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 ♕ BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Regina Christine Hawthorne
Nickname: Gina
Birthdate: 2 May 2051
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Current Residence: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom ♕ PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Hair Colour: Brown (dirty blonde until 4)
Eye Colour: Blue
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs
Distinguishing Features: Sharp cheekbones, several runic tattoos ♕ MAGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Blood Status: Half-blood
Wand: Swamp mayhaw, White River Monster spine, 10¾", rigid
Patronus: Alligator
Boggart: Rougarou
Amortentia: Caffè mocha, fresh rain, lavender-scented candles ♕ FAMILY MEMBERS
Father: Samuel Hawthorne
Mother: Nancy (née Clemens) Hawthorne
Sibling: Arthur Hawthorne
Nephew: Jacob Hawthorne
Ex-Husband: Clifton Faulkner
Daughter: Veronica Faulkner-Hawthorne ♕ EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (2062-2069)
Horned Serpent | Head Prefect | Prefect | Duelling Club Member
Juxtaposed Assessments for Reviewing Versatile Experienced Youth
▫ Ancient Runes [36 - Distinguished]
▫ Arithmancy [34 - Distinguished]
▫ Astronomy [25 - Competent]
▫ Charms [35 - Distinguished]
▫ Defensive Studies [36 - Distinguished]
▫ Herbalism [29 - Accomplished]
▫ Magizoology [32 - Accomplished]
▫ Potions [33 - Distinguished]
▫ Transfiguration [33 - Distinguished]
▫ Wizarding History [34 - Distinguished] Cairo Wizarding University (2069-2072)
Behavioural Sciences | Rune Study ♕ EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Gringotts Wizarding Bank (2072-2080)
Curse-Breaker
Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (2080-2091)
Defensive Studies Professor | Horned Serpent HoH
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (2091-Present)
Headmistress | DADA Professor | Former Ancient Runes Professor ♕ BACKGROUND
On a warm day in May that foreshadowed the immensely humid summer ahead, Samuel and Nancy brought their second child and only daughter into the world. As to be expected, both parents instantly fell in love with their blue-eyed little girl. Their three-year-old son Arthur, however, was not easily won over. The attention he had as a single child was no more, and he viewed Regina's presence as an intrusion. But Regina soon won him over after he managed to stop her from crying after feeding her a handful of slimy worms and then wet himself due to laughing so hard, a memory he never lets Regina forget (though he always forgoes the latter detail).
From the moment she could walk, Regina would attach herself to Arthur wherever he went. One of the favourite places the duo would venture off to is the swamp that was located behind their home when their parents were preoccupied. Though Regina was always hesitant to enter the place, it was her brother's courage and sense of adventure that lured her in. One day they walked deep enough into the swamp and found a shabby shack. The shack, believing it to be abandoned, would remain their secret hideaway until the evening a rougarou attacked them on their way back home after a day of make-believe. Had it not been for Arthur's protective surge of underage magic and the sudden appearance of the hoodoo priestess who had been watching them from afar all those years, the eight and five-year-olds would not have made it out of the swamp alive. Due to almost losing both children, their parents packed up everything they owned days later and moved the family to Salem.
Six years later, she found herself taking her place in the ranks of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. On the day of her sorting, three of the carved statues claimed her: Horned Serpent, Thunderbird, and Wampus. The moment the Thunderbird beat its wings, her brother let out a loud cry; however, it was the glowing crystal of the Horned Serpent that drew her in. Over the years that passed, Regina was proven time and time again that she had made the right selection. Her grades, though Astronomy and Herbalism were not her strong suits, were the best of her class since her first year at the school, and it became very apparent to her that she had great skill in subjects such as Ancient Runes, Defensive Studies, and Wizarding History. During her stay at Ilvermorny, Regina was a vigilant member of the Duelling Club, wore the much-coveted badges for both prefect and Head Prefect, and graduated knowing without question what she wanted to do with her life.
While Salem Wizarding University had their eyes on Regina, she only thought it logical that she travel across the globe to Cairo to obtain a university degree and begin her career as a curse-breaker. Full of ambition and determination to get out in the field as soon as she could, Regina partook in an accelerated programme at Cairo Wizarding University to obtain degrees in both Behavourial Sciences and Rune Study. Within six semesters of intense study, the woman graduated with honours and was hired by the Egyptian branch of Gringotts Wizarding Bank and assigned to be part of a group of six older wizards and witches. Though the youngest person on her team, she held her own weight and proved early on how resourceful, attentive to detail, and precise she really was. Numerous times the team found themselves in near-death situations, and numerous times Regina was the one to get them out of it with the gold and other items of significance that they were to retrieve.
Gold, gems, and rubies were not all that Regina found deep within cursed tombs; she found love and the beginnings of a family. After building a solid reputation for herself after two years, Clifton Faulkner stole her heart the moment he literally bumped into her after getting lost from his own team of curse-breakers. Even though she berated him for his stupidity, she could not help but smile at him fondly and, unlike herself, instantly agree to go on a date with him the moment they found their way out of the pyramid they were excavating. The date quickly turned into more dates, then a proposal, and finally marriage. The couple then made the decision to transfer from Egypt and return to their American roots, where they both had many adventures together in places such as Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, and the Appalachian Mountains. In spite of their many escapades, their greatest feat was bringing life into the world in the form of Veronica Faulkner-Hawthorne.
