Chapter Summaries

Aya, a feline Spirit Clan girl who had lived as a game character, found herself in a vast unfamiliar forest without players or other people and struggled to survive with her summoned cat, Xiaohua. After tasting food for the first time, she set out to find a settlement and ended the night asleep in a tree beside a river.

• Aya realized she had been stranded in a boundless forest for three days without players, other people, or a system notification.
• Aya relied on Xiaohua to find food and shelter, then hunted and cooked a rabbit for her first taste of meat.
• Aya worried that her player had abandoned her, but remembered that the player had recently bought her new clothes.
• Aya decided to leave the forest and find a settlement, then rode Xiaohua through the woods until they reached a river.
• Aya followed the river downstream until nightfall, climbed a tree with Xiaohua, and fell asleep dreaming of her player and old friends.

Aya received an acceptance letter from Hogwarts and a quest to enroll, then met Professor Snape, who took her to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies. After Aya showed she had enough money, Madam Malkin brought her to wash while Snape waited.

• Aya received a Hogwarts acceptance letter, and the system gave her a quest to enroll by September 1.
• Aya replied to the letter with the word “enrollment” and went fishing with Xiaohua.
• Snape startled Aya by the river, identified himself as a Hogwarts professor, and took her to Diagon Alley.
• Aya showed Snape the coins in her backpack, and he led her through the street to buy school supplies.
• Madam Malkin stopped Aya and took her to wash while Snape went to browse for Potions ingredients.

Aya finished her school uniform fitting, bought her first wand, and told Snape she had nowhere to live. Snape helped her purchase a shabby house on the outskirts of Diagon Alley, where Aya began exploring her new home.

• Madam Malkin bathed Aya, fitted her for Hogwarts robes, and gave her extra dresses.
• Aya met Draco Malfoy and a black-haired boy at Madam Malkin’s shop while waiting for Snape.
• Snape took Aya to Ollivander’s, where she found a wand made of alder and unicorn tail hair that produced roses.
• Aya told Snape she had no home or family, and he suggested she buy an unwanted shop in Diagon Alley.
• Snape paid the difference for a small two-story house, and Aya explored it with Xiaohua.

Aya settled into her house, explored Diagon Alley, and met Albus Dumbledore, who asked her to choose a surname for Hogwarts records. She chose Hawthorne and left Dumbledore intrigued by Xiaohua when she called the cat a weapon.

• Aya bought household supplies and hired a witch to clean her house, then fell asleep in her newly made bed beside Xiaohua.
• Aya woke refreshed, ate breakfast at the Leaky Cauldron, and searched Diagon Alley for glowing spots that yielded coins.
• Aya bought strawberry milk ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, where Albus Dumbledore introduced himself as Hogwarts headmaster.
• Dumbledore asked Aya why her name appeared as Friendly Aya and suggested she choose a surname, so she chose Hawthorne in honor of someone who had cared for her.
• Dumbledore asked whether Xiaohua was the pet Aya would bring to school, and Aya replied that Xiaohua was a weapon.

Aya spent the summer settling into her hidden home, where Dumbledore arranged for Duoduo to care for her and teach her basic knowledge. After exploring the Muggle world and enjoying its food, Aya prepared to start Hogwarts the next day with Xiaohua and Duoduo close by.

• Aya told Dumbledore that Xiaohua was her weapon and described her violent past, leading him to guess she was a war orphan and offer to take her home.
• Dumbledore visited Aya's house, strengthened its protections, left sweets, and later assigned Duoduo to look after her during the holidays.
• Duoduo taught Aya common customs while caring for her and Xiaohua, and followed Aya as she explored Muggle streets, watched Tom and Jerry, and searched rubbish for pounds to buy food.
• On the last day of August, Duoduo packed Aya's belongings for Hogwarts and promised to keep looking after her at school.
• Aya ate a lavish dinner, went to bed with Xiaohua, and said good night to Duoduo on the eve of her first day at Hogwarts.

Aya traveled to Hogwarts for her first year and met Harry Potter on the way to the train, where they shared a compartment with Ron Weasley and the twins. As the train journey continued, Ron showed them his pet rat, which caught Aya’s attention.

