Chapter Summaries

Loren told Dumbledore that Harry had the right to hate the Dursleys after years of abuse, and Dumbledore agreed to respect Harry’s choice. After visiting Chinatown and learning about Eastern magic from Flamel, Loren returned to Hogwarts while Dumbledore remained troubled by his decisions about Harry and his own past.

• Loren told Dumbledore that Harry did not owe the Dursleys forgiveness and that their kindness might bring back painful memories, so Dumbledore agreed to respect Harry’s choice.
• Dumbledore took Loren through London to Chinatown, where they bought late-night sweets and snacks before Apparating back to Hogwarts.
• Loren entered the Fantasy Book’s Library and asked Flamel whether China had a magic school, learning about Eastern wizarding traditions and their use of hand gestures in magic.
• Dumbledore sat awake in his office, eating the snacks and reconsidering his decision to leave Harry with the Dursleys.

Hermione spent her first day of summer holiday shopping with her parents before Dumbledore brought Loren to the Grangers’ home and asked them to care for him. The Grangers welcomed Loren for the summer, and Dumbledore praised Hermione as the year’s most outstanding first-year student.

• Hermione woke at home and learned that her parents planned to spend the day buying her new clothes.
• The Grangers took Hermione shopping for summer, autumn, and winter outfits, leaving her exhausted by the time they returned home.
• Dumbledore arrived with Loren and explained that Loren had no one to care for him, so he wanted the Grangers to look after him for a while.
• Hermione happily introduced Loren as her good friend, and the Grangers offered to let him stay for the entire summer holiday.
• Dumbledore praised Hermione as the most outstanding first-year student, and Hermione shyly asked him to call her by her first name.

Dumbledore visited the Grangers, met Loren, and enjoyed Muggle cola before leaving. Loren settled into the Granger house for the summer, and after Hermione and Loren drank too much soda, they nervously awaited her parents’ return and the planned dinner.

• Loren used Transfiguration to open the cola bottles, and Dumbledore tried the drink before praising Hermione to her parents and leaving.
• Monica took Wendell shopping so Hermione could spend time with Loren, then Hermione showed Loren the room she planned to make his temporary bedroom.
• Loren and Hermione used magic to clear the room and furnish it with a Transfigured bed, desk, and bookshelf.
• Hermione and Loren made the bed together, then shared the remaining bottles of soda and chatted about his stay and a camping trip in Dean Forest.
• When Monica and Wendell returned with groceries for a lavish dinner, Hermione worried that her bloated stomach would keep her from eating and asked Loren what to do.

Loren spent the evening winning over Hermione’s parents before receiving Dumbledore’s news that Nagini’s transformation was only temporary. Disturbed by the limits of the ritual’s effects, he sought Flamel’s advice and was told to create a Sorcerer’s Stone capable of biological transmutation.

• Loren and Hermione watered the Grangers’ backyard, turned it into a flooded mess, and agreed to hide their antics from Mr. and Mrs. Granger.
• At dinner, Loren praised Monica’s cooking and told Wendell about magic, winning over both of Hermione’s parents.
• Loren charmed the Grangers further after dinner, and Monica invited him to stay as long as he wanted.
• An owl delivered Dumbledore’s letter explaining that Nagini would begin turning into a snake again in several years, though the ritual might still work as periodic treatment for Bates.
• Loren asked Flamel why the ritual’s effects were not permanent, and Flamel advised him to refine a Sorcerer’s Stone with the property of biological transmutation.

Loren learned that the treatment for Werewolf Disease might only last a few years, but after speaking with Flamel and Hermione, he stopped insisting on curing Grandpa Bates permanently at once. After a sleepless night at the Grangers’ home, he planned to write Grandpa Bates and deliver the letter with Hānhan.

• Flamel explained that Loren should study at his own pace, and they made a plan for Hebrew, Alchemy, and Human Transmutation.
• Loren told Hermione that Dumbledore’s letter said the Werewolf Disease treatment’s effects seemed to last only a few years, and Hermione comforted him.
• Loren and Hermione playfully wrestled, and Loren escaped by biting Hermione’s leg, leaving them both embarrassed.
• Unable to sleep, Loren wrote a letter complaining to Grandpa Bates, then freed Hānhan from his trunk, fed the owl, and asked it to deliver the letter.
• At breakfast, Hermione and Loren both said they wanted to stay home and sleep while the Grangers planned to shop for camping supplies.

