[Nicknames:] Opie, O Feel Ya

[Character Birthday & Age:] February 11th, 1979 / 30 years old

[City & Country of Birth:] Cairo, Egypt

[Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?:]  Half-Blood (Muggle Mother)

[Alma Mater:]  Hogwarts, Ravenclaw

[Job Title]: Philanthropist and Author

[Wand:] 11 inches, Apple with Unicorn Hair, Pliable. Dyed a light purple to enhance natural purple color   




Opie has a pixieish face. It is somewhat heart shaped, but with a slightly squarer jaw and high cheekbones. Her lips are slender and almost always curved into a halfmoon smile. Her top lip is a big wider then her bottom, but it is rarely that noticeable. Her nose is pretty average as far as length and size. She has expressive brows that curve into perfect crescents above her eyes. Her most striking feature, her eyes, are large and round, perpetually open in a somewhat surprised look, and are surrounded by naturally thick black lashes that give her an exotic look. They are black/brown, but look black in dimmer lighting.

Her hair is dark brown/black and thick. When it is long, it becomes curly. For most of her life, Opie has either had her hair in a short pixie cut (like her sisters) or a curly bob that falls just above her shoulders. Opie was blessed with her mother flawless porcelain skin. It is pale and even toned, with a slight olive tint. She was lucky enough to not have issues with acne and almost never has to wear make up to cover it up, though she does have a penchant for bright red lipstick.

Opie is very petite. She stands about 5'4" and has a slender figure. She isn't without curves, but they are not exceedingly pronounced. She tends to wear fitted clothing in order to show off what she does have, though it is rarely what you would consider risqué. She likes clothing that harken back to the 20s or Victorian ages with a steampunk twist. They tend to be brightly colored, and she loves jewel colors like ruby red, emerald green and so on, as well as shades of black and white. The first thing you will notice about Opie's clothing is her hat. She is often seen wearing some kind of crazy hat, often in the style of Victorian Riding hats or 1920’s cloques.






Opie was born to be a humanitarian. Ever since she was a child, she always cared for others and put their needs before her own, sometimes to an extent that it was detrimental to her own health. As an incurable optimist, she regarded her own flaws and failures not as roadblocks, but as challenges to overcome and grow from, and she always seems blissfully unaware of the mistreatment she suffers in others hands. She is open-minded and compassionate, and will lend a hand to anyone no matter who or what they are, even if they have harmed her in the past. For the most part, she tries to remain objective and neutral in most situations, except when one side is obviously firmly in the ‘bad’, and tries to see some good in everyone.

Many confuse her compassion to be a weakness and view her as stupid or gullible, but Opie is hardly either. She is quite intelligent and observant, and is in full control of her actions. This could make her a dangerous enemy if she ever felt maligned enough to retaliate, though that is unlikely to happen. She takes a practical and logical view to helping others, in that she believes ‘you should give a man a fish so he is alive to learn to fish tomorrow’. In other words, she believes in helping others but also teaching them to help themselves, since one can’t help everyone. And though she tries to see good in everyone, she does have a low opinion of those who pretend to be victims in order to be taken care of.

Although she is thoughtful about her actions and sensitive to the needs of others, she is often nosy and a bit overinvolved. It is difficult for her not to say something when she sees someone being foolish or doing something obviously dangerous. Because of this, she often becomes embroiled in others lives without being invited and can be rather tactless when pointing out their flaws. However, no matter how blunt she is, she does so with an air of benevolent innocence that usually saves her in the end.

Although she is by far the most socially adept and outgoing of her sisters, Opie is still a Grimlish and that means that her hobbies and obsessions are generally on the odd and even macabre end. Like her father and older sister, Ophelia loves to travel and explore, especially places filled with dark magic and ghosts. She has visited every haunted house known to man and loves exploring places that are often overlooked. The fact that she tries hard to get to learn about the real culture and doesn’t attempt to force them to change has earned her the respect of many otherwise unfriendly locals. Like the other Grimlish girls, she is just as comfortable alone as she is with others and can, when bitten with the inventing bug, spend days to weeks without leaving her room. While she wouldn’t actively avoid romance or friendship, she doesn’t go looking for it and doesn’t feel she needs a lover or even that many friends in order to be happy, which means that, as nice and friendly as she is, she is a bit of an emotional enigma.



In the 60's, The Grimlizowski family of Poland was a proud purist family with ties to Grindelwald and future relations with Voldemort. They joined several other pureblood families in the blasting of dissenters off their family tree. Osgood Grimlizowski was one such name. When he was 13, the summer before his 3rd year at Durmstrang, he entered a highly inappropriate and scandalous affair with a pretty muggle girl by the name of Antoinette The family was visiting France for the summer, and Osgood had wandered off to the Catacombs, a place he felt most at home in. There he would meet Antoinette, who was also on her summer break from a prestigious all girls school in Paris.

The two hit it off right away. Both were children of wealthy and snobbish families with ideals that both disagreed with, but this likeness was the least of their connections. Both Osgood and Antoinette loved the macabre, the horror and the aspect of death. This had marked both as black sheep in their families and odd ducks in the schools, but the two 13 year olds found each other as perfect matches. They would start a trail of letters to each other over the course of the next year, sending strange poetry, twisted drawings and proclamations of love written in their own blood. Osgood promised to steal her away from her dreary life the moment they both turned 17. Unfortunately, his letters stopped shortly after this promise, for his father discovered his relationship and promptly cut it off. Osgood was forbidden any contact with the young Antoinette.

