1851 | Atticus is the first child born to Montgomery, an innkeeper and would-be scholar, and his wife Elizabeth.

1853 | Belladonna is born.

1858 | Atticus’ father begins educating him at home, thinking it superior to any education he might get in the local school of their small village.

1860 | Xavier is born.

1864 | The family is baffled when a representative from Hogwarts arrives to tell them their only daughter is a witch. Belladonna goes off to the strange school in September, and is sorted into Hufflepuff—though Atticus is not entirely certain what that actually [i]means[/i]. One of the staff at the inn casually begins teaching Atticus the fiddle in his spare time.

1871 – 1883 | Atticus finds work as a lawyer’s assistant in the village. He meets a grand total of one young lady that catches his eye, but her family is not wholly pleased by the color of his skin, so it doesn’t work out.

1873 | Belladonna marries ---, a wizard she met at school.

1875 | Belladonna delivers a healthy baby girl.

1877 | And another.

1880 | And a healthy baby boy.

1883 | Belladonna writes to him in a panic, saying that her husband has been convicted for defiling a house elf. Atticus isn’t sure what that is, but he is quite certain that it is a most unsavory act, and so he moves to London to be closer to his sister. After a few months, they decide to move to the community of Irvingly so that her husband might struggle to find her when he is inevitably released from imprisonment, and open up an inn called The Irvingly Arms the following year.

1886 | Like her mother before her, Jessamine sets off for Hogwarts School in the autumn.

1887 | Because of the headache with his sister’s husband, they are unable to prove Jessa’s pedigree to the school for the fall term and it is not until October that it’s decided she’ll be able to attend again after all—in January.

1888 | Though still rather wary of this whole magic thing, Atticus enjoys life alongside his sister and her family in the home they’ve made for themselves.