Anya Montague

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 * Player: Morsmordre-p
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Content Warnings

 * Cw: blood
 * Cw: child abuse
 * Cw: graphic violence
 * Cw: The Imperius Curse* / coercion
 * Cw: misogeny
 * Cw: possession
 * Cw: sexual assault mention
 * Cw: torture

Name

 * Legal: Anya Marie Worthington Montague

Occupational History

 * 1976 to present
 * Lady of the House, Worthington Manor
 * 1978 to present
 * Lady of the House, Montague Manor

Family in RP

 * Adelaide Mulciber (aunt)
 * Alphaeus Yaxley (first cousin twice removed)
 * Damien Mulciber (first cousin)
 * Euphemia "Effie" Rowle (grandmother)
 * Graham Montague (son)
 * Leona Maysdale (3rd cousin)
 * Mefarius Dove (1st cousin once removed)
 * William Graham Montague (husband)

Early Childhood (1961-1971)
Anya Marie Worthington is the daughter and only child of James Lawrence Worthington III and Emmaline Mulciber. Born in 1961, her first few years in this world were happy ones, even idyllic. The pride of her Pureblood family, she was treated like a precious, precocious, princess by her father and doted on by her mother.

In the winter of 1965, her father, a career Ministry official, hosted a Yule celebration at their family's home on the outskirts of Hogsmeade. His guests ranged from the heads of notable Pureblood families like the distinguished Abraxas Malfoy, to the current Minister of Magic, the Muggle-born Nobby Leach. In short, Worthington had opened his home to anyone who was anyone in the Wizarding political establishment. Members of the extended family were, of course, present as well--his Orpington cousins, his in-laws Faustian and Effie Mulciber, and his own parents.

Anya, a bit young for the party, spent the first couple hours of the celebration being fussed over (and entertained by) her relations. Her grandfather, Faustian Muliciber, put charmed fairy wings onto her back, and flew her around the ballroom over the other guests heads, to the dismay of her grandmother Effie. Her other grandmother, Cassandra Worthington, played a game of magical peek-a-boo with her, using a crystal ball in which she made herself appear and disappear to her granddaughter's delight.

But the party was loud, and Anya grew tired, her bedtime having come and gone. She wandered into a quieter room, and sat on the floor, amusing herself by playing quietly with a couple of wizarding chess pieces she’d picked up from a set that stood on a low table nearby.

Deep voices arguing just outside the door sent her hiding behind a sofa. Her grandfather and one of his guests, a wizard by the name of William Montague, entering the room moments later. Frightened, she peered out from behind the sofa only to see the wizard lunge at her father with a sword--blood splattering on the snowy ground beneath them. She screamed.

It took a bit to calm her, but eventually her grandfather worked out that she’d had a vision--of her father and Montague duelling together. The Worthingtons were accomplished Weaponsmasters, and Montague had trained with his son since they were boys; and they had, in fact been practicing earlier that week. But the scratch James had received had long since been healed, and there was no cause for alarm.

Montague, however, resolved to keep a close eye on Anya--and silently forged a mental link with the child so that he could monitor the development of her particular gift.

Hogwarts Years (1972-1978)
Continuing in her family’s tradition, Anya was sorted into Slytherin at Hogwarts. Montague, then a Professor of Legilimency and Occlumency at the school, took a special interest in her--claiming she had a gift for the Mental Arts and holding private tutoring sessions with her daily, something he usually reserved for older students who had demonstrated sufficient skill in his classes.

As it turned out, he wasn’t wrong. She did well enough in the subject. But that was, of course, not the main reason for his interest. Over the next six years her professor placed legilimentic suggestions and triggers within her mind, conditioning Anya to obey his every command, and strengthening his mental link with her so that he might see for himself the visions that she had in her memories of them.

Together they discovered that while most of her visions were of things that happened in the past, she did occasionally have visions of the future. They also learned that fear and pain made her visions more intense.

At the beginning of her 3rd year, she witnessed the death of her mother during a particularly painful “tutoring session”, the vision also showing that this would lead to her father’s successful rise to become Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic. Montague made Anya forget what she saw--but relayed her vision to the Dark Lord, who arranged events so that her vision would come to pass. One can argue about whether power corrupts, but for Professor Montague it was certainly true. Not only did he use his abilities to control Anya’s gifts, he used the power he had gained over her, and his authority as her instructor to sexually abuse her and cover up that abuse. Unfortunately for them both, even he was not able to cover it up when she became pregnant.

By this time, however, Anya’s mother was dead, her father, though Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, truly serving Lord Voldemort. To prevent the scandal from touching her father’s Ministry career, Anya was married to her abuser (her father claimed their marriage had been arranged earlier) and the only ill consequence for Montague was that he lost his position at Hogwarts.

The following April, Montague presented her to the Dark Lord to receive a dark mark. Their son, Graham Marvolo, was born that June. Their daughter, Victoria, two years later.

Post Hogwarts (1978-present)
The years during the First Wizarding War following Graham’s birth until the Dark Lord’s fall a year after her daughter’s birth were the best of the years Anya spent with Montague--as he was generally too busy to be around much. Despite her mark, Anya was ill-suited to being a Death Eater, and her service to the Dark Lord came primarily from the details she was able to provide concerning the activities of the Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry, and others who sought to oppose him. The threat to her children should she fail to perform in this manner was made abundantly clear. As terrible as being married to William Montague had been, following the fall of the Dark Lord and the end of the First Wizarding War, it got worse. Obsessed with locating his Master, the old Death Eater took to torturing Anya in an effort to strengthen her visions, hoping that she might lead him to Lord Voldemort’s whereabouts.

But Anya’s skills had been growing, not so much in Divination, as in the Mental Arts she practiced every day. She successfully altered her own memories and occluded her mind so that her husband would not see what she saw--frustrating his efforts to return to the Dark Lord’s side by putting him on false paths, only allowing him to find traces of his Master after he had long since moved on from a place.

And, when the Dark Lord returned without Montague’s help, while she did provide him with intelligence that the Death Eaters used to conduct raids (as she had done during the First Wizarding War), she managed to continue to hide almost all of what she had seen of the Dark Lord’s downfall at the Battle of Hogwarts. Select snippets of her visions providing the Dark Lord with confidence that he would prevail (notably, a vision of the “dead” Harry Potter being carried before his Death Eaters’ advance).

Neither Anya nor William were at the Battle of Hogwarts when the Dark Lord fell, but the disappearance of their dark marks told Anya that her efforts were not in vain. Further, her husband’s mind snapped without his Master, and he started acting like he didn’t recognize her.

Eventually, she figured out that he had regressed to his teenaged self as he babbled about his early days at Hogwarts. Fearing to take any action lest he suddenly recover, Anya Montague kept a wary watch over him for a few months. Finally deciding that his mental collapse was neither feigned, nor likely to be easily cured, she convinced him to travel with her to England to “visit his friend Tom”.