The Four Daughters of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva

The Four Daughters of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva are (very obviously) the four daughters of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva and Bernardo Vasconcelos Oliveira. They are four of the most notable witches in wizarding society and have made a massive impact on wizarding society too. 
Helena - notable artist, illustrator for Lota's books 
Lota - famous children's book author 
Valeria - worked as the Head Auror for the Portuguese Ministry of Magic 
Sara - astronomer
They all know how to speak Portuguese, French and English. 
== Biographies ==
=== Helena Silva Oliveira ===
Helena Silva Oliveira (born 5 October, 1980) is a Portuguese witch and the first daughter and child of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva and Bernardo Vasconcelos Oliveira. She was the oldest of four children and perhaps the most mature out of all of them, even as they got older. She is described to having 'chocolate-brown hair and dreamy brown eyes' by her husband Alexandre, as he writes to a friend after meeting her for the first time. 
Helena attended Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, which her sisters later attended as well. She was one of the top students at the school and excelled at all the subjects there. Along with her excellent academic results, she also had a special talent in drawing and art. Whilst at Beauxbatons, she also learnt to speak French and English. Art had always been a passion of hers. Her mother described her as a 'natural artist' and says that 'she knew how to draw before she knew how to speak.' Helena would spend a lot of her free time drawing and sketching. She specialises in drawing nature and animals, she says that they are her 'favourite thing to draw'. Sometimes she draws portraits of other people, but she doesn't like those as much and says that they are 'not as fun to draw as animals'. She signes all her drawings with the pseudonym of 'Passarinha' (Birdy/Little Bird in Portuguese) and that is what she became widely known as after she became famous. 
Helena went on to illustrate many of the illustrations in her younger sister Lota's books. Lota and Helena often spend time together discussing Lota's books and the illustration plans that Helena has for them. As a result of this, Helena got to spend a lot of time with Lota's children, her nieces and nephews. Her niece Regina quickly became a muse in many of her illustrations in Lota's books, along with her brother Sebastião, as many of Lota's main characters were based around them. Helena's own children, Maurício and Melina, were also often inspirations for her illustrations and characters that looked like them were often found in Lota's books. 
=== Lota Silva Oliveira ===
Lota Silva Oliveira (born 4 February, 1982) is a Portuguese witch and the second daughter and child of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva and Bernardo Vasconcelos Oliveira. Lota was the most mischievous out of all her siblings and often described as 'rebellious'. Lota is the only one of her siblings to have inherited her father Bernardo's blonde hair. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Carlota, who had died three months prior to her birth. Carlota was much loved by all of her family and her death deeply saddened all of the family. 'Lota' was Carlota's nickname, and both Bernardo and Esmeralda thought that her nickname would suite their daughter more than her full name, so they chose her nickname 'Lota' over her full name 'Carlota'. 
Lota was also sent off to attend school at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. Like her sister She never really excelled or did too well at any subject really, but she was gifted with words. She would often write poems and short stories during her free time. Sometimes, her friends would ask her to create romantic poems for their person they secretly admired. Lota secretly hated doing this, but in order to keep her friends, she complied. She later did have a falling out with these friends for a different reason and Lota wrote to Helena (who had already graduated at the time) that she actually felt 'relieved' that she wasn't friends with these girls anymore. 
Lota's love for writing led her to begin her writing career. She came up with a pen name - Borboleta Silva ('Borboleta' comes from the Portuguese word for 'butterfly' and 'Silva' is her surname) - which she would be more widely known as after her success with her children's books. At first it was extremely hard to even get a publisher or an editor to look at her work, but through hard work and persistence, she finally managed to get a publisher to review and publish her work. Lota's first book was definitely not a success. The few critics who read her book deemed it 'boring, uninteresting and a total disaster'. Her second book didn't do too well either, with reviews and letters coming back to her saying that the book was 'dull and poorly written'. Throughout this tough period of time, Lota's parents supported her both emotionally and financially. Her friends and sisters would often write letters to her motivating her to keep on going. In a letter to Valeria, Lota wrote 'I am forever grateful that our parents were willing to support me financially, I have heard of authors who were extremely poor, some even after selling multiple copies of books. I am also so thankful for our friends and sisters, without their motivation, I would've gotten nowhere.' 
