In-Character
Full Name: Dorothy GumballNicknames: Dot
Birthdate: 25/12/1869
Current Age: 20
Occupation:Honeyduke's Sweet Shop Employee
Reputation: 10
Residence: Hogsmeade
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
Wand: Alder, 10 inches, and Unicorn Hair.
Blood Status: Halfblood.
Social Class: Working Class.
Family: A father, who is employed as a cook, and an elder brother Ernie Gumball.
Appearance: Dot has always been quite average in height, standing at five feet tall. She has long wavy dark blonde hair, a womanly figure and brown eyes. She is right handed and wears plain clothes made from cheapy purchased fabrics or purchased at a cheap price.
History:
25/12/1869 - Dot is born at midday, after hours of labour. An easy to remember date since she's born on Christmas day.
1872 - 3: Dot gets a hand stitched doll for Christmas from her mother. It becomes her favourite possession and is heavily treasured and sewn back together as it falls apart, often with leftover pieces of her mothers other sewing projects.
1873 - 4: Dot is given a box with her name painted on it for her birthday/christmas present. She collects her treasures inside.
1874 - 5: Dot finds a rock, a petrified egg, and a horse tooth which are included in her treasures box. She also presses a flower that a wealthy woman gave her one day which also lives inside the box. Because of the elementary act of 1870 her local school made attendance compulsory so she was forced to attend schooling.
1875 - 6: Her mother sickens and dies of pneumonia. Dot gets sick as well but manages to pull through. The family are saddened by the lost of their matriarch and go into deep mourning. It will take years for them to recover their joy. Dot’s doll is treasured even more so after this incident. Dot’s box gains a piece of amber with a bug inside that one of her friends gave her in an attempt to make her happy again. She misses quite a bit of class during this year.
1876 - 7: Dot struggles to keep up with her fellow students as well as deal with the absence of her mother at home and begins to take on more household tasks at home and run errands for others for extra income. She would find this early interaction with money beneficial in later years as it helps her manage her own accounts a and as an aid to her employeement
1877 - 8: Dots magic makes itself known when, whilst playing catch and kiss, a boy that Dot really did not want to kiss attempts to kiss her and she pushes him away with her magic. Because of anti-witch sentiment that is brewing the family choose to relocate to Hogsmeade as a result. Her father hopes that it will be a new start for all of them and help them move on from their mothers death. She takes note of the newly opened sweetshop (she’s eight of course she does!) in the town. She picks up small child-related tasks around the place, mostly in relation to her fathers work. This goes on for several years.
September 1881 - 12: Dot attends school for her first year. She’s interested in her own way and finds it interesting to help other students out however she isn’t a standout enough to receive a Hogwarts scholarship and leaves at the end of the 1882 year.
1882 - 13: Dot begins to work as a Maid at the Three Broomsticks and begins to realise that working as maid isn’t quite the right fit for her but it pays the bills and helps put food on the table and clothes on her back. It also gives her an income that she can save in order to purchase books so she can become somewhat self-taught. Her first books are very practical - a book on household magics, cooking, and on how to make her own confectionery. She enjoys cooking sweets on a short budget and finds maid work rather dull - she’d much prefer talking to others and helping people out however as she’s too young and inexperienced she has to bide her time and get experience where she can.
1883 - 14: Dot acquires a stray cat as a pet after luring it in with food scraps. It is a grey tabby with an oriental face and very long black tipped ears that enjoys swiping at people. It may have kneazle in its origins and enjoys pets, but only for a time until it swipes at people. She calls it “”Sugarpop”. It is an adept mouser though Dot does not appreciate it’s gifts she does appreciate her now rodent free existence.
1884 - 15 - The fire and plague do not make her birthday a happy time of year though she embraces the fact that death could happen any day and makes the career change from maid to shop assistant at Honeydukes and loves the position. She enjoys helping and interacting with people directly and working with sweets.
1885 - 16 - Hormones hit the poor girl hard when she starts to realise that she feels alot more and falls in love with the worst person possible - her boss! It's too bad for her that he’s twelve years her senior. She does her best to hide her infatuation. It isnt her only crush that year but it does remain her most long standing. Sugarpop decides to have kittens and she is given the horrible (heart breaking) task of getting them new homes. It will not be the last time.
1886 - 17 : Dot is affected by the amorentia spike during the world fair - luckily she does little more than mooning over it since it’s not mutual until love potion wears off. She proves her worth and moves up from assistant to the front counter.
1887 - 18 : Dot falls in love again, alas! The boy marries another girl and they start popping out children almost immediately. She mopes about it for a while and enjoys painting herself as a tragic woman forever alone. She eats too many sweets this year and starts to put on weight… She starts to work with the manager at this point to further her knowledge of numbers beyond a shop-assistant (money taking, money spending) level with a view of her approaching future. She dreams of becoming a manager herself one day but doesn't believe that she is stern enough or that people will listen to her.
1888 - 19: Dot realises she has to take out her gowns, and upon her brothers comment that she’ll look like their father decides to limit her sweets intake. This is the start of her moping about her relationship with sweets.
1890 - 21: Having a few null years of nothing really extraordinary happening Dot wonders what being twenty-one will bring though she won't turn 21 until the end of the year.
Personality: A bit silly, awkward and romantic she falls in love easily and likes to help others. She loves to cook and as the sole female of her house has been encharge of most of the domestic tasks for years.
Other: Dot can read, write and do basic arithmetic. It is unfortuneate that she was not particularly skilled at charms, herbology, transfiguration, or potions and not particularly good at writing essays. She does however enjoy reading and has become mostly selftaught in household/common place magics from wizarding books that she has picked up over the years, cooking at home with her father and has enough skills with both orders and money that she has learnt about as being part of a self-sufficient three person family unit.
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