Nesrin Berkant
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Nesrin Berkant
Nesrin Berkant (NAWZ-rin bur-CAHNT) is the Professor of Divination at Hogwarts and Gryffindor Head of House played by Meian.
The Basics
Current Age: 34
Birthday: May 7th, 1959
Height: 5’2’’
Weight: 112 lbs
Wand: 12 inches, whippish nature. Willow with a tiny vial of manticore venom in the center.
School Education: Absolutely NONE.
Honors: Ambassador to Centaurs for 9 years.
Blood: Pureblood
Name Meaning: Rose
First Language: Turkish
Played By: Jenny/Meian
History
Nesrin was born in Turkey to a very wealthy sheik and his concubine. She was raised with hundreds of her siblings and generally kept in one large section of the house, rarely going outside or seeing other people. She rarely saw her father, and never saw any other men.
She first learned that she had The Sight when her spirit guide, Serkan, first made contact with her. She was ten at the time. Soon, under his guidance, she was able to make her first prediction: the assassination of her father by her fiancée. Her father the sheik waited at night for the assassin’s arrival and much to his amazement, met the man he intended to give Nesrin away to. He killed Nesrin’s fiancée and instead gave her permission to leave the palace they lived in to seek education to further her abilities.
She set out with only Serkan as her guide and found residence in Great Britain, working only as a fortune teller. Nesrin does not usually talk very much about this part of her life, for whatever reason.
When she was 18 she took a job with the Ministry of Magic as an interpreter and ambassador to the centaurs. Although she had no credentials from any school at all they were hard pressed to find some one better. She spent the next 9 years with the centaurs living right in the Forbidden Forest, next to Hogwarts.
When she was 27 she discovered that her nephew by her sister was going to be attending Hogwarts. Suspecting that he too may be gifted, she sought a job as the Divination Professor. It was given to her because Nesrin presented a real way for students to learn divination - centaur divination - without using the crackpotted methods many frauds claimed to use. However, since centaur divination was looked down upon by a lot of Ministry officials who believed centaurs to be inferiror beings, her methods were kept a school secret.
Appearance
Nesrin Berkant is of small stature, like most of the women from the far away lands where she originates. She has very long and thick black hair which she often wears tied back as opposed to freely. Her large eyes are a very pretty grey and rather heavy lidded. Her skin is delicately tanned. Her features are very rounded, although her jaw is somewhat angular.
She wears very graceful robes and traditional clothes of her native country. Her mouth is often covered, and on frequent occasion so is her hair (although due to her exposure to Great Britain she has become less strict about that). Her favorite colors are dark reds, purples, and blues but for certain occasions she will wear other colors. In cold weather she can occasionally be talked into wearing a long gown and cloak – but she’d rather stay up in her Divination loft than walk around in public wearing that.
Personality
Nesrin has a very quiet and demure personality. She never speaks over what people would call "an indoor voice", even when reprimanding a student. She's very loving and understanding but also somewhat strict in other aspects.
With other teachers, she is very professional and secluded. She doesn't seek relationships with people, but is still very nice and polite when speaking with anyone. She prefers solitude as opposed to being in large groups, but because of the way she was raised, she knows how to handle being in large groups and handles it quite well.
With her students, she is a bit friendlier. She’s been known to rescue kids in tough situations with Ashford Mansfield, the grounds keeper, to give them lighter sentences. She sees a lot of her students as her children, because she is unable to have her own (although this isn’t something she blatantly advertises). She offers students who need extra help tea and cookies and often buys many of her students birthday presents and Christmas presents.
Nesrin can be seen as weird because sometimes people will catch her seemingly speaking to thin air or to herself. However, people that know her well will just realize that she's speaking to her spirit guide, Serkan. Serkan is a Turkish Prince killed in a skirmish in the early 1900s. She's very close to him, and generally hides him from other people. He's also known to be somewhat destructive towards people he doesn't like.
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.
