Noémie Jeanne Ribouet

[Background] [Personality] [Description] [Outfits] [Family]

• Name Meaning
  • Noémie: pleasantness
  • Jeanne: god is good
• Birthdate: April 11, 1911
• Role: Dancer
• Former House: Ravenclaw
• Wand: Rigid Holly wood, long, with a turquoise powder core

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Background

To say the Bones family was a proud one would be to understate their position in Wizarding society. The family tree was not a small one, and included a very long line of pureblood English wizards, with only the occasional ‘outside interference,’ which, while included in the family tree, was often ignored when recounting the history of the Bones family. Generation upon generation of pureblood wizards led all the way up to the ninteenth century, which began with the birth of Uriel Nicholas Bones. He was the sole Bones heir, as his parents were unable to conceive any more children. Uriel, like all his family before him, was trained by tutors, then, at the age of eleven, was off to Hogwarts, where he pulled his weight in the Gryffindor house. His future bride was a Ravenclaw of Klondike descent, and though the two did not know it at the time, their families had agreed to combine with the marriage of their children. Uriel graduated in 1822, and Gwenivere in 1823. They were pushed together following their graduation, and encouraged, however forcefully, to pursue a courtship. In 1827, after Uriel had secured and finished his internship in the Ministry of Magic, the two were wed, and found residence in the countryside near Bath.

In 1829, Uriel was transferred to the Committee for International Magical Cooperation as a Liason to the American council. This meant that he was alotted a bit more time at home to be with his wife, who he had come to appreciate, even if their love was rather forced, though he was expected to travel for weeks at a time on occasion. It was in 1830, during one of his trips to America, that Gwenivere gave birth to their first child, Francis Thomas Bones. While Uriel had known his wife was pregnant, it still came as a bit of a surprise when he arrived home to find an infant son in addition to his wife and the help. He was overjoyed however, at conceiving an heir the first time around, and was thankful that he was not forced to go on another several week trip for over a year. In early 1833, he took one trip that lasted nearly two months, arranging many things with the American council. When he returned home, he found that his wife was once again pregnant, in her fourth month. Shocked at the news that he would be made doubly a father, Uriel began to throw himself into work, coming home only to sleep and occasionally see guests. He was working late at work when in late 1833, Christopher Dale Bones joined the family. He arrived home very late and took to his bed quickly, without saying so much as a word to anyone else. It was three days before he heard the news of his own son’s birth.

Uriel continued his hard work for the next three years, though he was quite aware when Parmal Amaret Bones joined her brothers, becoming the third and last Bones child that Gwenivere would have. Uriel was once again promoted, and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1840, when Parmal was five, and when his oldest, Francis Thomas was nearly ready to head off to Hogwarts. Off to Hogwarts Francis did go in 1841, and he was sorted into Slytherin. Christopher followed four years later in 1845 and was sorted to Ravenclaw. Parmal joined the ranks in 1846, and was also sorted to Slytherin. Francis graduated from Hogwarts in 1848, and several years later, in 1852 was wed to a fellow Slytherin of the notable Black family, Ethel Murphey Black. Despite the pressure on them to produce further heirs to the Bones family, the two waited nearly six years before they had their first child, Bertha Melvina Bones in 1858. Their second child, and the heir to the family name, Uriel Magenta Bones was born in 1860. Capricorn Leslie Bones followed in 1864, the youngest of the small family. Francis followed in the way his parents had taught him and was sure to teach his children the ways of the family and to instill in them the values that he had long been taught over his life. Uriel and Capricorn took to his values much in the way that he had taken to them himself. His oldest, Bertha, was rather rebellious, however, and became one of the family members no longer spoken about when she took and married a Muggle man.

