Chapter Summaries

Ron apologized to Hermione and persuaded her to enter the Forbidden Forest, while Harry and Hermione watched their earlier selves reach the Whomping Willow and followed Professor Lupin and Snape into the passage. Harry and Hermione then prepared to observe the coming confrontation and Hermione’s future rescue.

• Ron apologized to Hermione for blaming her and Crookshanks, and she accepted his apology.
• Ron asked Hermione to go to the Forbidden Forest, and she inferred that events were unfolding out of order before agreeing to take the first route.
• Harry and Hermione watched their earlier selves use Incendio to subdue the Whomping Willow and enter its passage.
• Harry and Hermione saw Professor Lupin enter the passage, followed by Snape, who drank a vial of Felix Felicis before climbing inside.
• Harry and Hermione picked up Snape’s potion bottle and headed toward the Black Lake to watch the coming confrontation and Hermione’s heroic entrance.

Harry and Hermione watched the events by the Black Lake from outside time, and Harry realized that he had been the one who saved himself and Sirius with a Patronus. His stag joined Snape’s doe in protecting them, leaving Harry shocked by Snape’s Patronus and its connection to a doe he cherished.

• Harry wondered whether his parents might still be alive, while Hermione warned him that changing events could make them disappear from the world.
• Harry watched his past self face the Dementors and realized the stag that had saved him had come from his own position across the lake.
• Harry cast Expecto Patronum, sending a silver stag across the lake to protect his past self and Sirius.
• Hermione pulled Harry down to avoid a beam of light, and Harry’s stag began to fade while the Dementors continued their attack.
• A doe Patronus arrived and joined the stag, and Snape emerged from its silver light.
• Harry was shocked that Snape’s Patronus was a doe, while Snape admired the doe and disliked the stag.

Ron arrived in a magical bird-shaped aircraft and took Harry and Hermione to rescue Sirius, but the aircraft was recalled by Ron’s father and sped out of control. With the trio at risk of disappearing unless they returned to the Hospital Wing, Sirius prepared to help them jump to safety.

• Ron flew Harry and Hermione away in his father’s enormous owl-like aircraft while Lorne assumed their plan to capture Peter would succeed.
• Dumbledore, Fudge, and Snape told Lorne that Sirius had been captured and that Harry and his friends had left Hogwarts again.
• Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Sirius escaped aboard the aircraft, but Ron’s father recalled it with summoning powder and Ron lost control.
• Sirius borrowed Harry’s wand, cast a Slow Cushioning Charm on the three students, and told them to jump and use Levitation Charms near the ground.
• Ron remembered Professor Trelawney’s prophecy about a car crash after term ended and realized the aircraft might count as the predicted car.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron became trapped in a time loop after the hourglass ran out, and Harry’s plea to Director Lorne appeared to go unnoticed. Lorne used the Decayed Time-Turner to reach them and told Harry he had wasted Mr. M’s chance to defy fate.

• Sirius left for the Shrieking Shack after the group landed near the Black Lake, while Harry, Hermione, and Ron hurried to the Hospital Wing.
• As the hourglass ran out, Harry, Hermione, and Ron became intangible and saw Hogwarts flicker through fragments of time.
• Hermione concluded they were caught in a temporal disaster, and Harry decided to ask Lorne for help using Mr. M’s business card.
• Lorne received Sirius’s report that Peter had escaped and realized Harry and his friends were trapped in time.
• Lorne used the Decayed Time-Turner to reach Harry and pulled the business card from his hand, telling him to beg Mr. M’s forgiveness.

Lorne helped Harry, Ron, and Hermione repeat their time-travel rescue attempt, but Peter escaped and Sirius remained a fugitive. Over the holidays, Sirius and Lupin joined Lorne’s camp, while Lorne continued planning his ventures and looking for staff.

• Lorne launched Harry, Ron, and Hermione through the Hospital Wing window so they could reach the time-turning hourglass sooner, then returned to his earlier position.
• Snape blamed Harry for Sirius’s escape, while Dumbledore reassured Harry that the professors would protect him.
• Mrs Molly discovered Ron had flown the magical plane and punished him, so Ron wrote Harry daily letters pleading for a visit.
• Lorne refused to let Sirius leave to hunt Peter and persuaded him to keep working for him as Little Banana Star.
• After the Ministry issued a harsher anti-werewolf policy, Lupin resigned and joined Lorne’s camp.

