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Harry Potter; First War or Post-DH

[name/nicknames] Alecto Magaera Carrows
[birthday] 22 September 1958
[bloodline] FullBlood
[allegiance] the Dark Lord
[occupation] Death Eater. Crazy.
[school/house/years] Hogwarts, Slytherin, 1969-1976
[owl/newt scores] Ancient Runes A/A. Astronomy E/E. Charms E/A. DADA E/drop. Divination O/E. Herbology O/O. HoM A/drop. Potions E/A. Transfiguration A/A.

[wand] 28cm (11"), banshee hair, dogwood
[boggart] being locked behind bars with Amycus locked away as well, just out of her reach
[patronus] a great big grizzly bear
[in mirror of erised] Her son in her arms.
[special abilities] none. Though she's pretty good at the Imperius (and most mind magics). As well as an expert at potions.

[build/height/weight] She's short and a bit pudgy with a lot of curves. She stands at 165 cm (5'3) and weighs just about 75 kg (165lbs). Although recently she's taken to anorexia, for multiple reasons, most of which have nothing to do with her weight.
[hair/eyes] Her hair is dark brown and looks like a faded black almost grey in the right light. Her eyes are large and dark blue, almost black looking.
[identifying marks] Her features are very sharp amidst all her pudge. And she has a few very distinctive tattoos, not counting her Dark Mark.
[style] She was taught good fashion sense and style, but she mostly dresses for comfort, sometimes appearing ambiguous in sex because of it. Although there are times when she knows how to use clothes to accentuate her better features.
[appearance] Alecto is most definitely not tall. She and her brother aren't identical twins and he is, in fact, a bit taller than she is. But she really doesn't mind. What she does mind, however, is that she's pudgy. Alecto has fat here and there that she can't seem to get rid of no matter how hard she tries. She doesn't find herself ugly, really. She's pretty realistically self-aware. She just isn't comfortable with being fat. So she often goes the route of binge and purge in an attempt to lose some weight. And it rarely works. But she does know how to dress her curves rather well. She knows what hugs her hips and thighs too tight and what makes them look more narrow. And she knows how to wear tops that accentuate her cleavage, not her rolls. And she knows how to seem taller, what to do to her hair to make her face look thinner, etc etc. Her shallow mother taught her the secret tips of beauty and though Alecto rarely uses them consciously, they do her well.

Speaking of, Alecto's hair is a dull dark brown color. In the right light it almost looks a faded black color. She usually leaves it down in waves... waves because no matter how much you brush it, Alecto's hair always looks a mess. Not tangled and ratty, of course, just wavy. She doesn't bother with straightening charms or curling charms, so it pretty much stays in the middle stage permanently. She doesn't bother with it, mostly because she just doesn't care. And when she needs to get it out of her way, she ties it back with a ribbon. That's pretty much it. And with her hair continuously in her face, it's hard to notice anything else about her. Her features are all rather angular and sharp, even amidst her pudge. Her lips are rather prominent and she's got the kind of nose that is sharp and turned up just the slightest bit. And her eyes are a blue so dark that they almost look black. She really is rather creepy and intimidating in appearance, despite her size. And another thing that adds to that are the myriad of tattoos covering her body. She loves pain, so she's got tattoos all over. Ask her about them, she won't hesitate to show and tell each one.

[quirks] She reads in the dark. Bites her nails. Cuts her own hair (badly).
[hobbies] Reading. Torture. Runes and tarot (though she's not good at either).
[pet peeves] People who make unwarranted assumptions. Weakness.
[first impression] At first glance she appears stupid, aloof, and stand-offish. Rarely does anyone get past first impressions with Alecto.
[likes/dislikes] She likes reading, darkness, reptiles, gardens, and divination.
She dislikes chocolate, weakness, rumors, and anything fuzzy.
[personality] Alecto is absolutely unstable. She has never really been right in the head, but as the years wear on she gets less and less sane. She has serious issues controlling her urges, be they good or bad. Everything Alecto does is on instinct... and her natural instincts are all skewed. Sometimes she will unintentionally harm herself in an attempt to get something she desires. If she's cold, she will sit against a water heater until it burns her skin. If something itches, she will scatch until it bleeds. If she thinks someone has wronged her (and usually they have not, she just assumes) she will hex them without hesitation. And thus far she has never felt remourse about it. Also for almost a full after she gave birth to her son (starting May 1976) she tried to find the infant (which her parents had given away), risking her physical and mental health in the attempt.

When she's fully aware of herself, Alecto has a biting personality. She is quite fierce. There really isn't much that scares her. And she certainly isn't afraid to speak her mind. Most of the women of Alecto's generation ended up as house wives, socialites, and debutantes. However, Alecto knew from a very young age that her life was going to be far different from that. She wanted nothing to do with the life her mother was setting up for her. Instead she became everything her father wanted her brother to be. She knows how to make sound business dealings with the best of the men. However, she much prefers sneaker means of getting what she wants. She's backbiting and quite the little thief when the mood strikes her. She isn't the kind of person you want to cross.

