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NAME: Delilah Bognil Savage
NAME MEANINGS
Delilah - "Delicate" in Hebrew.
Bognil - "Peace" in Lingala
Savage - "Someone of fierce countenance." The origin of this name is from Savage or Le Sauvage as it originally was in Medieval times when it was written in French and Latin. The name is now popular in the United Kingdom.
NICKNAMES As a nurse, she is used to responding to her last name, but prefers to go by her first. She’s also fond of Deli and Del.
BIRTHDATE October 2nd, 1959
AGE 27
FINANCIAL Although she spent much of her adult life with little to no income, Delilah is now pretty financially sound. She owns very little capital wealth (a flat, a car, furniture, etc), but after five successful book releases she has enough money to settle down comfortably if she'd like. Her work as an Unspeakable is also quite lucrative.
BLOOD Muggleborn
OCCUPATION Delilah didn't go to school to become a healer and instead went to Africa at the age of eighteen to train in a hospital. The skills she learned in Hogwarts alone were enough to put her ahead of most doctor’s in Goma, Zaire and she was able to hold down a job in Goma as a nurse for six years. She was rarely paid, actually, so she was more of a volunteer than anything else. When she returned to England she decided to take a different route and she began writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Savage, under the pen name Lola Brandybuck. Savage hit shelves September 4th, 1984. She also began working as an Unspeakable in 1984, doing leg work for the real Unspeakables, and co-authored her second book with Sin Derrick. She was fired from the Ministry because of her bloodline and lived off the profits of her third book, Yours Truly, a shallow teenage romance novel based on her semi-autobiographical search for a soul mate, which became wildly popular for awhile. Her fourth book, Loyal, was released on September 20th, but was limited in its release, because it contained thinly veiled jabs at the Ministry. She worked as a bartender at The Orchid for a short while and co-authored another romantic-esque novel about love torn sisters with Sin Derrick, which was released on Feb. 13th, 1985. After the Ministry was returned to the hands of "the good guys" she began working as an Unspeakable again, which she is currently doing.
PETS A cat named Samwise, a dog named Banner, and a great dane named Big Ben.
ZODIAC Gryffindor Libras will be a little bit more circumspect than other members of their House; the Gryffindor tendency to act first and think second will be moderated by the Libra tendency to weigh all options carefully before making a decision. Emphasized to an extreme will be the Gryffindor obsession with justice. Libras are the natural judges, lawyers, and police of the Zodiac, often more concerned with what is fair and just for all than what is merciful for the few. Expect a Gryffindor born under this sign to be an outspoken defender of underdogs, and to stand up for their beliefs more vociferously than the average Libra (Libras are usually too polite to say something that might risk offending other people). All Libras have the potential to become Aurors, because of the strong drive for justice, but the Gryffindor courage makes people of this sun sign who were sorted into this House more likely to become Aurors than people of other signs and Houses.



HISTORY
Important Parent-y Bits:
Mother - Annalina Vasser Savage nee Lind, is the daughter of Swedish entrepreneurs Andreas and Karolina Lind. The Linds immigrated to Angola young, hoping to strike it big in a struggling country by constructing their own resort in Soyo. The port town proved a successful location for a whites only resort, where foreign businessmen could stop and rest. The Linds quickly increased their wealth beyond the already extravagant sum they began with. In 1936, after ten successful years in Angola, Andreas and Karolina gave birth to Annalina. She was raised in Angola, knowing very little of poverty, but was uncharacteristically interested in helping others. The resort staff loved the cheery blonde and she loved them. Much more than her parents ever did. Annalina almost never traveled outside of Soyo until she was forced to unhappily wed Charles Vasser at nineteen. Vasser was a thirty-two year old railway engineer with aspirations much like Annalina's parents and plans to get rich by taking advantage of the confused Congo government. Charles and Annalina moved to Mbanza-Ngungu, where they lived briefly in 1955. While there Annalina met the man that would later become Delilah's father, Henry Savage.

