Filius Pepper
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| Born | 20 October 1920, 91 |
| City of Birth | Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England |
| Current City | France |
| Blood status | Half-blood |
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| Gender | Male |
| Hair Colour | Grey (formerly sandy brown) |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Ravenclaw |
| Class of | 1939 |
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Filius Pepper is husband to Jane Pepper, a Muggle. He is the father of Francis Pepper and Monty Pepper.
The Pepper family lived in the postcard village of Old Warden. A narrow village tucked in the Bedfordshire countryside, the buildings are a variety of attractive cottages made in different materials and in different ways. Although the buildings look very old, many of them are 19th Century, and belonged to the Shuttleworth estate.
Both Filius and his parents had grown lived in Old Warden in the same cottage before raising Francis and Octavius (Monty). The family no longer live in the village, as the Muggles were beginning to get suspicious of the family overall. Filius and Jane both decided to move to the South of France to get some warmer weather and retire.
While growing up in Old Warden, Filius fell in love with a neighbour's daughter, Jane, a Muggle. She had always suspected something, but adapted to the prospect of a wizard husband with surprising ease. It did help that Filius's parents were also the same – wizard born father, and a Muggle mother, so Jane and her new mother in law understood each other on those terms at least.
The couple had two sons. Filius took on the family tradition of making time turners for the Ministry. He began to look at his sons for a successor. Both of the boys were no strangers to tools and all manner of crafts including carpentry and metalwork in the outhouse. Francis, the elder, showed most promise, and eventually became apprentice to Filius.
As the boys grew up people occasionally visited the house with time turners. They sought Filius, not wanting the Ministry to know they had broken these precious items, but knowing Filius well enough to ask him directly.
It was not unusual to have dinner with two, or three versions of Filius on an evening, where the next day's time turners were a little too tightly wound and had sent him back too far. These dinners were particularly amusing, as the present time version of Filius would be dismayed to see the next day was going to cause him problems, and he'd have to relive this dinner. The future ones had their own rule not to discuss anything that happened and instead furiously tried to talk about last week or further back to prevent it.
A rather imposing and firm wizard from the Ministry visited the house every couple of years to talk to their sons and Jane about the work Filius did, and also the consequences of discussing any fine details, and the perils of memory obliviation.
Both his sons attended Hogwarts, and Filius prevailed the family tradition that the boys were to study history. Octavius was two years behind Francis at school, so during the time he studied his NEWTs, Filius was already training Francis with the time turners. When Octavius returned home in the gap between sixth and seventh year, he felt alienated by the closeness between Filius and Francis, something that made him a little bitter.
Francis moved out to Biggleswade, but after finishing at Hogwarts, Octavius remained living with Filius and Jane at Old Warden for a further year while he set up as a painter, before moving out to Sandy. As a result both of the boys were living very close to Filius and Jane.
In 1987, Filius retired from the Time Turner workshop and left Francis to it, occasionally popping in with an advisory capacity. His eyesight was beginning to fail. For the timebeing they remained in Old Warden, not moving away to France until the mid 1990s ahead of the darkest Voldemort days.
They now live a comfortable life in warmer climes, and occasionally visit Britain, or entertain visitors at their own home.
