Elena Manchester

Backstory

The sorting hat sorted me in Ravenclaw because I’m hardworking, serious, calm and determined to succeed, but I was a hatstall. The sorting hat had trouble to sort me because I was a perfect mix of two houses : Ravenclaw and Slytherin. I got my Ravenclaw side from my mother, Atlana Manchester, who is an Auror, and I got my Slytherin side from my father, who is ... well ... Severus Snape. They divorced when I was 2yo so I got my mother’s last name. I went to Hogwart in first year but I left 4 months before the end of the year because we had to move to France because of my mother’s job as an Auror. We stayed there for a bit more than 2 years. I was going to Beauxbatons at that time. When we came back to UK, I went back to Hogwart in 4th year (the year of the Triwizard Tournament). This is were I met my first boyfriend. He was a Durmstrang’s student. We really loved each other but we had to broke up when he had to go back to Bulgaria. When I got in 5th year, I got really closed to a boy of Slytherin and we started dating 5 month before the end of the year (his identity will stay a secret for now). We are still together today.

My favorite classes are Charms, Transfiguration (I’m an Animagus, a giant wolf of the European mountains) and Defence against the dark arts (as long as Umbridge isn’t the teacher). Astronomy and Herbology are my least favorite ones. The Potions class is a class where I succeed the best but I don’t particularly enjoy it (talent for my father but he is the reason I don’t like it as well).

I’m a pure-blood, but lots of people doubt about it because my father identity stayed secret for a very long time, so many people thought my mother got me with a mudblood, especially the Malfoys, since Lucius and my mother are rivals and hate each other since their time at Hogwart. I was there for the Hogwart war. My greatest strength was my power and my large knowledge in spells (including spells created by my father and my own spells) but being an Animagus helped me a lot (explanations later). One of my greatest weaknesses was my father’s death. It hurted me so much that I wasn’t paying good attention to what was surrounding me. But there was someone I was closely paying attention to during this war : My boyfriend. As we were running away from danger, a deatheater saw us and tried to kill him but I pushed him away and received the spell instead of him. When I died, my Animagus spirit talked to me and said : « You have two choices : First, you accept my request, which is to find and kill a Chazos Skotadi (meaning dark beast in Greek, being the evil specter of an animagus who plans to wipe out an entire community, one member of which is responsible of its death) but you can lose your life, you will have to take a nickname as well and you won’t be able to become human again, until your soulmate recognizes you. If you don’t accept, you will die, erasing all memories of you from your friends and family’s minds but the Chazos will be stopped by someone else.” I made the choice to survive and I protected people in the castle under my Animagus form. After that, I hid in the rubble of the school, watching Voldemort’s death.
After school, I chased the Chazos for two years, while he was killing all the deatheaters, who were neither in Azkaban, nor dead. I arrived just in time as he was about to attack and kill my boyfriend and his family (they are ex-deatheaters). I succeeded to kill him but my boyfriend and I got hurt. The only way to heal a bite or a scratch from a Chazos was to put the tears of our soulmate on the injury. Thinking I was dead, my boyfriend’s family thought he was going to die, but I dropped my tears on his Injury before collapsing. Realizing his wounds healed, he dropped his tears on my injury as well and I woke up. When he pronounced my name, I was finally able to turn back into a human again.

After all that, my boyfriend and I got back together and I became an Auror, like my mother, while he was working in the justice department of the Ministry of magic. I was looking forward to be an Auror since my first year in Hogwart.
When we got engaged, my mother had a lot of trouble to accept my fiancé because she had a very bad relationship with his parents since her years in Hogwart. For my Family-in-law, the father had a lot of trouble accepting me according to my mother, but my mother-in-law had always been really sweet with me. Two years after our wedding, my husband and I had a son, Arthur.
We have pets : a dog, Diego, which is a Rottweiler, and three owls : Hvit (mine, a barn owl), Viribus (my husband’s, a great owl) and Vultus (my son’s, a long-eared howl).

According to me, magic is one of the most beautiful thing in the world, but it has two sides. At first, magic can be use to built, create, save, heal and do lots of amazing things, but it can destroy, as well as annihilate, bring sadness, despair and death. So magic is something really beautiful but it have to be used with care. In my professional life, as an Auror, I use magic for good, to help people. In my personal life, I use magic to help me with chores and paperwork, making me some time to take care of my family.