Nesrin Berkant

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Nesrin Berkant is the Divination Professor of Hogwarts played by Meian.

The Basics

Current Age: 34
Birthday: April 15, 1970
Height: 5’2’’
Weight: 119 lbs
Wand: 12 inches, whippish nature. Willow with a tiny vial of manticore venom in the center.
School Education: She was tutored privately.
Honors: She has the Sight*
Blood: Pureblood, Turkish Royal Blood
Name Meaning: Rose
First Language: Turkish
Played By: Jenny/Meian

Early Years

The Young Princess

Nesrin was born to Turkish Wizarding Royalty, which had yet to switch over to democracy as the muggle government had. Her father was a powerful sheik and her mother was one of his concubines. As a princess, she was always fed, fairly pampered, and trained in basic magical studies. She gained a love of expensive luxuries, like chocolate, and loved to collect gemstones. She never expected her pampered and sheltered life to come to an end…

A Promise

… but it did rather abruptly when a strange man named Serkan approached her in the royal gardens and told her that soon she was going to be married off to a man she didn’t know. The fourteen year old Nesrin was scared and desperate for a way out, so she agreed to his way out of it. He told her that he could make it appear as if she had the Sight, and that her father would cancel her plans for marriage and send her to the UK to continue her studies. Of course, the Sight he was going to make it seem like she had would come at a price. However, he told her that he would name his price later, and that she must promise to give him anything he asked for in the future. She didn’t believe him at first and refused. Later that day, his prediction turned out to be true, and she rushed back to the garden where she had found him only to find him no longer there. Just when she was about to leave, Serkan appeared and told her that the deal was still open. In an act of desperation, she accepted.

Teen Years

To Britain

Just as Serkan had predicted, as soon as Nesrin proved that she had the Sight, her father sent her away to the UK to study. Serkan accompanied Nesrin there where they stayed in a condominium in Liverpool and he taught her more advanced magic. It was there that Nesrin quickly learned that she had made a deal with a vampire – a rather old and dangerous vampire who was not registered with any Ministry or Government in existence. The thought frightened her a bit, but more than that, she felt tricked. She wouldn’t let him know that she felt deceived though – so instead she was quiet and did as he asked, excelling in Charms and Transfiguration. To bring in some money, Nesrin opened a parlor where she used Serkan’s Sight – given to her through Legilimens – to give people minor predictions.

A Deal Is A Deal

It wasn’t long before Nesrin started to see a few of her customers in a friendlier manner. As an attractive young girl, she found many of her customers were only coming for predictions to see her, and so she would accompany them to lunch or to a small get together with multiple people. One day when she arrived home, Serkan confronted her about these people, asking her if she loved any of them. Nesrin saw that the situation seemed to be bothering him and teased him, taunting him with things like: “What, are you jealous?” and “What do you care, hm?” until he finally snapped at her and stopped her dead in her tracks by telling her that the price of her Sight, and escaping when she was fourteen, was that she marry him. He wanted her because he was a Prince from a family who her own family, although years before even her father was born, had been completely annihilated. He was the last surviving member, and he had given up his ‘pure blood’ to become a vampire and do so. Her family had also tricked him personally, offering one of their own to him as his wife and then withdrawing her once they had secured their new positions. He told her that it wasn’t out of revenge – and that he was merely taking back what was owed to him. Needless to say, Nesrin felt a little more than tricked. Why in the world had he chosen her for this? She refused to go through with the marriage but when Serkan pointed out that had he not done this for her, she would be currently married now, she put aside her anger and agreed. He was right, and she had made a deal with him that she would have to honor. This is why, at the age of sixteen, Nesrin Berkant found herself married to Serkan Berkant.

