Post by DORIAN RUDOLF D'AVOLOS on Oct 17, 2014 22:02:21 GMT
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DORIAN RUDOLF D'AVOLOS [break]
Mads Mikkelsen
DORIAN RUDOLF D'AVOLOS [break]
Mads Mikkelsen
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THE BASICS
THE BASICS
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full name: Dorian Rudolf d'Avolos[break]
nick name(s): N/A[break]
blood status: pureblood[break]
ability: Legilimency; Nonverbal Magic[break]
house: N/A; Beauxbatons[break]
wand type: Nine-and-one-quarter-inch, Unicorn Hair, Rosewood[break][break]
birthday: February 22, 1976 [break]
age: Forty-Seven [break]
gender: Male[break]
orientation: Bisexual[break][break]
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full name: Dorian Rudolf d'Avolos[break]
nick name(s): N/A[break]
blood status: pureblood[break]
ability: Legilimency; Nonverbal Magic[break]
house: N/A; Beauxbatons[break]
wand type: Nine-and-one-quarter-inch, Unicorn Hair, Rosewood[break][break]
birthday: February 22, 1976 [break]
age: Forty-Seven [break]
gender: Male[break]
orientation: Bisexual[break][break]
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HISTORY
HISTORY
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The Son Also Rises:[break]
An Exposer by Caeden Cleverly
[break][break]An Exposer by Caeden Cleverly
The solstice of June this year ushered in a good many changes, none perhaps more prominent in the life of this author than the appointment of a new Editor-in-Chief of this very Daily Prophet in one Dorian d'Avolos. The appointment may seem an auspicious one for any of a number of reasons: This marking the first foreign-born wizard to sit this position or the lack of any prior journalism credential to the appointee's name. Though perhaps what stands out more prominent is that the appointment was made by d'Avolos himself of himself, as he and his father purchased the controlling interest in our fair paper less than a month prior.[break][break]
So who is this mysterious wizard now at the helm of Wizarding Britain's most prominent publication? At first approach he is immaculately posh, never a hair out of place, a stray whisker missed by the shaving blade, or even a lone bit of lint to be found on his suits of lush cashmere or velvet. Dorian d'Avolos is the surviving son of Oscar, of the Spanish antiquity mercantile d'Avoloses, and Enora, of the Flemish Zeler's whose history has proven quite difficult to unearth. Surviving in the sense that he had a twin who died in utero during the final weeks of their mother's pregnancy. Though it may seem at first peculiar, the child Dorian was very much the mirror image of the man - quite put together, quietly observing, rigidly disciplined, though with a seething temper boiling just below the surface. When the boy would lash out, in often violent fits, the woe that befell the house elves and hired help was quite legendary in his native Ghent.[break][break]
The d'Avolos wealth and prominence stretching a good many generations within the pureblood line, the child Dorian never had a material want, a fact which almost appeared to some casual observers to perturb the lad to no end. "He was certainly an odd* boy," Maud Gregoire of Ghent recalls. "Utterly devoid of dirt to the point I swore his mother must have charmed his clothes to repel it. So unlike other children; never a skinned knee or scraped elbow or even grime under his fingernails. And always so reserved, well-mannered but very curt and brusque. It's a wonder if that boy was ever aware that he was a child."[break][break]
*Author's note: As my Flemish isn't the best, "odd" is the best approximation I can define of Mrs. Gregoire's descriptor.[break][break]
Following his eleventh summer, as both his parents had done before him, Dorian began his attendance at famed L'Academie de Magie de Beauxbatons (or Beauxbatons Academy for those of us who do not speak froggish) in the south of France. Schoolmates recount him as very studious but also borderline antisocial. "Dorian had friends, in the sense that there were other students that considered themselves his friend, but to whom he treated like they were sycophants." Alessia Marveaux, who now makes her home in London, attended Beauxbatons for the final five of d'Avolos' seven years. "Honestly, there were girls, myself included, who found his brooding irrecoverably attractive. It certainly didn't hurt that he dressed keenly, had a strong build, and came from money either. In a school of a good many highly attractive young wizards, Dorian d'Avolos was a prize among many of the girls, even some of those a year or two ahead of him." But, as Ms. Marveaux told us on a follow-up, d'Avolos was no prize of a boyfriend for those girls who managed to snag his attentions. She recalled a friend she would identify only as Sophie who told her of Dorian being verbally abusive and incredibly controlling in private, while maintaining the public persona of something of a distempered peacock.[break][break]
