Name: Natalya Stepanovich Patrovna


Basic Information:

Nicknames: I have styled myself to be ‘Talya’, although family calls me ‘Natalshenka’ as well, and my best friend, Larissa, calls me 'Nat'

Age: 11

Birthday: May 13, 2054

Blood Status: Pureblood

Wand: Eleven inches, English Oak with Unicorn hair core, smooth and flexible

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: TBD

Face Claim: Katie Douglas


School and Career:

Attending: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

House: Hufflepuff

Year: First

Best Lessons:

■ Charms
■ Herbology
■ History of Magic
■ Potions

Worst Lessons:
■ Astronomy
■ Defense Against the Dark Arts
■ Transfigurations

Clubs:

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OWL Scores:
■ Astronomy ~ X
■ Charms ~ X
■ Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ X
■ Herbology ~ X
■ History of Magic ~ X
■ Potions ~ X
■ Transfiguration ~ X
■ Elective ~ X

NEWT Scores:

■ Astronomy ~ X
■ Charms ~ X
■ Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ X
■ Herbology ~ X
■ History of Magic ~ X
■ Potions ~ X
■ Transfiguration ~ X
■ Elective ~ X

Current Employment: Student

Dream Job: Maybe a Herbologist?


Personality:

■ Patient: I know anything worth doing is worth doing right, and taking the time to make it so
■ Dreamer: Oh, I love dreaming about doing things, and how to make things nicer for my friends and my family. Mom tells me that I ‘have my head in the clouds’, and maybe that’s true, but there’s nothing wrong with asking ‘what if?’
■ Mystical:I've had some very vivid dreams of being in other times and places. Once I had a dream of riding across the Caucuses with a group of other riders, and it felt so real that I wasn't sure afterwards if it was really a dream or actual memory.
■ Loyal: I love my friends and cherish my family, and hope they give me the same in return.
■ Practical: Dreams are cool, but without a way to make them happen, they’re just dreams. Now, if I can just figure out a way to do it, then I’m good to go. I am a planner, and I have the confidence in my plans to carry them out.
■ Will: I’m stronger than I look, not physically maybe, but I won’t yield under pressure.
■ Focused: I’m not afraid to get into a project, and if it means an all-nighter, then so be it. Nothing worth having comes easily
■ Energetic: I can just keep going like a certain overused pink rabbit icon. Dad says I'm vivacious, and some of my friends call me 'exhausting'. If I am doing something I really care about, then look for me to keep at it until its done, or I am.

Likes:

■ Wandering in the forest, collecting flowers
■ Cooking for my friends
■ Nice, long soaks in the tub
■ Soft, pretty clothes
■ Rugelach and my mom’s butterscotch fudge
■ Horses

Dislikes:

■ Crowds and loud people in general
■ Wolves
■ Really spicy food
■ Gossip and drama, it’s all hot air
■ People who lie to me, even if it's to spare my feelings, and empty platitudes
■ Worse, people telling me I can't do something because I'm not old enough, or tall enough or not experienced enough.

Hobbies:
■ Collecting flowers and gardening
■ Drawing and painting
■ Writing
■ Equestrian events, including Dressage, and I've been pushing to do Cross-Country

Strengths:
■ My ability to focus upon a particular project
■ Friends forever
■ Confidence in my own abilities and my ability to plan

Weaknesses:

■ You know that focus I mentioned earlier? Yeah, the downside is it's hard to get me to shift focus
■ I also have issues trying to see things from others’ point of view. I’ll try to understand, but give me time
■ I'm always comparing myself to my older sister, Reina, and trying to measure up to her example. She's my hero, and I look up to her.

Fears:

■ Wolves
■ That I'll never be seen as being able to do and be all the things my sister Reina can and is, and my parents will think they failed in me.

