Recaps

Harry and his friends learned that Ginny had received Tom Riddle’s dangerous diary and took it from her before term began. As the new school year started, Cho met Luna Lovegood, while a delayed package reached Grindelwald and brought him into the group chat.

• Fred, George, and Ron rescued Harry from the Dursleys, and Harry joined the Weasleys in Diagon Alley after escaping into Knockturn Alley.
• Ron and Harry learned from the group chat that Ginny had received Riddle’s Diary, while Dumbledore realized it was a Horcrux and suspected Voldemort had made others.
• Fred, George, Ron, and Harry took the diary from Ginny and kept it safe, then received a friend request on Harry’s phone as they considered asking the group how to destroy it.
• Cho helped Luna Lovegood with her suitcase at the station and introduced herself to her.
• An owl delivered Grindelwald a package containing a power bank and an instruction manual, and he joined the group chat as summer.

Harry and Ron reached Hogwarts late after the station entrance closed, and Snape gave them detention instead of expelling them. Meanwhile, Cedric showed the group around Hogwarts, and Harry received information about Horcruxes as Grindelwald discovered a painting of himself and Dumbledore.

• Hermione found Harry and Ron's old messages saying they were trapped, while Ginny and Luna were sorted into Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
• Harry and Ron arrived at Hogwarts after their car flew into the Forbidden Forest, where they left Peter Pettigrew locked in his cage.
• Filch caught Harry and Ron, and Snape gave them detention while Professor McGonagall planned to inform their guardians.
• Cedric showed the group Hogwarts, and Harry read Cedric's Underpants's instructions for destroying Horcruxes before sending them to Hermione.
• Grindelwald opened a group chat drawing that showed young Albus and Gellert in Godric's Hollow and their final confrontation in 1945.

Ginny, Neville, and Luna received magical phones and joined the group chat, where members discussed their futures and Ginny’s feelings for Harry. Meanwhile, the Weasley twins’ strange behavior toward Snape led to a misunderstanding, and Hermione obtained Lockhart’s signature to access the Restricted Section.

• Errol delivered a phone to Ginny, while Neville and Luna also received phones and joined the group chat under their chosen names.
• Fred and George wondered why Snape had been taking points from them, unaware that he had discovered them lurking in his fan group and mistaken their looks for gossip about his past.
• Hermione searched for information about Basilisks and hurried to get Lockhart’s signature so she could enter the Restricted Section.
• Ginny joined as The Weasley Family's Goddess of War after Luna suggested the name, and the group discussed Ginny’s feelings for Harry and her possible future relationships.
• Ron questioned Harry about whether he liked Ginny, while Fred and George reacted to the mention of Ginny dating other boys.
• Malfoy read the group messages and realized Hermione had become Potter’s girlfriend.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione learned that Harry could speak Parseltongue and handed the diary Horcrux to Dumbledore, who destroyed it with Snape’s help. As October arrived, Wood worried about Slytherin’s new brooms ahead of Quidditch tryouts, while Grindelwald hesitated to contact Al.

• Hermione asked Harry whether he spoke Parseltongue, and Ron explained the ability after Harry recognized his hissing speech in the video.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione decided the Basilisk was too dangerous to face and took the diary to Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore received a list of Horcrux locations and destroyed the diary with Snape present.
• Wood worried that Slytherin would have Nimbus 2001s for Quidditch, while Malfoy confidently anticipated becoming a Seeker.
• Grindelwald recognized Sherbet Lemon as Al but lacked the courage to send him a friend request.

Harry dealt with the aftermath of the Quidditch match while trying to figure out how to stop Dobby from troubling him, and the group discussed new ideas for the twins and watched Cedric’s match. The story left Fred and George considering an interworld livestream business as the fans planned to watch Cedric play against Gryffindor.

• Fred and George considered selling their products through livestreams and guessed that owls might carry out transactions between worlds.
• Harry’s arm healed, and he asked his group how to reason with someone like Dobby without upsetting them.
• Harry attended lunch distracted, then heard from Wood about evening Quidditch practice against Hufflepuff.
• Malfoy blamed Dobby for the rogue Bludger and convinced himself he would have caught the Snitch otherwise.
• Luna explored the group’s photos and considered adding an entertaining column to The Quibbler.
• Ron shared Quidditch reaction pictures in his fan group, where Fred and George joined in, while Cedric’s fans celebrated watching his match and planned to watch him play next week.

