Recaps

Evita endured Snape’s demanding Potions lessons, then discovered that her Boggart took the form of a monotonous life she dreaded. After finding the Mirror of Erised in a shabby room, she saw Lily, James, and Harry reflected in it.

• Snape caught Evita using Lily’s advice in Potions, assigned her an essay on moonstone, and took two Hufflepuff points.
• Dumbledore taught Evita’s Dark Magic Defence class about Boggarts, and Evita’s Boggart appeared as a silver-haired woman trapped in repetitive work.
• Evita finished her homework and went to return books to the library, where she wandered into a shabby room.
• Evita read the Mirror of Erised’s inscription and saw Lily, James, and Harry reflected in it.

Evita remembered her close friendships with Lily, James, Sirius, and Lupin, then worried about Lily’s safety and was reassured by Adele. A new task sent her to Albania during her third-year summer holiday, and Dumbledore discussed the Mirror of Erised with her, leaving Evita convinced she had lost the chance to recognize the people she saw.

• Evita recalled warm memories of pranks and adventures with Lily, James, Sirius, and Harry.
• Evita asked Adele whether Lily and the others would be in danger again, and Adele reassured her.
• A chain task appeared, instructing Evita to go to Albania during her third-year summer holiday and recommending that she learn to become an Animagus or bring helpers.
• Evita returned to the Mirror of Erised and recognized Dumbledore’s silhouette among several indistinct figures.
• Dumbledore asked Evita what the mirror had shown her, and she described seeing many familiar and unfamiliar people, including Professor Snape.
• Dumbledore explained that the mirror revealed deep desires but could provide neither knowledge nor truth, and he sent Evita to bed.

After focusing on her studies, Evita helped Hagrid treat injured Thestrals, caught a poacher, and reunited with a healed unicorn. At the End-of-Year Feast, Dumbledore awarded her points that secured Hufflepuff the House Cup, and she finished first in her year.

• Evita heard that Snape had taken points from Gryffindor after students caused a Potions accident, then went to the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.
• Evita used Dittany and dragon meat to treat two injured Thestrals.
• Evita caught a poacher, then met Bane, Ronan, and Firenze and saw the unicorn she had treated healed.
• After the final exams, Dumbledore awarded Evita fifty points for helping injured animals and thirty for finding a special item, bringing Hufflepuff to 490 points and winning the House Cup.
• Evita learned she had still finished first in her year.

Evita returned to Dorset for the summer and began the long process of becoming an Animagus. After completing the potion and drinking it during a thunderstorm, she waited to see whether the transformation would succeed.

• Evita returned to her house in Dorset and placed a Mandrake leaf in her mouth on the night of the full moon.
• When Queenie, Jacob, Tina, and Newt visited, Evita struggled to resist eating bread, then stole dried fish from the Kneazles’ stash.
• Evita prepared the Animagus potion with her saliva, the Mandrake leaf, a hair, dew, and a Death's-head Hawkmoth Pupa, then stored it in the underground vault.
• Evita recited the Animagus incantation at sunrise and sunset for over two weeks and felt a second heartbeat, marking the success of that step.
• During a thunderstorm, Evita retrieved the potion, confirmed its color by comparing it with her blood, healed a cut with Episkey, and drank the potion after reciting the incantation.

Evita successfully mastered her Animagus transformation and prepared for her third year at Hogwarts, including getting permission to visit Hogsmeade. While shopping for school supplies in Diagon Alley, she reunited with Bill, Molly, Fred, George, and Lily.

• Evita transformed into a silver-white peregrine falcon, flew around the house, and successfully returned to human form.
• Adele told Evita that she had invented most of the story explaining Evita's Veela ancestry, but Evita chose not to hear it.
• Evita earned a mysterious quarter-formula, copied it into a black diary, and put the diary inside her disguised suitcase.
• Evita received her Hogwarts letter, got Tina's signature on the Hogsmeade permission form, and went to Diagon Alley to buy supplies.
• Evita met Bill while shopping, and they discussed their elective classes and plans to skip some Muggle Studies lessons.
• Molly, Fred, George, and Lily joined Evita and Bill, and Lily asked Evita why she had come shopping alone.

