Gifted [Harry Potter]

Matilda is intelligent, kind, brave, and loyal--but most of all, the most gifted witch of her age.

She spent her whole life, unloved, unwanted, and unchallenged intellectually. She fought tooth and nail to go to school, only to get forced out and dragged half way around the world by her ankles. Her letter to Hogwarts was an opportunity that she wouldn't waste--and the fact that it got her away from her vicious, criminally active parents was a hard plus.