Post-Hogwarts
Dominique and Andre Chantré
February 3rd 2026
"ANDRE!" Dominique yelled, flinging open the door as he got home from the store.
"What's up?" he asked, shocked.
"This is up!" she screamed, shoving a positive pregnancy test in his face.
"I get what you're trying to tell me, but it's not that bad. Is it?"
"Yes! Well, no, but I'm only 23! We were going to wait like five more years! I wanted to make more of a start on my career, I love my work!" She started to cry.
"It'll be alright."
"OK. Just promise me one thing."
"What?" Andre asked.
Dominique's lips twitched. "That you won't tell this kid that I screamed and yelled about its existence when I first knew about it."
June 15th 2026
Dominique was an…interesting person to live with at this point. Instead of the crazy cravings her sister had suffered, she could go from screaming to sobbing to tired to serene in a few hours. She also had an obsession with oranges, but that was OK. Not like that icing mixture Victoire had liked. Bleh. Teddy had told him all about it, including when he had to try it.
"What are we going to name the baby?"
"Christine for a girl and Thomas for a boy?"
"Well I prefer Kristen. How about Andi for a middle name? Or for a boy, Andre?" Dominique answered in her 'Don't argue with me' tone.
"Mmm. Cute and English." Andre was from Beauxbatons and he was bilingual, but he still wasn't quite used to English culture.
"So that's a yes?"
"Yep."
"Good."
August 31st 2026
"OHMYGOD THIS IS TOTALLY YOUR FAULT ANDRE PATRICK CHANTRÉ!"
"Sorry Domi…" He didn't even correct her pronunciation of his father's name, Patrice.
"Yeah man, if you thought waiting was bad, this is even worse." Teddy smirked.
"Oh yeah, like it's such a picnic for us girls." Victoire snapped, which shut Teddy up.
"OH MY GOD THIS HURTS SO MUCH!"
"Ouch! You have now drawn blood from my hand! OW!"
"I DON'T CARE! I'M SURE THIS HURTS WAY MORE THEN YOUR HAND!"
Much more pain later, a little baby girl was handed to him and the couple both forgot the pain they had been in.
"Kristen Andi Chantré? Andromeda for long." Dominique said.
"What? You don't say 'for long'!" Andre exclaimed.
"Well now you do." Dominique said.
Damn that woman, she was infuriating. But he couldn't live without her.
August 31st 2029
Kristen was sitting in a huge pile of beginner's books. Domi had bet him that she would be able to read well by the time she was four. Andre had to admit that she was probably going to win this one, because Kris loved books and she could read a bit already. So even though she didn't have to read all the time, she wanted to. Today Kieran, Nicola, Harry II and Aquella were going to come round to celebrate Kristen's third birthday.
Victoire, Teddy, Roxanne and her husband Robert came in with their children. James's wife Amy was there with nine-month old Harry, but James wasn't. Roxanne set Aquella on the mat, while Victoire held Nicola.
"And I thought I was young." Dominique said, looking at Amy and Roxanne as the adults settled around their children. Kieran, Kris and Aquella was playing with the two younger babies.
"Oh shut up." Roxanne rolled her kohl rimmed eyes.
"Well, it was only a good accident." Amy mumbled, and blushed.
"Did you know I'm having another baby?" Dominique said.
"What the hell Domi, how long have you known?" Andre asked.
"A couple of days ago. I wanted to wait until all people with kids were here."
"But James isn't here. And they had little Harry about nine months ago." Victoire pointed out.
"I don't count James. Amy's told me that he barely takes care of the bloody baby." Roxanne retorted.
"Well, he's just so busy with the department and all." Amy said.
"Can we talk about MY BABY? Do you think it's a boy or a girl?"
"Boy." Victoire said.
"Yep." Andre said.
"I think so too." Amy said.
"Girl." Roxanne said just to be contradictory.
"I have a gut feeling it's a boy." Dominique mused.
"I got that too with Nikki! Except, it was a girl." Victoire exclaimed.
"And me with Quell, maybe it is a boy." Roxy said, giving in.
December 25th 2029
It was Christmas at the Weasleys. Molly and Arthur were quite old by now, but Molly still cooked stupendous meals.
Molly II was six months pregnant with her first child, and she couldn't stop smiling and glowing.
If only Domi could do more glowing and less yelling.
"So, son, how is the baby?" Harry asked.
"He is great, just ask Ames, she is in the kitchen. Good cook she is."
"Dad, you know I have a child called Posy who was born six years ago?" Lily said randomly. She did that a lot.
