Adelaide Mulciber

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Content Warnings

 * Cw: blood
 * Cw: sexism

Name

 * Legal: Adelaide Artemesia Nott Mulciber
 * Current Alias: Professor Artemesia Lazarus

Occupational History

 * 1970 to 1981 (as Adelaide Mulciber)
 * Volunteer Healer at St. Mungo’s
 * 1981 to 1988 (as Artemesia Lazarus)
 * Freelance Genealogist
 * 1988 to 1993 (as Artemesia Lazarus)
 * Assistant Professor of Blood Magic and Necromancy at the Salem Witches’ Institute
 * 1982 to present (as Artemesia Lazarus)
 * Author
 * 1993 to present (as Artemesia Lazarus)
 * Professor of Blood Magic and Necromancy at the Salem Witches’ Institute

Books

 * Notable Wizarding Families of Salem, Massachusetts (1982)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of Fitchburg and Leominster, Massachusetts (1983)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of the Berkshires (1985)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of Philadelphia (1987)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of Manhattan (1989)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of the Cheasapeake Bay (1991)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of the Wizarding City of Roanoake (1993)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of Savannah, Georgia (1995)
 * Notable Wizarding Families of New Orleans and Grand Island (1996)
 * The Pure-Blood Directory of New England (1997)

Family in RP

 * Anya Montague (niece)
 * Damien Mulciber (son)
 * Euphemia Rowle Mulciber (mother-in-law)
 * Graham Montague (grand nephew)
 * Richard Nott (father)
 * Theodore Nott (brother)

Early Childhood (1944-1955)
Under the direction of her grandfather, Cantankerus Nott and her mother Helena Burke Nott, Adelaide was tutored following a rigid schedule of three full days and three half days every week, from the time she was 4 until she went to Hogwarts. She took her classes with her Burke and Avery cousins, and the boy who lived next door--Sabellicus Mulciber (Sabel for short). Her early studies included practical household skills (cooking, cleaning, and healing charms, basic herbology and potions). The boys in the group also took flying lessons and instruction in Weaponsmastery.

Starting when she was 7, Adelaide also spent time assisting her father, Richard Lazarus Nott, in his research into the field of Necromancy for the future Dark Lord--at first she was given mostly simple tasks, fetching supplies, collecting dead insects, rodents and other vermin for his experiments, harvesting magical plants, and the like. As she grew older and began to show an interest in the subject, the tasks she was given similarly grew more interesting, varied, and involved--deciphering runes, brewing necessary potions, using magical items to assist with basic blood magic and simple curses.

When not studying, Adelaide spent most of her time with Sabellicus Mulciber. In fact, they were nearly inseparable--best friends from the start and soon after, childhood sweethearts--their innocent play, deemed “puppy love” by the adults who saw them. By the time they were Hogwarts aged, Adelaide assumed that they would get married one day. When Sabellicus was sorted into Slytherin, she followed suit--begging the sorting hat to place her in the house of serpents, despite its insistence that she might do better in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw.

Hogwarts Years (1955-1960)
Well prepared for her first year at school, Adelaide breezed through first term at Hogwarts. When she returned home for summer holidays, however, she learned that her grandfather had passed away--her parents had thought it best that she not attend his funeral the previous month, deeming her too young and not wishing to interfere with her schooling.

Grief-stricken, she spent the rest of the school break alternately crying in her room, reading her grandfather’s writings (he was a published author), or being consoled by Sabel. (Note: Cantankerus did pass away suddenly in late 1955, however, there was no funeral--Richard Nott choosing to continue his research with his own father as a test subject).

Upon returning to school, Adelaide was determined to make her beloved grandfather proud, certain he was watching over her. She and Sabel continued to be best friends, but they spent less time together as she threw herself into her studies with a renewed zeal. In addition to her studies, she spent time reading every published word her grandfather had written, and attempted to do the same for his unpublished works as well--unearthing dozens of manuscripts tucked away in various nooks of the Nott family home.

The summer after her 4th year she discovered, hidden in a hollow bit of wall behind the desk in her grandfather’s former study, the original manuscript of the anonymously published Pure-Blood Directory. Beside herself with the discovery, she became obsessed with documenting Pure-Blood lineage, and began interviewing everyone she knew, and drawing elaborate charts showing how all of the Pure-Blood families were interconnected.

By her 5th year, she’d pretty much interviewed everyone she knew, including all of the castle ghosts--and had run into a lot of dead ends (no pun intended). She needed to be able to talk to people who died but weren’t ghosts to get any further--and that meant she needed to learn Necromancy.

