Chapter Summaries

In 1991, Lorne Miles discovered that his system’s quest progressed when Albus Dumbledore, a wizard, was surprised by him. Dumbledore invited Lorne to Hogwarts after uncovering that the school had forgotten to enroll him, and Lorne negotiated a job there while agreeing to take first-year exams.

• Lorne Miles saw his system quest progress from 0/10 to 1/10 when Dumbledore appeared outside his window.
• Lorne recognized Dumbledore and realized that “those of your kind” meant wizards, whose emotional reactions could advance his quest.
• Dumbledore apologized for Hogwarts’ failure to enroll Lorne, explaining that Minerva had found his name listed as “the forgotten one.”
• Lorne objected to attending classes with children and proposed becoming director of the General Affairs Office at Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore agreed to appoint Lorne director of the General Affairs Office if he studied the first-year curriculum and took separate end-of-year examinations.

Lorne Miles joined Hogwarts as the newly appointed director of the General Affairs Office and settled into a room at the school. As he considered the coming school year and Harry's arrival, his system progress reached 2/10.

• Dumbledore brought Lorne to the Headmaster's Office, where the former headmasters' portraits questioned his presence.
• Professor McGonagall objected to Lorne's appointment but accepted Dumbledore's decision and gave Lorne the term's instructions and class timetable.
• Lorne moved into a second-floor room and arranged his belongings, setting aside space for an office.
• Lorne recalled that it was 1991, when Harry would start school, and decided he would need to rely on the system.
• Lorne checked his progress bar and saw that it had advanced to 2/10.

Lorne went with Hagrid to Diagon Alley to withdraw money and buy supplies for his new role at Hogwarts. After learning that Hagrid was delivering a Hogwarts letter to Harry Potter, Lorne reached Ollivander’s wand shop, where Ollivander began questioning him about wands.

• Hagrid woke Lorne and invited him to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies and furnish his office.
• Lorne learned that Hagrid was going to deliver a letter to Harry Potter, and Hagrid told him Harry had defeated You-Know-Who as a baby.
• Hagrid took Lorne to a Muggle bank, the Leaky Cauldron, and through its courtyard entrance into Diagon Alley.
• Lorne exchanged money for two hundred Galleons at Gringotts and bought Hagrid ice cream at Florean Fortescue’s.
• Lorne bought books, robes, and other first-year supplies, then visited Ollivander’s Wand Shop.
• Ollivander asked Lorne whether he had ever owned a wand, and Lorne said he had not.

Lorne Miles found that Ollivander’s plain chestnut-and-Kelpie-hair wand suited him perfectly, then used his new role as Hogwarts’ General Affairs Office director to accompany Hagrid to Harry Potter’s home. Lorne began assessing the Dursleys’ household while Hagrid welcomed Harry to the wizarding world, leaving Harry ready to leave Privet Drive.

• Ollivander discovered that the ordinary-looking wand was a perfect match for Lorne and sold it to him for three Galleons.
• Lorne decided to visit Harry’s home as part of his duties and persuaded Hagrid to take him to the Dursleys.
• At midnight on Harry’s birthday, Hagrid broke into the hut on the island, and Lorne introduced himself to the Dursleys as a Hogwarts official conducting a household assessment.
• Vernon threatened Hagrid with a shotgun, but Hagrid bent its barrel, and Petunia agreed to let Lorne and Hagrid stay for five minutes.
• Hagrid gave Harry his Hogwarts letter and a birthday cake, while Lorne reassured Harry and Hagrid urged him to pack his belongings.

Lorne helped Harry prepare for Hogwarts, gave him money and a fake recommendation letter to improve his life with the Dursleys, and promised to meet him at the station. A month later, Harry found Lorne running a reception desk for first-year students at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.

• Lorne steadied Harry in Hagrid's speeding boat and told him to eat more at Hogwarts.
• Harry withdrew his inheritance, bought his school supplies, learned that Voldemort had killed his parents, and received an owl from Hagrid.
• Lorne gave Harry a train ticket, pocket money, and a fake Smeltings recommendation letter, which helped Harry get his own room and freedom at the Dursleys' house.
• Lorne organized a first-year reception desk with enchanted welcome gifts made with help from Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Sprout.
• At the station, a tall boy cleared a path for Harry, and Lorne greeted him at the reception desk.

