Chapter Summaries

Harry misunderstood Helena’s concern as romantic interest, then arranged for Neville to receive his lost Hogsmeade permission form. The next day, Harry helped Astoria sneak out with the students, while Neville nervously presented his form to Helena.

• Harry teased Helena about supposedly falling for him, and she angrily handed him Neville’s permission form before fleeing.
• Harry folded the form into a paper airplane and sent it through the window into Neville’s dormitory.
• Neville found the form and celebrated that he could go to Hogsmeade.
• Harry made Astoria invisible and led her toward the school entrance, explaining that the Dementors would not stop her from passing through the doors.
• Helena checked students’ names against the permission list, and Neville nervously showed her the form he had found.

Neville and the other students received permission to leave Hogwarts for Hogsmeade, and Helena watched them go before deciding she wanted to see the world beyond the school. Harry and the girls invited Helena to join them, but Hermione and Cho Chang’s questions about magical history revealed that Helena knew very little.

• Helena approved Neville’s permission slip and let the final students, including Harry, Hermione, and Cho Chang, leave Hogwarts.
• Helena watched the students depart and longed to escape the lonely school grounds after a thousand years inside Hogwarts.
• Astoria joined Harry, Hermione, and Cho Chang on the snowy path to Hogsmeade, while Helena followed at a distance.
• Cho Chang spoke with Helena and brought her over to Harry and the others, who introduced themselves and learned Helena was Rowena Ravenclaw’s daughter.
• Hermione and Cho Chang asked Helena about Hogwarts’s history, but Helena admitted she had stayed at Hogwarts and knew very little.

Harry, Hermione, Cho Chang, and Astoria met Helena, the daughter of Ravenclaw, who shared an embarrassing story about Slytherin and Hufflepuff. The group then reached Hogsmeade, where Cho showed them its sights and Hermione noticed Madam Rosmerta at the Three Broomsticks.

• Hermione mistakenly warned Harry that female ghosts might seduce wizards and drain their vital essence, and Helena overheard her.
• Harry explained Helena's identity, and Helena asked the group to keep her parentage secret.
• Helena revealed that Slytherin had threatened to invent a spell to spy on Hufflepuff while she bathed, prompting Harry to joke about the Basilisk and the Chamber of Secrets.
• Harry and the others arrived in snowy Hogsmeade, where Hermione admired the village and Astoria clung to Harry after hearing about the Shrieking Shack.
• Cho Chang introduced the Three Broomsticks and said its owner, Madam Rosmerta, was a major reason boys visited; Hermione looked at Harry as Madam Rosmerta served customers.

Harry and his companions explored Hogsmeade, visiting Honeydukes and learning about its sweets and Zonko's Joke Shop. Astoria left Honeydukes with a pocket pouch full of candy, and Cho Chang led the group farther into the village.

• Ron Weasley nervously ordered four mugs of hot Butterbeer from Madam Rosmerta.
• Harry compared a woman’s looks with Helena’s, and Hermione urged everyone to keep walking.
• Cho Chang showed the group the Post Office and Honeydukes, where Astoria eagerly bought nearly every kind of candy.
• Cho Chang returned with a spatial pocket, and Astoria packed her sweets inside it.
• Cho Chang explained that Zonko's sold prank items and could repair Hermione’s Sneakoscope, but the group showed little interest in entering.

In 1969, manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio encountered a wizard and a magical cat in what he thought was a dream. After waking and rushing to finish his manuscript, he turned the dream into a new character and named him Doraemon.

• Fujio found a calico kitten with a pouch and pulled a magical door, a floating blanket, and many strange objects from it.
• Fujio opened the door and met a black-robed wizard, who collected the objects, retrieved the kitten, and erased Fujio's memory with a spell.
• The wizard packed the door into the pouch and disappeared, leaving Fujio to wake and assume the encounter had been a dream.
• Fujio realized it was evening, finished his manuscript, and gave his editor the completed work.
• Fujio drew a blue, round character with a pouch on its belly and named him Doraemon.

Cho Chang led Harry, Hermione, Astoria, and Helena around Hogsmeade’s shops, but Hermione’s interest in the Hog’s Head turned to disgust when they saw how filthy it was. The group left the pub, and Hermione vowed never to enter it.

