Bonnie Madeline Kensington

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• Name Meaning
  
  • Bonnie: pretty, good
  • Madeline: tower
• Birthdate: March 16, 1881
• Role: Divination Teacher, Ravenclaw House Head
• Former House: Ravenclaw
• Wand: Pliable Blackthorn wood, long, with a silver thread core.

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Background

Bonnie Madeline Kensington was born in Lancashire, England on March 16, 1881 to Annabelle Rollins Kensington and Harvald Kensington. At the time of Bonnie’s birth, the two owned only a small one-bedroom house which fit the two of them just fine. While Bonnie was still a baby, the house still kept them comfortably, with her crib stationed in the one bedroom. The situation for the Kensingtons was cozy and the family did not seek out to change anything about it for quite a while, especially as Bonnie was a small and calm toddler. During the days, Harvald would leave off to work at the local mill, occasionally helping deliver some of the woods to Ollivander for the creation of wands. In the evenings he would bring home wood that was to be discarded and worked at it, attempting to make it into various types of furniture. The only peice of furniture that he kept was a tiny crib that he created for the toddler Bonnie to put her dollies into. Annabelle was thrilled at the adorable peice of child furniture, though Bonnie herself did not understand its purpose. While Harvald was off at work or toiling away at his woodworking, Annabelle spent much of her time with Bonnie. While Bonnie was asleep, the woman honed her cooking and craft skills, attempting to make something worth eating or wearing. Her attempts were not always successful, but the small house did not suffer for it, nor did her family.

As Bonnie grew older, she also grew taller and took up a bit more space. She required a larger cot, and her little toys littered the room. The small house began to feel a bit too small because of all this. It took a good while, but Annabelle and Harvald came to the decision just after Bonnie’s fourth birthday that it would be best to relocate to a slightly larger domicile. After a bit of consideration, they decided to get a flat in Circle Street. The new place had two bedrooms, one for Bonnie to have all to herself, the other, of course, for Bonnie’s parents to share. As Diagon Alley did not have a mill for him to work in, Harvald was forced to seek other employment. He canvassed all the shops and restaurants in the vicinity, being turned down for nearly all of them before finally securing a job with a local book publisher as a packer and delivery man. It paid about the same as the job at the mill, and while it did not give him any inexpensive wood to work, this was no tragedy (for where would he be able to work with it, having no yard?). He was able to buy many books, especially learning books for Bonnie, for a very reasonable price. The family library became quite healthy, and as it grew, Annabelle began to think it was time to start teaching Bonnie the basics, to give her, perhaps, an advantage by the time she got to Hogwarts, the school that Annabelle was almost certain her daughter would be invited to attend.

At the age of six, Bonnie began her schooling with Annabelle as her teacher. She was soon taught to read and write, and began learning elementary arithmetic. Up until this time, the child had played with toys now and then, but had never found anything quite to spark her interest. With a whole world of books open to her now, she could hardly be torn away from the bookshelf, reading through all the books faster than her father could procure them. Annabelle was pleased, being a former Ravenclaw herself, that her daughter was taking to reading and learning so well. The six-year-old read everything that her parents would let her get her hands onto, everything from pamphlets to classic fiction. The child caught on quickly to the new topics her mother introduced, and Annabelle felt confident by the time Bonnie was eight years old to introduce some magical theory and history into her education. While being very careful not to cross the line and have Bonnie practice any magic skills, the woman made sure her daughter was well-versed in the how, why and when of them.

It was just a small while after Bonnie’s eighth birthday that Annabelle found herself pregnant for the second time. In January of 1890, Caroline Lucille joined the family. Bonnie, who had been blessed with her own bedroom and the full attention of both of her parents. It was quite a shock to her to have an infant in the house, and to see how distracted her parents became, trying to care for the needy baby as well as their nearly nine-year-old daughter. The oldest daughter began to feel a little neglected and lonely. While she understood to a certain degree that she now had a sister and was obligated to share, the girl did not want to share, and withdrew primarily into her books. Her mother thought nothing of this, considering the fact that Bonie had been so fond of reading and learning the new things to begin with. However, Bonnie’s newfound interest in the books lay mostly in books with little substance: romance novels — even some muggle romance books — and other works of fiction containing lots of action and very few tidbits of moral value.

