Officer Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Sparks is the Magnolian School’s Sorcery Resource Officer or SRO. As a result, he is a sworn police officer in the town of Davis, complete with badge, but spends his time at the school and is only rarely called upon to do any police work outside of it. He still shows up to work in a full blue uniform, however.

Despite being named after an illustrious forebear, Officer LQC Sparks is a suspicious, irritable, and unpopular man at Magnolian, widely loathed by students and teachers. The LQC in his name is often taken to mean “Low Quality Cop,” which Sparks will react strongly and negatively to. This is quite deliberate on the part of the school’s principal, Cyrus Ember, who is well aware of Sparks’s shortcomings but prefers to use him as a hate sink, pinning him with unpopular decisions and the enforcement of rules. While seemingly undermining him at every turn, Ember nevertheless has Sparks’s total loyalty due to his gift of a rather low-quality wand, which Sparks has taken to carrying instead of a pistol.

He is not a smart man, nor a creative one, but Sparks does have a certain cunning about him and, unlike most students and staff, he is allowed to sling spells with the intent to harm. Rumor has it that he only knows one spell–bullet ant, a spell that feels like the pain of being stung by a South American venomous ant.