Aella Lestrange

### Relatives

Father: Rodolphus LestrangeMother: Bellatrix LestrangeSon: Arthur Lestrange-PotterSon: Urien PotterDaughter: Elaine Lestrange-PotterOTP: Audrey Rosier

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Aella Lestrange-Potter is the daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange and Rodolphus Lestrange. With her parents dead and incarcerated, she grew up a ward of the Ministry, juggled around group and foster homes until she aged out of the system. While in school, she was a Slytherin. She's a writer, a doctoral candidate, and mother of three children: Arthur Lestrange-Potter, Urien Potter, and Elaine Lestrange Potter. While she was once married to James Potter, they amicably separated.

## Personality

Aella has gone through a significant amount of growth in her life. Her unstable childhood led to her developing a lot of insecurity around relationships and being perceived as a normal and acceptable kind of person. She also struggled to have her mental illness treated with how far behind the wixen community was in psychiatric medicine.

Emotional honesty is not her strong suit, although she cares deeply for her friends and family. True to her Slytherin upbringing, her loyalty to her chosen family is very strong. It goes well with her fear of driving people away, leading to rather codependent behavior.

Over her life she's moved from being a reticent and defensive kind of person to someone who is trying to be more open and honest with her feelings. She has a bad habit of acting as a therapist for others to avoid introspection, but that's something she's working on.

## History

#### Young Adult Gen1

Following Hogwarts graduation, Aella spun her wheels and generally drifted. Released from Ministry custody into her own care, she found she didn't exactly know how to care for herself. While she worked at a Muggle pet store to get by and lived in cheap apartment mostly surrounded by wixen pensioners, she couldn't find the courage or emotional energy to do more than get on and occasionally go out with Kieran, Michael, or Evan and drink too much or sleep with strangers. With Audrey in the states, Aella was entirely aimless. After Audrey returned, Aella was able to rally a bit more with her best friend as her touchstone for normalcy, but it would still take several years for her to enter treatment for her mental health and eventually be able to start trying to have her writing published.

#### Older Gen1

After grappling with the harrowing mess that was her late teens and early twenties, Aella's life turned quite around in her later twenties. Landing a contract with a publisher and starting regular mental health treatment afforded her the kind of framework she needed to get herself on track for stability. She was indeed mostly stable, without the highs and lows of her previous years. She was even well enough to be deemed suitable custody for her father after his release from Azkaban. They established a fairly good relationship, even if it was less outwardly loving than Aella would've preferred. It was with his overall agreement that she undertook turning their ancestral home into a wixen orphanage and halfway house for young wix.

This was all severely tested with Davis Pucey's increasingly erratic behavior and growing obsession with Kieran Wood--it reminded Aella too much of more-than-friendly feelings she harbored for her own best friend and just generally brought more stress than she could handle. In the end, she removed herself from the situation to get help--however, this caused her to entirely miss Audrey and Evan's engagement and wedding.

Eventually, Aella would find herself in her own relationship after meeting James Potter. She would eventually fall pregant with their son, and they would subsequently marry. Later, they would adopt two additional children.

#### Hogwarts Gen2

All three of Aella's children attended Hogwarts. She was at Hogwarts for the Triwizard tournament, in which Urien competed.

During the Triwizard year, Rodolphus was not allowed on Hogwarts grounds. Knowing his health was failing and he would not live much longer, Aella brought him to Hogsmeade for the winter holiday, where he was able to say his goodbyes to his grandchildren. Although it was expected, her father's death hit her rather badly and she wished they would've had a better, more honest relationship.

#### Older Gen2 Verse

Aella and James' marriage hit a rough patch sometime after the death of her father and their children leaving home, one which it never recovered from. They drifted apart until, eventually, they mutually decided to separate. Their divorce was quite amicable and they stayed friends. Subsequently, Aella decided to lead her life in a manner that was more true to herself and stop making concessions towards "normalcy", so she moved in with Audrey and her family and went back to school.

She was present at the failed Rosier-Rowan wedding and was able to escape Kinnear with most of the party.

## Relationships

### James

James and Aella were married for nearly thirty years but drifted quite far apart by the end of their marriage. Aella admired that he was a constant, reliable, and uncomplicated relationship, and still enjoys these qualities in their friendship.

### Arthur

Although Aella tried not to show preference for her only biological child, she did worry over him more. With her anxious nature, it was too easy to fall into worrying over him the most as she was all too aware of the hereditary issues that could come up. As he gets older and more settled, it's easier for her to just let him be.

### Urien

Urien and Aella had the hardest parent-child relationship, with her emotional reticence making it hard for him to feel like she truly cared for him as much as for his other siblings, who she had an easier understanding with. Their matching fears of abandonment and rejection caused a distant relationship. With time and introspection on both their parts, they've found more common ground and have grown closer.

### Elaine

Elaine and Aella had quite a good relationship until Aella and James' divorce, which Elaine rather blames Aella for. In Elaine's view, Aella turned her back on their family in favor of a new family and this has created a rift between them.

### Audrey

Audrey is Aella's best friend, her constant, and quite possibly the love of her life.

### Michael

Michael is rather the brother Aella never had, they have stuck by each other since becoming friends in school and they can always count on each other to be there for support.

### Evan

Evan Rosier is someone who Aella has always been able to be genuine with, and it's made him one of her dearest friends. After Hogwarts she would've considered them close, and although she was angry and hurt about the events that landed him in prison she still wrote to him. In the end, even if she wanted to hate him for being a murderer, they still found their way back to a friendship that has endured.

## Accounts & PBs

* youngmissblack, Hogwarts, portrayed by Alicia Vikander LJ DW
* backtostrange, early twenties, portrayed by Winona Ryder LJ DW
* lestrangebooks, late twenties, portrayed by Rebecca Hall LJ DW
* motheramazon, forties, portrayed by Jaime Murray LJ DW