November 7th, 1850	Another bouncing baby boy joins the Podmore family, they name him Sydney after a relative on his mother’s side.
1852 A Girl	This time a girl is born to Virginia and Sylvester, named Valerie. She is immediately doted upon and loved.
1856 The Last…?	What Sylvester and Virginia thought would be their last child is welcomed into the family, another boy named Clinton.
1858	Hudson goes off to Hogwarts. A jealous Sydney sets his drapes on fire as his first sign of magic.
1862 Surprise	Surprise! Vera is born that May.
1862 - 1869 Hogwarts	After four not-so-patient years, thanks to his late birthday, Sydney is off to Hogwarts and sorted into Slytherin. At first the decision perplexes him, but Syd has always had high aspirations and lofty goals and all of the determination to meet them. Valerie joins her brothers at school in 1863. Syd adds Care of Magical Creatures and Ancient Runes for electives in his third year. The former proves highly fascinating while he finds the second interesting, if a bit impractical. Potions has become an area of somewhat expertise for Syd and he begins to start thinking about pursuing that in a healing direction.In 1866 Clinton is off to Hogwarts. Sydney sits his OWLs and does well in what he needs to continue on with what he wants. His OWL results only fuel the fire for finding a healing job after school. He chooses not to keep Runes, History of Magic, Astronomy or Defense Against the Dark Arts. Sydney sits his NEWTs and woo, gets the grades he needs for an internship at the hospital.
1870 Healing	Upon graduation, Syd mixes his love of potions and creatures by taking an internship position in the Creature-Induced Injuries ward at St. Mungo’s in London. After a year internship, Syd is promoted to a healer in the creatures ward. Valerie graduates and debuts.
1878 Young Love	Syd meets a young girl, a welcome witch at the hospital, named Estelle Mitchell. The two start a tentative courtship, though Syd is very much at a loss for how all of this works. He is very smitten by her and does his best to balance work and courting.
1879 Heartbreak	The courtship with Estelle falls through when it is discovered that she’s been two-timing him! Heartbroken, Syd throws himself even further into his work.
1881	Vera graduates. St. Mungo’s continues to keep him busy and he thrives in the workplace. Socially he shuts himself off a little bit and while he still attends parties and events, he flirts shallowly, but never gives any girl his full attention; the fear of a repeat situation keeping him from putting himself out there.
January 1885 Next Step	The Assistant Head position in his ward opens up and Sydney is promoted. His mother’s health starts failing and she starts putting the pressure on him to marry.
1886	Sydney makes the acquaintance of a Miss Virginia Carmichael after she winds up in the ward due to a dog bite. They continue running into one another at social events throughout the year. He thoroughly enjoys her company, but is still hesitant to take it further than friendship.
1887 - 1888	This spring at an event at the Sandition resort, he again runs into Miss Carmichael and she is quite literally on fire. He puts it out and cares for her afterward medically, but it also starts to pull at his heartstrings in a way he hasn’t felt in quite a while. That summer she sends him a letter confessing feelings for him and a wish to take things to the next step, but Syd, being as afraid of commitment as he is, replied with a feeble attempt to warn her of his issues and they fell out of touch. Syd thought that was for the better because she deserves better, in his opinion.
1890 - Present A Change	In January Sydney is approached by his cousin Zach about helping out at the zoo he runs in Irvingly. Though nobody had ever expected Syd to leave the hospital, not when he was on track for another promotion, however the zoo itself has always intrigued Syd and he figured why not. Zach had plans to travel and acquire new creatures for the zoo. The cousins spend the next six months getting Syd acclimated before Zach takes off and that leaves Syd running a zoo. Nobody expected him to take it on with such gusto, but he is truly thriving in his work, enjoying every aspect. He leans heavily on his very capable staff to do the tough day-to-day work while he focuses on the administrative end, but he has found his passion in rescuing, rehabilitating and caring for creatures. Now only if he could find himself a wife.