Chapter Summaries

Rita Skeeter published an exposé revealing Dolores Umbridge’s family history, cruelty, and rise through the Ministry, prompting Ferdinand to warn Wade against trusting reporters or seeking publicity. Umbridge retaliated against the Daily Prophet, but a barrage of Howlers drenched and terrified her while Skeeter captured the scene.

• Rita Skeeter’s article exposed Umbridge’s false pure-blood claims, mistreatment of her family and classmates, and advancement at the Ministry through flattery and stolen credit.
• Ferdinand warned Wade that reporters could distort the truth and advised him to avoid publicity, and Wade agreed.
• Umbridge stormed into the Daily Prophet office and threatened tighter regulations after failing to find Skeeter.
• The editor-in-chief deflected Umbridge’s accusations while staff rushed to print more copies of Skeeter’s popular article.
• A flock of Howlers attacked Umbridge, covering her in foul water and leaving her terrified as Skeeter transformed back and photographed her.

Wade left home with Moody for the start of term and boarded the crimson train, where Harry confronted him about his praise of Mrs. Umbridge. As the train departed with his friends aboard, Wade looked forward to getting the Time-Turner that night.

• Moody took Wade to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters after Wade said goodbye to Fiona and Ferdinand.
• Moody checked Wade's compartment for danger, then left him aboard the train.
• Harry showed Wade a newspaper image of Mrs. Umbridge and challenged his praise of her, but Wade defended judging her character beyond her appearance.
• Harry greeted the Weasley Family, and Michael, Theo, and Ryan joined Wade in the compartment.
• Hermione gave the group small fire-breathing iron towers and learned from Wade how to open The Monster Book of Monsters.
• The train began departing, and Wade anticipated receiving the Time-Turner by that night.

Wade and his friends traveled safely to Hogwarts without encountering Dementors, then used magic to shelter themselves and the first-years from the rain. Astoria thanked them for their kindness, and the group boarded the carriages for the castle.

• Wade noticed the unusually quiet train corridor and later returned to the compartment with Michael as the train approached Hogwarts.
• The train reached the station without a Dementor attack, despite the rain and icy, muddy platform.
• Wade conjured a magical umbrella, then transformed leaves into umbrellas and gave them to his friends and several first-years.
• Astoria asked Michael to pass her floral umbrella to Daphne, who had forgotten hers, and he sent it to her as the group boarded the carriages.
• Hermione remarked that Astoria seemed different from Pansy, while Ron predicted that she would become like the other Slytherins.

Wade and Hermione met with Professor McGonagall, who gave them Time-Turners so they could attend their twelve overlapping classes. They swore to keep the devices secret and follow strict rules for using them.

• Wade traveled to Hogwarts with Theo, Michael, Ryan, and Neville, explaining that he had been using a spare Walnut Wood Wand.
• Neville recalled that Bellatrix Lestrange had owned a Walnut Wood Wand, and Michael asked Theo to take him to the second-hand Wand shop.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Wade and Hermione to her office and warned them that taking twelve subjects would be a heavy burden.
• Professor McGonagall gave Wade and Hermione Time-Turners and explained the dangers and laws governing time travel.
• Wade and Hermione swore to use the Time-Turners only for their studies and keep them secret before taking the devices.

Wade and Hermione received Time-Turners and discussed the possibility of controlling time before joining the Hogwarts feast. Dumbledore announced Hagrid as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor, leaving Michael worried about taking the class.

• Wade and Hermione hid their Time-Turners beneath their robes and speculated about time magic as they waited outside the Great Hall.
• Professor McGonagall found Wade and Hermione lingering in the corridor and led them into the Great Hall after the Sorting Ceremony.
• Hermione gave Ron a vague explanation for her meeting with McGonagall, while Percy exchanged a knowing smile with her.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students and announced that Hagrid had replaced Professor Kettleburn as Care of Magical Creatures professor.
• Draco Malfoy mocked Hagrid, while Michael asked Wade whether Hagrid would be dangerous in class.
• Wade reassured Michael that Hagrid had a good temper and explained that Hagrid even found Fire Dragons adorable.

