Recaps

Gerald left the Dursleys after ensuring Harry was treated better, then gave Harry Christmas sweets and discovered through his Qi-Perception Spell that Harry had exceptional magical talent. Gerald decided to keep a cautious distance while building a friendly relationship, and planned to visit Diagon Alley during the holidays.

• Gerald reminded Petunia that she had written to Dumbledore, and the frightened Dursleys let Harry have dinner.
• Gerald returned to Aunt Mary’s house, where Luke asked him to explain Hogwarts the next day.
• On Christmas morning, Gerald found a blue scarf from Aunt Mary and set out to visit London and Diagon Alley.
• Gerald met Harry, learned that he had moved into Dudley’s old toy room, and gave him Licorice Wands and a Chocolate Frog.
• Gerald used the Qi-Perception Spell and saw that Harry had immense magical talent and a wisp of black energy around his aura.
• Gerald considered taking Harry under his wing, then decided to maintain some distance and focus on his holiday plans.

Gerald rode the Knight Bus to the Leaky Cauldron to visit Diagon Alley, where he discovered that the exhausted passenger with a powerful aura was Remus Lupin. Lupin said his wand was broken and offered to take Gerald to Diagon Alley with him.

• Gerald left Number Twelve, Privet Drive, and flagged down the Knight Bus, paying eleven Silver Sickles to reach the Leaky Cauldron.
• During the ride, Gerald sensed that a passenger hidden beneath a patched coat had an aura as powerful as Professor Snape's.
• Gerald recognized the passenger as Remus Lupin after Tom greeted him by name at the Leaky Cauldron.
• Gerald told Tom he was going to Diagon Alley, and Lupin offered to accompany him because his wand was broken.

Gerald accompanied Lupin into Diagon Alley after helping him open the entrance with his wand. They spoke about Hogwarts and Lupin’s difficult circumstances before parting, with Lupin heading to Gringotts and Gerald remaining to shop.

• Gerald agreed to accompany Lupin after Tom let him decide whether to go with him.
• Lupin showed Gerald his broken wand and asked him to open the brick passage to Diagon Alley.
• Gerald helped Lupin enter Diagon Alley, and Lupin thanked him for the assistance.
• Gerald introduced himself as a Gryffindor first-year named Gerard Green and learned that Lupin had been a Gryffindor prefect.
• Gerald asked Lupin why he did not return to Hogwarts or seek work there, and Lupin said he had his difficulties.
• Lupin told Gerald he would visit an old friend and then Ollivander before heading toward Gringotts.

Gerald explored Diagon Alley, restocked supplies, and accidentally wandered into Knockturn Alley, where he encountered Professor Snape. He was relieved to find Snape, who studied him with an unexpectedly softened expression.

• Gerald bought potion and alchemical supplies, including inexpensive thunderbird blood, then admired the Nimbus 1900 before deciding he could not afford it.
• Gerald followed the crowd into increasingly grim streets and realized he had entered Knockturn Alley when he saw Borgin and Burkes.
• Gerald turned to leave Knockturn Alley and spotted Severus Snape approaching.
• Gerald hurried over to Snape, who recognized him and reflected on his remarkable talent for potions.
• Snape's eyes softened as he thought of Lily, leaving Gerald wondering if Snape had taken a strange interest in him.

Gerald accidentally wandered into Knockturn Alley and Snape escorted him back to Diagon Alley, questioning his interest in dark magic and warning him to be more careful. Afterward, Snape returned to investigate an unidentifiable potion and continued to suspect that there was something unusual about Gerald Green.

• Snape found Gerald in Knockturn Alley, asked whether he was interested in dark magic, and led him back to Diagon Alley.
• Gerald explained that he had come shopping alone while spending Christmas with his Muggle relatives, and Snape warned him not to enter Knockturn Alley again.
• Gerald decided he needed to learn Occlumency to protect his many secrets from Snape.
• Snape returned to Knockturn Alley to arrange for potion-makers to examine the strange potion he had bought from a hooded seller at the Hog's Head.
• Snape reflected on his unsettling impression of Gerald and wondered about the boy's family, the Green Family.

