Recaps

Harry continued the twins’ rigged map-fragment game, losing forty-eight Galleons before he finally stopped. George and Fred then revealed that refusing to play had been the test for inheriting the Marauder’s Map.

• Harry returned to George and Fred with money Dobby had lent him and continued drawing slips from their box.
• After a slip said a rat had stolen his fragments, Harry paid a Galleon to inspect the box, but George and Fred reassured him and he kept playing.
• Harry grew suspicious when Fred held the box, but George and Fred explained the handover ceremony and persuaded him to continue.
• Harry spent forty-eight Galleons and ended one Purple Map Fragment short, then decided to accept his loss and leave.
• George and Fred told Harry he had passed the test by refusing to keep playing and revealed that refusing from the start would have made the Marauder’s Map his.

George and Fred gave Harry the Marauder’s Map and explained its secret passages and unusual blind spots. When Harry saw Peter Pettigrew’s name in his Dormitory, he hurried there to find out why a dead man appeared on the map.

• George and Fred gave Harry the wooden box and the Marauder’s Map, then explained that the map did not show Professor Holmes or the Defense Against Dark Magic office.
• Harry used the map to locate people around Hogwarts and discovered secret passages leading to Hogsmeade, including routes guarded by Dementors.
• Harry noticed an ink dot labeled Peter Pettigrew in his Dormitory, and George and Fred confirmed that the map showed locations in real time.
• Harry hurried toward his Dormitory, wondering whether Peter Pettigrew had returned to Hogwarts as a ghost.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigated why the Marauder's Map showed Peter Pettigrew beside Scabbers, while George and Fred suspected the rat was an Animagus. Their inquiries left them with more clues but no proof, and Lupin refused to teach the twins the counter-jinx until they had conclusive evidence.

• Harry, George, and Fred discovered that Scabbers's cage made Peter Pettigrew's dot overlap with the twins' dots on the Marauder's Map, then the twins took Scabbers out to examine him.
• George and Fred privately concluded that Scabbers might be Peter Pettigrew, but neither told Harry.
• Harry told Ron and Hermione about the map and cage; Hermione suspected Professor Holmes had altered the map to leave a clue, while Ron defended the professor and insisted Scabbers could not be Pettigrew.
• Hermione asked Harry to use the map to observe her movements, and Ron began investigating the names Wormtail, Prongs, and Moony with help from Percy, Bill, and Charlie.
• George and Fred asked Lupin to teach them the Animagus counter-jinx, but he refused because they lacked the necessary skill and Douglas had ordered that Scabbers not be changed back without conclusive evidence.

Douglas and Lupin’s new fitness test and detention practices unsettled Hogwarts students as monthly exams approached. Douglas tested Hufflepuff’s memorization, while Hermione and Harry kept Scabbers watched and Hagrid followed Douglas’s advice on judging dangerous beasts.

• Lupin announced that a paired obstacle-course chase would count as a monthly fitness test, and Douglas denied that he had pushed Lupin into it.
• Douglas called on Ernie Macmillan to recite the vampire material, then assigned him ten copies and Justin five after Ernie forgot part of it.
• Douglas gave students who had called him a bad influence extra attention in their lessons as exam week approached.
• Hermione and Harry secretly agreed to take turns watching Scabbers and kept Ron from letting him out of his cage.
• Hagrid began using Fang’s fear of dangerous beasts to guide which creatures the students studied, leaving Harry and the others unable to wheedle information from him.

Douglas tried to teach students to analyze exam questions, but his advice led some to invent guessing strategies, so he deliberately made the answer patterns misleading. After the exams, his response to a prank in the Counter-curse Passage turned into a major research assignment, and Flitwick invited Douglas to help with it.

