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harry potter, hestia jones, postwar, rpg, second war

Harry Potter; Middle Years or Post-DH

[name/nicknames] Hestia Katerine Jones. Hes. Hessie (she HATES this). Duckie (only Charlie has ever called her this).
[birthday] 1 May 1974
[bloodline] Fullblood
[allegiance] Hestia joined the Order right out of Hogwarts in order to honor her father's memory. She has a good heart, so she is naturally aligned to the good side. However, she's too skittish to have chosen an alignment on her own.
[occupation] She was a Muggle model. And now, since returning to the Wizarding World, she's a bit between jobs. She has full training to be an Auror (but is unable to get a job as one).
[school/house/years] Hogwarts, Slytherin, 1985-1992.
[owl/newt scores] Astronomy A/E. Charms A/E. DADA A/A. Herbology A/A. HoM E/drop. Muggle Studies O/drop. Potions E/A. Transfiguration E/A.

[wand] 11.5 inch, willow wood, veela hair core
[boggart] an Anaconda
[patronus] her Father
[in mirror of erised] Herself & Charlie in Romania with a handful of children.
[special abilities] None, really. Hestia hasn't used magic much in the past few years and has trouble bringing up anything more than a few remedial spells.

[build/height/weight] She's unusually tall and extremely thin, a very model-like build, which she was born with. She's 170cm (5'7) and weighs 54 kg (120lbs).
[hair/eyes] Dark brown, almost black in both cases.
[identifying marks] No scars, no birthmarks, nothing usually identifying. No one's ever been sure if the lack of marks was the magic of a model or just her natural appearance.
[style] When she was still in school, Hes wore only tight fitted robes. When in the muggle modeling world, Hes wore whatever her stylists told her to (usually it was very tight, very thin, and very little). And now that she's back in the wizarding world, she wears very comfortable jeans and an oversized t-shirt.
[appearance] Hestia was born with a fullhead of dark hair. Her mother was extremely light skinned with blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair. And Hestia never looked a thing like her mother as far as she knew. She was glad of it, too. She wanted nothing to do with her mother, even something as trivial as her appearance was too much. And even though Hestia has always had her mother's prominent cheek bones and large round eyes, she'll never know it. No one has seen or heard from her mother since she was born.

Besides Hestia's facial features, she inherited her mother's lithe form. She has subtle curves that you can only see when she wears tight clothing. She has very little in the way of breasts, hips or butt. In fact, Hestia has very little in the way of anything except height. She's very tall and thin. Hestia was always the kind of girl who gets told she should be a model. Her mother was very beautiful, glamorous, with the classic lovliness that never really matters what the style of the times is. She walks and heads turn. Her long dark hair bounces lightly. Dark lashes frame dark brown eyes and a deep olive complexion, much like her father's.

It didn't surprise many people that Hestia became a model. She lost what little weight she had. Her face became a bit more hollow, a bit more prominent. The smile that had always graced her face during her school years had long since faded. She smiled less and less since she and Charlie split up. But that was fine because models were never supposed to smile. The face that had worn very little make-up in school became caked with it nearly every day. She looked the part of a glamorous model, but Hestia never really felt it.

When Hestia finally returned to the Wizarding World, she looked nothing more than sickly. Andromeda and Molly were both afraid for her health, constantly trying to feed her. Hestia stopped wearing make-up altogether. She pulled her hair into a single pony-tail every day. And the only thing she ever wears are jeans, sneakers, and over-sized t-shirts. Hestia went from the most glam a person can be to the complete and total opposite. Though a few months has begun to fill her form out a bit more. Her hips and ribs are no longer seen through her skin. And she even smiles now and again.

