Chapter Summaries

The Champions and Heroic Spirits spent their gems on magical upgrades before the settlement space returned them to Hogwarts. As wizards rushed to meet them and copy their Magic Treasure Books, Cedric and the others had completed their redemptions, but the consequences of their choices were still unfolding.

• Ariana redeemed Animagus and transformed into a snow-white owl, while Lily strengthened her magical power and selected Suggestion Magic Eyes for Harry.
• Krum redeemed a Magical Circuit, and Fabian told him that he planned to spend the Prewett Brothers' gems on magical proficiencies for himself.
• Riddle chose the snake property and five refinements, strengthening his connection to Cedric and gaining access to Cedric's path and True Form.
• Cedric chose his heart as a Second Magical Power Source, and Pheobe chose the property of good.
• The settlement space returned the Champions and Heroic Spirits beside the Goblet of Fire, and wizards hurried to Hogwarts to greet them and copy their books and documents.

Dumbledore struggled to help Pheobe close the gap with the other Champions while their supporters developed new ways to strengthen them. As the Champions trained and Basil digested the previous trial’s knowledge, Basil considered what world to create for the next trial.

• Dumbledore discussed Pheobe’s progress with McGonagall and concluded that sleeping more could speed the inheritance emblem’s transformation of her body.
• Cedric’s supporters developed spells for his Second Magical Power Source and sought Fantastic Beasts, while Krum’s investors experimented on his artifact body and helped him gain the essence of a Ghost Immortal.
• Harry’s magic surged, and Lily explained to Snape that he might soon reach the Second Stage Liberation of his Magic Immortal Artifact.
• Harry used Expelliarmus to blast holes in a wall and resented Snape and Lily’s growing closeness.
• Basil digested knowledge from the stable dream world, gathered experimental data from the Champions and their Heroic Spirits, and considered settings for the next trial.

As the second trial approached, Cedric and the other Champions prepared for the challenge while trying to strengthen their abilities, and Pheobe made remarkable progress through extended sleep. The Champions were teleported away before the countdown reached zero, and the chapter ended as four versions of Earth appeared in the vision introducing their next mission world.

• Cedric considered his developing True Forms and learned from Riddle that Time-Turners and the Egyptian Ministry of Magic might give him more training time.
• At Hogwarts’s pre-trial banquet, the Champions reunited, and Pheobe appeared as a tiny glowing figure after spending most of her time asleep to advance her path.
• Harry explained that only the Champions could still use their Balala spells, while Hermione asked about the spells they had learned in the previous world.
• The next morning, the Champions approached the Goblet of Fire with their companions, but it teleported them away three minutes before the countdown ended.
• Students speculated about the next parallel universe as a vision of Earth appeared and split into four sections.

The Champions arrived aboard a Hogwarts Express in a world where witches dominated and wizards were scarce, and they began uncovering its strange history and customs. Harry and Cedric encountered alternate versions of familiar people, while Krum learned that adult witches posed a serious danger to young wizards.

• Harry met Roan Weasley and Harley Peverell, learned that this world's Hogwarts had once admitted only witches, and recognized Harley as a female version of himself.
• Roan explained that witches used spell cards and that wizards needed wands because their magic was unstable; Harry inferred that spell cards had replaced traditional spells and wands.
• Cedric met a more forward version of Cho Chang, who explained that male children were rare and warned him that witches could exploit wizards for their bodily fluids and magic.
• Percy Weasley forced Krum back into the compartment and warned him that adult witches targeted young wizards, especially those arriving from the Muggle World.

Dumbledore and the Champions learned that Salem bloodline potions and the Mother-Child River had left wizards scarce and oppressed, and that they had to stop Voldemort from destroying the river. As Dracey Malfoy and her companions went to find new students, a battered wizard burst into Harry’s compartment, revealing a familiar face.

• Percy told Krum that Salem bloodline optimization made witches and wizards exceptionally alluring and powerful, and that witches could drain wizards’ magic.
• Dracey Malfoy entered Fleur’s compartment with Corab and Gale and explained that adult witches were called enchantresses and that the Mother-Child River sustained their society.
• A notice revealed that spell cards and bloodline potions had weakened wizards’ status, the Mother-Child River had reduced them to breeding tools, and the Champions’ task was to stop Voldemort from destroying it.
• Dracey said there were four wizards among the year’s new students and left with Corab and Gale to look for them.
• A terrified, injured wizard burst into Harry’s compartment, and Harry recognized him as a familiar friend.

Harry learned from Neville about the dangers male wizards faced in a world where witches held greater power, while Roan and Harley discussed their relationships and the scandalous Professor Gilderoy Lockhart. The conversation ended when Percy confronted Cho Chang over her closeness with Cedric, and Cho insisted they were in love.

