Malin has honey-blonde hair reaching only slightly past her shoulders, gray-blue eyes, and fair skin. She is short for her age (though what can you expect, only a few girls her age have had their growth spurts!) and has a tiny frame. She has a scar on her right hand from a prickly blackberry bush and thin-wired reading glasses that are only slightly too big.

Being a very clumsy person, she's very normalized to embarrassing herself, so she's often 'out there'. She's charismatic and makes friends easily. She tends to be loud and reckless, but she's quieter with those she doesn't know.

She had very few friends as she spent most of her time with her two brothers --one adopted and only months older and one a year younger and very clingy. She grew up as a muggle, but on her 11th birthday, she learned that her father was, in fact, a wizard, though he had left her mother with her and her brothers when she was young so she never knew.

Her first instance of magic was when she was merely eight and furious at her older brother for he had been teasing her the entire day about having to get reading glasses. She had gotten so worked up, that the glass part of a mirror hanging on the wall nearby had burst into pieces, scattering the glass on the ground.