Recaps

Douglas learned that his maternal family tree connected him distantly to Harry Potter, and Dumbledore asked him to offer Harry some family warmth. Back home, Douglas received the Granger family and watched Wangcai steal the shiny lid from their gift box.

• Dumbledore gave Douglas his family trees, revealing that he was distantly related to Harry Potter through his mother’s side.
• Dumbledore asked Douglas to look after Harry and offer him affection, while explaining that Harry still needed to spend part of each summer with his aunt until he turned seventeen.
• Two days after returning home, Douglas considered whether he should tell Harry about their relationship, then welcomed Hermione and her parents after they knocked at his door.
• Hermione’s parents brought Douglas pastries, and Hermione asked about Dobby after hearing his name from Harry.
• Wangcai emerged from the Fortune Basin and snatched the shiny lid from the Grangers’ gift box, prompting Hermione to explain that Nifflers liked shiny things.

Douglas introduced Hermione and her parents to Dobby, accepted their invitation to France, and agreed that Hermione could visit him during the summer. Meanwhile, Harry endured a miserable stay with the Dursleys, and Douglas began catching up on correspondence while watching the Daily Prophet for news of Sirius Black.

• Douglas introduced Dobby as his free house-elf to Hermione and her parents, then stopped Dobby from revealing that he had warned Harry about danger at school.
• Hermione invited Douglas to France with her family, and Douglas agreed that Hermione could visit him later in the summer, with Dobby arranging her transport.
• Mr. Granger shook Dobby’s hand, while Wangcai fell from a cabinet and hurried back into the Fortune Basin with a gift-box lid.
• Hermione explained that Harry was behaving himself to get his guardian’s signature for Hogsmeade, and Douglas told Dobby to finish his career plan before visiting Harry.
• Harry remained confined at 4 Privet Drive, where Vernon Dursley had locked away his magical belongings, and planned to retrieve his textbooks and visit Douglas when he could.
• Over the next two weeks, Douglas had Dobby subscribe to the Daily Prophet, informed friends that Dobby could receive his correspondence, and began reading old emails and contacting his houses in Egypt and Romania.

Douglas decided to acknowledge Harry as his cousin's son while leaving the soul fragment inside Harry alone for now. After earning nearly 180,000 system points from the year-end exams, he saw the Weasleys in the Daily Prophet and spoke privately with Bill and Charlie by telephone.

• Douglas suspected Dumbledore wanted him to protect Harry and wondered whether Dumbledore expected him to deal with the soul fragment inside Harry.
• Douglas scolded Dobby for neglecting his reading and notes, and Dobby returned to studying management books.
• Douglas received 179,560 points from the year-end exam assessment and decided he could finally browse the system Shop freely.
• Douglas decided to acknowledge Harry as his cousin's son but not to remove the soul fragment inside him yet.
• Douglas recognized Bill and Charlie's secret identity-checking gesture in a photograph of the Weasleys in Egypt.
• Bill told Douglas it was best to keep news of his broken curse quiet, and Douglas arranged to discuss Dumbledore with Bill and Charlie in private later.

Douglas spoke with the Weasley family by phone, heard Mrs. Weasley agree to let George and Fred pursue their chosen careers if they earned decent marks, and teased Percy about Head Girl Penelope Clearwater. The conversation turned to Douglas’s past encounter in the Forbidden Forest before he offered to share two pieces of explosive news.

• Douglas greeted the Weasley family over the phone, and Mrs. Weasley praised their holiday lodging and discussed their children’s report cards.
• George and Fred revealed that Ron had complained about Douglas’s extra homework, while Ron admitted he had completed it and felt guilty about avoiding Douglas.
• Mrs. Weasley agreed to let George and Fred pursue careers they liked if they earned decent marks, but set a condition for their fifth-year OWLs.
• Bill scolded George and Fred, and Douglas told them to return to their rooms before Bill cast a soundproofing spell around the phone.
• Douglas congratulated Percy on becoming Head Boy and teased him about Head Girl Penelope Clearwater, prompting Bill and Charlie to joke about Percy’s romance.
• Bill mentioned Douglas’s past trouble in the Forbidden Forest, and Douglas brushed it off before offering to reveal two pieces of explosive news.

