Jones, Amethyst | Leader of Alohomora Party

OTHER NAMES :: Amy/Thistle as nicknames, maiden name Perry

AGE :: 37

BIRTHDAY :: 1st December

MAGICALITY :: Muggleborn witch

NATIONALITY :: Half-Welsh, half-Italian

JOB :: Leader of Alohomora Party

POLITICAL LEANING :: Alohomora Party

RESIDENCE :: House in northern muggle London with her husband and children

WAND :: 10", hornbeam with phoenix feather

HOGWARTS HOUSE :: Hufflepuff

SPECIAL ABILITIES :: None

Amy is white but with the dark brown hair and eyes and the ability to tan easily that tell of her mother's Italian roots. She's on the shorter side at 5'4 but doesn't let that stop her - she can be as imposing as she wants when she feels like it. Amy rarely wears traditional wizarding clothes. Although her advisors disapproved of her casual muggle clothing when she was appointed leader they soon came over to her point of view when they saw a younger generation of voters flocking to her. She still scrubs up well for the really important events (she's even been known to wear dress robes on occasion) but mostly she's found in jeans and her distinctive leather jacket.

Amethyst Gabrielle Jones was born in Camarthen, Wales to Dafydd Perry, an accountant, and Carmela Perry (nee Savini), an Italian teacher who had moved to the UK for university and never left. Both were happy in their ordinary muggle lives and loved their first child with all their hearts. Four years later they had another child, Sapphire. The two sisters were close despite the age gap and shared with each other the odd things they could do like make the spoon mix cakes without them touching it. They always hid it from their parents so when Professor McGonagall arrived with Amethyst's Hogwarts letter, Dafydd and Carmela were shocked. Amethyst on the other hand was thrilled and although she was upset to leave her parents and Sapphire, she couldn't wait to join Hogwarts.

She was sorted into Hufflepuff but it did not take her long to realise that some people looked down on her for being "muggleborn" or a "mudblood". As she grew up and became less intimidated she learnt to argue back, trying to draw them into logical debates that would teach them what they were saying was wrong. It never quite worked, but she stopped caring so much after a few years. Amethyst excelled in class making some question whether she should have been placed in Ravenclaw instead, but she was happiest in Hufflepuff. She was delighted but not surprised when Sapphire also received a Hogwarts letter, but her younger sister did not perform well at school. Accusations were flung at her that she wasn't really a witch, that she was just a muggle pretending. Sapphire drew into herself, losing the happy-go-lucky nature she'd always had as a child. Amethyst helped her study enough to pass her classes, but Sapphire was never happy at Hogwarts like she was.

Amethyst, now mostly known as Amy, finished Hogwarts with top grades and moved to London, training to be a lawyer in the Wizengamot. She progressed quickly in her career, specialising cases to do with civil rights such as for goblins or squibs. Unfortunately the laws were often not in her favour. She joined the Alohomora Party, still only in its infancy and heavily suppressed by the powerful League of Emerald, hoping to help bring about change in the wizarding world. When she was 23 she met Greg Jones, a muggle journalist, completely by accident when she literally ran into him in Hyde Park. They began dating shortly after and after a few months Amy revealed that she was a witch. Although he was astonished and somewhat terrified at first, as she gradually introduced him to the wizarding world Greg became used to it. They married when Amy was 25 and she became pregnant shortly after. She gave birth to twins, Nellie and Matthew. Greg was very happy with Amethyst and his new children, but he hated how he could not share much with his muggle family. The Statute of Secrecy forbade giving information to muggles who were not direct relatives of a wizard or a witch. Amy had similar problems with her family in Wales and wished it would change, but had long since grown used to it.

She was 27 when news first broke that Voldemort had returned. At first it did not affect her. She was busy juggling her career and her family, but when the Ministry finally revealed that the terrible news was true she started to worry. She was well known for being a muggleborn who fought for the rights of those that Voldemort and his followers would consider as bad as muggles. The Alohomora Party went underground and Amethyst went into hiding shortly before the Ministry was taken over. She and her family moved back to Camarthen in Wales and she got a muggle job, still in contact with the wizarding world but trying to pretend as much as possible that they were a normal muggle family. With the twins now aged four and starting school, Amy was terrified with every spark of magic Matthew showed. Nellie had not started to show any signs of magic yet and she couldn't decide whether to be grateful or even more worried about that. She passed information for the Order of the Phoenix and when the Battle of Hogwarts came about, left her family to join the fight. She supervised the evacuation of students from Hogsmeade and arrived at Hogwarts for the final stages of the battle.

Voldemort was defeated and the Joneses could return to a life of semi-normalcy. They moved back to London and Amy was heavily involved in the passing of new protective laws and prosecution of Death Eaters. The Alohomora Party emerged again and she became more directly involved in that, catching attention with her firm stance. This was cemented when her father Dafydd was diagnosed with cancer and St. Mungo's refused to heal him because he was a muggle. Several years after the defeat of Voldemort she spearheaded the Squib Rights Bill. It was becoming increasingly clear that her daughter Nellie had no magical ability. The Prophet got hold of this tidbit and her family was thrown into the limelight in a somewhat sympathetic light as they told the story of the twins who would soon be separated by Hogwarts. With this attention, the passing of the bill and her involvement in the Battle of Hogwarts, Amethyst had enough attention to start a campaign to become the leader of the Alohomora Party. So far the party's leadership had come and gone without any key figure to attract attention, one of the reasons it hadn't gained much attention. Amethyst won the leadership election by a landslide a few months after her father died of cancer. She threw herself into the party as a distraction, working tirelessly to raise its profile and finally getting it real attention. It began to rival the ruling Wands Together party that had dominated politics since the defeat of Voldemort.

With no sign of magic from Nellie, she was officially declared a squib. She is set to attend muggle school in September 2004 while her brother Matthew goes to Hogwarts. Amy is hoping to keep them away from the journalists during this time but with the elections coming up it is unlikely to happen.

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