Recaps

Darren endured a hearing where he exposed Fudge’s threats and the Slytherins’ attacks, while the Remembrall footage forced Snape and Harry to confront what Darren had suffered. After the accused students were punished and Hogwarts resumed classes, Harry and his friends plotted against Malfoy as Darren became entangled in Lockhart’s Dueling Club.

• Dumbledore showed Snape the Remembrall footage of Darren being forced under the Imperius Curse to kill Harry, and Snape erupted in anger over how Dumbledore had treated Darren.
• Darren reunited with Harry, Hermione, and Ron, then accepted system missions that led him to act as though he did not care who killed him and to conceal Fudge’s threatening letter.
• At the Ministry hearing, Darren used Veritaserum-neutralizing points to accuse the Slytherins of attacking him and Fudge of threatening him, while evidence supported his testimony.
• Dumbledore exposed the Remembrall footage of the students using Unforgivable Curses on Darren, expelled them, and became temporary Minister for Magic as Fudge came under investigation.
• Nicolas Flamel certified himself as Darren’s teacher and gave him the name Darren James Flamel Potter, while Harry and his friends stayed at Hogwarts and planned to use Polyjuice Potion to spy on Malfoy.
• Darren was injured when a cauldron exploded in Snape’s Potions class, and Snape later learned that Darren had been targeted by Death Eaters while protecting others.
• Snape suspected that Darren might be his child but chose not to investigate or tell Dumbledore, fearing the truth could put Darren in danger.
• Darren joined Harry, Ron, and Hermione for Lockhart’s Dueling Club, where Lockhart paired himself with Snape and Darren tried to stop the duel.

Darren defended students from the Basilisk, uncovered Grindelwald’s bloodline in his mindscape, and discovered that the Saints had taken him. He brought the Saints under his protection and returned to Hogwarts, where Hermione showed him Tom Riddle’s diary.

• Darren exposed Lockhart’s cruelty during the Dueling Club, prompting Snape to erase Lockhart’s memory after he tried to leave Hogwarts.
• Darren faced the Basilisk near Justin, who was Petrified, and later made Malfoy’s conjured snake disappear.
• Harry and Darren heard rumors that they were Slytherin’s descendants, then spent Christmas together and discovered the Marauder’s Map among Darren’s gifts.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione disguised themselves to enter the Slytherin Common Room, where Malfoy revealed that the Chamber had been opened fifty years earlier and a Muggle-born student had died.
• Darren entered Grindelwald’s mindscape, learned that he carried Grindelwald’s bloodline, and challenged Grindelwald’s attempts to manipulate him.
• After Darren found Tom Riddle’s diary, Vindalozier abducted him, but Darren comforted her and persuaded Rookwood to share the Saints’ potion knowledge and accept his protection.
• Darren told Dumbledore he had taken the Saints into his fold, then reunited with Hermione, who showed him the diary and explained that Tom Riddle had attended Hogwarts fifty years earlier.

Darren entered the Time-Space Corridor and returned to Hogwarts after staging a disappearance, while Cassandra and his friends worried over him. As Darren recovered, Harry uncovered the Diary’s connection to the Chamber of Secrets, and the Diary was stolen.

• Darren won Salazar Slytherin’s bloodline, which gave him access to the Chamber of Secrets, and reassured Filch that he would help him become a wizard.
• Cassandra’s feelings for Darren deepened as she watched him suffer a Cruciatus Curse, endure political trouble, and return to Hogwarts after being hospitalized.
• Darren used the Gryffindor Common Room to reach the Chamber of Secrets, entered the Time-Space Corridor, and accepted a mission to tell Cassandra he blamed himself for Sirius’s death.
• After two days away, Darren staged his return with fabricated injuries and memory loss, and Snape, Dumbledore, Amelia Susan Bones, and his friends questioned or comforted him.
• Harry wrote in the Diary and spoke with Tom Riddle, who showed him Hagrid opening the Chamber of Secrets fifty years earlier.
• Darren recovered, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione kept their suspicions about Hagrid from him and the castle saw no further petrifications.
• During Easter, Darren filled out his course-selection form in hopes of earning a Time-Turner, wondered about Tom Riddle and the Basilisk, and then the Diary was stolen.

Darren tried to protect Hermione and his friends as the Basilisk’s attacks escalated, while the System’s missions pushed him into increasingly risky acts. After Ginny was taken into the Chamber, Darren entered with Lockhart and confronted the Basilisk, just as Harry returned to help.

• Darren shielded Hermione from the Basilisk but failed to prevent her petrification, then was hospitalized and blamed himself for what happened.
• After Dumbledore left Hogwarts and Hagrid was taken away, Darren joined Harry and Ron in following the spiders into the Forbidden Forest.
• When Aragog’s descendants attacked Harry and Ron, Darren used Fiendfyre to save them and later learned the professors believed his protective intent had made the curse controllable.
• Darren learned that Ginny had been taken into the Chamber of Secrets, then followed Lockhart there after he threatened to expose Darren’s use of Fiendfyre.
• Darren opened the Chamber by speaking Parseltongue, and Lockhart shoved him into the passage before following him down.
• Darren warned Lockhart about the Basilisk, pretended to heal him after its gaze incapacitated him, and used the System to keep him from recovering.
• Harry and Ron found Darren in the Chamber, and Darren charged toward the Basilisk while telling them to run.
• Harry returned to help Darren as a smug voice called the Basilisk back, leaving Darren facing the snake.