Dominique Apolline Weasley

DOB: February 12, 2001

Appearance

Though pretty enough, Dominique was not blessed with her mother's Veela genes. This is something that frustrates her bitterly for quite a while. She is the tallest of all of her girl cousins, with Victoire close behind, and she hates it. Her copper hair is often cut short, reaching her shoulder and she has straight bangs that reach her eyebrows. Her entire face, shoulders, arms, legs and back are covered in ginger freckles and her skin is fair. She also has deep blue eyes like her mother and sister. However, she still has her mother's slim build, yet lacks the grace that Victoire has.

Personality

Dominique is sweet, stubborn and outgoing. She often felt overshadowed by her sister, because of Victoire's beauty, and took offense to being compared in any way to her sister. When she was sixteen, she began self-harming and even tried cursing the freckles off her face so that she could look like Victoire. Because of this, her parents sent her over to France to live with Gabrielle and she became much better and was content with who she was.

Although she was very self-conscious, she had a big heart and enjoyed helping people. Despite her difficult relationship with Victoire, she was very protective of her older sister and a loyal friend. She is a hard worker, and tries her best in everything that she does.

Early Years

Like her sister, Dominique took ballet lessons as a child, but was reluctant about it because she didn't want to do anything that Victoire was doing. She also learnt French, and worked hard to be better than Victoire, which she succeeded. She was home-school by her mother, but wasn't as bright as her two siblings, and struggled, particularly with spelling. But she was kinder than her sister, and had a lot more friends than Victoire.

Hogwarts

Dominique was sorted into Hufflepuff on September 1st, 2012. Her loyalty, conscientiousness attitude and determination made it decide that Hufflepuff was her best choice. It made her proud that she was the first Weasley to be sorted into a House other than Gryffindor and she accepted it with ease. She made quite a lot of friends in Hufflepuff, and all the girls were nice to her, which boosted her self-confidence and made her feel worthy. However, in her fifth year, after she had failed quite a lot of her OWLs and her sister was dating Teddy Lupin (who she had a little bit of a crush on), she became depressed. She thought that Victoire always took everything away from her; her looks, her intelligence and even the boy she liked. She tried to curse off her freckles and dye her hair one day in the girl's bathroom, and Louis found her, with blood all over her face and half her hair falling out.

She was taken to the hospital wing and her parent's were notified of her self-harming. They sent her off to live with Gabrielle over the summer, thinking that she would feel better away from school and her family. Dominique felt like a completely different person in France and decided to move there permanently and attend Beauxbatons. She felt that she could be her true self in France and her depression soon went away.

OWL results:

Transfiguration: Poor

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Poor

Charms: Poor

Potions: Dreadful

Herbology: Poor

Care of Magical Creatures: Acceptable

Divination: Acceptable

Astronomy: Poor

History of Magic: Troll

Arithmancy: Poor

Career

Dominique became a Healer after she graduated Beauxbatons, something that surprised everyone, given her poor grades at Hogwarts. But, Dominique had always worked hard and succeeded in landing an internship at the Wizarding Hospital in France. She strived to help people, particularly children and teenagers, because of what she had experienced as a child.

Relationships

Victoire Weasley

Dominique and Victoire have a difficult relationship. On one hand, they're sisters and Dominique loves her dearly. But on the other, Dominique is extremely jealous of Victoire and her perfect looks and grades. As children, they were closer, but once Dom became a teenager, she began to hate Victoire, claiming that she took away everything she wanted. They kept in contact when Dominique was in France, and they became closer again and remained on good terms. Dominque was the maid of honour at Victoire's wedding.

As sister's, they confided everything in each other, except during Dominique's low point when she was 15. Their relationship eventually mended with time.

Louis Weasley

Dom and Lou were closer than Dom and Victoire, and had a cute, brother/sister bond. Louis grew very concerned about Dominique during her low point, and was the one who found her in the bathroom, trying to curse her freckles. She confided all her worries to Louis and trusted him with everything. They too, remained close when she went to France.

Julien Lefebvre

Dominique married quite late, compared to her siblings and cousins. Julien was a fellow Healer, a few years older than her, and they struck up a relationship. At first, Dominique didn't want to marry, but after a few years of being together, Julien proposed and she accepted. They had their daughter, Madeleine Gabrielle, when Dominique was 30 years old.

Fleur Weasley

As the middle sibling, Dominique and Fleur had a very different relationship than Fleur and Victoire. Fleur loves her daughter, but doesn't quite understand her, as she didn't inherit the Veela genes like Victoire did. Fleur doesn't understand how Dominique can have such a low opinion of herself. However, when Dominique was depressed, Fleur was extremely concerned, proving to Dom that her mother did love her very much. The two of them mended their relationship as they grew older.

Bill Weasley

Bill has always thought of Dominique as his little busy bee because she's always working hard. He loves her determined attitude and is also extremely protective of her, even though she doesn't have a line of boys after her.

A/N: My poor Dominique... she certainly went through quite a lot. But the important thing is that she healed with time. One thing that annoys me about the next gen, is that they are often portrayed so perfectly with no problems. I think that is unrealistic. Everyone has problems, and depression is quite a severe, common problem among teenagers. In my head cannon, I try to create as much realism as possible. And just so you know, Dom is one of my favourite next gen characters :) xx