"You are a ridiculous little girl, Lily Luna Potter."
"Dad! I'm 21, recently married, thinking about kids in a few years! I am not a 'little girl'!" Lily protested.
"Yes but you'll always be my little girl." Harry replied.
"Cut it with the soppiness!" Fred II said.
"Aww, no, don't, it's cute!" his wife Lana sighed, cuddling up to him.
"Er, don't need to see that!" Roxanne shouted.
"Er, you have a two year old daughter at 21! Think my mental images are good?"
"You think about me and Rob when we are alone together?! That's sick, you sick minded-"
"All right! Enough!" Ginny yelled.
"No, I wanna hear more about this Rox!" Louis said. His wife Claire smacked him. "Ouch. Whawas that for?"
"Stop being a prat!" she snapped.
"Dinner!" Amy came in holding a lot of food. "Here, I'll take him James." She scooped up the baby.
Everyone liked it, except Domi who wanted ice-cream. "Andre, I want ice-cream." she said.
"Um, OK. I'll get something from the freezer later."
"NO YOU GOT ME LIKE THIS NOW GET ME THE ICE-CREAM!"
January 17th 2030
"What should we call the baby?" Dominique asked.
"After our fathers for a boy. Not sure for a girl though, as there's Nicola Fleur already."
"It's a boy." Dominique said off-handedly.
"How do you know?"
"I just know! You don't understand, prat!"
"Ok. William Patrice?" he asked.
"Ok. William Patrick. Done."
"Hey, it's Patrice!
"Oh, don't start this AGAIN!" Dominique whined.
March 24th 2030.
"It's a boy!" Healer Wishall exclaimed triumphantly.
"Hahahaha, Rox, I was totally right!" Domi laughed as her little boy was getting weighed and cleaned.
Roxanne sniffed. "I agreed with you in the end!"
"So we were going to call him William Patrick Chantré." Domi looked at her husband expectantly.
"Patrice, Domi, you're half-french. What about the next one?"
"WHAT THE HELL ANOTHER ONE? TWO IS ENOUGH AND IT'S HELL ON THE BODY! YOU DON'T THINK IT'S EASY FOR US, YOU-"
Andre decided that Healer Wishall had the best timing ever, as she had just brought in the tiny baby.
"It's not very pretty." Kieran said, peering at the baby.
"It is your little cousin." Victoire told him sternly. "William."
"Like Rolfy?"
"Yes." Molly said, cradling her sleeping baby.
"How are you so freaking awake? I was dead every morning when little Quell was born. That is all your fault, Aquella!" Roxanne pretended to be cross.
"Rolf is awesome. He only wakes up once a night."
"Really? My record is five." Domi sighed.
August 31st 2030
"She can read!" Domi gloated. "Aha! I rule!"
"OK, Miss Modest." Andre grinned.
"You now owe me a spa day, and you have to convince Roxy to look after Kris and Will." Baby William was always 'Will' and not 'Bill'.
"Can't I get Amy to do it?"
"That is taking advantage of her kind personality. And Roxanne will be really hard, that's why it's part of the bet. And you can't ask Claire either." Claire and Louis had been trying for a child for ages, and they could not have one, so Claire always jumped at chances to look after her sisters and brothers-in-law's kids.
"Fine, I'll floo her."
Roxanne came spinning out of the flames.
"Pffff." She spat out some soot. "Am I late? It doesn't start till one, right…?"
"Erm, no. Will you look after Kris and William tomorrow, I have to go to work."
"Domi doesn't have work!" Roxanne said. "What's she doing?"
"Spa day."
"WHY?" Roxanne yelled in frustration.
"Because of a bet! I bet her that Krissy wouldn't be able to read on her fourth birthday, and now I owe Domi a spa day and a plead to one of the cousins that she'll look after the kids."
"Ask Claire." Roxanne whined.
"I'm not allowed. Claire likes looking after them too much." Andre answered.
"Ask Amy."
"I'm not allowed to do that either. According to Domi I'm not allowed to because it is taking advantage of her kind nature."
"Ask Toire."
"Can't, she's six months pregnant and with two children anyway."
"Ask Lucy."
"She has work. As does everyone else, except Lana, who is pregnant like Toire and she would scare him."
"Gaaahhh! Fine. But I'm a Slytherin, I want something in return. Persuade Rob to buy me some nice jewellery. See you at the birthday do." She Disapparated.
"See what you made me do!" he complained.
Dominique smirked.
