Chapter Summaries

At his Order of Merlin ceremony, Lynn Belloc learned how the Wizengamot and Ministry of Magic shared power before Minister Cornelius Oswald Fudge approached him privately. Fudge warned that Sirius Black had escaped Azkaban and tried to enlist Lynn to protect Harry Potter at Hogwarts.

• Lynn received a Second Class Order of Merlin medal for stopping the Slytherin heir's plot and saving Hogwarts' students.
• Dumbledore explained to Lynn how the Wizengamot and Ministry of Magic shared authority and how disagreements between their leaders were settled by a vote.
• Cornelius Oswald Fudge thanked Lynn for saving Hogwarts and then asked to speak with him alone.
• Fudge told Lynn that Sirius Black had escaped Azkaban and was believed to be targeting Harry Potter at Hogwarts.
• Fudge appealed to Lynn's past success against the basilisk and asked him to protect Harry and his classmates.

Lynn agreed to protect Harry Potter at Hogwarts after Fudge tried to recruit him, while privately recognizing the Minister’s self-serving motives. With summer nearly over, Lynn continued training and improving his magical talents, but still could not fully cast the Patronus Charm.

• Fudge asked Lynn to watch over Harry Potter at Hogwarts and promised to consider hiring him after graduation.
• Lynn agreed to protect Harry while pretending to trust Fudge, and Fudge asked him to keep their conversation secret.
• After Fudge left, Dumbledore asked Lynn what he thought of the Minister, and Lynn called him a terrible politician.
• During the remaining month of summer, Lynn trained, cared for Umr, and advanced his Patronus Charm until he could form a dense silver sphere but not an animal.
• Lynn used his free attribute points to raise Inherited Bloodline to 6 and spent a Legend Point on Dark Magic, bringing it to 9.

Lynn reunited with Hermione after her summer in France, then accompanied her and the Weasleys to Diagon Alley, where he helped Umr buy her Hogwarts supplies. The group learned that Hagrid would teach Care of Magical Creatures and that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor should be decent, while Umr worried about whether Tom had everything she needed for school.

• Lynn teased Hermione about her suntan, and Hermione told him that the Daily Prophet and Muggle television were reporting Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban.
• Hermione and Lynn joined the Grangers on a trip to Diagon Alley, bringing Umr to buy her Hogwarts supplies.
• At The Leaky Cauldron, the group met Harry and the Weasleys, and Lynn hinted that Hogwarts' new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor would be a decent teacher.
• The group split up to shop, and Lynn took Umr to Madam Malkin's, Ollivander's, and Flourish and Blotts for her uniform, wand, and textbooks.
• Lynn explained that Hagrid would teach Care of Magical Creatures and had chosen the biting Monsters Book of Monsters as the class textbook.
• While trying on her robes, Umr wondered whether Tom had bought everything for school, and Lynn told her that Dumbledore would take care of it.

Lynn traveled to Hogwarts with Umr and caught up with Ian and Cedric while they discussed Sirius Black, the prison guards, and Lynn’s Order of Merlin. As the train neared Hogwarts, it stopped and all the lights went out.

• Hermione bought Crookshanks, and Umr cheerfully declared that the cat would be her mount at Hogwarts.
• Lynn brought Umr onto the Hogwarts Express and joined Ian and Cedric, who warned that Azkaban guards would be stationed around the school because Sirius Black had escaped.
• Lynn thought about the real danger hiding near Ron: Peter Pettigrew, whom he planned to capture for reasons beyond clearing Sirius Black’s name.
• Umr woke from her late-night gaming exhausted, and Lynn teased her while Cedric and Ian joined in.
• As the Hogwarts Express neared the school, the train stopped and every light in the carriages went out.

Lynn protected the students aboard the stopped train when Dementors entered, driving them off with his powerful Patronus Charm. He continued searching the carriages and found a scruffy middle-aged man facing another Dementor, just as Lynn's Patronus light filled the carriage.

