𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚 𝐀𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 | hphl character profile
warnings: mentions of death/murder
✧ IDENTITY ✧
Full Name: Minerva Aileen Kennedy
Nicknames: Min, Minnie
Name Meanings: Minerva → Latin, “of the mind, intellect” ; Aileen → Irish, “bright, shining light” ; Kennedy → Irish, “helmeted chief/leader”
Date of Birth: April 10, 1881 (at 1:05 pm)
Gender: Female ; she/her
Sexuality: Demisexual (+ biromantic)
Blood Status: Pureblood
Nationality: Irish, English
Residence: Whitethorn Hall, County Kerry, Ireland (birth to 25) ; TBD (25 to death)
✧ APPEARANCE ✧
Faceclaim: Claudia Jessie
Height: 5’6”
Build: Average physique
Hair: Brown hair that is normally pulled back into a fairly elaborate style
Eye Color: Blue
Scarring:
Childhood & Hogwarts: Minerva has a y-shaped scar on her left hip as the result of a failed attempt at flying.
Adulthood: None
Modifications: (glasses, piercings, tattoos, etc.) Her ears are pierced.
Other Distinguishing Marks: None
Clothing Style: Whatever’s comfortable ; dresses ; Ned’s trousers or breeches ; linen shirts ; skirts ; jumpers ; boots ; loafers
Accessories: Necklaces, broaches, headbands, hair clips
What’s in Her Pockets: Her wand
What’s in Her School Bag: Textbooks ; parchment, quills, ink ; a novel ; a notebook ; scraps of parchment with all sorts of randomness jotted down on them
✧ SPEECH & LANGUAGE ✧
Voiceclaim: Claudia Jessie
Accent: Irish
Dialect: Kerry English
Languages Spoken: English, French, Latin, some rudimentary Irish Gaelic
Languages Understood: English, French, Latin, some rudimentary Irish Gaelic
✧ PERSONALITY ✧
MBTI Type: ENTP — the debater
⤷ Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.
Enneagram Type: 9w8 — the referee
⤷ The Nine wing Eight type is a Nine who shares many of the Type Eight characteristics. This type is independent, social, adaptable, and generally more assertive and direct than other Nines.
Positive Traits: Knowledgeable, intelligent, original, a quick thinker, witty, energetic, innovative, creative, open-minded, outgoing, adaptable
Neutral Traits: Stubborn, argumentative, charismatic, expressive, adventurous, private, curious, idealistic
Negative Traits: Unfocused, insensitive, can be intolerant, not big on practical matters, does not like sharing personal details and feelings
Common Stressors: Sharing her writing ; arguing ; exams ; her siblings
Comforting Things: Writing ; reading ; arguing ; her siblings ; licorice wands ; chocolate frogs
Interests & Hobbies: Writing, reading, debating, gardening
Description: Minerva is an intelligent woman of many opinions and passions. However, this tends to manifest as a chronic need to be right in every argument which isn’t helped by the fact that Minerva likes to argue. Despite her argumentative and stubborn tendencies, Minerva is usually open-minded and adaptable. However, she can sometimes be insensitive and intolerant, especially when in the face of a grudge or rivalry. In addition, Minerva has a tendency to be quite private, refusing to divulge anything that she deems too personal. Despite her thorns and prickly edges, Minerva is a loyal friend and is always willing to help out those she loves, even when she will spend the whole time complaining about it.
✧ MAGIC ✧
Wand: Minerva’s wand is made of hornbeam wood with a dragon heartstring core and is 9 ¾ inches with a supple flexibility
⤷ A particularly fine-tuned and sentient wand, Hornbeam selected for its life mate the talented witch or wizard with a single, pure passion, which some might call obsession - more kindly - vision, which would almost always be realised. Hornbeam wands adapted more quickly than almost any other to their owner's style of magic and would become so personalised, so quickly, that other people would find them extremely difficult to use even for the most simple of spells. Hornbeam wands likewise absorbed their owner's code of honour, whatever that might be, and would refuse to perform acts - whether for good or ill - that did not tally with their master's principles.
