MIA PASZEK
Care of Magical Creatures Professor

Name: Mia Mackenzie Paszek
DOB: 4 April 2066
POB: Alton, Illinois, USA
Pronouns: She/Her

Magical Things:

Wand: Vine wood with a dragon heartstring core, 13 and rigid flexibility
Patronus: Buffalo
Boggart: Paul Bunyon
Amortentia: the smell after rain, paprika, biscuits

Places Lived:

….Alton, Illinois, USA
...Edinburgh, Scotland
...Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
...Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
...Dublin, Ireland

Family:

Mother: Paula O’Connell
Father: Geoff Paszek (deceased)
Siblings:
...Andrew Paszek (older)
...Francine Paszek (younger)
Pets:
...Mango (barred owl)
...Debra & Darren (diricawls)

Appearance:

...hair: short
...eyes: hazel
...height:5’9”
...face claim: Jaimie Alexander

Education & Employment:

...Ilvermorny, Thunderbird, 2077-2084
...Wizarding University, Edinburgh, Magizoology, minor in wandlore, 2084-2087
...Intern, Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation, 2085-2088
...Magical Creatures Sanctuary of the Southwest, Conservationist/Creature Management, 2088-2092
...Colorado State University, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, 2092-2096
...Magical Creatures Sanctuary of the Southwest, Avian Healer, 2096-2102
...The Augurey Foundation, Avian Healer and Conservation Educator, 2103-2105
...Care of Magical Creatures Professor, Hogwarts, 2105-present

Published Works:

A Magi-Ornithologist’s Guide to the Rocky Mountains, 2100

Background:

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Mia was born and raised in the midwestern United States to two mixed blood parents. Her dad worked in the Department of No-Maj Misinformation, and her mom worked in magical publishing. Her dad told many stories about the magical creatures and mishaps he had to cover for, to protect the Statute of Secrecy. She began her schooling at Ilvermorny at age eleven, a Thunderbird, and quickly became enamored with the creatures.

After Ilvermorny, Mia enrolled at Wizarding University in Edinburgh to study magizoology, with a minor in wandlore “because all the wand cores come from creatures and that doesn’t seem right”. During summers, she interned at the Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation. After graduation, she got a job at a magical creatures preserve in the United States, and moved back there, where she started her career climbing mountains to count phoenix eggs. She worked with the conservation for creatures native to the American southwest for years, and got a No-Maj degree in veterinary medicine to broaden her knowledge of magical and mundane creatures and help to care for the birds and other creatures in the sanctuary.

After finishing her veterinary degree and while still working at the creatures preserve, she finished writing a book based on her observations and knowledge of the magical birds of the Rocky Mountains in the western United States. She later moved back to Europe, where she moved into conservation education with the Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation and then the Augurey Foundation, before applying for an open position at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Personality:

Random Facts:

• Mia prioritizes her work over most of her friendships and relationships
• She had never been rock-climbing before she had to learn for her work at the Magical Creatures Sanctuary of the Southwest
• Mia is vegetarian.
• She was bitten by a rattlesnake once.
• She almost always wears long sleeves.

Personality Type: INFJ-A. The Advocate
Love Language: Words of affirmation