Simon Tam was always brilliant. Gifted, was the word people used—even his parents (before his sister, River, learned to read). All his teachers, both in California, where he was born, and in China, where he spent most of his childhood, always applauded Simon’s intelligence and, in all his learning, nothing made him happier than the letter from Salem, Oregon Institute of Magick, letting him know that he was so much more than “gifted.” Two years after he started there, River joined him, but he never heard teachers go on and on about his sister’s intelligence—no one compared him to his baby sister. In fact, he hardly saw her at all. And then he started getting letters from her that didn’t make much sense: letters about things that never happened, jokes they never told—a code. Terrified of what may be happening to River, he began contacting everyone he could, but no one believed him, not even his parents. The fliers about the exchange program at Hogwarts were a godsend. It was almost too easy, signing both himself and his sister up and, once she was accepted, they had to let her go, but she wasn’t the same. Now, Simon dedicates most of his time and effort into caring for River and trying to figure out what exactly it is they did to her, regardless of whether or not his parents believe him.
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