Chapter Summaries

William taught his first Ancient Runes lesson, impressing students with several ways to cast Lumos and promising to teach them to make Warming Badges. On Saturday, William, Hermione, and Anne went to Hagrid’s Hut for Norbert’s funeral, where Hagrid mourned the dragon while Cedric stayed behind to make wands from its heartstrings.

• William taught Ancient Runes and struggled to limit how many House Points Hermione earned for answering questions.
• William showed the students several rune-based ways to cast Lumos and promised to teach them to make Warming Badges if they performed well.
• News of William’s popular lesson spread, and Harry and Ron regretted not taking Ancient Runes.
• William used Harry’s recorded Parseltongue to keep the Basilisk asleep so it would grow more slowly and remain less dangerous.
• William, Hermione, and Anne arrived at Hagrid’s Hut for Norbert’s funeral, while Hagrid mourned and Cedric stayed in the castle to make wands using Norbert’s dragon heartstrings.

William, Hermione, Anne, and Hagrid buried Norbert in Hagrid’s pumpkin patch, then returned to the hut, where Hagrid mourned the dragon and worried that Buckbeak would be killed. As Hagrid drank and spoke about his family, he revealed that his mother had been a Giant.

• William, Hermione, and Anne watched snails race before six Acromantulas carried Norbert’s coffin to Hagrid’s pumpkin patch.
• Hagrid placed Norbert’s horn and chicken dolls in the coffin, and William lowered it into the grave as the Acromantulas covered it with dirt.
• The group returned to Hagrid’s Hut, where Fang begged William, Hermione, and Anne for snacks while Hagrid drank whisky.
• Hagrid told William, Hermione, and Anne that Malfoy had taken Buckbeak’s case to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, and feared Buckbeak would be killed.
• Hagrid showed them a photograph of his father and revealed that his mother had been a Giant.

After visiting Hagrid, William took Hermione and Anne into the Forbidden Forest by pumpkin carriage. When a female Centaur attacked them, William subdued her and captured her.

• Hagrid drank heavily, told William about his past and his refusal to love anyone, then fell asleep.
• William moved Hagrid to bed while Anne tried to sample Hermione's mojito and was stopped.
• William took Hermione and Anne into the Forbidden Forest in a pumpkin carriage pulled by six Acromantulas.
• A female Centaur shot an arrow at the carriage, and William stopped it and sent it back toward her.
• The female Centaur drew her sword and bow, but William overwhelmed her with magic and captured her.

William mistook Fire Kiss, Ronan’s sister, for a hostile Centaur before learning she had come to trade. After completing the exchange, he tried to sell her Professor Lockhart’s books as a magical manual.

• Fire Kiss explained that she had only been aiming at wind chimes and had wanted to test William, so he released her.
• William learned that Fire Kiss was Ronan’s sixteen-year-old sister and that Ronan and the other Centaurs had gone to investigate the Thunderbird’s abandoned nest.
• Fire Kiss explored William’s carriage and secretly hid a gargoyle she had broken off its roof.
• William and Hermione checked the trade goods, and Hermione paid Fire Kiss with Galleons.
• Fire Kiss asked to exchange her Glumbumbles for gold and revealed that Ronan had promised her only one Knut for running the errand.
• William offered Fire Kiss Professor Lockhart’s books, calling them a legendary magical manual.

William sold books and a ring to Fire Kiss, a young Centaur who wanted magic for fighting dangerous creatures, before she asked to join his trip to the Acromantulas' territory. Anne gave Fire Kiss wind chimes, and Fire Kiss noticed that Anne smelled of Thunderbird; William left Fire Kiss hanging in a silk trap as he drove away.

• William tried to sell Lockhart's books to Fire Kiss, but she dismissed his advice about Trolls, werewolves, and pests and asked for ways to deal with dangerous creatures.
• Fire Kiss bought Kissing Goodbye to Dementor and a ring with all her gold after revealing that Dementors had searched the Forbidden Forest for Sirius.
• Fire Kiss asked to buy Anne's wind chimes on credit, and Anne gave them to her; Fire Kiss sniffed Anne and said she smelled of Thunderbird.
• Fire Kiss asked to join William's journey to the Acromantulas' territory, but William challenged her to name the bright star that night before he would take her.
• William drove away while Fire Kiss tried to follow, and an Acromantula silk trap left her hanging upside down beside a message telling her to go home.

