Mia

Biodata

Background / History

Mia worked as a document translator in the Department of International Magical Cooperation. She kept an exceptionally low profile: she attended no gatherings, avoided conflicts, and formed no close relationships at the Ministry. Her desk stood in a dim corner beside a filing cabinet, largely concealed by a leafy plant and surrounding stacks of documents 147 148.

Despite this unobtrusive public life, Mia had participated in Death Eater gatherings. In Karkaroff’s memories, Lin Ze saw her coldly promise to bring Voldemort the person he wanted. She remained at the Ministry after Voldemort’s fall rather than fleeing 147.

Her family preserved records concerning vampires, ancient seals, and the boundary between life and death. Notes belonging to her great-grandmother later supplied information about the “Gate of Life and Death” 176 187 207.

Appearance

• Complexion and expression: Extremely pale skin, very pale eyes, and a still, chilly expression that Lin Ze compares to an “ice beauty” 148.
• Hair: Long hair, initially secured behind her ear with a plain clip; tied into a ponytail for the Tintagel expedition 148 211.
• Physical detail: Her hand feels startlingly cold when she restrains Lin Ze during their Knockturn Alley stakeout 152.
• Muggle clothing: Wears a light gray skirt suit with pinned-up hair for the King Street investigation. For Tintagel, she switches to a dark gray outdoor jacket, black trousers, and thick-soled hiking boots 202 211.

Personality

Mia is reserved, economical with words, and difficult to unsettle. When Lin Ze confronts her about the Death Eaters and threatens exposure, she maintains almost complete control over her expression and breathing. Her meticulous habits extend to her workspace: documents are stacked neatly, quills arranged by length, and even her teacup handle faces outward 148.

She approaches her recruitment pragmatically rather than offering loyalty. She insists that her assignments must not involve underage witches or wizards and reserves the right to abandon Lin Ze if his actions endanger her. Her composure does not prevent calculated risk-taking: during the fight with the white-robed man, she uses herself as bait to gather corrosive black water 148 156.

Mia is also observant and discreet. After noticing Lin Ze’s dragon scales, she does not demand an explanation, instead warning him that Barty Crouch Jr. may have seen them too. Her concern becomes more explicit when she later asks whether Lin Ze is feeling well—an unusual question from someone who rarely makes casual inquiries about others 165 201.

Abilities & Skills

Cyan-Light Suppression and Defense

Mia uses pale cyan, blue-green, and silver-blue magic to restrain hostile magic and protect her companions 152 153 155.

• Slowing field: A ring spreading across the ground suppresses the black mist’s movement. At its widest extent, it also slows the white-robed man controlling the mist 153.
• Freezing: A silver-blue spell briefly immobilizes approaching mist tentacles and coats them with frost 153.
• Concealment: She envelops Lin Ze in blue-green light, hiding his body from outside view while he activates his dragon scales 154.
• Shielding: Raises a blue protective dome around herself, Lin Ze, and Barty Crouch Jr. during a black-lightning storm 155.
• Repulsion: Continuously spreading cyan ripples keep corrosive black water approximately three inches from her feet 156.
• Limits: During the alley battle, she reports that her ring can last no more than another three minutes. Her interference hinders the mist but does not permanently destroy it 152 154.

Starfall

Starfall produces cyan runes at Mia’s wand tip and opens a rift overhead, releasing a waterfall of blue-white light onto its target 177.

• Wounds Targaryen during the Brighton Pier battle, creating an opening for Lin Ze’s follow-up attack 177 178.
• Places a severe strain on Mia: her lips turn pale and veins bulge at her temples during casting 177.
• Leaves her exhausted and vulnerable to retaliation, requiring Lin Ze to shield her and evacuate her with Apparition 178.

Magical Examination and Evidence Collection

Mia performs detailed magical examinations and helps preserve evidence during investigations 188 189 192.

• Checks unfamiliar rooms and passages for traps or abnormal magical reactions 188 214.
• Uses an ancient incantation and a thread of blue-green light to trace the internal pathways of a half-transformed experimental subject 189.
• Detects a sealed, alchemical core sustaining the subject’s life, but warns that attempting removal could destabilize its fragile condition 189.
• Identifies magically active ground bone and collects a sample with a glass rod and vial 189.
• Photographs crime scenes and makes a rubbing of overlapping scratched writing to recover its legible uppermost layer 189 192.

Languages, Historical Research, and Occult Knowledge

Mia’s translation work and family records make her a recurring source of specialist information 147 176 207.

• Vampire lore: Recognizes the Soul-Locking Curse from records describing the blood race’s sealing 187.
• Old Irish: Recognizes “Gael” on a corroded copper plate, explaining it as “foreign land” or “the other shore.” She acknowledges that she cannot read much of the inscription 212.
• Translation: Reads the key’s inscription as “The way home” 217.
• Mythological interpretation: Uses the World Tree’s structure to interpret the party’s descent, distinguishing several possible destinations rather than assuming they are entering the underworld 214.
• Public-record research: Investigates Edgar Hargreaves through Muggle records and identifies an unexplained four-year gap in his employment history 203.

