Year: 6th House: Slytherin

Birthday: 13th of January 1974 (Age 17) Zodiac Sign: Capricornus

Height: 5,5‘ Bloodline: Pureblood

Nationality: American

Siblings: Lawrence Oliver Sykes (Older Brother)

The Sykes family did not always haunt the old manors of England.

For generations, they lived in America, sending their children to Ilvermorny, where Auri and her brother Lawrence first studied. But when an opportunity arose to strengthen ties with one of Britain’s most notorious pureblood families, the Sykeses crossed the ocean without hesitation. They settled into the Gaunt estate, bringing with them an unspoken certainty: Auri would one day marry Ominis Gaunt, and through her obedience, the family’s future would be secured.

Auri was raised to be beautiful before she was raised to be anything else.

Her mother—a trophy wife who married for money and status—taught her daughter that a woman’s worth lay in her appearance and her silence. Auri learned how to stand, how to bow, how to smile without meaning it. She learned that hunger was shameful, that softness was weakness, that men should be obeyed and never challenged. When she gained weight, her mother noticed. When she cried, her mother corrected her posture. When she questioned her purpose, she was reminded that pretty, compliant girls were rewarded—and that rebellion only led to being discarded.

Her father did little more than ignore her. His affection was conditional, his attention fleeting. Auri learned quickly that being unseen was safer than being disappointing.

Hogwarts was never meant to be hers.

Her parents had planned to send her to a finishing school instead—somewhere quiet, decorative, and harmless, where she could be polished into the perfect future wife. It was her brother Lawrence who fought them. Relentlessly. He argued, negotiated, threatened reputations, and refused to yield until they conceded. An educated daughter, he insisted, would only increase her value.

Auri knows the truth.

She is at Hogwarts because her brother refused to let her be locked away.

By fourteen, she had accepted her role as a dutiful daughter and future wife. Cold, precise, and proud, she found comfort in control. Control meant survival. Control meant never giving anyone the satisfaction of seeing her break.

Then chaos arrived in the form of Elsa Montrose.

Elsa was loud, unapologetic, and reckless with her freedom—everything Auri was never allowed to be. When Ominis slipped through her fingers, it was not because Auri loved him, but because Elsa dared to choose him. That interference was unforgivable. Not because of jealousy, but because someone had disrupted a path her parents had carved into her bones.

It was easier to hate Elsa than to admit the truth: Auri had never wanted the arrangement at all.

So her resentment hardened into armor. Pride became necessity. Vulnerability became a luxury she could not afford.