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fleeing with his mother is probably the easiest thing that avery ever had to do. he is the most special case amidst the death eaters in my opinion because his innate need to be good and his obsessive compulsion to sabotage himself. 

so his dad is a death eater / knight of walpurgis , and that obviously is the beginning and the end of any discussion regarding avery’s future , which he doesn’t care much for either way because he’s more or less a nihilist , and this world that they occupy means next to nothing to him. 

his mother loves him. he loves his mother. Asana actively combatted her husband’s plans to hand their son over to be a soldier. now don’t get her wrong. she values blood purity as much as the next person , but she values her son more. and he feels the same way about her. 

i won’t get into his relationship with his dad or what happens to avery sr. right now , but the point is that during the war , avery does a lot of things he hates himself for , even more he can never forgive himself for , and more still that he wishes he could take back. and the moment voldemort is gone , it is an out for him. it is. he wants out. he doesn’t want to go to prison. he doesn’t want to rot in a cell. and he doesn’t want to leave his mother alone because his father’s dead by then —winks— and ambrose is all she has left.

so he runs. he packs up a few things , takes his mama’s hand , and he runs. and it’s easy because their family is so vast. the avery family has been a staple in the british pureblood society for centuries , sure , but unlike many other families that can say this , they span nations. and most of his mother’s and father’s immediate relatives either still live in or have moved back to other places in eastern europe and south asia. 

so they move for awhile before they settle in with relatives in pakistan. and the thing about it is that , with only his mother , avery is at his best. he sheds the mask he was forced to wear —both literally and figuratively— in britain. he feels no need to be wicked , and he and his mother are genuinely happy. but the nightmares are there. the ghosts are there. his father’s voice still echoes in his ears every now and again. basically , life away from britain is better , but so much of britain comes with them that ambrose can never truly forget where he’s just come from and what he’s done. 

conversations about the war breed both excitement and dread , pride and shame , interest and disgust. for teddy , the war is his mother and his father , literally and figuratively. it is what he was birthed from. it was where he was conceived. his first breaths were filled with the rubble and ruin of the war. it’s forever festering in his lungs , and he became acutely aware of it early on.

first and foremost , no matter how hard andromeda —and later harry— tried to shield him , every time he left the house he was confronted with what the war was supposed to mean to him. they could not keep him from every single one of those conversations , and so he began to field them young. he had to. even if he couldn’t fully process the information. even if he was not completely capable of expressing his thoughts or emotions about it. he heard all about it again and again , and while for the most part , he delighted in being able to hear about his parents , sometimes it’s exhausting. 

now let me tell you , remus and dora did one hell of a job in picking teddy’s godfather. because harry GETS IT. harry understands this. and harry is able to alleviate the worst parts of these emotions. he is the first one to take teddy aside , just before he leaves for hogwarts , and have an honest conversation about the war. he takes teddy’s questions. he explains exactly what happened to remus and dora. and he explains what the war meant to people like harry , like hermione and ron , like the weasleys , like his grandmother. he says what he can about big ted and dora , and he speaks about his experiences with remus. harry beats around the bush a lot initially , but after remembering the struggle of having to show up at school and be pummeled with information and being asked questions he couldn’t answer , he eventually just gave teddy everything that he could. 

so overall , it really depends on the person. teddy is proudest when he hears about the war from his godfather. teddy feels the most grief when he hears stories from his grandmother. teddy feels the most excitement when ron tells him stories about the war. teddy feels the most connected when he hears about the war from hermione. and teddy feels the most frustrated when he hears about the war from a stranger. 

okay so i’ve actually discussed this in private but never in public and i should have but here it goes.

so the wizarding war in britain resonated with viktor deeply not only due to the connections he still held there but because he knows what war and general political conflict —both magical and muggle if you know a thing or two about bulgaria— can do to a country , to its people. he also knows what the lasting effects can look like and feel like , and even now , this dark cloud forever hangs over not only his home but also his school , and the distance between the two do little to alleviate that. 

during the war , he helped aid and abed muggleborns fleeing prosecution. he reached out to bill and fleur , to people he’d played quidditch with , to anyone really that he believed would either need his help or who would know people that would need his help. he smuggled so many wizards and witches , many who had either had their wands confiscated already or who were being watched all too closely , and he did what he could for the war effort despite his own magical government wanting nothing to do with this war. 