William, Hermione, and Anne searched the valley after Anne reported that Fluffy had eaten Dahei, but William discovered the bones belonged to a Mooncalf. He concluded Dahei had escaped after Fluffy’s left head, Sanmao, secretly broke the cage lock and let him out.

• William explained to Hermione that he had brought her and Anne to the Centaurs’ valley without Fire Kiss to avoid trouble with her tribe.
• Anne ran back to William and Hermione in a panic, claiming Fluffy had eaten Dahei.
• William found a broken cage lock and a clean-picked skeleton beside Fluffy, but identified the remains as a Mooncalf’s rather than Dahei’s.
• William inspected the lock’s tooth marks and accused Fluffy’s three heads of freeing Dahei.
• Fluffy’s middle and right heads glanced toward Sanmao, and Sanmao’s guilty expression revealed that he had broken the lock.

Hagrid's classes deteriorated after Dahei disappeared, while Snape grew furious over budget cuts and rumors about photographs of him dressed as a woman. William rebuilt Ravenclaw's Quidditch team around speed and prepared for its rivals as Halloween approached.

• Dahei disappeared, and Hagrid blamed himself after trying to feed him Rock Cakes and canned herring.
• Hagrid's students cleaned Horklump-infested cauldrons instead of destroying the creatures, and one Horklump damaged McLaggen's wand.
• Professor McGonagall revealed that she had recovered the cauldrons for Potions Class, prompting Snape to complain about her budget cuts and investigate the sellers of photographs of him in women's clothes.
• William rebuilt Ravenclaw's Quidditch team and trained them to use fast transitions and attacks.
• Wood pushed Gryffindor's team through harsh training and demanded that Harry gain weight, while William considered Hufflepuff and Gryffindor Ravenclaw's main rivals.
• William trusted Cho Chang to outmatch Cedric and Harry as Seekers, and Halloween arrived.

William gave his Ancient Runes class Hogsmeade advice, demonstrated an offensive rune in a Wizard’s Chess guard, and assigned an essay. Later, Luna told him she had something to share but could not reveal it because she had promised to keep it secret.

• William warned the class away from Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, joked about dating, and rejected Daphne’s invitation because he already had a date.
• William demonstrated how the Algiz rune increased a Wizard’s Chess guard’s offensive power and assigned an essay on offensive Ancient Runes.
• Hermione followed William after class, discussed her heavy homework load, and agreed that they would study in the Room of Requirement again that night.
• William and Hermione encountered Luna posting a notice about Anne’s missing dog, Dahei, and declined Luna’s invitation to look for Anne and Ginny.
• Luna asked William what he would do if a friend’s secret seemed worth sharing, then said she could not tell him what she had promised to keep secret.

William discussed Hogsmeade activities with Cedric, who chose Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop for his date with Cho. As the students left for Hogsmeade, William noticed odd behavior from Ginny and heard that Ron planned to keep selling photos of Snape.

• William listed hidden Hogsmeade activities for Cedric, but Cedric settled on taking Cho to Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop.
• George suggested hiring pretend thugs to help Cedric impress Cho, explaining that magical fights would cost extra.
• George said Fred had been talking with Angelina and that Ron had become distracted after seeing Madam Rosmerta, though Ron still planned to sell photos of Snape.
• Ginny secretly waved for George to come over, and William suspected that she, Luna, and Anne were up to something.
• Filch checked students’ names as they left for Hogsmeade, and William and Hermione rode there in a Thestral-drawn carriage.

William and Hermione spent the morning in Hogsmeade, sampling Honeydukes sweets, visiting the post office, and spotting Fred leaving Zonko’s with Angelina. The outing ended when they encountered an old man promoting the Hog’s Head, who transformed into a polished storyteller for an American reporter.

• William and Hermione visited Honeydukes, where Mrs Swan shared her flame-breathing bread and teased William about working for her after graduation.
• William and Hermione strolled past Zonko’s and saw Fred leave George to meet Angelina, surprising William.
• William and Hermione sent sweets to their families under each other’s names.
• William and Hermione watched an old man tout the Hog’s Head to an American witch, then recite its history and advertise its drinks in a refined London accent.

