Eleanor D'Mer

Backstory

Considering my age, I should be well into my Witch Career. Instead, I've landed myself in the position of "First Year"...then again, I do believe that your TRUE age is in your spirit, and my spirit is quite youthful.
Anyway, I am a Half-blood witch, born from a Pureblood mother and a Muggle father. The reason for my late attendance to Hogwarts is that my parents encouraged me to take a chance with Muggle Education. My mother—who was a star pupil in her days at Hogwarts—didn't quite agree with my father on this due to her knowledge of how amazing Hogwarts is—and would be—for me. But after their many long discussions, they came to the conclusion that I would attend Muggle schools until the age of eleven, when I would receive my Hogwarts Letter, so that I could experience the Muggle part of myself. (Fair.) However when it came, I didn't think twice about throwing it in the trash. I loved my Muggle friends all too much to leave them, I realized. Some of them are still very close friends of mine...basically family.
Of course, the letters kept flowing into our home. (At some point, we were basically waking up with fresh paper cuts on our bodies because our home was THAT infested with the darn things!) After a few days, my mother notified Hogwarts that I would be continuing my education in the Muggle world. The Headmaster understood, but said that once I finished twelfth year in the Muggle world, I would receive another letter from Hogwarts. The Headmaster believed that anyone accepted to Hogwarts deserves a chance at attending, no matter their age.
I didn't attend Hogwarts, but the Headmaster encouraged my mother to show me the basics of being a Witch, that way I wouldn't be so far behind ability-wise when...if...I ever chose to attend Hogwarts. My mother accepted this task with glee, and immediately started to teach me as much as she could every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening.
Over the course of my years in the Muggle world, I exposed my magickal abilities to only the most-deserving. I know you aren't supposed to do such a thing, but I was falling in love with one of my closest friends, and I couldn't keep half of my life a secret from them. I confessed my feelings and showed them what I could do, all while the anxiety of this "Make-Or-Break-This-Friendship-With-My-Honesty" situation hummed in the back of my head. Thankfully, my friend accepted me for who I am, and told me the feelings were mutual.
As we dated, the rest of our friend group expressed to us that they felt left behind, and asked why we kept to ourselves most of the time. We would blame our absences on Muggle "Puppy Love" and other sickly-romantic things like that, but I knew deep down that my lack of honesty with the *whole* friend group was doing a great disservice to all of our friendships. I talked with my significant other about whether or not I should come clean to everyone else, and they encouraged me to be my most authentic self because, "In the end: those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
After those few days of contemplation, I gathered everyone together in my living room one evening and showed them how I could summon items with a quick movement of my wand. Of the group of seven sitting before me (excluding my significant other), only three didn't believe that I harnessed a power not commonly found among Muggles. So, my mother came into the room and explained basically everything to them. It was well into the night when everyone left my house.
The next day, I learned that only three of my friends (not including my significant other) still wanted to be friends with me. I got a short letter from the four that decided to cut ties, which basically boiled down to: "We'll keep your true identity a secret, but it's just too weird for us. Sorry."
That all happened this past Summer (2019).
After reading their letter, I decided to contact Hogwarts to tell them I would be attending this Autumn.
And that's where I am now.
I correspond with my mother, significant other, and truest friends on a weekly basis. I'm enjoying this time for my Witch self, because it's about time I put her first.