The most important person to Alecto is her brother. Almost always has been, with the exception of a few months during the summer after her 6th year when she fell for an older man. Other than that they had been inseperable since birth. She will forgive you much easier if you hurt her than if you hurt Amycus. And she's not normally a forgiving person anyway. People have died for crossing the wrong line with Alecto's brother. She doesn't take any shit where it concerns Amycus. She has done and will do anything that is necessary. And she'll never question whatever twisted morals she has about it. But for the most part Amycus is the one taking care of Alecto. She has a tendency to ignore her own well-being and her brother is always trying to keep her from hurting herself worse.

She also has a strange love for snakes. It's yet another thing that has gotten her ridicule through her life. She has a whole bunch of snakes. And randomly, when Amycus is out, or when Alecto is just taking a nap, she sleeps with them in her bed. (She won't sleep with them otherwise because she shares a bed with her brother and they bite Amycus if he rolls over on them.) She almost always has at least one snake with her, wrapped around her body somewhere. She's not a parcel tongue, but she has a very jealous nature and (with the exception of Voldemort) she cruelly tortures and kills any parcel mouth she finds. Alecto's jealousy is not something to play with. As are many of her personality traits.

[family/pets] Her father is a fullblood, Duncan Aristead Carrows. And her mother is a halfblood, Cassidy Teaza Moon-Carrows. She has one sibling, her twin and the most important person in her life Amycus Carrows. She & Amycus share an owl called Erinyes (she calls him Eerie). Her personal pets are a myriad of snakes. (Natasha is her boa. Napoleon is her cobra. Khan is her eastern brown. And there are a handful more. All full-sized, deadly, and raised from eggs by Alecto herself.)
[childhood/current residence] The Carrows estate in East Anglia.
[finances] Sadly their estate is getting smaller by the generation because their money is diminishing. But Alecto and Amycus are working on less than legal means to at least keep the place from being taken.
[friends/enemies] She doesn't really have any. Alecto and Amycus pretty much stick to themselves. They do as they're ordered and that's pretty much it.
[sexuality/exes] Hetero. Most people would assume incestuous, but Alecto has never been sexual with her brother, they're just disturbingly close. In her 6th year she had an affair with one of her father's business associates which resulted in a son, and Alecto being homeschooled for her final year.
[turn ons/offs] She is highly turned on by power, strength, domination, pain, violence, death, and blood. She's turned off by weakness, shyness, self-doubt, cautiousness, and submission (this last one is why she's single, all the men she knows are submissive to the Dark Lord at least).

[history] Alecto's father, Duncan, was already an old man when the twins were born. He'd been married once before, but the twins know very little about their poor deceased step-mother. Speculation is that she was poisoned by Duncan's lover, Cassidy Moon. After the suspicious death of his first wife, Duncan married his lover, a woman more than twenty years his junior. And soon after, the twins were conceived. Just as suspiciously as his first wife, all of Duncan's relatives soon passed on as well, leaving Duncan and his new family to be the sole inheritors of the Carrows estate. The problem with this was that the estate was already in disrepair and seriously diminishing. By poisoning the rest of the Carrows, Cassidy assured that all the money-makers and wizards who were working to restore the estate were no more. Thus, the Carrows estate fell into a worse and worse state every year. Duncan was too old to work and refused to let his wife work. So the estate slowly became a worthless inheritance for their children.

Alecto Magaera was born barely a minute after her brother Amycus. From birth they were practically inseparable. As infants, if they were put in separate cribs or anywhere that they couldn't see each other, they would scream until they were together again. Duncan and Cassidy did their damnedest to separate the pair, but it was pretty much futile until they were old enough to understand punishment. Due to their over-dramatic natures, and the fact that the Carrows didn't really have the funds to hire a nanny, Cassidy was forced to take care of her own children. It was practically out of the question at the time, and highly looked down upon, but Cassidy had no choice. So she did as she had to.

Like many up-standing families, Alecto was fawned over by her materialistic and social-conscious mother. Amycus was, of course, doted on by their father who was thrilled to have an heir at his old age. Cassidy did everything she possibly could to turn Alecto into the perfect little lady. She personally taught her daughter to play instruments, to speak in different languages, the proper etiquette, and a million other things that debutantes need to know. However, Alecto spent far too much time with her brother to become the shallow cat that her mother was and wanted her to become. Alecto learned early to be biting and sarcastic and vile and deceitful. These were things she learned from her mother, of course, but she had never known that side of her mother. Cassidy became the perfect society woman after Duncan's first wife and family were gotten rid of. She never let her children see her as anything but perfect. It was unsettling for her to see those traits in her daughter, but at the same time reassuring. With the right drive and intentions, Cassidy knew her daughter could go far further than she ever would.

