Indira Lilavati Montgomery

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• Name Meaning
  • Indira: beauty
  • Lilavati: charming
• Birthdate: August 12, 1926
• Role: Unsorted Student
• House: Undetermined
• Wand: Swishy willow wood, over-long, with a zircon powder core

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Background

Amala Vasanti Parmer grew up in a small community just to the west of Arborath in Scotland. She was the second generation of her family to be born in the area, and while the family had become quite fluent in English, they had continued to marry into other Indian families. Amala’s parents were both Indian, both born in the area. Both attended Hogwarts in their time, and when it came time for Amala and her brother to attend, their parents could not have been more thrilled. Amala’s older brother was sorted into Ravenclaw, as their father had been, and Amala followed a few years later. She was sorted into Gryffindor and quickly found friends in the house.

Amala’s years at Hogwarts were fairly uneventful. She never tried out for the Quidditch team, wasn’t made prefect and didn’t join any clubs. She had her small group of friends with whom she socialized, and through the years it grew bigger rather than smaller. In her fifth year, she began to really notice the boys in her year. She spent a few Hogsmeade weekends with this one or that one, but it wasn’t until early in her sixth year that she and Baldric Montgomery really started to notice one another. Unlike her other little flings, she and Baldric seemed inseparable once they came together. Baldric and his friends immediately became part of Amala’s group of friends, and they all began to intermix, many of Amala’s friends joining up with Baldric’s friends. It was quite the set. While there were breakups and new relationships formed among the group, Amala and Baldric were consistently together through the end of their days at Hogwarts.

The Montgomery family, who also lived in Scotland, had a long history in antique books. While Baldric’s father did not pursue the family line of business, instead pursuing a career in book review at the Daily Prophet while is wife ascended to a senior position at a local cauldron shop. Baldric’s uncle Irving stayed in the family business, and when Amala and Baldric left Hogwarts, Uncle Irving was happy to offer both jobs working at the Montgomery family’s shop front. Amala was the face of the shop, taking orders and ensuring that everything was alright with the customers who came in to retrieve books, while Baldric’s main function was to keep track of inventory and package up the books that were to leave with customers.

After two years of performing admirably in their roles at the shop, the two decided it was time for the two of them to take the next step in their lives and organized a wedding. Amala and Baldric were married at Amala’s family’s home, with all of their friends from Hogwarts as well as their extensive families in audience for the marriage. After a short honeymoon trip to the south of Greece, the newlyweds were back to work at the shop, and slowly beginning to take on more responsibilities in regards to the business.

It took some time, but after a few more years, Uncle Irving decided that he would be well-off to retire and relinquish control of his portion of the family business. Much to the shock of most of the family, instead of giving control over to Baldric, his blood relative, he decided that Amala would have the responsibility. No love was lost between the couple, as Baldric naturally and correctly assumed that he would be involved in a higher capacity than he had been when his uncle was in charge of the business, and the Montgomery family’s business was in safe hands with Amala’s sharp business-savvy mind and ability to schmooze much more successfully than her husband.

The first task that Amala and Baldric undertook was to familiarize themselves with the current status of all aspects of the business, and once their knowledge base was established, Amala set Baldric to find more rare and sought-after books to increase their on-hand collection. His tasks became to locate the books and restore them to the best of his ability, while using his excellent skill in charms to try to protect the books to the best of his ability.

Things fell into a comfortable routine for a few more years, but the couple felt that something was missing from their lives. They had suitably challenging and exciting jobs and enough family and friends to keep them entertained, but no children of their own. Some of their friends had started to have children very soon after leaving school, and while this did not affect them at first, both began to feel the tug of the urge to parenthood. Instead of their fairly passive activities that lead to enjoyment but a lack of progeny, the two began to actively pursue pregnancy with a vengeance.

