Recaps

Lorne Miles became Hogwarts’ General Affairs director, built student activities and a popular mobile game, and began helping Neville and the professors. The arc ended when Quirrell announced that a Troll had entered the dungeons during the Halloween feast.

• Dumbledore appointed Lorne Miles director of the General Affairs Office on the condition that he study the first-year curriculum and take separate examinations.
• Lorne helped Hagrid bring Harry Potter to Hogwarts, welcomed him at the station, and organized a reception for first-year students.
• Lorne surveyed students about their classes and concerns, then held the “Find your second house” event with challenges and Magic Mobile Phone prizes.
• Harry won the Merchant Simulation by turning one hundred Galleons into 4,800, while Draco Malfoy later became absorbed in the Wizard Legend game on his phone.
• Lorne added features to Wizard Legend, reassured Neville Longbottom about Snape and bullying, and promised to address the problems Neville described.
• Lorne challenged Snape’s biased teaching and offered Quirrell help, then studied defensive spells and soul-related potions to support him.
• At the Halloween feast, Quirrell announced that a Troll was in the dungeons, and Harry and Ron went to find Hermione while Dumbledore sent prefects to escort students back to their dormitories.

Lorne intervened in the threat to the Philosopher’s Stone, saved Quirrell, and expanded his Magic Mobile Phone business with a fighting-game tournament. After Dobby tried to keep Harry from returning to Hogwarts, Lorne helped him and the Weasleys escape the Dursleys, and they reached the Burrow.

• Harry, Hermione, and Ron befriended one another after defeating the Troll, while Lorne finished his work and considered finding collaborators or registering a company.
• Lorne updated Wizard Legend and learned how to treat Quirrell’s soul parasitism, while Harry received a Nimbus 2000 and won Gryffindor’s Quidditch match by catching the Snitch.
• Harry and Ron discovered the Mirror of Erised, and Hagrid revealed that Fluffy guarded something connected to Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel.
• Lorne confronted Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, knocked him unconscious, and gave Quirrell a soul-repairing potion in exchange for his cooperation.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione went beneath the Trapdoor, where Harry faced Quirrell and Voldemort, and Lorne seized the Philosopher’s Stone and drove Voldemort away.
• Lorne opened the Magic Mobile Phone flagship store and organized a Street Wizard Fighter tournament, where Draco reached the top eight and Sains defeated Lucille to win the final.
• Lorne priced the phones, while Dobby warned Harry not to return to Hogwarts and Lorne helped Harry escape his confinement.
• Ron, Fred, and George arrived in a flying car, freed Harry from the Dursleys’ house, and took him to the Burrow.

Lorne expanded his magical phone business, drew Arthur Weasley into manufacturing, and became entangled in the Chamber of Secrets attacks. After uncovering Tom Riddle’s diary and learning more about his own lost year, Lorne helped Harry reconsider the evidence against Hagrid and planned a school-wide lesson in judging claims.

• Lorne hired Sains, opened the magical phone shop to huge crowds, and expanded its games and services while Lucius Malfoy began plotting against the business.
• Lorne brought Arthur Weasley into phone assembly, giving the Weasleys a way to afford Ron’s wand and a phone, while Ron struggled to choose between them.
• After Mrs. Norris was petrified, Lorne investigated the Chamber of Secrets, watched Ginny, and eventually took Tom Riddle’s diary from her.
• Lorne captured Dobby after the house-elf confessed to controlling the Bludger, then persuaded him that he could help protect Harry and win his freedom.
• Harry spoke Parseltongue during the Duelling Club and became the target of rumors that he was the Heir of the Chamber, while Lorne and Dumbledore continued investigating the attacks.
• Dumbledore’s records led Lorne to realize that the Corrupted Time-Turner had cost him a year of time and memories, and Lorne decided to remain on the side of the light.
• Lorne gave Tom’s diary to Dumbledore, and Harry’s visit to its memories convinced him that Hagrid had opened the Chamber, though Lorne warned him that memories and rumors could omit crucial context.
• Lorne proposed a school-wide truth-seeking activity and had Harry speak Parseltongue to an unsealed envelope, leading Harry to admit he had wrongly suspected Hagrid.

Lorne exposed the truth behind the Chamber of Secrets, freed Dobby, and brought Harry into his growing Magic Mobile Phone business. After Lucius’s smear campaign and the shop’s anniversary rush, Augusta helped defend Lorne against legal harassment as he pursued a way to heal Neville’s parents.

• Lorne defeated the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets and later proposed school activities that led students to investigate rumors and evidence.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione uncovered evidence that the monster was a Basilisk, and Lorne challenged Lucius’s attempt to have Hagrid taken away.
• Lucius lost his position as chairman of the School Governors, while Lorne freed Dobby and brought Harry to live and work at the shop.
• Lucius’s faction spread a false report that a Magic Mobile Phone had exploded, but Lorne publicly challenged the claim and restored confidence in the phones.
• Lorne and Sains planned the game Suitcase Beasts, while Neville played Wizard Legend’s new story with his mother and Harry visited him at St. Mungo’s.
• Lorne staged the shop’s anniversary promotion as crowds bought phones and played Suitcase Beasts, and he chose an advanced Magic Power Matrix guide to pursue mass production.
• Augusta advised Lorne during Ministry harassment and Wizengamot hearings, and Lorne asked her to serve as the shop’s legal adviser as he sought to cure Neville’s parents.