Is that Wendy Slinkhard stepping out into Diagon Alley? Ministry records tell us that they were born on February 14th and are a twenty-three year old, half-blood werewolf who works as an assistant at the Diagon Alley Apothecary. Some have said that they can be described as being bright, hard-working, and selfless, however, they also see themselves as being secretive, distrustful, and uncertain. Apparently, she looks a lot like Kristine Froseth, whoever that is, and if they had to pick a side in the war, they would choose to remain neutral.
Full Name: Wendy Julianna Slinkhard
Name Origin: Wendy was named after her maternal grandmother, Wendy, and her paternal grandmother, Julia. The name Wendy is of English origin and means friend or blessed ring. It was made popular by the novel Peter Pan, which had ironically been a favorite book of her father. Her middle name, Julianna means youthful, and followed the trend of the time of adding ‘Ana’ or ‘Anna’ to a name like Julie.
Age: Twenty-three
Birthday: February 14th
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Relationship Status: Single
Positive Traits: bright, hard-working, selfless
Negative Traits: secretive, distrustful, uncertain
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Patronus: Heron- The heron is known for its outstanding determination and intelligence. Herons live in three elements: water, earth, and air, revealing that the animal appreciates diversity. You have a mind like no other and work on whatever you’re working on until you’ve finished it.
Boggart: Since being turned into a werewolf, her boggart would appear as her wolf form, usually with a bloody snout and a hungry look in her eyes. Wendy is most afraid of the wolf inside of her and what it means for her.
Wand Type: Walnut, unicorn hair, 10 ½ inches, rigid.
Highly intelligent witches and wizards ought to be offered a walnut wand for trial first, because in nine cases out of ten, the two will find in each other their ideal mate. Walnut wands are often found in the hands of magical innovators and inventors; this is a handsome wood possessed of unusual versatility and adaptability. A note of caution, however: while some woods are difficult to dominate, and may resist the performance of spells that are foreign to their natures, the walnut wand will, once subjugated, perform any task its owner desires, provided that the user is of sufficient brilliance. This makes for a truly lethal weapon in the hands of a witch or wizard of no conscience, for the wand and the wizard may feed from each other in a particularly unhealthy manner.
Occupation: Assistant at the Apothecary in Diagon Alley
Affiliation: Neutral
Key information / Biography:
The only child of an artist and his muse Wendy had a happy but unconventional childhood. Raised amongst a group of artists and musicians, Wendy’s childhood was happy but never particularly stable. They spent a lot of time moving from place to place, and they never really had much money which caused tension between her parents. Wendy’s mother was the only witch in the bunch, and Wendy spent most of her childhood playing with the other muggle children of the other artists. As she got older she began to see the cracks in her parents relationship and she started to act out and grow anxious from her surroundings.
When Wendy was eight her father, Ian, left Jacqueline and Wendy to fend for themselves after a particularly nasty fight. Wendy doesn’t like to think much about this time of her life. Wendy remembers feeling more anxious than usual and her mother crying a lot before Jacqueline decided to move them back in with her parents in Ottery St. Catchpole. Living with her grandparents gave Wendy the first stable home that she had had and she started to flourish again, even as her mother began to fall apart. She became incredibly close with her Grandmother, who was her namesake, and she enjoyed spending time in the forest and baking with her grandmother.
When she turned eleven she received her Hogwarts letter and it made her sad to leave her grandparents and mother behind, but she was excited to finally get to go to Hogwarts, which she had dreamed of for most of her childhood. Sorted into Ravenclaw, Wendy excelled in school. She had always had a hunger to learn more and she loved sitting in the common room debating different theories and solving puzzles. Her best subject was always potions, but she did well in most of her subjects. When she was fifteen, her grandfather passed away and a few months later, her grandmother followed suit. Losing her grandparents had devastated her and when she came home that summer, her mother told her that she planned to sell her grandparents cottage and told her that they were going to move in with Jacqueline’s new husband. Wendy fought her mother, begging that she keep the cottage for Wendy to live in when she graduated from Hogwarts. It was only after Wendy threatened to never talk to her mother again that her mother gave in and promised to keep the cottage for her.
When she graduated from Hogwarts Wendy had several different offers to choose from at the Ministry and ultimately took a position in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Her life was going the way that she had always planned for it to, she was seeing a man that she thought that she might marry one day, was living in her grandparents cottage, and had a job that had a lot of potential for making change in the world.
But it all came crumbling down in 1976. Impassioned by the work that she was doing at the Ministry, she wrote an article questioning the status of Werewolves that added to the debate of if Werewolves should be considered beast or being and sent it in to the Prophet on a whim, and it was later published as a guest column. Wendy hadn’t meant any harm in the article, but Fenrir Greyback had taken notice of it, and the following full moon after the article had been published, Wendy was attacked by a werewolf and bitten.
Wendy doesn’t have any memory of the actual attack, although sometimes flashes of what she thinks was that night seeps into her nightmares. She can remember waking up in St. Mungo’s and the complete devastation when she was told what had happened. The Ministry kept what had happened quiet, not wanting to frighten other employees and Wendy resigned from her position from her bed at St. Mungo’s. Her mother rarely visited and when she did she kept her distance. Wendy didn’t tell a soul what had happened to her, the only people that knew were the healers that took care of her and a few people in the Ministry.
The first time that she returned to her grandparents cottage after her release from St. Mungo’s, she quickly realized that she could no longer live there. It no longer held the happy memories of her years with her grandparents and instead became the place where her life was effectively destroyed and ruined. Broken-hearted, she had gone to her mom’s home where she was promptly shown the door. Her mother’s new husband didn’t want her around their new family and since her mother had never put her grandparents house in her name, she had no recourse to get the money from the sale of the cottage.
With the little savings that she had from her few years working, Wendy found a small flat above one of the shops in Knockturn Alley. She became withdrawn from her friends, broke up with her boyfriend who had learned the truth about what had happened, and struggled with trying to figure out what her new life would look like.