Gerald bought ballpoint pens to sell in the wizarding world, returned to Privet Drive, and spent the rest of the holidays with his family. After returning to Essex County, he realized his former home might contain clues about the Green Family.

• Gerald bought 180 ballpoint pens in London and stored them in his Object-Storing Talisman.
• Gerald returned to Privet Drive, ate dinner with his family, and told Luke about Hogwarts.
• Gerald studied potions during the rainy holidays and spoke with Harry Potter, who said he had new clothes and had been reading.
• Gerald traveled with Uncle Jack, Aunt Mary, Bill, and Luke to Grandpa Henry's house in Essex County.
• Grandpa Henry asked Gerald to fetch tools from the Green family's old house, prompting Gerald to wonder whether it held clues about his family.

Gerald visited his abandoned family home, remembered his parents, and resolved to avenge his father if Peter Pettigrew had caused his family's deaths. While searching his parents' belongings, he found a key marked 301 and a badge identifying Joseph Green as an Order of Merlin, Second Class recipient.

• Gerald entered the Green family home and remembered his mother, father, and the life they had shared there.
• Gerald decided to catch Peter Pettigrew and make him pay if he was responsible for his father's death, but he resolved to wait until he was strong enough.
• Gerald searched his parents' bedroom and found an iron box containing his father's letters, jewelry, and watches.
• Gerald discovered a Gringotts-style key marked 301 and wondered whether the Green family had an inheritance there.
• Gerald read the Ancient Runes on a badge and recognized the inscription as Joseph Green, Order of Merlin, Second Class.

Gerald traveled to London to investigate the Green Family’s underground vault after discovering an ancestor’s medal and key. At Gringotts, he learned that the key belonged to Braid Green’s family vault, and the goblins began verifying his identity.

• Gerald put away Joseph Green’s Order of Merlin medal and vault key, then decided to visit the vault before returning to school.
• Gerald left Grandpa Henry and Uncle Jack, took the Knight Bus to London, and considered using the Soviet Union’s impending collapse to improve his family’s finances.
• Gerald entered Gringotts and presented the key marked 301 to a goblin at the counter.
• The goblin identified the key as belonging to Braid Green, and Gerald said he was Braid’s descendant, Gerard Green.
• The goblin explained that Vault 301 was a family vault that had been unopened for nearly two hundred years and said Gringotts would verify Gerald’s identity.

Gerald explored the Green Family vault, claimed its Galleons and inherited alchemical artifacts, then discovered Lupin stranded in a rainy alley with a broken wand and no money. Gerald decided to find a discreet way to help him.

• Gerald opened Vault 301 with Griphook and found over eight hundred Galleons, the Green Family's alchemical notes, and three mysterious objects.
• Gerald stored the vault's contents in his Object-Storing Talisman and planned to eat at the Leaky Cauldron before catching the Hogwarts Express the next morning.
• Gerald spotted Lupin sheltering in an alley and learned from Ollivander that Lupin had recently left without repairing his broken wand because the repair cost ten Galleons.
• Gerald concluded that helping Lupin could earn his loyalty and assistance, but he worried that Lupin would refuse a child's charity.

Gerald hired Lupin as his private Defence Against Dark Magic teacher and gave him an advance on his tuition. After settling into the Leaky Cauldron, Gerald found a mysterious map hidden in Braid Green’s alchemy notes.

• Gerald asked Lupin to teach him privately and demonstrated his skill by transfiguring a box into a lizard.
• Gerald persuaded Lupin to accept the teaching job, offered him Galleons in advance, and arranged to stay at the Leaky Cauldron.
• Gerald dried his clothes by the hearth, ate lunch, and went upstairs to read Braid Green’s alchemy notes.
• Gerald found a folded map in the notes showing a red route from Alba to Crete through an area marked “mist.”

Gerald demonstrated his spellwork to Lupin, began lessons with him, and quickly mastered Water and Fire Imperviousness. The next morning, Gerald returned to King's Cross to board the Hogwarts Express, where he greeted familiar students and met Lee Jordan.

