[ helga → rowena ] : do you by chance have an email address or just a physical address i can send something to? i wanted to invite you to my next function.
rowena → Helga. H : Hello Helga. I do not have “an email address”, I do apologize. I can send you my address, of I would be happy to come pick up the invitation in person if that would make things easier for you. Please let me know. Thank you. RR
[ Salazar → Rowena ] Helga has a charitable event later on so she’s probably setting that up today. Are you planning to go?
rowena → Salazar S. : Hello Salazar. Thank you for getting back to me. She was trying to send me an invitation to an event, so I believe I will be going to this event, yes. Will you be attending as well? RR.
Was that [ADELAIDE KANE]? Oh no no, that was just [ROWENA RAVENCLAW], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [HARRY POTTER]. They are [THIRTY] years old and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.
how long has your character been here
rowena has only just woken up here in the city, so we’re talking like a day, tops.
what is your characters job
at the moment she is unemployed, but she will definitely be trying to figure out some kind of teaching job. she’ll probably attempt to get a job as a professor at georgetown, hopefully in philosophy. teaching has always been her calling, her pride and joy so i think she would try and find a way to get that part of herself back in this century.
where is your character pulled from in their fandom
i’m pulling her after her death, so she remembers everything about her duaghter’s betrayal, salazar leaving hogwarts, all of that fun stuff
has any magic affected your character
minorly, yes. it has just made her appear younger, closer to her age at the founding of hogwarts rather than when she died. her memories are unaffected so it is purely physical
extra information
do i have any right to be out here taking yet another character? absolutely not. am i a proud ravenclaw and also just love rowena’s story? absolutely yes. i just think she’s great tbh like she’s so strong willed but kind, she values people’s characteristics over literally anything else. idk i just really think she’s such a great character
alright short backstory ,,,,,, idk how to do anything short so ignore that tidbit . but rowena ravenclaw was born in scotland around the 10th century. i’m personally playing her as a halfblood as he lineage is unknown and i really like the idea of her being one since most of her house was always made up of muggleborns and half bloods. and she was the one who stood so intensely against salazar wanting only purebloods to attend hogwarts
either way, she is one of the founders of hogwarts, she was the one who decided the locations of the school and was the creator of the moving stairs. so osha send your complaints to this woman
she is dear friends with the founders, having always sought after having friends who would share these kinds of bonds with her, wanting to have a close knit family despite it being just herself and her daughter for so long.
she had one daughter, helena ravenclaw, who is the ghost of ravenclaw house. but helena had betrayed her mother, stealing her diadem and running away with it. it broke rowena’s heart to have her daughter betray her like this. she had already fallen ill when it happened, but the actions of her daughter are said to be what caused rowena’s health to decline even more so.
she had wanted nothing more than to have her daughter come home before she passed, sending the bloody baron out to retrieve her. of course, helena never did, leaving rowena to never be able to pass on that she forgave her for everything. that no matter what helena did, it didn’t matter in the end.
helena’s betrayal was something that died with rowena, a secret that she took to her grave. she is a proud person, always wanting to keep that image even if she will forgive and move on, those things happen behind closed doors. they are not something to just flaunt about for anyone to see. personal relationships are meant to be personal.
rowena is absolutely that kind of person though, despite everything, the forgiving type who will look past all of the actions against her because she knows who they are deep down inside. she admires what is in the mind, in the heart, more than the actions that people take.
she can come off as rather stoic, stern, unfeeling but deep down she is soft, warm, it just takes a certain amount of getting to know her to get past all of that. to see who she really is beyond the mask that she wears.
she just has the vibe of that english teacher who is really strict in class but will absolutely give you the shirt off of her back to make sure you are doing alright. not just academically but in regular life as well.
connections :
students
rowena is going to be teaching at georgetown so if your character goes there they may have her and i feel like she would love to be able to talk to her students and be able to know them outside of just being ‘professor’
coworkers
again, if you have a character who works at georgetown come be her coworker, she may be quiet but she would absolutely love to have a close knit group of friends once more
tudor students (muggle and magical)
i feel like she definitely offers help to students off hours and in other areas of study, so this could be definitely in the muggle sense or even in the magical sense. if they want to learn from one of the founders i feel like rowena would be more than happy to offer lessons
someone to help her adapt to this century
she’s coming from the 11th century please help her this place is insane
ravenclaw students
come meet your house founder please she would be psyched to know the legacy her house has so far in the future, to know that hogwarts is still standing and how important it is to everyone.
friends in general
just come be her friend please i promise she is loyal and great even if she will 100% tell you off for being a dick or being wrong. everyone needs that in life right?
a ship down the line
rowena doesn’t trust just anyone with her heart so this would be a slowburn friends to lovers that is solely based on chemistry so if you’re interested in that hmu
