Chapter Summaries

Jon attended his first Divination class with Professor Trelawney and claimed to have seen three prophecies in a crystal ball. He began by predicting small events for Sean Avery and Astoria Greengrass, leaving the final prophecy unrevealed.

• Jon used a spell on Sean Avery in the dormitory, then denied that Avery had seen a flash of light the night before.
• Jon went to Divination and told Professor Trelawney that Professor Stark of Durmstrang had praised his talent for the subject.
• Professor Trelawney taught the class how to practise crystal-ball divination.
• Jon announced that he had seen three prophecies and told Sean Avery to choose a newer copy of Unfogging the Future.
• Jon warned Astoria Greengrass to be careful not to break a second crystal ball after breaking the first.

Jon convinced the Divination class that he could predict the future by foretelling Avery’s mistake and Astoria’s broken Crystal Ball. He then delivered a grim prophecy about Professor Trelawney, who rejected it, while the students continued whispering about Jon’s abilities.

• Jon’s earlier Confundus Charm caused Avery to bring the wrong textbook, and Avery retrieved the correct one from the old bookcase as Jon had predicted.
• Astoria accidentally dropped and shattered her Crystal Ball, cutting her fingers, and Selwyn treated her wound.
• The students, especially the Slytherins, began to believe Jon had genuine prophetic abilities because Astoria had no connection to him.
• Jon prophesied that Trelawney would face an enemy and great hardship before someone saved her, but she angrily rejected his prediction.
• Trelawney resumed the lesson, while the students whispered about Jon and he continued acting like a mystic.

Jon met Astoria alone at the Hospital Wing, and she arranged to meet him in the Forbidden Forest after classes. There, Jon revealed his true form to her, and Astoria confronted him in tears.

• After Divination class, Jon heard Astoria say she was going to the Hospital Wing to have her hand checked.
• Jon went to the Hospital Wing and met Astoria outside; she told him to meet her in the Forbidden Forest after class.
• Jon succeeded at the Transfiguration exercise, while Ginny Weasley was the only other student to transform her guinea fowl.
• Moody put the students through exhausting stealth and fitness training on a muddy Quidditch pitch.
• Jon removed the Iron Ring in the Forbidden Forest and let a Bowtruckle climb onto his hand.
• Astoria approached Jon and asked through tears whether revealing himself made him happy.

Jon explained to Astoria Greengrass that his apparent death and disappearance had been part of Professor Dumbledore’s plan, and she forgave him after learning why he had stayed away. Astoria bandaged the wound from a Bowtruckle bite, then bit Jon’s arm to teach him a lesson.

• Astoria confronted Jon about lying to her and leaving her grieving, while a Bowtruckle bit Jon’s hand.
• Jon embraced Astoria and explained that Dumbledore had arranged his apparent death and that he had changed identities while hiding in Sweden and France.
• Jon told Astoria he had returned because he could not let go of her, and Astoria revealed she had recognized him and tested him with a letter delivered by Georgelin.
• Jon admitted he had hidden from Astoria because he feared she would not forgive him, and Astoria decided to forgive him.
• Astoria treated Jon’s Bowtruckle wound with Gillyweed and bandages, then bit his arm to teach him a lesson.

Jon, posing as Kristoff Patrick, encountered Harry Potter after Harry left Umbridge’s office and offered him a palm reading. Harry fled when Draco Malfoy appeared, while Patrick warned him that visions could be deceptive.

• Jon left the Forbidden Forest separately from Astoria and entered the castle looking bedraggled.
• Jon greeted Harry Potter outside Umbridge’s office and walked with him toward the Eighth Floor.
• Harry concealed his injured hand, and Jon suggested Gillyweed while saying he had been bitten by a snake.
• Jon predicted that Harry would live to old age and have three children, then foresaw him writing to his aunt about his injury.
• Jon advised Harry that visions could be real or false and that becoming immersed in them would bring suffering.
• Draco Malfoy called to Jon, Harry ran off, and Malfoy questioned why Jon was spending time with Potter.

