Chapter Summaries

Sirius and Professor Lupin discussed how to take Peter Pettigrew from Ron without alarming him, while Hagrid taught Harley and her classmates about Hippogriffs. Harley volunteered to approach Buckbeak, who bowed first and eagerly rubbed his head against her hand.

• Sirius suggested that Lupin switch Ron's rat for a lookalike during a lesson, but Lupin rejected the idea.
• Lupin decided he would tell Mr. Weasley that Peter had escaped and offer money for a replacement pet if necessary.
• Hagrid brought a group of Hippogriffs to Care of Magical Creatures and explained their traits and how to approach them safely.
• Harley volunteered to approach a bright-gold Hippogriff named Buckbeak while the other students held back.
• Buckbeak bowed before Harley and eagerly rubbed his head against her hand.

During Hagrid’s Fantastic Beasts lesson, Malfoy ignored the instructions for approaching a Hippogriff and was injured, while Harley treated his wound and predicted Hagrid would not be fired. By dinner, Hogwarts rumors had transformed the incident into claims that Malfoy was dead.

• Harley calmly stroked Buckbeak, and her example encouraged the students to approach the Hippogriffs.
• Malfoy approached a gray Hippogriff without bowing, and Buckbeak slashed his arm before Hagrid pulled the creature away.
• Harley used a Healing Potion to stop Malfoy’s bleeding, and Hagrid carried him to the castle for further treatment.
• Harley told Hermione that Hagrid was unlikely to be fired and said the outcome depended on how Lucius handled the matter.
• The Hogwarts rumor mill shifted from predictions about Harley’s death to increasingly exaggerated claims that Malfoy had been killed.

Harley and Hermione visited Hagrid after his disastrous first lesson, and Harley reassured him that his job was probably safe while warning him that Buckbeak might face trouble. Hagrid later learned he had only been placed on probation, while Harley returned to her busy term and faced Snape’s cutting remarks in Potions class.

• Harley and Hermione found Hagrid packing up after Malfoy was injured, and Hagrid feared he would be fired.
• Harley told Hagrid that Dumbledore was unlikely to dismiss him but warned that Buckbeak could face the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.
• Hagrid wrote to Harley and Hermione the next day, saying he had received a disciplinary notice and been placed on probation but had not been fired.
• Harley continued her clubs, electives, and weekend project while preparing for the term’s demanding schedule.
• Snape praised Harley’s Potion Championship win, mocked the class, and told the third-years to brew Shrinking Solution without a review.

During a Potions lesson, Professor Snape assigned Hermione and Harley to work separately while berating the class over his bad mood. Neville’s failed potion exploded over Malfoy and made his hair vanish, leaving Malfoy unconscious and the school buzzing about his bald head.

• Professor Snape told Hermione to brew alone and gave Harley extra questions while criticizing other students.
• Malfoy arrived with his arm bandaged and had Ron and Neville do some of his chopping.
• Neville’s cauldron exploded, splashing Malfoy with a failed Shrinking Solution that made his hair disappear.
• Professor Snape stabilized Malfoy’s burns, then hurried him to the Hospital Wing after Malfoy fainted at the sight of his bald head.
• Gryffindors mocked Malfoy as Slytherins defended him, and by lunchtime the story had spread across the school.

Harley guessed that Hermione was using a time-related magical object to attend two classes at once, while Hermione kept the secret. In Professor Lupin’s first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, he impressed the students by driving off Peeves with his own spell.

• Harley noticed Hermione was exhausted and guessed that Professor McGonagall had given her a time-traveling magical object for attending two classes at once.
• Hermione was shocked that Harley had figured out her secret, but Harley playfully refused to explain how she knew.
• Professor Lupin began his practical Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson and led the students into the corridors.
• Peeves insulted Professor Lupin and threw Dungbombs at him, but Lupin stopped them in midair.
• Professor Lupin taught the students Waddiwasi, which sent Peeves’s chewing gum and Dungbombs flying back at him and impressed the class.

Professor Lupin brought the Gryffindors to the professors' common room for a lesson on Boggarts. Harley proposed using an enchanted camera to observe a Boggart's true form, and Lupin invited her to discuss the experiment before beginning the practical exercise.

