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BENEDICT & ALTHEA FANCOURT
All wedding plans never came to fruition however, as March 1977 Elsie's father finally loses his battle with his illness. Devastated by this, Elsie begins to unravel. She loses her job at St. Mungo's, damages her relationships with her remaining family, and in a particularly low night, calls off her and Max's engagement. Heartbroken and overwhelmed, Max retreats from their apartment in the middle of the night and for the first time since 1974, Max and Elsie spend 48 hours out of complete contact of each other.

That is, until, Max appears on their doorstep two nights later with maps, letters, two suitcases, and a manner of conviction that neither he nor Elsie had ever seen before. After explaining to her that he has quit his Ministry job that he both knew he never liked anyway, Max spends the rest of the night convincing her to let him help her and leave the country with him so they can both start anew, leave behind everything they don't want or don't wish to remember about the UK, and do everything they could possibly want abroad. She initially resists, but after hours of persuading and many tears, that morning Max and Elsie take the first portkey out to South Africa and only return to UK again for select specific reasons.

Within the year, Max and Elsie become integral parts of their community. Elsie opens up a private healing clinic for low-income families, and Max shares his time between working in the local government and studying to become an animal healer. By 1980, both Max and Elsie have a well-know reputation for a house of healing and finally begin to feel at home with themselves again.

In 1982 they finally, quietly marry in South Africa surrounded by friends who wished they had seen the couple more over the past years. Max and Elsie find themselves back to how they used to feel; happy, and perfect, finally free from everything that had almost destroyed them in England.

Having decided they wanted to be surprised about everything concerning the birth of their child in the summer of 1985, Max and Elsie were quite surprised when after the birth of their son, the Healer told Elsie to "start pushing for the other one now!" Shocked, and happy they had decided to finalize a boy and a girl's name in advance, Benedict and Althea Fancourt ruled their parent's lives much like the circumstances of their birth, with a pleasant and shocked welcome.

Having grown up in South Africa, Benedict and Althea are a bit different than their Ravenclaw housemates. However, that has not stopped them from being just as well-received as their parents were in their Hogwarts days. Smart, curious, and caring, the Fancourt twins also have a surprisingly mischievous streak to them that their father completely attributes to their mother's half. After Hogwarts, as they are completely disinterested in any kind of healing, they have decided, as a pair, to create the next "big invention" that will rock the wizarding world just like their great-grandmother's lunascope. So far nothing ingenious as struck them yet (though they believe it lies within integrating muggle technology) and in the meantime Benedict works part time in a bookstore while he twin sister attends the muggle University of Capetown.