Recaps

Harry enjoyed his stay with the Weasleys while Lorne developed a way to relay messages between magical phones through software updates. At the shop, Lorne noticed that unemployed Sains needed work and invited him upstairs.

• Molly welcomed Harry to the Burrow and scolded Ron, Fred, and George for leaving without saying goodbye.
• Harry settled in with the Weasleys, and Lorne devised a system for sending messages between distant magical phones by relaying updates through his own backend.
• Lorne considered hiring centaurs to help handle the relay system as the number of users grew.
• Sains spent his days at the shop after losing his job when the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office shut down the souvenir shop where he worked.
• Draco suggested that Sains ask Manager Quirrell for work, but Sains said Quirrell had no plans to hire.
• Lorne overheard Sains's worries and invited him upstairs.

Lorne hired Sains to help test games and redemption codes as he prepared major updates and the magic phone’s launch. He then recruited Firenze’s centaur tribe for a new occupation, and Firenze realized he had been drawn into Lorne’s scheme.

• Lorne hired Sains to work on game testing and redemption codes, while Quirrell welcomed the opportunity for him.
• Sains joined Lorne’s staff and gave Draco extra time to play while visiting the shop.
• Lorne visited Firenze, admired his drawings for the upcoming Wizard Legend update, and paid him with food.
• Firenze explained that his tribe gathered moonlight grass and had little else to do besides hunt.
• Lorne proposed that the centaurs find a new main occupation, and Firenze felt he had boarded a pirate ship.

Lorne opened the Magic Mobile Phone Official Flagship Store on the first day of the start-of-term shopping season, drawing an enormous crowd with limited-stock advertising, giveaways, and app promotions. Harry got lost in Knockturn Alley, found Hagrid, and watched the launch as the crowd surged toward the shop.

• Lorne used his discount coupon to buy three hundred magic mobile phones at seventy percent off.
• Lorne, Quirrell, and Sains prepared the shop for opening, with Quirrell handling the doorway and Sains organizing promotions outside.
• Harry accidentally traveled to Knockturn Alley, escaped an old witch with Hagrid’s help, and saw the crowd gathered at Lorne’s shop.
• Quirrell opened the shop while Sains carried giveaways into the crowd, which pressed forward to buy phones.
• Lorne revealed advertisements for the four phone apps and set off confetti cannons as Harry and Hagrid watched the launch.

Quirrell promoted Lorne’s magical phones to a huge crowd, while Lorne and Sains sold them inside the shop. The launch drew eager buyers, and the shop began admitting customers in batches under a one-phone-per-person-and-household limit.

• Quirrell excited the crowd by demonstrating the magical phone’s apps, including Street Wizard Fighter, Wizard Legend, Cuckoo Messaging, and Senior’s Help.
• When a customer compared Cuckoo to Two-Way Mirrors, Quirrell emphasized their scarcity and announced the phone’s price as eight Galleons, eight Sickles, and eight Knuts.
• Sains advertised purchase perks such as prize draws, blind boxes, and free maintenance, making the crowd more eager to buy.
• As customers rushed into the shop, Lorne limited purchases to one magical phone per person and household and offered an extra year of warranty coverage in exchange for buyers’ names.
• Quirrell admitted customers in batches while people outside argued, queued, and urged him to let them in.

Unlucky bought a magic mobile phone and won the first prize in the shop’s raffle, while Sains promised to help recover his lost hat. Outside Borgin and Burkes, Lucius learned that the busy shop sold the phones Draco had been longing for and hinted that it might face a Ministry inspection.

• Unlucky reached Sains's event station after buying a magic mobile phone and watched other customers win prizes.
• Sains recognized that Unlucky had lost his hat and promised the shop would help recover anything lost inside.
• Unlucky drew a golden ball and won the first-prize magic mobile phone gift bundle, including cards, accessories, maintenance services, and arcade credit.
• Draco waited outside Borgin and Burkes, watching the crowded magic mobile phone shop while Lucius discussed business with Borgin.
• Borgin urged Lucius to target the shop, but Lucius dismissed his attempt to provoke him before realizing it sold the phones Draco wanted.
• Lucius warned that the shop might not survive a Ministry of Magic inspection and led Draco away.

Lockhart's book signing struggled to attract customers as crowds flocked to Lorne's magic mobile phone shop, where Harry and the Weasleys joined the day's sales rush. After the shop's staff worked late and Lorne rewarded them, he went to bed, leaving routine operations to Quirrell before returning to preparations for Hogwarts.