• Professor Snape taunted Professor Lupin and left the common room after Lupin brought in the Gryffindors.
• Professor Lupin summoned a shaking wardrobe and explained that it contained a Boggart.
• Hermione recited the textbook definition of a Boggart, and Professor Lupin explained that its true form could be observed with an advanced spell.
• Harley suggested enchanting a camera to photograph the Boggart without a person watching it, and Professor Lupin praised her idea and invited her to discuss the experiment.
• Professor Lupin explained how to cast Riddikulus and called Neville Longbottom to face the Boggart.

Professor Lupin’s class practiced defeating Boggarts, and Neville and the other students faced their fears. Harley’s Boggart took the form of Amon, leaving her furious at the familiar impostor.

• Professor Lupin asked Neville to face the Boggart first, and Neville turned its Snape form into a figure stuffed into a cauldron.
• Professor Lupin called students forward one by one, and Parvati and the others defeated their own Boggart forms.
• Hermione faced a girl resembling Pheobe and made the Boggart’s hair fall out.
• Professor Lupin called Harley, whose Boggart transformed into Amon and greeted her with a message from him.
• Harley recognized the figure as a Boggart imitation and wanted to tear it apart.

Harley destroyed the Boggart after it transformed into Amon, then learned that Lupin and Sirius had been spending time together in the Forbidden Forest. That night, she used the Magic Mirror to review Sirius’s recent experiences.

• Harley cast Riddikulus on the Boggart after it took Amon’s form, then destroyed it with black flame.
• Lupin praised Harley and the Gryffindors, awarded points, and assigned a short Boggart summary for homework.
• The Gryffindors discussed Harley’s fear and Neville’s fantasy of putting Snape in a cauldron, then praised Lupin’s teaching.
• Harley remembered seeing Lupin and Sirius watching a Care of Magical Creatures class in the Forbidden Forest and decided to investigate later.
• Harley used the Magic Mirror to rapidly review Sirius’s recent experiences.

Harley watched footage revealing that Peter Pettigrew might be hiding in Hogwarts and resolved to capture him before Sirius and Lupin could act. After returning to her body, she learned about Hermione's Time-Turner and wondered whether traveling to the future could change what happened in the past.

• Harley watched Sirius and Lupin discuss Peter Pettigrew and decided she would capture him first.
• Harley woke to find Hermione asleep on her bed and teased her about visiting at night.
• Hermione explained that her magical object was a Time-Turner and repeated Professor McGonagall's warnings about meddling with time.
• Harley wondered whether visiting the future and returning to the past could anchor or change the future, but Hermione refused to let her experiment with the Time-Turner.
• Harley explained that she had deduced Hermione's secret from the books in her bag and her unusual exhaustion.

Harley recognized Professor Babbling as a Sanguine whose magic made people overlook her, while she and Hermione began their Ancient Runes lessons. Harley left the classroom understanding why Hermione had not noticed the professor’s appearance.

• After Harley reassured Hermione about the clues she had revealed, the two went to their first Ancient Runes lessons on Friday.
• Harley recognized Professor Babbling’s blood-red eyes and youthful appearance as signs that she was a Sanguine.
• Professor Babbling introduced Ancient Runes and assigned the students runes to memorize, while Harley and Hermione quickly finished and read ahead.
• Hermione regretted missing the chance to ask Professor Babbling questions and said she would visit during office hours.
• Harley realized Professor Babbling’s suggestive magic made people overlook her, explaining why Hermione could not remember what she looked like.

Professor Babbling told Dumbledore that Harley Potter was a promising Ancient Runes student and warned him that awakened ancient Sanguines seemed frightened. Harley’s Saturday plans were disrupted by Quidditch training, and she ended the chapter visiting Hagrid’s Hut with Hermione and Sirius.

• Professor Babbling teased Dumbledore with her notebook of his past secrets, praised Harley as an Ancient Runes student, and reported that awakened ancient Sanguines seemed frightened and panicked.
• Wood gathered the Gryffindor Quidditch team to plan training, but the Weasley Twins, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie tied him up and forced him to accept reduced training time.
• Harley and Hermione went to Hagrid’s Hut after practice and found Buckbeak, Fang, and Sirius outside.
• Sirius ran to Harley, and she petted him while privately considering how she might deal with him if he proved to be a traitor.

