Josiah Westenberg



Josiah Westenberg is a Scottish-born Half-Blood wizard of Portuguese, Spanish and English descent. He the son of Eliana Mina, and Thaddeus Westenberg.

Life Before Hogwarts
“You were out of line to question me.”

“He was unconscious when I found him.”

Thaddeus responded quickly speaking over his shoulder. His voice was low and gruff as he stared at Eliana from the corner of his eye. She dropped to her knees at her father's side, her hands lightly touching his shoulders, she called to him softly, "Papai". The lids of his eyes slowly began to part, and Maicol reached for Eliana's face seeing the image of her mother engulf his spectrum of vision. He felt Thaddeus grasp him firmly, and pull him to his feet. He smelled his daughter Eliana's hair under his nose, and the pain surging through him when she hugged him tightly. Maicol's voice had never sounded so cold as he recounted the events that lead to Thaddeus and Eliana finding him unconscious on the floor. Someone had taken Eliana's mother Antia.

Maicol Mina would never be able to recall who it was, they were wearing his wife's face face. Maicol always believed Antia working in the Black Market was dangerous. There would always be someone who wanted one or more of the items she was selling, and there was the chance they would not be willing to pay her price for it. Eliana searched by touch for the handle to the door in the dark castle they called home, her head spinning. She thought ill of the man or woman who would dare set foot into their home, and take her mother. It was up to Eliana to figure out what could have happened to her mother, and why.

The why was a simple deduction. Antia's mother (Graça de Assis) was a daughter of the House of Aviz. She was born into a royal bloodline of Portuguese nobility, and thus she and her children are descendants of the Portuguese House of Burgundy. Eliana Mina is a Wizarding Duellist, and an Animagus. She was raised by Dragon Breeders in Portugal, and she worked in the Black Market selling Dragon parts (Portuguese Long-Snout blood, horn, liver, heart, claw, dung, meat, eggs and Venomous Tentacula seeds). Thaddeus Westenberg is an Analytical Neuroscientist, and a Psychiatrist. He was a magical late bloomer, and he did not receive his magical inheritance until he was a thirty-three year old man. Unlike his father Thaddeus, Josiah was raised in Portugal. Among Eliana's family, the renowned Sereníssima Casa de Bragança (Most Serene House of Braganza), Josiah's magic flourished early. From his childhood home in a feudal 12th century castle it was discovered that he was a wizard by age eight.
 * He had a normal temper tantrum gone awry. He had no idea what he had done, or that he had done anything beside storm about his room, and think ill thoughts. When the Ministry showed up to hear the boy had been unconscious for at least forty-five minutes prior to their arrival Thaddeus and Eliana were informed Josiah had conjured bursts of energy in a wave that partially, and temporarily paralyzed anyone in a forty foot radius. The paralysis did not last more than forty-five seconds, and it only seemed to effect his parents, his brothers, sisters and the neighbors

Thaddeus intimidates, and mentally abuses Josiah because he is jealous of his son. Josiah does not enjoy time with his father, or the presence of his father in his life at all. He wishes, and sometimes begs his mother to leave him. Eliana is not afraid of Thaddeaus, she loves him for his cruelty. It was his tendency for deliberately inflicting pain, suffering, and humiliation on others that attracted her the most. Josiah is undeniably afraid of his father. He does his best to control the fear in his presence, and to cower when his father is not looking directly at him. Suppression has resulted in Josiah harboring a number of fears his family knows nothing about. His father's knowledge of said fears would only heighten to a level of insanity.

As per Maicol's last wishes the Westenbergs attended the same small wizarding school their grandmother Antia's ancestors attended. Of Thaddeus and Eliana's five children Bethany and Josiah are the only children to have transferred out.

Additional Facts
 Extra Info= Full Name: Josiah Barnabus Westenberg

Meaning of name: Josiah (Joe·SY·yah) - the Lord Supports, the Lord saves, the Lord heals. Barnabus - son of consolation.

