Full Name: Benevolence Lily Montague
Nickname(s): Ben,
Birthdate: 1st December 1866
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Occupation: Owner of Montague's House of Flowers, and plant breeder
Blood Status: Pureblood
Residence: Hogsmeade - Bartonburg
London - Muggle District
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Star Magnolia wood, 15 inchs, Pheonix tail feather
Family: Lordson Montague -Owner/Founder of Montague House of Flowers(deceased)
Sonya Montague -Mother -(deceased)
Benevolence is a woman of petite build, about 5,0 in height but of good figure, even without her corset she has a petite waist and an slim figure. She has very pale skin which is contrasted with her very dark, jet black hair which she tends to keep in unfussy styles, and isnt found of the heavily ornamented, nor lead set ringlets as she thinks they make her face look frumpy and fat. She does however, wear a flower in her hair most days at work. She has large blue eyes which she sees as her most attractive feature and a prominent cupids bow mouth.
Her style of dress is simple and practical, she likes working in the greenhouse means so she generally wears block colours, without patterns, or overly fussy ornamentation and she HATES English pointwork and will not wear it under any circumstances.
*Lordson and Sonya Montague Marry
*Their first child William is born, but is a sickly and weak child
*Born in London to Lordson and Sonya Montague , Benevolance was a bouncing and healthy baby girl
* Twin Girls named Laurel and Esther are born, Esther is still born
*Their father, a noted academic, herbologist and botonist sets up a shop in London, although he doesn't do the day to day running of the shop he provides inventory
*William dies shortly after his 6th birthday of complications from dragonpox
*Benevolence displays magic, her parents are delighted
* Benevolence goes to Hogwarts and is sorted into Ravenclaw
* While Benevolence is away at school Laurel drowns in an accident in the pond of the families country home
* Her mother becomes very depressed, and is treated at home by doctors
* Shortly before returning home after her OWLs she receives word that her mother has been found dead in the same pond where Laurel drown, official cause is accident, family suspect melancholia
* Benevolence, passes her OWLs, and goes on to study 4 NEWTs, achieving respectable grades
*Her father expands the business to Hogsmeade, with London specializing in hothouse flowers and ornate presentations for the upper classes and Hogsmeade is more of general florists
* She came out at the Hogwarts COB, then left school for the last time. There are plans made for a private debut but they do no come to fruition
* The week after the Hogwarts coming out her father has a heart attack and dies.
* Benevolance took over the running of her fathers business, using her own knowledge of botany and herbology to also begin breeding plants
*By the time her mourning period is over she has sort of missed that first proper season or two and so, although a debutante, she isn't a society belle.
* Benevolence exists in society, a bit of a wall flower preferring to host small intimate gatherings than hosting public balls.
quiet, bookish, passionate, sweet natured, pragmatic, sensible, dutiful. She is passionate and warm once you get to know her but only intimate friends see this side of her, as she can come across as especially proper and formal when not in her circle of intimates. When you are in her circle you will find her warm, kind and effervescent on subjects about which she is passionate.
Benevolences patronus is a hummingbird
Her amormentia smells of leather of books, spices and a warm almost mulled wine.
The Montagues are on the richer end of the middle class spectrum. Financially they would be considered lower end upper class, but Montagues status as only one generation from self made money has limited the Montagues to being considered middle class. The Montague grandfather secured the families financial future.