Jon learned from Draco Malfoy that Harry Potter and Dumbledore had lost public support, and Malfoy invited him to a secret gathering in Hogsmeade. Harry told Hermione about Umbridge carving a message into his hand, wrote to Sirius for help, and realized Patrick's Prophecy had predicted he would write to an elder.

• Draco Malfoy told Jon to stay away from Harry and his friends, then invited him to a gathering at The Three Broomsticks in early October.
• Harry encouraged Ron Weasley to try out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team as Keeper.
• Hermione saw the words Umbridge had carved into Harry's hand and urged him to report her, but Harry refused to tell Dumbledore.
• Harry wrote Sirius Black a cautious letter about Umbridge's punishment and asked when Hagrid would return.
• Harry remembered Patrick's Prophecy about writing to an elder and realized it had referred to Sirius.

Jon read that the Ministry had appointed Dolores Umbridge Hogwarts High Inquisitor and chose not to oppose her. After he accidentally displayed impressive fire magic in the Slytherin common room, Fawkes appeared and startled him.

• Jon kept his Potions work modest while partnering with Tiffany Selwyn, and he noticed Dumbledore still had not contacted him about an assignment.
• Jon read in the Daily Prophet that the Ministry had created the post of High Inquisitor and appointed Umbridge, while Lucius Malfoy publicly supported the Ministry’s actions.
• Jon decided to avoid provoking Umbridge and Dumbledore, then burned the newspaper in the common-room fireplace.
• Jon transformed the flames into a Fire Giant Serpent before Tiffany Selwyn, then left the common room as the fire became a scarlet bird.
• Jon recognized the bird as Fawkes and quietly demanded to know why the phoenix was there.

Jon was secretly summoned to Dumbledore’s office, where he learned that Umbridge was monitoring Hogwarts through enchanted cats in the portraits. Dumbledore warned him to be cautious and asked him to keep his Slytherin classmates from becoming involved with Voldemort’s supporters.

• Fawkes delivered Dumbledore’s message to Jon and carried him from the Slytherin common room to the Headmaster’s Office.
• Jon met with Dumbledore, who was reading the Daily Prophet’s announcement of Umbridge’s appointment as Hogwarts High Inquisitor.
• Dumbledore showed Jon that Umbridge had been sending enchanted cats through the portraits to spy on him and other people at Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore warned Jon to act cautiously and not remove his Iron Ring lightly.
• Dumbledore asked Jon to help keep his Slytherin classmates from getting too involved with Voldemort’s supporters, and Jon agreed.

Umbridge inspected Professor Sprout’s Herbology class, taught a dull lesson on centaurs, and observed Flitwick’s Charms class. She left after questioning the professors about their careers, promising inspection results within ten days.

• Umbridge interrupted Herbology to inspect Sprout’s teaching and asked about her hiring and research record.
• Umbridge taught Care of Magical Creatures from a dusty classroom, describing centaurs in a condescending way and advocating tighter control of them.
• Jon noticed Astoria’s stony expression during Umbridge’s lesson and worried about her.
• Umbridge measured Flitwick’s height and watched him teach the Accio and Banishing Charms.
• Umbridge asked Flitwick about his years at Hogwarts and recorded that he had been a colleague of Albus before Dumbledore became Headmaster.

Dolores Umbridge inspected Professor Trelawney’s Divination class, leaving Trelawney shaken and prompting the students to connect her failed prophecy to Jon’s earlier prediction. Later, Umbridge confronted Mad-Eye Moody at Defence Against the Dark Arts, where she appeared frightened by him.

• Dolores Umbridge attended Professor Trelawney’s Divination lesson and questioned her qualifications and prophetic ability.
• Professor Trelawney made a brief prediction that Umbridge would face terrible danger, but Umbridge dismissed it.
• After class, Selwyn and the other students asked Jon whether his earlier prophecy about a falcon had foretold Trelawney’s encounter with an enemy.
• Jon attended Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class, where McGonagall seemed unusually harsh after dealing with Umbridge.
• At the Quidditch pitch, Umbridge saw that Mad-Eye Moody had turned it into a swamp and looked afraid when she faced him.