January 1st 2032
It was new years, and everyone was there, except Fred and Lana as Lana was delivering her baby.
"I'm having another baby." Domi announced.
"Another one?" asked a heavily pregnant (with twins) Lily incredulously.
"Because I seem to remember you screaming that you weren't ever going to have more kids." Louis said.
"I didn't plan this!" protested Dominique, but she was glowing.
"Aww sis, now we match!" Victoire cooed, rocking baby Sapphire.
"Shut up." Dominique muttered sourly.
June 28th 2032.
"It's a girl!"
"It's Lara, right?" Andre asked.
"Yes, Lara because I like that name and middle name, Louise, after your mum." Dominique answered
"And me?" Louis asked hopefully.
"Actually, I wasn't thinking of you, but all right. After you too."
"Hey Domi, we totally match now! Two girls and a boy." Victoire laughed.
"Wow. There are gonna be so many second cousins in one Hogwarts year. There's Carmel, Sapphy, Alisha, Sammie and Scarlett and now Lara. Lucy's having a baby, but it'll be next year." Amy said.
"Yeah, well hopefully Lucy's baby won't be alone in its Hogwarts year, because me and Rob are trying for another one. Quell needs a sibling. I mean, she's almost five." Roxanne said.
"We're Weasleys, Roxy, we don't need to try." Dominique pointed out.
July 19th 2036
Lara was drawing, Kristen was crashed in her favourite armchair reading, like Nikki always did. William was hitting his older sister with a blow-up sword.
"Go 'way, Will." Kristen murmured.
"No." William continued hitting his sister.
Kristen grabbed some sewing scissors and popped it. "I did tell you to go away!"
"HEEEEYYYY! MUM! Kris popped my sword!"
"Reparo. I suggest you don't hit her with it."
"But what am I supposed to do? Kris is boring and Lara's just a baby."
"I'm not a baby. And I'm bored too."
"I know. Let's play adventures!"
"Adwentures? Whas that?" Lara asked.
"It's when we go in jungles like Great Aunt Luna, and we find Hippogriffs and Skrewts. And we fight them. Or we can sail across the sea like Grandma did when she was young and in that French school I can't pronounce."
"That's cool. Krissy, do you want to play?"
"Busy." Kristen grunted.
Later…
"Lara and Will, why are you wet?" Andre asked. "And why does Lara smell of toothpaste?"
"KIDS! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BATHROOM!"
September 1st 2037
6:30am
"DAD!" Andre was woken up by his eldest daughters voice.
'Krissy? We don't need to go for another four hours." He rubbed his eyes. "All right, I'll do you a deal. Try and wake up your mum, and if you do I'll make you chocolate pancakes. And if Lara and Will don't wake up, it's cereal for them." He got up and put on his dressing-gown over his pajamas.
"Mum! Mum! MUM! MUUUUMMMM!" Kristen yelled.
"WHAT?" Dominique yelled back. She was NOT a morning person. "Oh, it's you. For future reference I don't need to be woken up at-" she checked the clock, "-six thirty by your shouting, Kris. Go back to bed, I will too."
"But Dad's making chocolate pancakes!"
"I'm not missing pancakes!" Dominique rocketed out of bed, shoving her dressing-gown on haphazardly, moving faster than what was humanly possible for someone at six-thirty.
Later….
"WAKE UP!" Domi yelled up the stairs. "Kris is ready, isn't she? It's ten-thirty!"
"Because she's excited. We don't get to do anything." William replied.
"Will, you're seven and Lara's five. No way can you go."
"Mppphhh." Lara grunted as she wandered downstairs.
"I am going! Wooooo-HOOOOOO!" Kristen said in an unusual burst of excitement.
"You are so smug." William snapped at her.
"You are totally jealous that you're not going." Kristen smirked. She had inherited that from Dominique. "Also you totally missed pancakes."
"Whaat?" Lara moaned from her mushy cereal.
"We missed pancakes." William growled in response.
"Can we have some now?" Lara asked hopefully.
"No! We're late, get dressed." Dominique said.
"I don't want to." William yelled.
"Then everyone will be seeing you in your pyjamas Will, do you want that?" Andre asked.
"No!" screamed Will, running off.
"Well, I don't care." Lara said. "Fairies are cute."
"That's not the point Lara, get dressed." Domi sighed.
"Fine."
At the station…
The family arrived at the station, running quickly, for the train left in five minutes.
