Professor Pietro Alessio Maximoff, Order of the Star of Romania, Hero of the Mezzogiorno, Order of Horus, Order of St. Clair (born Pietro Alessio De Santa; 22 September, 1977), also known as Lupe when in his animagus form, was a half-blood wizard from Southern Italy, son of the late Donatello De Santa and his wife, Carmela (née Scicolone). Born in Naples in Southern Italy, Pietro lost his father at the age of three. After his father's death, Carmela remarried Antoine Maximoff, a Romanian widower from New Zealand and struggling author who had a son of his own: Mateo. He took his step-father's last name and began attending the New Alexandria School of Enlightenment in 1988, followed by his younger brother, Marco, in 1990.