Time went on like this as baby Caroline grew, Bonnie focussing more on her books than her studies, and Annabelle unable to take much notice of this due to her busy schedule with baby, Bonnie and cooking. The situation did not get any less hectic when just over a year later, before Caroline was even toddling around, Annabelle was once again pregnant. Now that her sister could talk, Bonnie was becoming more attatched to her baby sister and quite a bit less disoriented. Her attentions to her studies picked up again, especially with the realization after she turned ten that she would likely be attending Hogwarts before long. Annabelle was pleased to often find her daughter poring over her study books so often, waving a stick, quill or charcoal pencil around in lieu of a wand.

Caroline grew even more quickly while Bonnie focused more and more on the books, trying to find out all the intricacies of who came up with various potions and charms, how, and why. It took up much of her time — and her father’s money for the book — until the summer after she turned eleven years old when she received a letter, addressed in green ink to Miss Bonnie M. Kensington, in the Second Bedroom of Number Eighteen, Second Floor, Circle Street, Diagon Alley, England. Her parents wasted no time in toting her through all the shops and purchasing the necessary supplies for school, including a small calico male kitten, who Bonnie chose to name, for no reason apparent to her parents, Sebastian. The week prior to the departure to Hogwarts, Bonnie hardly slept, and studied the books harder than she had all year.

On the first of September, a rather tired, but very excited Bonnie boarded the train, already wearing her crisp, new school robes. The train ride was agonizing for Bonnie, but she managed the time by avidly reading a new thrilling novel that her father treated her with just before boarding the train, and trying to contain her over-exuberant kitten. It was drizzling when Bonnie disembarked from the train, having been forcibly separated from both book and kitten by a prefect before she was allowed off of the train. She lined up with the other children, all of whom dressed in various states of neatness in their school robes. After a trip across the lake that frightened the girl more than thrilled her, the group was finally at the majestic castle, prepared to be sorted. Bonnie could hardly contain her excitement.

It seemed an eternity to her before the deputy Headmaster called out “Kensington, Bonnie!” and directed her to step up to the stool where so many other eleven-year-olds had already been seated and sorted. She took a seat on the stool and the hat was placed upon her head. After a few minutes of anticipation, listening to the hat muse within her where she would best fit, a situation which made Bonnie rather uncomfortable. To Bonnie, it seemed to take hours, perhaps even days for the Sorting Hat to make a decision. It did eventually do so, however, and finally announced for the room, RAVENCLAW! This thrilled Bonnie, for she had read and heard all about each of the houses from her mother and father, as well as from the books about Hogwarts that her father bought for her. Before she was even able to coax herself to sleep that evening before sending an owl to her parents announcing which house she had been sorted into.

During Bonnie’s first term at Hogwarts, she spent more time with the teachers, trying to pump them for al the information that they would give to her. Most of them managed to get her to head back to her commonroom by letting her borrow an informative though not very helpful (in Bonnie’s opinion) book to answer her questions. Bonnie was not particularly happy about this, but could do nothing about it. After all, the teachers were her superiors and she certainly did not want to make them angry. Her year went by very quickly. She didn’t lose points for Ravenclaw, and did manage to earn a few of them in an effort for her house to win the cup. Ravenclaw did not win the cup that year, but Bonnie was not bothered by this fact, and still quite excited that she was able to contribute at all.

When Bonnie arrived at home, she was greeted by her mother, who, she found, was nine months pregnant. Bonnie was about to have another sibling. Since Bonnie had already gotten used to Caroline, now walking and talking quite proficiently. In July, Bonnie’s second sister, Francine Maria was born. Summer could not pass quickly enough for now twelve-year-old Bonnie. She was excited already to head back to school. The reprieve from school was pleasant enough, though, as the girl read for pleasure and spent time with her baby sisters and her parents. The summer did pass, and it seemed far too soon to Harvald and Annabelle that they were watching their oldest child board the train for Hogwarts once more and leave them for months on end.

