[center][H1][Color=Red]PROFESSOR WINFIELD[/Color][/H1][/center]
[center][Color=lightsteelblue][H1][B][U]GHOUL STUDIES[/U][/B][/H1][/Color]
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[Center][Color=LightSeaGreen][H1]PROFESSOR[/H1][/Color]
[Color=WhiteSmoke][H2]Christina Lela Winfield[/H2][/Color][/Center]

AGE : 25 (But is actually much older)

CLASS : Ghoul Studies (This is an elective and takes place shortly after nightfall.)

SCHOOLING : (Primary) Koldovstoretz school of Witch Craft and Wizardry
(Specialized) Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages

Bio : Born somewhere in Greece around 1949 Christina was what was known as a temple child because her mother was the Last High Priestess of Hecate and her father unknown. Conceived to be her mother's successor Christina's destiny changed in a senseless attack which left her an orphan and destroyed the temple she'd called home for her first nine years of life.

Raised by an Aunt who was barely related to her Christina was and still is watched over by her mother's ghost and is the reason she is considered one of the Wizarding World's experts on Ghosts, Specters, Spirits and Poltergeist..
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She attended Koldovstoretz in Russia where she proved a quick learner but a problem because of her ability to call Ghosts to herself. Still even with all of Christina's Spectral troubles she graduated in the upper 10% of her class and went on to study Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages in Paris France.

Also an expert maker of potions it is known by a few that Christina has discovered a potion to slow aging or that is at least the suspicion which is why her actual age doesn't match her perceived age.

Sought out by the Death Eaters in the first war Christina became their enemy for refusing to join them and actually aiding those against them. And in the lull between wars Christina made friends with Minerva McGonagall who later asked her to become the former Ghouls teacher's replacement.

She has written 23 books on the various types of Ghosts, Specters and Poltergeist her most famous "The Fetters that Bind and The Dead have Feelings" she also has written 9 books on deciphering the texts of antiquity.

PERSONALITY : Christina is in simple terms spooky many claiming they get a chill whenever she's near, this could be due to the fact that she is always accompanied by a Ghost or just nerves. She's most definitely a night person who's rarely seen out in daylight and when she is she wears dark glasses and a large hat.

Friendly unless angered Christina can become a powerful foe who's mastery of spirit magic can summon an army of Ghosts to her aid. 

Patient and thoughtful she genuinely enjoys teaching often helping her students in classes outside of her own.


WAND : [Hider= Willow](neutral wood, the stronger the will, the more effective the spells.)[/Hider]
11 inches slender and flexible.
Core
[Hider=Shred of Lethifold Cape] (Extremly Useful for Dark Arts and Stunning)[/Hider]
 
PATRONUS : A Huge Cerberus

HOBBIES : Writing, Training animals of various type (Most often Dogs or Wolves) 

PET : [hider=Jager] A Large snow white Irish Wolfhound who can rest his paws on Hagrid's shoulders and look him in the eyes[/Hider]

[Hider=Ghoul Studies]Deep in the dungeons of Hogwarts is found the Serpentine Hall and the classroom of Ghoul Studies. 

Serpentine Hall not properly part of the Dungeons but the entrance to the Catacombs but by Salazar Slytherin in the tenth century. The hall is home to some of Hogwarts most beautiful stonework and sculpted art. But like many such places it is a facade that hides behind it's beauty many secrets in the Catacombs of Hogwarts.

This lonely hall is the place quoted in the legend of horrors that the older students and siblings use to frighten and astound. It is haunted by ghosts which names are known to only other ghosts and of course the Professor of Ghoul Studies 

The quiet Miss Winfield is almost never seen above ground in daylight and at night seen more outdoors except on rare occasions at Feasts or important school functions. When she speaks people must strain to hear her but she has demonstrated either an ability or spell that emits a scream equal to a Banshee's which she used to drive back a group of three direwolves that had wandered on campus.

Her quarters are off her classroom and were once an abandoned crypt built for one of the Heirs of Slytherin and are twice as spacious as those of the other professors. (The only draw back is no view.) The Ghoul Studies class is conducted in the catacombs themselves but has as it's actual classroom is a small amphitheater who's lectern sets recessed into a natural half dome of Large crystals. The students desks are spacious and even described as comfy and sit 3-6-12-28 on each level. Four seats are occupied permanently, 2 on the highest level with 1 each on levels 2 an 3. ( 1 Mummy and a Skeleton top level, 1 Ghoul on the third and a former student's ghost on the second level)

The Ghoul Studies class at present has only four registered students. (Aella Arcane 6th year Slytherin. Bella Sinclair 5th year Ravenclaw, 4th year Ravenclaw and Horace Uthur 166th year At Large former Gryffindor 7th year)

Class begins exactly two hours after dark or evening meal in the long nights of winter. Usually Miss Winfield tells her class the history of the area they'll visit that night or the legends of the ghosts they might encounter. Sometimes though Miss Winfield's mother a ghost takes over teaching a portion of the course mother and daughter call practical questions and answers. No one is sure what Miss Winfield does on those night's which she doesn't appear to teach.

Once a month Miss Winfield locks the students in a catacomb section where Peeves is allowed to play with them anyway he wishes so long as they are not harmed. ( Feel free to try magic on Peeves but be warned that he's resisted many attempts to expel him and a couple of those that tried had to leave the school shortly afterwards.)[/Hider]