Althea Lehtonen

(née Lark)

* Paloma Lark
* Xesús Lark
* Elaia Lark

(Siblings)

* Zedekiah Lehtonen
* Cyrus Lehtonen
* Hecuba Lehtonen
* Nephthys Lark

St. Mungo's

Healer
(Jul 2039-Aug 2043)

Althea Maria Lehtonen (née Lark) (b. 14 Feb 2021) is a pure-blood witch of Jamaican and Spanish heritage. The fourth child of Jericho and Marisol (née Perez). Althea has six brothers and sisters. Her husband is Jeremiah Lehtonen, and they have two children.

## Biography

#### Early Days

Althea Maria Lehtonen (née Lark) was born on February 14, 2021, in Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica, to Jericho and Marisol (née Perez). Her father is native to Jamaica, while her mother is native to Spain. The fourth of seven children, she has four brothers, Diego (Jan 2017), Nicolás (Apr 2022), Antonio (Apr 2022), and Felix (Mar 2027). And two sisters, Talicia (Feb 2020) and Renata (Feb 2020).

For most of her childhood and early teen years, her family split their time between Spain and Jamaica.

In early February 2035, her family moved to the United Kingdom just before her fourteenth birthday. She and her siblings started attending Hogwarts; before that, they had been homeschooled.

#### Hogwarts (2035-2039)

When she started Hogwarts in February of 2035, she was a third-year student. The sorting hat placed her into Slytherin House.

It wasn’t long after she started school that she started getting cards, notes, and gifts from a secret admirer. For months she couldn’t help but wonder who her admirer was. At the end of the year, the school had a dance, and she discovered that her admirer was a friend that she had made shortly after coming to Hogwarts, Jeremiah Lehtonen.

In October 2035, she and Jeremiah started dating; they dated through the rest of their Hogwarts days.

#### Career

From July 2039 to July 2042, she Trained to be a Healer at St. Mungos. Althea worked at St. Mungos until she and Jeremiah moved to Spain in August 2043. Then she started working at a Spanish Wizard Hospital.

#### Abilities

Althea is multilingual; she grew up speaking both English and Spanish; then, when she started dating her husband, she began to learn Finnish, the native tongue of his paternal grandfather, from him.

## Relationships

#### Jeremiah Lehtonen

When she started Hogwarts, she met Jeremiah, and they became good friends. At the end of the school year in 2035, he revealed at the school dance that he was the secret admirer that she’d had for months. That touched her, and she was delighted that it was him.

In October 2035, they started dating. After she had graduated from Hogwarts in June 2039, she moved in with Jeremiah. He had graduated a year before her.

On June 13, 2041, he proposed to her on a Mountain in Kilpisjärvi in Finland. It was the same place that his grandfather had proposed to his grandmother. They got married on February 14, 2042, her twenty-first birthday. In mid-2043, she and Jeremiah decided that they were going to move to Spain. In August, they moved to Bilbao, Spain.

On July 29, 2046, she gave birth to their first child, Jericho Abram, named for her father and Jeremiah’s father. On August 10, 2048 she gave birth to their second child, Melanie Maria.

#### Nefertiti Gwyther

Nefertiti is a friend she made when she was at Hogwarts, they bonded over having the same birthday, same month, same day, and same year. Their husbands are first cousins, so now they are also cousin-in-laws.

#### Talicia Lark

Talicia is her older sister, and they have always been close. One of the hard things about moving to Spain was not getting to see Talicia as often, but they talk every day in some form, be it I-parchment or magical mirrors. Talicia and her twin sister Renata are ten days shy of being a year older than her; people often thought that they were triplets when they were all growing up.

## Etymology

**Althea** is of Greek origin, and it means Healer and Wholesome. It is a Latin form of the ancient Greek name Althaía.

**Maria** is of Latin origin and means of the sea or bitter, and it is a form of the name Mary.