Alexandre Durand

**Alexandre Jacques Durand** (b. 14 October 2003) is a Belgian pure-blood wizard and member of the esteemed House of Durand.

## Biography

### Early life (2003–2014)

#### Growing up in Château Chapois

Alexandre Jacques Durand was born on 14 October 2003, to Olivier and Selene Durand (née Labar, who were both born into old, wealthy pure-blood families. Alexandre's lineage meant that, according to Durand tradition, he would be assigned a dragon companion who would serve as his protector while he served as its keeper.

#### Preparing for Hogwarts

In his childhood, Alexandre associated mainly with dragons and various members of his extended family, as such, he lacked communication with other children of his age. When he was 9, he went through the forest hoping to meet other children to play and make friends, however kids from a nearby village ganged up and attacked him which led to his companion razing the village to the ground. When the time came for Alexandre to attend school in 2014, his mother wanted him to attend Beauxbatons, a prestigious school in France. However, his father did not like the current administration of the school and felt it lacked the ability to compensate for his son's talents. His parents, agreed that they would send him to Hogwarts, in the hopes that it would also help him mature faster, living in such a foreign place. Thus they sent him to Hogwarts.

### Hogwarts years (2014-2021)

Alexandre was sorted into Slytherin, and became a member of his house Quidditch team in his first year. Alexandre excelled in his core subjects: Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Flying and Herbology. In addition to this, he performed very well in his two electives which were Study of Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures. In his first year, he formed a close relationship with his mentor, Teddy Lupin.

He earned ten O.W.L.s; seven 'Outstandings', and three 'Exceeds Expectations'. Alexandre then went on to take six N.E.W.T.s in Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Defence Against the Dark Arts and Care of Magical Creatures, and earning top grades for all of them.

In the 2015-2016 school year, he became acquainted with James Sirius Potter, who was a 1st year. He said goodbye to Teddy Lupin after he finished his education at Hogwarts in June of 2016. The same year he witnessed the eighty-eighth Wizarding Schools Potions Championship. In his fourth year, Rose Granger-Weasley is sorted into Gryffindor, and Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy are sorted into Slytherin. In 2019, the start of his sixth year, Lily Luna Potter starts her education at Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor. He also participated in the 2020 Triwizard Tournament which he ended up winning.

## Magical abilities and skills

Despite his young age, Alexandre is widely considered to be one of the most talented and powerful wizards in the world. During his time at Hogwarts, he was able to master complex spells with ease, and developed an almost-unrivalled skill with duelling. He is considered to have been among the most gifted students to study at Hogwarts, with a talent to rival the likes of Albus Dumbledore, Tom Riddle, Harry Potter and current Prime Minister, Hermione Granger. His prodigious brilliance excelled in all fields of magic to the point of his presence causing both admiration and fear. As a testament to his outstanding magical talent, he went on to confidently win the Triwizard Tournament and also created numerous powerful spells and potions.

* **Magical mastery**: After his first year at Hogwarts, Durand was already known to be outstandingly talented and prodigiously accomplished in the magical arts and seen by some as nothing less than the most gifted student the school had ever seen, winning many awards and prizes that required magical capability beyond his age. As an adult, Alexandre Durand is considered by many to be the greatest wizard of the 21st century.

* **Duelling**: Alexandre is an extremely powerful duellist with abilities comparable to those of Albus Dumbledore and Tom Riddle. From a young age, he possessed tremendous speed and reflexes, being able to draw his wand and disarm older students with ease. Alexandre is generally known to be very quick off the draw and prefers to use an aggressive duelling style, even incorporating Unforgivable Curses. He is also known to taunt his opponents and would get them to talk at length, angering them and throwing them mentally off-balance. He often does this in order to buy himself time to strategise or to lull them into lowering their guard. His immense prowess in duelling also easily overpowered many other prodigious witches and wizards, even defeating three aurors at once. Despite this, his true duelling style was said to be incredibly unpredictable: he could instinctively switch styles in the blink of an eye, and was extremely aggressive, using powerful Dark magic to overwhelm his opponents.