Not until 1921 were their efforts rewarded, and on the last day of August in 1921, their first son was born. After much debate, the two decided to compromise in the naming of their children, giving Baldric first name picks for any sons, and Amala first name picks for any girls. Their first son was given the name Lawson Nanda Montgomery, after Baldric’s grandfather and Amala’s father.

Amala continued to work, as did Baldric, though Amala’s pace was somewhat slowed for the first year of Lawson’s life. She enlisted the help of her younger sister, two years out of Hogwarts but still without any internship or career path to speak of. The young woman cared for Lawson in an annex to Amala’s office while the woman was in meetings to allow her to continue doing business without any interference.

Three years later, Jasper Anish joined the Montgomery family on December 18, 1924, this time named for Baldric’s father and Amala’s grandfather. The same situation still worked with Amala, her sister, and her two young son. Lawson was growing older – he could talk and walk and had already showed that he would eventually attend Hogwarts just as his parents had. Life for the Montgomery family was slowly getting more hectic, and things only got busier for the young family when Amala’s sister left to pursue an internship that she had acquired.

The next task was to find a live-in nanny to help with the children so that the family could keep the business thriving. After a few months, a young man named Talbot Anderson was hired to care for the two young Montgomery sons. The second child of ten in his family, he had ample experience at assisting with the care of young children.

It wasn’t very long after Talbot began his care of the Montgomery boys before the family welcomed another child on August 12, 1926. This time, a girl, who was named Indira Lilavati Montgomery. Baldric, having decided that he had no female names that he felt strongly enough to contribute, gave over full naming rights to his wife.

The next three years were move of the same, as Amala and Baldric along with their three children established as much of a routine as they could with three children, all at differing stages of development. Their precarious routine changed again as on October 8, 1929, Kala Joyce became the sixth member of the Montgomery family. Talbot had his work cut out for him, with an eight-year-old, a five-year-old, a three-year-old and an infant to care for, and while Amala helped where she could, life at the Montgomery home and at the office was hectic day and night.

Despite how hectic things were, the children grew up strong and energetic, and Amala and Baldric liked to muse that they would have four Gryffindors in school, and in not particularly long. In fact, the next three years seemed to fly by, and soon it was time for Lawson to leave for Hogwarts. His letter arrived, and as soon as his letter was in hand, Baldric and Amala threw a party not akin to a birthday party. Instead of toys and other entertaining gifts, however, Lawson was gifted with antique versions of his necessary school books and top quality supplies for when he would leave for Hogwarts. The biggest gift of all turned out to be, not the replica of the solar system, as he had hoped, but a large trunk. The trunk was in a rich shade of green with brass accents, and while it was a very nice trunk, Lawson couldn’t help but be disappointed that he got nothing fun from this spontaneous party. His disappointment did not last long, however. Following this party, his parents ushered him alone to Diagon Alley for his biggest rite of passage: he was getting his wand. While he wasn’t able to use it except in the testing he did in the shop, Lawson had a true Ollivander creation. It was made of broom wood, medium-short in length with a silver thread at its core.

The time until September was short, and the day after his eleventh birthday, Lawson boarded the train on his way to Hogwarts for the very first time. It was with slight disappointment that his parents received the news that he was sorted to Hufflepuff, but both having had very good friends in Hufflepuff and knowing that the sorting hat was never wrong, they got over their disappointment and sent their congratulations whole-heartedly, along with a few little Hufflepuff-themed trinkets in Lawson’s first week.

Lawson thrived in his courses at Hogwarts, taking a shine to Herbology and to potions very quickly. He found it easy to make friends among his classmates, both in his house and out of it. When the boy came home for his first summer, he hardly stopped talking about all he had seen and learned at Hogwarts. As his siblings were now getting older, and were all interested in learning about the school to which they would all go (or they hoped they would!) eventually, Talbot found his job much easier for the first time since he had come to work for the Montgomery family. Suddenly, except when they were hungry or in need of a nap, the three younger Montgomery children were enraptured by their older brother’s stories and would sit quietly for hours, just listening to all he had to say and admiring his school supplies.

