Dylan Matsuda

Backstory

I grew up in Southwest London in the tiny hamlet of Barnes. I've always wanted to be a magizoologist for as long as I could remember. When I was little I went wandering alone near the Thames. It was getting dark but I thought I would be fine as I knew the neighborhood pretty well. As I wandered farther and farther from everything familiar I soon discovered I was lost. Feeling rising panic I began to stumble through the brush and trip over roots of ancient trees in an effort to go towards anything familiar. Suddenly through the darkness I saw a soft glow emanating from between the trees. As I cautiously approached I saw that it was a unicorn. Unicorns were extremely rare and even then, they typically only showed themselves to maidens. It began walking slowly away from me and I followed it, intrigued and curious, my panic forgotten. After walking for a bit, it turned it's magnificent head towards me. It lowered its head slightly as if to bow, and as suddenly as it appeared, it was gone. It was then I noticed I was back on my street. The next day there was a report in the Daily Prophet that a unicorn had been slain in the woods near Barnes. The Ministry was looking into it as harming a unicorn was extremely illegal. But with little information to go on they didn't have much confidence in solving the crime. It was then I committed to my dream of becoming a magizoologist so that the pure, innocent and amazing creatures with which we share this world will thrive despite the most vile predators out there, humans.