Fabian Prewett

**Fabian Prewett** (31 March, 1945 - 10 February, 1981) was an English pure-blood wizard, the son of Alfred and Mary Prewett, and the brother of both Gideon and Molly. Fabian was a member of the original Order of the Phoenix. He fought in the First Wizarding War and was murdered by five Death Eaters before war's end, along with his brother.

He was the maternal uncle of Molly's seven children, including Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny Weasley. His twin brother Gideon had a child: he had a daughter named Maud with a witch called Dahlia Prewett (née Fowler). Fabian himself, however, died unmarried, and without children.

## Biography

### Early life (1945-1956)

Fabian was born into the wizarding Prewett family, with his identical twin brother, Gideon, on 31 March, 1945. Their sister, Molly, was born three years later. His mother was Mary Ann Prewett (née Macmillan), and his father was Alfred Prewett.

He had a paternal uncle, Bilius Prewett. He had two maternal uncles, Edmund and Joseph Macmillan. His paternal grandfather was Clarence Prewett, and his paternal grandmother was Alodia Prewett (née McKinnon). He had two great-aunts, Muriel and Ottoline Prewett, that were the sisters of his grandfather Clarence. Muriel never married, but Ottoline was the wife of Ignatius Greengrass I.

### Hogwarts years (1956-1963)

Fabian and Gideon received their Hogwarts letters in the summer of 1956. Before attending, Fabian purchased a wand made of dogwood and phoenix feather. On 1 September, 1956, he was sorted into Gryffindor House with his brother.

Fabian also started played Beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team when he made the team in his fourth year at school, along with his brother Gideon.

### First Wizarding War (1970-1981)

During the First Wizarding War, Gideon and his brother decided to join the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix to fight against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Their sister, at the time, did not appear to have been an official member, probably because she had young children to take care of. Molly had married Arthur Weasley in 1970, and eventually had seven children together.

In 1972, Fabian was present at the wedding of his twin brother, Gideon, to Dahlia Fowler. Gideon and Dahlia had only one child together, and that was Maud Prewett, in 1973.

Fabian never really expressed interest in settling down. He put most of his work into the Order, so much so that he and his brother, Gideon, were highly praised by Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, after their deaths.

On 10 February, 1981, Gideon and Fabian were attacked by five Death Eaters, one of whom was Antonin Dolohov. They were described as having "fought like heroes" by fellow Order member Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, though both were ultimately killed. Following Voldemort's fall from power, Dolohov, and perhaps others involved in the Prewetts' "brutal" murders, were imprisoned in Azkaban for the crime.

#### Post-mortem

Fabian's sister, Molly, rarely mentions him and their brother Gideon, perhaps indicating that she took their loss hard, but when she does, she speaks fondly of them indicating her love for her brothers.

Molly gave Fabian's gold watch to Harry Potter on his seventeenth birthday, as it was traditional to give a wizard a watch when he comes of age. Harry treasured and preserved it throughout the Second Wizarding War, keeping it and wearing it well into his thirties. She also stated that Fabian was not "terribly careful" with his possessions, especially his watch, which he dented. Unlike normal watches, it had stars as the clock's hands.

## Magical abilities and skills

* **Magical Mastery**: Along with his brother Gideon, Fabian was a highly-respected member of the Order of the Phoenix, implying that he was proficient in many areas of magic. Alastor Moody noted that it took five Death Eaters, including the particularly sadistic Antonin Dolohov, to kill Fabian and his brother.

## Etymology

*Fabian* is the English form of the Latin *Fabianus*, which was the name given to emancipated slaves in Rome. It is derived from *Fabius*, the name of a very influential Roman patrician family, whose members included many politicians and soldiers. The most notable of the Fabian family was Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, who was given the epithet Cunctator, "the Delayer", because of the unorthodox strategies he employed in the Second Punic War against Hannibal. He developed the Fabian strategy of warfare.