Wade tested the Time-Turner, rewinding time and studying its magical structure and hourglass sand. He discovered a resemblance between the sand’s magical patterns and fine particles in Gold Powder, leaving him wondering how the connection could involve Werewolves.

• Wade reconsidered taking Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures class after recalling how Hagrid had handled dangerous creatures during the Maze Challenge.
• Wade activated the Time-Turner in his dormitory and briefly appeared in the past, where Zoe recognized him as his future self.
• Wade rewound time again, suffered burning eyes, and left the dormitory under a Disillusionment Charm to avoid meeting his future self.
• Wade examined the Time-Turner with magical and Muggle instruments, but its powerful counter-spell prevented magical detection.
• Wade compared the hourglass sand with fine white particles in Gold Powder and recognized similarities in their magical patterns, which reminded him of the Werewolves.

Wade and Michael began the new term with a crowded schedule and attended Arithmancy, a subject few students had chosen. Professor Septima Vector introduced Arithmancy as a rigorous, calculation-based form of divination.

• Wade received a packed timetable, while the increased popularity of Divination and Muggle Studies forced Hogwarts to rearrange its schedule.
• Michael saw Wade's schedule and complained about the workload, then regretted not choosing more subjects after learning Wade could attend all twelve.
• Wade and Michael headed to Arithmancy, and Wade confirmed Hermione would not be late because she had a way to manage her overlapping classes.
• Hermione rushed into the sparsely occupied classroom after apparently attending Divination, and she avoided discussing what she had heard with Wade.
• Professor Septima Vector arrived and explained that Arithmancy used orderly mathematical calculations to explore character and destiny.

Wade attended his first Arithmancy lesson, then used his Time-Turner to return to an earlier part of the day. He arrived at Divination with Harry and the others, where Professor Trelawney’s classroom was described.

• Professor Vector taught the students how to calculate personality, soul, and social numbers from names, and Wade finished his calculations correctly.
• Professor Vector corrected Michael’s mistake after his interpretation portrayed him as a future dictator.
• Michael searched for Hermione and noticed Wade had disappeared, then saw Wade return from a side corridor.
• Wade used his Time-Turner to travel back, flew to the dormitory for more sleep, and later went to the North Tower.
• Wade greeted Harry and the others as they reached the Divination classroom, where Parvati eagerly examined a crystal ball.

Wade attended his first Divination class, where Professor Trelawney taught the students to read tea leaves and predicted that someone would leave them forever. Wade saw ominous shapes in the leaves, while Trelawney identified a sign of death in Harry’s cup.

• Wade spotted Professor Trelawney hiding in the classroom before she introduced herself to the students.
• Trelawney boasted about the rare gift of Sight and predicted that someone would leave the students forever around Easter.
• Wade and Neville read each other’s tea leaves, and Wade briefly saw a goat’s head in his own cup before offering Neville a more favorable interpretation.
• Trelawney stared into Harry’s cup and cried that it showed the worst omen: death.

Wade used the Time-Turner to attend Divination twice and study prophetic imagery before joining Michael for Transfiguration. The chapter ended with Michael recognizing Padma’s familiar sickly sweet fragrance and realizing it was time.

• Hermione disputed Trelawney’s Grim prediction, while Wade reassured Neville that a prophecy could warn of danger without guaranteeing death.
• After Divination, Wade turned the Time-Turner and went to the library to study books about tea-leaf divination and his apparent prophetic talent.
• Wade borrowed the books, met Michael, and went with him to Transfiguration, where McGonagall demonstrated her Animagus transformation and mocked the idea that Harry would die.
• Michael smelled a familiar, sickly sweet fragrance on Padma and realized that it was time.

Professor Burbage began teaching Muggle Studies to a larger class, but several Slytherins walked out in protest at her lesson on Muggle families and marriage. Wade found the class dull but decided to keep taking it, while Michael considered dropping it.