"Kieran!" Kristen screamed, as her favourite cousin came over. "Ohmygod, will we be in the same house? I mean your Mum was Gryffindor but your dad was Hufflepuff, and my mum was Ravenclaw, so I don't know…"
"Calm down, Kris, it'll be fine." Kieran laughed.
"Ooh, I can't wait to go!" Aquella said. "Boo, I now only have Nicola."
"What's wrong with me?" Nicola asked.
"You're you. A carbon copy of Kris."
"You have me." Harry II offered.
"Fine, but-"
"And Rolf, Samira, Scarlett, Sapphy, Lara, Lisha and Carmel. Plus Jack, and Star, and Newt, and Del and Daph and Weasley twins the second, and my twins…" Roxanne said.
"Yes, Mum, but they're just babies." Aquella rolled her eyes.
"I'm seven!" Rolf protested.
"Yeah. Baby." Aquella rolled her eyes.
September 2nd 2037.
An owl flew towards the window. However Will and Lara were fighting, Dominique was trying to break it up and Andre was trying to not have (another) breakfast disaster. So they did not see the owl.
SMACK!
The owl hit the wall and fell just like they were in a comedy. Lara and Will started laughing, and Dominique went to pick up the bird. It was Kris's owl Cirra with a letter.
Dear Mum, Dad, Lara and Will.
I am in Ravenclaw, it took about one second. Kieran's in Hufflepuff but I think we'll still be close. I have Anna Corner, Courtney Minford, Karen Ackerley, Kay Stewart and Bridget Balworth in my dorm. I really like Bridget, and this boy called Jack Boot. In a platonic way. I have borrowed books from the library. I haven't got lost yet (because I studied a map of all my routes extensively on the train.) I am a Ravenclaw, after all. Flying lessons today.
"Anyone surprised?" Andre asked the table as he brought over the toast and eggs.
"Nope." William said.
"I knew it. Wow, I'm a Seer!" Dominique said.
"Am I going to be with Krissy?" William asked.
"No, I think you're a Gryffindor through. It should probably take a second, unless the sorting hat has dementia." Andre said.
September 1st 2041
6:30am
"HEEEY! Kris, get up!" William tore from room to room. Kris got up. She was a morning person, and she was organized as well.
"Laaaaraaaaa!" William ducked his head into Lara's room.
"GO AWAY!" Lara had inherited her mother's 'not a morning person' gene.
"Wake UP!" William shouted, ducking into his parent's room.
They grumbled and got up. Getting a crabby Lara ready would take forever.
8:30am
Lara wandered downstairs in her usual morning way.
"Why can't I go?" she demanded, hands on her hips.
"Because you're only nine, and Kristen is fifteen, and Kieran is nearly sixteen, and Aquella's fourteen and Harry II is 13, as is Nikki. Rolf is eleven. They can all go. So you have to be 11." Andre used his logic.
'Gaah, but I feel 11. Much more mature then Will!"
"Well you're still not eleven, and you still can't go. Case closed." Dominque answered.
Lara sulked over her toast, annoyed that she had missed pancakes.
Later…
"Hey Rolf!" William said.
"Hi Will." Rolf replied.
"My little boy!" Molly looked like she was going to cry.
"You have Newt, Mum." Rolf rolled his eyes.
"And me!" piped up nine year old Carmel.
"Yeah, but I only have two with me now. Not three."
"I have an excuse to cry for every kid." Dominique proclaimed. "Oldest kid, only son, youngest kid. Actually I think I might cry now."
"So do I. Oldest kid, only daughter, youngest kid. And me too!" Molly replied.
The two women walked off, tears in their eyes.
The next morning…
An owl flew through the open window and smacked Lara's bowl. Soggy cereal splattered the walls.
Hey everyone
I am in Gryffindor! It just said Gryffindor, I didn't get to have a chat with it like Kieran! Shame because actually having a conversation with a hat would be weird and AWESOMELY AWESOME! My dormmates are Bradley Rosewood, Peter Hank, Scott West and Andrew Thomas. There is this really nice girl called Aliya Nott. She seems a bit upset about her family's reaction. Sadly the other boys in my dorm seem to have paired up already.
Will.
August 6th 2043
"YEEESSSSS!" Lara ran into the room, waving her Hogwarts letter about.
"You're energetic today!" Kristen exclaimed.
"I got my letter!" she squealed in response.
"Great, Lara!" Andre said.
"It just says what ours said." William rolled his eyes.
Lara stuck her tongue out at him. "Mum, why are you crying?" she asked in a concerned tone.
"Be-because you're going now. You're my little baby, my Lara-girl. You're too small."
