Daniel Selwyn

Slytherin House

Daniel Selwyn is the Heir of the Founding House of Selwyn. He started attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1987, where he was sorted into Slytherin.

## Biography:

### Early Life:

A few years before the events of Book 1, Daniel looked up to an unnamed member of the Yaxley family, who at the time was the leader of Slytherin House. Once Yaxley graduated Hogwarts, Daniel was planning on taking over the leadership position, but was betrayed by his friend, Rhea Pax, which resulted in Grace Weitts becoming the new leader of Slytherin.

### Book 1 - The Forsaken's Ascension:

#### 1st September 1991:

Daniel, now a 5th year prefect, leads the new 1st year Slytherins to the Slytherin common room alongside his female 5th year prefect, Rhea Pax.

#### 7th May 1992:

Daniel, Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, and Andrew Macnair lead Harry Potter into a trap with the intention of setting him up for dragon smuggling, which will not only get him expelled from Hogwarts, but also land him a 5 year sentence in Azkaban. After getting Harry in an abandoned classroom, Daniel proceeds to use the torture curse (Tormensia) on him. After mocking Harry some more, Daniel and the rest of the group then leave the room.

#### 8th May 1992:

Daniel, Draco, Theo, and Andrew are all waiting to ambush Charlus Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, who are heading towards the Astronomy Tower to smuggle Hagrid's dragon out of the school. The group finally see a single figure, wrapped in a black cloak, making his way carefully around the corner while holding a large, blank crate. Daniel fires a bludgeoning hex at the person, knocking them over. They then head over to the fallen person, and are surprised to see it is Harry rather then Charlus. Daniel and the rest of the group then escort both Harry and the crate to Severus Snape. Later on, Daniel is just as shocked as the rest of them to discover that the crate is empty, and that Harry seems to have tricked them.

#### 9th May 1992:

Daniel and the rest of the group are featured in an article written by Rita Skeeter in that day's issue of the Daily Prophet, in which the group are accused of slander and false accusations by James Potter.

#### 26th May 1992:

Daniel, alongside Draco, Theo, Andrew, and Harry are serving detention with Hagrid for being out of bed after hours on the night of the dragon smuggling incident. They are going into the Forbidden Forest to find a unicorn that has been hurt badly by something. The group gets split into two groups, with Daniel and Andrew going with Hagrid.

### Book 2 - The Sacrificial Slytherin:

#### 20th July 1992:

Daniel is featured in another article written by Rita Skeeter in the Daily Prophet alongside Draco, Theo, and Andrew. The Selwyn family had to pay the Potter family 50,000 galleons for slander and false accusations against Harry.

#### 22nd September 1992:

Daniel orders Alex Jugson and Derrick Mulciber to attack Charlotte Weitts.

#### 13th November 1992:

Daniel sneaks up behind Charlotte and using the stunning charm on her, knocking her out. He then leaves Alex and Derrick to deal with her themselves.

#### 9th April 1993:

Daniel removes both Alex and Derrick from his plan due to their multiple failed attempts at getting revenge on Charlotte.

#### 16th April 1993:

Daniel goes over the plan to his group. Marcus Jugson questions in they are taking things too far, to which Daniel tells him that sometimes extremism is needed.

#### 21st April 1993:

Daniel disguises himself with an over-sized cloak which hides his face, and sneaks into the kitchens in order to get the house-elves in on his plan. When they refuse, Daniel knocks all but one of them out with stunning charms, and then proceeds to use memory charms on them. He uses the Imperius Curse on he one remaining conscious elf in order to get it to go along with his scheme.

#### 22nd April 1993:

With the house-elves now on his side, Daniel orders them to spike the food and drinks of everyone in the Slytherin common room, which causes them all to fall asleep. Once Charlotte shows up he then tells her that he has been the person backing Alex and Derrick the entire year, and goes on to explain the reasons why he hates Grace and Harry. After Charlotte attempts to run away, Daniel takes her down with the Cruciatus Curse, leaves a note for Grace to find, and then takes Charlotte to an abandoned classroom to wait.

Later on, Daniel and Marcus Flint fight Grace once she finds the room they're waiting in. Grace gets taken down by a blood ward set up by Daniel using Charlotte's blood. Before anything else can happen, Harry shows up, takes down all of Daniel's group besides Flint, and then destroys the runestone keeping Grace weak. He then proceeds to battle against a weakened Grace, who manages to defeat him; sending him flying into a wall and leaving him unconscious. Grace then cuts the word 'Rapist' into Selwyn's chest, and leaves him outside Snape's office. Daniel and the rest of his group are then taken to the Hospital Wing.

Daniel now knows that Harry is a parselmouth, but Grace doesn't think he'll tell anyone, since both her and Harry have evidence of him using Unforgivable Curses on another human, which would land him a lifetime sentence in Azkaban.

## Physical Appearance:

Daniel is described as slim and pale with dark, intense eyes and slicked black hair.

## Personality & Traits:

Daniel is shown to have multiple sociopathic traits, such as a lack of empathy, narcissism, sadistic tendencies. He had no problem using the torture curse on Harry Potter, nor the Cruciatus Curse on Charlotte. He is shown to be a blood purists, as he talks about muggleborns with disgust, and calling them mudbloods. He also looks down on house-elves, thinking of them as lesser beings.

## Magical Abilities & Skills:

Daniel is an exceptional talented wizard in various categories of magic, such as Runes, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and the Dark Arts. Daniel is shown to be skilled at the mind arts, as he can open up multiple thought-streams, which makes him at least a Level 3 Occlumens. He also claims to be good at memory charms, though we haven't actually seen this proven.