• Professor Burbage welcomed twenty-eight students and spoke about respecting Muggles and treating them as equals.
• Millicent mocked the textbook and Professor Burbage's lesson before leading several students out of class with false excuses.
• Hermione urged Professor Burbage to continue, and the professor resumed her lesson on Muggle driving licences.
• Michael told Wade that Muggle Studies was boring and asked whether he would drop the subject.
• Wade said he would keep taking Muggle Studies, and Michael glanced at the golden chain around Wade's neck.

Wade and Michael discussed Muggle Studies and Professor Burbage’s marriage to a Werewolf before discovering that their first Care of Magical Creatures class had been cancelled after an apparent accident involving Hippogriffs. The students returned to the castle, leaving Michael worried that the creatures might be gone before they could see them again.

• Wade lent Michael an illustrated children’s Encyclopedia, finished his homework, and left a copy with Professor Burbage as a replacement for her outdated Muggle Studies textbook.
• Michael argued that Remus was an exception among Werewolves and doubted that he would want his daughter to marry one.
• Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students found twelve Hippogriffs in an Enclosure near the Forbidden Forest but could not find Hagrid.
• Professor McGonagall arrived, announced that Care of Magical Creatures had been cancelled, and ordered the students back to the castle.
• Wade pointed out fresh bloodstains near the Enclosure, and Michael worried that someone had been hurt and that the Hippogriffs might not be there for their next class.

After a Hippogriff injured Draco Malfoy, Harry and Hagrid ended up in the Hospital Wing, where Hagrid blamed himself for the accident. Wade approached Malfoy and asked to talk, leaving their conversation about to begin.

• Wade and his classmates went to the Hospital Wing after hearing that Malfoy had been hurt in Hagrid’s class.
• Wade found Harry injured while protecting Malfoy from a Hippogriff, and Madam Pomfrey treated Harry with a foul-tasting potion.
• Hagrid blamed himself for the accident, but Michael, Ryan, and Padma reassured him and suggested ways to make future classes safer.
• Wade approached Malfoy, stopped him from reaching for his wand, and asked, “Shall we talk?”

Wade pressured Malfoy to forgive Hagrid by warning him against making a fuss, then offered him a chance to see Norberta. Malfoy chose to accompany Hagrid to the Headmaster's Office, while Harry remained in the infirmary, and Wade left for class convinced Hagrid would keep his job.

• Wade warned Malfoy not to exaggerate his injury or try to get Hagrid dismissed, and offered to let him see Norberta if he forgave Hagrid.
• Ginny told Hagrid that Professor McGonagall wanted him in the Headmaster's Office, and Malfoy insisted on going with him.
• Harry tried to leave the infirmary to defend Hagrid, but Madam Pomfrey made him stay in bed.
• Malfoy asked Hagrid about the dragon and learned that Hagrid considered himself Norberta's mother.
• Wade left for class with Ryan and explained that Hagrid might teach the class about Flobberworms if the situation was mishandled.

After the Hippogriff accident, Wade and Michael persuaded Hagrid to keep teaching Hippogriffs while offering students a safer alternative. Hagrid thanked Wade with a box of alchemical materials and began working with Professor McGonagall to become a better teacher.

• Professor McGonagall criticized Hagrid for introducing dangerous creatures, and Hagrid considered teaching Flobberworms instead.
• Wade and Michael persuaded Hagrid to offer Hippogriffs alongside harmless creatures such as Bowtruckles, and Hagrid agreed.
• Hagrid thanked Wade for helping prevent Malfoy from driving him out and gave him a box of alchemical materials he had collected.
• Professor McGonagall advised Hagrid on teaching, and Hagrid recorded her suggestions in his notebook.
• Hagrid resolved to work hard at teaching, remembering Wade, Michael and the others, and Harry's support.

Hagrid’s orderly lesson let students handle Puffskeins and fly Hippogriffs, after which Wade and Hermione hurried to Ancient Runes. Wade solved the classroom’s rune-locked door, and Hermione voiced her worry that using the Time-Turner too often would make them age faster before their professor arrived.