• Duoduo sent Aya into King’s Cross Station alone, and Aya found Harry Potter searching for the entrance to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.
• Aya and Harry boarded the Hogwarts Express and shared an empty compartment; Xiaohua grew large to lift Harry’s luggage, impressing Fred and George Weasley.
• Harry and Aya recognized each other from Diagon Alley and talked about Harry’s scar and Aya’s lack of a family.
• Ron Weasley joined the compartment, learned that Harry was the Chosen One, and introduced himself to Aya and Harry.
• Aya sorted her sweets while Ron described his hand-me-down belongings and pulled his gray rat from his pocket.

On the Hogwarts Express, Aya befriended Harry and Ron, shared food, and helped Neville recover his toad with Xiaohua. Hermione joined them and introduced herself before Draco Malfoy appeared at the compartment door and recognized Aya.

• Aya told Harry and Ron about her world, her Spirit identity, and her House-elf Duoduo, then shared lunch and snacks with them.
• Neville asked for help finding Trevor, and Aya sent Xiaohua to search the train for the toad.
• Hermione Granger arrived, met Aya, and watched Ron fail to perform a spell before introducing herself to Harry and Ron.
• Hermione recognized Harry from her books, talked about Hogwarts houses, and left with Neville to change into their robes.
• Aya listened as Harry and Ron discussed Quidditch, then greeted Draco Malfoy when he entered looking for Harry.

Aya arrived at Hogwarts with Harry and Ron and was sorted into Gryffindor alongside them. At the welcoming feast, she focused on trying the food while Harry noticed Professor Snape speaking with Professor Quirrell and felt his scar hurt.

• Draco Malfoy introduced himself to Harry and shook his hand, prompting Ron to warn Harry about the Malfoy family.
• Aya traveled with Harry and Ron to Hogwarts, crossed the lake with the first-years, and reached the castle with them.
• Professor McGonagall explained the Sorting Ceremony, and the Sorting Hat placed Aya in Gryffindor after Hermione had also been sorted there.
• Harry and Ron were sorted into Gryffindor, and Aya piled meat onto her plate before Hermione urged her to eat vegetables too.
• During the feast, Harry saw Professor Snape talking to Professor Quirrell, felt pain in his scar, and asked Aya who Snape was.

Aya settled into Gryffindor life, unlocked a useful skill, and reached her first Transfiguration lesson. After Professor McGonagall corrected her idea of a needle, Aya successfully transformed a match and earned five points for Gryffindor.

• Aya completed the Enrollment quest, rose from level five to level ten, unlocked Sensing, and equipped a level-ten wand.
• Aya followed Percy to the Gryffindor dormitory, met Hermione, Parvati Patil, and Lavender Brown, and went to sleep beside Xiaohua.
• The next morning, Aya rode Xiaohua down the moving staircase and reached the Great Hall, where Professor McGonagall gave her a timetable.
• Aya joined Hermione in Transfiguration class, collected a few matches from sparkling spots, and told McGonagall she could not write.
• Aya first transformed a match into a crude stick, then studied McGonagall's example and changed another match into an embroidery needle, earning five Gryffindor points.

Aya drew attention at Hogwarts for her unusual cat Xiaohua and her inability to write, then attended Snape’s Potions class, where she revealed strange combat magic and was brought to Dumbledore’s office. Snape began explaining the incident to Dumbledore as Aya looked around the office.

• Professor McGonagall gave Aya handwriting books and a wizarding dictionary, while Xiaohua became a subject of school rumors.
• Aya attended Potions with Hermione, watched her brew a Cure for Boils, and saw Snape take points from Gryffindor after Neville’s mistake and Harry’s answer.
• After class, Aya offered Snape a hundred Galleons and showed him a Unicorn Horn, claiming she had found both in his classroom.
• When Snape tried to take Aya to Dumbledore, she used magic to switch places with Xiaohua and blocked Snape’s Expelliarmus with Pollen.
• Snape escorted Aya and Xiaohua to Dumbledore’s office, where he began describing Aya’s unusual abilities.

Dumbledore and Snape investigated Aya’s unusual magic and learned that she could retrieve items from glowing spots, while neither could identify her staff. Aya spent the weekend looting Hogwarts and looked forward to Flying Class, which was about to begin.

