Beiste McLain

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> Beiste McLain

**Beiste McLain** was the oldest son of the **McLain** family, a family of pure-blood witches and wizards residing in Scotland. He currently works as the **Groundskeeper** at **Hogwarts**.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Childhood

Beiste McLain was born to a Scottish pureblood family, and was the oldest of his 4 siblings. By the age of 5 he showed signs of magic and his parents started teaching him the basics before he would go to Hogwarts like his parents did before him.

When Beiste and Seònaid went to Hogwarts, he was sorted into Ravenclaw but she was sorted into Slytherin. Once classes started Beiste found he had a natural talent when it came to Herbology and Potions, making most of his close friends in both of those classes.

It was in his third year at the school that Beiste started to question his gender and over the next couple of years came to the conclusion that he was a man and he wanted to go by Beiste. The next couple of months he slowly told his friends, keeping his family in the dark until after his 18th.

#### Attack?

It was the christmas holidays of Beiste’s fifth year, when he and the rest of the family were taking their traditional Christmas Eve walk through their village when what appeared to be a wild wolf came charging through the streets and attacked Beiste.

He came round a couple of days later in the local wizarding hospital were they informed him that it had been a transformed werewolf that had attacked him as a way to get revenge on his family by targeting their oldest son. Unfortunately, it had taken and now they would have to discuss whether or not it would be safe for him to return to Hogwarts.

After the healer left, his family appeared and his parents informed him of their decision. They would give him the money needed to find a place to live for his last years of Hogwarts until he could get a job but they could not let a werewolf reside in the house with them.

#### After Hogwarts

So once when he was released from the hospital, he went home for the last time and gathered all of his belongings that weren’t at Hogwarts and eventually managed to find a flat in the budget to live in for his last years at Hogwarts. The last 3 years at Hogwarts were hell, between the monthly transformations and also attempting to socially transition to male. THe volume of potions he had to take monthly that he started to be grateful he could brew them himself.

After Beiste graduated, he disappeared from the wizarding world of 5 years, in which he got a muggle job and lived as one of them. He legally changed his name to Beiste and pursued the muggle surgery he wanted in order to feel complete in his transition. Since then he returned to the wizarding world as Beiste McLain and accepted the newly opened position of groundskeeper at Hogwarts, where he’s worked for the last 10ish years.

## Personality

Beiste is very kind and friendly to the students of Hogwarts. He is known to invite those in for tea after exams or after they’ve had a rough week. He’s soft spoken sometimes preferring to spend time with animals rather than other people. He usually has an injured animal somewhere in his hut or on his person nursing them back to health.

### Abilities

* **Lycanthropy** - After being attacked by another werewolf during his fifth year at hogwarts, Beiste has been a werewolf for about 20 years now.
* **Potion Master** - Beiste excelled at potions at Hogwarts and makes his own Wolfsbane potion and other potions he requires.
* **Gardener** - Due to his gift with potions, he grows a lot of his own ingredients as well as a vegetable patch.

#### Weaknesses

* **Full Moon** - Due to his lycanthropy, Beiste is forced to changed into his wolf form every full moon, without the Wolfsbane potion he can be dangerous to others.

## Relationships

### Family

* **Aileen McLain** - Mother
* **Hector McLain** - Father
* **Seònaid McLain** - Twin Sister
* **Murrary McLain** - Younger Brother
* **Gregor McLain -** Youngest Brother