Evangeline Lestrange

## Evangeline Irène Iolanthe Lestrange

**Evangeline Irène Iolanthe 'Eva' Lestrange** (born 8 August, 1980) was a French (with her mother being English) pure-blood witch and was the daughter of Marcus Lestrange and Iolanthe Lestrange (née Carrow). Born in a pure-blood family, she was taught about pure-blood ideology and supremacy. Eva took great pride of this, but never worried too much about it either. One of her best friends in childhood was her cousin Esme Lestrange. She enjoyed spending time with her, and her family often visited as well. She also spent a lot of time with one of her maternal cousins - Hilary Carrow. She visited her a lot via floo. Eva wasn't too close with her siblings because of the age gap, but she still loved them dearly. Some of her other best friends were Maude Rosier, Alba Richelieu and Thérèse Beauchamp (in France). She then moved to England with her family and became good friends with Beatrix Selwyn, Willa Avery and Florence Avery. She enjoyed a range of hobbies as well, including playing the violin.

Eva attended attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1991 to 1997 and was sorted into Slytherin House along with her cousin Hilary. She mainly spent her time with her childhood friends from England and Hilary. Though after Christmas, Willa and Florence started spending more time with other Slytherin girls and Beatrix made friends with another group of friends. Luckily for her, Beatrix invited her to join her little group. Beatrix and Eva still spent time with Willa and Florence. They hung out regularly. In that group, she eventually became closer with Eimear Burke. They became very good friends over their interest of violin playing. Eva excelled at subjects such as Transfiguration, Astronomy and Defence Against the Dark Arts (even though she used some herself). She later studied Alchemy and Study of Ancient Runes.

## Biography

### Early Life (1980s)

Evangeline Irène Iolanthe 'Eva' Lestrange was born on 8 August, 1980 to Marcus Lestrange and Amarantha Lestrange (née Carrow) in Lestrange Manor, Paris, France. Her parents (both whom were pure-blood) were born into wealthy, old pure-blood families. Eva came from the French line of the Lestranges, so she would have attended Beauxbatons, but after she moved to England, she received her Hogwarts letter, which gave her no choice but to attend Hogwarts. Her mother's side of the family - the Carrows - were traditionally sorted into Slytherin, whilst her father's side of the family of course, attended Beauxbatons instead of Hogwarts. Eva is half English and half French because her mother was English and her father was French. She can speak, English, French, German and Polish fluently (some of her maternal cousins are Polish).

   Her parents wanted her to be a lady suited for marriage into another pure-blood family in the future. When she was 15, she found out she was betrothed to Sylvestre Rosier. She was very sophisticated and polite in front of her parents and when she was at any sort of event, but she was very carefree around her friends. She studied English, French Literature, German, Polish and Etiquette with the numerous tutors her parents hired, though she did study Polish with her maternal aunt Irene when she came to visit. Both her parents played a part in teaching her about other things in life and the dark arts. Her parents, especially her father, encouraged her to use them, but Eva never really did. She only used them when she thought it was necessary.

Because she was born into a pure-blood family, she was also taught about pure-blood supremacy, but she never really cared about it anyway. She took pride in it though, because she says she is privileged to be in a family like this.