Dolores Umbridge inspected Mad-Eye Moody’s Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson, but Moody ignored and openly challenged her while making his students train in the marsh. After the lesson, Umbridge said the Ministry’s investigation results would reach him within ten days.

• Mad-Eye Moody made his students run through muddy marshland as Dolores Umbridge struggled to keep up and question his teaching.
• Moody rebuked Umbridge for interrupting his lesson and defended training the students to Auror standards.
• Umbridge sat through the rest of the class, taking furious notes while Moody continued the exercise.
• After class, Jon lingered to overhear Umbridge ask Moody about his time at Hogwarts and his relationship with Albus Dumbledore.
• Umbridge told Moody that he would receive the results of the investigation into him within ten days.

Jon avoided the Room of Requirement, practised spells in the Charms classroom, and accepted Draco Malfoy’s invitation to a gathering in Hogsmeade. As he prepared to attend the gathering and later meet Astoria, Professor Trelawney’s investigation result remained pending and students linked her distress to Jon’s prophecy.

• Jon asked Professor Flitwick to use the Charms classroom after lessons and practised spells there to avoid Umbridge’s surveillance.
• Draco Malfoy invited Jon to a small gathering of trusted pure-blood friends at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade.
• Professor Trelawney learned that Umbridge had marked her investigation result as pending, then broke down and dismissed her class.
• Students speculated that Jon’s prophecy about Trelawney’s mortal enemy referred to Umbridge.
• Jon received a letter from Astoria asking to meet at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop at ten, after his nine o’clock gathering with Malfoy.

Jon met Draco Malfoy and the other members of the Knights of Walpurgis, who revealed their connection to Voldemort and invited him to join. As Malfoy offered his hand, Jon secretly gripped the Mithras Core in his pocket.

• Jon passed through Hogsmeade and asked Madam Rosmerta to take him to Malfoy's private room beneath the Three Broomsticks.
• Draco welcomed Jon to the Knights of Walpurgis, and the other members questioned whether he could be trusted.
• Malfoy claimed Jon had been expelled from Durmstrang for excessive use of Dark magic, convincing the group of his supposed sympathies.
• Malfoy explained that the Knights of Walpurgis had begun as Voldemort's Hogwarts followers and would become Death Eaters after graduation.
• Pansy and Malfoy announced that Voldemort had returned and invited Jon to join their cause as he gripped the Mithras Core in his pocket.

Jon was welcomed into the Knights of Walpurgis, where Malfoy explained the group’s plans to help Umbridge undermine Dumbledore. Jon offered to show them the future under the Dark Lord’s rule and activated a silver Octahedron Box, leaving the group blinded by its light.

• Draco Malfoy welcomed Jon as Kristoff into the Knights of Walpurgis, and the members celebrated his joining.
• Malfoy explained that Umbridge served Fudge and that his father wanted the students to help her weaken Dumbledore.
• The Knights discussed what they would do if the Dark Lord took power, while Jon listened to their plans for harming Muggles and Muggle-borns.
• Jon offered to reveal the future after the Dark Lord came to power, and Malfoy and the others believed him because of his reputation for prophecy.
• Jon took out a silver Octahedron Box and activated it, filling the room with brilliant light.

Jon used Grindelwald’s Mithras Core to show the Heirs of Slytherin an illusion of a frozen London and suggested Muggles had destroyed it to kill wizards during a war. The scene then shifted to a mushroom cloud, leaving the students confronted with another vision of devastation.

• The Heirs of Slytherin discovered that the frozen city was an image displayed by the Octahedron Box, not a place they had been transported to.
• Pansy Parkinson saw frozen Muggle corpses, while Sean Avery recognized London landmarks in the ice-covered city.
• Tiffany Selwyn begged Jon to show Charing Cross Road because her family lived there, but Jon said he could not control the illusion.
• Jon suggested that Muggles might have frozen London to kill wizards if Voldemort had started an all-out war against them.
• Jon revealed that the Mithras Core materialized memories and that he had used footage from a disaster movie as a false prophecy.
• The vision changed to a mushroom cloud engulfing the landscape, and the students watched as everything was reduced to scorched earth.

