Though she was quite thrilled to have become an animagus, Lucy quickly realized that she never needed to do it at all. If she had just waited a bit longer, she would have found herself a caretaker for many little witches and wizards; creating bonds that would last forever. Being an animagus didn’t make her any more or less capable of caring for magical children. Her new ability tied her to the Wizarding World in a way Lucy never could have imagined, but she had been blind to the one true connection she had to magic the entire time. Lucy had given birth to Ellenore. Lucy herself had brought magic into the world - the act alone was magic in and of itself. She had just never thought about it that way before. Just because Ellie was a witch and Lucy was not, didn’t mean that Lucy lacked magic.