Recaps

The narrator used a Two-Way Mirror to show Petunia the dangers of Hogwarts while brewing a potion, then encountered James and the others fleeing Fluffy. Petunia played music through the mirror and put the three-headed dog to sleep, while Sirius lost affection for the narrator.

• James invited the narrator on a nighttime adventure, but the narrator refused and went to show Petunia Hogwarts through the Two-Way Mirror.
• The narrator brewed a potion for Petunia, who was horrified by the ingredients and a cauldron explosion.
• After leaving the secret passage, the narrator ran into James and the others as they fled Fluffy in the corridors.
• The narrator told Petunia to play music on the radio, and Fluffy fell asleep.
• The narrator taunted Sirius for not solving the problem, and Sirius's affection decreased by one.

After Avery attacked Lily in the corridor, the narrator fought him and his friends and escaped with Lily. Petunia watched through the Two-Way Mirror, grew angrier at the prejudice Lily faced, and ended the conversation pretending she was glad not to attend Hogwarts.

• Petunia remained shaken by the magical world, and the narrator showed her the bullying and Slytherin hostility at school through the Two-Way Mirror.
• Evan, Avery, and another student cornered Lily and the narrator, insulted them as Muggle-borns, and threatened their kind.
• Avery cast Reducto at Lily from behind, but the narrator pulled Lily out of the way.
• The narrator took Lily's wand, punched Avery and his friends, and fled with Lily before a professor arrived.
• Petunia asked why Lily was called a slur, grew indignant when the narrator explained the prejudice, and said Hogwarts suited Lily better than her.

Merlin chose to give Snape a gift for his ordinary birthday event and set out to show him photos documenting a group of Slytherins causing trouble. After discussing the photos with Remus and narrowly avoiding Lily, Merlin continued toward the Slytherin Common Room, having met a mysterious hooded man along the way.

• Merlin chose a gift for Snape's birthday and packed photos of the Slytherins who had caused trouble for Lily.
• James invited Merlin to watch Quidditch, and Merlin learned Sirius had disappeared before running into Sirius on the stairs.
• Remus told Merlin he had finished the books about wolves, then became concerned after seeing the photos Merlin planned to show Snape.
• Merlin declined Remus's offer to accompany him and hid behind a hooded man when Lily appeared.
• The hooded man reassured Merlin that he was happy to help, and Merlin continued toward the Slytherin Common Room.

Merlin confronted Snape on his birthday with photographs of Lily’s attack and warned him to control Avery and the others. Afterward, Merlin and Lily met at the Quidditch match, where he helped ease her worries about Snape and the future.

• Merlin gave Snape photographs showing Lily being attacked and warned him that he would act if the group hurt her again; Snape promised there would be no next time.
• Remus waited for Merlin outside the Slytherin Common Room, and Merlin suggested they go to the Forbidden Forest.
• Lily searched for Snape and Merlin, then watched a Quidditch match with James while worrying about Snape’s interest in Dark Magic and their strained friendship.
• Merlin returned from the Forbidden Forest with Remus and gave Lily a flower, confirming that he had told Snape about the attack.
• Lily asked whether Snape would change, and Merlin encouraged her to focus on being happy in the present as they watched Ravenclaw’s match.

Lin planned a birthday celebration for Lily and used a Two-Way Mirror to reunite her with Petunia. Lily was moved by Petunia’s birthday wishes and promised to visit home during the spring holiday, while Lin gave her the mirror as a gift.

• Lin decided to celebrate Lily’s birthday by helping her reconnect with Petunia, and Sirius’s affection decreased when Lin left the common room.
• Lin warned James not to tell Lily his clumsy birthday wishes, while Remus brought Lily a gift and Sirius agreed that James’s plan would fail.
• Lin and the Gryffindors surprised Lily with a cake and a birthday song, then joined a snowball fight against the Slytherins.
• Lin showed Lily Petunia through a Two-Way Mirror, and Petunia wished Lily a happy birthday and shared a small cake.
• Lily cried with happiness, promised Petunia she would visit home during the spring holiday, and accepted the Two-Way Mirror from Lin as her favorite birthday gift.

