Sent home with students concluding years 1-4.

We experience history every day, though we may not always realize it. Your elders, though, have had more opportunity to see major life events in the grander scheme of things, and so it will fall upon you to seek out their knowledge. You will approach a parent, a grandparent, a neighbour who has, as the saying goes, "seen it all", and use their perception and recollection of a more contemporary event to inform how it will be seen in the greater context of history. I am eager to see what you conjure up!

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— set by the long-lost bex —

My great-grandmother, Agatha Hyslop, was born in the same year as Artemesia Lufkin, the first ever female Minister of Magic and like her she was also a Hufflepuff. The attended school together, were great friends and while this may in itself not be especially notable, I believe that it does show how we experience history without always realising it. My great-grandmother could not have known when she was a young girl that she was learning alongside truly remarkable witch so when I asked her this question over the summer she told me to look around at my classmates and see which ones I thought had the most sense, so I did.

I believe that in the fullness of time the half-breed ban the Ministry imposed upon Hogwarts will be seen as a terrible time in our history and those that were against it will prove to be right. I think their attempts to stand up for others mark them out as being good people and while I obviously don’t know if one of them will end up being Minister of Magic one day I think, as a Hufflepuff, Artesemia Lufkin would have been on their side.