While Francis harbored a great shame for his oldest daughter’s antics, Christopher’s family was somewhat less dramatic. The man married Louisa Maxine Sloyer, a pureblood wizard of rather pitiful means who was three years younger than himself, in 1854. While the girl was not of the most respectable family, she was at least a pureblood, and therefore Christopher’s life match was approved by the Bones patriarch. Their first child, Jeane Marion Bones, came just eleven months after their marriage, in March of 1855. Three years following, in 1858, Harvey Larsen Bones, Christopher’s heir, joined the family. After two children, the two began to bicker and argue, though they did so only in private, and no more children followed, despite that having three children was now quite a tradition. Tragedy struck the family when, in the summer before he was to go to Hogwarts, Harvey was struck by a passing bludger at a Quidditch match, and died before the mediwitches were able to save him. He was nearly twelve years old. Jeane, though she was the first child and was still quite well, was more or less ignored by her parents as their grief at losing their only son overtook them. The Hufflepuff girl could not help but feel disappointed at the lack of attention to her accomplishments. Jeane was made prefect in her fifth year, and narrowly missed being made Head Girl — one of her cousins had gotten it — in her seventh. In 1880, Jeane was wed to Astor Marshall Burgess, a pureblood Gryffindor from respectable parentage. Her match was approved, and the two went on to have two children: Alora Mariette Burgess in 1882, and Hannah Jeannette Burgess in 1885.

Alora showed magical tendencies from a very early age, often causing trouble for the mild-mannered Jeane. Hannah, however, had not shown any tendencies toward magical ability. While Jeane received her letter inviting her to Hogwarts in late 1893 and headed to the school as indicated in September of 1894, it was clear that Hannah would not be joining her Gryffindor sister at Hogwarts. Indeed, by the time the girl was twelve, it was apparent that she did not have any magical ability and was, indeed, a squib. This caused scandal in the family, and she was quickly sent away to live with her grandparents, where they hoped she might be raised up and be able to at least further some respectable family’s bloodline. All hopes, therefore, rested on Alora to further the Burgess and Bones blood. Alora did not appear to have these ideas about her family, however, and though she had been taught since infancy that she must marry a good, English, pureblood wizard, Hogwarts had been good for her temperment, and Alora emerged from Hogwarts with a much more open mind than her predecessors. Alora took a job at a large hotel for visiting wizards in Brighton, working as a reservationist and receptionist for the bustling place. She was the first woman of her family to take work, and it was not received well by the Bones or Burgess families.

Alora did not care what her family thought, and thoroughly enjoyed her work in the Constance Hotel. The young woman had secured her own apartment, becoming also the first of her family to live alone rather than with her family until marriage. Christopher’s grief at this matched that of his brother when his own daughter had married a muggle, and he ceased communication with his rebel daughter soon after her exodus from the Burgess household. Alora, while she regretted the presence of her parents in her life, preferred the freedom of living in the life she had chosen, and did not fret much over her ostracization.

It was while she was working at the hotel that she met a young bookseller, Angier Gervais Ribouet, of France, who chose that very hotel to stay at while he was on business in Brighton. Angier was the youngest child of Latimer Edgard Ribouet and Eleonore Mireille Bonheur. The Ribouets, too, were a very respectable family, though without the history that the English Bones family had. They, too, had been completely pureblood, but their generations were much more lengthened. For instance, Latimer was thirty-eight years old whin his oldest child, Latimer Edgard Ribouet, Junior, was born. He was fifty-eight when Maximilien Aristide Ribouet joined the family. At the spry age of seventy-five, Angier was born. By the time of Angier’s birth, the oldest, Latimer Jr had already betrayed his family’s trust by marrying an English witch rather than a respectable French witch of his family’s choosing. Maximilien had followed in the family’s wishes, marrying a French woman from a well-to-do family, of whom the Ribouets approved. Maximilien was well grown by the time Angier was born, and indeed was preparing to have one of his own children by the time his younger brother came into the world.

