Liesel Stirling

Backstory

I'm a half-blood witch (my dad's a squib, my mum's a muggle). Every summer I've had to (ahem...) deal with my pureblood cousin Natasha, who goes to Durmstrang. I always thought that she was the only cousin in my age range until my American cousin Dominik had to move in with me during my second year. He apparently got expelled from Ilvermorny, but he won't tell me why. My younger brother, Anthony, was also born a bit later after Dominik moved in with us.

My mum passed away during my third year after contracting a disease, one that she got after little Tony was born. Sometimes I really miss her, but I'm glad that my friends are here to help me through hard times.

Oh, and did I mention that I'm apparently a seer? Our professor said so when we started taking Divination. Louis (a friend of mine; he's a little bit of Veela, apparently) still tells me not to "believe the rubbish they say", but hey, I can probably list a few times where I really did predict the future.

During the summer of our third year, Dominik went to the Magical Menagerie in Diagon Alley and got me a Siamese cat as a gift! His name is Felix, and he's helped on a few trips. James (another friend of mine; his dad was once called 'The Boy Who Lived') ... well, I sort of broke his nose on my first night at Hogwarts, but he's forgiven me and we're all friends now, so it's alright.

Some trivial things about me: I'm not very keen on reading. Louis doesn't understand why even though I get good marks in our essays and exams. I do like the color lilac (Mrs. Weasley knitted me a lilac sweater during my first year for Christmas! Louis probably told her, she's his grandma after all...). I also really like photography, and if you ask, I can show you my portfolio of the pictures I've taken so far, from home or Hogwarts.