• Lockhart discovered that the crowds had gone to the magic mobile phone shop, and Lucius unknowingly slipped a black diary into Ginny's secondhand textbook.
• A reporter brought Harry to Lockhart's signing for photographs, and Harry offered Lockhart's signed books to Ginny as a present.
• Arthur took the family to Lorne's shop, where Ginny won a gold card for Witch of the Moon - Ozomuna and Molly decided to save for phones to message Bill and Charlie.
• Lorne announced that stock might run out and offered discount coupons and raffle tickets, while Molly canceled the family's ice cream to economize.
• At closing time, Lorne gave Quirrell a phone and two days off, then went upstairs to rest and left the shop's routine operation to him.

Harry and Ron found Platform Nine and Three-Quarters blocked by Dobby’s magic, preventing them from boarding the Hogwarts Express. Director Lorne arranged for the school to help and brought the boys to his shop, where Ron began considering a way to earn money from magic phone accessories.

• Harry asked Director Lorne how Ginny could redeem her golden card and whether Harry could get the Cuckoo and Senior's Help apps installed.
• Harry and Ron crashed their trolleys into the solid platform after Dobby disabled its transportation magic.
• Director Lorne messaged Hagrid, who said the school would arrange for the boys to travel to Hogwarts the next day and move their luggage.
• Director Lorne warned Ron against taking his father's flying car to Hogwarts, predicting that he would crash it into the Whomping Willow and face punishment.
• At the shop, Director Lorne explained his plans to sell magic phone accessories, and Ron decided to ask his mother to knit phone sleeves he could sell.

Lorne returned to Hogwarts with Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Ron, then checked his system mission and the growth of his magical phone apps. He left the chapter planning to keep working toward the mission’s rare item slot as his games and redemption codes gained popularity.

• Professor McGonagall told Lorne that Hogwarts had heard about his magical phone shop and warned him to focus on his studies.
• Harry asked Lorne to reserve a magical phone for him so he could give it to Professor McGonagall.
• Hagrid met the group at the station and took them to Hogwarts in a carriage pulled by Thestrals, which Lorne could see.
• Professor McGonagall explained Thestrals to Harry, and later escorted Harry and Ron back to their dormitory after dinner.
• Lorne checked his mission and found that he had collected 520 of the 1,500 Power of Emotion needed to unlock a rare item slot.
• Lorne reviewed his app statistics and found that Street Wizard Fighter and Wizard Legend had gained players, while Wizard Legend redemption codes were selling briskly.

Harry learned the card redemption codes were valuable and offered Ginny a present, while Lucius and Old Nott schemed to exploit the card craze to target the magical phone shop. Draco realized his father was planning to move against Lorne and the shop.

• Ron told Harry that gold-character redemption codes could sell for high prices, and Harry offered Ginny a present after learning her card was valuable.
• Lorne reviewed complaints about Lockhart and decided to deal with him after the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom was wrecked by Cornish Pixies.
• Lucius mistook Old Nott’s card purchases for a plan to manipulate the market and proposed using the resulting bubble to shut down the magical phone shop.
• Old Nott agreed to drive card prices higher and later turn wizards against the shop, while privately hoping to beat the player Quiet in Wizard Legend.
• Crabbe told Draco that his father had praised the card-buying scheme, leading Draco to suspect Lucius was targeting Lorne and the magical phone shop.

Sains settled into his new job at the magic phone shop and deliberately gave up his first-place ranking. At Hogwarts, Lockhart tried to Obliviate Lorne, but Lorne’s prepared false memory revealed that he had already discovered Lockhart’s fraud and planned to report him.

• Sains wrote to his mother about his new job, then stopped entering redemption codes so he would not take first place in the rankings.
• Lockhart boasted to Hogwarts students and visited Lorne, who confronted him with complaints about his teaching.
• When Lorne threatened to publish a ranking of unpopular teachers, Lockhart cast Obliviate on him.
• Lockhart entered Lorne’s memories and found a deliberately prepared story about Ancient Magic, a curse, and Lorne’s past as Lockhart’s fan.
• Lockhart learned from the memory that Lorne had identified him as a fraud and written a letter reporting him to the Ministry of Magic.

Lorne used Lockhart’s stolen memories to make him promise to teach properly and keep quiet, but Lockhart mistakenly decided an ancient wizard had taken over Lorne’s body. Harry and Draco challenged each other to a duel that McGonagall stopped, and their detention showed Harry that Lockhart had changed his behavior.

