Sebastian Glass

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Professor Sebastian Glass is the Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor and Head of Slytherin at Hogwarts, within the context of the RPG Incantatem.

General Information

Appearance

Glass suffers from a plethora of genetic afflictions, most noticeably albinism, due to his pureblood (and therefore inbred) heritage. He is tall and thin, and generally appears impeccably dressed. The piercing quality of his blue eyes is lessened only slightly by the dark shadows beneath them. His face is angular and aristocratic, and some believe that if it were not for his excessive gauntness, sickliness and pale complexion, he would be an attractive man. As it stands, he’s just kind of scary.

Background

Sebastian Glass was born in Bristol as the second child of a wealthy pureblood family. He has an elder sister, named Eleanor, and a younger brother, Alphaeus. Most of his early childhood was spent in and out of the hospital, which fostered in him a permanent dislike of health institutions. Owing to an extreme genetic heart defect he was not expected to live past the age of eighteen.

Sebastian’s father was disappointed with his son’s poor physical condition and lavished attention on Alphaeus instead – perhaps he thought that it would be a better long-time investment. Left to his own devices, Sebastian bonded with his sister; but when he was nine years old she left for Hogwarts, leaving him stranded. From then on Eleanor grew progressively more distant from her family, and eventually took up a job handling dangerous magical creatures in Africa.

Meanwhile, Alphaeus was beginning to display signs of mental unsoundness. Where Sebastian had inherited the physical consequences of wizard inbreeding, Alphaeus had acquired all the psychological ones. Luckily Sebastian didn’t have to tolerate this home environment for long, as he left for Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin two years after Eleanor’s departure.

Sebastian excelled at most of his subjects, with the notable exceptions of Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology; he got a T for Troll in the former class after intentionally transfiguring his niffler into a pumpkin pasty during his fifth-year O.W.L. final. Overall, his O.W.L. grades went as follows:

Defense Against the Dark Arts: O Charms: O Care of Magical Creatures: T Herbology: P History of Magic: E Transfiguration: O Potions: A Astronomy: O Ancient Runes: O