Douglas learned of his distant connection to the Weasley family and planned magical research while keeping watch over Harry. After Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban, Douglas tasked Dobby with searching for him near Harry’s home, then received Professor McGonagall’s letter and a first edition of the new examination collection.

• Douglas told Bill, Charlie, and Percy how he was related to Harry, and they were unsurprised to learn he was connected to the Weasleys.
• Douglas bought reference books on magical architecture and planned to build a concealed research space beneath his home.
• The Daily Prophet and Muggle news reported that Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban, so Douglas instructed Dobby to watch the area around Harry’s home and capture a large stray dog.
• Dobby searched nightly but brought back ordinary dogs and reported Harry’s difficult circumstances to Douglas.
• Professor McGonagall sent Douglas the first edition of “Seven Years of N.E.W.T.s, Five Years of O.W.L.s,” which included questions about recent Ministry policies and officials.

The Wizarding Examinations Authority released a new collection of practice books, and Douglas sent Harry twelve volumes for his birthday. Harry received several other gifts from friends and Dobby, but his birthday happiness ended when Aunt Marge arrived at the Dursleys’ home; Douglas received Dobby’s report.

• The Wizarding Examinations Authority released “Seven Years of N.E.W.T.s, Five Years of O.W.L.s,” prompting debate across the wizarding world.
• Douglas left Harry twelve volumes of the practice collection as an unsigned birthday gift, and Harry hid them under his bed.
• Harry turned thirteen and received gifts from Hermione, Ron, Hagrid, and Dobby, including a cake he did not dare eat.
• Uncle Vernon used Harry’s guardian signature to force him to agree to rules for Aunt Marge’s visit, including claiming he attended St. Brutus’s Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys.
• Aunt Marge arrived at the Dursleys’ home, and Douglas received a report from Dobby.

Douglas visited the Dursleys and blasted their front door open after hearing Aunt Marge insult Harry and his family. He confronted Marge, then magically silenced her and sent her to her room, while Harry tried to keep his professor from retaliating.

• Douglas arrived alone at the Dursleys’ house and heard Aunt Marge insulting Harry and the Holmes family.
• Douglas’s arrival blew the front door apart, terrifying the Dursleys and revealing him to Harry.
• Harry introduced Douglas as his professor, while Petunia and Vernon recognized him as the surviving Holmes boy.
• Harry tried to restrain Douglas and calm him, but Douglas warned him about questioning his professor and assigned him more work.
• Petunia shouted at Marge and dismissed the damage as a broken door, then Douglas magically sent Marge to her room until dark.

Douglas visited the Dursleys, revealed that he was Petunia’s cousin and a Hogwarts professor, and tried to discuss Harry’s summer homework. Harry was left eager to learn exactly how Douglas was related to him as Petunia began to explain.

• Douglas subdued Marge, restored the Dursleys’ damaged door, and reassured Harry that the Ministry would not detect his magic.
• Douglas introduced himself to Dudley as Petunia’s cousin and gave him sweets, which Dudley eagerly ate while Harry sampled one too.
• Douglas sat down with the Dursleys and said he had come to see their home and check Harry’s summer homework, then wished Harry a happy birthday and mentioned Dobby’s cake.
• Harry tried to ask how he and Douglas were related, but could not get the question out.
• Petunia addressed Douglas by name and began to explain what she remembered about him.

Douglas explained that Petunia was Harry’s blood relative and that Lily’s magic protected Harry while he lived with Petunia, then challenged the Dursleys to consider how they would treat a future wizard in Dudley’s family. He left the Dursleys facing the possibility that one of their descendants might need a blood relative in the wizarding world.