After Gryffindor narrowly beat Hufflepuff in a grueling Quidditch match, Harry and Ron discussed how to free Dobby, while the group chat reacted to the match and joked about selling products. Hermione wondered how events might have unfolded without the chat and sent Cedric's Underpants a friend request, while Cho realized she might be exposed as the real Cho Chang.

• Gryffindor won the exhausting Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, and Cedric encouraged his disappointed teammates.
• Harry and Ron discussed whether giving Dobby clothes could free him, before Seamus and Neville announced that Lockhart planned to start a Duelling Club.
• Cedric discovered that fans had contacted Cho's fan group to ask about livestreaming Quidditch, but the group owner did not believe them.
• Cho recognized that the real Cedric had been exposed and considered that she might be identified as well.
• Fred made a sticker from a drawing of the twins selling products, distracting George and causing him to add too much of a potion ingredient.
• Hermione wondered what would have happened without the group chat and sent Cedric's Underpants a friend request; Ginny enjoyed her phone wallpaper, and Neville marveled that people in another world liked him.

Neville received a phone and found a group of fans who believed he would become a hero, while Harry avoided revealing his Parseltongue during the Duelling Club. After the club, Harry’s identity was discovered by members of his fan group, who reacted wildly when he sent them a selfie.

• Neville opened his phone and read fans praising him as the Gryffindor Sword Saint and saying he would destroy a Horcrux.
• Lockhart held the Duelling Club to improve his reputation, but Snape sent him flying during their demonstration.
• When Malfoy conjured a snake, Harry hesitated to speak Parseltongue, and Snape dealt with it before Harry exposed his ability.
• A fan group member recognized Harry through Cedric’s livestream and told Harry’s fan group that the real Harry was among them.
• Harry confirmed his identity and sent a selfie, then turned off his phone after the fans flooded the chat with excited messages.

Hermione read the book about their lives while Snape discovered unsettling information about Harry in a fan group chat. As snow began to fall, Harry learned Peter Pettigrew was hidden under Ron’s bed and asked the group how Sirius Black had escaped prison and whether he was really his godfather.

• Hermione asked Cedric's Underpants for the original books, and he sent her the second book, which recounted events from their current year.
• Hermione read until Harry first heard the strange voice, relieved that the diary had already been given to Dumbledore.
• Snape checked his fan group and learned that Harry was a Parseltongue, while worrying that the Basilisk had not been eliminated.
• Hermione discussed the later books with Harry and Ron, and Ron revealed that Peter Pettigrew was hiding under his bed.
• With snow falling outside, Harry took out his phone and asked the group how Sirius Black had escaped prison and whether he was really his godfather.

Harry learned that Sirius Black would escape Azkaban to avenge Peter Pettigrew and might die in Harry’s fifth year, while Ron realized his future actions could help Sirius find Peter. At Christmas, Fred and George revealed themselves to the group through a voice chat, and a New Year extra showed Hogwarts characters in festive edits.

• Harry read a screenshot about Sirius Black and resolved to prevent his godfather’s death.
• Ron learned that Sirius would discover Peter Pettigrew through a future newspaper photograph and worried about his role in it.
• The students spent Christmas at Hogwarts, while Fred and George prepared to reveal their identities to the group.
• Fred and George turned on their cameras during the Christmas voice-chat event and wished the group Merry Christmas.
• For New Year, group members made edited pictures featuring Hogwarts characters, and the author added a note about canon couples.

Fred and George livestreamed their Hogwarts tour to the fan group, but the viewers struggled to believe the twins and their friends were real despite seeing the moving stairs, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Cho then revealed herself to her fan group, while the twins’ hoped-for celebration never quite materialized.

• Fred and George showed the fan group Hogwarts and insisted they were the real Weasley Twins, but viewers kept assuming they were cosplayers in an elaborate production.
• Fred greeted Harry and Ron in the common room, and Hermione appeared, yet the livestream audience still argued over whether the scene was real.
• The group owner believed the twins and asked them to show magic, while Fred and George privately lamented that their planned reveal had not gone as expected.
• Cho watched the livestream, then sent a photo to her fan group and confirmed she was really Cho.
• Proprietary Number Two offered to make the twins’ reveal more enthusiastic, but Cold Candy muted her for half an hour.

After Fred and George’s magic exposed them as real Hogwarts students, the fan groups realized that Dumbledore and several other characters were among them. Dumbledore accepted a Christmas friend request from Grindelwald, and the chapter ended with the two exchanging messages while the fans investigated how much they had changed the story.

