was becoming more sickly as he aged. Ivy started growing more paranoid as time passed with no response from Percival as far as she could tell. Her parents' house should have been an obvious place for him to look for her, in Ivy's opinion. And for Percival not to take a single action against her was unthinkable.

The catalyst that prompted the inevitable move was Peter getting attacked by one of Marigold's Kneazles. Ivy quit her job, moved out of her parents' house and found an apartment in a city that had a high magical population. From then on, she moved to areas in the UK that had a high magical population but where she could still find a job as part of a Muggle restaurant.

Ivy decided to keep her married name and never change Peter's name in the hope that when Percival finally caught up to them, she would be able to stave off his wrath by convincing him of her loyalty with her name and Peter's. Raised by her mother, she believes that Percival was her one and only try at a relationship, and is satisfied with being loyal to him.

Remus' Family

John Lupin - Remus' Father

Childhood backstory:

John Lupin’s name was Jean Lupin at birth, but while he went to Hogwarts he elected to have his friends call him the anglicised version of Jean, which was John, because none of them could ever get the French accent to pronounce Jean EXACTLY correct. When he was disowned and moved to Britain, he altered it permanently.

John was bred to be clever and courteous by private tutors from early childhood. His prejudiced pureblood parents lived in a chateau in Nice, France that they presumed he would someday inherit, and they wanted him to be a proper lord. His parents were often busy, but they were free enough with their affection and praise when they saw him. He was always mature for his age, and he made them proud. His childhood was pleasant - if a bit demanding - especially when he finally had other children for company once his parents produced siblings Rémy and Aurore.



John received an acceptance letter to Beauxbatons and Hogwarts. He wanted to go to Hogwarts because he desired to experience a culture that differed from his own French one. His parents saw the potential benefits of this and agreed to let him go if he promised to see his family during holidays, which he wanted to do anyway.

Lord and Lady Lupin bought a home in London, England since they had enough money to own a few homes in a few different countries, and they knew it would be easier for John to travel there than all the way back to Nice, France over his Christmas and Easter vacations. During summers, they insisted that John return to the chateau with them to fulfill his duties as heir. John liked the English house and the French chateau, and was happy to comply.

At Hogwarts, John was Sorted into Ravenclaw. In spite of the fact that he was very studious and got teased for his accent at first, he became rather popular with his classmates throughout the years since he was always polite and helpful.

He graduated before Faith Moss, who had become his girlfriend, and went to a specialty school in France to further his education so that he could become a healer. Once Faith graduated as well, they introduced one another to each other’s families and announced their engagement.

John’s parents wanted him to marry a rich pureblood, or AT LEAST a French witch. When John professed how much he loved Faith, Rémy stepped in and encouraged Lord and Lady Lupin to allow the marriage. Reluctantly, they did so.

Blood Relationships:

Lord and Lady Lupin loved all of their children when they were around to show it, but they were more concerned with their careers and reputations most of the time. John knew they weren’t the best parents (For example, he knew Faith’s mother was better than his own.) but he loved them anyway.

John’s brother Rémy was two years younger than himself, and his sister Aurore was five years younger than himself. John and Rémy were very close, especially before John went off to school. Aurore tended to be whiny, selfish, and impatient, so John and Rémy did not play with her too often. Rémy’s failure to accept Remus after he was bitten hurt John more than anyone else’s bias did.

John felt so betrayed by his family when they said they would disown him if he didn’t give his “half-breed” son over to the Ministry’s Facility for Dangerous Creatures that he wanted to change his name completely. Unfortunately, people aren’t allowed to change surnames according to French wizarding law unless it’s due to marriage or Witness Protection, hence he had to content himself with legally switching Jean to John and moving out of the country with his wife and child.

Offspring (pre-bite):

Remus was originally named Rémy after the brother that John loved so much. John’s parents were much more supportive of his marriage to Faith after Rémy the Second was born. They liked him very much, or at least John had thought they did, for Rémy II looked a great deal like John with cadet blue eyes and light brown hair (He was grateful Rémy II didn't need glasses like he did.) and was equally as precocious as John had been.

Then, he was bitten, and it was all John’s fault. John had been working at St. Audoin’s (France’s equivalent of St. Mungo’s) when a smelly, ungroomed man had come in. He seemed feral somehow, and when he shouted out suggestions (in poorly spoken French; it didn’t seem like his first language) that the research healers find a way to inject people so that they would be GIVEN lycanthropy John had taken out his wand and banished him from the premises. John knew from seeing a few patients how painful the condition was, and concluded that only a beast would want that inflicted upon people.

