Recaps

Douglas returned to Hogwarts as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and imposed demanding tests, memorization, and class representatives on his students. As his classes reshaped student study habits, he caught Fred and George using the Marauder's Map to hunt for exam clues and stopped their escape.

• Douglas accepted Dumbledore’s temporary Defense Against the Dark Arts appointment, activating the Top Student Development System and learning that an unknown curse would take effect in a year.
• Douglas returned to Diagon Alley, reunited with the Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione, and invited them to his Muggle home before joining Hogwarts as a professor.
• Douglas set up his Hogwarts office and classroom, welcomed the staff and house-elves, and was introduced to the students at the opening feast after Harry and Ron arrived late.
• Douglas gave his classes demanding diagnostic tests and memorization work, appointed class representatives, and promised practical combat lessons once students mastered the theory.
• Hermione helped Douglas enforce recitations among Gryffindors, while McGonagall praised the students’ increased studying but warned that rigid knowledge could hinder creativity.
• Douglas proposed practical instruction to McGonagall and enlisted class representatives to mark tests and help classmates recite their lessons.
• As students across Hogwarts crammed for Douglas’s assessments, Fred and George used the Marauder’s Map to plan a search for exam clues, and Douglas caught them sneaking out.
• Fred and George threw balls and fled when Douglas confronted them, but he enchanted the balls to explode in Dungbomb smoke, bringing Filch and Mrs. Norris to the twins as they surrendered.

Douglas tightened his practical lessons and punished students who cheated, while helping Ron replace Charlie’s broken wand. The stretch ended with Douglas’s teaching praised by the professors and Professor Kettleburn preparing to leave Hogwarts.

• Douglas seized the Marauder’s Map from George and Fred, assigned them detentions, and later spotted Peter Pettigrew’s name overlapping Ron Weasley’s on the map.
• Douglas put students through practical assessments involving a Grindylow and Fake Inferi, teaching them to stay calm and think beyond spells as the Weasley twins advanced further than their classmates.
• Douglas confronted Snape over classroom safety and Advanced Potions, while continuing to make George and Fred memorize their textbooks after discovering their cheating.
• Douglas joined Hagrid, Ron, Harry, and Hermione for a meal, learned that Ron had tried to curse Malfoy for calling Hermione a Mudblood, and accidentally destroyed Ron’s borrowed wand while attempting to repair it.
• Douglas took Ron to Ollivander’s, where Ron chose a willow wand with unicorn tail hair, and Douglas arranged to give it to him as a replacement.
• Douglas arranged seven Nimbus 2001s for Hufflepuff and restricted access to the practical classroom after seventh-year students were assigned conflicting duties.
• Professor McGonagall caught George and Fred cheating, deducted one hundred points from Gryffindor, and ordered them to earn the points back or repeat third year.
• At The Three Broomsticks, Hogwarts professors praised Douglas’s teaching, and Professor Kettleburn revealed that he had resigned and planned to visit the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary.

Douglas revealed that he was the bestselling author The Banana-Loving Honey Badger, then used his classes and school duties to push students toward better study habits and safer choices. After a confrontation with Peeves brought tension with Snape, Douglas headed to Hogsmeade for a Daily Prophet interview.

• Douglas told the Hogwarts staff why he had hidden his identity, and he agreed to let Slane reveal it in the Daily Prophet.
• Students learned that Professor Holmes was the bestselling author The Banana-Loving Honey Badger, and Douglas made them earn back their confiscated novels through strong OWL results.
• Douglas taught practical lessons in spellwork and information-checking, and Hermione organized Gryffindor's second-years to challenge Ravenclaw for the top House ranking.
• Douglas arranged practice rooms and ran dangerous obstacle courses for students, using the lessons to discourage Dark Magic and prepare for the Chamber of Secrets.
• Douglas caught Partridge Quincy entering the Forbidden Forest under pressure from Zacharias Smith, then advised him that restraint could also be brave.
• Douglas bound Peeves after the poltergeist ruined his stinky tofu brine, while the ghosts recalled Douglas's old Peeves-Repelling Charm and Snape reported the incident to Dumbledore.
• Professor Sprout told Douglas that Snape had been watching his ingredient-preparation methods, and Douglas considered using food-based practice to reduce waste in Potions classes.
• Douglas went to Hogsmeade for a Daily Prophet interview as Ambrosius Flume celebrated his fame at Honeydukes, and Slane hurried him into the Three Broomsticks to meet the reporter.

Douglas built his practical Defense Against Dark Magic course while investigating the rumors around his lessons and the threat of the Chamber of Secrets. After Tom Cruise was found with altered memories and Voldemort’s magic on his wand, Douglas searched for the diary as Dumbledore chose to trust him with the danger.

• Douglas introduced House rankings and practical challenges, expanded the study rooms, and drew students into morning runs and tutoring while Lockhart’s theft and fraud were exposed.
• Douglas anonymously published “Slytherin's Half-Blood Prince” in The Quibbler, and Tom Cruise began questioning the fifty-year-old diary that answered his writing.
• Douglas developed the practical exams and staged a duel with Snape, while Voldemort’s Basilisk threat grew and students spread rumors about Douglas’s lessons.
• After a rooster died and an alarm sounded, Douglas led Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape to the girls’ bathroom and showed them his detector for the Chamber of Secrets.
• Douglas traced a footprint from the bathroom and helped search the Houses, until the professors found Tom Cruise ill in Ravenclaw Tower with a shoe matching the impression.
• Douglas used Prior Incantato on Tom Cruise’s wand and found evidence of memory magic and a unique Dark spell, leading the professors to suspect Voldemort had hidden in a magical object.
• Douglas connected Lucius Malfoy’s visit to Knockturn Alley, Dobby’s warning, and Mr. Cruz’s belongings, then searched Ravenclaw Tower for the diary while Dumbledore decided to trust him.