Professor Cassiopeia Quinn

== Academic and Professional Career ==
The Sorting Hat took a moment when it landed on Cassiopeia Quinn's multicolored head. Torn between Ravenclaw and Slytherin, her nearly pureblood status and her underlying ambition tipped the hat in Slytherin's direction. She was a dedicated student, even more so after she discovered her love for astronomy. She discovered the disparity in astronomy learnings between muggles and wizards while at Hogwarts and became somewhat obsessed with her astronomy courses. After graduating from Hogwarts, she focused on learning all that muggles had to teach and attended muggle university, eventually earning a PhD (though this means very little to her magic using colleagues).
After learning as much as she could in the muggle world, she returned to the wizarding world. She proposed at once that they teach magical children about space too so that they might one day be able to send a wizard to space. She was offered a teaching position at Hogwarts for her proposal, where she is permitted to teach students about the differences in muggle and wizard astronomies. Her goal at Hogwarts is to inspire future generations to become wizard astronauts.
== Personal Life ==
=== The Quinn Family ===
A member of the illustrious Quinn family, Cas is a bit of a black sheep in the family. Her mother is a squib, though from a prominent pureblood family, and her father is purebood as well. Because of this little hiccup in the bloodline and her extensive education in the muggle world, she has been shunned by some of her relatives. Others could care less.
There are several professors teaching at Hogwarts that are also members of the Quinn family. Professor Quinn is her cousin on her father's side.
=== Romantic History ===
Cas has not done a lot of dating in her life. Being mostly focused on her astronomy studies, she had very little time for romance. However, she was at one point engaged to a pureblooded wizard. The engagement was broken off by her fiance, who indicated that he could never have married her because it would ruin his pureblooded status. While initially hurt and angered by the false nature of the relationship, she recovered quickly and threw herself back into her studies. She identifies as demiromantic and doesn't particularly worry about gender.
=== Attitude Toward Muggles ===
Rather than feeling resentment for knowing muggles beat wizards into space, she seems to hold them in awe and respects them for it instead. She's fascinated by the amount of knowledge about the universe that they've amassed. Her pureblood origins seem to have no bearing on her treatment of muggles or muggleborn wizards.