• Cho showed the group Gladrags Wizardwear and Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop, where Hermione bought a pheasant-feather quill.
• Cho brought them to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, and Hermione hurried Harry out after seeing two boys holding hands and kissing.
• Harry joked about taking Astoria to a couples' café, prompting Hermione and Cho to stare at him until he suggested they take Astoria instead.
• Cho pointed out Dervish and Banges and explained that Hermione could bring her broken Sneakoscope there for repairs.
• The group saw the filthy Hog's Head, and Hermione dragged Harry and Cho away before declaring she would never go inside.

Harry, Hermione, Cho Chang, and Astoria visited The Three Broomsticks, where Astoria tried honeyed wine and quickly got drunk. Meanwhile, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick discussed the Ministry’s continued Dementor patrols and Flitwick’s efforts to find people for Sirius’s cause before Harry’s group returned to Hogwarts.

• Hermione complained about the filthy Hog's Head, and Harry kept its owner's identity as Dumbledore's younger brother from her.
• Harry ordered food and drinks for his group at The Three Broomsticks, and Astoria gulped down honeyed wine until she passed out drunk in his arms.
• Madam Rosmerta showed Professor McGonagall a Ministry notice keeping Dementors on patrol in Hogsmeade until Sirius Black was captured.
• McGonagall and Flitwick condemned Minister Fudge for refusing to recall the Dementors despite doubts about Sirius's guilt.
• Flitwick told McGonagall that he had found the people they needed to invite, including Kreacher, who had been living among Goblins to study forging.
• Harry carried the sleeping Astoria back to Hogwarts with Hermione and Cho Chang.

Astoria woke in Harry’s eighth-floor room after getting drunk and asked to live there, and Harry gladly agreed. He enchanted Astoria’s pendant as an encrypted Portkey so she could return to the room, then they prepared to go to the Halloween feast.

• Astoria woke beside Little Cutie in Harry’s comfortable room at Hogwarts.
• Harry healed Astoria’s headache with spells after she admitted she had gotten drunk on honey wine.
• Astoria asked Harry if she could live in the room, and he agreed without hesitation.
• Harry enchanted Astoria’s silver pendant into an encrypted Portkey with the password “Big Brother’s Little Nest.”
• Harry and Astoria left for the Halloween feast.

Harry attended the Halloween feast with Astoria and Hermione, then later backed Percy Weasley’s argument for keeping Dementors at Hogwarts to provoke him. He explained his trick to Penelope Clearwater, who laughed and thanked him.

• Harry and Astoria joined Hermione at the Halloween feast, where Hermione jokingly threatened him and Harry noticed Helena watching the celebrations from the wall.
• At the end of the feast, Hogwarts’s ghosts performed while Helena remained apart from the crowd.
• In early November, Harry overheard Percy Weasley argue that Dementors should stay at Hogwarts as protection against future threats.
• Penelope Clearwater warned Percy that Dementors were dangerous, but Harry publicly agreed with Percy and left Penelope disappointed.
• Harry told Penelope that agreeing with an idiot could make him an even bigger idiot, and Penelope laughed and thanked him.

Harry helped Penelope regain her composure, and they discussed Percy Weasley’s support for Fudge and Harry’s prediction that Fudge would lose his position. Penelope thanked Harry for giving Cho Chang a Firebolt and revealed she was Muggle-born, while Harry insisted he had no prejudice against her.

• Harry startled Penelope out of her laughter, then teased her with remarks she found easy to misunderstand.
• Penelope explained that Percy Weasley was publicly supporting Fudge to improve his chances of getting a Ministry job after graduation.
• Harry predicted that Fudge would soon step down and claimed Dumbledore would replace him, but Penelope said Dumbledore would never accept the position.
• Penelope thanked Harry for giving Cho Chang a Firebolt and said winning the Quidditch championship and House Cup would make her final year at Hogwarts more satisfying.
• Harry asked whether Penelope was a Muggle, and she said she was before questioning whether he looked down on non-pure-blood wizards.

