Ginevra Vespucci-Delacroix | First year | Ravenclaw

Name: Ginevra Vespucci-Delacroix
Meaning: White phantom | Wasp | Of the cross
Nicknames: …
Birthdate: 6 June 2015
Age: 11-years-old
Year: 1st
Nationality: Italian
Origins: France & Italy
Residence: Oxford, England
Species: Seer
Blood status: Pure-blood
House: Ravenclaw
Dormitory: Haast’s Eagle Dormitory

Physical description: They have short black hair. It is curly and often styled with hair gel for a unique 1920s-inspired look. They have brown eyes, which are set wide apart. They are upturned and almost cat-like. They have a long, straight nose and rosy lips. Their expression is often quite troubled. They are of average height – 4'8". They carry themselves with grace, bordering on arrogance.

Style: They dress elegantly. Their clothes are always designer-made, but simple and never too flashy. After all, they value quality above all else. Their wardrobe consists mainly of dark colours – black, dark green and dark blue – contrasted with white, but no other light colours. Patterns include monochromatic checks, polka dots, stripes, etc. Their clothes often embody a classical Gothic silhouette.

Hair: Black and short
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Pale ivory, dry
Height: 4’8’’
Weight: 80 lbs
Blood type: B-
Voice: Monotone, slightly gravelly, faint
Wand hand: Right

Positive traits: Diligent, honest, resilient, polite, eccentric
Negative traits: Arrogant, insensitive, pessimistic, morbid, mysterious

Mental description: They appear timid and reserved. They are not good with unfamiliar people, and even with their close ones they often struggle to express themselves. There is an eeriness to their presence that makes people want to keep their distance. Ginevra does not mind that. They like all things morbid and grotesque, from unloved insects, to medical oddities, to uncanny places. They find interest in anything that is forbidden or dark in nature, because they find comfort in it – in similar fashion, it is all outcast, like them.

Patronus: Persian Fallow Deer
Boggart: Unknown
Thestrals: Unseen
Mirror of Erised: Unknown
Amortentia: Ink (diligence), frankincense (honesty), cedarwood (resilience), cotton (politeness), blood (eccentricity)
Polyjuice: Taste of soil, wood, candle wax and dust. A deep brown colour with a greyish tint. Incense rises from it as if hostile chemicals had been mixed together.

Biography: They were born in Italy. Their parents were eccentrics: their father, an exceptional dollmaker known in the high society of wizarding Italy, and their mother, no less of an oddity, a fashion designer. Needless to say, they grew up among the arts and the aristocracy. They developed a liking for similar things in turn, but unlike their parents they were more interested in decay than in creation.
When they were nine years old, their father became involved in shady business, or perhaps it had begun earlier, but in that year the Vespucci-Delacroix family were forced to flee Italy, as Mr Vespucci was in debt and unable to pay it back. With what remained of their fortune, they managed to escape to the United Kingdom and settle in Oxford. Their whereabouts are still not shared with many, and the family keeps its business mostly low-key.
For Ginevra, it was never quite clear why they had to leave home, but they were not attached to it anyway. To them it was simply a passing place to perform their rituals, to conjure their spirits, and take from it what was theirs. England was not much different. The move did not affect the child.
Attending Hogwarts was a weighty decision for the family, as they were concerned about privacy, but after Ginevra proved trustworthy with secrets, and following careful consideration, they decided to send her to Hogwarts.

First instance of magic: It happened when they were ten: they became very angry, and a nearby glass vase shattered.

Wand: Cherry wood – this very rare wand wood creates a wand of strange power, most highly prized by the wizarding students of the school of Mahoutokoro in Japan, where those who own cherry wands have special prestige. The Western wand-purchaser should dispel from their minds any notion that the pink blossom of the living tree makes for a frivolous or merely ornamental wand, for cherry wood often makes a wand that possesses truly lethal power, whatever the core, but if teamed with dragon heartstring, the wand ought never to be teamed with a wizard without exceptional self-control and strength of mind.
Dragon Heartstring core – as a rule, dragon heartstrings produce wands with the most power, and which are capable of the most flamboyant spells. Dragon wands tend to learn more quickly than other types. While they can change allegiance if won from their original master, they always bond strongly with the current master.
The dragon wand tends to be easiest to turn to the Dark Arts, though it will not incline that way of its own accord. It is also most prone of the three cores to accidents, being somewhat temperamental.

Spells Reducio Spells TBA

Potions Reducio Potions TBA

Stats: stamina – 5; evasion – 6; strength – 0; wisdom – 10; arcane power – 1; accuracy – 8

Abilities: year one ability; year two ability; year three ability; year four ability; year five ability; year six ability; year seven ability

Seer application: The seer blood that runs through Ginevra’s veins comes from their maternal side of the family. The Delacroix are a long-established, still-operating line of entrepreneurs in France. They run a business hosting grand shows so exclusive that only high society can enter, with the first shows dating back to the beginning of the 19th century. Over time, the nature of this business has become extremely controversial across France, as they would foretell the future to muggles for the right price, which would, without doubt, put the wizarding Statute of Secrecy at risk of being broken. Along with this, they have faced other allegations, such as some of the fortune-tellers allegedly not even being gifted with the Sight and being outright liars. Yet even with all the scandals, they continued their shady business and amassed treasures from it.
The closest seer to Ginevra’s time is their great-grandmother, who is still alive. She is the very person who conjured the prophecy for none other than Ginevra, a prophecy the child has yet to hear. No one from the family has either, because it is insisted that they read it only when they turn seventeen, and no one else is able to hear it. Their grandmother, who had received the prophecy, has taken a liking to Ginevra and has often insisted that the child be sent to live with her and be taught privately by her. This is because their great-grandmother insists the child to be a seer, even if their powers have not yet manifested in substantial ways. They suspect their great-grandmother doesn’t so much believe they are a seer as she expects them to possess the right talents to be a good enough liar to become part of the fortune-telling enterprise. This makes them even more appalled by the whole idea.
Ginevra does not care for the Delacroix family business. They think it is rather tacky for a proud pure-blood family to gain their wealth from muggles. They do not wish to take part in it, yet if they were to be a seer it would be expected of them. For that reason they hope they have not inherited the curse (or gift).
Sadly, there are signs that suggest otherwise, regardless of what the child wishes. At times of heightened emotion, or when the atmosphere around them feels strangely charged, they receive flashes of intuition. Those are incomprehensible and confusing, and they regard them as daytime nightmares. Most often, those visions are clouded by jagged images that flicker past too quickly to comprehend. Sometimes breathy whispers visit them in these episodes, muttering something incomprehensible that sounds almost threatening. From time to time they have recorded a woman’s laugh that sounds threatening and belittling toward them. It sounds uncannily similar to their great-grandmother’s.
They have not yet taken these signs and phenomena seriously. They try to suppress any suggestion that they might be a seer, or lie to themselves to avoid it, so they do not become an accomplice in the Delacroix family business.

The Vespucci family: history and members here.

The Delacroix family: history and members here.