Vivienne Volta

Overview

Vivienne Volta, age 27, LA -> Petts Wood, England

Shelby, age 23, CA

## Overview

Vivienne Volta is a new professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was recruited to Hogwarts’ faculty to teach a new course on Elemental Magic, which derived from her extra-curricular work in base elemental magic as a student. Combined with modern magic and writings from early American witches, Volta pioneers a form of wandless magic to manipulate natural elements. She also has a unique flair for fashion design, having chartered the Fashion Design Club at Hogwarts while she was a student, receiving a Bachelors degree in Fashion Design, and is now the club’s faculty advisor.

## Personality

Volta is spunky, sarcastic, and a bit of a flirt. She admits that she is a bit vain, but also full of self-deprecating humor. She was named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, and thus has a keen sense of fashion. She can be cold at first glance, as she has some walls up, but she is a fiercely loyal friend, specializing in tough love. She'll tell what you need to hear, whether or not it's what you want to hear.

## Backstory

Vivienne Volta is a half-blood, having an Italian/English wizard father and American muggle mother. Her father is Enzo Volta, an esteemed Slytherin alumnus and former Chaser for the Italian National Quidditch Team. Her mother, Katherine St. Clair, is a professor at FIDM’s (Fashion Institute of Design & Marketing) Los Angeles campus, where Vivienne eventually pursued her own degree. Vivienne grew up in Los Angeles until receiving her Hogwarts letter by her father’s owl. Once she started her fourth year in school, her family permanently moved to Petts Wood, England. She stayed true to her American and muggle roots, resulting in a teaching style that is informal, fun, and spirited, yet inspires respect and admiration from her students and fellow faculty.

Volta originally had planned to pursue a career in fashion design before being summoned to teach Elemental Magic. She still enjoys sketching and designing in her free time, and reads many books on fashion design from around the world, both Muggle and Wizarding worlds.

### Mortalia's Possession & Influence

Having an early life in Los Angeles played a significant role in her background in the arts, as well as her cynical and sarcastic nature. During the summer between her third and fourth year, she was taken advantage of by a casting director (also a wizard) and made into a vessel for the succubus, Mortalia. This transformed Vivienne into a seductive and mischievous vixen. The succubus amplified her vanity and flirtatious nature, which got her into a bit of trouble during her days as a student at Hogwarts. During her 5th year, a male student began to sexually harass her. Mortalia took over, seducing the boy and viciously attacked him. When Vivienne regained control, she found herself tied up in the dungeon. From then on, she resented the demon within her, and tried to keep herself away from those whom she might hurt, or could hurt her. She explained her situation to then-Headmistress McGonagall, who encouraged her to channel the negative energy and manifest it into powerful wandless magic, hence her Elemental Magic skills.

### The Horcrux Separation

Deep down, she wanted to be rid of the demonic part of herself, but that proved difficult, as it had possessed her for many years. She was conflicted about her desire to be free, and her past trauma and need to protect herself and others. Eventually, Volta found that she could alter a horcrux spell to separate the succubus leaching on her soul. Since the piece of the soul was not hers, and Mortalia had killed before, she was able to dispel the demon from her soul, freeing her, but letting the demon free as well.