Tabitha Elms

Tabitha Elms
Goes by: Tabbie
Gender: Female
Height: Below Average

Blood status: Pureblood
Raised in: Wizarding
Home: Unlisted in Residential Areas.

Boggart: A huge web with a spider, spitting silk closer and closer -- to catch / trap her.

Patronus: Unknown
Tabitha is a kind-hearted, bright, and cheerful girl -- but despite all this, she has a striking lack of confidence. Coming from an upper-class wizarding family, Tabbie has been brought up to embody her family's status. She is polite, neatly dressed, and well-spoken -- an advantage, perhaps?

Yet this often gets her viewed as a snob or someone who cannot relate to others, which couldn't be further from the truth. Tabbie is caring and empathetic -- often offering a shoulder to cry on when others need it most.

Due to her parents' pressures and prejudice, which eventually led her to leave their grasp, Tabitha is constantly battling to truly let go of herself. She typically surrounds herself with bold personalities -- trying to align herself with the very antithesis of what people perceive her to be. She is not a troublemaker in her nature, but she's unfortunately likely to cave to those who are manipulative. Anything to fit in, right?
Born to the wealthy Elms family of Tunbridge, a pure-blooded bloodline that has lived in the same house on the same plot of land for many years, Tabitha had a cloistered upbringing. She was to be the very embodiment of her family and uphold the standards that her parents, Rita and Vincent, placed upon her.

Her parents weren't loving; they were so consumed with their own self-image, as senior members of the wizarding community, that they had very little time to get to know little Tabbie. Why would they need to when they told her what to wear, what children to play with, what friends to avoid, and even what food she must eat? This upbringing was loathsome -- yet, as always, the family came first.

At the age of 9, losing yet another friend due to her mother's obsession with Tabbie not mixing with "the wrong sort," Tabbie had her first experience of her own magical abilities. Crying literal floods of tears, it took the housekeepers several buckets to drain the greenhouse that winter.

After the fallout from this "episode," her parents decided that Tabitha needed to be more strictly controlled. They imposed harsher rules and restrictions -- confining her to the estate, and severely limiting her contact with the outside world. The only company she had, would be the tutors sent to try and quell her magical outbursts.

The prospect of living under even more suffocating conditions was unbearable for Tabbie. Her only glimmer of hope was the prospect that in two years time, she'd be at Hogwarts and away from this dark, miserable place -- and that prospect seemed further away than ever.

So she packed a bag of modest belongings and took off, despite the dangers posed to a young girl on her own. She knew exactly where to go; there was only one person who would understand her; her Aunty Gladyssa, who had been estranged from her sister Rita for many years.

Gladyssa knew the struggle of that family background -- and was met with great criticism when she married Cyril, the head owler from a local owl post branch. Hardly the standard the family expected. Gladyssa, who had no kin of her own, welcomed Tabbie in with open arms. The summers they spent before Hogwarts were the best summers of Tabbie's life, yet the scars of her upbringing still plague her even after moving there full time.

Despite angry letters from her parents, they decided that if their daughter wanted to throw her life away, then it was for her to do -- but she would not be welcome at the house, or entitled to any of her inheritance. Not much of a threat from somebody who didn't want any of it to begin with.

After starting at Hogwarts, Tabbie slowly began to realize that happiness is something that you don't need to ask permission to have. At first, she had a tough time integrating. With whispers of her being ‘the posh girl’ or a ‘slob’. Slowly but surely, she began to lower her barriers and let people in -- and vice versa.