Sigmund Moon

**Sigmund Moon** (**18 April**, **1862** - **11 October**, **1928**) was an English pure-blood wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1873 to June 1880. He was the husband of Florence Moon (née Nettle), and the father of Wizengamot Member Cornelius Moon, as well as Astrea Moon (née Higgs), Barnabas Moon, and Phineas Moon.

He was the proprietor of a business called Telescopeworks, which produced telescopes. In 1923, he was in attendance at the wedding of Arcturus Black III, Heir to the House of Black, to Melania E. Macmillan, daughter of Ambrose Macmillan. The ceremony was so lavish that it featured over two hundred invited guests. It was so high profile that it was covered by various notable news organisations, including *The Daily Prophet* and *Witch Weekly Magazine.* He gifted the newly-married couple one of his company's finest telescopes, and proudly said so in *The Daily Prophet*.

He was the paternal uncle of Leonard Spencer-Moon, who was Minister for Magic from 1939 to 1948, carrying Wizarding Britain through the Global Wizarding War.

## Biography

### Early life (1862-1880)

Sigmund Moon was born on 18 April, 1862, in Puddletown, Dorset, England. He was born into the prominent Moon family in Puddlemere, a town in which many witches and wizards had grouped together following the introduction of the International Statute of Secrecy in 1689. His mother was of Russian descent.

He was the middle child of three brothers born to Lorenzo Moon and his wife between 1860 and 1865. He had an older brother, Galen Moon, and a younger brother, Pavel Moon. All three brothers were born in Puddletown.

#### Hogwarts years (1873-1880)

Sigmund Moon began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1873. He was sorted into Slytherin House, and was two years behind his brother Galen.

Not much is known of his school years, and he left in 1880, at the end of his seventh year. He became engaged to Florence Nettle, a half-blood witch from Ravenclaw House, and they married that same summer.

#### Business ventures (1880-1889)

Sigmund Moon was chosen by his father, Lorenzo, to continue the family business, were he to pass away unexpectedly. The Moon family owned Telescopeworks, which was a leading producer of telescopes in Wizarding Britain. Moon was chosen over his other two brothers because he had a "sensible mind", according to Lorenzo.

#### Family life (1881-1889)

The family moved to Primrose Hill, a neighbourhood in Camden, London to reflect Sigmund's growing role in his father's company. Sigmund's wife, Florence, gave birth to their eldest son there, Cornelius Moon, in November of 1881. Three years later, a daughter followed, in 1884. They named her Astrea.

That same year, Sigmund's father, Lorenzo, passed away, leaving Sigmund in total control of his company, Telescopeworks.

### Political life (1889-1928)

Cornelius and Astrea were Sigmund and Florence's only children, until the year 1892, when they had a third son, Barnabas, who was admitted to be somewhat of an accident. But instead of having his third son grow up an only child, Sigmund Moon and his wife had an additional son, Phineas, in 1894.

#### Ventures (1894-1900)

Sigmund Moon entered the realm of politics with an open mind and a clear head in the year 1895, when he ran a private election campaign. He was appointed a member of the Wizengamot in 1896, after having spent a considerable amount of money to do so.

He became a trusted ally of Septimus Malfoy I, and probably spent a great deal of time cutting backroom deals between the Area of Commons and the inhabitants of said Hereditary seats, held by individuals like Malfoy, in order to attempt to oust Minister for Magic Faris Spavin.

After his eldest son, Cornelius, left Hogwarts in 1899, Sigmund sent him to the United States of America to establish a second international office of the Moon family's business, Telescopeworks. However, the seventeen-year-old Cornelius Moon had a nervous breakdown at a meeting in front of several American bankers, which ended the venture early. Sigmund was highly embarrassed by this and travelled to America to rectify this in 1900.

#### Expansion (1900-1910)

His eldest son, Cornelius, married Òceane Malfoy, daughter of Septimus Malfoy I, on 24 April, 1907. His grandson, Horace Moon, was born in 1909.

Sigmund Moon continued to run the family company, after stepping down from his post on the Wizengamot in 1910. His excuse was that he wanted to focus on his business ventures, which helped him a great deal considering that most of the Moon family fortune was generated during this period in his life.

### Later life (1910-1928)

In 1923, Sigmund Moon was in attendance at the wedding of Arcturus Black III, Heir to the House of Black, to Melania E. Macmillan, daughter of Ambrose Macmillan. The ceremony was so lavish that it featured over two hundred invited guests. It was so high profile that it was covered by various notable news organisations, including *The Daily Prophet* and *Witch Weekly Magazine.* He gifted the newly-married couple one of his company's finest telescopes, and proudly said so in *The Daily Prophet*.

#### Death

Sigmund Moon passed away on 11 October, 1928, at the age of 66, in Primrose Hill, London, England. The official cause of death was a fatal myocardial infarction.

#### Legacy

His youngest son, Phineas Moon, was chosen to replace him in his position at Telescopeworks. His older son, Cornelius, was considered an "unfortunate sort for business", which was admittedly understandable considering his failed venture with said company in America. However, Cornelius had also assumed control of another business, Derwent & Company, which manufactured cauldron bottoms.

His second oldest, Barnabas, had already told his father that he was not interested in telescope production, telling him honestly that he would probably sell if it ever fell into his hands, and so the company went to Phineas instead.

#### Descendants

Through his eldest son, Cornelius, Sigmund is a paternal line great-grandfather to Silas Moon, and a second great-grandfather of Pandora Lovegood (née Moon), who ran off to Ireland to marry Xenophilius Lovegood in 1979. He is a third great-grandfather of Luna Lovegood.

Through his daughter Astrea Moon, who married Bartemius Higgs in 1905, he is a grandfather of Algernon Higgs, and a great-grandfather of Albert "Bertie" Higgs, who was a friend of Tiberius McLaggen and Rufus Scrimgeour. They would often hunt Nogtails in Norfolk.

Through his son, Barnabas Moon, Sigmund is a paternal line grandfather to Mabel Bonham (née Moon), who became the wife of Nigel Bonham in 1935. He was the great-grandfather of Chester Bonham, whose entire family was slaughtered in the Falmouth Stadium Attack in 1975.

Through his youngest son, Phineas, Sigmund is a paternal line grandfather of Theodore Moon. He is also the paternal line second great-grandfather of Dennis Moon, an internationally renowned Quidditch player who played for New Zealand in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, and his sister, Lily Moon.

## Etymology

The name Sigmund is derived from the Germanic elements *sigu* "victory" and *mund* "protector" (or in the case of the Scandinavian cognate, from the Old Norse elements *sigr* "victory" and *mundr* "protector"). In Norse mythology this was the name of the hero Sigurd's father, the bearer of the powerful sword Gram. A notable bearer was the Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the creator of the revolutionary theory of psychoanalysis.

The Moon surname is of Norman origin, and thought to derive from a place name such as from Moyon in La Manche, or from Mohun in Normandy.