Chapter Summaries

Harley read reports celebrating her Potion Championship victory and her Order of Merlin, First Class, then returned to the Dursleys’ house. That night, she captured a starving black dog and decided to take it home.

• Harley read that the Daily Prophet had reported her championship victory and Order of Merlin award, while downplaying Sirius’s escape from Azkaban.
• Harley returned to the Dursleys’ house, opened the door with Spider Silk, and went inside as Uncle Vernon watched nervously.
• Harley finished making a talisman that stored some of her power and admired its glow.
• Harley spotted a starving black dog outside her window and bound it with the talisman’s web.
• Harley silenced the dog, stopped it from struggling, and took it home.

Harley took Sirius, still disguised as a Scottish Deerhound, to a veterinary clinic and named him Black. Sirius decided to stay with her so he could eventually reach Hogwarts and find the traitor, but the clinic’s suggestion of neutering sent him into a panic.

• Harley restrained Sirius with Spider Silk, left to get money, then returned and led him out without using a wand.
• Harley considered several names for the dog before settling on Black, and Sirius chose not to object.
• Harley took Black to the I-Pet Veterinary Clinic to arrange grooming, food, a collar, and a leash.
• Nurse Susie recommended a health check, vaccinations, and neutering, prompting Sirius to howl and try to flee.
• Harley declined the immediate services, telling Susie she would bring Black back for a checkup after consulting her parents.

Harley took Sirius, still disguised as a large black dog, into her home and cared for him before bringing him to Diagon Alley for a checkup. As they arrived at the Magical Menagerie, the shopkeeper spotted Crookshanks.

• Susie had two attendants bathe Sirius, and Harley took him home on Privet Drive and fed him dog food.
• Harley noticed a faint trace of magic in Sirius and planned to have him examined before bringing him to Hogwarts.
• Aunt Petunia disapproved of the dog but bought extra meat for him.
• Harley left for the Leaky Cauldron with Sirius and told him she was going shopping with Hermione, which he mistook for a date.
• Harley took Sirius to the Magical Menagerie, where the shopkeeper recognized Crookshanks.

Harley left Sirius at a pet shop for a three-day examination, then met Hermione for a shopping trip in Diagon Alley. After using her discount to buy Hermione’s many schoolbooks, Hermione decided to spend her remaining money on a pet.

• Crookshanks pounced at Harley, hit Sirius instead, and soon became friendly with him.
• Harley booked Sirius for a full three-day examination and left him at the pet shop.
• Harley waited for Hermione at Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour and shared ice cream with her when she arrived.
• Harley explained that Crabbe and Goyle had freed the Monster Books, been badly bitten, and caused their families to pay compensation.
• Harley used her fifty-percent discount to buy Hermione’s schoolbooks and packed them into her Undetectable Extension Charm bag.
• Hermione checked her remaining money and decided to buy a pet for her birthday.

Harley and Hermione visited the Magical Menagerie, where Hermione chose Crookshanks as her pet while Sirius stayed disguised as Black. As Harley dismissed the danger Sirius posed, Hermione warned her that he might have learned dangerous Dark Magic from Voldemort.

• Harley and Hermione found Sirius and Crookshanks asleep together at the Magical Menagerie, and Sirius greeted Harley excitedly.
• Harley introduced Sirius as Black, a magical Scottish Deerhound who might have belonged to a Muggle family, and Hermione agreed that he should remain with her.
• Hermione chose Crookshanks, whom Harley recognized as having Kneazle blood, and decided she would borrow Hedwig when she needed an owl.
• Harley retold the story of her Potion Championship while Sirius listened and admired her magical talents.
• Hermione asked Harley what she thought of Sirius Black, and Harley said the escaped Death Eater was too weak to threaten her.
• Hermione warned Harley that Sirius might know sinister Dark Magic from Voldemort, but Harley did not argue.

Harley brought Sirius to King's Cross for the Hogwarts Express and encountered the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Remus Lupin. After confirming Lupin's appointment, Harley remained wary of his secret identity as a Werewolf.

