Sebastian Glass
From Incantatem
Professor Sebastian Glass is the Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor and Head of Slytherin at Hogwarts, within the context of the RPG Incantatem.
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Description
Appearance
Age: 33
Height: 6'4”
Weight: N/A
Hair color: White
Eye color: Pale blue
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.
Teaching Methods
Although Glass does not get involved in the personal lives of his students -- or even show much interest in them to begin with -- he is an excellent teacher. Generally his classes are hands-on, with demonstrations whenever he can manage them. (For instance, he once brought a live lethifold to class for students to practice their Patronus charm on; needless to say, his class is rarely, if ever, boring.) Glass avoids assigning large amounts of reading or "busy work" as homework. He doesn't penalize students for lateness or absentieesm, but expects them to be responsible when it comes to the subject matter -- he grades strictly, yet fairly. Unlike most other professors, he appreciates pranks and shenanigans in the classroom and actually likes it when students argue his points (as long as they do it cleverly). He doesn't discriminate between houses.
Personality
Sebastian exists, it seems, for the sole purpose of making other people uncomfortable. He is nearly impossible to anger or frustrate. His default state of being is one of cheerful unconcern, and he seems to relish setting others on edge with his dry observations and erratic behavior. Although one could label him somewhat of a loner, he doesn’t necessarily alienate himself from the general population; instead he regards them from afar with amusement, as one might watch an entertaining movie with very bad special effects.
Despite all of this, he can be surprisingly easy to get along with if one is capable of ignoring – or even accepting – his eccentricities. His constant teasing, though insulting, is rarely intended to fashion his victim into an object of humiliation. That is, he’s almost never outright mean. He is subtle, conniving and manipulative, and is certainly a bad man, but he is in no sense of the word an evil man. He displays none of the blood prejudice that one might expect from him as the Head of Slytherin. (In fact, strangely, most of his adult friends are not Slytherins themselves.)
Past
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.
Plot roles and/or Incantatem History
Coming soon!
Miscellaneous Information
Wand
Wood: Rowan
Core: Kelpie hair
Length: 12.5 inches
O.W.L. Results
Defense Against the Dark Arts: O
Potions: E
Transfiguration: O
History of Magic: E
Charms: O
Astronomy: O
Herbology: A
Divination: O
Care of Magical Creatures: T
Other
- Birthday: January 23, 1960.
- His patronus appears in the form of a fox.
- He keeps a lethifold in a trunk next to his desk (for classroom demonstrations).
- He specializes in wordless, or nonvocal, magic.
- Certain people enjoy spreading rumors that he is involved in a relationship with Professor Beckett Rhys.
