Bertram Aubrey Jr.

**Bertram “Bertie” Aubrey Jr.** (born 11 October, 1980) was the son of Bertram Aubrey Sr. and his wife Elizabeth Aubrey née Meadowes. He was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, and began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1992. He was an only child.

He was the paternal grandson of Percival Aubrey, and Mabel Aubrey (née McKinnon), a half-blood witch. He is a descendant of the muggle King Edward VII and his wife Alexandra of Denmark. His second great-grandparents were Bartholomew McKinnon, 16th Duke of Oxford, and Louise, Princess Royal, daughter of Edward VII.

## Biography

### Early life (1980-1992)

Bertram grew up in Salisbury, but spent a great deal of time in Truro, Cornwall, playing with his four cousins. They are Arthur, Marnie, Alice, and Doris. His parents were there for them a lot when their mother died, and Bertram spent a lot of time there. He received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1992- the same time as his cousin Marnie.

### Hogwarts years (1992-1999)

Bertram received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1992. Before attending, he purchased his wand, which was made out of pine wood and dragon heartstring, from Ollivander's in Diagon Alley. He boarded the Hogwarts Express for his first year of school on 1 September, 1992. Later that night, along with his cousin Marnie, he was sorted into Ravenclaw.

He shared a dormitory with three boys, including Antoine Mathers, Richard Beasley, and Bruce Britton. However, he did not get along well with any of them, and by the end of their first year all three of them had learned to leave him alone.

Aquila Black found him unpleasant and a bit "creepy" when she began dating his dorm-mate, Antoine Mathers.

During his sixth year of school, Bertram sought refuge with Dumbledore's Army, a student-led organisation in which his cousins Marnie and Alice had been apart of. He had only been invited to the Room of Requirement by Marnie Hargrave, after he received a detention with one of the Professors Carrow, which had not gone well.

However, his dormmate, Richard, and other dormmate, Antoine, who had not returned to school at the beginning of sixth year, had also been apart of it too. Richard Beasley was also dating Aquila Black at the time, despite the fact that Aquila had recently broken up with Antoine Mathers, who had been forced to go on the run after refusing to register with the Muggle-Born Registration Commission.

Sometime in late October, 1997, the secret wartime radio programme, *Potterwatch,* which was designed to give the light side some sort of hope as well as to spread information about those that were missing, dead, or murdered, announced the death of Antoine Mathers. His body had been found inside the Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire. The entire room had gone very silent.

Bertram (who had always been somewhat of a sardonic and unfortunate individual), openly challenged Aquila in the Room of Requirement for dating Richard Beasley while Antoine had been on the run. Rising to his bait, Aquila hexed him, while crying.

After which, a brawl broke out between Richard and Bertram, who did not even attempt to fight back. It took Neville Longbottom, a seventh-year Gryffindor and another leader of Dumbledore's Army, as well as Evan Bourdillon, a sixth-year Hufflepuff, to wrestle Richard away from Bertram, whose nose was broken in the scuffle. Later it had been determined that all three individuals involved were suffering from intense stress as a result of the Carrows and the war, and that the provocation was almost was fated to happen when it did.

Bertram also made a scathing comment directed towards Stanley Ingham, who had been helped by Ginny Weasley's uncle at the Ministry to appear half-blood, and as a descendant of the Weasley family, because of his red hair and freckly complexion. Bertram mentioned how Antoine Mathers never benefited from "a wise red-haired uncle", that "nobody vouched for *him."* After he said this, Stanley bowed his head and stayed very silent, evidently upset by his words. Despaired by what he could have gone through, had not for Ginny's uncle, Stanley later stammered his apologies to Ginny when she returned from Gryffindor Tower. Ginny then proceeded to hex Aubrey just as Aquila had done, though he'd already been beaten up by Richard Beasley. Marnie stood up for Bertram after that, but Ginny said that enough was enough, and that if Bertram couldn't keep his comments to a minimum, they'd throw him to the wolves.

Bertram Aubrey fought in the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998. He survived the battle, and was responsible for the death of at least two Death Eaters. Bertram had been fighting to kill, and his fighting style started to look "reckless and desperate," as the battle progressed. However, he lived, and stared stonily at Harry Potter in the Great Hall in the break between the first half and the second half of the fight.

## Personality and Traits

Bertram Aubrey, as known by nearly everyone in their year, was a darkly humorous, apathetic, cynical "conscientious objector" with a quick temper and a lot of secrets, and they had eventually just learned to ignore him and leave him alone. That being said, Bertram's detachment from others at Hogwarts lent itself to conflict with those who disliked him. He often made rude or scathing comments toward his classmates, and one time as a result in sixth year, Richard Beasley punched him and he was hexed by both Aquila Black and Ginny Weasley.

Bertram often displayed a quick and impatient temper underneath this somewhat apathetic effect, in punching Neville in the face, snapping at Aquila, and attempting to sever ties with Marnie after he was banished from the Room of Requirement.

## Magical abilities and skills

* **Herbology**: Bertram was particularly gifted at Herbology, with him seemingly being on par with Molly Roper in this subject. In his first year, Bertram's Herbology score was so good that it even compensated for his abysmal Potions grade, and he was the fastest worker in class: in 1994, he was the first to extract a pod from a Snargaluff plant.
* **Charms**: Bertram was highly talented in charms as he could not only can use basic to advanced charms without fail, such as levitation, disarming, shielding, but he was even able to cast the incredibly difficult Patronus Charm.

* **Flying**: Bertram was at least a capable flyer on a broomstick.

* **Poetry:** A skill that Bertram possessed but did not make very much mention or display of, Bertram was capable of fluidly crafting his words in a way that could often befuddle the reader.