Chapter Summaries

Loren suspected Hermione had entered the Fantasy Book after she described dreaming of its Library, and he planned to meet her there that night. He waited in the Library with Flamel, but Hermione did not appear before the chapter ended.

• Hermione described dreaming of a bright Library full of books, and Loren suspected she had entered the Fantasy Book.
• Loren and Hermione attended Divination Class, where Ron complained about Parvati and Lavender’s ominous looks and Harry joked about Ron’s possible elective choices.
• Loren went to sleep holding the Fantasy Book and entered its Library, intending to wait for Hermione.
• Parvati teased Hermione about Loren, while Lavender worried about Professor Trelawney’s prediction and asked Hermione whether Ron liked anyone.
• Flamel asked Loren why he was not practicing Fiendfyre as Loren continued waiting in the Library.

Loren and Hermione discussed Professor Trelawney’s predictions after Lavender’s pet rabbit died, and Hermione dropped Divination. The chapter ended with Loren feeding Hermione a Mandrake so she could begin practicing the Animagus ritual with him.

• Hermione told Loren that Lavender’s rabbit, Binky, had been killed by a fox, and accused Professor Trelawney of exploiting the tragedy to claim her prediction had come true.
• Hermione and Loren discussed Trelawney’s vague predictions, including Harry’s supposed omen of death, and Hermione realized Harry’s fall from Buckbeak might have fulfilled it.
• Professor McGonagall reminded the Third Years to submit permission forms for their first Hogsmeade visit, while the students eagerly discussed the trip.
• Hermione told Loren that Professor McGonagall had approved her decision to drop Divination, and she no longer wore the Golden Hourglass.
• Loren gave Hermione a Mandrake and told her to begin practicing the Animagus ritual with him.

Loren discovered that feeding a Boggart transformed into a Dementor one of his false memories let him experience the creature’s senses and enter its perspective. Concerned that the ability connected to his secret, he consulted Flamel and Dumbledore, then began a supervised repeat experiment in the Headmaster’s office.

• Loren forced the Boggart to emerge from its box, where it cycled through creatures before taking the form of a Dementor.
• Loren fed the Dementor a false memory about enjoying Potatoes and briefly experienced the Boggart’s perspective before shutting it back in the box.
• Loren told Flamel what had happened, and Flamel urged him to seek Albus and ensure his safety.
• Loren brought the box to Dumbledore, who asked him to repeat the experiment while he restrained the Boggart with his Patronus.
• Loren entered the Boggart’s perspective again and found himself unable to move under Dumbledore’s powerful Patronus.

Dumbledore discussed Loren’s entry into the Boggart and cautioned him that pursuing the secrets of the soul could make them harder to reach. A week later, Loren delivered Lupin a stronger Wolfsbane Potion while Draco and Astoria spent time together by the North Tower.

• Loren briefly entered the Boggart’s body but emerged when he tried to fly, and Dumbledore concluded the Boggart was safe for him without discovering its secret.
• Dumbledore suggested that the Boggart’s creator had marked it in a way that connected it to Loren, though he did not know what shared trait caused the connection.
• Dumbledore spoke to Loren about the elusive nature of soul magic and warned that obsessively seeking it could drive it farther away, then asked Loren to find his own answer.
• Draco lay on the grass near the North Tower while Astoria sat beside him and talked about wanting to join the Transfiguration Club and learn Animagus.
• Loren apologized for the delay and gave Lupin a Wolfsbane Potion with a stronger extract, telling him to drink it in front of Madam Pomfrey.

Loren asked Lupin about Boggarts, then joined the students preparing for the Animagus ritual. On the full moon, he warned them that holding Mandrake Leaves would ruin their Hogsmeade weekend and possibly their Christmas feast, leaving them torn between the ritual and the treats.

• Loren asked Lupin where Boggarts came from, and Lupin explained that they had no fixed birthplace and were gathered by black-market dealers.
• Loren found Hermione and heard that Lupin was doing well, though he did not know how the professor would fare after drinking the Wolfsbane Potion.
• On October 29, Sprout complained to McGonagall that students were stripping Mandrakes in preparation for the Animagus ritual.
• Harry spoke with Luna and Ginny about the exam and Loren and Hermione’s relationship before Loren and Hermione returned to the courtyard.
• Seamus and the other students asked Loren and Hermione what to prepare for the ritual, and Loren warned them that keeping Mandrake Leaves in their mouths would cost them Hogsmeade treats and Christmas food.

Loren and Hermione shared a kiss after she agreed to continue the Animagus Ritual, then joined their classmates on their first Hogsmeade weekend. The chapter ended with Loren and Hermione watching Lee Jordan suffer after tasting a sour Every Flavour Bean.