Loren explained wizarding blood discrimination to Hermione's parents, then spent the morning alone with Hermione at her house. After they secretly entered her parents' study and Loren interrupted her discovery of a Krav Maga book, they went outside to practice the Patronus Charm.

• At breakfast, Wendell asked whether wizards had nobles, and Loren explained pure-blood status and blood discrimination, worrying Wendell and Monica about Hermione's school.
• Hermione reassured her parents that Gryffindor students did not discriminate, and Monica and Wendell left to shop for camping supplies.
• Hermione took Loren to her parents' study, where she eagerly browsed forbidden books and found a book about Krav Maga techniques.
• Loren closed the book and persuaded Hermione to practice the Patronus Charm instead.
• In the backyard, Loren explained the charm and conjured a swirling cluster of silver light, while Hermione studied it and prepared to practice.

Loren and Hermione practiced the Patronus Charm, shared a secret cola break, and helped the Grangers prepare camping gear for a trip. Monica discovered Hermione had sneaked into the study but gently let her borrow a book, while the children continued growing closer.

• Hermione recalled how Hogwarts and Loren had changed her life, then produced a burst of silver light with her first Patronus attempt before summoning a small ball of light on later tries.
• Loren and Hermione practiced the Patronus Charm in the garden, and Loren tried to disguise Lumos as practice until Hermione caught him and made him continue.
• Loren and Hermione secretly drank two bottles of cola, and Hermione jokingly blamed Loren for making her behave badly.
• Wendell and Monica returned with camping supplies for a family of four, and Loren helped carry and sort the gear.
• Monica found that Hermione and Loren had secretly entered the study, then asked Hermione which book she had read and let her borrow Krav Maga Analysis.

Loren and the Grangers traveled to Dean Forest for a family camping trip, where a story about Bloody Mary connected the legend to Loren’s experience with Mary in The Book of Abraham’s illusion. They arrived at a hotel that managed a supervised camping area, and planned to enter the forest that afternoon.

• Wendell and Loren sorted the Grangers’ camping equipment, and Hermione joined them after studying Krav Maga Analysis.
• The Grangers drove to Dean Forest in matching outfits, and Wendell and Monica told Loren and Hermione the history and legends of Bloody Mary.
• Loren recognized a possible connection between Bloody Mary and the Mary he had encountered in The Book of Abraham’s illusion, and recalled Flamel’s timing clue about Mars shining brightly.
• The Grangers arrived at a hotel near Dean Forest, where Hermione took Loren’s hand and explained that the hotel managed a safer camping area.
• Monica explained that the hotel provided campers with supplies and safety checks, and the family planned to rest before entering the forest that afternoon.

Wendell, Monica, Hermione, and Loren set off to camp in Dean Forest, where Hermione used a spatial pouch to carry most of their supplies. While gathering firewood, Loren and Hermione crossed a strange rise and unexpectedly found another hotel, where its manager invited them inside for food and supplies.

• Wendell eagerly inspected and drove the Land Rover Defender 130 into the forest with Monica, Hermione, and Loren.
• Hermione packed most of the camping supplies into her spatial pouch, but Monica made her take out enough gear to avoid drawing attention.
• The four reached their campsite, and Hermione and Loren went off to collect firewood while Wendell and Monica pitched the tent.
• Loren noticed a faint crystalline blue glimmer as he followed Hermione over a small rise, which then disappeared behind them.
• Hermione and Loren emerged by a road and found a second hotel, where the manager offered them supplies and freshly cooked food.
• Loren and Hermione agreed to go inside and bring food back to camp.

Loren and Hermione encountered a strange hotel that drew them into a mirror’s illusion of Countess Lyxter’s Yule Ball and her housekeeper’s killings. They returned to the forest, but Hermione remembered nothing, and Loren planned to investigate the mirror magic and the Countess’s blood rituals.

• A hotel manager invited Loren and Hermione to a candlelit Yule Ball, but Loren sensed danger and tried to leave.
• Countess Lyxter used her black eyes to compel them to watch the ball, where they witnessed her meeting a handsome gentleman and falling in love with him.
• After the gentleman left, Countess Lyxter wasted away, and her housekeeper killed a maid and used the girl’s blood to restore the Countess’s youth.
• Loren recognized the scenes as a mirror’s reflection and struck the mirror with Sectumsempra, but the illusion resumed and showed the Countess becoming addicted to blood.
• The mirror cracked after the Castle’s doors were knocked on again, returning Loren and Hermione to the forest; Hermione could not remember the illusion.
• Loren followed Hermione as she gathered more firewood and considered investigating the mirror’s magic and Countess Lyxter’s use of blood.

