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Austin Drake Worthington (b. May 25) is a student in Ravenclaw at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Family Lineage


When Austin was first introduced to the Wizarding world, it was believed that he was a Muggle-born, but was later revealed that he was a direct descendant of one of the Squib sons of Thaddeus Thurkell, who is his earliest known magical ancestor. Because he has traceable magical ancestry, some would consider him a Half-Blood, but pureblood fanatics consider him Muggle-Born, because his Squib ancestors were disowned by Wizarding society, and he himself says that he is a "Mudblood and proud."

Early Life
Austin was born on May 25 to Muggle parents, in a mainly Muggle town. He was exceptionally bright in his Muggle schooling, and in his youth he often experienced strange things that he could not explain, unaware of his magical talent.

You're a Wizard, Austin
When Austin turned 11 he discovered the exceptional reality about his identity. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had invited Austin in. The week of his birthday, Rubeus Hagrid was sent by Hogwarts and explained to he and his parents that there were witches and wizards in hiding all over the world. Hagrid gave him a small, homemade birthday cake and took Austin to Diagon Alley and, using a fund set up by the school to help Austin's poor Muggle family, they bought supplies at the shops. Austin also brought along his rather old cat, Miss Kitty.

Dragon Heartstring Wand
Austin's wand is 12 inches long and is made of holly. Its core is made of dragon heartstring. It was crafted by Ollivander.

First Year
"Hmmm... Not a bad mind, no not at all.... Not brave enough to be a Gryffindor or pure enough to be a Slytherin, but you would be an excellent Ravenclaw or even a Hufflepuff. Hmmm... Better be... RAVENCLAW!"

For his first year, Austin arrived at Hogwarts from the Hogwarts Express and he was very happy when the Sorting Hat put him in Ravenclaw.

At his first Potions lesson under Horace Slughorn, he was deemed excellent at the subject when he brew, quite by accident, the Love Potion Amortentia, which to him smells like freshly mown grass, cinnamon, and roses. From that day, Austin has been a member of the Slug Club.

Other subjects at which he had notable skill included Charms, Transfiguration, History of Magic, and, by extent, Herbology. Indeed, Professor Sprout took a liking of the boy and invited him and several gifted others on a Magizoology trip through the Forbidden Forest. When he first entered the treeline of the forest, he saw a large clump of soil that looked like it had been churned up. When he asked Professor Sprout about this she said that it was where centaurs had marched to the rescue during the Battle of Hogwarts almost a decade ago. Interested, Austin examined the dirt closer, and saw a small, shiny object half buried. Pulling it out, he saw it was a golden ring, inset with a small, black stone. He put it into his pocket and, after examing several Bowtruckles with the rest of the students, he walked back to the castle and hid the ring in his chest in Ravenclaw Tower.

Several weeks later, Austin took a History of Magic extra credit essay on Dark Wizards. Sitting in his dormitory, reading Magick Moste Evile, Austin remembered the ring and got it out of the chest and held it in his palm. Studying about Grindelwald and Voldemort, he boredly flipped the ring in his hand, and is shocked when the ghosts of the two evil sorcerers appeared in front of him.

Needing to banish the spirits, Austin immediately ran to the Headmistress's office and showed it to McGonagall, who consulted the portrait of Albus Dumbledore for help. Dumbledore told the two about the Resurrection Stone, and said that the only way to destroy the spirits of Voldemort and Grindelwald is to completely destroy the ring, but that such powerful peices of magic could not be destroyed except by whom they were made. With that, McGonagall flipped the ring thrice, and brought the spirit of Cadmus Peverell, who, rather than Death, Dumbledore believed to have created the ring. However, Cadmus repeated the Beedle the Bard story, assuring them Death created the thing himself. As they contemplated how to get out of the predicament, one wall of the office exploded, and the two evil wizards began to attack them, McGonagall pushed Austin out of the office, and he went into hiding, living in the dungeons with Professor Slughorn for weeks, as the teachers held off Voldemort and Grindelwald.

Finally, McGonagall sent him a talking Patronus, explaining that the spirits could be destroyed by love. Not knowing what to do, Slughorn told him to brew Amortentia, which Austin did, bottling it to use against the ghosts. Austin approached the two wizards, and splashed them with the liquid love, which weakened them considerably. The two villains dueled him, but Austin's experience in Charms helped him survive longer than most, only to be hit by a Killing Curse directed by the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Artemius Vercryusse, who confessed to have been searching the Forbideen Forest for the Resurrection Stone ring for decades after hearing Harry Potter dropped it before facing Voldemort nearly a decade before.

Meanwhile, Austin was in limbo between life and death briefly. While in a dead state, he was confronted by the embodiement of Death, whom he gave the Stone. Death destroyed the ring, having been wanting to get it back because he regretted ever making it, and, as a reward, Death sent Austin back to his life. Austin awoke and was attacked once more by Professor Vercryusse, but this time the evil professor was attacked by several other teachers and carted off to Azkaban. Although Austin was offered the option of not having to take the end-of-term tests due to circumstance, he took themwillingly before going home at the end of the year.

