Professor Valaria Mondragon

## **General Overview**

Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts

Deputy Headmistress Valaria Mondragon is widely known as the greatest living Artomancer to date. She is a Slytherin with a passion for flying & painting. Professor Mondragon teaches Magical Art & Art History at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry. She was a member of the Dark Hunters; **code name** is **Hydra**.

## **Personal Life & Hogwarts Years**

Valaria was born to **Genevieve and Achille Mondragon** in Leeds. As a young witch, Valaria's father Achille would teach her to fly and would often race around the gardens on brooms for hours. The Mondragon's loved their little girl, and nicknamed her **"Jelly Bean,"** due to her love of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. Unfortunately, the Mondragon's died unexpectedly in a flying accident and because she was so young (age 12), the Ministry of Magic decided to let two muggles adopt Valaria to ensure that her home life remain as stable as possible. They have been wonderful parents to Valaria and they remain close.

   Valaria attended Hogwarts and was sorted into **Slytherin**. Being a skilled flier, she was chosen to play chaser for Slytherin house's Quidditch team. She developed a fondness for the arts and began to slowly nurture her abilities through pranks, illusions, and by talking with the paintings of past witches & wizards throughout the halls of the castle. Her pranks earned her a reputation for being a good student, but a trouble maker.

Valaria completed her Hogwarts education with high marks, though not perfect. She traveled to London upon graduation to attend a muggle art college.

## **Note-Worthy Abilities & Skills**

Professor Valaria Mondragon is widely recognized as **the greatest living artomancer** to date. She is expertly skilled with wandless & non-verbal magic, and is capable of devastatingly powerful and even believable illusion magic.

She is known throughout Hogwarts for her gifts pertaining to **artistic magic.** (I.E. creating the moving paintings around the castle, and channeling her magic through paintings as a form of divination.) **Valaria is often found teaching her art classes outdoors** (weather permitting) so her students get the opportunity to see movement of plants, people, animals and even clouds, to further grasp the natural motion of life.

**Professor Mondragon is a skilled quidditch player**, and enjoys flying around the school grounds during her free time. She often assists with the coaching & skills development of the beaters on the Slytherin team.

Valaria is also an unregistered animagus, having been taught by her uncle, Professor Balthazar Balefyre. She takes the form of a black Friesian horse. There are only 2 wizards other than her uncle that are privy to her animagus status.

## **Professional Career**

**Valaria Mondragon returned to Hogwarts** upon completion of her muggle art schooling, **at the behest of the then-headmistress, Professor Minerva McGonagall**, where she started & developed the arts department into a more robust and respected department of the school. Professor Mondragon began teaching Magical Art to all years of students, eventually developing & further expanding her curriculum to include Magical Art History classes.

After establishing the art department, **Professor Mondragon was selected to become the next Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts** alongside the new Headmaster, Professor Alexander Kendros. Valaria is continuously having to help Kendros adapt to life as the Headmaster, while maintaining her own teaching schedule and her respective duties as the Deputy Headmistress.

## **Bonds & Relationships**

Professor Kendros - Close friends/frenemies since childhood. They are dueling partners, and share a sibling-like friendship.

Professor Winters - Bonded during teaching at Hogwarts over their shared love of animals, magical sports, and their mutual friend, Kendros. ***#WinterDragon***

Moira McCann - Occasionally Valaria and Moira have been known to close down the Three Broomsticks during trips to Hogsmeade. Their "girls nights," are legendary among the staff of Hogwarts.

Professor Winthrop - Valaria and Gwen began a friendship during teaching years at Hogwarts, sharing a mutual affinity for divination, though Gwen has mixed feelings about the magic itself. They began working together to develop Valaria's future-sight magic, and often share laughs in their offices together.

Professor Malik - Attended the Masquerade Ball, and subsequent battle with Valaria. Spent time keeping her company after she was revived, and while she recovered from her injuries in the Hospital Wing. He was eventually erased from her memory & left Hogwarts when he realized she didn't remember him.

The Silver Trio - Team made up of Mondragon, Winters and Kendros, respectively.

## **Quotes**

**"I ought to crucio you until you bleed from your teeth!"**

**"I can't find my sharpies."**

**"I'm pretty sure, in a roundabout sort of way, this is your fault."**

**"I died ONE TIME, and all of the sudden nobody let's me be alone."**

**"Merlin's bloody beard..."**

**"I am not a rule-breaker. I am the reason some of the rules were created."**