• Harley said goodbye to Hermione and returned to the Leaky Cauldron with Sirius.
• Harley used a wandless Disillusionment Charm to bring Sirius into King's Cross without attracting attention.
• At Platform 9 3/4, Sirius remembered his dead friends and vowed to find Peter Pettigrew and avenge James and Lily.
• Harley and Sirius boarded the Hogwarts Express and headed to their usual rear compartment, where they found Remus Lupin.
• Lupin showed Harley his genuine letter of appointment from Dumbledore, and Harley recognized him as a Werewolf but kept his secret.

Harley recognized Professor Lupin from a photograph of her parents and called him Uncle Remus, prompting him to admit he had been their friend while withholding his reasons for staying away. The train journey continued when Hermione entered their compartment, where Lupin was struggling to stay awake.

• Harley opened the compartment door, revealing Sirius in dog form, and Lupin discreetly prepared his wand while watching him.
• Harley told Lupin she had found and adopted Black, while Lupin stayed guarded and kept Sirius under watch.
• Harley recognized Lupin from Hagrid's photo album and asked whether she could call him Uncle Remus.
• Lupin confirmed he had been close to Harley's parents, apologized for not visiting, and said he could not yet explain why.
• Hermione entered the compartment with Crookshanks and apologized to Lupin after Harley signaled her.

Harley traveled to Hogwarts with Hermione, Sirius, and an exhausted Professor Lupin, whose suspicions about Sirius eased as he watched the group. When the train stopped unexpectedly in darkness, Harley used her magic to light the compartment and catch falling luggage with her rapidly growing hair.

• Hermione joined Harley and Professor Lupin in the compartment, and Lupin noticed Sirius's strange behavior and became less worried about Harley's safety.
• Professor Lupin introduced himself to Hermione, then fell asleep while Harley and Hermione read and Sirius watched him in silence.
• Harley bought food for the compartment and saved some for Professor Lupin, who woke when the weather turned cold and reminded Harley to call him Professor at school.
• The Hogwarts Express stopped abruptly before its expected arrival, and the lights went out as luggage fell from the racks.
• Harley cast Lumos and used her growing hair to catch the luggage and return it to the racks.

Harley spotted Dementors surrounding the Hogwarts Express and suspected they were connected to the Spirit World. As the Dementors searched the train for Sirius Black, Professor Lupin confronted them, but they continued their inspection.

• Harley revealed that she could control her hair with innate magic, while Professor Lupin and Sirius reacted with amazement.
• Harley used the Fallen Glove to survey the train and saw hundreds of Dementors surrounding it.
• Harley sensed a Spirit World aura from the Dementors and decided to capture one for study, though she knew she would need a careful plan.
• Dementors boarded the train and searched compartments, draining the young wizards' happiness as they looked for Sirius Black.
• Professor Lupin ordered the Dementors to leave and answer to Professor Dumbledore, but they ignored him and continued searching.

Harley drove the Dementors from the Hogwarts Express with her Medusa Patronus, then discovered it might share abilities with her Mythical Creature Form. The train continued toward Hogwarts, while Lupin checked on the shaken students and Harley showed him her Patronus again.

• Lupin warned the Dementors to stop harming the students, but Harley summoned her Medusa Patronus and drove them off the train.
• The Dementor leader swallowed the subordinates who had disobeyed its orders and warned the remaining Dementors to obey.
• Harley realized her Patronus might be able to shed serpents as avatars and decided to investigate whether it could contain the power of her Mythical Creature Form.
• Lupin checked on the students while the snack Witch handed out free chocolate, and Harley comforted Hermione before helping with the other students.
• Harley told Lupin he should have fought the Dementors more forcefully, then revealed that she had learned the Patronus Charm from Dumbledore's notebook and summoned Medusa again.

Harley impressed Lupin by casting a fully formed Patronus after only a short time studying the spell, then left Sirius with him under the guise of a tracking charm. At Hogwarts, she learned Dumbledore had rebuked Fudge over the Dementors, while McGonagall summoned Hermione to discuss her timetable and reminded Harley to answer an invitation by Friday.