Father - Henry Savage was born in 1932, in Manchester, to loving parents John and Helen Savage. He was raised to follow the Church of England, with strong overtones of charity and good will. No wonder he decided to go into medicine. By the time he was twenty-two he had a nursing degree and the notion that he was meant to save the world. Instead of continuing his education in a stuffy English hospital, he decided to take his knowledge to people that could really use it. He moved to the Congo at twenty-three, living and working in Mbanza-Ngungu, near the border of Angola and the Congo. In 1955, he met Annalina Vasser while she was volunteering at the hospital where he worked. Henry immediately fell in love with her compassion and fearlessness, but she was a married woman and he was forced to part ways with her before he had a chance to win her heart.

And so it goes… - A few months later, in 1956, Henry and Annalina met again in Kinshasa, the countries capital. Charles Vasser had chosen to move there in order to be closer to the inner workings of Congo's government, hoping to pick up a contract to build a new railroad to nowhere. Henry had a more selfless reason, he simply wanted to work at a hospital that needed him more than the one in Mbanza-Ngungu. Fate, or perhaps amazing luck, led Annalina to volunteer at Henry's workplace once again. They almost immediately began a torrid affair, finding time to meet each other between Henry's rounds and Annalina's work at the nursery. Not long after, Charles was alerted by a friend from work, who had spotted the couple's affectionate behavior during a stay at the hospital. The divorce was a messy one, costing the Linds a large sum of money and Charles quite a bit of pride. Annalina hardly blinked an eye though, her gaze was firmly set on Henry Savage.

And they're together! - Henry accepted the village of Kilanga's call for a doctor not long after. The new couple moved to Kilanga in 1957 and were married by the village's chief the day of their arrival. They worked without pay, living mostly on the good charity of their neighbors and the power of love, for two years. On October 2nd, 1959, Annalina gave birth to her first and only child, Delilah Bognil Savage. Henry was, of course, the father. Although she was a really happy accident, Delilah was -never the less- an accident. The Savages had always agreed that Africa was no place for a child and despite their love for the Congo and Africa as a whole they decided to move back to Henry's home in Manchester. When Delilah was old enough to travel, at just under a year, they took what little savings they had and bought one way tickets to England.

A muggle upbringing - The culture shock for Henry and Annalina became a predominant part of their daughter's upbringing. Although both of them had been raised with money, the separation from what some would call “civilization” (albeit short) was enough to turn them off from material wealth for quite some time. The flat they moved into was small and their furniture sparse, even though Henry quickly received a job as a head nurse and was making enough money to afford a substantially larger place. For the first four years of her life Delilah didn’t even have her own bed and even then it was because of her adamant requests that she finally received one. They lived simply and peacefully, with regular visits from Henry’s parents, who still lived near by, and a few sparse letters from Annalina’s mother. Delilah was kept separated from her maternal grandparents for much of her life, but the split was not a painful or obvious one. She had more than enough love in her life, both from her parents and paternal grandparents. The most commonly used phrase in the Savage household was and still is, without a doubt, “Nalingi yo,” which means, “I love you,” in Lingala.

Along with Delilah’s parents advice to ‘love endlessly’, they also taught her to never disregard life’s little wonders, including the ability to live above the poverty line, and to always show compassion for the less fortunate. While they were busy teaching her to love life and to be a strong, independent woman they somehow forgot to teach her work ethic… which would have its repercussions (but that bit comes later). Because Delilah led such a happy childhood she rarely had magical outbursts and when she did they were never out of anger, but rather the result of an extremely active imagination. As a young girl, she would occasionally manage to move her smaller toys while in the midst of particularly intense ‘tea parties,’ but beyond that she could have never guessed she was magic. Naturally, her parents had no idea, any attempt Delilah made to insist that her plastic dinosaurs were alive were simply written off as the healthy imagination of a growing girl.

Surprise! She’s magic - So when Delilah received her invitation to Hogwarts the Savages thought it was a practical joke. Only after a Dursley-esque onslaught of letters did they finally accept that perhaps there was a world outside of their own that their daughter now belonged to. After the initial shock and a brief fainting spell from Annalina, the Savages happily accepted their daughters gift. How truly blessed they were! With some difficulty, they managed to hunt down the supplies Delilah would need for her trip to Hogwarts and sent her on her way.