Other Magical Abilities: None
Patronus: Black and white cat
Patronus Memory: Winning a short story contest for the first time as a child
Boggart: The cloaked man who murdered her father standing over the body of someone that she loves
Riddikulus: The cloaked man trips over his cloak and the body disappears
Amortentia:
Minerva smells like parchment, drying ink, lilies, and wintergreen mint.
Minerva smells bergamot, old books, salt, woodsmoke, and lavender.
Mirror of Erised: Minerva sees herself with evidence of succeeding in life and her family looking on proudly.
✧ HOGWARTS ✧
House: Ravenclaw
OWL Classes:
Astronomy — Exceeds Expectations
Charms — Exceeds Expectations
Defense Against the Dark Arts — Acceptable
Flying — Acceptable
Herbology — Outstanding
History of Magic — Poor
Potions — Exceeds Expectations
Transfiguration — Acceptable
OWL Electives:
Divination — Acceptable
Study of Ancient Runes — Outstanding
NEWT Classes:
Astronomy — Outstanding
Charms — Outstanding
Herbology — Exceeds Expectations
Potions — Acceptable
Study of Ancient Runes — Exceeds Expectations
Extracurriculars: Writing club, debate club, school newspaper
✧ EMPLOYMENT ✧
Affiliations: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry ; the Daily Prophet ; Wizarding Publishers
Professions:
Age 18 to 25 - Journalist
Age 25 to 100 - Author
✧ FAMILY ✧
Father: Ferdia Dermot Seamus Kennedy [deceased, 1858-1892]
Born in 1858, Ferdia was the eldest child of Seamus and Aileen Kennedy’s four children. He had two younger brothers, born in 1862 and 1865, and a younger sister, Muriel, born in 1863. Ferdia had a good childhood, growing up in Whitethorn Hall alongside his younger siblings. He started Hogwarts in 1869 and was quickly sorted into Gryffindor. He was a popular student, gaining the positions of prefect and headboy as well as playing for his house’s quidditch team as the keeper. He also achieved high marks in all of his classes, earning the reputation as a golden boy.
After graduating from Hogwarts, Ferdia followed the footsteps of his father and grandfather into politics, getting elected to the legislative branch of the ministry of magic. In addition, at the age of 22, Ferdia married Alice Fortsecue, a Hufflepuff who he had begun courting after they first met during one of the first functions that Ferdia attended as a fledgling legislator. He had fallen quickly for Alice, knowing almost instantly that Alice was the one that he wanted to marry. Shortly after their spring nuptials, Ferdia and Alice learned that they would be expecting their first child, both completely unaware that their first child was actually their first AND second child. They learned that fact on April 10, 1881, when Edmund Dermot Ferdia Kennedy was born and three minutes later he was followed by Minerva Aileen Kennedy. Ferdia adored his children and each subsequent child as Walter Irvine Seamus, Elizabeth Alice “Eliza,” Anne Muriel “Nan,” Cordelia Fortescue, Penelope Martha, and Wilhelmina Agnes “Billie” joined the family in the years between 1883 and 1892. Unfortunately, Ferdia never had the opportunity to meet his youngest daughter and child, Billie.
It was April 1892, a few days after Edmund and Minerva’s eleventh birthday. A cloaked man approached Ferdia and murdered him. The man had a novel weapon that blended dark magic with a knife and Ferdia was left to bleed out. And as fate would have it, Ferdia’s eldest two children were sort of witnesses. Minerva ran off to get help from the house, but Ferdia knew that it would be too late. Edmund, though, stayed and Ferdia did his best to comfort his son. He made Edmund promise that he would keep an eye on his younger siblings, that he would be the man of the family. Ferdia knew that it was a lot to put on his son, but he didn’t know what else to do. Ferdia could never imagine the conspiracy that underpinned his murder, one that wouldn’t be unmasked until over a hundred years later when his great-great-grandson discovered the truth behind the mysterious murders that had plagued the wizarding world through the generations.