Harry received Hogwarts’s new student gift pack, crossed onto Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, and boarded the Hogwarts Express, where he met a golden-red-haired student. On the train, Lorne settled his task rewards and found that his Beginner Gift Pack and shop access offered little immediate use.

• Director Lorne gave Harry a new student badge, a greeting card that displayed Hogwarts, and a mind-refreshing sachet, then showed him how to reach Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.
• Harry crossed through the barrier, brought his trolley to the luggage carriage, boarded the Hogwarts Express, and opened the card to see Hogwarts Castle.
• A golden-red-haired student asked Harry if he could sit with him, and Harry agreed.
• Lorne settled his task rewards and received half-step Ron realm, a 2026 latest-model Magic Mobile Phone, and access to the Beginner Shop.
• Lorne tested the phone and browsed the shop, discovering that the phone had almost no visible function and that its manual was sold separately.

Lorne learned to use his Magic Mobile Phone on the train, then arrived at Hogwarts with Hagrid and attended the start-of-term feast. Dumbledore introduced Lorne as the new director of the General Affairs Office before the Sorting Ceremony began.

• Lorne discovered that spending his power of emotion reduced his quest progress, then read the phone instructions and learned to control the screen with magic.
• At Hogwarts Station, Lorne joined Hagrid and the first-year students heading across the Black Lake by boat.
• Lorne and Hagrid left the new students ahead of the others to change into formal attire, and Lorne brought his phone to the feast to take notes.
• Dumbledore announced that the Dark Forest and the third-floor corridor on the right were out of bounds and introduced Professor Quirinus Quirrell and Director Lorne Miles.

At Hogwarts's Sorting Ceremony, Harry Potter joined Gryffindor, and Lorne discussed how his General Affairs Office could ease the professors' workload. The Sorting Hat jokingly sorted Lorne into Azkaban before saying he was suited to Dumbledore's seat.

• The Sorting Hat sorted Hannah Abbott into Hufflepuff, Hermione Granger into Gryffindor, and Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy into their houses.
• The Sorting Hat hesitated over Harry Potter but placed him in Gryffindor, where he celebrated with Ron Weasley.
• After the feast, Dumbledore called Lorne to his office, and Lorne proposed that the General Affairs Office handle night patrols, detentions, and student concerns.
• Lorne told Dumbledore he planned to gather students' opinions and study in classrooms while supervising them, but Dumbledore warned him not to neglect his studies.
• Lorne tried on the Sorting Hat, which joked that he belonged in Azkaban before saying he was suited to take Dumbledore's place.

Lorne attended Gryffindor’s first Transfiguration class and considered how to develop a market for Magic Mobile Phones, while helping Harry and Ron with their difficulties navigating Hogwarts. Later, Snape’s Potions lesson left Harry humiliated and the students scrambling to take notes.

• Lorne decided that magical storage components were too expensive to make Magic Mobile Phones a viable project for now.
• Hermione greeted Lorne as Professor Miles, and he told her and the other students to call him Director Lorne.
• Harry and Ron arrived late to Transfiguration after getting lost, and McGonagall scolded them.
• Lorne advised Harry and Ron to set off earlier or travel with classmates, and said he would look into the portraits sending students the wrong way.
• Harry and Ron followed Seamus to Potions, where Snape questioned Harry, mocked his answers, and took five points from Gryffindor for Hermione’s raised hand and Harry’s ignorance.
• Snape supplied the answers to his questions and ordered the class to write them down, frightening Lorne into pretending to take notes.

Lorne studied magical theory, helped Harry and Ron navigate Hogwarts, and joined Hagrid in celebrating Harry’s selection as Gryffindor’s Seeker. He left Harry, Ron, and Hermione enjoying a barbecue at Hagrid’s hut.

