Recaps

Douglas stopped Filch from punishing George Weasley and Fred Weasley himself, then disciplined them for wandering at night and attacking a professor. At his office, he confiscated the Marauder's Map and revealed that he had used it before and returned it after graduating.

• Douglas overruled Filch and deducted fifty points from Gryffindor for each twin, assigning both two months of detention.
• Douglas used Scourgify to clean the corridor, then took the twins to his office while Filch resumed his patrol with Mrs. Norris.
• George and Fred joked about Filch and Douglas, so Douglas added another two weeks of detention.
• Douglas demanded the Marauder's Map, and George handed it over.
• The twins asked whether Douglas was one of the map's creators, and he said he had used the map before and returned it to its hiding place when he graduated.

Douglas punished George and Fred for their failed attempt to spy on the practical assessment, confiscating the Marauder’s Map and assigning them textbook write-ups. He used the Map to find Peter Pettigrew beside Ron Weasley, then inspected the students’ practical classrooms and prepared to test the fourth years.

• Douglas ordered George and Fred to write out their fourth-year Defense Against Dark Magic textbooks from memory during detention, with time off for Quidditch practice, and kept the Marauder’s Map until they behaved.
• Douglas opened the Marauder’s Map and found Peter Pettigrew’s name overlapping Ron Weasley’s in the Gryffindor dormitory.
• Douglas inspected the practical classrooms prepared by Mario Nott, Ruth Bunier, Ezekiel Clark, and other students, and asked Bunier and Clark to write an experimental report.
• Douglas taught the seventh years in the practical training area and was pleased with their work and the system’s assessment of the lesson.
• George and Fred led their fourth-year classmates to the practical classroom, while their classmates sympathized with them and Wood promised to seek extra Quidditch practice.

The Weasley Twins faced public ridicule after their Dungbomb mishap, then sparked a fight by hexing Marcus Flint. Professor McGonagall punished them with lost points and more textbook writing, while Snape added their Potions textbook to the assignment.

• Hermione complained that the Weasley Twins had emptied Gryffindor's hourglass, and Harry and Ron discussed their punishment.
• Marcus Flint mocked George and Fred for getting hit by Dungbombs, prompting them to hex him with Langlock and Itch all over.
• The Gryffindor and Slytherin students drew their wands, but Professor McGonagall stopped the brewing fight.
• Professor McGonagall took fifty points from Gryffindor and ordered George and Fred to write out their Transfiguration textbook from memory alongside their Defense Against Dark Magic textbook.
• Snape cured Flint, then added the Potions textbook to the twins' punishment before leaving.

Douglas gave his Defense Against Dark Magic class a practical exam using dangerous creatures, beginning with George Weasley in an enchanted classroom. George survived a Grindylow’s attack but was rescued by Douglas, who then led him back outside.

• George handed Douglas Professor McGonagall’s note, and Douglas lined the students up in the corridor for their practical exam.
• Douglas explained that the students had to use what they had learned about dark creatures, then sent George in first after threatening the Weasley brothers with extra detention.
• George entered a classroom that contained a pond and paddled across it, realizing that an enchantment made the water harder to move through when he struggled.
• A Grindylow grabbed George and dragged him underwater, where his frantic movements trapped him in the enchanted pond.
• George accidentally struck the Grindylow’s head and escaped its grip, but Douglas used a rope to haul him out, dried his clothes, and gave him a potion.
• Douglas led the coughing George through the classroom door, returning them to the corridor.

Douglas explained the lessons behind his practical Defense Against Dark Magic exam and arranged weekend access for students to try it under supervision. As Gryffindors and Slytherins confronted each other after class, Douglas drew his wand, startling both groups and easing the tension.

• After George left the exam early, Douglas invited him to describe his attempt, and George told the students about the Portable Swamp and Grindylows.
• Angelina Johnson asked what the stages were meant to test, and Douglas explained that students needed to stay calm in unfamiliar danger.
• By the end of class, the Weasley twins had reached the third stage, while Angelina and Lee Jordan were defeated in the second and the other students failed the first.
• Douglas announced that two seventh-year students would supervise weekend assessments and assigned everyone a two-foot paper due in a week.
• When Slytherins approached the Gryffindors, Douglas drew his wand, and the startled students on both sides relaxed.

