Chapter Summaries

Harry told Neville, Ron, and Ginny how he resurrected his mother and worried that she might become involved with Snape. Ginny urged him to wait and observe rather than interfere, leaving Harry relieved but Neville and Ron wondering if their advice had been pointless.

• Harry explained how the Resurrection Stone brought his mother back and revealed that her relationship with his father might have changed in the Afterlife.
• Harry asked Neville, Ron, and Ginny to help prevent his mother from getting together with Snape, and Neville objected to Harry's analogy about Hannah.
• Neville's anger split a barstool with sword aura, and Harry repeatedly repaired it until Ginny stopped their escalating argument.
• Neville suggested Harry use Sirius's knowledge of Snape's secrets to dissuade his mother, while Ron argued that doing so might help Snape.
• Harry asked Ginny what to do, and she advised him to wait and see whether his mother and Snape became more than friends.
• Harry accepted Ginny's advice and felt relieved, while Neville and Ron wondered whether they had played the villains for nothing.

After Harry resurrected Lily Evans, Ryan used his connection to Death God to confirm he could act without interference and began inheriting the remnants of dead deities. He returned to the past and gave Snape a method for creating avatars, leaving the story with Ryan’s divine power expanding.

• Kate complained that Harry Potter had given up, while Ryan said Harry’s moral code would keep him from doing something wrong.
• Penelope asked Ryan to teach them the unusual magic they had witnessed through his perspective, including his third eye and trident.
• Ryan examined his panel and reflected on how Moon Mirage Body had advanced through his investigations into the remnants of Divine Kingdoms.
• After Harry resurrected Lily Evans, Ryan stopped time and sought out Vishnu in the Sea of Milk.
• Ryan took the remaining divine names and legacies, including those of Brahma and Shiva, and returned to the past.
• Ryan gave Snape a method for creating avatars, using a technique modeled on Vishnu’s Varaha incarnation.

Ryan explained that his Moon Mirage Body had inherited the names of several gods and made him the source of divine power behind many spells. Kate discovered that Ryan’s power strengthened her magic, but her experiment nearly set the room on fire.

• Ryan told Penelope that the Moon Mirage Body’s power was too great to use directly on her and explained that he had inherited multiple divine names.
• Kate asked why spells still drew on divine power, and Ryan demonstrated how incantations acted as rituals that summoned it.
• Ryan explained that answering spells’ calls refined his power and that Kate and Penelope already benefited from being his priestesses.
• Kate cast an unusually powerful Lumos, and Ryan dispelled it before it could ignite the room.
• Kate apologized to Penelope, who quickly forgave her.

Harry spent Easter with Lily, Ginny, and Ron, then asked Lily whether she might have been with Professor Snape. Lily admitted she could have returned his feelings, but believed guilt over her death kept him at a distance.

• Lily woke Harry and brought him Treacle Tarts, which he complained about eating for breakfast every day.
• Ron used a Silent Spell to clean his teeth, surprising Lily, who recalled what Severus had said about Ron and praised his progress.
• Harry described Lily’s childhood magical talent and asked whether she had ever considered being with Professor Snape.
• Lily said she might have accepted Severus, but thought his guilt over her death prevented him from seeking happiness.
• Harry learned that Severus had been refusing to let Lily visit his house, and Ginny suggested he was embarrassed about it.

Lily reunited with the Order of the Phoenix at Hogwarts, where their questions about the people they had lost overwhelmed her until Mad-Eye Moody helped her slip away. As Harry and the others took the visitors toward Gryffindor Tower, Colin Creevey spotted something and snapped a photograph.

• Lily decided to secretly scout Number 23 Spinner's End after Ginny mentioned a flaw in slovenly boys.
• The Order of the Phoenix arrived at Hogwarts to celebrate Easter and ask Lily about their dead friends and relatives.
• Mad-Eye Moody noticed Lily was being crowded and stepped aside to give her room to escape.
• Lily claimed she needed to study new potion knowledge and disappeared into the crowd.
• Mrs. Weasley asked Ron to escort her to Gryffindor Tower while Harry, Ginny, and Ron stayed with the visitors.
• Colin Creevey returned to Hogwarts, saw Harry and the Order heading toward Gryffindor Tower, and quickly took a photograph.

Colin concluded that Lily Potter had survived and recently awakened, but Zacharias Smith recovered his evidence and planned to use it against Harry. Lily entered Snape’s house at Spinner’s End and reached the room she had once called her own.