• Douglas told fifth-year students to study past exam papers for patterns, prompting some to develop methods for analyzing and guessing answers.
• Douglas changed the multiple-choice answer patterns by House and year, and students spent the week doubting their answers after the Defense Against Dark Magic theory exam.
• Seventh-years altered a stage of the Counter-curse Passage with repeated spells and disguised counter-jinxes, and Douglas scolded them while assigning them to research disguising spells.
• Professor Flitwick invited Douglas to join his Charms Club and research the spell-disguise problem, leaving Douglas to take on the work himself.
• Hogwarts students welcomed their first Hogsmeade trip of the term, the Halloween Feast, and the return of Lupin's full moon.

On Halloween, Douglas met Harry in Hogsmeade and pressed him to solve the Sirius Black mystery, then joined Professor McGonagall, Minister Fudge, and others at The Three Broomsticks. Fudge revealed that the Ministry believed Black was somewhere around Hogwarts, while Douglas and McGonagall silently exchanged a look.

• Douglas received sweets from Honeydukes and told Harry to solve the Black case, but Harry admitted the investigators still did not understand the Marauder’s Map clue about Scabbers.
• Douglas left Harry, Hermione, and Ron with a Christmas deadline, then saw Fred, George, and Lee Jordan carrying prank products into an alley.
• Douglas joined Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Hagrid, and Minister Fudge at The Three Broomsticks and used a Copying Charm to share his Holmes wine with Madam Rosmerta.
• Douglas asked Fudge about the missing Dementors, and Rosmerta complained that their frequent patrols were giving her nightmares.
• Fudge said the Ministry had always believed Black was somewhere around Hogwarts, and McGonagall looked to Douglas, who discreetly shook his head.

At the Three Broomsticks, Fudge claimed Sirius Black was a werewolf who had come to Hogwarts to recruit werewolves and target Harry. Douglas and the professors concealed what they knew, while Flitwick quietly noticed their suspicious behavior.

• Fudge told Douglas and the others that the Ministry suspected Black was a werewolf and believed he had come to Hogwarts to build a werewolf army.
• Hagrid nearly revealed that he knew about Lupin, but McGonagall stopped him and Douglas urged him to drink instead of talking.
• Flitwick questioned Fudge's evidence, and Hagrid explained that the Forbidden Forest's wolf cubs were not werewolves.
• Douglas suggested that Lucius Malfoy's son had leaked classified information to Harry, leaving Fudge embarrassed.
• Hagrid, Fudge, and Rosmerta condemned Black, while Flitwick silently watched Douglas and McGonagall's strange reactions.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione tried to buy Hagrid a barrel of Butterbeer but were caught by their professors and left without it. Later, during Lupin’s transformation on Halloween, Douglas hosted another hot-pot meal, and Lupin found that the potion was working better than before.

• Harry and Ron arrived at the Three Broomsticks to buy a barrel of Butterbeer, and Hermione joined them before they noticed the professors and Minister Fudge.
• The trio claimed the Butterbeer was meant as a birthday present for Hagrid, who was moved by their explanation.
• Professor McGonagall let them go, but the three left without the Butterbeer and decided to find another way to learn information from Hagrid.
• On Halloween, Douglas stayed away from the feast while Hogwarts’s ghosts performed for the students in the Great Hall.
• Douglas prepared hot pot in the Defense Against Dark Magic office with dragon meat Charlie obtained at Sirius’s expense, and Lupin transformed nearby.
• Lupin said the potion was working better than it had during his previous transformation.

Hogwarts canceled its November exams and announced final exams and an ultimate challenge, intensifying competition and study. After Douglas punished George and Fred for disrupting class, Hermione gave Harry a book on identifying Animagi, renewing his suspicions about Scabbers.

• Hogwarts professors canceled the November Monthly Exams, announced final exams before Christmas, and offered top students ultimate challenge training.
• The Heads of House demanded that each subject and year group’s four training places include a student from their own house, and students studied harder.
• Snape taught students in third year and above a potion that could force werewolves to transform, and Sirius only relented after Douglas promised to develop a counteracting potion for Lupin.
• Douglas caught George and Fred hiccupping from Hiccough Sweets, assigned them copying, and imposed ten extra weekly papers on the fifth year after their classmates laughed.
• Hermione gave Harry a book opened to a section on identifying and counteracting Animagi, prompting Harry to wonder whether she had discovered a new clue about Scabbers.

