Chapter Summaries

In August 1991, Silan Prewett used a fake tarot reading to earn money and then visited Hermione Granger, who was anxious about choosing a school. When Professor McGonagall saw Silan, she recognized a resemblance to Fabian Prewett and wondered whether he was connected to the wizarding family.

• Silan exposed a man's wife's affair through a staged divination, earned money, and gained proficiency in Silver Tongue.
• Hermione asked Silan for a tarot reading about which school she would attend, and he jokingly suggested an unknown school of magic.
• Hermione invited Silan to dinner at her home, but her parents asked him to leave because an important guest had come to discuss her schooling.
• Silan recognized the guest as Professor McGonagall and guessed she had come to bring Hermione to a wizarding school.
• McGonagall noticed Silan's surname and his resemblance to Fabian Prewett, leaving her startled by the possible connection.

Silan Prewett returned to his orphanage, shared food and money with the children, and heard the news that brought Professor McGonagall to meet him. After learning that Silan’s father was Fabian Prewett, McGonagall offered him a Hogwarts education fund, and Silan accepted his invitation to attend Hogwarts.

• Silan gave Mrs. Hazel money and a sandwich, then shared sandwiches and earnings with the orphanage children.
• Silan listened to the children’s street reports and explained how their team’s information had helped him trick a man into discovering his wife’s affair.
• Kini brought Silan back to the orphanage, where Mrs. Hazel introduced him to Professor McGonagall and named his absent father as Fabian Prewett.
• McGonagall suspected Silan was connected to the Prewett brothers who died in 1981, then explained Hogwarts and demonstrated magic.
• Silan said he could not afford school, and McGonagall told him Hogwarts would fund his education without repayment.
• Silan accepted the Hogwarts invitation, and McGonagall arranged to take him to Diagon Alley the next day.

Silan Prewett shopped for Hogwarts supplies with Professor McGonagall, who grew increasingly guilty about his shabby belongings and his father Fabian’s death. After Hagrid recognized Silan’s resemblance to Fabian, McGonagall told Silan that his father had died a hero, and Silan entered Ollivanders to buy a wand and triggered a guilt-based system.

• McGonagall gave Silan Hogwarts’s educational fund, and Silan asked to save money by buying secondhand supplies.
• McGonagall helped Silan choose inexpensive, worn supplies and gave him a listless owl.
• At Ollivanders, Silan and McGonagall met Hagrid and Harry; Hagrid said Silan looked almost identical to Fabian Prewett.
• Silan asked McGonagall about Fabian, and she told him that Fabian had died fighting Death Eaters and was a hero.
• Silan said that he and his mother forgave Fabian, leaving McGonagall overwhelmed with guilt.
• Silan entered Ollivanders and triggered the Perpetual Guilt system, which showed him his Guilt Points and available trait entries.

Silan bought a wand at Ollivanders while McGonagall continued investigating his connection to Fabian Prewett and wrote to Molly Weasley for answers. Back at the orphanage, Silan accepted Hermione’s invitation to her house for cake.

• Silan learned that a limited-time exchange entry required him to earn guilt points, then entered Ollivanders and tried several wands before finding one that suited him.
• Silan left with a twelve-inch ebony wand with a dragon heartstring core, and McGonagall reminded him to board the Hogwarts Express on September first and keep Hogwarts secret from everyone except Mrs. Hazel.
• McGonagall wondered whether Fabian Prewett had dated a Muggle and sent an owl carrying a letter to Molly Weasley at The Burrow.
• Silan returned to the orphanage, examined his new school supplies, and began reading The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 1.
• Hermione visited Silan to apologize for missing their dinner and invited him to her house for cake; Silan accepted and earned 17 guilt points.

Hermione shared a cake with Silan and struggled with the thought of leaving for Hogwarts, while Silan kept his own plans to attend a secret. After they said goodbye, Silan used his Guilt Points to unlock Spell Inspiration and looked forward to studying spells.

