A debrief of Hermione’s Family
So, Hermione marries a muggle named Oscar Laforrest. They both hyphenate their names together to Granger-Laforrest. Hermione goes to university to became a defense lawyer because her whole life she’s been fighting wrongs and defending herself and others. seriously, she cant lie enough for politics and shed rather be a force to keep laws in action properly than trying to martyr the magical world from the seat of the prime minister. Oscar is a history teacher, and his student call him Dr. Laforrest. He took time off to raise their children when they were young and enjoyed being a stay at home dad. He goes back to work full time when their youngest is 7 years old. Thats 13 years home still.
Their first child is named Rosalind after Hermione’s dear grandmother. Rose has her mothers one track mind but no magic like her father. She’s already decided that she wants to be a Brian surgeon at 12. No one expect that she wont be one. She is Hermione miniature really, complete with hyper focus on academics.
Then they have their second daughter, two years younger than Rose, and name her after Oscar’s favorite aunt, Theodosia. She is called Thea. Thea follows the family traditional of being annoyingly intelligent, but is riddled with add and anxiety. When she was very young she started to show signs of accidental magic, and very young she learned how to control it. Hermione and Oscar stop seeing signs by the time she’s 5, and maybe thats half because they were adjusting to their youngest child. For awhile they think that it was a fluke, that she’s a squib like Rose.
4 years after having Thea they plan their last. They have a little boy and name him Hugo (after Hermione’s dad cause he’s great). The girls love him, like he’s a little doll. Though Thea tells her parents she would’ve rather had a kitten than a brother. They couldn’t quite explain that babies and kittens were not the same thing. Hugo is at that stage of boyhood where he doesn’t have a definable personality other than general scamp. He likes science class cause he can blow stuff up and he likes playing football even though his sisters are better than him. He knows some boys laugh but if he asked he’s pretty sure Thea would beat up a kid for him. His magic starts showing up when he's 5 and its, um, explosive.
Thea’s teachers tell Hermione and Oscar that while Thea is a good student, she needs to focus more. That she gets too distracted. It leads to a lot of built up anxiety and anger. A lot of the time she’s meant to be reading, she’s doodling or just staring off at nothing. Hermione and Thea disconnect a lot from this. Hermione found it so easy to focus on her homework and could just turn on tat focus at a moments notice. She doesn’t understand why her kid can’t.
Its Oscar’s brother that helps her start to understand. His own ADD had caused similar issues.
Thea draws all day, and yes that includes school. Teachers cant complain as much when she proves to be multitasking and either fully comprehending their lecture or dutifully making swirling notes around her drawings. For her 8th birthday Felix buys her loads of paints and she allowed to do whatever she wants with them in the shed in the back garden. And thats when she finds her medium. Paint. Splashing it on canvas, making delicate lines and clouds, stamping leaves in neon. Paint.
A/N: So. This is like, the background info that I came up with? Some of this could change. In my story its kinda obvious that Thea is the main character but I plan on developing other characters just as much and showing story from their point of view.
Why didn’t I just use Rose? Cause I had Thea in my head. And to me Rose was already written and existed in a way where she wasn’t the character I wanted. I have plans for her. Hugo too.
I might post some drawings I’ve done of them, I plan to design the characters ill be using for this, maybe making short comics about short funny ideas I had. This is very much not a canon story so, don’t be mad :)
