Cassiopeia is Minerva Mcgonagall's great niece. One of her late brother's granddaughter. Cass' parents were killed by deatheaters when she was young, so Minerva raised her. Fearing her safety, Minerva sent Cass to school in Beauxbatons, and since Cass was raised in Scotland, she had a Scottish accent but there was some French to it as well. In fourth year, when it was the time of the Triwizard Tournament, she begged Madame Maxine to let her come as well, so she could see her great-aunt. The French Headmistress reluctantly agreed. Cass was the only fourteen year old from Beauxbatons to come to Hogwarts, but she didn't mind, Fleur and the other girls were like sisters to her, older sisters. When she arrived, she wasn't called out or anything, in fact, no one from the other schools even really talked to her, until the Yule Ball was nearing. A lot of fourth year Hogwarts students asked her to accompany them to the Yule Ball, but she rejected every single one, since they didn't even bother to ask for her name, or tell her what their names were. But then Draco Malfoy asked her to the Yule Ball, it was because he wanted to make Astoria Greengrass jealous, and he needed a pretty girl, preferably a foreign girl who didn't go to Hogwarts, to make her jealous.