Recaps

Harry tried to understand Voldemort’s new questions about love, then began her third year at Hogwarts after Dementors attacked her on the train. She suspected Sirius had escaped early to find her and remained determined to get his signature.

• Harry asked Voldemort what he was plotting, and he wondered why Grindelwald had killed himself and why he had lost.
• Harry told Voldemort that he had lost because he did not understand love, leaving him confused by the idea.
• Harry spent a peaceful school year after the native Dark Lord’s diary and his chance to return had been destroyed.
• Dementors attacked Harry on the train, and a professor saved her before Hermione and Ron brought her to the Hospital Wing.
• Madam Pomfrey treated Harry’s weakness, while Harry reflected that she had not asked Aunt Petunia to sign her Hogsmeade form because she wanted Sirius’s signature.
• Harry wondered whether Sirius had escaped Azkaban early to see her and fell asleep in the Hospital Wing.

Harry and Draco rode Buckbeak together during Hagrid’s first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, then Hermione defended Harry and her parents when Pansy insulted them. The chapter ended with Pansy fleeing and Draco deciding he was fortunate never to have insulted Hermione.

• Harry volunteered to ride Buckbeak, but Draco stepped in and Hagrid suggested they ride together.
• Harry and Draco climbed onto Buckbeak, who flew them over the students and the outer wall of Hogwarts Castle.
• After class, Pansy blocked Harry’s path and insulted Hermione and Harry’s parents.
• Hermione slapped Pansy and fiercely rebuked her until Pansy fled.
• Draco watched Hermione walk away with Harry and Ron and silently congratulated himself for never insulting her.

Pansy left the Slytherin common room after Draco healed her cheek, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to Lupin’s Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson. Harry’s Boggart showed her a future in which everyone died and she was left alone, before her spell turned it into a black cat.

• Pansy stormed out of the Slytherin girls’ dormitory after Hermione slapped her, but Draco healed her swollen cheek and she abandoned her plan to seek revenge.
• Ron questioned how Hermione could attend so many clashing classes, and Hermione teased him about his burned Potions notes.
• Professor Lupin introduced the class to Boggarts and opened the wardrobe for Harry’s turn.
• Harry’s Boggart engulfed her in darkness and showed her parents, friends, teachers, and Voldemort dying, leaving her alone as the Chosen One.
• Harry cast Riddikulus, turning the darkness into a fat black cat with golden eyes.

Draco decided to pursue Harry and left her white roses and a love note at breakfast. When he approached to ask whether she liked his present, Harry stunned him in front of the Great Hall.

• Draco asked Goyle and Crabbe how to tell Harry he liked her, then decided to give her a present before confessing.
• Cho Chang told Harry she had liked her for three years and wished Harry were gay, leaving Harry confused.
• Hermione suggested that sexuality could change, while George and Fred showed Harry the decorated seat and gift Draco had prepared.
• Ron read Draco's love note aloud, and the Great Hall fell silent as Draco approached Harry.
• Harry cast Stupefy on Draco and said her hand had slipped.

After Draco Malfoy’s public attempt to court Harry Potter ended in humiliation, Snape warned him to stay away from her. Draco received a mocking letter from Lucius but remained determined to pursue Harry with an extravagant Hogsmeade-week plan.

• Harry knocked Draco unconscious after his embarrassing public courtship attempt, and Snape deducted ten points from Slytherin for damaging the house’s image.
• Draco disappeared from Hogwarts’ social scene, while Snape repeatedly stopped him from approaching Harry in Potions class.
• Harry overheard Snape tell Draco that he was unsuitable for her and demand that he stop pursuing her so ostentatiously.
• Draco read Lucius’s letter mocking his poor courtship, then insisted to Goyle and Crabbe that Malfoys never gave up.
• Draco opened a chest of expensive gifts and declared that he would show Harry a proper Malfoy-style courtship during Hogsmeade week.

Snape and Sirius learned that Draco was pursuing Harry, and McGonagall suggested a way for Sirius to protect her while watching Peter. The next morning, Harry discovered that Sirius had become her new head of house, leaving her uneasy about having her godfather as her professor.

