BEFORE 1860-1878 Seraphina is born in 1860 and followed by one younger sibling, Edwin, in 1863. Her childhood is largely uneventful, and supervised predominately by a nurse and a nanny rather than by her parents. She is a charming child, and the only sibling she is particularly close to in youth is her brother Edwin - being too young to take much of an interest in the older boys, and considering Miranda to be too catatonic to be a satisfactory playmate.

She goes to Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor in 1871. Sera rapidly acquires a friend-group of other, similarly energetic girls, and selects Care of Magical Creatures and Divination as her electives. She does well on her O.W.L.s and continues into NEWTs with Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Herbology, and Care of Magical Creatures. She is determined that she will always be interesting!
Her fifth year and onwards, Sera begins flirting casually with some of the boys around her year in Hogwarts. She finds that she is good at it, exchanges some kisses, (and... makes out a few times with Fitzroy Prewett...), but has no intention of going any further. After all, her power is in making a good marriage — and she's sure she can find the perfect husband. Perfect for her, not for her father — she doesn't care how he is at business or at the Ministry, as long as he loves her (and is good looking, and preferably has some money. She can still be a little catty.) She also decides that she will be more involved with her children than either of her parents were, have somewhat of a romantic notion of the more intimate relationships her middle-class friends have with their parents.

Seraphina finishes her NEWTs in 1878 with good grades, allows Fitzroy Prewett to touch a breast, and begins her Season, determined to find her Dream Husband. This leads to her being flirtatious at parties with the men she really wants to like her, and she is summoned into her father's office in August of 1878. And then — and then, everything gets blurry.

THE CURSE 1878-August 1893 Sera has very poor memories of her time under the imperius curse. She has discerned that she married Henry Bythesea, who she had previously dismissed as boring and not attractive enough, in 1879. She bore him children in 1880 (Harriet), 1882 (Algernon, ugh), and 1885 (Bernard). Her mother is dead (1884).

She maintained few friendships and fewer hobbies, but would go to the parties that she was expected to go to, and ran her household well. (Sera's husband assumed she had a laudanum thing and that that was why she was so boring, but did not care enough to meddle.) AWAKENING August 1893 Sera was in the parlor at the time, staring rather blankly at a flower arrangement. It hit her like a train: a sudden awareness. She happened to be next to the family's address book at the time, and went to the home of the first brother she could find — Philip. The five Rowle children learn of their father's crimes — and Sera, for one, is furious.