Minerva had a good relationship with her father, although they weren’t nearly as close as Ferdia and Edmund. She loved him a lot and losing him was extremely difficult. He is one of the best men that Minerva has ever known and she misses him everyday.
Faceclaim: Rupert Evans
Mother: Alice Anne Kennedy née Fortescue
Born in 1860, Alice was the only child of Elizabeth and Irvine Fortescue. She grew up in the English countryside in Suffolk, England, traipsing through the land that her family owned. Upon starting Hogwarts in 1871, Alice was sorted into Hufflepuff. She didn’t play quidditch as she wasn’t interested in the sport, but she did become a prefect and turned down the position of head girl in her seventh year.
After graduating from Hogwarts, Alice began working as a healer in St. Mungo’s. She worked for St. Mungo’s until she was six months pregnant with the twins. In between, though, she fell in love with and married Ferdia Kennedy when she was twenty. On April 10, 1881, Alice’s first two children, Edmund Dermot Ferdia and Minerva Aileen, were born. Between the years of 1883 and 1892, Alice had six more children, Walter Irvine Seamus, Elizabeth Alice “Eliza,” Anne Muriel “Nan,” Cordelia Fortescue, Penelope Martha “Nellie,” and Wilhelmina Agnes “Billie,” with her husband. Her youngest child, Billie, was born after her husband’s death.
Alice’s life was turned upside down in April of 1892 after her husband was murdered. She was devastated… and six months pregnant. It was also, in some ways, a double whammy because her eldest son became a lot more serious and quiet. Despite this, Alice held strong for her children, only letting herself break down at night, once all of her children were asleep. After seeing all her children graduate from Hogwarts, Alice decided to go back into the field of healing. She eventually became the matron at Hogwarts… just in time to coincide with some of her grandchildren’s time there.
Minerva was much closer to her mother, although they sometimes had an adversarial relationship mostly surrounding their differing expectations for the world. It was at its worst when Minerva was in her fifth year. Despite this, Minerva has always respected her mother and all of the choices that Alice made after losing her husband in such a sudden and violent manner. Minerva adores her mother.
Faceclaim: Ruth Gemmel
Twin Brother: Edmund Dermot Ferdia “Ned” Kennedy
Born on April 10, 1881, Edmund is the eldest child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, three minutes older than Minerva, and a Gryffindor. Minerva has a fairly close relationship with her twin brother, although she makes it her mission to annoy him and get him to lighten up. Even with her desire to annoy him, they don’t bicker all that much, even though they are quite competitive. They don’t always spend a lot of time together, but Minerva loves her brother very much. She would do anything for Ned. He might be the world’s most obnoxious brother sometimes, but she can’t imagine life without Ned being her twin brother.
Faceclaim: Jonathan Bailey
Brother: Walter Irvine Seamus Kennedy
Born in November 1883, Walter is the third child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, two years younger than Edmund, and a Slytherin. Walter is a carefree soul with an athletic passion. He joins the Slytherin quidditch team as soon as he possibly can, earning the position of beater. Walter has a kind heart and big ambitions, focused on both athletics and politics, creating an interesting debate in his head that is resolved when he determines to become a politician after he retires from playing professionally for the Appleby Arrows. He’s also a bit of a prankster, with his older brother being his most common target.
Walter is always going to be Minerva’s annoying little brother, but it's a different annoying when compared to Ned. They might not be the closest set of siblings, as Walter is closer to Cordelia. Minerva loves her little brother a lot, though, and knows that when push comes to shove, Walter is someone that can be trusted. She would do anything for him and it’s especially fun to team up and annoy Edmund.
