An Update (of another kind)

Harry is in the middle of his second year at Hogwarts and is hearing ominous voices in the passages. The Chamber of Secrets has just been opened and Mrs Norris, Filch's cat, has been petrified.

Mikael Blomkvist has just stepped into a double homicide of Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson - two people that were working on a story for him. Lisbeth Salander is wondering why people are stalking her.

John has been visited by Julian Mantle after his sabbatical in the Himalayas. Julian is just about to start sharing the wisdom he has gleaned from the wise sages of Sivana that he encountered while there.

Bertie and Jeeves are in the United States. Jeeves has managed to extricate Bertie and his friends from looming disasters yet again. Tuppy Glossop from a potentially ruinous financial deal. And Wilmot from the blazing reproaches of his mother, Lady Malvern for letting the evils of the modern city ruin him and landing up in prison.

Claire Bennett is trying hard to be a normal college-going teenager with her new roommate, Gretchen. Noah Bennett is dealing with the dilemma of whether to start his old profession again. Sylar has resurrected from the dead yet again. Hiro Nakamura is dying and has just teleported himself to Peter Petrelli's apartment - apparently, only he can help him now. Samuel has finally found a new recruit in his circle of outcasts to replace his dead brother, Joseph.

Don Draper (or Dick Whitman) has just started his own agency with Roger Sterling, Bert Cooper and Lane Pryce as partners, after a coup against the British management of his former agency, Sterling-Cooper. His divorce is imminent and he's bracing for it. Coupled with this are his stresses of getting and holding on to new businesses for his new agency.

Vic Mackey is being forced to retire from the Barn and he's trying his best to hang on by forming an alliance with David Aceveda, the councilman. Claudette is desperately trying to keep the Barn from being shut down. Shane is still the enemy.

Jack Bauer has saved the world for the eighth time obviously after paying a huge personal price. Chloe has allowed him to escape by ordering Arlo to shut down the drone's video feed.