Thomas Proudfoot

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Euphoria Lane	not_so_proud	Christian Camargo

Basic Stats

Full Name: Thomas Proudfoot
Nickname(s): Tom
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Date of Birth: November 7, 1966
Zodiac: Scorpio
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Separated from Erin Branstone
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Bristol, England
Residence: 215 Euphoria Lane, flat 1A
House & Year: Gryffindor 1985
Occupation: Retired auror
Pet: None

Family

Father: John Proudfoot (wizard; Hufflepuff alumnus)
Mother: Mary Proudfoot (née Anders; witch; Ravenclaw alumna)
Sister: Brianna Proudfoot (witch; Gryffindor 1989; reporter: The Daily Prophet; d. February 20, 1999, tortured to death by Death Eaters)

Wife: Erin Proudfoot (née Branstone; witch; Gryffindor 1989; married 1992)
Daughter: Gwen Proudfoot (b. 1995)
Son: Brandon Proudfoot (b. 1998)

History

John Proudfoot met Mary Anders when they were both students at Hogwarts. They were in the same year, though different houses (John in Hufflepuff and Mary in Ravenclaw). They had classes together, but that was about the extent of their interaction throughout their seven years in Hogwarts' hallowed halls: each had their own circle of friends that didn't cross paths much, as well as their own interests (John was involved in quidditch, Mary in wizard's chess). John's strength was potions, Mary's was charms. They knew of each other, saw each other in the corridors, at meals, and in class, but that was about it. Until two years after they finished at Hogwarts, when they ran into each other in Flourish & Blotts in Diagon Alley. John ended up asking Mary to dinner, and a few years later, they were married.

Son Thomas was born a couple years later in 1966. Daughter Brianna followed five years later in 1971. From the start, Thomas was a devoted older brother to his little sister. He was her protector, standing up for her when bullies tried to pick on her. By the time that Thomas's Hogwarts owl arrived in 1978, Voldemort was rising for the first time. Terror was sweeping the wizarding world. Thomas didn't want to leave for school, he didn't want to leave his sister or his parents. But John and Mary insisted, knowing that Hogwarts was safe and wanting at least Thomas to be somewhere safe. So Thomas went off to Hogwarts, where he was sorted into Gryffindor. While at school, he nearly went out of his mind with worry for his family, living for the letters that arrived from home, devouring the Daily Prophet every day, looking for news of home. He worked out his nerves on the quidditch pitch starting in his second year as a beater for the house team.

In 1981, when Voldemort was defeated, there was celebration all around the school. The Proudfoot family was still all in one piece, and Thomas was able to relax. The following September, as he was starting his fifth year, Brianna joined him at Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor with him. He resumed his role of protecting his little sister, guarding her from any bullies in the school, but these years at Hogwarts were more light-hearted and happy than Thomas's early ones had been. It was also in this year that Thomas decided to become an Auror. He had admired those who had fought off the Death Eaters in the war, and he wanted to be like them. After earning Os in the required O.W.L.s, he took those N.E.W.T.-level classes, as well, earning high enough marks to gain entrance into the Auror program after he finished school in 1985.

Thomas did well in Auror training, and after he finished, he joined the other Aurors in the task of trying to round up the last of the Death Eaters who had been missed in the years immediately after the fall. On a rare day off in the summer of 1989, the year his sister had finished school, he ran into Brianna and her best friend, Erin Branstone, who were doing some shopping on Diagon Alley. Brianna introduced (or, rather, re-introduced, since Thomas had known his sister's friends in school) Thomas and Erin, and Thomas was quite taken with the younger woman. Brianna later confessed to her older brother that Erin'd had a crush on him in school. They hit it off, and were married in 1992.

The early years of their married life was blissful, but it seemed like, before he knew it, the war was starting up all over again. Of course, when Harry Potter, savior of the wizarding world, began proclaiming that Voldemort had returned in 1995, Thomas didn't want to believe it was true. He would rather believe the Minister and pretend that things were fine. He didn't want his new family, especially the young life growing inside his wife, to be tainted by another war. Unfortunately, shortly after daughter Gwen was born, it became impossible to ignore that Voldemort was back, especially when the Dark Lord himself appeared in the Ministry of Magic.

As The Boy Who Lived was returning to Hogwarts for his sixth year in 1996, Thomas was one of the Aurors assigned to protect the school. He took his job exceedingly seriously, though what he really wanted to do was be out there in the field, hunting down Death Eaters. He got his wish later in the war, when he was out on the field. Unfortunately, being back out in the field was the beginning of the spiral to the end.

Despite the joy that was the birth of son Brandon in 1998, their joy was tainted not only by the war, but by a more personal loss. On February 20, 1999, Brianna (who was a reporter for the Daily Prophet) was tortured to death by a pack of Death Eaters. Thomas was one of the Aurors who responded to the scene, knowing nothing but that there was a Dark Mark in the sky.

After the death of his sister, Thomas went a little crazy. He snapped, for lack of a better word. Vengeance was the name of his game. He wanted every Death Eater to suffer painfully. He wanted them to experience what his sister must have had to endure before she died. He let his rage override his common sense, leading him to enter dangerous situations with little to no care for his own well-being. All he cared about was to make the Death Eaters suffer. He was also driven by a need to protect his family, fearful of what would happen if something happened to Erin or the children.

July 18, 2000, was the end of things for Thomas' career. He stupidly charged into a den of Death Eaters alone, without backup. He managed to escape with his life, but his career as an Auror was finished. A hex from one of the Death Eaters had sheared his left pinky completely off. He could have managed without his pinky, but a hex from another Death Eater destroyed his right thigh. The healers at St. Mungo's were unable to fully restore his thigh, and from thereafter he could only barely manage to limp along with the help of a cane, after much physical therapy.

By the time the war ended a few months later, Thomas was a changed man. Despite the love of his wife and children, he withdrew. He felt useless. He felt like a failure. He was so wrapped up in the grief about not being able to protect his sister that he couldn't even see his wife's pain at having lost her best friend. Thomas retreated to alcohol to dull the pain. He became nothing more than a shadow of his former self, a hollow shell of nothingness. He couldn't bear to look at his children, to have them know what a failure and a loser he was.

In early 2004, Erin finally had enough of her husband returning home completely smashed. Although he never physically harmed her or the children, he was no longer the man she married, and the stress of their loss combined with Thomas' drinking problems (though he insisted that he did not have a problem) was too much for her. She kicked him out of the house, and she plans to file for divorce.