• Lupin was astonished by Harley’s animal-shaped Patronus and urged her to discuss it with Dumbledore, then learned she had mastered the spell in only a few weeks.
• Harley left Sirius with Lupin and secretly cast a curse on him, claiming it was only a tracking spell.
• Harley and Hermione traveled through the rain to Hogwarts, where Dementors hovered over the gates, and Harley speculated that Fudge was becoming anxious.
• McGonagall told Harley that Dumbledore had sent Fudge a Howler about the Dementors and praised her Patronus, then asked her to answer an invitation by Friday.
• McGonagall took Hermione away to discuss a problem with her timetable, while Harley entered the Great Hall amid whispers about her summer achievements.

Harley returned to Hogwarts to a rapturous welcome after protecting the students from Dementors on the train. During the Sorting Ceremony, she sensed the power of time and fate around Hermione, and Dumbledore began warning the students about safety.

• The students applauded Harley for driving off the Dementors, and the Weasley Twins celebrated her return with firecrackers and cheers.
• Snape made a pointed remark to Dumbledore and Lupin about the Marauders bullying him, but Flitwick's arrival for the Sorting Ceremony interrupted the exchange.
• Hermione returned from speaking with McGonagall, and Harley sensed a power tied to time and fate around her.
• Hermione told Harley that McGonagall had helped resolve her conflicting class schedule but had made her promise to keep the solution secret.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students back and began his speech by stressing the importance of safety.

At Hogwarts’ feast, Dumbledore introduced Professors Lupin and Hagrid and celebrated Harley Potter’s championship and Order of Merlin. Afterward, Lupin freed the bound black dog from his trunk, revealed Sirius, and restrained him before confronting him in his office.

• Dumbledore warned the students about the danger posed by the Dementors and introduced Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Dumbledore announced Hagrid as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor, and the students applauded him.
• Dumbledore congratulated Harley Potter for winning the Wizarding School Potion Championship and receiving the Order of Merlin, First Class.
• After the feast, Lupin went to his office, released the unconscious black dog from his trunk, and watched it transform into Sirius.
• Lupin bound Sirius to the wall with restraints and protective spells, and Sirius remarked on Lupin’s caution.
• Lupin told Sirius to be grateful for his caution, saying James or Peter would have killed him.

Sirius convinced Lupin that Peter Pettigrew had survived by disguising himself as Ron’s rat, and Lupin searched Sirius’s memories to verify his account. Meanwhile, Harley examined Hermione’s Time-Turner and sensed its powers over time and fate.

• Sirius recounted how Fudge had given him newspapers in Azkaban and told Lupin to check the dates and front pages.
• Lupin found Peter’s rat form in photographs with Ron and noticed its missing toe matched the finger left at Peter’s supposed death scene.
• Sirius offered Lupin access to his memories, and Lupin used Legilimency to witness the past and feel Sirius’s remorse.
• Lupin asked Sirius why he had not told Harley the truth, then silently pointed him toward the food.
• Harley used her Mythical Creature Form to examine Hermione’s golden hourglass and deduced that it could reverse time and carried an aura of fate.

Harley discovered that Hermione’s hourglass contained Sequence 6 Beyonder Characteristics and had been empowered by contact with a vanished, Angel-level item, deepening her doubts about how Beyonder Characteristics worked. The next morning, she noticed Hermione’s packed schedule and saw Sirius Black reflected in her mirror, anticipating more trouble.

• Harley examined Hermione’s hourglass and found that its sand resembled miniature clocks associated with Amon’s time-related power.
• Harley concluded that the hourglass contained low-sequence Beyonder Characteristics and had gained its strength from a missing, higher-level item.
• Harley returned the hourglass to Hermione and wondered whether Beyonder Characteristics differed from the medicinal properties she had previously understood.
• At breakfast, Harley memorized Hermione’s timetable and realized Hermione would be using the hourglass to attend overlapping classes.
• Harley used Spirit Vision to see Sirius Black in her mirror and looked forward to what he and Remus might do next.

Harley and Hermione attended their first Divination class, where Professor Trelawney introduced herself as Cassandra Trelawney’s great-great-granddaughter and claimed Divination depended on innate Sight. Harley doubted Trelawney’s abilities while her classmates took her vague pronouncements seriously.