• Snape asked McGonagall to send Draco home, then crushed a glass when she mentioned Draco’s confession to Harry.
• Sirius learned that Draco was courting Harry and angrily objected to the idea of her dating a Malfoy.
• Snape left Sirius worrying that Harry might attend the ball with Draco.
• Sirius told McGonagall that Peter had sneaked into Hogwarts, and she proposed a way for him to protect Harry while keeping watch.
• Ron announced that Professor Black would be the new head of house, and Harry saw Sirius arriving at Hogwarts with Hagrid.

Harry met Sirius Black in McGonagall’s office and calmly accepted his account of Peter Pettigrew’s betrayal. After Sirius signed her Hogsmeade permission form, he set off to ally with Snape against Draco’s pursuit of Harry.

• Harry reassured Ron that he was a good brother, and Neville interrupted them to say Black was looking for her.
• McGonagall introduced Harry to Sirius Black, who explained how Peter Pettigrew had betrayed him and evaded him for twelve years.
• Harry said she believed Sirius, surprising him and McGonagall.
• Harry asked Sirius to sign her Hogsmeade permission form, and he eagerly agreed and offered to take her shopping for sweets.
• After Harry left, Sirius hurried off to find Snape and form an alliance to keep Draco away from her.

Peter Pettigrew told Voldemort that Sirius Black and Snape were trying to protect Harry Potter from Draco Malfoy and other suitors, leaving Voldemort stunned by the news that his Basilisk had become Harry’s bracelet. Meanwhile, Draco struggled to approach Harry and planned an elaborate confession for Hogsmeade week.

• Peter Pettigrew reported that Sirius Black had reunited with Harry Potter and intended to stop Draco Malfoy from courting her with Snape’s help.
• Voldemort learned that the Basilisk he had sent Peter to watch was now Harry’s bracelet, and the revelation left him so shocked that his mirror went black.
• Peter returned to spying on the students without telling Voldemort that Ginny Weasley had slipped heart-marked homemade chocolates into Harry’s schoolbag.
• Draco complained that Professor Black and Snape repeatedly interfered with his attempts to speak to Harry, while Crabbe and Goyle insisted the incidents were coincidences.
• Draco decided to confess to Harry during Hogsmeade week and asked Crabbe and Goyle to arrange a romantic scene.
• Draco revealed that he had written seventeen confession speeches, including one comparing Harry’s eyes to the waters of the Black Lake.

Draco missed his chance to confess to Harry, while Ron and Hermione privately grappled with their feelings for her. That night, Harry dreamed of Voldemort and woke when the Basilisk Voldemort’s bracelet pinched her wrist.

• Fred and George told Ron that Draco had planned to confess to Harry, then teased Ron about his own feelings for her.
• Ron denied liking Harry, but Harry returned with Hermione and cheerfully called Ron a good mate.
• Hermione agreed with Harry that Ron was reliable while privately imagining marrying Harry and apologizing to Ron.
• Harry fell asleep hugging Ginny’s plush Niffler and dreamed that Voldemort threatened to use her for his resurrection.
• The Basilisk Voldemort pinched Harry’s wrist through her snake-shaped bracelet and claimed she had disturbed him in her sleep.

Harry celebrated Christmas at Hogwarts by giving thoughtful gifts to her friends and professors, while Snape received a sweater that moved him. Fred and George gave Harry the Marauder’s Map, which showed Dumbledore moving through the Slytherin dormitory as the chapter ended.

• Harry gave Hermione, Ron, Draco, and several professors Christmas presents, then left a knitted scarf at Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s shared grave.
• Sirius showed Snape his Dragonhide gloves from Harry, and Snape received and quietly admired the black sweater she had sent him.
• Harry, Hermione, Ginny, and Ron played chess in the Gryffindor common room, where Ginny secretly moved Ron’s knight while Hermione distracted Harry.
• Fred and George gave Harry the Marauder’s Map and explained that it revealed people’s locations and Hogwarts’ secret passages.
• The map showed a moving name labeled Albus Dumbledore in the Slytherin dormitory, but nobody noticed.