• Hermione agreed to kiss Loren and leaned in to kiss him beneath the moonlight.
• Loren told his roommates that he had begun holding a Mandrake Leaf, and Neville said the others had decided to start the ritual too.
• Hermione and Loren joined the third-year students traveling to Hogsmeade, where Harry shuddered at the sight of the Dementors.
• The students entered Honeydukes, where Hermione recalled tasting unusual Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans the previous year.
• Loren warned Hermione not to eat a sour bean, while Lee Jordan tasted one and retched into a rubbish bin.

Loren, Hermione, Harry, Ron, and their friends spent their first Hogsmeade visit resisting distractions to protect their Mandrake Leaves. After Harry remembered Colin’s camera, they gathered at the village entrance for a group photograph as the sun set.

• Harry and Ron invited Loren and Hermione to leave Honeydukes so they could protect their Mandrake Leaves and continue the Animagus ritual.
• The group browsed the wizarding clothing and quill shops, watched the Quidditch shop owner chase off his assistant, and avoided Zonko’s and Madam Puddifoot’s.
• They spent the afternoon resting and drinking at The Three Broomsticks, where they met Neville and Hannah and teased them about their apparent closeness.
• As the group headed back toward the Castle, Neville’s Memory Charm reminded Harry that he had forgotten something, and Harry remembered Colin’s camera.
• Loren suggested they take a group photo to remember their first Hogsmeade visit, and Harry photographed the gathered students at the village entrance in the setting sun.

As November brought a fierce storm to Hogwarts, Loren reported on the Wolfsbane Potion trials, and Snape introduced the idea of developing a slow-release version. Gryffindor prepared to face Hufflepuff in a Quidditch match the next day, but Professor McGonagall entered the Common Room with a grave expression.

• Loren told Snape that the Leopard-skin flower Wolfsbane Potion kept Lupin lucid longer, and Snape asked him to consider extending the potion’s duration.
• Loren could not devise a safe way to prolong the potion, so Snape suggested slow-release medicine as the basis for his Potions Club project.
• Snape gave Loren the materials for the Corpse-stinking Lily trials and planned to recruit more students to help process ingredients and brew potions.
• Loren teased Hermione while she worked on her Rune poem, then joined the Gryffindor team as Wood complained that Slytherin had changed opponents to Hufflepuff.
• Loren and Hermione agreed to send letters home together after the Quidditch match, but Professor McGonagall entered the Common Room and silenced everyone.

Neville attempted the Animagus transformation during a storm but failed and returned to the Gryffindor dormitory exhausted. Loren and the others lifted his spirits, while Loren continued experimenting with Fiendfyre and remained unable to control it.

• Professor McGonagall told Oliver Wood that the school had restricted Quidditch brooms to Nimbus 2000s, then took Neville toward the Forbidden Forest for his transformation attempt.
• As thunder sounded, Neville drank the Secret Potion and began transforming, but the process stopped before his robes changed and he collapsed in the rain.
• Loren unleashed Fiendfyre in the Library of the Fantasy Book, then extinguished the blaze by waving his hand; Flamel explained that Fiendfyre could only be stopped with a counterspell or Finite Incantatem.
• Neville returned to the dormitory soaked and defeated, and Loren cheered him by saying he would share his experience with the Animagus class.
• Neville came out of the washroom to find Harry, Ron, Seamus, and Loren joking over Every Flavour Beans, and he joined them.

Loren and Hermione went to the Quidditch match, where Dementors caused Harry to fall from his broom before Dumbledore drove them away. After Harry recovered, Loren considered practical Patronus training and continued experimenting with Fiendfyre in the Fantasy Book’s Library.

• Peeves woke Loren by blowing in his ear, and Loren used a whirlwind to throw it out of the dormitory.
• Loren and Hermione delivered their letters to the Owlery after Loren delayed them by visiting the owls and massaging Hānhan.
• Hermione spotted Dementors approaching the Quidditch Pitch, and Harry lost consciousness before Dumbledore’s Patronus drove them away.
• Cedric caught the Golden Snitch and requested a rematch after Harry’s fall ended the match.
• Loren and Hermione visited Harry in the Hospital Wing, where Harry complained that he could not practice the Patronus Charm against real Dementors.
• Loren experimented with controlling Fiendfyre in the Fantasy Book’s Library, but his attempts to shape and extinguish the flames failed.

Loren controlled a Boggart transformed into a Dementor and lured Harry to the abandoned room on the Fourth Floor. Harry fought the Dementor with a Patronus Charm, but the chapter ended as the cold overwhelmed him and he forced himself to cast again.

