Alys Diederich

[Guest]

Name: Alys Diederich
Age: 11
Birthday: February 26th
Birthplace: Somewhere outside of Berlin
Current Home: (Must be in the Germany or Austria) Somewhere near the coast (Muggle area), disclosed location due to her parents’ stance in the ongoing war.
Blood Status: Half Blood, with both magical parents.

Character Appearance:

Hair Style and Colour: Blonde, naturally straight
Eye Colour: Blue, sometimes appears blue-gray
Height: Tall for her age
Build: Skinny, flat
Dress Sense: Horrible. Wears dresses her mother picks out for her even though she knows they don’t suit her. Too uninterested in doing her own shopping.
Other (Tattoo's etc): Birthmark that looks like something between a squiggly line and a horizontal worm having a spasm on her left shoulder blade.

Character Information:

Character Likes: Her mother’s baking, cloud watching from trees or lying on her back, riding her bicycle through the village.
Character Dislikes: Long lectures on the current war (hears enough of them at home), politics and how they affect her life, bullies and make up.
Hobbies: Cycling, playing exploding snap, listening to Quidditch commentary on the radio
Strengths: Quick (not just in terms of movements, she picks things up quickly too), good poker face
Weaknesses: Easily agitated, socially awkward

School: (She currently attends a Muggle school and is home tutored in magic by her parents)

Favourite Lesson: World history (its interesting, and when it isn’t, you can nod off and the teacher won’t notice)
Least Favourite Lesson: Mathematics (wastes a lot of time and paper)
Would you Want To Take Part In An Apprenticeship?: Depends on who’s offering

Preferred House:

Risiko (The House of Fear)
Mühe (The House of Pain) (/)
Geschick (The House of Cunning)
Verstand (The House of Intellect)

Character Background:

Alys was born mid flight, in the sense that her parents were running away from wherever they used to stay when her mama was pregnant and Alys came unexpectedly, two months ahead of schedule. She had to be delivered in an inn by the innkeeper’s wife who assured Mrs. Diederich she was a qualified midwife. In appreciation for her kindness in letting them shelter at the inn and helping to birth their daughter, Alys’ parents named her after the woman.

For as long as Alys can remember, she’s lived in this Muggle village/small town. Her parents are activists of some sort and have driven into her how war is the “root of all evil and by taking sides, we only encourage that evil to spread”. They preach mercy and unity and concepts that the girl has a hard time understanding and make her wish her parents were as interested in her as they are in the war. For example, when she was first discovering magic she asked her parents how to hex a group of Muggle boys who kept teasing her at school and her parents gave her a half hour lecture on how it was wrong to use magic against Muggles because they didn’t have any. Her parents didn’t even stop to give her a chance to explain that she wanted to hex them because they were mean to her, not because they were Muggles.

After that, Alys stopped trying to be heard.

Mother: Maria Diederich (nee Hertzog)
Father: Alfons Diederich
Siblings: -
Boyfriend/Girlfriend: - Once in standard two when she was seven. He took her toys and hid them in the sandbox, she threw her juice box at him and stained his shirt. End of relationship and she doesn’t even remember his name now.

Other: -

Wand: 13 inches, Ash, Direwolf fang. The wandmaker called it “adaptable” and she has no idea what it means.
Pet: -