Angier had been instructed by the best tutors to be found, just as his brothers had been, before heading off to the prestigious Beauxbatons Academy. Upon graduation, Angier, who had always been an enthusiast about books, found employment at a local bookseller’s shop. He began in the stockroom — though his connections certainly could have gotten him a higher position — and worked his way up in the small company until he was appointed to the position of Liason. His job was then to travel to different countries, from bookshop to bookshop, creating negotiations between the bookshops and his own company for the sales of books. It was on one of these trips, in hopes of creating rapport with the booksellers of Brighton, that he met Alora. She had been merely the desk clerk at the hotel, but as he stayed there for well over a week, and saw her several times a day, he began to get to know her. The two quickly got on with each other, and began spending time together once she was relieved of her duties for the evening. He would take her out to dinner, and for one evening, the two made their way to France for a night of exquisite ballet. As if from a storybook, the two needed only that week and a half to know that they wanted to marry. The night before Angier was to depart, the two petitioned a distant cousin of Alora’s who was in the Ministry, one who would never have been acknowledged by the Bones or the Burgess families, and he performed the ceremony leading to their union. It was in 1904, when Alora was twenty-two, and Angier was twenty-nine that the two were married.

For a time, the two had a bit of a commuter marriage. Alora stayed on at the hotel, while Angier continued his work as a liason for his booksellers. This became difficult for the newly married couple, and after only two years of this, Alora put her foot down — Angier would find new employment, or she would leave him. This was not something either of them wanted, being still madly in love, so Angier found a small shopfront in Chesapeake Point, and the two settled down in a little house nearby to the shop. His new shop was a specialty book shop, where he sold books that many English book sellers either could not find, or did not wish to sell. Business was not booming, but it was steady, and he had a few notable clients who he could count on to pay for the things the family needed, as well as a good number of things that they did not. In 1911, when Alora was twenty-nine and Angier was thirty-six that the two had their first and only child. Noémie Jeanne Ribouet was their pride and joy, and both decided that she was the most beautiful baby they had ever set eyes on. She was a well-behaved child, seeming to only wimper when she was hungry and little else. As she progressed past toddlerhood, the girl showed immense interest in the things her parents would do. The magic they performed fascinated her, and she would often find sticks and try to do the same, usually causing very little to happen, if anything at all.

When she was four, her parents secured a tutor for her, to begin teaching her the basics. At this same time, they also procured for their daughter a dance instructor, and annexed onto their rather small home a dance studio. The Ribouets would give the best they could to their daughter who was, aside from them, ostracized from the rest of her rather large family. During the summers, Angier would shut up his shop, and the three of them, Alora, Angier and little Noémie, would take trips to France. The constant trips there helped the young Ribouet learn of her father’s roots and home country, and also become quite fluent in French. By the age of ten, she was fluent in both English and French, with a passion for learning languages and, well, anything else she could get her hands on. When her letter for Hogwarts arrived in April of 1922, Noémie was ecstatic. She could hardly wait for the summer when they would, instead of taking a trip to France, go to Diagon Alley for her school supplies. The summer came and went soon enough, and it seemed almost too soon for Angier and Alora that their only daughter was on the train, bound for Hogwarts.

Noémie was sorted into Ravenclaw, a result which did not much surprise her parents, and which excited the girl, for it meant that her years of studies and her passion of learning would be matched by her housemates. While she was very excited to be around all the people, and anxious to make friends, the girl who had been only around her mother, father, and teachers found it difficult to cultivate these friendships. She was more apt to befriend the teachers, or even some of the older students, none of whom were particularly interested in befriending an eleven-year-old. While Noémie continued to endeavor, hoping to create a good impression on her peers by earning a good mess of points for Ravenclaw, being in a house of people who did the same made it difficult to stand out, and Noémie remained friendless, save for the occasional conversation in the commonroom.

In her second year, little changed for the Ravenclaw student. This year, though, rather than hoping and praying that she would be-friend some of her housemates, she instead began to fill her free time with practice at flying, or dancing to keep in practice at it. The girl did try out for the Quidditch team, but had not yet mastered any of the skills that would allow her to take a spot on the team. She still endeavored, however, practicing her flying and some of her ball-catching skills in her free time, with hopes of making it on the team the next year, and make it she did! She was put on the team in the position of seeker. Her dancing seemed to take a backseat (particularly since she could not have her teacher with her at Hogwarts) and she focussed only on quidditch, still practicing and honing her skills. Ravenclaw did not win that year, but this did not discourage Noémie. It was during her third year as well that she took on three elective courses (more than the average!), though she quickly found it difficult to keep up with so many classes as well as Quidditch. She at first chose Arithmancy, Wizo-music and Wizo-art. Throughout the course of her third year, the girl struggled to keep up with all the classes, and though she persevered, her marks in her elective courses were not as stellar as they could have been.