Evita began her third year at Hogwarts, befriended first-year Nymphadora Tonks, and worried about conflicting electives. Professor Sprout gave her a Time-Turner so she could attend all her classes, and Evita began the year with a successful Potions lesson despite Snape docking points from both houses.

• Evita met Nymphadora Tonks at the Hufflepuff table, and Tonks said her mother had heard about Evita winning the Quidditch Cup.
• Evita struggled to choose among electives that conflicted on her timetable.
• Professor Sprout told Evita that Dumbledore had arranged a Time-Turner for her and asked her to use it only for studying.
• Evita arrived late to Potions, where Bill Weasley told her that students thought Snape liked her.
• Evita and Bill brewed bright green Shrinking Solutions, but Snape took points from Gryffindor and Hufflepuff after other students made mistakes.

Evita struggled through Divination, excelled at Arithmancy and Transfiguration, and reflected on how her packed schedule had left her exhausted. In Hogsmeade, she told Bill that Snape mostly left her to brew potions alone and scolded her when things went wrong.

• Evita and Bill failed to find meaningful signs in their tea leaves and mocked the fanciful predictions in Divination.
• Evita interpreted Bill Weasley's name in Arithmancy, and Bill calculated her numbers in return.
• Professor McGonagall demonstrated her Animagus transformation and led the class in practicing Transfiguration.
• Evita visited Hogsmeade with Bill and described her twelve classes, Quidditch practice, and nightly work with Snape.
• Snape complained to Dumbledore about Evita's impulsive approach to Potions, while Dumbledore defended her talent and liveliness.

Evita kept up with her letters, won the Quidditch Cup and House Cup with Hufflepuff, and finished her third year as the top student. On the Hogwarts Express, she told Charlie and Tonks that she could chat with animals, demonstrating with her Kneazle.

• Evita realized she had fallen more than twenty letters behind, wrote replies to her correspondents, and told Sirius to get a job or help Lupin.
• Evita caught the Snitch against Gryffindor and helped Hufflepuff win the Quidditch Cup again.
• Evita completed her exams and celebrated as Hufflepuff won the House Cup for the second year in a row.
• Evita boarded the Hogwarts Express as the top student in her year with Tonks and the Weasley brothers.
• Evita told Charlie that Care of Magical Creatures was interesting because she could chat with animals, then meowed back and forth with her Kneazle.

Evita traveled to Albania during summer vacation to find Nagini, the snake-form Maledictus, and searched through forests and cities with help from her Fantastic Beasts. After weeks without reliable leads, Fini found a trace of Nagini and brought Evita to a deep forest to meet it.

• Evita left Gringotts with a rescued dragon, returned to Godric’s Hollow, and received a mission to find Nagini in Albania.
• Evita flew to Albania and questioned a mouse, then searched the forests in her Animagus form while Adele refused to provide a navigation system.
• Evita sent Echidna, Ariela, Heloise, and Fini to search the mountains and forests, and Adele explained that Evita’s actions changed the original plot.
• Evita placed television and missing-person notices across Albania and offered a reward, but spent nearly a month and a half receiving only unreliable reports.
• Fini found Evita in the city and brought her to a deep forest after she recalled the other searching animals and prepared her spells.

Evita confronted Voldemort and Wormtail in the forest, then used a potion to restore Nagini’s human form and recruited her as a shop assistant. Nagini agreed to go with Evita, who prepared to take her away and buy something first.

• Voldemort ordered Nagini to attack Evita, who summoned her Basilisk, Echidna, to restrain the giant snake.
• Evita disarmed Wormtail, but Voldemort vanished and Wormtail escaped as a rat.
• Evita claimed a Blood Curse Alleviation Potion recipe and brewed the potion from her supplies.
• Evita gave the potion to Nagini, who transformed from a snake into a woman and regained her clarity.
• Nagini asked what she would need to do, and Evita offered her a sales assistant job with monthly access to the potion.
• Evita told Nagini she would arrange their return and said they needed to buy something first.

