Severina Crouch

## Lady Severina Malfoy,Duchess of Wiltshire

**Severina Malfoy** (née **Crouch**) (9 April, 1807 - 13 January, 1854) was a pure-blood English witch who lived during the 19th Century. She was born into the Crouch family, the daughter of Horatius Crouch and Lycoris Crouch (née Rosier), she was the wife of Brutus Malfoy II, and the mother of his son, Marius Malfoy. She was the sister of Paschal Crouch, as well as Aleta Bulstrode (née Crouch), wife of Archibald Bulstrode I.

She was born in Crouch Hill, Dorset, England. She was educated at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which she attended from 1818 to 1825. She married Brutus Malfoy II in 1835. They had only one child together, Marius. Her husband, Brutus, was the Head of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Malfoy from 1840 to his death in 1883, a reign of nearly 43 years. Severina, however, passed away in 1854.

## Biography

### Early life

Severina Crouch was born on 9 April, 1807, into the pure-blooded Crouch family at the family manor, known as Crouch Hill House. She was the second child of Horatius Crouch and Lycoris Crouch (née Rosier). She was born into a very old, wealthy and gentry wizarding family, and she had a brother, Paschal Crouch, and a younger sister of two years, Aleta.

In the year 1818, at the age of eleven, she began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Slytherin House, where numerous like-minded young idealists are also often found. She lost her mother, Lycoris Crouch, when she was just sixteen.

### Later life

Severina Crouch married Brutus Malfoy, heir to the House of Malfoy, in the year 1835. A year later, they had their only child, Marius Malfoy, in 1836. Four years later, upon the death of his father, Armand Malfoy II, Severina's husband became Head of the House of Malfoy, and her only son was elevated to the status of heir, from heir apparent, at the age of four.

#### Death

The Lady Severina Malfoy passed away on 13 January, 1854, at the age of 46. She left behind her husband, Brutus Malfoy, as well as her son, Marius, who was about seventeen.

#### Legacy

She was the paternal grandmother of Septimus Malfoy I, and the paternal great-grandmother of Septimus Malfoy II. Her second great-grandson was Abraxas, and her third great-grandson was Lucius Malfoy II, thereby making Severina Malfoy the fourth great-grandmother of Draco Malfoy.

She was also the paternal great-grandmother of Lady Òceane Moon (née Malfoy), who was the mother of a man called Horace Moon. Her third great-grandson was Silas Moon, whose daughter, Pandora, was later disowned for marrying a man called Xenophilius Lovegood without her father's permission. Furthermore, Severina and Brutus were the fifth great-grandparents of Luna Lovegood, Pandora's daughter, who became a member of Dumbledore's Army and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts during the Second Wizarding War.

## Etymology

The name Severina is the feminine form of the name Severinus, which was a Roman family name that was derived from Severus. Severinus was the name of many early saints, including a 6th-century Roman philosopher martyred by the Ostrogothic king Theodoric. It was also borne by a pope. The name is fitting, considering the family that she married into, the Malfoys, had a tradition of naming their children after Roman emperors or statesmen.

*Crouch* is an English surname as well as a verb, meaning "to bend down; to stoop low" or "to be servilely...to fawn; to cringe". Furthermore, the River Crouch is a river that flows through the English county of Essex into the North Sea, the location of Azkaban, and Crouch End is an area of London known for having been the home of many writers in the fantasy genre.