Helana Cichewicz

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Mad World	raising_hel (gj) hel_bakes (ij)	Daveigh Chase

Basic Stats

Full Name: Helana Milena Cichewicz
Nickname(s): Hel
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Date of Birth: December 14, 1961
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Muggleborn
Hometown: London, England
House & Year: Hufflepuff 4th
Extracurriculars: None
Pet: Screech owl (Fuzz)

Family

Father: Bernard Cichewicz (muggle; baker)
Mother: Marta Cichewicz (née Chlebek; muggle; baker)
Brother: Harvey Cichewicz (wizard; Hufflepuff 4th)

History

In September of 1939, Aron and Marcelina Cichewicz fled their home in Poland as the Germans were invading, bringing their six-year-old son Bernard with them. They hid with distant relatives in London, afraid to even attempt contact with family and friends who were still in Poland, for fear of the Nazis. The relatives also had another family hiding with them, the Chlebek family: David and Gracja Chlebek with their five-year-old daughter, Marta. Bernard and Marta grew up together, often only having each other to play with. In 1943, David and Aron started a bakery (CC Bakery) together in their small neighbourhood. The families also began arranging for a marriage between Bernard and Marta, although they were only ten and nine (respectively) at the time, so that the bakery would stay wholly in the family. Bernard and Marta were agreeable to the match and on 18 July, 1954, when they were 21 and 20, they were married.

After several miscarriages, they finally welcomed twins Helana and Harvey into the world on 14 December, 1961. The twins were brought up in and around the bakery, with the expectation that Harvey, the elder of the two by a half hour, would take over the bakery when he came of age, and that Helana would make a marriage that would benefit the bakery. All that changed in the summer of 1973, when the twins were eleven. An owl arrived bearing two letters. The letters proclaimed Helana and Harvey to be a witch and wizard, and invited them to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Bernard and Marta were rightfully skeptical, but when a professor from the school came to the bakery and explained things to the family, they reluctantly agreed that the school would be the best place for the twins, so they scrounged up the money to buy used sets of robes and supplies for Helana and Harvey. On 1 September, 1973, the twins boarded the Hogwarts Express for the first time.

When Helana and Harvey arrived at Hogwarts on 1 September, 1973, Harvey was sorted first and ended up in Hufflepuff. When the hat was placed upon Helana's head, she begged it to put her in Hufflepuff with her brother. The hat agreed that Hufflepuff was indeed the best fit for her, and so off she scampered to sit next to Harvey at the yellow-and-black table. Helana loves the Hufflepuff common room, feeling like she's closer to the earth and plants with it than the Gryffindors or Ravenclaws must, with them being up in those tall, scary towers. Although she missed home, Helana came to love Hufflepuff as a second-home, particularly after she found that the kitchens were right nearby.

Shortly after classes began, all first years had flying lessons. As soon as Helana mounted her broom, her stomach started tying into knots. She managed to hover with her toes two feet above the ground before she fell off the broom, shaking, her face white and pale, very close to throwing up. After spending the rest of the afternoon in the Hospital Wing, she was given a reprieve from flying lessons because Madam Hooch could not properly teach the rest of the class when one of her students would keep nearly fainting and / or throwing up when barely off the ground.

Her favourite class in her first two years was Herbology, of course, because she was able to work with plants. In her third year, she added Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies, and because she's always loved animals, Care of Magical Creatures quickly joined Herbology as a favourite class. If it was possible, she would adopt any and every small injured animal that crossed her path.