Harry, Hermione, and the Weasley twins suspected Ron’s rat Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew, an Animagus who had faked his death. After Ron learned what they had been hiding, the group laid out their evidence and left him shaken but uncertain.

• At dinner, Hermione told Harry she suspected Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and said George and Fred had been asking Professor Lupin about the Human Transfiguration Charm.
• Ron interrupted Harry and Hermione, while George and Fred drew him away with a business offer; Hermione teased Harry about imagining Hedwig as a transformed woman.
• After Harry returned from detention, Ron revealed that he had lent Scabbers and his cage to George and Fred in exchange for prank items and snacks.
• Hermione confronted George and Fred about Scabbers, Peter Pettigrew, and the Animagus theory, and the twins admitted they had discovered something but had not learned the Human Transfiguration Charm.
• Harry and Hermione explained their suspicions to Ron, pointing to Scabbers’s missing finger, his name on the map, and the professor’s pet food and magical cage; Ron recoiled at the thought that he had cuddled an old man for years.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione reconsidered their suspicions about Black and Scabbers, then found clues about Black, Lupin, and Peter in Harry’s old photo album. Hermione urged Harry to confront Lupin privately with the photograph, leaving him with a way to seek answers from someone who knew them all.

• Ron questioned why Peter would have stayed as a rat for years, while Hermione explained that her attempts to wake Scabbers had failed.
• Harry and Hermione discussed the Detective Club’s investigation into Black, and Harry mentioned the deadline his maternal cousin had set before Christmas.
• Hermione asked Harry for the photo album Hagrid had given him, and Harry found a photograph of Black at his parents’ wedding.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione examined a photograph of Harry’s father, Black, Lupin, and a boy who resembled Peter Pettigrew.
• Hermione suspected Lupin might know more about Black and Peter, then told Harry to speak to him privately and take the photograph.

Douglas tried to motivate Hogwarts students with encouraging portrait speeches, but the ghosts and Peeves turned the campaign into a joke. He rewarded students bullied by Peeves with special cage balls, and George Weasley and Fred Weasley helped make the first successful capture.

• Portraits around Hogwarts began reciting motivational sayings, and students suspected Professor Holmes had arranged it.
• The ghosts, led by Peeves’ antics, supplied mocking punchlines to the portraits’ speeches, drawing students to linger in the corridors.
• Douglas gave students who performed well and had been bullied by Peeves reusable Peeves Cage Balls that could trap him for a day.
• After the first student failed to hit Peeves, students began renting out their cage balls and offering prizes for a successful throw.
• George Weasley and Fred Weasley worked together to trap Peeves for the first time, boosting demand for the cage balls.
• The ghosts resumed their campaign against Douglas after learning the cage balls only affected Peeves.

Harry questioned Lupin about a photograph and why James trusted Black as Secret Keeper, but Lupin blamed himself and Sirius for trusting Peter Pettigrew. After Lupin left, he went to Douglas’s office, where Sirius joined them and they discussed their guilt and memories of school.

• Lupin told Harry about Voldemort’s rise, the resistance, and the photograph taken after James, Lily, Sirius, and their friends graduated.
• Harry said Black had been the Secret Keeper, and Lupin insisted that James had not been wrong to trust his friends.
• Harry told Lupin that he suspected Peter Pettigrew was still alive, but Lupin ended the conversation and left.
• Lupin gave Douglas and Sirius the photograph and explained that Harry had brought it to him; he admitted he had persuaded James and Sirius to accept Peter as their friend.
• Sirius reassured Lupin that they had all trusted Peter, then admitted he had also been wrong to suspect Lupin.
• Lupin and Sirius recalled their school days while Douglas refilled their glasses and encouraged them to tell more.

