Coralie Malkin
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| Coralie Piper Malkin | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 14 July 1985, 32 |
| City of Birth | London, England |
| Blood status | Half-blood |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Hair Colour | Blonde |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Skin Colour | Fair |
| Relationships | |
| Father | Julius Malkin |
| Mother | Vivienne Malkin |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Hufflepuff |
| Class of | 2003 |
| Character Information | |
| Playby | Natalie Dormer |
| Jessica | |
Cora is a quirky-faced, hardworking, Hufflepuff Alum with an eye for details and the love for her family and business to do great things. She’s bubbly and friendly, with a healthy side helping of awkward, but there is no doubt Cora tries. Her dream is to one day produce her own line of robes, like her Great Grandmother, but that’s a long way off, and she’s currently still content to be learning how to run a business like a champion.
History
The Malkin family is not an outstanding one, even if it has a legacy. Madam Malkin’s has been around for decades, started by Cora’s great grandmother. The woman, bless her, is still running the business – tottering around in her mauve robes and thick glasses – ordering about her great granddaughter who has been the first in the line to show an interest in continuing the shop.
Her parents, for all of their care and love, were not artistic people by nature. Julius and Vivienne both work respectable jobs in the ministry, and they have three children, of which, Cora is the middle. She is flanked on both sides by brothers: Oliver is her elder brother: settled with a family, and Tristan is her younger brother, in his last year at Hogwarts. There is a 12 year age difference between the youngest and oldest, leaving Coralie woefully in the middle of brothers who didn’t much like one another, and she was peacekeeper.
It also meant that while her parents had their hands full with both of them (in much different ways), Cora was hoisted off on whoever could take care of her. It often fell to Mildred Malkin: her great grandmother who had a shop not too far off in Diagon Alley.
Cora loved being at Great Grandma’s shop. The Madam, as Cora affectionately called “Gramma,” was constantly creating little outfits for her great granddaughter, which Cora loved. She watched as Gramma pulled fabrics, draped them over the forms, and made incredible things. Often, as Cora got older, she’d attempt the same with her dolls – clumsily at first, until she could wield a needle with some level of finesse.
It would only get better, her Gramma assured her, when she could wield a wand. Cora couldn’t wait. Her older brother always had great stories from Hogwarts and she wanted to have them as well. Getting there, however, seemed to be an endless waiting game.
In 1992, at seven years old, Coralie travelled with Gramma to Paris for Wich Witch? It completely changed her life. A silly hobby of sewing doll clothes as a small child was turning into an obsession, and the fashion event changed her life. Coralie was enamored.
From that point, Cora wanted to know everything and started choosing to spend time at her Gramma’s, rather than just being babysat on her parents’ terms. She interacted with all sorts of people, including students going to Hogwarts and adults in droves. She became a people person quickly, and was a fast learner.
When she went to school, she was sorted into Hufflepuff. Amongst the loyal and hardworking, Cora flourished. She excelled in charms, transfiguration, and muggle studies with middling grades in most of her other subjects. Art fascinated her, and she joined the art club to keep up with her sketching and creations. Amongst students, she was known to be a good resource for fixing snagged robes (since most were purchased from her Gramma anyway), and had a sort of underground business in mending when she figured out students would actually pay to have their robes fixed like new.
During the summers, she stayed close to Gramma, and when she was old enough, began to work in the store. Unlike most first jobs, Cora loved working in the store. She had pocket money, she was learning a lot, and she spent the time around her family, helping make something work. Granted, business was tough through the war years, but Malkins was an institution, and unlike many other businesses that went out during the time, it seemed like despite danger, people still needed things, maybe in less quantity, but still needed them. It didn’t make life less scary, particularly as they watched the Alley thin out and some of the oldest institutions fall away, but after the war ended and the ash cleared away, it was like a new vigor was pushed into the Wizarding World.
Describe your job duties and how you go about them: Coralie is her Gramma's main shop girl. This involves being intimately familiar with the business in all aspects, from maintaining a budget and turning profits to picking the perfect lining for a lady's traveling cloak.
Cora has taken on more responsibilities on the business end of things in recent years, keeping track of purchases and making orders, but her Gramma is still, without a doubt, in charge. On any given day, she is ordering Cora around, and has provided her a number of tasks that she completes on a daily basis, including dealing with customers, making alterations and repairs, making sales records, and keeping up with the ordering.
In her free time (if there is any), Cora is just starting to branch into her own work: desiring to create her own line of robes. She is still very much an amateur, however, and this will take time.