• Lockhart escaped Lorne’s memory spell, fell to his knees, and agreed to do everything Lorne asked after deciding an ancient wizard controlled Lorne.
• At Quidditch practice, the Slytherins arrived with Nimbus 2001s bought by Draco’s father, and Hermione challenged their claim that the team had earned its places.
• Draco insulted Hermione, Ron’s spell backfired and made him vomit a slug, and Harry challenged Draco to a duel.
• McGonagall caught Harry, Draco, and Colin before the duel and gave them two weeks of detention.
• During detention, Harry found Lockhart preparing lessons and answering readers’ letters instead of boasting about his abilities.

Lorne counseled Draco about insulting Hermione, Harry about defending his friends, and Colin about respecting Harry’s boundaries. He later observed Lockhart teaching from his books as a lesson that unexpectedly engaged the students.

• Draco admitted to Lorne that he had insulted Hermione and that Harry had challenged him to a duel, and Lorne questioned his prejudice against Muggle-borns.
• Harry told Lorne he had stood up for Hermione and Ron, then asked how to handle Colin’s unwanted following and photography; Lorne said Colin needed to respect Harry’s wishes.
• Lorne spoke with Colin during detention, explaining that admiration did not excuse bothering Harry, and Colin agreed to ask before taking pictures.
• Lorne returned to Lockhart’s classroom and watched Lockhart teach from one of his books, prompting the students to recognize material that could help with their exams.

Lorne claimed a rare shop reward and bought the Decayed Time-Turner, then returned to his magical phone shop to deliver stock and discuss sales. He laid out plans to sell game cards and redemption codes while expanding Wizard Legend’s monetization, leaving Sains stunned by his strategy.

• Lorne claimed a new rare item slot, bought the Decayed Time-Turner, and purchased a hundred magical phones to restock his shop.
• Lorne checked his next quest and found that it would reward him with a random improved spell at adult Auror level.
• Lorne took leave from Hogwarts and visited the magical phone shop, where Quirrell reported strong demand and successful paid arcade play.
• Sains reported that game characters were balanced and that pure-blood families were driving up card prices, prompting Lorne to plan fixed-price card sales and prize draws.
• Lorne proposed low-cost crystal shards, duplicate character upgrades, reduced pull rates, and exclusive bundles for Wizard Legend, leaving Sains alarmed by his ideas.

After his detention, Harry learned more about Squibs while Draco and Theodore clashed over the Malfoy family’s role in a failed card-buying scheme. Lorne discovered a guide to making magic mobile phones and planned to enlist Arthur Weasley’s mechanical expertise, while promising Ron help with replacing his broken wand.

• Harry asked Hermione whether pure-blood families had Squib children, and she said she did not know.
• Theodore accused Draco’s father of encouraging the Nott family to buy up cards before the shop released cheap cards and redemption codes.
• Draco admitted that Lucius’s actions had been improper, though he believed the pure-blood families would remain allied.
• Lorne bought a book called “A Detailed Guide to Making Magic Mobile Phones” from the rare goods section.
• Lorne asked Ron about Arthur’s work schedule and said he might visit the Weasleys to seek help with the phone’s non-magical components.
• Ron asked Lorne to check whether his family had an old wand he could use, and Lorne promised to help him get a new one if things went smoothly.

Lorne visited Arthur Weasley and proposed a partnership to assemble and sell magic phones, giving the Weasleys a new source of income. Ron learned that his family could afford to replace his broken wand, though he still wanted a magic phone too.

• Lorne visited the Weasley home, examined Arthur's Flying Ford Anglia, and discovered Arthur's skill with mechanical parts.
• Lorne gave Arthur instructions and components, and Arthur assembled a magic phone in twenty minutes.
• Lorne proposed splitting the proceeds from their magic-phone business eighty-twenty, and Arthur accepted.
• Lorne explained that the Weasleys could earn enough for Ron's wand and a phone by assembling ten devices, then left a hundred sets of prepared slabs with Arthur.
• Lorne told Ron his parents would buy him a new wand, but Ron asked him to tell them not to spend the money.
• Ron received Molly's letter confirming the family could afford a wand after their new business opportunity, and he lamented having to choose between a wand and a magic phone.

Lorne asked Lockhart to develop a mobile homestead storyline for Wizard Legend, then joined Dumbledore to buy Ron a wand. The Halloween feast ended with Mrs. Norris found petrified and Harry accused, while Dumbledore kept Harry, his friends, and Lorne behind.

