Silas Black - Profile

Lydia comes from a mixed family consisting of muggles and wizards alike. Her father had been a muggle while her mother had been a Pureblood witch. She had always loved helping her mother tend to their magical plants and didn’t mind getting dirty. She believed that anything worth doing was worth doing right. Her hard work attitude and affinity for plants earned her a spot in Hufflepuff house when she was sorted at Hogwarts. While there she studied very hard and while not at the top she did pretty well. She also decided to try out for the Quidditch team. It was there she would face off against Regulus Black whom she already had a crush on due to his cleverness, looks, and how much she loved to compete against him as Seekers.

She eventually was able to get the Slytherin to pay her attention when they were both sixteen; Regulus took her to one of Professor Slughorn’s parties. They grew closer and over time their relationship progressed as well. During their last year at Hogwarts she despaired when Regulus dismissed her and began to spend more time with either alone or with those of his own house. She didn’t know what became of him when he disappeared but heard the rumors floating about. When she graduated she was already pregnant but not showing completely since the Hogwarts robes covered the small bump.

With the war heating up, her lover gone, her parents weren’t very happy with her condition either, Lydia fled Britain. Believing Europe not to be safe, she decided to go to America. There she gave birth to Silas. Having many jobs she eventually met Roland. She worked on their farm ]after she married him.

Roland comes from a long line of Pureblood farmers. He grew up knowing one day he would take over the farm and had mixed feelings about it. He loved the fact that they grew medical plants to help people as well as tree woods that would be harvested for brooms or wands. He went to Ilvermorny and graduated somewhere in the middle of his yearmates. When he’d come back home he had immediately begun working on the farm. Because his attention and dedication were to the farm, he didn’t meet many people and never thought of getting involved with any of the temporary and seasonal hires. Yet, when he was in his early twenties that is what happened. He married Lydia despite her being a single unwed or widowed mother.

Roland didn’t know how to raise a child and he had tried to love Lydia’s child as if he were his own, but it never happened. He wanted his own children and when it was apparent that he couldn’t, he became embittered. It didn’t help at all that he thought his step-son purposely provoked him. He was raised strictly and that was how he raised his step-son who seemed to fight him on anything and everything.

Born as the younger son of Orion and Walburga Black. Regulus adhered to their traditions and was loyal to his family. From a young age he admired Voldemort and had clippings from the newspaper whenever the man or his Death Eaters were mentioned. He had an aspiration to become one and got to fulfill that when he turned sixteen and became a Death Eater. His parents though never Death Eaters themselves believed in the same things and did nothing to dissuade their younger son.

Sorted into Slytherin Regulus thrived. He joined the Quidditch team and with his smaller and slighter build than his brother Sirius, he easily obtained the position of Seeker. He gained Professor Slughorn, his head of house’s, attention to become part of his Slug Club. He also began seeing a witch by the name of Lydia Bennet.

By the time he was eighteen he’d had second thoughts and doubts about the course he’d taken. His decision to defect solidified when he found out after he’d eagerly volunteered Kreacher to Voldemort’s use, what the man had done to the elf. Being clever, Regulus had deduced what the locket was and went about making a fake to replace it with the real Horcrux. After swearing his elf to secrecy and sending him away with a task to try and destroy the Horcrux, Regulus was dragged down below the lake to his death by the Inferi.

Born as the elder son and heir to the Black family he rebelled against the Black family ideals and traditions that he disagreed with. Sorted into Gryffindor and became friends with a group who later dubbed themselves the Marauders. Quick to run away from home at sixteen and join the Order of the Phoenix with his friends. Falsely accused of betraying and killing the Potters in October of 1981. Spent 12 years in Azkaban prison before he escaped and reunited with his godson Harry. Was killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange in a skirmish at the Ministry of magic June of 1996 without knowing the truth of how his younger brother died and was a lion at heart.

Child of a Pureblood wizard family who's always been in Slytherin and a Halfblood Witch in Hufflepuff, Silas is a walking contradiction. Likes and dislikes his magic at the same time and was conflicted throughout the early years of his childhood. His mother was always showing him the wonders of magic while Roland would use it to punish him. He grew to loath and outright hate his stepfather and would purposely begin to annoy and provoke the man.  There is still some residual uneasiness about it but as the years went by he'd come to accept and embrace his abilities.

He is loyal but not blindly so. Sees things in shades of gray rather than black and white. Doesn't consider himself bad, but doesn't think of himself as good either. Has his own version of morals so that his views of 'right, wrong, and honor' might not be the norm for others.

Perhaps it was the part of his genealogy that came from the Black side, but Silas had always been a strange one. Silas was one of those babies that tried to walk before they crawled and taught himself to read at age three. He had learned to hide that fact when Roland got upset. The man had tried to take the book away and told him to quit playing with the books since he couldn’t read. When Silas defended that he could, the book had been shoved at him and told to read it then. Roland wasn’t happy when Silas obliged him. From then on they had nothing but enmity towards one another.

When he was a bit older, Roland thought it was time for him to learn to swim. Silas disagreed, but his mother asked him to try since they were having a family picnic by the lake and “didn’t want to ruin the day”. Silas felt betrayed but didn’t budge and was dragged all the way to the docks. Accidental magic had him sticking to the docks and Roland in a fit, left him there all afternoon until his patience waned and he ended up using magic to unstick Silas and fling him in the water. His mother thankfully rescued him before he drowned, but from then on he feared the water and couldn’t take baths.

The older he got the more Silas despised his stepfather and was glad that he’d made the man impotent. Silas didn’t think the man was a good role model nor did he want to have his mother suffer Roland anymore. He had childishly thought if they couldn’t have kids then the man would leave or dismiss him and his mother. A part of him didn’t want to share his mother either. So he’d gone and stole an infertility potion the next time they went to the apothecary and slipped it into the man’s drink. Roland had thought it was Lydia’s fault they couldn’t have children. Silas was sure that his mother didn’t know that Roland fooled around on the side. It was because of this that Roland had to accept that it was him and not his wife’s fault. That didn’t stop him taking his anger out on either one of them.

Growing up on a farm, Silas was expected to help when he wasn’t being taught either in school or by a tutor. Despite not liking plants, he grew up knowing the names and attributes of many magical plants so that by the time he started Ilvermorny he was very proficient at Herbology. That didn’t mean that he would be content to do that for a living and wanting nothing of his step-father’s. While attending Ilvermorny and trying to do something with the tacky robes, he found he had a penchant for clothing designs. He had even begun to make his own clothing.

Rather than jump straight into a wizard university, he decided that he would take a year off from school, not wanting to immediately matriculate. He spent the year going around learning all he could about wizarding fashion as well as muggle and the secrets to starting his own line. Realizing he would need more schooling and connections, Silas went to Merlin’s. He joined the student council as treasurer so he would be able to have that at least to show some experience handling money.