Recaps

Loren captured Peter Pettigrew, explored soul magic, and helped Lupin through a full-moon transformation with an improved Wolfsbane Potion. As Loren and Hermione grew closer and began preparing for the Animagus ritual, Loren investigated his strange connection to a Boggart and Dumbledore urged him to seek his own answers about soul magic.

• Loren stunned Peter Pettigrew, tortured him in the Room of Requirement, then drained his soul with the Soul Stone and arranged for a Hippogriff to carry his body away so the Dementors would be blamed.
• The Daily Prophet reported that the Dementors had captured Pettigrew and given him the Kiss, while Hermione questioned Loren and McGonagall announced an Animagus Teaching Class selection exam after Halloween.
• Loren studied soul magic and Dark Arts, brewed an improved Wolfsbane Potion, and gave it to Lupin after warning him about its effects.
• Lupin, Loren, and Hermione went to the Shrieking Shack, where the potion kept Lupin conscious during his transformation and Snape and Dumbledore came to check on him.
• Lupin chose to stay at Hogwarts, told Hermione about his past and the werewolf group led by Fenrir Greyback, and later returned to the Hospital Wing for an examination.
• Hermione dropped Divination and began preparing for the Animagus ritual with Loren, while Neville revealed that he had completed its first step.
• Loren entered a Boggart’s perspective and tested the connection before Dumbledore, who advised him to seek his own answer about soul magic.
• Loren gave Lupin a stronger Wolfsbane Potion, then warned students preparing for the Animagus ritual that keeping Mandrake Leaves in their mouths would cost them Hogsmeade treats and Christmas food.

Loren and Hermione’s Christmas trip to Diagon Alley was interrupted when a damaged Time-Turner carried them and three professors into a hidden day outside ordinary time. There, Daisy Dursley revealed the ancient Immortals’ influence on wizarding history and warned Loren of a future war between wizards and Muggles.

• Loren and Hermione went to Diagon Alley for Mandrake Leaves, then overheard McGonagall, Snape, and Flitwick discuss the planned capture of Bellatrix Lestrange and the Lestrange Vault.
• Snape’s Bone Knife struck McGonagall’s Time-Turner, and the damaged Golden Hourglass transported Loren, Hermione, Snape, McGonagall, and Flitwick into a past version of The Leaky Cauldron.
• Daisy Dursley explained that the group had entered a day severed from ordinary time, and she showed them a barrel that could send them to a time when they existed.
• Snape entered the barrel and encountered young Lily and Petunia at Spinner’s End, before McGonagall followed him and Flitwick stayed with Loren and Hermione.
• Daisy told Loren that Merlin and Morgan trapped the Immortals in a space-time fragment, but their influence reached the real world through bloodlines and dreams, inspiring Hailbo to create Basilisk-breeding methods and Horcruxes.
• Daisy recounted how Hogwarts’ founders found Morgan’s Wand and used Ravenclaw’s Diadem and Hufflepuff’s Goblet against the Immortals, whose surviving magic later caused the Black Death.
• Daisy warned Loren that Slytherin’s prophecy foretold a war between wizards and Muggles, in which either side might subjugate or persecute the other.

Loren and Hermione pursued Animagus transformations while investigating Voldemort’s Horcruxes and the plight of House-elves. The arc ended with the staff and students gathering to witness Lupin’s transformation, as Loren explored the limits of his own animal magic.

• The Sorcerer’s Stone’s magic ended the journey into the past, and Snape sent Loren and Hermione to find Dumbledore after an explosion struck the Leaky Cauldron.
• Loren and Hermione told Dumbledore what they had learned, and he later identified Hufflepuff’s Goblet as a Horcrux and explained Bellatrix Lestrange’s attack and escape.
• Loren discovered he could transform into a white lion cat, and Flamel suggested his animal affinity might be inherited from Fairy Morgan.
• Loren and Hermione discussed House-elves’ suffering, while Loren warned that efforts to free them might bring further conflict.
• Loren helped Hermione prepare for the Animagus ritual, and she later transformed into an ermine while Neville became a lion and Harry struggled through the change.
• Dumbledore showed Loren, Hermione, Harry, and Ron Hokey’s memories of Tom Riddle and Hepzibah Smith, then led Hokey’s burial in the Forbidden Forest.
• Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup, while Hermione challenged Winky about House-elves living independently and Loren began testing magical-creature transformations.
• Loren transformed into a Fire Salamander but could not use its magic, and Harry and Ron led Lupin through the Whomping Willow passage to meet the professors gathered to witness his transformation.

After leaving Hogwarts, Loren and Hermione travel with their families to New York, where they uncover a plot involving missing Werewolf corpses and the American Magical Congress. The arc ends with Werewolf Inferi flooding the Brooklyn sewers as Loren and Hermione search for a way to stop them.

• Lupin proved that his Animagus form let him retain control during the Full Moon, then left Hogwarts to investigate the Werewolf community in the United States.
• Loren and Hermione finished their exams and left Hogwarts with plans to visit the United States, while Dumbledore prepared for the Triwizard Tournament to include Ilvermorny.
• Lupin met Jimmy in Brooklyn, learned about the divisions among its Werewolves, and asked him to arrange a meeting with Taylor Lotner.
• Loren and Hermione reached New York with their families, where Rita Skeeter warned them about vanished Werewolf and homeless bodies and a possible magical exposure incident.
• Flamel told Hermione and Loren about the Scourers, while Loren learned that Voldemort planned to unleash contagious Werewolf Inferi during the International Wizarding Congress.
• Loren and Hermione left a preliminary congress meeting after Dumbledore noticed streetlamps going dark, then followed Lupin and Taylor’s group through the Brooklyn sewers.
• Bellatrix Lestrange damaged a sluice gate during a clash with Frank and Alice Lumbard, releasing Werewolf Inferi that forced the Aurors and Werewolves to retreat.
• Hermione tried to block the rising sewage and Inferi, but the flood broke through her barrier, so Loren pulled her back and considered how to stop it.