this room is so suffocating, walking on ice, but nobody breaks it
1877 — 1888
1877: antonina is born in moscow, the third and final of her parents' children. she is an easy babe.

1880: anya is three when her parents move house from russia to the scottish highlands and the magical village of hogsmeade. the slightly warmer climate does wonders for her complexion, bringing an evenness to her fair skin that hadn't been there in the snow.

1885: however, surprisingly, anya's first act of magic is to conjure a snow flurry in response to her older brother taunting her that she's "never seen a proper snow," having lived in scotland for most of her life.

june 1888: anya's hogwarts acceptance letter arrives.


stuck in this one-way conversation — guess i'll be here for a while
1888 — 1893
1888 — 1890: antonina begins her education, and is promptly sorted into loyal and hardworking hufflepuff. she quickly begins making friends both within and without. after antonina's first year, her elder sister svetlana is pulled from hogwarts and placed in the care of the pendergast school for young roses. after she returns home following her first year, antonina's parents whisk her away to america, where she manages to convince her father to purchase her a kodak roll-film camera.

1890 — 1893: by the end of antonina's third year, she has become known by a close knit group as "toni," a departure from traditional russian nicknaming that her parents and siblings are confounded by. she elects to take divination as her sole owl course, not wanting to place too much stress on herself. at the beginning of her fifth year, she is informed that she will be following her elder sister's example and entering the finishing school — just in time for svetlana to graduate its halls and marry an english wizard.


and you're blowing smoke in my face, and telling me all about your paycheck
1893 — present
1893: antonina has entered the pendergast school for young roses, a hopeful thing really. she doesn't think there's really any hope for her in english society.