Lorne tried to use the Race Certification to gain an affinity with dragons, but Hagrid accidentally activated it and gave him an affinity with giants instead. Lorne then learned that giants could be useful for the construction work he wanted to do and asked Hagrid to help find them.

• Hagrid told Lorne that Dumbledore had sent him to study dragon breeds for the upcoming Triwizard Tournament, and that he planned to visit Norway and see Norbert.
• Lorne asked Hagrid to put a drop of dragon blood on his Race Certification so he could gain an affinity with dragons.
• Hagrid cut his finger on the Certification’s pin, accidentally using it and giving Lorne an affinity with giants.
• Hagrid explained that giants had great strength, tough bodies, and building skills, prompting Lorne to ask if he knew other giants.
• Hagrid said he knew no other giants but claimed that each giant could work as a construction crew on his own.

After passing his third-year exams, Lorne claimed his system rewards and received Improved Apparition and a rare magical item of his choice. He chose a Wishing Willow Puppet, which he planned to use as a magical, changeable character for his theme park and as a potential assistant.

• Lorne learned that he had passed his third-year exams and reached the system mission threshold of fifty thousand.
• Lorne claimed his rewards and received Improved Apparition, which bypassed Anti-Apparition Jinxes and protected passengers.
• Lorne reviewed the rare magical item options, including Final Impression Potions, a Time Envelope, and the Wishing Willow Puppet.
• Lorne chose the Wishing Willow Puppet because it could take on the appearance and traits of characters like Ella and use magic supplied to it.
• The system awarded Lorne the puppet and raised his next mission threshold to one hundred thousand, promising further rewards.

Harry and Dean discussed the cost of custom Magic Mobile Phone avatars while applicants queued to interview for jobs at Lorne’s shop. Lorne recruited Magic Power Matrix prodigy Ruchel and agreed to offer him advanced lessons, and Ruchel left to bring his werewolf cousin to apply.

• Harry and Dean talked about Dean’s expensive custom avatars and the growing popularity of Magic Mobile Phones.
• Harry spotted Wood in the interview queue and learned that he had chosen to apply to the shop after graduating from Hogwarts.
• Lorne interviewed Ruchel, who criticized the practical-only Magic Power Matrix lessons and asked to study the subject in depth.
• Lorne offered Ruchel advanced lessons in exchange for a contract and a Fidelius Charm, and Ruchel accepted.
• Ruchel confirmed that Lorne still hired werewolves and hurried off to bring his cousin to apply.

Lorne discussed adapting Quidditch into a mobile game with Wood, who had passed trials for Puddlemere United’s Reserve Team. Lorne proposed the name Quidditch Glory and invited Wood to write its rules, leaving him eager to join the project and possibly attend the Quidditch World Cup as a new employee.

• Wood asked Lorne about the Quidditch-related positions advertised by the Magic Mobile Phone shop, and Lorne explained they were for creating a game.
• Wood criticized Quidditch’s lack of a time limit and the imbalance caused by the Golden Snitch’s value.
• Lorne outlined a 2D team game with five players per side, three scoring lanes, distinct roles, Bludgers, and a roaming Golden Snitch.
• Lorne proposed Quidditch Glory as the game’s name and asked Wood to draft a detailed set of rules before joining the project.
• Lorne offered Wood the possibility of a special World Cup viewing spot if he joined before the tournament.

Lorne hired Lucille, a werewolf, and offered her a potion that could lift her curse, while planning a future reckoning with Greyback. He then assigned the Magic Mobile Phone shop’s staff to a packed two-month schedule that included a theme park and a third branch.

• Lucille applied to work at the Magic Mobile Phone shop, and Lorne hired her at the same salary as the other employees.
• Lucille explained how Greyback’s attacks and wizarding discrimination left werewolves like her unable to work normally.
• Lorne gave Lucille his version of Wolfsbane Potion, claiming it could completely lift her werewolf curse, and assigned her difficult work and training.
• Lorne gathered the shop’s staff and divided responsibility for phone production, recruitment, a new game, and the membership card system.
• Lorne assigned the Longbottoms to oversee construction of a theme park and third shop branch, handle Ministry applications, and find giants to build the site.

