Tamis Raynor
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| Tamis Marian Raynor | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 6 January 1974, 44 |
| City of Birth | London, England |
| Blood status | Pure-blood |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'0" |
| Hair Colour | Dark Brown |
| Eye Colour | Grey |
| Skin Colour | Fair |
| Relationships | |
| Father | Renwick Raynor |
| Mother | Reseda Raynor |
| Magical Characteristics | |
| Wand(s) | |
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| Animagus Form | Golden Retriever |
| Patronus | Lynx |
| Special Abilities | Animagus, Occlumens |
| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Ravenclaw |
| Class of | 1992 |
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| Character Information | |
| Playby | Sasha Alexander |
| Dawn | |
To put it simply, Tamis Raynor is a complicated and fallible woman. She does her best to do what is right, by her definition of moral and ethics and tries not to contradict them. While she is considerably talented with a wand, she lacks considerably on the scale in actual raw, magical power and has therefore learnt to use her head and think before she acts instead of relying on brute force to get her way. Usually collected and witty, she does have a temper when it escapes her and has a mouth that uses all three of the previously mentioned traits. Raynor's life has been full of many lessons, all of them learned the hard way, and she has taken them to heart, for better or for worse. Head of the Auror Office within the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, she is currently the interim head of this department. She is romantically linked to Auror Archer Radley and has been mentored by Jason MacDonell.
History
The Raynor line was a well reputed and ancient one able to trace Wizarding origins to the Middle Ages. They donated to the Ministry often, were foundation sponsors to St. Mungos Hospital for Magical Maladies, and over all sported wealthy and fancy titled additions to the Wizarding Community. If any rotten apples appeared over the ages, they were either successfully hidden or disowned immediately upon discovery. Two prominent members of the clan were Renwick Raynor, an Unspeakable within the Department of Mysteries, and his beloved wife, Reseda Raynor nee Finlay, of a creditable pure-blood family and healer at St. Mungos. Any unsavory thoughts of misconduct would not enter the minds of onlookers when investigating the Raynor family – particularly those two. One could imagine the shock and surprise of the community then when headlines of a mass genocide of the Raynors broke out across the Daily Prophet in 1979. The sole beneficiary? Six year old Tamis Marian Raynor, daughter of Renwick and Reseda, whom had been mercifully vacationing with a childhood friend during the tragedy, according to reports.
An investigation was set forth by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, but within a month, operations were internally shut down by the Department of Mysteries under heading of a cold case. With You-Know-Who still in his prime, many wizarding families had and were taking blows and suffering from them. The Raynors were a prominent pure-blood family of good origins; they probably just got in You-Know-Who’s way or refused to stand with him. All further investigation ceased. With many condolences little Tamis was classified as a ward to the Ministry, her inheritance secured for her coming of age, placed in a magical orphanage, and that was that.
A few years later of customary hardships and cat-fights with fellow orphans and Raynor, much obliged, received her acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Sorted into Ravenclaw, it became a second home – if not first – for her as it did for many of its inhabitants and she excelled during her time there. Well, excelled would be the word that she attached to her personal war and rebellion against authority; she was a down right little terrorist. But seven years worth of typical Ravenclaw marks, more detentions than a person could handle in a life time, and half a head of new white hairs for Filius Flitwick, and she graduated and moved on into the world beyond.
Life went on as it was prone to do, and the young woman went on to acquire a job as a Healer at St. Mungos, an occupation that had drawn the eye for many-a-moons. Here she was happily content, dividing her time between job and the Hogwarts-love of her and current fiancé, Tait Aldridge, an auror with the Ministry of Magic. But nothing good ever lasts for long, a lesson that Tamis seemed to be learning the hard way.
In the winter of 1994, just after their engagement, the couple was wondering down a side alley way in London, returning to their flat after a faculty Christmas party at St. Mungo's. Tait had been edgy about letting Raynor – whom was never fond of apparition – return home alone, particularly with The World Cup event fresh in everyone’s minds. And, as fate would have it, his suspicions were right on target. They were attacked – but not by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named supports, but rather a group of men with a personal vendetta against Tait relating to a recent bust on black market items. Tamis became the ample means of their revenge, of which they seemed to have no qualms of using all but one of the Unforgivable Curses on. Outnumbered, overpowered, and disarmed, there had not been much Tait could do until they did him off with a rather accurate Killing Curse. By the time the Ministry Officials arrived on the scene, all that was to behold was a dead body and a rather emotionally unstable young woman.
Determine to keep her and others from being victimized again, Raynor left her job at St. Mungos – unable to heal others when she could not heal herself – and went through the steps to becoming an Auror in Tait’s stead. Three years later, in 1996, her goal was obtained; tossing her fresh and green into a war that would go down as one of the biggest in Wizarding history. Old for a rookie auror, Raynor faced a good deal of criticism from her peers and an obscene amount of over protectiveness from the veterans. In her early years, she strove harder than necessary to prove her worth, and might have broken from it if not for the help of Jason MacDonell and Aurora Le Fey-MacDonell.
As the Second War progressed and the Ministry’s downfall became inevitable, Raynor did not flee as many of her comrades and friends did, but after an intense self-debate remained. As a pure-blood witch of a reputable lineage and good standings with the Ministry of Magic with a minor blurb on her track record for her “associations”, she was left primarily alone with a careful eye half-trained on her. From this position, Tamis aided those smuggling muggle-borns by gathering information from the inside and then working out carefully planned escape routes to those who would take them to Avalon and other safe holds. Eventually she was caught, but it was graciously almost simultaneous to Lord Voldermort’s demise and she did not suffer to the full extent as a “blood traitor” as some of the less lucky had.
Once Kingsley Shacklebolt returned to the Ministry as Minister, Raynor went back to her previous position as an auror, and aided where she could in the changes the governmental empire was undergoing. From there, life remained mostly peaceful as the scattering Death Eaters were rounded up and order restored. But then, in July of 2004, the auror-guarded Azkaban Prison was overwhelmed by a well devised breakout by its inmates. Under Jason MacDonell’s lead and in the company of such rising Ministry figures as Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley, Raynor partook in the recapture of the prison with an easily remedied broken arm and other minor scars and bruises. Others were not so lucky. MacDonell was badly injured and in the end retired, and much to Raynor’s surprise and horror, recommended her as his replacement as the Head of the Auror Office.
Appointed in a time of relative peace, Raynor spent most of her now four years as Senior Auror making sure that the aurors maintain their sharp-pointed lethal edges, that training for new aurors does not slack under a false sense of security, and that paper balls hurled in boredom are kept to a minimum.