After staying up all night talking with Lily, Merlin struggled to stay awake in class despite drinking Wit-Sharpening Potion. Professor McGonagall excused her to return to the dorm, where she vowed not to stay up all night again.

• Merlin found that the system had disabled the effects of Wit-Sharpening Potion because her energy was at its limit.
• Lily, Mary, James, Sirius, and Remus brought the exhausted Merlin to breakfast and then to Transfiguration class.
• Merlin fell asleep in class and leaned against James, who let her rest while Sirius objected.
• Sirius jolted Merlin awake, and Merlin told Professor McGonagall she had stayed up all night and asked to take the morning off.
• Professor McGonagall allowed Merlin to return to the dorm after confirming she knew the lesson material, and Merlin went back to bed.

Lin struggled with her fear of heights in Flying Class and watched a Quidditch match as James tried to recruit her and the others for the team. James eventually stopped pressing Lin, but his confidence that Gryffindor would always win soon led to a serious fall.

• Madam Hooch told Lin she might fail Flying Class, and Lin hid that her fear of heights kept her from flying.
• Lin joined Lily, James, Remus, and Sirius to watch Ravenclaw play Slytherin, where James urged Lin to join Quidditch.
• Lily defended Lin when James asked why she could not fly, and Sirius’s favorability toward Lin dropped by one.
• After the match, James gave up trying to recruit Lin and repeatedly pressured Remus to join the team.
• Remus said he was not good enough for Quidditch, but James declared Gryffindor would always win as long as he was there.
• A few days later, James’s overconfidence led to a major fall, and his main romance quest, “Flight · 1,” became available.

After James led the group to a hidden chamber, a dangerous tentacled plant attacked and trapped Remus. The narrator used an overwhelming spell to stop it, then lost consciousness as the system triggered a rollback.

• After Gryffindor won the Quidditch match, James invited the narrator, Remus, and Sirius on a night stroll beneath his Invisibility Cloak.
• James led the group to a hollow wall near the Basilisk's Chamber of Secrets, where they encountered a huge tentacled plant.
• The plant caught Remus, and James's Incendio spell enraged it, causing it to whip Remus and damage the chamber.
• James stayed behind to draw the plant's attacks while the others tried to escape, and the narrator cast Petrificus Totalus on the creature.
• The narrator collapsed from the spell's mental strain, and the system announced that a rollback had succeeded.

After a battle leaves Merlin exhausted and despairing, she is caught by Antonin Dolohov before the story shifts to her waking in Hogwarts’s Hospital Wing. She learns James survived and discovers her friends’ letters, while a mysterious presence may have visited her bedside.

• Merlin, convinced that killing everyone who could obstruct her might change the outcome, headed toward the final battle but stumbled into Antonin Dolohov, who caught her and let her go.
• The narrator woke in the Hospital Wing, recovered from magical exhaustion, and read Lily’s letter scolding James and urging the narrator to rest.
• Remus’s letter explained that petrifying the plant let James escape, Sirius sought help when the narrator collapsed, and Professor McGonagall arrived with Filch and other professors.
• The narrator read James’s apology and his promise to provide bread and take notes, then ate the food left by friends.
• The narrator noticed the Hospital Wing door was ajar and wondered if someone had been standing outside.

After Merlin was injured in the Chamber of Secrets, James struggled to admit his guilt, while Remus searched for her and received a birthday gift. Merlin reassured Remus that his friends cared about him, and the chapter ended with him asking whether she considered them friends.

• James argued with Merlin over her having been hurt while saving him, and Lily tried to convince Merlin to stop spending time with James and his friends.
• Remus recognized that James was frightened and remorseful, but James denied being at fault, argued with Sirius, and lost five Gryffindor points by interrupting Potions class.
• After class, Merlin found Remus near the Whomping Willow and gave him a birthday present, explaining that she had learned his birthday from Dumbledore.
• As they walked back, Merlin reassured Remus that the earlier incident had not been his fault and asked whether his scars were troubling him.
• Merlin told Remus that James and Sirius cared about him and urged him not to feel inferior or keep his friends at a distance.
• Remus asked Merlin whether they were friends.

