Chapter Summaries

Neville thanked Loren for curing his parents, and the students discussed Astoria Greengrass’s weakness and possible inherited illnesses before the new school year began. Lupin reflected on his past and his uneasy reunion with Snape, while Loren and Hermione settled into their third-year routine.

• Neville struggled to thank Loren, who asked him for Honeydukes gold deluxe gift sets instead, and Neville resolved to give him gifts on future occasions.
• Seamus reported that Astoria Greengrass had fallen, prompting Ron to describe the Greengrass family’s supposed blood curse and Loren and Hermione to discuss inherited diseases caused by close-relative marriages.
• Lupin lay awake thinking about Snape and dreamed of Greyback, Hogwarts, his friends, and James and Lily’s graves.
• Hermione explained her elective timetable and Time-Turner rules to Loren, who asked her to make him a timetable with classroom locations.
• Professor Binns read the third-year course outline while the class slept, and Hermione finished Loren’s timetable as their third school year began.

During Herbology, Loren and Hermione secretly took Mandrake Leaves for Hermione’s Animagus preparations, then Loren reconsidered whether using a Time-Turner could interfere with the ritual. At lunch, debate over hereditary disease among Pure-blood families erupted into a confrontation involving Daphne Greengrass, her sister Astoria, and a Slytherin named Claire.

• Loren and Hermione joined Harry and Ron for their first Herbology class of the term, where Professor Sprout opened Greenhouse Three and the students began clearing leaves and loosening soil.
• Hermione spotted mature Mandrakes and wanted leaves for her Animagus preparations, so she and Loren approached the bed.
• Loren plucked six yellowing Mandrake Leaves and pulled Hermione away, then decided they should ask Professor McGonagall whether the Time-Turner could affect the Animagus Ritual.
• At lunch, Hogwarts students argued over whether Pure-blood families suffered hereditary diseases, with the Greengrass family’s rumored Blood Curse drawing attention.
• Daphne Greengrass berated Claire as a half-blood, then blamed her younger sister Astoria for the humiliation and angrily confronted her at the Slytherin table.

At Hogwarts, Draco defended Astoria from Daphne’s anger, while Hermione and Loren waited for Professor Lupin’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson. Lupin introduced the class to Boggarts and guided Neville toward confronting his fear of Bellatrix Lestrange; the lesson continued with Neville preparing to make the Boggart ridiculous.

• Draco stopped Daphne from taking her anger out on Astoria, and Astoria thanked him before following him with wrapped pies.
• Hermione told Loren she had asked Professor McGonagall about the Time-Turner and an Animagus, then explained that she wanted to speak with Professor Lupin about the Defense curriculum.
• Professor Lupin led the class to the Staff Room, where Snape insulted Neville and Harry and summoned Loren to his office on Friday evening.
• Lupin introduced the Boggart in a cabinet, explained the Riddikulus spell, and asked Neville to face his greatest fear.
• Neville said he feared Bellatrix Lestrange, and Lupin prompted him to imagine her covered in the painful boils from Neville’s failed first-year potion.

During Lupin’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, the students faced a Boggart that took the forms of their fears. Ron’s Boggart briefly became Voldemort before changing into an Acromantula, and Lupin ended the demonstration before Harry, Loren, and Hermione could take their turns; the four friends stayed behind after class.

• Bellatrix Lestrange appeared as Neville’s Boggart, but Neville cast Riddikulus and turned her into a scabies-covered figure that retreated into the cabinet.
• Lupin called up Parvati, Seamus, and Dean, whose Boggarts became a mummy, a Banshee, and a severed hand.
• Ron faced his Boggart, which briefly appeared as Voldemort in Quirrell’s form before changing into an Acromantula.
• Ron cast Riddikulus, making the Acromantula seem to be kicked as it had been during the friends’ earlier investigation of the Chamber of Secrets.
• Lupin ended the demonstration, awarded house points, assigned homework, and watched the other students leave while Loren, Hermione, Harry, and Ron stayed behind.

Lupin explained that he had kept the students from facing the Boggart because he feared it would take Voldemort’s form and frighten them. Hermione faced it anyway, and when it became Loren, he blocked its influence and took control of its transformations, leaving the Boggart in Hermione’s form.

• Lupin told Harry that he had stopped the class because the Boggart might become Voldemort.
• Hermione asked to face the Boggart, and it transformed into Loren, whom she feared losing or displeasing.
• Hermione tried to repel the Boggart with Riddikulus, but its affectionate Loren form made her panic.
• Loren used Occlumency to resist the Boggart’s probing magic and guide its transformations through different creatures.
• The Boggart cycled through several forms before finally turning into Hermione.