Harry and his friends considered whether Peter Pettigrew had been the Potters’ real Secret Keeper and betrayed them, but they lacked enough information to decide. They planned to ask Hagrid, while Douglas listened to two people recount the events and remained silent.

• Harry told Ron, Hermione, and Ginny that Lupin had hinted the Potters might have changed their Secret Keeper.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ginny reasoned that Peter Pettigrew could have been the Secret Keeper, while Ron questioned why Peter would betray them.
• Hermione proposed that Peter might have been the traitor or that Black had learned the secret from Peter, but neither theory fully explained what happened.
• Ron suggested asking Snape about his former classmates, and Hermione concluded that they should go to Hagrid instead.
• Douglas listened as two people recounted the events and remained speechless.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione questioned Hagrid about Peter Pettigrew and learned that Peter had followed James and Sirius closely while seeming eager to please. Hermione suspected that being overlooked had helped push Peter toward betrayal, but Snape caught the three outside the Castle after dark and sent them to detention.

• Neville identified the questing beast in Hagrid's class, and Draco watched the creature cautiously from the back of the group.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione asked Hagrid about Peter, who described him as James's timid, devoted follower and suggested they ask Lupin about the Marauders' friendship.
• Hagrid avoided telling the trio what he suspected about how Sirius became a werewolf and sent them back toward the Castle as evening approached.
• Hermione reasoned that Peter might have betrayed James after being overlooked, comparing him to Crabbe, while Harry and Ron discussed whether close friends would abandon one another.
• Snape caught Harry, Ron, and Hermione outside the Castle, took points from them for breaking school rules, and ordered them to wait for detention.

Douglas and the professors left Harry and his friends to investigate Wormtail while students prepared for mock O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. To contain Peeves during the exams, Douglas unveiled a six-story Demon-Suppression Tower that looked strikingly out of place at Hogwarts.

• Douglas told Lupin to let Harry and his friends handle their investigation of Wormtail unless they failed, and said McGonagall would teach them the Animagus counter-jinx.
• Students chose whether to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas and grew nervous as the mock O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exams approached.
• Neville and Colin said Douglas had promised them special lessons if they earned enough Outstanding marks, while students in the other houses discussed his magical rewards.
• McGonagall asked Douglas to confine Peeves during exam week because he had been taking revenge over the Peeves Cage Ball incident.
• Douglas brought out a six-story Demon-Suppression Tower and used it to test the device by capturing Peeves.
• Students discovered the tower in the castle grounds, and Lupin explained that it had been built to confine Peeves.

Douglas faced Umbridge as she arrived at Hogwarts to announce a new written W.O.M.B.A.T. assessment during exam week. He suspected the Ministry-focused test concealed a scheme, while Dumbledore appeared to approve of Umbridge’s explanation.

• Snape warned Douglas to avoid Lupin and repeated the rumor that Sirius Black had made Lupin a werewolf, while Lupin described how his friends protected themselves from infection.
• Umbridge greeted Douglas as though she were Minister, and he publicly addressed her by that title before she clarified that she was only a Deputy Minister.
• Percy told Penelope that the Ministry had banned one of Douglas’s novels and that his parents had appeared in it as a married couple.
• Umbridge announced that Fudge had sent her to inspect Hogwarts’ curriculum reforms and introduce a written W.O.M.B.A.T. test for students during exams.
• Douglas and the other professors examined the papers, which covered Hogwarts subjects but focused heavily on Ministry rules, policies, and current affairs.
• Douglas suspected a conspiracy in Umbridge’s assessment, while Dumbledore listened to her with apparent enthusiasm.