so he’s doing this thing , this one good thing , but it costs him. and it costs him dearly. it costs him so much that for the longest time , he regrets ever helping at all. because while he’s out doing this , his only sister and his only sibling in general is abducted. from their home. in bulgaria. no note , no demands , no reason whatsoever. and viktor becomes so paranoid because it could be so many people. death eaters , the british ministry , the BULGARIAN magical government as punishment for him defying their orders , the muggle government. and no one comes forth about it. no one gives any information. she’s missing for the better part of five months , and while viktor’s father demands he keep it quiet so that they might better find out who had anything to do with it themselves , viktor slowly begins to pull away from the war effort. granted , it doesn’t last much longer than that , but it takes a great toll on him.

weeks after the war , they discover his sister’s body , killed by magic and with no evidence as to who it was. and it’s still this mystery he is obsessed with solving although it becomes pretty evident that this was so much bigger than him. so if there is anything he regrets , it is not worrying more about his little sister , not paying more attention to her and what she was doing , not taking further precautions when he started smuggling. he was so worried about hermione and gabrielle and fleur and even harry that he didn’t think to look over his shoulder at his own family. and his mother still holds a grudge with him quietly. his father still blames him , and he can feel it. it strips him of so much , and it’s something he would give anything to take back , letting his sister get abducted right under his nose. 

“You would know — you put the clothes there, not me.” Laughing then, she swung the piece of cloth before his eyes on the tips of her fingers. “You know, I think it’s usually the other way around, but — good on you, defying gender stereotypes. I’ll stick them in my pocket, but be warned, you’ll never EVER, EVER, get them back now.”

jonas’s mortality is the . . . furthest thing from his mind at all times which is probably literally his cause of death in the way but anyway. 

i wouldn’t call him reckless. jonas has to be one of my most calculating characters. he’s always thinking. everything he does is a chess game , and it is the one singular trait he pitches to his children above all else. never run in head first , but think with your head first. so it isn’t recklessness so much as it is a peace with death if you will. 

he knows his job is dangerous. he knows what might happen any given day. he knows what war is about and what may or may not become of him. he knows how it affects his children and his wife. he also knows what it might cost so many others if he were to sit down and turn a cheek. that isn’t in his blood. it is not in his genes to be able to look away from a conflict —even though it probably WOULD NOT affect him and his pureblood , wealthy family— while others are suffering. and his wife constantly tries to dull that in him , and she has her own reasons for that , but it becomes this thing where the worse things get , the more active he becomes. 

he has no qualms about dying for a cause he wholeheartedly believes in. he is dedicated to winning this war and saving as many lives as he possibly can. he wants the world to be safer for his children. he doesn’t want to have to mold them into bad people just so they can survive. he’s not going to tell his daughters “stay away from muggleborns” just so they’ll be safer. he won’t look his son in the eye and offer apathy as a shield. he can’t do that. no matter how much augusta may want him to. no matter how neutral she tries to be. she knows who she married , and she married a good man. 

so it never scares him. it never makes him hesitate. he’s the guy running into burning buildings and falling rubble to save someone else. he knows how important his life is. he knows how much it is worth. he loves his children more than anything in the world , and he knows what it would do to them if he didn’t come home. when he finally does die , he’s just glad that they’re , for the most part save frank , are grown and have all the lessons he thinks they need to have in order to succeed. he will never know about the wrestle with morality frank went through the first several years after his death. he will never know how reckless one daughter became and how ruthless the other can be now. but in the end , all three of his children were relatively good people. his grandson is a good person. his wife is still living. the war eventually ends because of these generations he leaves behind. and that would be enough for him. 

let me preface this by saying that neville doesn’t start teaching at hogwarts until he’s well on in years. he’s no younger than forty when he begins teaching , and even when he first begins teaching , it’s not consistent or permanent. he commits to being auror. he commits to helping kingsley clean up the ministry. he takes his position very seriously , and he becomes one of the greatest aurors the wizarding world has ever known since , you know , alastor moody and his parents. he does help rebuild the school , and he ensures that the ministry no longer interferes with the studies of children. he basically blocks and barricades any chance anyone thinks of having to get in minerva mcgonagall’s way, and that’s just that. 

