Heritage and Childhood

For parent and grandparent information, refer to the file of Tobias Stonem.

Keira Karridee Stonem was born to Carridee and Richard Stonem on August 19th 1999. Her mother died in childbirth, and she has always been close with her father, who doted on her from the moment she was born.
Despite missing a mother she never knew, Keira's home life was extremely happy. She was close with her brother Jason, who she spent almost all her time with growing up in Stonem manor, and wanted for nothing.
Until Keira began school at Beauxbatons Academie in France, her relationship with her eldest brother Tobias was none existent. She never visited him as a patient in St Mungos, always remaining at home with the house elves when her father and Jason visited during the holidays. Despite her protests that she should be able to visit, Richard forbid her from seeing Tobias, and as Jay grew older- he began to agree that it was the right thing to do. The high-risk wing of St Mungos was a place which no child should have to visit.
She followed her brother's life only through the pages of The Daily Prophet and the Witch Weekly articles- which first condemned him, then slowly began to accept him as he spent more time in Hogwarts and in the public eye with Jason.
She sent her first letter to Tobias at 11, as he had started working at Hogwarts as their guidance counsellor. It was very simple and contained a photograph of her on her first day at school, and explained that she hoped he would reply. He did, and they exchanged letters always at least 4 times a week. That Christmas she insisted she return home instead of staying at the school, and could finally bond with Tobias.

Education

Keira is educated at Beauxbatons Academie, where she is presently in her sixth year. She was sorted into Ombrelune House upon arrival and is a highly intelligent pupil with a flair for Potions.
Keira is a very popular pupil, in part due to one brother's reputation as a Quidditch professional, and the other as a murderer. However, she is also lively, funny, and pretty which has added to her popularity within the school.
Keira often travels away from Beauxbatons to watch the more important of her brother's Quidditch matches, though she is sure this never interferes with her studies. She spends Christmas' at home in Stonem manor with her father and her brother- and in later life enjoys spending time with her niece and nephew.

Lycanthropy

Keira was bitten by an unknown werewolf in her third year at Beauxbatons Academy.
It was a habit of hers to go walking in the Pyrenees mountains which surrounded the school in the Summer months before the holidays. She often found ingredients for Potions there that were not easily brought, and the fresh mountain air brought her a sense of freedom.
Keira knew that wolves roamed the mountains, but knew that genuine wolves have little reason to harm humans, and it was this mistake which nearly killed her.

Keira was found by an elderly man who lived as a hermit in the mountains. He treated the long scars down her back with a silver and dittany solution and was able to send note to the Headmistress at Beauxbatons. Keira remembers little of her experience after that. She knows she was transported home to England immediately to her family's devastation, and spent a week and a half at St Mungos.

She can retain her human mind during transformations due to a near constant supply of Wolfsbane potion that her brother Jason funds and Tobias makes for her.

She makes no secret of her lycanthropy at school, and though she has developed a vicious temper, little has changed. Students know better than to ask her about her monthly trips to the mountains, where (ever since she has been bitten) she looks for the werewolf who bit her.
About a year ago, she found the hermit who had saved her, though he had been dead a couple of weeks from the harsh winter. Though this was upsetting for her, Keira has found a use for the hut he lived in, often waking up there the morning after her transformations- before returning to the school.

She hopes to pursue a career in Potions, either as a professional brewer, studying or inventing potions, or teaching potions as a subject at a wizarding school. She is also interested in the possibility of becoming a Healer.