Previously on Alternity: Year Two, Summer Term

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Previously On Alternity: Year Two, Summer Term
May 1 - August 31, Year Two (2010, realtime)
 

Other Previously on Alternity Recaps:
September 1 - December 31, Year One
January 1 - April 30, Year One
May 1 - August 31, Year One
September 1 - December 31, Year Two
January 1 - April 30, Year Two
May 1 - August 31, Year Two
September 1 - December 31, Year Three
January 1 - April 30, Year Three

As always, this is only a small portion of the plots - the most important ones, and since it's the summer, also a little flavor of what some of the characters did over the long holiday.

• Hermione asks Harry's permission to check her suspicions about the Petrifying creature in the library, but before she can come back, she's Petrified herself, along with Penelope Clearwater. Ginny blacked out during the attack, but she was immediately taken to the hospital wing - it can't have been her. Amycus Carrow is apprehended for the attacks.
• Sirius's main fake identity, Nigel Cullenden, was compromised. He had to go on the run.
• Ron, Harry, Draco, and Pansy snuck out to the Forbidden Forest on a tip from Carrow. They met spiders - and Hagrid.
• Regulus' behavior became self-destructive. Pansy worried - and theorized. The Order wondered whether it was staged, to draw Sirius out. A couple of little girls that looked like Pansy disappeared, and there were rumors. But Regulus just got stranger and stranger.
• The Weasleys petitioned to adopt Luna, but were rejected. She was fostered with Lavender Brown's family instead.
• Regulus died, apparently committing suicide. Walburga Black died too. Sirius fought Barty Crouch Jr. on the journals about it, and Pansy got into contact with him. It came out that yes, Regulus had been the murderer.
• When Amycus Carrow's rat cages were knocked over, Sally-Anne took one of them as a pet - and figured out what he was researching.
• "Her body will lie in the Chamber forever," and Ginny is missing (but soon found). Myrtle is concerned. Hydra's missing too - and Harry, Ron and Draco are AWOL, along with Professor Lockhart. Basilisk killed, Ginny OK, Terry and Hermione and Penelope (and unfortunately Moebius) awoken, exams canceled, all is once more well in the wizarding world. (There had previously been some hints about Hydra.) Well, except that Skeeter covered the incident in the Prophet.
• The I Solemnly Swear lock began to realize that there's a resistance group out there, as they help Terry and Hermione hide their new wands. (The Order also found out a tiny bit about ISS.)
• There was a camp uprising, quelled by Dementors. Subsequently, there was a large breakout from Azkaban. Some of the prisoners were recaptured, but not all - most significantly Snape and Macnair.
• As the MLE search for Sirius hotted up, Bellatrix almost caught him - an almighty scare - but despite initial reports to the contrary, he managed to escape using his Animagus form, which helped shield him from a very dark curse. The official story is that he died evading capture.
• The Ministry discovered that Frank and Alice Longbottom were still alive. Neville was forced to repudiate his parents. At the same time, the Order breached the wards - and Sirius jumped through, in dog form! So he's in the UK now, but not with the Order.
• Percy Weasley took a summer job with Lucius Malfoy. Terry suspected that McGonagall was purposely letting him learn magic. Sally-Anne cared for the Strettons' young daughter. As Pansy's mother prepared to be remarried, Pansy learned more about her inheritance. Lana was inducted into the Daughters of the Protectorate and debuted - and began Auror training. Poppy and Pomona ran errands for the Order under cover of a vacation. Ernie moved into a new house. Neville and Ron socialized (along with others). Harry was frustrated with Buckingham. Hydra had a birthday and tea with the Lord Protector. Alice and Frank had a romantic weekend and got to see their children (!!!). Lucius' sister got married. Crouch Jr. practised dueling. Amycus toured the camps. Rabastan Lestrange ("the Razzer") became Harry's bodyguard.
• The Young Protectors League had a trip to New London. While they were there, Sally-Anne and Pansy found a runaway Muggleborn and tried to help her - and Sirius gave the MLE a scare. The situation nearly exposed the ISS to Pansy and to the Order. Ultimately, they had to let Pansy into the ISS lock. The MLE questioned students that were at the scene. There was also a second trip - for students who weren't quite as desirable as the first group. Neville got beat up, to Sinistra's disappointment.
• There was a surprise party for Harry's birthday. He had a spat with someone who insulted his parents. His birthday gift from his father was a private messaging system for everyone, on the journals. Ron got him a sneakoscope.
• Percy got picked for Head Boy. Rabastan is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (and he wrote his first entry). Hydra wrote messages to the Lord Protector.
• Sirius seems to be becoming a symbol of resistance - and he was recognized, even in disguise, though not exposed. Rumours of his aliveness abound.
• Harry went on holiday, and while he was gone there was a Snape sighting near Buckingham. Dementors were put on Harry's protection detail.
• Ginny requested to be transferred to Slytherin House, but was denied.
• Sirius continued posting Grim Truths, at least until he "died": 5/21/93; 6/4/93.