So, the summer after her 5th year, she talked to her father about doing more than just assisting him with simple tasks. She wanted to really learn how to do the work he did, and that wasn’t something she could learn at Hogwarts.

Her father agreed, and so she did not return to Hogwarts for a 6th year. She also learned that her grandfather’s body was perfectly preserved in a hidden room in the cellar of their home. The discovery was unnerving, but also gave her hope--that one day, they might just bring him back, and not as an Inferi or anything like that, but truly back.

Essentially becoming her father’s apprentice, Adelaide did not see much at all of Sabel--but they corresponded by owl almost daily, and planned a huge wedding for after his graduation.

Post Hogwarts to End of First Wizarding War (1960-1981)
Sabel received his Dark Mark on Walpurgis Night just before graduating and with Richard Nott’s blessing (and, unbeknownst to Adelaide, the Dark Lord’s blessing too), he and Adelaide were married days after his graduation the following June. After a brief honeymoon abroad, Sabel moved into Nott Manor, and soon father, daughter and son-in-law were working together.

The following year, the couple was blessed with a son who they named Damien. But all was not well for the young couple. Sabel, for reasons Adelaide did not understand, seemed to be under a great deal of stress--and he grew very short with her, losing his temper quickly over the simplest things. A cauldron that was placed in the wrong cupboard would elicit a furious response; news that gnomes had ruined the crop of dittany in the garden would provoke a more violent response.

As a result, Adelaide spent more and more time with her mother and child, and less and less time working with her father and husband.

When the First Wizarding War began in earnest, in an effort to shelter Adelaide from what was going on at the manor, her mother encouraged her to volunteer at St. Mungo’s--they needed people to help, particularly during the night shift (since no one wanted to be out after dark, as Death Eater attacks happened more often at night than during the day).

Adelaide agreed it would be a good idea as she wanted to help, and the night shift would still allow her to spend the day with her son (who was only a few short years from heading off to Hogwarts at that point).

As it turned out--working at St. Mungo’s also came in handy when her mother became pregnant. She was able to be on hand, and, in fact, help with the birth of her brother, Theodore. She took a few weeks off after her brother was born to help out at home--but, after being reassured that the house-elves would alert her if her mother or brother needed anything, she returned to working at the hospital.

In fact, she was working at St. Mungo’s the night that the war came to an end--and celebrated along with everyone else when the news was heard.

She was shocked, however, when her father and her husband were sent to Azkaban--and that even her son (who was 18 at the conclusion of the First Wizarding War) bore the Dark Mark.

End of First Wizarding War to End of Second Wizarding War (1981-1998)
Fearing that Damien would be sent to Azkaban too, Adelaide fled the country with him (her mother refusing to leave), travelling to the United States under the assumed name Artemesia Lazarus.

She made a living researching and elaborately documenting the lineages of well-to-do  American wizarding families,  while pursuing an advanced degree in Blood Magic and Necromantic Studies at the Salem Witches’ Institute (the subjects not having been prohibited by the Magical Congress of the United States) under the renowned scholar Professor Teralyn Boot Rappaport, a fellow British expatriate who traced her lineage to Webster Boot. After completing her degree, Adelaide stayed on at the school as Professor Rappaport’s assistant instructor. On Rappaport’s death in 1993, she was promoted to full professor. In many ways, the black sheep of her family, Teralyn Rappaport shared Adelaide’s belief that Pureblood wizards are the rightful masters of the Wizarding World, and she left Adelaide her most prized possession, an exceedingly rare wand made of North American Yew with a Horned Serpent horn fragment core along with a message in her will indicating that none of her living relatives deserved to have it. While never acknowledging any sort of physical intimacy, for the last 5 years of Teralyn’s life, they shared a home, and evidenced an emotional intimacy more commonly found between romantic couples.

Thirteen years after arriving in the United States (in late 1994), her son, now a grown wizard and living on his own, announced that he was going to return to their ancestral home for a visit with his grandmother. (In fact, he visited both of his grandmothers and even managed to pay a visit to his father in Azkaban prison--his sudden interest spurred by the tingling of his mark). He did not, however, return to the United States as the Second Wizarding War began.

Adelaide worried for him as the news from overseas became ever worse, until on the day the Daily Prophet announced the Dark Lord’s return, a travel ban was put on all means of magical transport from the United States to Europe.

At the conclusion of the war, Adelaide hastily departed her new home for her old one, arriving only a day after her son’s capture. He is currently incarcerated in Azkaban awaiting trial.

Adelaide very much loves her son, and is doing everything in her power to see that he is released. She also just learned that her father and her husband are dead.