Evita brought Nagini to work at the Nonexistent Shop, bought her a wand and clothes, and planned to help her find a place to live. Back at Godric’s Hollow, Lily welcomed Nagini while Evita was left to feed Harry, whose response to her cooking was to escape for cookies.

• Evita introduced Nagini to Lupin as the Nonexistent Shop’s new assistant and considered expanding the shop to give her a place to live.
• Evita took Nagini to Ollivander’s, where Nagini found a willow wand with unicorn tail hair, then bought her clothes and other supplies.
• Lily confronted Evita about her letter describing how she became the Monkey King in Albania, and Evita explained that the monkeys had elected her their king while she searched for Nagini.
• Lily befriended Nagini and left Harry in Evita’s care while she went out.
• Evita served Harry mashed taro with cola and a hamburger, but he rejected the meal, ate cookies, and fled.

Evita returned to Hogwarts, received the Most Promising Newcomer Award in Transfiguration, and gave Snape a box of rare potion ingredients. She found the Room of Requirement and began studying Queenie's letter about Legilimency.

• Evita apologized to Fred and George for ignoring their letters, gave them gifts and shopping vouchers, and invited them to visit her home.
• Professor McGonagall gave Evita a letter announcing her Most Promising Newcomer Award, which earned her part of an incomplete potion formula.
• Evita brought Snape a box of rare potion ingredients, and he eagerly stored them in his private storeroom.
• Evita found the Room of Requirement and read Queenie's letter about Legilimency.

Evita practiced Legilimency on Bill, then attended Gryffindor’s Quidditch match against Slytherin and struggled through an increasingly demanding school schedule. During Dumbledore’s Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson on the Patronus Charm, she lost consciousness.

• Evita used Legilimency on Bill, heard that Fred and George had sent him to invite her to The Burrow, and agreed to visit over the summer.
• Bill told Evita that Charlie had recently experienced something that made him very happy.
• Evita watched Gryffindor play Slytherin in the year’s first Quidditch match, with Charlie playing Seeker for Gryffindor.
• Evita endured a crowded week of classes and made a mistake while brewing Strengthening Solution, so Professor Kettleburn sent her to rest at Hagrid’s hut.
• Dumbledore taught the Patronus Charm in Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Evita recited the incantation before losing consciousness.

After a magical outburst left Evita unconscious, Dumbledore helped her recognize that she did not have to pressure herself constantly. Recovered and surrounded by friends and family, she celebrated a joyful Christmas and visited her dragons.

• Madam Pomfrey told Evita that suppressing her magic had strained her body, and Dumbledore encouraged her to take things easier.
• Evita reflected on her past life as Xiaohong, her difficult childhood in an orphanage, and how Adele had become a true mother to her.
• Evita left the Hospital Wing, won Hufflepuff's next match, and agreed to spend Christmas with Tina and Newt in Hogsmeade.
• Evita opened presents from friends, family, and professors and said she had never had a happier Christmas.
• Evita visited her dragons and brought forty-two presents, one for each of them.

Evita spent Christmas in Hogsmeade with Harry, Sirius, and their friends, then returned to Hogwarts and overheard students defending her against blood-status insults. She confronted the students who were abusing her supporters, anticipating that the encounter might earn her detention.

• Evita met Harry and Sirius in Hogsmeade and celebrated Christmas with them, Tina, Newt, Lily, James, and Nagini.
• Evita and her friends played video games, then held a Quidditch match in her suitcase's spacious field with dragons watching.
• Evita stayed in Hogsmeade for much of the holiday and returned to Hogwarts before the Hogwarts Express arrived.
• While resting by the Black Lake, Evita overheard students insulting the Half-bloods who defended her and calling her a Pure-blood traitor.
• Evita climbed down from the tree to confront the students, wondering whether her head of house would give her detention.

