Post by evelynmatthews on Nov 24, 2011 8:00:08 GMT
| [atrb= border, 0, true][cs=2][bg=080808] MINISTRY OF MAGIC DOCUMENT | |
| [bg=252525] [/style] | [bg=252525][style=overflow: auto; width: 300px; height: 300px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #909090; line-height: 100%; background: #252525; ] FULL NAME: Evelyn Juliet Matthews. GENDER: Female. DATE OF BIRTH: 26th September 1840. SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Hogsmeade Village, Scotland. ⌂ CURRENT OCCUPATION: Professor of History of Magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin. BLOOD STATUS: WAND: Ivy, augurey feather, 11ΒΌ". PERSONALITY: "As much as I'd love to rant on about the things I hate and bore you on the things I like, I'll just give you the information you want. I love History of Magic and I love teaching. The one thing I enjoy about being a vampire is never having to worry about going grey. Of course, it's always handy to be able to move a little quicker or do the heavy lifting when I need to. I'm a big fan of romance novels and just romantic situations in general. I love any chance I get to dress up and make myself look ever more amazing than usual. Having been around for so long, I've made myself quite a wealthy woman and so money is never an issue. It's lovely to be able to buy the best. I'm a lover of genealogy and family trees too as well as astrology and all that sort of thing. I never liked Herbology when I was a student and it hasn't grown on me over the years though that's not to say I wasn't good at it. I hate that I have to drink blood in order to survive but I don't kill people if I can help it. The one thing that upsets me the most is that everyone I care about will grow old and die. I don't like animals but then animals don't particularly like me either. Summer is the worst season. Just because I have this beautiful ring on my finger doesn't mean I can't hate the sun. My strengths include History of Magic, teaching, my appearance, physical strength, speed and healing. My weaknesses include Herbology (at least, in comparison to other branches of magic), letting go, blood and being scared to make friends that I know I'll have to leave eventually. My biggest fear is that I'll hurt someone I care about and that I'll never be able to find out what became of my daughter." BACKGROUND: "I was born almost two hundred years ago to Joshua Matthews and Victoria Bennett. They have both passed away but I've had plenty of time to mourn. I had a younger brother called Riley but he has also moved on. The worst thing about being a vampire is not the thirst for blood but that everyone you grow to care about dies while you live on. They could be saved by turning them into vampires too but that wouldn't really be saving them. I have no other relatives that I'm aware of but it's possible that I have some descendants, though they wouldn't share my name. I had a daughter as a result of a fling about a year before I was turned into a vampire. I would have loved to raise her but I knew it wouldn't have been safe. All she'd have needed to do was fall over and graze her knee and I'd have lost it. I knew her father was back in Hogsmeade as I'd seen him in the Three Broomsticks the night I was attacked chatting up another girl that he'd surely abandon by the morning and so I took her in her cot and left her in his bedroom while he slept. I haven't seen her since and it broke my heart that I'd never know her. Now that you know all about my family, I'll tell you more about my own long and eventful past. The beginning of my life was relatively normal. I was sorted into Slytherin in my first year at Hogwarts. I became very close friends with Bathilda Bagshot and Mirabella Plunkett, who have both gone down in history but for entirely different reasons. Anyway, I became a prefect in my fifth year but never played on the Quidditch team. After leaving Hogwarts, I spent a year working with Bathilda visiting various places of magical significance and then two years training as a teacher. I doubt I would have got the job at the age of twenty-one if it hadn't been for my outstandings at OWL and NEWT, as well as having participated in the History of Magic club, but they were also getting pretty desperate for a History of Magic teacher. I taught there for three years before I got pregnant with Amber and took some time off for my maternity leave. It was just before I was about to go back to work that today's curse began. I'd been out for an evening with a friend in Hogsmeade. She apparated home and as I only lived in the village and didn't want to end up who-knew-where from drinking, I walked back to my house. I was just twenty five when it all happened. So yes, I was walking home from the Three Broomsticks and a drunk man appeared from nowhere and shoved me into an alley. He was incredibly strong and I knew there was no chance of overpowering him long enough to get my wand from my pocket. It wasn't until he bit my wrist and started drinking my blood that I realised what he was. He bit his own wrist and pressed it against my mouth. I've never felt so scared as I did then. Fortunately a passer-by saw what was happening and was brave enough to help me. He used some spell, possibly expulso but I don't know for certain, that forced us apart. Unfortunately, that resulted in me smacking into a wall with considerable force. When he found out I was bleeding very heavily, he wasn't brave enough to get me any help. So did the vampire. I regained consciousness in the early hours of the morning. I was still covered and laying in blood but I had no visible injuries. I got up and continued to walk home. It sounds a strange thing to do but i had no idea what was going on. As far as I was aware, I'd simply been unconscious. I saw the girl who was supposed to be babysitting my daughter sitting in the front garden drinking. I'd thought I could trust her to look after my child but there was little evidence to suggest she'd been inside at all since I'd left. I lost my temper and pushed her into the rose bush. I'd only meant to give her a little shove. Her hands got cut up pretty bad and she started bleeding. My gums started to itch and I found myself walking towards her. I couldn't help it. The next thing I knew I was attached to her neck and drinking her blood. I had no control and she died. I killed her. I didn't want to be a vampire but I knew it was foolish to think my daughter would be safe. I found her father and left her with him. I assured myself it would only be temporary and I'd find her again when I had everything under control. It took me a good ten years to get on top of everything and accept that it wasn't going to go away. I went back to the house where Amber's father had lived but they'd gone. It was 1875 by this point and people were starting to notice that I wasn't getting any older. I took that as my cue to move away. I've been moving around ever since. I've probably taught at every magical school in the world and a good handful of the smaller establishments that nobody except their students really know about. Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, Salem, Mahoutokoro, I've done them all. I never stayed for more than ten years at any one school. The only school that's ever discovered who i am is Durmstrang. The headmaster at the time was willing to let me stay as I hadn't caused harm to anybody but parents heard the rumours and were naturally unhappy and I had to leave. I used different names to reduce the chance of people making connections but apparently I have not been careful enough. I went first to Brazil and worked in a school in the Amazon rainforest. It was a beautiful school, perfectly hidden and I didn't have to worry too much about the sunlight issue due to the thick canopy. A witch in a nearby village found out that I was a vampire but had seen that I wasn't 'one of the nasty ones'. She asked me to help her with some things in return for keeping my secret a secret. I helped her with what she needed and she gave me an enchanted ring made of goblin silver. She told me that I deserved it as though I had helped her so as to ensure my nature wasn't revealed, my desire to keep it hidden was so that I could continue teaching and she believed that if she'd asked for my help under different circumstances, I would still have given it to her. She told me that so long as I wore it, I would be protected from the sun. I almost cried when I realised the stone in it was amber. The witch assured me that she had grown up to be a wonderful young woman and had so far lived a happy life. I don't know why I believed her but there was something in her eyes that told me I could trust her. She kept her side of the bargain and I was sure to say goodbye to her when the time came for me to leave. During my third year at Salem, a man named Nathaniel Styx came to request my involvement in a group his father ran that was working towards building a world where I wouldn't have to hide. I decided to take him up on his invitation and so it is now, after 145 years, that I'm back in my old home and my old job. I had hoped to return to my post at Hogwarts at a time when I wouldn't have to leave it after a decade, though I doubted this would ever be possible, and Styx's proposition allowed both that and an opportunity to dig into Amber's life and find out what she'd achieved." |
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EVELYN MATTHEWS | ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY | PROFESSOR | SOPHIA BUSH | VICKY
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