• Colin studied his photograph and notes, then speculated that Lily Potter had survived and awakened recently.
• Zacharias Smith emerged from hiding, restored Colin’s discarded photograph and parchment, and decided to use them to harm Harry.
• Lily opened Snape’s magical lock with the password Meteor and remembered how she and Snape had planned their future together.
• Lily crossed the unchanged house at Spinner’s End and reached her old bedroom door, still marked with her name and warning.

Lily visited Shifflett, who was pregnant with a child conceived using Lily’s hair and a potion that safely accelerated its growth. Lily stayed to care for her, while Shifflett wondered whether she deserved Lily’s affection.

• Lily found Shifflett’s room transformed into a garden-like nursery and learned that Shifflett was carrying their child, due in about a month.
• Shifflett explained that she had used Lily’s hair and a powerful restorative potion to bring them closer and protect the child’s growth.
• Shifflett said she had obtained the rare ingredients while working for a secretive pure-blood family on a magical Herb Garden, but she could no longer remember how to reach it.
• Lily learned that the second body at the school was a device connected to the family and stayed to cook dinner and care for the pregnant Shifflett.
• Shifflett wondered whether her Master had planned for Lily to favor her as Ryan opened his eyes aboard a yacht with Kate.

Ryan showed Kate a future mobile phone and explained how his choices shaped the future it could access. Meanwhile, the “Eyes of the Future” published a report identifying Harry’s mother as possibly alive and raising questions about her past with Snape, leaving Harry distressed that the secret was public.

• Ryan used magic to create a screen on the yacht and played footage of Lily Evans speaking with Shifflett.
• Ryan gave Kate a modified Huawei Mate50 that could connect to the internet, run games, and charge through sunlight and magic.
• Kate asked why the phone showed the present date, and Ryan explained that the future was shaped by his choices and that other possible futures became dreams.
• Harry noticed that his mother had stopped bringing him Treacle Tarts and waking him in the dormitory, and he felt depressed because her existence was no longer secret.
• The “Eyes of the Future” published photographs of Lily and Snape and speculated that Lily Potter had survived and that Snape might have helped save her.

As rumors about Lilac Evans and Snape spread, Harry suspected his mother was secretly visiting Snape, while Sirius confronted Lily Potter in Dumbledore's office over her relationship with him. The group prepared a public account presenting her as Lilac Evans for the next day's banquet, but Lily said she wanted to speak in her own words.

• Reports and public clarifications about Lilac Evans, Snape, and the teaching assistants failed to stop rumors, which also linked Lupin and Tom Riddle and prompted Tonks to clarify her relationship with Lupin.
• Harry noticed that his mother no longer visited his dormitory or stayed in her Hogwarts room and disappeared each evening, while the others seemed to know where she went.
• Sirius accused Lily Potter of visiting Snape at Spinner's End, and Snape defended her as Lupin restrained Sirius.
• Dumbledore asked Arthur and Sirius about their preparations, and Sirius presented Rita Skeeter's draft of Lilac Evans's background for the next day's banquet.
• Snape approved the draft but told Lily no one could force her to use it; Lily said the rumors had given her inspiration and asked Dumbledore to let her speak for herself.
• Sirius condemned Lily and argued that James deserved better, and Lily stopped Snape from drawing his wand as the confrontation continued.

At Hogwarts, Snape exposed Sirius’s apparent feelings for James, while Lily Evans prepared to reveal her identity as the new Potions teaching assistant. During the welcoming banquet, Lily told the students how she had been educated at home and ended by declaring that she was the real Lily Evans.

• Snape teased Sirius until Sirius agreed that his ideal partner matched himself, and Lupin and Lily questioned whether Sirius loved James.
• Phineas Nigellus Black accused Sirius of remaining unmarried for the same reason as Dumbledore, and Sirius insisted he would decide his own marriage.
• After the Easter holiday, Dumbledore announced that students with qualifying N.E.W.T. grades could attend advanced Potions Classes, taught by Snape and Lilac Evans.
• Lily introduced herself as Lilac Evans and explained that she had refused Hogwarts before Dumbledore arranged home education for her.
• Lily stopped reading her prepared speech and revealed to the students that she was Lily Evans.

Lily Evans revealed that Severus had saved her and that she had hidden her identity from Harry, while Harry became the focus of questions and gossip. Harry traced the leak of Colin’s photograph to someone who hid in the Harry Potter Club room and suspected Dobby’s cleanup routine had helped the culprit escape unnoticed.