Faceclaim: Anthony Boyle
Sister: Elizabeth Alice “Eliza” Kennedy
Born in October of 1884, Eliza is the fourth child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, three years younger than Edmund, and a Hufflepuff. Eliza takes after her mother a lot. She’s got a really big heart and she’s always trying to look on the bright side of everything. However, she’s a bit of a people pleaser, never really knowing when to say no. Luckily, she’s got seven siblings who will say “no” for her. It takes her a while to learn that skill for herself, but eventually she finds a balance. This is helped by her decision to follow her mother’s footsteps and become a healer.
Minerva has a close relationship with Eliza, as they seem to get on fairly well… except when it comes to what they want their paths in life to look like. Eliza is a little more traditional and romantic than Minerva, which can cause a lot of different arguments between them. However, this doesn’t stop them from having a pretty good relationship. Minerva loves her little sister.
Faceclaim: Phoebe Dyenvor
Sister: Anne Muriel “Nan” Kennedy
Born in May of 1887, Nan is the fifth child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, six years younger than Edmund, and a Hufflepuff. Nan is a tough yet gentle soul. She’s got a big heart, but won’t hesitate to call out her siblings and other close companions. She finds herself named prefect in her fifth year and joined the Hufflepuff quidditch team in her fifth year as well, playing the position of chaser. She found a calling as a mediwitch, following similar footsteps to her mother and older sister, Eliza, but making it her own.
Minerva has a good relationship with her sister. Nan is similar to Eliza, but she and Minerva don’t have the same arguments that Minerva and Eliza do. Nan is the first Kennedy to really notice Adonis’s feelings for Minerva and when Minerva’s feelings towards Adonis start to change. Nan’s not as much of a menace to Minerva as she is to Ned. Minerva loves this about her sister and Nan is the one to sort of tell Minerva to suck it up when her best friend, Lottie, starts to court Ned. Minerva loves her little sister, even if she wishes that Nan would mind her own business sometimes.
Faceclaim: Rosie Graham
Sister: Cordelia Fortescue Kennedy
Born in September of 1888, Cordelia is the sixth child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, seven years younger than Edmund, and a Ravenclaw. Cordelia had always been a quiet girl, preferring to spend her time on her own and often comes across as aloof. She has a heart of gold, though, but like her oldest brother, it’s often hidden amongst other more dominant expressions. She becomes a prefect while at Hogwarts and also accidentally ends up on Ravenclaw’s quidditch team, playing chaser.
Minerva has a good relationship with Cordelia. They have a lot in common, but Cordelia has somehow ended up being the closest to Walter. Minerva loves her little sister and they get along quite well, they just aren’t that close. She also feels a bit protective over Cordelia and keeps a close eye on her while Cordelia’s at Hogwarts.
Faceclaim: McKenzie Foy
Sister: Penelope Martha “Nellie” Kennedy
Born in January of 1890, Nellie is the seventh child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, nine years younger than Edmund, and a Slytherin. Nellie was, in many ways, her mother’s daughter. She was quite similar in personality to Alice, but she’d always had ambitions that extended beyond motherhood and what was traditionally available to her. Alice always said that this drive was all Ferdia, and, in many ways, it was. However, Nellie always had a softer side. She was always quite stubborn and found her own way to pursue her numerous ambitions.
Aside from Edmund, Minerva is probably the closest to Nellie. They have a lot in common, mostly about the fact that they both want something different from life. Minerva finds hers in writing, while Nellie pursues many different passions. Their nine year age gap makes a lot of fights not happen and Minerva loves her little sister a lot. She’ll always have Nellie’s back.
Faceclaim: Connie Jenkins-Greig
Sister: Wilhelmina Agnes “Billie” Kennedy
Born in July of 1892, Billie is the eighth child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, eleven years younger than Edmund, and a Gryffindor. Billie was born three months after her father was murdered and thus never knew him. Instead, her oldest brother, Edmund became a bit of a replacement, despite still being a child himself. Billie always admired her big brother, though, and wanted to be exactly like him. While she grew out of much of this, she still found similarities in their lives. However, Billie’s interests at Hogwarts aligned more with her brother, Walter’s and she joined Gryffindor’s quidditch team in her fourth year.
