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Daily Prophet Reporter  x4
|  Granddaddy Ravenclaw | | Jermione Granger
 Name: Eleanor Lynn Kingsley
Age: 37
Birthdate: February 13, 2035
Place of Birth: Swindon, England
Eye Color: Brown
Hair: Medium brown
Height: 5' 5" before heels, which she's just begun to wear again
Family
Mother: Sophie (Early 2000-) Ravenclaw 2011-2018
Father: Thomas (Late 1999-) Gryffindor 2011-2018
Brothers: Richard Thomas (2020-), Gryffindor 2031-2038
Asher Lawrence (2021-), Gryffindor 2033-2040
Preston Aloysius (2027-), Ravenclaw 2038-2045
Education: Ravenclaw 2046-2050, withdrew in the middle of her fourth year due to illness. Following her withdrawal, her brother Preston moved home to help take care of her and provide her tutoring.
Pets: She got to keep her and Preston's owl, Descartes. (Preston named him, can you tell?) During summers, she helps take care of Princess, the kitten she gave her brother as a going away present.
History
Personal
The youngest of four siblings, by many years, and the only girl, Eleanor was raised by muggleborn wizard parents who insisted on raising their children among muggles. She was quite close to her brother Preston and was, in many ways, his pet. When he went away to school, he wrote to her every day. It was with those letters that she learned how to read, and later, to write.
When she began school, she and Preston continued their daily correspondence, until she fell ill and needed to return home. Weeks turned to months and Healers weren't quite sure what was wrong with her. Months turned to years and while she didn't get worse, she didn't get well, either. She was homeschooled and cared for, at her parents home, by her brother, Preston, until she came of-age.
Insistent that she would not live in her parents' home another day, she moved into her own place, and Preston went with her. He transitioned from her tutor to her caretaker, tutoring other young wizards and witches to support them. Over time, the remedies to alleviate her symptoms improved, and she took to writing. The next two decades saw the Kingsley siblings go about their day-to-day, Preston tutoring and Eleanor doing occasional freelance work.
In 2070, an experimental course of treatment nearly eliminated Eleanor's symptoms. Though not a cure, Eleanor could care for herself, and she insisted that Preston take a position at the Ministry. A year later, still up and about, Eleanor again insisted that Preston leave her - this time for Hogwarts. On her own for the first time, it wasn't long before Eleanor looked for work herself. In her mid-thirties, she was finally beginning to lead a normal life.
Professional
Her freelance work began with a piece in a teen magazine about living with illness. It results in a certain lack of privacy around her health issues, but it also introduced her to professional writing. From there, she often wrote editorials and longer opinion pieces for various publications, and would sometimes do features... so long as the research could be conducted from her rocking chair.
By the time she was ready to step outside her home, she had amassed an impressive portfolio, ranging from longer personal pieces to scathing reviews and from biographical features to political commentary. It was this work that got her in the door at the Prophet.
Personality
Eleanor is friendly, if not a bit shy. She is inexperienced, in many ways, when it comes to interpersonal relationships and social situations, having spent much time in the company of her brother, whose ideas about interaction are a bit formal. She is bright and curious, but also quite embarrassed about how awkward she may be.
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