As Lawson was finishing out his fourth year at Hogwarts, Jasper’s own letter inviting him to Hogwarts at the start of the 1936-1937 school term. He was treated to the same style of party as Lawson had celebrated, with his own special trunk punctuating the gift-giving (his was chocolate brown with silver accents), and his own trip to Ollivander’s was long before his own tenure at Hogwarts would begin. He was given an oak wand, medium-long with a griffin feather at its core. Following this, the boy talked of nothing except how he would be sorted to Gryffindor and would become the star of the Quidditch team (something neither of his parents could figure how he would do, since he had never flown nor been to a Quidditch match).

Jasper joined Lawson on the train as his older brother started his fifth year at Hogwarts. News was conveyed home that Jasper had followed in his parents footsteps and was sorted to Gryffindor. Jasper, too, was gifted some house-centric doodads, and thus his own first year began. Enthusiastic letters came home from both boys regularly, Lawson’s detailing how his favorite classes were going, and Jasper’s telling the details of all of the quidditch matches and practices that he was able to attend. His own skill was as yet untried, though he managed alright in his flying class. At any rate, he didn’t break any bones. Jasper finished his first year making decidedly average marks, but with a new fire for Quidditch and everything relating to Quidditch.

Just at the end of Jasper’s first year at the famed school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Indira’s letter arrived. Another party was thrown, and just as her brothers had, Indira was given antique books (where they were available) to use for her classes, and top-quality supplies. Her own gifted trunk was the final gift, just as her brothers had received, and hers was indigo with chrome accents. She, too, was taken to Ollivander’s to choose her wand, and unlike Jasper, she only had to wait a short time to be able to use her new wand for the first time. The wand that she left with was made of willow, quite long with a core of zircon powder.

With three children leaving for Hogwarts that year, Talbot’s job at the Montgomery residence was severely decreased. Only little Kala remained at home, and as docile a child as she was, she was hardly any work at all for the man. Amala, who was ever seeking to keep things in her business fresh and interesting, decided that he could help with some things with the business in between helping to care for Kala, Talbot jumped at the opportunity for a little variety in his days. Just as Indira prepared to leave with her brothers to head to Hogwarts, Talbot began a new position with the family on top of being in charge of Kala’s care and education.

The Montgomery family’s life had finally slowed from the insanity of the previous eleven years, and finally there seemed to be a little peace at home, even if work was as busy as ever for the family.

Indira’s first year at Hogwarts was an interesting affair. She found that learning with all the other students around was quite distracting, and it was sometimes a challenge for her to keep her mind on the teachers’ instruction. After getting reprimanded several times and even losing points once for eavesdropping on a whispered conversation behind her rather than answering a question as prompted, this behavior began to die down. She soon found vigor and excitement in trying to be the first to master a technique and the one to get the highest marks on homework. This was easy enough in her first year, as she had been well-tutored in the theory required to complete the homework, so her main focus was merely the actual magic involved. She began to make a friends, the best being in Ravenclaw, though she had a few friends in each of the other houses as well. Indira, as far as she was concerned, had a very productive and successful first year. She had high marks in all of her topics, and while she didn’t top in every subject, she did achieve top marks in Potions, which was easily the most exciting class for her.

The summer after her first year was a lively one. With all four children at home, the house was bustling. Lawson was to go into his seventh year, and Indira and Jasper teased him incessantly about the girl that he had been seen around school with, sometimes even holding hands with her in public. Their parents seemed to pay this no mind, so the teasing persisted all summer long, much to Lawson’s chagrin. Jasper and Indira bonded over their mutual love of potions and became closer than they had ever been, chatting excitedly about the things that Indira would be learning in the coming year and dreaming big dreams about their own potion company someday. Little Kala was left out of this particular frivolity since she was as yet too young to go to Hogwarts and therefore too young to join in on the fun. Her older siblings hardly seemed to notice her pouting about this, though, and especially did not notice her small smirk as they all left to Hogwarts again and she once again got Talbot and their parents all to herself.

