It is a dark time for the Wizarding World. The Dark Lord is back, and his loyal Death Eaters are unleashing their chaos on the world. The Ministry of Magic is having a hard time maintaining order as people continue to vanish often. Harry Potter is still at his uncle’s house. He waits for some word from his friends, but receives little information. He hangs on to a promise made by Professor Albus Dumbledore that he will come to take Harry with him. However, Harry still remembers how Dumbledore avoided him throughout the previous year. He still doesn’t know how to react to the information Dumbledore divulged, mere weeks earlier, and how to begin fighting He Who Must Not Be Named. He doesn’t have much time to plan, for once he is back at Hogwarts he realizes that things have changed. Forever short of staff, Dumbledore has convinced his old friend Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts. However, there is another change of staff that will affect things in a most unexpected way.