Chapter Summaries

Snape arranged for a Slytherin prefect to use the Cruciatus Curse on Darren Potter, while suspecting that Quirrell’s plea for mercy was a test by the person he feared. Dumbledore asked to accompany Snape to observe Darren’s punishment, leaving Snape doubtful of Dumbledore’s motives and anxious about Darren’s future.

• Snape rejected Quirrell’s plea for Darren and ordered the Greengrass prefect to use the Cruciatus Curse, secretly dropping her a thimble before leaving.
• Snape found Dumbledore in his office and drew his wand, then lowered it after confirming Dumbledore’s identity with the Elder Wand.
• Dumbledore asked to enter Slytherin with Snape to observe Darren’s punishment, prompting Snape to smash a table and demand an explanation.
• Dumbledore said Darren’s unusual kindness worried him, especially given the hardship he had faced and the constant comparisons with Harry Potter.
• Snape admitted he feared Darren might go astray but insisted he would not let Darren truly suffer Crucio; Dumbledore said he only wanted to observe the punishment.

During Potions class, Snape discovered Darren Potter had improved a potion and saved Neville from a cauldron accident, leaving Snape conflicted about the boy’s kindness. That evening, Snape and Dumbledore waited in concealment in the Slytherin common room for Darren to return.

• Snape met Harry Potter in Potions class, questioned him, and enjoyed taking points from him when he could not answer.
• Snape examined Darren Potter’s potion and realized he had improved the recipe, which made Snape think of Lily and the child they might have had.
• When Neville’s cauldron exploded, Darren carried the potion toward the door, and Snape used Scourgify to clean it from his hands.
• Snape ordered Darren back to his seat, then turned his anger on Neville instead.
• Snape and Dumbledore hid in the Slytherin common room and waited until Darren arrived at six in the evening.

Snape watched Darren accept punishment for breaking the rules to meet Harry, then tested him and saw him take the blame rather than expose Becky. Later, Snape watched Darren and Harry fly and heard that Harry planned to duel Draco.

• Snape watched Becky stage Darren’s punishment while the Slytherin students gave up their turns, and Dumbledore asked Snape to question Darren.
• Snape confronted Darren, who confessed to cheating with his power and said nobody else was involved.
• Snape condemned Dumbledore for testing Darren and left the common room, then heard Dumbledore accuse him of being biased toward Darren over Harry.
• Snape watched Darren and Harry fly with brooms, saw Darren follow Neville into the air, and worried that Darren had inherited Potter’s recklessness.
• Snape heard that Harry was going to duel Draco and went to listen, expecting Harry to lose.

Snape recalled protecting Darren from Quirrell and challenging Dumbledore over the special privileges Harry received. He left the Headmaster’s Office having secured Darren permission to have a broomstick, then regretted his decision.

• Snape mocked Harry after Darren dragged him away, then told Darren that Professor McGonagall had arranged his detention.
• After finding Quirrell talking with Darren outside his office, Snape drove Quirrell off and brought Darren inside, worried Quirrell had meant to harm him.
• Snape followed Darren after detention and found Harry and his friends heading into the room on the fourth floor, where Dumbledore explained that it was part of the plan and promised to watch nearby.
• Snape learned that Professor McGonagall had bought Harry a broomstick and angrily confronted Dumbledore about giving Harry special privileges.
• Snape applied for a broomstick privilege for Darren too, then immediately regretted it as he left the Headmaster’s Office.

Snape recalled his conflicted feelings toward Darren and Harry Potter, from arranging a broom for Darren to rescuing Harry during Quidditch and reacting to Darren’s praise. As Christmas approached, he felt increasingly miserable seeing Darren and Harry left without homes because of his own past actions.

• Snape kept Darren’s approved broom privilege form and secretly ordered him a broom, though Darren later returned the many brooms people had sent him.
• At Halloween, Snape found Darren collapsed on Harry Potter after a troll had been killed, then learned Darren had only been exhausted.
• During a Quidditch match, Snape countered Quirrell’s curse on Harry’s broom, but Hermione Granger set Snape’s robes on fire and collided with Quirrell.
• Snape overheard Darren call him gentle, then took the chance to deduct a point from Harry for reading.
• As Christmas neared, Snape grew irritable while watching Darren and Harry face the holiday without families, knowing he was responsible.

Snape recalled how he had watched Harry and Darren Potter, grown increasingly guilty over Lily’s death, and punished Darren after the dragon incident. When Darren saved a unicorn in the Forbidden Forest, Snape discovered that he possessed the rare Mind Healing Technique and feared the cost to his mental strength.

