Recaps

Tris joined the Weasleys’ trip to Hogwarts, where the Sorting Hat placed him in Slytherin and he befriended students across house lines. He exposed Peter Pettigrew as Scabbers and began his first classes, leaving the story with Harry and Ron inviting him to visit Hagrid.

• Tris used his system and writing to earn money, then joined the Weasleys as Charlie received a dragon-keeper position and the family prepared for Hogwarts.
• At Madam Malkin’s, Tris confronted Lucius Malfoy over his ties to Voldemort, then met Harry and introduced him to Ron and the rest of the Weasleys.
• Tris traveled to Hogwarts with Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville, and the Sorting Hat placed him in Slytherin after failing to read his mind.
• Tris met Daphne Greengrass, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, and Prefect Gemma Farley, while building ties with Harry and Ron across house lines.
• Professor Flitwick asked Tris to help with experiments involving their brother wands in exchange for instruction in advanced magic.
• During Transfiguration, Tris prompted Professor McGonagall to examine Scabbers, and she exposed him as Peter Pettigrew and captured him.
• Tris continued his classes and homework, explained Transfiguration to Padma, and brewed an almost perfect potion in Snape’s class.
• Harry and Ron invited Tris to visit Hagrid, and Harry revealed that the Sorting Hat had considered placing him in Slytherin.

Tris built a growing circle of students through training while advancing his meditation and resisting Voldemort’s Soul Fragment. As Harry’s friends uncovered the secret beneath the trapdoor and Harry survived an attack on his broom, Tris continued to suspect Quirrell while the others blamed Snape.

• Tris discovered that Hagrid had taken an unknown object from Gringotts for Dumbledore and began suspecting the break-in was connected to it.
• Tris defeated Draco, gained the Astral Meditation scroll, and formed a star sea in his mind, then later resisted Voldemort’s invasion by trapping the Soul Fragment in his Thought Maze.
• Tris met Sirius with Harry and Ron, where Sirius promised to explain the Potters’ deaths and invited Harry to stay at Black Manor.
• Tris’s Lumos dazzled the Charms classroom, and Dumbledore told him his magic was growing unusually fast but was not out of control.
• Tris recruited Blaise, Theodore, Hermione, and other students into his daily exercises, while Voldemort escaped the Thought Maze severely weakened.
• Tris helped Hogwarts students improve their fitness and magic, while Harry and Ron discovered a three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor and suspected it guarded the object from Gringotts.
• During the Gryffindor-Slytherin match, Tris realized Voldemort was cursing Harry through Quirrell, and Hermione’s fire interrupted the attack and steadied Harry’s broom.
• Hermione identified Nicolas Flamel as the creator of the Philosopher’s Stone, while Tris received Molly’s invitation for Christmas in France and wondered how the trip would affect Harry’s discovery of the Mirror of Erised.

Over the holidays, Tris discovered Slytherin’s Locket and later collected other powerful artifacts while growing stronger at Hogwarts. He began treating Nagini’s blood curse with Samadhi True Fire and ended the stretch considering how to obtain the Philosopher’s Stone and use Draco’s knowledge of Hagrid’s dragon.

• Tris traveled to Paris with Harry and the Weasleys, then returned to Sirius’s house and helped uncover Regulus’s story behind Slytherin’s Locket.
• Tris mastered Nymphadora’s metamorphmagus ability, dueled Fleur, and won their wager before the group returned to Hogwarts.
• Tris found Ravenclaw’s Diadem and other objects in the Room of Requirement, then built a schoolwide morning exercise routine after defeating Shocker.
• Tris learned Harry had found the Invisibility Cloak and later discovered he could understand Nagini when she spoke Parseltongue.
• Tris defeated Theodore for the Slytherin chief position, formed Samadhi True Fire, and burned away part of Nagini’s blood curse.
• Tris absorbed Voldemort’s soul fragments in his Thought Maze, gained Voldemort’s magical knowledge, and decided to seek the ingredients for a Magic Spirit Potion.
• Tris learned Draco had seen Hagrid’s dragon and suggested Draco threaten to report it unless Harry and Ron let him join them.
• Tris weighed stealing the Philosopher’s Stone and considered whether a dragon guarding Hogwarts could serve his interests.

Tris helped Harry, Ron, and Hermione reach the Philosopher’s Stone and confronted Quirrell and Voldemort, then secretly kept the Stone and took the Diary from Lucius Malfoy. As the new school year began, Tris questioned Tom Riddle through the Diary and later learned that Peter Pettigrew had escaped from Azkaban.

• Tris finished removing Nagini’s blood curse, then agreed to help Harry, Ron, and Hermione protect the Philosopher’s Stone while Dumbledore was away.
• Tris killed the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets and collected its valuable parts before catching up with the trio in the trials beneath Hogwarts.
• Tris helped Ron survive the chess match and fought Quirrell with Harry, but Voldemort emerged and attacked them until Dumbledore arrived and drove him off.
• After recovering in the Hospital Wing, Tris discovered the Philosopher’s Stone in his Portable Space, processed the basilisk, and learned that Gryffindor had won the House Cup.
• Tris recognized the Diary in Lucius’s pocket at Lockhart’s book signing and drew it into his Portable Space before Lucius could pass it to a student.
• Tris began the new school year with Harry and Ron, watched Lockhart’s disastrous Pixie lesson, and threatened Tom Riddle in the Diary with Samadhi True Fire until he revealed himself as a self-aware Horcrux fragment.
• Tris kept the Diary isolated and focused on training as Harry and Ron told him Draco had joined the Slytherin Quidditch Team with seven Nimbus 2001s.
• Tris read that Peter Pettigrew had escaped from Azkaban and discussed Peter’s reputation and the Ministry’s likely response with Theodore and Blaise.