Jocasta Flint

**Jocasta Flint**, also known as **Lady Echidna**, was a former Prince of Slytherin and a dark witch. She attempted to create an army of human-creature hybrids compelled to follow her orders. Fortunately, she was captured by an ICW task force before her experiments became successful. She later died in Azkaban.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Jocasta Flint is descended from House Flint, a Pure-blood family that would later be listed in the Sacred Twenty-Eight.

### Early Life

Jocasta Flint received her education from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, being sorted into Slytherin. During her later years at Hogwarts, she received the title of Prince of Slytherin from the Hydra Throne. Jocasta graduated at some point before 1880.

### Lady Echidna

After graduating from Hogwarts, Jocasta Flint took on the name **Lady Echidna** and attempted to create an army of human-creature hybrids compelled to follow her orders. This was done through a number of experiments that involved vivisecting live wizards and creatures, combining their essences, and incubating the results in illegal potions. Luckily, an unnamed French Auror had gone undercover into Jocasta's Inner Circle and was able to provide the ICW with the information necessary to assemble a task force to capture her successfully. Despite the task force being able to capture Jocasta, they were unable to catch her lieutenant, Gellert Grindelwald, a fact that led Jocasta to believe that it was Grindelwald that sold her out.

She was locked up in Azkaban for her crimes.

### The Time-Turner

In 1924, the Cryptohedron activated and identified Jocasta Flint as the Time-Turner's next user. The Unspeakables who looked after the device were very perplexed by this, believing it to be a mistake. With the group being split about putting such a powerful device into the hands of a dark witch who was caught by good fortune, the Unspeakables took a vote as to whether to break their ancient rules and not deliver the Time-Turner to Jocasta, with the voting swinging 4-3 against giving her the device.

It wasn't until years later, when Grindelwald rose to power, that the Unspeakables realised their mistake. Due to Jocasta believing that Grindelwald had been the one to betray her, had the Unspeakables given Jocasta the device, she would have killed Grindelwald once back in the past and still been captured due to the French Auror. By allowing Jocasta to use the Time-Turner, the Unspeakables had unwittingly allowed Grindelwald to rise to power and commence the Global Wizarding War. It was due to this that the Unspeakables agreed to never question the Cryptohedron again.

Jocasta Flint later died in Azkaban.

### Legacy

Despite many of her human-animals experiments resulting in monsters that had to be put down, several notable subjects survived her experiments. Being able to pass as near-human, they were adopted by several families throughout England and France where they were able to live some-what ordinary lives. These characters include Rubeus Hagrid, Gunther Hagrid, Apolline Delacour, and Olympe Maxime.

When Harry Potter found the Prince's Lair, he noticed Jocasta Flint's plaque memorising her time as a Prince of Slytherin amongst the others found along one of the walls. He was able to utilise her plaque, and others from House Flint, to persuade Marcus Flint to become an ally of his.

During a fight with several Montessi who were trying to kill Blaise Zabini, Gunther utilises his background as a half-troll to help Blaise and Hermione Granger, who was there visiting Blaise, defeat the Montessi's. As a part of this, his troll physiology minimised the effect that both spells and bullets had on him, allowing him to defeat several Montessi himself before biting off the hand of their leader, Enrico Montessi, destroying Enrico's wand in the process. Later, Blaise explains Gunther's heritage to a distraught Hermione, who was very confused about the day's events.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

### Care of Magical Creatures

Due to her experiments surrounding the combination of humans and magical creatures, it can be assumed that Jocasta Flint was well versed in her Care of Magical Creatures studies, being able to vivisect multiple species of magical creatures including, but possibly not limited to; Trolls, Giants, and Veelas.

She may also have had knowledge of the obscure field of biothaumaturgy, which was used by Lord Voldemort and House Selwyn to merge together seven differents breeds of snake into a single specimen.

## Behind the Scenes

* Lady Echidna was created due to the lack of dark ladies in Harry Potter Canon and because TSM disliked the "Creature Inheritance" fanfiction trope of Hogwarts students being revealed as descendants of magical creatures and gaining new magical powers.
* Echidna was a figure from Greek Mythology whose name meant "She-Viper". She is depicted in most myths as having married the giant Tython and given birth to various monsters, including Cerberus, the Hydra, and the Nemean Lion.

## Canon Divergence

Jocasta Flint is an original character of the Prince of Slytherin universe.

## References

Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 27 - Who Is the Prince of Slytherin?,

"[F]our people named Flint up on that wall, Marcus, though none since the 1870's... ...one aspiring dark lord who died in Azkaban, but never mind her.".

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Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 84 - Prelude (Hermione & Blaise),

Blaise explains Gunther's background and Lady Echidna's experiments to Hermione.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 126 - Speaking of Time,

The Unspeakables explain Jocasta Flint's relationship with the Time-Turner to Hermione.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 84 - Prelude (Hermione & Blaise),

Gunther's background utilises his half-troll heritage to defeat several Montessi attackers.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 138 - The Future All Around Us, Waiting to Be Born (Pt 2),

Cassilda explains the creation of Nagini to Peter Pettigrew.