Written for Fire The Canon's Snakes and Ladders Challenge.
Kingsley wasn't sure when he had decided that he wanted to be an auror. It had been his dream for as long as he could remember. He never stopped to think about what he would do if he was not accepted. When he had spoken to Professor McGonagall about it, she had sounded sure that he would make it. He had always believed it, pictured it in his future so vividly that it could have been real.
But all of that dreaming was nothing, nothing compared to how it felt to actually be holding the acceptance letter in his hand. He had made it. He had really made it.