Recaps

Darren helps Harry and his friends uncover the danger to the Philosopher’s Stone, then shields them as they confront Voldemort beneath Hogwarts. After the Stone is destroyed, Darren reconciles with Dumbledore and leaves school with Harry, bound for Aunt Petunia’s home over the summer.

• Dumbledore punished Draco for bullying Neville and striking Darren, while refusing Darren’s request to leave Hogwarts.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Darren discovered Hagrid’s dragon egg, named the hatchling Norbert, and helped arrange to send it to Charlie.
• Darren took blame for the dragon affair and joined Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Malfoy in detention in the Forbidden Forest, where a hooded figure attacked him and injured Alicorn.
• Harry concluded that Snape meant to steal the Philosopher’s Stone for Voldemort, and he and his friends entered the underground chambers to reach it before Snape.
• Darren helped Harry and his friends through the chambers, saving them from the Devil’s Snare and chess pieces before following Harry into the room where Voldemort waited.
• Voldemort tortured Darren and tried to make Harry find the Stone, but Harry attacked Quirrell, forcing Voldemort to flee.
• Dumbledore apologized for failing to protect Darren and admitted his prejudice, while Darren forgave him, and Slytherin ultimately won the House Cup after Dumbledore awarded Darren sixty points.
• Darren and Harry boarded the train home, and Darren told Harry that Dumbledore had arranged for them both to stay with Aunt Petunia over the summer.

Darren reconciled Harry with the Dursleys, met the Flamels, and repeatedly put himself in danger to protect those around him. The brothers reunited at Hogwarts, where Darren’s illness and the troll incident left Snape increasingly protective and resentful.

• Darren comforted Harry about their childhood, helped him forgive Petunia, and won the Dursleys’ warmer treatment with gifts and a birthday celebration.
• Darren’s Scene Card brought him into Nicolas Flamel’s mindscape, where he comforted Nicolas and interrupted Death’s attempt to claim him, leading Nicolas and Perenelle to seek Darren as their heir.
• Dobby warned Harry not to return to Hogwarts and admitted he had stolen the boys’ letters, while Darren tried to discover which family Dobby served.
• Darren reassured Harry that the Dursleys still cared for him and brought him to the Weasleys, where the family prepared for school and Harry accidentally overheard Lucius and Draco Malfoy insulting them.
• Darren defended Ron against Draco, then used Obscurus to separate Mr. Weasley and Lucius when their fight escalated in Diagon Alley.
• When Nicolas and Perenelle offered Darren the chance to become their heir, Darren asked them to choose Harry instead and was shot while protecting Perenelle from a gunman.
• Perenelle identified Darren with her dead uncle Galil, while Nicolas hoped to raise him as an heir, and Darren later panicked over Harry’s disappearance and collapsed after using Obscurus at Hogwarts.
• Harry and Ron flew Ron’s car to Hogwarts, and Snape later found Darren collapsed beside Harry and a dead troll, fearing Darren had died before McGonagall explained he had only overexerted himself.

Snape’s memories of Harry and Darren’s first year lead into the brothers’ return to Hogwarts, where Darren repeatedly shields Harry and earns the trust of others. As the Chamber of Secrets mystery begins, Darren encounters the Basilisk and reports the danger to Dumbledore and Snape while concealing his secrets.

• Snape recalled Darren’s role in the Philosopher’s Stone crisis, including taking the Cruciatus Curse for Harry, and Dumbledore urged Snape to treat Harry more kindly.
• Snape learned Darren had cured Kenli, sent Darren a birthday album of Lily and Potter photographs, and listened as Lucius questioned whether Snape still loved Lily.
• Darren arrived at Hogwarts injured and lost control of his magic while asking for Harry, but Snape calmed him and later brought Harry and Ron to account for flying the car to school.
• Darren apologized to Harry, offered to replace Ron’s broken wand, and defended Hermione after Flint called her a Mudblood, causing Flint to apologize.
• Darren secretly cleaned Filch’s office to protect Harry from punishment, then followed the Basilisk’s voice and claimed responsibility for Mrs. Norris’s Petrification to shield his brother.
• Darren took Filch’s blows while protecting Harry and later persuaded Dumbledore and Snape not to fire Filch, then defended Harry as students began suspecting him of being Slytherin’s heir.
• Darren, Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigated the place where Mrs. Norris had been found, and Darren saw the Basilisk’s brass-colored eyes before warning the others and reporting the danger to Dumbledore and Snape.
• Darren showed Dumbledore fabricated memories during Legilimency and secretly neutralized Veritaserum while Snape believed it had taken effect.

Darren survived Dumbledore’s interrogation, then secretly defeated Tom Riddle and staged the aftermath as a Death Eater attack. At his Ministry hearing, Darren manipulated Fudge and the Wizengamot before a staged spell injured Rita Skeeter and Dumbledore took him back to Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore questioned Darren under Veritaserum, discovered Voldemort’s soul fragment inside him, and Snape used Obliviate on him, but Darren negated the spell.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ron investigated the Heir while Darren discovered that Lezi had taken his Invisibility Cloak and suspected his friends were making Polyjuice Potion.
• After Gryffindor’s match, Flint lured Darren to the Black Lake, where Tom Riddle and the Slytherins tried to capture him and Tom attempted to possess him.
• Darren resisted Tom, altered memories with the Fake Card, revived six survivors, and staged the scene as a Death Eater attack before lying injured until help arrived.
• Dumbledore and the professors found Darren, and the Slytherin survivors gave a false account that blamed Death Eaters for the attack and described Darren protecting them.
• At Darren’s Ministry hearing, he appeared to accept blame and used an edited Remembrall projection as Fudge and Dumbledore questioned the Slytherin students.
• Darren claimed he had deliberately let the Death Eaters escape, making the Wizengamot suspect that Fudge had pressured him, and Fudge adjourned the trial.
• When Rita Skeeter accused Darren of causing the deaths, Darren cast Reducto at himself, but Dumbledore blocked it and the spell wounded Skeeter before he Apparated Darren to Hogwarts.