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DIAGON ALLEY PROPRIETORS
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IC SHOPKEEPER BIOGRAPHIES
DIAGON ALLEY PROPRIETOR: This is an OOC site leadership position and IC position. Diagon Alley Proprietors hold OOC authority over the Diagon Alley RPG area and are your go-to source with questions or concerns. IC, their characters form a Diagon Alley Council who have been elected by the owners of all the shops in the Alley to oversee the management of Diagon Alley and represent the interests of its residents and businesses.
IC SHOPKEEPER: This in an IC only position. Anyone can have their character apply for a position in Diagon Alley. Positions include part-time, full time, and internships. IC positions exclude store managers and owners at this time and will remain NPC roles monitored by the Diagon Alley Proprietors.
This thread is for posting the bios for any of your characters who have earned employment in the Diagon Alley RPG whether your character is a full time employee or a summer intern - please make sure you specify explicitly in your post both the shop and the type of position. You can post as much or as little as you like in your character biographies and remember that all site rules apply as well as the following guidelines:
Only bios for current characters who have submitted an employment questionnaire and received their confirmation PM from the Diagon Alley Proprietors may post in this thread.
SPOILER!!: other special account characters you may see around
Name:Tearlung Role: Gringotts Head Goblin Background: Tearlung has worked as the Head Goblin at Gringotts since January 2090 and claims to have over forty years of goblin banking experience in the private sector. It seems he transferred from one of the European branches but not much else is known about him by British wizardkind. He does, however, seem very effective at his job, even if he is rather grumpy and prone to mistrusting "wand-bearers." Because of this, Tearlung will say as little as possible to any witch or wizard he comes across if he can get away with it.
Name:Sturnik Role: Gringotts Head of Security Background: Sturnik is a rambunctious goblin who has always held the high ambition of being the first goblin in the Wizengamot. He left his homeland of New Zealand at the age of thirteen and found a place in Diagon Alley. His emotions get the better of him at times and he lashes out. He has held the Head of Security position at Gringotts for the past two decades. Sturnik often accompanies the more suspicious Gringotts patrons to their vaults, and he's good to have around when things get a little dangerous.
Name:Sagni Role: Gringotts Vault Manager Background: Sagni keeps the vault records up to date and is often on hand to escort people down to the depths to make their deposits and withdrawals. She rarely converses with wizardkind except on official business, which is probably for the better. She has always wanted her own wand and holds some resentment for the accident of her birth that prevents her from obtaining one. However, she is very skilled with goblin magics and comes from a long line of goblin master crafters.
Name:Gringotts Goblins Role: Gringotts Goblins (various roles) Background: It takes hundreds of goblins to run Gringotts Bank successfully. No matter where you go within the confines of the bank, there is always a goblin around the corner. Who you run into at the bank will depend on where you are heading. Most wizardkind, though, only interact with a small amount of goblin employees -- ranging from the tellers who provide banking assistant to the cart drivers who escort people to their vaults to sometimes goblin security (who you do not want to mess with).
Name:Bunny the Dragon Role: Gringotts Dragon Background: Bunny is a rare hybrid dragon, a cross between a Chinese Fireball and a Hebridean Black, that resides in the depths of Gringotts Bank, safe-guarding the most prestigious of vaults. She is about 28 feet long from tip to tail and closely resembles a Liondragon save for its scales are coloured black and purple eyes. She has a strict diet, though has a taste for (and has tasted in the past) both human and goblin flesh. The thing she fears most is the sound of clankers and the threat of an inevitable punishment.
Name:Demian Andromalius Role: Coffin House Ghost Background: Demian was born into pure and noble heritage and was once the most handsome creature alive. After a number of courtings, which all resulting in the mysterious death of the lady in waiting, he eventually made plans to marry Tabitha. Following an episode of him getting a wrinkle by his lip and lashing out that he would never marry a half-blood, he was murdered by Tabitha on their wedding day and he came back as a ghost, forever beautiful and forever bound to the area in which he died.
