Mefarius Dove

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## Affiliation

### Occupation

Auror Liaison, International Spy and Interrogator

## Slackchat & Facebook Info

* Slackchat username: acidpops-p

* Facebook page

## Occupational History

* Mefarius has a chequered past and a rather militant career in international espionage and law enforcement. Like his ambassador mother before him, despite his questionable deeds and affiliations, he has managed to keep his name clean and his controversial schemes off the books. Most people overlook him as unassuming and unworthy of note, which makes him an excellent spy. As an expert Legilimens, he specializes in interrogation and, if necessary and if permitted by the government, torture. He is skilled at extracting memories during interrogations, and detecting any memory tampering when carefully viewing evidence through a Pensieve.

## Family in RP

* Euphemia Rowle (aunt)
* Anya Montague (first cousin once removed)
* William Montague (second cousin once removed)

## Biography

### Early Childhood (1971-1982)

Born and raised in the Republic of Finland, Mefarius is the son of diplomat Medea Rowle Dove (Euphemia Rowle’s sister) and private tutor Mikael Dove. His mother, Medea, is Grindelwald’s niece, and she dropped out of school (studying abroad at Hogwarts) in her late teens to fight in Grindelwald’s small but powerful army of Mental Artists. After Grindelwald’s fall, Medea managed to distance herself from the dark wizard and all his ilk -- she raised many eyebrows in the war’s aftermath by forfeiting spousal privilege and testifying in court against her first husband, Johannes Holst, whom she claimed had brainwashed her into leaving school and recklessly joining Grindelwald when the rest of her relations had disowned Grindelwald. In short, she framed her first husband, and had, in reality, brainwashed him into taking the fall for her. Holst was sent to Nurmengard prison while Medea not only walked free, but gained enough sympathy and support as a victim of a war crime to run for office and begin a long political career. In her early forties she married again, to a much younger wizard named Mikael Dove, and gave birth to Mefarius. Shortly after his birth she was appointed as Finland’s magical ambassador and representative to the International Confederation of Wizards.

Mefarius had a privileged childhood and was homeschooled by his father, Mikael. He had educational travel experiences and was often used as a prop in photo ops for his mother’s campaigns and public relations strategies. He was an insightful, active boy who grew to be extremely competitive and restless when around his peers. Though a talented duelist, he was an even more talented Legilimens and grew frustrated with dueling because his peers would often give themselves away. His mother had taught him what she could of the Mental Arts, but as she was a much better Occlumens than a Legilimens (having occluded Grindelwald’s movements and such from enemies in the war), she could only help him so far. Mefarius began dueling people twice his age, who had learned to hide their next moves better.

When Mefarius was seven years old, his second cousin, William Montague, became the British representative to the International Confederation of Wizards, and moved in with the Doves in order to attend events and sessions in the area. William was highly motivated to try to convince his cousin, Medea, and her husband to join the new Dark Lord, knowing full well that Medea’s allegiance with Grindelwald was sound. Medea had reservations, however, about this new Dark Lord, and didn’t think too much of his ways. Mefarius often heard the two fighting about this in hushed whispers behind closed doors.

Frustrated with Medea’s resistance and bored with his job as representative, William Montague took an interest in Mefarius, as the boy was extraordinarily talented at Legilimency. He honed in on Mefarius’s own frustration with finding everyone so predictable, and began secretly tutoring him much further than Medea realized in Legilimency, setting up a mental connection between them that could not be easily shaken. As Montague was no longer welcome to teach or even be on the premises at Hogwarts due to a scandal, he planted the idea in Mefarius’s head that Mefarius should go to Hogwarts himself when he was old enough. When the time came, Mefarius was able to persuade his parents to send him to school abroad, and Montague, having returned by this time to the UK, was able to better influence Mefarius there.

