Leizel Price|First Year|Hufflepuff

Leizel has had a happy and loving childhood with her parents and two brothers in the town of Llanelli in Carmarthensire, Wales. She is close with her parents and has always had a positive relationship with her brothers as well. Her older brother, Owen, is 13 and is jealous that she gets to experience the magical world. He wishes he had magic and this has lead to some awkwardness between him and Leizel, but he is trying not to let it come between them. Meanwhile, her younger brother, Evan, is 8 and is now constantly on the lookout for anything that might indicate he has magic too.

Leizel's parents don't really know what to make of this new reality in their world. Her father, Gareth, is a physics professor and is not entirely comfortable with the idea that science can't explain everything. Her mother, Anwen, is simply not the best at dealing with change and is worried that her daughter will become so immersed in the wizarding world that they will lose her to it. Leizel has been able to see them struggling with the concept, which has made her feel a little out of place at home. Her parents are doing their best to be supportive as she begins her magical schooling.

Leizel has always been a reasonably good student during her time at Muggle schools. She has had a small group of friends whom she absolutely adores. She has not been able to tell them why she is changing schools, which is confusing to them as they know her family has not moved and her brothers are still in their regular schooling. She fully intends to write to them regularly and hopes she can explain the change eventually.

Leizel was a little bit of a late bloomer when it comes to magic. Her first instance of magic, as far as she and anybody else knows, happened while she was doing a homework sheet, a little after her 10th birthday. She had been tapping her pencil on the table as she was thinking about how to answer something and, when she let go of her pencil for a moment, instead of dropping to the table it continued tapping by itself. She was extremely confused and screamed when she saw it. When her mother came running, she was just in time to witness it for a couple of seconds before it dropped. After that, Leizel and her family started noticing odd occurrences more often in quiet moments like that, or when she experienced a big emotion.