• Snape helped lure Harry Potter and Darren to the Mirror of Erised, then realized Darren understood that its visions were fake and left, unable to face his guilt over Lily’s death.
• Snape found Darren covering for Harry during the dragon incident, learned more from Malfoy, and gave Darren a week of detention with him.
• Dumbledore arranged for Harry to face the Dark Lord in the Forbidden Forest while assuring Snape the other children, especially Darren, would be safe.
• Darren entered the Forbidden Forest and saved a unicorn, ending up in the Hospital Wing.
• Snape and Dumbledore learned that Darren had the rare Mind Healing Technique, which could save even victims of the Killing Curse but risked killing its user if his mental strength ran out.

After learning Harry and the others believed he planned to steal the Philosopher’s Stone, Snape hurried to warn Dumbledore, only to discover Harry and Darren had confronted the Dark Lord. Dumbledore used a Time-Turner to take Snape back to the events, where Snape saw the Philosopher’s Stone emerge from the Mirror of Erised.

• Snape suspected Quirrell would try to steal the Philosopher’s Stone and went to find Dumbledore at the Ministry of Magic.
• Dumbledore delayed returning to Hogwarts, where Hermione told them the Dark Lord was in the innermost room with Harry and Darren.
• Snape rushed toward the fourth floor, but Dumbledore took him and Fawkes directly to the room, where Snape found Harry and Darren unconscious.
• Madam Pomfrey said Darren had been struck by the Cruciatus Curse, and Dumbledore explained that the events had already happened and could not be changed.
• Dumbledore and Snape went back two hours with the Time-Turner and entered the room containing the Mirror of Erised.
• Snape saw his reflection place the Philosopher’s Stone in its pocket, and the Stone appeared in Snape’s own pocket.

Snape watched Quirrell reveal himself as Voldemort and saw Darren suffer the Cruciatus Curse while protecting Harry. After Voldemort fled, Snape confronted Dumbledore over making children face such danger, but Dumbledore argued that the prophecy and Voldemort’s return left them at risk regardless.

• Snape and Dumbledore waited by the mirror as Quirrell tested it for the Philosopher’s Stone, then Harry arrived.
• Darren appeared when his Invisibility Cloak failed, and Voldemort revealed himself through Quirrell.
• Voldemort cast the Cruciatus Curse at Harry, but Darren took the punishment and collapsed.
• Snape fed Darren a potion and angrily stopped Dumbledore from touching the children.
• Dumbledore told Snape that Harry and Darren were endangered by the prophecy and by Darren being Harry’s brother.

During the summer, Snape kept his distance from Darren and Harry while reflecting on Dumbledore’s request that he treat Harry more kindly. After watching Lucius confront Dumbledore over Darren becoming Nicolas Flamel’s heir, Snape learned that Lucius thought he was still hung up on Lily.

• Snape moved back to Spinner’s End, reported Mrs. Linda’s orphanage, and cured Kenli’s gigantism.
• Snape sent Darren an album of Lily and Potter, with extra photographs of Lily, for the boys’ birthday.
• Snape heard that Harry had been warned by the Ministry for using magic outside school, then learned that Darren and Harry had moved in with the Weasleys.
• Snape watched Lucius argue with Dumbledore about the Philosopher’s Stone and Dumbledore recommending Darren as Nicolas Flamel’s heir.
• After leaving Dumbledore’s office, Lucius asked Snape why he had not told him about Darren’s new status, then asked if Snape still could not forget Lily.

Snape learned that Darren had invented a powerful antidote, then witnessed Darren lose control of a powerful force while distressed over Harry’s disappearance. Snape brought Darren back to his senses and carried him to the Hospital Wing after forcing him to drink a potion.

• Lucius told Snape that he had been with the woman his friend loved and had fathered a child with her, and Snape warned him to flee from his friend.
• Snape heard that Darren had invented an antidote effective against more than three hundred poisons and bitterly imagined what a child of his and Lily’s might have been like.
• Snape noticed that Harry and Darren were absent when term began, then saw Darren arrive and ask where his brother was.
• After Draco said Harry had flown in a car, Slytherin students cried out that Darren was bleeding, and Snape rushed to find him surrounded by a powerful force.
• Snape warned Darren that he might blow up the Great Hall and hurt students, bringing him back to his senses.
• Snape forced a potion into Darren’s mouth and carried him to the Hospital Wing while Professor McGonagall objected.