The birth of Veronica was what put an end to her career as a curse-breaker and opened the doorway into the world of education. Finding herself unable to take care of a newborn and continue working in a dangerous field simultaneously, Regina left Clifton's side in the world of curse-breaking and was hired as a teaching assistant for the Defensive Studies professor she had when she was in school. Working alongside Thomas Sanders was an enriching experience and made her consider going back to university to earn a degree in Wizarding Education. Before going forth with those plans, the man's health took a sudden turn during the spring holiday and left Regina to take full control of the classroom and its many responsibilities. In the end, the then headmaster was impressed with her collectedness and practicality and offered Regina a full-time teaching position for the following year, which she accepted without batting a single eye.
Even though she built a reputable name for herself whilst teaching at Ilvermorny, the distance gradually tore her family apart. On the eve of their tenth anniversary, Regina discovered that Clifton had been having an affair with a young woman, relatively fresh from university, that had been assigned to his curse-breaking team. This broke the woman's heart right in two, and, unable to believe Clifton no matter how many times he said that it meant nothing and that he would change his ways, caused a drastic change in her leading to a divorce that resulted in shared custody. Veronica, six years old at the time, had a difficult time accepting the situation and, breaking Regina's heart even more, blamed her for being unforgiving. The divorce drove a rift in their mother-daughter relationship, which only grew further year after year and worsened when her daughter was enrolled for her first year at Ilvermorny and outright refused to attend her Defensive Studies lessons out of spite.
Unable to cope and seeing the situation as doing more harm than good, Regina made the decision to press the restart button on her life by following her brother and his family across the Atlantic. Hearing word about Mohamed Sahnoun's resignation from the school, she immediately applied for the head administrative position at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft of Wizardry. Within a matter of weeks, she found herself shaking the hand of the president of the Hogwarts Board of Governors and began settling in to being the headmistress of the school. Text Cut: Family Origin The American origin of the Hawthorne family started when William Hathorne, the son of an English yeoman, left Britain in 1630 to be free of persecution from wizarding authorities. Through great ambition and talent, William became a distinguished figure in Salem, Massachusetts, and known throughout early New England as an energetic and widely influential man. Within the span of 20 years, he quickly rose as prosperous merchant, served as a deputy, magistrate, and governor's assistant, in addition to being appointed as captain of Salem's military company. Before his death 1681, he married Anne Smith and had eight children: Mary, Sarah, Eleazer, Nathaniel, John, Anna, William, and Elizabeth.
John, born in 1641, expanded on the successes of his father by building a small empire based on land and merchant trade to England and the West Indies. In addition, he held positions of authority in Salem and was appointed a justice of the peace in Essex County. In early 1692, accusations of witchcraft began to circulate and cause mass hysteria in the village. John and magistrate Jonathan Corwin were called upon to question and sentence the accused, which the former did harshly without guilt. All this John did under a religious guise though associated with Scourers as he sought vengeance against wizards that threatened his status and desire to scare No-Majs off land he was invested in. Following the creation of MACUSA in 1693 and gaining intel about the Scourer executions that were to come, John eluded justice and vanished into a No-Maj community.
Nathaniel, John's great-great-grandson born in 1804, lived with maternal relatives, the Mannings, in Salem with his mother and two sisters following the death of his father. He resided in Salem for 10 years, where he became aware of William and his accomplishments though remained unaware about John's name-staining deeds. In the summer of 1816, Nathaniel's uncles built him and his family a house in Maine, which was where he lived until he returned to Salem for college in his early twenties. During this time in his life, a love of writing and an interest in his family history developed. Shortly after graduating from college, Nathaniel learned the truth about John and his actions during the Salem Witch Trials. Appalled by the discovery, he added a "w" to his surname in an effort to dissociate himself from his notorious forbearer and centred much of his written work on Puritan New England and the inherent evil of humanity.
Generations of Hawthornes that followed did not easily forget the truth that Nathaniel unveiled. Because of this, many families left New England to shed away the sins of their forefather and spread their roots throughout the United States. The following are notable Hawthornes that have profoundly contributed to American wizarding society: Johnny Hawthorne, commended for Obliviating the largest amount of No-Majs following the Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892; Frederick Hawthorne, award-winning writer and editor of The New York Ghost from 1901-1946; Lucinda (née Hawthorne) Darrant, co-founder of the Young Witches and Wizards' Preparatory Academy of Magic, two single-sex schools hidden deep in the swamps of Louisiana, formed in 1954; Garret Hawthorne, President of MACUSA from 2024-2032 who eliminated the death penalty and established a wizarding prison below Alcatraz; and Iris Hawthorne, Texan fan-favourite Sweetwater All-Stars Seeker known for the most Snitch catches from 2039-2065.
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