Emma Dobbs

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Euphoria Lane	freelovencandy	Erin Chambers

Basic Stats

Full Name: Emma Louise Dobbs
Nickname(s): Em; Candy (stage name)
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Date of Birth: January 27, 1983
Zodiac: Aquarius
Sexuality: Pansexual
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Brighton, England
Residence: 218B Euphoria Lane, above the Moon & Sun Cafe
House & Year: Hufflepuff 2001
Occupation: Sales clerk: Honeydukes (Euphoria Lane branch); stripper: The Alley Cat
Pet: None

Family

Father: Patrick Ronald Dobbs (wizard; Ravenclaw 1974; diplomat: Department of International Magical Cooperation; b. November 6, 1955; d. July 16, 2000)
Mother: Elizabeth Mary Dobbs (née Kegg; witch; Ravenclaw 1974; healer: St. Mungo's; b. April 13, 1956)
Sister: Lisa Emmeline Dobbs (witch; Ravenclaw 2003; trainee healer; b. March 21, 1985)

Uncle: William Cornfoot (wizard; b. circa 1947)
Aunt: Margaret Cornfoot (née Kegg; witch; b. circa 1950)
Cousin: Stephen Cornfoot (wizard; Ravenclaw 1998; b. December 29, 1979)
Cousin: Sophie Cornfoot (witch; b. circa 1986)

History

Patrick Dobbs and Elizabeth Kegg met at Hogwarts in 1967, when they were sorted into the same house. They were friends from the start, but both were stubborn and pig-headed, so they frequently got into heated debates over just about any topic under the sun. Grades were a constant battle between the two as they fought to score better than the other on homework and exams, but especially their O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. Both dated other people while students and had no romantic inclination toward the other, remaining friends instead. After finishing Hogwarts in 1974, they went their separate ways, Patrick into the Ministry and Elizabeth into St. Mungo's. Although they stayed friends and met occasionally for lunch or tea at first, after a couple years they drifted apart. Until, that is, six years later, when Patrick was admitted to the hospital after having been hit by a hex that had him gobbling like a turkey. Elizabeth cared for him and, after he was cured, their friendship rekindled and into something more. Seven months later, in the middle of 1981 and shortly before Voldemort disappeared, they eloped.

Their first child, a daughter they named Emma, was born at the beginning of 1983. Second daughter Lisa followed two years later in early 1985. The childhood for the Dobbs children was rather quiet and peaceful. Because both of their parents were still working their respective jobs, they were often cared for by a nanny. Patrick and Elizabeth tried to be around for their children as much as possible, but neither wanted to give up their career to stay at home. When Emma was four and Lisa two, the family settled into a small house in the coastal town of Brighton, England.

Emma became immediately fascinated with the people around her, and she loved spending time at the beach. When she was eight, she managed to escape from her nanny for a short while to explore the beach on her own and stumbled upon the nudist area of the beach. Instead of being shocked by the people who were, well, not fully clothed, she was actually even more fascinated. In fact, she was fascinated by the whole Kemptown area itself, the whole bohemian aspect of it all. Unfortunately, after she told her parents all about where she saw, the current nanny was fired and a new one, who was better at keeping a firm eye on Emma and Lisa, was hired, so Emma had little chance to return to Kemptown.

When Emma was eleven, her Hogwarts owl arrived, and she was happy to go off to school where there were sure to be more fascinating people to watch. She was sorted into Hufflepuff, and was very excited when the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students arrived for the triwizard tournament. When the rest of her house was outraged by Harry Potter making it into the tournament along with their champion Cedric Diggory, Emma was very zen and calm about it, very "well, he's part of our school, too, so we ought to support him as well." She was as shocked and terrified as the rest of the school when Cedric Diggory died during the third task, but she wasn't sure if she believed Dumbledore that You-Know-Who was back. Indeed, as her family subscribed to the Prophet (and her father worked for the Ministry), they believed Dumbledore and Harry Potter to be crazy, but Emma was quoted that summer as saying "crazy is just a state of mind."

After it was revealed that Voldemort was indeed back and the war began in earnest, Emma and Lisa (who joined her sister at Hogwarts in 1996) were fairly safe from the goings-on of the war, secluded as they were at Hogwarts, away from the fighting. Wards were put up around the house to keep at bay those who might mean the family harm, and Emma and Lisa were more or less restricted to the house during the summer hols (they stayed at school for the Christmas hols). Despite the family's attempts to remain safe, Patrick died near the end of the war, taken down by a Death Eater.

Emma was a seventh year when the war ended, and although she toyed with the idea of joining one of the programmes that had been set up during the war, it was rather pointless by the time she finished school, as the war was over, and none of them particularly interested her, anyway. Instead, she ended up with a job at one of the Hogsmeade shoppes that she had loved the best while a Hogwarts student: Honeydukes. She managed to scrape together enough money to get a small one-bedroom flat in Kemptown, but she simply was not making enough money at Honeydukes to afford both her rent and food.

It was one of her neighbors that gave her the idea for a secondary occupation to supplement her income: the neighbor, a muggle girl named Chastity, was a stripper, and she pointed out that Emma had a great body for it, as well as the requisite lack of shame. As the club had recently lost a couple of their strippers, Chastity brought Emma to her club one night and introduced her to the owner, who gave her an audition. Emma, who had recently turned nineteen, shook it for all she was worth and was rewarded with a job. With the money that Emma made during her shifts at Honeydukes and the money she made at the strip club, she was much better off than before, though she still hovered around the just-barely-liveable line. In early 2004, a disagreement between Emma and some of the other strippers led to Emma quitting. Through word-of-mouth, she found out about the Alley Cat on Knockturn Alley in London and secured a job there. Due to constantly smelling of candy, thanks to her job at Honeydukes, she started using the stage name of "Candy" at the Alley Cat.

Living in Brighton but working both in London and Hogsmeade, Emma wanted to try to centralise herself and try to work and live in more or less the same place. The fact that a branch of Honeydukes had recently opened on Euphoria Lane, not far from Knockturn Alley and the Alley Cat, prompted her to start thinking about moving to London and transferring from the Honeydukes in Hogsmeade to the branch on Euphoria Lane. What really cinched the move for her, however, was when her old school friend Ellie Cattermole wrote to say that she had finally moved back to Britain, though she was still living with her parents. Emma suggested that they get a flat together on Euphoria Lane, because then they would both still be "independent" and "on their own," but they would be able to split the rent on the flat and have someone to hang out with when they were both home from work.