CARADOC DEARBORN’S CHILDHOOD !
Caradoc was born to two muggle parents, Kenneth and Rosemary Dearborn, who both worked as devoted scientists. For a while, his childhood was happy. He was doted on and adored by his parents and grew up happily in Cardiff, Wales. At the age of eight, things started to change. His mother gave birth to his twin siblings, Nicholas and Julie. Caradoc was very protective over them and often watched over them, helping his parents frequently.
At the age of eleven, during the summer, Caradoc received his letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His parents didn’t take it seriously and told him that it was someone playing a trick. Caradoc, however, finally had an explanation for the weird magical things that would happen around him. It took a wizard sent out from Hogwarts, who sat down with his parents and demonstrated magic, to show them it was real.
Still, like it was mentioned before, Caradoc’s parents were scientists. They had a very hard time accepting that magic was real, and that their son was a wizard, as it went against everything they had studied. This was when things started to change between Caradoc and his parents. They drifted apart, spending lots of their time paying more attention to Nicholas and Julie. They told Caradoc that he was a young man and that he needed to figure out things for himself — that was their excuse for giving him less attention, as they were weirded out by the whole magic thing. They never directly told him this, but he could tell.
Kenneth and Rosemary were not happy about Caradoc having to spend the entire academic year at Hogwarts, and less happy that he wasn’t going to receive muggle education. Still, Caradoc went, and he loved it. He was fascinated with magic and with his abilities, and was sorted into Gryffindor house. Caradoc would go on to join the Quidditch team as a Keeper. He was very outgoing and ambitious at Hogwarts, which was a stark contrast to his personality whenever he came home.
For his first couple of visits home, he was excited to tell his family about everything he was learning. His parents didn’t want him to say anything to his siblings, though. Caradoc was also told by his father that he needed to “man-up” and be tough when he got upset about being away from his siblings. Kenneth told him that he had chosen to pursue magic, after-all, and these were the consequences of his decision. He had to learn from them. Soon, the happiness Caradoc had felt at Hogwarts was sucked out of him at home. His parents were determined to make sure he kept up a “proper education”, as they called it. They taught him everything he would be learning if he were at muggle school when he was home, leaving him little time to bond with his siblings or enjoy the holidays.
As he got closer and closer to being seventeen, he was more fed up with the treatment he was getting from his parents, and he was ready to go out and live in the magical world. His parents felt that it was a betrayal, seeing it as him choosing magic over his family, over a perfectly happy life he could have in the Muggle world. Since eighteen was the legal age in the Muggle world, his parents threatened to report him as missing to the authorities if he didn’t agree to attend a Muggle university. So, he did.
When Caradoc turned 18, he started secretly planning to save up enough money to be able to drop university and move into the Wizarding world. The moment he could, he did. This was the final straw, what fully cut him off from his parents. He apologized to his siblings, trying to explain that this was what was best for him. His brother was hurt, but his sister understood more.
The last time he reached out to them was when the war began, to warn them of the danger they were in due to being Muggles. His family appreciated the gesture, but his parents spoke to him very cordially, and very detached. They asked him to distance himself from the war but when he declined, they had nothing else to say on the matter.