Prof. Victoria Bulstrode-Snape

 Victoria Bulstrode a.k.a. Professor Bulstrode

Biographical Information

Full Name

Victoria Bulstrode

Date of Birth

1972

Blood status

Half-blood

Marital status

Married

Also known as

• Professor Bulstrode

• The Woman Who Loved A Death Eater

• Professor Snape

Physical Information

Species

Human (Witch)

Gender

Female

Hair colour

Brown

Skin colour

White

Family Information

Children

• Victor Snape (oldest son)

• Eileen Snape II (youngest daughter)

Parents

• Mr. Bulstrode † (father)

• Mrs. Bulstrode † (mother)

Cousins

Millicent Bulstrode (paternal cousin)

In-laws

• Eileen Prince-Snape † (mother-in-law)

• Tobias Snape † (father-in-law)

Ancestors

• Violetta Bulstrode-Black † (distant family)

• Cygnus Black II † (distant family by marriage)

Relationships

Friends/Allies

• Prof. Minerva McGonagall (close friend, her taskmaster, and former professor)
• Prof. Horace Slughorn (her co-worker and former teacher)
• Albus Dumbledore † (her former headmaster)
• Nymphadora Tonks † (good friend/former classmate)
• Golden Trio (her former trainees)
• Gryffindor students
• Weasley family (closest)
• Prof. Severus Snape (her love interest and former teacher/taskmaster)
• Prof. Luna Lovegood (her co-worker and former student)
• Cho Chang (her former trainee)
• Neville Longbottom (her co-worker and former trainee)
• Filius Flitwick (her co-worker and former teacher)
• Pomona Sprout (her former teacher)
• Prof. Remus Lupin † (good friend)
• Rubeus Hagrid (her co-worker and former teacher)
• Rolanda Hooch (her co-worker and former teacher)
• Sybill Trelawney (her co-worker and former teacher)
• Poppy Pomfrey (her co-worker)
• Dobby † (closest)
• Alastor Moody † (closest)
• Sirius Black † (closest)
• Kingsley Shacklebolt
• Aberforth Dumbledore
• Order of the Phoenix

Romances

Prof. Severus Snape (spouse)

Enemies

• Lord Voldemort † (arch-opponent)
• Death Eaters (arch-opponents)
• Dolores Umbridge (despises her)
• Prof. Amycus Carrow (despises her)
• Prof. Alecto Carrow (despises him)
• Lucius Malfoy (almost executed her pet cat earlier but failed)
• Bellatrix Lestrange †
• Peter Pettigrew †
• Nagini †
• Rita Skeeter (writes gossip that is not correct at all)
• Dementors
• Corban Yaxley
• Thorfinn Rowle
• Prof. Quirinus Quirrell †

Magical characteristics

Powers/skills

• Genius-level intelligence
• Charisma
• Teaching
• Leadership
• Intimidation
• Conducting
• Social networking
• Physical aptitude
• Dueling
• Defense Against the Dark Arts
• Charms
• Transfiguration
• Potions
• Occlumency
• Legilimency
• Wandless magic
• Nonverbal magic
• Dark Arts
• Spell creation
• Care of Magical Creatures
• History of Magic
• Astronomy
• Divination
• Muggle Studies
• Healing
• Apparition

Boggart

Lord Voldemort

Wand

Unknown

Patronus

Swan

Affiliation

Residence(s)

• Bulstrode Mansion (childhood home, lives there with Severus nowadays)

• Her personal chamber (where she lived during her teaching)

• Slytherin Common Room (once, when she was a student there)

Occupation

• Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts (Sep 1, 1997 - 1998 / 2003 -)

• Order Member

• Slug Club member (previously)

• Hogwarts student (previously)

School

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (1987 - 1994)

House

Slytherin

Loyalty

• Bulstrode family

• House of Black (distant)

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Slytherin

• Duelling Club

• Slug Club

• Order of the Phoenix

• Dumbledore's Army

• Snape family (in-laws)

• House of Weasleys

• Potter family

Victoria Bulstrode (b. 1972) was a half-blood witch and a member of the Bulstrode family. Though her family was mostly pure-blood and retained members of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, she and her paternal cousin, Millicent Bulstrode, were half-bloods, suggesting that one or more Bulstrode family members had Muggle or Muggle-born spouses, parents, or grandparents. 

Since she and her cousin Millicent were half-bloods, the Bulstrode family may have accepted half-bloods, like the Malfoys, with whom they are also distantly connected, and thus wouldn't practise inbreeding with cousins.

