Keziah Goshawk

## Keziah Pettigrew (née Goshawk)

### Died

25 November, 1978 (aged 69)Forest Hill, Lewisham Borough of London, London, England

## Relationship information

### Family members

* Tiberus Goshawk (paternal grandfather) †
* Myrtle Goshawk (née Bulstrode) (paternal grandmother) †
* Phineas Goshawk (father) †
* Rowina Goshawk (née Shepley) (mother) †
* Wilfrid Pettigrew (husband) †
	+ Stefan Pettigrew (son)
	+ Joan Pettigrew (née Soley) (daughter-in-law)
		- Peter Pettigrew (grandson)
* Sabina Fenwick (née Goshawk) (sister)
* Jeremy Fenwick (brother-in-law)
	+ Lucia Fenwick (niece)
* Tabitha Liddell (née Goshawk) (sister)
* Horace Liddell (brother-in-law)
	+ Mary Liddell (niece)
	+ Andrew Liddell (nephew)
	+ Anne Fortescue (née Liddell) (niece)
	+ Ivan Fortescue (nephew-in-law)
		- Alice Longbottom (née Fortescue) (great-niece)
* Gertrude Hornby (née Goshawk) (sister)
* Albert Hornby (brother-in-law)
	+ Olive Hornby (niece)
* Augusta Evermonde (née Goshawk) (sister) †
* Gaius Evermonde (brother-in-law)
	+ Euan Evermonde (nephew)
* Dulcibella Edgecombe (née Goshawk) (sister)
* Philander Edgecombe (brother-in-law)
	+ Enid Fawley (née Edgecombe) (niece)
	+ Clement Fawley (nephew-in-law)
		- Evaline Greengrass (née Fawley) (great-niece)
		- Geoffrey Fawley (great-nephew)
* Rosanna Goshawk (sister) †
* Selena Goshawk (sister)
* Miranda Goshawk (sister)
* Gresham Goshawk Sr. (paternal uncle) †
* Henrietta Goshawk (née Gamp) (aunt by marriage) †
	+ Claribel Goshawk (first cousin)
	+ Grisdelda Rakepick (née Goshawk) (first cousin)
	+ Muriel Goshawk (first cousin)
	+ Gresham Goshawk Jr. (first cousin)
	+ Alban Goshawk (first cousin)
* Letitia Fudge (née Goshawk) (paternal aunt) †
* Theophilius Fudge (uncle by marriage) †
	+ Oswald Fudge (first cousin)
* Nellie Goshawk (paternal aunt) †
	+ Dorothea Goshawk (first cousin) †
* Baldo Shepley (maternal grandfather) †
* Dulcibella Shepley (née Prince) (maternal grandmother) †

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* Goshawk family
* Pettigrew family

**Keziah Pettigrew** (née **Goshawk**)(15 November, 1909 - 25 November, 1978) was an English pure-blood witch who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1921 to June 1928. She was the firstborn daughter of Phineas Goshawk and Rowina Goshawk (née Shepley), and she had eight sisters, the youngest of who was author Miranda Goshawk.

She married Wilfrid Pettigrew in 1929, and they had one child together, Stefan Pettigrew. Wilfrid passed away at the age of 58 in Forest Hill, Lewisham, London, England, leaving Keziah a widow. She followed him into death on 25 November, 1978, at the age of 69. They were survived by their son, Stefan Pettigrew, who had married a witch named Joan Soley, and their grandson, Peter Pettigrew.

## Biography

### Early life

Keziah Goshawk was born on 15 November, 1909, in Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, England. She was the daughter of Phineas Goshawk and Rowina Goshawk (née Shepley), and was the first of nine daughters born to the couple. Her eight sisters, in order, were Sabina, Tabitha, Gertrude, Augusta, Dulcibella, Rosanna, Selena, and Miranda.

Hadleigh Heath, the town in which Keziah was born, is an ancient market town and civil parish in South Suffolk, East Anglia, situated, next to the River Brett, between the larger towns of Sudbury and Ipswich.

