- Explore the room and it'll turn to nightfall. Snape shows up to talk. Next day, you can start searching Dumbledore's cabinet. Remember to do this daily for free items/gold.
- When you find receive potions from the cabinet, you'll get in a fight with Snape. For the fight, just defend whenever the magic circle appears or Snape starts his casting animation. Attack whenever you aren't defending. Use potions when you get low.
- After the fight, you can hang out with Snape at night. Your daily schedule will now be:
- rummage the cupboard
- nap 'till nightfall.
- After a while, you and Snape can start hanging out at night. Do this every night until...
- Eventually, Hermione shows up to talk. Continue to:
- rummage the cupboard
- nap
- then hang with Snape.
- Eventually, the Ministry of Magic will send you a letter about sending reports. You can start writing reports to earn gold. It takes 7 chapters per report and you can submit a max of 6 reports for 200g per payday.
- Your new schedule will be:
- search the cupboard
- write a report in the morning
- chill with Snape in the evening.
- You'll soon find Dahr's Catalogue in the cupboard to buy stuff. You can buy educational books to increase your report writing speed and book reading speed. You can buy fiction books, but you can't really do much with it just yet. You can also buy gifts to give Hermione. Whenever you try to do something she is unwilling to, she will leave and get mad at you for a few days. This means she won't perform any favors; you can either wait it out or use gifts to calm her down.
- Continue to search the cupboard, write reports in the morning, hang with Snape at night.
- Eventually, Hermione will ask you to tutor her. You can choose to tutor her, but the tutoring mechanic has never been implemented. If you choose to tutor her, she'll get mad you won't teach her. Either wait it out or use gifts to calm her down. I suggest waiting it out since you can't access favors yet.
- Keep doing what you've been doing. At some point, Hermione will ask you for a favor in exchange for points. This is your first "favor", you have 4 options to choose from. She agree to any of them, but only if you give an appropriate amount of points for the act; you can't really fail or make her mad here so choose whatever. You can only see this scene once so I suggest creating a savepoint here to see all of them. I recommend making her stand for 1 point, it keeps Gryffindor's points from catching up so quickly.
- From this point on, you can summon Hermione for favors during the day or night. She can perform public favors during the day, which severely lowers her reputation among the students in Hogwarts. When Hermoine does a public favor for you, comes back at night to report back. At that point she cannot do another private favor for you at night. Private favors can be done either during the day or at night. You can do 2 private favors a day, assuming you didn't upset Hermoine during the daytime private favor. In the daytime, there are a few private favors that are not available at night.
- Public favors depend on how much of a whore Hermoine is, which can be trained through private favors. Read the private and public favors sections for more information.
- If you ask her to do something that she refuses, remember you can either wait it out or give her gifts from the catalogue/cupboard. She also won't accept certain gifts at the beginning either.
- You can see certain favors are locked. Remember there are fiction books? You need to read them to unlock more favors. These favors are also going to cost more points, so remember to keep hanging out with Snape so that Slytherin get more points.
- Hermione won't perform any favors if Gryffindor is ahead of Slytherin.
- You'll get to the point where Hermione wants to host this ball. To end the game, you have to reach the point where you can buy her a dress for the ball. Once you buy the dress AND give it to her as a gift, you've reached the end. There is no time limit for the game.
Notes
- The only CGs are the endings. Everything else is chibi.
- If there is a full moon at night, you can write 1 extra chapter for your report. If it is raining, start the fireplace and you can read 1 extra chapter for a book.
- Get the Speed Reading from the catalogue; this gives you a chance of reading an extra chapter in a book. Speed Reading for Experts gives a bigger chance. Assuming the RNG god is kind to you, you have a chance of reading 3 chapters per turn(1 default, 1 raining+fireplace, 1 random)
- The Spirit and Speedwriting books increase the chance of writing an extra chapter for your report. Read all of them to get 1 guaranteed extra chapter. By reading them all, you have a chance of writing 4 chapters in the right conditions(1 default, 1 guaranteed, 1 full moon, 1 random).
- To unlock the school miniskirt, you need to get a certain ending for the CYOA book, "My Dear Waifu"
- Fawkes (the phoenix/bird in the office) does nothing. Akabur will eventually tell you that Fawkes does nothing if you continuously feed/pet him every turn.