Lucrezia Di Luca
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| Lucrezia Agnese Di Luca | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 1 July 1975, 42 |
| Current City | St. Albans, UK |
| Blood status | Half-blood |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'7" |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Eye Colour | Dark Hazel |
| Skin Colour | Pale |
| Relationships | |
| Father | John Morganfield |
| Mother | Giuliana Di Luca |
| Pet(s) | Soma (Black Mamba) |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Slytherin |
| Class of | 1993 |
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| Character Information | |
| Playby | Krysten Ritter |
| Amara | |
A relatively cold and strict woman, Lucrezia is the current Potions Mistress at Hogwarts. She has minimal concern for anything outside of her own areas of interest, primarily the art of potion making. While she does have a soft side, she is extremely private and it is shown to only a few; while performing her duties she is scrupulously formal. Unable to bide laziness or ignorance, and barely able to tolerate stupidity, she is unforgiving towards those who she sees to possess these qualities, and unlikely to change her opinion. She’s been raised in a relatively non-traditional family, an aristocrat father and a Sicilian country girl mother, but found the balance between her two very different ancestries.
History
Born to an English gentleman and a beautiful young girl from the countryside of Sicily, Lucrezia was a child that was deeply loved by her parents and, initially, caused considerable scandal. The classic story of rich man falls in love with peasant girl may not have played out in so pompous and dramatic a fashion as in most romantic stories out there, but it definitely had its ups and downs. The first was that the union was deeply frowned upon by the families of both John and Giuliana, the English side protesting that he was marrying beneath him, and a muggle-born nonetheless, while Giuliana’s family had objected on the grounds that their daughter would be taken away to another country. However, the second both sets of parents had found themselves in the role of grandparents all tensions disappeared under the miracle of new life and the opportunity to spoil their granddaughter rotten.
She had a blessed childhood, growing up in a little village in Oxfordshire, split between her mother’s love for nature and her father’s love of books. Privately educated, during the day she studied under her father and her tutors and in the evening she’d ride with her mother and play on the large property. It was very early on that she’d given signs of a heightened olfactory senses, and with nature surrounding the manor, both father and mother, but especially Giuliana, decided to introduce the girl to Herbology. Her mother was the one that encouraged her passion for Potions and Herbology, while her father set to make a proper lady out of her.
It was right around the time she’d received her letter from Hogwarts that her sister was born, and with Hogwarts and a new member in the family something changed for Ezia. Hogwarts was a new and terrifying experience for the young girl. She’d been raised in a small village where she’d known everyone from birth, her parents obviously, but also the help, the stable staff, and the villagers. Her childhood had been rather sheltered and almost all her relationships had been formed by her parents, so it was a rather rough first year torn between her love for all the new exciting subjects she was learning and the complete loneliness of being unable to form relations because of her own social insecurities.
It only got worse once she returned home to find she was no longer the center of attention of her parents, or anyone else for that matter. It was her baby sister that made Lucrezia feel suddenly unimportant and all alone, and it was then that she started to withdraw more into her studies. She continued like so throughout her entire stay at Hogwarts, detached and isolated but accomplished as both a student and a young lady. It was only once she graduated and returned home with the mind of a young lady that she reconnected with her parents and finally started to get to know her sister. But the damage was done, and she had more pressing matters than internal reflection.
She only stayed home for another half year then left for an apprenticeship in Sicily, with the twin purpose of visiting her mother’s homeland and studying under a renowned Potions Master. She was a fast-learner and a stellar pupil, if only for her complete dedication to her tasks and the pleasure of learning more. Even after her apprenticeship was finished she chose to remain in Sicily, under her mother’s name, where her father’s family had joined her to avoid a country torn by war. While her parents and sister returned home as soon the war finished, she still avoided the UK, choosing instead to travel the world to study in countries all over the world, teach, and by twenty five, even publish a few of her findings.
She eventually returned to Britain at the age of thirty, not to Oxfordshire, but to a little house at the edge of St. Albans; close enough to London but far enough to avoid the crowds and noise of the big cities she so hated. She continued her research, and kept mostly to herself, but now that she was near London, the epicenter of wizarding aristocracy, John insisted she mingled with a few of her own every so often. In truth, her father hoped to see her married soon enough, and Lucrezia would have none of that. So, torn between the stifling tightness of noble society and the growing challenges of her studies, she escaped to Hogwarts as soon as she caught wind of a Potions opening.