• Lorne gave Lockhart the Wizard Legend drafts and asked him to create a homestead storyline featuring a mobile home and a memorable house-elf.
• Lockhart eagerly accepted the assignment after Lorne promised to feature his books prominently in the game.
• Lorne planned Halloween and Christmas homestead skins for Wizard Legend and attended the Halloween feast.
• Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts and accepted Lorne's offer to accompany him to buy Ron a wand.
• After the feast, Mrs. Norris was found hanging petrified beside a warning about the Chamber of Secrets, and Filch blamed Harry.
• Dumbledore stopped Filch, said Snape would brew a potion for Mrs. Norris, and ordered Harry, his friends, and Lorne to stay behind.

Lorne accompanied Dumbledore and Ron to Ollivanders, where he tested wands while Dumbledore kept him away from Hogwarts during the Chamber of Secrets crisis. Back at school, Lorne reassured Filch about Mrs. Norris and gave him a Sneakoscope, then urged him to treat students more kindly.

• Dumbledore asked Harry whether anything unusual had happened to him, then told Ron that he and Lorne would accompany him to buy a wand.
• Lorne tested several wands for Dumbledore and Ollivander before insisting that Ron try one and receive a wand suited to him.
• Dumbledore said Hogwarts was being watched through its portraits, while Lorne warned that he would investigate the Chamber of Secrets when he returned.
• Lorne met Filch, assured him that Mrs. Norris would be cured by the end of term, and listened as Filch demanded that the culprit be punished.
• Lorne gave Filch a Sneakoscope to detect magical traces and asked him to be kinder to students, while Filch said he would do so if they learned to respect him.

Lorne investigated the dangerous diary and warned Ginny and Harry to report it, while Ginny concealed that she still had it. After updating Wizard Legend with a new story and a travel carriage, Lorne left the diary search unresolved as Harry eagerly decorated his virtual home.

• Lorne summoned Ginny and told her the diary may have controlled her and caused the attacks, but Ginny lied about throwing it away.
• Lorne questioned Harry and told him to hand in any black diary he found, then decided to watch Ginny, Harry, and Colin.
• Lockhart gave Lorne the requested story draft, and Lorne approved it but refused to include Lockhart himself in the visuals.
• Lorne released a Halloween and anniversary update to Wizard Legend, which granted players a Travel Carriage and added the house-elf Yaoyao.
• Harry explored the carriage, chose magenta walls, and spent the night decorating it while Ron fell asleep.

Quirrell published discussions and questions about Wizard Legend, while Lorne watched the Gryffindors and seized Tom Riddle's Diary from Ginny. Harry recognized Tom Riddle's name from a trophy in Filch's storeroom.

• Quirrell collected Wizard Legend plot discussions and published them in The Quibbler, prompting questions about the chest, Morgana, Dumbledore, and the protagonist's departure from Hogwarts.
• Draco pressured Crabbe into lending him his Magic Mobile Phone, and Crabbe noticed Draco's exhausted, bloodshot eyes when it was returned.
• Colin arranged to photograph Harry once a month and found Ginny hiding in the girls' bathroom after hearing her cast Incendio.
• Hermione brought out a distressed Ginny, who asked how to destroy a magical notebook, and Lorne arrived and took the black diary from her.
• Lorne gave Ginny two weeks of detention for concealing the diary, and Ginny revealed it was Tom Riddle's Diary.
• Harry remembered seeing Tom Riddle's name on a trophy in Filch's storeroom.

Lorne kept Tom Riddle’s diary safe while preparing to reveal it to Dumbledore, then helped Harry turn Dobby’s attempt to protect him into a trap. After Harry caught the Snitch and Lockhart botched his healing, Lorne captured Dobby in the Hospital Wing.

• Lorne poured ink into Tom Riddle’s diary and decided to wait until Dumbledore next summoned him before handing it over.
• Lorne warned Harry that Dobby would attack him with a Bludger and asked him to cooperate with a plan.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch while dodging the Bludger, then Lockhart’s spell removed the bones from his injured arm.
• Harry stayed overnight in the Hospital Wing, where Dobby confessed to controlling the Bludger and agreed not to Apparate for an hour.
• Lorne emerged from hiding and magically lifted Dobby into the air, capturing him.

Lorne persuaded Dobby to help protect Harry and offered to secure his freedom in exchange for future employment. A week later, Lockhart’s Duelling Club began with Harry and Draco facing off, while Snape prepared to judge their duel.