But unlike her mother, Alecto had no plans to marry for status or money (even though her family needed the latter). Her entire devotion and love was saved only for her brother. And thus she had painfully high standards for any future spouse (and assumed there would be none because of it). The two biggest issues for Alecto were that he must not be submissive and he absolutely must get on with Amycus. The first was difficult because most of the men who would be attracted to Alecto were submissive at least to Voldemort. But the second was twice as hard. Amycus has higher standards for his sister's spouse than even she does. And the coin has two sides. Alecto has never met a woman she would agree to give her brother to. No one is worthy of him. And equally, she knows that he thinks no one is worthy of her. But all that changed during the summer after their sixth year.

When the pair entered Hogwarts, the gossip began immediately. About everything from their mother and father's age differences, to how close the two of them really were. Alecto, being at a very impressionable age, spent her first three years at Hogwarts trying to make herself appear better, without changing her relationship with her brother. She thought that if she didn't mention her parents and acted ashamed of them in school, if she had a strong personality, and if her appearance was better, the other students would just forget the rumors about an incestuous relationship. Having been the "chubby girl" all her life, getting obesity genes from both sides of her family, Alecto became anorexic and bulimic. But after the first three years, she realized that nothing would make her peers accept her. They would always suspect horrible things of her family. So she quit trying. But she kept binging and purging, anorexia and bulimia had become an addiction to her. One that still remains.

By her sixth year, Alecto had become callous and angry. She was every bit the rebellious teen, though she kept her grades up as best she could (which wasn't much considering she's not brilliant or anything). She threw around hexes like they were nothing, dealing with the punishments with the attitude of a pre-pubescent child. The summer after her sixth year she got a tattoo of the Dark Mark on the right side of her lower back (she'd seen it on her father's arm previously, found out what it was, and decided that it was her new act of rebellion). But it certainly wasn't her only one.

Her father was working on business dealings all that summer. He had men in and out of the house, and there was one in particular that frequently kept his eye on Alecto. After catching the hints that were being dropped, the two met secretly for the remainder of the summer. All Alecto's vows of never marrying and no one being worthy were out the window. Everything was going fine until the week before her 7th year began. Amycus had realized that Alecto had been acting weird all summer. Finally he confronted her, found out she was pregnant and chased off her lover. Cassidy and Duncan decided to keep their daughter home for her 7th year, to try and avoid scandal.

Once the child was born, Duncan secreted it off. Alecto was distraught enough that she actually ran away. It was the longest Alecto had ever spent away from Amycus. But with her baby's daddy probably executed, that child was the only thing left of what she felt was love. She had to find him. She left a wake of disaster behind her, which her family did their best to clean up, but never managed to. To silence her, Duncan let Alecto get her real Dark Mark once she was tracked down. She was unstable, but did good work for the Dark Lord. Not long after, though her parents both died. (It was a little suspicious, and Alecto started to realize what had happened to the rest of their family.)

The death of her parents and the subsequent fall of Voldemort spiraled Alecto further into despair and insanity. She got bad enough that Amycus secreted her away to France. For a while he tried to leave her in a home for the magical and insane, but when she kept escaping and causing trouble, that seemed to not be helping. Finally he hired someone to live in with them and tried his best to take care of her himself. But when she felt her Dark Mark burning on Voldemort's return, she escaped both her brother and her nurse to return to Voldemort.

Upon Voldemort's hostile take-over, Alecto actually volunteered to teach at Hogwarts. Perhaps it was a maternal instinct twisted somewhere in her from the loss of her son decades before. She was no more sane than before, but it was a bit more stable now. And in the final battle at Hogwarts, after being freed by Voldemort-supporting Ravenclaws, Alecto and Amycus were able to escape and flee to France.

[timeline]
1958 September: Alecto & Amycus are born.
1969 September: Aleco & Amycus sorted into Slytherin.
1971 September: Alecto takes up anorexia & bulimia.
1975 June: Alecto gets a tattoo of the Dark Mark on her lower back.
1975 July: Alecto has an affair with her father's associate.
1975 September: Alecto is pregnant & homeschooled for her 2nd year.
1976 April: Alecto gives birth to a boy, her father sends him off & Alecto runs away.
1976 May: Alecto is found, kept home & given her real Dark Mark.
1976 August: Duncan & Cassidy die mysteriously.
1981 November: Amycus takes Alecto to France & hires someone to look after his crazy sister.
1995 June: Alecto escapes to return to Voldemort when he calls. Amycus follows.
1996 June: Alecto & Amycus participates in the DE infiltration of Hogwarts.
1996 September: Alecto teaches Muggle Studies under Headmaster Snape.
1997 May: Alecto & Amycus are captured during the Battle of Hogwarts.

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