As a student, Dorian was known for his prowess with charms and hexes, recognized as having an excellence that rivaled that of students three and four years his senior. He tested phenomenally, though seemed to many to be rather indifferent, perhaps because his excellence was merely par for the course where the astronomical expectations of his father were concerned. It was suspected at the time by some Beauxbatons professors that Dorian's marks could not be achieved without cheating, however, try as they might, they could not substantiate their suspicions with hard evidence. One proposed theory was that the boy, though rare for his age and not a skill taught by the Academy, was using legilimency and using the hushed incantation to pull answers from the minds of fellow students.*[break][break]
*Second author's note: Mercurio d'Avolos, father of Oscar, was a reputed legilimens, so it is certainly conceivable (though not provable by this journalist) that he trained his son or grandson in the practice. While nigh impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, the legilimency theory certainly holds water.[break][break]
Following his Beauxbaton's graduation, Dorian took employment in the International Magical Trading Standards Body, acting on the behalf of the French Ministry of Magic and working out of Paris. The position was one that was a bit rare for such a young wizard to attain, but with his exemplary marks and his father's wide-reaching influences across Western Europe it surprised very few. There was suspicion in some circles that Dorian's appointment was a machination of his father in order to maneuver and subvert trade standards for his own financial gain as much as possible. Paris itself suited Dorian immensely and even began to crack the icy veneer he had carried as a boy. Dressing in only the high fashion of the times, he developed a reputation as a dandy with a deceptive nature - silver-tongued and sly and least to be trusted when he smiled.[break][break]
With time, an a clandestine affair with the female Junior Assistant to the Minister of Magic that according to rumors may or may not have also included the male Senior Undersecretary, Dorian progressed his way up the ladder within the French Ministry, eventually obtaining a position on Le Comité de les Charmes Expérimentales (Committee on Experimental Charms) where he served for nearly ten years before inexplicably resigning his post and disappearing from record for five years. When he resurfaced circa 2020, it was in a failed attempt to found a Wizarding Bank in Switzerland to rival Gringott's as the lone entity for the Wizarding World. The endeavor was presumably backed by d'Avolos Senior and, as would be expected, earned Dorian no small amount of ire among the goblin community across Europe.[break][break]
With such a history littered with highly questionable, if not outright nefarious, behavior, it should be understandable to our faithful readers why the author and his fellow staffers find our new employer's selection of our paper so problematic. Perhaps even more dubious, as this reporter can personally account, are his semi-regular trips into the shadows of Knockturn Alley where other individuals of highly-debatable repute are also seen to frequent.[break][break]
Editor's Note: The Daily Prophet would like to issue its sincerest apologies for the overly candid and highly-suggestive tone of this article by its author, Mr. Cleverly. It is not the intention of this publication to drag the reputation of any wizard or witch through the proverbial mud. By direct request of its Editor-in-Chief, there will be no retraction as Mister d'Avolos insists that he has nothing to hide and is not ashamed of any of his past, despite what the aim of the formerly-employed Mr. Cleverly may have inferred.