Birthdate: March 18th Astrological Sign: Pisces

Hometown: Bragança, Portugal

Type of childhood: Traumatic

First memory: The ability to release waves of energy (the equivalent of a wandless/non-verbal Stunner or Body Freezing Spell) in times of absolute desperation.

Most important childhood event: His first use was accidental magic (age 8), and it terrified him. The next use may not be until after he learns wandless/non-verbal magic if at all.

Why:Josiah is secretly apprehensive about the use of magic — he fears how lethal spells can be.

Lower education: Josiah attended Muggle daycare, and a Muggle school until age 11
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Brazilian Wizarding School (Alvarães Escola de Magia) ; First-Third Year

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ; Gryffindor (Fourth-Seventh Year)

Higher education:

O.W.L. Results


 * Charms
 * Defense Against the Dark Arts
 * Herbology
 * History of Magic
 * Potions
 * Transfiguration


 * Divination
 * Ancient Runes

N.E.W.T. Results


 * Charms
 * Defense Against the Dark Arts
 * Herbology
 * History of Magic
 * Potions
 * Transfiguration


 * Divination
 * Muggle Studies
 * Ancient Runes

Color: Baby Blue
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Food: Roast lamb with Mint sauce

Music: Blues Rock

Clothing style/Outfit: Muggle clothes on a daily basis, comfortably wears dress robes for special events

Literature: Science fiction/dystopian, Romance Book: Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

Expressions: A place for everything and everything in its place

Quote: “Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” Rumors:

Recent developments:

Personality
 Traits= Talents (hidden or not): Defense Against the Dark Arts

Extremely skilled at: Charms, History of Magic

Extremely unskilled at: Potions, Herbology

Good characteristics: Generous, Trustworthy

Character flaws: Inflexible

Mannerisms: Mumbling, Biting lip
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Peculiarities: Logophilia - Abnormal affection for words

Fear of Germs, crowds, bees and hornets, noise, etc

Pellagraphobia - Fear of pellagra (vitamin deficiency disease most frequently caused by a chronic lack of niacin)

Worst bad habit: He is disorganized (but always knows where everything is)

Quirks: Makes up random lies about unimportant things for no reason

Pet Peeves: Smokers


 * Fearful - Determined, Imaginative, Temperamental, Cynical

Josiah is responsible, and would never do anything if it earned him negative reinforcement of any kind. He is by no means perfect. Josiah is disrespectful, he gets overcome with emotion. He is fearful, and he tends not to be able to think as much of others when has to face one of his fears. Which happens on a daily basis.

Appearance
Vinicius Piccoli Josiah does not place much value in appearance. He is not oblivious to his own looks, and does in fact have a list of things about himself he wishes he could change ; His dry skin. His grandfather's nose. The fact that he looks like his father. Josiah has his mother's dark hair, which he likes most worn in a classic short cropped style. He has a warm skin complexion, and an oval shaped face. He has his father's pale blue eyes, and thick, structured eye brows. He the same pointed nose, and big toothy smile as his grandfather.

Relationships
 Immediate Family=

Mother (name): Eliana Westenberg (née Mina) Relationship with her: Josiah fears for his mother's safety with his father. He worries she will vanish like her mother.

Father (name): Thaddeaus Westenberg Relationship with him: Josiah has a theory that his father killed his grandmother Mafalda to drive his mother Eliana into marrying him.

Siblings: Joshua Zachary (Twin), Renata Cerise, Elijah Peter, Bethany Grace

Birth order: Bethany (b. 2006), Josiah (and Joshua), Elijah (b. 2014), Renata (b. 2015)

Children of Siblings:

Extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.):


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Possessions
Most prized possession: Gold Portuguese Reis

Why: His twin brother collects coins found throughout the castle. Josiah found one unlike all of the others his precious gold reis.

Familiar/Pet: Querido (French Bulldog)

Wand: