Full Character Name: Hannah Elizabeth Bombay
Character Birthday & Age: 18th April 1985, Aged 32
City & Country of Birth: Worcester, England
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?: Pureblood
Alma Mater: Ravenclaw
Job: Unspeakable
Wand:
Originally, just as everything else in her life, Hannah had a wand that is truly efficient to cater for her needs from the well-defined, smooth and equally balanced formation of the wand for easy storage in her lab coat pocket to the pear wood, specifically specialised for healing spells and charms. The hippogriff talon core within the wood aids her charms work while working on her subjects. Hannah requires her wand to become an extension of her hand, also remaining precise and accurate in movement.
She is now on her third wand and fortunately it is still the same type of wood and core.
Physical Description:
Hannah is a slim woman reaching a small height of about 5 foot (5"4 with her usual heels). Her hair is wild with a mix a colour from both parents, a medium brown with random streaks of blonde. This long hair is usually scraped back into a scruffy ponytail to keep out of her eyes when working. Thanks to her condition as a werewolf, her hair is bushy, usually untamable.
Hannah used to aim to dress elegantly, enjoying expensive high heels, blouses always paired with black pencil skirts or trousers. The smart dress is always cast away at home, with the woman instead opting to wear comfortable yoga pants and baggy fleeced hooded jumpers.
Her slight body is now covered in mangled scars. Her left forearm is mangled from a werewolf bite and her upper right arm still bears the wounds of an axe taken to it as a wolf. Wrists and neck are also branded with a slim white scar, originally red raw, from silver as she was chained and strangled. Just above her left breast and on her right inner thigh are bright red brands of the letter A.
Personality Description:
Hannah is a fighter. At school she was bullied for being different and has always struggled in her work life for never being the sort of witch to befriend or even like. Now, as a presumed criminal and a werewolf, Hannah is a disrespected member of society that still has to fight all the time.
Despite her attractiveness, Hannah hasn’t really had a lasting relationship. Wizards are scared away by both her job and her reputation. This is all very well when she has no idea how to talk to most women, not to mention men. She has a habit of making comments that make other people very uncomfortable. Hannah finds herself to become very lonely, returning home to an empty apartment every night, but she feels safer that way, staying away from human contact so as not to hurt herself.
Due to the woman’s inability to make conversations a regular member of society would find of interest, she has a tendency to, if she does start talking, bore people with science and magical medicine. As she grows older and is forced to deal with people more and more, Hannah is improving, but she has a long way to go. It is lucky for relatives of the murdered that Hannah is not in the fact the woman informing them of their loved one’s death. She is blunt, doesn’t beat around the bush and while training to be a healer, found herself being reprimanded for her method of informing family. Tact and subtlety are traits Hannah has never heard of let alone ever displayed. She also has a habit of taking people seriously when they are being sarcastic or joking.
Personality Description:
Hannah likes the dead. They are easier to spend time around and don’t expect anything more than her help to find their cause of death and killer. That she can do. But in order to do that, she still has to deal with aurors. Due to her inability to hold a regular conversation around live witches and wizards, her reputation tends to be of a cold, detached and weird witch. Most of the people she works with wouldn’t want to be placed in a room alone with her.
Despite her attractiveness, Hannah hasn’t really had a lasting relationship. Wizards are scared away by both her job and her reputation. This is all very well when she has no idea how to talk to most women, not to mention men. She has a habit of making comments that make other people very uncomfortable. Hannah finds herself to become very lonely, returning home to an empty apartment every night, but she feels safer that way, staying away from human contact so as not to hurt herself.
Due to the woman’s inability to make conversations a regular member of society would find of interest, she has a tendency to, if she does start talking, bore people with science and magical medicine. As she grows older and is forced to deal with people more and more, Hannah is improving, but she has a long way to go. It is lucky for relatives of the murdered that Hannah is not in the fact the woman informing them of their loved one’s death. She is blunt, doesn’t beat around the bush and while training to be a healer, found herself being reprimanded for her method of informing family. Tact and subtlety are traits Hannah has never heard of let alone ever displayed. She also has a habit of taking people seriously when they are being sarcastic or joking.
History:
In 1984, before the eighth birthday of his son, Graham, Frederick Emilio Bombay left his wife and said son to instead move in with his lover who so happened to be ten years younger than his previous wife, Cindy. He moved from sussex in the south of England up to the small town of Bewdley in the west midlands. They married and 9 months later, in 1985, Cindy gave birth to the baby Hannah Bombay.
