Veda Chandra

Veda Chandra
Gender: Female
Height: Short

Blood status: Muggleborn
Raised in: Muggle
Home: Unlisted in Residential Areas.

Boggart: A big, snarling wolf.

Patronus: Unknown
Veda loves to garden -- whether it be plants, vegetables, flowers, or fruit. For some reason, she finds weeding relaxing and stress relieving. At her home, she helps her mother with a huge garden and spends a lot of her free time there.

She hates flying -- hates it more than anything. Or nearly, anyway. In effect, she also dislikes Quidditch and watching it makes her a bit ill. Broomsticks don't seem to hold anyone very well. A deep-seated fear of heights only adds to her dislike of flying.

Yet the indoors are a cause of displeasure with Veda; she prefers the fresh air, and open spaces. However, she doesn't mind being inside -- she just has other preferences.

Veda is always the quiet girl who sat in the back of class and tried very hard to become part of the wall. Unfortunately, that never happened. She was picked on a lot as a kid for what she looked like. Her confidence was shot ever since her early childhood. Even now, she finds it difficult to talk to people or let them near her.

Overall, Veda does what is best for herself, first and foremost. That's mostly because she is very much alone. She has always valued friends, especially those who take the time to know her and still stick around. Getting older has helped her become a little more open, but she prefers to keep people at bay.
Diya and Krish Chandra tried so very hard to have children, when they were finally granted with the blessing that was Veda.

As she grew up, though not spending much time with other children, she was polite, sweet, and naïve. Diya never wanted her out of sight -- and since she worked from home, she never had to. Veda grew to have an affinity for plants and the forest in general. The family mostly kept to themselves, and thus Veda never really had any friends.

Every month or so, Veda would spend a weekend with her aunt in northernmost points of Scotland. It was an unbelievable culture shock the first time she was allowed to go, but Veda loved it. There was so much going on and no one paid attention to her! She was kind of invisible. It was so different than being at home, with her parents who never let her be truly alone. Or just be with herself.

She loved exploring and wandering the forest, just adventuring. She knew the place like the back of her hand. But when one is so excited to be sneaking off, they forget the time. Before she knew it, it was dark and she was stumbling.

Soon she wasn't the only creature crashing through the forest. There was howling, so out of place that Veda (aged ten) didn't know what she should do. Screaming for her family and giving away her position, panicking, was probably not the right course.

That was how the wolf found her, though it was bigger and a bit different than she expected. She had no idea that there were wolves that far in the north, having been told otherwise. She had never heard howling before out there. But it definitely looked wolf-like, so that's what it had to be... right?

It's hard to know how you'll react when you're utterly terrified. Usually it's fight or flight. Her brain said to run and so she did, as fast as her scrawny legs could carry her. She, of course, didn't stand a chance. She remembered falling on her face, but nothing after that. She doesn't know what happened, between crashing on the forest floor and waking up in the hospital. But Veda was forbidden to ever go to her aunt's again and, ever since then, she had a deep fear of wolves.

Upon turning eleven years of age, Veda was, at first, shocked to learn that she was a witch and was invited to attend Hogwarts. However, after the shock wore off, she had been excited. Veda cordially accepted the invite and, from there, had been deeply curious -- and decided to read and study up on magic (the best she could) before she began her first year.