What is your full name and why were you named it? Were you named after anyone? Do you have any nicknames? How do you feel about your name?
My full name is Zhenya Gredippe Burton. My mother and father told me that they named me Zhenya because they liked the name. The name itself is a diminutive from the name Yevgeniya, which again is the Russian form of the female name Eugenia. Eugenia means 'Well Born'; born of a wealthy or noble or important family.

My family, to me, is an important and noble family, but I don't think my parents considered anything of the meaning of the name, they just liked it.

Gredippe was my Dedushka's middle name, and I think that's why they gave me that name as a middle name. My Dedushka was my idol when I was growing up, and he still is even though he has passed away.

Most people call me Zhenya because it's not a very long name, but sometimes I get called Burtie, Zhenny and Z. My siblings call me Zhenny, and my Dedushka used to call me Burtie.

My surname Burton is obviously no a Russian name, but the Russian heritage comes from my mother's side. My father is British, so obviously I got his surname. My mother's family are Metanova's.

I like my name because I've never met another person named Zhenya, and in my name I am linked with my Dedushka.

What are your future plans and why do you aspire to those goals?
I have many goals in my upcoming life. Career goals include aspiring to become a Healer in Magical Bugs and Diseases. To get there, I would like to study Healing, perhaps in the UK, but I might apply to the Soviet Wizarding University. I would also like to further my Potions and Herbology education, which I would like to do by work experience through the Ministry of Magic in the Department of Accidents and Catastrophes within their Potion Accident Response Team in the Potion Identification section. I would also like to study Herbology at a higher level to help develop my skills and potion brewing, which I can bring with me as healer. One day, hopefully not too far away, Lux Carrington and I are aspiring to create our own line of healing Potions.

Family goals include playing a strong role in my siblings lives, as well as my nephew and cousin.

Personal goals include buying and setting up a home, and settling into life post-Hogwarts.

Which family are you most like? Describe how.
I am more like my mother's family, the Metanova's, and specifically my Babushka and Dedushka. I was raised for most of my early childhood in Russia with my grandparents, and as a result I believe I gained a lot of their morals, and characteristics. My Babushka loves to cook, read, and be outside, and she also loves being surrounded by her family. Before the fight with my parents, I was exactly like that. I loved being around my parents, my uncle Archer, my older brother and my younger siblings. I love nothing more than to be outside, sitting and reading, gathering plants, tending to the gardens, and especially hiking. My Dedushka was always a bit more of a quiet, but also fun man. He was very good at Potions and Herbology, which he passed on to me. He also knew how to have fun. He and Babushka would always dance together, even if it was just in the kitchen with music from the wireless they had. He would take me swimming, hiking with Babushka, we would pretend duel together, and he always made me laugh and enjoy life. I think those are the things I see in myself. Their memory and who they are will live in me.

What makes your family unique?
I think my family is very unique, but I also think that all families have something unique about them. What I think is unique about my family is that our family dynamics were always very extensive, but also the uniqueness of my parents.

For starters, as I mentioned previously, my mother's parents spent a great deal of my childhood raising me. I had input from my parents, of course, but they only visited about three times a year. This was when my brother attended Hogwarts, so that my father could return to work at St. Mungo's, and my mother could continue working as a muggle schoolteacher. My mother's family, as well as my father's, are pureblood. This is why I think my mother is very unique as, being pureblood, she decided to pursue a career working with muggles, teaching them about muggle things. She still practices witchcraft but it's her personal life, rather than her professional life, unlike my father.

I also have a brother who is seven years older than I am, and twin siblings who are a lot younger than I am, too. As a result, I never had a brother or sister who were close in age to me, so I felt that my older brother was more responsible for me, rather than being able to play the role of fun big brother, and my younger siblings are going to look at myself, and my older brother that way. In recent years, though, my older brother and I have developed a more even relationship.

Who is the oldest person you can remember in your family and what do you remember about them?
The oldest person I can remember is my Dedushka, who died when I was nine, and I had to move back to England to be with my parents. I remember everything about him; the way he looked, the sound of his voice, his deep Russian accent, and his low, crackly chuckle. I remember the way he used to look at my Babushka, as if it were the first time he was seeing her. I remember the look of concentration as he would brew a particularly complex potion, or as he carefully plucked his plants from the garden. I remember when he used to race me when I was younger, around their extensive yard, down to the lake which he would throw me into in summer. I remember his patience when he taught me things during my time there, from Russian and English, to potions and herbology. He would read to me, and we would sip hot chocolate by the fire in winter, whilst roasting marshmallows. I'll never forget how protected I felt when I was with him.

What chore do you hate doing and why?
I hate doing anything indoors. I'd rather be outside weeding or sweeping the outside pavement. I think I especially hate dusting, because it makes me sneeze. And no matter how much you dust something, there's always a residue of dust, whether dry of damp, on whatever it is I'm cleaning. Now that I'm legally allowed to use magic, now, I will no longer be doing the muggle dusting.

What was your education like before coming to Hogwarts? Which did you like better and how did it compare?
Up until I was nine, my Dedushka homeschooled me in Russia. He had been a Potion Professor at the Soviet School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when my mother was a child, and was well and truly retired by the time I came to live with them. He taught me bits and pieces about everything, both muggle and magical, but we did spent a lot of time on Potions and Herbology, as I have mentioned, because they were the two areas we had greatest passion for.

After he passed away, I went back to live with my parents in England. My mother enrolled me at her muggle school, in her class, but I hated it. I hated being surrounded by that many muggles and learning such boring things, like mathematics, computer sciences, english etc. So, she pulled me out and my father took some time off to homeschool me until I went to Hogwarts about 18 months later.

I loved being homeschooled by my Dedushka, because he was trained to be a teacher. He was patient and he learned to teach things in a way that I understood, and he was very good at that. I believe that is why I learned to much, because he could always find a way to teach it so that I understood. I didn't like the muggle primary school, and I didn't enjoy my father homeschooling me as much, either, because he didn't teach me as much about Potions and Herbology as my grandfather, even though my father is very knowledgable about those areas, and he spent a lot more time focusing on other things that I didn't care for as much. I think Hogwarts and being homeschooled by my grandfather are very similar, except Hogwarts teaches me a wider range of things, because the Professors are dedicated to one subject. And I get to meet people and make friends, which I didn't get to do in Russia.