Before her fourth year began, Noémie made the decision to drop the Wizo-music class, and take only Arithmancy and Wizo-art instead. Her fourth year was not less busy, as Ravenclaw trained harder than they had the previous year, hoping to prevail as the winner of either the Quidditch cup or the House cup, or both. Noémie did her part, answering questions, volunteering to help teachers, and practicing hard at Quidditch after classes. Despite all this hard work, however, Ravenclaw was defeated, and Slytherin came out the winner of the 1925-1926 Quidditch cup. However, due to all the hard work of herself and her housemates, Ravenclaw managed to secure the House cup, something which they quickly decided was a more reputable thing to have.

It was at the end of her fourth year, when her marks were finished, and Noémie was once again focussed on her dancing rather than her quidditch, that Noémie received a letter informing her that she had been made Prefect! She was also made Quidditch captain, something which excited her very much. The girl was primed and ready to begin her fifth year at Hogwarts, and could not have been more pleased at it. Though OWLs were to be had this year, and her prefecture and captainship added additional responsibility, Noémie was quite excited and ready to begin the 1926-1927 school year.

Noémie’s fifth year began with excitement for the Barefoot Social — a girls ask boys event — to which she asked Casper Hadley. The two soon began to try to have a relationship, but after a rather hazardous first kiss, the relationship floundered. Quidditch began to pick up soon after, so Noémie found she had an easy distraction in the aftermath of this short convergence. It was after the first Quidditch match that she was told by no less than the Headmistress that she did, indeed, have family, and that the Headmistress was part of that family, as well as the woman’s grandson, Riley Markham, who was on the Quidditch team with Noémie. Aside from the extra practices that Noémie helped his Quidditch in, she also agreed to take on tutoring him, which went through the rest of the school year. Later in the year, the Governors sponsored a ball, for fourth years and above, and rather than ask any of her classmates, Noémie invited Marshall Whitmoore, her former tutor, to accompany her to the ball. While rumors flew about her bringing the much older man to the dance, these were soon forgotten in light of a new relationship blooming: one between herself and Joseph Wexler. Many semi-public escapades ensued, including a situation where the groundskeeper and school nurse (Joseph’s cousin) happened upon them in the courtyard, Professor Rathe’s daughter discovered them canoodling in the Hall of the Stars, and Professor Kensington gave Joseph a month of detention for skiving off of Divination one day to be with her. When Ravenclaw won the Quidditch Cup, Noémie was ecstatic, but she hadn’t much time to dwell on her joy, because she was soon forced to hunker down and study for her impending OWLs. The girl came out well from the exams, earning two Os (in Charms and Magical Art), and three Es, with a total of ten OWLs. While she was glad to go to France as her family always did over the Summer Holidays, Noémie found it to be the hardest summer yet, as she was forced to communicate long-distance with her boyfriend, something which can be very difficult for two sixteen-year-olds.

Noémie’s sixth year began with promise. She was beginning her NEWT level classes — she took five, Ancient Runes, Charms, Herbology, Magical Art, and Transfiguration — and had a steady boyfriend. Quidditch also began again, and from the very start, Ravenclaw seemed to have things together. As the year went on, rather uneventfully, Noémie and Joseph stagnated and she seemed to spend more and more time at the Quidditch Pitch. This paid off when, at the finish of the year, Ravenclaw took the Quidditch Cup again. It wasn’t until the summer that things seemed to pick up again. Noémie once again went to France for the summer, as she had every year of her rememberance. The letters came fewer and fewer as the summer waned on, only adding to Noémie’s frustration. She was at the height of her frustration when there was a Soiree held in Diagon Alley. She went, and was, for a time, on Joseph’s arm, before he wandered off. It was unconcerning for a time, until he didn’t come back for a while. When Noémie went looking for him, she found him in the company of Ivy Thornweld, a Slytherin in their year. The two began kissing, and it started off an argument between the three of them, complicated only when Casper Hadley joined in. The situation, as expected, did not end well, and Noémie returned to France quite distraught and spent the rest of the summer moping about, even through her continued dance lessons. Her spirits perked up a little when she realized that she would return to school from her last year, as a Prefect and Quidditch captain, and though Joseph would be there, she felt good about what the year would hold.