Like a true adventurer, Delilah ran headfirst into Platform 9 ¾. She was a talkative and friendly youth, eager to learn and meet people just like her. A second year Ravenclaw named Emily, who Delilah still fondly recalls, explained to the bouncy, blonde on the way to Hogwarts how houses worked. Without a seconds hesitation Delilah proclaimed that she should and would be sorted into Gryffindor and, to no one’s surprise, she was. Her personality blended well with the Gryffindor’s of her year, as well as many of her peers from other houses, and she quickly became a popular addition to Godric’s house. Well, with the students at least… the teachers weren’t quite as happy with her performance.

Her parent’s lack of disciplinary skills were finally catching up with Delilah. Although she was enthusiastic in class, always the first to raise her hand and offer an answer (although typically incorrect), she struggled with out of class work. The idea of writing an essay when she could be setting things on fire seemed quite absurd. Throwing sticky chocolate frogs at Slytherins and shouting her favorite battle cry, “Make Love, Not Potions!” seemed like a far superior use of her time than showing up at Ancient Runes could ever be. She did attend one class religiously though, Transfiguration. And then she would immediately use that knowledge to turn every object in her dorm into a walking and talking BEST FRIEND! Her years at Hogwarts were marked by a sharp increase in the amount of random objects that wandered around, wreaking havoc, and Delilah would like to think she had some hand in the tricks that now plague the current Hogwarts student body.

Despite popular belief, Delilah’s intention was never to be malicious toward or a burden on her teachers. She was just so extremely enthusiastic about magic that she simply couldn’t restrain herself to the classroom, let alone the assignments given to her. The one thing she managed to focus on for more than six seconds (discounting her best buds, Madame Tea Pot and Mr. Sweater McDancy Pants) was medicine. The field wasn’t particularly enthralling to her, but she wanted to be able to help people like her father did and had always dreamed of going back to Africa to lend a hand. She doubted stuffed animal Transfiguration was a marketable skill in the Congo (now Zaire). With the help of her charmed wristwatch, Sir Muchly Ontask, which chirped incessantly when she attempted to shirk her duties, she managed to buckle down and study for the last two years at Hogwarts.

Delilah graduated from Hogwarts in 1977, with decent marks and at least enough knowledge to help people who had yet to discover vaccines.

Africa Child - At eighteen, Delilah made the trip back to Zaire and attempted to find her birthplace, Kilanga. Much to her distress, the village had apparently been uninhabited and swallowed by the jungle for years. She settled instead in Goma. Earlier that year the town had been the victim of a particularly volatile volcanic eruption and the people were just beginning to return home. The confusion and destruction caused by the volcano led to the displacement of many Goma natives, as well as outbreaks of contagious disease caused by lack of sanitation. An outbreak of cholera kept Delilah busy in her first days and even though she knew it was technically against magical law, she was forced to use magic on muggles out of compassion. She was rebuked by wizards who were working with her, pretending to be muggles, but she was never officially punished. Although still a happy go-lucky teen, Delilah quickly added to her life philosophy, changing it from, “My heart tells me all people are born good,” to, “My heart tells me all people are born good, but my experience suggests otherwise.” The poverty in Goma alone caused people to act terribly toward each other and every day she was hearing more and more about the evil deeds of the countries current dictator, Mobutu Se Seko. He was even trying to appoint himself President for Life! Hearing the local’s stories of the atrocities committed by the government, as well as by their neighbors, made Delilah feel cynical for the first time in her life. She did her best to rid herself of that nagging feeling of dread and through it all she just tried to remember her parents, grandparents, and friends, who she knew were good people with good hearts.

Delilah’s years in Zaire passed slowly and even though it was a difficult life she enjoyed herself all the same. She often went without food, water, or sleep, but she was always filled with compassion. It helped a lot that she became fast friends with many of the Goma natives, seeing as she already spoke conversational Lingala and French (thanks to her parents). Other white charity workers also became quite fond of Delilah and although many of the doctors unfortunately gave up and went home within a year of arriving, each individual gave her the strength to go on. She met her best friend, Bruce, while working in Goma and he really pulled her through the hardest times.