Douglas’s fourth-year practical lessons put Gryffindor and Slytherin students through encounters with dark creatures, while news of the classes stirred excitement and anxiety throughout Hogwarts. He continued teaching by making his second-year Gryffindors memorize their text, then reflected bitterly on Snape after learning he could not take Advanced Potions.

• Fred, George, and Cassius Warrington exchanged forced greetings, but Professor Holmes’s presence kept Gryffindor and Slytherin from fighting.
• Warrington used a Bubble-Head Charm to pass the Grindylow stage, but the charm burst while he faced a troll, and he vomited after breathing in its foul stench.
• The Grindylow grew so overworked during the practical lessons that a seventh-year student brought in a reserve creature to replace it.
• News of the lessons spread through Hogwarts, prompting younger students to hope for practical challenges and sixth-years to rush to the library to study Inferi.
• Douglas rewarded Gryffindor twenty points after Hermione reported that the class had memorized the previous lesson, then assigned the students more reading and memorization.
• Douglas muffled the sound of the class with his own charm and resented Snape for not allowing him to choose Advanced Potions.

Douglas graded the second-years’ Boggart homework and teased Neville about his proposed method of getting one drunk. In the sixth-year practical lesson, Oliver Wood broke a magically protected lock with an axe, and Douglas reminded the students that defenses could be defeated physically as well as magically.

• Douglas gave the second-years’ homework marks and ordered everyone who received a P to redo the assignment before the next lesson.
• Douglas questioned Neville about his suggestion to get a Boggart drunk and promised to let him test it in a future practical lesson.
• Douglas began the sixth-year practical lesson by telling the students that the highest scorer would become class representative.
• Roda Dolohov and Andrei failed to open the locked door with unlocking spells.
• Oliver Wood transformed a book into an axe and broke the lock, earning ten points for Gryffindor.
• Douglas praised Wood and explained that physical attacks could overcome traps designed to resist magic.

Douglas put his Defense Against Dark Magic students through a simulated Inferi challenge, but they all relied on fire instead of light, and Dolohov lost control of a Fiendfyre Curse. After Douglas punished Dolohov and deducted fifty points from Slytherin, Snape approved of the deduction, leaving Douglas unsure whether Snape would defend his student.

• Wood entered the dark classroom first, discovered the Inferi beneath a lake, and failed to stop them with the Fire-Making Spell.
• Douglas explained that the Inferi were Fake Inferi and that a powerful Lumos would have kept them submerged, but none of the students thought to use light.
• Dolohov cast an out-of-control Fiendfyre Curse, and Douglas extinguished it with Finite Incantatem before it could spread.
• Douglas deducted fifty points from Slytherin and ordered Dolohov to write an account of his misconduct and copy the Hogwarts school rules two hundred times.
• Snape confronted Douglas in the corridor and said that deducting fifty points had been quite right, making Douglas wonder whether Snape would stand up for Dolohov.

Douglas helped Snape deal with Dolohov, then discussed improving Potions Classroom safety and teaching with Snape. Snape dismissed Douglas despite considering his suggestions, and Douglas left thinking about gaining seniority at Hogwarts.

• Snape sent Dolohov away after rebuking him for losing Slytherin fifty points.
• Snape took Douglas to the spotless Potions Classroom to show him its Muggle-inspired equipment and defend the wizarding world.
• Douglas suggested creating safety regulations and using advanced Potions students as rotating classroom assistants.
• Snape acknowledged Douglas's ideas but told him to leave because he had not studied Advanced Potion-Making.
• Douglas left resentful and imagined how he would address the Hogwarts professors once he had gained seniority.

Douglas reviewed his teaching points and resolved to add more study sessions, then caught the Weasley Twins using Auto-Answer Quills to fake memorizing their textbook. He made them study late into the night and tested their recitation with enchanted quills.

• Douglas checked his weekly system points and decided to add morning reading, exercises, and evening study sessions for Hogwarts students.
• George and Fred told Douglas they had memorized their textbook, but secretly used Auto-Answer Quills to copy it out.
• Douglas recognized the quills by their handwriting and threatened to confiscate them and inform their mother unless the twins memorized the material.
• At two in the morning, George and Fred finished memorizing, and Douglas enchanted their quills to record their recitation and mark mistakes.

Douglas hosted George and Fred overnight after making them recite their study notes, then invited himself to Hagrid’s afternoon meal of pork stew with glass noodles. The Weasley twins returned to their dormitory exhausted, only for Oliver Wood to wake them for Quidditch practice.

