Recaps

Su Er joined the Order of the Phoenix, helped bring Harry safely to Grimmauld Place, and learned of Voldemort’s growing influence over the Dementors and Azkaban. As the group settled into the Black family home, Su Er kept Slytherin’s locket from Kreacher and received Dumbledore’s summons for that night.

• Angel’s grief awakened her magic, and Dumbledore traced her ancestry to the Prince family while Su Er and Hermione stayed with the Ellisons.
• Su Er read the Daily Prophet’s conflicting accounts of Voldemort’s return, then received Hermione’s news that Dementors had attacked Harry and the Ministry might expel him.
• Moody brought Su Er and Hermione to Grimmauld Place, where Su Er gave Fred and George Harry’s thousand Galleons and learned that Moody had been close to his father.
• Su Er accepted Moody’s invitation to join the Order, and Dumbledore assigned him to help fetch Harry from the Dursleys’ home.
• Su Er and the Order rescued Harry by flying across London on brooms and brought him safely to Grimmauld Place.
• Dumbledore’s meeting revealed that Voldemort was probably at Azkaban, the Dementors had likely joined him, and someone was interested in the Department of Mysteries.
• Su Er defeated Fred and George in a duel, but Mrs. Weasley rejected their applications to join the Order.
• While clearing Doxies from the house, Su Er kept a serpent-marked locket from Kreacher, and Sirius gave him Dumbledore’s summons for that night.

Su Er and the others uncovered Regulus Black’s sacrifice and confirmed that Voldemort’s locket was a Horcrux, while Harry returned to Hogwarts under Umbridge’s growing control. The stretch ended with Hermione organizing a secret practical Defence group and Su Er recognizing a familiar witch at the Hog’s Head.

• Sirius gave Su Er the Black family locket, and Kreacher revealed that Regulus had stolen Voldemort’s locket and died switching it for a fake.
• Dumbledore led Su Er, Harry, Sirius, and Snape to Voldemort’s cave, where they retrieved the fake locket and Kreacher found Regulus’s body among the Inferi.
• At Grimmauld Place, Kreacher found Regulus’s letter, and Dumbledore honored Regulus with an epitaph after the group buried him.
• Harry was acquitted at his hearing, learned that Ron and Hermione had become prefects, and returned to Hogwarts with Su Er and the others.
• Hermione confronted Draco Malfoy aboard the Hogwarts Express, and Su Er attacked him in badger form after Draco insulted her and Hannah.
• Dumbledore asked Su Er to seek the centaurs’ support, while Snape began teaching Su Er Apparition away from Hogwarts.
• Harry revealed Umbridge’s cruel detention, and Fred and George used a scheme involving Dungbombs and an enchanted quill to disrupt her and end Harry’s detention.
• Umbridge became High Inquisitor and searched Hogwarts, while Hermione organized a secret Defence group and arranged its first meeting at the Hog’s Head, where Su Er recognized a witch from the Black Family Home.

Hermione organized the D.A. and Su Er secretly taught its members practical defensive magic while Umbridge tightened her control of Hogwarts. The story left Su Er and Hermione praising Neville after he helped save a little girl during a werewolf attack at St. Mungo’s.

• Hermione gathered students at the Hog’s Head, declared that Voldemort had returned, and proposed a secret Defence group, while Harry demonstrated his silver stag Patronus.
• Su Er disguised himself as Professor Aibo, defeated seven students in a duel, and began teaching the D.A. spells and advanced defensive techniques.
• Hermione and Su Er used enchanted coins to notify D.A. members, and Dumbledore secretly taught the group as Mr. Aibo.
• Umbridge banned Harry, Fred, and George from Quidditch, while Hermione and Su Er found Hagrid injured after his failed mission with Olympe and warned him about Umbridge’s scrutiny.
• Su Er taught the D.A. to combine defensive spells and introduced the Patronus Charm as Dumbledore worked unseen against the Ministry’s pressure.
• After Arthur Weasley was attacked by a snake, Dumbledore sent Harry and the Weasley children to St. Mungo’s, then arranged for Su Er to pose as a patient there through Christmas.
• A masked attacker triggered a werewolf transformation at St. Mungo’s, and Hermione and Su Er helped fight the werewolf while Neville rescued a little girl.
• Su Er defended Neville to Mrs. Longbottom, praised his bravery, and promised to visit Neville’s parents.

Su Er and Hermione uncovered the Grey Lady’s hidden room while Su Er helped Dumbledore destroy the soul fragment in Ravenclaw’s Diadem. As the Order and Hogwarts prepared for Voldemort’s return, Umbridge exposed the D.A. and took Harry to the Headmaster’s Office.

• Su Er warned Harry that Voldemort could invade his thoughts through their connection and urged him to take Occlumency seriously and report suspicious dreams.
• Su Er trained Hogwarts students to cast Patronuses against Dementors, while Hermione investigated Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Grey Lady’s legacy.
• Hermione traced the Grey Lady’s hidden room through the Bloody Baron’s account and Professor Binns’s map, and Su Er revealed that the Diadem was in the Room of Requirement.
• Su Er and Dumbledore faced Riddle in the Room of Requirement and used Dementors to consume the soul fragment in the Diadem, before Dumbledore drove away the transformed Riddle with a Phoenix Patronus.
• Su Er and Hermione used the Diadem and Ravenclaw’s door knocker to enter the Grey Lady’s hidden room, where Rowena Ravenclaw appeared and left Hermione with increased magical power.
• Su Er secured the Centaurs’ support for Hogwarts by persuading Dumbledore to grant them permanent residence in the Forbidden Forest, and Dumbledore installed Priestess Lisi as the new Prophecy Class professor.
• Dobby warned the D.A. that their meeting had been exposed, and Su Er and Hermione escaped after Su Er confused Pansy and freed the students left behind.
• Umbridge took Harry to the Headmaster’s Office, and Hermione told the shaken Gryffindors that someone had betrayed the D.A.