* **Intellectual genius**: Alexandre is not only a great wizard, but also possesses an incredible, genius intellect, as he was considered to be one of the most brilliant students ever to attend Hogwarts by McGonagall. He is incredibly intellectually gifted getting top scores in every of his class, and getting 'Outstanding' in all his O.W.L.s.

* **Charms**: Alexandre is extremely accomplished in Charms, which was evident even as a young man; when articles that he wrote about the branch of magic were published in the scholarly journal *Challenges in Charmin*g and his N.E.W.T examiners were so impressed by his display during his Charms N.E.W.T Exam that they said he "did things with a wand that [they] had never seen before". During his Hogwarts years, he also earned the Barnabus Finkley Prize for Exceptional Spell-Casting and could already cast such a strong Disillusionment Charm that he was effectively able to render himself invisible without needing an Invisibility Cloak, which was a tremendous feat. Alexandre's mastery in Charms is further demonstrated in his proficiency in the incredibly complex Patronus Charm, being able to use it as a form of communication (with the caster speaking with their own voice through the Patronus). He displayed immense mastery of the Shield Charm, surpassing that of many Ministry employees and proffessors. His Shield Charms were so powerful that they were able to deflect curses from aurors and he went on to create a shield charm so powerful that it could deflect the Killing Curse. He is skill with charms is so vast that he was able to cast a Disillusionment Charm so powerful that it hid him from his own eyes, a very advanced level of magic. He could effortlessly levitate objects out of the way, blast down doors and break locks.

* **Transfiguration**: His record was so impressive that upon finishing his seventh year, he was awarded the "Most Promising Newcomer Award" by Transfiguration Today. Alexandre was known to be highly accomplished and knowledgeable in the incredibly complex art of Transfiguration even before graduating, as his knowledge and proficiency on the subject was already sufficient for him to be allowed to submit some papers to the Transfiguration Today, all of which, particularly his pages on Trans-Species Transformation, were of a remarkably high standard, to the point that his N.E.W.T. Examiner Professor Marchbanks was so impressed by his display during his Transfiguration N.E.W.T. Exam, that she would note that Alexandre had performed transfiguration magic that "[she] had never seen before." His ability and knowledge on Human Transfiguration is sufficient to transform himself into an exact replica of his friend for an extended period of time without his disguise fading, without him needing any Polyjuice Potion. Alexandre is able to easily transfigure non-verbally and use vanishing and conjuration spells without his wand.

* **Dark Arts**: While not an active practitioner of the Dark Arts, and seldom ever choosing to use Dark spells of any kind, Alexandre is nevertheless exceptionally talented in the field of magic. His extensive knowledge on the topic of Dark Magic allows him to fully understand the scarcely known and extremely advanced magical uses of it. When he was still a student, Alexandre was already talented enough that he was capable of creating new dark spells, as most of the spells he created were curses, hexes, and jinxes.

* **Elemental magic mastery**: Alexandre is extremely accomplished with the manipulation of the elements, particularly fire, lightning, wind, and water. When fighting off five dark wizards, Alexandre unleashed a huge white fiery blast that incinerated them in an instant. Moreover, he was able to conjure an incredibly powerful ring of black fire that he was able to manipulate to cast columns of fire fast enough to reach wizards in mid-Apparition He is able to generate shock-waves of blue lightning that quickly knocked down his opponents, blast massive lightning bolts, and easily manipulate water to flood his enemies. Alexandre was also capable of generating a ring of fire potent enough to remain unquenchable by the vast ocean that surrounded him. He was also capable of conjuring the everlasting Gubraithian Fire, an incredibly advanced piece of magic that extreme few could accomplish

* **Spell creation**: As a student at Hogwarts, Durand was very inventive with new spells. Some of the spells he created were *???*,*???* and its counter-curse. He also went on to create the most powerful protective spell, the Ancilian Charm, capable of even blocking the Killing Curse. Alexandre also developed the counter-charm to the memory charm, known as the Remembrance Charm. He also created unknown dark spell that unleashed fissures of force and another that emitted a bolt of lightning to torture ohis enemies.