Name:Korpsit Role: Arkie Alderton's Kwik-Repair Shop Background: Korpsit comes from humble beginnings in Sweden, where he was to follow the family tradition of mining gold. Following the unexpected death of his parents in a collapsed mine accident and moving in with miner relatives, he left, looking to find his own destiny at fifteen. He wasn't hired anywhere he went, acted out, and went to prison where he joined a number of rebel goblins. Their efforts, which never were progressing, were wasteful to him, so he found "friends" in Knockturn Alley and landed his first job.
Name:Madam Hildegard Role: Starry Prophesier Peddler Background: Madam Hildegard was born with yellow eyes and green skin thanks to her less than skillful potioneer parents. She was then given away by her parents, who were embraced by her appearance, and lived in the streets. Years went by and she went her own way, finding an old cart and filling it with the things she had learned. From town to town she went, only to be stoned. Snapping one day, she attacked a teenager that stoned her and found refuge in the only place where stones aren't thrown at her.
former Diagon Alley Shopkeeper bios before the remodel can be found here and here
SSRPG Admin Gladrags Mod Quibbler Mod Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor
Sea Serpent
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Paths
Posts: 41,132
Hogwarts RPG Name: Professor Cox
Ravenclaw
Graduated
Hogwarts RPG Name: Briallen Ashburry-Hawthorne
Gryffindor
Fourth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden
Hufflepuff
Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden
Ravenclaw
Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name: Calliope Barrington
Slytherin
Fourth Year
Ministry Department Head:
Charles Hollingberry
Minister's Office
Ministry Department Head:
Airey Flamsteed
Mysteries
Diagon Alley Proprietor:
Victor García Massey
Ollivanders
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astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf
Victor García Massey W A N D M A K E R__|__O L L I V A N D E R S
BASICS
NAME: Victor Adalberto García Massey AKA: Victor, Vic BORN: someday in November 2073 (he doesn't know the specific day and picks arbitrarily every year) ORIGINATES: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain RESIDES: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England NATIONALITY: Spanish American MARITAL STATUS: married to Minerva García Massey [née Darling] CHILDREN:Marina, Adrian, expecting third child PRONOUNS: He/him MB TYPE: ENFJ-A
APPEARANCE
HAIR: Dark brown, fluffy, starting to pepper EYES: hazel HEIGHT: 6'2" STYLE:Very casual
MAGICAL
HERITAGE: Pureblood WAND: 14" supple spruce with griffin claw BOGGART: a desk with stacks of papers on it and a necktie hanging off the chair AMORTENTIA: the ocean, chicken parm, fresh ink PATRONUS: Mexican wolf
EDUCATION & WORK
SCHOOL: Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry HOUSE: Thunderbird CLASS OF: 2091 FORMER OCCUPATION: WU Athens | Cryptozoology & Wandlore TA; Stemp House care worker & teacher CURRENT OCCUPATIONS: freelance illustrator, Ollivanders Wandmaker & Manager
PERSONALITY
Victor is warm, intuitive, and quietly magnetic in the way people who truly listen often are. He meets others where they are, instinctively adjusting his energy to make them feel seen and heard. While outwardly relaxed and easygoing, he carries a deep internal sense of responsibility, especially toward his family and the spaces he is entrusted with.
Having grown up in the foster system, Victor carries a restless spirit that never quite outgrew its wanderlust. That early instability shaped his deep skepticism of rigid paths and prescriptive destinies which in turn lead him to view magic as something living and relational, a conversation rather than a conquest, once he began his schooling. This belief informs every wand fitting he conducts. He rejects the notion of a wand rejecting someone. Instead, he frames mismatches as conversations that simply did not go anywhere and personalities that were not complimentary of one another. A wand chooses an individual of recognition, and it is the role of the witch or wizard ― and especially him as a wandmaker ― to listen.
Despite his confidence, Victor remains deeply allergic to excessive formality, paperwork, and institutional posturing ― even his meticulous notes on wand behavior are written more like field observations than technical records. He thrives in liminal spaces, those that exist between tradition and change, between wanderer and caretaker, between art and craft. Becoming the owner of Ollivanders was about stewardship and keeping the place sacred without keeping it stagnant.