Being the well-known future Lord Lupin, John couldn’t have been difficult for the monster to find. He had gone to the Lupins’ chateau that very night and asked to see John. When John had met him at the door – refusing to allow him inside – the cruel man, who said his name was Greyback, promised that he would make John suffer for not recognising that humans were weak and inferiour, and that everyone should become a shape-shifter.

John thought nothing of the threat, and didn’t bother mentioning it to Faith since he saw no point in worrying her. He also didn’t hesitate to agree when Faith asked if they could go back to England for the camping trip her sister wanted to do for Faith’s birthday. Once Faith, John, and Rémy II had gone deep into the forest with Faith’s family John had gotten an apprehensive prickle on the back of his neck, but he dismissed it.

In the middle of the night they all awoke to a scream. John looked around the tent and saw that Rémy II was gone. Frantically, he, his wife, and her family searched for him. It didn’t take long for John to find him since he hadn’t gone very far. The boy’s shoulder was bleeding and he was crying from pain and fear. John knew something horrific must have happened, and he and Faith quickly apparrated home where John kept all of his medical supplies. Once the next full moon arrived, it became apparent precisely what had attacked Remus. John had already developed his suspicions since it seemed more than coincidence that someone in favour of creating more werewolves would threaten him and that his son would be bitten only a couple of weeks later.

Faith’s family, which consisted entirely of Muggles, were merely aware that a wild animal of some sort had attacked Rémy II, but the truth couldn’t be hidden from John’s relatives. He was awed in the worst possible way when they ALL said that he needed to get rid of his son. Even though it caused him great emotional pain, John didn’t hesitate to pack up and move himself, his wife, and his child out that very night after a final heated argument with both of his parents and both of his siblings.

Offspring (post-bite):

John changed his name the following week and wanted to switch Rémy II’s as well, but knew that altering a five year-old’s name might confuse the boy. He considered Remy, the English version of Rémy, but that was TOO close. Eventually, he decided on Remus because it was still close enough for his son to adjust to, and the wolf-reference to the Roman god suited his offspring’s condition. Faith and John planned on calling their son “Remy” before they began referring to him as “Remus” to make the transition from Rémy easier. Faith never stopped calling him Remy, but maybe that was for the best because the child never found out that Remus wasn’t the name on his first birth certificate.

Despite the fact that John hated watching Remus lose his childhood innocence so rapidly, he was glad that he had been bitten so young because after a few years Remus couldn’t recall John’s family at all. John was grateful that Remus didn’t have to deal with memories of his own flesh and blood despising him on top of everything else. That didn’t mean that John did not miss his birth family. He had been happy with them once, and he still got a pain in his chest whenever one of their birthdays passed, and when he wondered if he had nieces and nephews that he would never meet.

One day after visiting Faith’s family when Remus was eight, Remus asked about John’s relatives. John only told him that they were biased French purebloods, and that he no longer spoke with them. He certainly did not mention the brother that Remus had originally been named after. Being compassionate and intuitive, Remus must have been able to sense that it was a sore subject because he didn’t ask again. Sometimes, John wonders exactly what Remus concluded from that short conversation, however, he doesn’t dare bring it up.



Childhood:

Faith Moss had known from age four that she could move things with her mind if she concentrated hard enough. Her parents and older sister Liberty did not find his particularly odd; they simply assumed she was a telekinetic psychic. For years, the four of them lived a happy life eating dinner together every night and helping one another do chores.

Mr. Verity Moss died when Faith was eleven and Liberty was fifteen. About two months later, a VERY short man that introduced himself as “Professor Flitwick” came to the Moss’ house and said that Faith was a witch that was eligible to attend a school of magic called Hogwarts. After proving to the widowed Mrs. Meredith Moss, who was called “Merry” by her friends, that it wasn’t a hoax by performing spells for them, Faith was given permission to go and she readily accepted. Moving out of the house that felt empty without her father to a castle full of mages helped Faith in her grieving immensely.

Faith had always been rather quiet, unlike her sister, but she was polite and friendly when approached, ergo she easily made friends with her dorm mates even though she never became exceedingly popular. She was also one of the first people to befriend the abnormally tall boy in her year and House, and she stayed friends with him even after he was expelled. She didn’t believe for one minute that he was capable of killing someone that was Muggle-born like her. Even after graduating, she continued to send Hagrid a card every Christmas.



