Ethan Exham (born 1959) is the oldest son of Roderick and Cecilia Exham of suburban Philadelphia, descended from a long line of pureblood wizards. He entered Kaaterskill Academy of Magic as a member of Bradbury House in 1970. The following year his brother Benedict joined him at school, but was sorted into Tituba House. At school, he was a close friend of Diana Bones, Griffin Lloyd and Olivia O'Keefe. After Kaaterskill, he trained as an Auror. He volunteered to join the joint Auror expedition to Table Mountain, Newfoundland in 1981, but did not receive the assignment. Afterwards, he met Griffin and Diana Lloyd, the only survivors of the expedition, when they returned to the United States, and tried to convince them to return to the Department of Magic. They sought out Cyrus Flyte at Kaater