Catch The Snitch

Full Name: Mera Zaheer
Age: 16
Birthdate: March 20th, 1989
Birthplace & Hometown: Elysium Vale
Height/build: 61 inches, slender & athletic
Hair/eye color: dark brown/black
Any unusual physical attributes: She has some tattoos around her wrist and upper arms. They are circles with what looks like different elements coming off of them.
Blood status: Pure-blood
Parents: Arilon Zaheer, 50 (in Azkaban), Caelyn (deceased)
Siblings: Tranton, Reina, Erynhil, and Marianne (deceased)
House: Ravenclaw
Year: 6th year
Wand: Ebony, Dragon Heartstring, 11 ¾ inches, slightly yielding
Patronus: Risso’s Dolphin
Boggart: Her father

Best class: Herbology
Worst class: DADA
Favourite class: Potions
Least favourite class: Transfiguration

History:
Mera grew up with her siblings on an island in a city known as Elysium Vale. The city was always tranquil, and she was able to explore her family’s strong lineage of magic and her curiosity about herbs and how to create different potions. They had been living for generations left alone by the Ministry, though they did occasionally share new potion recipes that they believed would be beneficial to the wider magical community. But it seemed that someone was not satisfied with leaving such a powerful family of wizards and witches to their own outside of the Ministry’s reach.

She and her family made their way to the UK after being invited by the Ministry, her father saying something about they wanted them to demonstrate some of their recipes and means of mixing to some of the potion experts and to some of the medics in St. Mungo’s. And that was where everything went wrong. Suddenly, her father seemed to be out of control and turned on his family, slaughtering them. It was quick, but it was horrendously bloody. Mera had been lagging behind to look at some of the local fauna and came hearing her mother’s scream. Upon seeing the state of her siblings and mother, Mera acted quickly, having brought a devil’s snare with her. She threw it at her father and cast a quick spell to cause it to grow rapidly. In the state he was in, he didn’t seem to have the sense to remember how to get out of the snare. It wasn’t long before Aurors were there and collecting him. Not knowing the customs of this area, Mera didn’t know how to ask or demand that someone see if he had been cursed, hexed, or something. It just didn’t make sense to her.

But the problem now was that she was stranded in this foreign land, far from home, with no one. The Ministry reached out to some connections and eventually found someone who was willing to take on a child in her condition. Which is what led her to live with Adeline Green. She couldn’t come to her right away, she needed to learn the language of the land and get acclimated to what it was like here in this place that was so very different from her home. She only started at Hogwarts in the past year, starting in her 6th year. She barely speaks to Adeline, only speaks to professors as necessary, but makes no effort to make friends with her classmates. She was sorted into Ravenclaw and spent her time outside of class either doing her homework as best she can or studying the language and the known potions recipes. She is also receiving tutoring so that she might take the OWLs, though she did not have a traditional education prior, so she is lacking knowledge of a lot of materials.

Personality:
Even though she’s horribly traumatized by the event, Mera is a resilient person. She’s determined to somehow make something good come of it. She wants to use what she learned from her home to continue to help people as was her family’s intention in coming to the UK. She’s a bit broken, but she is not one to be walked over and she will put people who attempt to mess with her in their places quickly. She does have the hope to one day return home, but she wants to go back with some sort of pride, and not be the shell she is now. She now also has a hard time trusting people or letting anyone in and is a bit isolationist, so getting her to participate in things might be hard.

Face Claim: Isabella Moner
OOC username: Nova
Preferred means of contact: Discord