• Lily Evans told the Great Hall that Severus had saved her twelve years earlier, that she had awakened on April 4, and that she had chosen to reveal her identity after the Eyes of the Future report.
• Students questioned Harry about Lily and Severus, while Ryan and Kate discussed Lily’s announcement.
• Harry overheard students praising Snape and told Ginny he did not understand why Lily had abandoned the Lilac Evans identity.
• Ginny explained that Colin had destroyed the photograph and related materials, and that he suspected one of Harry’s haters had restored them and sent them to Eyes of the Future.
• Harry realized a wizard could have hidden in the club room while Colin was there, then escaped when house-elves came to clean, and he identified Dobby as the key to finding the culprit.

Harry identified Zacharias Smith as the person who had been in the club room when Colin’s information disappeared, and he suspected Zacharias resented him because Dudley had seemed close to Harry and defended him. Meanwhile, Ryan explained why he needed Kate to learn Dieting Magic, leaving him fretting over the risks of his extraordinary reproductive power and his relationships with Kate, Nagini, and Helena.

• Dobby told Harry and Ginny that Zacharias Smith had been hiding in the club room cabinet and searching rubbish bins, so they named him as the culprit.
• Harry inferred that Zacharias hated him because Dudley appeared to be his friend and had defended him, and he insisted that revenge was his responsibility.
• Ginny argued that the club members were involved because the information had been lost in their club and Zacharias had been sneaking in.
• Kate conceded that she would learn Dieting Magic after Ryan warned that his enhanced reproductive ability could make her pregnant.
• Ryan recalled abandoning a future in which divine conception spread throughout Hogwarts and worried about controlling his power around Kate, Nagini, and Helena.

Harry silently cornered Zacharias and interrogated him about stealing the club’s materials and leaking a photograph to Eyes of the Future. Zacharias confessed to his jealousy and his role in spreading the story, then found himself abandoned, still hanging upside down.

• Harry used the Marauder's Map to ambush Zacharias and suspend him upside down near the Hufflepuff common room.
• Harry disarmed Zacharias and used Scourgify to fill his mouth with soap bubbles until Zacharias nearly lost consciousness.
• Harry revived Zacharias and demanded to know why he had stolen the club's materials.
• Zacharias admitted he was jealous of Colin and wanted him blamed for betraying Harry Potter.
• When Harry exposed Zacharias's lie, Zacharias confessed that he hated Harry Potter and Dudley and blamed them for taking his status and influence.
• Zacharias claimed he had only restored and sold the photograph to Eyes of the Future, then realized Harry had disappeared without letting him down.

Harry left Zacharias Smith asleep and suspended in the dungeons, believing Filch would find him after curfew, but Snape and Lily discovered him first. They traced the ancient sleep magic to Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup in the kitchen, where Dumbledore found Zacharias’s magic linked to the relic.

• Ron complained that Zacharias had accused Harry, while Ginny corrected Ron for calling Harry his and Harry reassured her.
• Draco asked whether Zacharias would be rescued, and Harry explained that his protective magic would last until curfew.
• Snape and Lily found Zacharias hanging upside down near the Hufflepuff common room, still under a powerful sleep curse.
• Snape followed the magic to the kitchen, where Lily opened the entrance by tickling the pear on the painting.
• Snape identified Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup as the likely source of the magic, and Dumbledore arrived to find Zacharias’s magic linked to it.

Dumbledore and Snape watched Zacharias undergo a trial in a vision, where he found himself mistaken for a king of the Targaryen dynasty. The chapter ended as Zacharias faced the questioning of the eldest prince while coughing and struggling to think clearly.

• Dumbledore concluded that Zacharias was undergoing a trial, possibly connected to Odin’s legend and the Golden Cup.
• Zacharias awoke on an Iron Throne in a palace, surrounded by guards and attendants, and tried to hide his confusion.
• Lannister asked Zacharias to begin questioning the next Dragon Lord, and Zacharias ordered him to proceed.
• Three silver-haired young men arrived and addressed Zacharias as Dragon Lord, my lord, and Father, leading him to suspect they were his sons and he was a king.
• Dumbledore identified the scene as belonging to the Targaryen dynasty, and Snape warned that Zacharias’s trial had begun.
• The eldest prince began his questioning as Zacharias sat bewildered, coughing and struggling to think clearly.

Zacharias judged three imagined princes’ proposals for ruling their kingdom, revealing his desire to exploit Muggles and favoring the youngest prince. After he named his heir and woke from the vision, a transparent flame appeared inside Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup.