• Lupin visited Gerald and tested his skill with several spells, finding his magic controlled and advanced.
• Gerald chose to learn Water and Fire Imperviousness, and he mastered the spell after only a few attempts.
• Gerald booked the room next door for Lupin, who said he would arrange their next lesson in five days.
• The next morning, Gerald traveled to King's Cross and boarded the Hogwarts Express platform, where he greeted Cedric Diggory and Vivian Carrow.
• Lee Jordan ran up to Gerald to tell him about his holiday, and Gerald asked him to wait until they were on the train.

Gerald reunited with Lee, Fred, George, and Kenneth after the holidays and learned that the Weasley twins’ joke sweets were already earning money. When Lee and Kenneth asked to copy Gerald’s completed assignments, Fred and George soon joined them, leaving all four roommates copying homework in the dormitory.

• Gerald and Lee returned to the Gryffindor Common Room, where Fred and George gave them their shares of the profits from Nosebleed Nougat and Fever Fudge.
• Gerald pocketed his earnings in his Object-Storing Talisman and heard Fred and George describe the matching jumpers their mother had knitted for them.
• Lee asked Gerald to lend him his completed holiday homework, and Gerald brought out his assignments for him to copy.
• Kenneth asked to borrow Gerald’s Transfiguration essay, and Gerald handed it over.
• Fred and George came upstairs, saw Kenneth copying, and joined Lee and Kenneth in copying Gerald’s homework.

Gerald recruited Fred, George, Lee Jordan, and Kenneth to sell his ballpoint pens, while his homework circulated among students and inspired a paid copying scheme. The scheme brought better grades for many Gryffindors, but Professor McGonagall exposed the copied Transfiguration essays after finding identical mistakes, including Lee Jordan’s repeated confusion of 13 with B.

• Gerald moved his belongings into a new Object-Storing Talisman and offered Fred and the others ballpoint pens to sell for a commission.
• Lee Jordan and Kenneth joined Gerald, Fred, and George in the pen-selling venture, and the group toasted their enterprise.
• Gerald’s homework passed among students, and Fred announced that copying his assignments would cost one Sickle each.
• Gryffindor students earned improved marks in Charms and History of Magic, while Snape gave their altered essays an Acceptable.
• Lee Jordan shouted that Gerald was their king, and Gerald pulled him down from the fireplace ledge as Percy left the common room.
• Professor McGonagall confronted Lee Jordan and other Gryffindors over matching Transfiguration essays, pointing out that they had all written 13 as B.

After Professor McGonagall confronted Gerald Green about letting classmates copy his homework, he decided to build a circle of allies and help them improve their magic. He planned to begin by teaching them defensive spells once Lupin arrived, and returned to the Great Hall to tell his friends he would supervise their studies.

• Professor McGonagall ordered Lee Jordan, Chris White, and Damian Grant to rewrite their essays, then summoned Gerald to her office.
• McGonagall warned Gerald that sharing homework hindered his classmates and urged him to lead them in improving their magical abilities.
• Gerald considered forming a faction and bringing Fred, George, Lee Jordan, and Kenneth to Lupin’s lessons so they could become stronger.
• Gerald planned to learn Protego from Lupin as soon as he received the professor’s owl.
• At lunch, Gerald told Lee Jordan, Damian Grant, and Chris White that he would supervise their studies, prompting jokes from Fred and Damian.

Gerald made more Object-Storing Talismans and advanced his cultivation before watching Gryffindor defeat Slytherin in Quidditch. He then researched Braid Green’s notes and found that Crete had once been home to an Ancient Alchemy School known for automatons.

• Gerald used Quintaped blood to make eleven Object-Storing Talismans and took a Darkgold Essence-Gathering Pill, increasing his cultivation.
• Gerald went to the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin, where Fred and George joined him in the stands.
• Charlie Weasley impressed Gerald with his flying and caught the Golden Snitch to secure Gryffindor’s victory.
• Gerald visited the library and searched for Alba and Crete using Braid Green’s notes.
• Gerald found a book describing Crete’s vanished Ancient Alchemy School and its automatons and mechanical servants.