Minerva has a good relationship with her baby sister. Billie absolutely adores Ned and to a lesser extent Walter, which can sometimes feel like an obstacle to Minerva. However, she loves Billie a lot and enjoys helping Billie with things. She also is determined not to be a second mother to Billie and just be Billie’s sister.
Faceclaim: Florence Mitchell
Pets:
Childhood: An owl named Ari
Adulthood: TBD
✧ ROMANCE & CHILDREN ✧
Love Interest: Adonis Androcles Demiurgos (@endlessly-cursed)
→ Minerva first met Adonis Demiurgos in her first year, when he was still an English language learner. A simple first meeting quickly deteriorated after an incident involving some of her private works (which mostly were written after her father’s murder) and a mostly one-sided rivalry formed. Minerva held onto her grudge for a good while and Adonis always seemed to know which buttons to push and how to irritate her. This rivalry held until her sixth year, after Ned invited Adonis and a few others to spend the weekend at Whitethorn Hall for a gathering at the urging of their mother and Adonis began to do small gestures for her. However, Minerva remained oblivious to his changing feelings and didn’t really realize her romantic feelings until she and Adonis met again in France. Their courtship began soon after that and they courted for eighteen months before Adonis proposed. Minerva married him on August 8, 1906.
Son: Atticus Ferdia Gregorius Demiurgos-Kennedy
Slytherin | Prefect | Headboy | b. August 31, 1907
Minerva has a generally good relationship with her eldest child. There’s some friction, mostly because Atticus really reminds her of her brother, Ned and that’s not exactly the easiest personality to understand. However, Minerva really adores her son and is quite proud of him and all that he accomplishes. She aims to support Atticus in everything that he does. Minerva loves her son a lot.
Faceclaims: Jackson A. Dunn & Reeve Carney
Daughter: Daphne Alice Sofia Demiurgos-Kennedy
Ravenclaw | Heterosexual | b. August 31, 1907
Minerva has a good relationship with her daughter. In many ways, it’s a simpler relationship than her relationship with Atticus. Daphne is much more similar to Minerva than Atticus is, which makes it a bit easier for Minerva to get along with her daughter. However, Minerva does her best not to compare Atticus and Daphne as she hated that when she was a child herself. Minerva really loves her daughter and is quite proud of Daphne. She aims to support Daphne in whatever her daughter does.
Faceclaims: Emma Tremblay & Emilia Clarke
Son: Matthias Dermot Apollonas Demiurgos-Kennedy
Gryffindor | Prefect | Chaser | b. September 12, 1918
Minerva has a good relationship with her youngest son. In many ways. Matthias was an only child given the eleven year age gap between him and the twins. This makes it easier to spend one on one time with Matthias, but Minerva had always tried to do that with Atticus and Daphne. There is some friction in her relationship with Matthias, though, as he takes after his father more. Minerva loves her son a lot, though, and is quite proud of him. She aims to support him in whatever he does.
Faceclaim: Lewis McAskie
✧ OTHER RELATIONSHIPS ✧
Best Friends:
Lottie Gallagher (@slytherindisaster)
Close Friends: TBD
Friends:
Gwen Archeron ; Seraphina Hopper (@thatravenpuffwitch)
Lydia Ellis (@mjs-oc-corner)
Acquaintances: TBD
It’s Complicated: TBD
Hogwarts Dormmates:
Genevieve Davenport (@gaygryffindorgal)
Sara Rosier (@endlessly-cursed)
Rivals: Adonis Demiurgos (@endlessly-cursed)
Enemies: TBD
✧ HISTORY & BACKGROUND ✧
Place of Birth: Whitethorn Hall, County Kerry, Ireland
Hometown: Whitethorn Hall, County Kerry, Ireland
Childhood:
Born on April 10, 1881 at 1:05 pm, Minerva Aileen Kennedy is the second oldest child of Ferdia and Alice Kennedy, three minutes younger than her twin brother, Edmund. From the age of two to eleven, Minerva gained six younger siblings. Her younger brother, Walter, was born in November of 1883, with five younger sisters (Eliza, Nan, Cordelia, Penelope, and Billie) being born between October of 1884 and July of 1892.
