Chapter Summaries

Allen gathered Umbrella Squad and assigned them to complete ordinary Animagus transformations during their quiet time at Durmstrang. He gave them the supplies and instructions, while preparing to seek permission to research the school library; the meeting ended with Luna asking about their sauna plans and Fatty admitting he had swallowed his Mandrake leaf.

• Allen told Umbrella Squad that they would use their free time to complete Animagus transformations, while warning them that magical-creature forms were beyond their current abilities.
• Wolf Mom explained that the members had delayed trying the transformation because of their studies and Auror training, and the squad accepted Allen’s assignment.
• Allen distributed boxes containing Mandrake leaves and other supplies, then explained the lengthy preparation and the need to wait for a storm before transforming.
• Allen said he would ask Karkaroff for permission to borrow Durmstrang books and copy unfamiliar material for the family.
• Luna woke and asked Allen about their promised sauna and Birch Twigs, prompting the squad to hide their amusement.
• Fatty asked Allen for another Mandrake leaf after admitting he had accidentally swallowed his.

Gryffindor defeated Slytherin in Quidditch after Harry caught the Snitch, though Ron’s collapse left Harry worried about Gryffindor’s chances in the House Cup. Meanwhile, Umbridge and Josephine Harris captured the transformed Remus Lupin, and the chapter ended with Hogwarts students witnessing him as a werewolf.

• Slytherin’s singing rattled Ron during the match, and Warrington scored repeatedly while Ron struggled to defend the hoops.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch while Gryffindor trailed by 120 points, winning the match but worrying that Ron’s poor performance would cost them the House Cup.
• Allen found Luna reading strange stories in the Durmstrang library and noticed a message from his arm as the full moon rose.
• Umbridge led Josephine Harris and the Werewolf Capture Division through Honeydukes’ secret passage, where they subdued Remus Lupin in his transformed state.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione saw Lupin presented in the Hogwarts square, where the full moon’s light triggered his howl and terrified the gathered students.

At Durmstrang, Draco and the other exchange students watched reports of Remus Lupin’s capture and the backlash against Dumbledore for employing a werewolf. As public outrage grew, Dumbledore had to accept the Ministry’s appointment of Umbridge as High Inquisitor, deputy headmistress, and Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, giving the Ministry unprecedented control over Hogwarts.

• A television report revealed that the Ministry had captured Lupin after he lost control, while Dumbledore said someone must have tampered with his Wolfsbane Potion and Snape denied doing so.
• Umbridge questioned how Dumbledore could guarantee student safety, and frightened students and parents condemned Lupin’s presence at Hogwarts.
• Harry defended Lupin, and Hermione, Ginny, and Ron joined him, but many students remained wary and Lupin gestured for Harry to stop speaking up for him.
• Reports of angry parents turned public opinion against Dumbledore, forcing him to compromise with Fudge to protect Lupin from Ministry harassment and exaggerated charges.
• Fudge appointed Umbridge Hogwarts’s High Inquisitor, deputy headmistress, and Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, while Percy said the worried governors supported the Minister’s action.

Harry and the Hogwarts students protested Umbridge’s treatment of Lupin by casting Patronuses as he came to collect his belongings. Their show of support left Lupin moved and newly at peace with his wolf Patronus as he prepared to leave Hogwarts.

• Harry saw Umbridge enforcing her rules and entered her Defense Against the Dark Arts class, where students were forced to study theory in silence.
• Lupin arrived with members of the Werewolf Capture Division to collect his belongings, and Parvati defended him before Umbridge gave her detention.
• Harry, Ron, and other Gryffindors stood up for Lupin, while Neville blamed himself for not supporting him earlier.
• Neville, Harry, and Ron cast their Patronuses, prompting students from across the classroom, including Hermione and Slytherins, to join them.
• Moved by the students’ support, Lupin’s escorts stepped aside, and Lupin cast a silver wolf Patronus that circled the students.

Remus Lupin completed his release registration at the Ministry of Magic, where Penelope Clearwater intervened to take him away. At Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, Neville, and Parvati began Umbridge’s painful detention, writing a sentence that carved itself into their hands.

• Lupin accompanied two Ministry employees to complete his release paperwork and learned that he still needed to submit a movement form.
• Lupin encountered Amos Diggory arguing with a colleague about spending too long in the bathroom.
• Penelope Clearwater presented a permit signed by Josephine Harris, obtained Lupin’s release papers, and took him with her.
• Harry, Ron, Neville, and Parvati entered Umbridge’s office for detention, where she ordered them to write that they would not break the rules again.
• The four discovered that Umbridge’s quills used their blood to carve the sentence into their hands, causing repeated pain as they wrote.