Unfortunately, Bruce decided to return to England in late 1982. By then Goma had entirely recovered and new doctors had come to fill Delilah’s shoes. The final straw for her and the reason she decided to return to England in early 1983 was her contraction of malaria. Delilah’s symptoms were luckily relatively mild, in the sense that she didn’t receive brain damage or die, but the episode shook her so badly that she finally decided to give up her post in Goma.

Home Again - When she returned to England, she was twenty-four and didn't particularly feel like living with her parents. She quickly contacted Bruce, who had recently moved into a flat in Soho, on the corner of Oxford Street and Maryleborne. She offered to pay half the rent (when she could) and sporadically make cupcakes if she could stay with him. He grudgingly obliged. Delilah was still unemployed, mostly because the idea of becoming a doctor treating scrapes and giving flu shots sounded so mind numbing after her adventures in Africa. She did have one plan worth perusing though, a fledgling career as a writer. While in Zaire she documented her more interesting escapades and complied a semi-autobiographical novel. Shortly after her return to England she went to a publisher, where it was picked up.

In Play -

MOTHER Annalina Savage nee Lind
RELATIONSHIP :)
FATHER Henry Savage
RELATIONSHIP :)
COUSINS Hadrian Savage and Andrea Lind.



PERSONALITY Delilah is, by all definitions, a lover. She loves people (most of all), animals, insects, books, paisley, chess, carpet, toes, jam, music, olives, her hair, your hair, marijuana, rings, high heels, vests, coffee, tea, pancakes!, cupcakes, all forms of cake actually, pie, pi, etc. As one might guess, the list is rather extensive. Compiling a list of things she dislikes would have been a much easier task and the number of things she claims to hate could be counted on one hand.

Her love of, well, practically everything is a commonly known fact. She loves to talk and share her love of life. Delilah possesses unparalleled charisma, backed entirely by her ceaseless enthusiasm for life. Upon meeting a new person, she will unabashedly jump up and introduce herself. Within the next five minutes she will have likely shared her life story, skimming over the messy bits with grace and optimism. She isn’t the type of optimist that bases her good cheer on apathy either. Delilah isn’t perpetually cheery because she “rolls with the punches,” but rather because she has an honest faith in the humanity of others. She’s never shy simply because she truly believes that every person she meets has the capacity to be just as kind and thrilling as she is.
HABITS Much like Orphan Annie's affinity for saying "Aw, gee," Delilah is constantly saying, "Oh my," or "That's not very nice..."
FEARS Delilah doesn't fear much, particularly not things (aka: spiders, the dark, inferi, etc). She instead fears disappointing her parents, upsetting her friends, causing conflict, and most importantly, being alone.
MENTAL HEALTH Healthy, though some might say she is naïve and spacey.