• Harry learned that witches could drain male wizards' magic and that adult witches had especially powerful charms.
• Neville explained that male wizards had to create a spell card to become real wizards and that some used Legilimency to control their instincts.
• Harley described her parents' tangled relationships and said she was comfortable staying single, while Roan teased her about her feelings.
• Roan told Harry that Gilderoy Lockhart had stirred up students' desires and caused several male wizards to suffer severe magical depletion.
• Percy entered Cedric's compartment and accused Cho Chang of hunting male wizards, but Cho insisted that she and Cedric were truly in love.

Percy explained how witches oppressed wizards in this version of the magical world as the Hogwarts Express arrived. Harry, Cedric, and Krum reached Hogwarts with Percy, who worried about Neville and described the dangers young wizards faced.

• Percy told Cho Chang and Cedric that witches exploited wizards, that Voldemort's rise showed wizards could refine their magic, and that society denied wizards equality and freedom.
• The train announced that wizards would disembark before witches, and Cedric joined Harry and Krum as they prepared to reach Hogwarts.
• Krum said he planned to investigate the Mother-Child River and Voldemort, while Harry and Cedric considered the risks to him.
• Hagrid led the wizards from the platform to the lake, where Harry, Cedric, and Krum boarded a boat with Percy and crossed toward Hogwarts.
• Percy asked Harry about Neville and explained that Neville was safe despite having kiss marks, then warned that young wizards were vulnerable before adulthood.

Harry, Cedric, and Krum arrived at Hogwarts in a world where wizards were excluded from Sorting and warned to avoid witches. After Percy explained the dangers and Professor Flitwick gave the boys their rules, the witches entered the Great Hall and began teasing the wizards, while Neville said their standing had fallen since Demon Man escaped.

• Harry covered how he knew about Krum by saying he was friends with Roan, and Percy warned the group about witches' magical addiction and their effect on wizards.
• Percy explained that overeating could restore little magic and described how Nicolas Flamel and his wife had regained their youth after the Salem incident.
• Hagrid brought the students to Hogwarts, where Professor Flitwick led them into the Great Hall instead of to a Sorting ceremony.
• Professor Flitwick explained that wizards skipped Sorting, entered Year Six, and should stay in their common room and avoid older witches; he named Percy as their liaison.
• The witches entered the Great Hall, teased the wizards, and Percy directed some students to their proper places as Harry watched.
• Neville told Harry that the witches used to be kept in line, but their status had fallen since Demon Man escaped from the brothel prison.

Neville explained how the female-dominated magical world treated Voldemort and Grindelwald, and how Voldemort’s descendants were spread across the globe. As the Sorting began, Harry and the others learned that Delphi Slytherin’s surname reflected Voldemort’s true lineage and the customs surrounding magical family names.

• Neville told Harry that Voldemort had been imprisoned at the Hunger Platform, where he became a popular attraction, and that Grindelwald had lived comfortably at Nurmengard with Dumbledore’s son, Credence.
• Harry asked whether Voldemort had fathered children, and Neville said his descendants were numerous worldwide, including more than a dozen Hogwarts students with black hair and pet snakes.
• Neville explained that magical children often took their mother’s surname, while some inherited their father’s, and Professor McGonagall then led the first-year witches into the Great Hall for Sorting.
• Dumbledore announced rules forbidding students from entering the Forbidden Forest or the male wizards’ dormitory, and Delphi Slytherin was sorted into Slytherin.
• Neville explained that Voldemort’s real name was Tom Riddle, that he had kept his Muggle father’s surname, and that witches had given him the derogatory name Voldemort.
• Neville said most of Voldemort’s descendants at Hogwarts used the Slytherin surname because witches believed he should have borne that prestigious female name.

At Hogwarts, Harry and the others learned that witches controlled male wizards’ status and that the Mother-Child River was woven into the school’s water and could enable pregnancy. Percy hinted that the river might be disrupted tomorrow, while Dumbledore warned everyone about Voldemort and urged them to follow the castle’s safety rules.

• At the Sorting feast, Harry learned from Neville that Dragon Whip and other Magic Meals strengthened male wizards, and Percy compared them to dairy cows fed premium feed.
• Nick, the Fat Friar, and the Bloody Baron joined the male wizards’ table and said they would not return to their houses until male wizards could attend Sorting and receive nine years of education again.
• When Percy hinted that the situation might change tomorrow, Harry and the others asked about the Mother-Child River and learned that its liquid and vapor forms permeated Hogwarts’s water.
• Cedric feared the river had spread across the world, but Harry explained that its power weakened as it circulated and that destroying the castle’s magical artifact could stop its source.
• At the feast’s end, Dumbledore warned the students that Voldemort’s power was growing and ordered them to follow safety rules, especially the curfew.

