Dorothea Goshawk

**Dorothea Goshawk** (16 July, 1904 - 14 April, 1970) was an English witch who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1915 to June 1923. She was the natural daughter of Nellie Goshawk and Paschal Parkinson, born out of wedlock. Goshawk is one of several illegitimate children fathered by Parkinson.

She died unmarried and without issue at the age of 65 in Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, East Anglia. Her mother predeceased her by a period of twenty years.

## Biography

### Early life

It was published in Witch Weekly on 16 July, 1904, that Paschal Parkinson had fathered a child with Nellie Goshawk, of the relatively-impoverished Goshawk family. The baby's name was Dorothea Goshawk, and the article urged for Parkinson to support the family via means of financial compensation. However, Parkinson, then aged 24, refuted the claims and declared the news article "outlandish, and untrue."

Dorothea Goshawk was born in Southgate, Greater London, but moved to Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, when she was less than a year old. Her mother, Nellie Goshawk, continued to claim that she was the natural daughter of Parkinson, throughout her early life.

Two years after Paschal Parkinson forced Witch Weekly to print a retraction, he married Fionnuala Selwyn, daughter of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Selwyn. In 1907, Dorothea's half-brother was born. His name was Fritz. The baby's birth was announced in the Daily Prophet as the Heir to the House of Parkinson, and a portrait of the child was published in Witch Weekly alongside a portrait of the then-three-year-old Dorothea Goshawk, and Paschal Parkinson was forced to sue. Even still, he refused to acknowledge her.

Her father had an additional son, Adolphus Parkinson, with his wife Fionnuala, before all three of them died in mysterious circumstances. During a period of time in Dorothea's childhood to which he was not married and not seeking a wife, he reportedly "paid a visit" to Nellie and her daughter in Hadleigh Heath, before promptly disapparating. Dorothea then began to live most of her early life believing that her father was a ghost.

#### Hogwarts years

She received her Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1915. That same summer, she visited Diagon Alley, located in London, and purchased a wand made of elm and dragon heartstring from Ollivander's Wand Shop. On 1 September, 1915, she boarded the train for Hogwarts and was sorted into Hufflepuff House that same night.

Meanwhile, Paschal Parkinson had remained unmarried until 1923, during a period of which he reportedly fathered two children to which he acknowledged, with Earlene Flint, the youngest daughter of Ulric Flint and Tuilla Flint (née Bobbin). The first was Viola, born in 1916, and the second was Corban, born in 1918. The children bore their mother's name, but Parkinson sent them money until they both turned eighteen. Dorothea never attempted to contact her half-siblings and was embarrassed when others teased her.

### Later life

The summer that Dorothea left Hogwarts, she may have read in the paper that her alleged father was marrying a second time. His new bride was the then sixteen-year-old daughter of Bertram Yaxley and Mathilda Yaxley (née Greengrass), Serafina. Serafina Yaxley's mother had been very young when she married herself, at fifteen. However, some scrutinized this decision seeing as Paschal Parkinson was 42 at the time.

In 1924, Dorothea gained another half-brother, Antonius Parkinson, who became the House of Parkinson's newest heir. Antonius Parkinson would keep the position as heir to the house until his death during the First Wizarding War in 1981, while serving the Dark Lord Voldemort. Serafina Parkinson (née Yaxley) passed away on 18 November, 1929, in childbirth, and the infant did not survive either, leaving Paschal Parkinson a twice-widower.

She gained another pair of half-brothers via Parkinson in the 1940s after he married his third wife, Phyllis Macmillan. Phyllis Macmillan was the daughter of Marvin Macmillan and Cicely Macmillan (née Flint). Macmillan was disowned for her decision to marry Parkinson, and Marvin Macmillan reportedly attempted to claim that she was being coerced into the marriage. Dorothea Goshawk, now an adult, was asked for her comments regarding the matter but she declined.

Rumours began to swirl that Parkinson's suspicious status as a twice-widower was due to the fact that he might have had an involvement in the deaths of Fionnuala Selwyn and Serafina Yaxley, but because Fionnuala had died of dragon pox and Serafina in childbirth, these were dismissed as conspiracy theories. Dorothea Goshawk was now living a very quiet life in Hadleigh Heath. Phyllis Macmillan then passed away while giving birth to her second son, prompting a Ministry investigation which yielded nothing.

On 24 October, 1959, Dorothea's alleged father married a fourth time, at the age of 78. His fourth wife was the widowed Louise Volant (née Aubrey), and the couple had only one child together, Violetta, in 1961. This brought the total half-siblings of Dorothea up to a count of six.

#### Death of Father

Paschal Parkinson passed away on 10 November, 1964, at the age of 83. He was suspected of being poisoned by his son, Antonius Parkinson, after accusations made by Louise Parkinson (née Aubrey) emerged, but it did not hold up in court.

Antonius Parkinson inherited his father's entire estate as well as his position on the Wizenagmot after Parkinson's death. He forcibly ejected his step-mother, Louise, and half-sister, Violetta, from the estate and refused any further financial support of seven-year-old Beatrix Abbott, who was also suspected to have been fathered by Parkinson.

#### Death

Dorothea herself passed away at the age of 65 in Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, East Anglia.

### Post-Mortem

Antonius Parkinson then died himself during the First Wizarding War in August, 1981, as the Ministry led a campaign to depose the remaining Death Eaters.

Coincidentally, all three surviving legitimate sons of Parkinson served the Dark Lord: Antonius died fleeing arrest, Finneas Parkinson was killed during the Battle of McKinnon Manor in July, 1981, and Augustus Parkinson escaped trial by pleading the Imperius Curse.