James Tickes X

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## Biographical information

### Marital status

Married (1967), widower (1979), married (ca 1988)

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* Myron Tickes (father)
* Gardner Tickes (younger brother)
* †Siobhan Tickes (wife)
* Ian Tickes (son)
* Jessie Tickes (daughter)
* Sarah Tickes (wife)
* Robby and Davy Tickes (sons)
* †Ian Gardner Tickes III (grandfather)
* †Jetty Tickes (grandmother)
* †James Tickes IX (uncle)
* †Myron Tickes I (ancestor)
* †Fiona Gardner Tickes (ancestor)
* †John Tickes (ancestor)
* †James Tickes II (ancestor)
* †James Tickes IV (ancestor (likely))
* †Jamesina Tickes I (exact relationship uncertain)
* †Ian Gardner Tickes II (exact relationship uncertain)
* †James Tickes VII ((great-)grand-uncle or grandfather's cousin (likely))

### Romances

* Siobhan Tickes (wife)
* Sarah Tickes (wife)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* Jas. W. Tickes and Sons
* Ravenclaw Business Lads

**James Worthing Tickes**, a.k.a. **James Tickes X**, is a non-canonical wizard and clocksmith mentioned in *The Family Clock*; he is the father of Ian, Jessie, Robby and Davy Tickes and the husband of first Siobhan Tickes and later Sarah Tickes.

## Physical appearance

James has brown hair like his daughter, and a beard that is often left somewhat unkempt.

## Family relationships

James is the older of Myron Tickes' two children, by about twenty years; he was born in the 1944/45 scholastic year (he shared classes with Siobhan McArran, who was born in late 1944), while his brother Gardner must have been born between the fall of 1963 and the fall of 1966 (see discussion in his article). He is said to have a muggle-born grandmother, and since Jamesina Swift was a pure-blood this must refer to his mother's side, of which nothing else is known except that his mother died of cancer while Gardner was still much younger than James (so probably in the late 1960s or the 1970s). It is not known if the cancer was related to the long gap between the siblings.

## Biography

James started Hogwarts in 1956, where he was sorted into Ravenclaw, and in 1960 became a prefect; he was also active in the Ravenclaw Business Lads. In the summer of 1961 he met the love of his life, Siobhan McArran, while debating decency legislation and product bans at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour where she was working; after she soundly thrashed both his and his opponent's arguments, he asked her out and she accepted. During the 1961/62 school year he entered an artists' competition in Hogsmeade and asked her to be his model for a portrait of Rowena Ravenclaw; while working on it they became an official couple, and he eventually proposed during their seventh year (1962/63). Due to her parents' divorce, she wasn't keen on marrying, but after a timely intervention by his grandmother (who had also become her superior officer) they eventually tied the knot in 1967 and had two children, Ian in October 1970 and Jessie in October 1977. However, in 1979 Death Eaters attacked and killed Siobhan, which set off a particularly nasty clinical depression in James; for nine years he had to be constantly watched (and occasionally put under the Full Body-Bind curse) to make sure he did not kill himself, and he was committed to St Mungo's several times, spending in total about two years there. During this time, his children were mostly raised by his father and brother. In 1988, Siobhan's friend and auror mind healer Sarah Whipkey developed an experimental treatment, but soon realized that she wouldn't get the permissions needed to actually try it; instead she married him and began the treatment in secret. The marriage was meant as a mere formality, but as James slowly came back out of depression feelings began to grow and in 1994 they had twin sons Robby and Davy. By 1996, a treatment had been found that let him function almost normally for a few days at a time, but at the cost of "frankly dreadful" side effects, so he only did this sparingly.

In the Fall of 1996, with increasing Death Eater attacks in Britain and his daughter involved with a known Potterist (not to mention having brawled with Bellatrix Lestrange and won), he used his retirement fund to buy Harrowby Jones' shop in Manhattan, New York; this would allow tariff-free access to American mineral auctions, potentially lowering costs with up to ten percent, but more importantly provide an intercontinental floo connection subject to international, rather than British, regulation.

## Trivia

He is said to hate Severus Snape; since the two were never at Hogwarts together (Snape is fifteen years younger), it may be that Snape was involved in the attack that killed Siobhan (or at least that James believes so; his father considers Snape a friend).

## References

1. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 11
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 25
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 13
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 35
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 24
6. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 15
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 26
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 28