Katherine Ollivander
Basic Information
Name Katherine Ollivander
Age 27
Gender Female
Marked? No
Appearance
Kate has a rather tall, slender figure making her height reach 5’9” which, as she has been told quite often when she was growing up and reaching into her height, was just ‘too tall’ for a woman but with the teasing came confidence and she now carries herself as such, head held high with a purpose in each step she takes that carries her assurance all the way down her back and deep into her legs. Her skin is a bit darker than most people of her ethnicity, but she is very Caucasian. Her darker complexion really brings out the natural pink tint to her lips and her thick dark eyelashes that make her brown eyes look just a bit bigger than they actually are. For the most part she believes in a natural look, using maybe a small amount of eyeliner and perhaps a spot of red lipstick from time to time, but she keeps herself simple; minimalistic, as she has more important things to worry about than her looks. As such, she keeps her dark brown hair a tolerable length just reaching her jawline. Not too short to throw up into a ponytail, and not too long to have to spend hours styling every day.
Skills and Talents
Overall Role Wand-Maker | Duelist
TalentsWand-Making is a skill that has been passed down from generation upon generation in the Ollivander family. Very few who are born into it do
not have the gift. Along with the business came an increased knowledge and outstanding
memory that almost rivals even her grandfathers, though she still has much to learn about the business.
Transfiguration and Charms has always been very solid subjects of Kate’s. Even as a child, the first signs of magic that she showed being small instances of turning some of her toys into live animals like mice and birds who she would often spend hours afterwards playing with until the spell wore off, putting the smallest charms on them like how to sing a different song or change the color of their fur. What are considered to be difficult subjects to master, Kate was able to do at an early age; even in school she was advanced a few years’ classes to be with those who had similar abilities, though was almost always at the top. As of her twentieth birthday, Kate became a registered animangi when she started experimenting with transfiguration spells on herself, promptly turning herself into a rare-colored
silver fox though small in relative stature.
Kate is a reasonably seasoned
duelist (though nothing professional or specially trained) due to her knowledge of wandlore and ability to identify spells easily, which in turn also allows her to be familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of different wands. It is also due to her familiarity of wands that Kate is also
versatile when it comes to using other peoples wands, having tried out a few in the shop while a student and getting a few various types to work for her with reasonably successful success.
Apparition is a somewhat self-explained talent; most witches and wizards capable of the feat, however Kate prefers traveling by Floo Powder if ever given the choice. Or by foot.
WeaknessesBecause Kate spends whatever free time she has in
bookland, Kate often times forgets important appointments or scheduled meetings in which she is supposed to attend, oftentimes making her very late to certain functions. As such, Kate has spent most of her life in the cozy confines of a closed-off room, whether it be a library, a study or her own room, reading and reading until her heart is content but lacks the physical exercise and experience to be
athletically adept meaning when it comes down to brass tacks and the only situation is to run, Kate will not do very well.
Although skilled in Charms and Transfiguration,
all other magic studies that had fallen upon Kate did not stick as well as she would have hoped after she graduated from Hogwarts. Potion making, Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts – although she retains a very basic knowledge on such fields and more, she very rarely counts on these skills to get her anywhere, sticking to what she knows and leaving it at that.
Kate’s personality is hammered into her hard,
always seeing the good in others even though she has every reason not to trust them or offer them a second chance. Kate has a pure heart, and though oftentimes one would think that would be a good thing, it has often led Kate down a path of being used, abused and stepped on, but she refuses to see bad in a person just because a few wrong decisions. Even Lord Voldemort, she believes, has a reason to be doing what he is doing and believes that he is doing the right thing. Call her a romanticist with her head filled of fairytales and happy endings, but she hopes that Voldemort, and people like them, can find their happy ending someday on a much less destructive path. She is smart enough, however, to know how to defend herself when the time calls, but she will avoid fighting at most any costs.
