Recaps

Herman received a Hogwarts invitation, explored the wizarding world, and returned to settle unfinished business at his orphanage. He then met Harry, who brought him into the Potter and Black family vaults as they prepared to shop.

• Herman used magic to defeat attackers at Scar Reed’s casino, then learned Dumbledore wanted to recruit him for Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore explained Herman’s accidental Transfiguration and took him to meet Harley before Snape escorted him through Diagon Alley.
• Herman collected his school grant, bought a wand and books, met Draco and Hugo, and chose a raven he named Xiao Hei.
• Herman settled at the Leaky Cauldron, studied magic, and persuaded Hagrid to search Knockturn Alley for a supposed keepsake coin.
• Herman returned to Cokeworth, manipulated Scar Reed and the Fierce Tiger Gang into conflict, then killed Reed and his deputy and took their valuables.
• Herman learned that he had survived a plane crash in a trunk and said goodbye to Director Margery and the children at St. Chris’s Children’s Home.
• Harry hired Herman to carry her shopping bags and revealed that Ministry Aurors were following her while seeking Sirius.
• Harry took Herman to Gringotts, gave him the remaining Galleons from the Potter vault, and entered the Black vault, where she warned him about its cursed artifacts.

Herman and Harry prepared for Hogwarts as dark creatures gathered in Britain, then vampires and werewolves attacked the Hogwarts Express in search of the child in a prophecy. The attackers identified Herman as their target, but Dumbledore intervened, and Quirrell was left confronting werewolves who could retain their magic after transforming.

• Harry and Herman bought school supplies, and Harry obtained a wand that was the twin of Voldemort’s before Persephone’s gargoyle statue rampaged through Flourish and Blotts.
• Sirius met Harry and Herman in Knockturn Alley, questioned Borgin about dark creatures entering Britain, and revealed that vampires were gathering in the country.
• Herman exchanged Muggle money with Kramer, acquiring goblin-made goods and an enchanted suitcase through a lease contract.
• Harry and Herman boarded the Hogwarts Express, where they met Ron, Draco, Hugo, and Neville before a vast swarm of bats followed the train.
• A landslide stopped the train, and Professor Marlene fought the vampires with magical cubes until Gori’s forces overwhelmed her defenses and Quirrell joined the battle.
• Gori identified Herman as the child who would end the vampires’ and werewolves’ bloodline curse, but Dumbledore arrived and drove back the attackers.
• The students mistakenly believed Neville was the child in the prophecy, while Herman realized the vampires had been searching for him and resolved to study dark creatures.
• Quirrell repelled the vampires but discovered Gori had used the carriage attack as a feint, and the werewolf leader broke free of his ropes after transforming with his magic intact.

After the train attack, Herman arrived at Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin alongside Harry and Draco. As he began classes and considered how to improve his magic, Gori secretly searched for the Child of Prophecy while Quirrell prepared to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts.

• The werewolf pack escaped Quirrell and fled into the forest, while Dumbledore captured Gori and took charge of the vampires, and Professor Marlene cleared the landslide so the Hogwarts Express could continue.
• Hagrid welcomed the first-years to Hogwarts, and the Sorting Hat placed Harry and Herman in Slytherin while Neville and Ron joined Gryffindor.
• Herman moved into a Slytherin room across from Harry, then showed precise control in Transfiguration and learned the Levitation Charm quickly with Professor Flitwick.
• Herman and Draco grew awkward around each other after Herman dreamed about her, while Harry teased them and befriended both of them.
• Hagrid brought blood to Gori and learned that vampires needed human or suitable blood, while Gori secretly used a few drops of vampire blood to search for the Child of Prophecy’s magical traces.
• Herman woke from another dream about Draco, attended Professor Binns’s drowsy History of Magic lesson, and began organizing wizarding ability into five levels.
• Herman, Draco, and Harry joined their classmates outside for Defence Against the Dark Arts, where Professor Quirrell waited to begin the lesson.

Herman learned about Fulgor and began suspecting that Quirrell was investigating the forbidden third-floor corridor. He, Harry, and Draco found Fluffy guarding a trapdoor, and Quirrell and Marlene later checked the disturbed room before Snape confronted Quirrell about his dangerous lessons.

• Quirrell demonstrated a mutated Vampire Monster in class, and Neville, Hugo, Harry, and Herman helped slow it before Herman summoned help with a firework.
• Herman stayed after class to ask Quirrell about Fulgor, and Quirrell advised him to master Lumos before attempting the powerful light spell.
• Herman sought Professor Marlene’s help with wandmaking and goblin alchemy, and she recognized Kramer’s notes and offered to guide his studies.
• Herman, Draco, and Harry noticed Quirrell near the forbidden third-floor door, while Neville separately became suspicious of Quirrell and proposed investigating him.
• Harry, Draco, and Herman explored the corridor at night and discovered Fluffy, a three-headed dog guarding a room, and Herman’s sword and Harry’s summoned dogs failed to defeat it.
• As they headed back, Harry hid the group beneath her Invisibility Cloak while Quirrell and Marlene approached and discussed Fluffy and the obstacles.
• Quirrell noticed the damaged door, entered with Marlene, and found Fluffy agitated with missing patches of fur, and Marlene subdued the dog while Quirrell healed it.
• Snape treated Quirrell’s bite wound and challenged him for exposing first-years to a Vampire Monster, and Quirrell agreed to postpone practical lessons and use safer substitutes.