Love Story:

In her fifth year at Hogwarts, she was made Prefect. She was nervous about the idea at first, but after having meetings where the attractive Head Boy John Lupin gave her the patrolling schedules and password changes, she discovered that she didn’t dislike her appointment anymore.

Because John had already taken the OWLs - and aced most of them being the brilliant Ravenclaw that he was - Faith asked him to tutor her so that she would do equally as well on the exams. He was willing to help everyone, so he readily agreed despite that Faith was already an excellent student and probably didn’t need assistance.

Over the next few months, Faith discovered that John had the courtesy and patience of a saint, and that he was like an old-fashioned gentlemen in his traditional values and in the fact that he spoke and wrote with perfect grammar and flowery vocabulary. Faith had never dated anyone before because all of the boys she knew ate with terrible table manners, made rude sexual jokes, and were obsessed with sports. John was nothing like them. He was incredibly sophisticated, and his French accent was adorable. Faith liked to think of herself as a down-to-earth person, but she couldn’t deny that she felt totally and utterly like she was floating on clouds when he was around.

Eventually, she plucked up her Gryffindor courage and asked him out. The two-and-quarter year age gap between them made John a bit uncomfortable since he was legally of age and she was not, but their chemistry was undeniable, and by April of that school term they were finally an official couple.

John was furthering his education to be a Healer during Faith’s final two years of Hogwarts. Her friends cautioned her that spending so much time apart was unhealthy in a relationship and were wont to make men unfaithful, but Faith didn’t let their doubts worry her. Faith and John only saw each other once (the summer between sixth and seventh year) during those last two terms. Because they couldn’t visit in person, they wrote letters constantly. Faith saved all of her letters from John, and Remus read them years later.

Upon graduating, Faith brought John to meet her mother and sister, and her sister’s newborn baby girl. They loved John at once and thought he was perfect for Faith. Well, the baby didn’t say much, xd but Merry and Liberty were very supportive.

John’s family wasn’t as pleased. Faith felt awkward and inadequate in the Lupins’ large chateau in France, and wondered if John’s relatives were right and that she wasn’t good enough for him. John made it clear that he planned on marrying Faith no matter what they said, and the Lupins eventually gave their blessing.

They honeymooned in the Caribbean where they both got sunburned, though they enjoyed themselves immensely. Afterward the honeymoon, instead of purchasing their own home right away, they went back and forth between the Moss’ home in Leics, England and the Lupins’ chateau in Nice, France. Once they had a son after a year of marriage, they settled in France for most of time except during holidays when they would visit Faith’s relatives. One day, their son would inherit the Lupin Estate after John, so he needed to live there to understand the culture and how it ought to be run.

Home:

When John was ostracised from his family for Remus’ sake and the three of them moved back to England, Faith wanted to move to Leics with her family, but there were too many populated cities there, hence they moved into a forest outside of Dalham, which was only a couple of hours from Leics. Remus has vague recollections of living in a place with more people before his bite, and he assumes that they used to live in Dalham ere needing to relocate to the forest. Neither Faith nor John has the heart to correct him.

Offspring:

The memory that Faith uses for her Patronus is when she held Remus in her arms for the first time. He was the most amazing baby she had ever seen. As he grew, he learned very quickly, whether it was about how to spell or how to share. He had tons of energy, and would play with the Lupins’ house-elves after he exhausted the adults. He was a son that any mother would be proud of.

Then, he was bitten. While he still smart and sweet, he didn’t have half the energy that he used to for half of the month. He also lost the confidence that he’d previously had as heir of the Lupin estates. Remus, as a confused five year-old, was convinced that the pain he suffered every 28 days was someone’s way of punishing him for doing something bad, and no matter what Faith and John did they couldn’t convince him that he’d done nothing wrong. Even when he got older and learned what being a werewolf truly meant, his guilty conscience never went away.

Faith despises seeing her kind, beloved child in pain. She cries herself to sleep on many nights, except when John cheers her up and during full moons when she does not sleep at all. She knows from the prejudice that she saw Hagrid suffer that most people will not give Remus the sympathy and encouragement that he deserves, therefore she tries her best to protect him, and recognises that she can a bit overzealous about it. However, she desperately wants to ensure that Remus does not get hurt any more than he has to.



