Name: Dai (Dierdre) Kincadd
House: Ravenclaw
Age/Year: 6th
Birthdate: January 24th
Bloodline: Muggleborn
Heritage: Welsh

Personal History: Nothing to see here, just a normal boy living a normal life. As much as growing up as the youngest child in a family of old Welsh nobility can be normal. As normal as being the first wizard in a Muggle family. As normal as fighting with your parents, brothers, teachers and schoolmates every day of your life for the right to be who you are.

Young Dierdre was the long awaited for daughter after four boys. Her mother was thrilled to have a little girl to dress up in ruffly dresses, shower with dolls and decorate everything in a hideous shade of pink. Dai's first word was "truck" and as soon as he could walk he was toddling after his brothers and stealing their toys. As he grew, he wanted nothing more than to be 'one of the guys' and just couldn't understand what made him different.

He first ran into problems in primary school, abandoning his school's uniform skirt for the boy's pants option, and fighting his way into any and all games on the playground. He won the respect of his classmates and the worry of his parents and teachers. He repeatedly tried to tell his parents about his feeling that he was born in the wrong body, but they brushed it off.

It was a relief for the entirety of Dai's family (and probably the town as well) when a demented looking bird crashed through their dining room window one night and offered to make this entire embarrassing "daughter-that-wants-to-be-a-boy" problem vanish. Sure, we'll say the child's a wizard and ship them off for nine months at a time, very good, fancy more tea, mum?

Unfortunately for Dai, Hogwarts was hardly the environment he'd been expecting. Sure, he was an excellent student, learning all this amazing stuff, and there were ELVES everywhere... but everyone kept calling him Dierdre, and trying to force him into skirts. First year was one long fight against, well everyone. Expulsion seemed imminent, until a well-placed Dumbledore intervention managed to diffuse the situation. Professors starting calling him Dai, and his fellow students gradually started following suit.

Now in his sixth year, Dai is content to sit out on most of the fighting and study for his classes. He's an avid Quidditch fan, never misses a match, and in his spare time practices his Welsh with Professor Askes and experiments on the effects of gillyweed and the feline with his cat Rhys.


Personality: First and foremost, Dai is a fighter. From very early on, he's had to fight for recognition with everyone from his parents and brothers to his classmates and teachers. With age, he's moved from fighting purely with his fists to using words and reason as weapons, but he's still incredibly willing to get into a fist fight in his own defense. He lives his life on the defensive, always ready to question the accepted, push the boundary, argue against a rule he feels is unjust.

True to his Ravenclaw nature, Dai is a diligent student, especially in magic. In many ways, he's still the eleven year old that was fascinated by the enchanted ceiling in the Great Hall. He's not the most stellar wizard out there, but he's the type to stay up all night practicing that one tough spell to perfection.

Dai doesn't make friends easily, due to his overly-defensive nature and his paranoia that the world is out to get him. He is cautious friend, and it takes years to really get close to him. He's only got a handful of trusted friends at Hogwarts, and none of them know anything about his life pre-Hogwarts.

He very seldom gets along with students his own age, and is far more comfortable mentoring younger students or staying after class to chat with his professors.

Physical Description: Dai was a bit of a porker until the summer hols after third year, when his brother Owyn took up boxing. Dai proved to be an apt pupil, and soon moved from punching bag to puncher. At sixteen, Dai's slender, with a mop of straight dark hair that he prefers to keep in a shortish shag around his face. He's got these sort of icy blue eyes that flash dangerously when you get him angry.

Likes: cats, boxing, boxing gloves, transfiguration, studying, Welsh, Quidditch, fishing, gillyweed, Beatles music, Muggle cinema, accents, baked goods, Defence Against the Dark Arts, stargazing, Pop Tarts
Dislikes: Slytherins, summer hols, brothers, parents, skirts, pink, cauliflower, shorts, boredom, ghosts, carnivorous plants, boggarts, toasters, Muggle television programs, sneezes.
Pet/Pet Name: Grey tabby- Rhys
Broom: Usually just asks to borrow the school's as his parents have refused to buy him one.
Wand: 10 inches, beech, inflexible, dragon heartstring


OWL scores:
Transfiguration - O
Herbology - E
History of Magic - O
Charms - E
Astronomy - O
Potions - A
Care of Magical Creatures - E
Ancient Runes - E
Arithmancy -O
Defence Against the Dark Arts - O

List of classes for current year:
Astronomy
Potions
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Herbology
History of Magic
Transfiguration
Arithmancy
Charms

Extracurriculars:
Chaser for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team
Member of the Welsh Appreciation Society

Notes:
Dai goes by male pronouns and wears the male uniform (pants as opposed to a skirt) but still rooms in the girls dormitory