Florence Nettle

## Florence Moon (née Nettle)

**Florence Moon** (née **Nettle**)(1 October, 1861 - 19 December, 1922) was an English half-blood witch who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1873 to June of 1880. She was a member of Ravenclaw House. She was the wife of Sigmund Moon, and the mother of Wizengamot Member Cornelius Moon, as well as Astrea Moon (née Higgs), Barnabas Moon, and Phineas Moon.

Her husband was the proprietor of a business called Telescopeworks, which produced telescopes. She was the paternal aunt by marriage of Leonard Spencer-Moon, who was Minister for Magic from 1939 to 1948, who carried Wizarding Britain through the Global Wizarding War.

## Biography

### Early life

Florence Nettle was born on 1 October, 1861, in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was born into the Nettle family in Preston, an industrious town in the North of England. She was a half-blood witch.

Florence Nettle began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1873, in the same year as Euphemia Bulstrode (née Parkinson), Ernest Macmillan I, and Sigmund Moon. Not much is known of her school years, and she left in 1880, at the end of her seventh year. She became engaged to Sigmund Moon, a pure-blood wizard from Slytherin House, and they married that same summer.

Her new husband, Sigmund Moon, was chosen by his father, Lorenzo, to continue the family business, were he to pass away unexpectedly. The Moon family owned Telescopeworks, which was a leading producer of telescopes in Wizarding Britain. Moon was chosen over his other two brothers because he had a "sensible mind", according to Lorenzo.

The family moved to Primrose Hill, a neighbourhood in Camden, London to reflect Sigmund's growing role in his father's company. In London, Florence gave birth to their eldest son there, Cornelius Moon, in November of 1881. Three years later, a daughter followed, in 1884. They named her Astrea.

That same year, Sigmund's father, Lorenzo, passed away, leaving Florence's husband in total control of his company, Telescopeworks.

### Later life

Cornelius and Astrea were Florence and Sigmund's only children, until the year 1892, when they had a third son, Barnabas, who was admitted to be somewhat of an accident. But instead of having his third son grow up an only child, Florence Moon and her husband had an additional son, Phineas, in 1894.

Her eldest son, Cornelius, married Òceane Malfoy, daughter of Septimus Malfoy I, on 24 April, 1907. Her grandson, Horace Moon, was born in 1909.

#### Death

Florence Moon (née Nettle) passed away on 19 December, 1922, in their home in the Primrose Hill area of London, England. She was 61.

## Etymology

The name Florence comes from the Latin name *Florentius* or the feminine form *Florentia*, which were derived from *florens* "prosperous, flourishing". *Florentius* was borne by many early Christian saints, and it was occasionally used in their honour through the Middle Ages.
The name can also be given in reference to the city in Italy, as in the case of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). She was a nurse in British hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing.