In-Character
Full Name: Marlena Freya Ailsa Scamander.
Nicknames: Lena.
Birthdate: 13th November, 1866.
Current Age: 21.
Occupation: Unspeakable.
Reputation: Seven. Working woman in a questionable profession. The little debutante that couldn’t be bothered.
Residence: Knightsway, North Bartonburg.
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor.
Wand: Phoenix tail feather core. 14 inches. Rosewood. Solid. Marlena is right handed.
Blood Status: Pureblood.
Social Class: Middle.
Family:
Ethelwin Scamander | paternal grandfather | 1790 - 1867
Annemarie Scamander née ----- | paternal grandmother | 1798 - 1873
Alexander Scamander | father | 1828-
Annaleise Scamander née ----- | mother | 1836-
Amina --- née Scamander | sister, and family | 1859-
Louisa ----- née Scamander | sister, and family | 1861-
Eugene Scamander | brother | 1862-
Helga Scamander | sister | 1869-
Appearance: Were she a few inches taller Marlena might have been imposing but standing at a fairly average 5'4 she is simply not. With her delicate features and pretty smile she would have found some success as a debutante but instead dresses herself in plain robes in dark colours and makes no attempt to draw people's attention. She has green eyes, russet hair, is sleight of hip but possesses surprising curves in other places that are quite hidden by the cut of her robes.
History:
1866: To be born the fourth child was never going to make Marlena a novelty but for a couple who were hoping for another boy she is a mild disappointment. They quickly get over it but all her life Marlena struggles with the feeling that she is a mistake.
1869: Helga is born and immediately spoiled, though Marlena is too busy building a fort in the nursery to really notice.
1870/1872: Amina and Louisa head off to school two years apart. When Amina goes Marlena is yet to perform magic, which doesn’t worry anybody, but when Louisa goes and the six year old is still magicless her parents begin to get slightly antsy.
1873: It is not until Helga performs magic for the first time that Marlena really starts to worry herself. What if she’s a squib? What do squibs do anyway?
1874: Eugene goes off to Hogwarts and Marlena, now near panic at being a squib, makes herself ill and has to be confined in bed for the majority of September. When she emerges the leaves have begun to turn golden and the only person she has to distract herself with is Helga, which makes her decidedly grumpy.
1877: The family move to Hogsmeade along with the majority of wizarding society and Marlena takes her own sweet time in adjusting thank you very much. She does not care overly for change, is still losing sleep over what her squib life will be and spends most of the time locked away in the library, determined to know more than her siblings even if she can’t actually perform magic. On one such date, locked away and reading, Marlena loses the key to actually get out of the room and panicking that she will starve she finally, just one week short of her eleventh birthday, she performs magic and opens the door herself.
Year One 1878-79: With her worst fear thoroughly put to bed Marlena finally gets to be properly excited as she prepared for her first year at school. She is probably unbearable during this period and almost certainly a terrible know-it-all about everything, putting the governess through the ringer with endless questions, and finally in September she heads off to the castle with her siblings. She is sorted into Gryffindor which, based on her extensive research, is obviously a mistake but the hat is not to be swayed. Gryffindor it is.
Year Two 1879-80: By her second year, the first without Louisa, Marlena has settled in to the castle and is thoroughly enjoying the academic rigour of education. What she is less thrilled about is her inability to make any real friends which she blames entirely on the hat and its clear error in putting her in a dormitory with noisy Gryffindors. At the end of the school year Eugene graduates.
Year Three 1880-1881: Helga joins her at school but, thankfully, not in the common room and Marlena adds Arithmancy and Ancient Runes. She considers others but she doesn’t care about creatures half as much as her brother does and the lack of logic behind Divination upsets her sensibilities.
Year Four 1881-1882: Already planning to enter into some kind of career when she graduates Marlena has no use for the excitement that takes Helga when Amina marries her long-time follower.
Year Five 1882-1883: Quite possibly the only person in her year to be actually excited for OWLs, largely so she can prove her educational prowess, Marlena has finally managed to at least become friendly with her dorm mates and, if asked, she would cite this as being her favourite year at school.
Year Six 1883-1884: Fire and plague barely touch the Scamanders but her father does attempt to become the Minister of Magic, which she definitely thinks is a bad idea, but she certainly did not want to be proven right by him having a heart attack! Fortunately he recovers and sensibly retires from the Ministry, for which Marlena is incredibly grateful: she fully intends to go there herself after she graduates and has a feeling she’ll be more successful without being in her father’s shadow.
Year Seven 1884-1885: Her abundant NEWT classes keep her quite busy during her final year and when she eventually graduates she is a great deal sadder to leave the castle than she had thought she would be. It is, after all, just a place, but she has become seriously attached and attends the Coming Out Ball with a heavy heart.
1885: Wasting no time on even pretending to do the season Marlena throws herself straight in at the Ministry, securing a junior position in the Department of Mysteries and feeling immediately at home amongst the other oddballs.
1886: Now a fully-fledged Unspeakable Marlena takes great pleasure in being contractually obliged to tell people to mind their own business. Her mother makes a last-ditch effort to try to get her to attend a few balls but it is not to be: Marlena goes to please her but spends the entire night hovering near the girls she knew at school who actually are proper debutantes and makes no effort to even speak to a man, let alone dance.
1887: Helga graduates and actually does do the debutante thing, which makes their mother happy, and Marlena extremely grateful to be left alone.
Present: Frequently to be found eating sandwiches in the nearest park during her lunch break and pondering what the fuck is going on in Hogsmeade and Irvingly.
Personality: Highly logical, erudite and intelligent Marlena is frequently irritable, usually three steps ahead and plagued with an inability to ever let anything go. Introverted af. Prone to panicking in the face of things she does not understand she has made it her mission to never be caught off-guard and appreciates the quiet, meticulous nature of her department more than anybody could understand. Loyal and faithful to those she loves Marlena would fight anyone that came at her family.
Other:
| Class | OWL | NEWT |
| Arithmancy* | O | E |
| Ancient Runes* | O | O |
| Astronomy | E | E |
| Charms | E | E |
| Defence Against the Dark Arts | O | E |
| Herbology | A | A |
| History of Magic | E | O |
| Potions | E | E |
| Transfiguration | O | E |
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Out-of-Character
Name: Lauren. Age: 28.
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