• Hermione served Silan a cake she had made especially for him, and they ate together.
• Hermione told Silan she was leaving for a faraway school and promised to visit during holidays.
• Hermione tearfully hugged Silan goodbye, while Silan comforted her and kept his Hogwarts plans secret.
• Hermione's guilt earned Silan enough Guilt Points to choose a trait, and he unlocked Spell Inspiration.
• Silan felt his perception sharpen and decided to return home to study spells.

Silan practiced spells and organized a profitable repair-and-resale business at the orphanage before assuring James he would return. At the Burrow, Molly received a letter from Professor McGonagall asking about her late brother Fabian Prewett’s past relationship with a Muggle, leaving her wondering whether he had a child.

• Silan used Spell Inspiration to learn basic spells and practiced Lumos and Reparo in his attic.
• Silan had James, Kini, and the other children collect broken goods, which he repaired and sold for profit, and instructed James how to divide the earnings.
• James asked whether Silan would return to the orphanage, and Silan promised that he would.
• At the Burrow, Molly received a letter from Minerva McGonagall asking whether Fabian Prewett had dated a Muggle woman more than ten years earlier.
• Molly was distressed by the question and wondered whether Fabian had left behind a child.

Silan met Molly Weasley at King’s Cross, where his resemblance to her brother and his Prewett surname led her to suspect he was her nephew. He boarded the Hogwarts Express, and the chapter ended as he helped Hermione with her trunk.

• Molly guided Silan toward the barrier and asked his name, then froze when he said he was a Prewett.
• Molly hurried onto Platform Nine and Three-Quarters with Ginny to search for Silan, but she could not find him and felt guilty about his difficult life.
• Silan reflected on why Molly felt guilty, then boarded the Hogwarts Express, excited to leave his old life behind.
• Hermione struggled to load her trunk onto the train, and Silan caught it before it fell and addressed her by name.

Silan reunited with Hermione aboard the Hogwarts Express and helped her with her luggage before they settled into a compartment together. As Neville joined them, Silan checked his guilt-point panel and chose the Potion Prodigy trait.

• Silan met Hermione at the station, helped levitate her trunk onto the train, and learned they would be classmates at Hogwarts.
• Hermione sat beside Silan and asked him to explain the Levitation Charm while they talked about their letters from Hogwarts.
• Silan rested his head on Hermione’s shoulder and secretly checked his panel, which offered three refreshed traits.
• Silan spent 200 guilt points to exchange for Potion Prodigy.
• Neville asked to sit in the compartment, joined Silan and Hermione, and watched Silan open his eyes.

On the Hogwarts Express, Silan befriended Neville and Hermione and reassured them about their prospects at Hogwarts. He pretended to divine that both would be sorted into Gryffindor, gaining Silver Tongue proficiency, and Neville asked which House Silan would enter.

• Silan woke to find Neville and Hermione in his compartment, and the three introduced themselves and shared food.
• Silan warned Neville to watch Trevor, and Neville and Hermione talked about their families and magical backgrounds.
• After hearing students use the slur “Mudblood,” Silan explained its meaning and reassured Neville that Hufflepuff was a good House.
• Silan offered Neville a divination for three Sickles and predicted that Neville would enter Gryffindor, telling him he had courage like his parents.
• Silan also predicted that Hermione would enter Gryffindor, and his Silver Tongue gained proficiency when she believed his staged divination.
• Neville asked Silan which House he thought he would enter.

Silan arrived at Hogwarts with Hermione and Neville, where he comforted Neville after Trevor went missing and stood up to Theodore Nott’s bullying. After Hagrid found Trevor at the boats, the first-years reached the castle, and its doors opened to welcome them.

• Silan reassured Neville that he would find Trevor at Hogwarts, and Hermione helped calm him after the toad vanished again.
• Silan, Hermione, Neville, and another first-year crossed the Black Lake with Hagrid and admired Hogwarts Castle.
• Hagrid found Trevor among the empty boats, and Neville thanked Silan and gained confidence that he would be sorted into Gryffindor.
• Theodore Nott mocked Neville and Silan, but Silan challenged him to bet ten Galleons that Neville would be sorted into Gryffindor; Theodore refused.
• Neville warned Silan that Theodore picked fights with him because Neville’s parents had captured members of the Nott family who became Death Eaters.
• Hagrid led the first-years to Hogwarts, where the castle’s massive oak door opened before Silan.