Second Year
"Until the culprit behind the attack on my office is caught, it is likely the school will be closed."

- Minerva McGonagall adressing her students

Austin's started out badly when Headmistress McGonagall's office was vandalised, and Aurors were called in. The recently elected head of the Department, Harry Potter was brought in, and soon became Austin's idol. Afterbeing introduced through Professor Slughorn, Harry soon found out that Austin was much like his friend Hermione Weasley, head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and introduced the two. Hermione gave him advice on career choices, and after discovering his aptitude for Potions and hearing of his defeat of Voldemort's ghost the year before, she suggested becoming a Potions expert at the Department of Mysteries.

Using her Ministry contacts, Hermione got Austin a stint as the apprentice to the Unspeakable Potions brewer, Ogg McKinnon, a job he could fulfill on weekends off from school. Around the same time, the culprit behind the office burnings was caught attempting to attack Austin while he slept. It was none other than Artemius Vercryusse, the same teacher who killed Austin the year before. Vercryusse had escaped from Azkaban, saying it was "easy as Pumpkin Pasties now that they stopped using dementors."

While Vercryusse was being interrogated, Austin asked Harry why the man kept trying to kill him, and Harry said vaguely that since he was persuing a career as an Unspeakable, he'd know soon enough. During Austin's first lesson under Ogg, the man refused to tell him anything about why Austin had been the victim of attempted murder, but after several lessons, the Unspeakable loosened up and told Austin of a prophecy, concerning a boy born on the 25 of May to Muggle parents, who would be the one that would bring about the end of the Wizarding world.

Terrified, Austin locked himself in his dorm after returning to Hogwarts and, stricken, refuses to eat for days, until slipped a Calming Draught by Madam Pomfrey and being taken to St Mungo's for bad mental health after being terrified by the fact he would destroy his world. While in the ward, Austin befriended fellow patient Elvira Thorton, a rather brainy witch who he had a bit of a crush on.

Elvira, a pureblood, had heard of the prophecy concerning him, and was willing to help him prevent it. After they were both released from the hospital and returned to Hogwarts, Austin was pleased to learn that Elvira was a fellow Ravenclaw, albeit one he had never properly met. When he arrived back at the castle, Austin was interviewed by Rita Skeeter about being the eventual destroyer of the Wizarding world. Seeing that he needed an escape, Harry Potter told the boy about the Room of Requirement, which Austin consented to use as his secret place from then on.

Sadly, Skeeter, in her beatle Animagus form discovered where he was going, and followed him there. However, Austin was shocked when a secret compartment swung open when she came near, and he discovered that a hidden tunnel behind it lead to the Hog's Head in Hogsmeade. He befriended the bartender, Aberforth Dumbledore, and indeed became quite popular among the citizens of the purely wizard village. Shortly before returning home at the end of the year, Austin and Elvira read in the Daily Prophet about a group calling themselves the Neo-Death Eaters being formed.

Third Year
Over the summer after before his third year, Austin had been coming to terms with his feelings for Elvira, and intended to tell her about them during the ride back to Hogwarts on the train, but upon joining her in a compartment, he saw her snogging with Cormac Belby, which made him extremely jealous.

Returning to school, Austin was surprised to find that this year seemed to be going fairly normal, despite reports of the Neo-Death Eaters quickly gaining power. Taking advantage of the peace, Austin began to trying to find out what madeElvira fancy Belby, and discovered that it may have been because he was Beater on the Hufflepuff Quidditch Team. Deciding to mimic these actions, Austin signed up for the Ravenclaw team, also as a Beater. After taking numerous Bludger hits to the head, Austin was knocked, unconcious off his broom.

Waking up under the care of Madam Pomfrey in the hospital wing, Austin found that Elvira had not left his bedside for weeks. At that moment, Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt burst into the room, shouting that the Neo-Death Eaters leader Yaxley had brought in an army. Moments later, Yaxley attack Shacklebolt, Stunning him. Austin hopped from the bed, dragging Elvira with him and taking her to the Room of Requirement as a hurried battle broke out. Going through the passage to the Hog's Head, Austin warned Aberforth about them, and Abe rounded up an army of the store owners of Hogsmeade, including Madam Rosmerta and Ambrosius Flume. As Aberforth ran back to the castle, the now-alone couple heard him destroying the secret passage on his way, so that Death Eaters could not go from the castle and to the inn to attack them. As war broke out in the streets outside, Elivra and Austin both cast spells at ensuing ex-Azkaban cons from the upstairs window.

From outside, Flora Carrow, daughter of Amycus Carrow and Death Eater innitiate cast the Incendio spell at the pub, sending it to flames. As the two layed huddled inside, fearing for their lives, both confessed their love for the other and huddled up, aiming to die together, when he looked at her and was overcome with a very Gryffindor-like bravery, and he ran through the flames blocking the exit, ignoring the blisters that broke out on him, and he ran into the streets, petrifying numerous attackers and using the Aguamenti spell on the Hog's Head.

