Full Name: Dorothea Guinevere Potts
Nicknames: Thea, Dora to Millie (a hangover from her finding it hard to make the "th" sound as a child)
Birthdate: August 9th 1866
Current Age: 27
Gender: Female
Occupation: Governess and agony aunt
Reputation: 9 - nothing to report, a governess is expected to be sensible, but the Potts family do have a reputation for being a little odd.
Residence: North Bartonburg, Hogsmeade
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
Wand: 11 inch, spruce, dragon heartstring core, whippy
Blood Status: Halfblood
Social Class: Middle
Family:
Potts family, including (but not limited to):

• Father: Cecil Potts (b.1836), Herbologist
• Mother: Elizabeth "Beth" Potts née Holt (b.1841)
• Brother: Edmund Potts (b.1863)
• Brother: Fletcher Potts (b.1873)
• Sister: Mildred Potts (b.1879)
• Uncle: Basil Potts (b. 1834), Marine Herbologist
• Aunt: Laurel Potts née Phillips (b. 1842), owns The Florist Potts
• Cousin: Amaryllis ---- née Potts (b. 1862)
• Cousin: Senna ---- née Potts (b. 1863)
• Cousin: Thistle Potts (b. 1865)
• Cousin: Zinnia "Zin" Gallagher née Potts (b. 1868)
• Cousin: Daffodil "Daffy" Grimstone née Potts (b.1870), Owner of Wildflowers Florist & Gifts
• Cousin: Dahlia Honeyduke née Potts (b. 1873)
• Cousin: Calla Potts (b. 1875), Seventh Year Hufflepuff
• Uncle: Ferdinand "Ferdie" Price (b. 1838), Landlord
• Aunt: Marina Price née Holt (b. 1844)
• Cousin: Silvia (b. 1864)
• Cousin: Everett (b. 1868)
• Cousin: Violet (b. 1871)

Appearance: Dorothea has pale skin and dark hair that is of little longer than shoulder length. She is five foot four tall and right handed. She carries herself well and dresses with femininity. Her favourite clothes include floral lace designs and her father has chastised her several times for spending too much on her clothes.
History:

1866: Born to Cecil and Elizabeth Potts, their second child after Edmund who is three at this time.

1871: First magical experience, waking up terrifies covered in scales like a lizard. A trip to hospital cleared all that up.

1873: Fletcher is born and Dorothea is quite happy to see another little boy

1877: Start’s Hogwarts and is placed in Hufflepuff, she adores it, like all Potts she gravitates initially towards the greenhouses, but quickly finds other interests too, particularly enjoying Astronomy, divination and Etiquette classes. She is never the brightest student but she tries.

1879: A sister is born, Dorothea is happy for her parents and loves the new baby even if a little part of her feels scared her daddy will forget about her while she is away in school.

1882: Passes her OWLS with fairly average results but with a special note from her etiquette instructor.

1884: Finishes her NEWTS and graduates, she has a brief courtship with a handsome young man immediately following her debut but they prove to be incompatible.

1887: now living at home, Dorothea takes a job as a lady in waiting under a house governess in a house in Wellingtonshire, she also takes an interest in helping her mother take care of her increasingly tearaway little sister.

1890: Is promoted to governess when the current governess dies suddenly of an unknown illness, she slips into the role very well and enjoys looking after the children. Whilst they are at Hogwarts she is kept on a retainer by the family to ensure her continued presence during the school holidays and to prevent need to find an alternative governess should Thea be hired elsewhere. It is at this point that her younger sister starts Hogwarts, the smart little girl ending up in Ravenclaw.

1890: Chatting with friends who find her brand of advice to be quite useful, she begins taking letters of women in need of confidential advice and giving tips to them. Becoming something of an agony aunt.

1891: Briefly entertained an older gentleman who hoped to wed her, he even proposed. It something didn't feel right so she declined, she was lucky as the man married soon after and she hears that the wife is terribly unhappy.

1892: With her first governess role coming to an end following the Debut of her wards she moves on to a new family with glowing references, she will miss the last family very much but stays in contact with the now adult daughter.



Personality: Dorothea has wisdom and is often the best person around her to mediate connections or conflicts between people, or so she believes. She is kind hearted, loves her siblings very much and has a positive relationship with them, but their relationship often has elements of manipulation and intrigue. Her sister in particular she can be a little bit overbearing toward having assumed the role of almost a second mother to her. But she does mean well. She enjoys deriving personal benefit from any advice she gives, be it tangible benefit like pay, or less tangible rewards like feeling as if noone could have fixed a problem but her. She is looking for a husband currently who will take her from her governess role as her age seems to have crept up on her and she can see thirty only a few summers away. Perhaps she should stop playing matchmaker for Edmund and focus on Dorothea.


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