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Genna x Elma

Here is some information for the HPMA MC of Jonthia, Genevieve ‘Genna’ Raleigh and her friend and love interest, Fidelma ‘Elma’ Truell

Elma and her family belong to @melodymidway

First a little introduction to both Genna and Elma is in order, so we will start with the former. Genevieve Raleigh, better known as Genna, is a muggle born witch and the daughter and only child of Andrew Raleigh and Eleanor Murdock until the birth of her little brother, Blaze, in 2010. Ever since she was a young child, Genna was fascinated by books and movies, especially if they were about fantasy related topics, wishing magic could be real and one day, she realized her wish was true. Upon learning of her magical abilities, she was sent off to Hogwarts and sorted into Gryffindor for her bravery and courage.

Meanwhile, Fidelma Truell, better known as Elma as she thinks her fully name is too pompous, is a pureblood witch and the youngest of Teagan Truell and Laramie Nott's two daughters. Her sister Imogen is four years her elder, and the girls are quite close. Elma is a Metamorphmagus and often changes her style, though she also has an appearance she likes best. Her sweet and friendly demeanour, the reason she ended up entering Hufflepuff like her father, succeeds in hiding her mischievous side more often than not. Though Elma enjoys learning about the muggle world, she's equally in love with magic and particularly enthusiastic about researching charms. She has a rather big family due to her parents divorcing and remarrying when she was young. Her father married Rhoslyn Beddoe where she gained a stepbrother named Noah and a half brother named Dafydd. While her mother married Tobias ‘Toby’ Hearst where she gained two stepbrothers named Idris and Ajax, along with a half sister named Roxana.

Genna and Elma first encountered each other when the former spotted the latter mid transformation while she and her cousin, Sloan, were trying to find seats on the Hogwarts Express with the help of Imogen. Fascinated and curious, Genna went over her and started energetically compliment her abilities and asking question to which Elma politely responded to all of them, explaining how she was born a metamorphmagus which allowed her to change her appearance at will. After that the two got along almost immediately, and soon after Elma and Sloan invited Genna to sit in the compartment they were sharing with Rex Tremblay-Rath.

The two got along so well in fact that they also thinking of the possibility to be in the same house and both waited patiently with anticipation for their names to be called. Since her surname came before Elma’s alphabetically, Genna was called up to the hat and was rather quickly declared to be a member of Gryffindor house, although the hat did very briefly consider Hufflepuff for her. Meanwhile, Elma was sorted into Hufflepuff shortly after, although it was often believed that if she wasn’t a member of Hufflepuff, the hat would have placed her in Gryffindor.

The girls taught each other about the world the other didn’t know much about. Genna would talk for hours about her favorites books and movies to Elma, even letting her borrow some of her copies to check them out for herself or dragging her to a movie theater to see the newest releases. Additionally, she also took Elma to the bookshop owned by her Aunt Agatha and Uncle Mateo in Nottingham. Meanwhile, Elma taught Genna more about the magical world and personally gave her more information about the war against Voldemort, even admitting her grandfather was a death eater. However, despite this, Genna did not hold it against Elma saying her grandfather’s beliefs don’t define her.

One thing about the magical world that Elma taught Genna about in particular was quidditch and the two went to multiple matches together to be spectators. However, neither ever attempted to join the teams of their respective houses. Genna had a quite eventful day on her first flying lesson when she mounted her broom backwards and never really improved her skills in flying being continuously disastrous. Meanwhile, Elma had bad asthma which would make quidditch extremely difficult for her since she was prone to having asthma attacks. The two also were friends with some of the members of the quidditch teams such as a Hufflepuff Beater in their year named Rex Tremblay-Rath who shared a similar reputation to his professional quidditch player mother.

Elma was the first of the two friends to start realizing her feelings for the other. One day, she and Genna were planning a simple, light hearted prank that required Elma to use her metamorphagus abilities to change her appearance to match Genna’s. She was about to go join her friend to enact her plan but found herself stopped by a mirror where she was her reflection. She normally checked in a mirror to make sure her transformations went well if they were for plans or pranks but this time was slightly different as Elma started consciously releasing how gorgeous she believed Genna was and spent many minutes studying her face before she went on her way. However the feelings stuck with her even after she changed back to her normal form.

Interestingly enough, Elma’s sister, Imogen, was often called Gen or Genna rather that her full name, with the specific nickname used depending on the family member as Imogen was fine with either. However, as Elma pursued her relationship with Genna, she found it strange to call her sister Genna as well and started to exclusively nickname her Gen instead to keep them separate. Imogen was perfectly fine with this and often found it amusing that her sister was dating someone with such a similar name to her own.

Meanwhile, Genna was so invested in the magical world that she didn’t even notice Elma’s feelings for her despite everyone else knowing. In fact, Elma’s cousin, Sloan, in particular teased Elma mercilessly for Elma’s crush on Genna while Imogen joked around that she should lend Genna her glasses so she could see how much Elma fancied Genna. Some like Rex were even exhausted and annoyed by how much Elma talked about Genna. However, as their fifth year approached, Genna started gaining feelings for Elma which were first noticed by her fellow muggle born friend, Sonny, who noticed her constantly gazing at Elma during their classes, following a dance for the Intercontinental Wizards Tournament with Wiley Donoghue that didn’t live up to her expectation as she realized she didn’t have feelings for Wiley

Since Genna was uncharacteristically awkward and shy when it came to pursuing Elma. The latter asked the former to be her girlfriend first to which Genna accepted happily, grateful that Elma felt the same way as their good relationship could be preserved and not ruined by unrequited romantic feelings. This happened during their fifth year and the two went on numerous dates in Hogsmeade and attended a couple of Hogwarts dances together throughout their remaining years at Hogwarts. The majority of people were happy when they start dating, such as Rex since it meant that he would have some peace in the Hufflepuff common room, but there were some who were a bit uneasy.

