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Was she a witch? There were times she wondered; certainly, Ethel Hallow and some of the other girls in other years, not just her own, did not see her as a witch, going out of their way to tell her she did not belong in the school. Some of the teachers marked her down before the tests, no matter how focused she was on trying to do well on them, just because she was not a witch and because they believed that, since her mother was not a witch and had not taught her magic and how to prepare potions, she was not one of them.
Mr Rowan-Webb had encouraged her to stay at Cackles following that frog mess which had revealed to everyone what Miss Gullet had done to the wizard, but while he had encouraged her, Mildred had the impression he was uncertain what to make of her despite giving her a chance. Still, the wizard teacher was nothing like Gullet, so there was that at least - Mildred was glad the woman was gone; Gullet was a liar even before the truth of what had happened to Mr Rowan-Webb had come out, she had pretended to be a kind-hearted woman like Miss Cackle, but in truth, once you were over the threshold of her classroom, she was a nasty piece of work.
Mildred had been the perfect target.
Not only did she come from a non-magical background, but her ignorance of magical culture even when she had read some parts of that stupid code made so many in the school target her. What made it worse was half of Mildred's work was poorly done, and her lack of experience with magic only made things worse.
Gullet had gone out of her way to torment Mildred, and she had become someone Mildred had learnt to despise. Maud honestly thought the best way around that was to study up. Did she really think that would impress the woman who was out for blood?
But Gullet was not the only person in the school out for her blood.
Ethel Hallow. Miss Hardbroom. Both of them hated her, mostly for petty reasons although her 'mistake' with the entrance exam had caused her more problems than she'd expected, and even now she was kicking herself for her mistake; she had been so desperate to become a witch, she had not thought through her decision to use Ethel's ingredients properly. And because of that, Ethel despised and bullied her; true, Mildred was becoming more and more certain there was more to the fights than what Ethel led everyone to believe, most of them were directed against Mildred's mother, which was low, but at the same time she had caught enough of Ethel's life to know she had issues.
But was all of the abuse worth it?
Mildred wondered if she should just leave.