Very quickly Hannah showed signed of being different. While playing with other children she would request they play healer and patient, not mummies and daddies. While playing alone, she would be cutting up toads and insects with a knife smuggled from the kitchen under her mother’s brand new fake nose. Even at a young age, Hannah loved science and facts. Like the fact that her mother wasn’t the most interested in her welfare whilst her father doted on her, buying her gifts and cuddling her on his knee in front of a roaring fireplace. She didn’t think twice of the roles her parents played, her mother always just seemed more bothered getting her hair rebleached or her nails manicured. Hannah simply remembered the fact that her mother was very pretty, nothing more.
On closer reflection as the girl grew older, she realised that her mother was simply a lazy bimbo who took joy in spending her daddy’s hard earned money.
At school, the smart, spectacle wearing girl was sorted into Ravenclaw without so much of a pause for thought from the sorting hat. Fortunately for the young girl, she managed to find a couple of friends. These two girls were practically outcasts as well. Joining the small spectacled frizzy haired girl was the daughter of an imprisoned werewolf and muggleborn fellow potions lover.
Hannah was far from popular at school. Her dark fringe fell low down to her eyes where a pair of thick dark glasses absorbed her face. She was small and while she was a girl to get all the highest grades in a large proportion of her classes, Hannah remained unnoticeable. She had no idea how to talk to boys and felt much safer remaining invisible.
After the battle of Hogwarts and the school restarted, Hannah received the biggest shock of her life. The new herbology professor had the same surname as her. At a point when the girl was starting to become more noticeable to her peers, less of an ugly duckling and more of a swan with a hair cut and having bribed her dad into allowing her contacts, she was starting to come out of her shell, boys realising she was in fact attractive. Just quiet and a little strange. Therefore, this change was definitely not helped when the school’s new herbology professor arrived. A Professor Bombay. Hannah denied any knowledge of this young greasy haired man because she had no knowledge of him. However, his interest had also been sparked and when he called her into his office after a class, it turned out they did in fact share a father and neither had known a thing about each other. Hannah tried to ignore this fact as she carried on with school, still continuing to deny any relation to her peers as they poked fun at her.
Miss Bombay managed to finish school with Os in Potions, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Arithmacy and Charms. With these grades, she went straight into training to become a healer. Being a Healer, however, didn’t mesh well with Hannah’s personality. She didn’t communicate well with patients and instead, after a stint of working in the hospital’s morgue, she discovered this was were she’d rather be.
Therefore she took a position with the ministry to train under a long standing Forensic ME for two years before his retirement. Now is her first month after his retirement, having taken on the job.
However, the ministry of magic recently began facing many volatile issues and despite the need for more staff in the department of Law Enforcement, Bombay’s importance has been swept by the wayside and instead of continuing to keep her on full time at the usual salary, the department decided to place their limited funds elsewhere. Therefore Hannah was forced to take on an alternative position at St Mungo’s hospital while the department draft her in, occasionally, in a consultancy role when and where required.
Hannah’s training and previous work with the hospital determined this to be the best place to move to. She is willing to accept this challenge if slightly reluctant about the people she will be dealing with. The perfectly presented woman is slightly aware of the shock it will be returning to such an environment but the extremity of such a change hasn’t necessarily been fully realised in her mind.
What is your job description? How do you go about your job?
How did you get your current job? How does your past and abilities justify your current position?:
Most people would describe Hannah’s profession as ‘dissecting dead people’. Suspicious deaths and murders that the ministry’s law enforcement department uncover are delivered to Dr Bombay’s surgical table and cut open to reveal the truths of their lives. A lot of what she finds out is done through magic and spells but some still boil down to science and involve her cutting into a body to explore tissues, organs and bones structure. This can tell her about spells used, potions consumed and how the person lived. With Hannah’s accurate analysis of a body, she can practically offer the aurors of the magical law enforcement department a life history for the deceased.
In order to progress to her current profession, Hannah primarily trained as a healer. It was very tough, however, for a woman that possessed very few social skills to work with people. Especially sick people that liked to moan and chat about their lives with her. When working in St Mungo’s mortuary during the end of her training, she found a peace. There was no uncomfortable feeling between the woman and dead and she could still help them in death.
Bombay then trained for another two years in order to become a magical examiner and Dr Bombay where she trained at the ministry under an ME looking to step into retirement. When he retired in October 2008, Hannah stepped up to the mark and became the main Forensic Magical Examiner for the department of Magical Law Enforcement.
At 23, Hannah is very young for this position, most not choosing this route until a lot older, but she presented a lot of potential and worked very hard. Her former trainer hadn’t seen such ability in a woman twice her age before. The fact that she is so young puts many of her colleagues at the ministry off, questioning her mental state and strange personality, but she does her job very well.
Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Hannah takes her work and life very seriously. Her hobby is her work and her work is her hobby. Often described as the witch that dissects dead people, Hannah seems cold and far too interested in the departed to be able communicate well with those souls still roaming the world. However, now she is being forced to deal with the real, living world.