From a young age, it was clear that Simran would do well in the sciences. She asked questions incessantly, read books with an appetite to rival the sweet tooth she inherited from her Indian ancestors. Only Jaleebi and Gulab Jamun would succeed in breaking her obsessive acquisition of knowledge when something caught her fancy, something that thrilled both her parents to no end. Academics themselves, they made sure she had every available resource that could have helped her, enrolling her in a school for minds like hers.

She had turned eleven, however, when everything started to change. She had been accepted to Hogwarts. Suddenly, a great many things about her behaviour as a child made sense -- how things would go missing around her, how they would turn up a whole different colour, or how she somehow managed to fling herself off trees and never get injured. Hogwarts, her parents reasoned, would be good for her.

And so she went, but when her parents asked how her lessons were going, and if she was still the top of her science lessons, they were quickly horrified. All the subjects that she had been prepared for had suddenly been replaced with new, foreign subjects. Astronomy quickly became her favourite, although at first because it was the closest thing she had to her previous school subjects.

Despite this, she settled in quickly and adapted well to her new school environment. Even then, she craved the rigour of her previous school. It was decided eventually, between her parents and the then-headmaster of Hogwarts that she would learn the Muggle syllabi in lieu of electives beginning her third year, and graduate Hogwarts with both A-levels and NEWTs.

After Hogwarts, she enrolled at Oxford, in Exeter College. She had barely more free time than she’d had at Hogwarts, but it mattered little to her. She became a social butterfly, finally in her own element. She turned heads at every formal, and the room would quiet every time she piped up in a lesson. Her assertions were bold and she challenged the then-accepted norms at every available opportunity. Her career seemed to fall into her lap once she discovered the slowest-spinning pulsar, and before she even received her doctorate, found herself published in several journals.

She was out celebrating the successful completion of her thesis when she met him. Rishi was at a the same muggle bar she was, close to Diagon Alley, where he had been stationed for Auror work. She bumped into him (literally) on her way back from the washroom, and the rest, as they say, was history. When he had to return to Germany a year later, on the back of a successful long-term op, Rishi asked her to go with him. Always one for leaps of faith, she said yes.

She found a research position at the Max-Planck Institute in Bonn, where they had their first child. Rajbir was the light of their lives, and as they would realise after attempts to conceive a second, destined to be their only. Their time together as a family was cut sadly short right after Rajbir came of age. It was a tratior on the force, turning what should have been a simple in-and-out into what would become a massacre.

Simran was devastated, and couldn’t bear living in Germany any longer. She moved herself and her son back to England, to be closer to her parents. Simran and Rajbir quickly became heavily reliant on each other, and remained extremely close even after Rajbir married his Durmstrang darling, Rheena.

Two children later, Rajbir too died on Auror duty, and Rheena moved in with Simran. They still live together, and both compete on who can dote heavier on Amrita’s daughter, Jasmine.

Name: Simran Evangeline Sandhu (née Fernsby-Iyer)
Date of Birth: 25th November 2014
Years attended Hogwarts: 2025 - 2032
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor
Special positions held at school (if any): N/A
Current Hogwarts Staff Position: Astronomy Professor, Gryffindor Head of House
Significant Other: Rishi Sandhu (deceased)
Children: Rajbir Sandhu (deceased)
Grandchildren: Amrita Sandhu, Anita Sandhu, Altair Arud (or so she claims)
Previous Occupation(s): Researcher, Fellow of the Royal Society, Oxford Fellow Emeritus