Draco misread Harry’s rejection note as shyness, while Albus and Gellert shared a private Christmas Eve in the castle. After Harry reunited Sirius with the Weasleys, she told Ron and Hermione that Peter Pettigrew had betrayed her parents, then accepted Ginny’s invitation to Diagon Alley.

• Draco admired the sweets Harry had sent him and decided her note telling him to leave her alone meant she was shy.
• Albus and Gellert watched Draco from the west tower, discussed Voldemort’s Horcruxes, and left together under a privacy charm.
• Cho told Harry that students had seen two magical young ghosts, and golden-dusted footprints appeared in the snow near Filch.
• Harry brought Sirius to the Weasley home, where Molly recognized him and chased him with a rolling pin.
• Harry explained to Ron and Hermione that Peter Pettigrew had betrayed her parents and escaped by faking his death.
• Ginny invited Harry to Diagon Alley, and Harry accepted.

Harry decided to destroy Voldemort by trading her life for his, while she, Ron, and Hermione exposed Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew. Peter escaped to Voldemort, who rejected his warning and vowed to deal with Harry himself.

• Harry resolved to take Voldemort down with her after receiving Draco's invitation to the Malfoy home.
• Peter Pettigrew escaped his cage after the Weasley household left, intending to report to Voldemort.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione revealed themselves and watched Peter transform from Scabbers into a man.
• Harry told Ron that Peter had betrayed her parents and faked his death by cutting off a finger.
• Harry declined to follow Peter, saying Voldemort would come to her, while Hermione and Ron promised to stay with her.
• Voldemort ordered Peter to leave and said he would deal with Harry himself, despite Peter's warning that he had no body.

Voldemort sought Harry Potter’s blood to restore his body and was stunned by a dark wizard’s obsessive collection of Harry merchandise. After Wormtail obtained the blood, Voldemort completed the resurrection ritual and vowed to kill Harry himself.

• Voldemort possessed a Death Eater and arranged a bounty for Harry Potter’s blood.
• A collector showed Voldemort an obsessive assortment of Harry memorabilia and offered blood collected when she had been injured.
• The Death Eater bought the vial of Harry’s blood, and Voldemort praised him despite his disgust at the other merchandise.
• Wormtail secretly carried the blood to help Voldemort return to life and avoided the Weasley family along the way.
• On the last day of Harry’s Christmas holiday, Voldemort used the ritual to regain his body and vowed to kill Harry.

During Muggle Studies, Professor Burbage proposed a Muggle Life Experience Week, and Pansy grew furious when she learned Draco had signed up. After her dormmates confronted her about her outbursts and left, Pansy blamed Harry and vowed revenge.

• An unknown voice asked Professor Burbage about the witch trials, and she acknowledged the harm Muggles had done while urging students to see them as branches of the same tree.
• Draco asked how Muggles could have persecuted witches if they were like wizards, and Burbage decided to apply for a Muggle Life Experience Week.
• Pansy mocked the idea of spending time with Muggles, then learned that Draco had signed up for one of the fifty available places.
• Pansy smashed a glass and screamed about Harry, prompting Daphne Greengrass and Millicent Bulstrode to tell her they could no longer tolerate her behavior.
• Daphne and the other girls left, and Pansy trashed the dormitory before blaming Harry and promising she would not let her get away with it.

Students and professors prepared for Muggle Life Experience Week in London, where magic would be prohibited. As Harry helped Ginny choose suitable clothes, Draco planned to pursue Harry during the trip, while Pansy looked for a way to join them.

• Hermione and Ginny celebrated the London event, and Harry agreed to help Ginny choose Muggle clothes after handing Ron a guide to Muggle electrical appliances.
• Harry and Hermione rejected Ginny’s unusual outfits and began helping her select clothes for the trip.
• Fred and George promoted their Weasley Non-Magical Survival Kit to students in the Gryffindor common room.
• Snape questioned Sirius’s place among the accompanying professors, then packed the Christmas sweater Harry had given him.
• Draco boasted to Crabbe and Goyle that he would win Harry over during the week, while the two planned to try Muggle food and drinks.
• Pansy watched Draco’s preparations and decided she had to find a way to join the trip.