• Grindelwald recognized Dumbledore in the group chat and wondered why Dumbledore always had trouble with people whose names ended in “t.”
• The group members identified Dumbledore as Sherbet Lemon after Fred and George were exposed, and Dumbledore joked that he had enjoyed being called Grandpa.
• Grindelwald sent Dumbledore a friend request on Christmas night, and Dumbledore accepted it immediately, though neither spoke in their private chat.
• The fans questioned how much the students’ phones and group messages had changed the plot, and Hermione confirmed that no one had been petrified.
• Malfoy discovered that his fans had flooded him with friend requests, while Grindelwald messaged Dumbledore that the fans seemed more sensible than his students.

As the Christmas holidays ended, Harry, Ron, and Hermione realized that Professor Lockhart’s fate still needed to be addressed and planned to put events back on their original track. Meanwhile, Luna nearly exposed herself to her fans, and the students and fans continued building friendships across their worlds.

• Ron finished Snape’s Potions essay, and Harry completed his Herbology homework with help from the group chat.
• Hermione pointed out that Lockhart was still teaching and would not lose his memory as he had in the original timeline, so Harry, Ron, and Hermione planned to recreate that outcome.
• Snape discovered he had become an admin of his fan group and kicked Fred and George out of the chat.
• Cho and her friends spoke with fans across worlds, and Luna appeared just as her fans were asking about her, then left without revealing her identity.
• After the holidays, Hermione insisted on taking responsibility for her future, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione settled on a plan involving Lockhart and Ron’s broken wand.
• The twins prepared prototypes to test, McGonagall praised the students, and Neville grew more confident from his fans’ encouragement.

After Christmas, Hogwarts students explored bizarre fan pairings through their phones, including Voldemort/Daiyu, while the group chat’s jokes exposed Snape and other Hogwarts residents to increasingly awkward posts. Ginny became an unlikely fan of Voldemort/Daiyu, and the author announced a one-day break from updates.

• Wood pushed the Quidditch team into more training, while Ginny tried to listen in and George chased her away.
• Ginny and Luna discovered Voldemort/Daiyu videos in the group files and watched them, finding Voldemort unexpectedly goofy and the pairing compelling.
• Fred and George investigated the pairing videos, while Harry and Theodore encountered embarrassing fan discussions in the chat.
• Group members discussed Snape/Lily and other pairings until they realized Snape and Hogwarts students could see the messages; Snape reacted furiously.
• Ginny later became a leader of the canon-pairing fans while also declaring that Voldemort/Daiyu was good, surprising her fans.
• The author said they were going shopping with their parents and would skip the next day’s update to rest and find inspiration.

As exams approached, Harry and his friends prepared for the future while the group discussed Sirius, Ginny, and Lockhart. Harry freed Dobby by giving him a sock, and Fred and George turned their attention to dealing with Lockhart as the group looked ahead to third year.

• Hermione finished the original novel for the second installment and was relieved that final exams would still take place, while Harry and Ron studied.
• Harry imagined meeting Sirius next year, and group members discussed whether Sirius could receive a phone and whether Harry might see his parents.
• Lucius came to Hogwarts over Easter to retrieve the diary, and Harry freed Dobby by giving him a sock.
• Ron watched Lucius's humiliation under the Invisibility Cloak, then Fred and George asked how Lockhart had lost his memory and promised to handle him.
• Dumbledore heard Harry, Ron, Fred, and George laughing outside his office, while the group discussed finals, study livestreams, and the coming third year.

As Easter ended, the Hogwarts students studied for their final exams while Ron secretly wondered what “incest” meant and Professor McGonagall confiscated his and Harry’s phones. Fred and George still searched for a way to expose Lockhart, and the chapter ended with them arriving at his office.

• Ron decided to look up the meaning of incest in secret after seeing the group chat discuss it.
• Professor McGonagall caught Ron and Harry checking their phones during Transfiguration practice and took the phones until after class.
• Cedric studied in the library as he prepared for his future O.W.L.s and hoped to enter the Triwizard Tournament.
• Fred and George struggled to find a suitable opportunity to bring Lockhart down without causing anyone harm.
• With finals approaching, Harry and Ron took a break from studying to play Wizard’s Chess.
• Fred and George went to Lockhart’s office.

Fred and George’s plan to expose Lockhart drew a crowd of former fans, and Snape helped ensure the fraud was publicly disgraced. As the school year ended, Harry and Hermione prepared Ron to face the revelation about his rat and Harry’s godfather.