As Hogwarts’ holidays began, the Ministry collected the W.O.M.B.A.T. tests while Douglas and the professors finished the school exams. The Charon Detective Agency prepared to confront Peter Pettigrew, and Douglas went to the Headmaster’s Office as the students planned to bring Scabbers to their meeting.

• Umbridge announced that the Ministry would consider adding a course after the W.O.M.B.A.T. diagnostic test, and Professor McGonagall scheduled the test after Friday’s exams with Douglas and the other professors’ support.
• Douglas gave the younger students straightforward written exams and canceled their practical exams, while older students faced changing challenges in the Practical Lesson Classrooms.
• The Ministry collected the W.O.M.B.A.T. tests and exam papers, and Peeves apologized to Douglas before vanishing from the Castle.
• The Hogwarts Express departed on Monday, and Hermione told the students staying behind that the Charon Detective Agency had found traces of Peter Pettigrew and planned a final meeting the next morning.
• George and Fred revealed that Scabbers had briefly reverted to Peter Pettigrew, but they could not open his cage to change him back again without the Professor’s help.
• After the meeting, Douglas headed for the Headmaster’s Office while the students prepared to bring Scabbers to their next gathering.

The Charon Detective Agency tried to get help from Professor Holmes after Scabbers remained unconscious, while the Daily Prophet reported that Peter Pettigrew had returned from the dead. At a meeting in the Headmaster’s Office, Douglas revealed that he had caught Black, but had not yet said where he was.

• Harry, Ron, Hermione, George, and Fred failed to reach Douglas and decided to wait rather than break into his office to retrieve Scabbers.
• Hermione and the other members of the Charon Detective Agency read a Daily Prophet report claiming Peter Pettigrew had returned, but kept the Marauder’s Map secret.
• Dumbledore left for the Ministry of Magic with the Heads of House and delegated school affairs to Percy and Penelope.
• Hermione persuaded Ginny to help approach Percy so the group could get assistance with Scabbers and a powerful wizard to protect them.
• Douglas used a Two-Way Mirror to show the student gathering to the Ministry officials and professors assembled in the Headmaster’s Office.
• Douglas told Fudge, Scrimgeour, Snape, and the others that he had caught Black, prompting Snape and Scrimgeour to demand his location.

Douglas explained why he had kept Sirius hidden and presented the evidence that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew, while the Ministry and Hogwarts staff gathered in Dumbledore’s office. After Snape recognized the implications and reached for his wand, Douglas and Flitwick restrained him and the others tacitly agreed to keep Sirius concealed until Peter’s guilt was formally revealed.

• Douglas told Professor Sprout and the others that he had learned the truth from Sirius and had planned to hand him over to Dumbledore.
• Douglas explained that the missing Dementors and Remus’s account had made him believe Sirius, then pointed to the image of George and Fred identifying Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew.
• Lupin confirmed that Peter was an Animagus whose animal form was a rat, and Fudge questioned why the Ministry had honored him.
• Snape realized what Peter’s identity implied and reached for his wand, but Douglas disarmed and bound him while Flitwick disarmed Scrimgeour.
• Douglas warned Sirius to stay quiet, and the people in Dumbledore’s office tacitly kept Sirius hidden until Peter could reveal the truth.

Harry and the others exposed Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew and confronted him about betraying James and Lily Potter. Peter denied being the Secret Keeper, but Harry and Ron pressed him for answers while the Weasley twins threatened him.

• Percy opened the cage with Douglas’s spell, and Fred and George cast spells that woke Scabbers.
• Scabbers transformed into Peter Pettigrew as students and the people watching from the Headmaster’s Office reacted with astonishment.
• Harry aimed his wand at Peter and said James had made him the Secret Keeper for the Fidelius Charm.
• Peter denied it and claimed Sirius Black had betrayed the Potters and revealed their location to Voldemort.
• Ron asked why Peter had faked his death and spent twelve years disguised as a rat in the Weasley home.
• George and Fred pointed their wands at Peter and demanded to know why he had hidden with their family.