Love is not something he believes in rationing. He is openly affectionate, deeply devoted to his wife, and fiercely proud of his children. Becoming a husband — and, more than anything, a father — he believes is the single greatest accomplishment of his life. Having never known his birth parents, he once doubted his own capacity to be a good parent, haunted by the fear that absence might be inherited. For most of his life, he survived by refusing to look too far backward or forward, carrying everything he owned with him and learning to live entirely in the present and moving on before places or people could decide to leave him first. His youth taught him what isolation and rejection feel like, and how profoundly healing the presence of chosen family can be. Perhaps that is why he has always been inclined to roam: not to escape connection, but to seek it — to gather people, places, and experiences the way others gather roots; a sentiment that manifests itself in a tattered old backpack he has still carries around with him. Now, in choosing to stay, to unpack, and to build a future rather than simply adapt to the moment, he has discovered that love does not tether his wanderlust, but rather it gives it direction. Home, at last, is not a place he passes through, but something he helps create and carries with him still.
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We broke into a million pieces, and we can't go back.........................................
But now we're seeing all the beauty in the broken glass.....................................
The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony
My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like
SSRPG Admin Gladrags Mod Quibbler Mod Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor
Sea Serpent
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Paths
Posts: 41,132
Hogwarts RPG Name: Professor Cox
Ravenclaw
Graduated
Hogwarts RPG Name: Briallen Ashburry-Hawthorne
Gryffindor
Fourth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden
Hufflepuff
Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden
Ravenclaw
Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name: Calliope Barrington
Slytherin
Fourth Year
Ministry Department Head:
Charles Hollingberry
Minister's Office
Ministry Department Head:
Airey Flamsteed
Mysteries
Diagon Alley Proprietor:
Victor García Massey
Ollivanders
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astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK | & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf
ANNA WALLES LEAKY CAULDRON PART-TIME EVENT MANAGER FACE CLAIM: ALEXIS SAVAGE | POST COLOR: #EB5E66/CHERRY PREVIOUS FACE CLAIM: CHLOE COLEMAN (FIRST - FOURTH YEAR)
｡.ꕤꕤ.｡ PERSONAL & FAMILIAL
NAME: Anne Eleri Walles NICKNAMES: none of my own but I loooooooove giving them to others! DOB: September 14, 2096 POB: St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries CURRENTLY RESIDES: London, England HERITAGE: British (& unknown)
HAIR COLOR: bouncy ringlets of cinnamon, clove, and toffee [reddish brown] EYE COLOR: cedar sighted, earthen outlook, honey molten mountain gaze [brown] HEIGHT: fun size! [5'3"] BUILD: like a dandelion [slender] MB TYPE:ENFP-A
Anna remains an energetic and warm-hearted young woman who strives to see the world as something a little enchanted.,Her sense wonder has settled into something steadier than it was in her Hogwarts years. Where once every moment felt like a breathless adventure, life now reads more like a rich, layered, leather-bound tome where she understands that not every mystery needs to be chased at a sprint.
She is imaginative and excitable, especially in the right company, but her enthusiasm is tempered by a growing attentiveness to others and to herself. Eye contact no longer automatically means instant friendship...ish... yet she remains deeply open, kind, and inclined to trust. Her run-on sentences still spill out of her like laughter, most often when she is comfortable, safe, or particularly happy and far less as an accidental sensory barrage on people she has just met.
Anna's relationship with mystery has changed the most since her Hogwarts days. She no longer feels compelled to fill every unknown with a story just to make it bearable. The unanswered questions surrounding her heritage (and especially her birth father) still ache, but she holds them with more gentleness and a little less desperation now. The pirate-cursebreaker myths and private fantasies haven't vanished so much as transformed into fairy tales she keeps on a high shelf rather than truths she needs to live inside. She understands, now, that absence does not always come from noble sacrifice and that not knowing can coexist with peace. Still, her curiosity remains a defining trait and she can drift into nosy territory as a result.
She remains, unapologetically, a collector of misfit things. Her pockets are rarely empty, filled with small things from smooth stones to bent and broken trinkets others overlook or entirely disregard.