Evita defended Tonks, Charlie, and Anna from Slytherin students who insulted them, earning detention and a loss of Hufflepuff points. During detention, she heard a cry near the Forbidden Forest and went with Hagrid to investigate.

• Tonks and her Hufflepuff friends praised Evita as they returned to Hogwarts.
• When Slytherin students insulted Anna and called Charlie a traitor, Evita disarmed them and demanded an apology.
• Evita jinxed the Slytherins, and Professor McGonagall assigned them a month's detention, Evita two weeks, and docked points from both houses.
• Evita served detention by tending plants for Professor Sprout and found the work easy.
• After hearing a cry near the Forbidden Forest, Evita called Fini and joined Hagrid in investigating a possible poacher.

Evita and Hagrid caught a poacher who had injured several Forbidden Forest animals, including a unicorn. After helping the injured creatures, Evita made a lucky amulet for the unicorn Alain Bel and received part of a potion formula for developing it.

• Evita and Hagrid followed traces through the Forbidden Forest and found the poacher disguised as a rat.
• Evita turned the rat back into a man and used Veritaserum to learn that he had injured deer, a unicorn, and Acromantulas.
• The poacher said a hooded stranger had paid him with fake Galleons in a Borgin and Burkes glass case and that an owl had taken the stolen blood and venom.
• Hagrid took the poacher to Professor Dumbledore while Evita and Fini went to treat the injured animals with the centaurs.
• Evita treated the unicorn Alain Bel, made it an amulet using Veela hair and Felix Felicis, and received one incomplete quarter of a potion formula.

After learning more about her Veela heritage, Evita played Hufflepuff’s Quidditch match against Slytherin in a heavy downpour. Despite a dirty collision from Slytherin’s Seeker, she caught the Golden Snitch and won the match for Hufflepuff.

• Evita learned from Adele that she was part Veela and part human, and that her Veela mother resembled her.
• Evita went to History of Magic with Hufflepuff and Slytherin students, whose houses remained tense after their earlier conflict.
• During the Quidditch match, Slytherin’s Seeker deliberately collided with Evita in the rain, and Madam Hooch awarded Hufflepuff a penalty.
• Evita spotted the Golden Snitch near the ground, dived for it, and caught it despite scraping her arm, winning the match.

After revealing that darkness impaired her vision, Evita faced Gryffindor Seeker Charlie in the Quidditch final under stormy skies. Rain fell as both Seekers spotted a glint and raced for the Golden Snitch, leaving the match unresolved.

• The Hufflepuff captain urged Evita to investigate Gryffindor's training, then invited the Gryffindor team to practice with Hufflepuff.
• Evita told Charlie that she could see clearly in bright conditions but struggled to adjust in the dark.
• On the final's stormy day, Charlie warned Evita that he might exploit what he knew about her eyes, and she told him to be careful.
• Rain began during the match, and Evita cast a Waterproofing Charm as the sky darkened.
• Evita and Charlie spotted a glint at nearly the same time and raced toward it as Madam Hooch blew her whistle.

Evita won the Quidditch Cup for Hufflepuff but hurt her arm and went to the Hospital Wing, where she practiced the Patronus Charm and received an invitation to visit the Weasleys at The Burrow. At the End-of-Year Feast, she celebrated Hufflepuff’s third consecutive double victory and heard what other students said about her.

• Madam Hooch ruled that Evita had touched the Golden Snitch first, giving Hufflepuff the Quidditch Cup, and Evita and Charlie went to the Hospital Wing with injuries.
• Tonks visited Evita, showed her Metamorphmagus abilities, and told her that Professor Dumbledore had the fourth-years practicing the Patronus Charm.
• Evita conjured a silvery mist and then the outline of a bird with the Patronus Charm while Bill visited with her class notes and an invitation from the Weasleys.
• Evita accepted the invitation to visit The Burrow during the summer holidays and sent her reply with Bill.
• At the End-of-Year Feast, Evita celebrated Hufflepuff’s third straight House Cup and Quidditch Cup victories, then spoke with a younger Hufflepuff about rumors that she was unusually busy and fast.

