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Witch Weekly · June 21, 2020 – 6:28 PM

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The Life and Death of Lucille Lukeson
It was only days ago that a heartbreaking announcement graced the pages of the Daily Prophet: Mrs. Lucille Lukeson, née Flint, died in the throes of a premature labour. She was twenty-one.

With death, comes new life: the new widower Mr. Ace Lukeson announced the birth of an heir, Ryder Titanus Lukeson. How strange, that these inherited names were chosen to honour family tradition. A sign of remorse and repentance by a most untraditional couple?

Lucille Flint’s life was set to be charmed, by all accounts. Born the sole child of the Titanus and Laverna Flint, there is little doubt that the young Miss Flint was doted on in childhood and grew up to be a pretty, kind, romantic creature with all the wealth, good name and connections anyone could wish for. Who then would have predicted such a tragic end?

There was perhaps a forewarning of this unravelling in her family connections, when some of her more ignominious relatives reared their heads. After all, our readers are all too familiar with the lurid life story of Annabelle Scrimgeour. Not long later, when society saw a rash of well-bred young ladies eloping, Miss Flint was among them, choosing to leave her intended - a respectable man, chosen by her family - before the altar for a... less than desirable option: a former classmate her own age, Mr. Ace Lukeson. For a girl referred to - fondly, we presume? - as ‘Lu-silly’ by old friends, perhaps it was the downfall of a young lady’s good nature: too made of tenderness, prone to flights of fancy, and far too easily led. To make matters worse, society saw little sign that she understood the ramifications of her mistake; even in the wake of it, reportedly she continued to find herself on close terms with controversial cousins and other social outcasts, such as the similarly tragic figure of Mrs. Melody Crouch.

But had the truth of her life’s tragedy finally begun to dawn on Mrs. Lukeson behind closed doors? It is not difficult to imagine that the confinement of a pregnancy might have illustrated to her the scale of her isolation. Mr. Ace Lukeson hardly seems to have been the model of a husband she might have hoped for, and her chosen path certainly not the easiest... Perhaps Mrs. Lukeson was realising that this was not the happily-ever-after she had hoped for.

Are we saying that this premature death was punishment, or perhaps a mercy? We would not dream of drawing such grand conclusions. But, while we pity the tragic turns of a young lady’s life, we must also now save our pity for the innocent child she has left behind, whose mother’s mistakes will be a spectre upon him until death. One must hope he does not also have his father’s hair.

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