• Dumbledore asked Aya to demonstrate her magic, and she retrieved Fizzing Whizbees and a phoenix feather from glowing spots in his office.
• Dumbledore and Snape examined Aya and her staff, but they could not explain her magic or identify the staff’s material.
• Aya left the office with a bag of sweets and planned to loot Hogwarts during the weekend, filling three trunks with materials.
• Aya heard her classmates’ stories about flying and listened to Hermione study flying instructions before Thursday’s Flying Class.
• Neville showed Aya his Remembrall, which turned red in her hands, and Draco sneered at her before she greeted him politely.
• The students gathered on the grounds for Flying Class, where Hermione read aloud about the correct sitting position on a broom.

Aya rescued Neville during Flying Class, then impressed Professor McGonagall with her fast flying while Harry was recruited as Gryffindor’s Seeker. Aya won candy from Draco in a bet, and Harry accepted Draco’s invitation to a midnight wizard’s duel despite Hermione’s warning.

• Aya chose a bushy broom, and Xiaohua caught Neville when he fell from his broom after taking off too high.
• Madam Hooch awarded Aya five points for helping Neville, and Aya later flew quickly across the lawn.
• Professor McGonagall reprimanded Aya, Harry, and Draco for flying dangerously, then took Harry away and made him Gryffindor’s new Seeker.
• Aya bet Draco candy that Harry would not be expelled, and Harry returned to dinner as the youngest house team player in nearly a century.
• Draco lost the bet and gave Aya candy before challenging Harry to a midnight wizard’s duel, while Hermione warned Harry against going.

Aya joined Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville on a nighttime expedition that led them to a three-headed dog, then repaid Snape and sold him a Unicorn Horn. At the Black Lake, Aya tried to cook fish with Xiaohua, but they knocked a merperson unconscious, and Dumbledore intervened before she could cut into it.

• Hermione dragged Aya along as she followed Harry and Ron out of the common room, and Neville joined them after they found him asleep in a corridor.
• The group fled Filch and Peeves, then stumbled into a room with a three-headed dog before running back to the common room.
• Aya gave Snape another hundred Galleons toward her debt and sold him a Unicorn Horn for fifty Galleons.
• Aya went to the Black Lake with Xiaohua, caught fish, and began grilling them with magic.
• Xiaohua knocked a merperson unconscious after it shrieked, and Dumbledore stopped Aya as she approached it with her dagger.

Aya slipped away from Gryffindor Tower and cleared the dungeon beneath the forbidden area, taking the Philosopher’s Stone as her reward. Dumbledore tried to recover it, but Aya and Xiaohua evaded him, and she ended the chapter insisting he could search her backpack.

• Aya traded Dumbledore’s box of Honeydukes sweets for the merperson Xiaohua had caught, then slipped out of the dormitory that night to return to the three-headed dog.
• Aya and Xiaohua defeated the dog, found a trapdoor, and made their way through rooms of flying keys and Wizard’s Chess by brute force.
• Aya and Xiaohua fought a Troll and solved the potion room by testing its bottles on Xiaohua, then reached the final room and claimed a parcel.
• Dumbledore confronted Aya in the forbidden area, and a system notification revealed that the parcel contained the Philosopher’s Stone, which increased gold coins in her backpack by one percent each month.
• Aya refused to give up the Stone, blocked Dumbledore’s spells, and evaded him with Xiaohua until he asked to inspect her backpack; Aya confidently challenged him to find anything inside.

Aya secretly took the Philosopher's Stone from the fourth-floor forbidden area, then spent the term exploring Hogwarts and practicing magic. On Halloween, she and her roommates found Hermione crying in the girls' bathroom after an argument with Harry and Ron, but Hermione asked to be left alone.

• Dumbledore and McGonagall searched Aya but found no Stone, and Dumbledore let her return to bed without punishing her.
• Fred and George questioned Aya about the fourth-floor forbidden area, and she told them about its obstacles and reward.
• Aya returned to the forbidden area twice and found that its three-headed dog had not healed completely or reset.
• Aya completed the “Integrate into Hogwarts” quest, reached level fifteen, and received the “Find the Person Hidden in the Shadows” quest.
• Aya borrowed Harry’s Nimbus 2000 and performed spinning turns in the air, then struggled to master the Levitation Charm in class.
• Aya, Lavender, and Parvati followed Xiaohua to the girls’ bathroom, where they found Hermione crying; Hermione told them she wanted to be alone.

Aya visited Duoduo in the kitchens and joined the Halloween feast, but when a Troll entered the castle, she followed Harry and Ron as they went to find Hermione. Xiaohua defeated the Troll, and Professor McGonagall awarded the students points before sending them back to Gryffindor Tower.