Loren found a shattered magical mirror in his pocket and kept it to examine later, then spent the evening camping with Hermione and her parents. The campfire conversation ended with Wendell’s story about Elizabeth Bathory prompting Loren to wonder whether the tale had a real magical origin.

• Loren discovered a cracked mirror with illusion-related magic in his pocket and decided to ask Flamel or Dumbledore about it after the trip.
• Loren and Hermione played around by the fire until Hermione knocked him over, and Loren told her parents that her enhanced strength had made her hurt him.
• Monica reminded the children to treat each other kindly, while Loren and Hermione traded threats about what would happen if either told on the other again.
• Wendell told the story of Elizabeth Bathory bathing in the blood of virgins, and Hermione explained that wizards still grew old and died.
• Loren wondered whether Bathory’s story and another blood-bathing legend might share a real origin as he added wood to the fire.

Loren and Hermione went camping with Monica and Wendell, then escaped to a nearby lake where Loren introduced Hermione to fishing. Wendell found them by the lakeside and became excited at the sight of their magically made fishing rods.

• Loren woke beside Hermione and joined Monica and Wendell for breakfast, where they ate canned meat and bread porridge.
• Wendell received a delivery of barbecue supplies, and he and Monica prepared the meat while Loren and Hermione watched.
• Hermione asked to visit a lake, and Monica allowed the children to go after Wendell objected to them playing in the water.
• Loren led Hermione to the lake, conjured fishing gear, and taught her how to fish while they caught small fish and weeds.
• Wendell jogged over, saw their fishing rods, and realized they had made them with magic.

Loren, Hermione, and her parents enjoyed a family camping trip with fishing and a barbecue before visiting Elizabeth I’s Hunting Lodge. On the drive home, Loren wondered about the identity of Bloody Mary, then set aside his doubts as the family planned another outing together.

• Hermione gave Wendell her fishing rod, and Loren taught him how to fish before leaving him alone by the lake.
• Wendell returned proudly with a small fish, and the family grilled meat and ate together at the campsite.
• The family drove to Elizabeth I’s Hunting Lodge and toured an exhibition, where Loren read about Mary I’s bloody hunts and wondered about the mirror in his pocket.
• On the drive home the next day, Wendell suggested a future yacht camping trip, and Monica and Hermione teased him about fishing.
• Loren put aside his questions about Bloody Mary and looked forward to his future with Hermione and her family.

Loren tested a mysterious hand mirror that had pulled him into an illusion, then asked Flamel to explain its origins and how it worked. Flamel revealed the mirror’s dangerous layers of illusion and said it could be repaired, but Loren still needed a Unicorn Horn and a furnace.

• Loren called three names associated with the Bloody Mary legend into the hand mirror, but nothing happened.
• Loren met Flamel in the Fantasy Book’s Library and showed him the mirror he had found after escaping an illusion in Dean Forest.
• Flamel examined the mirror and explained that it created three layers of illusion, with each layer reaching deeper into its target’s mind.
• Flamel warned Loren that a strong will could break an illusion, while dying inside one might either wake him or kill him for real.
• Flamel demonstrated how to make replacement mirror glass and said Loren needed a Unicorn Horn to repair the hand mirror.
• Loren asked where he could find a Unicorn Horn and a furnace, but Flamel postponed the furnace question until Loren found the horn.

Loren studied Occlumency, Legilimency, and Memory Charms as related forms of Memory Magic while Hermione kept urging him to practice the Patronus Charm. The Grangers discussed reopening their clinic and a possible trip to Australia, and the chapter ended with Hermione laughing at Loren’s kangaroo joke.

• Loren organized what he had learned about Memory Magic and concluded that Occlumency affected both the brain and the soul.
• Hermione interrupted Loren’s study to practice the Patronus Charm and challenged him to produce a corporeal Patronus before she did.
• At tea, Hermione laughed when Loren praised pastries that Monica had bought, and the Grangers discussed Hermione’s plans for a graduation trip.
• Wendell announced that he and Monica would reopen their clinic the next day, and Hermione dragged Loren back upstairs.
• Hermione tried to get Loren’s notebook, but Loren joked that each person in Vatican City would have to fight five thousand Kangaroos, making her laugh uncontrollably.

