Audrey Fawcett

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The Breach	bleedredandgold	Michelle Rodriguez

Basic Stats

Full Name: Audrey Paz Fawcett (née Dunbar)
Nickname(s): None
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Date of Birth: November 16, 1950
Zodiac: Scorpio
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to Ryland Fawcett (Aug 10, 1974)
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Current Residence: Ottery St Catchpole, England
House & Year: Gryffindor 1969
Occupation: Officer: Magical Law Enforcement Patrol
Wand: 8.5 in, chestnut, dragon heartstring
Pet: None

Family

Father: Harold Dunbar (wizard; Ravenclaw 1945)
Mother: Letitia Alvarado (muggle; b. 1928; d. 1968)
Step-Mother: Margaret Dunbar (née Prescott; witch; Ravenclaw 1948)
Half-Brother: Jonathan Dunbar (wizard; Ravenclaw 1978)

Husband: Ryland Fawcett (wizard; Hufflepuff 1967)
Daughter: Sophia Fawcett (witch; b. April 16, 1978)

History

The Trujillo Era in the Dominican Republic (1930 - 1961) was not particularly easy. Beltran and Dolores Alvarado were faced with a difficult decision in 1937, when thousands of Haitians on the Dominican side of the border were killed over the course of just under a week in October. They were especially fearful because Dolores was half-Haitian. The repressive environment under Trujillo's rule was unbearable, and they felt that they could not stay in the Dominican Republic any longer. They looked to England, which was just exploding into war along with much of the rest of Europe. The United States (the other option they were considering) was still recovering from the Great Depression and Beltran hoped that, at least in England, he might be able to get a job in a factory, whereas there was no guarantee of work in the United States. So, in early 1938, they packed up their things and their nine-year-old daughter Letitia, and they moved to London, settling into the borough of Southwark. Both Beltran and Dolores got jobs in a factory while an elderly neighbour watched over Letitia. Although there was constant fear of bombing raids, they still felt more safe being Catholics in England than they did in the Dominican Republic. Being muggles, they were only ever aware of the World War, not Grindelwald's Reign of Terror in the wizarding world (which, of course, they didn't know existed).

In comparison, Harold Dunbar had an easy childhood. Or as easy as one could have when you were a Hogwarts student during Grindelwald's Reign of Terror. He grew up in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, where his family had lived for generations. He was sorted into Ravenclaw when he started in 1938, and the most terrifying part of his school years, in terms of things at school, was when the Chamber of Secrets opened during his sixth year and a fellow student died. He worried about his family as Grindelwald terrorised Europe, of course, but he kept himself busy in school to keep from dwelling too much on the unpleasantness. Just a few months after he finished school in 1945, the muggle war ended, and only a few months later, the wizarding war ended when Albus Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald.

A few years later, Harold was visiting friends in London in 1947, but got hopelessly lost in the muggle streets and tube, and somehow he ended up in Southwark, where he stopped a young lady and asked her help on directions. The young lady was Letitia Alvarado, and Harold Dunbar fell for her immediately. The feeling was mutual, and they began dating. Barely a year after they met, Harold proposed to Letitia in the summer of 1948, and they were married on New Year's Day, 1949. They settled into a home in Dunfermline near his family.

Harold and Letitia would only have one child together: a daughter whom they named Audrey Paz. Audrey was born on 16 November, 1950, and with her birth came the realisation to Harold that he could not conceal the truth from Letitia for much longer: if Audrey turned out to be a witch, then Letitia needed to know. On their second anniversary, Harold sat Letitia down and explained to her that he was a wizard and that Audrey, most likely, would be a witch. Letitia did not take the news well, and within the year, she was living with her parents in London, leaving Audrey with Harold. In early 1956, they were officially divorced. Due to the fact that he would be better capable of handling Audrey's magical outbursts, Harold was given primary custody of Audrey, though visitation was set up such that Audrey still spent plenty of time with her mother and maternal grandparents. Divorce was highly uncommon in the 50s, so Audrey was faced with the stigma both in the muggle (and highly Catholic) world around her mother's family, as well as (albeit to a slightly lesser degree) in the wizarding world; at least among other witches and wizards, they "understood" that Audrey's muggle mother simply "could not handle the wizarding world."