After giving birth to her first child and son Sebastião, Lota turned to writing children's books. She would take the bedtime stories she told to Sebastião and turn them into more developed stories and publish them. The main characters of said stories would also be inspired heavily by the children surrounding her life, such as her children, nieces and nephews. The response to her first children's book The Fairies in the Garden was almost all positive, with many copies being sold a day. Lota had turned to her sister Helena for help with the illustrations in the book, as Helena was an artist. Helena went on to illustrate many more of Lota's books, including two of Lota's most acclaimed books The Adventures of Érica (which is actually a book series), Juliana's Pink Dress and A Little Boy's Bedtime Stories (which were the stories/books she hadn't published but also the stories that she had told Sebastião for his bedtime, with the 'little boy' referring to Sebastião). Most of these books were published before her second child Regina was born. Regina was born six years after Sebastião was. 
Although Lota predominantly writes children's books, she still writes longer books for teenagers/young adults. Some of her most famous books targeted at these audiences include The Angel's Daughter and Birdy. Lota has also written other forms of literacy, such as a collection of poems which are under the collective title of Camila (after her best friend who had died a year prior to the publication of the poems) and a memoir that was split into three different books/parts. 
The first part was called Butterflies on the Windowsill: Memories of a Child (referring to the butterflies that she would see on her windowsill all the time as a child). This memoir mainly talks about her early life and memories from her childhood, as well as her time at school. Later on Lota published the second part of the memoir named Regina and Sebastião: Memories of a Mother (this title is named after both her children. Her children are the only reason she even began to write books as a career. They meant the world to her and to her, that was what motherhood meant). This memoir covered her life after she got married and memories of being a mother to her two children (especially when they were younger). The last part of the memoir was called Birdy: Memories of an Author (the title 'Birdy' refers to the first book she wrote). This part covers her experiences as an author, her writing processes and how the bedtime stories of her children became acclaimed books. 
=== Valeria Silva Oliveira ===
Valeria Silva Oliveira (born 4 April 1984) is a Portuguese witch and the third daughter and child of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva and Bernardo Vasconcelos Oliveira. Ever since she was a child, Valeria had been the most daring out of all her siblings and was willing to do more 'dangerous' things that her sisters would never do. She is said to look the most like their mother, especially when she was younger. She was named after her maternal great-aunt, who helped to take care of Lota and Helena, but died of a muggle illness a year before Valeria was born. In honour and thanks of her, her parents decided to name their daughter after her. 
Valeria was the third of her siblings to be sent to Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, where she learnt French and English as additional languages. Like her older sister Helena, she excelled at all her subjects and was one of the top students of the school by the time she graduated. During her time at Beauxbatons, she met her future husband, Hugo Saraiva Guedes. They dated for many years and in a letter that Valeria wrote to her mother Esmeralda, she says that 'he is the only one I will ever love, I am sure of it mother, I just know'. 
After she initially graduated Beauxbatons and married Hugo, they moved to Lisbon, far away from where both Valeria and Hugo were born - Marvão. This was because Valeria had both just been accepted to work at the Portuguese Ministry of Magic as an Auror. Additionally, Hugo had been accepted as a healer in the largest wizarding hospital in Portugal, which was also in Lisbon. 
Two years into living in Lisbon, Valeria became pregnant and gave birth to their first and only child Gisela. Valeria had always loved children and was the first of her siblings to get married and give birth to a child. Valeria doted on her daughter Gisela a lot since she was her only child. Gisela would also be sent to Beauxbatons in due time like the rest of her family had been, whilst her parents still worked in Lisbon. 
A couple of years after working as an Auror, Valeria got promoted to the position of Head Auror, a position in which she resigned from after she turned thirty-five. At the time she was promoted, she was only twenty-two, making her one of the youngest Head Aurors that have ever worked at the Portuguese Ministry of Magic. After she resigned from working as an Auror, she turned to a career of selling books at a bookstore. Valeria had always loved reading and being in a place full of books couldn't make her happier. 
=== Sara Silva Oliveira ===
Sara Silva Oliveira (born 10 November, 1986) is a Portuguese witch and the fourth daughter and child of Esmeralda Sequeira Silva and Bernardo Vasconcelos Oliveira. Sara is probably the least 'well known' out of all her siblings, but she is very well respected in the astronomy community. As a child, Sara's favourite thing to do was watch the stars with her father. She would try to count all the stars and her interest in astronomy showed through the many books she bought that contained information about stars and planets. 
Like the rest of her sisters, Sara was sent to Beauxbatons Academy of Magic for her education, where she also learnt how to speak French and English (like the rest of her sisters). Although Sara did well in all her subjects, the one subject that she particularly excelled at, was (no surprise) astronomy. She was one of her professor's favourite students, as she always showed interest and enthusiasm in her class. For almost every test, she would be the one in the class with the highest mark, or at least be in the top five. 
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