• Douglas checked George and Fred’s dictation, made beds for them in his office, and told them to stay there overnight.
• The next morning, George and Fred asked to borrow Douglas’s books, but he refused unless they earned an O in Defense Against Dark Magic.
• Douglas remembered he had meant to watch the Marauder’s Map for signs that Lucius Malfoy had brought the diary into Hogwarts.
• Hagrid invited Douglas to eat pork stew with glass noodles that afternoon after Douglas finished his morning exercise.
• Oliver Wood woke George and Fred before dawn for Quidditch practice, but they complained about losing sleep and Lee Jordan teased them.

Douglas visited Hagrid’s hut, where he stopped Ron’s Slug-Vomiting Charm and shared pickled chicken feet that he jokingly called phoenix feet. He stayed to eat with Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and the conversation ended with Hagrid defending his care of Fang.

• Douglas told the waiting fifth-years to review their earlier lessons for the practical classroom assessment, then headed to Hagrid’s hut at noon.
• Douglas found Ron hiccupping and vomiting slugs after a spell had backfired from his broken wand, and he stopped the effect with a nonverbal Finite Charm.
• Douglas placed a jar of boneless pickled chicken feet on the table, prompting Hermione to wonder how he could have obtained so many phoenixes.
• Hagrid explained that the so-called phoenix feet were chicken feet, and the group ate them while guessing Douglas’s grandiose names for his dishes.
• Douglas teased Hagrid about Fang seeming weaker, and Hagrid replied that Douglas had simply grown stronger since he was a child.

Hagrid’s meal with Douglas, Ron, Harry, and Hermione turned to the house feud over Douglas’s lion’s head dish and Ron’s failed Slug-Vomiting Charm. After Hagrid recalled Douglas and Bill fighting Slytherins who had insulted Douglas, the chapter left Douglas remembering that he had not intended to let the boys off easily.

• Hagrid explained that the dish called “lion’s head” had been renamed “big meatball” after Gryffindor and Slytherin students fought over it, and Douglas recalled being punished for introducing the dish.
• Douglas asked Ron who he had tried to hit with the Slug-Vomiting Charm, and Hermione said Ron had gone after Malfoy for calling her a “Mudblood.”
• Ron explained that “Mudblood” was a slur against Muggle-born people and urged Douglas to punish the Slytherins who used it.
• Hagrid recalled that Douglas and Bill had once sent Slytherins back to the Hospital Wing after they insulted Douglas, who was Muggle-born.
• Douglas remembered that the professors had punished both sides equally, but he had not intended to let the offending boys off.

Douglas's questions about the word Mudblood upset Snape, who silenced him and left. Later, Douglas tried to repair Ron's broken wand at Hagrid's Hut, but it exploded, leaving him blaming Ollivander.

• Douglas repeatedly asked what Mudblood meant, prompting Snape to erupt and leave after commanding him not to say the word again.
• Douglas later heard that Slytherins recovering in the Hospital Wing had been sent to St Mungo's after drinking their badly brewed potions.
• At Hagrid's Hut, Douglas asked Ron to show him Charlie's broken wand and tried to mend it with the Mending Charm.
• The repaired wand exploded, but Douglas shielded himself and the children while Hagrid protected the jar of pickled pepper chicken feet.
• Douglas examined the ruined wand and muttered, "Ollivander, that old fraud!"

Douglas accidentally destroyed Ron’s wand and persuaded him to accept a replacement as a gift. At Hagrid’s meal, an old Hogwarts rule about using wands as chopsticks prompted Douglas to reveal a mishap from his school days, leaving Harry convinced Douglas had once carried two wands.

• Douglas broke Ron’s wand during an experiment and promised to buy him a replacement.
• Harry and Hermione helped Douglas persuade Ron to accept the new wand as a gift and keep it secret from George and Fred.
• Hagrid gave Douglas unicorn-horn chopsticks he had made, recalling that two unicorns killed by Voldemort had provided the material.
• Hagrid connected the chopsticks to Hogwarts rules against using wands as chopsticks and cauldrons for hot pot.
• Douglas explained that a hot-pot spell had once sent several students to the Hospital Wing, and Harry suspected Douglas had been one of them.