Harold remarried in June of 1958, marrying Margaret Prescott, a half-blood witch whom he'd known from school. In early 1960, when Audrey was nine years old, the family was rounded out to an even four when her half-brother Jonathan was born. Audrey was used to being an only child, so the sudden intrusion of a noisy, smelly baby was jarring, especially since she was still adjusting to having a step-mother. She began feeling a little out of place in her own family, as Harold and Margaret cooed over baby Jonathan. Even still, she preferred staying in Dunfermline with her father and his new family over staying in London with her mother and grandparents. In London, she always had to be extra careful to not accidentally do magic, because Letitia had no idea what to do if something went wrong (and things frequently went wrong whenever Audrey lost her temper; nearby objects often broke or flew through the air). At least in Dunfermline, she could be herself (and while she didn't deliberately do magic, she didn't have to worry nearly as much about accidentally doing it when she was throwing a fit). Eventually, she even came to think that her little brother was actually kind of cute. Even though he did smell.

Her favourite part of her rather infrequent visits to her mother's was hearing about life in the Dominican Republic when Letitia was growing up. Her mother and grandparents were full of stories about the fear and repression, and this instilled in her a desire to make sure that such a genocide could never happen again, especially not in her wizarding world. This directly led her to consider the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, even from a young age, as a potential career path after she finished school.

On 1 September, 1962, Audrey boarded the Hogwarts Express for the first time. The hat didn't even hesitate before sorting her into Gryffindor. It whispered something in her ear about being a "true blue Gryffindor," which just amused the eleven-year-old because blue was Ravenclaw's colour! And Ravenclaw was her father's house, of course. But she absolutely loved being a Gryffindor, though she didn't buy into the "Houseism" of the school: there was absolutely nothing wrong with Slytherin, for example. She refused to let house boundaries dictate her friendships (though, naturally, she did end up making more friends in Gryffindor, simply due to the shared common room).

Academically-speaking, Audrey was rather average. She didn't particularly go out of her way to study for any classes unless they would help her to do well in her career path of choice: law enforcement. In her third year, she added Care of Magical Creatures and Ancient Runes on a whim, but ended up being surprisingly talented at the latter. In the same year, she joined both the house quidditch team (as a beater) and the Duelling Club. Devastatingly, Audrey earned 7 OWLs at the end of her fifth year, but she only earned OWLs in three of the four that were required at NEWT-level to be an Auror: Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and Transfiguration; she only managed to scrape together a Poor in Potions.

Over the summer, Audrey reconsidered her options. The Aurors were certainly the Elite of the wizarding world's magical law enforcement, but they were by no means the only option. She could do just as much as a Hitwitch. So she refocused her attention on becoming a hitwitch, instead. In addition to Defense, Charms, and Transfiguration, Audrey opted to continue in Ancient Runes, because it really was fascinating. And besides, who knows when knowledge of Ancient Runes might come in handy for someone in law enforcement?

Audrey's sixth year flew by, as she continued with her four classes, quidditch, and Duelling Club. She was still entirely determined to become a hitwitch upon finishing school. The determination was only made all the more fierce in the summer of 1968, between her sixth and seventh years: her mother was killed when the shoppe she worked at was robbed. Although the culprit was a muggle and Letitia's death had nothing to do with the wizarding world, Audrey was determined to keep the bad people off the streets. She returned for her seventh year and threw herself into her studies anew, working off excess aggression on the quidditch pitch. She was actually taken to task by her captain multiple times for being too much of a loose cannon on the pitch, and to calm down or she'd kill somebody. That June, she sat her NEWTs and passed all four.

Although Audrey applied to the Hitwizard Office, her application was denied: much as her Captain had warned, she was too prone to exploding, and that was too dangerous for someone whose entire job focused on the high risk capture scenarios. Nobody really wanted to put Audrey on the Ministry's side of a hostage situation. She was, however, referred to the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol. Although it was not exactly what she was aiming for, she was still in law enforcement, and she could always hope to prove herself to be worthy of being a hitwitch, someday.

Audrey was witness to Lancelot MacAvoy's outrage on 2 October, 1972, when he was denied a job in the Department of International Magical Cooperation. The fact that attention was paid to MacAvoy's bloodline (muggleborn) unnerved Audrey, especially when paired with the recent muggle violence. She'd known that her mother had always been uneasy around her, and she couldn't help but wonder if Letitia may have ever been tempted to act the same, or if people might look at her (Audrey) that way, since she did have a muggle mother.

She worked hard to be a model MLEP officer, though her temper could never be fully tempered. She still had tendencies to be volatile, and she was occasionally reprimanded by her superiors for using excessive force against suspects.