• Hagrid taught the students to approach and care for Puffskeins and Hippogriffs, then allowed them to ride the Hippogriffs over the Black Lake.
• Wade turned his Time-Turner and met Hermione on the way to Ancient Runes, where he advised her to use it to get more rest.
• Wade decoded the runes on the classroom door, opening it for the waiting students.
• Hermione told Wade she feared frequent time travel would make them live more years than everyone else, and Wade said he did not mind becoming an adult sooner.
• The Ancient Runes professor entered the classroom and surveyed the students.

Bathsheba Babbling began teaching Ancient Runes, warning the students about the subject’s difficulty and giving them a dense first lesson. Wade Grey impressed her with his knowledge, while the class left overwhelmed by the material and a translation assignment.

• Malfoy nearly touched a rune-carved bone in a display case before Bathsheba Babbling warned him it could cause grave illness and ordered the students to sit.
• Bathsheba Babbling introduced herself, noted that Wade Grey had solved the entrance riddle, and asked him about the passage’s source.
• Wade quoted the legend of Odin discovering Runes, and Bathsheba Babbling told him not to solve future entrance riddles so other students could try.
• Bathsheba Babbling explained the scope and difficulty of Ancient Runes, then demonstrated the kenaz symbol and taught its meanings.
• Wade followed the dense lesson with ease and learned from Bathsheba Babbling’s explanations, while the other students struggled to keep up.
• Bathsheba Babbling assigned an ancient document for translation, and one overwhelmed student burst into tears after class.

Wade explained that he had learned Ancient Runes by memorizing its reference books, then used his Time-Turner to complete homework and follow his earlier self. In Hogsmeade, Hagrid began apologizing to Lupin about Harry, but Lupin did not know what had happened.

• Lisa despaired over Ancient Runes, and Wade said memorizing the Runic Dictionary, Collection of Magical Glyphs, and Magical Phonetic Chart had made the subject easier for him.
• Hermione vouched that Wade had memorized the books in his first year, and Wade left for the library after she hurried to Potions.
• Wade turned back his Time-Turner, completed his homework in the Room of Requirement, and later joined Michael's conversation about Hippogriffs.
• Hagrid met Lupin at the Three Broomsticks and started apologizing about Harry, leaving Lupin confused about what had happened.

Hagrid told Lupin about the dangers and pressures of his new teaching job, and Lupin helped him plan how to improve his lessons. When Lupin asked who had visited Hogwarts during a crucial stretch of summer, Hagrid could not remember, leaving Lupin’s investigation at a dead end.

• Hagrid described how the responsibilities of teaching had overwhelmed him, and Lupin offered advice about lessons, homework, and asking Professor Kettleburn for help.
• Hagrid decided to visit Norberta and Professor Kettleburn the next day, then remembered that Lupin had asked to speak with him.
• Lupin asked Hagrid who had been at Hogwarts during the summer, and Hagrid recalled Dumbledore, Filch, reporters, Snape, McGonagall, and visiting professors from several schools.
• Lupin asked who had visited between July 16 and July 19, but Hagrid could not remember because he had been preoccupied with Aragog.
• Lupin gave up on questioning Hagrid and concluded that his investigation had reached a dead end.

Wade found Neville exhausting himself with spells after Snape’s threat to feed Neville’s Shrinking Potion to his toad, Leif. Wade comforted Neville as he broke down over the incident, which had stirred memories of his parents’ suffering, and stayed beside him while he cried.

• Wade arrived at the Umbrella Room and saw Neville repeatedly casting spells at a wooden target instead of doing his homework.
• Harry and Hermione told Wade that Snape had threatened to feed Neville’s faulty Shrinking Potion to Leif, though Hermione helped make the Potion work and Snape restored Leif to normal.
• Wade considered how useful Shrinking Potion could be and decided he should stockpile more.
• Neville repeatedly tried and failed to repair the damaged target with Reparo, then apologized to Wade for ruining it and for losing his temper.
• Wade told Neville he had nothing to apologize for and invited him to cry, realizing the incident had brought back memories of his parents being tortured by Death Eaters.