Favourite SpellsAccio - Summons an object
Confundo - Causes the victim to be confused and befuddled
Everte Statum - Throws the victim backward, similarly to if they'd been thrown
Expecto Patronum - Creates a Patronus (in Kate’s case a white fox)
Expelliarmus - Disarms your opponent
Fianto Duri - A defensive charm which, based on the etymology, strengthens shield spells, and perhaps objects in general, in a similar way to Duro
Homorphus Charm - Causes an Animagus or transfigured object to assume its normal shape
Imperturbable Charm - Makes objects such as doors impenetrable (by everything, including sounds and objects)
Petrificus Totalus - Body bind
Smokescreen Spell - Creates a defensive cloud of smoke from the tip of the wand
Biography
ViewsKate was raised to be around all sorts of people and creatures and therefore has a very open view on them. Giants, Veela, Centaurs – Kate sees no difference. It is her firm belief that the decisions that someone makes determines who they are, not how or to who they were born. This crosses over to pure-blood families as well as Muggleborns, believing that each person is defined by their heart – not their status of magic they were born into.
That doesn’t go without saying, however, that Kate is a small bit weary of pure-bloods given their snobbish, pristine reputation but while more hesitant to open herself up around them, she still ‘judges’ their character based on her own personal observations by ‘looking’ into their heart. The same can be said for Goblins.
HistoryBorn into a somewhat small family on September 25th, 1972, Kate's parents knew immediately that she would grow up to amount to her grandfather, Garrick Ollivander, as they shared the same birthday. Related to the famed wand-maker on her father’s side, Kate grew up knowing the importance and weight that her name carried; generations upon generations of wand makers dating back to England in 382 B.C. She showed much promise in her skills as a child. Introduced to the business of wand-making ever since she was old enough to hold one, Kate learned at an early age how to improve upon the cores and wand wood used to develop a better-suited wand.
She went to Hogwarts in 1983, able to make her own wand from scratch under the careful supervision of her grandfather and father before getting to school. She gained a proficient knowledge in Charms and Transfiguration while at Hogwarts (sorted into Ravenclaw like a great majority of her family), both of which she adored and excelled in greatly given her prior background and upbringing with the subjects. She spent her summers and winter holidays every year in Diagon Alley, helping her Grandpa out in the shop and learning more and more about what it was to be a wand maker. He taught her firsthand how to locate wand woods and core substances, how to marry them together and even got into learning how to match them to the owners that would forever remember the name Ollivander.
After Kate graduated from Hogwarts in 1990, she took up a permanent residence in her grandfather’s shop in Diagon Alley, paying her way by helping out in the back with inventory and making new wands while Garrick continued to assist people in the front. She didn’t mind the behind the scenes work, it often gave her time to catch up on her reading anytime a new novel came out from the bookstore just down the street. Times were getting harder for Witches and Wizards – one of the many reasons Garrick kept her in the back of the shop but for the most part, Ollivander’s Wand Shop remained a safe place to be. The world would always need wands...
Until a few years later when the attacks on Diagon Alley became more and more frequent. Even Ollivander's Wand Shop wasn't safe from the likes of Voldemort and his followers. A great number of occasions left the place muddled up which took Garrick and Kate weeks to clean up, only for it to be attacked again. Finally, after months of living in fear on when the next attack would be, it happened, and Kate found herself in her very first lethal duel. She doesn't remember much of the fight, an entire row of wands had been toppled over on top of her while she tried to defend her home and grandfather, but when she woke up, Garrick was gone and the shop utterly destroyed. Without a home and a missing grandfather, Kate was forced back to her father's home where she had been born, but that too had been destroyed and her parents were nowhere to be found.
Taking off on her own for a while (for she had very little choice), Kate learned what the real world truly was like as it seemed she had been shielded from its darkness her whole life until the last few months. A rude wakeup call - Kate was determined more now than ever in wanting to help; or at least to be a voice to return the world to what it should have been and to even find her missing family. She didn’t know exactly what she could do, she had proved to be a mere annoyance in the wake of a handful of Death Eaters, but she knew in her heart it was the right thing to do, for her family's sake.
She found the Ashes shortly after, taking up residency and working behind the scenes with them by lending her services in complex charms and wand making/repair. She has been with them for a little over a year now, though most don’t even know who she is since she spends less time out on the field working with others and more time in the offices doing the work that most don’t even know is needed.
Wand9” Oak, Unicorn Tail Hair
Oak signifies wisdom, endurance, protection, and authority. Your unicorn's tail hair core means that you are pure of heart and care deeply for your loved ones.
PatronusFox - Patience, wisdom, intelligence, adaptability. Fox people can be high strung or exceedingly calm, charismatic or mysterious, prone to stand out or blend in, keep peace or make mischief. They tend to be partially rooted in the spirit world, living day to day in sort of a 'world between'. Foxes are a strong symbol of femininity, shape-shifting, illusion, and magic.
