Recaps

Silan secured a profitable potion partnership with Lucius and advanced his studies while building closer ties with Hermione. Draco’s planned challenge turned into an alliance, and Silan left for the Forbidden Forest to gather ritual ingredients.

• Silan proved his skill by brewing nine Fire-Control Potions at once, then used Snape’s authorization to negotiate a deal giving himself sixty percent, Lucius thirty percent, and Pippin ten percent of the profits.
• Silan brewed and delivered batches of potions with Hermione, secured Sirius’s signature so Harry could visit Hogsmeade, and saw Pippin deliver the first shipment to Malfoy Manor.
• Silan practiced constructing the Soul Eye in Soul Space, briefly used it to examine Lupin’s soul, and fell into a deep sleep from the strain.
• Silan joined Harry, Ron, and Hermione in Hogsmeade, where Draco prepared to challenge him, but Lucius’s letter ordered Draco to make Silan a friend instead.
• Draco called Silan his brother, promised to defend him, and returned to Hogwarts, while Silan and Hermione brewed potions together and shared a hug before she entered the Gryffindor common room.
• Silan entered the Forbidden Forest and confronted Aragog and the Acromantulas, using his Basilisk to make them retreat before collecting web dew and bottles of venom.

Silan completed the Animagus ritual’s next step, earned Senior Potioneer status, and received public recognition alongside Snape for their improved Wolfsbane Potion. As Snape and Dumbledore worked to keep Silan at Hogwarts, he helped the Weasley twins develop their business and represented Snape at the Malfoy sale, where the auction opened doors to influential wizards.

• Silan buried the ritual ingredients in a Crystal vial on a coastal mountaintop and waited for a thunderstorm, while Norbert startled Luo Qi and Zhuotaer but left them unharmed.
• Snape brought Silan before the Extraordinary Society of Potioneers, where Silan successfully brewed the Improved Wolfsbane Potion during a reproducibility review and registered as a Senior Potioneer.
• Snape’s paper was published, and Charlemagne announced that Snape would receive the Order of Merlin, Second Class, while Hilan Prewett would receive the Order of Merlin, Third Class.
• Charlemagne offered to train Silan, but Silan chose to remain at Hogwarts with Snape and Hermione, and Dumbledore approved Snape’s Potions Club and a yearly research grant.
• Silan advised George and Fred on marketing their Magical Creature models, while Sirius sent letters to the Wizengamot explaining his past and gained hope of clearing his name.
• Silan and Hermione accompanied Snape to Lucius Malfoy’s Sale Event, where Lucius introduced them to the guests and Snape appointed Silan to represent him in selling the potions.
• Silan arranged an auction of the fifty potion sets, and the guests bid on all ten lots while using their purchases to secure invitations to meet Snape and Silan.
• Snape introduced Silan and Hermione to pure-blood wizards and senior potioneers, and Lucius called Silan aside.