Matilda (Professor) Weasley

Professor Matilda Weasley (fl. 19th century) was a witch who lived during the 19th century. In her youth, she attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, before going on to work for the British Ministry of Magic as a Curse-Breaker. Later, she returned to her old school, becoming the professor of Transfiguration and, eventually, Deputy Headmistress. Matilda was born into the wizarding Weasley family and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she was sorted into Gryffindor House. Noted to have been an "exceptionally talented witch", she was presumably a gifted pupil.

In her second year, she met and befriended Deek, an old house-elf employed in the school's kitchens, and together, they discovered the Room of Requirement. She would visit the room many more times throughout her schooling, at one point forgetting her school bag there, which she recovered only while showing the room to a new student during the 1890–1891 school year, much to her delight.

After graduating, Matilda joined the British Ministry of Magic as a Curse-Breaker. Her calming presence and extraordinary wandwork allowed her to rise quickly through the ranks. Around this time, Matilda also befriended Chiyo Kogawa, a Mahoutokoro-educated witch of the Japanese Ministry of Magic, whom she stayed in touch with over the years that followed.

At some point during her Ministry career, Matilda met and fell in love with a Curse-Breaker named Paul, who reciprocated her feelings, and before long, Matilda had resigned her position at the Ministry in favour of travelling the world with him as freelance Curse-Breakers. With time, however, Matilda began to miss her family, the stability of a settled life, and the camaraderie of working with a talented group of witches and wizards. As Paul had no desire to "stop moving", their romance ended, and Matilda settled back down in Britain by herself.

At some point before 1890, Matilda took over from an unidentified predecessor. Matilda became the professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, and proved herself to be a stern yet fair-minded instructor regarded for her ability to combine a good sense of humour with an air of authority. She was also eventually promoted to the position of Deputy Headmistress, in which capacity her students found her to be "slightly intimidating".

In her role, she took great care to supervise and discipline her nephew, Garreth Weasley, who was a student at the school in her care, though Garreth felt his aunt was too overbearing and protective.

As Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black had delegated her the job of handling staff appointments, she recruited Chiyo Kogawa as the school's new Flying Instructor and Quidditch referee after learning about a bad experience she had had during a try-out for the Toyohashi Tengu. Matilda had also befriended Mudiwa Onai, a gifted Seer and educator at Uagadou, with whom she was friendly enough that when she learned of the unexpected death of the latter's husband, she offered words of consolation and successfully persuaded Professor Black to let her invite Mudiwa to teach at Hogwarts instead.

In 1890, a new student was to be enrolled at the school to start as a fifth-year, and Matilda wrote them a unique acceptance letter informing them of their unusual situation and the preparation required. Around the time the letter was dispatched to the student, a strange magical disturbance took place at the school that greatly concerned the student body. Professor Weasley joined Professor Hecat in Classroom 3C to address the fourth-year students, where she admitted that the staff had no knowledge of what had caused the disturbance to happen. To help the future student catch up with their classmates, Matilda discussed with Professor Black and officers from the Department of Magical Education, who lent the school a copy of the Wizard's Field Guide to give to the student. She additionally organised for them to receive extracurricular assignments from their professors.

As a Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, Professor Weasley was accomplished in this branch of magic, for which she had the utmost respect, considering that it could take a lifetime to master it.

As a former Curse-Breaker, she was proficient with counter-curse.

Matilda was a powerful witch able to cast a variety of spells and charms. During the battle against the goblins trying to attack the repository located under Hogwarts, she cast a powerful Levitation Charm to prevent a pillar of stone from falling on her student and made it move to create a makeshift bridge out of it.

Like most adult witches and wizards, Matilda could Apparate willingly, doing so in the battle against Ranrok's goblin army, where she along with other teachers Apparated to the location.

Given that the Weasleys were included in the Pure-Blood Directory in 1930, and pure-blood families were established as statement against marriage to Muggles, and Muggle-borns in some cases, and given that Matilda held a prominent role at Hogwarts and would likely have been known to the Pure-Blood Directory publisher, it is extremely unlikely that she is a Muggle or Muggle-born. However, the Weasleys did note that they had Muggle ancestors.

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