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Photographed by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia

A 1890 photograph of Ianthe Gaunt. The Gaunts at that time were still an affluent pureblood family. Ianthe was the black crup of her family, so to speak. She was fond of needle magic and rather less enamored of her family, whom she once wrote to be “conniving, puffed-up Goblins,” and was often quick to duel, which occasionally led to her family making a hasty donation to the Ministry. She eventually married into the Fortinbras family, which while not pureblood, was respectable enough. While she had no children, Ianthe’s name lives on as legend at in the Hogwarts dueling club, and her hand-stitched tapestries can be found in the second-floor Defense Against the Dark Arts corridor.