Max Blackwood/Maxine Blackwood

Maximilian Blackwood (b. 1 August 1981) was a pureblood wizard, and one of the most dangerous wizards of all time. One of two twins born to Sofia Blackwood and Tom Marvolo Riddle, he was conceived as a byproduct of a love-potion induced dalliance. The siblings were abandoned by their mother and left in a Muggle orphanage until they went to Hogwarts and used their ancestral fortune to buy an apartment in Diagon Alley.

The children's powerful heritage showed. They could both walk, talk and read coherently by the time they were one and a half, and Maxine exhibited her first burst of accidental magic at two, terrifying the orphanage workers. When she was bullied for her strangeness, Maximilian would go out of his way to sadistically torture them mentally and physically, giving them horrific nightmares and broken bones, even going so far as to kill a girl at school that had attempted to give Maxine a swirly.

Even though Maxine was the more powerful, outspoken of the two, she was often underestimated due to her beauty, which allowed her to defeat any opponents with brute force. Maximilian, initially a shy, reserved child, grew into a cerebral powerhouse, his lack of power being made up for by his numerous skills and talents. Regardless of the power difference between them, the twins were still monstrously powerful, being outmatched only by truly powerful wizards and witches such as Dumbledore, McGonagall, and their father.

When the twins were five, they merged for the first time, discovering their ability to change their form at will. This ten became their preferred state, leading to great confusion at the orphanage as the inseparable twins were suddenly almost never seen together. On their eleventh birthday, Max received their Hogwarts letter by owl. He did not answer the letter, prompting the school to send a representative, Professor Aurora Sinistra, to see if he would accept. He said that if he were to accept, his sister would also need to be enrolled alongside him.

The next day they went shopping in Diagon Alley, merged into Maxine. There, they withdrew money from their vaults at Gringotts Wizarding Bank, proving their identity through a blood test, and ordered their enchanted robes made. While they were in Diagon Alley, they also got their school supplies (i.e., books from Flourish and Blotts; potion equipment from Slug & Jiggers Apothecary; and Malphas, their pet Kneazle). Wands were a particular oversight, as Maximilian had slept in and thus only Maxine got her wand. This was solved when he went back later and explored Knockturn Alley, getting a wand from there.

Max began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1992 and was sorted into Ravenclaw House. The Sorting Hat told him that he might do well in Slytherin (the eventual house of his sister), but he managed to convince the Hat otherwise. At school, Maximilian became good friends with Luna Lovegood, whom he later dated and eventually married. He was often noted for his incredible intellect, his merciless nature, and his ability to act without scruple. Early in his life, he discovered a proficiency for Legilimency and Occlumency, both of which aided him in his academic pursuits. He also discovered an affinity with Arithmancy and Potions, leading to his later capability for Alchemy.

In his first years, he discovered the Chamber of Secrets, though he did not slay the Basilisk, instead simply renovating the Chamber into a base of operations, and (in his second year) capturing and destroying a dementor, using its cloak to augment his own, allowing him to fly while wearing it, though he only rarely used this ability, having a particular dislike for flight. In the year following, he made friends with several foreign students, learning as much as he could from them. He also found out and blackmailed Rita Skeeter until Hermione captured her. However, this enlightened him as to the usefulness of an Animagus form, so, in that same year, he began and concluded his Animagus transformation, helping his friends do the same. He located his mother, who had gone into hiding, and . This was also the year he began dating Luna.

In fourth year, he took up Ancient Runes and Arithmancy and began his study of Alchemy and wandless and wordless magic. In light of Dolores Umbridge's despotism, he installed spies on every level of the school up to Prefects and Head Students. Nothing went on in the corridors of Hogwarts without him knowing. At the end of the year, he and his friends went on a covert operation to steal from the Ministry, narrowly coinciding with the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and managing to escape in the chaos. They all learned to Apparate in preparation for this heist. In his fifth year, Eric began the search for his father, and was left shell shocked when he found out that his father was Lord Voldemort. During his sixth year, Luna was kidnapped, and he struck out on his own, narrowly missing Harry Potter and his friends, but meeting and duelling Bellatrix Lestrange, gathering the information required whilst heading off his father. He traced Dobby's Apparition to the beach of Shell Cottage where Luna let him through the Fidelius and he met with Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Griphook, and Garrick Ollivander who requested his help in completing their mission. He refused them, returning to Hogwarts with Luna to prepare for the battle he knew would come.

During the Battle of Hogwarts, Eric and Luna fought back to back, almost dancing, taking on Mulciber, Greyback, Dolohov and Rosier at the same time, whilst Godfrey and Amanda took over damage control. At the end of the battle, as Voldemort gloated over Harry Potter’s death, Eric stepped out in full battle robes and started duelling him, hoping to get him angry enough to make a mistake, provoking him by calling him ‘dear old Dad’ and proclaiming that ‘our last hope [Harry Potter] has failed us, so patricide it is’. He was, in reality, waiting for Harry Potter to reawaken so he could kill Voldemort. When Neville decapitated Nagini, both Eric and Voldemort were still going strong, but this pain caused the Dark Lord to falter, letting Harry Potter seize the opportunity and disarm and kill him.