Loren explained that he had used Occlumency to control what the Boggart saw, while Harry struggled after the Boggart’s Dementor form made him collapse. Lupin offered Harry special Patronus training and considered Hermione’s suggestion to teach the charm more broadly.

• Hermione pulled Loren away from the Boggart, and Harry collapsed when it transformed into a Dementor.
• Ron revived Harry, and Lupin gave him a Chocolate Frog and reassured him about his fear.
• Loren explained that Occlumency had let him control the Boggart’s vision, and he asked Lupin to lend him the creature for practice.
• Lupin proposed discussing weekly Patronus training for Harry with Professor McGonagall, and Harry eagerly agreed.
• Ron asked to learn the Patronus Charm too, while Hermione and Loren urged Lupin to consider teaching it through a club.

Loren joked with Hermione over dinner before meeting Snape to discuss the Potions Club and begin work improving the Wolfsbane Potion. Back in the dormitory, Neville thanked Loren with a Honeydukes gift box, and the boys shared its magical sweets.

• Loren teased Hermione at dinner, then left for Snape's office while she went to the Common Room to write her essay.
• Snape told Loren that he and McGonagall had searched Africa for clues to the Resurrection Potion and planned to recruit Potions Club members around Halloween.
• Snape assigned Loren monthly experiments to improve the Wolfsbane Potion, leaving Loren discouraged about the foul-smelling ingredients.
• Neville carried a Honeydukes deluxe gift box into the dormitory and said he had bought it to thank Loren.
• Loren and the other boys opened the box and laughed as its magical gummies made them imitate animal calls.

Loren investigated why a Boggart could reproduce a Dementor’s Magic Power and wondered whether it could grow or reproduce, while Hermione prepared for an overloaded timetable. Their first Divination lesson began with Trelawney making alarming predictions and Neville breaking a teacup exactly as she foretold.

• Loren tested a Boggart’s Dementor form and other creature shapes, then asked Flamel whether Dementors had biological traits and could reproduce.
• Flamel explained that Dementor populations grew when Azkaban held many prisoners, but he could not predict what would happen if a Boggart consumed emotions and memories.
• At breakfast, Harry questioned Hermione’s packed timetable, and Loren joined him in teasing her about trying to attend several classes at once.
• On the way to Divination Class, Loren repeatedly left Hermione, returning with excuses and a faint smell of chocolate.
• Trelawney introduced Divination and unsettled the class with predictions about Neville’s grandmother, Parvati, Lavender, and a broken teacup.
• Neville broke a teacup shortly after Trelawney predicted he would, impressing the class and changing Loren’s opinion of her methods.

Loren explained that Professor Trelawney used psychological suggestion to make her students believe her predictions, while Hermione tried reading tea leaves with him. The class ended with Harry worried that Trelawney’s death omen might be real after he admitted he had seen Sirius Black in his Animagus form.

• Hermione eagerly asked Loren to let her read his tea leaves, and Loren explained how Trelawney had unsettled Neville into breaking his cup through psychological suggestion.
• Hermione reconsidered Trelawney’s methods, then she and Loren jokingly interpreted each other’s tea leaves using auspicious entries from the book.
• Trelawney took Harry’s cup and declared that the black dog in it was an omen of death, frightening Harry as nearby students joined in.
• On the way back from the North Tower, Loren explained his theory to Harry, but Ron insisted death omens were real and asked whether Harry had seen a huge black dog.
• Harry revealed that he had seen Sirius Black in his Animagus form as a huge black dog, and Ron and Harry left together in alarm while Loren and Hermione looked on speechlessly.

Hermione used the Time-Turner to return to the morning and attend Muggle Studies, but Loren followed her and discovered her time travel. She listened to Charity Burbage introduce the course, leaving the past apparently unchanged despite Loren’s presence.

• Hermione worried about using the Time-Turner without being discovered and left Loren on the way to Transfiguration.
• Hermione turned the Time-Turner’s hourglass once and traveled back about an hour.
• Loren found Hermione hiding behind a suit of armor and asked about the Time-Turner.
• Hermione told Loren to return to class, then went to Charity Burbage’s Muggle Studies lesson.
• Charity Burbage welcomed the students and described the course and its focus on Muggle life.

Hermione struggled through her classes while hungry after traveling back in time, until Loren gave her snacks and arranged to meet her after Ancient Runes. She answered Professor Babbling’s question about the Demiguise and the number zero without revealing the Lemon Drop in her mouth.

