Chapter Summaries

The Sorting began, and several students received unexpected Houses, including Hermione and Neville in Ravenclaw. Harry was also sorted into Ravenclaw after rejecting Slytherin, leaving the Great Hall in uproar as the ceremony continued.

• The Sorting Hat sang its song, and Professor McGonagall began calling the first-year students.
• Hannah Abbott and Susan Bones were sorted into Hufflepuff.
• Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom were sorted into Ravenclaw, surprising Ryan and the students around them.
• Harry Potter rejected Slytherin, and the Sorting Hat sent him to Ravenclaw.
• Ron shouted in protest as Gryffindors and Ravenclaws reacted loudly, but Dumbledore ordered the Sorting to continue.

Ryan Smith was sorted into Ravenclaw alongside Lisa Turpin and Ron Weasley, while Dean Thomas went to Gryffindor and Blaise Zabini to Slytherin. At the feast, Ryan detected a transformed Blood Pact connecting Dumbledore and Grindelwald, leaving him to reconsider the bond that had kept Grindelwald in Nurmengard.

• Ryan Smith was sorted into Ravenclaw after the Sorting Hat examined him, and he sat beside Hermione across from Harry.
• Lisa Turpin was sorted into Ravenclaw, Dean Thomas into Gryffindor, and Ron Weasley into Ravenclaw after a long deliberation by the Hat.
• Blaise Zabini was sorted into Slytherin, completing the ceremony, and Professor McGonagall left with the Sorting Hat.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students with a string of odd words, prompting Harry to comfort a shocked Ryan while Percy praised Dumbledore and offered Harry potatoes.
• Ryan used his Detection skill to trace the magic around Dumbledore and realized that the Blood Pact between Dumbledore and Grindelwald had transformed, intertwining their magic and fates.

At the Hogwarts feast, Ryan, Harry, and Ron met the Gryffindor ghost Nearly Headless Nick, whose attempt to impress the first-years upset several students. The feast continued with the Bloody Baron unnerving Malfoy as Ryan reflected on the ghosts’ histories.

• Ryan embarrassed Percy by explaining his interpretation of Dumbledore’s words, and Percy returned to the Gryffindor table with red ears.
• Harry spoke with Nick, who introduced himself as Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington and asked to be called Sir Nicholas de Mimsy.
• Seamus asked how Nick could be nearly headless, so Nick pulled his head aside and revealed the gruesome cut beneath it.
• Nick lectured the Gryffindor first-years about Slytherin’s six consecutive House Cup victories and complained about the Bloody Baron.
• The Bloody Baron sat beside Malfoy, whose face twisted in discomfort, while Harry watched and Ryan saved Ron from choking on his food.

Ryan saved Ron and spent the feast helping Hermione with magic while wondering whether she had once liked Percy. The meal ended with Penelope glaring at Ryan and Harry feeling pain in his scar as he noticed Snape.

• Ryan saved Ron, while Nicholas refused to explain why the Bloody Baron was covered in blood and Lady Grey left the Great Hall.
• Hermione approached Ryan to discuss Transfiguration, and Ryan speculated that she might once have liked Percy.
• Ryan guided Hermione's hand as she practiced the Levitation Charm while Ron remained distracted by food and Neville.
• Penelope glared at Ryan, prompting him to end his conversation with Hermione.
• Harry clutched his forehead in pain and asked Percy about Snape before the feast ended.

Dumbledore announced new Hogwarts rules and led the students in the school song before they headed to their dormitories. Ryan, Harry, and Ron reached Ravenclaw Tower and settled into beds beside one another.

• Dumbledore announced that students could not enter the forest, added Take-copters, Ma Zhu, and underwater breathing tubes to Filch's forbidden-items list, and warned everyone away from the fourth-floor corridor.
• Dumbledore led the school in singing its song, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione joined the students singing to the tune of "Doraemon."
• Penelope Clearwater led the Ravenclaw first-years to their common room and answered the eagle knocker's riddle, "Where do vanished things go?"
• Penelope showed the first-years their dormitories, where Ryan found his bed between Harry's and Ron's.

Ryan captured Peter Pettigrew’s spirit and planned to keep him imprisoned until Sirius escaped, then visit Penelope and Kate in the Room of Requirement. The next morning, Ryan stayed in his Ravenclaw dormitory and reflected on his ability to remain unnoticed and on Dean Thomas’s hidden past.

