Professor Matthew Gryffin

== Academic and Professional Career ==
A former Auror, Matthew Gryffin now teaches AP Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
== Personal Life ==
Born in 1802, in August, Friday the 13th to a witch named Mary Gryffin and an unknown Muggle Father in London. He attendant Hogwarts from 1813-1820. Despite his wish to be sorted into Hufflepuff and his Mother's Expectations of him being a Ravenclaw, he was sorted into Gryffindor. This would later turn out to be the right choice, seeing he would turn out to be an Auror at the age of 20. He was an averagely talented wizard always average in the class, doing average on his Auror exams and average in his job. He often lost his wands in fights and after the 7th one, he decided against using wands and instead found out about his talent in wandless magic. From there on he was an excellent Auror who almost never failed to catch his "victims". He became an animagus at the age of 53, being able to turn into a Hyena. He cast his first Patronus only a Year later. After a fight with a pack of werewolves, he was bitten and turned. By now he has his transformations under control. he retired as Ms. Umbridge became Minnestress of Magic and transferred to Hogwarts.
=== Blood Curse ===
In his youth, he fell in love with a girl. She was everything to him. But as he just turned 19, she left him for someone else. Brokenhearted and feeling like he would die of the pain, he tried to put a curse on himself, wanting that would his heart ever be broken that way, hed immediately die of it. The curse, of course, went wrong. Instead, now he is cursed to never be able to grow old and die and rest until he´d be able to find love again.
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