In the fall of 1973, Audrey met a fellow Ministry worker in the Ministry's cafeteria, Ryland Fawcett. Much as Audrey's parents had upon their first meeting, Audrey and Ryland hit it off immediately, and they began dating. Before long, it was love. Audrey was positively smitten with Ryland, which was a word that she had honestly thought she would have associated with herself. Of course, smitten or not, she refused to let the whole "being in love" thing affect her work. After all, there was nothing wrong with a woman having both a career and a relationship, right?

On 5 August, 1974, Audrey was stationed in Hogsmeade for the Day of Ambrosius event as crowd control. The attack was simultaneously exactly what she had been waiting for (professionally, anyway; a way to show how capable she truly was) and absolutely terrifying because it ended up, once again, being muggleborns who were attacking others. She controlled her terror and worked with her fellow MLEP officers to control the crowd and get the innocent bystanders to safety. Hoping that her good work in the attack might impress the Hitwizard Office, she once again applied (and was, once again, denied; the reason she was given was the same as before, but she couldn't help but wonder if part of it might just be her muggle mother).

Another unexpected result of the Day of Ambrosius attack came from Ryland: over the past year, he had grown more and more worried about her, in her dangerous job. After the attack, he said that he wanted to marry her, and sooner rather than later because they might be dead soon, and he wanted to spend whatever amount of time they had left together. They eloped on 10 August, 1974, and moved into a small house in Ottery St. Catchpole.

As danger escalated, Audrey continued applying to the Hitwizard Office every six months or so, despite her new husband's protests that she didn't need to put herself into any more danger. Audrey loved Ryland, but they still got into frequent arguments over Audrey's ambition and Ryland's worries. They always made up within a few hours (a day at the most). Audrey was continually denied acceptance to the Hitwizard Office, but she refused to let that discourage her, and instead began working to attempt to keep her volatile temper under control. Some days she was almost good at it, others ended up being far worse.

Just over two years after the events of the Day of Ambrosius came another large-scale attack on the wizarding world, though this time it was far different than the "usual" attacks by muggleborns: giants, hags, vampires, werewolves, and Death Eaters. Because she was a "lowly MLEP officer" and not a hitwitch or an Auror, Audrey was not called out to assist with the attacks, and while that no doubt pleased her husband, she was irritated that things were going on and she couldn't help (and the only reason she didn't just say "screw it" and go anyway was because she still wanted to be a hitwitch, and she didn't want them to add any kind of "disobeying orders" or "taking the law into her own hands" to the reasons why she was continually not accepted). After the attacks, she focused even more strongly on controlling her temper, in the hopes of being able to become a hitwitch before too long.

Fall of 1977 brought news of a different kind, the kind that forced Audrey to take a leave of absence from work in late March, April, and early May of 1978: she was pregnant. Throughout her pregnancy, Ryland worried over Audrey even more than usual, and he continually tried to suggest that she consider taking on a desk job, or just something safer; especially with a baby on the way, he said, she needed to concentrate on making sure that their baby grew up with a mother. Their daughter Sophia Marie was born on 16 April, 1978, and after her maternity leave, Audrey returned to her work on the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol, while Ryland began working more and more often from home. Audrey understood Ryland's worries, and she definitely did not want to leave her daughter without a mother … but she could not just simply step away from her lifelong ambition just because she had a husband and child. Besides, doing her job was the best way to protect her daughter, by helping to rid the world of the criminals who might hurt her.

Having a young child in the midst of a war was just particularly worrying, if Audrey was to be honest about it. She did worry about something happening to her on the job, but she refused to let that worry impede her ability to do her job. While Audrey helped put Ryland at ease (at least slightly) by pointing out that it was mostly the hitwizards and the Aurors who were called out for everything transpiring in the war, at the same time, she inwardly grumbled about how she wanted to be a hitwitch, she wanted to be out there, helping to fight in this war. The thing that hit Audrey the hardest, though, was a werewolf attack in mid-January of 1979. Her daughter wasn't quite a year old, and news came of a reporter's family being attacked by werewolves. Only his daughter, Sophia, survived the attack, though she had been bitten. The fact that the bitten little girl had the same first name as her own daughter just hit Audrey like a tonne of bricks, and for the first time in her career, she called in sick the next day, to spend some one-on-one time with her daughter.

The anniversary attacks on 6 November, 1979, made Audrey glad that they lived in Ottery St. Catchpole, which had yet to be targeted. The already-strong wards on the house were updated and strengthened the next day, after word came on the number of child fatalities in Godric's Hollow. A few days later, there were rumours of MLEP officers and hitwizards being "loaned out" to help with the Werewolf Capture Unit, and though the WCU was, indeed, strengthened, Audrey was not sent to assist.