Indira’s second year started even better than her first. She had fewer problems with concentration and got on with her new coursework fairly well, although she found it much more difficult and was not as easily able to complete the theory as she had in her first year. Her issues with concentration became a problem midway through her second year, not because she was distracted in class any longer, but because she had found a new interest: Quidditch. She had paid little attention to the sport other than to cheer for her house in her first year, so interested was she in mastering things for class. She was dragged to a match with her friends and quickly found herself immersed in every aspect of the game, including learning to play herself. This provided a new challenge for her, as she could not study and practice Quidditch at the same time. The girl was forced to learn to balance her time better, and with less time to focus on perfection, her marks were no longer the top of the class, except in potions where she continued to excel. Second year’s marks, while lower than in her first year, were still good.

The summer after her second year was spent writing letters to friends and spending every other waking moment talking about Quidditch or playing chess with her parents or older brother.

Personality

Being the third child of four, and younger than two energetic boys, Indira has developed as a headstrong and confident young woman, capable of running with the boys and often preferring it. She is often fearless in the face of a new situation, and this fearlessness tends to lead to brash carelessness, which has resulted in a few broken bones in her short years, though no terribly serious injuries have been sustained. With parents whose job is to procure and preserve antique books, one might assume that Indira would have a passion for books and learning, but while she can appreciate a suitably restored antique book, the girl’s attentions to lessons have been apathetic at best to this point in her life.

As far as Indira is concerned, life should consist of good food, bright colors and fun – nothing else. After years of practice, the girl has developed a passion for games and can beat even her two older brothers most of the time at Wizard’s chess and gobstones, and her competitive nature makes her determined to win even at a game that she hasn’t played before. While fiercely competitive, the girl is also quite good-natured and has learned well over the years that a humble win is better than a haughty one or one overshadowed by gloating. This doesn’t diminish her personal satisfaction when she is able to come out on top in anything, be it chess or final marks.

Indira’s worst fault is probably her distractability. This alone has been the biggest obstacle for her with her family and her studies. She has a tendency toward disjointed conversation, often changing her line of conversation in the middle of a sentence. She often forgets where she’s going when she’s halfway there, or does half of an assignment on a bit of parchment, and half of another, connected seamlessly as if they are both the same assignment. This is a particularly sensitive issue for her, as she has no idea what to do combat it, and any ridicule that she receives thanks to the issue helps her explosive temper along. She is quick to anger on this issue and slow to forgive, and the combination of her perpetual distractedness and sensitivity about it can often be very violent for the poor child who chooses to taunt her over it.

Description

At age fourteen, Indira is starting to develop more adult features and grow out of her baby fat. She has slimmed down a bit, developing a more feminine frame. She is by no means out of the woods, so to speak, when it comes to awkwardness, for her newfound curves have provided her a whole new set of problems with which she is unequipped to handle, and her childish awkwardness has been replaced by teenage awkwardness. Her face has slimmed down, the chipmunk-like cheeks have vanished. She has a fairly unremarkable nose and no freckles to speak of. Her smile is even, though her teeth are a bit crowded. Her lips have a slight burgundy tinge to them. Her skin is medium in tone and could be described as a light caramel toned. She has a few spots on her face. Her hair is black and hangs long and straight. She often plaits it in one long braid that hangs down her back, sometimes weaving a ribbon in. Her dark eyelashes and eyebrows frame the one feature which she has inherited from her father: her green eyes. She is about average height as compared to the other girls in her year, or perhaps slightly on the above-average side.

Outfits

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Family

• Baldric Ormond Montgomery (b. 1895)
  • Amala Vasanti (Parmer) Montgomery (b. 1894)
    • Lawson Nanda Montgomery (b. 1921)
    • Jasper Anish Montgomery (b. 1924)
    • Indira Lilavati Montgomery (b. 1926)
    • Kala Joyce Montgomery (b. 1929)