BLACKWOOD, Lilith

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LILITH BLACKWOOD

LOYAL, CARING, FAIR, GIFTED, AUNT


BASICS
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FULL NAME LILITH BLACKWOOD[/color]
NICKNAME Lil, Aunt Lil, Professor Blackwood[/color]
AGE 53[/color]
GENDER Female[/color]
HOUSE OR FORMER HOUSE Gryffindor[/color]
BLOOD STATUS Pure
PLAY-BY [/color][/color][/font]Lucy Lawless[/color]
CANON OR ORIGINAL Original[/color]
ADULT OR STUDENT Adult[/color]
PROFESSOR? IF SO WHAT SUBJECT? Ex-Muggle Studies Professor[/color]
OCCUPATION? IF SO WHERE DO YOU WORK? Headmistress of Hogwarts[/color]


WAND Dragon Heartstring, 12 1/2", Apple[/color]
PATRONUS Hippogriff, her time in New Zealand and becoming Hogwarts Headmistress. [/color]
MIRROR OF ERISED Seeing her niece and nephew truly happy, end of the war[/color]
BOGGART A student dying under her care[/color]


STRENGTHS Learning new things (especially languages), nurturing creativity, keeping order, being fair, duelling[/color]
WEAKNESSES Her niece and nephew (to the point that she's almost blinded by her love for them and cannot see them doing any harm), her one love, her nightmares[/color]
LIKES Fairness to all
Learning new things
Cooperation
Peace
Christmas
Animals
Welcoming people
Hogwarts
Her job
Giving people a chance
Other languages
Creativity in others[/color]
DISLIKES Prejudices
Success at others expense
Cruelty
People that do nothing while others suffer
Giving people second chances
Being disappointed
Brutality
Forgetting something
Seeing others humiliated
Being treated like a fool[/color]

OVERALL PERSONALITY Lilith is a big believer in equal opportunities and working to get to where you want to go. She doesn't like the idea of a free ride for anyone unless everyone gets a free ride and that just doesn't happen. As well as being fair Lilith is a big believer in learning be it through books, lessons or real life experiences, she loves to learn and picks up on things quickly.

Lilith's favourite time of year is Christmas. She does not have a family of her own now the children are back with their father nor does she see much of her brother but she loves to give and enjoy the company of those around her at the time.

Lilith likes to give people a chance, no matter what their background, to her each individual person deserves a chance to live their life the way they want to providing it doesn't hurt or damage another living being. What she does not like is giving people a second chance because usually that means that she has been let down once before by this person, however she is fair and will give people that second chance but usually that will be all.

To coincide with learning Lilith is a lover of languages. She's learnt all sorts of languages from all over the globe and even Mermish, Gobbledegook and Troll. She has a natural ability to speak parseltongue that was passed down through her family for as long as they had been documenting.

Lilith tends to neglect everything outside of the castle. She has professional relations with some of those that work at the Ministry and the Minister for Magic, what with having a lot of vampires and werewolves at the school there has been much need for correspondence with the ministry, despite Lilith's dislike for the system.

Lilith is fiercely loyal to the point where she can get a little overbearing, she can occasionally have an issue with boundaries and getting along with authority figures that place too much importance upon their titles. [/color]


MOTHER Bathsheba Blackwood née Hoxley, 77, apothecary shop assistant, Slytherin Alumni, pureblood[/color]
FATHER Joab Blackwood, 79, apothecary owner, Slytherin Alumni, pureblood[/color]
SIBLINGS Apollo Leonardo Blackwood - Brother[/color]
OTHER Katherine Caroline Blackwood - sister-in-law
Newton Issac Blackwood - Nephew
Elisabeth Raven Blackwood - Niece
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HISTORY Lilith was born an only child, she grew up an only child and went through childhood as an only child and yet when she turned 15, she had a sibling, a baby brother named Apollo.

Lilith had a comfortable childhood growing up, she didn't alway get what she wanted but their family wasn't exactly poor, they managed to get by with enough left over for a holiday every summer.

Lilith loved her time away, visiting different countries, from an early age she was encouraged by both her parents to learn other languages, they too spoke different languages and helped teach a young Lilith as much as they could, but her thirst for knowledge was insatiable.

Lilith learnt three languages before she went to Hogwarts as well as having a natural gift from both of her parents of being a parseltongue, a gift her parents had told her to keep hidden through fear of judgement, parseltongue's were associated with the evil and wicked and they did not want that for their daughter.

Lilith attended Hogwarts and was placed into Gryffindor. Despite both her parents having been Slytherin it was the only house option the sorting hat had not considered for her. In the end Gryffindor won out but narrowly, she possessed many favourable traits for all houses.