She began her journey at Hogwarts in 1983 and was sorted into Slytherin. After finishing her education, she decided not to become a professor right away, realizing that she was still immature. Yet, in 1997, when Dumbledore was tragically slain, she was not only overwhelmed but also enraged to realize that Snape had taken over as Headmaster and that Voldemort had held control of the Ministry of Magic. Deciding to protect students from the Carrows, who were reducing their power as the new professors, she declared herself by taking on the Defence Against the Dark Arts professorship.

Biography

Early life

Victoria Bulstrode was born sometime in 1972 to two unnamed parents. She is a member of the Bulstrode family and the House of the Black.

Bulstrode began her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1983 and was sorted into Slytherin House at the Sorting ceremony. Her Head of House was Professor Severus Snape, the Potions professor, who did not make her one of Slytherin's prefects in her fifth year because she could not behave suitably. Yet, she enjoyed her years as a pupil at Hogwarts and took assignments, classes, and school rules very seriously. She was often described as intelligent, to the point of being said to be "the most clever witch". Her favorite subject was initially D.A.D.A., and later History. Given her keen mind, some students, such as Bill Weasley, wondered why the Sorting Hat put her in Slytherin rather than Gryffindor. She admitted the Sorting Hat considered putting her in Gryffindor.

Likely, she did not want to disappoint her parents, and that's why the Sorting Hat set her in Slytherin after stalling for about 4 minutes between two suitable houses. She confirmed her rightful place in Slytherin with her reliable fearlessness and cleverness to her friends and to Hogwarts. After being sorted into Slytherin, Victoria shared a dormitory with Liz Tuttle, Gemma Farley, Ismelda Murk, and Merula Snyde. 

Just before she began the 1985-1986 school year, while visiting Diagon Alley, Victoria adopted a black part-Kneazle cat named Goofy from the Magical Menagerie. However, her new bond with her cat caused friction with Merula and his pet owl, as Goofy was constantly trying to capture the owl.

Victoria boldly stepped up to defend her pet cat, Goofy, who was facing trial before the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures for allegedly attacking a Slytherin student during a Care of Magical Creatures class. Despite her passionate efforts to save Goofy, Lucius Malfoy successfully swayed the Committee to order the cat's execution. Furious over this unjust decision, Victoria confronted her classmate from Slytherin and, unable to contain her outrage, punched him when he dared to mock Hagrid's injuries and belittle his concern for Goofy’s fate.

Despite her manners, Bulstrode tended to earn good enough marks in her exams to train for an Auror internship when she exited school in 1990. This implies that she presumably took Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, and another subject in her sixth and seventh years, and earned Exceeds Expectations or Outstanding in all of them for her Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests.

Joined as an Auror

Bulstrode completed a rigorous three-year Auror internship under the guidance of Alastor Moody, where her exceptional dueling skills enabled her to easily pass the Concealment and Disguise portion of her training without breaking a sweat. However, her clumsiness proved a challenge in the Stealth and Tracking section, nearly resulting in her failure. By 1994, she was fully qualified as an Auror, but in 1997, following Dumbledore's sudden demise—which profoundly altered her life—she made the decisive choice to retire and accept a position as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.

Career as a D.A.D.A teacher

In 1997, she made the decisive choice to leave her career as an Auror and took on the role of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, working under the authority of the new Headmaster, Severus Snape.

Magical abilities and skills

• Love: Victoria's greatest power of all was his ability to love. She was raised by a family that treated her with affection and love. Because of this, Victoria remarkably proved capable of very strong love; for example, her love for her students and Severus led her to almost sacrifice herself to Voldemort.

• Duelling: Despite being an accomplished and very skilful duellist. She was able to single-handedly defeat some of the most formidable Death Eaters and even survive numerous encounters with Lord Voldemort. Once, she beat Amycus Carrow in the chest with the Stunning Spell and hit Antonin Dolohov twice. Also, she was capable of holding her own against the incredibly strong Bellatrix Lestrange. In 1998, Victoria aided Harry in defeating several Death Eaters during the Battle of Hogwarts. Victoria was understood to be very quick off the stick and had a quarrelsome duelling type, even including Unforgivable Curses. She was also known to mock his opponents and would get them to talk at length, inflaming them and tossing them mentally off balance. She did this to give herself time to strategise or to soothe them into lowering their guard. 

