A.N. — Here I start a tragic pair on the day before they were brutally attacked. Because they are quite diminished during the book's timeline, I had to dip into the nebulous pre-1991 canon available to come up with a positive spin for this chapter.
305. Frank Longbottom
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that Frank Longbottom was more excited than his wife Alice for the impending birth of their first child.
Even though he was an active Auror mired in the midst of a civil war, Frank's smile beamed at anyone who so much as mentioned anything family related. Alice was of the thought Frank would quickly change his tune if he was the one carrying the baby, but at least she had Lily to commiserate over pregnancy woes with.
Both Frank and Alice, though, were chuffed that another little Longbottom would soon come into the world.