Sains asked Lorne to learn specialized magic technology and received a book on mobile-phone software creation, while Lorne recruited Dean as an artist and offered Harry a place to stay. As preparations for the holiday continued, Lorne told Sirius that some trainees had been spying for trade secrets and warned him to stay out of trouble while Lorne worked to clear his name.

• Sains asked to study the magic power matrix, and Lorne gave him Magic Mobile Phone Software Creation to master.
• Lorne offered Dean paid art commissions and a future job, and Dean accepted and asked for an arcade machine to draw on.
• Lorne told Harry he could stay at the shop, while Harry expressed envy of Dean's summer work.
• Sirius reported that promising trainees had vanished, and Lorne explained that some had come to steal trade secrets.
• Sirius offered to deal with the spies using a Memory Modification Charm, but Lorne warned him to avoid breaking the law and to stay away from Harry for now.
• Lorne said he had a way to stop plagiarism and refused to explain it to Sirius.

Draco browsed the Cuckoo Forum while Narcissa and Lucius discussed the Magic Mobile Phone’s growing influence with pure-blood representatives. Lucius proposed copying the phone under a different name, using information obtained through Percy, and the representatives prepared to attack the market.

• Draco pretended to be asleep when Narcissa came to speak with him, then reopened his Magic Mobile Phone and read forum posts about World Cup tickets and new game events.
• Narcissa joined Lucius’s meeting with pure-blood representatives, who complained that the Cuckoo Forum was increasing Muggle-born influence at the Ministry of Magic.
• Lucius revealed that the pure-blood families’ boycott had failed and proposed making a competing Magic Mobile Phone called Apple, with a bitten-out design.
• Lucius said his people had learned to make the magical stone slabs and that Percy had revealed information about the phone’s other components.
• Lucius invited the representatives to pool their resources and launch an all-out assault on the Magic Mobile Phone market.

Lorne found a book describing Newt Scamander’s recent Fantastic Beasts discoveries and saw a chance to recruit him to help with Suitcase Beasts. He updated his games with Sains, Quirrell, and Firenze, while the shop’s employees picked up his workplace jargon.

• Lorne found a book about Newt Scamander’s latest Fantastic Beasts discoveries and imagined recruiting Newt to help create a Fantastic Beasts attraction.
• Lorne decided to update the three existing games before pursuing Newt or visiting the Giant tribes in Northern Europe.
• Lorne brought Sains into the game updates, where his criticism helped Sains improve at importing Fantastic Beast models.
• Lorne coached Sains on importing Firenze’s drawings, while the shop’s employees adopted phrases from Lorne’s work vocabulary.
• Sirius confused Remus Lupin by asking whether he knew who would take over the Defence Against the Dark Arts position next term, then rushed off because class was about to start.

Lorne released third-anniversary updates for Wizard Legend, Street Wizard Fighter, and Suitcase Beasts, adding story content, events, rewards, and theme park tickets as prizes. Draco eagerly entered Wizard Legend to check the updates, while Sains emerged from seclusion and promised the new events would impress everyone.

• Lorne launched anniversary updates for all three games and included physical prizes such as early-access theme park tickets.
• Sains emerged from seclusion and told Sirius he had only begun learning software creation, then teased that the update would amaze everyone.
• Draco read the announcement at Malfoy Manor and eagerly opened Wizard Legend to see its new story and rewards.
• Draco claimed thirty crystal fragments and considered which event to play first.
• Draco explained that he prioritized Ella, then Morgana, then the Headless Knight, and boosted their popularity to challenge Ozomuna's fans.

Draco encountered a special event boss in Wizard Legend, while Hermione began the new main-story chapter set in Somerset. She reached a dark stone chamber, where the story paused before revealing what awaited her.

• Draco opened the Server-wide Heat event and encountered a red-named rat that escaped combat and mocked him.
• Draco complained about the rat on Cuckoo, where users identified it as Boss Dragon and joked about the Headless Knight.
• Hermione reflected on the dangers of time and practiced spells by recording and replaying their incantations.
• Hermione started Wizard Legend’s final main-story chapter, the Chamber of Stilled Time, and speculated about its links to Merlin and the King Arthur legends.
• Hermione guided her character through Somerset and reached a dark purple stone chamber.

Hermione finished Wizard Legend’s storyline, which revealed Merlin’s plan to use the protagonist against Morgana, while Dumbledore wondered whether Lorne had traveled through time. Draco kept hunting a rare Christmas-hat rat and began developing a theory about how to defeat it.

