I wonder if there might not be a lot more pressure on you to take the practical, yeah, given your status as a recent defector. I guess that really puts you in the spotlight. Me, I come from a bloodtraitor family. They tell themselves that anyone who resisted the Lord Protector must've been stupid, and if they think that about my parents, I'm willing to let them assume it about me. (Never mind that my parents were both aurors, and they only took the best.)

I don't envy you having to deal with Madam Umbridge. She sounds like a nightmare.