Kasem Wattana | Professor of Transfiguration

𝑬 𝑨 𝑹 𝑳 𝒀 ● 𝑳 𝑰 𝑭 𝑬 | Born in Ayutthaya, Thailand, Kasem spent his early life without any knowledge of magic. His parents were muggles, namely an engineer and a textile designer, who would likely blame the slight show of his magic on anything but exactly what it was.

It was when his first show of magic appeared, and soon afterwards, when a junior dukun arrived, that things started to make more sense than before, somehow. Upon arriving at the Isle of Divination, Kasem was placed in a clan of fifteen other children. For a boy raised by muggles, this was truly his first taste of magic, for the lack of a better word. What followed were the years where he, alongside his fellow pewari, followed in the dukun’s teachings of standard subjects, one of which caught his attention in particular. Transfiguration.
While the subject was difficult enough that it didn’t matter whether pure blood or muggleborn, all seemed to have the same level of knowledge over it at the time, Kasem found himself almost obsessed with it (whether for better or worse).

Growing up being someone with a foot in each world, almost, he had taken a liking towards Muggle physics as well. Though that was hardly the point at Tenusa, yes, in later years, during holidays, he would often make use of whatever books his father had, browsing or skimming through them at times, and properly studying when he found some interesting subjects - making correlations. Whether that got him any advantage or not is unlikely. He was merely doing this as a side quest, a hobby to call it bluntly.

After finishing his studies at Tenusa, he went on to focus mostly on the subject of his choice, a path that eventually, one way or another, led him to the UK. The affinity towards teaching was something a bit less expected, though he found it challenging, and intriguing enough to the point that the decision to apply for such a job came as a no-brainer.