Casimir Beaumont | First Year | Hufflepuff

Physical Description

From his father, Cas inherited delicate aristocratic features, dark eyes that often give off an impression of condescension, and a mouth that trends downwards to offer an overall look of unfriendliness and lack of humour. However, his messy strawberry blonde hair that has to be carefully styled, smattering of freckles, and dimples, hint that his mother’s sweet nature isn’t completely out of his genetics.

Mental Description

A boy made of contradictions, Cas is just as much a mix of his parents mentally as physically. He holds his cards close to his chest and is often serious, looking down upon people he deems stupid or ignorant. He’s inherited a fear disguised as hatred for anything Muggle, be it blood mixes or the technology his father claims ‘reduces intelligence and increases violence.’ Since he grew up with tutors and met only other Pureblood children, his social awareness is limited to speaking much too old for his age and a distinct sneer for anyone not of his class.

That being said, Cas’s mother is a sweet and gentle woman who knew that if he was going to ever be happy in life, he needed to know what it was like to be loved. While she is exceptionally timid and has her own issues, she taught him to be gentle to animals, loyal to family and friends (if he were to make any), and observant so he could understand who was on his side. She was unable to remove the side of him that looked down on others, but being with solely her for much of his childhood instilled the capacity for deep and loyal love to whomever could get around his walls.

Biography

Maya and Ellery Beaumont were childhood sweethearts who were practically destined to be together from the moment their Pureblood families became friends. While Ellery's side of the family was racist against Muggles and Maya's was ambivalent, the pair were able to put that particular difference aside by making the decision to move to Bath using their inherited wealth and become rather reclusive before starting a family.

With Maya as a moderately successful author of books on historical magic, and Ellery a greatly successful seeker and seller of ancient magical artefacts, they were happy. For a time.

Everything changed when Maya's twin sister, Theodora, a Squib, decided to reject all things magical and become a war journalist on the Muggle side of the world. Although Ellery loved her as a sister, he couldn't agree with her decision and the relationship between him and his wife's twin became frosty. Things deteriorated with Maya desperately trying to help them get along, until it all came to a head and Maya went to speak with her sister in person in a warzone, her sheltered upbringing not preparing her for what Apparating into that entailed.

She found her sister, but mid-argument the city they were in suffered a devastating blow which left Theo dead and Maya mentally scarred despite magic healing her physical wounds. After that, Maya quit her job and rarely left the house, prone to anxiety attacks and nervous of anything to do with the outside world. Her relationship with Ellery turned sour, and he started doing more travelling, his return home becoming more and more rare, and his hatred of Muggles growing deeper and deeper.

Cas was an infant at the time of her accident, and so never truly knew who his parents were prior to it. He grew up loved and cared for by his mother, however he also frequently bore witness to her anxiety attacks and was her sole comfort since her husband was away so much. He became fiercely protective of her, and knowing what caused it caused him to hate anything non-magical.

His relationship with his father is complicated. His father had always been a serious man, but the accident and subsequent fallout turned Ellery cold and destroyed all forms of affection he would've once offered. While Ellery does love his son, his inability to articulate or express it has confused Cas's sense of what 'love' is, on one hand believing it's the affection his mother showed him, but on the other also believing it could be distance and providing wealth with an occasional drop-in.

The way his father talks about Muggles and praises Cas when Cas talks the same way about them has taught him that perhaps completely rejecting anything and anyone who doesn't share this view is the only way he can make the man proud. Since he was very sheltered and taught only by tutors - and only had acquaintances from when he went with his father to the rare pureblood event - his beliefs haven’t yet been challenged.

Unfortunately, growing up with a sense of deep familial duty has left him unable to truly explore himself. He doesn’t have material likes, and is uncomfortable thinking too deeply about his feelings and wants; since he was the emotional caretaker of his mother, he tends to prioritize her needs over his (despite her actively discouraging this). His unyielding loyalty and the incorrect belief that being loved is synonymous with being needed has instilled a sense that he must fix everything, and the fact that his celebrated first instance of magic was a repair has rooted that into the core of his being.

While he didn’t want to leave his mother to come to Hogwarts, he’s decided to make the most of it. He intends to study hard, observe the world thoroughly, and discover what has lead to the cracks he perceives in the system. Though he doesn’t yet have a concrete view of his own future, he’s leaning towards the Wizenmagot because they seem to be the people who can enforce change.

Not because he wants to, and not because he’s interested in it. Simply because he sees something broken and has determined that if no one else will fix it, he must.

First Instance of Magic

When Cas was five, Maya dropped her favourite teacup on the ground and became inconsolable when it shattered... possibly because watching it break brought back bad memories of things best left unsaid. Casimir, desperate to make his mother stop crying, moved to comfort her in any way he could. When all of a sudden the teacup was fixed with not a crack in sight despite his not touching it, both of his parents were relieved he wasn't following Theo's Squib path.