What is there to life when everything that makes it has been lost?

You (Masanori "Terrence" Shimomura), and your family before you, the Shimomura bloodline... were all kitsune, with fox ears and fox tails (the tail count was always 3). And being kitsune, you were exiled from your home country, Japan, with all of your family members being erased.

Even by wizarding standards, you were... different. Perhaps it was your inability to feel human emotion. Perhaps it was your desire to simply stay in the classroom, staring blankly at the blackboard, away from the ruckus outside. Or perhaps it was your ability to cast N.E.W.T. level spells by the age of 9.

August 12th, 1991 (Harry's first year). Now that you've turned 11, you're sitting there in your room in the orphanage in London, away from prying eyes. You stared at the wall, blankly, until an owl flew in through your window, dropping... a letter on the windowsill.