#starchildlazaro

[thelastlynx]

Hii how are? I was wondering for chapter eight I think, on the Malfoy family tree, what are the names of Dracos, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.

Hi starchildlazaro – fantastic name, by the way! I'm very well, thank you (a bit caught up with rl non-fiction publishing). How are you?

Thanks for asking about Chapter Eight of The Seven Year Witch; it's one of my faves! The family tree I created (link to my instagram) for it was such a fun thing to do – and a massive headache because JKR didn't give us any coherent information in regards to wizarding generations. So, what I did was rather simplistic, mathematically speaking: taking into account the average life expectancy of witches and wizards (which would be, conservatively speaking, a century) and using all the extended canon info we have (which isn't a lot), I calculated the Malfoy generations, starting with Draco and Lucius – and then I threw it out of the window because none of it makes any sense.

I would love to create a proper Malfoy family tree, but for that, we not only would have to know the actual average life expectancy of wizardkind, but also the average age for becoming parents. Canon* seems to suggest that wizards/witches tend to become parents a bit later in life, and I've seen some discourse suggesting that Harry's generation was an outlier as people were eager to procreate with Voldemort an imminent threat. That, however, is pure conjecture (and also in sharp disagreement with the only existing genealogy, the one reconstructed for house Black which imagines four generations per century, which would result in a 40 level tall family tree).

You realise that I haven't answered your question yet, which is sort of the point. Since I wanted to stick to the books as closely as possible, I haven't come up with any cool names for Draco's ancestor's (yet) – with the marked exception of Robert, whose gravemound I describe in Chapter 1. That's him, at the very top on the left side of the palm tree:

If you're interested though, here are the names of Draco's closest ancestors afawk:

Paternal Grandparents: Abraxas and unnamed spouse

Maternal Grandparents: Cygnus Black and Cruella Rosier

Paternal Great-grandparents: unknown

Maternal Great-grandparents: Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe

[thosebizzareserpents]

Any family tree related stuff coming? i’d love to lnow which ones you plan on doing

Definitely Bulstrode, and a few other minor character families. 😉

[harpers-tartarus]

Is there a way to view of what you have on the Greengrass Family Tree

I feel like I’ve addressed this before... what little I have on the Greengrass’ family tree can be found in the Slytherin Family Tree but they don’t have an in-depth one

you can find it here 

[harpers-tartarus]

Have you made the greengrass family tree? Or any other?

I have the greengrasses on the maternal side to Daphne and Astoria’s grandmother and that’s it

The Slytherin family tree is pretty much complete, incorporating a lot of family lines

[nabooro]

How do you come up with the vocabulary and terms? I love it. I want to get some inspiration for some my headcanons if that’s alright.❤️😊

Hi, thanks for the q!

I work mainly on vibes for most of vocabulary, especially for root words - I know which sounds are kind of 'allowed' (i.e. part of my phonetic inventory) and work with those to set up words that hopefully are not the same as a previous word I've invented, and then I have a sound change process I put them through for consistency, I suppose.

For words that aren't meant to be literal, I turn to thinking of how the things I know or previous words would work as metaphors for different things - which is one of the most interesting parts of language to me!