Snape learned that Darren had been badly injured while saving Nicolas Flamel and blamed himself for how much the boy’s kindness worried everyone. His memories revealed how Darren’s resemblance to Lily had changed Snape’s feelings toward him, and Snape decided to get closer to Harry Potter after Dumbledore urged him to.

• Snape learned that Darren had been seriously injured saving Nicolas Flamel and that his magic had gone out of control while he worried about Harry Potter.
• Snape resented Dumbledore’s advice to treat Harry Potter more kindly and decided to wait for Harry so he could get to know him.
• Snape recalled his abusive father, his lost hopes of having a child with Lily, and how Lily’s death led him to become Dumbledore’s informant.
• Snape remembered freezing when he first saw Darren because the boy resembled Lily, and later breaking with him out of fear the Dark Lord would discover him.
• Snape realized he had come to regard Darren as part of his life and felt secretly pleased when the Weasley girl transferred her affection to Darren.

Snape recalled discovering that Darren was his son and growing fiercely protective of him. After Darren vanished and returned injured with his memory erased, Snape and Dumbledore suspected he had cast a powerful Memory Charm on himself.

• Snape secretly tested Darren’s blood and confirmed that Darren was his child, leaving him overwhelmed with gratitude and joy.
• At the Dueling Club, Snape sent Lockhart flying, then warned him to behave and stay so he would not upset Darren.
• Snape learned from Malfoy that Harry and the others had gotten Darren drunk and that Granger could open Darren’s dormitory door.
• When Darren vanished, Snape searched Hogwarts with Dumbledore while the Ministry investigated and found a Slytherin student who had planted a Portkey in Darren’s dormitory.
• Darren returned covered in injuries and without his memories, and Snape and Dumbledore found that he had been struck by a powerful Memory Charm.
• Snape suspected that Darren had cast the Memory Charm on himself, as he had done to Slytherin students before.

Snape reflected on his growing worry for Darren after the boy repeatedly faced danger, then learned Darren had risked a huge debt to help someone. At a meeting about Time-Turners, Snape was surprised to hear Darren’s name and was asked for his opinion.

• Snape recalled watching Darren fight the Basilisk, burn the Dark Lord, and rush into Fiendfyre before emerging alive.
• Snape spent the summer reading books about parenting, then learned Darren had signed an IOU for two hundred thousand Galleons to help someone.
• Dumbledore and Snape dealt with the fraudulent shop overnight and recovered Darren’s and Miss Fleur Delacour’s promissory notes.
• Snape arrived last at a meeting with Dumbledore and the other Heads of House to discuss students permitted to use Time-Turners.
• Snape heard Dumbledore name Darren for a Time-Turner and, when Professor McGonagall asked his opinion, replied that he did not know what opinion she meant.

Snape reflected on Dumbledore pairing Darren with Hermione for a Time-Turner and struggled with his jealousy over Darren’s growing family ties. Cassandra’s side story revealed that she disliked Darren because of his excitement over Gryffindor and Harry Potter.

• McGonagall told Snape that Dumbledore had assigned Hermione to use the Time-Turner with Darren, and Snape accepted the decision despite wishing Cassandra could be paired with him.
• Dumbledore told Snape that Lupin had saved Darren from an Obscurus, but Snape rejected the suggestion that he become friends with Lupin.
• Snape made Darren a prefect, and Darren asked Cassandra to apologize after she insulted Harry; Cassandra apologized, and Darren walked away.
• Snape later learned Darren had only acted coldly to keep Cassandra out of trouble, then regretted how he had treated Lily.
• Cassandra admitted she disliked Darren for rushing to Gryffindor and getting excited whenever Harry Potter visited him at the Slytherin table.

Cassandra watched the Slytherins debate how to punish the boy after he chose to join the Gryffindor table, and she secretly protected him when their plan unfolded. The extra ended with Cassandra seeing him read a notice about a flying lesson.

• Cassandra grabbed the boy as he headed for the Gryffindor table, then let him go after seeing his pleading expression and hearing about his mistreatment at the orphanage.
• Cassandra volunteered to oversee the boy's punishment, but the Slytherins settled on each casting one spell and intimidating him.
• When the boy returned with biscuits from Gryffindor, Malfoy disrupted the Slytherins' attempt to scare him, and Becky Greengrass proposed using the Cruciatus Curse.
• The boy screamed convincingly after being silenced, and Cassandra helped disperse the Slytherins who remained, letting them believe he had been struck by the curse.
• Cassandra saw the boy reading a notice announcing a flying lesson and noticed his cowlick.

Cassandra watched Potter repeatedly risk himself for Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, growing jealous and frustrated as she tried to keep him in Slytherin. After Potter rushed to help Hermione during the troll incident, Cassandra followed him to the Hospital Wing and learned he was safe after exhausting himself.