• Umr developed a mild fever, so Lynn gave her a potion and told Ian and Cedric to stay with her when the train stopped in darkness.
• Lynn ordered the students in the corridor back into their compartments as Dementors entered the train.
• Lynn cast an amplified Patronus Charm that struck one Dementor and sent the others fleeing.
• Lynn drove away more Dementors as he searched the train, avoiding further amplification so he would not kill too many.
• In the final carriage, Lynn found a scruffy middle-aged man negotiating with a Dementor, and silvery light appeared as the man reached for his wand.

Lynn drove Dementors from the train with the Patronus Charm, then arrived at Hogwarts with Umr and the other students. When Dementors blocked the castle entrance to find the wizard who had killed one of their kind, Lynn went to confront their leader.

• Lynn used the Patronus Charm to drive the last Dementor from the train carriage and helped Lupin assess Harry's condition.
• Lynn returned to his compartment, told Cedric that the Patronus Charm could repel Dementors, and stayed with the recovering Umr.
• The students arrived at Hogwarts in the rain, and Lynn bundled Umr in warm clothes before she joined the freshmen heading to the Sorting Ceremony.
• A group of Dementors blocked the school entrance, claiming someone had killed one of their companions during the train search.
• Lynn approached the Dementors' leader and asked if it had been looking for him.

Lynn confronted the Dementors after they stopped the Hogwarts Express and threatened to arrest him, forcing them to retreat and warning them never to enter Hogwarts. He then discussed a plan with Dumbledore to expose which Ministry-connected families were genuine and which were fake.

• Lynn challenged the Dementor leader to produce an arrest warrant and rejected its claim that he had broken the law.
• The students climbed off the train to support Lynn, but he sent them back inside and faced the Dementors alone.
• Lynn used his Patronus to drive the Dementors to Hogwarts's gates and warned that he would kill any who entered the school.
• Lynn entered Hogwarts last, and the gates shut behind him, leaving the Dementors outside with two guards.
• Dumbledore told Lynn he would hold the Ministry accountable for the Dementors' conduct, and Lynn asked whether Tom would cooperate with his plan.
• Dumbledore confirmed Tom had agreed, and Lynn explained that they would distinguish real families from fake ones even if the Ministry only put on a show.

After recovering from a chill, Umr joined the other new students waiting for the Sorting Ceremony and caught up with Betty Riddle. Umr amused and misled the nervous students with rumors about the ceremony, while talk turned to Professor Belloc’s past.

• Madam Pomfrey declared Umr well enough to attend the Sorting Ceremony, and Umr thanked her before leaving the hospital wing.
• Umr found Betty Riddle and heard how she had spent the summer at Hogwarts and become Professor Dumbledore’s distant relative.
• Umr distracted the nervous new students with a fabricated rumor that they would explore Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets during the Sorting Ceremony.
• After a boy mentioned that Professor Belloc had killed the basilisk, Umr asked about his sister Sally Smith and planned to tell Hermione for a reward.
• The new students discussed rumors about Professor Belloc, including that he had become Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at fourteen after exposing the originally chosen professor as a fraud.

During Hogwarts’ Sorting Ceremony, Tom refused to return to Slytherin and was sorted into Gryffindor, while Umr was sorted into Slytherin. The chapter left the two former students assigned to different Houses.

• Umr listened to new students praise Lynn but kept her relationship to him secret.
• Tom told Umr she wanted any House except Slytherin because she did not want to return to the House she had belonged to in her previous life.
• The Sorting Hat offered Tom Slytherin, but Tom refused and was sorted into Gryffindor.
• Umr put on the Sorting Hat and was sorted into Slytherin.

At the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore introduced Remus Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and announced that Hogwarts would abolish its prefect system. Percy Weasley stood to question the decision, having expected to keep his prefect position and become Student Council President.

• Umr told Lynn that the Sorting Hat had placed her in Slytherin after she described her ideal life of games, food, and sleep.
• Dumbledore introduced Remus Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, while Snape watched him with open hatred.
• Dumbledore announced a major reform of Hogwarts and explained his criticisms of the prefect system.
• Dumbledore declared that Hogwarts would abolish the prefect system, shocking students and professors.
• Percy Weasley stood and raised a question after realizing he would lose his prefect position.