• Fred and George took Ron’s wand through a secret passage to confront Lockhart, while Dumbledore and Snape watched their livestream and anticipated his downfall.
• Students who had learned Lockhart deceived them gathered to denounce him, surprising the twins and their viewers.
• Snape confronted Lockhart and suggested that investigators could verify his stolen stories and reverse the spells he had used.
• The Daily Prophet reported Lockhart’s deception, destroying his fame, while Harry learned he had missed the spectacle.
• On the train home at the end of the school year, Harry and Hermione prepared Ron for the truth about Harry’s godfather, and the twins teased him about carrying the rat.

During the summer holiday, Harry worried about getting permission to visit Hogsmeade while the Weasleys prepared for a trip to Egypt after Arthur won five hundred Galleons. The online groups celebrated the news and pressured the twins to livestream their trip, while Snape learned that Lupin had been invited to teach Defence Against Dark Magic.

• Hermione ranked first in her year, Malfoy ranked third, and Ron celebrated a much-improved report card that persuaded Molly to sign his Hogsmeade permission slip.
• Harry worried that Uncle Vernon would refuse to sign his permission slip, and fans suggested that he forge the signature himself.
• Arthur won the five-hundred-Galleon prize, and Ron told Harry that the Weasleys were going to Egypt while promising to bring Scabbers.
• Fans demanded that Fred and George livestream their Egypt trip, and the twins agreed before Fred muted a fan who made an explicit comment.
• Snape anticipated teaching Defence Against Dark Magic until he saw Lupin, whom Dumbledore had invited to take the position.

Ron’s family vacation photo reached Sirius in Azkaban, where he recognized Peter Pettigrew and escaped. Harry and Ron celebrated the news while the Weasleys worried about Sirius’s motives.

• Ron shared news from Egypt with his friends, who urged him to photograph Scabbers at the pyramids so Sirius could see him in the Daily Prophet.
• Harry endured Aunt Marge’s insults while the group comforted him, and Grindelwald began watching the Harry Potter movies.
• Hermione read the novels and considered her next year’s courses and whether to adopt Crookshanks.
• A copy of the Daily Prophet showing Ron holding Scabbers reached Sirius, who recognized Peter Pettigrew as alive.
• Sirius transformed into a large black dog, slipped past the Dementors, and escaped from Azkaban.
• Harry and Ron rejoiced at Sirius’s escape, while Molly and Arthur feared he might silence a witness.

Harry left the Dursleys and reached the Leaky Cauldron, where Arthur explained Sirius's supposed threat to him while Sirius watched from nearby. Draco Malfoy and Blaise learned from the group chat that Sirius was Harry's godfather and had been framed.

• Harry followed news of Sirius's escape and told his groupmates he wanted to contact his godfather, but Vernon repeatedly called him away from his suitcase.
• Ron and Hermione waited at the Leaky Cauldron and worried Harry might use magic against his relatives; Fred and George reassured them that Harry would arrive soon.
• Harry left the Dursleys, nearly approached Sirius, then boarded the Knight Bus and went to the Leaky Cauldron after Sirius slipped away into the bushes.
• Fred and George joined the Weasleys at breakfast, while the group chat joked about Ron's fear of a spider during the Egypt trip.
• Arthur told Harry that Sirius wanted to kill him, and Harry replied, “Why would I go looking for someone who wants to kill me?”
• Draco Malfoy and Blaise discovered through the group chat that Sirius was Harry's godfather and that Peter Pettigrew had framed him.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione rode the Hogwarts Express as Dementors stopped the train and one attacked Harry, leaving him unconscious until Professor Lupin gave him chocolate. The train reached Hogwarts, where Luna revealed that the group chat had already spread news of Harry fainting, and Harry dreaded Malfoy’s teasing.

• Molly noticed Peter Pettigrew had not boarded the train, and Ron kept the rat with him while Harry, Ron, and Hermione shared a compartment with the exhausted Professor Lupin.
• Dementors stopped the train, extinguished the lights, and entered Harry’s compartment; Harry fainted, while students elsewhere, including Draco Malfoy, were also frightened.
• Lupin gave Harry chocolate and left to check on the train, and Harry then used his phone to reassure the group chat that he was all right.
• The train arrived at Hogwarts, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Luna rode toward the castle in a carriage.
• Luna showed Harry that she had learned about his fainting from the group chat, and Harry worried that Malfoy would mock him.