• Cassandra noticed Potter had been injured and wondered about his hidden secrets after he returned from the dormitory without any smell of blood.
• During Flying Lesson, Cassandra watched Potter save Neville Longbottom and then scold Harry Potter, before seeing him comfort Hermione Granger.
• Cassandra stopped Potter from eating with Gryffindor and saw him return gloomily to the Slytherin table, then watched Harry Potter receive a broomstick and noticed other girls giving Potter brooms too.
• At the Halloween feast, Cassandra told Potter where Hermione Granger was, and he rushed off after Professor Quirrell announced that a troll was in the dungeon.
• After a tremendous crash, Cassandra left the Slytherin common room and followed Professor McGonagall carrying Potter to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey said he was fine but exhausted.

Cassandra watched Darren Potter through Hogwarts’ Quidditch match, classes, and the events surrounding a dragon and a Forbidden Forest detention, while insisting his troubles had nothing to do with her. By the end of term, she had noticed his fondness for China and his skill at Transfiguration.

• Cassandra worried after Harry Potter’s broom was jinxed during a Quidditch match, then watched Darren cheer when Harry caught the Golden Snitch.
• After Malfoy insulted Harry Potter’s family, Cassandra suspected Darren was hurt by the remarks and bought him candy and biscuits.
• Cassandra learned Darren had accepted detention for the dragon scheme, then heard that he had saved a Unicorn during detention in the Forbidden Forest.
• Darren returned to the common room unharmed and ran to join Harry, while Cassandra watched him go and dismissed her concern.
• During exams, Cassandra saw Darren transform a rat into a Chinese snuff bottle and recalled that his wand contained the reversed scale of China’s Eastern Azure Dragon.

Cassandra struggled to hide her feelings for Darren, whom she called Harry Potter’s younger brother, while insisting that her family’s history made them enemies. After hearing that Darren had been tortured and taken to the Hospital Wing with Harry, she cried, then learned that her mother and Pansy’s family were willing to let her choose her own side.

• Cassandra conjured a Chinese-style snuff bottle, rejected Professor McGonagall’s suggestion that she was chasing after Darren, and left the classroom feeling jealous of Hermione Granger.
• Cassandra heard Pansy and others say that Darren and Harry had been taken to the Hospital Wing after suffering the Cruciatus Curse, and she cried when she learned how badly Darren was hurt.
• Pansy warned Cassandra that their families’ ties to Voldemort made them enemies of Darren, and Cassandra wiped away her tears while pretending she did not care about him.
• During the summer, Cassandra tentatively told her mother that she liked Harry Potter’s younger brother, and her mother mocked the idea as a forbidden romance.
• Cassandra secretly followed news about Darren and learned from Pansy that Cassandra’s mother had asked whether Darren had used a Love Potion on her.
• Pansy told Cassandra that her mother had said the choice was hers, and Cassandra realized that her family might accept her interest in Darren.

Cassandra told her father she liked Darren, and he urged her to work hard to win him over rather than expect her parents to solve the problem. At the start of term, Darren was absent from the train and was later brought to school by Aurors; when Harry asked Cassandra for help finding him, her frustration grew as Darren’s magic went out of control.

• Mr. Worey accepted that Cassandra’s feelings for Darren were genuine and told her she needed strength to face the trouble of being with him.
• Cassandra admitted Darren knew nothing about her feelings, and Mr. Worey told her to win him over before asking her parents for support.
• On the train, Cassandra told Pansy about her conversation with her father and learned that Darren had not boarded with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
• Cassandra saw Harry’s flying car in the sky, then discovered at school that Aurors had brought Darren there separately.
• Harry asked Cassandra to tell him where Darren was, but she refused, and Darren’s magic went out of control.

Cassandra watched Darren Potter’s loyalty to Harry Potter from afar, secretly defending him when others insulted or hurt him while believing he never noticed her. After waiting outside his dormitory and seeing him fail to come out, she was left wondering what had happened to him.

• Cassandra heard that Flint had insulted Darren Potter and Hermione, and she jinxed Flint to defend Slytherin’s reputation.
• On Halloween, Cassandra saw Darren leave the Great Hall in distress and later learned Filch had attacked him before Dumbledore intervened.
• Cassandra provoked Peeves into confronting Filch, then watched Darren pass by with Harry Potter without realizing what she had done.
• After Gryffindor won the Quidditch match, Cassandra stopped following Darren, but she soon waited outside his dormitory when he did not come out.