AUGUSTUS ROOKWOOD

# **Summary**

**Augustus Charles Rookwood** is a pureblood wizard and the only son of Charles Rookwood and Eliza Rookwood (née Avery). He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Sorted into Ravenclaw. Upon graduating, he was recruited for the Unspeakables to work within the Mind Division as Number 27.

He eventually became a Hogwarts DADA Professor as part of his cover for Project Romulus and to serve as a handler for Peter Pettigrew, an artificial personality for Anselme Kleinwuchs Rookwood created on Gustav's orders. He was exposed as a Ghost in 1981 and, consequently, expelled from the Unspeakables and given a life sentence to Azkaban Prison. His expulsion changed his status to Untouchable, eligible to be killed on sight by any other Unspeakable should he escape from Azkaban.

# **Background**

## **Lineage**

Through his father, Augustus is descended from the pureblood Rookwood family. Not much is known about them save their blood status.

Through his mother, Augustus is directly descended from the Noble House of Avery, thus making him related to Daimon Lord Avery, Daimon's children, and Isolde Fenwick (née Avery). Through the Averys he is distantly related to House Malfoy, House Gaunt, House Black, House Crouch, House Bones, and House Shacklebolt.

## **Abilities**

* **Ventriloquist Legilimens**: i.e. the 'Puppet Master', can implant undetected psychic strings in unguarded minds of victims and render them into his puppets to do his bidding. Can use this method to establish undetectable psychic backdoors, Personalities, etc. Natural ability, fine-tuned to current lethality due to extensive self-tutelage.

* **Occlumency: Level Seven**
	+ Multiple psychic Personality backups (known 21 Mind Array as discovered by Tom Riddle during his probe)
	+ Advocatus Diaboli (avatar unknown)
	+ Eidetic Memory Recall
	+ Simultaneous Thoughtstreams
	+ Emotional Control
	+ Complex Memory Organization
	+ Warding off Multiple Legilimens
	+ Defensive & Offensive Mindscape
	+ Evading Veritaserum

* Magical Subjects (Masteries, kept in the DoM's records):
	+ Defense Against the Dark Arts (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
	+ Ancient Runes (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
	+ Charms (Teaching Master - REDACTED)
	+ Arithmancy (Teaching Master - REDACTED)

## Early Life

### **The Gringotts Incident**

Capitalized for its brazen egregiousness, The Incident referred to then Jr. Unspeakable Rookwood attempting to covertly legilimize Gringotts goblin Throat-Slicer (real identity Mr. Doolally, Vice-President for Accounts) during a joint visit with Number 9 and Saul Croaker (Number 2) to the bank to check on the Department of Mysteries' vault.

Naturally, disaster had ensued.

Throat-Slicer had viciously threatened to skin all three Unspeakables alive for Rookwood's indiscretion, well within his rights due to established precedence granted by the Goblin Charters and the Wizengamot. It'd taken every shred of diplomatic finagling the two senior-ranked Unspeakables knew to get them all out alive, before further hard-wrought efforts to ensure that the Goblin Nation wouldn't declare war on all of wizarding Britain. A junior-level Unspeakable himself, it had been Tom Riddle's influence (drawing from his preexisting yet unknown camaraderie with Gringotts Interdimensional) that the Goblins had charged an outrageous 175,000 galleon fine in lieu of blasting the entire Unspeakable department from the face of the earth.

### Project Romulus

Sometime in the late sixties to early seventies he was recruited into Project Romulus, a joint attempt between Damocles Belby, Albus Dumbledore and The Department of Mysteries to cure Lycanthropy by experimenting on the only werewolf to not suffer from psychological degradation, Remus Lupin(with the consent of Remus and his parents). In the 1972-1973 academic year he was hired by Dumbledore as the Defence professor to oversee Remus' behavior on behalf of the Unspeakables.