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Aurora Sinistra (revontulet) wrote,
@ 2007-05-17 21:10:00

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NAME: Aurora Elisabete Sinistra
ALSO KNOWN AS: She generally uses Aurora; her father called her Rory when she was a child
DATE OF BIRTH: March 15, 1968
BLOODLINE: Pureblood, further back on her father's side than her mother's
FORMER HOUSE: Ravenclaw
AFFILIATION: Neutral
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Heterosexual

AURORA: meaning “dawn”; in mythology, Aurora was the Ancient Roman goddess of the dawn; in astronomy, the aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually around the polar zone (aurora borealis -”northern lights”, aurora australis)
Expression Number 11: People with this name tend to be idealistic, highly imaginative, intuitive, and spiritual. They seek after spiritual truth and often find it. They tend to be visionary and may inspire others. If they fail to develop their potential, they may become dreamers, or misuse power.
ELISABETE: meaning “my God is a vow” in Portuguese
SINISTRA: meaning "with the left hand" in Latin; for Ancient Greeks and Romans the left side symbolized unfavorable omens and perverseness. Sinistra is also the name of a magnitude 3.5 star in the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Handler.

WAND: 11 3/4”, maple, dragon heartstring
MAPLE TREE (Independence of Mind) - no ordinary person, full of imagination and originality, shy and reserved, ambitious, proud, self-confident, hungers for new experiences, sometimes nervous, has many complexities, good memory, learns easily, complicated love life, wants to impress.
PATRONUS: Fox
BOGGART: Locked doors, boxes, trunks (small, closed/locked spaces)
STRENGTHS: Astronomy, Transfiguration
WEAKNESSES: Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Herbology
CREATURES: Owl named Orion

HEIGHT: 1.7 m [5'7"]
WEIGHT: 56.6 kg [125 lbs]
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Several scars that are visible because they did not heal properly – one is under her eye and is very faint, several are along her hairline and one is along the back of her ribcage, the most prominent because it is several inches long; a piercing in each ear
APPEARANCE: Aurora is definitely the definition of tall, dark and beautiful. She has well-placed curves in several places, but her arms and legs are slender, reflecting leanly-toned muscle across her body. Her dark black hair she tends to keep long and wear down her back (but prefers a functional French twist when teaching) and her skin is several shades darker than ivory, the undertone one of tans rather than pinks and she tends to wear sun-touched color very well, rather than burn, a hint of her father's Mediterranean ancestry. Her hazel eyes often favor green, the flecks of gold within them sometimes quite clear. She prefers jewel-toned fabrics in her clothing, which consists mostly of robes.
HABITS:Twirling her hair when in thought; not meeting a man's eyes when he is giving her too much attention; blushing when nervous

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Collected, quiet, mysterious
PERSONALITY: Aurora is a very warm, open person with those she is comfortable with but is very much a dreamer. When someone has her attention, she can be quite friendly but if her attention is diverted elsewhere, such as daydreaming, it can be a bit of a challenge to get her back. Naturally shy, her assertiveness was something she had to work at, as well as working to better embrace the attitude of experiencing things for herself rather than watching others experience them. She is often game for new experiences with a little coaxing.

She tends to be soft-spoken but is very passionate in many respects. She commands her students attention more with her obvious passion for the material she teaches than with louder, sharper tones and strict airs. As she loves to share knowledge, she is far more approachable as a professor than some of her colleagues and was known to take tea with her upper-year students while discussing homework and projects. That has transferred over to her private teaching and she will often break up class time with small diversions, though it is still easier for her to do these things with older students over the younger ones.

With men, she tends to be more reserved and almost distrusting, but that is more about distrusting herself than the other person. Her beauty leaves her often in the position of receiving attention from men, but when she does she will artfully try to divert it – many years have made the actions easy because she has had quite a bit of practice. Still, in some situations – usually when she feels certain the man in question is being genuine – she cannot help but take quiet pleasure in the attention.
STRENGTHS: Emotional awareness – Aurora is very in tune with her own emotional state and very aware of the emotional states of others, it is something that helped her many times while teaching and what makes her a very valuable friend; resolve – when something matters to her enough to decide to pursue it or be interested in it, she will stick with what is necessary to reach it or succeed with it; disposition – despite inheriting a passionate nature from her father, she is not prone to outbursts of uncontrollable temper and can keep her patience quite well with her students
WEAKNESSES: Shyness and nervousness – despite her experiences and her efforts at overcoming these things, Aurora can still exhibit signs of her former shyness and does tend to be very nervous in some situations, such as attention from men; romance – despite her disastrous relationship just out of school, she still holds on to the ideal of romance and can easily be drawn in by charm as she does not always immediately jump to suspecting someone of ulterior motives; forgetfulness – due to her nature, when Aurora's attention is focused on one thing, such as lesson plans or charting the skies, often forgets to see to most of the things others take for granted as necessary tasks, such as eating and sleeping and paying bills
IQ:Upper above average
EXTROVERT/INTROVERT: Introvert
PHOBIAS/FEARS: Claustrophobia
MENTAL HEALTH: Excellent

CHILDHOOD HOME: Madeira Island, Portugal
HISTORY: Aurora was born the first and only child of Antony and Lydia Sinistra, as shortly after her seventh birthday, her father was killed in an accident close to their property on Madeira Island, Portugal. Following the accident, Lydia returned home to England and her own family to have help in raising Aurora. Those years were at times difficult and at times wonderful, Aurora missing her father desperately but given free reign in her maternal grandparents' sizable library. For the girl, there was no greater distraction than getting lost in tomes full of myths and history.