Noémie’s seventh year wrapped up her Hogwarts years perfectly. The girl had been made Head Girl, much to her own delight, and took every opportunity to show off this fact. Her Quiddith season went smoothly, with Ravenclaw quite easily winning all of their matches, and, in the end of the year, the Quidditch cup for the third year running, and Noémie’s last year as captain. Her studies flourished as she had less classes in her last year, and though she did not particularly enjoy her NEWT exams, she was glad to be done with them, with three respectable NEWT scores to her credit. Noémie’s social life, though she had expected it to be barren, flourished as she became smitten with Michael Pantall, the older brother of Kelly Pantall, against whom she had matched up several times in Quidditch. Noémie found that Michael was quite different than Joseph in many ways, and though the relationship lacked a certain spark, she found it sweet and comforting, and saw it out through the rest of their seventh year, and beyond. Soon upon graduation, Noémie secured, with the help of her father, an apartment on Circle Street in Diagon Alley. She felt this was a suitably central location and an advantageous place for her to begin her auditions into the various theatres in England. It was rough going, and even through the winter after her graduation from Hogwarts had not managed to secure a spot even in the chorus of a dance troupe.

It was about a year after she graduated from Hogwarts that Noémie finally got her first spot in a dance company. She was merely part of the chorus, but it was a steady job, and allowed Noémie to afford her own apartment, rather than depending on the money that her parents were sending monthly. Soon she needed the money less and less, and the money began to taper off until she no longer saw change purses accompanying the owls who dropped off her parents’ letters to her. Slowly but surely, Noémie began to prove herself in the company, and was rewarded with the occasional featured role in a scene here and there. She began to dance more, and even was awarded small singing roles on occasion, despite her only moderately okay singing voice.

It was approximately a year later when Noémie finally broke off her tryst with Michael Pantall, when the two realized that they had different priorities for their futures. It was several months later that the young woman reconnected with Marshall Whitmoore, her former tutor. The two formed a fast friendship, which escalated toward romance rather quickly. By Noémie’s twentieth birthday, the two announced that they were engaged, much to her parents’ dismay. They said very little to her about this, however, wanting instead for their daughter to pursue happiness in her own way. They did not want her to face the same ostracization that they faced with their families. The two set a late 1932 wedding date and plans were set toward the eventual wedding. Noémie continued to work all throughout, and was becoming increasingly busy, between the wedding planning and the increased demands of the roles she was earning.

Personality

Noemie is a stolid young woman. Her emotions are controlled when she does show them, though she can, on occasion, show great passion and enthusiasm when it suits her to do so. This is rarely inspired, however, as the she finds it easier to keep everything under control constantly. Her temper does have a tendency to flare up, and when it does, she is loud and assertive, with a tendency to yell. After the initial outburst, she will simmer down, but her anger will not abate for still some time.

Noemie is a hard worker when it comes to the things she cares about, though those that do not weigh as heavily into her opinion will fall easily and quickly by the wayside. She can also be very prideful, believing herself to be the best in what she does and cares about, and refusing sometimes to see even when others are genuinely better than she is. For one with a tendency to be as perceptive as she has the possibility to be, Noemie frequently will miss something that is quite obvious to others, simply because the fact does not fall under something that she considers among her highest priorities.

