People in this world can be roughly divided into two types, one is men and the other is women... This is nonsense. However, this vast sea of people may be divided into another way. One type is people who live a mediocre life and disappear into the crowd, while the other type can generally be called "people with stories."
Tia is a woman, and she is a woman with a lot of stories. Not many people knew her story, and even Severus, her brother, actually didn't know much about her past in detail.
Tia herself didn't want to mention it, and Professor Snape naturally wouldn't take the initiative to interrogate her, so the long-lost brother and sister got along in a confused way.
Yes, until today, when Severus opened the letter from France. In the letter, Tia also expressed her true feelings to her brother for the first time, describing herself as a student through lines of words...
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Tia briefly described how she entered Ilvermorny through John Stewart's guidance at the beginning of her letter.
She did not write about her life in the church orphanage in the United States as a child. Because obviously, she didn't want to remember those days at all.
In fact, since her time studying in Ilvermorny was not necessarily so wonderful, Tia barely talked about the past after she came to Europe and even met her brother. If it hadn't been for a reason, she might never want to mention it in her life.
Yes, Tia's life was not stable during those years in Ilvermorny.
Perhaps because of their deep roots, Ilvermorny, like Hogwarts, has separate houses for admission, and is also divided into four major colleges. The four founders of Ilvermorny each chose a magical animal to represent, and divided the school into the "Horned Water Snake", "Ocelot", "Thunderbird" and "Pukechi" colleges.
When the little wizards are introduced to Ilvermorny, everyone will pass through the castle foyer one by one, and the four magic statues located in the four corners of the foyer will reveal a strange phenomenon - the crystal on the forehead of the long-horned water snake shines dazzlingly. It saw the wisdom of scholars; the ocelot raised its claws and roared, it saw the body of a brave man; the thunderbird flapped its wings and flashed with lightning, it saw the soul of adventure; Pukechi loosened his string and unloaded his arrow and pointed at the coming one, it was him who saw the spirit of adventure. It sees a good heart.
When most students go through this traditional sorting ceremony, one of the four statues reveals a vision, and they are then sorted into their corresponding colleges. But over the years, there have often been some young wizards with special qualities who have been spotted by multiple statues.
For example, Mr. Barlow Stewart, one of the two principals of Ilvermorny, was the one who led a team to the UK in a private capacity to provide assistance some time ago. When he first entered school, there were three The statue also expresses the hope that he can enter the college he represents.
More than ten years ago, when Tia walked through the foyer of Ilvermorny Castle, crystals shone with lightning and thunder—Horned Water Serpent Academy and Thunderbird Academy simultaneously welcomed her arrival.
Afterwards, Tia, who chose to become a member of the Horned Water Serpent Academy, naturally learned about the selection criteria of the four major academies. She had puzzled and wondered why the statue of the horned water snake, which represented the wisdom of the scholar, would favor her, and why the statue of the thunderbird, which represented the soul of adventure, would extend an invitation... She did not understand, until she graduated in confusion, she Haven't figured it out yet.
Of course, Tia’s own doubts were temporarily ignored. The problem is that whenever a student appears during the sorting process that multiple colleges are "fighting" for, it is almost destined that this student will receive attention from all sides in his future school life. .
And this is destined that Tia's every move will fall in everyone's eyes at least for the first half to a full year after she enrolls.
There is no doubt that these days were completely disastrous for Tia!
Maybe Tia does have good wisdom, or maybe she actually has the quality and ability to take risks. After all, the four magic statues were originally made by the founder. According to the history of Ilvermorny, they Rarely make mistakes. But with her cowardly character "forced" from growing up in an orphanage, these characteristics that she was born with have obviously never been put into use, and have always been hidden in the deepest part of her little body. .
Facing the many peers around her, and even the professors who had implicit expectations for her, they looked at her like they were holding a magnifying glass. Others might be coveting this kind of attention, but she was really embarrassed.
And it is precisely because of this "special treatment" and Tia's own reticence that she has never been able to make even a single friend.
So throughout the first grade, Tia didn't have any outstanding performance, and she always made various mistakes, big or small, because of the pressure brought by the attention of others. Maybe it was painful in the past when she was bullied in the orphanage, and her body was always scarred, but now that there is no physical torture at school in Ilvermorny, she is still exhausted, and even feels more miserable than before.
"Why are you all looking at me like that? I can't do it well... I really can't do it well. I'm very slow at learning spells, and my memory isn't very good. I really don't know anything about the head and tail of a Flobber caterpillar. I can't tell... I'm sorry, please stop looking at me, and don't look at anyone else!"
To be honest, at the beginning when no one was familiar with her, many classmates around her may have paid too much attention to her. Because she showed something special during the sorting, everyone felt that she might show some characteristics that others did not have. Whether it was envy or jealousy, the young wizards and many professors were watching.
But gradually, the gazes deliberately directed at her were actually decreasing. After all, it would be like that after seeing too much.
However, perhaps Tia cared too much about it, and there were also some classmates who laughed at her, so she only felt more and more breathless every day.
The next year, when I entered the second grade, there was no Tia in the auditorium on the first day of school.
"...I skipped school. On the first day of school, I sat in a burger restaurant at the foot of Mount Greylock for a long time, then dragged my suitcase back to the station and took the train to New York. At an intersection in New York, I saw the same truant Brooks came to see me, but I avoided him that day and didn’t see him.”
In a letter to her brother, Tia wrote this.