Chapter Summaries

After learning that Voldemort knew about her, Anna encountered Bellatrix Black while returning from the Owlery. Bellatrix threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse, but Anna calmly challenged her as James Potter and his friends watched under the Invisibility Cloak.

• Anna replied to Elisa's letter, who had warned her that Voldemort had learned of her existence.
• On her way back from the Owlery, Anna noticed James Potter and his three friends following her beneath a transparent cloak.
• Anna led the four boys to a secluded corridor, then sensed hostile magic nearby and called its hidden user out.
• Bellatrix Black emerged from the shadows and confronted Anna over her views about Pure-bloods and Muggles.
• Bellatrix threatened Anna with the Cruciatus Curse, but Anna remained calm and warned that using an Unforgivable Curse could send Bellatrix to Azkaban.

Anna revealed to Bellatrix that her father was Grindelwald and that Voldemort was a half-blood, then exploited Bellatrix’s fear and unrequited devotion to persuade her to conceal their conversation. Bellatrix left Hogwarts carrying a crystal bottle of silvery memories.

• Anna told Bellatrix that Grindelwald was her father and described Voldemort’s past as a Hogwarts student and his half-blood heritage.
• Anna taunted Bellatrix about her privileged birth, unreturned love for Voldemort, and the danger of him discovering she knew his secret.
• Bellatrix angrily denied that Voldemort would harm her, but her trembling wand and thoughts of the dead Death Eaters revealed her fear.
• Anna offered to help Bellatrix hide their conversation with a Memory Charm, and Bellatrix left Hogwarts with a crystal bottle of memories.

Anna planted a memory in a crystal bottle while manipulating Bellatrix into allowing her to alter her memory, then left her trapped in suspicion. She returned to dinner with Snape, while James Potter and his friends became lost in the dark corridors of Hogwarts.

• Anna placed a memory in a crystal bottle and used an eerie power to guide Bellatrix into letting her alter her memory.
• Anna warned the four students hiding under the Invisibility Cloak that she might cast Memory Charms on anyone who had seen her meeting with Bellatrix, then left.
• James Potter removed the cloak and argued with Sirius, Lupin, and Peter about whether Anna had noticed them; the four then got lost trying to return to the Great Hall.
• Anna returned to the Great Hall and told Snape she had met Bellatrix, hinting that the encounter might have changed the witch's loyalties.
• Anna told Snape that Potter and his friends were lost in a remote corridor, and Snape dismissed Potter as stupid.

Anna brewed a healing potion for Snape and prepared to celebrate Halloween by asking Hogwarts professors for candy. She began the tradition with Lily and Snape, collecting crystallized pineapple from Professor Slughorn.

• Apollyon Pringle found James Potter and his friends in the western corridor, and Professor McGonagall took ten points from Gryffindor for each of them.
• Anna brewed a potion using her blood that could remove the scar on Snape's hand, then stored it in a crystal jar.
• Lucius Malfoy followed Abraxas Malfoy's advice to wait, while Anna's fabricated memories in Bellatrix's mind kept Voldemort from seeking her out.
• Anna invited Lily and Snape to go door to door asking professors for Halloween candy, and they went first to Professor Slughorn's office.
• Slughorn gave Anna crystallized pineapple, and the group set off for the next professor's office.

Anna and her companions collected Halloween treats from Hogwarts professors while Voldemort arrived to meet Dumbledore. After Voldemort left the Headmaster’s Office, Anna confronted him in the corridor by greeting him as Tom Riddle.

• Anna, Lily, and Snape visited professors for Halloween treats, and Professor Flitwick enchanted cakes to dance.
• Anna heard portraits discussing a visitor and sent Lily back to the dormitory before telling Snape that Voldemort was at Hogwarts.
• Anna waited near the Headmaster’s Office, concealed in a Grim Reaper costume, and hid Snape around a corner.
• Dumbledore refused Voldemort the Defence Against the Dark Arts post and the Sword of Gryffindor, so Voldemort left his office empty-handed.
• Voldemort passed Anna on the third-floor corridor, and she greeted him as Tom Riddle.