• Ryan used magic to separate Peter Pettigrew’s spirit from Scabbers and trapped it in a stone box, planning to return it after Sirius escaped from prison.
• Ryan entered the Room of Requirement and spoke with Penelope and Kate, who reproached him for avoiding them and for knowing Hermione Granger.
• Ryan calmed Penelope and Kate with sweet words, and they shared a brief intimate moment before leaving under Disillusionment Charms.
• Ryan woke in the Ravenclaw dormitory with Harry, Ron, Terry Boot, Michael Corner, and Anthony Goldstein as his roommates.
• Ryan considered Dean Thomas’s secret family history and chose to remain in his dormitory rather than go to breakfast.

Ravenclaw’s first-years attended their first Charms Class, where Professor Flitwick taught them the Lumos spell. Ryan temporarily helped Neville’s wand respond, and Professor Flitwick said he would contact Madam Longbottom about getting Neville a better wand.

• Harry, Ron, and Ryan faced whispers and offers for Ron’s gold card as students crowded around them at breakfast and in the corridors.
• Penelope gave the first-years their timetable, and Hermione led the Ravenclaws through Hogwarts’s shifting staircases and confusing corridors to Charms Class.
• Professor Flitwick taught the class about charms and introduced Lumos and its counter-charm, Nox.
• Ryan tapped Neville’s wand with a spell that temporarily made it respond, and Professor Flitwick praised Ryan and promised to write to Madam Longbottom about a replacement wand.
• Hermione described several variants of Lumos, and Professor Flitwick assigned an essay before dismissing the class.
• Ron showed Ryan his wand, and Ryan advised him to get a wand of his own someday.

Ryan, Harry, Ron, and their classmates attended Herbology with Slytherin and then learned basic Transfiguration from Professor McGonagall. Hermione successfully turned a match into a needle, and the day’s classes ended with homework for everyone except her.

• Malfoy insulted Harry and Ron before Professor Sprout arrived, then withdrew to the Slytherins when she questioned them.
• Professor Sprout taught the students about dangerous plants, and they planted Dittany during Herbology.
• Filch caught first-years using magic to clean the muddy corridor and ordered them to follow him for punishment.
• Professor McGonagall demonstrated Transfiguration by changing her desk into a pig, then had students practice turning matches into needles.
• Ryan guided Hermione during the exercise, and she transformed her match into a needle, earning five points for Ravenclaw.
• Professor McGonagall assigned ten inches of writing to everyone except Hermione, whose attempt to ask for homework Ryan stopped.

Ryan helped Harry and Ron find ways to expand their Lumos homework while managing Hermione’s questions and a mind game with Kate and Penelope. He reflected on his formidable stats and his caution toward Dumbledore and Voldemort, whom he considered the only wizards near level seven.

• Harry and Ron struggled to fill seven inches of parchment for their Lumos homework in the Ravenclaw common room.
• Ryan advised them to explain the spell’s learning process or research the roots and related words of Lumos in The Standard Book of Spells.
• Harry and Ron began studying the book, and Neville joined them, while Hermione asked Ryan questions.
• Ryan reviewed how wizard stats and skills compared across the magical world, including his own unusually high abilities.
• Ryan considered destroying Voldemort’s Horcruxes but chose to wait because he still suspected a trap and wanted to grow stronger.
• Ryan recognized that his love skill boosted his spells and viewed Dumbledore and Voldemort as the wizards closest to level seven.

Ryan completed a giant Anywhere Door for Moon City and prepared to send it through a teleportation array, while Harry and the others learned that several toys remained banned and received news about Neville's wand. The chapter left Neville and Ron planning to visit Diagon Alley on Saturday, with Harry hoping to join them.

• Michael Corner, Terry Boot, and Anthony told Harry, Ron, and Neville that the Take-copter, Ma Zhu, and underwater breathing tube remained banned because pirated versions were unreliable.
• Ryan visited Smith Castle, learned that the Moon City order for an Anywhere Door was nearly complete, and finished the giant door himself.
• Ryan told Jack to place the Anywhere Door in the valley's teleportation array the next morning so he could explore another world.
• At breakfast, Ryan used his wand to make the owl post's feathers and dust disappear, and he caught an exhausted Errol before the owl hit the table.
• Ron read a letter saying the Weasleys would take him and Neville to Diagon Alley on Saturday to buy a wand for Neville, and he offered to ask whether Harry could come too.

Harry and the other Ravenclaw first-years attended their first History of Magic lesson with Professor Binns, whose monotonous lecture made nearly everyone fall asleep. Ryan had secretly recorded and transcribed the lesson, leaving the others with useful notes as they went to lunch.