• Defense Against the Dark Arts: Victoria was exceptionally talented at Defence Against the Dark Arts, having conquered all manner of spells. Some of the spells include the Stunning Spell, Disarming Charm, Impediment Jinx, Smokescreen Spell, Boggart-Banishing Spell, Full Body-Bind Curse, Reductor Curse, and many others. In fact, her Stunning Spell was so powerful that enemies would be knocked out if they were hit instantly. In 1991, Percy remarked that it came as no surprise that Victoria was top of the class at Defence Against the Dark Arts before Harry. Unquestionably, Victoria was so exemplary at DADA. She instantly became an Auror after graduation, which also demanded significant talent in both defensive and improper magic, but she retired later and became a DADA Professor after uncovering Dumbledore's demise and Snape becoming Headmaster.

• Charms: Victoria reached an 'Exceeds Expectations' on her O.W.L. exam and progressed to N.E.W.T.-level. She demonstrated to be extremely expert in this subject. Her skill was proven by her ability to achieve advanced charms from a very young age.

• Transfiguration: Victoria achieved an 'Exceeds Expectations' on his O.W.L. exam and advanced to N.E.W.T.-level. She showed proficiency in this highly complex, scientific, and even dangerous branch of magic. She was able to perform Conjuration, an advanced type of Transfiguration, that was taught only to N.E.W.T. students. Victoria demonstrated this at various points by conjuring ropes, water, blindfolds, and fire.

• Potions: Victoria's strong liking for Snape made Potions a pleasant subject for her because she had a deep crush on him back then, when she was younger and was his student. When Snape was around, she wasn't able to brew a reasonably adequate Strengthening Solution becuase his proximity made her hands shake all the time, so the potions didn't work well, and Snape took points from her house. She was devastated. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Victoria had made multiple Blood-Replenishing Potions just in case, and it helped Snape when a serpent bit him in the neck and injected him; then it miraculously healed with the potion.

• Occlumency and Legilimency: Victoria was also impeccably adept in both Occlumency and Legilimency because of her father, who was also both an Occlumens and a legilimens. Her father taught her when she was very young because if she were to encounter a dark witch, she would be able to read their minds and protect her own mind as well.

• Wandless magic: Victoria had exceptional skill and could perform Wandless magic. She was also capable of both nonverbal and wandless spells, as shown with the Incarcerous Spell, which she used on a mannequin during DADA class, which was witnessed by Snape.

• Nonverbal magic: Victoria demonstrated the use of nonverbal magic during the Battle of Hogwarts, a duel with Lucius Malfoy. During the duel, the two were mercilessly firing spells at each other. One of the spells she used nonverbally was the Fire-Making Spell.

• Dark Arts: Victoria was one of the few non-Dark wizards. On top of being able to cast direct dark charms like the Full Body-Bind Curse, Reductor Curse, and Revulsion Jinx. She could cast more powerful dark spells such as the Blasting Curse. Victoria even used two of the three Unforgivable Curses. She used the Imperius Curse on one of Carrow's siblings during the break before class started, as well as the Cruciatus Curse on several occasions. Her first successful attempt was in 1997, against Alecto Carrow. Yet, this victorious attempt did not result in the lengthy, severe pain that the curse was recognized for. Rather, Carrow screamed, experienced short moments of pain, and was instantly thwarted. She never used the Killing Curse for apparent honest reasons, even during the Battle of Hogwarts. 

• Care of Magical Creatures: Victoria achieved an 'Exceeds Expectations' on his O.W.L. exam. She has delivered on more than one occasion to have suitable skill in handling multiple sorts of magical creatures. 

• Astronomy: Victoria was able to pass his O.W.L. exam with an 'Acceptable'. 

• Healing: Victoria was able to effectively cast healing spells. For example, she could perform the Reparifors spell in his fifth year. She was also able to use the Reviving Spell to awaken those who had been rendered unconscious.

• Apparition: Victoria had earned a claim to Apparate, but she used the ability oftentimes during 1997 and 1998 to great success. She was able to Apparate with only a few seconds' notice or while guiding others. She was also very detailed in his Apparition, as she was able to apparate directly to Grimmauld Place along with Professor McGonagall, where the Order meeting took place.

• Teaching skills: Victoria demonstrated remarkable skill in teaching others. She returned to Hogwarts to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts after retiring as an Auror. She kept her teaching talent in her later years and replaced once again after the Battle of Hogwarts.

• Leadership skills: While Victoria never deliberately set out to be a charge to others, she usually took command when the circumstances demanded it. During the Battle of Hogwarts, she bore the lead, which stunned McGonagall.