[quirks] Her lack of self-confidence is the biggest flaw. Also, the way she completely avoids dealing with her problems and runs away from them instead is a big one. When she's overly emotional (good or bad) she'll lay for hours in a steaming tub with bubbles and sometimes flower petals. She likes to run in the rain. She hates her beauty and does all she can to suppress it.
[hobbies] Reading classic romantic novels (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, The Scarlet Pimpernel, etc). Plays chess very badly. Writing bad poetry. Singing 80's muggle rock music (Sex Pistols, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, etc) badly at the top of her lungs.
[pet peeves] Blokes who won't look her in the eyes. Persistent noises (beeps, scrapes, drips, etc). Perfectionists.
[first impression] Hes appears to be just a pretty face. She gives off the impression that she's all beauty & no brains. And usually she just goes with that because it's easiest.
[likes/dislikes] Likes - Classic romance novels. Cheesy romantic poetry. 80's muggle rock music. Running in the rain. The Chudley Cannons. Dislikes - Stalkers. Beautiful people. Men who take advantage of young girls.
[personality] When Hestia was young she was the epitome of a teenage girl. She was sweet, shy, bubbly, adorable. Really she was the girl next door. She did fair in her classes, she loved her friends, and she had the obligatory jealous girls plotting against her. She has always been lovely and always been contemptuous of it. But for the most part, with the exception of the death of her father, Hestia had a normal childhood and it was reflected in her demeanor.

Her personality, however, has always been rather complex. Hestia's always been able to put up a good front, a happy front. In reality Hestia's whole world resides in her heart and she takes the negative parts of life extremely hard. For innumerable years Hestia spent nights crying over her father. Nights that one wouldn't necessarily connect with grieving. There were days when the mention of sandwiches would remind her of the picnics she took with her father and she would run off to hide and cry. She never cries when anyone is around to see or hear it, though.

Since her father's death, Hestia hasn't let anyone new in. She made friends in school, but always kept them at a distance. She keeps her emotions hidden to protect her heart. The loss of Tonks, the only friend she'd kept close to since school, hit her very hard and Hestia is afraid to talk to anyone new. She's made a few friends since her 8th birthday, no one she was close to at all, but since Tonks' death she has refused to befriend anyone new at all.

Besides her emotional shut-down, Hestia also has a very serious issue with self-esteem. People in massive numbers can tell her she's gorgeous and Hestia will just write it off to her charismatic personality. Since her father first told her about how her parents met, how he fell in love, and subsequently how she left him, Hestia has acquainted beauty to betrayal. She doesn't trust anyone attractive. And she is generally offended when called beautiful. She doesn't want to be that. The one thing Hestia has determined to keep from happening in her life is to turn into her mother.

Even while in the muggle modeling world, Hestia wasn't the diva that everyone expected her to be. She was quiet, doing only business with those that she needed to do business with. And when she returned to the Wizarding World, she barely spoke to anyone. She let Andromeda and Molly mother her because that's what they needed to do and Hestia wanted to be a help to them. But Hestia doesn't think she deserves it. Or anything else really. She believes that the bad things she's done in life outweigh any good she could have done. And thus she is the quintessential pessimist.

