William Graham Montague

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Content Warnings

 * Cw: child abuse
 * Cw: graphic violence
 * Cw: The Imperius Curse* / coercion


 * Cw: misogeny
 * Cw: possession
 * Cw: sexual assault mention
 * Cw: torture

Name

 * Legal: William Graham Montague

Education

 * Sept. 1939 - Jun. 1946
 * O.W.L. & N.E.W.T Certification, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
 * Aug. 1946 - Jun. 1950
 * Mediwizard Certification in the Healing Arts, specialized in Mental Maladies, The Mungo Bonham Institute for Advanced Studies in the Healing Arts
 * Jul. 1950 - May 1952
 * Mediwizard Residency, St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

Employment

 * June 1946 - May 2, 1998
 * Wizengamot Elder, hereditary seat
 * May 1952 - Apr. 1955
 * Healer, Janus Thickey Ward, St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
 * Apr. 1955 - June 1957
 * Assistant Healer-In-Charge, Mental Maladies Department, St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries,
 * Department Liaison to the Wizengamot


 * June 1957 - May 1963
 * Healer-In-Charge, Mental Maladies Department, St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries,
 * Expert Witness and part-time Consulting TruthSeeker for the Wizengamot


 * Sept. 1, 1963 - Jan. 1, 1978
 * Professor of the Mental Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizarding
 * Part-time Consulting TruthSeeker for the Wizengamot


 * Apr. 12, 1978 - Aug. 31, 1980
 * Representative of the British Ministry of Magic to the International Confederation of Wizards (appointed by Senior Undersecretary James Worthington III),
 * Part-time TruthSeeker for the Wizengamot


 * Sept. 1, 1980 - Jun. 30, 1982
 * Full-time TruthSeeker for the Wizengamot
 * Aug. 1, 1982 - Jun. 30, 1984
 * Professor of the Mental Arts at Durmstrang Institute
 * July. 1, 1984 - Jun. 30, 1991
 * Department Chair and Professor of the Mental Arts at Durmstrang Institute
 * Aug. 1, 1991 - May 2, 1998
 * Dean of Faculty of Healing Arts, and Professor of the Mental Arts at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

Family in RP

 * Anya Montague (wife)
 * Euphemia Rowle (grandmother-in-law and second cousin)
 * Graham Montague (son)
 * Mefarius Dove (second cousin once removed)
 * Rabastan Lestrange (first cousin)
 * Rodolphus Lestrange (frist cousin)

Early Childhood (1928-1939)
In the early 1900s until his death, the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald formed an army with the purpose of building a world wide wizarding empire that ruled Muggle society as well as Magical. Legilimentic and Occlumentic ability ran strongly in the Grindelwald family, and Gellert himself was a natural at both. As part of his empire building efforts, he scoured Europe and the UK for the finest Mental Arts practitioners--creating an elite Mental Arts Corps in his army (the notorious “Thought Police”). While many of the witches and wizards he recruited joined willingly, others were pressed into service (with loved ones often held hostage to ensure their cooperation). Any who refused were killed (for the greater good, of course). The result was that by the end of Grindelwald’s rise to power--most of those with Mental Arts abilities were either in his service, in hiding, or dead.

Two of Gellert Grindelwald's greatest supporters were Gellert's first cousin, Aloysius Montague, and his wife Leta Montague (née Lestrange). The husband/wife team were rising stars in Grindelwald's army, and generally feared as the two highest-ranking officers of the Thought Police after Grindelwald himself. Their zeal for enforcing the regime's ban on "unapproved thoughts" and re-conditioning or eliminating so-called "Freethinkers" was legendary. The means they utilized to achieve their goals so disturbing that even fifty years later, those who underwent such re-conditioning refused to speak of it.

In fact, the general dread inspired by the Thought Police still colors the perception of the general wizarding populace toward those who yet practice the Mental Arts--so much so, that instruction in the subject was discouraged, and even banned at some wizarding schools in the 1940s and 1950s. And while the bans have been lifted in most places, popular opinion often holds that the subject is a branch of the Dark Arts--even though most academic institutions place it more rightly as a specialization within the Healing Arts.

William Graham Montague was the son and only child of Aloysius and Leta Montague. His earliest years were spent under his mother's tutelage--his father remaining a distant and unapproachable figure for the majority of his young life. By the time his own gifts in the Mental Arts began to show themselves (at around age 5 or 6), he had already been well instructed in the doublethink required to NOT have unapproved or "unthinkable" thoughts.