Muggles Merry and Verity were friends since early childhood that developed romantic feelings for each other as they grew older. Neither of them ever kissed anyone except each other, and after Verity’s death Merry couldn’t bring herself to try to love another man. She feels no regret; only appreciation for the years they spent together. Her nickname ‘merry’ truly suits her. smile

Merry loves babies and children. She sometimes goes to the nearby playground just to watch the neighbourhood children play. She’s never been wealthy, but she spoils her grandchildren as much as she can in spite of that.



Faith and Liberty look very similar. They’re both five feet, five inches tall with brown eyes and slightly curly hair. However, Liberty’s hair is blonde like their mother’s was (Merry’s hair is white now.) and Faith’s hair is dark brown like their father’s was.

Liberty became interested in dancing when she heard girls in her class talking about it at age seven. She asked her parents for dance lessons, and they agreed. Faith, who copied everything her older sister did at the time, asked for them as well. Both of them grew up loving to dance, and they passed the interest onto their children. At age twenty-four, Liberty became a professional dancer at the performing arts centre in Leics.

Liberty was not as fortunate as Faith to have magic as a distraction when coping with their father’s death. With her mother needing to work frequently to pay the bills now that Verity was dead, and without having the requirement of supervising her younger sister because she was at Hogwarts, lonely Liberty became a bit too liberal with her behaviour. She began dating men constantly (normally ones twice her age) to replace the father-figure that she had lost. By the time eighteen year-old Faith graduated Hogwarts, twenty-two year-old Liberty was a single mother. Keeping in the tradition from her father’s side of the family of naming children after virtues, Liberty named her daughter Hope.

Liberty never found a man that she truly loved. Even Hope’s father was simply another short, failed relationship, and Liberty never bothered to tell him about Hope’s existence since he wouldn’t have been a good father anyway. Liberty and Hope live with Liberty’s mother so that none of them are lonely.



Hope is the only cousin of Remus’ that he has ever met. She’s almost three years older than him and they do not have much in common, but they get along well nonetheless. Their favourite thing to do together is dance since it’s the only hobby that they share (courtesy of their mothers). Hope loves to tease Remus since she’s outgoing and he’s conservative, and it’s easy and fun for her to embarrass him, particularly about sexual things.

She’s very flirtatious from growing up with a mother that dates constantly. Hope has ALWAYS had a boyfriend, even when she was six years-old and all she and her so-called “boyfriend” would do was hold hands. As unfortunate as it that she stands a high chance of becoming a teen mother, growing up with her grandmother resulted in her being cheerful and affectionate so that it’s difficult to mope in her presence.

Her dearest wish is to meet her father. Liberty insists that he was just another idiot that she bedded, and she won’t reveal his name, saying that meeting him would only bring Hope grief. Hope, being a stubborn person when she wants to be, refuses to be deterred and continues to dream of the day when she can finally meet him. Even if he is a berk, she’ll be glad to have a sense of closure.

Father – Artemis Minesca:
appearance: He had pale blonde hair, blue eyes and wore silver framed glasses.

Artemis grew up the only son and child of Luna and Setebos Minesca. He went to Hogwarts and was in Ravenclaw House just like his mother. He was always caring to others and never had trouble expressing himself. He enjoyed playing Gobstones and his favorite classes were Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures. He loved reptilian creatures the most, keeping several snakes as pets during his life. Slink, Ariel’s pet python is the last of them.
Artemis enjoyed photography and for a short time he was employed part time at the Daily Prophet and Witch Weekly.
Diana and Artemis met at Hogwarts and dated for awhile as students. When they graduated and ran into each other through their work at the D.P. they rekindled their relationship and quickly found themselves married with Ariel being born a year later. Artemis stayed home to take care of Ariel while Diana continued to work at her job. Artemis got ill unexpectedly and died suddenly in 1964 leaving Diana with Ariel who was only four at the time.


