Recaps

Luke and his allies uncovered Slytherin’s failed resurrection experiment, confronted the factions gathered at the cave, and drew closer to Taylor’s plan to reshape the magical world. As unrest among students grew into a political crisis, Luke helped steer its outcome while the characters separated for summer and new alliances formed.

• Slytherin revealed that his resurrection ritual had failed, and Luke helped bring Medusa’s body out of the cave.
• Luke exposed a spy among the Skye Family’s watchers, drove off the White Robes, and watched Trister and Brute resume their duel.
• Luke brought Scotty and Alice to his laboratory, where Gaom’s past showed how he had chosen to help change his own race rather than lead the Trolls.
• Taylor asked Alice and the Skye Family to join her effort to change the magical order, while Jacob’s movement faced pressure from Ross Gaunt and Trippcard.
• Luke explained to Jacob that the unrest had been deliberately shaped to maintain a balance of power, then ordered the Aurors to arrest him.
• Sacred accepted a compromise that spared the students but condemned Jacob and two other leaders, while Bater Envy tried and failed to recruit Jacob to the Wizarding Congress.
• Luke declined Professor Book’s offer to skip grades but accepted a teaching-assistant position, while Hermione asked Luna to let her know her father’s plans.
• As summer began, Lucius and Malfoy sailed to the United States to meet the Dracode Family, and Taylor questioned Chigu Lans about his family’s support and demands.

Harry returned to Hogwarts as Dementors threatened the students and Sirius Black’s escape stirred questions about his parents’ deaths. The search for Peter Pettigrew brought Harry and his friends into contact with Sirius, while Ron helped arrange a meeting between Sirius and McGonagall.

• After Harry’s uncontrolled magic at Privet Drive, Luke directed him to the Leaky Cauldron, where Fudge told him Sirius Black had escaped and was believed to have betrayed Harry’s parents.
• Dementors attacked the Hogwarts Express, but White Light, Luke, Harry, and the students drove them away, and the students pressed Umbridge for compensation and an explanation.
• At Hogwarts, students encountered Dementors and a Boggart in their lessons, while Luke and others discussed teaching students the Patronus Charm and protecting Lupin.
• Sirius entered Hogwarts in his black dog form while searching for Peter Pettigrew, but Ginny struck him with a bat and the students drove him from the common room.
• Taylor and Hermione met Sirius in the Shrieking Shack, where he insisted Peter was alive, and Harry urged Sirius to face Hermione and leave Peter’s capture to him.
• Book captured Peter in rat form and locked him in a special cage, while Luke agreed to guard him and Harry told Slyther he would help with his family’s marriage plans.
• Harry told Luke that Sirius’s story seemed plausible, and Ron met Sirius at the Shrieking Shack with the Marauder’s Map and news that Pettigrew had escaped but left a trace.

James’s plan brought Sirius and Peter Pettigrew into the open, while the Beauxbatons exchange and a mysterious attack added new dangers at Hogwarts. The arc ended with Luke and Dumbledore investigating the attack and bracing for further bad news.

• James told Sirius that Remus would accompany McGonagall during the Beauxbatons exchange, while Luke helped arrange a meeting between Sirius, Harry, and Lupin.
• Beauxbatons arrived at Hogwarts, where Chrissie and Fleur both declared their interest in Luke and joined the school as exchange students.
• Luke helped Jenkins hold a public Herbology lecture, during which Jenkins demonstrated a Soul-Guiding Flower that attracted Ghosts.
• Peter escaped from Book’s room, but Gemma and Luke cornered him and forced him to cooperate with Gemma’s plan.
• Sirius confronted Peter, who confessed, while McGonagall sent Peter’s mother away and the Aurors took Peter and Sirius for investigation.
• Luke and Umbridge worked to clear Sirius’s name, while Luke also pursued political support and Taylor continued dangerous potion experiments.
• A masked attacker ambushed Taylor, but Luke drove him off before Jenkins arrived, and Dumbledore began investigating the scene.
• Luke and Dumbledore compared clues about the attack, with Dumbledore nearly ruling out the possibility that two people were doubles.

Luke discovered that the attacker was Joe, a Long-Horned Water Snake guarding a time-stealing tree and the legacy Salazar Slytherin had left for him. When Luke touched the tree, he crossed into another time and arrived amid the Black Death, where Claudia’s family was helping stricken villagers.

• Luke investigated the attack with Dumbledore, while Crouch focused on protecting Little Luke Taylor and suspected the LeStranges sought influence and the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Dolan Bowen accepted Gemma’s secret mission, transported a captive from the London Eye to the United States, and returned to report to Luke as Gemma faced interrogation and Rita organized protests against her persecution.
• An unseen attacker drove Luke toward the Forbidden Forest, where he discovered that Joe, a Long-Horned Water Snake, had attacked him and could conceal their presence and influence nearby people’s thoughts.
• Joe led Luke to a magically distorted grove and explained that a tree had stolen time from her and nearby creatures, while a box left by Hogwarts contained a card bearing Luke’s own signature.
• Luke touched the tree, leaving a silver snake-shaped mark, and vanished from his companions’ reach, and Dumbledore later helped him as he prepared to pursue the goal written on the card.
• Luke awoke in another time and was taken to the Christo Family’s castle, where Claudia learned he claimed to be Muggle Gaunt and told him that the Black Death was killing Wizards and Muggles alike.
• Luke offered Magic Gems for supplies and asked to help people affected by the plague, and Miluk agreed to take him to procure provisions, and Claudia brought food and medicinal dregs to villagers.
• Luke watched the villagers receive supplies as a sick child collapsed, while Claudia and Luke faced the severity of the Black Death and the lack of an effective treatment.