Harley helped a despairing Hagrid plan how to defend Buckbeak after the Ministry threatened to execute the Hippogriff for injuring Draco Malfoy. Hagrid understood her strategy and began writing to Professor Kettleburn for help.

• Harley and Hermione found Hagrid drunk and distraught after he received a Ministry letter ordering a hearing that could lead to Buckbeak's execution.
• Hermione and Hagrid blamed Lucius Malfoy and the Ministry, while Harley asked Hagrid what he planned to do about the charges.
• Hagrid said he would defend Buckbeak but hesitated to ask Dumbledore for help because Dumbledore had already done so much for him.
• Harley advised Hagrid to frame the incident as a teaching accident and Buckbeak as a teaching aid rather than a dangerous Fantastic Beast.
• Harley told Hagrid to contact retired professor Kettleburn and seek help from Newt Scamander and the Wizarding Examinations Authority.
• Hagrid accepted Harley's plan and began writing a letter.

Hagrid asked Hermione to write a letter seeking help with Buckbeak, and Harley proposed a solution that astonished Sirius. Later, Harley and Hermione attended their first Transfiguration Club meeting, where Professor McGonagall introduced a paper on Gamp’s Law and assigned them questions to consider.

• Hagrid asked Hermione to write his letter, and Harley’s proposed solution impressed Sirius.
• Hagrid left for the Owlery with the letter, while Harley and Hermione spent the afternoon in the library.
• Harley and Hermione arrived at Professor McGonagall’s office and joined the Transfiguration Club with Sherry Vincent and other students.
• Professor McGonagall led a discussion of Jon Hart’s paper on the twelfth law of Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration.
• Professor McGonagall assigned the members to consider how thought and emotion affected Transfiguration and what experiments could investigate it.

Harley agreed to invest in Fred and George’s magical joke-product business in exchange for learning how they make their inventions. Hermione learned that using the Time-Turner would shorten her lifespan, while Snape began teaching Harley how to make Wolfsbane Potion even worse-tasting.

• Hermione hurried to Professor McGonagall’s office to ask about her schedule, and Harley asked Fred and George why they had joined McGonagall’s club.
• Fred and George explained their plan to open a joke shop and showed Harley their flawed Canary Creams and Ton-Tongue Toffee.
• Harley offered to invest in the twins’ business and cited her potion winnings and recipe royalties as her income, so they accepted her offer.
• Hermione told Harley that McGonagall had confirmed Time-Turner use came out of the user’s lifespan, leaving Hermione worried about aging early or giving up classes.
• Snape began teaching Harley to brew Wolfsbane Potion and promised to show her how to make it taste worse without changing its effects.

Harley studied Wolfsbane Potion with Professor Snape and attended Professor Flitwick’s Charms Club, while Hogwarts carried on with classes despite Sirius’s escape. After Neville and Seamus repeatedly blew up cauldrons, Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape agreed on a detention that made them clean secondhand cauldrons for their next lesson.

• Professor Snape taught Harley how to handle Wolfsbane Potion’s dangerous ingredients and told her to study werewolves before their next lesson.
• Hermione brought Harley to Professor Flitwick’s Charms Club, where Professor Flitwick offered private lessons to a student who won the Most Promising Newcomer Award in Charms.
• Hagrid shifted to teaching Flobberworms after Malfoy’s incident, then worked with Harley and Hermione on a more balanced lesson plan.
• Professor Snape took out his anger over the Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson on Neville, who repeatedly blew up cauldrons while partnered with Seamus.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape agreed that Neville and Seamus would serve detention by cleaning old secondhand cauldrons whenever they caused an explosion.

Harley investigated Ron’s missing rat and prepared a way to track Peter Pettigrew, while waiting for Christmas to complete the process. On the first Hogsmeade visit of the year, she learned from Sirius and Lupin that Snape had been Lily’s childhood friend before she chose James.