Harry, Cedric, Krum, and Neville explored the elaborate wizards' common room and chose tents in its autumn forest, while the Champions exchanged information about investigating the Mother-Child River's source. After their conversation ended, the view shifted to a church where Voldemort addressed a crowd of familiar Death Eaters.

• Professor Flitwick led the wizards into a vast common room filled with varied landscapes, books, and places to relax.
• Professor Flitwick gave Harry, Cedric, Krum, and Neville portable tents, and Neville led them to camp in the autumn woods.
• Harry, Cedric, Krum, and Pheobe used their Magic Treasure Books to share information about the possible locations of the Mother-Child River's source.
• The four Champions agreed that Krum would investigate the third-floor girls' bathroom and the Forbidden Forest the next morning, while Pheobe prepared to join by video call.
• The view shifted to a church, where Voldemort stood onstage before Bellatrix, Barty Crouch Jr., and other familiar Death Eaters.

Tom Riddle described how oppression drove him to rebellion and revealed his plan to destroy the Mother-Child River using Magic Rings and other reforms. After the vision ended, Hogwarts students debated why the other world’s wizards remained separate from Muggles and questioned whether Riddle’s plan was too radical.

• Tom Riddle recounted the discrimination, imprisonment, and abuse that led him to rebel against the Wizarding World’s unjust system.
• He explained that Magic Rings could strengthen wizards’ magic and prevent witches from draining it, and argued that destroying the Mother-Child River would end wizard oppression.
• Tom Riddle and his knights vowed to destroy the Mother-Child River, while Dumbledore worried that he was acting before solving wizard fertility and other problems.
• After the vision faded, wizards across the Wizarding World stayed up discussing the Mother-Child River, and Gryffindor students held a salon.
• The students debated why the other world’s wizards did not take over the Muggle World and concluded that Muggle society and its products still served important purposes.
• Some students who had admired Tom Riddle began to doubt his plan, deciding that his reforms might be enough and that greater changes could provoke a backlash.

Krum found no useful clues in the Forbidden Forest, and Percy explained the boys’ demanding sixth-year schedule and protections. At Charms class, Harry met Dracey Malfoy and was swept into a public romantic rivalry with her and Roan.

• Krum reported that the Forbidden Forest held no traces of human buildings or clues beyond rampant Acromantulas, and Harry ordered breakfast for the group.
• Harry, Krum, Cedric, and Neville received their schedules from Percy, who explained their advanced classes and the professors’ plans to escort them safely.
• Professor Flitwick escorted the boys to Charms, where Neville retreated after seeing the sixth-year witches waiting inside.
• Harry recognized Pheobe, Roan, Harley, Dian, and Simone in class, then caught the attention of Dracey Malfoy.
• Dracey declared Harry her boyfriend, while Roan and Harley protested that Harry belonged with Roan, prompting Professor Flitwick to restore order.
• Harry sat down flustered, still drawn to Dracey and relieved when he saw Roan keep her head lowered.

Professor Flitwick taught the students how to create spell cards by tracing and flattening magical patterns, and Harry quickly learned to use one to improve his wand casting. After class, Dracey and her friends escorted Harry and the others safely to Defense Against the Dark Arts.

• Professor Flitwick explained spell cards and demonstrated how wizards could trace their patterns in their minds to cast magic.
• Dumbledore, the professors, Hermione, and several students tried creating spell cards, while Neville learned to trace Lumos from The Book of Spells.
• Harry copied the Lumos pattern, identified how its paths related to the wand movement, and cast a more intricate version without speaking an incantation.
• Professor Flitwick said advanced students should study effective paths and combine them to create original spells.
• After Charms, Dracey linked arms with Harry and, alongside Roan, Corab, Gale, and Harley, escorted him and the others to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Harry encountered Sirius Black, who was the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in this world, and the class learned about wands, Dark Magic, and the Patronus Charm. Sirius chose Harry to demonstrate against a Boggart disguised as a Dementor, leaving him reluctant as he approached the cabinet.

• Harry entered the classroom and recoiled when he saw Sirius Black teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts; Sirius recognized his resemblance to James.
• Draco stepped between Sirius and Harry, while Harley realized Harry looked like James and questioned the tangled resemblance between their families.
• Sirius taught the class that advanced magic required understanding and emotional discipline, then explained how wands helped wizards control magic.
• Sirius introduced the Patronus Charm and brought out wands for students who had left theirs behind.
• Sirius revealed a Boggart disguised as a Dementor and explained that only a corporeal Patronus could drive Dementors away.
• Sirius called on Harry to go first, and he reluctantly walked toward the cabinet.