Bonnie’s second year did not begin with much pizazz. She spent more time than she had in her first year trying to coax information out of her teachers, again to no avail. This time around, however, they did not even oblige her with books, advising her instead to check the library. Bonnie had not previously spent much time in the library, going in only to find certain books necessary for a project or assignment. However, upon realizing how healthy the fiction section was in the place, she began to haunt its shelves almost daily, taking out many books each week. Her studies did suffer for this, because the girl found herself more interested now in finding out how each hero or heroine overcame the obstaclef in his or her scenario. She did convince herself to do a moderate amount of studying, but her grades suffered for her lack of effort during the year. Annabelle was not entirely pleased with this outcome, but being pregannt once again and running around after two toddlers, she felt it best not to scold Bonnie for her inattentiveness at school, though she did impress upon her daughter the importance of keeping up with her grades. Bonnie’s successful completion of her second year meant big changes for the Ravenclaw. She would be allowed to choose some electives to fill out her timetable, as well as being able to visit Hogsmeade village on certain weekends. The girl could hardly wait, finding all the intricacies of Hogwarts life fascinating and fulfilling.

Shortly after Bonnie headed back to Hogwarts for her third year, Annabelle gave birth to a fourth girl, Annelle Henrietta. She would be the last addition to the Kensington family. Bonnie hardly took any notice of this, however, as she spent much of her time now studying intently her new subjects: Divination and Ancient Runes. Bonnie found the runes to be stimulating and quite easy to research, while Divination aided to the creative part of her mind. Not long into the term, she found that she seemed to have a knack for it. As teachers often are, Professor D’estiny was quite pleased to find a few students who seemed to genuinely possess the knack of “Seeing”, and Bonnie was amoung her special “pets” in class. Bonnie was able to learn a lot that year, as Professor D’estiny was very forthcoming with a lot of books and information about the history of Divination. What Bonnie was not able to glean from the professor (as time was limited), she endeavored to learn from books in the library. Of course, there is a limit to how much one is able to take in while still keeping up with other courses, the friends made over the course of the year and still having time to oneself.

Bonnie returned home after her third year to find that her house seemed very much more crowded. With three toddlers, a teenager (for Bonnie was now fourteen) and two adults, a two-bedroom flat did not leave much room. Even with the enchantments on the room that used to be solely Bonnie’s, the little girls were still rather loud. Bonnie took to sleeping on the couch in the sitting room, making the small room her own, as the Kensingtons had neither the time nor the energy to host for guests. Bonnie spent the summer either petitioning her father for new books about Divination or new adventure books. These treasures kept her occupied over the summer while her father worked harder than ever at his job in order to support all six of them. He was blessed with a promotion at the start of August, causing him to relax a bit for the remainder of Bonnie’s stay at home. It was all too soon for her parents before she was again on the train, headed for Hogwarts again, beginning her fourth year there.

Her fourth year began, and Bonnie focussed a bit less intently on Divination as she got in with a group of girls in her divination class, Professor D’estiny’s favorites in the fourth year Divination class. The five of them got into a bit of trouble, and ended up losing a fair many points for each of their houses. It was also the year Bonnie earned her first detention. Despite these shenanigans, the girl managed to somehow keep up with her courses during this year, earning better marks than she had in any of the previous years at school. It was something that pleased her parents, for they hoped that their daughter would be taking an interest in studies more than ‘mere’ divination. This was something not to be hoped for, since not only did Bonnie have a passion for it, but she appeared to geniunely have the gift of the Inner-Eye.

The summer before Bonnie’s fifth year was possibly the most uncomfortable for the family. After all, Annabelle and Harvald had a duty to raise their three young daughters to be good people, but the two wanted very badly to show their oldest that they very much did love her as well. The girl was unable — or unwilling to see this — and spent much of the summer brooding in the sitting room, her nose buried in school books, completing summer assignments, and reading her favourite type of romantic novels. The girl was sulky to say the least, and could not wait for school to begin again so that she might be able to spend time with her friends rather than being “stuck” being with her parents and her small sisters.

While Bonnie was hoping to receive a prefect badge before the start of her fifth year, it never did come, and the girl boarded the train in her fifth year, looking rather dejected as she saw the other students in her year who proudly displayed the badge. It did not take too much longer, though, for the girl to acquaint herself with the disappointment and move past it. She had little time to dwell on this anyway, as all of her courses started the year at full speed, trying to prepare all the fifth year students for their OWLs at the end of the year as well as helping them prepare for the years coming. This did not bother Bonnie much, as it gave her reason not to start creating trouble and losing points for Ravenclaw once again. This year, though, studies were not as easy to keep up with. Her Divination marks were stellar, as were her marks in Charms and History of Magic. Her marks in Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts were less than satisfactory, and though she knew she should, Bonnie did not put in the effort to improve in them as much as she bettered herself more in the subjects she was already good at.

