⧼ milena tscharntke, demi-girl, she/they / mirrorball by taylor swift + there, stashed behind the coats in her closet , the aftermath of a broken home : a comet 920 broomstick, surname inscribed in its handle , a reminder of a mother whose loyalty was stronger than love ; a tarnished prefect’s badge , memories of a time they no longer wish to hark back to ; a letter ( a goodbye ) , edges worried and pages tear-stained ⧽ ━━ hey, isn’t that PHILOMENA PADGETT? i read a daily prophet article on them, once ; the TWENTY-EIGHT year old [ half blood ] WIX is a [ SLYTHERIN ] alumnus who has gone on to be an AUROR. i’ve heard they can be quite CONSCIENTIOUS & HARD-WORKING, but i don’t know… they came off very STUBBORN & RETICENT in that interview. it really is hard to know what to believe these days though, isn’t it?
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okay hello so ! admittedly i don't have anything set in stone aside from a few headcanons but i guess just a quick little heads up : philomena's kind-of, sort-of based on a somewhat canon character in the hp verse, specifically in the wizards unite game, though really little is known about her, and i've technically tweaked a lot about her characterization that, yeah, she's mine now ♡ so anyways, here's philomena!
both of her parents were outspoken supporters of you-know-who and his MAGIC IS MIGHT campaign, which eventually led to her mother's arrest after the war after involving herself in the conflict.
LAVINIA CRABBE-PADGETT, older sister to a death eater and quite possibly even more supportive of the dark lord than he is. she was never a death eater like he was - too much work for a woman with four children to raise - but she did end up housing some low-level death eaters at the end of the second war, and in the conflict that ensued once the ministry discovered this, she fatally injured two aurors, one of which would end up dying in st, mungo's. this in turn led to her arrest and incarceration in azkaban.
ARLINGTON PADGETT IV. was much less vocal than his wife, but supported the cause nonetheless, though nobody knew if it was because he actually believed the ideals that he-who-must-not-be-named had put forth, or because it was to save face— he was the son of a wealthy pureblood and her muggleborn lover, after all. he had intended to lie low after the death eaters lost the second war, only evading prison time due to his wife's actions because of this. still, the padgetts never quite recovered from what happened after the war, and this in turn affected the lives of all their children.
all the padgetts were sorted into slytherin, save for arlington padgett v., who was sorted into ravenclaw, which didn't cause as much of an uproar in the family— better that than gryffindor, as they would say.
fia was somewhat close to both their parents in different ways, especially as they grew up mostly on their own, with their siblings being much older than they were.
with their mother, fia talked quidditch. they were never much of a player, but nel often found herself studying and analyzing quidditch plays with their mother. it was a pastime for them— lavinia herself almost being a professional quidditch player, except as a member of the sacred 28, she was expected to marry well, so she did. her older daughters concerned themselves with vanity, her son not feigning much interest in the sport itself, so she turned to nel when it came to matters on quidditch. it was more of a pastime than a full-fledged hobby, though their mother often brought them to games, and they had an entire shelf in their room dedicated to quidditch memorabilia, specifically the pride of portree.
with their father, philomena talked business. they knew they were never going to inherit the family business, that would go to arlington jr., but their father kept them in the loop enough to know what goes on in a business and some tips and tricks in running one. of course, their father still kept to his traditional ideals and expected philomena to marry well.
it seemed as though philomena was the crutch that both their parents leaned on, especially as their siblings started going to hogwarts a few years after the end of the first war. basically, they kind of just dumped everything onto them, since they were often the only child left at home while their siblings were at hogwarts. sure, they spent more time with their parents, but both lavinia and arlington sr. were kind of also not the best.
nel was ambitious, much like their fellow slytherins. they were also described as stubborn and hard-working, but secretive as well.
philomena's relationship with their siblings is . . . not so good. they are regarded as the favorite by the older three, and they see their older siblings as vain and lazy. they treat each other with disdain, and family dinners are awkward as hell rip </3
as the youngest of four, they knew there wasn't much inheritance left for them, and fia knew there were only two ways out: marry well or work hard enough to earn a job that doesn't need you to do so.
okay family stuff done, here’s some more hcs
graduated class of '11, was pretty much a good student at school, even making prefect in their fifth year.
okay so here's a quick rundown of fia's life post-hogwarts : right after graduating, philomena is hired to work a pretty lofty position at the department of magical law enforcement ( at least for recent grads )
said job may or may not be because their parents pulled some strings around ( hello nepotism baby ❤️👄❤️ ) and it may just be a pretty standard desk job, but it's something
and, okay, maybe the job was kind of just to appease her parents; they never wanted her to even work in the first place, preferring instead to have a strategic marriage arranged for her straight out of graduation. but philomena had insisted, so the desk job was kind of an in-between for them.
i think that she had wanted to become an auror long before graduation, though, and she saw her desk job as a way in. she had moved out of her childhood home and into a flat that she was ( partially ) paying for herself, she could do anything.
i think it would be nice to point out that despite the somewhat obvious favoritism that philomena never really liked their family, or their childhood. it was frought with too many rules, too many nos, too many and what would the other purebloods think, philomena? — aside from that, they were also kind of the crutch their parents leaned on, and fia really was just like i can't keep doing this for the rest of my life why do i have to play mediator between the two of them and just ! jumped at the first opportunity to leave !
and philomena was doing well post-hogwarts. they got a flat, started going to family dinners less and less, and was even working on enlisting in the next round of trainee auror recruitment— like i said, philomena in the early years post-hogwarts felt like they could do anything.
then the war happened and, well, her mother went and did that and suddenly all eyes at the office were on her when they originally weren't because she was just the plain kid who got coffee for everyone and arranged paperwork and nobody noticed her until now
god okay even i'm realizing that this is too long so here's a quick rundown of post-war fia : they lie low for a while, and i think their ambition drives them enough to put work ahead of their family and kind of just ... started to not associate with their mother's side of the family. eventually, a lot later than they had anticipated, they made auror (yay!) and yeah !! god i'll elaborate on this more but tl;dr: has a pretty shady past but is stubborn enough to not let that get in the way of their ambitions, and becomes an auror !
