Selim Mataraci

Professor Selim Mataraci (b. 1843) doesn't often leave his small potions laboratory, located in a pied a terre underneath Brigg's Brooms, and few people in Diagon Alley has actually spoken to him. But don't be scared by his dark stare and heavy brows - Mataraci is a kind wizard, if yet slightly eccentric. Originally from Turkey, he moved over to London ten years ago, for a reason he keeps to himself. Diagon Alley quickly became his home, and he spends most of his days experimenting, and multicoloured puffs of smoke can often be seen rising from the basement. Nowadays he has an apprentice, a miss Tugwood, who runs his errands for him.