meant to live

  Emmeline Vance grew up to be a surprise to everyone. During her early years of Hogwarts, Emmeline was quiet. She didn’t have a voice but that didn’t mean that her thoughts weren’t loud. In fact, she was always thinking. Emmeline enjoyed looking at the world and trying to find the truth behind everything. She was observant and she was a quick learner. She was good at analyzing people and she liked to find how things truly worked. It was a shocker when she was sorted into Gryffindor and not Ravenclaw but her parents didn't question it. They knew their daughter had a fire in her heart and it was just a matter of it coming out. She wasn't always fond of people but she wasn't someone to push others away. In fact, Emmeline could never deny helping someone. Whether that be helping with tutoring or just when someone needed someone to listen to them or stand up for them. 

As time passed, Emmeline grew into her true self and found her voice as well as her friends. She didn't have difficulty making friends after this. It was in her fifth year that Em found her mentor after a horrible flu. Madam Pomfrey. She often went unnoticed by the people at Hogwarts but Emmeline found her fascinating. She knew every remedy in the book and not in a book. Soon enough, Emmeline found herself drawn to the healing arts. She often found herself spending evenings with the mediwitch and picking up everything she could. Her skills made it easier to get accepted into a healing program at St. Mungo's after graduation and she excelled beyond belief. However, things took a turn for the worse as time progressed. 

War was starting and Em knew that she had to do something more. As time passed, more people ended up wounded or worse, dead. Emmeline knew she needed to do so much more. She had the skill to help people and she needed to get it to people in need before they were past the point of no return. She was so sure that people didn’t notice how she snuck into just the right conversations, and finding out who she had speak to about the organization that kept destroying their towns while fighting Voldemort. It was Emmeline who approached Dumbledore once she knew where to go which was something rare for the old wizard.  Not too long after, she joined the Order without looking back or hesitation. 

Emmeline was fully skilled in both fighting and defensive spells and she knew how to form a non-corporeal patronus. She was the only fully trained mediwitch that the order had and took it upon herself to make sure to go on the most dangerous of missions to be able to help anyone who became injured. This allowed her to keep a close eye on everything and to see what others did not. Emmeline became an important asset to the Order in this way. 

She watched many of her closest friends died and despite this, she pushed forward for the sake of others. After the war ended, Emmeline was not the same person anymore. She became rather guarded and while she wasn’t rude or mean, she didn’t allow her to have too many people close to her out of fear of losing them. Em became a traveling mediwitch, helping anyone that needed it far and wide. She did keep an eye on Harry from afar, leaving little things for him to find and wishing she could take him far away from his aunt and uncle’s care. 

When she heard that he was in danger once more and that Voldemort had returned, she didn’t hesitate to return. Emmeline joined the advance guard to make sure that Harry was taken to safety. She considered both Lily and James close friends and wanted to make sure that their son was protected at all costs. Emmeline died standing post at the muggle prime minister’s residence. She was out numbered and  murdered by death eaters and never knew how it was they found her.