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Lilith Harlow
Status:
Pure-blood
Birthday:
18 Feb 2013
Nationality:
Hungarian
Residence:
Dublin, Ireland
Function:
First year, Hufflepuff
Wand:
29,0 cm cherry wood and unicorn hair
Physical Description: Lilith’s outward appearance is very fitting for her name. Her long hair is dark, it is normally very wavy but she spends a ridiculous amount of time brushing her very stubborn locks of hair into neat little waves. Her eyes are a beautiful shade of golden brown and makes her especially pale skin stand out amongst her darkly-colored features. She has a large amount of freckles dusting over her nose but you wouldn’t know unless you were looking for them. Her fashion consists of many things from marionette outfits to floral dresses, she despises clothing items that are darkly color because they feel itchy on her skin but if it’s a hair tie she has no issue wearing it. Her accent often throws people off because she has a more Hungarian-inclined voice due to her spending the first two years of her life in Hungary but it often clashes with the slight Irish accent she gained from living in Ireland for the majority of her childhood

Mental Description: Lilith is known as the odd one in her family. While everyone else is happy-go-lucky and socially-fluid, she is lacking in the natural joy that is seemingly inherited in her family and struggles to converse with those her age and outside of her family, which resulted in her using a notepad to speak. Maybe it’s because she’s defective or maybe it’s just because she’s the only illegitimate child, who knows? She isn’t mute, she just has a hard time interacting socially, her method of “interacting” without her notepad is through her facial expressions and general body language. When she does speak, she usually has a dry response or occasionally words of wisdom that isn’t just a nice way of saying “Ask someone else.” The only time she is genuinely interested in conversation is if it’s about one of what her family calls “Her special interests” or if it’s with her stepmother, who she loves very dearly. It isn’t common for her to find someone very interesting, or as her family calls them “crushes” but it’s not exactly rare, it’s not as if she has conversations with them either. She often has odd answers to things others say to her and it can honestly either amuse them or scare them, there is no in between.

Biography: Lilith was born somewhere in Hungary as a product of infidelity to Valencia Harlow and Marius Thorne (the adulterer), her mother pointedly informed her father that she wanted him to have nothing to do with her and her newborn daughter but after a bit of begging on his part she agreed to let him and her daughter’s half siblings see Lilith every now and then.

Tragedy struck not even 2 years later as Lilith’s mother was tragically killed on the job by a dark wizard who fled shortly after, and Lilith was sent to Ireland to live with her father and the rest of her..family. The reason for her mother being killed was for both her known hatred of the dark arts and her advocation for magical creatures to be treated fairly. She wasn’t killed by death eaters, just by an enraged pureblood trying to make a point, whatever that point may have been. Before her mother’s death, no one could get Lilith to stop talking but after Valencia’s untimely death she only spoke to those she deemed trustworthy, thankfully she is only selectively mute and not overall mut. Her father tried to bond with her as the years went on but his attempts were hindered by Lilith finding out through the whispers of house elves the origin of her birth and how it affected his wife, her step mother. Unfortunately for Marius Thorne it resulted in him no longer being trusted by Lilith.

As young as she was, she knew that cheating on your partner is a horrible thing to do and she focused more on bonding with the woman than she did her father and half siblings. She was fortunate enough to have a very kind stepmother who after some time came to think of Lilith as one of her own, she was even the one to tutor Lilith. As I said before, Lilith is illegitimate and that for some reason causes all but two of her half siblings to steer clear of her.

She prefers to verbally communicate with her stepmother and the two siblings she does speak to but it’s the notepad for everyone else, even the house elves. Her father despite Lilith barely tolerating him, seen her preference of not speaking to house elves as her being overwhelmed by them, leading to him ordering them to not leave her be. As for why Lilith’s father hasn’t gotten her any help for her choice of speaking to certain people, her father did get help but they were very insistent that Lilith just needs time and will “grow out of it”. Despite the way it sounds Lilith agreed with what they said, she just needs time and soon enough, she once again be the curious girl that no one could get to stop talking.

She grew to enjoy running barefoot through the forest behind her house and being around nature in general and her father, wanting to get in her good graces, got her every plant her heart desired. Not long after she turned 11, her hogwarts letter had came and she literally had never smiled so hard before, it looked like the smile was going to split her face in two.

First Instance of Magic: It was on her fourth birthday, one of her older siblings had been making fun of her for being “technically mute” and was ticking her off. She was rightfully agitated at the comments he was making, he is very much aware of her possessing the ability to speak and that she chooses to speak only to certain people. When she had finally had enough of his taunting, the piece cake he had been holding quite literally blew up in his face. She meant to go tell his mom but it had appeared the problem solved itself. And yes, she did enjoy the rest of her birthday.