1882 | stella and ramona are born a wee bit to early to be honeymoon babies but no one really says anything. the two - despite being identical - are quickly distinguishable if you know anything about them. if she is loud and expressive, it is ramona. if she is quiet and watchful, it is stella.

1883 | grandma olivia has her last children - regina and warrick. they are no longer the only set of twins in the immediate family. but they are also the only other babies stella has been exposed to and so the young girl starts to assume all babies come in pairs.

1884 | this year is a whirlwind and most of it is a bit more than the one and half year old can truly understand. the year starts out well with the introduction of a baby brother - duncan. tells is instantly smitten with him and doesn’t really understand why he is missing his other half like she has mona. but it isn’t even a month later when disaster falls and duncan is lost too - and grandfather and warrick to the laughing plague. it doesn’t take long for her to figure out that asking where duncan when makes momma sad so tells stops asking and is happy to act as a comfort object to her mother.

1886 | tells and mona are given their first toy brooms for their birthday and stella takes to flying just as would be expected as the child of a current and former quidditch player.

1887 | grandmother olivia is killed by an explosion at the market and at five she still, really doesn’t understand death but knows when she is told that grandmother olivia is gone in the way duncan is gone. pappa also retires from his team and while she misses going to watch his games she is thrilled he no longer has to go away a lot.

1889 | tells displays her first sign of magic conventionally late (and a whole year after mo) but no one was really worried (or at least no one mentioned to her they were worried), not when she’d been zipping around on a broom almost as long as she could walk. but her first true sign of magic comes. with her first sign of magic behind her stella determines she is a big girl now and as such is old enough to start receiving lessons in ridding and archery and her resulting obsession is surprising for the typically relaxed child. apparently, there is some of her parents in there somewhere it is decided.

1893 | aunt ellory dies. she is quite upset by this as she had always liked her aunt. ellroy had always been the strange sort of eccentric stella liked.

1894 | hogwarts is quickly approaching and with it her growing excitement. but still, she’s reluctant to leave momma and poppa at home without them, not sure how they’ll handle both her and mona leaving at once as they still seem so shaken by losing duncan. she knows they are just going to hogwarts, it isn’t the same but she worries nonetheless. but her own wand and her own adventures just like momma and poppa tell her about theirs.