Merlin reassured Remus that they were friends, and Remus asked her to call him by his first name as a birthday present. Later, Merlin joined the Marauders’ nighttime plans to celebrate Remus’s birthday, while Sirius’s darkening meter appeared.

• Remus told Merlin that she called him by his surname and asked her to call him Remus; she did, and he said it was his favorite birthday present.
• Remus returned to the dormitory with Merlin’s gift, and James learned that it was Remus’s birthday and that Merlin had given him a present.
• James and Sirius planned to visit the kitchen and make a birthday cake for Remus.
• Merlin declined James’s invitation to join the Marauders, but Remus asked her to celebrate with him, and she agreed.
• Merlin received a five-point decrease in Sirius’s affection, and Sirius’s darkening meter unlocked at 6%.

Merlin gave James a Hogwarts secret-passage map for his birthday, and James finally sincerely apologized for taking their friends into danger. They made up and spent the evening talking, while Sirius’s jealousy quietly increased.

• Merlin declined Lily’s invitation to visit the Evans home, then saw Snape leave after noticing her.
• On James’s birthday, he repeatedly searched through his presents for one from Merlin while Sirius and Remus discussed his feelings and his poor apology.
• Merlin arrived in the common room and gave James a present, prompting him to apologize sincerely for the dangerous adventure that had injured her.
• Merlin accepted James’s apology and warned him to investigate before future adventures; James promised to try.
• James opened Merlin’s gift and found a hand-drawn map of Hogwarts’s secret passages, then spent the evening talking with her and went to sleep clutching it.
• Sirius grew jealous of James’s present, and his darkening value reached 7%.

After failing to create a potion to fade Remus's scars, the narrator was startled by James and Sirius's Halloween prank and later attacked by a creature in the Black Lake. Remus rescued the narrator, who suspected the attacker was a black behemoth rather than the gentle Giant Squid.

• The narrator failed again to develop a potion to fade Remus's scars and felt depressed about the lack of progress.
• James and Sirius startled the narrator with an Invisibility Cloak prank, and the narrator warned James not to frighten Lily.
• The narrator went to the Black Lake to think and sensed that something was watching from beneath the water.
• A tentacle seized the narrator and dragged them into the lake, but a Lumos spell made it release them.
• Remus pulled the narrator from the water and explained that he had followed out of concern.
• The narrator concluded that the attacker was likely a black behemoth, not the Giant Squid.

After getting caught out past curfew, the narrator was assigned to portion potions with Snape, and a forced romance event deepened their hostility. The chapter ended with Slughorn asking why the potions had been smashed across the floor.

• The narrator, Snape, Mulciber, and the others were caught sneaking around after midnight, and Slughorn assigned Mulciber's group detention while telling the narrator and Snape to help portion potions.
• The narrator and Snape arrived early at Slughorn's office and worked separately after Slughorn left to handle other business.
• A Snape romance event appeared, and the narrator chose to taunt Snape rather than help him.
• Snape's favorability dropped as the pair exchanged threats, and the narrator left the office after finishing their portion.
• Slughorn later asked the narrator why the potions had been smashed all over the floor.

Merlin stopped James and Sirius from bullying Snape after James's enchanted Mandrake nearly strangled him, then confronted James about the dangerous prank. James agreed to destroy his Mandrake experiments, while the chapter ended with Sirius's darkening meter unlocked at 8%.

• Snape and Merlin kept up appearances of friendship when Lily asked whether they had fought, and Snape's affection for Merlin fell after Merlin slapped his shoulder.
• James and Sirius trapped Snape in a corridor and used an enchanted Mandrake to bind him, so Merlin freed his neck and ordered James to let him go.
• James smashed the Mandrake's pot and left Snape free, while Remus took Snape to the Hospital Wing.
• Merlin caught up with James and scolded him for turning Mandrakes into dangerous prank devices, and James promised to destroy them all.
• James admitted that he and Sirius had made three devices and ruined seven Mandrakes, and the system unlocked James's Caring achievement and Sirius's darkening meter at 8%.