• Loren used a happy false memory to control the Boggart-Dementor, then sent Harry a paper crane summoning him to the room on the Fourth Floor.
• Unable to sleep, Harry opened a prank greeting card before deciding the mysterious summons might be a prank and leaving the Hospital Wing beneath his Invisibility Cloak.
• Loren prepared the abandoned room, where Devil's Snare had covered the Trapdoor, and waited for Harry to arrive.
• Harry entered the dark room and found Loren's controlled Dementor hovering above the Trapdoor.
• Harry cast the Patronus Charm, but the Dementor's cold pressed against his silver light as he recalled his friends and past adventures.
• Harry forced out another Patronus Charm as the chill continued to close in.

Loren discovered that his Boggart could absorb fear from Harry while controlling a Dementor, and Harry later learned to summon a stag Patronus. After the Dementor incident and the Transfiguration tests, the Gryffindors prepared for Animagus study, but Harry still needed a Mandrake Leaf.

• Loren's Boggart changed back from the Dementor and conveyed Harry's fears before Loren withdrew it; Harry recognized his Patronus as a stag and angrily confronted Loren after he left.
• Loren told Flamel about the Boggart's new ability, and Flamel wondered whether Loren's growing connection to fear had appeared in Nicol's prophecies.
• Harry tried to prank Loren with ketchup-covered biscuits from George and Fred, then told his friends that an anonymous singing envelope had also annoyed him; the twins later tricked Percy into eating the biscuits.
• Harry showed Lupin his stag Patronus, and Lupin explained that the Dementors had entered the Quidditch crowd because they were hungry and would not return after Dumbledore's reprimand.
• McGonagall announced that most third-years had passed the Transfiguration tests, and Sprout guarded the Mandrakes while the students prepared for Animagus study.
• Harry asked Loren for a spare Mandrake Leaf, but Loren had none, so Neville said Harry could buy one in Diagon Alley.

Loren and Hermione attended Professor McGonagall’s expanded Animagus class after Gryffindor beat Hufflepuff in the replay, while Harry became distracted by Cedric and Cho Chang’s relationship. The chapter ended with Loren choosing to stay in class because Hermione held his hand.

• Loren arrived late to the Quidditch replay, where Gryffindor defeated Hufflepuff without incident and the spectators applauded Cedric’s team.
• Harry saw Cedric embrace Cho Chang after the match and became heartsick, remaining dazed for the next few days.
• Harry told Ron that George and Fred had gone easy on him during the keeper tryouts, and Ron learned that he and Cormac McLaggen would both become reserves.
• Loren and Hermione attended Professor McGonagall’s Animagus class, where she explained that new members would begin the formal ritual after Christmas and announced plans to observe the Secret Potion preparations.
• Hermione held Loren’s hand beneath the desk as older students left the introductory lesson, and Loren stayed beside her.

Harry watched Gryffindor crush Ravenclaw in a Quidditch match, hoping to impress Cho Chang, but she ran to Cedric afterward. Later, Loren brought Lupin the Wolfsbane Potion and heard him describe the American Magical Congress’s plans for werewolves and Dumbledore’s suspicion of a conspiracy.

• Loren explained that the Potions Club had taught new members to brew Wormwood Essence, while Harry regretted joining after seeing Cho Chang and Cedric together.
• Before Gryffindor’s match against Ravenclaw, Loren insulted the opposing team during his opening commentary, and Professor McGonagall removed him from the booth.
• Harry flew brilliantly and Gryffindor defeated Ravenclaw, but Cho Chang cried and sought comfort in Cedric, leaving Harry dejected.
• Loren visited Lupin with the Wolfsbane Potion and read about the International Confederation of Wizards conference moving to New York.
• Lupin told Loren that the American Magical Congress planned to establish a recognized werewolf community and recruit werewolves as Aurors, adding that Dumbledore suspected a conspiracy.

Lupin reflected on the persecution of registered werewolves before taking Wolfsbane Potion to the Hospital Wing. Meanwhile, Loren helped Harry question his feelings for Cho Chang, and Hermione and Ginny overheard Loren describe his affection for Hermione.

• Lupin reviewed the history of the Werewolf Code of Conduct and worried that the growing werewolf community faced a hidden conspiracy, then went to the Hospital Wing with Wolfsbane Potion.
• Loren found Harry brooding outside Gryffindor Tower and asked what he actually liked about Cho Chang.
• Harry realized he barely knew Cho Chang and that his interest was based on traits he could see at a glance.
• Hermione found Ginny crying in the shadows by the Portrait Hole, and Ginny overheard Loren ask Harry what he liked about Cho Chang.
• Loren told Harry that he liked everything about Hermione Granger, and Hermione blushed as she listened from the Common Room.

