Recaps

Loren and his friends uncovered Voldemort’s return and defeated the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, while Loren pursued his own questions about magic and souls. After Christmas brought new gifts, plans, and dueling practice, the students returned to Hogwarts to find a masked new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

• Loren recovered memories of his parents’ deaths and learned that his Magic Sight remained, while Lucius Malfoy agreed to host a full-moon banquet as cover for a planned Azkaban escape.
• After Justin was petrified, Dumbledore showed Harry a memory of Tom Riddle, and Hagrid’s arrest sent Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Loren into the Forbidden Forest to seek answers from Aragog.
• Aragog revealed that the Basilisk traveled through pipes, and Hermione’s Polyjuice transformation went wrong as Harry and Ron infiltrated the Slytherin Common Room and followed Crabbe into the Chamber.
• Harry and Ron confronted Voldemort, who revealed himself as Tom Riddle, while Loren brought the professors to the Chamber and Fawkes helped Harry defeat the Basilisk.
• Dumbledore revealed that Lockhart had stolen other wizards’ achievements, then ordered Loren to accompany him to St Mungo’s, where Lockhart was diagnosed with permanent spell damage.
• Loren proposed using his mirror to help Neville’s parents, worked with Snape to harvest the Basilisk, and tried unsuccessfully to recreate its Magic Power through Alchemy.
• Loren made Storage Scales from Basilisk hide and exchanged Christmas gifts with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, while Sirius sent Harry a Nimbus 2001 but no letter.
• During the holidays Harry and Ron practiced dueling, Hermione recovered from her transformation, and the friends returned to Hogwarts to meet a masked new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Loren and Hermione uncovered Dumbledore’s role in the Basilisk investigation while Sirius Black returned to Hogwarts as a teacher and began facing his past. After Loren learned that Sirius’s escape from Peter Pettigrew’s attack had cost his parents their lives, he refused to forgive him, while the Animagus class began its supervised training.

• Dumbledore announced that the Chamber of Secrets monster had been dealt with, declared Hagrid innocent, and introduced Sirius Black as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
• Hermione learned from Dumbledore that Loren had suspected Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and that Dumbledore had knowingly guided events during the Basilisk attacks, then confronted Loren about keeping the truth from her.
• Harry told Dumbledore about his vision of Voldemort, and Dumbledore warned him that Voldemort could use their connection to enter his mind and advised him to learn Occlumency from Severus.
• Loren exposed Rita Skeeter spying in beetle form, and McGonagall later began the Animagus class with Rita as a demonstration of the transformation.
• Dumbledore took Hermione to the Ministry, where she learned that Peter Pettigrew’s escape had killed twelve Muggles, including Loren’s parents, Amelia Morgan and Orlando Morgan.
• Dumbledore showed Hermione and Sirius the memory of Pettigrew’s attack, and Loren confronted Sirius, struck him with Sectumsempra, and refused to forgive him or Pettigrew.
• Dumbledore made Sirius vow to find the victims’ relatives and make amends without magic, while Hermione comforted Loren and stayed close to him afterward.
• McGonagall resumed Animagus lessons and instructed the students to keep a Mandrake leaf in their mouths from one Full Moon to the next as the ritual’s first step.

Loren helped Neville reunite his parents, then spent the summer with Hermione exploring Egypt and an ancient cursed Pyramid. As Harry faced trouble at the Dursleys and dangerous events gathered around him, Loren and Hermione grew closer, ending the stretch with their first kiss.

• Loren swallowed his Mandrake Leaf by accident, while Hermione revealed she had broken hers earlier and let him continue the ritual until he failed.
• Neville alone preserved his leaf, but his first attempt at the Animagus Ritual failed, and Gryffindor then won the Quidditch championship and House Cup.
• After the Mandrakes cured the petrified students, Loren used Bloody Mary's Hand Mirror to guide Neville into Frank and Alice Longbottom’s memories, and Neville brought his parents back to consciousness.
• Loren and Hermione spent the holidays together, and Dumbledore took Loren to St Mungo's to help Neville, and Hermione also passed her Apparition assessment.
• Loren and Hermione traveled to Egypt with their families, explored wizarding sites, and joined Professor Babbling, Bill Weasley, and Lockhart in a newly discovered Pyramid.
• Hermione solved the Pyramid’s trials, and Professor Babbling released the Ten Plagues from the crucible to break her family’s curse before the group kept their discovery secret.
• Harry fled the Dursleys after his magic inflated Aunt Marge, while Bellatrix Lestrange pledged herself to Voldemort and Fudge kept Harry under Ministry supervision.
• Loren and Hermione reunited with Harry in Diagon Alley, then bought Crookshanks and celebrated Loren’s birthday, where Loren kissed Hermione.

Loren and his friends began their third year as Dementors guarded Hogwarts and new dangers emerged around Bellatrix, Pettigrew, and Hagrid’s Hippogriffs. After finding signs that Pettigrew had entered the Room of Requirement, Loren obtained the Marauder’s Map to help track him.

• Loren drove Dementors from the Hogwarts Express with a powerful Patronus, then discussed Bellatrix and the danger of pursuing her with Dumbledore.
• Hermione began using her Time-Turner to attend extra classes, while Loren helped her manage the strain of her packed schedule.
• Lupin’s Boggart lesson revealed Hermione’s fear of losing Loren, and Loren used Occlumency to control the creature’s transformations.
• Draco told Loren that Bellatrix had extorted the Malfoys and used them to send a rat into Hogwarts, then offered Harry a deal to protect Buckbeak.
• Harry accepted Draco’s demand to serve him for a day, and he and his friends helped Hagrid fly the Hippogriffs before Harry fell near a Dementor.
• Loren found rat footprints in the Room of Requirement and concluded that Pettigrew had been searching for Ravenclaw’s Diadem.
• George gave Loren the Marauder’s Map after Loren said he needed it to find someone.