Domhail Beasley

**Domhail Beasley** (24 August, 1931 - 30 October, 1997) was a half-blood English wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1942 to June of 1949. He worked for the Department of Mysteries beginning in the early 1960s. His career as an Unspeakable lasted until his retirement in 1985.

He had a wife, Alice, and a son, David, who was born in 1971. He had another son, Richard, in 1981. During the latter half of the Second Wizarding War, Beasley was murdered for unknown reasons. His son, Richard, was in his sixth year of school at the time.

## Biography

### Early life (1931-1942)

Domhail Beasley was born on 24 August, 1931, in the city of Wolverhampton, then apart of Staffordshire. Wolverhampton is a city, administrative centre and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. He was of a half-blood parentage, and his mother was a muggle. Wolverhampton lies northwest of its larger near-neighbour Birmingham, and forms the second largest part of the West Midlands conurbation. To the north and west lies the Staffordshire and Shropshire countryside.

### Hogwarts years (1942-1949)

He received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1942, during the Global Wizarding War. That same summer, he visited Diagon Alley, located in London, and purchased a wand made of chestnut and dragon heartstring from Ollivander's Wand Shop. On 1 September, 1942, he boarded the train for Hogwarts and was sorted into Ravenclaw House that same night. He shared a dormitory with a boy called David Corran.

Domhail left the school in 1949 upon the completion of his seventh year.

### Later life

#### Career as an Unspeakable (1962-1985)

Beginning in 1962, Domhail Beasley began work as an unspeakable inside the Department of Mysteries. Very little is known about what an Unspeakable actually does, due to a high level of secrecy surrounding the Department of Mysteries.

Some may study love in the Love Chamber, which, according to Albus Dumbledore, is kept locked at all times, or time in the Time Chamber, where the Ministry's stock of Time-Turners was stored prior to being destroyed during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries; others may explore the nature of thought in the Thought Chamber, or death in the Death Chamber. There is a veil in the Death Chamber that acts as a one-way doorway, separating the land of the living and the land of the dead. Any living being who goes near it will hear voices of his/her dead loved ones. Any living being who tries to cross it will suffer instant death.

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

He met Alice Rutter, believed to have been working as one of his secretaries, in 1970, just before the birth of their son, David, who was born out of wedlock, but given Domhail's last name, Beasley. In 1978, Domhail married her. They did not, however, have any more children until ten years later, in 1980, when they had a second son, Richard, in November. It is unclear why they did this, or what the nature of their relationship was like.

#### Death of wife (1981)

His wife, Alice Rutter, was murdered in London on 19 January, 1981, when their second son, Richard, was presumably only a few months old. David Beasley, his older son, was about ten at the time.

#### Second Wizarding War (1995-1998)

Domhail Beasley retired from the Department of Mysteries in 1985. For several years, he continued to live a quiet life in Wolverhampton.

#### Death (1997)

In 1997, his home was targeted for unknown reasons, and he was murdered by Death Eaters. They left the Dark Mark over the sky of his house. His son David visited that evening and was the first to discover the scene.

David Beasley made a statement to reporters on why his father could have been targeted. His reasoning was a line of guesswork, including his father's position as an Unspeakable, that perhaps he may have angered them for the wrong reasons, etc., etc.

It is certainly possible that Beasley's murder was an absolute act of revenge. A strange message was found inside the home beside Beasley's body, written in crayon, "*we have come for you"*.

#### Post-mortem

Richard Beasley once informed Aquila Black, a classmate of his, that he had never really been that close to his father. Domhail's murder did not affect Ritchie as Aquila had expected it would. Rather, he seemed apathetic and tired.

Richard Beasley, Domhail's seventeen-year-old son, fought in the Battle of Hogwarts on the side of Dumbledore's Army. He survived the battle, and reunited with David at the end of it, but Aquila found their reunion slow and slightly awkward.

## Etymology

Domhail is a variant of an old Irish surname, Domhnaill, meaning "ruler of the world".

The surname Beasley comes from the name of a place in Lancashire, from Old English *beos* "bent grass" and *leah* "woodland, clearing".