HEIGHT 1.8 m (just under six feet)
BUST 85 cm
WAIST 61 cm
HIPS 89 cm
EYES They range from a blueish grey to a deep navy. They’re heavy lidded and often make her look tired or intense.
HAIR White blonde. It usually hangs just below her shoulders and is coupled with thick side swept bangs.
BUILD Very thin. She doesn’t put on weight easily and often forgets to feed herself. Her energy and vivacity keeps her looking healthy, but she is well below her ideal weight for six feet. Her hips are thin and her chest is pretty flat, but her long toned legs make up for her boyish figure.
FACE/COMPLEXION Extremely pale. The sun does not treat her kindly and she tends to burn easily and produce mass amounts of freckles rather than tan. Her white skin matches her blonde hair well though, so perhaps it is a blessing.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Loads of freckles. Her scars can hardly distinguish her, seeing as they are mostly nicks, even though she does have an abundance of them. Her height sets her apart more than anything else.
SCENT Pot smoke and varying citrus lotions.
MANNER OF SPEECH Delilah has an extremely gentle voice. Her mother has a pretty thick African accent which she mirrors more than her father's sloppier Manchester accent, though she does tend to slur a bit.
POSSESSIONS ALWAYS ON HIS PERSON There isn't anything that she could be 100% certain to always carry. She is awfully forgetful. Usually she tries to keep her wand on her and she wears a large engraved thumb ring from the Congo regularly, but there is no guarantee.
DRESS STYLE Comfortable. She usually sticks to jeans and vintage T-shirts, but she loves to wear scarves, paisley, and cozy sweaters when she finds the time to go shopping for nice things. Seeing as she is a girl, dressing up does excite her, so when she gets the chance (which isn't often) she does a pretty good job at cleaning up. Even though she is tall, she likes to wear heels and form fitting dresses (everyone likes to be desired, after all).
EYESIGHT 20/20.
HEARING Technically good, although she gets distracted easily.
GAIT Bouncy. She always has a skip to her step.
HANDICAPS She's never exactly mastered magic. As a muggle, she is actually extremely talented, but in the magical world she sags behind.
PHYSICAL HEALTH Her weight is sometimes a problem. If her friends don't remind her to eat, she sometimes becomes weak and she has passed out once before. No, she isn't anorexic, she is just naturally thin and has trouble putting on weight. She also has malaria and do to a late administration of potions and a lack of supplies to make those potions, she now has malaria for life. Episodes are sporadic and they aren’t fatal, but they aren’t exactly pleasant either.



ALMA MATER Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
ALUMNA Gryffindor
BEST SUBJECT Transfiguration was the only subject she ever practiced and the only area of magic she is confident in.
WORST SUBJECTS Pretty much everything else.
CLIQUES She made it a point not to be part of a clique. She befriended anyone who would talk to her, but naturally she gets along best with her fellow Gryffindors.
QUIDDITCH She finds it awfully violent, but she enjoys watching as long as no one gets hurt.
WAND
WAND HAND Right
BOGGART Cholera victims
PATRONUS Lion!


POLITICS Complicated
RELIGION Her religion is kindness
DRUGS/ALCOHOL They expand your mind
BLOOD PURITY Shouldn't matter

STATUS Single
HOME Her home is her parents' old flat in England. She still considers Bruce's flat a second home and she lived for a short while in a small home, sometimes with Rabastan Lestrange. She now has a flat in muggle London with Daria Scrimgeour.
ORIENTATION All of her relationships thus far have been heterosexual, but she does find some women sexually attractive and wouldn’t be opposed to a homosexual relationship (though it probably wouldn’t last).
TURN ONS Tall boys, bed head, sleepy eyes, soft sweaters, people who aren't ansty about touching, cheeriness!, people who want to save the world with her.
TURN OFFS Money squanderers, blood elitists. (P.S. - Opposites attract.)
PAST RELATIONSHIPS She went on a lot of dates at Hogwarts, but found it difficult to settle with just one boy. Not to say that she was easy, she just had a lot of suitors, none of which were very serious. Many of her male friends (including, but not limited to, the Fab Four) were snogging buddies. Her more serious relationships include Roger, a muggle boy who she dated through her 5th year and the beginning of her 6th, though he eventually cheated on her while she was away at Hogwarts. Benjamin, a young South African doctor who worked with her in Goma for the first two years. He eventually went home, but Delilah didn't go with him. Anatole, a Zairean doctor and Delilah's best friend for the six years she was in Goma. They discussed getting married, but in the end, Anatole respected his parents wishes and married a long time family friend. Her most serious relationship was with Rabastan Lestrange; they were together for less than a year, but they were engaged until blood purity issues eventually tore them apart.
CRUSHES Jeremy Joyce Frobisher and Gabriel Grahm Frobisher, the older brothers of her long time friend, Bethany Frobisher. Lucius Malfoy, but don't you dare tell anyone!


BOOK Trinity by Leon Uris
COLOUR Petal pink
FOOD/DRINK Cup cakes and Guinness. But not together.
MUSIC Bob Dylan
SUBJECT Care of Magical Creatures
SCENT
AMORTENTIA
ACTIVITY Napping
QUIDDITCH The Irish National Team. Darren O'Hare is a dream boat.