Practical Fieldwork

• Conjures a rope for the descent down Tintagel’s slippery cliffs and climbs down with steady, efficient movements 212.
• Distinguishes the library entrance’s attention-diverting effect from a conventional Muggle-Repelling Charm by observing pedestrians’ behavior 202.
• Notices that the Tintagel archway absorbs magic when she tests its surface with her wand 214.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wand: Her principal magical tool. It snaps during the battle with the white-robed man; Dumbledore repairs it with the Elder Wand before leaving the hospital 159.
• Ice-blue pebble: Gives Lin Ze a protective item capable of blocking one fatal attack 155.
• Silver magical camera: A palm-sized camera used to document the experimental laboratory and the frontage of 19 King Street 189 202.
• Sampling tools: Carries a thin glass rod and vial in her waist pouch for collecting material evidence 189.
• Research materials: Consults notebooks, inherited family records, and a booklet on Tintagel’s Muggle history 207 211 212.

Relationships

• Lin Ze — Team leader who coerces her into joining by threatening to expose her Death Eater past. She later conceals his transformation, provides protection, and assists closely with his investigations; he rescues her after Starfall leaves her exhausted 148 154 155 178.
• Barty Crouch Jr. — Fellow operative and the secret target of her monitoring assignment. Lin Ze pairs them to investigate magical traces, and they subsequently fight together in Knockturn Alley and at Brighton 148 150 154 178.
• Sirius Black — Companion on the Tintagel expedition and the journey beyond the archway. Mia occasionally responds to his humor, including his concern that the key might send him to several desired destinations at once 211 217.
• Dumbledore — Intervenes in the battle that incapacitates her and subsequently repairs her broken wand 157 159.
• Her great-grandmother — Author of inherited notes that help Mia explain the Gate of Life and Death to Lin Ze 207.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recruitment into the Third Subgroup

Lin Ze selects Mia after recognizing her in Karkaroff’s memories. He privately offers her protection in exchange for joining his team and watching Barty Crouch Jr., with exposure to Crouch and imprisonment in Azkaban as the alternative. Mia accepts only after securing her conditions concerning minors and her own survival 147 148.

Knockturn Alley Investigation

Assigned to investigate a series of disappearances, Mia joins Lin Ze and Barty for a nighttime stakeout near Delis Secondhand Shop. Their pursuit of a predatory black mist leads to a prolonged battle with its white-robed controller. Mia supplies suppression, concealment, and defensive magic, but the enemy’s transformation ultimately overwhelms both her and Barty. Lin Ze moves their unconscious bodies using Boundary Break before Dumbledore intervenes 150 152 154 157.

Mia recovers at St. Mungo’s, where her first action upon waking is to look for her wand. During Lin Ze’s visit, she reveals that she saw his scales and cautions him about Barty’s possible knowledge 159 165.

Brighton Pier and the Dark Night Society

Mia joins the operation at Brighton Pier and draws on her family’s vampire records during the confrontation with Targaryen. Her Starfall wounds him, but its cost leaves her needing evacuation. After Targaryen’s death activates the sacrificial formation, Lin Ze sends Mia, Arthur, and Amos to seek reinforcements against the emerging Primordial Vampire 174 176 177 178 179.

The Burke Experiments

Mia discovers a magically sealed cellar behind the Old Oak tavern and identifies its protection as the Soul-Locking Curse. Inside, she and Lin Ze uncover numbered experiment records, evidence of repeated bloodshed, and a hidden coffin containing a still-living, partially transformed subject 187 188 189.

Her examination supports the theory that the experiments sought compatibility between human bodies and vampire tissue rather than ordinary vampiric transformation. She documents the laboratory and later suggests that Number Forty-Eight may have been both researcher and subject—a Burke family experimenter who transformed himself. Further notebooks establish that Forty-Eight survived for centuries 189 192 194.

King Street and the Veil

Mia helps investigate the concealed private library at 19 King Street, researches its director, Edgar Hargreaves, and accompanies Lin Ze to their introductory meeting. After Amycus discusses the Invisible Veil, she connects it to inherited accounts of attempts to recreate Merlin’s Gate of Life and Death. Her great-grandmother’s notes provide the warning: “Those who cross this line must become this line” 202 203 204 206 207.

Tintagel and Disappearance

Mia travels with Lin Ze and Sirius to Tintagel, where they uncover a submerged staircase and an archway resembling the one in the Ministry’s Death Chamber. She translates part of a copper inscription, tests the archway, and helps examine the passages beyond it 211 212 213 214.

Unable to escape a sealed space, the three enter a rift and reach the gatekeeper Yilai. Mia translates the key’s inscription before Lin Ze uses it to release him. The group falls through darkness, but Lin Ze arrives in Avalon alone 216 217 218.

Her destination remains unresolved. Lin Ze later worries about her survival. During his eventual escape through the river of time with Sirius, they hear a voice resembling Mia’s, but obey Morgana’s warning not to answer or look back; its identity is not confirmed 243 288.

Notable Quotes

“First, whatever you ask me to do must not involve underage witches or wizards.” 148

“Second, if you get in over your head, don't blame me for stepping on you to save myself.” 148

“But if you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to.” 165