William and Hermione visited the Hog's Head with Aberforth and discovered that Dobby worked there as a paid House-elf. The chapter ended with Dobby accidentally shearing Aberforth's goats, leaving Aberforth to faint in despair.

• Aberforth lured William, Hermione, and an American witch to the Hog's Head and pressured them to order drinks.
• Dobby recognized William and Hermione, and they learned that Dumbledore had arranged his job with Aberforth.
• Dobby explained that Harry Potter had helped him gain his freedom from the Malfoy family.
• Dobby cleaned Aberforth's goats by washing them and shearing off all their wool.
• Aberforth saw his shorn goat, mourned its lost curly hair, and fainted.

After leaving the Hog's Head, William told Hermione about Dumbledore's painful past with his brother and sister. Their date was interrupted by Mera Picquery, an American Auror whose unauthorized questioning they rejected before she explained she had come about an attack involving Newt Scamander.

• William told Hermione that Dumbledore's Deluminator had been a gift for Ariana and that the professor suffered whenever he spoke of her.
• Hermione wondered why Dumbledore and Aberforth were estranged, and William comforted her when she noticed the furrow in his brow.
• Mera Picquery identified herself as a MACUSA Auror and tried to question William in Britain.
• William refused, citing his Wizengamot authority, and Hermione challenged Picquery for conducting law enforcement without proper registration or British Aurors.
• Picquery said she had come because a dark wizard had stolen something belonging to Mr. Scamander during an attack on MACUSA, and the Scourers were suspected.

William told Picquery that the Thunderbird had escaped and was no longer in the Forbidden Forest, then refused to help her contact the Centaurs. As William and Hermione left, Picquery asked about Professor Targaryen, and they spotted Anne, Luna, and Ginny with ice cream and snacks.

• Picquery explained that the Magical Congress suspected the Scourers had taken the Thunderbird, and asked William to help locate it.
• William told Picquery the Thunderbird had escaped from Newt, attacked the Hogwarts Express, and later left the Forbidden Forest; he refused to take her to Fire Kiss.
• William argued that Newt should be released and compensated, then learned Picquery was Seraphina Picquery's niece.
• Picquery asked William about Professor Targaryen, who she said resembled him; William pretended not to know the man.
• Hermione spotted Anne, Luna, and Ginny leaving an ice cream shop, and the three girls ran when William called out to Anne.

Anne, Ginny, and Luna fled William and Hermione into the Shrieking Shack, where William caught them with a magical trap. After learning they had used a secret passage to reach Hogsmeade, William suspected Dumbledore had deliberately left that route open as bait for Black or as part of another test.

• Anne, Ginny, and Luna hid near the Shrieking Shack with their bags of snacks and debated whether to explore it.
• A ghost-fire skull startled the girls, and Anne tried a spell before the flames transformed into ropes that bound and hoisted them into a tree.
• William and Hermione appeared, and William teased the girls about sneaking into Hogsmeade before Hermione helped secure their snacks and William lowered them.
• Ginny claimed they had flown to Hogsmeade, but William guessed George had told them about a secret passage.
• William reasoned that the girls had likely used the passage from the one-eyed witch statue and wondered whether Dumbledore had left it open to lure Black into Hogwarts or to test The Boy Who Lived.

William returned to Hogwarts and learned that Ron had been caught selling photographs of Professor Snape outside the Slytherin Common Room, costing Gryffindor two hundred points. Ron became famous across the school, though his fellow Gryffindors blamed him for his disastrous choice of customers.

• William and Hermione returned to Hogwarts by carriage, where Cedric complained that William had sent him to a mermaid feast with Cho.
• Harry told William, Hermione, and Cedric that Slytherin students had dragged Ron to the Defence Against the Dark Arts office for selling photographs of Snape outside their common room.
• Snape locked Ron in his office, and Gryffindor lost two hundred points after Dumbledore intervened in a near-conflict between Snape and Lupin.
• News of Ron's capture spread through Hogwarts, making him famous, while Gryffindor students criticized him for losing their house so many points.

During the Halloween Feast, William watched the students and professors bicker while Hogwarts’ seventh-years performed. The celebration was interrupted when a sea eagle Patronus warned that large numbers of Dementors had invaded the castle.

