Chapter Summaries

Evita returned to Godric's Hollow after finishing her first year at Hogwarts and learned that James, Lily, and Sirius were Animagi. She left curious about her own possible Animagus form while planning to join the Hufflepuff Quidditch team as a Seeker.

• Evita finished her exams at the top of her year, then returned home by Apparition with Lily.
• Evita greeted James, Sirius, and Harry, who remembered her because of the toy she had given him.
• James and Lily explained that Sirius had visited Harry in his Animagus form, and Sirius transformed into a large black dog for Evita to see.
• Evita asked whether an Animagus could become a blue whale, but Lily explained that an Animagus's form depended on personality and weight.
• Evita dismissed the idea of practicing Animagus transformation in her second year and said she wanted to join the house team as a Seeker.

Evita practiced Quidditch, studied Potions and Advanced Charms, and spent the summer developing her skills. As the holiday neared its end, she opened the Nonexistent Shop with Lupin as its shopkeeper and prepared for her second year.

• Evita practiced catching a Golden Snidget and later watched Harry fly a child's broom around the living room.
• Professor Slughorn invited Evita to join his club, sent her a book of potion recipes, and asked what her mother was researching.
• Evita studied Potions, languages, and Advanced Charms while continuing to practice Quidditch throughout the summer.
• Evita named her shop the Nonexistent Shop, made Lupin its shopkeeper, and inspected its two floors and attic.
• Evita stocked the shop with potions and other goods, then bought supplies and books for her second year.

Evita returned to Hogwarts for her second year, where she joined Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team as Seeker. After buying the team Nimbus 1700 brooms, she began demanding training ahead of their first match.

• Evita boarded the Hogwarts Express and let Bill sit with her, then told him she had practiced magic at home.
• At the Sorting Feast, Evita greeted the Fat Friar, watched the new students be Sorted, and heard that Severus Snape had become Potions teacher and head of Slytherin House.
• Evita attended Hufflepuff’s Quidditch tryouts and repeatedly caught the Golden Snitch, earning a place on the team.
• Evita added three weekly training sessions to her schedule and bought every Hufflepuff team member a Nimbus 1700.
• The Hufflepuff captain rallied the team to begin training with their new brooms.

Evita won Hufflepuff’s first Quidditch match by catching the Golden Snitch, then later found herself summoned to Snape’s office over handwritten potion-making ideas in her textbook. After she brewed a Strengthening Solution, Snape began teaching her to improve her technique.

• Evita outflew Ravenclaw’s Seeker, caught the Golden Snitch, and secured Hufflepuff’s victory in half an hour.
• Evita selected all five third-year elective subjects and submitted her application to Sprout after the Easter holidays.
• Snape noticed Sirius’s notes revising Evita’s potion-making ideas and told her to come to his office, criticizing the modified steps without deducting Hufflepuff points.
• Snape asked Evita about Strengthening Solution and had her brew a batch in his office.
• Snape corrected Evita’s method for adding salamander blood and told her to brew the potion again.

Evita was thrown out of Snape’s office after making a joke about potion-making, then later helped Hufflepuff win the Quidditch final against Gryffindor by catching the Golden Snitch. After celebrating with her housemates, she slept through History of Magic and borrowed Bill’s notes.

• Snape dismissed Evita from his office and took two points from Hufflepuff, so she jinxed Peeves when he mocked her.
• Evita caught the Golden Snitch ahead of the Gryffindor Seeker, securing Hufflepuff’s Quidditch championship.
• Professor Sprout praised Evita, and the Hufflepuffs celebrated with food brought from the kitchens by the Prefects.
• Evita fell asleep during History of Magic and realized she had failed to take notes again.
• Bill lent Evita his notes, and she promised to treat him to a Chocolate Frog.

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.