Paternal Grandparents: Setebos Ferdinand Minesca (died 1953) & Luna Selene (Bloodsworth) Minesca (dies in 1971)

Setebos and Luna met and became friends instantly when they attended Hogwarts. Setebos was in Slytherin and Luna in Ravenclaw, but they were in the same year and often crossed paths with one another. Setebos was Captain of the Chess club his sixth and seventh years. Setebos was a person who made plans for himself, and yet kept a light hearted outlook and personality when it came to his friendships and self-manner. He had no problem making friends among his fellow witches and wizards which allowed him to gain the confidence to go into magical politics. Luna enjoyed herbology and potions for the connections they have with the healing arts. She began working as a nurse at St. Mungo’s when she graduated while Setebos got a clerk job at the ministry to begin working his way up into the Wizengamot, in accordance with the plans he made for himself.
Luna and Setebos continued to ‘court’ as they called it for eight more years, and then Setebos finally proposed. Luna never minded though, she already knew him well enough to know that he loved her, he just wanted to ensure that he could provide for her. Luna made a great match for him with his job because of her nice friendly nature, she just had not personal social natures so her friends and connections from school cut off for the most part. Setebos and Luna had Artemis ten months after they got married and Luna quit her job to stay at home and raise their son. After three miscarriages, they decided to stop trying to grow their family and accepted that Artemis would be their one and only child, which was slightly upsetting for them since both had come from multiple sibling families.
Setebos got to see most of Artemis’s childhood but he died in 1953 when Artemis was twelve. Luna out lived her son, unfortunately, but she considered herself lucky to get to know her granddaughter Ariel, and when her son died, she moved into the same house with Diana and Ariel in Godric Hollows to take care of and raise Ariel while Diana worked. Luna sees much of her son in Ariel and does her best to raise her even though she’s much older than most children’s primary caregivers. Luna has always worn a silver crescent moon necklace, it has her name engraved in it and was the first gift Setebos ever bought her.
Gran is what Ariel affectionately calls Luna, and their relationship is the most important in Ariel’s life. Luna has tried to teach Ariel to be open minded and considerate to people, and most importantly, to be comfortable with ones own self, no matter how others judge you. Lessons of life Luna gained by experience that she feel is the best thing she can pass on. When Luna dies, Ariel is very distraught and it takes a while for her to recover.


Mother – Diana (Mclour) Minesca: brown eyes, with light dirty blonde hair.



Diana Mclour went to Hogwarts as a Hufflepuff and loved learning about people and places. History of Magic was her all time favorite class while in school which some of her peers just could never understand. She is a twin with her brother Dorian, though of the two of them she is the youngest, making her the youngest of all five of the Mclour siblings. She was an average student, she did okay in school but was never exceptional. She did get full marks in History of Magic though, due to her love of learning about people and places. The majority of her peers treated her as a sort of outsider during school. She isn’t into many of the usual activities like Quidditch, which again made her a sort of outsider. Diana isn’t very outgoing and has never been the best at making friends. Dorian was the exact opposite of her, but he never left her out of anything, she had a hard time loosing him and then loosing Artemis the year after that.

Diana works as a research and editorial assistant at the Daily Prophet. She has recently began a relationship with a fellow worker, Jarold Payne who is a reporter and a muggle born wizard. She keeps the relationship very low-key right now not wanting to make Ariel feel uncomfortable or cause any problems with Luna, who Diana has always enjoyed being around and thinks of her as a second mother.
Diana is not a bad mother, she just doesn’t recognize her absence as any kind of neglect. She is a very work oriented and one track minded. She prefers to make plans and stick to them, and has always had trouble adapting to sudden change. The deaths of her twin brother and husband have weighed heavily on her. She is grateful that Luna has stayed with them all these years unable to imagine herself and Ariel making it on their own. She does regret that Ariel never got to know her father very well and that she’s the only child they were able to have. Ariel looks so much like her father that it partly pains Diana, though she does her best to not let that affect their relationship.

Maternal Family:
Patrick Diederick and Peony Adelaide Mclour (Grandparents)(both died 13 years ago, natural deaths)

(Ariel's Uncles and Aunt)
Dennis Zaid Mclour – oldest son, married a muggle born witch Edith Andrews, now lives in Germany.
Casper Mclour – second oldest, he is a referee for some England played Quidditch games.
Juliet Mclour – middle sibling and only sister of Diana, married a muggle Randalle Lowell, they have two children Heather and Jason, but neither of them have magical powers so Ariel’s exposure to them has been very limited.
Dorian – Diana’s twin brother, passed away seven years ago, a year before Artemis died.
Dorian and Casper were both in Hufflepuff the same as Diana. Dennis was in Gryffindor and Juliet was a Ravenclaw. Juliet and Diana don’t keep in touch as they were never close and Dennis married and moved away while she was still in school, they exchange friendly holiday greetings and that’s about it. Casper visits every Christmas since Artemis’s death and was actually the one who taught Ariel how to fly. Diana doesn't dwell too much on her families lack of closeness, it doesn't bother her enough to do so.