Patronus:
Happy Memory to Summon Patronus:

Special Abilities:
Animagus Form:
Apparition Status:
Flying Certification:

Languages:

■ Russian (Native)
■ German (Studied at school, can read it better than I can speak it)
■ English (Studied at school, I have reasonable fluency, and can read it well enough, however I speak it with a heavy Northern accent)
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History:

Childhood: Natalya was born on May 13, 2044 at a private hospital for witches and wizards in St. Petersburg to Evelenya and Artemyi. She was the third of a total of four children born into their family, with Raisa (six years older) being the eldest, and her brother Kusma (three years older) ahead of her, and her little sister, Froskaya being born three years later in 2047. The Stepanovich family is a cadet branch of the extended Patrovna clan based out of St. Petersburg, having been brought in because of a series of marriages over the course of several generations, with the last taking place during the twilight years of Tsarist rule in Russia.

School Years: Natalya has attended the Marakov Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, a private school for the young scions of old, wealthy families, many of whom have ties to the Wizarding world, for several years now. It is here she goes to school with her best friend, Larissa Moryakova, who is from another old Wizarding family. It is here the girls share an interest in plants, and both of them are involved in the school’s equestrian team. This puts them at odds with another girl, Zoya Bagrovna, who is also from an old Wizarding family, and works hard to make their lives difficult when they compete to see who makes the dressage team that goes to competition.

Shortly after Natalya turned eleven, she and Larissa went into the forest behind the estate with the plan to travel to the nearby river, collect some magical water plants and bring them back to Natalya's Baba, as part of a Herbology lesson and to earn some spending money. Unfortunately, during their expedition, they encounter a witch named Olesya, who abducted Natalya, while Larissa gets Obliviated, and gets lost in the woods as she tries to find her way home.

As it turns out, Olesya is a witch who is part of a cabal known as the 'Winter Council', and since the untimely death of her father has engaged in unnatural experiments and has attempted to extend her life and expand her powers by murdering young magically active children, stealing their magical power and transferring them to her using Dark thaumaturgical rites and eating their flesh. Natalya was spared a horrible fate when she was located and rescued by her cousins Kasamir Patrovna and Alynn Quinlan, and their aunt, the veteran Witch Hunter Faina Patrovna.

It was determined that she might still be in peril were she to attend Durmstrang as planned, and so Baba arranged for her to attend Hogwarts with her cousins, and live with Faina's mother, Reyna, and her foster father/cousin, Sergei in Surrey for the duration of her magical schooling.

The Sorting Hat:
The Professor set the hat down carefully on the student's head. For a moment the hat was silent before speaking....
Dreams are important and need to flourish,
'Your loyalty and optimism will help,
I think the house that will guide you best is...

HUFFLEPUFF!'


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Relationships:

Family: Artemyi Stepanovich Patrovna (Father), Evelenya Stepanovich Patrovna (Mother), Raisa Stepanovich Patrovna (older sister), Kusma Stepanovich Patrovna (older brother) Froskaya Stepanovich Patrovna (younger sister), Faina Patrovna (paternal cousin), Kasamir Aloysius Patrovna (paternal cousin), Katya ‘Kitty’ Quinlan (paternal cousin), Dymitri Alynn Quinlan (paternal cousin), Aleksandr Quinlan (paternal cousin)

Friends: Larissa Moryakova

Best Friend: Larissa Moryakova

Romantic Interest: None as yet

Enemies: Zoya Bagrovna. We’re not really enemies, but we usually end up on opposites sides at events at school, and we compete against each other at riding events. I guess you could say we are rivals.

However, the witch named Olesya who tried to steal my magic, kill me and have me as the entree for dinner definitely qualifies as an enemy. She's serving time in the Lubyanka wizard prison. There's also Malyshev, her House Elf, who's an absolute psycho, who took some of my blood to start making gravy.

Pets: I have a Russian Blue cat named Serebro, and there’s Temny, my dark red Budyonny, who I ride in competition dressage events. My favourite boy has to be Nochnoy Ogon, he's raised from cavalry stock. I raised him since he was a foal, and I want to ride him in Cross-Country, but my coach tells me he's too big for me to ride. I’m hoping to take my cat and one of the horses to school with me. Surely there’s an equestrian team at Hogwarts.

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Created: February 26th, 2025
Updated: May 19th, 2025
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