The Twenty Five Labors of Dumbledore's Army

by My Dear Professor McGonagall

In total and between all of them, the lovely ladies of Dumbledore's Army found themselves becoming mothers exactly twenty-five times. More babies than you can shake a stick at. One hundred words per child.

19. Catherine Chandler Longbottom

6 September 2009

Catherine Chandler Longbottom

Hannah's second daughter, Catherine, or Cat, also arrived in the Leaky Cauldron, on the twelfth anniversary of Catherine Chandler Abbott's death. Hannah didn't stop crying for almost two hours. She could have been sixteen years old again, feeling the floor fall from beneath her feet in the Charms corridor as Professor Sprout tried not to cry.

But then, Neville brought Hannah the baby, and she saw in the little girl's face everything that made her mother's life worth celebrating, not mourning. Cat was beautiful, gentle, and clever. Catherine Chandler Longbottom. An honest, loyal, unfailingly good Hufflepuff, just like her grandmother.