• Petunia revealed that Harry’s mother and her own mother were cousins, and insisted Harry could not leave the Dursleys’ home before coming of age.
• Douglas told Harry that Dumbledore had explained why he had to stay and said Lily’s magic protected him wherever he lived with someone who shared her blood.
• Harry questioned why he had to remain with the Dursleys, while Douglas explained that their home and Petunia’s blood helped sustain the protection.
• Vernon threatened to report Douglas to the Ministry of Magic, but Douglas asked Petunia why she let another woman insult her blood relatives.
• Douglas told Vernon that wizarding ability was hereditary and asked him to consider whether Dudley’s descendants might need Harry or Douglas as relatives in the wizarding world.

Douglas revealed that he was Harry’s mother’s cousin and arranged for Harry to study at his house during the day while returning to the Dursleys at night. Harry left with Douglas and his belongings, while Douglas gave Dudley a protective charm and recognized Mrs. Figg as the Squib secretly watching over Harry.

• Douglas persuaded Vernon and Petunia to let Harry study at his house and promised Harry would not use magic in the Dursleys’ home.
• Harry asked to delay visiting Douglas so he could finish his Defense Against Dark Magic homework, but Douglas told him to pack his magical belongings and test papers immediately.
• Vernon unlocked the cupboard under the stairs, and Douglas gave Dudley a protective charm that Petunia accepted and hung around his neck.
• Harry left with Douglas carrying his belongings, while Petunia told the neighbors that a teacher would supervise Harry’s studies.
• Harry pointed out Mrs. Figg, and Douglas recognized her as the Squib Dumbledore had sent to watch over Harry.

Harry celebrated his birthday at Douglas's house, where he met Dobby and Wangcai and spent the day working on homework under Douglas's supervision. After Dobby prepared to take Harry back to the Dursleys by Apparition, Douglas reflected on the success of his new rune-based anti-Apparition wards.

• Dobby welcomed Harry to Douglas's house and celebrated his freedom and Harry's birthday with a feast.
• Douglas asked Harry about his homework, and Harry admitted he had not started his Defense Against Dark Magic assignment.
• Dobby introduced Harry to Wangcai, who snatched a Galleon from Harry and proudly showed it to Douglas.
• Harry and Dobby worked on their assignments while Harry talked about life with the Dursleys, and Harry finished his first essay around midnight.
• Douglas told Harry that Dobby would take him back to the Dursleys by Apparition and directed him to a book explaining the magic.
• Douglas tested his new rune-based wards, which restricted house-elf Apparition and allowed only Douglas and Dobby to Apparate within the house.

After Dobby brought Harry back to the Dursleys, he captured a black dog on patrol, and Douglas recognized it as Sirius Black. Douglas revealed that he knew about the traitor Sirius sought, then restrained him and urged him to rest before pursuing revenge.

• Harry returned to the Dursleys with Dobby, and Vernon locked him in his room while demanding that he keep quiet around Marge.
• Dobby patrolled Magnolia Crescent and caught a black dog with an Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Douglas recognized the dog as Sirius Black and revealed himself as Harry Potter's cousin and Hogwarts's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Sirius transformed into a man and demanded to know how Douglas knew about the traitor.
• Douglas restrained Sirius and told him to recover before taking revenge, and Sirius calmed down rather than risk dying before finding the traitor.

Douglas restrained Sirius Black from rushing off to kill Peter Pettigrew and persuaded him to stay alive and help clear his name so he could protect Harry. Sirius finally asked to hear Douglas's plan, then guessed Douglas had been a Slytherin before Douglas revealed he was a Hufflepuff.

