Recaps

Brian confronted Voldemort beneath Hogwarts, then settled into his new role as Muggle Studies professor while caring for his magical companions and spending Christmas with friends. The stretch ends with Hermione resolving to investigate house-elves and Brian encountering Tonks and Moody at a wizard gathering.

• Brian discovered Voldemort hiding behind Quirrell’s head and used erasure magic to destroy most of his face before Voldemort escaped as black snakes.
• Brian and Dumbledore repaired the castle, and Dumbledore arranged for the amnesiac genuine Quirrell to face responsibility for his actions after Christmas.
• Brian and Dumbledore found the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, and Brian disabled it by making it blind, toothless, and pacifistic.
• Hogwarts announced that Snape would teach Defence Against Dark Magic until Christmas and Brian would become Muggle Studies professor afterward.
• Brian helped care for Norberta and his magical companions, dealt with Peeves’s pranks, and removed an old Age Line curse that made green hair grow from his head.
• Brian took Fred to Ollivander to repair his wand, met the Weasley family in Diagon Alley, and spent Christmas exchanging gifts with his companions and the Hogwarts community.
• Brian reunited with Muggle acquaintances Myron Wagtail and Donaghan Tremlett at a Weird Sisters performance, then visited Hermione and the Grangers at their home.
• Hermione decided to speak with Hogwarts house-elves after Brian explained their circumstances, and Brian later attended a wizard gathering where he saw Tonks and Moody.

Brian explored memory magic, helped Hagrid send Norberta to Targaryen, and investigated the possibility that Scabbers was an Animagus. He exposed Peter Pettigrew as the traitor who had betrayed Harry’s parents, while Lupin was summoned to Hogwarts and Tonks found him in werewolf form.

• Brian learned Memory magic from Book, practiced conjuring objects from memories, and showed Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel how the spell worked.
• Brian and Dumbledore repeatedly tried to remove a prophetic curse surrounding Moody before discovering that Hogwarts’s employment contracts controlled it.
• Brian saved Hagrid’s beard from the fire at his hut, helped arrange Norberta’s departure, and recreated part of her teddy bear from a memory.
• Brian suspected Scabbers was an Animagus after reading a report about dragons’ hostility to Animagi, and he investigated the possibility with Professor McGonagall.
• Peter Pettigrew transformed from Scabbers in Hagrid’s Hut and, under Brian’s Veritaserum, admitted that he had betrayed Lily and James Potter and framed Sirius Black.
• Harry attacked Peter with a Severing Charm, but Brian healed him, and Dumbledore explained that Sirius was Harry’s godfather and remained imprisoned for Peter’s crime.
• Brian drove Rita Skeeter away from Hagrid’s hut after she tried to invent a story about him, while a beetle crawled onto Brian’s robes.
• Tonks found Remus Lupin in werewolf form, and Chet Brian’s squid Patronus told Lupin that Peter Pettigrew was alive and summoned him to Hogwarts.

Brian helped clear Sirius Black’s name, uncovered Regulus’s locket and helped Kreacher destroy it, then spent the rest of the school year pursuing magical projects and supporting Hogwarts students. The stretch ended with Brian preparing to help Dobby after seeing Lucius Malfoy mistreat him.

• Brian exposed Rita Skeeter as an unregistered Animagus and secured her agreement to limit fabricated content in her articles.
• Brian helped revive Sirius Black, fought off the Dementors with a Giant Squid Patronus, and witnessed Peter Pettigrew’s sentencing and the failed attempt to send Sirius back to Azkaban.
• Brian and the others found Regulus’s locket at Grimmauld Place, and Kreacher destroyed it after the locket’s dark magic attacked them.
• Brian learned that Dumbledore suspected the locket was a Horcrux, while Dumbledore left for Austria after hearing that Gellert Grindelwald had died.
• Brian met Newt Scamander in the Forbidden Forest and helped him improve a potion intended to let him approach unicorns.
• Brian helped students manage their anger, finished Managing Emotions Starting Today, and watched Harry catch the Snitch to win the Quidditch final for Gryffindor.
• Charlie Weasley and Targaryen asked Brian to recover two stolen dragon eggs, and Brian encountered Lucius Malfoy abusing Dobby at Borgin and Burke.
• Brian stopped Dobby from striking himself and offered to help him.

Brian freed Dobby and helped expose Lucius Malfoy, then traveled with Hagrid to the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary, where he completed Targaryen’s Dragon Language ritual and helped reunite Hagrid with Norberta. The arc ended with Sirius inviting Lupin to help collect Harry and the Weasley boy.

• Brian freed Dobby from Lucius Malfoy’s service, and Dobby’s testimony and Bok’s letter helped Arthur Weasley’s team arrest Lucius.
• Dumbledore hired Dobby to work at Hogwarts, where Dobby blasted Draco Malfoy after Draco insulted Hermione and declared himself free.
• Brian and Hagrid used Professor Kettleburn’s gold ring to enter the hidden Romanian Dragon Sanctuary and met Targaryen and Charlie Weasley.
• Brian calmed Carter by returning her egg, and the group returned Phoebe’s egg before witnessing a Beautiful Fishbird use Old Bud’s lost ring to clean Katherine’s teeth.
• Targaryen began the eight-day Dragon Language ritual with Brian, whose new abilities included enhanced hearing, a wider vocal range, and an unusually strong sense of smell.
• Brian helped Targaryen and Charlie bring Hagrid to Norberta, who recognized him and gently bit his head.
• Sirius invited Lupin to help collect Harry and the Weasley boy, while Lupin explained that he had refused Dumbledore’s offer to teach at Hogwarts.