User Profile

Name: Hestia Morvina Jones
Nickname: Tia
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Birthday: April 7, 1968
House: Ravenclaw
Political Alliance/Stance:
Hestia believes strongly in the side of light. Her mother being a muggle involved in a wizarding business was the only thing keeping a tenuous link to most society when she was younger and living on the farm. Even then, she knew her mother was different, because of comments made by the pureblood wizards who bought from her father’s stores. And of course her involvement within the Order sealed the deal with her place in the war, wanting to be a part of something that made a difference in the cold world in which she grew up.

Appearance
Basic Physical Description:
She is described by most to be a black-haired, rosy-cheeked witch with a countenance that resembles a woman on a mission. Her dark brown eyes lighten when she is happy, and darken when she is angry or sad. Often she had been upset about her lack of breasts, but recently she decided that having knockers the size of smaller tennis balls was not unfortunate, especially since other women complained of how heavy their fronts seemed to weigh.

When she smiles her white teeth show, teeth that many have said are too big for her light pink mouth. Hestia doesn’t mind this and finds her “horse teeth” as her father called her when she was a girl one of her most attractive traits. Thick eyebrows round out a complexion that is a bit darker than the mostly pale English-folk of the city, she was born on a farm and her skin reflects the outside nature of her childhood labor.

Because of her job for Gringotts, she is often wearing robes with nice muggle suits underneath, never sure when the occasion with arrive when she must have a lunch meeting. On her days off she prefers jeans and t-shirts, going back to her days on the farm. She doesn’t refuse to wear skirts, but when she is mostly into comfort clothing, it’s not a big demand in her wardrobe. However, she is quite aware how to impress someone when wearing a slinky black dress and has done so when the occasion calls for it.

Her hair has lightened a bit from a black to an almost brown, as her father had been a blonde when he was a boy, which slowly faded to brown as an adult. Apparently her hair was doing the opposite—lightening as the years went by.

Has a somewhat nasty scar under her jaw from a horse riding incident where she was thrown from the stallion she was attempting to break (without her parent’s permission, of course) and was thrown over the fence, the left side of her jaw catching on her way over. She hasn’t ridden a horse since then (she was 20 at the time, and thought she was old enough to handle it), but she does miss them dearly.

Height: 5’5”
Weight: 120lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black/brown
Build: For her size, she is just about right, actually
Defining Marks: Scar under jaw, pink cheeks
Dress Style: Very casual, when she isn’t at home, there she dresses like a bum


Psychology
Extrovert/Introvert: Introvert with strong extrovert tendencies
Phobias/Fears: Being exposed, not being loved, not succeeding in her job/the Order, having no purpose in life
Boggart Would Be: A Death Eater, with the mask
Patronus Would Be: A ram

Personality
Habits: Biting nails, fooling with clothes
General Likes: Food, comfortable clothes, television, information, learning, new experiences, being kissed the right way
General Dislikes: People who don’t try to understand her, people who judge too quickly, people who don’t give second chances, Turkish delights, marshmallows, being a failure
Often…: Found on her couch, watching television on her days off, playing with farm animals, or working
Basic Strengths: Saving her judgment, ability to put people at ease, notice things not seen by most people, getting information
Basic Weaknesses: Fighting, thinking quickly under pressure, sometimes too trusting, stubborn; she doesn’t like to change when she finally makes her judgments since she finds them better educated than most people
Best Personality Features (Virtues): Her ability to see good in just about anyone
Worst Personality Features (Vices): Can drive people away because its hard for her to open up completely
Personality In General:
It is almost difficult for Hestia to be aware of her personality at times. The roles she plays for the bank, for the Order and everything in between have managed to leak into her private life. Because of her life in the Order, and her job at the bank, she has become more and more a private person, which seals her off from potential relationships. This is the main reason why, after all these years, she hasn’t quite managed to settle down, despite her two serious relationships in the past.

On the outside, she is a genial, professional and intelligent woman. On her days off she can be the relaxed, easy-going cough potato that would rather lounge about reading or watching television than get anything productive done. Her couch time is her escapism, and it’s the only way she has dealt with the stress over the years.

Because her past two relationships failed because, among other things, she was unable to fully open up about her feelings on the war, the death of her mother or her time at Hogwarts, Hestia has tried to be more open with those around her. Because of this, she has taken a confidence in Molly Weasley, who is almost the exact opposite of her, but whom she seems to be able to vent to with reasonable ease. It’s not that she wants to keep it all inside, its just that for so many years she had to, that now it is simply second nature to her. Molly is trying to break her of that second nature that is to be sure.

A lot of her character quirks have arisen from the type of “characters” she’s had to play over the years, such as she still bites her nails because once the Order wished her to be a fidgety woman in pursuit of the wrong type of chocolate, all of which are codenames for very serious events that supposedly, to everyone else, never really happened.