Professor McGonagall led the first-years into the Great Hall for the Sorting ceremony after Silan frightened them with a ghost’s story about battling House mascots. Neville and Hermione were sorted into Gryffindor, and the chapter ended as Silan Prewett was called.

• Professor McGonagall welcomed the first-years and explained the four Houses before leaving them to wait.
• Silan asked a ghost how sorting worked, and they pretended students had to fight dangerous House mascots, frightening Neville, Hermione, and the other first-years.
• Professor McGonagall led the students into the Great Hall, where the Sorting Hat sang and the ceremony began.
• Hermione Granger was sorted into Gryffindor, and Neville Longbottom followed after anxiously hoping for the same House.
• Neville celebrated his Gryffindor placement, prompting the other students to boo Theodore Nott, who had mocked him.
• After Harry Potter was called, Professor McGonagall called Silan Prewett.

Silan’s Prewett name stunned the Hogwarts staff and the Weasley twins, who wondered whether he was their cousin. After weighing Silan’s ambition against his other qualities, the Sorting Hat placed him in Slytherin, leaving McGonagall and others shocked and Dumbledore troubled by the resemblance to a familiar past.

• Snape told Dumbledore that Silan had lived in an orphanage, while the Prewett name prompted speculation among the professors and the Weasley twins.
• Ron told Harry that the Prewetts were his mother’s family and expected Silan to join Gryffindor.
• Silan asked the Sorting Hat to place him in Hufflepuff, but it judged him too ambitious and declared him a Slytherin.
• McGonagall, Hermione, Neville, and the Weasley twins reacted with disbelief, while Dumbledore grew grave at the familiar-seeming situation.

After Silan was sorted into Slytherin, Chris Nott confronted him at the welcoming feast and insulted Hermione. Silan injured and intimidated Chris, who apologized and limped away while Silan returned to his meal.

• Silan was sorted into Slytherin, surprising Professor McGonagall and Hermione, while Dumbledore welcomed the students and conjured the feast.
• Chris Nott challenged Silan over the Prewett name and complained when Silan ignored him.
• Chris insulted Hermione, and Silan seized his wrist and cut his finger with a knife, warning him not to insult her.
• Chris considered calling the professors but backed down, apologized, and thanked Silan when Silan offered him sausage.
• Silan kept the sausage for himself, kicked Chris away when he lingered, and watched him limp off with a vengeful glare.

Silan arrived at the Slytherin common room and quickly established himself by humiliating Chris Nott and frightening Prefect William Rowle. After collecting money and arranging for Nott to sleep on the sofa, Silan settled into his dormitory and decided he liked Slytherin.

• Silan prevented Chris Nott from telling McGonagall about his injuries, then warned Nott that future trouble would cost him more.
• William Rowle led the first-years into Slytherin’s lavish underground common room and assigned Silan and Nott to share a dormitory.
• William and Nott mocked Silan’s family, but Silan used a precise Severing Charm to cut Nott’s hair and narrowly miss William’s neck.
• When Nott demanded that William join him against Silan, William disarmed Nott and declared the conflict a misunderstanding.
• Silan made William pay one Galleon to repair his collar, ordered Nott to sleep on the sofa, and collected twenty Galleons from him.
• Silan unpacked in his comfortable dormitory, watched the giant squid outside the window, and decided he liked Slytherin.

Silan navigated Hogwarts’ moving staircases, helped Harry and Ron find their way, and attended Professor McGonagall’s first Transfiguration lesson. He and Hermione successfully transformed matches into needles, while Chris Nott approached Neville during the break.

• Silan watched Malfoy and several other students fall from the moving stairs, then used what he learned to find his way around Hogwarts.
• Silan caught Ron with a Levitation Charm and offered to guide him and Harry to class.
• Silan joined Hermione and Neville in Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class, where McGonagall demonstrated by turning her desk into a pig.
• Silan and Hermione each transformed a match into a needle and earned five house points; Neville managed to make his match’s tip pointy.
• During the break, Chris Nott reluctantly got up and shuffled over to Neville.