• Harley and Hermione left the library and joined the students waiting for the Divination classroom to open.
• Hermione recognized Cassandra Trelawney’s name on the plaque and wondered whether Professor Sybill Trelawney was related to the famous Seer.
• Hermione stopped Parvati and Lavender from climbing the ladder first, and the students entered the cramped, overheated classroom.
• Professor Trelawney emerged from the fireplace, introduced herself as Cassandra Trelawney’s great-great-granddaughter, and described Divination as the art of glimpsing the future and fate.
• Professor Trelawney questioned several students, including Neville, and gave vague predictions that alarmed him.
• Harley sensed no magic from Professor Trelawney and grew doubtful, while the other students were impressed by her pronouncements.

Harley and Hermione found Professor Trelawney’s tea-leaf lesson unconvincing, and Trelawney turned Harley’s cup into a dramatic prediction of danger. The class crowded around Trelawney after her performance, while Harley saw through her act.

• Professor Trelawney instructed the students to read tea leaves in pairs, and Harley cooled the tea in her and Hermione’s cups.
• Harley told Hermione about Magic Mirror divination, claiming she had found instructions in the Potter family vault.
• Hermione interpreted the tea leaves in Harley’s cup as a Quaffle and questioned whether tea-leaf reading could predict the future.
• Professor Trelawney took Harley’s cup and dramatically predicted enemies, an attack, and danger, while Hermione challenged her claims.
• Professor Trelawney cried out and collapsed into an armchair, and the students crowded around her and Harley’s cup.

During Divination, Professor Trelawney declared that Harley would die after seeing The Grim, but Harley challenged her to compare the omen with Voldemort and made her pretend to fall asleep. After class, Harley confirmed that Hermione had used time travel to attend her other lesson.

• Professor Trelawney read Harley’s tea leaves and announced that The Grim foretold her death, while Hermione angrily rejected the prediction.
• Harley questioned Professor Trelawney about whether The Grim was more dangerous than the Basilisk, Lockhart, and Voldemort, and quietly reminded her about the Death Eater outside Hogwarts.
• Professor Trelawney widened her eyes and slumped into a feigned sleep before she could answer, ending the class’s excited speculation.
• Hermione complained about the lesson as she and Harley walked toward Transfiguration, and Harley explained why Professor Trelawney had pretended to sleep.
• Harley noticed that the Demoness aura she had placed on Hermione was gone and inferred that Hermione had completed her time travel.

Harley attended Professor McGonagall’s first Transfiguration lesson of the year, where McGonagall dismissed Professor Trelawney’s prediction that Harley would die and assigned essays to students who failed to transform tortoises into teapots. After lunch, Harley and Hermione met Hagrid for Care of Magical Creatures, where he revealed that Professor Lupin had borrowed Harley’s dog Black for a trip into the Forbidden Forest.

• Harley entered Transfiguration with Hermione and watched Professor McGonagall demonstrate her Animagus transformation into a tabby cat.
• Professor McGonagall told the class not to worry about Professor Trelawney’s prediction that Harley would encounter an omen, saying Trelawney had predicted McGonagall’s death when she was a student.
• Professor McGonagall reviewed turning a living creature into an object and assigned essays to students who could not transform a tortoise into a teapot.
• Harley and Hermione joined Hagrid for their first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, and Hagrid said Professor Lupin had borrowed Black to track magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest.
• Hagrid praised Black and asked Harley to lend him the dog so he could breed powerful Crup crossbreeds.

Harley stopped Hagrid from using Black to breed dogs, then helped the class open their Monster Book of Monsters during their first Care of Magical Creatures lesson. In the Forbidden Forest, Lupin and Sirius watched Ron as they searched for information about the traitor.

• Harley convinced Hagrid that Black was infertile, so Hagrid abandoned his plan to use him for breeding.
• Hagrid led the students to a paddock near the Forbidden Forest and introduced their Monster Book of Monsters textbooks.
• Harley showed the students how to open the books by sensing the flow of magic, and Hagrid awarded Gryffindor five points.
• Harley noticed someone watching her from the forest and smiled toward the watcher.
• Lupin and Sirius watched Ron from the Forbidden Forest, and Sirius regretted not confronting the Weasley boy earlier.