DATE OF BIRTH: May 3rd 1959
SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English (fluent), Marathi (fluent), and French (fluent)
AFFILIATIONS: Death Eaters
WEIGHT: Around 185 pounds
SCARS: One on his left pec from a Diffindo that backfired
TATTOOS: The Dark Mark on his left forearm
FAMILY RESIDENCE: Windsor, England
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Hogwarts castle, Scotland
FINANCIAL STATUS: Extremely wealthy parents
WAND: Dragon heartstring, black walnut wood, 12 ¾ inches, unyielding
POSITIVE TRAITS: Courageous, passionate, strong willed
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Arrogant, entitled, judgemental
LIKES: Poking and prodding until he finds a weakness in his peers, crisp white shirts, crups, liquorice wands, Quidditch.
DISLIKES: The colour yellow, having a future laid out for him, exploding bon bon’s, group activities, people who snore.
Taran Patil is the only child of wealthy wizarding extremists, Arjun and Priya Patil. His grandparents on his fathers side emigrated from Mumbai in 1902 and began an antiques business in France that was eventually passed down to his own father. He grew up with his parents in Paris and attended daily lessons with his tutor at the request of his mother until he received his acceptance to Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.
His father was noticeably cold and absent during his childhood, preferring to spend his time on business trips rather than with his son, but his his mother was a constant presence in his life and he considers himself very close with her. When he wasn’t taking lessons, taran spent many happy hours talking to her in the garden over tea during the summer months or holed up in their cosy home library when it rained. His lack of connection with his father and the seeing his mother constantly alone and left behind shaped the way he views relationships in a negative way.
Taran isn’t one for team sports, never has been and never will be. But he likes flying and Quidditch and while he never tried out for the team he still enjoys a lazy sunday game of Quidditch with his mates in the grounds of his own home or the Quidditch pitch at Beauxbatons with his school friends.
In 1976 his family moved from Paris to Windsor, England at the insistance of his father who had become an avid follower of the Dark Lord during his trips to the UK. His mother had no complaints about the move and Taran was pulled from Beauxbatons at the end of his sixth year and began his seventh and final year at Hogwarts as a transfer student.
He made friends easily, charming his housemates in no time at all, but branching out and making friends with students from other houses isn’t something that’s high on his priority list. After all, he’s only got one year left at school and most the influential family’s are in Slytherin house anyway so why waste his time. He has little to no patience for most people, but will make exceptions for certain friends.
As of his seventh year, Taran is still unaware that he is not the only child of his parents. Taran is in fact a twin - the child that his parents chose to keep while offering his twin sister up for adoption. He has heard whispers from the house elves that perhaps he wasn’t the only child born to his parents, but he assumed that his father had had an affair at some point and produced an illegitimate heir. It’s not until he meet’s Harriet - the spitting image of his own mother - that he realises he needs more than the odd fragment of information here and there to piece together parts of his life that he didn’t know were missing.
Taran is expected to take over as head of the family antiques business when he leaves school, but secretly he’s been looking into joining the international Unspeakables as a Legilimens.
Tran can be unnecessarily unkind, if not outright cruel when he wants to be, and he’s the kind of person that seeks to undermine other peoples confidence. If he finds a weakness he will exploit it, either for his own gain or his own enjoyment. There has never been a limit to how far he’s willing to take something and if he’s being honest with himself that kind of scares him. Not that he’d ever admit to being scared.
Taran has terrible insomnia and there’s every chance if you’re up early enough you can find him outside in the frigid morning air or reading in the common room.
Wandless magic and Legilimency are carefully curated talents that Taran possesses.
He can produce a corporeal patronus
Taran is accomplished with dark magic though he has yet to use an Unforgivable
Upon leaving school, Taran hopes to join the international Unspeakables as a Ligilimens.
