Recaps

William treated Snape and Marietta after a Potions Class accident, then discussed his Hogwarts map with Dumbledore. Dumbledore warned him to keep dangerous secrets hidden and suggested he send Snape a get-well card too.

• William cooled his finished Cure for Boils potion and used it to heal Snape and Marietta after Marietta’s cauldron accident.
• Bell Lyme poured the rest of William’s potion over Snape and Marietta, clearing their boils, and Snape took them to Madam Pomfrey.
• William told the students to stop brewing potions while Snape and Marietta were examined in the Hospital Wing.
• Dumbledore arrived, awarded Ravenclaw House fifty points for William’s actions, and walked with William after Snape was treated.
• William told Dumbledore about his plan to make a map of Hogwarts, and Dumbledore cautioned him against revealing secret passages and mentioned a castle floor plan in the library.
• Dumbledore told William to send Snape a get-well card, leaving William to wonder whether Dumbledore was acting awfully gay.

After Professor Snape’s classroom accident, William became a Hogwarts sensation and joined George and Fred to discuss making a map. The twins showed him an enchanted parchment they had taken from Filch, but Professor McGonagall caught them and assigned the twins another punishment.

• Rumors spread that William had caused Snape to explode, and George and Fred celebrated him at the Gryffindor table.
• William asked George and Fred for help making a map, and they revealed an old parchment they had taken from Filch’s confiscated-items drawer.
• The twins explained that the parchment was a map of Hogwarts and that they were still learning how to use it.
• Professor McGonagall caught the three of them with the parchment, praised William for helping Snape, and warned them against pranks.
• Professor McGonagall ordered George and Fred to polish the trophy-room silver by hand with Filch that night.

William attended a drowsy History of Magic lesson with Professor Binns before Professor Tywin introduced practical Defence Against the Dark Arts and discussed vampires. The class left with Tywin praising William and awarding Ravenclaw five points, while Slytherin students remained hostile toward William.

• Professor Binns droned about Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball as students, including Cho, struggled to stay awake.
• Bobocha startled Cho awake by knocking away her textbook, causing her face to crash toward the desk and frighten a rabbit.
• Slytherin students tried to annoy William during Professor Tywin's first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson by making noise.
• Professor Tywin explained that his lessons would focus on practical experience and praised William for his Ravenclaw qualities, provoking hostile stares from Slytherin.
• Cho named vampires as a threat, and Professor Tywin warned students against falling in love with one before promising Miss Crouch he would teach her how to deal with them in third year.
• Professor Tywin awarded Ravenclaw five points.

Professor Tywin took his students to a practical Defence Against Dark Magic lesson, demonstrated a spell on Peeves, and introduced them to a Grindylow. The lesson began with William identifying the creature and earning five points for Ravenclaw.

• Professor Tywin led the class out of the classroom and warned Peeves to get rid of balloons filled with Dungbomb slop.
• Professor Tywin cast Ah~ Porcupine, bursting the balloons and sending their contents onto Peeves, then cleaned up with Whirlwind Sweep.
• Professor Tywin brought the class to a training room containing a Grindylow caught in the Black Lake and explained that the lake held many magical creatures.
• Judy Crouch protested that dangerous creatures lived near the school and threatened to write to her uncle.
• William described the Grindylow’s appearance and long fingers, and Professor Tywin awarded five points to Ravenclaw.

Professor Tywin taught the class to use the Extraction Charm on Grindylows, but Judy accidentally removed the bones from his right leg. A Grindylow then attacked, Marietta’s magical outburst shattered the expanded tank, and six creatures chased the students into a panicked rush for the door.

• Professor Tywin explained the Extraction Charm and opened the tank for Judy Crouch to try it on a Grindylow.
• Judy cast the charm and removed one of the Grindylow’s claws, and Arthur and the other students took turns casting it.
• Judy accidentally hit Professor Tywin with the charm, extracting the bones from his right leg and knocking him to the floor.
• A Grindylow lunged at Cho and Marietta, and Marietta’s magical outburst shattered the tank.
• Six Grindylows emerged from the tank as the students fled, trampling Professor Tywin on the way out.

William took charge when Grindylows trapped the Ravenclaw students, revealing powerful magical talent and helping the class regain control. After the students dealt with the remaining creatures, he spoke with Professor Tywin, who praised him and hinted at gifted former classmates, one dead and another in Azkaban.