Colin Creevey arrived at Hagrid's Hut to summon Harry and Ron for their detention, but fled after witnessing Harry sneeze noodles into Ron's bowl and seeing Professor Holmes. Douglas then explained the extensive punishments he had arranged, leaving Harry and Ron so overwhelmed that they both collapsed off their chairs.

• Ron answered the door and found Colin Creevey, who photographed Harry sneezing a glass noodle into Ron's bowl.
• Colin told Professor Holmes that Professor McGonagall had sent him to summon Harry and Ron about their detention, then hurried back to the castle.
• Douglas told Harry and Ron that their punishment included writing lessons from memory for Defense Against Dark Magic, Transfiguration, Potions, and Herbology.
• Douglas added that they had to copy the school rules two hundred times each and still clear weeds and gnomes from the orchard without magic.
• Harry and Ron collapsed off their chairs as Douglas laughed at them.

Douglas explained why Harry and Ron had to memorize his and Professor Sprout’s lessons as part of their detention, then considered sponsoring Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team after hearing about Slytherin’s new brooms. He took Ron to Professor McGonagall to request Floo Network access for a trip to Diagon Alley, but she told him to return in an hour.

• Douglas told Harry and Ron they had to memorize his and Professor Sprout’s lessons as well as Snape’s, and Harry learned he could write out the lessons one at a time.
• Ron encouraged Harry by saying Hermione could help them memorize faster, and he recounted how Lucius Malfoy had bought seven Nimbus 2001s for Slytherin.
• Douglas clarified that he would sponsor Hufflepuff, if he sponsored anyone, and warned Ron not to spread the idea.
• Douglas took Ron to Professor McGonagall and explained that Ron’s wand had shattered during an attempted repair, so they needed to go to Diagon Alley for a replacement.
• Professor McGonagall told Douglas to return in an hour while she wrote to the Ministry’s Floo Network Management Department.

Douglas took Ron to Ollivander’s shop to replace his broken wand, while discussing whether a wand could ever be repaired. The chapter ended with Ron admitting he had been using Charlie’s old wand, and Douglas’s side story revealed how he acquired the Lightning-Struck Elder Wand and developed powerful lightning spells.

• Douglas and Ron left the Leaky Cauldron and hurried through Diagon Alley to Ollivander’s shop.
• Ollivander recalled Douglas’s wands and insisted that broken wands could not be repaired, while Douglas proposed that rare conditions might allow a miracle.
• Ollivander suggested that Douglas break his vine wood wand to test the theory, but Douglas refused.
• Ron told Ollivander that he had been using Charlie’s broken wand and needed a new one.
• Douglas’s side story explained that he obtained lightning-struck elder wood and a Thunderbird tail feather in Arizona, then paid Ollivander to make his second wand.
• Douglas discovered that the Lightning-Struck Elder Wand could not cast dark magic and developed powerful lightning spells with it.

Ron bought a new wand with Douglas’s help, then returned to Hogwarts and joined Harry, Hermione, and Ginny in studying. He briefly resolved to outdo Percy for Molly’s approval, but soon grew sleepy and showed off his wand instead of studying.

• Ollivander identified Ron’s broken wand as Charlie Weasley’s old ash wand, and Douglas persuaded Ron to stop feeling guilty and choose a replacement.
• Ron chose a fourteen-inch willow wand with unicorn tail hair, and Douglas ran into Slane, who agreed to wait for Douglas’s manuscript until Monday.
• Douglas, Ron, and Slane’s family went to the Leaky Cauldron before Douglas and Ron returned to Hogwarts, where Ron burped in front of Professor McGonagall after drinking Pumpkin Juice.
• Ron found Harry studying in the Gryffindor Common Room, while Hermione helped Harry and Ginny and George and Fred teased Ron about their punishments.
• Hermione and Ginny reminded Ron that improved grades might please Molly, prompting him to declare that he would surpass Percy before he soon yawned, took a nap, and showed off his new wand.

Douglas visited Professor Sprout to offer seven Nimbus 2001s to Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team, but realized his donation might anger Hogwarts’ governors and threaten his position. After accepting a basket of cranberries, he returned to his office, where Professor McGonagall invited him to afternoon tea in Hogsmeade.