Evita spent part of her summer holiday at The Burrow, where she met Ginny and reunited with the Weasley family. The chapter ended with the family playing video games together after dinner and discussing their plans to attend the Quidditch World Cup.

• Molly warmly welcomed Evita to The Burrow, where Ginny eagerly asked her about flying and Fred and George questioned her about a spell she had used before.
• Evita joined the Weasleys for dinner in the garden, where Charlie talked about the World Cup and Mr. Weasley offered her a ticket.
• Evita said she had already bought a World Cup ticket with Lily and the others, and Molly suggested meeting them at the match.
• After dinner, Evita and Bill led the children in a video game session while Ginny sat in Evita's lap and Ron climbed into Bill's.

Evita stayed at the Burrow, told Ginny the Muggle tale of the Little Mermaid, and watched Charlie train for Quidditch. The Weasleys and Evita then traveled by Portkey to the Quidditch World Cup, where they unexpectedly met Lily and Nagini.

• Evita told Ginny the Little Mermaid story, and Ginny wondered whether the mermaid wanted a human heart.
• Evita woke to find she had been holding Ginny in her sleep, then joined Ginny and Bill to watch Charlie practice flying.
• Charlie and Bill explained that Charlie had trained hard since competing against Evita, and Molly brought the children ice cream.
• Evita and the Weasleys used a battered handbag Portkey to travel to the Quidditch World Cup.
• After they arrived at Stoatshead Hill, Lily greeted Evita with Nagini beside her.

Evita joined Lily, Sirius, and the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, meeting Tonks's parents and learning how the public told Harry's story. As the match began, the teams' unusual mascots appeared in the stadium.

• Evita returned the Weasley family’s package, joined Lily, and settled into Sirius’s luxurious tent.
• Evita met Tonks’s mother Andromeda and her father Ted, while Sirius and Andromeda awkwardly caught up.
• Tonks told Evita the popular version of how Voldemort had tried to kill Harry and been defeated by a baby.
• Evita bought souvenirs and Omnioculars, then joined the Weasley family in their first-class box and discussed Muggle customs with Mr. Weasley.
• Ludo Bagman opened the Quidditch World Cup between the United States and Brazil, and Evita identified the teams’ mascots as Snallygasters and Curupiras.

Evita discovered that she had once exchanged letters with Lily under the name Peregrine, then Adele sent her back in time without explaining the full reason. She woke in a prison-like room and realized she was in Nurmengard, where Gellert Grindelwald was imprisoned.

• After the match, Lily told Evita that her sister Petunia was the famous writer Skiploom and showed her their old letters.
• Evita read letters signed Peregrine and suspected she had been Lily’s pen pal ten years earlier.
• Harry asked to see Evita play Quidditch, and she joked that she was better-looking than Charlie.
• Adele directed Evita to her spell notebook and initiated the first part of a quest involving advanced Dark Magic.
• Evita awoke in a prison-like room, looked through a wall, and recognized the imprisoned Gellert Grindelwald.

Evita settled into Nurmengard, studied for her O.W.L.s, and tried to befriend her silent neighbor, Grindelwald. After an accidental spell and a noisy Dark Magic experiment, Grindelwald finally spoke when he recognized the Elder Wand replica she had bought.

• Evita made a window in her cell, exchanged letters with Lily, cared for animals Adele added to her suitcase, and repeatedly invited Grindelwald to talk or share food.
• Evita practiced the Vanishing Spell, accidentally removed the wall between their cells, and failed to restore it with Reparifarge.
• At Hogwarts, Lily received Evita's letter and package, argued with Snape about trusting her unknown correspondent, and took the package back to her dormitory.
• Grindelwald noticed Evita's black-and-yellow scarf and heard her mention Dumbledore and Dark Magic before a sudden explosion startled him.
• Evita tried Dark Magic with a replica Elder Wand, causing an explosion, and Grindelwald asked where she had gotten the wand.