Checking that Elvira was safe, he ran to the Owlery, sending an owl to the Ministry of Magic, asking for Aurors. The Auror Department arrived promptly, and drove the attackers out, advising Austin to go into hiding, and to take Elvira with him: once that Death Eaters knew they were together, both would be in trouble.

Elvira suggested they stay with her aunt who raised her, as "no one in their right mind would mess with Auntie." She and Austin go to the aunt's house, where Elvira introduces her as "my dear auntie, Dolores Umbridge." Not knowingofUmbridge's sticky past, Austin stays with her willingly, learning to trust her as a kindhearted old woman.

Elvira turned out to be correct, and the Death Eaters, serving under a newly-overturned Ministry of Magic, all feared Umbridge too much to cross her. Dolores brought Austin and Elvira to work everyday,

and watch as she is appointed head of a rebuilt. Although Austin feared that his trust in her might have been misplaced, he frequently assured himself that she was serving the corruption against her will. However, upon accompanying Umbridge to a trial and having seen her use fierce punishments, both Elvira and Austin decide dto leave and start a rebellion.

While on the run, hiding in different protected areas each day, Austin gloomily noticed that his third year at Hogwarts would have ended already.

Fourth Year
Despite the many defensive enchantments that he and Elvira put up around their hiding places each night, Austin was surprised to find that animals seemed unaffected by the shield charms and could go in and out of the encampments at will. For instance, his elderly cat, Miss Kitty, would leave the spot and return hours later, occasionally carrying a dead rat or bird in her mouth.

During their second week on the run, Elvira and Austin were staying on a small island just off of Scotland, and were surprised to recieve a letter from Minerva McGonagall, being brought by a large, tawny owl. The letter simply wished them the best of luck, and that their would be a spot waiting for them at Hogwarts if they ever got back.

They heard no more from the outside world for over a month, until their camp in the Forest of Dean was attacked by Death Eaters. Being dragged out of their hiding spot by a large, burly man, Austin saw among the collection of villains an elderly, grey-haired woman that he had never seen before. The other Death Eaters adressed her as "Kat."

Austin was then carted off to the prison of Azkaban, which had once again consented to using dementors. Elvira was sent to be punished by her aunt, Dolores Umbridge, and Austin sat huddled in his cell for days, nearly starving to death, until he was visited by the old woman, Kat, who brought him dead rats to live off, which he ate willingly, knowing he would die otherwise. He asked her why she acted like this, sending him to prison one minute and helping him live the next, to which she replied mysteriously, "I owe you my life."

Kat henceforth visited frequently, and Austin eventually warmed up to her enough to ask how Elvira was, and was thrown into a seemingly endless depression at her response: "She's dead. Umbridge is not a kind woman."

Kat visited much more after that, and he asked her about her earlier comment, saying that she owed him her life, and Kat explained that she was born to two Animagi in their animal form; Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall, both cats. As such, she was born in feline form, not powerful enough to turn into a witch. One night she wondered away from her parents, and was lost in a blizzard. It was then, she said, that he, Austin, found her, dying in the snow, and gave her the name "Miss Kitty."

Shocked to find out that Kat was the animal he had raised from youth, Austin understood why she was helping him, and asked why she had reported him to the Death Eaters. She continued her tale, saying that she often left the Muggle dwelling belonging to Austin's parents to wonder the world in her human form, and came to believe that her father, Dumbledore, had abandon her as a kitten. From that point, she decided to turn against her father and join the Death Eaters, and only recently discovered that her family leaving her was an accident.

Austin said that, because of all the suffering she had put him through, Kat must help him escape the prison, and she agreed.

Parents
Austin's Muggle parents divorced when he was six, and he had since been raised by his mother. He had a typical relationship with them both, often arguing with them, although he did love them very much and was terrified at the thought that the Death Eaters would harm them.

Rubeus Hagrid
Although he was somewhat afraid of the part-giant, there can be no doubt that Austin considered Hagrid a trustworthy friend, as well as his main link to the Wizarding world. Despite his liking of Hagrid, Austin did not take his class,due to fear of some of the fierce beasts, as well as rather uncomplementary reports of his classes. His disliking of the subject however did not seem to put any sort of strain on their relationships.

Elvira Thorton
There can be no doubt that Austin was deeply in love with Elvira. She was one of his first and best friends, as well as the only one he took with him when he went on the run. During his third year he slowly discovered that Elvira had the same feelings for him, although his faith in her wavered when he discovered she came from an evil family.



Dolores Umbridge
Austin first met Dolores Umbridge, Elvira's great aunt by whom she was raised, when he was thirteen. At first he learned to trust her as a kindhearted and polite woman who worked keeping peace at the Ministry of Magic. He went with her frequently to watch her carry out laws, as well as keep training for his own career as an Unspeakable. His idea of her changed within a month or two, however, when he saw her carry out ferocious punishments on "Mudbloods" as part of her career. After he ran away from Umbridge and went on the run with Elvira, she lost her kind demeanor and spent many months trying to capture and punish them.