At Hogwarts, she was a shy but good student overall, though it took great effort to secure the OWLs and NEWTs she did for the subjects that held little interest for her, such as Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions and Herbology. At subjects that did hold her interest, such as Astronomy, she did brilliantly with no effort required. Impressing several of her professors with her thirst for knowledge, not just accumulating it for herself but sharing it with others with her abilities at tutoring other students, a future in teaching was suggested and it was a suggestion that Aurora found intriguing. With a focus, her remaining years at Hogwarts went quickly and she graduated in 1986 with plans to spend the next two years in intensive study, the first year on her own and the second with the current Astronomy professor, to take over his position at the end of that year.

Her first year out of Hogwarts was a challenge for her, as she had grown used to a life spent between the school and home. Her mother encouraged her to have a flat of her own and gain some independence, a thing the shy Aurora lacked in some ways. It was during this year of study and coming into her own that Aurora met a Muggleborn named Matthias who was several years older than her and reminded her of her father on first impression. As she had not engaged in nearly the same amount of flirtations and relationships of her peers during school, he was her first serious attraction and she found herself at a bit of a loss many times. He lavished attention on her that she delighted in despite her shyness, charming her into moving in with him after a few months of him perusing her. It was only then that Matthias darker side was shown, a violence that was at first verbal but quickly turned physical. For a short while, Aurora suffered it but finally after an argument that landed her in St. Mungos, she asserted herself and walked away.

That was the catalyst for change within Aurora and she began to work on herself as she spent the rest of the year was spent deep in study. Though shy, she ventured out to parks and cafes on days with good weather, engaging in obligation-free socialization that began to improve her ability to project a more assertive person than she had been in school. Her shyness did not disappear, but she learned to master it in some ways so she did not fall prey to another charming, outgoing man with a radically different private side.

The next school year, she went back to Hogwarts to begin her preparatory studies for teaching. While she had never been very comfortable with younger children, not knowing specifically how to relate to them, she did find she had a natural aptitude for teaching that subject she loved most, especially teaching the older years of students who expressed an interest in Astronomy. The year moved quickly and at the end, Aurora became the Astronomy professor at Hogwarts. It was a quiet life, her years spent teaching, just as she intended it to be. She did not often leave the school, preferring a professional life over a personal life. Within the wall of Hogwarts, little affected her, even when Voldemort's return and the resulting war threatened the wizarding world. She simply remained completely neutral. The one significant thing to affect her during the war was her mother moving back to Portugal to avoid the war herself, as the two had been close. Shortly after, Dumbledore was murdered and Hogwarts closed.

Hogwarts closing brought another period of change to Aurora's life, a chance to reshape the person she was just as she had years ago. She had built a life for herself, but it was one that was incomplete because it was purely professional. In the process of trying to balance what she knew with what she needed to complete her life, Aurora became a private tutor. With that, she could teach and interact with parents of those students she taught. She soon found that friends and acquaintances had been something she needed to feel well-rounded and happy. She took on quite a few students, tutoring not only in Astronomy but a few other subjects for her younger charges when a family could not afford to pay private tutors in each subject, eventually holding small classes for several groups of students whose parents had requested the children be taught together.

Aurora has basically spent the last year tutoring a large number of students, something which occupies both her days and evenings depending on the day in question. Her personal life is quiet for the most part, attending small gatherings of those parents she became friendly with when not having gatherings of her own for the children she tutors so they could still have the social interaction that they would have had in school. She purchased a house a few months after the final battle, when her teaching load began to grow and she needed the space for the small groups being taught.

FAMILY:
Parents: Antony Sinistra - father, deceased; Lydia Sinistra - mother, living in Portugal
FRIENDS: Several of the parents of the children she is privately tutoring
ENEMIES: She has only ever considered one person her enemy, at that would be Matthias, not because of what he did but because of his actions after that
HOME: She currently resides in a home outside of Aberdeen, Scotland that she bought shortly after the end of the war.
FINANCES: She does well enough between her inheritance and the wages she earns privately tutoring.

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SIGN: Ravenclaw Pisces
Pisces is the twelfth sign of the Zodiac, and governs the feet. Positive traits include idealism, wisdom, intuition, empathy, imagination, creativity, adaptability, compassion, and an uncanny connection to all that is spiritual and otherworldly (which makes for talent in magic); negative traits include being easily influenced by other people, gullibility, a lack of backbone, escapism, addictive personality, impracticality, emotional game-playing, delusion, and a total inability to say "no."

Ravenclaw Pisceans spend so much time dreaming or reading books of legends that it's a wonder they ever come down to earth. Care must be taken that they do not neglect their material needs, including those that involve sleep, food, and drink. These wizards are natural seers, and often specialize in things like horary astrology, cartomancy, dream interpretation, oracles, and the summoning of visions. Because they possess both intellectual acumen and emotional awareness, they are capable of great insight. They are quiet students, not always the best in their classes, but tend to be brilliant at subjects which they are personally interested in. Shy and nervous, they are easily bullied or intimidated, and need some looking after by more assertive students.

CHARACTER PB: Catherine Zeta Jones
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Aurora Sinistra, she belongs to JRK and the Potterverse. This portrayal of her was created by me so please, hands off. I do not own Catherine Zeta Jones, she owns herself. Ravenclaw astrology courtesy of Harry Potter Astrology which I also do not own.
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The Finnish name for northern lights is revontulet, fox fires. According to legend, foxes made of fire lived in Lapland, and revontulet were the sparks they whisked up into the atmosphere with their tails.

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