So who is this mysterious wizard now at the helm of Wizarding Britain's most prominent publication? At first approach he is immaculately posh, never a hair out of place, a stray whisker missed by the shaving blade, or even a lone bit of lint to be found on his suits of lush cashmere or velvet. Dorian d'Avolos is the surviving son of Oscar, of the Spanish antiquity mercantile d'Avoloses, and Enora, of the Flemish Zeler's whose history has proven quite difficult to unearth. Surviving in the sense that he had a twin who died in utero during the final weeks of their mother's pregnancy. Though it may seem at first peculiar, the child Dorian was very much the mirror image of the man - quite put together, quietly observing, rigidly disciplined, though with a seething temper boiling just below the surface. When the boy would lash out, in often violent fits, the woe that befell the house elves and hired help was quite legendary in his native Ghent.[break][break]
The d'Avolos wealth and prominence stretching a good many generations within the pureblood line, the child Dorian never had a material want, a fact which almost appeared to some casual observers to perturb the lad to no end. "He was certainly an odd* boy," Maud Gregoire of Ghent recalls. "Utterly devoid of dirt to the point I swore his mother must have charmed his clothes to repel it. So unlike other children; never a skinned knee or scraped elbow or even grime under his fingernails. And always so reserved, well-mannered but very curt and brusque. It's a wonder if that boy was ever aware that he was a child."[break][break]
*Author's note: As my Flemish isn't the best, "odd" is the best approximation I can define of Mrs. Gregoire's descriptor.[break][break]
Following his eleventh summer, as both his parents had done before him, Dorian began his attendance at famed L'Academie de Magie de Beauxbatons (or Beauxbatons Academy for those of us who do not speak froggish) in the south of France. Schoolmates recount him as very studious but also borderline antisocial. "Dorian had friends, in the sense that there were other students that considered themselves his friend, but to whom he treated like they were sycophants." Alessia Marveaux, who now makes her home in London, attended Beauxbatons for the final five of d'Avolos' seven years. "Honestly, there were girls, myself included, who found his brooding irrecoverably attractive. It certainly didn't hurt that he dressed keenly, had a strong build, and came from money either. In a school of a good many highly attractive young wizards, Dorian d'Avolos was a prize among many of the girls, even some of those a year or two ahead of him." But, as Ms. Marveaux told us on a follow-up, d'Avolos was no prize of a boyfriend for those girls who managed to snag his attentions. She recalled a friend she would identify only as Sophie who told her of Dorian being verbally abusive and incredibly controlling in private, while maintaining the public persona of something of a distempered peacock.[break][break]
As a student, Dorian was known for his prowess with charms and hexes, recognized as having an excellence that rivaled that of students three and four years his senior. He tested phenomenally, though seemed to many to be rather indifferent, perhaps because his excellence was merely par for the course where the astronomical expectations of his father were concerned. It was suspected at the time by some Beauxbatons professors that Dorian's marks could not be achieved without cheating, however, try as they might, they could not substantiate their suspicions with hard evidence. One proposed theory was that the boy, though rare for his age and not a skill taught by the Academy, was using legilimency and using the hushed incantation to pull answers from the minds of fellow students.*[break][break]
*Second author's note: Mercurio d'Avolos, father of Oscar, was a reputed legilimens, so it is certainly conceivable (though not provable by this journalist) that he trained his son or grandson in the practice. While nigh impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, the legilimency theory certainly holds water.[break][break]
Following his Beauxbaton's graduation, Dorian took employment in the International Magical Trading Standards Body, acting on the behalf of the French Ministry of Magic and working out of Paris. The position was one that was a bit rare for such a young wizard to attain, but with his exemplary marks and his father's wide-reaching influences across Western Europe it surprised very few. There was suspicion in some circles that Dorian's appointment was a machination of his father in order to maneuver and subvert trade standards for his own financial gain as much as possible. Paris itself suited Dorian immensely and even began to crack the icy veneer he had carried as a boy. Dressing in only the high fashion of the times, he developed a reputation as a dandy with a deceptive nature - silver-tongued and sly and least to be trusted when he smiled.[break][break]
With time, an a clandestine affair with the female Junior Assistant to the Minister of Magic that according to rumors may or may not have also included the male Senior Undersecretary, Dorian progressed his way up the ladder within the French Ministry, eventually obtaining a position on Le Comité de les Charmes Expérimentales (Committee on Experimental Charms) where he served for nearly ten years before inexplicably resigning his post and disappearing from record for five years. When he resurfaced circa 2020, it was in a failed attempt to found a Wizarding Bank in Switzerland to rival Gringott's as the lone entity for the Wizarding World. The endeavor was presumably backed by d'Avolos Senior and, as would be expected, earned Dorian no small amount of ire among the goblin community across Europe.[break][break]
With such a history littered with highly questionable, if not outright nefarious, behavior, it should be understandable to our faithful readers why the author and his fellow staffers find our new employer's selection of our paper so problematic. Perhaps even more dubious, as this reporter can personally account, are his semi-regular trips into the shadows of Knockturn Alley where other individuals of highly-debatable repute are also seen to frequent.[break][break]
Editor's Note: The Daily Prophet would like to issue its sincerest apologies for the overly candid and highly-suggestive tone of this article by its author, Mr. Cleverly. It is not the intention of this publication to drag the reputation of any wizard or witch through the proverbial mud. By direct request of its Editor-in-Chief, there will be no retraction as Mister d'Avolos insists that he has nothing to hide and is not ashamed of any of his past, despite what the aim of the formerly-employed Mr. Cleverly may have inferred.
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