Lily and the narrator visited Snape in the Hospital Wing, then James, Sirius, and the narrator followed Remus on a full moon night and discovered he entered a passage beneath the Whomping Willow. James tried to follow but was thrown into a branch, and the chapter ended with Madam Pomfrey treating him and chasing the others out.

• Lily and the narrator visited Snape, who refused to thank the narrator for saving him.
• James proposed following Remus on a full moon night, and Sirius and the narrator agreed.
• The three friends watched Remus collect a potion from Madam Pomfrey and leave Hogwarts Castle.
• Remus stopped the Whomping Willow and disappeared into a hollow beneath it.
• James charged at the Whomping Willow, which flung him onto a branch and fractured his arm.
• Sirius and the narrator visited James in the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey later chased them out.

After Remus returned from the Hospital Wing with fresh injuries, James and Sirius planned to follow him on the next full moon. That night, the narrator found Slytherins abusing Peter and fought them, then challenged Snape for standing by; Peter quietly thanked her before leaving.

• Remus concealed the cause of his new injuries from James, who claimed he had been hurt while exploring.
• James, Sirius, and the narrator discussed Felix Felicis and agreed to follow Remus on the next full moon.
• The narrator discovered Avery and Evan tormenting Peter while Snape watched, and she intervened when they hurt his hand and took his candy.
• The narrator knocked the Slytherins unconscious and confronted Snape about letting Peter be bullied.
• Peter returned to thank the narrator quietly before disappearing down the corridor.

As final exams approached, Peter was assigned by the system to revise with Lily despite not needing to study. He endured an awkward library session with Lily and Snape, and left eager for exams to be over.

• Students crowded the library and common room to prepare for finals, while Peter watched Lily answer questions and joked with Mary about being overlooked.
• During History of Magic, James asked to borrow Peter's notes, and Peter admitted he never took notes or revised; James and Sirius then borrowed Remus's notes instead.
• The system told Peter to choose a revision partner, and he reflexively selected Lily, prompting a daily two-hour study session.
• Peter went to the library and revised with Lily and Snape, whose silence toward him continued after their earlier unpleasant experience.
• Peter distracted Snape with candy so he would speak to Lily, then hurried away as soon as their revision session ended.

After the exams and end-of-term feast, the narrator chose Lily for the holiday event and arranged to visit her family. On the train, the narrator gave Snape a backup address at the Leaky Cauldron in case he needed to get away from home.

• The narrator celebrated passing Flying Class with an A while James and Sirius planned to spend the holidays together.
• At the end-of-term feast, Sirius said he would not go home, and James invited him to stay at his place; the narrator declined because of holiday plans.
• The system prompted the narrator to choose a holiday companion, and the narrator picked Lily before asking to visit her house.
• Snape lost affection when the narrator asked Lily about visiting, and Lily welcomed the narrator to come see her and Petunia.
• The narrator gave Snape a note with a vacant room at the Leaky Cauldron as a possible refuge, and Snape accepted it after protesting.

Merlin met a polite, hooded Slytherin stranger at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour and realized he had approached her deliberately. Unsettled by him, she left without agreeing to meet again.

• Merlin collected her purchases from Knockturn Alley and put away her cloak before stopping for ice cream.
• A hooded stranger recognized Merlin as a Hogwarts student and asked to sit with her.
• Merlin recognized him as the cloaked student she had briefly used to hide from Lily, and he confirmed he was a Slytherin.
• The stranger asked Merlin to guess his house, spoke politely, and mentioned that he had seen her hurry toward the Slytherin Common Room.
• Merlin noticed he had not touched his dessert, ended the conversation, and left when he called her Miss Merlin.