OWLs were nerve-wracking for Bonnie, as she so wanted to earn OWLs in all of her subjects, even though her common sense told her that she had not worked hard enough to deserve such marks. The wait during the summer was nerve-wracking for the sixteen-year-old. She knew the OWL results depended on which classes she would take in her next two years and ultimately decide what she would do for a living. After all, the girl did not want to end up in the house caring for children as her mother was saddled (or so Bonnie put it) doing. Just a few weeks before the start of the term, Bonnie received an owl containing not only her school list for the year, but also a letter informing her that she had earned seven OWLs, getting a P in both Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts. She earned A’s and E’s in all the rest of her subjects save Divination, in which she earned an O. This did not surprise anyone except for Bonnie herself who had convinced herself that she had failed all of her OWLs for certain.

Bonnie started her sixth year, thinking strongly on what she would like to do. She and her parents had talked of charms research; they imagined her doing brilliant, life-changing work that would not only give her notoriety but also pay very well. Their daughter, however, had a different idea. Bonnie Madeline had the idea that she would become a divination. After a heart-to-heart chat with Professor D’estiny just after the start of the term, and after her chat with the professor, Bonnie made the decision that she would pursue a career as a Divinator, whether her parents liked the idea or not. Nobody at the school seemed to have any qualms with this, and when Bonnie wrote a letter home to her parents, though she had a hunch that they were not pleased, they wrote back no ill about it, and instead praised their daughter for choosing so quickly a profession that she was confident she would like. Still, Bonnie could never help feeling that her parents did not approve of her choice.

This disapproval did not stop the Ravenclaw from studying even more in-depth the history, the whys and hows, and the skills of divination. All other work, save for History of Magic, fell secondary to her work in divination. Her housemates found this odd, a Ravenclaw embracing such a fickle subject as the Seeing arts. Bonnie never noticed, however, considering herself through and through a true Ravenclaw all the time. Her sixth year ended with a very confident and more serious girl coming off of the train to greet her parents. Both Harvald and Annabelle noticed the change in their daughter and were quite proud. Even after the troubles that the family had been having as a whole, their daughter could still turn out to be  very respectable woman in the eyes of her elders and peers.

The summer before Bonnie’s seventh year was quite different than she imagined it. She had thought that since it was the last summer before she would be able to live out on her own. Instead of seeming worried, her parent were completely normal. The teen did not understand their complacency. This wasn’t just any summer, it was her last summer as a juvenile under her parents’ rules! Harvald and Annabelle did not view the summer to be the last that they would spend with their oldest daughter in their home, expecting that the girl would huose with them during any internships or advanced studies. Bonnie had different ideas about this, but the family never outright talked about it, each deciding what would happen after the finish of the coming schoolyear.

Regardless of family tensions, tangible or secret, Bonnie’s seventh year came around to start. She bid her parents farewell from the train and boarded it, heading there for the last time as a student. Nostalgia did not set in on this train ride, though. She merely sat with her friends and conversed, laughed and occasionally read a bit of the open book on her lap. Bonnie’s seventh year would be remembered to her as the most magical of years. Despite herself, she and her friends walked around the school as if they were on the top of the heap. Of course, the lot of them were all very busy preparing for NEWTs and finishing their last year of coursework, but they found time to squeeze in a bit of fun. Just after her birthday in March, Bonnie successfully completed the test to get her apparition licence. The girl showed this off to some of her younger friends by apparating to many different places during the following Hogsmeade weekend. It seemed all too fast, however, that her seventh year was over. Bonnie boarded the Hogwarts Express for the last time, and on this trip, nostalgia did hit her. She and her friends spent much of their trip home crying softly, hugging one another perhaps a few too many times, and promising profusely to write always. Of course they would be friends forever and ever!

Bonnie’s face was still covered in tears as she strode off of the train and gave her parents the obligatory hug and handed over news of her NEWT scores, all of which were quite satisfactory. As her parents had been expecting, Bonnie came home to live during the summer following her graduation from Hogwarts. Bonnie had not thought far enough ahead to make plans to get away during that summer for good. Bonnie found herself quite bored with her young siblings around playing with their toys and learned basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. Annabelle tried to convince her oldest daughter to help teach the younger girls, but Bonnie would have nothing to do with it. She chose instead to write letters to all of her friends as promised. The rate she went through parchment and the number of owls flying to and from the house was concerning to some of the neighbors, who were not used to this type of traffic from any of the residents of Circle Street.