• Snape challenged Dumbledore over the risks he had taken to protect Hogwarts students, and Dumbledore defended his choices.
• The second prince proposed reducing servants’ work and improving their rations, but Zacharias inwardly condemned the idea as too kind.
• Snape and Dumbledore discussed Zacharias’s family and speculated that Hufflepuff’s inheritance might be connected to Odin.
• Zacharias announced the third prince as his heir, shattering the scene and waking him.
• A transparent flame ignited inside the Golden Cup, and the onlookers wondered whether it was ghostly Gubraithian Fire.

Snape punished Zacharias for claiming Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup, while Lily discussed the Founders with Snape and Dumbledore. Lady Grey arrived with her lover Zhou Yi, and the Golden Cup’s ghostly fire moved onto Ravenclaw’s Diadem, which Zhou Yi said might give her freedom from needing food.

• Zacharias accused Snape of stealing his family’s Golden Cup, so Snape silenced him, took points from Hufflepuff, and assigned him detention.
• Lily told Dumbledore and Snape about meeting Gryffindor and Hufflepuff in the Afterlife.
• Lady Grey arrived with Zhou Yi and identified him as her lover, a ghost from China.
• Lady Grey explained that Ravenclaw’s Diadem had sensed a missing component, and the Golden Cup’s ghostly fire settled on it.
• Zhou Yi identified the fire as Mystic Womb Fire and said it might grant Lady Grey freedom from food.

Zhou Yi explained Ghost Immortals, Primordial Spirits, and fasting to Dumbledore and the others before leaving with Helena. Dumbledore then clarified Ravenclaw’s Diadem’s history, while the group turned their attention to finding the student who had attacked Zacharias.

• Zhou Yi explained that Ghost Immortals retained their living spellcasting ability, while Primordial Spirits could sustain themselves by transforming ambient magical energy.
• Zhou Yi took Helena’s hand and left Hogwarts with her after hoping she would soon master fasting.
• Snape warned that Zhou Yi seemed like an ancient immortal, and Lily wondered whether Dumbledore could use Ghostification Magic to become one.
• Dumbledore explained that his Ghostification Magic only worked on inanimate matter and revealed that Ravenclaw remade the diadem for the Grey Lady before her death.
• Snape speculated that Ravenclaw’s Diadem and immortal fire might let the Grey Lady cast spells, while Dumbledore said they needed to find who had attacked Zacharias.
• Snape recalled James Potter’s past bullying and decided to report the night’s events to his master, Ryan Smith.

Lily told Harry, Ron, and Neville that James’s ordinary spells had once concealed cruelty, then asked Harry what he had felt when he used a Cleaning Charm on Zacharias. She revealed that Zacharias’s fainting was connected to the Golden Cup and that Dumbledore had come to investigate, leaving Harry curious about the cup and the ancient Targaryen family.

• Lily described how James had used Scourgify to cruelly torment Zacharias, and explained that she had understood James’s nature more clearly after death.
• Lily told Harry that James had repeatedly talked about Severus after their deaths because he missed Sirius, and asked Harry to keep that from Sirius.
• Harry admitted that his Cleaning Charm on Zacharias had come from disgust, resentment, and a thrill of revenge and control.
• Lily said Zacharias’s fainting was connected to the Golden Cup, and that Dumbledore had rushed to the kitchen.
• Harry asked about the Targaryens and their rumored connection to dragons, and Lily suggested he ask Dumbledore during Saturday training.

Lily asked Harry whether he had seen Zhou Yi, a ghost who was dating the Grey Lady, and Harry grew jealous of their relationship. Meanwhile, Snape told Ryan about Zhou Yi’s arrival and knowledge of Ghost Immortals and Primordial Spirits before Ryan dismissed him.

• Lily explained that Zacharias had forgotten nearly everything and that his answer revealed his true nature, while Ron and Neville argued over whether modern wizards were exploited.
• Lily asked Harry about Zhou Yi, revealing that the ghost was the Grey Lady’s lover, and Harry reacted with jealousy.
• Harry accused Zhou Yi of deceiving Helena, but Neville doubted that a ghost from the Far East could win her over, and Lily defended Zhou Yi’s appeal.
• Harry urged Lily to find Nearly Headless Nick to ask about Zhou Yi, while Ryan listened to Snape’s report in a nearby classroom.
• Snape described Zhou Yi’s arrival and his knowledge of Ghost Immortals and Primordial Spirits, then left after Ryan told him to go.
• Hermione teased Ryan about Snape’s devotion to Lily after learning that Ryan had helped bring Lily back to life.