Recaps

Harry returned to Hogwarts as a girl and discovered that Voldemort had come back as a Basilisk from another world, bound to her by a magical contract. After Dumbledore died investigating Tom Riddle’s diary, Grindelwald appeared at his funeral and killed himself, leaving Harry and Voldemort to wonder why.

• Harry arrived at Hogwarts, reunited with Ron and Hermione, and formed an uneasy friendship with Draco while investigating a Basilisk in the castle.
• The Basilisk dragged Harry into the Chamber of Secrets, where she learned that Voldemort had returned in the snake’s body and that their injuries rebounded between them.
• Harry and her friends uncovered Quirrell’s attempt to obtain the Philosopher’s Stone, and Harry destroyed Quirrell when he tried to take it from her.
• Harry transformed Basilisk Voldemort into a small snake with their mingled blood and the Stone, then learned from Dumbledore that a Master-Servant Contract let her control him.
• Harry returned to Hogwarts and gave Dumbledore Tom Riddle’s diary after Ginny handed it to her, but Dumbledore died while investigating it.
• Snape questioned and comforted Harry as she grieved, while Voldemort told her that the people she had lost would have died whether or not she existed.
• Harry learned that Grindelwald had escaped from Nurmengard, then watched him attend Dumbledore’s funeral and kill himself.
• Harry found a photograph of Grindelwald and Dumbledore together and wondered with Voldemort why Grindelwald had died beside him.

Harry’s school year brings Sirius back into her life, Draco’s courtship, and a week that challenges the students’ assumptions about Muggles. After Pansy attacks Harry with the power of a mysterious black ring and disappears, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco begin searching for her.

• Harry told Voldemort that Grindelwald had lost because he did not understand love, then later survived a Dementor attack and hoped Sirius would sign her Hogsmeade form.
• Draco began courting Harry, but she stunned him during his public confession, while Snape and Sirius separately worked to keep him away from her.
• Sirius reunited with Harry, who believed his account of Peter Pettigrew’s betrayal and asked him to sign her permission form.
• Voldemort used Harry’s blood to regain his body and vowed to kill her, while Draco prepared to pursue Harry during Muggle Life Experience Week.
• During the trip, Draco questioned his assumptions about Muggles, apologized to Hermione for calling her a “Mudblood,” and was rescued from a gunman by Dudley Dursley.
• Pansy used a black ring to attack Harry in a dream, but Harry stunned her and woke, and Pansy later disappeared from Hogwarts.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione used the Marauder’s Map to search for Pansy and found her name in the Chamber of Secrets, while Draco joined them with a letter from her.