February 14, 1868 Birth | After years of trying, Audrey is finally pregnant again, and gives birth to Reginald in the late afternoon on an unusual snowy day with little fanfare, interrupting the family’s plan to host a Love Day ball. He is a quiet baby until he isn't, and often toddles after his older siblings, wanting to be a part of everything. |
1874 Signs of Magic | Tillie is born, rounding on the last of the siblings. He displays his first signs of magic the same year, making a book flip pages on his own as he read a fairytale to her. |
1875 Lessons | Reginald likes to write more than he likes to read and often scribbles notes in the margin of books, much to the dismay of his family. He has an opinion on everything and likes to voice it. (Just how much and what he says will get better as he ages.). Reg likes to learn other languages, too. He doesn't like math at all. |
School Year 1879-1880 First Year | Reg misses Lucy and Anthony by a year and is promptly sorted into Ravenclaw. |
School Year 1880-1881 Second Year | Reg finds he doesn’t like practical magic and would much rather read about it; he struggles with DADA and excels in potions, because he can follow directions very well. He wants to try out for quidditch but breaks his arm and misses out for the year. Lucy gets married and Reg isn’t sure how he feels about Charles; he’s okay, he guesses. |
School Year 1881-1884 OWLs | He tries out for the quidditch team and becomes a keeper. Reginald is thrilled to be able to add electives to his schedule; he takes up Divination, History of Magic and Care of Magical Creature. History of Magic has become his favorite course. |
School Year 1884-1886 NEWTs | His OWLs are far less impressive than Reg would have hoped, but he didn’t necessarily fail them. He runs for Quidditch Captain but is beat out. Instead Reg doubles down during his NEWT years, and much to his excitement does well enough to enter the Auror Training Program |
1886-1887 Auror Training Program | The Auror Training Program is hard and he barely makes it through the first year; someone gets hurts because of him and winds up in the hospital for severe injuries during a field study, which causes him to promptly drops out for personal reasons. He doesn’t trust himself to be able to protect anyone. |
1885-1887 Continental Tour | Embarrassed from his recent failure, Reg goes on a continental tour to see what else is out there in life, spending a lot of his time reading historical books and visiting libraries; he runs into Anthony a few times although doesn’t go out of his way to follow him as he once had. (He’s still busy licking his wounds.) |
July 1887 - 1891 Return to London | Reg returns home because the World Fair is in town. Deciding he’s ready to stay for a bit and figure out his life, Reg decides to put his passion for writing to use and joins the staff at the Daily Prophet; he enjoys the job because it’s not monotonous and allows him the freedom he desires. Despite his desire to strike out on his own, he continues to live in the London home to be close to his family, mainly so he can be there for Lucy when her husband dies in 1890. Reg chooses to floo into work each morning. He works his way from a lowly staff writer to a sports writer. He’s a little annoyed Anthony decides to sponsor a team soon after because it makes him look biased.
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1892 - Present The Season | Finally, Anthony is serious about taking a wife, and Reg leaves him to get married first. He’s more than happy to chaperone Tille, instead.
He avoids that though, and decides to move in with Felix in April of 1893.
April 1894: He and Felix are officially dating, and Reg is very, very much in love with him. Of course they keep it under wrapped, and eventually one of them (both of them) will have to marry... right?
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