Kingsley frown slightly remembering the essay he had read. "I apologize if you were made to feel that way. But we cannot change the attitudes of others easily. You and I both know that."
"The others aren't exactly privy to all the information that I am. Many were not there during the Battle at Hogwarts and they even fewer are aware of the events surrounding Albus' death. But I am. And that it the reason that I made the decision to accept you as an Auror trainee." It was a statement not a brag but an impassioned reason."
"I am not saying that it will be easy and I am quite pleased that you wrote the topic you did and didn't give the board a reason to dislike you. I am sure Mad Eye is rolling in his gave of course, but your cousin Tonks is probably doing a jig. She always did hold out hope for you."
Kingsley leaned forward, "You see your connection with Death Eaters as something to be loathed, or for others to exploit, but s wise man once said, the man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it*."
"So turn it into your strength, and your specialty. No one is forcing you to do anything now. You are right, what I know of Death Eaters comes from experience and from Severus, but it is just facts and they could be obsolete now that there is no leader.
"There are many questions to answer and there is no one I trust more to help me do so than you, because you got here on your own and I am sure if you had wanted to take the easier route you could have tried to be influential as your father was and use your wealth."
"But you did not, and those may things combined are good enough for me."