Penelope brought Remus Lupin to Umbrella Corporation’s Biological Research Department, where he saw disciplined, magically enhanced giants living and working alongside staff. She led him through the guarded grounds to a Western-style mansion, where he found Allen Harris waiting for him.

• Remus Lupin saw Umbrella Corporation’s armed guards and worried that the company might be researching him as a werewolf.
• Penelope led Lupin into the Giant Reserve, where he watched bald giants march in formation, sing, and play poker with ordinary staff.
• Lupin wondered how the giants had gained their abilities and resolved to tell the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore if he escaped.
• Penelope guided Lupin through the protected grounds and into a Gothic mansion with Baroque details.
• Allen Harris invited Lupin into his sitting room and offered him tea, prompting Lupin to remark that he had thought Allen would be at Durmstrang.

Allen recruited Lupin to Umbrella Corporation, explaining his plan to improve werewolves’ lives through research into Lycanthropy and better treatments. Lupin accepted despite reservations about experiments on living Dark Wizards, then learned Sirius Black had been detained after trying to reach him.

• Allen questioned Lupin about the causes of werewolf discrimination and described how fear of infection, failed Ministry policies, and prejudice had hindered research and support.
• Allen revealed that Lupin’s father had angered Fenrir Greyback, who retaliated by infecting Lupin when he was a child.
• Allen invited Lupin to join Umbrella’s effort to develop better Wolfsbane Potion and address Lycanthropy, offering him employment and a role helping with research.
• Lupin agreed to join despite objecting to experiments on living subjects, after Allen said the test subjects would be wicked Dark Wizards.
• Allen told Lupin that Hermione Granger led Umbrella Corporation and explained why he would build his own strength instead of aligning with Dumbledore against Fudge.
• Allen informed Lupin that Sirius Black had been subdued by the guards after breaking in, and asked Lupin to collect him and calm him down.

After Harry and Ron were punished by Umbridge, Professor Trelawney was dismissed and publicly driven from Hogwarts. Umbridge humiliated Professor McGonagall with accusations about her past, causing her to faint, while Dumbledore restrained his anger and took McGonagall to the hospital wing as Trelawney left.

• Harry and Ron returned to Gryffindor Tower despairing over Harry’s Quidditch ban, and Ron blamed Hermione and the Training Class before Harry urged him not to fall for Umbridge’s attempt to divide them.
• Professor Trelawney sat distraught in the Entrance Hall after Umbridge dismissed her, while Dumbledore insisted that she could remain at Hogwarts and Umbridge claimed authority to expel her.
• Umbridge publicly accused McGonagall and Dumbledore of unfairly bending school rules for Harry and Gryffindor, citing Harry’s Quidditch selection and the previous year’s House Cup points.
• Umbridge attacked McGonagall’s character and personal history, and McGonagall fainted from rage as Dumbledore confronted Umbridge.
• Trelawney urged Dumbledore to leave Umbridge alone and departed Hogwarts with her trunks, while Dumbledore carried McGonagall toward the hospital wing.

Hermione arranged a television job for Professor Trelawney and later helped Harry and Ron find a place to practice defensive magic. The chapter ended with Hermione showing them the Room of Requirement, where they discovered Allen Harris’s name carved beside another person’s initials.

• Hermione offered Professor Trelawney a divination program on Harris Television, and Trelawney accepted the job.
• Hermione learned from Harry that Fudge was blocking combat training and information about disappearances, while Ron proposed that Harry start a separate Training Class.
• Hermione explained why the Shrieking Shack would not work and offered to show Harry and Ron the Room of Requirement.
• Hermione led Harry and Ron into Allen Harris’s former research room and explained that the Room would provide a training space if they requested one.
• Ron pointed out the carved initials “R.R.” beside Allen Harris’s name, and Hermione said another girl had found the room and carved them there.

Allen prepared a welcome gathering for Fleur while Harry launched a practical spell-training club at Hogwarts, which he named Dumbledore’s Army. When Hermione explained the unintended meaning of the club’s Y.M.D.A. abbreviation, Harry and Ron were left embarrassed.

• Allen brewed Attribute Potions, invited Fleur to a Harris Family gathering, and left his mother to organize it.
• Harry and Ron opened the Room of Requirement for their first training session, where students practiced Expelliarmus in pairs.
• The group chose the name Dumbledore’s Army, shortened to Y.M.D.A., and Harry sent out the news using Hermione’s modified Galleons.
• At the second session, many students were absent, and Harry and Ron found Muggle-born members leaving the common room without explanation.
• Hermione complained to Harry and Ron about struggling to manage Crookshanks’s weight and appetite.
• Hermione explained that Y.M.D.A. could suggest a gay anthem, leaving Harry choking on his drink and Ron blushing.

