Character Biography
[Hannah Antonia Mendez Abbott]
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"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
full name: Hannah Antonia Mendez Abbott
goes by: Hannah, Ant (by her father only)
gender: female
age: 28
birthdate: March 31st
blood: Halfblood
occupation: Inn Keeper, Owner, Bartender of The Leaky Cauldron
relations: Astoria Greengrass
parents: Henry, 45 and Cintia, deceased
siblings: none
other: aunt: Nadalia Mendez-Summerby, cousins: Noah Summerby, 26 and Danielle Morela, 29
wand: alder, 11 inches, dragon heart-string
pet: Bernardo, an old english sheepdog
patronus: a dove
boggart: a bat
former house: Hufflepuff, '98 '99
since graduation: Hannah missed an awful lot of school following the murder of her mother, her father snatching her from Hogwarts before she could even properly start her sixth year. So, when she returned for her seventh, incredibly behind on all her studies and hardly learning a thing with the Carrows running the school while Snape leered over them, Hannah knew that if she had survived, she'd return to finish. But that was a decision that cost her quite a lot, namely her relationship with her father. Things had grown tense from the minute Cintia disappeared from their lives, so many questions unanswered, so many haunting 'what ifs' floating through both of their minds, it was as if their whole connection had somehow severed. And Hogwarts was a glaring reminder of what happened, the half-destroyed castle a symbol of the war now.
But she had made up her mind, her father be damned. He could sit with his liquor and continue to let his life halt while Hannah tried to give herself something to look forward to. There had been so much loss- her mother, Ernie, Susan's Aunt Amelia- a woman who'd had just as much a role in Hannah's raising as her own parents- there was so much that had fallen from Hannah's grasp.
She had to push through it.
She finished with strong marks, determined ones, anything to tell Hannah that this was the right decision. But it was as if the moment her scores came through, any power she had in her to push forward had ceased. With her relationship with her father all but gone and Ernie, the only boy she'd ever loved, taken from her, Hannah was stuck wallowing in the memory of her mother, obsessing over the details of her death.
The Leaky Cauldron fell into her lap. Tom, a long-distant relative of her fathers, a connection she never quite understood, had given Hannah and Susan the top room in the inn and both of them a job behind the bar. It wasn't until Tom was teaching her the books that he explained what the purpose of it all was.
But she took it desperately, anything to distract her from what her life had become.
And that was where she was now- the inn keeper at The Leaky Cauldron, the owner of The Leaky Cauldron and the bartender from Wednesday to Saturday night. But it was enough to keep her from losing focus, enough to busy her so that the news clippings, the obituaries and interviews surrounding her mother's death would lay forgotten in her desk drawer. At least, for a time.
first impression: Hannah reads much more friendly than she really is, though its not for lack of trying.
personality: She's nervous and timid and quite honestly better left alone half the time. Growing up with a mother full of secrets and a father who lacked the emotional capacity to fill in the blanks left Hannah unsure of how to express herself, unaware of what it felt like to really open up and that can read as aloof more often than she'd like. She did care and a great deal, at that. But she felt held back, as if she was unable to really admit what it was pulling at her skin, tugging at her stomach. But the right people pushed through, at least the ones she had really learned to lean on- and she did, lean on them. Needing them more than ever once her family fell apart in the blink of an eye. But she was loyal to them, non-judging, accepting of whatever it was they were if only to keep them in her life a little bit longer. She had terrible abandonment issues, resentment clinging to every inch of her - her mother, her father, Ernie, all of them leaving her in one way or another.
But her friends helped. They did. Susan always managed to bring out a side of Hannah that reminded her of what she was like when she was younger. And Noah- her cousin couldn't have been more understanding, more trusting. And Megan- Merlin, having a therapist as a best friend could be damn near exhausting but every once in a while a little bit of something broke through in Hannah and she could credit that to Megan.
height: 5'2"
weight: 125lbs
eyes: hazel
hair: brown
build: petite, curvy
defining marks: a slight curve in her nose from where it broke as a child
dress style: Comfortable, casual- anything easy enough to wear behind a bar for hours on end. She tends to lean toward a more androgynous style, preferring jeans to dresses and sweaters to blouses. She can clean up decently enough, when she puts in the effort. Still, a rip in her jeans or not, she does tend to keep a meticulous face of make-up with light eye-liner and mascara for the day to day.
player: daria
played-by: jessica parker kennedy
Hannah Abbott is a creation for hl_lives. I am not Jessica Parker Kennedy or JK Rowling.