Chapter Summaries

The Hogwarts students watched a fan-group livestream from a Muggle comic convention, where Kerun cosplayed as Cedric and met someone dressed as Draco. The livestream ended with Cedric realizing he had accidentally spoken English aloud, leaving the wizarding fans curious about the convention and its visitors.

• Ron and the other Hogwarts students compared their exam schedules with fan-group members who had already finished their finals or had exams postponed.
• Kerun attended a comic convention dressed as Cedric and shared a cosplay photo that surprised the Hogwarts students and made Malfoy bristle.
• Kerun met a cosplayer dressed as Draco, whose chosen name was Erhu, and posted a photo of them together.
• Kerun started a livestream of the convention, drawing in Ron, the twins, Cho, Cedric, and other Hogwarts students.
• Cedric watched the convention footage and accidentally spoke English with his microphone unmuted, prompting Kerun to wonder whether a foreign group member had joined.

Harry, Ron, and the other Hogwarts students watched footage and chat from a Muggle convention, then finished their exams and discussed what they had missed. As the students prepared for the end-of-term feast, Cedric confirmed to his fan group that he was the real Cedric and promised to explain on the train home.

• Harry and Ron watched convention footage, were startled by gender-swapped cosplayers, and saw people dressed as Harry, Malfoy, and Grindelwald.
• After the exams ended, Hermione returned to the group chat and learned how much she had missed while studying.
• Fred and George decided they wanted to organize a convention in the wizarding world after learning that the group owner had helped organize the Muggle event.
• Malfoy packed for the end-of-term feast and argued with Theodore and Blaise about whether Slytherin or Gryffindor would win the House Cup.
• Cedric's fan group suspected that the student in their voice chat was the real Cedric, and Cedric confirmed his identity and promised to explain on the train home.

As the Hogwarts students left for the holidays, Cedric revealed himself to members of his fan group over a video call, and they warned him not to enter the Triwizard Tournament. Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged phone contacts before parting for the summer.

• Dumbledore announced Gryffindor's victory and dismissed the students, while Ron and Harry complained about Lockhart and the twins joked that Defence Against the Dark Arts professors never lasted more than a year.
• Cedric declined invitations to share a train compartment and joined his fan group, where he showed them his face and said he had finished third year.
• The fan group recognized Cedric and flooded the chat with warnings not to enter the Triwizard Tournament; Cedric ended the call while the train prepared to depart.
• Harry and Ron looked through Oh My Mother's drawings in the main group, and Fred jokingly threatened his friends after they laughed about his quiz result sorting him into Hufflepuff.
• Hermione suggested using their phones to stay in touch, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione added one another as friends before the train journey ended.

Harry, Ron, and their friends learned from the phones that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and Sirius was innocent, while the fans tried to guide them toward preventing future tragedies. The chapter ended with Harry reading the group’s discussion about Dobby and realizing something serious was coming.

• Harry read the group’s messages and realized that Ron’s rat, Scabbers, was the traitor who had betrayed his parents, while his godfather Sirius had been wrongly imprisoned.
• Hermione discovered that Peter Pettigrew had spent years disguised as Scabbers, but she held back from warning Ron and messaged Harry instead.
• Molly confiscated Ron’s phone after his poor exam results, and Ron told Arthur that it had fallen out of the sky.
• Fred and George decided to help Ron by finding a way to capture Scabbers, while Draco resolved to study harder after Hermione beat him in the exams.
• Harry learned that Ron could not answer because Molly had taken his phone, then read the group’s discussion about Dobby and grew serious.

Harry and Draco read the group chat’s discussion of Dobby, while Ron received Hermione’s startling revelations about Scabbers and Sirius. As summer ended, Dobby remained determined to keep Harry away from Hogwarts, unaware that Harry had a phone and could contact his friends.

• Harry asked the group about Dobby, and their discussion helped him understand why his and Ron’s letters had gone unanswered.
• Draco learned that Dobby would help Harry and considered confronting him, but decided to let him off after seeing that Dobby’s early actions had caused Harry trouble.
• Ron was denied access to Fred and George’s phones, while the twins became excited about using their father’s car to rescue Harry.
• Hermione wrote Ron that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew in disguise and that Sirius Black was Harry’s falsely accused godfather, leaving Ron stunned.
• Dobby resolved to stop Harry from returning to Hogwarts, believing Harry was in danger and unaware that Harry could still communicate with his friends.

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.