Elphinstone Urquart

Elphinstone Urquart (d. 1984) was a wizard and a Ministry of Magic official in the 1950s.

When Minerva McGonagall joined the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic after her graduation in 1954, Elphinstone Urquart was her much older boss, whom she was very fond of.

When McGonagall joined the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry faculty, Urquart remained on terms of friendship with her. On occasion, while holidaying in Scotland, he encountered his old friend and proposed to her on Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop. McGonagall turned him down this and several other times, as she still had feelings for Dougal McGregor. However, in 1981, after McGregor's death, Urquard proposed again during a summertime stroll around the lake in the Hogwarts grounds. This time Minerva accepted. Elphinstone, now retired, purchased a small cottage in Hogsmeade for the pair of them, whence Minerva could travel easily to Hogwarts Castle every day. Minerva kept her maiden name as she had always been something of a feminist. The marriage was a very happy one, and a period of great fulfillment for Minerva, altough it was cut short in 1984 after Elphinstone's accidental death from a Venomous Tentacula bite. After her husband's funeral, Minerva left the Hogsmeade cottage and returned to her living quarters at Hogwarts Castle.

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