* **Occlumency and Legilimency**: Alexandre is exceptionally adept and gifted in the use of both Occlumency and Legilimency, being able to effectively shield his own mind and penetrate the minds of others. He is particularly talented and skilled in Legilimency, and as an adult his frighteningly exceptional prowess in Legilimency allows him to delve and peer deep into the minds of others without needing to say the incantation or using his wand, seeing their deepest thoughts; and he can even use Legilimency to influence the minds that he chooses to invade. Alexandre is not only able to read, but also control and unhinge the minds of others. He is also an incredibly accomplished Occlumens, being able to fully conceal his thoughts from powerful wizards. He is also capable of using a convincing form of Occlumency that would make a Legilimens attempting to read his mind see faux thoughts.

* **Ancient magic**: Alexandre was born with the rare gift to see traces of ancient magic, which as the years progressed, he began to wield with peerless power. He could both visually and aurally perceive echoes of magic normally invisible to ordinary witches and wizards, and could easily interact with such echoes. This power also allows him to use purely instinctive spells unknown to them to manipulate both the environment and enemies to their advantage, without the need to know and pronounce said spells.

* **Love**: Possibly Alexandre's greatest power of all, is his ability to love...

* **Potions**: Alexandre is extremely adept in the art of potion-making. His prowess at potion-making extended beyond simple execution from formally documented recipes accepted and followed by the general public. When he was still only a student, he would alter official instructions with his own variations, which usually resulted in quicker and more efficient results. He is capable of brewing highly complicated potions such as Veritaserum, Wolfsbane Potion, and the Mandrake Restorative Draught. Hermione was exceptionally gifted in the field of potion-making. He is able to identify potions and their effects quickly after having only read about them, and his proficiency in potions led to him publishing papers in *The Practical Potioneer*, an academic journal regarding Potions.

* **Defence Against the Dark Arts**: Alexandre is extremely adept at Defence Against the Dark Arts, having mastered all manners of spells. Some of the spells include the: Stunning Spell, Disarming Charm, Impediment Jinx, Full Body-Bind Curse, Reductor Curse, and many others. In fact, his Stunning Spell was so strong that opponents would get knocked out if they were hit directly. He was also skilled at defending himself against Dark creatures such as: Grindylows, Red Caps, Hinkypunks, Boggarts, Erklings, and Dementors. In his third year, he was the only student who flawlessly made it through the end-of-the-year exam. Moreover, Alexandre proved very capable of using non-dark martial magic to devastating effect, as shown by how he could cast Stunning Spells strong enough to instantly knock out targets and also use Shield Charms of massive size capable of repelling a coordinated attacks from twenty seasoned wizards with relative ease.

* **Study of Ancient Runes**: Alexandre was gifted in translating ancient runes into English. He earned an 'Outstanding' O.W.L. in the subject and took it to N.E.W.T.-level. He was capable of translating and understanding the meanings of complex runic scriptures, alphabets and symbols, often using the help of a highly useful and practical Rune Dictionary.

* **History of Magic**: Alexandre was very interested in the history of the wizarding world from a young age. Even before starting at Hogwarts, he read several books and learned them by heart. He was one of very few students who payed attention to Professor Binns' lectures. He earned an 'Outstanding' O.W.L. in the subject, which was hard to do, considering how boring the class was said to be.

* **Herbology**: Alexandre achieved an 'Exceeds Expectations' on his O.W.L. exam. He showed proficiency in the subject and advanced to N.E.W.T.-level. He is able to recognise various different plants and was well-versed in the uses of dragon dung. He also has knowledge of plants such as: Devil's Snare, Gillyweed, Venomous Tentacula, Mandrakes, Dittany, and Fanged Geranium from hands-on experience. He is able to cast plant-related spells such as the Fire-Making Spell, Severing Charm, and the Herbivicus Charm.

