Abraham Leslie McCracken

Abraham Leslie McCracken
Biographical information
Born	16th century
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Brown
Eye colour	Black
Skin colour	Pale
Affiliation
Occupation	Captain
Loyalty	New World

Abraham Leslie McCracken was a wizard and a captain who lived in the era when the United States of America was known as the New World. He was depicted in a portrait which called himself the mightiest wizarding seafarer in history, despite the fact that he had been left forgotten in the Great Lake for so long.

Biography

McCracken's life began in a humble town in the New World, where he was born. He later travelled across the Atlantic Ocean via his ship, weighed by numerous priceless treasures, through crashing waves and countless vortexes.

McCracken's portrait at the bottom of the Great Lake

At some point, McCracken's portrait somehow arrived at a "miserable" and "soggy" mess, where his visage was doomed to be slowly and inevitably chewed off by brain-less sea creatures (but undamaged, due to the Protection Charms cast by McCracken on his self-portrait). He thought it was the bottom of a sea where he was left forgotten, until an unidentified Muggle-born Hogwarts student swam by and told him it was actually the bottom of the Great Lake. For this fact he newly learned, the captain portrait blamed fate and complained about the cruelty of the sea.

Physical description

McCracken was a narrow-faced man with long brown hair and a moustache of the same colour. His portrait also depicted him wearing a tricorne.

Etymology

Abraham, a Hebrew name meaning "father of a multitude," was originally Abram ("high father"). Abraham-man, from the 1560s, referred to frauds feigning madness for alms, likely originating from the Abraham ward at Bethlehem Hospital. The name Leslie derives from a place in Aberdeenshire, possibly from the Gaelic "leas celyn" meaning "holly-garden." It is also used as an anglicisation of the male name Ladislaus or its variant László. McCracken is a hereditary surname from Ulster and nearby Galloway, Scotland. It is an Anglicisation of the Ulster Gaelic name Mac Reachtain, a variant of the patronymic surname Mac Neachtain, commonly Anglicised as McNaughton.

Behind the scenes

• At the bottom of the Great Lake, there is a sunken ship which may be the ship which was captained by Abraham.

Appearances

• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (First appearance) (Appears in portrait(s))