While not outright being displeased with her daughter’s relationship, Genna’s mother, Eleanor, didn’t have the best impression of Elma. Even back when Genna and Elma were just friends, Eleanor viewed her as a bad and inconsiderate influence because of the pranks she would pull and ‘drag’ Genna into. However, with time, she did see how happy Genna was whenever she was with Elma and remembering how Andrew became one of the feel people she could truly relax and let her guard down around, she decided that it was only right to give her daughter the same chance at that type of happiness with someone she loved

Yet Elma’s maternal grandmother, Chloe, despised the idea of her granddaughter being in love with a Muggleborn. As such, she tried a few different schemes to get the couple to break up. One of these schemes happened through an alliance she made with Yubert Thorne to give Genna a Bloom for You flower that affected her with the Mysterious Malady. Elma was worried about Genna and hoped that she would indeed be able to wake up, and luckily, she did when Yubert Thorne’s scheme was revealed and Astrid Cole brewed an antidote to cure Genna and others affected by the Malady.

After graduating from Hogwarts, Genna and Elma decided to get corresponding tattoos themed after the sun. Genna chose a design that reminded her of one of her favorite movies, Tangled, although Elma was confused at first until watching it with Genna herself. Meanwhile, Elma chose a design that mimicked the wand movements of spells. Genna decided to put her tattoo on her upper right arm while Elma opted to put hers closer to her heart for two reasons. One, because it reminded her of Genna, and two because it could remain hidden regardless of who she transformed into meaning her true identity could not be easily given away since the tattoo would not change with her.

After Hogwarts, the two supported each other as they pursued their careers. Elma chose to work from home as a mixture of a scientist of charms and transfiguration and a translator so she could learn more about magic. This allowed her to have time to experiment and also work more on creating her own spells. Meanwhile, Genna, being the talented dueler she is, became both a champion dueler -competing in numerous competitions- and a freelance curse breaker. Genna would often travel and be away from home but would always write letters to Elma when there were apart and would send her souvenirs.

Similar to how Elma was the one to ask Genna to be her girlfriend, Elma was also the one to propose to Genna. Elma wanted it to be extremely special so she took Genna on a boat ride on a nearby lake where she presented a spell she came up with inspired by one of Genna’s favorite movies, Tangled. The spell allowed for her to conjure numerous lanterns that were all different shapes and colors. She also enchanted the lanterns to make sure that if they for whatever reason flew into a tree (which one did), it would not cause a fire or at least delay it long enough to remove the lantern safely. Genna often stated that on that night, she was more in love with Elma than she ever had been before.

Eventually, the ladies decided to start a family of their own. Rather than adopting a child, the two decided to use some of Genna’s muggle connections and chose to use a donor to have children of their own. Genna offered to be the one to become pregnant since she worried about Elma’s severe asthma and worried pregnancy would put her in a more delicate state. Elma took care of Genna throughout her pregnancy and was happy that it allowed Genna to be around home more for a while. On August 14th 2023, Genna gave birth to a baby girl whom she and Elma decided to name Lumina ‘Lumi’ Elle Raleigh-Truell. The girl had red hair like Genna and also had brown eyes which were coincidentally Elma’s natural eye color. The ladies decided to also name Elma’s sister, Imogen, as the godmother, and Genna’s friend, Sonny, as the godfather.

Lumi was often known as Elma’s tail as Elma was often the one to watch and spend time with her at home because Genna was always busy with work and traveling. Little Lumi grew up fascinated by her mama Elma’s work with inventing spells and studying spells when it came to charms and transfiguration, the latter of which Lumi was particularly fascinated by to the point when she decided to become an animagus when she was older and later, a transfiguration professor. However, one thing Lumi always wanted was a younger sibling which was something that Elma in particular wanted to give her herself.

Genna insisted that she would be happy to get pregnant again if she and Elma wanted to have their second child the same way they had Lumi rather than adopting. However, Elma insisted that she was perfectly fine with being pregnant despite her health conditions, which particularly concerned Genna since she always grew panicked whenever Elma would have a severe asthma attack. Eventually, using the same donor, Elma became pregnant and on March 28th 2029 she gave birth to a boy whom she and Genna named Odhran naming Elma’s cousin, Sloan, and Genna’s cousin, Lisbeth, as godfather and godmother respectively.

Baby Odhran was an energetic child who enjoyed spending time with his mothers and older sister. It was also discovered that he was a metamorphmagus like Elma. In particular, whenever he threw a tantrum or got really excited his hair would change colors due to him not being able to control his powers. However eventually when he was old enough, Elma taught him how to properly use his abilities and eventually he settled on a new appearance for himself, with lavender hair, green eyes, and a scar he later added when he was older to look cooler which he emphasized with dramatic stories.

Eventually, it was time for Lumi and Odhran to go to Hogwarts. Lumi was sorted into Hufflepuff while Odhran was sorted into Gryffindor. Lumi was a well behaved and sweet kid while Odhran was more of a trouble maker. In fact, during his time at Hogwarts, he did struggle in classes that he wasn’t interested in because he tended to space out. This caused him to have bad marks in certain classes such as history of magic. However he did enjoy classes where he was able to express himself which was one reason why he decided to become a playwright after graduation.

#Magic Awakened #hpma #Genna Raleigh #Elma Truell #Rex Tremblay-Rath #Sonny Oglesby #Sloan Truell #Andrew Raleigh #Eleanor Murdock #Eleanor Raleigh #Teagan Truell #Laramie Nott #Imogen Truell #Jonthia

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