now it’s not that he never wanted to teach because he ALWAYS wanted to teach , but it wasn’t the right time for him. he had a bigger purpose , a calling if you will , and it wasn’t to follow in his parents’ footsteps or shine their legacy. it was to make sure that the sacrifices of himself , his family , and all of his friends were not in vain. yes , of course , neville wanted to prove himself. he went into auror training with both a lot of confidence and a lot of feeling like he had not yet done enough. and teaching would always be there. he visited hogwarts often , always checking in on things. he kept in touch with who he could and maintained his ties to his school. 

by the time he does resort to teaching , he’s had a full career in the auror department. he was its head for several years and then the head of the entire law enforcement department, and he helped overhaul nearly every department and office within his own department because he felt that was a necessary thing to do. he feels accomplished. he’s seen so much, and he’s done so much , and by the end of it , he’s convinced he doesn’t owe anyone else anything else. 

now teaching is his passion. absolutely , at the end of the day , neville wants to HELP. and he wants to give students a better experience than many of the ones he had in school. he wants to be a good teacher , a helpful teacher , and he wants to ensure that every child that comes through his classroom —and , eventually , his house when he takes over head of gryffindor because who else would really?— feels welcome and safe and cherished for their skills rather than discredited for their flaws. neville is so damn jolly and happy and comfortable in and out of his skin when he goes back to hogwarts. he’s a role model. he’s a friend. he’s a confidante. he’s everything you would want in a teacher you see for seven years , and he loves going to work every single day. 

and the plus about it all is that he gets to relive his days in hogwarts in a way where he isn’t being bullied. he isn’t walking into a classroom terrified. he isn’t being looked down upon or undermined or taken advantage of.

so i had not , up to this point , truly nailed anything down , and i take full advantage of that because now i get to build this shit from scratch. and it could change later , but based on the kind of person angelina is , i , at the very least have a vague idea of how the family dynamic looks.

her father is an african - american muggle ( hailing from , sadly , deep south mississippi ) , her mother a biracial woman ( a squib , although she wasn’t aware of this ) from south of london , and they met when Leon Johnson was deployed to europe at the age of 24. Leon tried to bring Arlene Pierce back stateside once he finished out his tour , but Arlene was not having it. She’d built a life here , opened a bookstore near her old neighborhood , and was unwilling to leave. Leon left , but he returned after he finished his service , and the two were wed. Shortly thereafter , Arlene became pregnant with the first of three of Angelina’s older siblings , Darius Johnson. 

Angelina is the fourth of five children , and only three out of five of these children show any magical ability. Her brother , Darius , attends Hogwarts but leaves two years prior to Angelina’s arrival. He is sadly killed during the first war working within the ministry. Evelyn Johnson , the second oldest of the Johnson children , also attends Hogwarts and shares Angelina’s first three years with her. She was the quidditch captain prior to Oliver Wood. The third oldest Johnson , Tyron , also has no magical ability but has never felt left out by his siblings. He has a successful academic career back at home , and he eventually goes to university to study bioengineering. 

Angelina’s youngest brother , Leon Jr. , is four when Angelina goes off to school , but he has never shown an ounce of magical ability. But after Darius is accepted into Hogwarts , Arlene’s father gives his daughter a box of letters revealing that her mother was a witch , but she’d given up magic to be with her husband and raise their family. It allows Arlene to be more encouraging and supportive of her children , both magical and non , but Leon is never comfortable at all with the idea of their children being witches and wizards , and it’s evident in the days immediately preceding or following their arrivals from and departures to school. When Darius is killed , any tolerance that Leon had is destroyed , and it becomes a constant fight between him and his family as he attempted to stop his children from returning to that world. It , of course , doesn’t work. 

When Angelina is sixteen , just shy of finishing school , her mother becomes severely ill. When no muggle doctors can help her , she turns to magic , which becomes another point of contention between her and her father as well as her brother Tyron , who is skeptical about the methods used. Ultimately , neither world is able to save Arlene , and Leon is still angry with his daughter when she sends him and her youngest brother into hiding during the second war. He didnt ask her to stay this time , and so she didn’t even consider it , returning to the wizarding world and eventually participating in the final battle.