Chapter Summaries

Harley Potter returned to her original world after escaping Mr. Door, but lost most of her strength and reverted to an eleven-year-old body. She received an acceptance letter from Hogwarts and decided to attend so she could learn about this world's magic and find a way to break her seals.

• Harley returned to the storage room beneath her aunt and uncle's house after fleeing the Witch Sect, Amon, and Mr. Door.
• Harley inspected her weakened body and found that she had been reduced to Sequence 7 and the physical age of eleven, while most of her sealed artifacts were gone.
• Harley examined the cursed soul fragment she had brought back, which had absorbed the unstable forces accumulated during her advancement through the Demoness Pathway.
• Harley found a parchment letter from Hogwarts addressed first to Harry Potter, then changed to Miss Harley Potter when she picked it up.
• Harley decided to attend Hogwarts to learn about the world's extraordinary powers and seek a way to break her seals.

Harley confronted the Dursleys after becoming a Demoness, using her black flames to frighten them into listening. After questioning them about Hogwarts and magic, she learned that this world restricted supernatural powers to the talented and understood more about Petunia’s resentment of Lily, though she did not forgive her.

• Petunia discovered Harley at the Dursleys’ home and screamed when Harley summoned black flames above her head.
• Vernon rushed out, called Harley a monster, and threw a slipper, which Harley burned to ash; she then destroyed Dudley’s bedroom door with the flames.
• Harley introduced herself as Harley Potter and told the Dursleys that Harry had permanently become a Demoness.
• Harley forced the Dursleys to sit at the dining table and answer her questions by threatening them with black flame.
• Harley questioned the Dursleys about Hogwarts and magic, learning that only people with talent could enter the magical world and that Petunia had resented Lily for doing so.

Harley learned from Aunt Petunia about her parents’ deaths and this world’s magic, then met Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, whom she sensed was a demigod. Dumbledore invited her to Hogwarts and said he had come to take her shopping and speak with her.

• Harley reflected on Aunt Petunia’s account, resolved to avenge her parents if she got the chance, and became eager to explore how this world’s magic worked.
• Harley ate breakfast with the Dursleys, correcting Dudley’s crude behavior by example and asking Aunt Petunia to answer the door.
• Aunt Petunia welcomed Albus Dumbledore, who introduced himself as Hogwarts headmaster and explained that he had come to discuss Harley’s enrollment.
• Harley sensed that Dumbledore was at least a demigod, accepted his invitation to attend Hogwarts, and offered him a seat and refreshments.
• Dumbledore declined refreshments and explained that he had come to take Harley shopping for school supplies and check in on her.

Harley met with Dumbledore and carefully concealed her secret of traveling between worlds while trying to mislead him about the change to her name in Hogwarts's records. She claimed that a nightmare about a noseless person and the phrase Avada Kedavra had left her feeling lighter, prompting Dumbledore's interest.

• Harley used the soul fragment in a box to guard against Dumbledore probing her memories and greeted him with practiced politeness.
• Dumbledore explained that Hogwarts had recorded Harley's name at birth and that the Book of Admittance had changed it from Harry Potter to Harley Potter that morning.
• Harley blamed the name change on a fault in the magical book while using her refined manners to steer Dumbledore away from her real secret.
• Dumbledore asked whether Harley had felt different after receiving her Hogwarts letter, and she said she had felt lighter after waking early.
• Harley described a nightmare in which a noseless person wailed in her mind, turned to ashes, and left chaotic writing that included the phrase Avada Kedavra.

Harley told Dumbledore that she had found a soul fragment containing a noseless face and the words “Avada Kedavra,” and showed him her ability to conjure black fire. Dumbledore took her to the Wizarding World to buy school supplies, and Harley arrived ready to conceal her face with a veiled hat.

• Harley explained her strange memories and black fire to Dumbledore, who suspected the noseless face belonged to Voldemort but concealed his concern.
• Dumbledore told Harley that her parents had left her an inheritance and offered to show her the Wizarding World.
• Dumbledore Apparated with Harley to a room near a pub, and she noted that she wanted to learn the travel spell.
• Dumbledore offered Harley a veiled wizard’s hat to conceal her face, and she put it on before following him into the pub.

