Balikbayan (Returning to One's Roots)

Perhaps it begins with a girl named Pearl, hiding in the bushes of a dried out park, her father's last slap still stinging on her face. She comes from magic, or so she's been told- she can barely remember the last time her mother dared cast a spell. She herself has only ever made brief bursts of magic- so brief, she's not even sure if they were truly real.

Way before she became Hogwarts’s resident Potions Master, before even The Great Gem War in Wizarding Britain, Pearl Magpantay-Williams had gone on a pilgrimage to her mother’s homeland in order to rediscover her magical roots.