1882 | Two years after the Gaius Malfoy and Celeste Avery’s marriage see what should be a joyous occasion the birth of their first daughter. However, this event is stained with tragedy as Celeste does not survive the labor, leaving a little girl who is named Serpentine Celeste without her mother. The care of the sickly infant is left solely to the nanny, and she has little to do with her one remaining parent.

1883 | With the end of his mourning period, Gaius decides that for a fresh start, the pair and their staff move to a new home in Hogsmeade. The same year her first cousin of similar age is born, but at this point, she has little to do with Jocasta.

1884 | The laughing plague hits the wizarding world. Multiple relatives fall sick, but only one dies – Cassandra, leaving Jocasta without a mother just like Serpentine. Serpentine, surprisingly, does not catch the plague (many expected her to, with how often she fell sick in the past years) but she does catch a nasty cold that keeps her in her room for a week or two.

1885 | Her father remarries a Miss November Malfoy who he’d met the year prior. At three, Tinnie has conflicted feelings about the situation. The two tiptoe around each other in their home when forced to interact. Serp doesn’t hate her. She never knew her birth mother, but at the same time, she is unsure about what to do about actually having a mother. The same year her father steps down from his Ministry position and starts to focus on his own projects.

1886 | Come August, Serpentine becomes a sister for the first time to a boy by the name of Callistus Bryn. Unlike her step-mother, Tinnie does sort of dislike the infant. Unlike when she was a child, Gaius actually pays the boy some lick of attention, causing a surge of jealousy in the child.

1887 | A second brother is born, and unlike with Callistus, she does actually hate Flavius when the trend continues that more attention is paid to the boys than her.
One weekend in August, she is granted permission to take a trip with her grandfather and her nanny to where he hosts is dragon breeding program. It is on this trip she discovers that she is a parselmouth (in what proves to be her first sign of magic) when the detour to see his snake collection and she is gifted a small, young dragon snake that she names Igor. It is finally something that brings herself to her father’s attention and she latches onto it as part of her identity when Gaius seems proud of it.

1889 | Aunt Brynn’s fiancé dies. Serp has never really met the man so she’s quite un-upset about the whole thing, she is upset by Bunn being upset.

1890 | This year is a collection of… interesting events that Serpentine simply passively observes. Her father is appointed as a member of the Wizengamot – which is something she knows is really a big deal and makes him even more important even if Serp doesn’t really understand exactly what the Wizengamot is or really what it does. She does, however, go around announcing she wants to be on it to be like her father to anyone that listens. In a bit of not-so-good news, Nova’s brother elopes with some rich girl. One who already had a fiancé. Pappa doesn’t approve and things are a bit tense whenever his name is brought up or seen in the papers.

1891 | Her relationship with her stepmother has improved over the past few years, to the point that she often refers to Nova as her mother both in conversation with others and to Nova herself. This improvement in their relationship has seen a marked improvement in her feelings towards her younger brothers who are four and five this year. She still doesn’t interact with them as much but now that comes down more so to age than the fact that she hates them. There is still some jealousy but she certainly no longer hates them.

1892 |And... Juliet. Towards the middle of the year, Serpentine is confronted with another sibling. A sister. And unlike the brothers she's had five and six years to adjust to, she handles this addition even worse than she did Flavius's. She'd come to find she didn't mind having brothers. She liked when the nanny let her hold them or play with them. A sister she finds is an entirely different story. No, Juliet gets the childhood she wanted. That Serpentine dreamed of and never had. One with a somewhat attentive father and a living mother. And up returns her longstanding fear of being replaced. Shoved aside like the memory of her mother was. And now there is the perfect vessel to take her place. One that has both Gaius's and November's blood.

1893 | In September, she starts her first year of Hogwarts which proves to be eventful from day one. Sorted into Slytherin, she starts the year off by bullying her new roommates into silence about keeping Igor in the dorms.