Dumbledore took Harley to Diagon Alley to collect her Potter inheritance and buy school supplies. Harley left the Potter family vault with a large bag of money and secretly pocketed several rubies.

• Dumbledore showed Harley how to enter Diagon Alley and explained that her parents' inheritance was held at Gringotts.
• Dumbledore took Harley to Gringotts, where a Goblin brought them by cart to the Potter family vault.
• Dumbledore told Harley that the vault held the Potter family fortune and that only someone of Potter blood could open the cabinets at the back.
• Harley filled a large bag with coins, persuading Dumbledore to let her take extra money for books.
• Harley secretly slipped several rubies into a pocket inside her skirt as Dumbledore left the vault.

Harley spent her new money on Hogwarts clothes, research supplies, books, and an owl before visiting Ollivander to find a wand that suited her. After dozens of unsuitable wands, she asked to try one with a snake-based core, and Ollivander handed her a powerful, unlabelled Snakewood Wand.

• Harley bought Hogwarts uniforms, sturdy clothes, magical objects, books, and a snowy owl while shopping with Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore took Harley to Ollivander’s shop, where Garrick Ollivander began fitting her for a wand.
• Harley tried dozens of wands, but none of them responded to her with much enthusiasm.
• Ollivander offered Harley a holly wand with a phoenix feather core, but it also failed to suit her.
• Harley said she thought a snake-based wand core might match her, so Ollivander found a Snakewood Wand made with unidentified snake nerves and gave it to her to try.

Harley bought a wand that seemed unusually suited to her Demoness Pathway and returned to the Dursleys, where she considered her plan to conceal her secret successful. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed her transformation, while the Daily Prophet revealed that Harry Potter was a girl.

• Harley chose a serpent-core wand, and Ollivander praised her intuition before selling it to her for seven Galleons.
• Dumbledore sent Harley back to the Dursleys, and she decided to seal their memories while reflecting on how well the wand suited her.
• Harley named her snowy owl Hedwig and began reading her textbooks at home.
• Dumbledore told McGonagall that Harley was truly Harry Potter and shared her account of a nightmare involving Voldemort and something shattering.
• Dumbledore and McGonagall agreed to explain Harley's absence from the magical world by saying Dumbledore had concealed her gender to protect her.
• Dumbledore warned Snape to exercise restraint, and the Daily Prophet reported that Harry Potter was actually a girl.

Harley spent her final month at the Dursleys' studying the Wizarding World and comparing magic with the Sequence Pathway, while searching for a Potion that could restore her strength. At King's Cross Station, she used her Demoness Spirit Vision to look for the magical entrance to Platform 9 3/4.

• Harley moved into the Dursleys' guest room and spent most of her time reading books about magic, politics, and Hogwarts.
• Harley compared the Wizarding World's magic system with the dangerous Sequence Pathway and focused on learning about Potions to regain her strength.
• Harley announced that she was leaving, and Uncle Vernon agreed to drive her to King's Cross after black flames appeared in her hair.
• Harley arrived at King's Cross with several trunks and headed toward Platforms Nine and Ten.
• Harley opened her Spirit Vision and planned to find Platform 9 3/4 by sensing the strength of the Spirituality around her.

Harley used Spirit Vision on the way to Hogwarts and discovered that magical objects and other wizards glowed with what resembled Spirituality. She boarded the Hogwarts Express, noted similarities between magical herbs and materials from her old world, and let Ron Weasley share her compartment.

• Harley used Spirit Vision to examine her purchases and saw the magic within them as a glow resembling Spirituality.
• Harley followed other wizards through the barrier to Platform 9 3/4 and boarded the Hogwarts Express.
• Harley observed that wizards glowed with Spirituality, unlike Beyonders she had encountered, and wrote down her questions about the difference between magic and Spirituality.
• Harley read about magical herbs and recognized similarities between Blazing Sun Flower and the Crystalline Sun Flower used in a potion recipe from her former world.
• Ron Weasley entered Harley's compartment, asked to sit there, and Harley allowed him to stay as long as he was quiet.

Harley bought magical snacks on the Hogwarts Express and discovered that a Chocolate Frog contained supernatural power, making her curious about the magical system and its potential. She shared food with Ron Weasley in exchange for information about the magical world and finally introduced herself as Harley Potter.

