“Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”
Career: Welcome Witch at St. Mungo’s
RUMOR HAS IT… Alecto Carrow is the apple of her father’s eye. But she’s got secrets that she’ll take to her grave. What’s that little bulge in her pocket? And why is she meeting people in dark alley’s with things hidden up her sleeves? We may never know what kind of business she runs, but we know it keeps her personal vault golden and shimmering.
Alecto Joselyn Carrow was born exactly seven minutes after her twin brother, Amycus on a brisk autumn day. Alecto had been unexpected; the healers had mistakenly believed that Alexandra Carrow was pregnant with just one baby. Despite the surprise entrance Alexandra and Adonis were both thrilled with the realization that they had not just one child, but two. After many years of struggling to conceive, it seemed like a miracle that they were able to have not just one but two babies. And as such, the twins, Alecto especially, were denied nothing and were spoiled by their parents, particularly their mother. Adonis was always a detached father, as most pureblood fathers were, and despite the spoiling of the twins, they had heavy expectations on their heads.
It was always assumed that Amycus would take on the family business, which was always a tad unclear about what exactly Adonis Carrow spent his days doing, while Alecto would follow in her mother’s footsteps and be a wife and mother. However, Alecto always had different ideas. She lived to challenge the status quo, the tutors and nannies that her parents hired to take care of the twins, and the idea that the only thing that she would be good at was being a mother. Alecto watched the way that her father trained Amycus, and she wanted to be treated the same way. It was on a chilly winter night that she finally proved to her father that she was more than a little girl. She had been seven, and she was in a rage about the dress that her mother was insisting that she wore to tea the following day. For one, it enraged her that Amycus wasn’t going to the tea, that he was going with the other pureblood boys on some sort of boys trip and that she couldn’t go. In her rage, her accidental magic caused the chandelier to shatter into a million pieces, and the dress to rip to shreds. Her mother was distressed, but her father finally saw that Alecto was going to have power, just as much as her brother.
It was no surprise to anyone that Alecto was sorted into Slytherin, although the hat had briefly considered Ravenclaw as a good fit. But Alecto’s cunning outweighed her knowledge and the hat ultimately went with Slytherin. Her years at Hogwarts were marked by high marks, the Slug Club, and a reputation as a heartbreaker. The coursework came easy for Alecto, which gave her plenty of time to toy with the other students’ emotions. When she wasn’t with Amycus, she was finding a new student to toy with. Nobody was safe from Alecto’s mind games. Alecto loved the thrill of the chase and the rush of adrenaline she got from playing with her toys. When she graduated from Hogwarts, she left a string of broken hearts behind.
Joining the Death Eaters was the natural conclusion to her years at Hogwarts. Amycus was following in their father’s footsteps, and Alecto was determined to follow as well. Whatever Amycus did, Alecto always wanted to do as well. The two were inseparable, had been since birth, and they took their dark marks at the same time. Alecto felt a surge of pride to join the Death Eaters, to rid the world of the muggles and the filth of the world. And the fact that she was a young woman, meant that other people overlooked her and didn’t take her seriously as a threat. It was always one of her favorite moments, when one of their victims realized that they didn’t just have to fear Amycus, but Alecto as well. She rose in the ranks of the Death Eaters, while balancing her other life, the life that protected her from suspicion in the early days.
She got a job as a Welcome Witch at St. Mungo’s, which was a very…unexpected choice. However, Alecto had ulterior motives when she accepted the job. It was after her graduation that she realized that she needed a job that she could balance with her Death Eater life, but also make money to fund her extravagant lifestyle. With Amycus as the technical heir to the Carrow heir, Alecto knew that he would gladly share the contents of the family vault with her, but she didn’t want to rely on him for money. Nor did she want to rely on a husband, which was where St. Mungo’s came in. As a Welcome Witch, she had plenty of access to the pharmaceuticals of St. Mungo’s, and she started a rather prolific second career as a drug dealer. It was only natural, Alecto loved to blackmail others and as a dealer, she could learn other people’s darkest secrets. And with a beautiful face like hers, most people don’t see what goes on under the surface, and she is mostly free of suspicion.
Believing that you are untouchable means that the fall back to reality always hurts that much more. Halloween Night was a surprise. Being left under the rubble for dead, was a bigger surprise. Amycus had been elsewhere, and the other Death Eaters had abandoned her. She had been sure that she would die, she had been sure that she would never see her brother again. Alecto had been in and out of consciousness and when she opened her eyes to see striking blue eyes looking at her, she had been sure that she was dead. But she hadn’t been. Frank Longbottom had pulled her from the rubble, and while she was grateful to still be alive, she hates being indebted to someone; especially someone like Frank Longbottom. He is everything that she isn’t, and she fears the day that he comes to collect.
AMYCUS CARROW – The only person in the world who understands why she lives her life the way that she does. Alecto does her best not to keep secrets from her brother but sometimes it’s inevitable, especially in the case of how she wishes she could live her life. Who she wishes she could love.
MARY MACDONALD – Mary MacDonald was a force to be reckoned with even if she didn’t see it herself. Alecto took a liking to the girl despite all odds and in private they bonded. Bonding turned to friendship and friendship turned to something more. She wishes nothing more than for them to not be on opposite sides of this war but they are, Alecto has a job to do and that means following the Dark Lord’s orders.
FRANK LONGBOTTOM – Alecto owes Frank Longbottom her life, quite literally, as in without him she wouldn’t be here today. During the taking of the Ministry, she was captured under rubble, unable to move, while most fleed knowing full well that she was under the stones it was Frank who stayed moving rubble and eventually helped her out. She hasn’t a clue how to repay him but she knows one day she’s going to have to do just that.
OTHER CONNECTIONS – BIOS ALECTO CARROW IS MENTIONED IN.
Alecto Carrow is currently an TAKEN character with a FC of Florence Pugh.
FC SUGGESTIONS: willa holland, dakota johnson, florence pugh. (Alecto Carrow’s ethnicity must match Amycus Carrow)
