Charles Richardson
OOC
| Game | Journal | Portrayed By |
|---|---|---|
| The Professors' Lounge | not_chuck | Jeremy Irons |
Basic Stats
Full Name: Charles Donovan Richardson
Nickname(s): None
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Date of Birth: December 15, 1956
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Divorced (twice)
Bloodline: Squib
Hometown: Kenmare, Ireland
Schooling: Kenmare Primary School (1969); Kenmare Secondary School (1975); BA in Mathematics and Psychology (TSM) from Trinity College, Dublin (1979); P.Grad.Dip in Education (Secondary Teaching) from Trinity College, Dublin (1980)
Occupation: Maths professor: Remus Lupin Academy of Magical Education
Pet: None
Family
Father: Colin Stewart Richardson (muggle; doctor)
Mother: Deirdre Ciara Richardson (née Sullivan; witch; Ravenclaw 1952; dressmaker)
Sister: Eden Bailey Spencer (née Richardson; witch; Ravenclaw 1979; potionere / owner: Spencer Apothecaries)
Brother-in-law: Raymond Lucas Spencer (wizard; Gryffindor 1979; potionere / owner: Spencer Apothecaries; d. September 19, 1997)
Nephew: Raymond Lucas Spencer, Jr. (wizard; Ravenclaw 2002; journalist)
Niece: Lainey Deirdre Spencer (witch; Hufflepuff 2007; trainee healer)
History
Colin Richardson was born and raised in Jolly Old London, but upon becoming a doctor, he promptly decided that he needed to expand his horizons beyond London, even beyond England. So he packed up and moved to Kenmare, Ireland, where he managed to get a position in a small clinic, thanks to references from his former professors. It was at this clinic (or, rather, directly outside of it) that he first met Deirdre Sullivan.
It was an icy day in January of 1953, and Colin had stepped outside for a smoke when he happened to see a pretty young woman slip on the ice and go down hard. True to his medical training, Colin was immediately crouching at her side, helping her up and into the clinic to take a look at her. She wasn't too hurt, merely a sprained wrist, which Colin wrapped in a bandage and jokingly informed her that there were easier ways than falling to apply ice to the injury.
The young woman thanked him, paid for his services, and was gone with a sweep of her black cloak, promising that she would be more careful on the ice. Colin had mostly forgotten about the girl when, a month later, she was thrown into his path again, this time at a small café down the street from the clinic. Colin re-introduced himself to her, and found out her name; he then proceeded to ask her out for dinner, which she accepted. After a year of dating, Colin proposed to Dierdre in February of 1954, and they were married that summer. In the year and a half that they had known each other, Colin always knew that there was something different about Dierdre, but she never told him the truth: she was a witch.
In December of 1956, their first child was born, a son whom they named Charles. Dierdre knew that, sooner or later, she would have to tell Colin that she was a witch, since it was likely that Charles and any other children that they might have would also be magical. However, Charles was showing no signs of magic, even after his sister Eden was born in October of 1960. In early 1964, Dierdre finally had to tell Colin (and seven-year-old Charles, who still had not shown any signs of magic) when three-year-old Eden levitated her blocks while playing. It took Colin a while to adjust to the idea, but he was surprisingly okay with the fact that not only was his wife a witch, but she had also been lying to him about it for eleven years.
Charles immediately became jealous of his little sister. He wanted to do magic, too! He tried everything he could think of to do magic, but nothing he tried worked, while his little sister was doing all sorts of magic tricks effortlessly. His earlier closeness to and overprotectiveness of his little sister was replaced by intense jealousy. His jealousy only expanded when, in the summer of 1972, an owl came with a letter for Eden, inviting her to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Dierdre had told both of the children (and Colin) all about the school, and Charles had desperately wanted to go; when the summer of 1968 came and went without a letter for him, though, he began hoping that Eden wouldn't get to go, either.
But go off to Hogwarts Eden did, leaving Charles behind in Kenmare to attend the regular, muggle schools. He couldn't even take much comfort in the fact that his father was a muggle, too, because Charles saw his father as a hopeless geek and he didn't want to be like him. He was, however, quite gifted at mathematics, so when he finished secondary school in 1975, he left Kenmare behind to attend Trinity College, Dublin, pursuing a double degree in mathematics and psychology.
It was at Trinity College that Charles met Jeanne Wills. She was in many of the same courses as he was, as she was also majoring in psychology. At the end of their second year, while they were both celebrating the end of end-of-term exams by getting completely wasted, they ended up getting married. Charles had never intended to get married (he had always been more of a love-em-and-leave-em type, dating many girls throughout secondary school and university), and he certainly had no plans to remain faithful to his sudden wife, so he sought an annullment. Jeanne, on the other hand, did want to be married, but to someone who loved her and would be faithful to her, not someone like Charles, so the dissolution of their brief marriage was amicable.
His second marriage, in 1982, lasted slightly longer and was infinitely more dramatic: full of yelling matches and things being thrown about. Charles married Anne Bernard because she thought she was pregnant, and it was a shotgun wedding in every sense of the word. When Anne turned out not to be pregnant, the arguments started, about everything from Anne faking a pregnancy in order to marry Charles, to Charles sleeping around with other women. Once their marriage was finally over, Charles decided that marriage certainly wasn't for him: it only complicated things and was too monogamous for him.
Career-wise, Charles decided to get a graduate degree in education, so that he could teach mathematics. After earning his degree, he gained a position as a maths teacher at his old secondary school in Kenmare, a position that he held for twenty-seven years, until his sister informed him of an open position for a maths teacher at a relatively new school: the Remus Lupin Academy. She had remembered that her brother had always been jealous of her for attending Hogwarts, and that he wanted to go, so she thought that he would get a kick out of teaching at a school that took in kids like him, squibs (though she didn't come out and directly say that to him), as well as other beings who aren't wizards. Charles applied, and he got the position starting in the 2008-2009 school year.