INPC
- Luca Corranado
- Silvio Accardi
- Beaubaxtons
- Second Year
- Italian
- Palermo, Italy

- Background
The Accardi blood that courses through Silvio’s veins is of a lineage spoken of with reverence at some tables—and fear at others. A centuries-old family with history dating back to the 1500s, pre-dating the formation of any Italian Ministry of Magic. The Accardi name comes with generations of documentation as magical creature traders, handlers, and experts. Silvio, the second-born son of Enzo and Serafina, was the second son of the creature mogul family that made a name for itself in Palermo’s highest wizarding society. Growing up around the Accardi family business that combined magical creature import/export, a private creature reserve/sanctuary on their sprawling countryside estate, and creature-derived apothecary supplies meant that the young boy got on better with creatures than some Humans. He was taught at a young age the symbiotic relationship between magic, its creatures, and Humans. But throughout his childhood, Silvio always felt there was something darker beneath the surface.

Enzo Accardi was the patriarch of the Accardi family, an astute businessman and socially influential figure at every table he sat at. His name, family, and businesses were all celebrated at the tables of some of Palermo’s finest wizarding restaurants. Serafina, wife of Enzo and mother of Silvio, came from the Calabrian Vitale family, whose own history involves dark enchantments placed on creature dens to prevent escape — knowledge she contributed to the Accardi enterprise when she married into it. Rocco, the eldest of the two Accardi sons, walked in his father’s shadow, learning the family business as he was expected to take it over.

Accardi was not an unfamiliar name in the Italian wizarding society, as they owned a large portion of Palermo’s magical countryside, where thousands of magical creatures ran free in lush environments suitable to them. This earned them a well-known reputation across the region, generating media interest, the occasional visit from the Ministry, and favors across Italian wizarding culture. All of this with the intention of hiding what was really going on at the Accardi countryside, as some called it. While Silvio was very close with his family, his heritage, and Enzo and Serafina, they decided to send him abroad to Beaubaxtons to give the family’s name a wider reach. The Accardis had cemented themselves as a pillar in the Italian wizarding society, and Silvio was meant to be a branch to French wizarding society.

- First Instance of Magic
One early morning in the Accardi countryside, a beast handler employed by the family was having trouble with a young Hippogriff that had taken a disliking to the handler. No matter how much the handler tried to corral it into an outbuilding, the Hippogriff resisted and became more aggressive. Enzo eventually arrived to help, but didn’t seem to have a handle on the situation either. Unaware that Silvio followed him to the pasture as was his habit, Enzo didn’t notice his son approaching the Hippogriff until it was too late. There was a quiet moment when the Hippogriff and Silvio locked eyes, and while he did not show it, the boy was still afraid, his breath held. The handler had turned the situation over to Enzo, so he had gone into the outbuilding to tend to other animals. However, a moment later, without any input from Enzo, the Hippogriff was distracted by a feeding bucket that fell with a clatter and no apparent cause. This provided Silvio’s father the opening he needed to wrangle the energetic Hippogriff. Only Enzo appeared to understand what happened, and he said nothing at the time. Silvio didn’t know what he had done, only that Enzo had seen it, and that felt like enough.

- Duelling
- No Special Race