Loren spent his remaining days at the Granger house studying Memory Magic with Hermione, while they struggled to find a safe way to practice it. When Grandpa Bates arrived in London looking unexpectedly stylish, Loren was startled by how much he had changed.

• Wendell and Monica left Hermione and Loren to manage the house while they worked at the clinic.
• Loren studied Memory Magic, and Hermione worried about its dangers before they learned Grandpa Bates would soon return to London.
• Hānhan delivered Bates's letter, then scolded Loren for failing to give Bates the Granger house's address and phone number.
• Loren and Hermione argued and joked as they studied together, and Hermione suggested they practice Legilimency and Occlumency on each other.
• Loren refused to let Hermione probe his memories, claiming they were protected by a curse.
• Bates arrived at the Granger house dressed fashionably, leaving Loren astonished by his transformed appearance.

Loren reunited with Bates, who visited Hermione and the Grangers before arranging to take Loren away the next morning. After Loren left, Hermione felt the emptiness of the house and grieved over their interrupted summer plans.

• Bates reunited with Loren at the Granger house, then chatted warmly with Hermione and thanked her for looking after him.
• Loren told Bates that a spell he and Dumbledore were developing might spare him from transforming for several years and could potentially cure his Werewolf Disease.
• Bates and the Grangers took Loren and Hermione to dinner, where the adults discussed property insurance and council tax while Loren and Hermione shared a quiet meal.
• Bates arranged to collect Loren the next morning, and Loren and Hermione sat together in moonlight before she asked him to write to her.
• Loren left with Bates while Hermione secretly watched from the window, then she returned to his empty room and cried over their unfinished plans.

Hermione restored her bedroom and tried to move past her sadness about Loren, while Loren moved into a London house with Bates after leaving the Grangers. Bates recounted meeting a wizard who was almost certainly Lockhart, and Loren ended the day preparing roast lamb while thinking about Hermione.

• Hermione found Loren’s hidden cola bottles, restored his bedroom, practiced the Patronus Charm, and waited for her parents to return.
• Bates drove Loren to their new London home, which Loren noticed had a layout much like Hermione’s house.
• While they rested after cleaning, Bates told Loren about visiting his old farm and comrades, then meeting a wizard in the mountains who knew he was a Muggle Werewolf.
• Bates described how the wizard questioned him about becoming a Werewolf and planned to write about him, leading Loren to suspect that the wizard was Lockhart.
• Bates asked Loren to cook the lamb, so Loren used magic to prepare a rotating grill and roast it in the backyard.
• Bates eagerly ate a piece of lamb, while Loren wondered whether Hermione would like his cooking.

Loren and Hermione were delighted to learn their families had become neighbors, and everyone celebrated Bates’s new home with a roast lamb dinner. Later, Loren wrote to Dumbledore about Bates’s return and a possible connection to Lockhart, and sent the letter by owl.

• Bates told Loren that he had bought the house next door to the Grangers, and Loren ran to share the news with Hermione.
• Hermione and Loren raced toward each other, then invited their families to celebrate together.
• The Grangers joined Bates and Loren for a roast lamb dinner, where Wendell discussed camping and Bates invited the family to his ranch.
• Loren wrote to Dumbledore about Bates’s return, asked him to check whether Bates had lost any memories, and requested Hagrid’s help obtaining a unicorn horn.
• Loren sent the letter with Hānhan, promising the owl a white mouse when it returned.

Loren and Hermione planned their summer studies, practiced the Patronus Charm, and tried Legilimency for the first time. Loren briefly sensed Hermione’s memories before the spell ended, leaving them both back in the living room.

• Hermione presented Loren with a packed summer study schedule, and Bates left to handle property transactions.
• Loren refused to memorize books, cooked pasta with leftover roast lamb, and shared the meal with Hermione.
• After eating, Hermione insisted that they practice the Patronus Charm and Memory Magic.
• Loren worried aloud that Legilimency might harm Hermione, then cast the spell while she sat before him.
• Loren sensed Hermione’s memories as scenes and sounds, but the strange state quickly dissolved and they both returned to awareness in the living room.