During her time at Hogwarts Lilith added another two languages to her vocabulary. She knew knew English, French, Greek, Italian, Welsh and Mermish.

Lilith left Hogwarts with a sense of wonderment and straight O's in all her subjects apart from Divination where she suffered an A. She wanted to see the world, learn more about other cultures and live a life without regrets. First on her world tour was New Zealand, where she spent time travelling and doing anything even remotely adventurous, bungee jumping, white water rafting and spending time caring for sick muggle animals as well as magical ones, she also worked in hospitals both magical and muggle.

Before she left New Zealand she met a guy, they had a brief fling and it turned out the guy was a Quidditch player for the New Zealand Quidditch team. She cared for the teams Mascot Sparky, a phoenix, leading up to, during and after his burning days, they grew close to one another and the rare bird came to trust her.

When it came time to leave New Zealand, after three years, and explore more of the world Lilith was torn, she wanted to stay, to be with the man she was starting to fall in love with and to support the New Zealand quidditch team as well as caring for Sparky, but she had to move on and she could always go back though she was yet to visit her baby brother who was 5 by the time she left New Zealand and didn't have any memories of her as he was only 2 when she'd left England.

Her next stop was Australia wandering the bush and working for children's charities and those that helped families. She learnt a lot of things and stayed in Australia for two years, doing what she loved and taking adventures with aboriginals, tourists and random strangers she met at youth hostels. Her favourite part of Australia was the Great Barrier Reef with all its tropical fish.

After Australia was America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, western Europe and back to the UK, spending time exploring at home, but no matter where she went, Lilith always found work to do with people, paying her way by working in animal hospitals, magical and muggle.

By the time she was twenty-nine, having spent ten years travelling the globe, Lilith had finished travelling the world, she was happy at home and as much as she liked to travel she would be happy to just do it in the summer.

Lilith got a job in Hogsmeade and lived there, she worked in a couple of places in the village and loved them both. There was Madam Puddifoot's and Zonko's Joke Shop. She was there from March 1998 and involved so much in village life that when it came time for the final battle of Hogwarts, she headed up to the castle with many other village residents and helped fight against the Death Eaters. She witnessed so much and found it heartbreaking to see so many deaths. She was 29 and grateful for the first time in her life that her bloodline was pure because it had been while her brother was at Hogwarts that it had been run by Severus Snape and the Carrows, naturally he was praised but unfortunately it set him on a path Lilith tried to deter but it didn't work.

Lilith joined the Hogwarts staff and became the Muggle Studies professor. She spent ten years there before her niece and nephew were born and then just left with her. Their father was in Azkaban and their mother just couldn't handle two demanding infants that she just couldn't bring herself to love. Lilith essentially became a single parent and raised the children as though they were her own but always answered their questions about their parents as gently as she could without castling their parents in too dark a light but it was hard.

For eleven years she'd given up her position at Hogwarts as Muggle Studies professor so she could raise the children until the twins started back at Hogwarts and she resumed her position, a job that she loved. She didn't see the twins at Hogwarts apart from their sorting (both into Slytherin like everyone in their family but her) and at the occasional meal and feasts. She allowed them their distance and never got involved in their lives until Christmas and Summer holidays when they would live with her in her home in a muggle village, she wanted the children to grow up with understanding that muggle-borns weren't any different to them, they all just had different abilities.

Her second year back at Hogwarts was eventful, she became Deputy Head Mistress and then two years later Headmistress as the children had chosen to move back in with their father, something that had devastated Lilith but something she could also understand, children needed their father and while they'd lived with her they'd not had a single role model as Lilith never brought any guys home as she had chosen to devote her life to her niece and nephew for as long as they needed.

Now she has utmost concern for all the children at Hogwarts and even accepts Vampires and Werewolves. She has spells on the castle that protect students from being bitten by Vampires (their teeth retract into their gums and an alarm sounds in Lilith's office) and as for werewolves they have a certain area in the forbidden forest for them to roam and a list they have to check off against, those that do not make the list do not return to school and are expelled.

During one of her summer holidays off from school and when the children were staying with their father, Lilith visited the Northern Territory on a trip to Australia, she walked about the bushland for days and came across a familiar sight, a burning bird. She cared for the bird and shared her provisions with it, she couldn't stay with it for long and knew that the wild life would eat a poor defenceless baby bird on its own and so she made a nest from twigs, gum leaves and eucalyptus leaves and took it on her two day walk back to camp.

She cared for the bird until it had grown much bigger and was nearly at its full size, it was nearly time to return back to Hogwarts and so she apparated back to the spot where she had found the bird to set it free, the bird however did not leave her side and has been a pet to Lilith ever since. She named the Phoenix Phyre and returned to Hogwarts, Phyre in tow.

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