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.

History

Sebastian Glass was born in Bristol as the second child of a wealthy pureblood family. 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.

Family life was always tense; his younger brother, Alphaeus, was (and still is) mentally unstable, and became a Death Eater after being expelled from Hogwarts. Sebastian’s father was a Ministry official and had suspected ties to Voldemort. He was a harsh man, known to verbally and perhaps even physically abuse his wife until he died in an accident during Sebastian’s sixth year at Hogwarts.

Before going to school, Sebastian spent most of his time with his older sister Eleanor. A chain smoker by the age of fifteen, she was hardly a good influence on him; but she harbored a similar dislike for the rest of their family, and they got along well. After graduating she took up a Ministry job handling dangerous magical creatures in Africa.

Upon enrolling at Hogwarts, Sebastian was sorted into Slytherin (whereas Eleanor had been a Ravenclaw), and quickly established himself as an obscure yet legendary figure in the annals of student history. He was brilliant in all of his subjects, yet was never observed studying; he slept though all of his Divination classes, insisting that his specialty was in the area of dream visions. This was, of course, a lie, but he received an O in the class all the same. In his fifth year he became notorious for receiving a T for Troll on his Care of Magical Creatures O.W.L., after intentionally transfiguring his niffler into a pumpkin pasty during the final exam. He’d never been very good with animals.

After graduating he briefly joined his sister in Africa, but the sun burned his pigment-free skin mercilessly, and he was forced to move back to England after a particularly serious bout of sun poisoning. Several years later he took up his current job, DADA professor and Head of Slytherin at Hogwarts.