Harry, Hermione, and Percy questioned Peter Pettigrew about his past and the Potters’ Secret Keeper, while Peter exposed Remus Lupin as a werewolf. Peter became increasingly alarmed by the questioning and ended by insisting Sirius Black was the spy.

• Peter claimed he had fled Voldemort’s followers out of fear, but Percy and Hermione challenged his explanation and Harry asked why Sirius Black would betray James.
• Peter said Remus Lupin was the werewolf who had been close to Harry’s father, prompting students to question Lupin’s secret and Aurors in the Headmaster’s Office to confront him.
• Dumbledore defended Lupin’s work at Hogwarts, and the professors testified that Lupin had never harmed anyone.
• Hermione questioned Peter about the Secret Keeper and bluffed that he had secretly held the role, making Peter panic when he heard that Holmes remained the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Peter admitted he had been waiting for Black to come after him, but when Hermione pressed him about how he knew Black was the Secret Keeper, he denied everything and called Black the spy.

Sirius explained how he recognized Peter and escaped Azkaban, while Douglas and Dumbledore argued that the Ministry should clear Sirius’s name. As the officials grew suspicious of Peter, Scrimgeour sent Aurors to investigate him.

• Douglas struck Sirius with a spell as Sirius appeared in the Headmaster's Office, and the Aurors aimed their wands at him.
• Douglas showed Scrimgeour the Daily Prophet photograph that had revealed Peter disguised as Scabbers, and Sirius explained how he had escaped Azkaban after recognizing him.
• Douglas urged Fudge to clear Sirius's name, and Sirius explained Peter's betrayal, his reasons for hiding, and his fear that Peter would harm Harry.
• Dumbledore confirmed that his investigation linked Peter to the leaks that had ruined Ministry operations against the Death Eaters.
• The Ministry officials grew more suspicious of Peter after watching him deny the accusations, and Scrimgeour sent Aurors to the Defense Against Dark Magic classroom.

Hermione’s questioning exposed Peter’s resentment toward James and Sirius and his reason for betraying Harry’s parents. Peter escaped the Aurors by turning into a rat and fleeing through a high window, leaving Kingsley to send the students back to the Common Room.

• Hermione pressed Peter with questions until Harry realized Peter had betrayed his parents, and Peter admitted he had resented James and Sirius and feared Voldemort.
• Peter argued that Voldemort’s violence had made resistance seem futile, and Neville shouted a spell that startled the crowd.
• Peter transformed into a rat and tried to escape, but the students hit him with spells, and Percy stunned him after he was forced back into human form.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt and the Aurors entered the classroom, and Dawlish confirmed that Peter was unconscious.
• Peter turned into a rat again and escaped through a high window, so Kingsley sent the students back to the Common Room while the Aurors pursued him.

After Peter escaped from Hogwarts, Douglas stopped Sirius and Lupin from pursuing him and secured Sirius’s release by paying Fudge. Douglas then freed Snape and revealed that he and Dumbledore had withheld key information to give Peter a chance to escape, while a magical radar kept tracking him inside Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore ordered McGonagall, Sprout, and Flitwick to assemble the students and keep Dementors out of Hogwarts, while Scrimgeour went after Peter.
• Douglas persuaded Sirius and Lupin to wait in the office, and paid Fudge fifty thousand Galleons; Fudge agreed to withdraw Sirius’s warrant and issue one for Peter.
• Douglas reminded Sirius of their contract and promised to bring Harry to see him, so Sirius reluctantly returned as a dog with Lupin.
• After Dumbledore noted that events had gone better than expected, Douglas freed Snape, who retaliated with spells until Dumbledore intervened.
• Douglas used his Magic Radar to confirm Peter was still at Hogwarts and explained that the Pet Food he had made for Peter let him track the rat.
• Douglas and Dumbledore admitted they had withheld crucial information so Peter could escape if captured before receiving a Dementor’s Kiss.