PARENTAGE: unknown, likely half-blood WAND: 12 inch strong beech with billywig sting ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Virgo PATRONUS: unable to conjure AMORTENTIA: butternut squash soup, sweetened condensed milk, tulips, petrichor, mint tea BOGGART: ..I'd rather not share at this time...if you please
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT & WIZARDRY [CLASS OF 2115] HOUSE: Hufflepuff FUN SUBJECTS: Defense Against the Dark Arts, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, History of Magic ALSO FUN BUT NOT AS FUN SUBJECTS: Charms, Muggle Studies, Potions, Transfiguration I AM SO SORRY BUT I JUST DON'T GET THEM SUBJECTS: Astronomy, Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Flying EXTRA CURRICULARS: Art, Frog Choir, Quiz Bowl, The Bookworms, Creature Companions, Health and Wellness Group, Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, Wizard Card Collectors' Club
OWLS:
ASTRONOMY.........................T
CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES.........A
CHARMS............................A
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS.....P
DIVINATION........................A
HERBOLOGY.........................A
HISTORY OF MAGIC..................E
MUGGLE STUDIES....................A
POTIONS...........................D
TRANSFIGURATION...................P
NEWTS:
CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES.........A
CHARMS............................E
DIVINATION........................A
HERBOLOGY.........................A
HISTORY OF MAGIC..................O
MUGGLE STUDIES....................E
WIZARDING UNIVERSITY: LONDON [CLASS OF 2121
Behavioral Sciences (Anthropology/Archaelogy)
FAVORITE CLASSES: Crossroads, Doorways, and In-Between Places
Course on magical thresholds: bridges, forest edges, abandoned staircases, doorframes, shorelines. Includes field visits to sites.
The Magic of Arrival and Departure
Rituals, charms, and cultural practices tied to beginnings and endings: birthplaces, funerary paths, migration routes, and so on.
Offerings, Wards, and Silent Agreements
A seminar on small, domestic acts performed at liminal places (milk on doorsteps, coins in wells, bread on windowsills) and what they reveal about fear, hope, and coexistence.
After the Wards Fall: Reclaimed Spaces After Wizarding Conflict
Examines homes, streets, and institutions altered by wartime magic.
Scars You Cannot See: Invisible Residue & Emotional Geography
Focuses on magical aftermath that doesn’t show physically but affects behavior, memory, and atmosphere.
From Hand to Hand: The Life Cycle of Magical Objects Tracks how meaning changes as items pass between owners.
Material Magic: Objects as Social Actors Examines enchanted artifacts as participants in history rather than passive tools.
Archival Research & Pensieve Methodologies Using memories as historical sources — bias, degradation, and verification issues.
｡.ꕤꕤ.｡ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Seasonal Gift-Shop & Museum Attendant [January 2116 - December 2116]
Hotel Breakfast Service Staff [April 2116 - May 2117]
Tea Room Server [June 2116 - February 2117] Leaky Cauldron Part-time Event Manager [July 2118 - present]
Anna is an effusively enthusiastic event coordinator. the kind who treats every brief like the opening line of a fairytale and meets it with wide-eyed delight and absolute commitment. She specializes in whimsy-forward, immersive events and is the go-to choice for clients who want wonder, narrative, and emotional resonance woven through every detail. she WIll bend over backwards (and then some) to deliver exactly the vision in a client's head, even if it means sourcing obscure props, learning niche traditions, or handcrafting elements herself at unreasonable hours ― which can sometimes results in budgeting issues.
Clients quickly learn to expect a few quirks along with her services: she talks through ideas out loud while pacing or gesturing with whatever happens to be in her hands at the time. She will ask very earnest follow-up questions about feelings, memories, and symbolism. She tends to get personally attached to the event and will check in constantly, celebrate small successes with visible glee, and tear up just a little when everything comes together.
We broke into a million pieces, and we can't go back.........................................
But now we're seeing all the beauty in the broken glass.....................................
The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony
My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like
Shopkeeper Listing 
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Themed Children's Birthday Parties