• Lorne studied a future book on magical theory and learned that several factors could increase a wizard’s total magical power.
• Lorne mapped the changing staircases and gave copies to Harry and Ron, helping them avoid arriving late and raising his power of emotion to thirty points.
• Hagrid visited Lorne to ask for help choosing a present for Harry, who had become Gryffindor’s Seeker.
• Lorne advised Hagrid to celebrate Harry with a casual gathering instead of a conspicuous gift and agreed to join them.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived at Hagrid’s hut and found Lorne and Hagrid preparing barbecue.
• Harry watched Lorne cook and remembered how he had been made to grill food for the Dursleys without getting to enjoy the good portions.

Lorne surveyed Hogwarts’s first-years about their studies and daily lives, then discovered the questionnaires were generating power of emotion for him. After reading and sorting every response, he finished compiling their concerns and prepared to address them.

• At a meal with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, Lorne asked Hermione about school, and she criticized the lesson pace, Professor Quirrell’s classes, and Professor Snape’s treatment of Gryffindor.
• Lorne decided to survey the first-years, drafted an anonymous questionnaire with Professor McGonagall’s help, and distributed it to every house.
• As the students completed the forms, Lorne noticed his power of emotion rising and suspected the questionnaires were collecting it for him.
• Lorne spent power of emotion on ten mobile phones and a magical storage component, planning to develop a chat application.
• Lorne collected every questionnaire by Tuesday afternoon and spent the evening recording students’ concerns about professors, classes, the library, food, and activities.

Lorne presented the first-year students’ concerns to Dumbledore and won approval for an event to help them make friends across Hogwarts houses. He planned to hold “Find your second house” while also intending to speak with Professors Snape and Quirrell about student feedback.

• Lorne brought the compiled first-year questionnaires to Dumbledore and discussed students’ complaints and requests.
• Lorne proposed an event to build unity and help new students make friends, and Dumbledore approved it.
• Lorne asked to speak with Professor Snape and Professor Quirrell about how students viewed their classes, and Dumbledore warned him that the conversations might be difficult.
• Dumbledore cautioned Lorne not to question Quirrell about his turban and reminded him to rest.
• Lorne left the office with the stamped approval and settled on “Find your second house” as the event.

Lorne planned an event to let students discover their hidden Hogwarts houses, with a Magic Mobile Phone as its prize, and began designing a wizarding game for the phone. He left Neville an invitation to speak with him and settled on a pixel-art, turn-based fantasy RPG with a story and companion-collecting gacha.

• Lorne planned a hidden-house event and chose a Magic Mobile Phone as its prize, hoping to make the students less divided by house.
• Hermione brought Neville Longbottom to Lorne so Neville could ask for his questionnaire back because he feared Professor Snape would recognize his handwriting.
• Lorne promised Neville that Snape would not see the questionnaires and invited him to meet at the General Affairs Office that weekend.
• During History of Magic, Lorne designed a pixel-art, turn-based fantasy adventure RPG in which a young wizard gathered companions and fought evil.
• Lorne decided the game would emphasize its story and use gacha to award companions, including a starting ten-pull with a guaranteed gold card.

Students reacted to Hogwarts’ first-year “Find out your second house” event, which offered house-themed challenges and an evening chat session. Harry and Ron hurried to the event, where Harry discovered that Wood was running the Gryffindor courage challenge.

• Harry and other students read the event notice and discussed its challenges, prizes, and first-year restrictions.
• Lorne declined requests to include students in their own house’s challenge and said older students might be included in future events.
• Harry woke Ron on the weekend, and they rushed to the Black Lake after Harry had obtained leave from Quidditch practice.
• Harry and Ron joined the crowd at the Gryffindor courage challenge and heard that a Beast Ball would transform into each participant’s greatest fear.
• Harry pushed to the front and recognized Wood as the challenge’s presenter.

Harry and Ron encountered Ravenclaw’s logic quiz after watching the Quidditch captains scout players, then both failed their questions. Harry stalled before admitting defeat, avoiding Ron’s record for the fastest elimination.

• Wood told Harry that he had come to see Director Lorne’s event, while the Quidditch captains gathered to scout promising players, including Draco.
• Harry and Ron found Seamus leaving Ravenclaw’s logic quiz, where older students had pressured him to answer a question and he had scored zero.
• Ron answered that the odds of the second Galleon being heads were one-half and was immediately eliminated.
• The quiz organizer revealed that Hermione Granger led the competition with six correct answers, and Ron left the arena as Harry took his place.
• Harry could not solve the question about dividing a hundred Galleons while blind, so he waited several minutes before saying he did not know.