• Cedric visited the Ravenclaw table and used William to relay his argument with Cho.
• Ron remained in Snape’s office writing a million-word self-criticism, while Percy and Wood complained about his cross-dressing incident.
• Mera Picquery observed William while staying at Hogwarts to seek Dumbledore’s help in finding the Thunderbird and saving Newt.
• Hogwarts’ seventh-years began their Halloween performance, with Penelope at the piano and the Grey Lady leading the singing.
• A sea eagle Patronus burst into the Great Hall and announced that large numbers of Dementors had invaded the castle.

After Dementors attacked Hogwarts, Dumbledore sent William and Hermione back in time with the Time-Turner to stop them. When he waited for them to reappear, they did not arrive.

• Dumbledore ordered the heads of house to take students to their common rooms after a silver sea eagle Patronus drove off the Dementors.
• Professor Flitwick defended Ravenclaw students from another group of Dementors with his silver raven Patronus.
• Dumbledore brought all the students to the Great Hall and arranged for them to spend the night there while the professors searched the castle.
• Dumbledore privately told William and Hermione to use the Time-Turner to stop the Dementors without being seen or using it unnecessarily.
• Hermione put the Time-Turner chain around William, and they turned it three times to travel back in time.
• Dumbledore counted down, but William and Hermione did not reappear in the corridor.

William and Hermione discovered that Dahei had been visiting Hogsmeade for food, though Mopsy did not know where he went during the day. They returned to Hogwarts through the Honeydukes passage, discussed Black’s break-in and the Dementors, and headed for Professor Lupin’s office.

• William and Hermione watched their earlier selves leave Honeydukes, then encountered Mopsy’s dogs and a scuffle between a husky and an owl.
• Hermione found a photo of Dahei carrying a backpack full of vegetables, and Mopsy said he came to eat in the evenings but she did not know where he went during the day.
• William and Hermione entered the secret passage beneath Honeydukes and discussed Black’s break-in, the vandalized Fat Lady portrait, and possible ways Black had entered Hogwarts.
• William explained that Dumbledore had called the students back because Dementors had entered Hogwarts and the students needed warning.
• William and Hermione emerged from the passage and went to Professor Lupin’s office, where William promised there was a good show to see.

William and Hermione went to the Slytherin dungeon, where they witnessed Ron selling glamour photos and learned that Peeves had been plotting against the Slytherins. After realizing their time-travel trip had to be what alerted Dumbledore to Snape’s visit to Lupin, William sent his Patronus toward the Headmaster’s Office and hurried with Hermione to the Defense Against the Dark Arts Office.

• William and Hermione found Peeves setting a Dungbomb trap for the Slytherins, but the Bloody Baron ordered him to move it to Gryffindor and pressed him to amuse the Grey Lady.
• William and Hermione saw Ron selling photos outside the Slytherin dungeon, where Marcus argued over the price, grabbed Ron, and secretly pocketed some pictures.
• Peeves warned that Snape had gone to Lupin’s office carrying poison, and Marcus dragged Ron toward Snape’s office.
• William realized that he and Hermione had likely alerted Dumbledore during their time-travel trip and explained this to Hermione.
• William summoned a silver sea eagle Patronus, told it to visit the Forbidden Forest before the Headmaster’s Office, and hurried with Hermione toward the Defense Against the Dark Arts Office.

Snape confronted Ron over the photographs, but Dumbledore stopped him from expelling Ron and revealed that Ron had not made them. Afterward, William and Hermione discovered Wolfsbane Potion in Lupin’s office and realized Lupin was a werewolf; they then saw their own figures at the office window while standing outside.

• Snape threatened to expel Ron over the photographs, and Lupin and Harry intervened when Snape raised his wand.
• Dumbledore arrived, said Ron had not made the photographs, and took Snape and the others to his office.
• William and Hermione emerged from hiding and found a foul-smelling goblet of Wolfsbane Potion in Lupin’s office.
• William concluded Lupin was a werewolf and suspected Dumbledore had approved his appointment; William and Hermione decided to keep the secret.
• Outside the castle, William saw what appeared to be himself and Hermione watching from the Defence Against the Dark Arts Office window.