The copious letter-writing did wield good news for Bonnie. One of her friends had secured an internship with a well-known Divinator near Boston, Massachusettes in the United States. Bonnie was thrilled as her friend mentioned that the woman was looking for more than one apprentice. With abandon, Bonnie responded to her friend, saying that she would absolutely like to apprentice for the Divinator, and that she would make arrangements posthaste to join and secure an internship. Plans were made and arrangements settled before Bonnie finally decided that she ought to inform her parents of her mission. Much yelling was to be had as Annabelle protested her daughter’s departure and Harvald pleaded with his daughter to at least stay closer to home.

In mid-August, Bonnie left her house with her friend Larana Hayes at her side. The two looked a bit out of sorts, choosing rather than apparating (Larana had not gotten her apparition licence) or using a portkey to take a boat to the United States, in pursuit of an adventure. Rather than an adventure, the two found boredom and seasickness on the boat, and could not have been more glad to dock in the bay in New York City. The two were clad in some rather old-fashioned Muggle clothing when they stepped off of the boat in New York. They were gifted with some odd looks, but neither noticed as they searched for their escort, an American wizard boy who was to take them to their portkey which would take them to Boston for their internship.

The boy, they later learned, was a fellow intern, intending to stay on with Madam Gartner for the same three-year duration as Larana and Bonnie. His name was Jeordie Waldgrave. The three of them quickly became thick as thieves. The divinator worked freelance on occasion, often being consulted by the American Ministry for Magic for various and undisclose reasons. Madam Gartner’s main goal, though, was to establish the whys, hows and wheres of Divination history. This pleased Bonnie very much, as the girl had never been able to find enough about the history while she was in school and learning of all of the different methods that were used in Divination.

Bonnie, Larana and Jeordie worked hard, leafing through volumes of historical books to find out any information relevant to Divination’s many facets. The years flew by, with Bonnie, Larana and Jeordie’s relationship becoming more and more solid. The three were inseparable, it seemed. The only time when they were voluntarily separated was when they were working, trying to pull together enough information to help Madam Gartner write an unabridged history of Divination. Three years flew by, and the three of them looked on their last months together in the magic section of Boston.

Drama broke out in the friendship just before Larana and Bonnie were to use a portkey and travel back to England to see their families and other friends for the first time in three years. Bonnie had her bags packed and was prepared in her muggle-esque clothes to travel to the portkey along with Larana, both of them to be escorted by Jeordie. However, as Bonnie made shouts to her friends in the now-empty flat that the two girls had shared for two and a half years. Larana and Jeordie entered the room, hand-in-hand, hardly able to look Bonnie in the eye, and told her that Larana would not be going back with her. The two briefly explained that they were in love, and while they would not explain how long it had been going on, Bonnie mentally rebuked herself for noticing it before then.

The girl returned on her own to England, clutching a bag full of the money she had saved from her internship. For several hours after her arrival, the girl sat on the secluded hill where her portkey had taken her to, and moped. She had hoped coming back would be a triumphant experience, joined by her good friend to help tell all the stories that three years had garnered. Now it was a bittersweet moment, as the girl was alone, but glad to be back in her homeland once again. Instead of going home, feeling rather dejected, though happy that her three years had been spent fruitfully (after all, Bonnie would have a new book to add to her collection of Divination-related texts and a great deal of knowledge from all the research that the group of them spent three years doing.

Diagon Alley was sparse of shops specializing in Bonnie’s specialty, the young woman was very well-acquainted with this fact. So instead of seeking employment at a place where she may or may not have been able to further her career, the girl found a job in the village of Lanstanton, where much of Divination history took place. It did not take her long to find employment here, in a shop where many Divination-related books were sold, as well as prophecies were done for locals who were not gifted with Sight. Bonnie was deemed not experienced enough to do the Seeings and Readings for the customers, so the owner, Madam Clarissa Martenson, put her in charge of keeping inventory of the shop, as well as inquiring into opportunities for new products.