Dumbledore abolished Hogwarts’ prefect system and announced a new, more powerful Student Council, naming Lynn Belloc its first President. The chapter ended with plans for anonymous voting to choose the Council’s remaining leaders.

• Percy asked whether abolishing prefects would eliminate student self-governance, and Dumbledore explained that Hogwarts would establish a Student Council instead.
• Dumbledore described the Council’s roles and powers, including awarding or deducting points, imposing punishments, organizing events, and overseeing school matters under Professor McGonagall’s supervision.
• Dumbledore nominated Lynn Belloc, a fourth-year Slytherin, as the first Student President, and the students accepted the choice with applause.
• Dumbledore gave Lynn a Student President badge and announced that students would vote anonymously on Magic Blackboards for the Council’s remaining leadership positions.

Hogwarts students campaigned for places on the new Student Council, while Lynn, Cedric, and Ian discussed their votes at breakfast. Ian revealed that he was already engaged, leaving Lynn and Cedric stunned and asking questions.

• Percy awkwardly campaigned for the Student Council and begged Fred and George to give him their votes.
• Fred and George teased Percy by pretending they would seek votes for themselves and ask Harry and the others to help.
• Lynn asked Cedric and Ian whom they had voted for, and Cedric said he had voted for himself while Ian had supported Penelope Clearwater.
• Ian explained that he had voted for Penelope to repay her help and because she had asked for his support.
• Ian said he was already engaged, and Lynn and Cedric stared at him before asking who his fiancée was and when he had become engaged.

Ian explained that he was engaged to fulfill his late father's condition, while Lynn revealed to Hermione how he had used a Time-Turner to travel back two weeks. After the Student Council vote results were posted, Lynn and Dumbledore began looking for offices for the council.

• Ian told Lynn and Cedric that his engagement had been arranged by his father and that he intended to honor the promise.
• Hagrid's first Care of Magical Creatures lesson went badly when Malfoy provoked a Hippogriff, which injured him.
• Hermione complained to Lynn about Divination, then realized he had used a Time-Turner to be in two places at once and learned he had traveled back two weeks.
• The Student Council vote results were posted, with Percy, Cedric, and Ian among those selected.
• Lynn and Dumbledore searched the castle for rooms to house the Student Council's meeting room, offices, and archive.

Lynn found the Room of Requirement and chose it as the Student Council office, then began preparing to organize the council. Professor McGonagall selected twenty Student Council Cadres, and Lynn invited her to the council’s first meeting to witness its rules and appointments.

• Dumbledore left Lynn with Filch, who helped him search for a suitable classroom despite resenting the loss of his caretaker authority.
• Lynn recognized the Troll Beating Barnaby Tapestry and used the Room of Requirement to create a fully equipped meeting room for the Student Council.
• Filch was astonished by the hidden room, and Lynn chose it as the Student Council office with Dumbledore’s approval.
• Lynn decided to plan a larger, divided space for the Student Council’s offices and meeting rooms rather than request separate rooms one by one.
• Professor McGonagall gave Lynn a list of twenty Student Council Cadres selected from forty House recommendations.
• Lynn invited Professor McGonagall to the Student Council’s first meeting so she could witness its regulations and appointments.

Lynn and Professor McGonagall finalized the Student Council’s positions and gathered its twenty members for their first meeting. Lynn revealed the Room of Requirement as the council’s new headquarters and took the seat of honor after Professor McGonagall declined it.

• Lynn explained the Student Council roles to Professor McGonagall, and they assigned positions to the twenty selected students, including Cedric as Head of Executive Committee and Ian as Lynn’s secretary.
• Lynn and Professor McGonagall announced that the Student Council members should gather after lunch, then led them to the seventh floor.
• Lynn demonstrated how to enter the Room of Requirement by repeating, “I want to enter the Student Council,” and a door with a Hogwarts Student Council plaque appeared.
• Lynn showed the members the council’s new offices and meeting room, which he had designed and created inside the Room of Requirement.
• Professor McGonagall refused the seat of honor, so Lynn sat at the head of the table.