Gerald reviewed a map pointing toward a possible Alchemy School on Crete, then arranged to meet Lupin for lessons in Hogsmeade. While helping Professor Sprout in Greenhouse Three, he discovered a plant he recognized as Biting Cabbage.

• Gerald concluded that the map’s Labyrinth might lead to an actual magical site on Crete, but decided he needed to grow stronger before investigating.
• Gerald received Lupin’s letter offering lessons and wrote back to arrange a meeting outside The Three Broomsticks at four.
• Gerald visited the greenhouse before Herbology and found his Ironwire Vine and Heaven-Subduing Flower growing well.
• Professor Sprout asked Gerald to help in Greenhouse Three, where he worked with Cedric Diggory moving fertilizer.
• Gerald explored Greenhouse Three and spotted a strange cabbage-like plant that he recognized as Biting Cabbage.

Gerald met Lupin in Hogsmeade for another private Defence lesson and chose to learn Protego. After Gerald’s powerful Diffindo forced Lupin to stop the exercise, Lupin recognized his unusual magical strength and told him to practise the shield charm.

• Gerald saw a Biting Cabbage during Herbology and learned from Cedric that it could bite and restrain its victims.
• After classes, Gerald used the secret passage from the Fourth Floor storeroom to reach Hogsmeade and meet Lupin.
• Lupin brought Gerald to a rented house and asked what spell he wanted to learn; Gerald chose Protego.
• Lupin demonstrated Protego, and Gerald attacked the shield with Diffindo, which rebounded and cut through the wall.
• Lupin repaired the wall with Reparo, acknowledged that he had underestimated Gerald’s magical talent, and instructed him to practise Protego.

Gerald practiced Protego with Lupin until he could hold a barrier for ten seconds, and Lupin offered to teach him practical combat magic. Gerald then fetched food from the Hogwarts kitchens and sent Lupin chocolate muffins and a freshly fried steak by owl.

• Gerald realized his magical power was unusually strong and practiced Protego under Lupin's instruction.
• Gerald struggled through nearly a hundred attempts before holding a Protego barrier for about ten seconds.
• Lupin praised Gerald's self-correction and offered to teach him spells useful in real combat.
• Gerald went to the kitchens, where Pipi and Billy prepared a steak and two chocolate muffins for him.
• Gerald carried the food to the Owlery and sent it to Lupin with a note.

Gerald returned to the Gryffindor dormitory and saw Fred and George developing a long-lasting, harmless prank sweet called Ton-Tongue Toffee. The next day, he set out alone for the Forbidden Forest, intent on gathering ingredients.

• Gerald found Fred, George, and Lee Jordan working on a toffee that made the tongue swell, and suggested the name Ton-Tongue Toffee.
• George explained that he and Fred had chosen diluted African Tree Snake venom for a safer, more reliable effect, and Fred said George had tested the recipe by eating two pieces.
• Gerald suggested adapting their techniques for healing spells and sustained-release Potions, but the twins preferred to focus on joke products.
• Gerald decided to gather ingredients from the Forbidden Forest and told Hagrid he would go there alone.
• Hagrid warned Gerald not to go too deep, then let him enter the Forbidden Forest by himself.

Gerald found a unicorn injured by a troll in the Forbidden Forest and chose to rescue it, hoping to gain its trust. He subdued the troll but stopped short of killing it, leaving the unicorn alive and the outcome of their encounter unresolved.

• Gerald found a silvery-white hair he recognized as unicorn tail hair while searching the Forbidden Forest.
• Gerald discovered a troll chasing an injured unicorn and decided to help the creature.
• Gerald disarmed the troll and attacked it with spells, then used talismans and his Qi-Perception Spell to fight through a cloud of mist.
• Gerald brought the troll to its knees but withheld the final blow, fearing that killing it in front of the unicorn would ruin his chance to gain its favor.