[family/pets] The only relative who attended Hogwarts that really counts to Hestia is her father, Alexander Jones, a large dark skinned man. He was a Gryffindor and a member of the original Order of the Phoenix and died when Hes was just 7. She has very few memories of him. She honestly doesn't even know what he did for a job, just that his hands were always rough and calloused (he was a very gentle man with his daughter, though). The only thing she has of his is his old school trunk & his old chess set, which she has never and will never part with. It goes where she goes. She's cousins with Gwenog Jones and she also has a distant cousin (Megan) who is in Hogwarts right now, a Hufflepuff.
[childhood/current residence] Godric's Hollow when her father was alive. And then uptown London with her Aunt. Then she had a flat in London on her own, but was rarely there with her model traveling. Currently she's found a little flat in Diagon Alley.
[finances] Very well off. She has a lot of money invested from her modeling time. And her father and aunt left her a little bit of money (not much, a couple thousand each).
[friends/enemies] When she was in school, Hestia was very close with the Weasley family. After she and Charlie started dating, Molly started mothering her. Hestia had a few ties to the wizarding world through her aunt, considering the woman was born of pureblooded parents, but it was much easier to go to Molly with her wizarding girl problems than her Aunt Nessa. She was very close with her father before he died, and her Aunt Nessa. And until she broke Charlie's heart, she was very close with the Weasleys. Now, however, she assumes that everyone with redhair in the wizarding world things she's some kind of scarlet woman and would rather she was dead. Most times she wishes that too. And after she and Charlie split up, Hestia shut down entirely and doesn't have relationships with anyone unless they're required for work. When they were in school, she was close with Tonks, but she's pretty sure Tonks hated her too after she broke Charlie's heart. She doesn't really have enemies, but she's pretty sure everyone hates her anyway.
[sexuality/exes] Hetero. Is and always has been in love with Charlie Weasley. No one else has ever mattered. But her relationship as a 5th year with one of her professors ruined her future completely. And currently she's off and on with a muggle modeling manager named Dawson (who is abusive).
[turn ons/offs] Charlie is pretty much her only turn on. But to list characteristics: red hair, strength, rugged men, a good sense of humor, adventurous, a good smile, muscles, and a good heart. And what she hates are men who are shallow, selfish, superficial, thin pretty boys, models and creepy stalkers.

[history] Alexander Jones met Katrala Blackwood under circumstances that didn't seem so strange to an outsider. They were on a beach in Italy. She was sunning herself, nude, and his futbal rolled right over her behind. Surprised, or so she seemed, Katrala had no arguments letting the very apologetic Englishman take her for dinner. After dinner it was a whirlwind romance over nearly a month. And then Alexander woke up one morning with an empty hotel bed. And his wand had mysteriously disappered. He was flustered, confused, and returned as soon as he could to England and the Order. Katrala, however, had gotten exactly what she'd come for. She was, in fact, Italian, but was working for Voldemort. It was near the beginning of his rise to power, before much was known. Which is precisely why she knew the information she'd gleaned from Alexander would look good on her. After a few slip-ups on Alexander's part, Katrala had made him one of Voldemort's targets.

Disappointment had set in and turned to depression in Alexander. Eight months passed before Alexander could get out of his slump. And his reasons came in a pair in a baby basinet on his Aunt Nessa's porch. Nessa was a squib and lived rather close in Muggle London. She was easier to find than Alex since he'd gone into hiding after his run in with one of Voldemort's own. And when Aunt Nessa called him, Alexander's life completely changed. In the basket, with his wand tucked against her tiny pink frame, was a little girl. There was a note with the words "She's yours. I wanted info, not a baby." and that was the last Alex heard from Katrala.

After a long registration process in both the wizarding and muggle worlds, Alexander was finally home with his new baby girl, Hestia Katerine Jones. Her early years were rather normal. She attended a muggle primary school during the day while her father worked. Aunt Nessa picked her up and sometimes dropped her off when her father was working too early or too late. She was a cheerful child and a daddy's girl through and through. Her magic surfaced right around her third birthday. Her father, knowing nothing about raising a child, still had her in a crib. And she was through with it. One morning, sick of being stuck in bed, she levitated herself out of it. Alex walked in just in time to see her hoover and then hit the floor. He kissed her booboo and then promptly went to get a big girl bed and a door gate for her.

Hestia's early years were full of the most pleasant memories. She can clearly remember the rough feel of her father's hands, the musky smell when he held her tightly, and the soft timbre of his voice. There were afternoons spent picnicing at the park and weekends at the beach. They lived in the middle of London, so the beach was a ways away, but Alex never minded spending time with his daughter. Or taking her shopping and doing all the things that mother's do with their daughters. He was, in all reality, the perfect father.