#### Family

Keziah's family, the Goshawks, have had magic since about the 14th century. But by the early 20th century, the Goshawks were relatively impoverished, and Keziah's younger sisters, such as Dulcibella, Rosanna, Selena, and Miranda, all had to resort to "embarrassing" hand-me-down robes. The Goshawk family is known for being one of the largest wizarding families, consisting of many descendants, just like the Gamps and the Weasleys.

Keziah's own father, Phineas, was the youngest of nine siblings himself. As a result, she had loads of first cousins. Among them were Claribel, Griselda, Muriel, Alban, and Gresham Goshawk, Jnr. She was also a first cousin of Oswald Fudge.

#### Hogwarts years

Keziah received her Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1921, the same year that her youngest sister, Miranda, was born. That same summer, she visited Diagon Alley, located in London, with her father, Phineas, and he was able to purchase her a wand made of applewood and dragon heartstring from Ollivander's Wand Shop. She and her sisters, Sabina and Tabitha, were the only ones to receive new wands before heading off to school. The other five all got hand-me-downs.

Keziah Goshawk boarded the Hogwarts Express on 1 September, 1921, and she was sorted into Ravenclaw House that same night. While at school, she became a member of the Latin Society. The Latin Society was a recreational club at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for students interested in studying Latin. Students would meet weekly and the club also functioned as a tutoring system for younger students, namely, Keziah, who was tutored by the older students.

She left Hogwarts after completing her seventh year in June 1928. After she left the school, most of her supplies were passed down to her younger sister, Rosanna Goshawk, who was to start that same autumn.

#### Marriage

Keziah Goshawk married her longtime sweetheart, Wilfrid Pettigrew, on 30 March, 1929. They were both nineteen years old at the time. Wilfrid was an employee of the Knight Bus and was on staff as a driver for long nighttime hours, which made their relationship difficult. Still, they had one child together, Stefan, on 19 September, 1932.

#### Global Wizarding War

During the Global Wizarding War, Keziah's sister, Rosanna, was caught up in a duel in Southgate, Greater London, and died on 18 February, 1943. She was only 27 years old, and it was a tragedy for the closely-knit Goshawk family. Rosanna had been unmarried and so most of her things, including her London flat, went back to her parents to be sold. Rosanna's old school things had originally been Keziah's in the first place, and so she got many of her schoolbooks back after her sister's death.

Keziah Pettigrew's youngest sister, Miranda, cultivated fame and fortune through her authorship of The *Standard Book of Spells* series, which was a collection written by her and were Hogwarts textbooks, they covered the entire Charms syllabus. She also wrote a Herbology encyclopedia and the third volume of the *Which Owl?* series.

Miranda had found the complicated instructions and abstruse concepts in her "old-fashioned textbooks" rather hard to understand. To further her confusion when it came to learning magic, her sisters, including Keziah, used to deliberately give her the wrong incantation for every spell she attempted.

Her first book, the *Book of Spells*, was a success: it was not only translated into seventy-two languages (among them, Gobbledegook and Mermish), but it also became an approved textbook in many schools for magic around the world. Goshawk did not miss the opportunity to get back at her sisters for their mischievous pranks: she had "special editions" of *Book of Spells* (actually just editions with several misprints) sent to them.

### Later life

Her son, Stefan Pettigrew, began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1944. He was sorted into Gryffindor like Keziah's sister, Rosanna Goshawk, which warmed Keziah's heart. It was there that he met Joan Soley, another fellow Gryffindor student, and the couple would later marry.

Stefan and Joan married on 27 July, 1959. Their only son, Peter, was born about thirteen months later. The family all lived together in one shared house in Forest Hill, with Stefan supporting them with his job at Flourish and Blotts.

#### Decline and Death

Keziah's husband, Wilfrid Pettigrew, passed away at the age of 58 in Forest Hill, Lewisham, London, England, on 7 February, 1969.

She continued to live-in with her son Stefan and daughter-in-law Joan until her own death in 1978. She passed away in the home, at the age of 69 on 25 November.

## Etymology

The name Keziah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "cassia tree".

"Goshawk" is a species of bird, and a known form of the Patronus Charm.

The family likely originated in the middle ages. It is believed that John Goshawk, a wizard who lived in the 14th century, was the founder of this family, and the surname stuck possibly due to his bird Patronus, which took the form of a medium sized raptor.