Harry endured Malfoy’s taunts at the opening feast, then joined the group chat and watched Ron out-argue Malfoy by typing faster. The next morning, Harry hoped Professor Lupin had received a phone, but none arrived before the students headed to Divination.

• Malfoy mocked Harry for fainting on the train while Dumbledore introduced Professor Lupin at the opening feast.
• Harry told Ron that giving Malfoy attention only encouraged his childish behavior, while Hermione looked forward to Lupin’s classes and dropped Divination.
• Harry checked the group chat in his dormitory, where Ron and the twins traded insults with Malfoy and Ron won their typed argument.
• Harry went to sleep amused, while Ron planned to keep scolding Malfoy and Neville enjoyed watching the exchange.
• Harry watched for an owl to bring Lupin a phone, but none arrived, and Ron challenged Malfoy again on the way to class.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy headed to the Divination classroom in poor moods.

Harry and Ron enjoyed mocking Malfoy, while Hermione worried about Sirius’s approaching appearance at Hogwarts. The chapter ended with Snape catching Harry and Ron distracted by their phones during homework, followed by an author’s notice condemning unauthorized reposting.

• Harry and Ron arrived at breakfast in high spirits after taunting Malfoy in the group chat, while Hermione questioned whether their mockery was right.
• Hermione reminded the group that Sirius was expected to appear at Hogwarts during the Hogsmeade trip and attack Ron in the Gryffindor boys’ dormitory.
• Harry said he had given up his chance to visit Hogsmeade and hoped to look for Sirius at school without making everyone more wary of him.
• Harry and his classmates enjoyed Lupin’s Defence Against Dark Magic classes, while group members lamented that they could not contact Lupin through their phones.
• Snape caught Harry and Ron playing with their phones while doing homework, while Hermione had already finished and left.
• The author condemned someone for reposting the story without permission and asked them to delete the unauthorized copy.

Harry encountered Sirius Black in the Hogwarts corridors and learned from the group chat that Sirius wanted revenge on Peter Pettigrew. Sirius introduced Harry to the phone’s group members, then sent him back to bed while insisting he had a plan, leaving Harry worried about what Sirius would do next.

• Harry waited in the Gryffindor common room for Sirius, who entered Hogwarts as a gaunt black dog and fled when he saw Harry awake.
• Harry chased Sirius through the corridors and stopped him by calling out Peter Pettigrew’s name.
• Sirius took Harry to a hidden room, where Harry shared snacks with him and showed him the phone and its group chat.
• The group members told Sirius they knew how Peter had framed him, and Sirius thanked them before asking where Peter was.
• Sirius ended the call and warned Harry not to get involved in his plan to kill Peter; Harry returned to bed worried about what Sirius would do.

Harry and his friends followed Gryffindor’s Quidditch match against Hufflepuff through a group call as Dementors attacked Harry and his broom broke. Sirius planned to give Harry a Firebolt, while he and Lupin discussed finding Peter Pettigrew and clearing Sirius’s name.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione realized that Snape would teach Defence Against the Dark Arts after the full moon and hurried to class.
• Fred and George hid a recalled group-chat message from Wood, but Wood ordered them to focus on practice for the next day’s match.
• Ginny invited Luna to cheer for Gryffindor, and the group arranged for Ron to livestream the rainy Quidditch match.
• During the match, Harry and Cedric pursued the Golden Snitch into the clouds, where Dementors attacked Harry and Dumbledore drove them away; Harry’s broom broke, but Cedric caught the Snitch before passing out.
• Harry told the group that Sirius would get him a Firebolt, prompting Wood to rush over and ask when it would arrive.
• Sirius told Lupin that Harry knew the truth about Peter Pettigrew, and they discussed finding Peter and clearing Sirius’s name while Fred and George played with their phones.

Harry received a Firebolt from Sirius, but Snape confiscated it before he could test-fly it. After Harry and his friends realized Scabbers had been missing, Fred and George returned the Marauder’s Map to Harry, leaving him with a way to search for Peter Pettigrew.

• Harry opened Sirius’s package and found a Firebolt, exciting the Gryffindors and making Malfoy jealous.
• Snape confiscated the Firebolt before Harry could take it for a test flight.
• Harry asked Ron about Scabbers, and Ron admitted that the rat had been missing for a long time; Harry suggested asking Hagrid about Peter Pettigrew.
• Fred and George decided to return the Marauder’s Map to Harry and brought it to Lupin’s office, where Harry and Sirius were waiting.
• Sirius told Harry the map’s story and taught him its activation spell, while Lupin and Sirius reminisced about its creators.