Jamesina Tickes III

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This article is about **the auror and watchmaker killed in 1979**. You may be looking for **somebody else named *Jamesina* and/or *Tickes***.

## Biographical information

### Also known as

* Jetty Tickes
* The Fox

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* Emeric Switch (brother)
* †Ian Gardner Tickes III (husband)
* †James Tickes IX (son)
* Myron Tickes (son)
* James Tickes X (grandson)
* †Siobhan Tickes (granddaughter-in-law)
* Sarah Tickes (granddaughter-in-law)
* Gardner Tickes (grandson)
* Ian Tickes (great-grandson)
* Jessie Tickes (great-granddaughter)
* Robby and Davy Tickes (great-grandsons)

## Affiliation

### School

Hogwarts

**Jamesina "Jetty" Tickes**, née Switch, a.k.a. **Jamesina Tickes III** and **The Fox**, is a non-canonical historical pure-blood witch, auror and magical watchmaker mentioned in *The Family Clock*; she is the sister of Transfiguration textbook author Emeric Switch.

There are several contradictory statements about when Jetty was born; the plaque on her guild hall portrait says c.1896 but several other dates given in the same passage do not fit with what has otherwise been established, so this one may be inaccurate as well. When first introduced she is said to have been eighty-six when she made a baby clock for Jessie, which would point to a birthday somewhere between 1890 and 1893 (depending on how old Jessie was when she made it, and how close to her eighty-seventh birthday she herself was).

After graduating from Hogwarts she became an auror, one of the first women to do so in Britain; if this took three years back then, as it does now, she would have started work either between 1911 and 1914, or around 1917. Among her duties at that time was protecting witches and wizards involved in the muggle Great War, and it may have been in this role that she met Ian Tickes; he sat his watchmaker mastery at the time and she eagerly learned the trade herself. She sat her own mastery in 1919, after marrying him on the way there, and they had their portraits painted at the same time, she in an auror captain's battle dress.

They were to have two sons, James and Myron. However, in 1943 James was killed by a Grindelwald supporter and Ian, already sick and bedridden, followed him within the year. Jamesina and sixteen-year-old Myron, who dropped out of Hogwarts to take care of the family business, decided to throw the famed Tickes neutrality to the winds and actively sided with the Light.

Sometime around 1960 she made the acquaintance of muggle-born Hogwarts student Siobhan McArran and helped train her in dueling (and possibly other skills necessary to become an auror, as well); in 1962 (probably), Siobhan started dating her grandson James, eventually marrying him, but she also became an auror and worked for some years under Jetty's command. After Jetty retired the two would sometimes sit at home making watches and discussing auror business in code, so as not to disturb the children. However, during Voldemort's first rise to power she came out of retirement to duel Bellatrix Lestrange, "by all accounts, for the fun of it", and did a good job of it; according to her great-grandson Ian, it may have been the Lestrange brothers who came after her after she had "banged up" Bellatrix too much. She was killed by death eaters together with her granddaughter-in-law, Siobhan Tickes; again, there are several dates given but 1979 seems to be the best fit (see discussion in the article on Siobhan).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 25
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 15
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 31
4. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 3
5. ↑ *The Family Clock*,Chapter 10