Draco mocked the Gryffindors after Neville won the food contest by identifying the dishes’ ingredients. Hermione defended Ron and invited Harry to try Slytherin’s challenge, and Harry agreed to take a look.

• Draco toured the house challenges with Crabbe and Goyle, boasting that he had won Gryffindor’s challenge and insulting Muggle-born students.
• Harry, Ron, Neville, and Seamus tried to identify ingredients in a series of herb-based dishes, but Neville correctly named the ingredients and continued alone.
• Neville identified wormwood in the final dish and won the food contest, while Ron, Harry, and Seamus ate their fill without placing.
• Draco and Crabbe mocked Ron and the Gryffindors until Hermione arrived and challenged Draco over his own use of his hands during a contest.
• Hermione congratulated Neville and invited Harry to try Slytherin’s challenge, and Harry agreed to go look.

Lorne’s Merchant Simulation challenged Harry to judge wizarding market news, and Harry turned his starting hundred Galleons into 4,800 to win first place. His victory gave him confidence to answer Draco’s taunt with an insult of his own.

• Lorne began the Merchant Simulation with Harry, who passed on dragon blood and dragon blood products after hearing the Ministry’s import ban announcement.
• Harry invested all one hundred Galleons in Salamander tails after hearing that Borgin and Burkes was buying them, then held onto them through falling prices and conflicting rumors.
• When a Potions Class announcement sent Salamander-tail prices soaring, Harry sold his stock for eight hundred Galleons and reinvested everything in dragon blood.
• Harry sold his dragon blood after news that it could greatly increase potion potency, finishing with 4,800 Galleons and taking first place.
• Draco accused Harry of being lucky, and Harry mocked him in return while Lorne let the two students bicker.

Lorne ended Hogwarts’s “Discover your second house” event with a speech about unity between houses and awarded the top students Magic Mobile Phones. Harry studied his prize while Draco rejected his as a disgraceful imitation of a Muggle object.

• Hermione and Hannah checked in together, won dessert prizes, and sat down to eat.
• Lorne delivered a closing speech urging students to value Hogwarts above their house divisions and to use their textbooks to solve everyday problems.
• Lorne presented twelve Magic Mobile Phones to the top three students from each house’s points leaderboard.
• Harry read the instructions for his phone while Ron watched, but Hermione put hers away until the next day.
• Draco remembered that Gryffindor was his second house and stopped Crabbe and Goyle from insulting it.
• After Crabbe and Goyle called the phone a Muggle imitation, Draco tossed it onto the table and told them to get rid of it.

Draco discovered Crabbe and Goyle secretly playing the Magic Mobile Phone he had thrown away, then tried Wizard Legend for himself. He created a character and reached the prompt to name it.

• Draco noticed Crabbe and Goyle were unusually absent from lunch and returned to the dormitory to investigate.
• Draco found Crabbe and Goyle playing with his discarded Magic Mobile Phone and reluctantly agreed to watch Goyle use it.
• Goyle opened Wizard Legend, and the game showed Draco a moving scene before asking him to choose clothes for his character.
• Draco took the phone, felt a connection between it and his body, and selected the character’s clothes despite Crabbe and Goyle’s spoilers.
• The game revealed Draco’s character sitting with a book and then paused to ask him to choose a name.

Draco played Lorne’s new RPG and became immersed in its story, quests, music, and combat. In the abandoned mine, a Troll attacked his character, but the case opened and Ella Thornwood appeared to save him.

• Draco guided his character through the village, completed quests, and learned the young wizard was searching for the maker of an inherited case.
• Draco accepted the quest to find the master smith and entered an abandoned mine, fighting bats along the way.
• Draco reached the mine’s deepest chamber, where a Troll appeared and knocked his character down.
• The case opened, vines bound the Troll, and Ella Thornwood appeared beside Draco’s character.
• Draco entered combat with Ella Thornwood, whose name appeared on the screen.