• Peeves avoided Ryan and the first-years who stayed with him, leading others to believe Harry's fame protected them from the poltergeist.
• Ron and Neville eagerly led the group to History of Magic, while Lisa, Terry, Hermione, and Ron shared stories about Professor Binns.
• Professor Binns emerged through the blackboard and delivered a detailed but monotonous lecture that made the class drowsy.
• Ryan revealed his recorded transcript, and Ron and Harry asked to copy his notes after Hermione realized she had missed details.
• The group went to the Great Hall, where Seamus complained that Quirrell's Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons and garlic had put him off garlic.

At lunch, Harry and Ryan heard more about Quirrell and learned that Quidditch trials were coming, before Ryan attended Quirrell’s disastrous Defense Against the Dark Arts class and began plotting a way to embarrass him. The chapter ended with Quirrell reflecting on how he had become Voldemort’s servant and grown fascinated by the Dark Lord’s knowledge.

• Seamus, Harry, and Lavender discussed Quirrell’s past, while Roger Davies invited Harry to try out for the Quidditch team.
• Ryan considered Ravenclaw’s First Year students and wondered how their changed circumstances might affect Neville’s future.
• Quirrell stumbled through Defense Against the Dark Arts as Hermione took notes, Harry tried to endure the garlic smell, and Ron plugged his nose.
• Ryan remembered Quirrell’s false story about African zombies and devised a plan to embarrass him.
• Quirrell recalled his defeat in Albania, his failed attempts to alert Dumbledore, and his growing admiration for Voldemort.

During Quirrell’s lesson, Harry’s red-spark spell caused a strange burst of magic that burned Quirrell and cleared the garlic stench from the classroom. Ryan secretly recognized that he had helped trigger the effect and hoped Quirrell would use the chance to escape Voldemort’s control.

• Quirrell asked Harry to demonstrate the Periculum spell while privately doubting Voldemort’s dismissal of Harry as merely lucky.
• Harry cast Periculum, and the red sparks burst like fireworks, causing Quirrell’s skin to swell and making him faint as the classroom air became fresh.
• Hermione, Ron, and the other Ravenclaw students speculated that Harry’s spell had purified a curse, then remembered that Quirrell was still unconscious.
• Quirrell woke, claimed he was suffering a relapse of a vampire’s curse, awarded Ravenclaw five points, and left for the staff room.
• Ryan reflected that love magic, Voldemort’s soul fragment, and Harry’s disgust had combined to produce the effect, and believed Quirrell might now have a chance to confess to Dumbledore and escape Voldemort.

Ryan’s carefully planned prank gave Quirrell a chance to confront Dumbledore, but Quirrell chose a different route. Harry and his friends went to Herbology, where Malfoy provoked Ron and insulted him until Harry defended him.

• Ryan reflected that he had planned the prank to let Quirrell reach Dumbledore, but Quirrell had instead gone to the first floor.
• Harry worried about losing control of his magic, and Ron, Neville, and Hermione tried to reassure and advise him.
• Ryan considered Snape’s feelings about Harry and how their relationship might have unfolded differently.
• During Herbology, Malfoy quietly taunted Harry, and Ron shouted at him until Professor Sprout intervened.
• After class, Malfoy insulted Ron, and Harry said Ron was more suited to be his friend; Malfoy stopped sneering and returned to the Slytherins.

Harry received Hagrid’s invitation for tea and looked forward to meeting him, while Ryan came up with a way to exploit Harry’s family connection to Dudley. Ryan then lured Jason Caster into a dragon-filled forest and killed him through a vision of one of his victims’ suffering.

• Hedwig delivered Hagrid’s invitation, and Harry sent back a reply agreeing to have tea.
• Malfoy disappeared after class, and Ryan noticed that Harry’s emotions affected the dormant love enchantment.
• Ryan realized that Dudley was Harry’s cousin and went to Diagon Alley to seek materials for his plan.
• Jason Caster encountered an invisible barrier and found himself in a forest inhabited by Welsh Green Dragons.
• Jason recognized a bone from one of his victims and died while reliving that victim’s pain.
• Ryan revealed that he had been standing nearby and said Jason was his fifty-first victim.

Ryan used Jason as a sacrifice to transplant magical talent into Dudley Dursley, hoping to activate the spell tied to Harry’s blood relative. After Dudley’s magic awakened, Kingsley informed Petunia that her son was a wizard, while Ryan concealed his involvement at Hogwarts.

