1881 | After years of struggling to conceive a child, Evelina Lloyd gives birth to a healthy baby girl with bright orange hair in their London townhome. Charity, sensibly named by her sensible mother, is spoiled and rarely seen in the arms of anyone else when her mother’s at home.

1883 | Evelina dies suddenly, leaving two-year-old Charity confused and inconsolable. She cries for her mother for weeks after, having to be comforted by a nanny morning, day, and night. She eventually mellows out, and although she’s too young to understand the permanence of death, she no longer frets about her mother’s absence.

1884 | Jonathan moves himself and his daughter out of their London townhome and into a different one in the heart of muggle London. While still seeing her magical relatives on holidays and in passing, Charity grows up under more muggle influence than most magical-born children. Weekdays are spent with her muggle grandmother, and evenings are spent with her muggleborn nanny.

1885 | A governess is hired earlier than usual after a number of public meltdowns that leave Jonathan’s mother with the impression that Charity is in desperate need of intervention. The four-year-old resists the new influence in the household, but learns to control herself after it becomes clear that her governess favorite disciplinary method is the rod.

1887 | Charity displays her first sign of magic. It is met with excitement on her father’s part and uncertainty on her grandparents’ parts, but Charity is simply relieved to be a witch like her mother once was.

1888 | A fight between Charity’s father and grandparents leaves the two families estranged—and leaves Charity feeling more lonely than ever. She is gifted with a kitten for Christmas, but even a new feline companion does not compensate for the loss of her family.

1890 | Jonathan perishes after a battle with a head injury sustained during a stampede at the Candle Lighting Celebration at the Ministry. Charity becomes an orphan and the ward of her two uncles, Evander and J. Alfred Darrow—two men with very little experience with small children. She goes to live with Uncle Evander in Irvingly. She gets a governess in the form of Miss Louisa Clearwater, who helps her read, write, and sometimes work through her emotional problems, which Uncle Evander doesn't cope with very well.

1891 | Uncle Evander marries Caroline Delaney, an American girl a decade older than her and who she swears is fated to be her evil stepmother (aunt?) like Cinderella had. It very much is the end of the world.
1892 | Charity goes off to Hogwarts in September and is sorted into Ravenclaw. It suits her very well.

1894 | Charity enters her third year and promptly adds Care of Magical Creatures, Ghoul Studies, and Divination to her class roster.