The students began Muggle Life Experience Week in London, where Draco was assigned to stay with Snape instead of Harry. On the way to the British Museum, Draco challenged Pansy's prejudice against Muggles, while Snape noticed his changing attitude.

• Professor Burbage reminded the students to experience Muggle life respectfully and handed out Tube cards and cash.
• Draco tried to follow Harry, but Snape told him that his father had ordered him to stay with Snape.
• The students marvelled at the Tube gates, and Professor Burbage awarded Draco five points to Slytherin for using one calmly.
• On the coach to the British Museum, Pansy disparaged Muggles, and Draco questioned her despite being surprised by his own response.
• Snape overheard Draco speaking up for Muggles and quietly noted the change.

Harley and Hermione found a young Taoist girl outside the British Museum who had snuck out to recover stolen cultural relics, but she vanished with a spell before the professors could take her to safety. On the coach, Arthur explained Eastern Taoist arts, while Snape revealed that Taoists swished Potions in hot pot and ate them.

• Harley and Hermione found a little girl outside the British Museum who said she had come to catch thieves and reclaim her country's cultural relics.
• The girl refused to go to the police and vanished after using hand signs and a Taoist spell.
• McGonagall asked Sirius to contact the Eastern Taoist Alliance and tell them to keep their students under control.
• Arthur explained to the young wizards that Taoists practiced a different system of magic and used swords as flying tools.
• Draco became fascinated by Eastern spells and decided to ask his father about possible ancient Pure-blood families in the East.
• Snape said Taoists swished Potions in hot pot and ate them, astonishing the young wizards.

Professor Burbage challenged the young wizards to confront historical crimes without judging all Muggles alike, leaving Draco unsettled by the lesson. Later, after Draco was beaten and threatened by Muggles, Dudley Dursley rescued him.

• Professor Burbage showed the students artifacts taken from other countries and explained that they were evidence of historical crimes.
• Draco questioned whether Muggles were all savage robbers, and Professor Burbage challenged him to consider his ancestors’ complicity and distinguish individuals from groups.
• Ginny asked how Muggles could correct their wrongs while the artifacts remained unreturned and the witch trials unacknowledged.
• Draco went out with Goyle and Crabbe, collided with a tattooed man, and was punched and threatened at gunpoint after drawing his wand.
• Dudley Dursley knocked the gunman down, returned Draco’s wand, and told him to be more careful.

After Dudley rescued Draco from an armed Muggle, Draco returned with Harry and confronted his fear of Muggle weapons. The next morning, he apologized to Harry’s relatives and admitted that Muggles were not so different from wizards, while Snape watched in anger.

• Dudley told Harry that he had rescued Draco from a gunman, and Harry warned Draco that a wand would not make him faster than a bullet.
• Dudley left for home, and Harry returned to the hotel with Draco, where Draco hurried past Hermione in fear.
• Harry introduced Neville to Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon the next morning, and Draco politely approached them.
• Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon confronted Draco about his past treatment of Harry and his near-death encounter with the gunman.
• Draco admitted that his views on Muggles had been narrow and agreed with Professor Burbage that Muggles and wizards were not so different.
• Snape watched the conversation from the hotel corridor and cracked his coffee cup.

Draco apologized to Hermione, while Pansy accepted a black mist’s offer and wished for a world without Muggles. Harry sensed an approaching danger, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald detected a powerful presence before the group set out to try hot pot in London.

• Draco apologized to Hermione for calling her a “Mudblood,” and Hermione accepted.
• Pansy blamed Harry for Draco’s changed views, then told a black mist she wanted a world without Muggles and received a black ring.
• Harry felt uneasy and noticed her snake bracelet tighten as Voldemort said he sensed a familiar presence he could not remember.
• At Hogwarts, Grindelwald and Dumbledore sensed that a powerful presence had appeared.
• Aunt Petunia gave Harry a hot pot voucher and warned her to order the divided pot, while Harry worried that cooking food in broth would resemble Potions.

Harry took Ron, Hermione, Professor Snape, and Arthur and Molly Weasley to try hot pot, where the group learned how to cook and dip the unfamiliar ingredients. They discovered they enjoyed the meal, and Snape cautiously admitted to himself that the bullfrog tasted good.