Gerald healed an injured Unicorn in the Forbidden Forest, while Snape told Dumbledore that Remus Lupin had returned to Hogsmeade. Dumbledore linked Lupin’s arrival to Gerard Green, leaving Snape stunned by the connection.

• Gerald cautiously approached the injured Unicorn and used Primordial Qi and Essence of Dittany to heal its wound.
• The Unicorn touched Gerald’s forehead, then walked away into the Forbidden Forest.
• Snape confronted Dumbledore about seeing Remus Lupin in Hogsmeade and questioned why Lupin had returned.
• Dumbledore suggested Snape brew Wolfsbane Potion for Lupin, and Snape refused.
• Dumbledore said Snape would have to ask Gerard Green why Lupin had come, reminding him that he had bought potions from Green.
• Snape suddenly realized what Dumbledore meant and demanded to know what he had said.

Gerald sought Lupin’s help to catch Peter Pettigrew, who was disguised as Percy Weasley’s rat, and tracked Percy to Hogsmeade. The chapter ended with Gerald stunning Percy and Penelope in the village square, shocking Lupin.

• Dumbledore told Snape that the hooded potion seller was Gerard Green and urged Snape to give Lupin a chance.
• Gerald decided to catch Peter Pettigrew, whom he believed was Percy Weasley’s pet rat, Scabbers.
• Gerald learned Percy had gone to Hogsmeade and used a secret passage to reach the village.
• Gerald asked Lupin to help him catch a rat, and they searched Hogsmeade for Percy.
• Gerald found Percy sitting with Penelope Clearwater and stunned them both with Stupefy.
• Lupin shouted at Gerald in shock and demanded to know what he was doing.

Gerald captured Scabbers after the rat fled from Percy, then brought him to Lupin and revealed that the rat might be Peter Pettigrew, presumed dead after Sirius Black’s arrest. The Marauder’s Map confirmed Peter Pettigrew was with Gerald and Lupin, leaving Lupin stunned by the revelation.

• Gerald and Lupin stunned Scabbers after he escaped from Percy’s pocket, and Gerald bound and captured him.
• Gerald took Scabbers to Lupin’s rented house and said he would explain why he had attacked the Hogwarts students and caught the rat.
• Gerald told Lupin that Peter Pettigrew had supposedly been blown apart, leaving only a finger, and pointed out that Scabbers was missing a toe.
• Scabbers woke and struggled when he saw Lupin, while Gerald held him fast.
• Gerald opened the Marauder’s Map and showed Lupin the names Gerard Green, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew on it.

Lupin revealed Peter Pettigrew from rat form, and Gerald recognized him as the man responsible for his family's deaths. Gerald attacked Peter despite Lupin's efforts to preserve him for trial, leaving him unconscious and unable to escape.

• Lupin transformed the rat in Gerald's hand into Peter Pettigrew and demanded an explanation.
• Gerald asked Peter when Sirius Black had attacked him, then kicked him after Peter named the day Gerald's father and grandfather had died.
• Gerald told Lupin that Peter had betrayed James and Lily and framed Black, then broke free of Lupin's Binding Spell.
• Gerald broke both of Peter's arms and legs, leaving him unconscious, and told Lupin that Peter could no longer run.

Gerald spared Peter Pettigrew after Lupin stopped him from killing the man, and Lupin planned to take Peter’s capture to Dumbledore. Snape arrived at Lupin’s cottage, recognized Peter, and questioned what had happened.

• Lupin healed Peter enough to keep him alive for trial, then persuaded Gerald to leave him for Azkaban rather than kill him.
• Gerald agreed to keep the capture secret while considering the risks of Peter escaping if his injuries were healed.
• Lupin said he would rely on Dumbledore to handle the case and clear Sirius Black’s name.
• Snape blasted open the cottage door after hearing screams and recognized the supposedly dead Peter Pettigrew.
• Gerald warned Snape not to let anyone heal Peter’s limbs, and Snape asked why Gerald kept turning up everywhere.