Nigel Brown

**Nigel Brown** (born 13 September, 1958) is a Pure-blood English wizard and the father of Lavender and Ophelia Brown. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1970 to June 1977. At some point in the late 1970s, he married Dorothea O'Flaherty and became the brother-in-law to Martin O'Flaherty, and the uncle by marriage to the latter's children, Nora, Maxine, and Kevin O'Flaherty. He now works for the Department of Magical Transportation at the Ministry of Magic.

Nigel is the paternal grandson of Wendellin Brown II and Violet Brown (née Neville), and the maternal grandson of Malcolm Whitlock Sr. and Magdalene Whitlock (née Marchbanks). In his adulthood, he is best known for being an avid Quidditch supporter and for having taken his daughter, Ophelia, to matches in several different foreign countries. Among other things, he is also a wealthy businessman and is the ancestral, private holder of the train line that transports students to and from Hogsmeade Station from King's Cross Station, which is how he can afford to regularly take his family on so many exciting holidays.

## Biography

### Early life

Nigel was born in Upminster, Havering, Middlesex, England, on 13 September, 1958, to Octavius Brown and Fiona Brown (née Whitlock). Nigel had been born into a wealthy pure-blood wizarding family called the Brown family, who once made a fortune through their ancestor, Wendellin Brown I, bringing railroad travel to the Wizarding World. He was his parents' eldest son. He had a younger brother, Arthur, who was four years younger than him.

#### Hogwarts years (1970-1977)

Nigel Brown received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1970. Before attending, he likely purchased his wand, which was made of fir and unicorn hair, from Ollivander's Wand Shop in Diagon Alley, London. He boarded the Hogwarts Express on 1 September, 1970, and later that night, he was sorted into Gryffindor.

When Nigel was a fourth year at Hogwarts, his younger brother, Arthur Brown, joined him at school and became a member of his same house in September 1973. About a year later, Nigel sat his O.W.L.s in early summer of 1975, and reportedly managed passing grades in most subjects. During the December of his sixth year at school, his father, Octavius Brown, was sadly killed in an attack on the Ministry of Magic. Nigel had to step up for his mother and younger brother, and subsequently left Hogwarts with four N.E.W.T.s. in June 1977.

#### First Wizarding War (1977-1981)

Upon leaving school, Nigel joined the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Transportation, as his father had years prior. He married an Irish witch named Dorothea O'Flaherty at some point in the late 1970s. Their eldest daughter, Lavender, was born on 12 May, 1980. During the summer of 1980, and after Nigel had gotten married and had been working at the Ministry for three years, he attempted to dissuade his younger brother, Arthur Brown, from joining an Auror recruitment program that was being sponsored by the Ministry which required less than the ordinary number of N.E.W.T.s.; this program, sponsored by Bartemius Crouch Sr., Alastor Moody, and Frank Longbottom, reportedly sent recruits out with little to no training to aid in fighting in the war. However, Nigel was ultimately unable to dissuade his brother from joining the program, as Arthur desperately wanted to avenge their father, who had been killed in a terrorist attack, and so his brother became an Auror trainee.

On 11 November, 1980, just four months after Nigel's brother, Arthur, had finished school, he was sent to Hadleigh, Suffolk, where there were rumours of an attack on the muggle village. Sure enough, Death Eaters attacked, and Arthur was killed defending a muggle family of four, who also unfortunately perished. Nigel was ultimately left heartbroken by the death of his younger brother and reportedly rarely talked about it with anyone outside of his immediate family. His second daughter, Ophelia Brown, was born on 14 March, 1981, and he only in fact ever told her about her uncle who had died in the war when she was looking at careers in an effort to bitterly dissuade her from becoming an Auror.

### Later years

As the father to two girls, Nigel often spoiled them with holidays abroad to take in Quidditch matches in foreign countries. He was described as an avid Quidditch fan. As to how he regularly afforded these trips abroad, Nigel was described as a wealthy wizard whose family continued to own the line of train tracks between Hogsmeade and London, for which he was regularly subsidized by the Ministry in exchange for its continued use for public transportation.

Notably, Nigel most likely is very busy looking out for his and his family's own interests at his office in the Department of Magical Transportation at the Ministry of Magic, as his father and grandfather had more than likely done before him. He usually tolerated the pets that Lavender and Ophelia brought home without complaint, but was usually very busy at work and wouldn't notice if they brought home another hamster. Ophelia reportedly had no idea what he did at work.

Nigel was also shown to care for his family. In October 1993, a fox got into the garden and killed Lavender's pet rabbit, Binky, while Nigel was at work at the Ministry of Magic, and though the premature death of the rabbit was unfortunate, he ensured he went out and bought her a new rabbit as a replacement.

## Etymology

Nigel, a name of Celtic origin, comes from the name Niall, meaning "champion." The name Niall travelled across Europe for some time, becoming Njal in Scandinavia, then the Latin and Old French Nigellus in Normandy, and finally Nigel in England.