• Douglas gave Sirius a photograph of Harry and Ron, but Sirius became fixated on Peter Pettigrew and rushed for the door to seek revenge.
• Douglas bound Sirius, had Dobby feed him, and explained how he had discovered Peter disguised as a rat and identified him with the Marauder's Map.
• Sirius laughed when Douglas described using Peter to practice magic and erase his memories, then asked what Douglas wanted him to do.
• Douglas told Sirius about Harry's unhappy childhood and urged him to capture Peter, clear his name, and protect Harry from Voldemort.
• Sirius reconsidered and asked Douglas for his plan, then asked whether he had graduated from Slytherin before Douglas showed him the Hufflepuff crest.

Harry spent the summer visiting Douglas with Hermione, while Sirius secretly stayed with Douglas in dog form and watched over him. As the new school year approached, Douglas sent Harry and Hermione to Diagon Alley with Dobby and prepared to explain Sirius’s presence to Dumbledore, who arrived and demanded an explanation.

• Harry met the black dog Padfoot at Douglas’s house and noticed its tearful, unusually familiar attention toward him.
• Sirius spent the days watching Harry do homework as a dog and the nights researching with Douglas as a man.
• Hermione visited with her parents, learned how Douglas was related to Harry, and joined Harry in spending the remaining holidays at Douglas’s house.
• Douglas gave Dobby pet food for Ron’s rat, Scabbers, and entrusted him with the draft of Throne of Magic to deliver to Slane.
• Douglas sent Harry and Hermione to Diagon Alley with Dobby while he stayed home with Sirius and waited for Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore arrived at Douglas’s house, saw Sirius, and demanded a perfect explanation.

Douglas and Sirius explained how they uncovered Peter Pettigrew’s betrayal, and Douglas persuaded Dumbledore to let the students investigate Sirius’s case as part of a broader effort to encourage truth-seeking. Dumbledore revealed he had arranged for Remus Lupin to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Douglas proposed making him supervisor of the Magic Practice Study Room first and suspected Dumbledore had another reason for bringing Lupin to Hogwarts.

• Douglas apologized to Dumbledore for using memory magic and Legilimency as a student, while he and Sirius explained how they had identified Peter Pettigrew as the traitor.
• Douglas rejected Dumbledore’s suggestion to capture Peter immediately, and Sirius said he wanted Peter to live in fear for another year.
• Douglas told Dumbledore that he planned to use Sirius’s case to teach students to seek the truth and help change the Wizarding World.
• Dumbledore asked Douglas whether he expected another war, then revealed he had already arranged for Remus Lupin to take the Defense Against the Dark Arts post if Douglas could not.
• Douglas proposed appointing Lupin as supervising professor of the Magic Practice Study Room, and Dumbledore agreed.
• Douglas suspected Dumbledore had brought Lupin back to Hogwarts specifically to deal with Sirius.

Douglas proposed a voluntary morning running and reading class, while Dumbledore warned that the plan depended on Douglas returning to Hogwarts because Dementors would be stationed around the school. After Sirius left, Dumbledore revealed that he had found clues about Voldemort and offered to show Douglas Bob Ogden’s memory if he returned to Hogwarts.

• Douglas suggested that he and Remus supervise morning exercise and study sessions, and Dumbledore said the plan required Douglas to resume teaching at Hogwarts because Dementors would be stationed nearby.
• Sirius defended Remus and asked Dumbledore to provide him with Wolfsbane Potion, while Douglas said he would speak to Remus about his plan himself.
• Dumbledore asked Douglas about their discussions of Voldemort, but Douglas objected to Sirius hearing certain information, so Dumbledore withheld it and Sirius left in his Animagus form.
• Dumbledore told Douglas that he had followed clues from the article and obtained a memory from Bob Ogden, offering to let Douglas view it in the Headmaster’s Office Pensieve if he returned to school.

Douglas accompanied Dumbledore to the ruins of the Gaunt Shack, where he used his modified lightning spell to reveal hidden Dark Magic and subdue the snakes guarding the place. He captured hundreds of snakes and claimed he planned to release them into the Forbidden Forest.

