Tonks | Cassiopeia
I had very poor health as a child. I was too ill in September to go, and then afterwards I didn't really want to go. The idea frightened me. I was one of those girls who was awfully homesick at first, you know. But by the second year I'd gotten used to it.
My grandfather was the headmaster before, but he died the year before I was supposed to start. That didn't help. Grandfather could be very stern sometimes, but at least we knew he wanted us to succeed. Dippet was snide and ineffectual.
Of course. I'm not trying to rush you into anything. You already know not to trust what the Ministry says as necessarily ethically right, so you're on the right path.
I thought they tasted vile. Cousin Callidora actually liked them, so I used to give her mine!