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Basics

Full Character Name: Theta Jemima Pepper
Character Birthday & Age: September 19th, 1990 | 21 (Same day as her cousin, Ambrose) 22 in Sept 2012
City & Country of Birth: Sandy, Bedfordshire, England
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn: Halfblood
Profession: Trainee Unspeakable creating time turners.

Alumni: Hogwarts, Ravenclaw, NEWT year of 2009.
Extra Curriculars: Quidditch, Hogwarts Howler (writer)
How Do You Fit Into Your House?:

Theta's independence of mind, to apply itself to work and any other deed undertaken. Her determination to do things alone and in secret - though not out of personal gain, the ability to keep all these things going have proven Theta as a Ravenclaw. (Though her patience and tolerance would put her in Hufflepuff, and potential cunning in Slytherin, they are secondary traits).

Wand: 9 and ¾ inches almond wood, unicorn tail, pliable.

Patronus: A mouse (though she's never tried to cast it)

Physical Description:

Theta Pepper is very short. At 5ft2, she has given up on the prospect of growing any more. Her petite stature presents problems in a world meant for people at least a few inches taller than her, though she has become very adept with a wand to reach things, and is content to climb on the odd chair to reach.

Her hair is a dark auburn, a prevalent colour in her family. As a child she grew it as long as possible, parted down the middle and was very proud of its length and strength. As a teenage witch she grew to resent it, though was too scared to cut it should she dislike having short hair and it be years to grow it back without potions or charms. In her sixth year, Theta decided enough was enough during the Easter break, and cut her hair to above her shoulders and rejoiced. She will still hide behind her fringe.

Theta's eyes are blue, and her skin is on the pale side. She tries to remember to wear make-up but forgets, not caring quite as much as she could about her appearance at school. After all, she reasons, these same people see me every day.

Podgy as a child, Theta lost a noticeable amount of weight since last summer, though keeping it off is trickier now she is back at school.





Personality Description:

Others would describe Theta as sensible, practical and unflappable. She seemingly takes everything in her (short) stride, from standing before the class to present, or raising her wand to perform complicated transfiguration. Tending to be the one in the group who would speak sense in a crisis, Theta has been regarded by her classmates as being the cool cucumber. In reality, its more because they're talking and she's been thinking.

Her outward personality has led her to be a confidant of friends who come to her for motherly advice. She dispenses, when she can, over cups of tea, text books and across dormitory beds. Tolerant of many, it goes against her nature to put someone out. Secret champion of the minority.

In reality, Theta is chronically worried about everything, even the smallest details. She berates herself over the smallest of mistakes, lying awake at night digging up past choices and worrying needlessly. It doesn't help her that she is fiercely independent to be her own person, having worked the previous summer and taken it upon herself to nearly move into the house of her uncle, Francis, following the loss of Claire Pepper to an accidental obliviation. Very close to them all, Theta wanted to keep them all afloat, as best she could.

Theta also keeps other things secret - from writing under a pseudonym, to being in contact with her older cousin, who was responsible for the obliviation, while keeping the rest of the family in the dark as to his whereabouts.   

History:

Theta is the first born of three girls to Octavius and Catherine Pepper. Her younger sisters are Zeta and Eta. None of the girls are actively overjoyed at the choice of naming after the greek alphabet… Zeta is a Hufflepuff 5th year, and a gifted cartoonist, who spends more time dedicated to perfecting characters of Professors and students than her studies. Theta finds it sadly amusing that Zeta is only irritated at the recent staff turnover at Hogwarts because it means she has to start again.

Youngest sister is Eta, a Hufflepuff 2nd year, and a complete dreamer who lives by her tarot deck after making a chance accurate prediction which she believes was a premonition that a terrible accident was to occur in the family. The same age as Timothy Pepper, Ambrose Pepper's younger brother, Eta grew up with him, though they are more chalk and cheese these days in interests.

Theta was a worrier as a child, though as her sisters arrived, she began to show responsible tendencies, keeping a watchful, responsible eye over the brood of sisters and cousins.