• A trolley witch offered snacks, and Harley bought a large assortment of magical food while Ron declined to buy anything.
• Harley used Spirit Vision and a ritual on a Chocolate Frog, discovering that it contained a faint trace of magical power.
• Harley decided to complete her Hogwarts education and later explore other magic schools before pursuing her former goals.
• Harley offered Ron a Pumpkin Pasty in exchange for basic information about the magical world, and he told her about Chocolate Frog cards and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.
• Ron asked Harley's name, and she apologized for forgetting to introduce herself and told him she was Harley Potter.

Harley Potter met Ron Weasley aboard the Hogwarts Express and encountered Neville Longbottom, Hermione, and Draco Malfoy while they searched for Neville’s toad. The chapter ended with Malfoy urging Harley to associate with wizarding nobility, while she wondered why he and Hermione were so confident.

• Ron recognized Harley as the girl who survived an attack, and Harley explained that a Potion had removed her scar.
• Neville came into Harley’s compartment looking for his lost toad, then ran out in tears when they could not help him.
• Hermione brought Neville back and demanded that Harley and Ron search the compartment, but Harley returned to her book.
• Draco Malfoy arrived with two boys, insulted Ron and his family, and told Harley she should make friends with wizarding nobility like him.
• Harley revealed that she was the Harley Potter Malfoy had been seeking and questioned his confidence.

Harley provoked Malfoy into ordering Crabbe and Goyle to attack, then used frost magic as the compartment erupted into a fight. Dumbledore arrived and separated everyone, while Harley gave him an account that concealed her Instigation spell.

• Hermione and Harley argued with Malfoy after he insulted Hermione and boasted about Pure-blood nobility.
• Harley taunted Malfoy about his manners and parents, provoking him to order Crabbe and Goyle to attack.
• Harley froze Crabbe and Goyle, while Ron fought them and Neville pinned Malfoy down for insulting his parents.
• Dumbledore arrived, separated the fighters, and asked Harley what had happened.
• Harley recounted the events while hiding her use of Instigation, and Dumbledore sensed that something was wrong.

Dumbledore punished Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle for attacking their fellow students, then left Harley and the others to prepare for their arrival at Hogwarts. As Hagrid led the first-years across the lake, Harley sensed that the boat journey was forming an unclear contract tied to the Four Founders.

• Dumbledore sentenced Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle to a month of detention after they attacked Harley and the others, and said he would inform their parents.
• After Dumbledore left, Ron praised Harley for freezing the attackers, while Hermione objected that Harley and Ron had broken school rules by fighting back.
• Harley asked Hermione and Ron to leave the compartment so she could change, then joined the first-years at the station.
• Hagrid introduced himself to Harley and led the first-years down a steep path toward the lake, inviting her to visit his hut during the school year.
• Harley crossed the lake in a boat and sensed an intangible contract forming through the ritual of repeating the Four Founders' arrival at Hogwarts.

Harley Potter arrived at Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor after the Sorting Hat considered her cunning, bravery, and love of reading. At the Gryffindor table, she focused on several nearby gazes, including the one belonging to an applauding old man at the High Table.

• Hagrid led the first-years to Hogwarts, where Professor McGonagall left them waiting while she fetched the Sorting Hat.
• Ron asked Harley which House she wanted, and Harley said she did not care because the school would decide.
• Professor McGonagall led the first-years into the Great Hall, where the Sorting Hat sang and explained the Sorting.
• Malfoy and his two cronies were sorted into Slytherin before Professor McGonagall called Harley Potter.
• The Sorting Hat considered Slytherin, Gryffindor, and Ravenclaw for Harley, then placed her in Gryffindor.
• Harley cleaned the dust from her hair with black flame and sat at the Gryffindor table, where she noticed an old man at the High Table watching her.

At Hogwarts, Harley noticed several unsettling gazes from the High Table and learned that Professors Quirinus Quirrell and Severus Snape were the men who had drawn her attention. Suspecting danger despite the school's reassuring reputation, she resolved to regain her strength by focusing more on Potions.