At age 8, as Grindelwald's war escalated taking up more of their time, William's parents trundled him off to live with his grandfather, Richard Graham Montague of Salisbury. A stern, but fair wizard, Richard Montague introduced his grandson to British Pureblood society, and had him tutored in the skills of Weaponsmastery under James Lawrence Worthington II (the grandfather of William's future wife) as part of the required instruction for induction into the Knights of Walpurgis, a knightly order founded by Salazar Slytherin.

A year after arriving at his grandfather’s home, William was orphaned--his parents killed in the conflict raging across Europe. The sudden loss of his parents and resulting grief, broke William’s fledgling emotional discipline to the point of being disruptive. His innate Legilimentic ability ran wild, and, without intending to, he began to hear the thoughts of anyone within about 20 meters of him as if they were spoken aloud. Even animal thoughts, strange and alien as they seemed, would intrude upon him. As a result, he spent as much of his time as possible, alone--trying to shut the din of voices out of his head. Sleep helped little, the thoughts of those nearby filtering into even his dreams before he'd learned to wall them off.

By the time he started at Hogwarts, he was socially awkward and intensely lonely. He had discovered that knowing what people really think of you, is not particularly conducive to forming friendships. Nor is answering their thoughts when they have not spoken. Two bad habits, that over the years, prevented him from forming any truly healthy relationships.

Hogwarts Years (1939-1946)
William's sorting at Hogwarts took a particularly long time. The Sorting Hat was going to place him in Hufflepuff--but as this was not an "acceptable thought", the young wizard refused, pointing out that the hat had already placed more than a dozen others in the house they'd chosen for themselves (he had, after all, heard the silent exchange of each of the sortings prior to his own).

Needless to say, while not a perfect fit for his chosen House, the hat did finally relent.

Will's first year in Slytherin was particularly rocky. He got in trouble regularly with his fellow Slytherins as he tried to stay out of trouble with his Professors. He tried very hard in all of his subjects at school, but was not particularly good at anything. In fact, for most of his classes, he was downright appalling. Trying to avoid his peers, he was nearly always late to class (causing him to lose MANY points for Slytherin). And he was the butt of almost every joke his house mates played.

When he finally DID earn points for Slytherin (for his honesty in turning in an answer key he'd found for one of Professor Slughorn's exams), he also earned the displeasure of the three third years who had stolen it. Despite the fact that he hadn't implicated them, they were still livid  that they had to actually study for the exam--and proceeded to teach him a lesson by suspending him upside down and attempting to flush his head down an extremely filthy toilet.

Desperate to prevent them from doing so, Will's wild mental call for help to anyone who might listen caught the attention of a another second year student, by the name of Tom Marvolo Riddle, who made rather short work of the three bullies.

Tom did not immediately take to Will. Indeed, it is doubtful that he even liked Will at first. But the boy's raw mental ability was exceedingly apparent--and the future Dark Lord saw uses for that.

While Will would receive more formal training in Legilimency and Occlumency during his 3rd and 4th years under Hogwarts Professor Machiavellus Prince, it was Tom to whom he was truly apprenticed. And when Professor Prince left Hogwarts (having been “recruited” into Grindelwald’s army, an occurrence which also led to a temporary ban on Mental Arts instruction at Hogwarts), Will became not just Tom’s apprentice--but his test subject, as the young Dark Lord explored the limits of what could be accomplished with the Mental Arts, conditioning the boy who was to become his very first Death Eater.

Over the next few years Tom “tutored” Will in his studies, finding creative and often cruel means of motivating his “friend” to learn--particularly focusing on his instruction in the Mental Arts, and later in the Dark Arts. By the time the Dark Lord was ready to seize the power he so desired in the Wizarding world, Will had become a capable, powerful--and, most importantly, obedient servant.

Will was responsible for acquainting Tom with the secretive ancient order of knights known as the Knights of Walpurgis--an order that Tom would subvert and re-invent as his own. In an homage to the rites created by the Slytherin heir’s illustrious ancestor, Will received his Dark Mark on Walpurgis Night (April 30th), the traditional night of induction into the knightly order, during Tom’s final year at Hogwarts.

Post Hogwarts Education to Hogwarts Professor (1946-1978)
In the years following his graduation from Hogwarts, Montague, under his friend’s direction, pursued advanced training and certification in the Mental Arts, eventually becoming the Healer-In-Charge of the Mental Maladies Department at St. Mungo’s--which also led to him working with the Wizengamot as a part-time TruthSeeker (delving into the minds of uncooperative or incapacitated witnesses and defendants on trial).