• Hermione learned that Morgana had survived for centuries in the Chamber of Stilled Time and that Merlin had prepared the protagonist to defeat her.
• Hermione compared Merlin’s past, present, and future plan with what she had done the previous term, and Wizard Legend’s ending sparked discussion on the Cuckoo Forum.
• Dumbledore reviewed what he knew about Lorne and wondered whether Lorne had come from the past or future, despite his records showing an ordinary childhood.
• Draco angrily chased another Christmas-hat rat after it escaped from his screen for the third time.
• Draco and his friends speculated that the rat might be an Animagus and that they needed to make it transform before combat.

Draco defeated the hidden Christmas Mouse in Wizard Legend and won a ticket to an offline event. Meanwhile, Lorne named the planned Magic Mobile Phone district Dituni and inspected its growing site, where the Longbottoms had built a bank holding over thirty thousand Galleons.

• Draco discovered that the Christmas Mouse lost its priority passive when it transformed into a man and defeated it, becoming the first player to earn a Pioneer Admission Ticket.
• Draco learned the ticket granted entry to official offline events at Magic Mobile Phone Stores, while Crabbe planned to try defeating the boss himself.
• Augusta told Lorne that the fireplaces at three Magic Mobile Phone Stores were connected to the Floo Network and discussed the store being built beside the bank.
• Lorne named the planned Magic Mobile Phone district Dituni and traveled there with Augusta, the Longbottoms, and Lucille.
• Frank showed Lorne the site’s cabins and bank, explaining that it held more than thirty thousand Galleons in internal funds.

Lorne planned a modern shopping district in Dituni, including Wanda Center and a Magic Mobile Phone theme park, and explained how it could attract wizards from Britain and beyond. He told Lucille that he would personally train her next.

• Lorne told Alice to stop searching for Giants and instructed Augusta and Frank to arrange a shopping street and a ring-shaped, multi-level shopping center in Dituni.
• Lorne named the complex Wanda Center and sent Augusta, Alice, and Frank to handle their assigned tasks.
• Lorne reassured Lucille that Centaurs lived in the surrounding forest, partnered with him, and helped protect Dituni.
• Lorne revealed that the empty central plot would become a Magic Mobile Phone theme park and argued that students, families, and international visitors could support a major commercial district.
• Lucille asked what she should do, and Lorne offered her personal training.

Dumbledore sought Newt Scamander’s help in assessing Lorne Miles, whom he suspected had come from the future and might know something about Voldemort. Newt agreed to visit Lorne and discuss the newly discovered creature, but refused to investigate him; he left for the mountains, and Dumbledore remained to consider his burden.

• Dumbledore decided he needed an unfamiliar ally to approach Lorne and settled on Newt Scamander.
• Dumbledore visited Newt and Tina in Dorset, then told Newt he had come to recommend that he meet the person who identified the new fantastic beast.
• Dumbledore asked Newt to keep watch on Lorne Miles and determine whether he was dangerous or a Death Eater, offering Felix Felicis as a reward.
• Newt agreed to visit Lorne about the creature but refused to question or judge him, and suggested Dumbledore give the potion to Harry instead.
• Newt left to search the mountains for the fantastic beast, while Dumbledore stayed behind and reflected on his duty to oppose Voldemort.

After training graduates to inscribe Magic Power Matrices, Lorne hired them on generous terms despite Sirius’s concerns that pure-blood spies might steal their technology. Meanwhile, Lucius and Corban planned to counterfeit Magic Mobile Phones and establish a monopoly, while Lorne asked Sirius to investigate the new employees’ backgrounds.

• Lorne offered the graduates contracts with a salary of two hundred Galleons a year, benefits, and a month off before they began work on August eighth.
• Several recruits planted by pure-blood families defected to Lorne’s team, while others with pure-blood loyalties left.
• Lucius and Corban discussed the magical gears and learned that their recruits had mastered the phone-making process in seven days.
• Corban proposed making cheaper counterfeit phones, and Lucius planned to use the Malfoy and Nott families’ capital to undercut Lorne and secure a monopoly.
• Lorne told Sirius he had hired some workers because they needed money and could be won over, then asked him to check their backgrounds and remove anyone barred from shop employment.