Thank you for your last letter. I am pleased you are taking the assignment seriously - I mean to say that Etiquette will be very important to my future, whether or not it is to yours, and hope to perfect my calligraphy and good manners now. I would not dream of pre-judging anyone at school. I rather hoped to be friends with everyone when I began at Hogwarts, but I suppose I was being a touch optimistic.

The Ministry is certainly a very respectable career, if very serious. Have you an idea of at which department you might choose to interview? I suppose it is very predictable of me, but I hope to marry well and become an eminent hostess.

I only asked about the orphan because you called yourself Pip and I thought that might be a Dickens reference. I am sorry if I overstepped. I am not trying to be nosy! I am not an orphan either. My parents are rather too involved in my life for my liking, to be quite honest. But I suppose that is the trouble with parents.

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