Ottoline Fleamont

## Ottoline Brown (née Fleamont)

**Ottoline Brown** (née **Fleamont**)(**18 July**, **1824** - **7 December**, **1903**) was a pure-blood Scottish witch who lived in the 19th Century. She was the wife of Wendellin Brown I, and the mother of Phineas Brown and Molly Prewett (née Brown). She was born a member of the now-extinct Fleamont family.

Her father was Ormond Fleamont, and her mother was Bathsheba Fleamont (born Orpington), an English witch. She was the sister of Elowen Potter (née Fleamont), who was the mother of Henry Potter. Their brother, Anselm Fleamont, was the last of the male line of Fleamonts, and after the death of Ottoline's unmarried niece, Philomene, the line officially died out.

## Biography

### Early life (1824 - 1835)

Ottoline Brown (née Fleamont) was born on 18 July, 1824, in Hogsmeade, Scotland. Hogsmeade, a small village located in the Scottish highlands, was the only all-wizarding settlement in Great Britain. His father was Ormond Fleamont, and his mother was an English witch, Bathsheba Fleamont née Orpington, of Godric's Hollow, Somerset.

She had a younger brother, Anselm Fleamont, and a younger sister, Elowen. The Fleamont family lived on modest means in a house inside Hogsmeade village.

### Hogwarts years (1835 - 1843)

Ottoline Fleamont began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1835, and during the school Sorting Ceremony, became a member of Gryffindor House like all of the members of the Fleamont family before her.

Her sister Elowen began school in 1838, and her brother, Anselm, started in 1839. All three of them were members of Gryffindor House.

She finished her schooling in 1843.

### Later life (1843 - 1903)

Ottoline Fleamont married Wendellin Brown I on 27 July, 1846, just as her brother Anselm was finishing Hogwarts. She was 22 at the time. The marriage took place all the way in Upminster, Havering, a village outside of London. Ottoline moved into Wendellin's home after they tied the knot.

In March of 1847, Ottoline gave birth to their first child, Phineas Brown. Three years later, in May of 1850, she gave birth to a daughter, who they called Molly.

Her brother, Anselm, married a witch called Mairwen Broadmoor in 1859. They continued to live in Hogsmeade, and so they no longer saw each other, but they did write several letters.

Ottoline's sister, Elowen, she saw a lot more of: she had married an English wizard, Ophelius Potter, and they lived in a large home in the West Country. They had one child, Henry, born in 1859. Elowen Potter, the mother of Henry Potter, who was born a Fleamont, later asked on her deathbed for him to preserve her maiden name so it would not die out. Henry honoured her request by naming his son (Ottoline's great-nephew) Fleamont Potter.

## Etymology

Ottoline is an English diminutive of the German name Ottilie, which in turn is derived from Odilia. Odilia was derived from the Germanic element *odal* meaning "fatherland" or *aud* meaning "wealth, fortune". Saint Odilia (or Odila) was an 8th-century nun who is considered the patron saint of Alsace. She was apparently born blind but gained sight when she was baptized.

The name Fleamont is in itself derived from *Fleaman*, which comes from *Fleeman*, which comes from an old Anglo-French word, "fleming." This word comes from the Old French word "flamanc," which means "a Fleming."

The family of Flemmens, later described as "Fleamont," of the "Mountain," descended from a nobleman of Flanders, who, at a very early period came over to England, and took up his abode at Stoke-flemen in Devonshire, of which he was lord. In the days of Richard I. One of his posterity held in this place by the tenure of knight-service, seven knight's fees, and was probably the founder of this church, which still bears his name.

A muggle-born wizard was born into this family sometime in the middle ages, and when he left his family forever to attend Hogwarts, he established a homestead in the highlands of Scotland, thereby changing the family name irrecoverably to Fleamont.