Mariah was born March 11 to William and Miranda Sanders. Never one for plants, she was a disaster in the Greenhouse helping her Herbologist mother, and could never quite understand what her father did as an Unspeakable in the Ministry. At the age of nine years old, Mariah had her first bout of accidental magic when a bully boy was harassing a friend for her lunch money. The boy's hair turned an ugly shade of purple - which they had the devil of explaining away to the Muggles of the neighborhood.