Athena snorted.  "Well that’s because I’m a squib.  But my maiden name was Carrow."  Nichols’s eyebrows rose in surprise.  "Yes, my siblings are a nasty piece of work.  I hope Azkaban is everything they dreamed of and more, but that’s not my point.  My point is my family came with certain expectations.  When I turned 17 and couldn’t live up to them, and by that I mean I had no magic, they blasted me off the tapestry and removed me from my home.  I’d had tutors for my entire education so at least I had that, but I had no money, no connections, nothing.  I could’ve been very bitter, and for a time I was.  Then I learned other ways of coping, of grieving."