Harry joked with Penelope Clearwater after she tried to unsettle him, then reassured Cho Chang and teased her about temptation. As November’s warm spell melted the snow, Harry crushed Astoria, Hermione, and Cho at Gomoku, while Hagrid’s effort to dry the grounds was overtaken by rain.

• Harry bantered with Penelope Clearwater as they walked, and she revealed the color of her underwear before leaving.
• Cho Chang met Harry, who warned her about Penelope and accused Penelope of lying; Cho teased Harry in return.
• Harry vented his frustration by defeating Astoria at Gomoku for an afternoon, then beat Hermione and Cho as well.
• The melting snow left puddles across Hogwarts, so Hagrid took on the task of drying the grounds with the Water-Repelling Charm.
• Heavy rain fell while Hagrid relaxed in his hut with green tea and Fang.

Harry misunderstood the Gryffindor Quidditch Team’s snorts as signs of colds, while Madam Hooch struggled under the four Heads of House’s demands to supervise every team’s training. After recording her grievances, she dreamed of escaping to a country where PE teachers were treated better.

• The Gryffindor Quidditch Team passed Harry, and Hermione explained that their snorts expressed dissatisfaction with him, but Harry thought they had caught colds.
• Hermione asked Harry what he meant by values, and he answered, “bust—waist—hips.”
• Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, and Professor Snape each secured Madam Hooch’s help supervising their House’s Quidditch training.
• After Hufflepuff’s late-night training, Madam Hooch wrote an angry account of the Heads of House’s demands and lamented the oppression of PE teachers.
• Madam Hooch imagined that a faraway country offered PE teachers a better life and hoped to reach it in her dreams.

Harry worried that the Quidditch schedule change signaled Voldemort's return might still be inevitable, so he questioned Flint under an enhanced Imperius Curse. Flint said he had arranged the change to gain a tactical advantage, though Harry suspected he was lying.

• Malfoy returned from Quidditch practice soaked, and Harry teased Hermione about Pansy's efforts to dry him before Malfoy stormed off.
• Harry learned that Ravenclaw would play Slytherin while Gryffindor would face Hufflepuff, contrary to the original schedule, and feared Voldemort could still return despite his changes to the future.
• Harry reflected on Voldemort's power and ruthlessness, then told Hermione he was thinking about how to save the world.
• Flint left the Slytherin Quidditch team and went to the forbidden fourth-floor corridor, where Harry questioned him under the enhanced Imperius Curse.
• Flint claimed he had spied on Gryffindor's training and persuaded Snape to switch the matches so Gryffindor could test itself against Hufflepuff; Harry accused him of lying.

Harry confirmed that Flint’s behavior was only a coincidence, then pressured Snape into agreeing to restore the Slytherin–Gryffindor match before admitting he had been joking. As a storm approached the match against Ravenclaw, Flint regretted his suggestion to change the schedule.

• Harry kept Flint under observation after ordering him to stand still, then sent him back to the Slytherin common room and decided the world posed no threat.
• Harry visited Snape to ask whether Slytherin could play Gryffindor again, and Snape agreed after Harry invoked Lily’s gaze.
• Harry revealed that he had been joking about changing the match back, prompting Snape to fire a barrage of Killing Curses before Harry Apparated away.
• Hermione asked why Harry was cheerful, and he told her he had found nothing wrong with the world.
• As heavy rain and wind battered Hogwarts, Flint regretted arranging for Slytherin to face Ravenclaw, while the Gryffindor players laughed at his predicament.

Harry discovered Helena engrossed in a manga and, after teasing her about it, gave the lonely ghost a place to rest in his room. The chapter ended with Harry waking Astoria so they could watch Cho Chang’s Quidditch match.

• Harry woke to find Astoria licking his face while Little Cutie watched from the pillows.
• During a storm, Harry caught Helena absorbed in a manga, which she mistook for a cursed dark magic book.
• Helena admitted she had been frightened by the weather because she had been killed in similar conditions, and Harry offered her a place to sleep.
• Helena asked whether the manga’s characters Yuu and Sora ended up together, while Harry hid the book and told her how she could read it.
• Harry woke Astoria and told her they were going to watch Cho Chang’s Quidditch match.