Bonnie did inform her parents of this choice, and while they were not pleased at the distance (half the country), they accepted that at least their daughter was pursuing her passion. By this time, Bonnie’s sisters were preparing to attend Hogwarts, and both parents were very involved. Neither visited for quite a while, though Bonnie did make visits to her parents on occasion. For the most part, the better part of the next ten years was spent focussing on the shop and its betterment. During her time there, Madam Clarissa worked with Bonnie, getting her experience as a Seer established. The two of them became good friends, Clarissa being like a second mother to Bonnie, advising her on everything from respectable fashion for their profession to tricks of clearing one’s mind and therefore her Inner-Eye.

Just after Bonnie’s thirty-third birthday, Madam Clarissa made the choice to retire, being nearly seventy. The woman had decided to take a trip through the world and see all of the historical sights. Bonnie became the new owner of the store. For a while, things were manageable, but as the locals became more used to the idea that Bonnie was just as skilled as Clarissa, the workload became quite hectic. Bonnie found it necessary to hire an apprentice, for whom she was able to do the same as Clarissa did for her. This apprentice was a mere twenty years old, graduated from Hogwarts. The girl’s name was Hannah Allison. The girl was a kindred spirit to Bonnie, and both of them got on well, with much the same situation as Bonnie had with Clarissa. This scenario worked out well for them, and Bonnie did her best to school her charge and help her become more experienced in the art.

In 1925, Bonnie was fourty-four, she became aware of an opening for Divination at Hogwarts. Remembering her own time at the school, and the fond memories that resulted from it, the woman put in her bid for the position. Her joy was unmeasurable as she was notified in early spring of 1926 that she had been chosen for the position over several applicants. The woman made arrangements to head to Hogwarts that next fall, beginning in the post of Divination professor in Fall of 1926. She left her charge and apprentice, Hannah Allison, in charge with the shop as she prepared for her new job, compiling as much relevant information as she was able to gather prior to the start of the term.

Bonnie’s first year teaching at Hogwarts started out alright, though the attitudes of her students regarding Divination were a constant source of consternation for the woman. An altercation early in the school year with a few other teachers also began her year with a bit of a ‘bang’. The situations caused Bonnie to work her students a good deal harder than any Divination teacher yet had done for his or her students. Essays were assigned after every class, and projects were assigned on top of it, which kept Bonnie busy herself. Despite the workloads, she did manage to make the confidence of a few of her students, a fact which pleased her, though her relations with her co-workers were not yet resolved by the end of the year.

Bonnie settled in easily to teaching the students at Hogwarts, becoming a mentor to several of them, and despite her heavy homework levels, she was a favorite to some. The cookies that she perpetually kept stocked in a tin in her desk perhaps had something to do with this. Bonnie’s social life was generally quiet, though shortly after her tenure at Hogwarts began, she had a brief interlude with another professor. An interlude may, however, be too strong a word. Professor Quintus Helit asked her out on a date, and the woman, however surprised by this invitation, accepted. It turned out to be quite the awkward experience for both involved, and after the second date, Bonnie terminated the attmepts at courtship, finding that she simply was not interested. Otherwise, the woman remained on speaking terms with the rest of the faculty, but largely kept to herself, preferring to bury her nose in a good fiction novel between grading papers and consulting with students rather than spending much time being externally social.

Students came and went over the years that Bonnie taught at Hogwarts, but one in particular stood out to her in her classes. Dara Quincy was an exceptional young girl who had shown very quickly that she had the Sight – something that many students failed to do even after five years of Divination classes. Dara was an extraordinary student mostly in that she had the gift in a way that Bonnie could only dream of. Bonnie could manage good predictions most of the time, and would occasionally have vague, watery visions that took her by surprise, but those didn’t compare to the effects that it had on Dara, nor the strength of her visions. Bonnie was torn by this knowledge: she was pleased at finding a student who she could guide to masterful control of her gift, but horrified by the knowledge that it caused the girl dreadful headaches which would occasionally put her in the infirmary for short periods.

After eight years of teaching at Hogwarts, Bonnie was well-established into a routine. She looked forward to the skepticism and uncertainty that every third year class began with in September, and got teary-eyed when she thought about her seventh years who had gone the year before. She was joyed to find out that in September of 1935, she had been made Ravenclaw’s head of house. It had been her house when she was at Hogwarts and since she had finally been hired on at the school, Bonnie had secretly hoped that someday she would be worthy of the post (provided, of course, that the teacher who had held it before was no longer there). Bonnie’s ninth year of service at Hogwarts began on a high note for her as she secretly added bits of blue to her typically somber wardrobe and began to crack down harder on Ravenclaw students, this time with good reason. It was Bonnie’s singular mission to whip those Ravenclaws into shape, to make Rowena Ravenclaw proud of those who merited the blue and bronze.

