Marvin Macmillan

**"Mad"** **Marvin Macmillan** (3 October, 1903 - 14 June, 1989) was an English pure-blood wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from September 1915 to June 1922.

He was the son of Ambrose and Blodwen Macmillan (née Carrow), and the sister of Cyrus and Bryony Macmillan, and Melania Black (née Macmillan). Through his sister Melania, he was the maternal uncle of Orion and Lucretia Black.

He married Cicely Flint in 1925, and had two children with her, George Macmillan and Phyllis Parkinson (née Macmillan). His daughter, Phyllis, became the third wife of Paschal Parkinson, Head of the House of Parkinson, but Marvin Macmillan himself was most adamant that she not marry him.

He was the paternal grandfather of Franklin Macmillan as well as Finneas and Augustus Parkinson, both of whom were Death Eaters for Lord Voldemort during the Second Wizarding War. He was the great-grandfather of both Ernie Macmillan and Pansy Parkinson.

## Biography

### Early life (1903-1925)

Marvin Macmillan was born on 3 October, 1903, as the youngest son and second child of Ambrose and Blodwen Macmillan. He was born in Castle Cary, Somerset, England, on the Macmillan estate. His father, Ambrose, was the Lord of House Macmillan, and served on the Wizenagmot and for a short time was the chairman of the International Confederation of Wizards. At the time of his birth, he had an older sister, Melania, and an older brother, Cyrus. When he was two years old, he gained a younger sister, Bryony.

He received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1915. That same summer, he visited Diagon Alley and purchased a wand made of hornbeam and dragon heartstring from Ollivander's Wand Shop. On 1 September, 1915, he boarded the train for Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin House that same night.

He shared a dormitory with a boy called Alban Goshawk and was in the same year as Goshawk's two cousins, Lycoris Black and Boudica Tremblay.

### Later life (1925-1989)

Marvin Macmillan married Cicely Flint in 1925. He had two children with her. They were Phyllis, the oldest, born in 1926, and George, the younger, born in 1927.

His wife, Cicely, died in 1943, due to an incurable illness. This was just the beginning of Marvin's troubles which would plague him for the rest of his life.

#### The Marriage of Phyllis Macmillan (1945-1954)

On 16 April, 1945, Marvin Macmillan, surprisingly, disowned his daughter, Phyllis, then eighteen, for marrying Paschal Parkinson, the Head of the House of Parkinson. Parkinson was 63 and due to his tragic reputation being a twice-widower, Marvin wanted nothing to do with the family and forbade Phyllis from marrying him. Phyllis refused, and she was disowned.

One year later, however, Macmillan reportedly attempted to claim that she was coerced into marrying him, but this yielded nothing, and because he had disowned her, he was viewed negatively for making this claim.

Rumours began to swirl (encouraged by Macmillan) that Parkinson's suspicious status as a twice-widower was due to the fact that he might have had an involvement in the deaths of his former wives, Fionnuala Selwyn and Serafina Yaxley, but because Fionnuala had died of dragon pox and Serafina in childbirth, these were dismissed as conspiracy theories.

Phyllis Parkinson bore Paschal two sons: the first was Finneas, born in October 1945, and the second was Augustus, born in September, 1954. She then passed away while giving birth to Augustus, prompting a Ministry investigation which yielded nothing.

#### Conspiracy Theorist and Broken Man (1954-1970)

Marvin Macmillan, though he had disowned his daughter, was heavily involved in the investigation and the matter was highly embarrassing to the Macmillan family as a whole. By consequence, Melania Black (née Macmillan), Marvin's sister and the wife of Arcturus Black III, head of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, severed ties with him completely.

As Head of the House of Macmillan, Marvin sat on the family's Wizenagmot seat and had other powers just like the other heads would, but he was painted a conspiracy theorist by the media, as he continued to insist that his daughter was murdered, and that Fionnuala Selwyn, and that Serafina Yaxley was murdered. He faced backlash from the Selwyn and from the Yaxley families, who both claimed that Macmillan was fabricating details of investigations that never actually occurred.

Throughout the 1960s, The Daily Prophet press called him "Mad Marvin" while these events were still continuing to unfold. Finally, in 1969, Macmillan's son, George, then aged 34, had decided that enough was enough and that his father was a danger to himself and others. The details of this were never released to the public, but it was understood that a nonspecific "incident" eventually led to his son George checking him into St. Mungo's for permanent observation.

#### First Wizarding War (1970-1981)

During the First Wizarding War, Marvin was held in St. Mungo's Hospital under constant supervision and care inside the Janus Thickey Ward. His daughter Phyllis's two sons were now adults, and both of them joined the Death Eaters.

One of them, Finneas Parkinson, was sent to murder the McKinnons and the Boneses at McKinnon Manor on 18 July, 1981, and died there. The other, Augustus, was arrested for being a Death Eater, but was able to get off scott-free, after pleading the Imperius Curse.

#### Trial of Augustus Parkinson (1981)

During the trial of Augustus Parkinson, many statements were made regarding the character of Paschal Parkinson, the man that had married Marvin's daughter, Phyllis. Since Marvin was no longer in any proper state of mind to be questioned, Augustus used the claims of "Mad Marvin" to escape punishment, leading *The Daily Prophet* to print an article about Marvin Macmillan and his search for the truth.

As a consequence, the Macmillan family received some incredibly bad press, most specifically George Macmillan, for having his father confined to St. Mungo's. George Macmillan died around this same time, but it is unknown whether Marvin was alert enough to be aware of it.

It was published in *The Daily Prophet* article that Augustus testified that Paschal Parkinson physically abused his mother, Phyllis Macmillan, and used the Imperius Curse on him and his full brother, Finneas Parkinson, in order to force them to join the Dark Lord. The allegations made sense to the Wizenagmot, as Phyllis Macmillan married Paschal Parkinson at eighteen, and accusations had been made before, by Marvin Macmillan, but they had been dismissed. It was also possible that Augustus Parkinson may have bribed his way out of prison.

#### Decline and Death (1981-1989)

Marvin Macmillan remained in St. Mungo's for the rest of his life. While at one time his grandson, Franklin Macmillan, had hoped that he might return to Castle Cary, Healers found that it would be impossible, as by 1981, Marvin could no longer remember who he was.

He died on 14 June, 1989, at the age of 85. He outlived both of his parents, Ambrose and Blodwen Macmillan, as well as his brother, Cyrus, who never married and died in 1982. His two sisters, Bryony Macmillan and Melania Black (née Macmillan), did not bother attending the funeral. Bryony Macmillan may have been unable to attend, considering that she was in an old witches' home by 1989, but Melania, who was in perfect health, refused to attend.

Both the funeral and burial took place in Castle Cary, Somerset. The funeral was only attended by Marvin's grandson, Franklin, his wife, Marcie, and their son, Ernie.

## Etymology

Marvin is the transferred use of an English surname originating from an old Welsh personal name Merfyn. ... Some sources believe that the name comes from the old Welsh elements “mer” meaning 'marrow' and “ffynu” meaning 'thriving'.