1872: Maeve goes off to Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor.

1873: Finlay goes off to Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor.

1876: Dom shows his first signs of magic. He pretty much takes it as a given now that he will go to Hogwarts and be sorted into Gryffindor too.

1881: The time finally comes for Dom's time at Hogwarts to begin. He is alarmed to find himself sorted into Hufflepuff. He would eventually find that the house suits him but even so, it isn't the Connolly way so he is greatly disappointed. Niamh has a child, one whom people come to expect him to stay home with which Dom does not appreciate the older that he gets.

1883: Dom tries out for the Quidditch team but fails spectacularly at it.

1884: The laughing plague takes lives including those of Aunt Siobhán and Niamh's husband.

1885: Brighid is sent off to the Pendergast School of Young Roses. Dom feels sorry for those 'Roses' of society.

1886: Maeve campaigns for the right for women to duel properly which he is fine with, really. It's the attention that gets put onto him with statements like isn't that your sister that he doesn't appreciate. Especially when he has repeatedly proven that he is quite bad at dueling.

1887: The half-breed ban happens which Dom is mostly indifferent to. A fellow student that he has a crush on is a little passionate about it though so he pretends to be too. His pride takes a hit when he sees all the children that make it onto Quidditch teams. Come on! He wasn't that bad!

1888: The students banned by the half-breed ban are able to come back but by now Dom's crush has faded into thin air so he doesn't actually care at all anymore. Cousin Lorcan gets married which is both surprising and not surprising. Dom graduates and becomes an apprentice broommaker.