Guy Rose, The Blue Kimono, 1910, oil on canvas, Private Collection.
Portrait of Pomona Sprout as a young woman in her days at the Phyllida Spore Herbological Conservatory.
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Few people–well, pretty much only the professors who were around when she was in school–remember that Hooch isn’t actually Rolanda Hooch’s maiden name, a fact she likes to keep quiet. Rolanda Selwyn of the Coventry Selwyns realized at a young age that her family would do everything in their power to keep her from pursuing her dream of working in the world of Quidditch. At eighteen, already an embarassment to her relations for having been a Hufflepuff and struggling with her mother’s autocratic rule and political machinations, Rolanda took action in the only way she new for sure would get Orpah’s claws out of her life: she married her Muggle boyfriend, Peter Hooch. While her marriage only lasted a year before an amicable separation, Rolanda was already successfully disinherited. With only her old Silver Arrow broom and some help from Peter finding a Muggle job, Rolanda supported herself for the duration of her Quidditch referee training at the Department of Magical Games and Sports.
One of the last records of Rolanda Selwyn before she became Rolanda Hooch is the photograph in an archived copy of The Daily Prophet, proudly wearing her marriage robes for an announcement about her marriage to a Muggle.
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Dress and cape by Irish fashion designer Sybil Connolly, 1954
A young Minerva McGonagall in a photograph for Transfiguration Today after having won the Most Promising Newcomer award. The dog beside her was transfigured from a moss-covered log in under twenty seconds.
(photograph brought to my attention by essayofthoughts!)
She’s always been imperious from the age of two, and I think she’s just about got the hang of it now. – Maggie Smith about Violet Crawley
Karlie Kloss wears Christian Dior Couture Spring 2005 ph. by Patrick Demarchelier for Dior Couture
Formal business robes suitable for winter weather are hard to come by and so robes, such as these thick woollen ones from Belladonna Smoke, have quickly become the favoured wear of many Ministry wizards and witches.
(captioned by essayofthoughts)
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