They wouldn't miss me except for my father, and he would be happy if he knew that I was. "My son has gone away to live with wizards and learn magic and fly on brooms," he would say to our family, wondering what he had done to deserve such a thing. But no one would be surprised.

[The Chekov family dynamics are different from the Weasleys. Not bad--Pavel's father dotes and his extended family is just as caring as it is vast and spread out over Eastern Europe--but not particularly warm.]

You make a good impression on your family's behalf. The way you talk about them makes them likeable.