"Actually, I'm taller than Will and almost as tall as Kris, and I'm taller than Rolf and Aquella and I am nearly as tall as-"
"That didn't help, Lara." Kristen said. "And Aquella is tiny so that doesn't count."
"Ok, it's fine mum, you can always have another one!" Lara smiled.
"Um, no, I won't miss you that much." Dominique said, cheering up.
September 1st 2043
Lara got up at 8:30, like she did all the time.
It was chocolate pancakes (and she didn't miss them. Yes!) and her sibings were teasing her.
"You know at Hogwarts, they get you up at FIVE!" William teased her.
"No they don't. They get you up at 7:30." Kristen said. "Don't tease Lara."
"Prissy Krissy." William mocked his sister.
"Thanks Kris. But it is still way too early." Lara grumbled.
"Lara, you would only be happy if we slept in until midday." Andre said.
"Yeah, why can't we do that?" Dominique asked.
At the station, they met up with the others. This year it was Carmel, Sapphire, Alisha, Samira and Scarlett (Lily and Scorpius' twins) and Lara.
"Mum? Do you think we'll all be in the same house?" Lara asked worriedly.
"Hate to say this, but no. I mean you are a total toss-up, but Sapphy, Sammie and Scarlett are true Lions, and Carmel's got to be a Ravenclaw. Alisha… I don't know. She is everything."
"Except loyal. Lisha just totally ditched us! She's talking to a girl called Ariella Nott now!" Samira whined, coming up to them.
"Who, my best friend's little sister?" Will asked.
"She probably got tired of your twinness." Sapphire said, appearing. "Come on, people! Let's find a compartment. OY! CARMEL! CARMEL! COME HERE RIGHT NOW AND HELP US FIND A COMPARTMENT. AND MAKE YOUR BROTHER HELP US WITH OUR TRUNKS!"
"SAPPHY! HE WON'T DO THAT!" Carmel yelled back at her second cousin.
"SO PERSUADE HIM!"
"HE'S THE PERSUASIVE ONE!"
"Yo, Carmel! Come here so that your second cousin doesn't shout the place down." Andre supplied. "Um, Sapphire? I think you should be quiet. Everyone is staring!"
"YEAH! I KNOW! HEY CHECK IT OUT PEOPLE, I HAVE PINK HAIR! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!"
"She's hyper, I'll take her. Oy, twinfaces! Help me here! Bye Mum, Dad!" Lara disappeared, attempting to calm her hyper cousin down.
"She didn't say goodbye!" Dominique looked like she was going to cry.
"She did!"
"Well, not with all the hugs, you insensitive git! Not like all of the other kids!"
"Wow! They quite robbed us of a chance to say goodbye!" Victoire exclaimed. "Domi, don't cry, you know how they are. They can't wait to get there!"
September 2nd 2043
Dear Mum and Dad
I am in Gryffindor!
Sooooooo sorry that I couldn't say goodbye properly! I will write you an extra long letter to make up for it.
So my roommates are Samira, Scarlett, Sapphire, Larissa Keyes, Ophelia Baker, Abby Baines and Annika Thomas! It is sooooo squished, they didn't want to put us in fours because they like to have 5 or 6 people per dorm. Still, Will only has FOUR roommates and most of the others have 5ish. It's very cramped, but very nice and homely and the other girls are nice. I feel a bit sorry for them, must be weird when half the girls in your dorm know each other already. Carmel is in Ravenclaw, and Alisha is in Slytherin. Haven't spoken much with Alisha yet, she had to go straight to the dungeons, but Gryffindor and Ravenclaw towers start off with the same route, and then split off halfway through. She said that the Goldstein twins are really nice, and so is everyone else.
Lots of Love from Little Lara!
"It's so quiet." Andre mused.
"Yeah, remember when Kris's first letter came? It was so loud and chaotic, we let her poor owl smash into a window!" Dominique said.
"Kris reckons Cirra has never been the same since." Andre grinned.
June 30th 2050
"They've all gone." Dominique said, watching her youngest daughter chat with her friends. "Well they will have all gone in about an hour?"
"Shorter. Chantre, remember. More like fifteen minutes." Andre grinned. "Kris is in the department of mysteries now. Properly. She flooed me this morning while you were at work."
"Go Kris! How's Will's Auror training?"
"Great, according to him. I'll ask him later."
"Good call. I'm a bit sad that even our Lara is graduating and starting Healer training!" Dominique replied.
"Well yes, it seems just yesterday that you were screaming about Kris…."