• Douglas told Dumbledore about his Pensieve and described his failed attempt to brew a soup from memories.
• Dumbledore said he had not brought Bob Ogden’s memories and invited Douglas to investigate a location with him.
• Douglas and Dumbledore Apparated near Little Hangleton and made their way through snake-filled woods toward the Gaunt Shack.
• Douglas cast his modified Lightning-Fall Spell across the shack’s courtyard, stunning the snakes and destroying magic that concealed traces of Dark Magic.
• Douglas caught the unconscious snakes in an enchanted cage and told Dumbledore he intended to release them into the Forbidden Forest.

Douglas and Dumbledore searched the Gaunt Shack for signs of Voldemort’s hidden Ring, and Douglas’s Magic Detection Radar located a concealed chamber. After Douglas blasted open its entrance, they prepared to investigate what lay inside.

• Douglas and Dumbledore searched the remaining traces of Dark Magic, but Douglas’s radar detected a hidden entrance beneath the ground.
• Douglas identified a stone Runespoor mechanism, and he and Dumbledore suspected Voldemort had hidden something there.
• Douglas warned that the mechanism’s complex design might require more than the Parseltongue they had recorded.
• After Dumbledore invited him to try his own solution, Douglas cast Divine Firmament True Thunder and blasted open the chamber entrance.
• Dumbledore recognized the chamber’s design as another imitation of Slytherin, while Douglas took out his radar and mentioned collecting antiques.

Douglas and Dumbledore breached the dark protections around a hidden site, where Dumbledore retrieved an object in Douglas’s anti-magic stone box. Over a meal, Douglas identified the object as the Resurrection Stone and revealed that he already knew Dumbledore possessed the Elder Wand, leaving Dumbledore surprised by his knowledge.

• Douglas used the Magic Radar to locate dark magic beneath them, then disabled the protective traps with a Dark Magic Annihilation Bomb.
• Douglas gave Dumbledore an Anti-Magic Stone Box and warned him to place the target inside without touching it.
• Dumbledore returned with the closed stone box, and Douglas checked that he was unharmed before asking what he had found.
• Dumbledore asked Douglas whether he knew the Tale of the Three Brothers, and Douglas identified the Deathly Hallows and their owners.
• Douglas explained that he recognized Dumbledore’s Elder Wand because it was made of elder wood, leaving Dumbledore awkwardly surprised.

Douglas and Dumbledore discussed the Deathly Hallows, death, and what it meant to be its master, sharing food and a toast. After they packed up, Douglas kept the stone box while Dumbledore reflected on his own temptation to use the ring to bring back loved ones.

• Dumbledore asked Douglas what he thought of the Deathly Hallows and whether gathering them could make someone the master of death.
• Douglas argued that the Hallows could not grant immortality and that mastering death meant accepting it calmly when life ended.
• Douglas recited a poem about people who live on through sacrifice, and Dumbledore connected it to those who resisted Tom and condemned the pursuit of immortality.
• Douglas and Dumbledore finished eating without discussing what they had found, and Douglas put the stone box in his pocket.
• Dumbledore considered how the ring might have tempted him to bring back his loved ones and suspected Douglas knew more about Ariana and the ring's danger.

Douglas questioned Dumbledore about Voldemort’s resurrection potion and the Riddle family murders, then suggested Voldemort had framed Morfin Gaunt and altered his memories. Dumbledore reconsidered the evidence as Douglas urged him to investigate whether Voldemort had killed multiple victims to make his Horcruxes.

• Douglas asked whether Tom Riddle’s father had been buried in the village, since his bone was an ingredient in a resurrection potion.
• Douglas and Dumbledore walked toward the Riddle House while discussing the missing locket and the mystery of who had written an article about the Gaunt family.
• Dumbledore explained that Morfin Gaunt had confessed to killing the Riddle family and was convicted after his wand and detailed memories implicated him.
• Douglas questioned why the Ministry had accepted Morfin’s guilt so readily and asked whether Voldemort had committed the murders and framed him.
• Douglas proposed that Morfin’s memories might have been altered and urged Dumbledore to investigate Voldemort’s other possible murders and use his method for handling modified memories.