Allen shared what he had learned about Vecna's Eye and created a new fire-and-music charm with Luna. Draco completed his Animagus transformation, but discovered that he had become a skunk, leaving him and the Umbrella Squad dismayed.

• Allen told Luna that Vecna's Eye was linked to the Monte family and that its owners had often met tragic ends.
• Allen used a musical charm to make pages dance, and Luna combined it with a warming flame spell to create music-playing fire.
• Draco told Allen that he had felt a second heartbeat and was ready to attempt the next stage of becoming an Animagus.
• Allen summoned Cotton to create a snowstorm, and Draco drank his completed potion before beginning the transformation.
• Draco resisted becoming a Ferret and successfully transformed, but discovered that his Animagus form was a skunk.

Draco Malfoy got lost while practicing his Animagus form and fled from a bear, while Allen later recognized that Hogwarts students lacked practical combat experience compared with Durmstrang students. Allen planned to discuss reforming British magical education with his father at an upcoming gathering.

• Draco regretted becoming a skunk Animagus as he followed Long-Eye’s map into the forest and got lost.
• Draco ran from a giant bear, which suddenly overtook him and fled from something rustling behind them.
• Vasily mistook Draco’s flight for bravery and offered to share bear meat and vodka with him.
• Long-Eye told Allen about Draco’s encounter, and Allen asked him and the others to practice their Animagus transformations before returning to Britain.
• Allen reflected on Hogwarts students’ lack of practical combat training and planned to discuss educational reform with his father.
• Luna told Allen he was lying on her hair, and he apologized.

Albert welcomed Fleur into the Harris family, and Allen marked her as a member before showing her Ravenclaw Tower. The chapter ended with Albert and Fleur sealing their love with a Blood Pact.

• The Harris family welcomed Albert and Fleur to Harris Manor with a celebration and ceremony.
• Under Owen's witness, Fleur and Allen made an Unbreakable Vow, and Allen placed the Omniscience Mark on Fleur's left arm.
• Albert brought Fleur to Ravenclaw Tower, explained that Voldemort had returned, and asked her to focus on strengthening herself.
• While Allen modified Fleur's wand, Fleur toured the tower with the family and later joined Albert in the Perception Room.
• Fleur cut her palm, and she and Albert mingled their blood to create a Blood Pact promising not to hurt each other or hide their whereabouts.

Fleur and Albert celebrated their engagement as Allen gave Fleur gifts and offered help for Gabrielle, while Hermione and Harry discussed Ravenclaw’s success and Dumbledore’s Army. Harry then dreamed through a snake’s attack on Arthur Weasley, woke in pain, and insisted to Ron that the vision was real.

• Allen gave Fleur her modified Growth Wand and potions, and offered to support Gabrielle if she joined the Harris Family after graduating.
• Daisy complained to Penelope about Fleur, while Penelope privately suspected Daisy’s jealousy stemmed from Fleur’s beauty and her Blood Pact Badge.
• Hermione told Luna that Ravenclaw had beaten Slytherin and could sweep the year’s Quidditch honors if Harry remained barred from playing.
• Harry and Ron discussed Ravenclaw’s strength and Dumbledore’s Army, while rumors about Ron’s orientation resurfaced after the group’s name change.
• Harry dreamed that he attacked a man as a snake, then woke with a painful scar and told Ron that Arthur Weasley had been attacked and that he had witnessed it.

Allen Harris helped the Weasley children reach St. Mungo's to see their badly injured father, Arthur, despite the Order of the Phoenix's attempt to keep them away. Arthur survived the night but remained gravely wounded, and Allen promised his family would help shield him from Ministry punishment.

• Owen Harris sent Allen to St. Mungo's after learning Arthur Weasley had been attacked, while he and Albert went to the Ministry of Magic.
• Allen entered Number 12, Grimmauld Place using Dragon-hide Protective Gloves and offered to take Harry and the Weasley children to the hospital.
• Allen brought the children to St. Mungo's, where they saw Arthur unconscious and Molly Weasley confronted Allen for bringing them.
• Daisy told Molly that special bandages had stopped Arthur's bleeding, but a rare snake venom kept his wounds from healing while his mother prepared an antidote.
• Allen told Molly that the Aurors had failed to find the snake and that Owen would try to prevent Arthur from being punished for entering the Hall of Prophecy.