After Silan compelled Chris Nott to apologize to Neville, the classroom buzzed with rumors about Silan’s strength and his actions the night before. Silan planned to improve his spellwork, while he and Hermione arranged to study together in the library.

• Chris Nott apologized to Neville for insulting him, and Neville accepted.
• Students spread exaggerated stories about Silan’s confrontation with Nott and speculated that Silan knew powerful Dark magic.
• Hermione asked Silan whether he was hurt, and Silan described the incident as Slytherin’s unusual welcome for new students.
• McGonagall concluded that Silan had stood up for Neville and considered him a good child despite his Sorting.
• Neville thanked Silan, while Hermione warned him that Slytherins might target him.
• Silan invited Hermione to the library, and Ron dismissed the idea and settled down to sleep at his desk.

After Transfiguration, Neville thanked Silan and was reassured that he was an important friend to him, while Silan considered how to make money and help the orphanage. News of Chris apologizing to Neville spread across Hogwarts, drawing Dumbledore’s and Snape’s attention.

• Professor McGonagall praised Neville for successfully transforming part of his match into a needle, and Neville thanked Silan for helping him.
• Silan told Neville that he was an important friend, and Neville hurried off toward History of Magic in the wrong direction.
• Silan ignored Professor Binns’s monotonous lecture, counted his money, and considered earning more to fund potion ingredients and schooling for the orphanage children.
• Word spread through Hogwarts that Slytherin had apologized to Gryffindor, and Dumbledore wondered what Fawkes thought of Silan.
• Snape heard that Silan had become famous and shut his office window before preparing his first Potions class.

Silan and Hermione studied in the library, where Silan finished his History of Magic essay quickly and taught Hermione his essay-writing tricks. The Slytherin first-years watched them prepare for Potions and vowed to challenge Silan in Professor Snape’s class.

• Silan and Hermione went to the library to work on Professor Binns’s History of Magic assignment, and Madam Pince warned them to follow the rules.
• Silan searched for spellbooks, approached the Restricted Section, and persuaded Madam Pince to fetch him The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 3.
• Silan finished his essay in under thirty minutes, then taught Hermione his techniques after she lost their contest.
• Silan asked Hermione to dine with him that evening, and she agreed.
• The Slytherin first-years watched Silan and Hermione study ahead for Potions and decided to challenge Silan in Professor Snape’s class.

Silan and Hermione spent a peaceful evening together by the Black Lake, while Molly learned that Silan might be her nephew and Arthur promised to welcome him into their family if confirmed. After practicing spells in his dormitory, Silan planned to find a quieter place to train before Snape's Potions class.

• Silan and Hermione left the Great Hall to eat by the Black Lake, where Hermione said she was happy to be at Hogwarts with him and Silan promised to stay with her.
• Arthur returned home and found Molly distressed over a letter from Professor McGonagall asking whether Fabian Prewett had ever had a Muggle girlfriend.
• Molly told Arthur that Silan Prewett looked just like her brother Fabian and that she believed Silan might be her nephew; Arthur promised they would bring him home if the connection was confirmed.
• Silan practiced spells from The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 3 until he was exhausted, then repaired his damaged dormitory and decided to look for the Room of Requirement as a practice space.
• Silan went to bed after using Scourgify on himself and looked forward to Snape's Potions class on Friday.

Silan attended Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Herbology before Friday’s first-year Potions class. He reached the dungeon classroom, where nervous students awaited Professor Snape, and joined Hermione.

• Silan found Professor Flitwick’s Charms lesson on the Lighting Charm familiar and continued studying other spells.
• In Quirrell’s dull Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Silan wondered whether seeking him out might bring him into contact with Voldemort.
• Neville completed Professor Sprout’s Herbology task first, earning Gryffindor five points, and Silan encouraged him to study plants while privately hoping to profit from his talent.
• Before the first Potions lesson, rumors about Snape frightened the first-years into hurrying to the dungeon classroom.
• Silan saw the jars of animal specimens in the Potions classroom, and Hermione waved him over.