Douglas and Dumbledore investigated the Riddle House, and Dumbledore recalled evidence linking Tom to the Gaunt Shack and Morfin's arrest. Douglas searched the house with his Magic Radar and left a permanent magical message for Tom, while Dumbledore wondered how Tom would react if he returned.

• Dumbledore remembered Morfin saying that Tom would kill him over a lost ring, and recalled seeing Tom wear the ring, prompting him to investigate Morfin and the locket's whereabouts.
• Douglas and Dumbledore reached the dilapidated Riddle House, where Douglas hypnotized its elderly gardener into leaving and compensated him for losing his job.
• Douglas explained that his Magic Radar could detect nearby sources of magic, including invisible wizards and Fantastic Beasts.
• Douglas used his Graffiti Charm to write a message welcoming Tom back to the Riddle family across the house's ground floor.
• Dumbledore recognized Douglas's message and imagined that it would infuriate Tom if he returned.

Douglas and Dumbledore left a message on the Riddle family grave, then Douglas told Harry that Sirius Black was his godfather. Harry struggled to believe the revelation as Sirius tried to comfort him.

• Douglas and Dumbledore found the Riddle family grave, where Douglas wrote a message about the ritual and Dumbledore added the epitaph from James Potter and Lily Potter's grave.
• Douglas returned home and heard Harry describe how the Weasleys had worried over his safety and warned him to stay close to Douglas.
• Douglas explained that the Ministry had asked him to protect Harry and keep watch for Sirius Black, then asked Harry what he knew about Black.
• Douglas told Harry that Sirius was his godfather, leaving Harry stunned and insisting that his parents' friend could not have been Voldemort's accomplice.
• Sirius caught Harry's trouser leg in his teeth as Harry grew agitated and questioned Douglas's revelation.

Douglas tasked Harry with organizing students from all Four Houses to investigate Sirius's imprisonment, while keeping key details from him. Before Harry returned to Hogwarts, Douglas signed his Hogsmeade permission form and gave him a protective token, leaving Harry curious about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

• Douglas explained Sirius's history to Harry and challenged him to uncover the truth by bringing students from all Four Houses together to investigate.
• Harry eagerly accepted the mission, and Sirius complained that Douglas had pampered Pettigrew with special pet food instead of poisoning him.
• Harry spent the following days studying and planning how to recruit students, then arrived at Douglas's house worried because the Dursleys had refused to sign his Hogsmeade permission form.
• Douglas signed Harry's permission form as his maternal cousin and gave him a wooden token that would protect him in a crisis.
• Harry promised to continue the investigation at school and asked about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but Douglas told him he would find out there.

Harry boarded the Hogwarts Express with the Weasleys and told Ron and Hermione that Douglas had revealed Sirius Black was his godfather and had tasked him with organizing students to investigate Black’s case. The friends began considering how to uncover the truth as the train left for Hogwarts.

• Dobby left Harry at King's Cross, where Mr. Weasley escorted him through the barrier to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters and reunited him with the Weasley family.
• Aboard the Hogwarts Express, Harry told Mr. and Mrs. Weasley that Douglas had already explained Sirius Black’s escape and his past as Harry’s godfather.
• After the adults left the train, Harry asked Ron and Hermione to speak privately, and they found Professor Lupin asleep in a compartment.
• Harry told Ron and Hermione that Douglas wanted him to organize students to investigate the details of Sirius Black’s case, regardless of the conclusion they reached.
• Hermione wondered whether Black had been wrongly accused, while Ron asked what reward Douglas might give Harry; Harry and Ron noted that they were still three years from their OWLs.