Owen Harris oversaw the installation of surveillance devices at the Ministry, while Allen discussed the Harris Family’s business plans and the coming war with Hermione. Dumbledore had Snape begin teaching Harry Occlumency, and the chapter ended with Allen at Durmstrang as Luna woke from a dream.

• Owen Harris told Fudge that the Ministry’s new surveillance devices would reveal break-ins and attacks quickly, though they could not prevent them.
• Allen told Hermione that Arthur Weasley was out of danger, then discussed the Harris Family’s profits and Hermione’s proposal to develop Housework Golems.
• Hermione laughed when Allen told her about Draco Malfoy’s Animagus form and the Whomping Willow passage.
• Dumbledore warned Snape that Voldemort might sense Harry’s thoughts and feelings, and Snape took Harry to begin Occlumency lessons.
• Allen returned to Durmstrang, resolved to strengthen the Harris Family before war and spend more time in the Training Room, then woke Luna when his blanket shifted.

Allen refused to involve the Harris Family in Voldemort’s planned breakout at Azkaban, while Harry experienced a painful vision and learned that the prisoners had escaped. The chapter ended with Harry promising Neville they would make their parents proud.

• Hermione warned Parvati and Lavender that Umbridge might target Firenze, while Firenze taught Harry that the stars foretold another war.
• After receiving Lucius Malfoy’s message about Voldemort’s Azkaban breakout plan, Allen told him to follow Voldemort’s orders and said the Harris Family would take no action.
• Rodolphus Lestrange assured Lucius that the Dementors had agreed to help the Death Eaters break prisoners out of Azkaban.
• Harry collapsed from a painful vision that left him hearing mad laughter and feeling his scar throb.
• The Daily Prophet reported that dozens of prisoners had escaped Azkaban, including Bellatrix Lestrange, and Neville told Harry how she and Rodolphus had tortured his parents.
• Harry promised Neville that they would make their parents proud.

Emily attended Umbridge’s meeting to recruit wealthy pure-blood students into the Inquisitorial Squad, while Arthur Weasley recovered at St. Mungo’s using a new suturing treatment. The Weasleys prepared to leave the hospital amid family tensions over Percy’s refusal to come home for Christmas.

• Umbridge invited Emily, Pansy, and other selected students to join the Inquisitorial Squad, promising them powers equal to the professors’.
• Pansy criticized Umbridge for bypassing Hermione and trying to divide the Training Class, while Emily chatted with Crabbe and Goyle about tea.
• Molly discovered that Arthur’s wound had been stitched with a Muggle-based treatment, and a young man explained that Umbrella Corporation had developed it for snake-venom wounds.
• Ron asked whether Percy would come home for the holidays, and Molly cried when she said he had refused.
• Augustus Pye examined Arthur and cleared him for discharge, and the Weasleys left St. Mungo’s while George and Fred recounted the strange patients they had seen.

Allen gave Luna a Blood Pact for Christmas, and she returned to spend the holiday with her father. At Harris Tower, Daisy and Fleur argued until Luna’s unconventional response left them briefly at ease with each other.

• Allen asked Luna what she wanted for Christmas, and she requested a Blood Pact while asking him not to tell Hermione or Penelope.
• Allen gave Luna the Blood Pact, and Luna said she would visit his family for lunch before spending the holiday with Xenophilius Lovegood.
• At the Harris family Christmas dinner, Daisy and Fleur argued over Christmas pudding until Luna called Fleur too picky and Daisy insufficiently elegant.
• Daisy and Fleur called Luna a mad girl, but Luna agreed without taking offense and pointed out that it did not matter whether someone was picky or elegant.
• Daisy and Fleur protested Luna’s teasing, and Luna Disapparated, leaving the two of them standing together with less discomfort than before.

Harry endured Umbridge's growing restrictions while training the D.A., and Umbridge began questioning students with forced cups of tea. At Carson Monte's residence, Allen told a wolf to make sure Fatty completed his transformation before they returned to Britain.

• Harry threw himself into D.A. training as Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad harassed Gryffindor students and Quidditch players.
• Umbridge suspected Dumbledore and Harry were organizing something, while Filch posted harsher rules and boasted about gaining authority to punish students.
• The Weasley Twins left Umbridge's chocolates for Filch, whose face erupted in painful blisters after he ate one; pus then splattered Umbridge when he confronted her.
• Umbridge summoned Snape, then posted a notice requiring students to submit to questioning and forced each student she questioned to drink tea.
• At Carson Monte's residence, Allen instructed a gray wolf to hurry Fatty's practice so he could finish transforming before they returned to Britain.