Talk:Valerie/@comment-4423292-20150131051425

Just prior to Valerie's birth, her parents moved out of their apartment and into her mother's family home. The four Knight Family Mansions are all located near each other. The other Knights are mostly — but not only — Valerie's mother's cousins. Valerie's mother Jade comes from an affluent family, and has had several important and well-paying Ministry jobs over time. Her father Donovan — well, he certainly didn't marry money because he had money to be begin with. The large beautiful houses, yards to play in, and lots of family to look out for her set the tone for an idealistic childhood. But when is it ever as simple as that?

Valerie went to Lil Bundles, as daycare. She cried almost non-stop for the first week, then got used to it was was happy enough there during the days.

Half a month after Valerie's 3rd birthday, Donovan told Jade he was going to go buy crisps and pick Valerie up from daycare. A worker at Lil Bundles signed her out when she left — and he was the last person to see Valerie. Her and her father never came home.

For two years, they were missing without a trace. And then, out of the blue, an auror spotted Val own the street in Diagon Alley. The woman dragged her back to the Ministry, and contacted Jade.

That day was the last time Val saw her father. "Don't wander off," he'd said.

She slipped into a new version of her old life. Her home and Lil Bundles and her godmother Diana.