• Wood was forced to limit Gryffindor to one low-intensity Quidditch practice a week, while the other teams struggled to organize or compete.
• Harley learned that Ron’s rat Scabbers had disappeared and suspected it was Peter Pettigrew, so she retrieved a toy the rat had played with and planned to use it to track him after treating it until Christmas.
• Halloween Eve brought the third-years’ first Hogsmeade visit, and Filch checked their permission forms before letting them leave.
• Harley checked on Sirius, who had been exploring the Forbidden Forest with Lupin and planning to catch Pettigrew.
• Harley heard Sirius and Lupin reminisce about their school days and concluded that Snape had been Lily’s childhood friend before she chose James.

Harley suspected Professor Snape favored her because she resembled her mother Lily, and she resolved to stay guarded around him. She and Hermione visited Hogsmeade, bought sweets at Honeydukes, and stopped at The Three Broomsticks to warm up with Butterbeer.

• Harley connected Lily, James, and Snivellus to her parents and Professor Snape, then worried that Snape's affection for her had an unsettling explanation.
• Harley and Hermione traveled by Thestral carriage to Hogsmeade and saw that four Dementors were guarding Hogwarts's outer gates.
• Hermione led them to Honeydukes, where they bought sweets for themselves and Hermione's parents; Harley also bought Blood-Flavored Lollipops for Professor Babbling.
• Ambrosius Flume congratulated Harley on winning the Potion Championship and gave her Sherbet Lemons, while Harley felt guilty about trying to uncover his secret confectionery method.
• After Hermione sneezed in the cold, she changed their plans, and the pair went to The Three Broomsticks for Butterbeer before shopping for school supplies.

Harley and Hermione spent their first Hogsmeade outing drinking Butterbeer and speaking with Professor McGonagall, whose memories of her late husband left Hermione distressed. At the Halloween Feast, Hermione recovered, while Harley noticed Snape watching Lupin and suspected the Wolfsbane Potion’s new side effect would soon trouble him.

• Harley and Hermione drank Butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks, where Professor McGonagall joined them and told them she had come to remember her late husband, Elphinstone.
• Hermione felt guilty after learning about Elphinstone, so Harley accompanied her back to Hogwarts and comforted her.
• Hermione slept until the Halloween Feast, then worried Professor McGonagall might resent her until Harley reassured her.
• At the feast, Harley noticed Snape repeatedly glancing at Lupin and recalled that Snape’s new Wolfsbane Potion caused severe stomach pain six hours after it was taken.

Professor Snape discovered that someone had triggered the protective spells in his office, while Professor Lupin had left the Feast feeling ill. Peeves then announced that Filch had been attacked, and as the professors investigated, Hermione worried that Lupin might have encountered Sirius Black.

• Professor Lupin hurried out of the Great Hall with a churning stomach, and Professor Snape found that his warning key had grown hot.
• Professor Snape told Dumbledore that someone had touched the spells in his office and went to investigate, while McGonagall worried a Gryffindor might be responsible.
• Peeves announced that Filch had been attacked, and Dumbledore ordered the students to stay in the Great Hall while he and the Heads of House investigated.
• Fred and George discussed the troubles that had happened at Hogwarts on previous Halloweens, then Percy accused them of causing trouble and the three brothers scuffled.
• Hermione asked Harley whether Lupin would be all right, since he had left the Great Hall and might have run into Sirius Black.

After Filch was attacked and Snape’s potion ingredients were stolen, Dumbledore had the students counted and ordered them to spend the night in the Great Hall while the professors searched for Sirius. Harley later secretly sent silver and emerald-green magic into her mirror, and her Patronus Medusa appeared outside a nearby bathroom window.

• Hermione warned Percy that Lupin might be in danger, and Fred and George offered to help find a ghost to alert Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore announced that Filch had been attacked and valuable ingredients had been stolen from Snape’s office, and he ordered the students counted.
• The head count found no likely suspects among the students, so the Heads of House decided to keep everyone in the Great Hall overnight while the professors searched for Sirius.
• Dumbledore conjured sleeping bags, and Harley and Hermione settled down beside each other as Percy called for lights out.
• After Hermione fell asleep, Harley whispered a Patronus charm and sent silver and emerald-green light into her mirror.
• Medusa, Harley’s snake-haired Patronus, emerged from a bathroom window near the Great Hall.