That's why it was so devistating to Hestia when he died suddenly just after she turned seven. She had never known that he was ever a part of the OotP. In fact, she remains unaware of that fact. She never knew how he died. It wasn't until recently that Hestia began asking how. They'd always told her that Daddy had died on the job. Hestia still doesn't know what his real job was, nor that the job he was on was for the Order. His death is a mystery to her, a very painful mystery. The entire year surrounding his death is a blur to her. Hestia's life didn't really seem to pick-up in her memory again until her 8th birthday. That's her first real memory of the pain of the loss of her father.

Hestia's last few years have been spent living with her Aunt Nessa. A nice, quiet, nearly non-magical life. Her father was an only child, but he had a splattering of aunts and uncles around. Hestia had spent ample time with all of them, but her father had always been closest to his Aunt Nessa, the squib. It seemed a bit odd for Hestia to live with a non-magical great-aunt, but that was how her father wanted it. Before Hogwarts, Hestia spent a good deal of time around other magical children. Her Aunt Nessa had grown up around magical families, so a lot of her friends were witches and wizards who came to call and brought their children. Andromeda Tonks and Nymphadora were a few of them. Hestia got rather close with Nymphadora. Both children were bubbly and charismatic. And Dora helped her get passed her father's death. By the time Hestia entered Hogwarts she appeared to be the same happy child she'd been before the tragedy.

She wasn't, though. There were many nights Hestia did nothing but cry. For instance, the night of the sorting. Hestia hadn't wanted to be a Slytherin, she wanted to be a Gryffindor like Daddy. And then Dora had been sorted into another house. Hestia felt alone, more than she'd felt in a long time. She was away from Aunt Nessa and the only people she'd ever felt were friends. And she had no idea why she was sorted into Gryffindor. For an eleven year old it was just too much to handle. She cried. And for the next few years there were other nights when things overwhelmed her and she cried. But for the most part Hestia was cheerful, she was charismatic, she was playful and friendly.

Academically Hestia was a moderate student. She studied a little, mades As on just about everything, a couple of Os here and there. But her focus wasn't really on school. She was kind of a social butterfly by nature. She used to be a people person. Hestia spent her free time with friends. With Dora. Mostly with no one from her own house. Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs. And then there was Charlie Weasley, the cutest bloke at Hogwarts. Quidditch captain. Seeker. A prefect, yes, but you wouldn't believe how much a prefect can get away with. They started dating in his 6th year, her 5th, and within a few months she spent every free moment with Charlie or his family or both. She changed little Ginnykin's diapers, got Ron hooked on the Cannons, helped Fred and George with a few of their earlier tricks, and generally felt like part of the family for almost two whole years. The Weasley's were her family outside of Aunt Nessa. Her life seemed to be coming together the way her father had always hoped it would.

What a surpise that her 7th year at Hogwarts ruined it all. She started to fall behind in some of her studies and the new professor offered very willingly to give her private tutoring. He and Hestia created quite a relationship after that. And it wasn't long until Charlie found out and their relationship ended quite abruptly. And more importantly, Dumbledore found out. (Well, it wasn't more important to Hestia. She realized not long after that nothing was more important to her than Charlie. But by then it seemed too late.) Dumbledore gave them the ultimatum of not seeing each other (offering to tutor Hestia himself) or leaving Hogwarts all together. Hestia couldn't choose and left the choice up to the professor, who had no choice for himself but to break it off.

Hestia passed her NEWTS and went on to train as an auror. But by the time she applied for the actual job three years later, news of her scandal had spread. She was turned down because the ministry was afraid that if she could do that to a teacher, she could just as easily do it to a member of the ministry. Devastated and turned away by the only things she'd ever called home, Hes returned to muggle London and her Aunt Nessa. Not long afterward, she found a job at a modeling agency and got her own apartment. She worked and lived in the muggle world. The only exception were her few ties to the Wizarding World through the Order. She did odd jobs here and there. She was part of the advance guard for Harry's escape from Privet Drive, and little things like that. But for the most part she lived as a Muggle. It was easier that way.