• Bradley and Marcus discovered the classroom door was locked while Marietta remained trapped near the Grindylows.
• William stopped Cho from rushing forward and killed a Grindylow with Hasek, shocking the Ravenclaw students with his power.
• William used Ah~ Puncture to turn the tank shards into spikes, then organized the students into pairs to fight the remaining Grindylows.
• Cho checked on the terrified Marietta before joining the students dealing with the creatures.
• William returned Professor Tywin's wand and helped him up as Tywin praised William's talent and mentioned former Gryffindor classmates, one dead and another in Azkaban.

William became notorious after Professors Snape and Tywin were hospitalized, while a love note exposed Tywin and Snape’s bitter history. The chapter ended with Flitwick keeping students from using wands in Charms and Ravenclaw leading the House competition by a wide margin.

• Madam Pomfrey treated Tywin and Snape in the hospital wing and scolded them for letting students practice dangerous magic.
• Tywin summoned a rose bouquet from the rubbish, read its love note to Snape, and provoked a confrontation by accusing Snape of betraying James and causing the Dark Lord’s death.
• Madam Pomfrey stopped Tywin and Snape from fighting and sent William out of the hospital wing.
• Hogwarts students spread the nickname “professor killer” for William, while Ravenclaw students celebrated his classroom performance.
• Flitwick made students practice wand movements with sticks instead of wands, and awarded William a point before telling him to stop.
• William’s recent accidents earned Ravenclaw 120 points, leaving the House far ahead in the standings.

William attended Transfiguration with Cho and Bobocha, confident that Professor McGonagall would avoid the classroom accidents that had happened earlier. He realized McGonagall was the tabby cat on the teacher’s desk just as Bobocha approached her and offered his dried fish.

• William reflected on his slow progress in Transfiguration compared with Cedric’s talent and success.
• William and Cho entered the classroom, where Gryffindor students kept their distance from William and wondered why Professor McGonagall had not arrived.
• Bobocha sensed an unusual scent and spotted a tabby cat crouching on the teacher’s desk.
• William recognized the tabby as McGonagall after Bobocha leapt across the classroom toward her with his dried fish.
• Bobocha offered the fish to McGonagall, then lay down and invited her to lick his fur.

Professor McGonagall taught the first-years the theory of Transfiguration, then had them practice turning matches into needles. William succeeded ahead of schedule, but McLaggen accidentally set Eloise Midgen's hair on fire, leaving the class in chaos.

• Professor McGonagall revealed herself from her cat form and demonstrated Transfiguration on Bobocha.
• Professor McGonagall lectured on Transfiguration theory before assigning the students to turn matches into needles.
• William transformed his match into a rough iron needle, earning a point for Ravenclaw.
• McLaggen's match caught fire after he accidentally released gas, and he flung it into Eloise Midgen's hair.
• Eloise Midgen's greasy hair caught fire, turning her into an oversized match.

William discussed his Transfiguration progress and the history between Snape and Professor Tywin with Professor McGonagall. Meanwhile, rumors about Snape spread across Hogwarts, and the Weasley brothers’ prank turned him into the school’s cross-dressing king.

• McLaggen accidentally burned Eloise’s hair, and Professor McGonagall deducted five points from Gryffindor before sending Eloise to the Hospital Wing.
• Professor McGonagall praised William’s diligence, learned that Cedric had helped him over the summer, and told him James Potter had been a talented Transfiguration student.
• William asked whether Snape and Professor Tywin had been in conflict, but Professor McGonagall told him to focus on his studies.
• Snape left the Hospital Wing and began deducting points while trying to find who had spread rumors that someone had confessed their love to him.
• The Weasley brothers’ love letter and Lee Jordan’s Lolita dress fueled rumors that Snape was a cross-dressing king.

William, Cedric, and Cho visited Hagrid and met Fluffy, his three-headed dog, whom Hagrid had kept secret from Professor Dumbledore. The visit ended with Cedric warning that the Ministry would kill Fluffy if it discovered Hagrid was keeping him illegally, leaving Hagrid alarmed.

