Theta Pepper
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| Theta Pepper | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 19 September 1990, 22 |
| City of Birth | Sandy, Bedfordshire, England |
| Current City | London, England |
| Residence | The Radford Estate |
| Blood status | Half-blood |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'2" |
| Hair Colour | Dark Auburn |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Skin Colour | Pale |
| Relationships | |
| Father | Monty Pepper |
| Mother | Catherine Pepper |
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| Patronus | Mouse |
| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Ravenclaw |
| Class of | 2009 |
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| Playby | Holly Grainger |
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Theta Pepper is a former Ravenclaw student who now works as an Unspeakable under her uncle, Francis Pepper, in the Time Turner Repair Workshop. She is the cousin of Ambrose Pepper.
She 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.
Early 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…
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...
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.