• Douglas entered Greenhouse One, ate cranberries intended for Madam Poppy, and asked Professor Sprout about donating seven Nimbus 2001s to Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team.
• Professor Sprout agreed to arrange for the brooms to be delivered to her office and gave Douglas a basket of cranberries as thanks for his contribution.
• On his way back, Douglas realized that donating equipment without going through Hogwarts’ governors could provoke complaints and put his job at risk.
• Douglas returned to his office and calmed himself with a cup of tea.
• Professor McGonagall invited Douglas to afternoon tea at The Three Broomsticks with several Hogwarts professors, and he accepted.

Douglas Holmes reviewed the seventh-years’ weak Defense Against Dark Magic foundations and set an intensive plan to prepare them for Outstanding N.E.W.T. results. He also reduced their practical-classroom duties after learning that Snape wanted them as teaching assistants.

• The seventh-years reported on their observations, and Douglas criticized their lack of spell knowledge while challenging their dismissal of Quirinus’s teaching.
• Douglas assigned the class six feet of past exam materials, gave them one month to learn it, and required ten consecutive Outstanding mock exams by the end of term.
• Mario Nott told Douglas that Snape wanted the seventh-years to serve as teaching assistants, creating conflicts with their practical-classroom duties.
• Douglas limited practical-classroom access to two hours on weekends, allowed each student to visit once a week, and put Nott in charge of the daily checks.

George and Fred tried to cheat while Harry and Ron struggled to write their assigned text from memory. Douglas used his communication and silence charms to startle the twins, then sent Harry and Ron back to memorizing.

• George and Fred used cheat-sheet cuffs while Harry and Ron attempted to write the text from memory.
• Douglas told Ron and Harry to stop writing and memorize the textbook material, then erased their notebooks.
• Douglas cast the See No Evil, Hear No Evil Charm on himself and the twins, leaving George and Fred unable to hear their surroundings.
• George and Fred joked about using the silence spell to avoid their mother's nagging, and Douglas startled them with his Ear-to-Ear Communication Charm.
• Douglas told Harry and Ron to keep memorizing while the twins clutched their heads after the charm's loud effect.

George and Fred were caught cheating while memorizing lessons and were sent to study outside Douglas’s office. Peeves tattled to Professor McGonagall, who confronted the twins as Douglas prepared to step into the corridor.

• George and Fred handed Douglas notebooks with a twenty percent error rate, but he recognized their cheating, confiscated their cheat-sheet cuffs, and ordered them to memorize and write outside his office.
• Peeves appeared in the corridor, mocked the twins, and vanished when Douglas demanded that they read aloud.
• George and Fred read loudly until Professor McGonagall came out of her office and told them to lower their voices.
• Peeves told Professor McGonagall that the twins were being punished for cheating, and she demanded to know whether it was true.
• Ron warned Douglas that the corridor had gone quiet, and he and Harry discussed why Ron had reported the twins.

Douglas dealt with the Weasley twins after Professor McGonagall caught them cheating, then arranged a gift for Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team and visited Hogsmeade. The chapter left him walking among familiar places and recalling his school days before joining McGonagall for afternoon tea.

• Douglas encountered Peeves and joked that the poltergeist had missed him, prompting Peeves to flee.
• Professor McGonagall caught George and Fred cheating, deducted one hundred points from Gryffindor, and ordered the twins to earn the points back or repeat third year.
• Douglas told George and Fred to keep memorizing while Harry and Ron finished their detention and Ron hurried to tell the other students what he had seen.
• Douglas asked Slane to order seven Nimbus 2001s for Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team, and an excited student told Cedric about the gift.
• Douglas visited Hogsmeade, accepted sweets from the Honeydukes proprietress, and hurried past Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop to avoid being teased about an old rumor.

Douglas met Hogwarts professors at The Three Broomsticks, where they welcomed him as a professor and praised his new teaching method. The gathering ended with news of Professor Kettleburn’s resignation and Douglas remembering his wish to adopt a Niffler.

• Douglas entered The Three Broomsticks and greeted Madam Rosmerta and the professors gathered with Hagrid.
• Madam Rosmerta served Holmes wine to celebrate Douglas’s appointment at Hogwarts.
• Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall, and the other professors praised Douglas’s method of having students learn their textbooks thoroughly.
• Hagrid revealed that Professor Kettleburn had submitted his resignation to Professor Dumbledore, and Professor Kettleburn said he planned to visit the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary.
• Douglas recalled hoping to adopt a Niffler from Professor Kettleburn, but Hogwarts rules barred students from keeping one.