• William, Cedric, and Cho visited Hagrid’s hut, where William fed Fang snacks brought for Bobocha.
• Hagrid showed them Fluffy, whose three heads he called Damao, Ermao, and Sanmao, and fed him dried fish.
• Fluffy rushed at Fang for milk, but Fang fled, and Hagrid sang Fluffy to sleep.
• Cedric asked whether Hagrid had told Professor Dumbledore about Fluffy, and Hagrid admitted he had not.
• Cedric warned Hagrid that keeping Fluffy was illegal and that the Ministry would kill him if he was discovered, leaving Hagrid pale with fear.

William and his friends questioned Hagrid about the conflict between Snape and Professor Tywin, but Hagrid would only say that Dumbledore trusted Snape. A newspaper report about the Ministry of Magic break-in left Hagrid fearing that Fluffy had been illegally smuggled from the department.

• William asked Hagrid whether Snape and Professor Tywin had a grudge, and Hagrid said Tywin had been an unremarkable Ravenclaw.
• Hagrid recalled the feud between James Potter and Snape, blamed Sirius Black for betraying James, and refused to explain what Snape had done.
• Hagrid changed the subject to Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts, and Cedric argued that Hufflepuff had the stronger team.
• William found a newspaper clipping reporting an unresolved break-in at the Ministry of Magic's Department for the Regulation of Fantastic Beasts.
• Hagrid connected the August 1 break-in to the Greek who sold him Fluffy and worried that the dog had been illegally smuggled from the department.

William, Cedric, and Cho reached the Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts and found a brawl after Cormac McLaggen crashed into Angelina Johnson and injured George Weasley. When McLaggen then knocked Charlie Weasley unconscious, William used a spell to send the Quaffle into McLaggen, and the crowd dragged him away.

• Cedric told William that he had never heard of the Ministry seizing a three-headed dog or being attacked, leaving William to wonder what the Ministry was hiding.
• William, Cedric, and Cho arrived at the Quidditch training ground and found Angelina unconscious, George bleeding, and Fred being restrained from attacking McLaggen.
• A Gryffindor student explained that McLaggen had lost control of a broom and crashed into Angelina during the celebrations, striking George with the broom handle.
• Charlie ordered McLaggen to leave the tryouts, but McLaggen blamed Charlie and threatened to complain to his uncle.
• After Eloise tripped McLaggen, he picked up a bat and struck the Quaffle, which hit Charlie and knocked him unconscious.
• William cast Waddiwasi to send the Quaffle into McLaggen, who crashed into a goalpost as the crowd rushed to help the injured.

William received a letter and photographs from Anne, who had been writing to Professor Dumbledore every day. He revealed that Dumbledore had enchanted Drogon's ring to carry letters, and Drogon flew off to deliver Anne's next letter to him.

• Cedric nervously prepared for Hufflepuff Quidditch tryouts while the others reassured him after Charlie Weasley fractured his skull in practice.
• Drogon and Milia arrived with a letter from Anne, and Milia tricked Cho and the others into giving her snacks.
• William shared Anne's photographs with his friends, who teased him about his sister and joked about introducing her to George.
• William explained that Professor Dumbledore had enchanted Drogon's ring to conceal and protect letters.
• William said Anne called Dumbledore 'Dear Grandpa Albus' and revealed that Drogon was carrying another letter to him.

William and the others read a Daily Prophet report linking Lucius Malfoy's wand to the attack on the Ministry of Magic. William concluded that Minister Fudge was using Malfoy as a scapegoat to distract the public from the Ministry's failure to find the real attacker.

• William opened the special edition of the Daily Prophet and showed everyone a report claiming Lucius Malfoy's wand had been found at the Ministry attack scene.
• Cho questioned whether Malfoy could have staged the attack, while George condemned the Malfoys and Cedric noted that Malfoy had been fighting in Diagon Alley.
• Fred and George explained that Mad-Eye Moody had caught Malfoy selling a cursed necklace at Borgin and Burkes on the night of the attack.
• Cho pointed out that Malfoy's outing seemed to rule him out as the attacker, and William explained that the Ministry was presenting him as a scapegoat.
• William reasoned that Fudge had used the Daily Prophet's coverage of the Weasley-Malfoy feud to divert attention from the attack and judged the Minister a shrewd politician.

