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Yelena Kostornova
Status:
Muggle-born
Birthday:
15 Aug 2010
Nationality:
English
Residence:
London, England
Function:
Second year, Ravenclaw
Wand:
27,5 cm alder wood and dragon heartstring
Since Yelena is 11, she doesn't really wear any makeup, except for a bit of eyeshadow to contrast her green-grey-ish eyes and her pretty much blonde hair. She neither has any obvious scars nor other notable facial features. When it comes to her body stature, she is built pretty daintily, but still is very athletic. thanks to her former training as a figure skater and a ballet dancer. Next to being physically very healthy, she is also mentally healthy, thanks to not having to endure any trauma in her childhood, but she still is very independent and resilient, thanks to her aunts strict parenting style and her stepdad (more to that later). She is also very witty, smart, adventurous and open to new people, making it easy for her to find new friends. While she is really friendly and supporting to the people she likes, she can also be very "mean", cold and sometimes even manipulating to the people she does not like. Furthermore she also is very fierce and also practically always says her opinion, even though not everyone in the room might like it.
Before she found out she was a witch, she lived with her mom, Alina, in a small town in pretty much poverty near Moscow, Russia, after her father died working in a mine when she was just two years old. Thanks to her never really knowing her dad and her new stepdad, who married her mom when she was five, being very strict and cold, she naturally has a bit of an abhorrence against men and boys. Since her stepdad was practically always drunk, her mother had to earn the income for the family as a maid for a rich family and when she got really ill thanks to tuberculosis, the family fell even more into poverty. When her mom was on the brink of death, she organized for six yer old Yelena to move to her aunt in London, UK, in order to have a better life there and not having to live with Ivan, her stepdad. Even though she originally hated that plan, since she didn't want her mother having to die alone, her mother persuaded and kind of also forced her to move to the UK, since thanks to her age, she couldn't really fight back in any way . She passed away only a few days later, which, when she found out her a really short and emotionless call from Ivan, really devastated Yelena very much. Thanks to her Russian background, she also still has a pretty strong accent, even though she learned English very fast, which led to her often being the target of some bullying in school. Despite that she still was able to make good friends and integrated very well. Even though her aunt's parenting method was really strict, like for example that she always had to get straight A's or otherwise she would be grounded, she still felt that her aunt loved her very much and only wanted the best for her, which led to her using such methods, since she wanted her to have a better live than them, because her aunt and uncle, as well, weren't exactly rich. Overall she had a pretty good childhood in England with her aunt and uncle, because even though they weren't rich, they still were very loving. She came first in contact with magic, when, in the sports locker room, she was bullied by some girls from school for being a straight A student and also for her Russian accent and was really angry at them, but didn't want to do anything, since she didn't want to get in trouble, but then suddenly a backpack flew from behind the girls into their direction and hit one of them right on the back of her head. Even though she was confused, she didn't really think of it as magic or something, since many of the other kids currently changing were standing in the direction the backpack came from and she, and also the bully, who got hit, which lead to her screaming at the other kids, while crying, thought that one of them had thrown it. Now she knows that this incident instead was her first contact which accidental emotional magic.