Alina Carnell | Second Year | Hufflepuff

Name: Alina Carnell
DOB: 17 July 2013
Age: 12 years, 3 months
School Year: Second
House: Hufflepuff
Species: Human

Biography: Alina was born to Paul and Diana Carnell on July 17th, 2013 in Portland, Oregon. She was born a month early when her parents were visiting relatives in the United States. As such Alina gained both British citizenship and American citizenship. Alina is the younger sister to Markus, who is five years her senior. Her family resides in Swansea, Wales on a property that backs up to a large woodland preserve. When she was younger, Alina would spend a lot of time outside in the woods building forts with her brother and using sticks to sword fight and play fantasy games in the woods. To which her parents always admonished her brother because Alina would come in covered in scratches and the occasional cut from rough housing with her brother.

Alina didn’t play a lot of video games as a young child with the most notable of them being Minecraft. She was also weirdly good at both Monopoly and Risk and as such neither were allowed to be played in the house.

When Alina was younger, Markus was learning to play the violin. Neither of their parents were too musically inclined with her father being able to play a few songs on the piano. As such, when she reached the age of eight, Markus began to teach her how to play. She naturally excelled which was surprising to the family, and she continued to play even after Markus quit when he started high school.

Paul Carnell is a local journalist. Diana Carnell is a veterinarian. Markus had an affinity and excelled in History. Despite that, Alina found a fascination in math and chemistry in late elementary school. She was well above her reading level, with the Lord of the Rings books being her favorite series. Her favorite movies were the Pirate of the Caribbean movies.

The family rescued their dog Arwen after she was abandoned at Diana’s Vet clinic. Arwen is a small beagle who loves to roam around the yard and collect sticks. She often sleeps at the foot of Alina’s bed when given free roam of the house.


First Instance of Magic: At age 9, Alina and her classmates were given an experiment regarding the very basics of density. The experiment involved a test tube, a piece of paper towel, and a bowl filled with water. The goal was to keep the piece of paper towel from getting wet, which her group figured out, but when she dunked it back in---it still didn't get wet. Even when she put the paper in by itself, she was always able to pull it out dry.