• Hermione listened to Professor Bubage’s Muggle Studies lesson on wizarding and Muggle transportation while her stomach repeatedly growled.
• Hermione went back in time to the empty Great Hall, where Loren found her and gave her a Chocolate Frog and other snacks.
• Loren told Hermione to wait for him in the Transfiguration classroom after Ancient Runes.
• Hermione attended Professor Babbling’s Ancient Runes class and secretly ate Lemon Drops while taking notes.
• Professor Babbling called on Hermione to explain why the Demiguise symbolized zero, and Hermione answered that it was because the creature was invisible.

Hermione struggled through a packed day of classes using the Time-Turner, and Loren helped her rest while teasing her about refusing to drop electives. After lunch, she relaxed in the Gryffindor Common Room as Loren worked on Snape's Wolfsbane Potion assignment.

• Hermione told Loren that using the Time-Turner to attend classes in the past would create two versions of her at once and risk exposing it.
• Loren let the exhausted Hermione rest her head on the desk and massaged her when she asked him not to stop.
• Professor McGonagall demonstrated her Animagus transformation, then reassured the class after Harry mentioned their ominous tea-leaf readings in Divination.
• Hermione decided to wait and learn more before judging Professor Trelawney, remembering that Professor Babbling had made a prophecy she had experienced herself.
• In the Gryffindor Common Room, Loren told Hermione to store food in her pendant and use the Room of Requirement when she needed rest.

After Pansy Parkinson threatened Hagrid and the Hippogriffs, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Loren went to visit Hagrid that night. Draco joined Loren and revealed Bellatrix had coerced the Malfoys into helping send a rat into Hogwarts, then proposed an alliance to keep watch for it; the chapter ended with Hagrid drunk and despairing over his possible dismissal.

• Ernie told the Hufflepuffs that Pansy had been scratched by Buckbeak and threatened to have Hagrid dismissed and the Hippogriffs put down.
• Loren reassured Hermione that Hagrid was unlikely to be dismissed and focused on preparing ingredients for the Wolfsbane Potion.
• Harry noticed a light in Hagrid's window, and he, Ron, Hermione, and Loren left the Gryffindor common room to visit him.
• Draco intercepted the group, told Loren that Bellatrix had extorted money from the Malfoys and made them help send a rat into Hogwarts, and suggested an alliance to watch for it.
• Loren and Draco entered Hagrid's Hut and found Hagrid drunk and crying about being dismissed, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione tried to stop him drinking.

After Draco offered to save Buckbeak in exchange for Harry serving as his lackey for a day, Harry accepted, and Hagrid resolved to change how he taught and cared for the Hippogriffs. The group went to feed them, where Loren, Hermione, and Ron managed to get the creatures flying again.

• Harry and Ron reassured Hagrid that they would tell Dumbledore Parkinson had caused Buckbeak’s attack, while Draco warned that the Ministry could have the Hippogriffs executed.
• After Harry and Ron failed to find a way to protect Buckbeak, Draco offered to obtain a letter of forgiveness if Harry served as his lackey for a day.
• Harry accepted Draco’s condition to save Buckbeak, and Draco left, unsettled by Harry’s serious response.
• Hagrid apologized to Harry and promised to arrange the Hippogriffs’ care and consult Mr. Kettleburn about future lessons.
• Loren, Hermione, Ron, and Harry followed Hagrid to the enclosure and helped feed the Hippogriffs.
• A few minutes later, four Hippogriffs spread their wings and flew into the air.

After Harry fell from Buckbeak during a night flight past Hogwarts, Loren, Hermione, and Ron brought him back to the Gryffindor Common Room. The next day, Harry faced Snape’s questions in Potions and was forced to work as Draco’s assistant, with Draco using Buckbeak to keep him in line.

• Loren, Hermione, Ron, and Harry flew Hippogriffs over the Black Lake until Harry fell from Buckbeak near a patrolling Dementor, and Loren used a Dampening Charm.
• Loren, Hermione, and Ron returned Harry to the Gryffindor Common Room, where he awoke and joked with them before they chased Ron upstairs.
• Crookshanks woke in the Common Room, carried its cushion to the Portrait Hole, and waited there.
• During History of Magic and Charms, Harry was relieved that Malfoy was absent, but Malfoy later arrived for Potions with Pansy Parkinson.
• Snape questioned Harry about the Shrinking Potion, mocked him for not knowing its origin, and took five points from Gryffindor after Harry talked back.
• Draco asked to partner with Harry, who agreed under threat involving Buckbeak, then resentfully followed Draco’s orders while they brewed the potion.

