Astrid shrugged. "My philosophy is that it's up to each of us to make the world a place that we'd want to live in. I know some view me as an undesirable just because of my heritage, but I wouldn't wish anyone to ever feel unwanted, especially not because of something they couldn't control, like...

"I can't see them myself, I've only got drawings to go by," Astrid admitted. "I suppose I'm fortunate in that sense, though I still wish I could see them, particularly this one." She skritched behind its ears as a carrot disappeared into its mouth. "Beauty is subjective. I ...

Astrid inclined her head to look up at Leo. She didn't really know the older boy, but it wasn't at all surprising that he would know her--everyone knew her because of how she stood out. "Hullo," she replied. "I think I've seen you before, but I don't think we've formally met? You can ...

The morning of Saturday, December 3, 2005 On weekends, Astrid volunteered to feed and tend to Hogwarts' unicorns, hippogriffs and thestrals. And so today, she'd gotten up bright and early and made her way down to the (recently-rebuilt) paddocks on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, pushing an oversiz...

"Tha sin iongantach!" (1), Astrid exclaimed. Sure, it meant she'd have extra work to do whenever she wanted to cast a spell, but if it made any spell easier to cast, it would be a game-changer for her. "Aye, ah'll gie it a try, ken." she said, before concentrating and pointing h...

Astrid still felt embarrassed, despite Prof. Dextera's assurances. The incident had turned heads in the classroom. There would probably be rumors that she'd attacked her teacher with a dragon circulating by lunchtime. Someone was bound to embellish it further and say that Prof. Dextera was being tre...

Astrid had been so focused on her failure that she was startled when Prof. Dextera suddenly addressed her. She looked to him as he offered some advice, and watched as he proceeded to demonstrate the transfiguration on her statuette with such ease. Astrid straightened up in her oversize desk, took a ...

Astrid dreaded Transfiguration class, as it was a wand-intensive class, meaning she particularly struggled with it as she was magically weak. Occasionally in such classes, other students would suggest that maybe she'd merely been fitted with an incompatible wand. Sometimes they even offered to let h...

Astrid had long ago determined that she was 'broken', but she was by now accustomed to adults trying to reassure her that she wasn't, and she knew there was little to gain by trying to persuade the auror otherwise--least of all at that particular moment, while they all had other pressing concerns. S...

(Astrid should have a Scottish accent. I'm experimenting with it in this post, but I don't know if I can do it justice or do it consistently.) "Aye, Ah think all th' beasts are safe now," Astrid confirmed while still trying to catch her breath from her sprint. "This hippogriff, an' w...

Having now gotten the unicorns and thestrals out into the open so they could escape the encroaching flames, Astrid turned her attention to the hippogriff paddock. Thankfully, it seemed that the hippogriffs were already aware of the fire and evacuating the area. It meant she wouldn't have to do the w...

Astrid was ushering the last few unicorns out of the paddock when she spotted a fox terrier patronus and a hippogriff approaching, presumably to help shepherd them. She could only assume they were somehow connected to the two wizards casting spells in the direction of the flames. Her thoughts turned...

During her first two years at Hogwarts, Astrid had discovered--and come to accept--that she was magically weaker than her peers, leading to her struggling whenever she was required to use her wand in class. That was why she'd been so excited to attend Care of Magical Creatures starting in her third ...

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https://i.imgur.com/TzSdNFF.jpeg Full Name: Astrid Osborne Age: 13 House: Hufflepuff Year: 3 Race: Quarter-Giant History: Astrid is the daughter of Hilda (a non-magical half-giant, who herself had Scandinavian non-magical half-giant parents) and William Osborne (a British wizard). She was raised in...