Professor Eric Istrum

== Academic and Professional Career ==
Professor Istrum teaches History of the Occult and Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
== Personal Life ==
=== Childhood ===
Eric was born a half-blood from a pureblood father and a muggle-born mother.  His mother was not a witch but had died when Eric was very young and Eric was given to his pureblood family.  They decided to keep his blood status a secret, except by immediate family, so he grew up in a place that was very hateful towards muggles and only kept him because he was not a squib.  His half-sister was the heir to the Istrum family and knew about him but she was fairly neutral with him as they grew up.
=== Secret Love ===
Eric fell in love with his half-sister’s betrothed and had a secret relationship with him.  His love would soon give him a necklace to represent their love since he knew he could not stop the marriage to Eric’s half-sister otherwise they would ruin their pureblood families’ reputation.  After falling in love, his half-sister and her betrothed became Death Eaters for the Dark Lord since their pureblood family was Death Eaters as well. Eric was not allowed to be a Death Eater since he was a half-blood but he was not interested in the idea anyway.  
=== Battle of Hogwarts ===
He was only sixteen when the Battle of Hogwarts occurred and fought against the Dark Lord trying to find his half-sister and love. Eric did find his half-sister and love but some debris from the battle hit all three of them.  His half-sister was found dead while his lover’s body was never found but was presumed dead. Eric came out of the battle with bad scarring and amnesia because of a head injury from the debris.  He inherited the head of the family since there were no other children besides his half-sister so he was given a ring to represent his new status in the family even though his family did not want him to be the head. His family blamed him for his half-sister’s death as well as her betrothed’s death but Eric also blamed himself for what happened.
=== Teaching ===
After graduating from Hogwarts, he traveled the world and learned more about Occults and the Dark Arts which made him gain a new goal in life.  His new goal was to teach the next generation so hopefully, the chances of history being repeated again would be lessened. He was offered a position at Hogwarts to teach his new class ‘History of the Occult and Dark Arts’.  After coming back to Hogwarts, he is slowly gaining his lost memories and is trying to come to terms with who he was before the amnesia.
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