• Harry invited Ron, Hermione, Professor Snape, and Arthur and Molly Weasley to a hot pot restaurant, where the red broth and strange ingredients unsettled the group.
• The waiter explained that they should cook the ingredients in the broth, avoid drinking the spicy red soup, and follow the pamphlets' cooking times.
• Arthur learned how to cook tripe with the 'seven up, eight down' method, then enjoyed it with sesame and garlic sauce.
• Harry tried meat with sesame sauce, liked it, and Hermione tied back Harry's hair while she ate.
• Snape cautiously cooked and tasted bullfrog in the red broth, found it tender and flavorful, and privately decided it deserved five points to Gryffindor.

After Muggle Experience Week, Harry returned to Hogwarts and found the school shrouded in black mist, with its students unconscious. She confronted Pansy Parkinson, who revealed a sinister presence and attacked her, leaving Harry facing a deadly threat.

• After the hot pot meal, Molly took Harry away while Ron and Arthur struggled with how much they had eaten, and Hermione gave them digestive potions borrowed from Snape.
• At Malfoy Manor, Lucius prepared to confront Draco over his praise of Muggles, but Narcissa stopped him and defended Draco's right to his own judgment.
• On the train back to Hogwarts, Draco proudly thought about the computer and car he had bought for his parents, while Pansy rejected Muggle gifts and stroked her black ring.
• After returning to Hogwarts, Harry woke unable to move as black mist spread through her dormitory, and found Hermione and her roommates unconscious.
• Harry ran through the mist-filled corridors and found Pansy beside a window, with black mist pouring from her ring.
• Pansy dismissed Harry's accusations, revealed unnatural black eyes, and sent sharp arrows of black mist at her, shouting, "Die, Harry Potter!"

Harry realized Pansy had trapped her in a dream and defeated her with a Stunning Spell, waking safely in Hogwarts. Pansy woke injured and alone, while the shadow that had empowered her condemned her as useless and vanished.

• Harry recognized that Pansy's attack was happening in a dream and endured the pain when Pansy made the illusion hurt them both.
• Pansy revealed that she blamed Harry for Draco's lack of interest in her, then attacked her again.
• Harry stunned Pansy and woke in her dormitory, confirming her return to reality by waking Voldemort through her bracelet.
• Pansy awoke in the empty Slytherin girls' dormitory, injured and furious, and blamed Harry for her troubles.
• A shadow criticized Pansy's greed and incompetence, then disappeared despite her pleas for another chance.
• Pansy vowed to make Harry pay and turned her hatred toward the vanished shadow as well.

Harry overslept and arrived late to Potions, where Snape excused her with an unexpected five points for Gryffindor. The lesson ended with news that Pansy Parkinson had disappeared from her dormitory, deepening Harry’s unease about the dream she could not remember.

• Harry woke after Hermione had left her a note saying she had excused Harry from Potions, then hurried to class.
• Harry admitted to Snape that she had overslept, and Snape gave Gryffindor five points before telling her to take a seat.
• Snape moved Ron to sit beside Draco, while Hermione told Harry that Pansy Parkinson had also missed class.
• Harry worried that Pansy was connected to her forgotten dream, but could not recall what had happened.
• Professor McGonagall told Snape that Pansy Parkinson had disappeared from her dormitory, and Snape dismissed the class to study on its own.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione used the Marauder's Map to search for Pansy and discovered her in the Chamber of Secrets, while Draco arrived with a strange letter Pansy had left him. The map also showed Dumbledore and Grindelwald together in the staff room, giving Harry hope that the crisis could still be reversed.

• Ron, Harry, and Hermione decided to use the Marauder's Map to look for Pansy, while Draco kept a letter from her and set out to find her.
• Harry found the map, and the trio checked it in a secluded corridor after reassuring worried students that the professors would handle Pansy's disappearance.
• Harry spotted Pansy's name in the Chamber of Secrets and wondered how she had found and opened it.
• Ron noticed Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald listed together in the staff room, and Harry felt renewed hope.
• Draco asked to join their search and showed them Pansy's letter, insisting that their relationship was one-sided.