Corbin Donahue
| Corbin Volpes Donahue | |
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | 20 November 1905 |
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| Family | The Donahue Family |
| Bloodtype | Pureblood |
| Social Class | Nobility |
| Hogwarts House | Slytherin |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1925 |
| Occupation | Student |
| Residence | Donahue Castle, Ayr, Scotland |
| Wand | TBD |
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| Status | Alive |
Pre-Hogwarts
The Donahue family traces its pureblood lineage back centuries, maintaining their ancestral seat in a crumbling castle on the Scottish coast. Lord Vulpes Donahue, Corbin's father, achieved recognition as a scholar of Dark Arts before retreating from public academic life to pursue private research.
Corbin was born on Samhain night 1906, the only child of this union. His early childhood was marked by his mother's unexplained disappearance when he was six. Lady Ariana simply vanished one morning, leaving behind no note or explanation. Lord Donahue refused to discuss her departure, and Corbin learned not to ask questions that might provoke his father's anger.
Following his mother's disappearance, Corbin's upbringing became increasingly isolated. Lord Donahue, convinced that the outside world posed threats to magical society, kept his son confined to the castle grounds. Formal education was provided through private tutoring, focusing heavily on magical theory, pureblood genealogy, and the supposed dangers of muggle influence. When Corbin's natural curiosity led to inconvenient questions or interruptions, his father would silence him with magic - sometimes for hours, occasionally for days.
The house elves became Corbin's primary companions and, in many ways, his true family. They fed him when his father forgot meals, mended his clothes when he outgrew them, and provided the emotional support absent from his relationship with Lord Donahue. Through them, he learned to appreciate the complex hierarchies that existed even among those others might dismiss as servants, developing a pragmatic understanding of how power and loyalty functioned at every level of magical society.
Occasionally, Lord Donahue would host visitors - other Pureblood lords and ladies, fellow Dark Arts scholars, and sometimes individuals whose very presence made the house elves disappear entirely from the corridors. Corbin was always confined to his room during these meetings, but he learned to read the signs: which visitors made his father's voice drop to whispers, which ones caused Squinty to triple-check the locks on his door, which conversations ended with the sharp crack of Disapparition rather than polite farewells. These experiences taught him that power often came in frightening forms and that his father moved in circles where violence was an accepted tool.
The Great War's conclusion in 1918 seemed to validate many of Lord Donahue's warnings about muggle nature. The unprecedented scale of destruction and the new methods of warfare served as evidence that muggles were fundamentally different from and more dangerous than magical beings. When the Halloway conspiracy was exposed, revealing how close Hogwarts had come to admitting muggle students, Lord Donahue's years of warnings about progressive infiltration appeared not paranoid but prophetic.
Corbin's first two years at Hogwarts have been a gradual adjustment to social interaction outside his father's rigid household. He struggles with the casual friendships other students form, uncertain about appropriate boundaries and wary of revealing too much about his unconventional upbringing. His academic performance is strong, particularly in subjects requiring independent research and theoretical analysis. However, he remains cautious about speaking in class unless directly addressed, and becomes notably more reserved around professors and other authority figures.
