it’s been seven years since the twenty one year old muggleborn wizard , hestia jones was sorted into ravenclaw upon arriving at school . i suppose over the years we’ve learnt that she is selfless , brazen , withdrawn & irritable , though when i think of them i can always see unopened letters piling up , leather jackets covered in scratches , eyes that know to look in every corner .( rachel hilson + cis woman ) ━━━ emme, est, 23, n/a , she/her .
Name: Hestia (Miriam) Jones
Born: April 21st
Wand: TBA
Patronus: TBA
Blood Status: Muggleborn
“She hasn’t spoken the entire time.”
That’s all the warden ever said when people came to inquire about the little girl who sat in the corner all day by herself reading.
“The whole house was abandoned when they found her.”
And no more was ever known about the child’s past.
She kept it all wrapped inside of her, trying to forget how it came to that point when she was just ten years old.
It was the book that really helped her. It was all Greek mythology, which she hadn’t heard of until this very point where the old thing was placed in her hands. Wide eyes circled the pages until a certain story connected with her.
The goddess of hearth and home. Things she missed, things she figured she never really knew.
“Hestia.” She answered when the funnily dressed woman sat her down in the dreary room shared with twelve other little girls. But it was quiet now, and all the child could assume was that this woman knew she was lying. She knew something about little Miriam Jones.
But it made sense, what the woman told her. Why certain things seemed to happen when Hestia felt strongly, or upset. And it was the first time that she was told it wasn’t her fault that she wasn’t like the rest of her family, that there were people out there who were truly like her.
It was the warmest she’d felt in months.
Suddenly whisked away onto a funnily named train, into a grand castle in the highlands of Scotland that she never thought she’d see, Hestia Jones found out she was just a bit brighter on the inside that she was ever told she could be.
Ravenclaw. An analytical mind with the ability to read people like a book.
Hestia liked it there, she really did. But to make friends - she immediately saw multiple issues:
She’d be gone again the summer, nobody like this around. She’d miss them too much.
What if they ever found out what happened to Miriam Jones that day her family left her in that sad, dreary little house?
No, Hestia would be friendly. But she would not be a friend.
Well not to more than one or two people who really needed it. In fact, Hestia began to find she couldn’t help but get involved when she saw others in need. Especially muggleborns and first years. She hated bullies, she hated hate. And yet, she seemed to have her own level of disgust in people’s interest in her. It was the aftermath that was annoying, the need to thank her - to befriend her. That seemed pointless in some ways, having people that close.
Facts:
- Hestia was born Miriam Jones to a muggle family that feared the strange things happening around her when she turned eight years old. By the time she was ten, they’d packed up and left. A neighbor called about a little head peeping through the windows of the abandoned home
- Since that, she’d always been really self-sufficient, to rely on others meant a closeness she could not afford.
- Hestia finds solace in reading, she likes biographies the most
- If she does befriend others, she won’t usually bring up her past. She would only mention it if she truly trusted the person
- Hestia Jones is an absolute grump with a heart of gold.
- Being pretty skilled with curses and counter-curses has made her a go to for anybody having a bit of a bullying problem - but it really does get annoying after a while
- She went back to the orphanage for most of her years at Hogwarts, but after turning eighteen she wanted somewhere else. She often works summers or finds a cheap place to stay like the rooms above the Leaky Cauldron or other locations in Diagon Alley
Inspo:
Jessica Jones, Jane Eyre.
I will make a wanted connections and potential plots page but for now:
- The first person she met on the train
- Somebody she is always on the brink of fighting
- The friend who may know a little more about her past
- Somebody weirdly obsessed with how little is known about her outside of Hogwarts - be it because she is muggleborn or that she never really shares.
- A new room mate for when she leaves school!