Description

Noemie is quite tall, very slender. Her stance is very straight, as if she has spent a lot of time dancing. Her figure has gentle curves, seeming to take a more womanly form, though even still her shape quite flat, without many obviously outstanding assets of which to speak. She has slightly tanned skin, rather incongruent with many of those frequently around her, though her skin is not very dark. Her complection is clear and free from freckles and blemishes, a smooth canvas for her moods and expressions. The young woman has light brown hair which falls rather long in tight waves. She often attempts to pull it back, sometimes in a bun, sometimes with a simple ribbon, but inevitably ends up deciding to let it hang long. She has gray eyes, flecked with hints of blue. Her features are strong, and resemble very closely those of her father’s family. Her nose is identical to her mother’s, small and slightly upturned, while her mouth and chin are strong and resemble almost identically those of her father.

Outfits

Ball Robes

Looking quite tall and lean in her wine red dress, Noemie is clad in a very simple, yet elegant gown. Its simplicity is highlighted in the simple U-shape collar, with a bit of sheer edging to it, that leads to a bare neck. Her dress is not particularly low-cut, though it does push some limits being as moderately low as it is. The dress hugs her narrow waist and the slight flare of her hips gently, while a stripe of the cheer fabric lays over the fabric at her hip. The gown is long, covering her feet, and has a small train at the back which trails behind her as she walks. The U-shaped neckline leads to bared arms as the dress has no sleeves. The only adornment on the gown is a knotted flower-like bit of sheer fabric which is affixed just above her left breast. Similar knots of smaller size are fixed among her hair, which is swept up off of her neck and shoulders and out of her face in a loose bun-like up-do.

Barefoot Social Robes

The cream colored shade of Noemie’s dress seems to accent the tanned tones of her skin. Starting with small, sheer sleeves and shoulders, the dress begins a more solid, ruched fabric in the same shade at her underarms. This ruching goes down just to her hips and slightly over them, though it doesn’t go down far enough to cover them completely. On the front of this stretched down to the bottom of the ruching are three diamon shapes, placed end to end and decorated with silvery crystals. Below the ruching point, a straight skirt flows down to the girl’s calves, ending with a straight edge and no ruffles. The skirt itself is simple without any frills, drawing attention up to the top portion of the dress.

Family

• Uriel Nicholas Bones (b. 1804)
  • Gwenivere Ann (Klondike) Bones (b. 1805)
    • Francis Thomas Bones (b. 1830)
      • Ethel Murphey (Black) Bones (b. 1833)
        • Bertha Melvina (Bones) Prichard (b. 1858)
          • Everett Alan Prichard (b. 1857)
            • Laurie Bertha (Prichard) Markham (b. 1882)
              • Robert Jacob Markham (b. 1879)
              • Thomas Gavin Markham (b. 1900)
              • Paul Anderson Markham (b. 1904)
              • Riley Everett Markham (b. 1913)
        • Uriel Magenta Bones (b. 1860)
        • Capricorn Leslie Bones (b. 1864)
    • Christopher Dale Bones (b. 1833)
      • Louisa Maxine (Sloyer) Bones (b. 1836)
        • Jeane Marion (Bones) Burgess (b. 1855)
          • Astor Marshall Burgess (b. 1855)
            • Alora Mariette (Burgess) Ribouet (b. 1882)
              • Angier Gervais Ribouet (b. 1875)
                • Noemie Jeanne Ribouet (b. 1911)
                  • Marshall Bradley Whitmoore (b. 1890)
                    • Rosalind Noelle Ribouet (b. 1942)
        • Hannah Jeannette Burgess (b. 1885)
      • Harvey Larsen Bones; (b. 1858 ; d. 1870)
    • Parmal Amaret Bones (b. 1835)
• Latimer Edgard Ribouet (b. 1800)
  • Eleonore Mireille (Bonheur) Ribouet (b. 1804)
    • Latimer Edgard Ribouet (b. 1838)
      • Collen Alease (Auttenberg) Ribouet (b. 1840)
        • Arnauld Francois Ribouet (b. 1861)
    • Maximilien Aristide Ribouet (b. 1858)
    • Angier Gervais Ribouet (b. 1875)
      • Alora Mariette (Burgess) Ribouet (b. 1882)