She enjoyed her time at Hogwarts particularly, and was glad she got to spend a year with Eta at school before leaving. In her seventh year, Theta studied runes, transfiguration, history of magic, arithmancy, charms and astronomy, which are considered a heavy workload. Theta relished the challenge (despite her personal worries - they convert into the need to strive and succeed and improve her marks) and they matched the requirements and best background for her preferred career.

The summer between sixth and seventh year, she spent time working at Scribbulus Writing Instruments, which was fine and gainful financially, but wasn't at all a choice for the long term. During the evenings she was looking after Francis, Ambrose and Tim as best she could, even if her cooking was decidedly hit and miss.

Theta always wanted to become her uncle's apprentice and learn to create time turners, though she knew a few family traditions were stacked against her - firstly, she is not a son, she is a niece, and secondly, she's female. In tradition, the Pepper men have been the time turner makers for the Ministry over generations. Strictly speaking it would be Ambrose up for consideration, or Tim, and Theta worried that Francis will prefer to wait for either of his two sons to become of age. She had trouble broaching the subject with him, and did all she could in the meantime to help her cause.

Should everything have fallen through, she would have settled with creating brooms - which leads to her hobbies.

Besides collecting clocks (which drives her family mad - they froze them all in her room when she was away at school), Theta follows the Holyhead Harpies religiously. As an all female team, they not only pander to her enjoyment of the sport as a witch, but also to her ideals as a feminist on the quiet. Her favourite players at present are Ginny Weasley, the seeker, and Alyson O'Sullivan, a chaser. Theta's own participation with the Ravenclaw team wasn't on a match with either, but she threw herself into it with all her heart and determination.

When not falling off brooms, Theta spent time with her tabby cat Oscar, who has been her companion since she began at school. Scrapbooking from newspapers is another geeky interest, not only cutting out the Holyhead Harpies mentions into one scrapbook, Theta follows stories on Muggles and Magic, inequality and letters. To a casual browser, it looks like Theta is an avid fan of a witch who regularly writes into the Prophet, Nicola Bourbaki.

The reality is that Theta is Nicola Bourbaki, who writes eloquently on a variety of current affairs reported in the Prophet. She adopted the pseudonym to be taken seriously and protect her identity as a student. The name is from Nicolas Bourbaki which was a collective pseudonym for a group of mathematicians who wrote a series of books on modern advanced mathematics.

Keeping up the pretence of being another person in public letters to a newspaper wasn't so hard until she began to receive letters directed at Nicola...

OWLS

DADA A
Herbology A
Potions A
Muggle Studies O
* Runes E
* Transfiguration O
* History of Magic E
* Arithmancy E
* Charms E
* Astronomy A

NEWTS

Runes O
Transfiguration O
History of Magic E
Arithmancy O
Charms O
Astronomy E

Post-Hogwarts

Theta has been training under her uncle, Francis Pepper, to create time turners for the Ministry. It's a family tradition and Theta excels at both the precision and the intricate charms. It requires a lot of concentration and traditionally, apprentices have been wizards. Theta is very proud to learn and has been studying hard since 2009. She is now proficient in much of the standard repairs and recalibrations and is learning how to create her own from scratch. It takes hours, and can go wrong.

During this time she started to go out with fellow unspeakable, Christopher Dant, in spell experimentation. The two were rather cute together and happy, but eventually the shine sort of wore off and the two drifted apart. Theta is still friendly with him, but she didn't necessarily feel she was going to set up for life with Chris. Her beloved cat, Oscar also passed away which left Theta feeling pretty low. Her Ministry friends about her age invited her to move in with them for some company, and things have been a bit better since.

Sum up your character in one paragraph:

Theta is an independent, determined feminist, geek and quidditch enthusiast. Her self confidence issues are converted into determination for study and other hobbies, and although she makes friends with many, she feels no deep connection with one or two of them as she would like. Theta is learning how to create time turners and works for the DoM.