Ciara Banks

(née Devitt)

(née Devitt)

* Anthony Brighton †

(step father)

 (adoptive)

(maternal half siblings)

* Elijah Brighton
* Raquel Brighton

(Step-siblings)

* Blake Tennelstone
* Alexandra Brighton

(née O’Reilly)

* Philip Simpson †
* Olivia Travis

(adoptive)

* Celeste Stackpoole
* Hope Stackpoole

(adoptive)

* Greyson Stackpoole

(Siblings)

* Andria Tennelstone
* Blake Tennelstone

Ciara Rose Devitt Banks (née Devitt) (b. 13 July 2002) is an English half-blood witch the eldest child of Jason Devitt (1980-2019) and Brittanie Brighton. Ciara has a mix of siblings four biological, one adoptive, and two step. Ciara is married to Luke, and they have four children.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Ciara Rose Devitt Banks (née Devitt) was born in England on July 13, 2002 to Jason and Brittanie (née Simpson). Her middle name is in honor of her paternal grandmother, Rose Devitt.

Ciara is the oldest of their four children. In May 2004, when she was almost two, her brother, Thomas, was born. Thomas was followed by Josie (Apr 2006) and Marina (Jun 2007, adoptive).

Ciara had a wonderful childhood; she grew up in Bristol, England. Brittanie and Jason raised Ciara in Lord Voldemort's service and raised her to respect pure-bloods. Her father was a pure-blood while her mother is a half-blood.

#### Hogwarts Life (2013-2020)

On July 13, 2013, her eleventh birthday, Ciara received her Hogwarts Letter. On September 1, she started and that evening at the sorting ceremony she was sorted into Slytherin House of the Ashwinder (Gryffindor House). That year she met and befriended Andria Banks a second-year Runespoor (Ravenclaw) and her brother Lucas (Luke) Banks a Basilisk (Slytherin) first year.. Andria would become her best friend, and Luke would years later become her husband.

In their fifth year, she and Luke started dating. Though he had been raised with pure-blood supremacy ideology. Luke didn’t care that she was a half-blood. Luke loved her for her.

In early January 2019, when the Rebellion took the fight against Lord Voldemort and his followers in the Battle of Godric’s Hollow Ciara though only sixteen, fought in the battle. The Rebellion won, though at the cost of casualties on both sides. One of those casualties was her father, Jason.

Ciara graduated in June 2020

## Blended Family

In 2018 her parents divorced, and her mother married Anthony Brighton. Through their union, she gained two stepsiblings, Blake Tennlestone (2000) and Alexandra Brighton (Sep 2018), and two maternal half-siblings, Elijah Brighton (Oct 2018) and Raquel Brighton (Aug 2021). Ciara is the second oldest in the Brighton-Devitt blended sibling group.

Her stepfather Tony died in September 2044. Ciara thought highly of Tony; he was a good man and had been a good father figure to her and her siblings after losing their father, Jason.

## Family and America

At some point after graduating from Hogwarts, she and Luke married. They decided to leave the United Kingdom and moved to the United States, settling in San Francisco, California.

In 2022 she gave birth to their first child, a son Tegan Issac. Three more children followed Molly Jane (2023), Ashlynn Aislin (Feb 2025), and Nicholas Scott (Oct 2044). There are twenty-two years between her oldest and youngest.

After living in the USA for over twenty years in May 2048 she became a US citizen and was able to vote in her first MACUSA election that November.

Ciara is an American USA liaison on the Muggle-born Underground Railroad she helps muggle-borns who have been able to get out of the United Kingdom and Ireland and make it to the United States.

## **Career**

From a young age, she had had a love for Herbology. It would lead to her career path as she became an Herbologist. Ciara travels the world for her career, and when her children were younger, she took them with her on her travels.

## Etymology

**Ciara** pronounced KEER-a is of Irish origin and means little dark one. It is the feminine version of the masculine name Ciarán, which comes from the Gaelic word for dark ciar. Some vairants are Kiara, Cier, Cyra, Ceara, and Keira.

**Rose**, pronounced rohz is of English, and Latin roots and means rose bush or rose a flower. The name comes from the Latin word rosa. It is a timeless classical name.