And then, fall of 1996, her Aunt Nessa died. Hestia took a brief time to deal with the funeral and her great-aunt's holdings and such. However the most interaction she allowed herself to have with the wizarding world was to set up the funeral arrangements for her Aunt's wizarding friends. And then she quickly disappeared and vowed not to return to London again. Her only ties to the wizarding world were the few comforts that she couldn't bring herself to part with and some family heirlooms left by her father. Of course, as much as she hoped it would be easier, she knew she'd end up dragged back there again eventually.

And it was the Order that finally brought Hestia back. She was one of the few Order members who knew about the Muggle world. So Hestia was asked to take the Dursleys to safety, away from Harry and away from the war. And considering Hestia wanted nothing more to do with the Wizarding World, the Dursleys felt just a bit more comfortable with her than they would with others. She dressed like a muggle, she lived like a muggle, she understood currency and cars and things of that nature. So during the war, Hestia stayed in the country with Dedalus Diggle and the Dursley family. And afterward, late May 1998, she was pulled back into the Wizarding World, at least for a short time, by members of the Order, those who had forgiven her childish trespasses and convinced her that she belonged there, with her real family.
[timeline]
1972-December: Charlie Weasley born.
1973-August: Katrala gets preggers, leaves Alexander.
1974-May: Hestia Katerine Jones is born to Alexander Jones and Katrala BLackwood.
1981-September: Alex dies at Lord V's hands.
....-September: Squib Aunt Nessa takes her in. She moves to a Muggle community in downtown London.
1984-August: Charlie begins his 1st year at Hogwarts.
1985-August: Begins her 1st year at Hogwarts. Charlie begins 2rd year.
1986-August: Begins 2nd year. Charlie begins 3rd year.
1987-August: Begins 3rd year. Charlie begins 4th year.
1988-August: Begins 4th year. Charlie begins 5th year.
....-November: Starts dating Charlie Weasley
1989-April: Spends holiday at home with Aunt. Visits the Weasleys once.
....-June: Visits the Weasley home extensively.
....-August: Begins 5th year. Charlie begins 6th year.
....-December: Spends Christmas with Aunt at the Weasleys'.
1990-April: Spends Easter on vacation in Egypt with Aunt.
....-June: Spends the summer with the Weasleys.
....-August: Begins 6th year.
....-December: Spends Christmas with Aunt. Visits Charlie every other day.
1991-June: Charlie graduates Hogwarts.
....August: Begins 7th year.
....-November: Does awfully on her exams, asks for tutoring.
1992-February: Starts an affair with a professor.
....-April: Meeting with Dumbledore and the professor in which he gives them the alternative of not seeing each other or both leaving Hogwarts permanently. She tells him to choose. He chooses to save her future and his and break them up. Charlie finds out and breaks it off.
...-June: graduates Hogwarts. Hestia returns home for the holiday and avoids the Wizarding world.
....-August: Begins 1st year Auror training.
....-December: Spends holiday with Aunt.
1993-April: Spends holiday in Ireland with Aunt.
....-June: Spends the holiday in America with Aunt.
....-August: Begins 2nd year Auror training.
....-December: Spends holiday with Aunt.
1994-April: Spends holiday in China with Aunt.
....-June: Spends the holiday in Australia with Aunt.
....-August: Begins 3rd year Auror training.
....-December: Spends holiday with Aunt.
1995-April: Spends Holiday in Russia with Aunt.
....-June: Passes Auror tests. Refused job because of her previous tresspasses. Takes up a job in the Muggle World as a model.
....-July: Is part of the advance guard bringing Harry from Privet Drive.
....-August: Aunt Nessa dies. Hestia takes care of her funeral quickly. Then she disappears to the States to work as a model, not letting anyone know where she is.
1997-July: Returns to the Wizarding World for Tonks' wedding. Then agrees to take care of the Dursleys while the war is at its worst.
1998-May: The Dursleys return home and Hestia returns to the Wizarding World at the request of friends.

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