Hansel Hanzel

[Prof. Hansel Hanzel]

The Roleplayer

Name: Amy
Age: 19
Location: England
Comments: Admittedly, hiring a Dark Arts teacher is a conflict of interests for Professor Darrow, but since when has this site been called Rational Hogwarts?

The Character

Name: Hansel Hanzel
Nicknames: Hanz
Job Title: Dark Arts professor
Age: thirty-nine
Blood: Half-blood
Wand: Augurey feather, yew, ten inches

Biography

Born Hansel Bennett to Edmund and Beatrice Bennett, Hansel spent the first ten years of his life in a rural wizarding village in the heart of England. Although happy living in his parent’s small home and playing with the local children, who at the time liked Hansel just as much as anybody else, his witch mother was fiercely jealous of the purer wizarding families in their community, whom she envied for their generations of accumulated wealth. In her own youth while working as a muggle nurse (her parents having disowned her for fraternising with a muggle boy), Beatrice came across Hansel’s father, a famous muggle scientist. Mesmerised by his brilliance and fame Beatrice watched Edmund from a distance, for many years afraid to reveal herself for fear of rejection. However, this infatuation soon became poisonous. Beatrice, unable to bear watching undeserving women move in and out of his private life - a life she was not permitted to see – believed there was only one way Edmund would understand his own secret feelings for her, and so took the steps to relieve him of his own hidden feelings, ensnaring and seducing him with a love potion.
It was through this selfish act that Hansel was born a year later, his parents ‘blissfully’ married and having left their old lives in ruins to start afresh.
Problems arose however. Edmund was blind to anything that wasn’t Beatrice and doted upon her relentlessly, day and night refusing all other tasks but to do as she pleased. Beatrice revelled in this attention, but as an unskilled witch she was unable to weaken the strength of the potion she gave him daily, and they soon fell impoverished, Edmund’s income dwindling as he spent less and less time on his once ground-breaking experiments.
Although many people knew what Beatrice had done, Hansel, having been exposed to it from such an early age, never thought twice about the concoction that his mother would slip to her husband every morning and night, sometimes even being given the task of serving it to his father himself. Although Edmund was a constant presence in Hansel’s life he grew up without any stable father figure, always confused and without moral guidance - out of sight Hansel became extremely withdrawn, preoccupied with the mysterious magic his mother only ever hinted upon, obsessed with his own latent abilities and secrets he was not told. He craved attention that he was never given and turned into a troublemaker, frequently victimising other children in unusual ways. Despite how well respected - and feared - his notorious mother was, Hansel was made an outcast by his neighbours and friends, turning into a very bitter little boy.
As Edmund began to neglect himself in his never ending worship of his captor, Beatrice came to loathe the aging, grotesque man that she was seemingly stuck with. Her interest in him began to subside and so her obsessions turned toward that of money: something she did not have, Llike everything that was hard for her to obtain by honest means, Beatrice went to extreme measures, infusing her husband’s morning Amortenia with a touch of basilisk venom. Finally rid of Edmund Bennett she was free to marry a wealthy Scandinavian by the name of Kristoffer Hanzel, not quite in love but happy nevertheless.
Hateful of Hansel and his muggle father, Kristoffer disallowed Hansel to return home until after his seventh year of Hogwarts, but unable to stand his step father Hansel instead decided to leave Hogwarts early to find his own way, intent on never again returning to his family. Of course, through years of ridicule for his strange behaviour and unfortunate name he was now more isolated than ever, darkly fascinated with what his professors had refused, repeatedly, to teach him: the Dark Arts.
Hansel spent the next twenty years moving around the less well travelled parts of Europe and East Asia, studying dark creatures and discovering tainted magical practises that were shunned by Western wizarding society. He lived in one place for the longest in Moscow for eight years, having met an eccentric Polish sorcerer called Ludvik Nauczyciel. Ludvik saw in Hansel a familiar hidden frustration, and took the young Englishman under his wing, giving him a mentor for the first time in his life. Through Ludvik Hansel was free to indulge in the black magic that had always been withheld from him, turning into an unrivalled apprentice in voodoo and necromancy. While earning a small living as a magician performing to easily bedazzled muggles in a Moscow theatre, Hansel became acquainted with a talented squib potions master by the name of Egor Vladilen. Together they opened up a small apothecary to cater to the more accepting Dark practitioners of the Moscow wizarding community, quickly attracting many patrons who wished to finance him. Now comfortably rich and surrounded by like minded wizards, Hansel was free to let his pleasures turn to other things.
Despite having been considered pale and gangly in the awkward years of his adolescence, Hansel enjoyed the company of many beautiful young men and women in the luxurious social circle Ludvik provided him. Fuelled by money and enhanced by elixirs, these relationships were fast and furious, often ending dramatically due to Hansel’s poor social skills and inability to control his destructive desires. He soon learned to use people in the same manner that his mother had taught him, preying on and torturing those who came to love him. Rumours of his wild nature soon reached the ears of one Solomon Elinsky, a powerful wizard who was the son of a rich Russian nobleman. Through confidants Hansel learned that Solomon had an eye for him, and captivated by the idea of having someone so influential to control, he sought to toy with Solomon.
Although Solomon revelled in Hansel's false and fleeting affections for a while, he was soon heart broken to learn that Hansel preferred to torment him rather than offer the love he had so effortless given everybody else. But his misery only entertained Hansel further, provoking him to declare he would never love Solomon, no matter how hard he tried. Driven mad by this threat and endlessly drowning in what he believed was love, Solomon took the life of Lolita, a famously adored witch who Hansel had recently become engaged to in a bid to get closer to her mother, one Anastasia Ananov, the only woman in Russia rumoured to have created more than one Horcrux. Although disgusted by Solomon and in mourning of Lolita, Hansel gave in to leaving Russia with Solomon, the shimmering green light of the Killing Curse forever imprinted on his vision.
Traumatized and spiritually weakened by what had happened Hansel fell easy prey to Solomon’s conditioning. They travelled to a dark corner of North Wales, breaking all connections with their old lives and becoming cold, empty recluses, their mutual hate for each other slowly festering as they worked as muggle morticians in a heavily haunted village. Hansel continued to study the Dark Arts in the secret depths of their home, thoughts of death and murder slowly growing in the back of his mind, while Solomon spent increasing amounts of time drinking in the village. When Hansel found out that he had been sleeping with a muggle girl, he finally took the initiative to murder his last remaining lover. Luring Solomon to the village’s deserted woodland, Hansel cut off his head and bound his soul to the earth he died upon, cursed to spend eternity there until Hansel saw it fit to release him. Hansel left that night without a single possession, heading straight for Scotland and the last place he knew to call home....


Hex code: #333333