During Quidditch training, Harry outwitted Wood, McLaggen accused the Weasley twins of favoritism, and Ginny asked to try out as Seeker. Later, Loren and Hermione realized that Animagus transformation might let Lupin avoid transforming into a werewolf under the full moon, leaving Lupin shaken with excitement at the possibility.

• Harry tricked Wood during a Seeker drill and caught the Golden Snitch after Wood crashed into the stands.
• McLaggen accused Fred and George of favoring Ron, and Wood ordered him to apologize and trust his teammates.
• Ginny asked Wood to try out as Seeker, and a week later Harry praised her progress as he taught her the position.
• Loren and Seamus theatrically exchanged homework, and Hermione took back her Astronomy essay after Loren tried to borrow it.
• Loren asked Lupin why he had never studied Animagus transformation, prompting Lupin, Loren, and Hermione to consider whether a transformed animal form could prevent a werewolf's full-moon transformation.

Hermione, Loren, Percy, Cedric, and the other students buried their Secret Potions for the Animagus Ritual under Professor McGonagall’s guidance. After reflecting on Loren’s theory that Werewolves could learn Animagus transformation, Lupin brought the idea to Dumbledore and McGonagall, who agreed to test it through Lupin’s study and assessment in McGonagall’s class.

• Loren and Hermione discussed whether Werewolves learning Animagus transformation might lead to the Anti-Werewolf Law being repealed.
• Professor McGonagall had Percy and Cedric demonstrate how to prepare and hide their Secret Potions, then instructed the other students to bury theirs.
• Hermione and Loren buried their Crystal Vial beneath a beech tree, and Hermione hoped Lupin’s efforts would go smoothly.
• After spending the night transformed and considering Loren’s theory, Lupin hurried to Dumbledore’s office and explained his idea for Werewolves to learn Animagus transformation.
• Dumbledore summoned McGonagall, who said Hogwarts could fund the effort without the Ministry and required Lupin to study and take her assessment alongside the students.

As the Christmas holidays approached, Loren and his friends continued their Animagus lessons and prepared for a Hogsmeade outing. They discovered that Dementors would still patrol Hogsmeade after sunset, then went to Honeydukes before seeking somewhere warm.

• Loren and Hermione attended Professor McGonagall’s Animagus class, where Lupin answered a question about how fish corresponded to the human torso.
• Snape told Lupin that he would brew a specially modified Wolfsbane Potion for the month, since Loren would be going home for Christmas and Lupin would begin the Animagus ritual during the full moon.
• Loren woke Harry and the other boys by letting freezing air into their dormitory, and they joined Hermione for a trip to Hogsmeade.
• Harry, Loren, Ron, and Hermione read a Ministry notice saying Dementors would patrol Hogsmeade after sunset until Bellatrix Lestrange was captured.
• Loren and his friends bought sweets at Honeydukes and agreed to go to The Three Broomsticks for hot drinks.

Loren and his friends overheard Minister Fudge reveal a plan to capture Bellatrix Lestrange during the Christmas holidays, and Harry and Hermione deduced that she was searching for a Horcrux in the Lestrange vault. As the holidays began, Loren warned Neville to stay away from Diagon Alley and teased Hermione before she left the Common Room.

• Loren and his friends hid in the Three Broomsticks and overheard Fudge tell Madam Rosmerta that the Ministry and Hogwarts professors planned to capture Bellatrix during the Christmas holidays while opening the Lestrange vault under Dumbledore's supervision.
• Harry realized Bellatrix might be searching for a Horcrux, and Hermione reasoned that the Lestranges could have stored one in their Gringotts vault.
• Hermione explained that Gringotts protected the contents of vaults to preserve its reputation, even when vault owners were Death Eaters.
• As the holidays began, Loren told Neville to avoid Diagon Alley and Gringotts without explaining that the Lumbards would likely keep him away during the capture operation.
• Loren asked Hānhan and Crookshanks whether they would travel for Christmas, then teased Hermione; she pushed him away and left with her trunk.

Loren and Hermione left Hogwarts for the Christmas holidays and reunited with their families in London. On Christmas morning, Loren opened his presents and found a package from Hermione at the bottom of the pile.

• George and Fred gave Harry the Marauder's Map, and Harry learned that Loren and Hermione already knew about it.
• Loren and Hermione took the Hogwarts Express to London, where Grandpa Bates picked them up and drove them to the Grangers' home.
• Loren, Hermione, and their families shared dinner and spent the evening together before Loren returned home with Bates.
• Bates and Monica prepared for Christmas together, decorating their homes and organizing a feast.
• Hermione woke Loren on Christmas morning, and he opened gifts from Neville, Mrs. Weasley, Snape, and Dumbledore before finding a package signed Hermione Granger.