Professor Valdemere

== Academic and Professional Career ==
Not much is known of his time at Hogwarts, but what is known is that he had a distinct penchant for Defense Against the Dark Arts, spending his free time trying to work backwards through the lessons to learn the dark arts from which he was supposed to be defending, as well as taking regular forays into the restricted section of the library. He managed to avoid expulsion and graduate, whereupon he sought out all manner of knowledge regarding the dark and sinister, eventually developing a penchant for Necromancy, even going so far as to leave the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic so he could practice forbidden techniques on human subjects. His grim path eventually led him back to Hogwarts to take up as a professor. 
== Personal Life ==
=== Childhood ===
Nothing is known of his childhood and little is known of his time at Hogwarts. 
=== Post-Graduation ===
Some time after graduation, Valdemere sought out forbidden lore across the known world. Eventually, having mastered the Necromantic Arts, he managed to become master of a race known as "The Darkling Host", though exactly what they are is unclear at this time, as no one has inquired too deeply into the subject. 
During Lord Voldemort's first and second rises to power, contrary to what may be expected, Valdemere fought against him. The world domination he could get behind, but the Pureblood wizard supremacy filled him with disgust. "Death cares not for your origin or ancestry!" was often found scrawled across the bodies of Death Eaters he felled in combat. In the aftermath of Voldemort's second failed rise to power, Valdemere was apprehended by the Aurors and thrown into Azkaban for "Grievous crimes against the Ministry of Magic, the Wizarding and Muggle Worlds, and Humanity in general". He definitely did commit these atrocities and his sentence was just. 
=== Escape ===
Quite recently, with aid from The Darkling Host, Valdemere managed to escape from Azkaban. Rather than go into hiding or seek revenge for his imprisonment, Valdemere went and applied for a job as a Professor at Hogwarts. Possibly due to the chaos caused by the influx of students and staff or the lack of a Headmaster, He was hired on to teach Necromancy and act as a substitute.
=== Hogwarts Career ===
During the recent turmoil in the school where many professors went missing, Valdemere was forced to step in and teach a majority of their classes, eventually resolving to teach all of them at once, leading to the near successful creation of an undead dragon with vampiric powers fueled by the space between the stars themselves. Luckily this failed, and several missing professors returned before he was able to sacrifice several students and raise them as Inferii. He IS, however, still substituting for one of the cooking professors, teaching the students to use forbidden and dark arts to prepare delicious meals. 
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