Prior to the age of eleven, Minerva had a good childhood. She and her siblings were well-loved and she mostly had a good relationship with all seven of them. Everything changed one April day in 1892, a few days after Minerva’s eleventh birthday and the arrival of her Hogwarts letter, when her father was murdered.
While Minerva didn’t witness her father’s final breaths, she did witness her father falling and she ran to get help. She also wasn’t as affected by her father’s death as Ned was. However, she was affected by it as it made her a lot more private and less willing to share things that she deemed more personal. She also began to write a lot of darker stories, especially those that involved death. They were never what she liked to write. They were just a way to process her father’s death.
Hogwarts Years:
Upon starting Hogwarts, Minerva was sorted into Ravenclaw. She took to the house in stride, finding that there were many kindred spirits in the house. Her rivalry with Adonis Demiurgos also began in her first year and continued for a lot longer. Minerva spent a lot of time writing and finding out what her writing style was. She also started working for the Hogwarts school newspaper and started a small section for writing competitions.
Adulthood:
After graduating from Hogwarts, Minerva began working as a journalist for the Daily Prophet. She quickly learned that journalism was not for her, but continued in the career until the age of 25. At that point, Minerva decided that it was time to pursue her dream of becoming an author and started sending out manuscripts of her first completed novel… under the pen name M. Kennedy. She published many novels and short stories in her lifetime, becoming a bit of a cult author. She didn’t begin publishing under her own name until she was fifty, at the urging of her family as she had been debating publishing under her own name for many years.
For the most part, Minerva’s adulthood was stable. Her love life was a lot more stable than her twin’s. She began courting Adonis Demiurgos in 1904 and they married on August 8, 1906. They had three children together. Their eldest children were twins, Atticus and Daphne, born on August 31, 1907. Their youngest child, Matthias, was a surprise and was born on September 12, 1918, eleven years after the twins were born.
Old Age:
Minerva never officially retired from writing. Instead, she began to slow down and found fewer and fewer works to be acceptable for publishing. She took time to spend with her family as well, devoting time to her grandchildren. She spent her time doing what she felt like and finding out what she could find peace in, which included her grandchildren.
Death:
Minerva passed away, peacefully in her sleep, at the age of 108, in 1990. She lived a long and fulfilled life, leaving behind three children, six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
✧ MISCELLANEOUS ✧
Favorite Color: Sapphire blue
Favorite Food: Pie (both sweet and savory)
Favorite Drink: Pumpkin juice, butterbeer
Favorite Weather: Sunny
Favorite Season: Autumn
Favorite Books/Authors: Little Women by Louis May Alcott, Jane Austen, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, penny dreadfuls
Dislikes: Bullies, cabbage, shellfish, people touching her writing without her permission, Adonis Demiurgos
Trivia:
Minerva reads a lot… including things that she doesn’t actually care for. She draws the line at Ned’s estate books, though. Those are only good for falling asleep.
Minerva usually has a small notebook to jot down any ideas that she has or any interesting things that she observes. Anything that's good for writing inspiration, really.
Minerva hates being called “Minnie.” It just irritates her, so naturally, her siblings call her “Minnie” constantly. If she has to be called a nickname, she prefers to be called “Min.”
Important Links:
Minerva’s tag [#minerva kennedy]
Information about her children, Atticus, Daphne, and Matthias
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