diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-node-island.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-node-island.ts
index 655c772687..8a9e5a34db 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-node-island.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-node-island.ts
@@ -642,6 +642,14 @@ function toIsland(lowerer: Lowerer, node: ts.Expression): IrExpr {
   }
 }
 
+/** Whether an island reads the lowered method `name` by that name: a
+ * public, string-keyed prototype method. The constructor, #private methods,
+ * accessor halves (`get:x`, `set:x`) and symbol-keyed slots (`sym:iterator`)
+ * are not properties an island can name. */
+function islandMethodName(name: string): boolean {
+  return name !== "constructor" && !name.startsWith("#") && !/^(?:get|set|sym):/.test(name);
+}
+
 /** A class instance crossing into an island: its capsule answers island
  * reads of its fields, and its prototype methods come from a table the
  * runtime builds once per class (nodeIsland.classMethods): the unbound
@@ -661,7 +669,7 @@ function withClassMethods(
     c = c.def.base ? lowerer.classes.get(c.def.base) : undefined
   ) {
     for (const m of c.def.methods ?? [])
-      if (!names.includes(m) && m !== "constructor") names.push(m);
+      if (!names.includes(m) && islandMethodName(m)) names.push(m);
   }
   if (names.length === 0) return value;
   const loc = value.loc;
diff --git a/packages/compiler/test/ts7/baselines/order-parity/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts.json b/packages/compiler/test/ts7/baselines/order-parity/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..269c788081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/compiler/test/ts7/baselines/order-parity/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+ "order": [
+  "<repo>/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts"
+ ],
+ "diags": []
+}
diff --git a/packages/runtime/src/scr_node_island_export.c b/packages/runtime/src/scr_node_island_export.c
index 6d17e8cb1c..a24cb64288 100644
--- a/packages/runtime/src/scr_node_island_export.c
+++ b/packages/runtime/src/scr_node_island_export.c
@@ -373,11 +373,17 @@ ScrDyn *scr_node_island_class_methods(ScrDyn *value, ScrDyn *builder) {
   return scr_dyn_retain(value);
 }
 
-/* A prototype method of a class capsule (+1), or NULL. */
+/* A prototype method of a class capsule (+1), or NULL. An own property the
+ * island wrote under the method's name (kept in the capsule's materialized
+ * view) hides the method, as an own property hides a prototype's in Node. */
 static ScrDyn *ni_class_method(const ScrDyn *target, const ScrDyn *key) {
   if (key->kind != SCR_DYN_STR) return NULL;
   ScrDyn *table = ni_methods_of(target);
   if (table == NULL) return NULL;
+  const ScrDyn *view = target->v.typed_ref.materialized;
+  if (view != NULL && view->kind == SCR_DYN_OBJ &&
+      scr_dyn_obj_get(view, key->v.str->data, key->v.str->len) != NULL)
+    return NULL;
   ScrDyn *m = scr_dyn_obj_get(table, key->v.str->data, key->v.str->len);
   return m != NULL ? scr_dyn_retain(m) : NULL;
 }
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c9d350f5f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// @requires-libnode
+// A native class instance passed into a Node island shows the island only
+// its public members: its #private methods, and the names the compiler
+// gives accessors and symbol-keyed methods, read as undefined, as in Node.
+import { probe, shadow } from "private-pkg";
+
+class Account {
+  #balance = 10;
+  owner: string;
+  constructor(owner: string) {
+    this.owner = owner;
+  }
+  #secret(): string {
+    return `secret of ${this.owner}: ${this.#balance}`;
+  }
+  get label(): string {
+    return `account ${this.owner}`;
+  }
+  describe(): string {
+    return `${this.owner} (${this.#secret().length})`;
+  }
+  *[Symbol.iterator](): Generator<string> {
+    yield this.owner;
+  }
+}
+
+const a = new Account("ada");
+console.log(probe(a));
+console.log(a.describe(), [...a].join(","));
+console.log(shadow(new Account("bob")));
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/index.d.ts b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/index.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..950911e747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/index.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+export declare function probe(o: object): string;
+export declare function shadow(o: object): string;
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/index.js b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e1f4cbf8cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+"use strict";
+
+// Reads a native instance's #private method and internal member names by
+// string: an island sees only its public members.
+function probe(o) {
+  const out = [typeof o["#secret"], "#secret" in o];
+  // A property with the private method's spelling, holding undefined.
+  o["#secret"] = undefined;
+  const m = o["#secret"];
+  out.push(typeof m, "#secret" in o);
+  if (typeof m === "function") out.push(m.call(o));
+  out.push(typeof o["get:label"], typeof o["sym:iterator"], typeof o.describe);
+  return out.join(" ");
+}
+
+// An own property holding undefined hides the prototype method.
+function shadow(o) {
+  o.describe = undefined;
+  return `${typeof o.describe} ${Object.keys(o).includes("describe")}`;
+}
+
+module.exports = { probe, shadow };
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/package.json b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..780b3e0b63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/node_modules/private-pkg/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{ "name": "private-pkg", "version": "1.0.0", "main": "index.js", "types": "index.d.ts" }
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/package.json b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e9e6cb5799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/corpus/6838-node-island-private-methods/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{ "name": "island-private-methods", "private": true, "type": "module", "scriptc": { "packages": { "private-pkg": "node" } } }
diff --git a/tests/harness/corpus-costs/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts.json b/tests/harness/corpus-costs/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2c83f9675
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/harness/corpus-costs/6838-node-island-private-methods/main.ts.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{ "plain": 2500, "san": 3300 }