Alya Briar | First Year | Gryffindor

Full Name: Alya Katyusha Briar
House: Gryffindor
Age: 11
Wand: 32.9 cm Mayhaw wood and Phoenix feather
School Year: First
Patronus: (Not applicable until 6th years)
Species: Human
History/Background Story:

Alya is a mixed race wizard. Her mother comes from Russia and her father was born in Ipswich. Her home life involved going to a muggle school in Ipswich and learning about magic from her parents while she was at home. She has a good relationship with her parents but spent most of her time at home with friends.

Alya grew up running around the streets and fields and forests of Ipswich with her friends, both magical and muggle alike-although she made sure to be excessively normal around the muggle ones. With them she went fishing around the many ponds and bogs, catching all sorts of unnamed frogs and bugs, and exploring around abandoned caves a bit out of Ipswich. She played quite a bit of football with her muggle friends. She also helped her mother with the gardening and has a quite a collection of plants.

Alya’s first instance of wandless magic was at age 6 when she was in her garden. She had been waiting for some plants to go from being buds to flowers for almost a week at that point and she got very angry at them. She started shouting and pointing at them and then suddenly all the buds burst into flames, with little fiery butterflies fluttering around them. When the flames subsided the buds had blossomed into fully grown flowers, with a slight difference. Their petals were constantly wreathed with fire, even though they didn’t burn away.