1882 | Iris is born to Faustus and Jane Prewett. She is, naturally, the angel of the house. Mostly.

1883 | Mezeron is born. Iris is too young to remember it as it happens, but she can't go a week without being reminded of it later in life. As her brother comes into the world her mother leaves it, and suddenly Faustus is a widower and the Prewett children are motherless.

1884 | Life goes on about as well as it can. In the absence of a mother it is Edelweiss that Iris looks up to. She takes to mimicking her sister in words and actions, wanting to be involved in everything her sister does and throwing tantrums when not allowed to.

1886 | While spending the day with her extended family, Uncle Freddie tells her that many young witches and wizards begin showing their first sign of magic around her age. Wanting to be a "real" witch, Iris concocts a plan to fake her first sign of magic—and subsequently goes through with it. The guilt of it all haunts her, but she never confesses.

1887 | Iris begins her education under Edelweiss' governess. While she and her sisters share in etiquette lessons, nearly all of their other lessons are separate. It isn't always easy for her to stay on task during her lessons, but she tries.

1888 | Edelweiss goes off to Hogwarts. This is devestating news, because no longer does Iris have a playmate in the home who isn't Mezeron. She tries to convince her sister not to go, saying that she will cry for days, but in reality she cries for about fifteen minutes before Papa distracts her by taking her into a London doll shop. However, that doesn't stop her from lamenting to her sister through letter a week later about how the maids had to come upstairs and mop her bedroom from how many tears she shed.

1889 | Papa is reappointed as head auror, which means Iris sees less and less of him every day. She is proud of him of course—(she doesn't know what head auror means, but she knows it's very important)—but she misses him, especially when he misses dinner.

1891 | With two years still to go before she boards the train to Hogwarts, Iris is determined to "discover who she's meant to be", as if that's something nine-year-old girls have a track record of doing with any sort of ease. It doesn't help that at nearly ten she has yet to show her first sign of magic—especially when everyone else thinks she has.