As the new year and new decade broke, Audrey continued holding out hope for an acceptance to the Hitwizard Office, as she was growing more and more frustrated by her continued rejections. Although her temper was still cited as the reason, she couldn't help but feel as though it might be vaguely prejudicial: against her bloodline for her muggle mother, or against her having a young child at home. But Audrey managed to control her temper every time she was rejected and did not raise a fuss, instead working harder to show them that she was capable of being a hitwitch; she certainly did not want to appear like a disgruntled muggle-connected employee who might turn on her superiors.

Personality

Loose cannon. Short fuse. Temperamental. All phrases that have been used on Audrey's yearly reviews at work. Also all reasons for her continued denial of acceptance into the hitwizard office. Oh, sure, when she's out in the field, she's a tough-as-nails officer of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol, but sometimes, a suspect just isn't listening to reason and needs to be convinced to come with the nice officers. And sometimes that convincing leaves the suspect in a slightly more injured state than he or she was previously. Audrey knows that her temper is an issue, she honestly does, she just has problems with reining it in sometimes. Okay, she frequently has problems with reining it in. Never enough to get her fired: anytime a superior tells her to cool it, she can manage to rein it in for a while (bottling the excess anger up inside until she can get at a training dummy), but it's not too terribly long before she's accidentally injuring a suspect; and then she gets chewed out by her superiors again and the cycle starts anew. Her temper problems tie in a bit with impetuousness: especially when she's getting angry, she has a tendency to dive in without a firm plan, without even looking or thinking first. Act first, think later.

Audrey has all sorts of niggling marriage- and parenting-related fears clinging to the back of her mind, the foremost of which is that she just isn't "wife" material, that her marriage is doomed for divorce, just like her parents' marriage was. She feels as though she's supposed to want to be staying home with her daughter, or at least supposed to want to listen to her husband and take a safer job. As afraid as she is of leaving her daughter without a mother, her ambition just won't let her give up and "be safe." And she fears that it puts unnecessary stress on her marriage, that Ryland will eventually give up on waiting for her to take him and their child into consideration, and that he'll take Sophia and leave Audrey all alone.

And speaking of her ambition, Audrey is chock full of that. She has high ambitions for herself and for her daughter, and she won't let anything prevent her from reaching what she sets her sights for. She has the willpower to keep going and keep trying, even when others would have given up. It's this drive that keeps Audrey applying for the Hitwizard Office every chance she gets, that gets her to drag herself back up whenever she's been beaten down and to keep going, that gives her the strength to hold her head high and her spine straight as she looks danger in the eye and refuses to back down.

While Audrey might be slightly disgruntled by the fact that her application to become a hitwitch is repeatedly denied, she is by no means a disgruntled employee. She is too closely tied to muggles and, with the way the war started, there's no way that she would do anything to make it look like she's like the muggles or muggleborns who were attacking witches and wizards. Audrey would hardly go on a rampage and start attacking people in the Ministry just because her application was denied again: instead, she focuses on what she needs to do to improve and make the Hitwizard Office realise just how valuable of an addition she could be to that office.

Strengths & Weaknesses: By far, Audrey's two biggest weaknesses are her temper and her daughter. She tries to keep her temper in check, and to keep it from disrupting her job, but it's a daily struggle to keep from exploding at things that irritate her. And, of course, she would do absolutely anything to keep her daughter safe; the quickest way to incite Audrey's rage is to threaten or endanger Sophia. Going through Sophia is also the quickest way to get Audrey to do what you want (to a point … if she gets her hands on you after ensuring that her baby girl is okay, you're not long for the world, but she will do nearly anything to ensure her daughter's safety).

Audrey's main strength is her indomitable will. She won't give up, she'll just keep going until her dying breath. If she gets knocked down, she won't stay down: she gets back up, dusts herself off, and tries again. It's what keeps her going through the hardest times, it's what keeps her trying to become a hitwitch, it's what keeps her going out there to be the best officer on the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol, even while she vies to become a hitwitch (just because that's her ambition doesn't mean she should slack off at her actual job!).

Mental Health: Quite sane, thank you, if not a bit impulsive and impetuous. Any comments about how she would have to be insane to want to be a hitwitch are to be ignored. She is in full possession of her mental faculties. Years of working in law enforcement has schooled her to be able to keep her head under pressure and to take command of unruly and riotous situations. She has her own methods of letting out frustrations and anger (usually involving beating up on the training dummy, though she is learning to play the guitar … something about that whole "music soothes the savage beast" thing), but she does not let that get in the way of her work … usually: the citations against her for excessive use of force aren't without reason.