• Harley sensed Dumbledore's gaze, a disturbing look from Severus Snape, and a cold warning-triggering gaze from another professor at the High Table.
• Angelina Johnson introduced herself to Harley, welcomed her to Gryffindor, and offered to help if anyone gave her trouble.
• Harley identified the scarf-wearing professor as Quirinus Quirrell and the hook-nosed professor as Severus Snape after Angelina explained their roles at Hogwarts.
• Harley noticed that Quirrell seemed to be a Demigod, but watching him no longer triggered her Spirituality's warning.
• Harley worried that a nearby Demigod might wish her harm and resolved to spend more time studying Potions to regain her strength.

At Hogwarts, Harley questioned Sir Nicholas about ghosts, settled into her Gryffindor dormitory, and wondered whether the ghosts proved that a Spirit World existed. In the Headmaster's Office, Dumbledore and the Sorting Hat discussed Harley's unusual magic and Dumbledore's reasons for placing her in Gryffindor.

• Harley questioned Sir Nicholas about how wizards became ghosts and learned that some could remain ghosts forever while others might eventually move on.
• Dumbledore addressed the students, led them in singing the school song, and sent the first-years to their house dormitories.
• Percy showed the Gryffindor first-years the entrance to the tower, and a female Prefect assigned Harley, Hermione, Parvati Patil, and Lavender Brown to the same dormitory.
• Harley blocked out Hermione's chatter with a calming ritual and went to sleep, resisting the urge to enter the Spirit World.
• The Sorting Hat told Dumbledore that Harley had suited three houses, and Dumbledore explained that he chose Gryffindor because Harley carried traits connected to Tom and needed an environment of courage and love.

Harley woke from a nightmare about Amon, reassured herself that he had not followed her, and began attending Hogwarts classes. She found Herbology and Charms interesting, stayed alert through History of Magic, and remained wary of Professor Quirrell, whose hostility set off her Spirituality.

• Harley dreamed that Amon had hunted her again, performed several failed divinations, and concluded that he had not followed her to this world.
• Harley studied in the Great Hall, where Professor Snape noticed her careful annotations in her Potions textbook and nodded in approval.
• Harley attended Professor Sprout's Herbology class, asked about potion ingredients, and received an invitation to join the Herbology club.
• Harley and Hermione stayed awake during Professor Binns's monotonous History of Magic lecture, but Binns left before Harley could question him.
• Harley attended Professor Flitwick's Charms class and imagined how Alohomora might affect a door connected to the underworld and Spirit World.
• Harley found Professor Quirrell's Defense Against the Dark Arts class disappointing and kept her distance because his malice triggered her Spirituality.

Harley avoided Quirrell, excelled in Transfiguration, and accepted Hagrid’s invitation to visit his hut. The story left her looking forward to Potions class and the chance to build a useful connection with Hagrid.

• Harley suspected Quirrell might be controlled by a demigod-level powerhouse, so she kept her distance and resolved to sit in the back of his class.
• McGonagall demonstrated her Animagus form and taught the first Transfiguration lesson, turning a desk into a pig before assigning the students to transform matches into needles.
• Harley successfully transfigured her match into a silver needle, earning fifteen points for Gryffindor and exemption from the homework; Hermione had only changed one end of hers.
• Harley decided to postpone asking McGonagall about Transfiguration and spiritual matters until she had read more in the library.
• Hagrid invited Harley to visit his hut that weekend and regretted that he had not been the one to collect her; Harley agreed, hoping to gain access to herbs from the Forbidden Forest.

Harley impressed Professor Snape with her Potions knowledge and received thirty points for Gryffindor, then worked with Hermione to brew a boil-curing Potion. Snape defended Harley from Malfoy's mockery but took points from Ron and Dean for laughing, leaving the class surprised by his treatment of the Gryffindors.

• Harley answered Snape's questions about Potion ingredients correctly, and he awarded Gryffindor thirty points.
• Snape paired the students to brew a boil-curing Potion and repeatedly advised Harley and Hermione as they worked.
• Malfoy mocked Harley, so Snape criticized his unfinished blue Potion and ordered him to return to work.
• Ron and Dean laughed at Snape's reprimand of Malfoy, and Snape took ten points from Gryffindor for their talking.