Loves animals. All kinds. Observation of people and animals, their quirks, their signs of affection, everything is interesting to her. All animals have their redeeming qualities, which are one of the reasons why she attempts not to judge someone until she is presented with specific facts, instead of rumors. Other than being a lover of animals, she is an information expert, filing things away to remember and use later. Seems however that Michael and Marcus were men who enjoyed her observation of them.


Family
Father: Sinclair Jones
Mother: Clara Jones
Older Siblings: None
Younger: None
Significant Other: None at present
Family History:
Hestia was born in Devonshire, in the country of England. Her father a wizard, her mother a muggle, he took over his father’s wizarding farm to provide farm produce and meat to those pureblood wizards that refused to buy anything touched by muggle hands. Growing up on a farm had been good for her, it gave her true work ethic, something to wake up for, even if at a young age she really didn’t appreciate waking up only a bit past dawn to feed the livestock.

Her mother was killed by mysterious means while she was working at the Ministry. It left her father devastated, and he moved away from the farm and into muggle London, closing down the farm for good. Hestia now lives in her childhood home, and visits her father as often as possible.

Occupation: Field officer in the Claims and Foreign Titles department for Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Residence: Devonshire, the English Countryside
Finance: Is well paid and is well off

Romantic
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Preference: Straight
Turn ons: Someone who is interesting, intrigues her, understands her relationship to the Order and her work
Turn offs: Being controlled, not taken seriously, not intelligent, boring
Dating: Hasn’t dated since Michael broke up with her six months ago
Kinks: Taking it from behind, sex in somewhat public, eating while having sex


Background/History
Character's Relationship with Parents Growing Up:
Hestia was very close to her father, and she inherited a lot of her quirks and similar humor, behaviors from him. Her mother was close, but she often felt it easier to confide in her father. This brought a rift between her mother who believed she disliked her because she was a muggle. They fought often, but it was mostly because her mother was hurt and sensitive, and Hestia was hotheaded and stubborn. To this day she feels guilty about the way she treated her mother and that, among the curiosity to find what really happened to her drove her desire to find her mother’s killer.

Character's Brief History at Hogwarts:
At the ripe age of 15, Hestia began concentrating her studies on being a Ministry official. Her concentration was muggle affairs—and she planned on making the wizarding world aware that muggles, muggleborns and half-bloods were people too. She was finally offered a job at the Ministry after working for her father for over two years. Hestia felt suddenly justified in her new life, and for a couple years, nothing could harm her.

Until Harry Potter…lived. Lily and James were much older than her, but she was aware of them within the school, even though she did not attend when they were there. It affected her more than she thought, the idea of an orphan, at such a young age, was just another disgusting result of the war she hated. The war was over, everyone thought that he was dead. And her life, albeit not normal, returned to some sense of happiness at the ending of said war.

But it was when her mother was killed, by mysterious means, which Hestia began to research the war more and more. Her theories and research were well noticed by those around her, she didn’t hide what she was trying to find; an answer to her mother’s death. Apparently this attracted attention, as soon she received an offer to change her life.

After working in the Muggle Relations department within the ministry for quite some time, she was approached by Kingsley Shacklebolt, a man a few years her senior to come to a meeting that might, indeed change her life. And it had, for ever since then she has been involved in the Order of Phoenix, and has not regretted it. Working there brought her close and up personal to the horrors of the war, but this is what she lived for. However, Hestia had the initial problem of thinking too much in fieldwork, as she was never one to judge someone unjustly, until all the facts are in. But in fieldwork, especially against the Death Eaters, one needs to be quick on their feet, ready with a new spell, a new defense. Hestia was not that witch, she didn’t exactly freeze, but her hesitation could cost her life. So mostly, she was in the information trade within the Order, and that was why, later, she changed her job to Gringotts, working the Goblins, whom Dumbledore and the Order were aware could be fighting on the wrong side if they were convinced to change. Goblin relations were where she started her desire and passion for languages, and took to the task with passion and vigor. She wanted to do her part, even if she could not fight. This was why she was assigned to transport Harry Potter to Grimauld Place, for transportation required her knowledge of the area, being a half-blood, and her ability for a very powerful defense charm, her only specialty in the charm field.

Her efforts in Goblin relations, her bending over backward for the Order and her new Goblin friends had made her indeed a busy woman. She proved successful in the most part—the Goblin’s stayed neutral during the war, which helped a lot in the long run. As to the final battle, she was still in the background, providing information from a source unknown to even her. The end of the battle brought feelings of doubt and abandonment. Of course, she was ecstatic that this was over, that even if there were loose ends (well, of course, did Voldemort really die?) she was glad that Harry Potter was alive. It was the prophecy, right? But at the same time she was left to confusion and doubts. What would she do now? Could she continue on? It was as if her whole life had been leading up to this, and now, as she looked around, it was over, and she didn’t know how to continue on without a strong purpose such as the Order.

So, after two serious relationships with wizards who did not understand her, could not understand her, or the things she was feeling or going through, Hestia took solace in her work and her home and her Goblin friends. She is sad to admit that she feels like she is still in the same place she was when the war ended--empty, and alone.

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