• Aya visited Duoduo in the kitchen, ate a chicken leg, and took pumpkin pies to save for later.
• Aya joined the Halloween feast, where Lavender, Parvati, Alicia, and Angelina shared pumpkin treats with her; she also learned Hermione had not come to the feast.
• Professor Quirrell announced that a Troll had entered the castle, and Aya followed Harry and Ron as they slipped away to find Hermione.
• Aya led Harry and Ron to the bathroom, where the Troll cornered Hermione, and summoned Xiaohua to attack it.
• Professor McGonagall heard the students' explanation, deducted ten points from Gryffindor, awarded them fifteen points, and sent them back to Gryffindor Tower.

As Harry prepared for his first Quidditch match, Aya traded Xiaohua’s protection for sweets and argued with Harry about whether Snape intended to steal the object guarded by the three-headed dog. The chapter ended with Aya saving seats at the pitch by stretching Xiaohua across the stands, attracting a crowd eager to pet her.

• After Halloween, Hermione grew closer to Harry and Ron, and the Gryffindor students encouraged Harry as his first Quidditch match against Slytherin approached.
• Fred and George paid Aya in sweets to borrow Xiaohua, claiming they needed the cat to evade Filch's cat.
• Harry reported seeing Snape injured after visiting the three-headed dog, and he and Aya made a bet over whether Snape would try to take what the dog guarded.
• On the morning of the match, Hermione organized Harry's friends to make him a banner, while Aya went ahead to reserve seats.
• Aya summoned Xiaohua to the stands and stretched her across the top row to save seats, then accepted snacks from students who wanted to pet the enormous cat.

Aya watched Harry catch the Golden Snitch after Hermione interrupted the spellwork threatening his broom, then joined Harry and his friends at Hagrid’s Hut, where Hagrid accidentally revealed that a guarded object was connected to Nicolas Flamel. As Christmas approached, Aya stayed at Hogwarts and went with Harry and Ron to help Hagrid bring in a fir tree, ending by riding on its trunk.

• Aya watched Flint ram Harry during the Quidditch match, then saw Hermione knock Quirrell over and stop Snape from casting at Harry’s broom.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch in his mouth, and Hagrid invited Aya, Harry, Ron, and Hermione to celebrate at his hut.
• Harry and his friends questioned Hagrid about Snape and the three-headed dog, and Hagrid accidentally mentioned Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, and what the dog guarded.
• Aya learned she would stay at Hogwarts for Christmas, while Harry and several Weasleys also remained at school.
• Harry and Ron brought Aya to help Hagrid collect Christmas trees, and Aya jumped onto a fir tree and rode it.

Aya spent the days before Christmas exploring Hogwarts, repaid Snape the money she owed him, and joined Fred and George for a common-room barbecue on Christmas Eve. The chapter ended with her patiently cooling a chicken wing while George wondered whether her tongue had barbs.

• Hagrid brought a fir tree into the Great Hall with Aya riding on it, and Xiaohua forced Draco to join her on the tree after he insulted them.
• Aya stayed behind to watch the Christmas decorations while Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to the library to search for Nicolas Flamel.
• Aya spent the holiday exploring the castle, saved a hundred Galleons, and returned the money she owed Snape while taking several unknown materials from his office.
• Aya joined Fred and George for a Christmas Eve barbecue, and Percy warned the twins not to cause trouble in the common room.
• Aya waited for a chicken wing to cool before eating it, and George asked whether her tongue had barbs.

Aya spent Christmas at Hogwarts, collecting presents, selling potion ingredients to Snape, and joining her friends for the holiday festivities. She ended the Christmas feast wishing she had found the lucky prize hidden in a pudding, which Percy had already discovered.

• George pulled at Aya’s cheek to inspect her tongue and got bitten, while Fred teased her and offered her chicken wings.
• Aya woke to more than ten Christmas presents, including sweets from Headmaster Dumbledore and a knitted hat from Duoduo, then packed her gifts and headed to Snape’s office.
• Aya sold Snape nearly sixty kinds of blue materials for seventy Galleons, briefly chose a Thunderbird Feather as a gift for him, then put it away and left.
• Aya gave cakes to her friends as return gifts and chose a baguette for Dumbledore, then joined the others in the snow and buried Ron with Xiaohua.
• Aya enjoyed the Christmas feast and desserts, but Percy found the lucky silver prize in a Christmas pudding before she could.