• Ryan sacrificed Jason and sent the wizard’s talent into Dudley, intending to make Dudley a wizard.
• Dudley climbed a tree with Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon, then fell and bounced through the air before crashing through the roof of 4 Privet Drive.
• A black sphere entered the unconscious but unharmed Dudley, and the Book of Admittance recorded Dudley Dursley as a new wizard.
• Wizards arrived and erased the witnesses’ memories, while Kingsley Shacklebolt told Petunia that Dudley was a wizard.
• An owl flew from Mrs. Figg’s house toward Hogwarts, and Ryan concealed his achievement in the Ravenclaw dormitory.

Dumbledore gathered the students to announce a new arrival, and Dudley Dursley was sorted into Hufflepuff after the Sorting Hat publicly revealed its assessment of him. The chapter ended with Harry fielding Ron’s awkward concern while Snape watched him closely.

• Dumbledore received a letter, sent a reply to Petunia Evans, and reflected on the apparent convergence of several unusual events.
• The students gathered in the Great Hall, where Dumbledore announced that a new student would be sorted that morning.
• Snape escorted Dudley Dursley into the hall, prompting Harry to stand and stare.
• The Sorting Hat publicly described Dudley as evil before correcting itself and placing him in Hufflepuff.
• Dumbledore explained that the Hat’s first assessment was false, and Dudley joined the Hufflepuff table as the students moved away from him.
• Ron asked Harry whether Dudley had ever hurt him, and Harry told Ron to eat while Snape watched him with concern.

Snape confronted Dumbledore over Harry’s upbringing and learned that Dudley had become a wizard after an unknown wizard attacked him. Dumbledore asked Snape to watch Dudley and Quirrell, while Harry worried about seeing Dudley again.

• Snape demanded to know why Dumbledore had left Harry in a harmful home, and Dumbledore explained that Lily’s blood protection had made Petunia’s house the safest refuge for him.
• Dumbledore suspected an unknown wizard had attacked Dudley and perhaps Petunia’s family, causing Dudley’s magic to awaken, and asked Snape to watch Dudley and Quirrell.
• Snape joked that the suspected attacker’s traits sounded like Dumbledore, then reacted with shock when Dumbledore mentioned Quirrell’s time in Albania.
• In Transfiguration class, McGonagall asked Harry whether Dudley matched the Sorting Hat’s description, and Harry said Dudley was a bully but not cruel.
• Harry worried about Dudley becoming a wizard and returning to his life, so Ron, Neville, and Hermione reassured him before they went to lunch.

Dudley told Harry that Aunt Petunia had urged him to seek out Snape, who had been close to Harry’s mother, and the news sparked gossip among the Hogwarts students. Ryan later taught Hermione a Mind-Clearing Charm during A History of Magic, while Harry and Ron discussed Skywalker’s talking comics and a planned audio edition of a magical creatures book.

• Dudley asked Harry about Snape and repeated that Aunt Petunia had said Snape was her friend and had been especially close to Harry’s mother.
• Harry and Ron reached the Great Hall, where students crowded around Harry to ask about the conversation they had overheard.
• Ryan revealed to Kate that he had encouraged Dudley to tell Harry Aunt Petunia’s words, then agreed to take Kate to Atlantis that weekend.
• Ryan gave Hermione the Mind-Clearing Charm, which helped her stay alert and take detailed notes during A History of Magic.
• Harry and Ron discussed Skywalker’s talking comics and learned that Obscurus Publishing Company was preparing an audio edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

During Defense Against the Dark Arts, Hermione fainted after casting a mind-clearing charm amid Quirrell’s unbearable stench, and Harry knocked Quirrell unconscious with a red spark spell. The students defended Harry to Dumbledore, who arrived as the chapter ended.

• Harry and Hermione discussed Fred and George’s prank on Dudley, and Ron revealed that Fred had once transformed his teddy bear into a giant spider.
• Hermione cast the Mind-Clearing Charm during Quirrell’s lesson and fainted when it sharpened her senses against his stench.
• Ryan stopped Quirrell from approaching Hermione, and Harry used Periculum to drive Quirrell back and knock him unconscious.
• Hermione woke and learned what had happened, while Anthony, Michael, and Terry carried Quirrell to the Hospital Wing.
• Ryan reinforced Quirrell’s turban, and Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, and the other students tried to explain the incident to Dumbledore when he arrived.