William speculated that the Ministry was using Lucius Malfoy as a scapegoat to extort money while distracting from the real murderer. The Hufflepuff Quidditch tryouts began, drawing a chaotic crowd and revealing little about the team’s new players.

• William told Cedric and the others that the Ministry would publicly blame Lucius Malfoy to pressure him for Galleons and conceal its knowledge of the real murderer.
• The Hufflepuff Quidditch tryouts began, and William lost interest while Cho and the Weasley brothers watched excitedly.
• William imagined Cho joining Ravenclaw’s team and teasing Cedric, while George and Fred focused on Hufflepuff as a threat to Gryffindor’s cup hopes.
• The tryout groups flew chaotically, with applicants crashing into goalposts, giggling together, or arriving without brooms.
• Lee Jordan brought Gryffindor first-years to disrupt the tryouts, but Madam Hooch seized him by the ear and threw him out.

Cedric failed to make Hufflepuff’s Chaser lineup but caught the Golden Snitch in five minutes and became the team’s youngest Seeker. As Ravenclaw students bragged about Quidditch and argued over athletes, William ended their dormitory quarrel with posters and brochures.

• Cedric missed most of his shots during Hufflepuff tryouts, but Captain Gabriel Truman gave him a chance to try out as Seeker.
• Cho cheered Cedric from the stands, while William, George, and Fred held up a banner urging him on.
• Cedric caught the Golden Snitch in five minutes and earned a place as Hufflepuff’s youngest Seeker.
• Ravenclaw first-years boasted about their Quidditch knowledge as Flying Class with Hufflepuff approached, despite their house’s poor record in the sport.
• Marcus Belby, Bradley, and Chambers argued over whether Hector Lamont, Magic Johnson, or Maradona was the greatest athlete.
• William put up a Madonna poster and showed the boys Victoria’s Secret brochures, ending their argument and prompting Marcus and Chambers to apologize.

William and the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students attended their first Flying Class, where Summerby lost control of his broom and was caught by Devil's Snare. William used a flame to make the plant release Summerby, who was left falling through the air.

• William and the students began Flying Class with Madam Hooch, and Summerby accidentally shot away on his broom before the whistle.
• The students found Summerby tangled in Devil's Snare, which had snapped his broom and was swinging him toward the cesspit.
• Madam Hooch recognized the plant but did not know how to free Summerby and tried to fetch Pomona.
• Cho prepared to fly to Summerby's rescue, but William warned her away and used a blue flame to drive the Devil's Snare back.
• The Devil's Snare released Summerby, who fell from the air and cried for help.

After Summerby fell during flying practice, William slowed his descent, but the Devil’s Snare then ruptured Hogwarts’s waste-treatment pools and spread a terrible stench across the school. The Quidditch lessons were suspended while the contamination lingered, and Hagrid continued hiding Fluffy as pressure mounted over Malfoy’s case.

• William used Wingardium Leviosa to slow Summerby’s fall, and Madam Hooch awarded Ravenclaw five points for his rescue.
• The Devil’s Snare went berserk, shaking the ground and destroying the magic protecting the treatment pools.
• Cho escaped on her broom while William clung to its tail, as a powerful stench spread across the grounds.
• Dumbledore noticed the smell after Fawkes abruptly vanished from his office, and the odor soon enveloped all of Hogwarts.
• The school suspended Quidditch practice and bought new broomsticks, while students blamed their poor flying on the old ones.
• Hagrid kept Fluffy hidden as the Ministry faced pressure over Malfoy, and Filch blamed the Weasley brothers for the stench.

On Halloween, Professor Flitwick taught the students to make objects fly, and the feast was interrupted when Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge arrived at Hogwarts with Aurors. The chapter ended with Fudge standing nervously beside Dumbledore as the students watched.

• In Charms class, Professor Flitwick taught the students the spell for making objects fly and asked William to demonstrate the Buffalo Spell.
• At the Halloween feast, Hagrid grew distressed after hearing that the Ministry had declared Malfoy innocent and was seeking a suspect.
• Filch rushed into the Great Hall and announced that Aurors had surrounded Hogwarts, prompting Dumbledore to order the prefects to lead students to their dormitories.
• Cornelius Fudge entered the Great Hall with Kingsley Shacklebolt and Dawlish, and Marietta identified the two Aurors.
• Fudge approached Dumbledore and nervously wiped sweat from his forehead while Dumbledore remained seated.

