Template:Bethany Westenberg



Vital Information
Bethany Westenberg is a Half-Blood witch of Portuguese, Spanish and English descent. She is the eldest daughter of Eliana Mina, and Thaddeus Westenberg.

Life Before Hogwarts
""She was born a female child.""

- Thaddeus Westenberg

""What should that matter? Is she any less than your 'male children'?""

- Eliana Mina

Thaddeus glared at Eliana, they fought over the well-being of their children constantly. neither parent was very affectionate, except of course to their youngest daughter uma princesa a princess Renata. Thaddeus spoke coldly to ever one, never asking for anything, always commanding it, or demanding it. It was his particular tone that made such a quick magical study. Eliana was not a very nurturing mother either, she did not dote on her children, but she did provide for them. She wanted them to be discipled by their father, and she believed they would become stronger people, and better wizards and witches because of it. Thaddeus's voice came to be a sound Bethany hated more than anything else. She cringes when she hears him laugh.

Her mother Eliana Mina is Pure-Blood witch, a Wizarding Duellist, and an Animagus. Her father Thaddeus Westenberg is an Analytical Neuroscientist, and a Psychiatrist. A Muggle-Born magical late bloomer, who did not receive his magical inheritance until he was a thirty-three year old man. Unlike her father Thaddeus, Bethany was raised in Portugal. Among Eliana's family, the renowned Sereníssima Casa de Bragança (Most Serene House of Braganza), Bethany's magic flourished unnaturally early. From her childhood home in a feudal 12th century castle it was discovered that he was a witch by age three.

She took her finger and she traced along the stone walls in her room, she left behind marks in the stone. (A very minor Defodio) It looked more like scratches but the more she did it, the more evident they became. She was amazed, and she loved to leave little doodles everywhere, when her father noticed them he had her mother fill them all in, while he doled out the negative reinforcement. She was forced to stare at the wall for hours on end, her father knew this would encourage her to attempt to leave traces on the wall without her hand. Which she did, and every-time she did he would 'tap' her. It was sometimes a poke to the center of her forehead or a light thump to her one of her shoulders. She has never liked being tapped, she sometimes hates for people to touch her, even lightly to this day because of it. She was a caterpillar and a butterfly simultaneously. Under the thumb of her father at such a fragile age she was vulnerable to being squished. The will of her mother would never let her and a young Bethany passed every one of her father's cruel torture tests. He was always pleased with his little girl and she despised him for it.

As per her her grandfather Maicol's last wishes the Westenberg children 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. Bethany graduated from Beauxbâtons Academy of Magic. After which she left the country to play quidditch professionally, something which of-course her father forbade her from doing because as he said "she was born a female child". She does not play to spite her father, she plays because she loves the sport.

Thunderlarra
Bethany left Portugal as soon as she was able, a few months after she turned seventeen. She stayed long enough for her mother and father to get comfortable with her being back at home, with her being able to take care of her son Matty for the majority of the day. Within three months of her homecoming Bethany relocated to Thundelarra, Australia. She did not make the team immediately she had to try out for a few years repeatedly, she needed to undergo a lot of harsh training, nothing she was not already conditioned for before she finally earned the opportunity she wanted. Playing Quidditch as a Professional Chaser.


 * She thought of quitting the team the first year, she was worried that if something happened to her Matty would have the same childhood she did. When she met a few retired pro-Quidditch moms at day care she lost that fear. She may not have had someone to help her raise her son or to be there when she wasn't she had her siblings. Joshua was responsible, and Josiah loved Matty.

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Personality
She was always a precocious child, a sweet girl with the fire of a dragon inside of her. When she was a young girl she would sneak out a night, and dance with the dragons. She was flying with them, but by saying she was dancing her parents believed she was keeping her feet on the ground. She is her mother's daughter, and when she was that little girl once upon a time she wanted to be like her mother, strong and resilient like a dragon, yet devastating and volatile like their fire. Bethany did have a rather rough upbringing, but she is still a confident, and very sweet, yet very controlled, and slightly forceful woman.

Appearance
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Bethany resembles mother, and her mother's mother. She does share her father's structured brow, She is not at all oblivious to her own looks, Bethany knows she is gorgeous and she flaunts it. She also has a list of things about herself that she would change if she could. But she almost never mentions it. Bethany has her mother's dark hair, which he likes most worn in a classic short cropped style. She loves her silky dark hair, and the fact that she looks like his royalty. She has a warm skin complexion, and an oval shaped face. She has her grandmother's pale blue eyes, and the same beauty mark between her brow. She the same tight, restrained and mysterious smile, as her mother.

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