Benjamin Flaherty
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Benjamin Flaherty
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Family/History[]
Early History[]
Benjamin Flaherty was born and raised in Ireland with a Muggle Father and a Witch mother. He led a seemingly normal life, believing himself to be a Muggle, for his mother despised her magic. His mother had come from a long line of dark wizards, married a Muggle to be rid of the magic world when she graduated Hogwarts (she had been a Ravenclaw), and raised her son in the dark, far from wizard of any kind. When his first signs of magic appeared, his mother pretended he was lying, and his father certainly had no explanations, so Benjamin believed there to be something critically wrong with him. When he was 11, he didn't see his Hogwarts letters until one fell on top of him while he was sleeping. He opened it up, and confronted his parents. His father knew nothing, and his mother finally confessed. Benjamin was furious, and spent much of his youth seemingly headed down the same dark path of his mother's family. Until his fifth year at Hogwarts, he realized that to go down that path wouldn't gain him anything. He shaped up from there, performed well on his O.W.Ls and N.E.W.Ts and started to gain some real rapport in the Wizarding World.
Post-Hogwarts graduation, he held all sorts of odd jobs in every place you can imagine in both England and Ireland, but once people found out who he was related to, they let him go, which frustrated him to no end. He's been living in the London area, hoping to find work, and escape the dark past of his relatives that he knows nothing about.Entering the Ministry[]
Many Losses[]
Benjamin lot the race, but Draco offered Benjamin whatever position he wanted. Benjamin stepped into the position he'd longed for his entire life-- Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Not being named Minister gave Benjamin a little more freedom to pursue Mary. There were many aspects of Mary-- her history, her personality-- that often surprised him, similar to Teal. Benjamin was nearing thirty.... and he knew what he wanted in life-- he wanted to be someone worthy of Mary. So he proposed after about eight months of dating. Benjamin bought a real house-- not his sad little bachelor pad he'd been living in. The couple planned a November wedding.
Benjamin and Mary had seen each other through many of Mary's trials-- the imprisonment of her abusers, and the loss of her friend, Phoebe. But there was one trial looming that the couple would not be able to overcome. Mary's sister, Teresa Black. When one night, Mary suggested that something was wrong with her sister... something that she could not say due to Benjamin's career, Benjamin went to confront Teresa. The two had never truly gotten along, and this was just the large brick that broke the camel's back. Benjamin gave Teresa two choices-- disappear, and avoid the paperwork, or turn herself in, to lessen the paperwork. Teresa defended herself, and Benjamin ended up bringing her in to the Holding Cells. Teresa's crimes of working with Unforgiveable Curses created a massive headache-- her husband, Ferlen Black, was the assistant to the Minister, and Teresa herself was another Department Head. Draco decided to imprison Teresa indefinitely, and Ferlen's memory was modified to believe Teresa had abandoned her husband, and newborn daughter. Benjamin, Draco, Ferlen's brother Karith Black took an Unbreakable Vow to never discuss the case. Mary was invited to make the same Vow, and declined... and so her memory was modified as well.
Benjamin knew he could not start a relationship built on lies, secrecy, and distrust... so he ended his engagement with Mary about a month after they should have been married.
Many Gains[]
Traits[]
Benjamin's strongest characteristic is his determination. Despite getting continuously rejected, he keeps at life, and doesn't let rejection get him down. If he's pushed too far, he overreacts sometimes and can get quite scary when he's angry, but he tries to control it, because he believes this to be a quality similar to his heritage that he's trying to shove off. He's emotionally distant from others-- a defensive mechanism he developed over the years as part of being constantly rejected.
Appearance[]
Benjamin is quite tall-- almost 6'5". He has dark blonde hair (it almost looks brown sometimes) and kind blue eyes that turn angry when provoked.
Trivia[]
- Benjamin means "son of the right hand"
- Patrick means "noble"
- Flaherty means "the man of noble deeds" which makes his whole name rather ironic, given his background.
- His Myers-Briggs letters are ISTJ, though there is only a 1% difference between his S and having an N.