Minister Fudge took Professor Snape away as a precaution over the Ministry attack, despite Dumbledore insisting Snape was investigating Professor Robert’s death elsewhere. Madam Pomfrey took over Potions Class and began teaching post-injury care, blaming the course for students’ mental health problems.

• Fudge told Dumbledore that Lucius Malfoy had been released and that the Ministry planned to take Snape in for questioning.
• Dumbledore said Snape had been investigating Professor Robert’s death and denied that he had appeared at the Ministry during the attack.
• Fudge took Snape away, while Dumbledore warned that doing so would accomplish nothing.
• Students speculated about Snape’s connection to the attack, and Madam Pomfrey temporarily took over Potions Class.
• Madam Pomfrey told William’s class to put away their cauldrons and began a lesson on post-injury care for wizards.

With Snape away on a Ministry mission, Madam Pomfrey took over Potions class and taught medical care instead of brewing, leaving the students missing Snape and debating which teacher they preferred. After class, William received a letter from Hagrid inviting him to discuss something important.

• Madam Pomfrey replaced Potions lessons with medical-care instruction and told the class Snape was away on a mission from Dumbledore.
• Judy Crouch and other students questioned the lesson and Snape’s absence, but Madam Pomfrey refused to discuss it further.
• Madam Pomfrey criticized Snape’s earlier potion lessons, confiscated several bottles, and assigned an essay about treating someone who had drunk the Draught of Living Death.
• The students left class and discussed Madam Pomfrey, worrying about exams and whether Snape would return.
• William received a letter from Hagrid inviting him to his hut to discuss an important matter.

William, Cedric, and Cho visited Hagrid and found Fluffy had wrecked the hut, forcing them to find a new place for the growing three-headed dog. Charlie revealed he planned to study dragons in Romania after graduation and proposed keeping Fluffy at Hogwarts in the meantime, leading the group to consider the Room of Requirement.

• William, Cedric, and Cho followed Hagrid's map to his hut and found Fluffy had torn it apart while Hagrid and Charlie tried to manage him.
• Hagrid refused to release Fluffy or tell Dumbledore, and Cho suggested the Forbidden Forest, but Hagrid said the centaurs would kill him.
• Charlie offered to take Fluffy to Romania during the summer and revealed that he planned to study dragons after graduating instead of pursuing Quidditch.
• Charlie said he had told his father about his plans, while Hagrid recalled that Molly had been upset when Bill left for Egypt.
• Charlie asked William, Cedric, and Cho to keep his plans secret, then suggested the Room of Requirement as a hidden place to keep Fluffy.

William, Charlie, Cedric, and Cho sneaked out to move Fluffy from Hagrid’s hut to the Room of Requirement, using a Disillusionment Charm to evade Filch. They got Fluffy into a box and started carrying him toward the castle, leaving their success at reaching the room unresolved.

• Cedric explained how he had discovered the Room of Requirement, and William convinced Hagrid that Fluffy could only be hidden there until Charlie took him away the following summer.
• William set out at night with Bobocha and found Cho waiting in the Ravenclaw common room; she insisted on joining the mission.
• Charlie met the group, cast the Disillusionment Charm on them, and led them across the grounds to Hagrid’s hut.
• Charlie and Hagrid could not soothe Fluffy, but Cho sang to him until he fell asleep.
• Hagrid packed Fluffy into a wooden box with food, a blanket, and his favorite doll, and William levitated the box as the group headed toward the castle.

William, Cho, Cedric, and Charlie hid Fluffy in the Room of Requirement and searched its vast store of discarded objects. An alarm then revealed that someone had broken into Professor Snape’s potions storeroom, and the professors began investigating while Filch accused the Weasley brothers.

• William and the others avoided Professor Tywin as they carried Fluffy upstairs to the Room of Requirement.
• Charlie opened the Room of Requirement, and the group left the sleeping Fluffy beside a broken Vanishing Cabinet before gathering a few treasures.
• An explosion and alarm sounded as the group headed downstairs, and Charlie identified the source as Professor Snape’s potions storeroom.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Tywin examined the break-in while Filch accused the Weasley brothers without evidence.
• Dumbledore arrived, and Filch admitted that he had not caught the culprits but insisted he knew who they were.