However, when he graduated from Durmstrang in 1967, he decided that his promise to her was stronger then any ties to his family. Much to his parent’s horror, Osgood found Antoinette a year later and promptly married her. Enraged, his family blasted him from the family tree and disowned him. But despite this, Osgood was unperturbed. He immediately changed his name from Grimlizowski to a more Anglican Grimlish, and he and his new wife made their way to England. They lived there for a short time in a small flat as Osgood tried to make his name as an author while working as a printwizard for the Daily Prophet. His first book, titled Growing Up Grindelwald: A Childhood in the Aftermath of War, was met with mixed reviews but still earned the young couple a decent income.

It was not a fortune, but it was enough for the small family to save up in hopes of traveling the world for new inspiration. To do so, they purchased an old Gypsy caravan that had been enchanted to be much larger on the inside then the out and with a spell that would render it invisible to the muggle eye (much like the Weasley's Ford Anglia). Lashing it to a pair of Thestrals, the family spent nearly the next ten years traveling the world as Osgood wrote a smattering of books. During this trip, while in Transylvania studying the Vampires history there, Antoinette gave birth to the couples first child, a baby girl named Marietta in 1974. Her godfather was the vampire assisting Osgood with his research, and could possibly be the reason for Marietta's future obsession with them.

Finally, we get to Ophelia. Five years after the birth of her sister, the family looped through Asia and were just starting on Africa, where Osgood started his next book on the Magic of Goblins. Ophelia Clarice Grimlish was born on February 11th, 1979 in Cairo. A Goblin metalworker, and friend (as close as a goblin and human could be) of Osgood, created a beautiful silver and amethyst locket for her. It remains her greatest treasure. After some time in Egypt, the family made their way through Africa and up South America, where the third Grimlish daughter, Rhiannon, was born in 1984. By this time, Marietta was nearing her 11th birthday and Osgood wished her to attend Hogwarts. So Osgood finished up his research and moved the family back to England, settling down into a large antique mansion in the countryside of Hounslow, London. The money from the books he had written over the last ten years proved to have added up quite substantially, giving the growing family more then enough money to live comfortably. Osgood took up writing full time while Antoinette raised and taught the children. Shortly after moving to Hounslow, Marietta was accepted to Hogwarts and would attend the school in the fall of 1985.

Life for young Ophelia was pretty peaceful and calm. She spent most of her pre-Hogwarts days at home with her parents, with the exception of the summers between school years. Every summer the family went to some exotic or strange location, three of which would be written into books by Osgood, a small trilogy of children's Novels called "The Three Tenenbaums". The characters were based off of the Grimlish children and contained quite a bit of the locales magical history. These novels ended around the birth of the 4th and final child, and sister, Cassiopeia in 1989.

Later that year, Opie started her first year at Hogwarts, following in her sister’s footsteps by being accepted into Ravenclaw. Like her sister before her, Opie soon realized that popularity were not in her cards. She was actually a very talented witch, who loved to help people when it came to classwork, but often her urge to teach overcame her tact and she was seen as annoying by her classmates. She never really realized that you couldn't just go up to someone and tell him what they were doing wrong. It was because of this that Opie spent most of her time either by herself... or with the teachers, helping out around the classroom. Without her sister to protect her, Ophelia found herself the target of even more vicious pranks, pranks that the soft spoken and tender hearted girl simply could not fight against. She kept to herself for the most part, hiding away in the library or long forgotten classrooms, where she could work in peace.  Like her father, she loved to weave stories and would spend her free time writing or researching. History of Magic was her favorite class and she excelled at it more than her other classes, though she did pretty well on her NEWTS overall.

This was put to a halt in early 1997, when Osgood was approached by his brother Osiris, who he had not seen for 30 years. Osiris had been the closest to Osgood and the only one who protested his disowning, almost getting himself disowned in the process. He was, like the rest of the Grimlizowski family, supported the Death-Eaters and their dark lord, but his love for his family outweighed his love for Voldemort and he urged Osgood to leave the country. Voldemort was going to do something big and soon, and if Osgood didn't leave, he would likely lose his family. Heeding his brother's words, Osgood gathered up his family (Except for Marietta, who was touring the America's) and moved them to South Africa. There, the family set up a small refugee camp for others displaced by the war.

They would stay there for 3 years, using their abilities as humanitarian aid for some of the local tribes. Osgood used this experience to write a book on African magic while the girls used it to get to know and help the natives. For their efforts, they were treated as a member of the tribe and awarded with honorary warriorship. Her time with the tribe, though short, left an indelible mark on her soul. She decided that when she returned, she would travel the world as a humanitarian and philanthropist. The family returned to England in 2000, so that Cassie could start at Hogwarts. Ophelia took this opportunity to borrow the old caravan and start her travels around the world to help others, like a gothic Mary Poppins.

She has spent the last 9 years all over the world, visiting home at least once a year. A lot of things have changed. One year she came home to find Marietta with two adolescent children that she claimed were hers with her imagined vampire husband. Another revealed that her father faked his death to prank her mother, leaving her convinced he was ghost. Scenes like these greeted her each year until this fall, when she moved back into the madhouse once more.




Opie is a philanthropist and a writer, whose books mainly focus on history, culture and magic from other countries. She occasionally writes other, sometimes fictional, books but these are rare and far between. She also will sometimes write articles for various newspapers.

She uses her own money to travel to different countries and helps the people there, usually wizarding folk although she has been known to help muggles as well. She will then use her experiences there to write books and her interaction with the natives to find out their history, both magical and mundane.

She got her current job as a bit of an inheritance. Her parents provided her with the education, finances and a bewitched caravan in which to travel the world and write freely. Her father used his connections with publishers to help her get her books published, though she might be looking for a new publisher.

Opie is a huge book worm who had a decently well respected writer, and philanthropist, as a father and has learned all she knows from him. As far as what else qualifies her, she is fluent in several languages and is knowledgeable about wizarding and muggle history and geography.