Harry watched Helena and Astoria attempt to cook breakfast, then joined Cho Chang and Ravenclaw for their Quidditch match against Slytherin in a storm. The match began with the crowd discovering that Cho Chang was riding a Firebolt.

• Helena and Astoria returned from shopping with strange ingredients and tried to make breakfast, but Harry vanished their bubbling hodgepodge and cooked eggs and porridge instead.
• Harry told Helena to study cooking at New Oriental if she intended to keep her promise to make meals.
• Flint led Slytherin onto the Quidditch pitch in fierce wind and rain, while Malfoy struggled against the weather.
• Harry gave Cho Chang a protective spell before she joined her Ravenclaw teammates for the match.
• Commentator Jordan announced that Cho Chang's broom was a Firebolt, stunning the crowd.

Cho Chang dominated the Quidditch match against Slytherin with her Firebolt, despite the storm and Flint’s attempt to stop her from catching the Golden Snitch. The Snitch flew back into Cho Chang’s hand, giving Ravenclaw the win as darkness descended over the stadium.

• Cho Chang took to the air on her Firebolt as Lee Jordan praised the broom and the match began.
• Cho Chang outpaced Malfoy and nearly caught the Golden Snitch while Slytherin led Ravenclaw by thirty points.
• A violent storm obscured the match, but Cho Chang spotted the Snitch near Slytherin’s goalposts and raced toward it.
• Flint jumped onto Cho Chang’s Firebolt and grabbed its tail, disrupting her attempt to catch the Snitch.
• The Golden Snitch flew back into Cho Chang’s hand, and Ravenclaw won the match.

More than a hundred Dementors broke into Hogwarts during the Quidditch match, but Dumbledore drove them off with a phoenix Patronus and helped the injured students. Afterward, Percy was shunned for supporting the Dementors, while Harry rejected Hermione’s suggestion that he try to improve Gryffindor’s unity.

• The Dementors descended on the stadium, draining the crowd’s happy memories and causing students and Quidditch players to collapse.
• Harry protected Hermione and Astoria with a white barrier as Dumbledore returned and drove away the Dementors with a silver phoenix Patronus.
• Dumbledore, the professors, and Madam Pomfrey arranged care for the injured students and sent them to the hospital to recover.
• At dinner, Ravenclaw was announced as the match winner, while Percy was avoided and mocked for having supported the Dementors.
• Harry told Hermione that Gryffindor was beyond saving and that he would not try to change it.
• Late that night, Harry moved Astoria off his chest and vanished from his bedroom.

Harry forced Rita Skeeter to write an article blaming the Ministry of Magic and Cornelius Fudge for the Dementor attack at Hogwarts, using the Slytherin ring to break her resistance. He left Rita eager to follow his orders and supplied sensational headlines for her report.

• Rita Skeeter considered writing about something other than Sirius Black when Harry appeared in her home and told her that hundreds of Dementors had attacked Hogwarts.
• Harry instructed Rita to expose Fudge and the Ministry's failures while briefly praising Dumbledore's rescue efforts, but Rita refused to attack the Minister directly.
• Harry used Salazar Slytherin's ring to control Rita and inflicted intense pain until she accepted him as her master.
• Harry ordered Rita to write the article and suggested three sensational headlines about the Ministry allowing Dementors to attack Hogwarts students.
• Rita became excited by Harry's headline ideas and offered herself to him, but Harry struck her and vanished.

Harry summoned an enormous Patronus shaped like himself and destroyed every Dementor over Hogwarts. The next day, the students discovered they were gone, while Harry received a letter from Rita and tried to reassure Hermione about her perfume scent.

• Harry used the Patronus Charm, and his unusual Patronus combined with a mysterious power to destroy all the Dementors and clear the sky.
• The students noticed the Dementors had vanished, and Snape deducted fifty points from Gryffindor after Neville ruined several Potions.
• At lunch, Harry received the Daily Prophet and a letter from Rita, whose perfume Hermione recognized on him.
• Hermione confronted Harry about Rita, and Harry burned the letter before kissing Hermione to calm her.
• Astoria asked Harry for a kiss too, and he reluctantly kissed her, getting cream in his mouth.