Harry summoned a stag Patronus without speaking and was mistaken by Sirius for James, while Pheobe and Krum discovered the Chamber of Secrets entrance in the boys' bathroom. Pheobe and Krum entered the Chamber and reached Slytherin's submerged statue, as Harry recounted his own visit there with Ron.

• Harry's silent Patronus drove the Dementor back into its cabinet, and Sirius embraced him, convinced he was James.
• Draco, Roan, and Harley pulled Sirius away from Harry, and Neville urged the class to continue.
• Harley and Roan led Harry and the other boys away from class while fending off witches who tried to approach them.
• Pheobe found the snake-engraved faucet in the boys' bathroom, opened the hidden pipe with Serpent Tongue, and flew into it with Krum.
• Harry told Krum and Cedric how Lockhart's rebounding Memory Charm had collapsed the Chamber tunnel and separated him from Ron.
• Pheobe and Krum reached the Chamber's black lake and saw Slytherin's statue rising above the water.

Harry, Pheobe, Cedric, and Krum searched for the activation phrase to Slytherin’s statue and discovered that it was “Godric Gryffindor.” They opened the Chamber of Secrets, where the Basilisk emerged and asked Harry what Tom Riddle was to him.

• Harry told Krum the supposed activation phrase, but Pheobe’s attempts to speak it in Serpent Tongue failed to move the statue.
• Harry, Cedric, and Krum researched Salazar Slytherin’s history, while Pheobe realized the phrase might be hidden underwater on the statue.
• Krum turned intangible, found “Godric Gryffindor” carved into the statue’s palm, and reported the phrase to the others.
• Harry spoke the phrase through the Magic Treasure Book, and the statue opened as the Basilisk emerged from the Chamber of Secrets.
• The intelligent Basilisk spoke with Harry and asked what Tom Riddle was to him.

Harry learned from the Basilisk, Harley Tan, that the Sorting Hat was the Mother-Child River’s core and that its immortality could be ended by destroying the House system. Harry and the others returned to classes while watching for Riddle’s plans and struggling to train in Legilimency.

• Harry told the Basilisk the truth about having no connection to Slytherin or Gryffindor, and it granted him an extra question.
• The Basilisk revealed that a former Hogwarts Headmaster had made the Sorting Hat the Mother-Child River’s core by using Hogwarts’ Magic Field to alter the water.
• Harley Tan explained that abolishing the House system would destroy the Sorting Hat’s source of immortality and the Mother-Child River, while only the Headmaster could destroy the foundation alone.
• Harry concluded that Riddle planned to cause trouble at school and have Dumbledore dismissed so Riddle’s ally could become Headmaster and reform the Houses.
• Harry, Krum, Pheobe, and Cedric returned to school, attended classes, and practiced Legilimency with Percy’s help, but their Magic Immortal Artifacts prevented others from training them through mental intrusion.
• During Muggle Studies, Harry complained about a quiz question on Flying Carpets while Ron explained that the Ministry’s Department of International Magical Cooperation was the correct choice.

Harry struggled to learn emotional defenses against the witches’ attraction and saw the danger male wizards faced outside Hogwarts. At Care of Magical Creatures Class, Hagrid demonstrated a new kind of Summoning Charm that turned Fantastic Beasts into rune cards.

• Harry left the castle with Draco, Roan, and the others after seeing witches swarm three male wizards by the Black Lake.
• Pheobe went to find the carriage and Gabrielle, but found neither, then wondered why Hagrid seemed to lack the appeal other adult male wizards had for witches.
• Hagrid led the students to a paddock and asked Harley to demonstrate her magic.
• Harley summoned a Mooncalf, which Hagrid identified as a real creature whose dung could help magical plants grow.
• Hagrid explained that the Summoning Charm made Fantastic Beasts into rune cards, relying on spiritual compatibility between wizard and creature.

Hagrid explained the rules and risks of turning Magical Creatures into Summoning Cards, then taught the students the card model for the Summoning Charm. He left to reveal a rare creature, but invisible footprints and heavy breathing appeared in the woods, baffling Cedric.

• Harry asked whether humanoid beings could be made into Summoning Cards, and Hagrid explained that their magic could not be directly deconstructed like a Magical Creature’s.
• Hagrid warned that forcing a creature to become a card could cause magical backlash and described how cards could benefit both wizards and creatures.
• Draco and Roan argued over which creatures were suitable, while Hagrid defended the value of every Magical Creature and mentioned his own companions.
• Hagrid projected the Summoning Charm’s card model and taught the students how to use it.
• Hagrid went into the woods to fetch a rare creature, and Cedric and Krum speculated about what it might be.
• Lavender Brown screamed as invisible footprints appeared with heavy breathing, and Cedric realized the creature matched nothing he knew.