But when the ban on Mental Arts instruction at Hogwarts was lifted in 1963, at the urging of Lord Voldemort, William Montague applied for a teaching position at the school. In the Fall of 1963, to the he became a Professor of Legillimeny and Occlumency. He spent his years at Hogwarts training those he deemed worthy, and unscrupulously taking advantage of his students’ youth and vulnerability to manipulate and damage them in ways that would lead them to the service of his Dark Lord--his most notable “recruit”, Bellatrix Black, also becoming his chief rival in later years (technically, Montague did not recruit Bellatrix, the Dark Lord had identified her as “interesting” when she was a young child.  He did, however, have Montague keep tabs on her at Hogwarts.  Montague actually recommended that she not be made a Death Eater, as Montague has an extremely chauvinistic view towards witches). [[File:The-Montagues.jpg|thumb|398x398px|William and Anya Montague

]] He remained a professor at Hogwarts until January 1, 1978 when he was forced to resign from the school after impregnating one of students, Anya Worthington, the under-aged daughter of  a high-ranking Ministry official, James Lawrence Worthington III. To prevent further scandal to the political family, William and Anya were married later that month--their first child, Graham Montague, born in June of the same year.

End of First Wizarding War to the Return of the Dark Lord (1978-1995)
To cover up the true reason for Montague’s departure from Hogwarts, Worthington also convinced Minister Minchum to appoint Montague as the Representative of the British Ministry of Magic to the International Confederation of Wizards (a position Montague kept for the rest of the Minchum's time in office). Montague also continued his work as a TruthSeeker for the Wizengamot, and bounced back and forth between the UK and the rest of Europe during this time.

In Europe, Montague continued to work for the Dark Lord, meeting with affluent and powerful Pureblood Wizarding families in an effort to recruit them to his Master’s cause and prepare for Lord Voldemort’s plans to expand his dominion beyond Britain. On one such visit (to his second cousins, the Doves), Montague encountered Mefarius. Quickly realizing the boy had a strong aptitude for the Mental Arts (and somewhat bored with his current line of work), he surreptitiously took the boy on as his apprentice, forging a mental link between them so that his instruction would not be apparent.

In 1980, after Minchum left office, Montague returned to Britain and began working for the Wizengamot full time. About a year later, he was given a case that involved the death of a Mr. Maysdale, possibly by magical means. The man’s daughter, Leona, was brought in for an initial deposition--and he was delightedly repulsed by the facts of the case he uncovered in her mind. The child was a prodigy--a potentially potent tool for the Dark Lord if her destructive impulses could be channeled to His cause. The emotional trauma of Leona’s early life provided Montague with ample means to control and manipulate her. Placing triggers within the child’s mind to harness these dark scars within her, he had her sent home, her record cleared of any pending charges.

At the last minute, he also arranged for his apprentice, Mefarius, to attend Hogwarts rather than Durmstrang--so that the boy would be closer and might be his eyes in the school, now that he was forbidden to set foot there himself.

Over the next few years, his work at the Wizengamot would become even more important. When the First Wizarding War ended with the fall of the Dark Lord, he worked tirelessly to prevent the incarceration of as many Death Eaters as possible, despite the devastation of the loss of the Dark Lord.

However, unlike many, he did not believe his Master was truly dead--deeming his mark conclusive proof that the Dark Lord’s magic yet endured. He rigorously pursued any lead he could find on the Dark Lord’s whereabouts, and when His trail went cold, turned to torturing his wife, Anya, in an effort to amplify her prophetic gifts hoping to glean some sign that could return him to his Master’s side.

Her visions led him back to Europe, where he took positions first at Durmstrang and later at Beauxbatons as he tried to find some trace of his old “friend.”

Unsuccessful in his efforts to find his Master, he was nonetheless ecstatic when his mark burned back to full life. His failure to find his Master during the intervening years a perpetual source of torment to him in the hands of his rival, Bellatrix Lestrange.

Second Wizarding War to Present (1995 - present)
During the Second Wizarding War, the Dark Lord kept him primarily abroad-- continuing on his earlier work to expand his Master’s influence and power in Europe and later assisting the Dark Lord in his search for the Elder Wand.

William was not at the Battle of Hogwarts when the Dark Lord fell, but the disappearance of his mark and the sudden loss of the dark magics that had been woven by his Master into his mental core proved too much for him. His mind became unstable and finally snapped.

On discovering this change in her husband/captor and for the first few months after the Dark Lord’s fall, Anya Montague, kept a wary watch over William--fearing to take any action lest he suddenly recover. Finally deciding that his mental collapse was neither feigned, nor likely to be easily cured, she convinced him to travel with her to England to “visit his friend Tom”.

In his current unstable state, Montague has forgotten nearly everything about his own life since meeting his friend Tom (he’s forgotten some things that happened between meeting Tom in 1939 and being marked, and everything from the night he received his mark to the present), and, in fact, he has even forgotten his considerable legilimentic and occlumentic skills.