Lynn explained the new Hogwarts Student Council’s structure and declared that it must serve students rather than the school. He outlined escalating ways to defend students’ rights, ending with the possibility that the Council could become a future Ministry of Magic.

• Lynn introduced the Student Council’s roles and explained how it would recruit and assess members.
• Lynn told the cadres that they were accountable to Hogwarts students and must represent them in disputes with the school.
• Lynn described reporting an incompetent professor to school administrators and then to the Ministry of Magic if the school failed to act.
• Lynn said that if the Ministry also ignored students, the Student Council could organize a strike as a final warning.
• Lynn suggested that if the authorities refused to compromise, the Student Council could become the future Ministry of Magic.

After Lynn’s speech sparked a stir at Hogwarts, Rita Skeeter won the Daily Prophet’s front-page spot and a possible promotion by praising the Student Council. Lynn then guided Percy Weasley and Cedric Diggory as they began recruiting members, leaving the council’s organization and influence still growing.

• Two Daily Prophet reporters were fired after preparing articles denouncing Lynn and the Hogwarts Student Council, prompting Rita Skeeter to investigate.
• Rita wrote a glowing article about the Student Council, and the editor-in-chief reserved the next day’s front page for her and suggested she could become deputy editor-in-chief.
• Lynn told Percy Weasley that the Disciplinary Committee would be vital and instructed him to recruit at least ten capable members while making the council’s benefits clear.
• Lynn advised Cedric Diggory to recruit about ten members from across all four Houses and said the council needed majority support despite inevitable criticism.

Hogwarts introduced scholarships and financial aid funded by the Board of Governors, then began recruiting students for the newly established Student Council. The chapter ended with Harry, Ron, and Hermione considering which roles to apply for as students flocked to sign up.

• Lynn and Dumbledore secured the Board of Governors' funding for Hogwarts scholarships and financial aid after the Ministry of Magic refused to pay.
• Hogwarts established awards for Student Council officers and members to reward their work.
• Jenny Adams's Publicity Department posted notices announcing Student Council recruitment across the school.
• Students grew enthusiastic about the recruitment and scholarships, and the scholarship program spurred more students to study.
• Ron asked Harry and Hermione which Student Council positions they planned to apply for, while Hermione revealed she had filled out three application forms.

Hermione, Harry, and Ron prepared for the Student Council recruitment fair while Hermione learned that Tom Riddle had taken the form of Betty Riddle. Lynn explained Tom’s choice to live as the deceased girl and asked Hermione to keep the truth secret until Tom was ready to confess to Harry.

• Hermione applied for several Student Council departments, and Ron said he would not apply to the Disciplinary Committee because Percy would reject him.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Hagrid’s difficult first class, and Trelawney’s prediction that Harry would die.
• At the recruitment fair, Hermione saw Lynn speaking with Betty Riddle and asked Lynn who she was.
• Lynn told Hermione that Betty was Tom Riddle, who had formed a new body in the image of the girl she had failed to save.
• Lynn explained Tom’s past and asked Hermione not to tell Harry or anyone else until Tom was ready to confess.

Hermione joined the Disciplinary Committee, and the Student Council began enforcing rules at Hogwarts. After Malfoy attacked Harry and Ron with a serpent spell, Percy intervened and imposed the committee’s punishment.

• Hermione chose the Disciplinary Committee, while Harry joined the Culture and Sports Department and Ron joined the Clubs Department.
• A Hufflepuff Disciplinary Committee Member stopped three Slytherins from bullying a Gryffindor student, deducted five points from each, and assigned them a week of toilet-scrubbing.
• Harry and Ron traded insults with Malfoy in a corridor, and Malfoy cast Serpensortia at them.
• Percy dispelled the serpent and told Malfoy that he would lose ten House points and receive two months of detention for attacking first.