• Lorne revealed that Lucius had used the diary to endanger Harry and convinced Dobby that Harry was safe for now.
• Lorne offered to help Dobby protect Harry and gain his freedom, and Dobby agreed to both proposals.
• A week later, Lockhart opened a Duelling Club, and Snape swiftly disarmed him during their demonstration.
• Snape called Harry and Draco onto the platform, and Lockhart started their duel.

Harry’s Parseltongue during a duel sparks rumors that he is Slytherin’s heir and opened the Chamber of Secrets. After Hermione learns more about Slytherin’s history, Harry resolves to find the culprit and begins to suspect Draco.

• Draco summoned orchids and a snake, but Harry’s Expelliarmus sent the snake flying before it could attack Justin.
• Harry spoke Parseltongue to warn the snake away from Justin, alarming the students, and Ron pulled him from the dueling area.
• Rumors spread that Harry was a Dark wizard and the heir to the Chamber of Secrets, while Hermione and Ron were also shunned.
• Hermione asked Professor Binns about the Chamber, and he described Slytherin’s departure and the rumors about a hidden chamber.
• Seeing Filch grieving over Mrs. Norris, Harry vowed to uncover the culprit and began to suspect Draco.

As Christmas began, Lorne met with Dumbledore after Harry admitted he heard mysterious voices and was searching for the Chamber of Secrets’ heir. Dumbledore asked Lorne to oversee Hogwarts purchasing and declared Christmas to be Lorne’s twenty-third birthday, leaving Lorne puzzled about his age.

• Lorne prepared for unrestricted Magic Mobile Phone sales as students left Hogwarts for Christmas.
• Harry told Lorne and Dumbledore that he heard voices urging him to come to them and kill, and said he suspected Malfoy was the Heir of Slytherin.
• Dumbledore warned Harry that another unauthorized nighttime excursion could get him expelled, then made him write a pledge while he spoke privately with Lorne.
• Lorne reported that Lockhart had begun teaching seriously and received the students’ approval.
• Dumbledore asked Lorne to handle Hogwarts purchasing and prepare Christmas gifts for the professors, and Lorne agreed.
• Dumbledore announced that Lorne’s birthday was Christmas and wished him a happy twenty-third birthday, leaving Lorne wondering if he was actually twenty-two.

Lorne realized that someone had taken a year from his past, likely through the Corrupted Time-Turner, and connected his strange Hogwarts admission to the original owner of his body. After discussing Lorne’s magic and accomplishments, Dumbledore tried to win his support, while Lorne concluded that the headmaster remained suspicious of him.

• Lorne corrected Dumbledore about his age, and Dumbledore revealed that his records showed Lorne was born in 1969 and that someone was connected to his missed Hogwarts letter.
• Lorne realized he had been eleven in 1980 and deduced that the Corrupted Time-Turner had cost him a year of time and memories.
• Lorne suspected that Voldemort had killed the original Muggle-born owner of his body after the boy received his Hogwarts letter, and that his new soul later caused the school’s admission artifacts to notice him again.
• Dumbledore praised Lorne’s teaching and potion-making, explaining that Snape could not reproduce Lorne’s soul potions because his magic carried too much emotion.
• Lorne connected his emotionless system magic to his potion skill and wand compatibility, and suspected Ollivander and Dumbledore had been investigating him for some time.
• Lorne judged that Dumbledore was trying to recruit him while warning him, but decided he would remain on the side of the light.

After Dumbledore let Harry use Tom’s diary to investigate Moaning Myrtle’s death, Harry saw a memory that seemed to implicate Hagrid, and Lorne warned him not to trust incomplete evidence. Lorne secured Dumbledore’s agreement to organize a school-wide truth-seeking activity after Christmas, then took Harry back toward his dormitory.

• Fawkes burst into flames and began to be reborn from his ashes, while Dumbledore explained what had happened to Harry.
• Lorne handed Tom’s diary to Dumbledore, who gave it to Harry so he could discover how Moaning Myrtle had died.
• Harry entered the diary and returned believing that Hagrid had opened the Chamber of Secrets and kept the monster, which he thought was a spider.
• Lorne proposed a school-wide truth-seeking activity after Christmas, and Dumbledore agreed after Harry’s diary experience showed the need to teach students how to judge evidence.
• Lorne told Harry that memories and rumors could leave out crucial context, then took him to the General Affairs Office and had him speak Parseltongue to an unsealed envelope.
• Harry admitted he had wrongly suspected Hagrid, and Lorne promised not to tell him before escorting Harry out to rest.