Personality

Even as a child, Bonnie had loved to gain knowledge. All through her school days and beyond, this passion persisted, calling her to constantly seek out knew facts and knowledge, especially about subjects historical. The woman is very persistent and intense. Once she involved in a project or especially in a reading, she dislikes being interrupted and is prone to snapping at the interrupter. Her temper is “flash-and-fizzle”, though; gone almost as quickly as it flares up. She is a no-nonsense kind of person, however, and does not tolerate those who try to extract more than their due out of her. She would never express this to said person, however, her mantra being, thanks to her mother’s teaching, to “kill them with kindness.” It is something that she has become very good at throughout the years, perfecting it to an art.

Description

A thin woman, Bonnie is not terribly distracting to those of the opposite sex. She is rather plain, though not so plain as that some would consider her to be ugly or homely. The woman has pale skin which is gently wrinkled, not showing how far advanced in age she is exactly. She has medium, pink lips which frame a quaint smile. Her smile always looks geniune, and is never bestowed unnecessarily. Her eyes are dark brown, framed by dark lashes which seem to make a set with her straight, light brown hair. Her hair is still quite thick, though traces of gray are starting to sneak in among the brown strands. The woman is not terribly tall, standing at less than five and a half feet tall. Her figure is still quite curvy, without much obvious sagging, though few would be able to tell as she is often seen in robes rather than more form-fitting clothing.

Outfits

Work Robes

Bonnie wears clothing fitting for a Hogwarts Professor. She is dressed in plain black, as her students are expected to do, but instead of the uniform robes, hers are slightly more fitted, to help accentuate her shape. The sleeves and hem of the robes are lined in a rich royal blue, with a smaller strip of bronze fabric just above the blue on the robes. Attached to her robe is a hood, the outside of which is the same black as the rest of the robes. The inside of the hood is the same royal blue as the cuffs and hem. She wears pointed gray shoes which peek out from underneath her robes when she walk. They have a distinct point at the toe and a small heel and they shoes lace up to just above her ankles with gray laces.

Gray Robes

Bonnie wears an ensemble of light gray. The robes seem somewhat plain in the back, cut close to her shape and without any adornment or other decoration on the back side of the robes. The front of the robes are slightly more ornate, with a panel on the front in an ornate dark blue floral pattern coming down in a rectangle from the squared neckline to the waist of the robes. From the waist, there is white ribbon lacing up the front, finishing in a bow at the neckline. The robes fall in heavy fabric almost to the floor. The hemline has a strip of dark blue ribbon adorning it. Black shoes complete the ensemble. The shoes come to a point at the toe and have a small heel. They buckle across the top of her foot, leaving a bit open for her to show off whatever stockings she might choose to wear.

Brown Robes

Dressed somewhat somberly, the woman’s robes are in a dark, muddy brown. They are fitted to her shape, with a square neck to suit the shape of her shoulders and her face. The robe has a sizable hood, which matches the color of the rest of the fabric. The sleeves fit her arms down to the elbow, then become bell-shaped from there, often falling up on her arms when she is working or teaching. The bottom of the robes are plain, just like the top, and fall in an a-line shape to just above the floor. The woman wears tan colored boots which have a distinct point at the toe and a small heel. They lace up to just above her ankles with dark brown laces.

Family

• Harvald Artemius Kensington (b. 1854)
  • Annabella Charlotte (Rollins ) Kensington (b. 1857)
    • Bonnie Madeline Kensington (b. 1881)
    • Caroline Lucille (Kensington) Hirsch (b. 1890)
      • Jeremy Arlen Hirsch (b. 1888)
        • Aimee Mathilde Hirsch (b. 1914)
        • Michaela Alina Hirsch (b. 1914)
    • Francine Maria Kensington (b. 1893)
    • Annelle Henrietta (Kensington) Rousseau (b. 1894)
      • Alexis Hugues Rousseau (b. 1893)
        • Marin Andrew Rousseau (b. 1914)
        • Marjolaine Roselle Rousseau (b. 1917)