### Hogwarts Years (1982-1989)

When Mefarius was 11 years old, Montague charged him with the task of influencing his protegee, Leona Maysdale, who was in Mefarius’s year. Leona needed a “handler,” someone to keep her in check while at school. Mefarius kept a notable distance from Leona for their first few years at Hogwarts, preferring to keep a subtle eye on her and work on any behavioral changes slowly. During the school year, Mefarius would correspond frequently with Montague, and he would spend his summers almost exclusively at Montague Manor. As the years went by, Mefarius took various assignments from Montague, almost at this point without question. In his fifth year, he directly befriended Leona and began to persuade and direct her toward the Death Eaters -- he told her that the Death Eaters were still out there, and still of the belief that Voldemort would return, was growing stronger, and that the time would soon be nigh for him to rise again. The two students began to work together on special projects for the Death Eaters, in hopes that they would become part of this elite group themselves.

Other than Leona, Mefarius didn’t have many friends. He was a loner, and most students thought him either too arrogant or too timid, depending on how Mef was playing his role at the time. Sometimes this loneliness got to him, and although he was groomed by Montague to turn to him in times of turmoil, he often found Montague suffocating. He often snuck out of the school to Hogsmeade just to chat with and observe other wizards who had nothing to do with his life, and he could pretend that he was someone else with them and assuage his loneliness.

Mefarius got top marks in Defense Against the Dark Arts and the most O.W.L.s (and later N.E.W.T.s) in the subject, and Professor Snape recommended a career as an Auror to him during an advisement meeting. Taken with the idea, Mefarius consulted his mother first, before Montague, which was rare for him. As an older teen, Mefarius had started to rebel a little against Montague and wanted to take the best course of action for his own life, to steer his own ship, so to speak. After speaking with his mother, Mefarius was more educated on the wide array of exciting career opportunities available to him, and with Medea’s help, applied to a secret service youth academy in Eastern Europe for summer training.

Mefarius returned to his sixth year at Hogwarts a changed young man. He felt he had a noble goal to strive for, and concentrated on his own budding career. Montague was annoyed at Mefarius’s chafing against the reins, and it did not take Montague long to figure out what Mefarius was up to upon Mef’s return to the UK. He quickly used Mef’s goals to maneuver them into place with how they could be used to serve Voldemort, and also coerced Mefarius into finally joining the Death Eaters and taking the Dark Mark around the same time as Leona in their sixth year of school.

Mefarius began his work for both Voldemort and the Magical Kremlin in his final year at Hogwarts, before applying to a position at Durmstrang to keep an eye on Karkaroff.

### Post Hogwarts (1989-present)

After graduating from Hogwarts in 1989, Mefarius accepted a position as an assistant teacher closer to home at Durmstrang. Taught from an early age by his distant relation, William Montague, in the Mental Arts, Mefarius now apprenticed under him for two years at Durmstrang. But when Mefarius was offered a job as a full professor in 1991 (when Montague chose to move to teach at Beauxbatons), Mefarius turned down the offer to the puzzlement of the school. During the two years as an assistant teacher, Mefarius had been secretly gathering intel on Igor Karkaroff for the Magical Kremlin, for which he had begun working as a secret service agent in his final year of Hogwarts, having passed their rigorous training exams and in the field during the summer of his 17th year.

Mefarius has multiple citizenship between Finland, the UK, and Russia, and continued work in these three countries for an overarching magical international security agency, as well as for agencies within these countries. He got out of a few illegal scrapes by establishing espionage residency in these countries, thereby invoking diplomatic immunity with the various embassies when compromised. However, he was never caught specifically as a spy and could continue to carry out his missions carefully and ruthlessly.

As a Death Eater himself, Mefarius was able to strategically put expendable Death Eaters and Voldemort supporters behind bars to gain his secret service organization’s trust.

When Voldemort returned in 1995, Mefarius turned most of his efforts toward sending encrypted intel to the Dark Lord himself, as well as assisting Montague in expanding Voldemort’s influence in Europe/Eastern Europe. He spread disinformation to England’s Ministry of Magic and led efforts against Undesirables. After Pius Thicknesse was instated as Minister, Mefarius worked heavily with the Aurors to review extracted pensieve evidence regarding any known information about said Undesirables.

Mefarius was never caught as or known to be a Death Eater, therefore in this new regime after Voldemort’s demise, he continues to work as an agent in Magical Law Enforcement and beyond as an infiltration and interrogation specialist. At the Battle of Hogwarts in May of 1998, Mefarius came in with the rest of the Aurors during the Ministry’s coup and helped secure the perimeter around the ruins of the castle.