Snape returned to Spinner's End with Lily, while Merlin visited the Evans family and learned that Lily had gone to check on Snape after he missed their meeting. Merlin rushed out to find them when Lily did not return by noon.

• Snape felt uneasy as he approached Spinner's End, and Lily accompanied him despite his insistence that he was fine.
• Lily suggested Snape could go to Diagon Alley instead of returning home, but he chose to enter his house alone.
• Merlin arrived at the Evans home and gave Petunia gifts and Chinese food, then noticed Lily was worried because Snape had missed their morning meeting.
• Lily went to check on Snape, and Merlin explained Snape's family situation to Petunia while they prepared lunch.
• When Lily had not returned by noon, Petunia became anxious, and Merlin ran out to look for her.

Snape’s parents’ latest argument erupted into uncontrolled magic that injured Merlin, Lily, Snape, Tobias, and Eileen. As Merlin urged Eileen to divorce Tobias, she collapsed into Lily’s arms, leaving Eileen’s response uncertain.

• Snape tried to leave home with Lily while Tobias and Eileen argued, but Tobias insulted Lily and Snape recognized his own resemblance to his father.
• Eileen’s magic went out of control, sending debris through the house and injuring Merlin, Lily, Snape, Tobias, and Eileen.
• Merlin shielded Lily from Eileen’s magic, then asked Eileen whether she regretted leaving the Prince family and marrying Tobias.
• Eileen admitted she could not return to the Prince family, and Merlin urged her to divorce Tobias for everyone’s sake.
• Eileen seemed ready to respond, but Merlin staggered and collapsed into Lily’s arms.

After recovering from the attack, the narrator left St. Mungo’s with Lily and Petunia and returned to Hogwarts for her second year. She saw Thestrals because she had witnessed death, and her memories of Sirius’s death and the Dementors’ effects caused Sirius to leave in anger.

• Petunia and Lily visited the narrator in St. Mungo’s, where Eileen gradually opened up and shared potion knowledge with her.
• Lily told the narrator that Severus had been moving his books out of the family home, while Tobias remained unconscious in an ordinary hospital.
• James and Sirius met the narrator after the holiday, and she evaded James’s questions about how she had been injured.
• James told the narrator that he had accidentally blown up his family’s backyard while practicing Quidditch.
• On the way to Hogwarts, the narrator stroked a Thestral, and Sirius asked how she could see it.
• The narrator remembered witnessing Sirius’s death and experiencing the Dementors’ despair; Sirius left after her favorability toward him decreased.

Regulus Black was sorted into Slytherin and struggled with his family's expectations as he watched Sirius enjoying life in Gryffindor. After meeting a girl he had encountered before, he finally came face to face with Sirius, but the girl’s teasing sent Sirius storming away, and Regulus forgot to ask her name.

• Regulus was sorted into Slytherin, where Narcissa urged him to uphold the Black family’s reputation.
• During the feast, Regulus watched Sirius laughing with his friends and wondered how he could be happy despite disappointing their mother.
• Regulus tried to approach Gryffindor after the feast but was redirected by a Slytherin classmate.
• A Gryffindor girl recognized Regulus and told him she had smiled for him because she knew he wanted to smile.
• Sirius confronted Regulus, but the girl claimed Regulus had come to see her, and Sirius stormed away.
• Regulus said goodbye to the girl and realized he had forgotten to ask her name.

Merlin avoided the system's suggested replies when Regulus wanted to ask about Sirius, then watched James and Sirius make the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The chapter ended with Sirius vowing that they would beat Slytherin in their next match.

• Merlin spoke with Regulus, then Sirius warned her that Regulus would likely inherit the Black family and marry a pure-blood woman.
• James eagerly attended Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts and impressed the team captain with his flying and scoring.
• James and Sirius made the Gryffindor team, with James as a Chaser and Sirius as a Beater.
• James celebrated with Merlin and offered to take her flying, but she refused and congratulated him before slipping away.
• Merlin mentioned looking forward to the November match, and Sirius declared that Gryffindor would defeat Slytherin.