Anna confronted Voldemort at Hogwarts and confirmed that the Death Contract caused the two of them to instinctively loathe each other. Voldemort left, and Anna went to Dumbledore’s office with a Fizzing Whizzbee password.

• Voldemort drew his wand when Anna greeted him by the name Riddle, and Anna told him she had been waiting for him.
• Anna taunted Voldemort and offered him a Fizzing Whizzbee, while Voldemort sensed the Death Contract’s power and refused the candy.
• Voldemort left without attacking Anna, and she ate the candy he had refused.
• Anna realized the Death Contract had influenced her to despise Voldemort because he had abandoned his name and damaged his soul.
• Snape asked Anna what she had seen, and she said she had confirmed that she and Voldemort could not stand each other.
• Anna called out “Fizzing Whizzbees” to enter Dumbledore’s office.

Snape puzzled over Anna's power to unsettle Voldemort and warned Lucius Malfoy to question what he believed about pure-blood status. Anna returned from the Headmaster's Office with Halloween treats, and Lucius left after she sent Voldemort her regards.

• Snape recalled Anna confronting Voldemort and suspected her right palm was connected to the binding contract that kept her from revealing her past.
• Lucius Malfoy found Snape waiting near the Headmaster's Office and urged him to stand with the pure-blood families as a Prince descendant.
• Snape reminded Lucius that he was a half-blood and warned him that appearances could conceal more than he realized.
• Anna returned with sweets, greeted Lucius, and said she had met Voldemort and looked forward to seeing him again.
• Lucius agreed to pass Anna's regards to Voldemort and walked away.

After Lucius left, Snape reassured Anna that standing beside her was his own choice, while Lily decided to challenge house divisions by bringing Gryffindors to sit at the Slytherin table for the Halloween Feast. Anna welcomed Lily and her nervous companions, seeing their visit as a first step toward improving relations between the houses.

• Anna offered to stay away from Snape and Lily if her friendship with them brought them trouble, but Snape rejected the idea and said he chose to stand beside her.
• Lily told Lilian Strachey that Anna’s house and family ties did not change their friendship or Anna’s opposition to pure-blood ideology.
• Lily proposed that she and Lilian sit at the Slytherin table for the Halloween Feast, then went to recruit others.
• Anna found Lily, Lilian, James Potter, and his friends sitting masked beside her at the Slytherin table.
• Lily insisted that her group stay at the Slytherin table, and Anna agreed despite James and his friends’ nervousness.

Anna used Lucius Malfoy’s objection to her Gryffindor friends dining at the Slytherin table to ask Dumbledore whether students were allowed to visit other houses’ tables. Dumbledore and the house heads confirmed that they were, and Anna left Lucius publicly corrected for his rudeness.

• Lucius noticed Lily and other Gryffindors dining at the Slytherin table and told Anna to send them back to their own house.
• Anna took Lucius to the High Table and asked Dumbledore whether students from different houses could eat together.
• Dumbledore confirmed that students could visit other houses’ tables except during designated start- and end-of-year ceremonies.
• Flitwick, Sprout, McGonagall, and Slughorn each welcomed students from other houses to their tables.
• Anna told Lucius that he had misremembered the rules and implied that his behavior was beneath the Malfoy family’s good breeding.

Anna used the Halloween feast to challenge the divisions between Hogwarts houses, then encouraged Snape to embrace his second chance at life. Lucius returned to Slytherin unsettled, while Snape recognized Anna as the person helping him heal.

• Anna mocked Lucius for meddling, accepted his apology, and gave Halloween candy to the professors.
• Lucius returned to Narcissa feeling isolated and began considering a talk with his father about Anna.
• Anna brought Lily and the others across the house divide, and students from different houses began mingling more openly.
• After the feast, Anna walked with Snape and urged him to enjoy his new school life and make up for past regrets.
• Anna checked Snape's healing hand, and Snape realized that Anna was helping his old wounds fade.