* **Healing magic**: Alexandre is able to effectively cast healing spells; for example, he could perform the *Reparifors* spell in his second year. He frequently cast *Episkey* on his sprained joints after Quidditch games. He could also perform a healing spell for clearing up dried blood from a bleeding wound. He was also able to use the Reviving Spell to waken those who have been rendered unconscious.

* **Wandless and nonverbal magic**: Alexandre is immensely accomplished at both wandless and nonverbal magic, enough so to be capable of using both effortlessly. He can move objects magically without the incantations to do so normally. He wandlessly lifted misbehaving students from the ground from across the room and then made them simultaneously drop to their knees with their arms locked behind against their backs, all with a silent hand gesture. He is also capable of pushing a hit wizard out of his way with a lazy wave of his hand. Alexandre is capable of casting spells ranging from simple charms to Dark spells and even the most advanced of magic such as the Unforgivable Curses to their full potency without speaking the incantation. When angered, he manipulated water to attack a dark wizard with just a meagre wave of his hand. By using only silent hand gestures, Alexandre can generate forceful shock-waves to move and otherwise exert force on people and objects, notably being able to break apart the ground by sending a shock-wave rippling through a street.

* **Dragontongue**: Alexandre is a Dragonmouth, a trait he inherited from his family, the House of Durand, the magical ability to communicate with dragons.

* **Magical chemistry**: Durand has a great deal of knowledge on magical substances, particularly the substance of Dragon's blood, as he grew up with dragons.

* **Apparition**: Alexandre is extremely skilled in Apparition, and he he is one of the few known wizards capable of Apparating silently. He can transport himself from one place to another with pin-point precision, even when locked in combat.

* **Magical Theory**: Alexandre was noted to be incredibly curious student with regards to Magical Theory.

* **Astronomy**: Alexandre is well-versed in Astronomy, being able to recognise all of the major constellations, being also able to translate their meanings.

* **Flying:** Durand has showed an instinctive aptitude to flying on a broomstick. During his first flying lesson, he easily mastered the basics and even demonstrated some advanced flying techniques. His aptitude for flying, earned him a place as chaser for his house quidditch team. Alexandre was noted to have excellent reflexes for a chaser and was commended to assume the position of seeker. After years of research, he also managed to duplicate Voldemort's ability to fly without support, which itself is a remarkable magical feat few wizards and witches have ever been capable of doing.

* **Care of Magical Creatures**: Alexandre's lineage means he is exceptionally gifted in handling magical creatures. He grew up surrounded by dragons and is able to easily tame other magical beasts.

* **Charisma**: While not famous for his abilities as a manipulator, due to Alexandre's exceptional amount of emotional intelligence, he is nevertheless exceptionally adept at manipulating others, which he is perfectly willing to do for the his personal gain, and displayed an immense amount of charisma, able to effectively use a person's characteristics to his advantage to get them to do what must be done and inspire loyalty in others. Alexandre often sought to use the best within people to get them to do his bidding and used his charisma to get many to the side.

* **Physical aptitude**: Alexandre is in excellent physical condition likely due to his powerful athletic body and physique, with his strength and agility easily overwhelming his peers. His strength is said to be superhuman.

## Possessions

* **Wand**: Alexandre's wand is 14½" long, made of Yew wood, and uniquely has a Dragon heart for its core. The Dragon heart core compared to the common Dragon heartstring produces far superior magical power and tends to learn more quickly than other cores. The core's range of magic is as great, if not, greater than a phoenix feather and it holds loyalty to Alexander only. Furthermore the wand is described as having reasonably supple flexibility and is ornamented with a Dragon head at its base and scales carved into the wood.

* **Great Horned Owl**: Alexandre possesses an unnamed owl that brought him Owl Post.

* **Firebolt**: The personal broomstick of Alexandre.

* **Notebook**: Used to keep his notes and writings.

* **Rune Dictionary**: Alexandre owns a dictionary of ancient runes, in order to help decipher such runes.

## Etymology

* His given name, **Alexandre** means "warrior" or "defender of men".
* Alexandre's surname **Durand** means "enduring."

## Trivia

* His favourite food is Steak frites with mushroom truffle sauce.