Married Life

A Secret Life

Despite the fact that Nesrin was most definitely not in love with Serkan, Serkan proved to be a good husband in most aspects. He attempted to make her happy and tried to be romantic on occasion, and always took good care of her. Nesrin also tried to be a good wife, despite the fact that she really didn’t like the position she was in. Still, the two managed to fight fairly often, and even though each fight tended to end in laughs, the tension between them was undeniable. It was hard, because Nesrin knew that every night he was going out to kill people – a practice which she had never really liked to begin with – and that no one could know where he was because he was not only an illegal immigrant (he belonged in Turkey, technically) but also what the Ministry called a “Class A Vampire”, a vampire that killed frequently and left behind no evidence as to who he was. She couldn’t exactly disagree with his lifestyle though – as it was the only one he had, and it had also given her the freedom to choose a career and for the most part, a life of her own.

A Curse

When she was 18 she took up a job with the Ministry that no one really wanted: and that was the ambassador to the centaurs. It took a long time, but she was finally allowed into the herd and lived alongside them for a few years. However, whenever she wished to communicate with Serkan, she had to step outside of Centaur Territory. Knowing what he was, the centaurs hated and feared him, telling Nesrin that she had been cursed in marrying him. At the time, she couldn’t agree more, although their hatred towards her and his face when he learned that they would be spending some time apart was more than enough to make her think twice on her situation. By the time she applied to Hogwarts as a professor eight years later, she was strangely missing her husband’s presence. In fact, the entire reason she left her job with the centaurs, a job she honestly loved, in the first place was so that she could be near him again.

Hogwarts

She took up her job at Hogwarts with little difficulty at got along very well with the Headmistress, Keara Mckie. When the Gryffindor Head of House suddenly retired, Nesrin was the one who got the job of Head of House, as Mckie thought that if she had attended Hogwarts, she would have been sorted into Gryffindor. Nesrin actually longs to try on the Sorting Hat to see what it would tell her, but is also afraid to because she knows that her past with Serkan might be enough to drag her into Slytherin. It wasn’t that she didn’t like Slytherins, but they honestly reminded her too much of Serkan and as much as she loved him admired him, she didn’t want to be like him. However, unbeknownst to her colleagues, her job at Hogwarts was perfect for her. She had an entire tower all to herself, and at least one room where Serkan could stay all day without being disturbed. That, and he happened to get his hands on a rather nice invisibility cloak, and so as long as he was careful, he could actually roam about when he felt the need. She trusted him to be careful not to reveal his presence. Nesrin knew that he was very stealthy and that if he wanted to avoid people, he would. She spent most of her time in her tower with the excuse that she was shy, which she really was, but in reality she was simply taking care of Serkan. Eventually people took it upon themselves to try and cure Nesrin of her shyness, but it was never enough to really take her away from Serkan. She’s also, despite the fact that no one knows she’s married, managed to fend off any admirers that she’s noticed. Nesrin isn’t the best at uncovering when some one is crushing on her, but she knows that if she doesn’t do it before Serkan does, he may get dangerously jealous. Although Serkan always feeds as far away from Hogwarts as is possible for him, he might deviate from his patterns for one exception. Even though she was fairly certain he had little if any emotional attachment to her, she was fairly certain that he would hurt anyone that tried to make a move on her… or worse. Her first year, her nephew Dante Mithra attended school during her time, and she was protective over him like a mother. Even he had no knowledge of Serkan, but Serkan certainly had knowledge of him, and watched her baby him. Up until the last day on his seventh year, Dante knew he always had some one nearby who he could always turn to and count on, even when he married Freja Verillion against her word. At first she was fiercely against the marriage, but when she saw that he was in love with her, she didn’t have the heart to force him out of it.

Current Plot Involvement

Nesrin has been invovled in many miniplots, but has yet to make an appearance in the main plots.

Other Interesting Facts

+ Nesrin is Dante Mithra's aunt on his mother's side.
+ Although she likes her family, she does not like to see them with Dante as the only exception.
+ Her best friend at the school is Professor Logan Omeul.
+ Nesrin tends to side with the Ministry in the Voldemort struggle.
+ She did not originally approve of Dante's marriage to Freja Mithra.