Jon warned Draco Malfoy and the Heirs of Slytherin that Muggles could become a threat if the wizarding world’s secrecy collapsed, then found himself elevated to Malfoy’s seat. After slipping away to meet Astoria Greengrass, Jon arrived late, and she confronted him about smelling like Selwyn’s perfume.

• Jon argued that Muggles could learn about magic and join forces with wizarding traitors if the International Statute of Secrecy failed.
• Jon reassured the Heirs of Slytherin that Voldemort had considered the danger, though he privately doubted it.
• Draco Malfoy gave Jon his innermost seat, and Blaise Zabini led the group in a toast to the Dark Lord.
• Jon left the Slytherins and Gryffindors behind and hurried to Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop to meet Astoria Greengrass.
• Astoria greeted Jon in private room five, then asked bitterly why he smelled like Selwyn’s perfume.

Jon met Astoria in a private room at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, where she questioned him about smelling like Selwyn before trusting his explanation. After they shared a warm conversation and parted to avoid suspicion, Jon ran into Blaise Zabini and headed back toward school with him.

• Astoria asked Jon why he smelled like Selwyn’s perfume, and Jon explained that he had been with Selwyn and other Slytherins at a gathering.
• Astoria told Jon that Selwyn was hostile toward Muggles and Muggle-born wizards, then reminisced with him about their past at Hogwarts.
• Jon and Astoria agreed to meet again at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, and Astoria warned him not to arrive smelling like another girl.
• Astoria left for Hogwarts first, and Jon followed after putting on the Iron Ring.
• Blaise Zabini met Jon outside the tea shop with candy, and they set off back to school together.

Jon considered how to contact Dumbledore without alerting Umbridge, then learned that Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four had disbanded all student organizations. He persuaded Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson that the decree could be an opportunity to gain Umbridge’s approval for the Knights of Walpurgis.

• Jon decided to wait until Dumbledore next sent Fawkes to contact him because Umbridge’s spies watched the Headmaster’s Office and inspected owls.
• Jon saw Umbridge’s decree banning student organizations and noticed Harry Potter and Ron Weasley reacting angrily with the group from The Hog’s Head.
• Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson asked Jon whether the decree was connected to the Knights of Walpurgis.
• Jon suggested that Umbridge had discovered a group plotting against her and that a student had informed her.
• Jon told Malfoy and Parkinson they could use the decree to seek Umbridge’s approval and offer her help.

Kristoff Patrick convinced Dolores Umbridge to approve a Slytherin student group called D.A., presented as an organization supporting her and the Ministry. Umbridge asked the group to help target Professor Moody once Cornelius gave her permission.

• Kristoff Patrick visited Dolores Umbridge and claimed that Slytherin students had formed a group to study Ministry directives and support her work.
• Umbridge trusted Kristoff after hearing that Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, and Tiffany Selwyn supported the group, and that Kristoff was related to historian Mrs. Bashat.
• Umbridge proposed calling the group the Inquisitorial Squad, but Kristoff suggested naming it the Dolores Aid Association, shortened to D.A.
• Umbridge approved the name and gave Kristoff a parchment to list the group's members.
• Umbridge told Kristoff she wanted D.A. to help her move against Professor Moody after Cornelius gave permission.

After learning that the Ministry planned to move against Alastor Moody, Jon arranged for Draco Malfoy to alert his father and the Death Eaters. Meanwhile, Dolores Umbridge began inspecting Sybill Trelawney’s Divination class after Trelawney was retained on probation.

• Jon left Umbridge’s office and decided to warn the Death Eaters about the Ministry’s plan against Moody.
• Jon told Malfoy that Umbridge had approved their organization, the D.A., and revealed the Ministry’s plans for Moody.
• Jon persuaded Malfoy to secretly inform his father so the news could reach the Dark Lord.
• Umbridge entered Trelawney’s class and questioned her harshly about her Divination skills.