Ian Tickes

**"Point me!"**

This article is about **the 1990s Quidditch player**. You may be looking for **his clockmaker uncle, his great-grandfather, his 18th-century muggle many-times-great-granduncle or somebody else named *Ian***.

## Biographical information

### Born

On or shortly after 20 October 1970 (likely)

### Also known as

The Savior of English National (by English Quidditch fans)* The Fifth himself (by Jessie Tickes and the Redfern triplets)

## Physical description

### Distinguishing marks

* Broken nose
* Large hands

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* James Tickes X (father)
* †Siobhan Tickes née McArran (mother)
* Sarah Tickes née Whipkey (stepmother)
* Jessie Tickes (sister)
* Robby and Davy Tickes (half-brothers)
* Loren Price-Fortescue (donor son)
* Gardner Tickes (uncle)
* Myron Tickes (paternal grandfather)
* Samuel McArran (maternal grandfather)
* †James Tickes IX (paternal grand-uncle)
* †Ian Gardner Tickes III (great-grandfather)
* †Jamesina Tickes III née Switch (great-grandmother)
* Emeric Switch (great-granduncle)
* †James Tickes VII (exact relationship unknown)
* †James Tickes IV (ancestor)
* †Jamesina Tickes I (exact relationship unknown)
* †James Tickes II (ancestor)
* †John Tickes (ancestor)
* †James Tickes I (ancestor's brother)
* †Ian Gardner Tickes I (ancestor's brother)
* †Myron Tickes I (ancestor)
* †Fiona Gardner Tickes (ancestor)

## Affiliation

### Occupation

Seeker for the English National Quidditch team

### Loyalty

English National Quidditch team

**Ian Gardner Tickes V** is a non-canonical wizard and professional Quidditch player mentioned in *The Family Clock*; he plays seeker for the English National Quidditch team. Ian is the older brother of Jessie Tickes and, through an anonymous donor service, the bio-dad of Loren Price-Fortescue.

## Biography

Ian was born during the 1970/71 scholastic year (he graduated Hogwarts the same year Jessie started), possibly on the 20 October (Jessie sends him a birthday present on that date, but she also says that they are "not even a full seven years apart" which would rather point to a date *after* her own birthday on the 24th), as the son and first child of James Tickes X and the Irish muggle-born auror Siobhan Tickes, née McArran, but in 1979 she was killed by death eaters who attacked the family. This pushed James into a clinical depression where for nine years he had to be watched to keep him from killing himself, and his children were primarily raised by his father and his younger brother. During Ian's last year at Hogwarts, however, James married Sarah Whipkey and got gradually better.

Ian played seeker for Ravenclaw from his third year, and after graduation turned down offers from about seven teams, including the Wimbourne Wasps. He hoped to be able to play for the Irish National Quidditch team, but eventually had to settle for the English. The next year, 1990, he got into a "two-bludger flying accident", and for some time it was uncertain if he would ever be able to fly again, much less play professionally, but in the end he made it through without a mark, and he was able to play during the 1990/91 Christmas break. Although the timeline is quite confused, it may be that 1996 was his third season on the English National; however, he seems not to have played in the 1994 World Cup (the canonical English seeker was Blythe Parkin).

After an accident in a game during his last year at Hogwarts, Madam Pomfrey explained that if the same thing happened again he might well never be able to have children, so once he graduated he started looking into options for storage, just in case. That brought donation agencies to his attention, and he liked the idea of "a long-distance, anonymous child you can spoil with presents, [but] none of the responsibility". However, once he saw the sonogram pictures he felt he wanted to do more, and since he was beginning to make decent money he asked the team's lawyer to draft legal paperwork to the effect that Ian could intervene if the boy became an orphan, or otherwise in dire financial or medical need.

During the 1996/97 winter off-season he lived above the family shop in Diagon Alley, helping his sister run it, and began dating Sam Redfern; during this time, he also was introduced to his donor son Loren Price-Fortescue.

## Physical description

At 194 cm, Ian is the tallest seeker in twenty years and the record-holder for Ravenclaw (when he started playing he was shortest in the team, which is why he got the position, but he grew quickly over the next few years). He has dark hair – almost black – and pale skin, brown eyes like his sister, does not wear glasses, and is clean-shaven except for small sideburns (of "more modern length" than his uncle and grandfather). His nose is broken from taking a bludger straight from the front during his Hogwarts years; he didn't let Madam Pomfrey fix it because it looked just like his mother's nose after she had a similar accident.

## Relationships

Sam Redfern: Just like Jessie and Charlie, Ian and Sam clicked immediately. He does have a thing for dark-haired women.

Jessie Tickes: Ian and his sister have always been close, despite the seven-year age gap, but he is sometimes overwhelmed by how similar she looks and sounds to their late mother. He handles it a lot better than their father does, and doesn't let it affect their relationship, but it is still there.

Siobhan Tickes: While Jessie does not, Ian is old enough to remember their mother, who died in a death eater attack when he was about nine.

James Tickes X: After their mother was killed, their father spent the next nine years in a state of clinical depression where he had to be constantly watched to make sure he didn't kill himself, and they were essentially raised by their grandfather and uncle, the latter of whom was a teenager himself at the time. After his remarriage in 1991 he has slowly gotten better, but by then Ian was already an adult. Ian's relationship with his father probably isn't as bad as Jessie's, but it isn't good.

Gardner Tickes: At least today, Ian considers his uncle more of an older sibling than the father figure role he was forced to assume when James fell into depression.

Sarah Tickes: Ian finds his stepmom's "snuggly attitude" quite grating.

Viktor Krum: In the fall of 1996, Jessie went on a blind date with Krum arranged by Hermione Granger. Ian first heard of it when "some hag of a reporter" mentioned it before a game against Bulgaria, and got upset. However, after the game (which England won) he and Krum went out for drinks and became good friends. Jessie mentions that the many similarities between the two was a big part of why she never pursued the relationship.

## Trivia

* His measurements are: shoes 12½, gloves 8, jersey medium, robes medium-long, pants 38" inseam and watchband 6¼".

* The latest entry in Ian' personal clocksmith's ledger was made when he was about sixteen, and he mostly did minor repairs such as replaced crystals and re-plated cases. He has only built about ten pieces himself, half of which Jessie helped him with.

* Ian likes cinnamon on his popcorn, and owns a popcorn kettle. When it comes to jam and marmalade, he is partial to grape jelly.

* He may be left-handed; at least he uses his left hand to spread jelly on toast.

## Timeline inconsistencies

* Jessie says that when Ian graduated from Hogwarts, she was eleven and had not yet started there herself. However, Sam, who is three weeks *younger* than Jessie, is said to have been in her first year.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 11
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 29
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 9
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 22
5. ↑ The Family Clock, Chapter 10
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 21
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Family Clock, Chapter 1
8. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 23
9. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 20
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 *The Family Clock*, 25
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 *The Family Clock*, Chapter 34
12. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 13
13. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 14