Text Cut: DILLON KOWALSKI

▸ BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Dillon Joseph Kowalski
Nickname: Dill, DJ, Pickle
Birthdate: 20 July 2079
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Current Residence: Chicago, Illinois, United States

▸ PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Blue
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 117 lbs
Distinguishing Features: Freckles

▸ MAGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Blood Status: Half-blood
Wand: Pine, Jackalope antler, 12¼", brittle
Patronus:
Boggart:
Amortentia:

▸ FAMILY MEMBERS

Father: Leonard Kowalski (d.)
Mother: Deborah (née Levy) Kowalski
Sibling: Lukas Kowalski

▸ EDUCATION

South Loop Elementary School (2083-2090)

Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (2090-2097)
Thunderbird

▸ BACKGROUND

This Americanized branch of Kowalski began when the parents of Jacob Kowalski immigrated from Poland to New York in the early 1900's. From there young Jacob grew and served in the military, worked in a canning factory, and started his own bakery. The descendants of Jacob Kowalski and Queenie Goldstein, however, remember their ancestors most for their involvement and friendship with magizoologist Newton Scamander and thusly overshadowing the fact that they are also related to well-respected American chaser Quentin Kowalski. Though their ancestors are no more and the family hasn't lived in New York for years, the present-day members of the Kowalski family still talk of these thrilling happenstances and the unforgettable love story that stemmed from it.

On the hottest day in July, Leonard and Deborah Kowalski, newly wed and young, brought into the loud, bustling Chicago streets their firstborn son. While they did not have much and lived in a rather shabby apartment, the two were nonetheless the greatest parents Dillion could ever wish for. Isaac was the stereotypical father, being the breadwinner of the family as an Auror (albeit low in ranking), whereas Deborah gave up Healing to be a stay-at-home mother.

For the most part, Dillon was your average kid. He was talkative, enjoyed playing with others his age, and developed a fascination with planets, stars, and aliens. Even when his younger brother Lukas was born years later, he was very enthusiastic because that meant he had someone to explore 'space' in his 'rocketship' -- a large blanket fort set up in their tiny living room -- with every day until it was time to go to sleep (after first naming the glow-in-the-dark dots on the ceiling with the corresponding planets and stars he knew).

The day his first signs of magic was shown was the day that his father was asked, after many idle years of paperwork, to work undercover for a case. Dillon managed to defy all that he knew about gravity, causing everything -- including Lukas and his mother -- in the house to levitate up to the ceiling. It was an exciting day for all of the Kowalskis. Little did Dillon and his family know that the undercover mission his father was on would go horribly wrong, causing the man to meet an early demise and thus changing the family dynamic forever.

Dillion, since that day, completely immersed himself into his books about astronomy, quickly detaching himself from the friends he had made in elementary school and no longer having much to say to anyone. Those surrounding him changed as well. Lukas no longer thought of his brother as cool and went off to do his own thing. His mother, on the other hand, became obsessive over the boys' whereabouts and became overly protective about everything, even while maintaining two different jobs to keep everything afloat and put food on the table. Needless to say, Dillon's daily trips to the Adler Planetarium made her worried sick when he didn't arrive home from school on time with Lukas and showed up hours later at around suppertime.

Before turning eleven, Dillon desperately wanted to attend the International Wizarding Space Academy over Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He pleads with his mother time and time again to let him attend, but she continues to say no because she cannot stand the idea of her precious baby being so far from home. "Massachusetts," she says, "is far enough as it is" and that Ilvermorny would be good for improving his social skills. So here he is, excelling in Astronomy though failing miserably at not being awkward.