Loren and Hermione attended their first Arithmancy class after Harry and Draco finished brewing Shrinking Potion together under Snape’s supervision. Professor Victor taught them to interpret character and destiny through numbers, and Loren compared her analysis of Nicolas Flamel with what he already knew about him.

• Harry angrily sliced ingredients while Draco taunted him, and the two completed a Shrinking Potion together.
• Snape praised the potion’s emerald-green color and suggested Harry and Draco partner in future Potions classes, but Harry refused.
• Loren told Harry and Ron that Hermione had gone to Arithmancy, then joined her in the classroom.
• Hermione asked Loren about the Runespoor symbol in her notes, and Loren explained why ancient wizards favored it over a Three-headed Dog.
• Professor Victor explained how Arithmancy used name-based numbers to assess personality, desires, and outward traits.
• Professor Victor analyzed Nicolas Flamel’s name, and Loren found that her description partly matched his memories of Flamel.

Loren teased Hermione with Arithmancy readings, then discussed his revised Wolfsbane Potion with Snape, who tasked him with giving it to Lupin before the Full Moon. Back in the Gryffindor Common Room, Loren advised Harry on recruiting Quidditch players, prompting Harry to go find Wood.

• Loren interpreted Hermione’s Arithmancy numbers, and Hermione retaliated by reading his, but neither was willing to take the other’s criticisms seriously.
• Loren showed Snape his revised Wolfsbane Potion process and asked about the Rafflesia dosage and Rue; Snape approved the idea, gave him a book on potion adjustments, and told him to deliver the potion to Lupin a week before the Full Moon.
• Snape reflected that Loren’s potion research showed exceptional promise and wrote Harry Potter’s assignment grade as D.
• Harry, Ron, Seamus, and Dean discussed Wood’s reluctance to recruit new Quidditch players, and Loren advised them to explain the consequences of waiting until Wood graduated.
• Harry hurried off to find Wood, while Crookshanks later opened its eyes in the dark and watched from beside the Portrait Hole.

Hermione made Loren finish his homework before he brewed Snape’s Wolfsbane Potion in the Room of Requirement. There, he discovered Peter Pettigrew’s tracks leading to the empty suit of armor where Ravenclaw’s Diadem had once been hidden, and realized Pettigrew had come to retrieve it for Voldemort.

• Hermione persuaded Loren to finish a week’s worth of homework, then went to discuss questions with Professor Bubage.
• Loren opened a vial of Rafflesia extract, was overwhelmed by its stench, and began brewing Snape’s Wolfsbane Potion with Rue added.
• Loren entered the Room of Requirement’s storage room and found old footprints left by Wormtail in rat form.
• Loren followed the tracks to an empty suit of armor and concluded that Peter Pettigrew had tried to retrieve Ravenclaw’s Diadem for Voldemort, unaware that Loren had already alerted Dumbledore and the Diadem had been removed.

Hermione visited Professor Burbage to discuss how Muggle society influenced the wizarding world and heard why Burbage believed she should wait until people would take her seriously before speaking out. At dinner, Loren told Hermione he had found traces of Peter Pettigrew and planned to use the Marauder’s Map or Sneakoscopes to catch him.

• Professor Burbage struggled to reassemble a dismantled Flashlight, and Hermione advised her to use an instruction manual or a Mending Charm.
• Hermione discussed the mutual influence of Muggle and wizarding societies with Burbage, who recounted how her articles had brought abuse and threats without changing anything.
• Burbage said she could not predict whether Muggles and wizards would coexist peacefully, and she suggested Hermione drop Muggle Studies while remaining welcome to visit.
• At dinner, Loren and Hermione argued over Cornbread and roast chicken until Loren told her he had found rat footprints in the Room of Requirement that he believed belonged to Peter Pettigrew.
• Hermione questioned whether the Marauder’s Map could reveal Pettigrew, and Loren said he would make Sneakoscopes if the map could not track him.

Loren and Hermione wrote letters home together before returning to the Gryffindor common room, where Loren borrowed the Marauder’s Map to look for someone. The twins warned him that several Secret Passages had been sealed or had collapsed, while Loren kept his target to himself.

• Hermione suggested that Loren write to Mr. Bates with her, and Loren hugged her in the Great Hall before they went to write their letters.
• Loren and Hermione sent their letters and a croissant for Hānhan from the Owlery, then returned to the Gryffindor common room.
• Loren interrupted George and Fred as they tried to trick Lee Jordan into eating a strange sweet.
• George and Fred warned Loren that several Secret Passages were blocked and that going to Hogsmeade could lead to trouble.
• Loren said he wanted the Marauder’s Map to find someone, and George gave it to him.