Violet Tillyman

"I want to go to Mother's house."

- Violet Tillyman.

Violet Tillyman was a witch who, in 1855, went missing after mispronouncing her destination while using the Floo Network.

Violet was, at the time, married to Albert Tillyman, a suspicious man and a bit of a bully. After a particularly nasty row, Violet lept to the living room fireplace and, between sobs and hiccups, cried that she wanted to go to her mother's house.

After two weeks, Albert found that the house was getting quite dirty, there were no clean pots in the house and that his socks needed washing, and decided it was time Violet returned home. He took the Floo Network to his mother-in-law's. To his surprise, his mother-in-law knew nothing of the row and claimed Violet had never arrived there. After he stormed and searched to house, Albert was convinced she was missing — a poster campaign was held, and several articles were put up on the Daily Prophet, but to no avail.

For several months after Violet's disappearance, people were afraid to use the Floo Network for fear of it vanishing them into thin air. However, as time passed and nobody else disappeared, people got around to use it again, and Albert Tillyman was forced to grumpily return to his house and master cleaning and darning spells.

Twenty years later, in 1875, after Albert's death, Violet resurfaced — due to the incoherent way she had spoken when she had used Floo Powder, she ended up emerging in the fireplace of Myron Otherhaus in Bury St Edmunds. In spite of Violet's tear-stained and ash-covered appearance, it had been love at first sight, and she had lived in seclusion with him for those twenty years, the couple having seven children.

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