Chapter Summaries

The Hogwarts professors confirmed the Basilisk’s entrance and forced Lockhart down the pipe before following with Harry. George brought Hagrid’s roosters to the Chamber of Secrets, where Harry opened the entrance and the group prepared to face what was inside.

• The professors gathered in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, confirmed the pipe was the Basilisk’s entrance, and shoved Lockhart down it.
• Snape took Harry into the pipe, while McGonagall sent George to fetch roosters from Hagrid and told Ginny, Hermione, and Ron to return to the Common Room.
• Hagrid gave George a box enchanted to hold over a hundred roosters, and George flew back to the pipe entrance.
• George carried the roosters down into the Chamber of Secrets and handed them to Snape as the professors gathered by its sealed door.
• Harry opened the door with Parseltongue, and Snape pulled him back as the entrance revealed a vast room dominated by a statue of Slytherin.

George helped the professors defeat the Basilisk and stopped Lockhart from erasing their memories and stealing credit. After Dumbledore questioned the students without uncovering George’s secrets, Hogwarts returned to normal, with exams still scheduled.

• George led Harry away while the professors fought and killed the Basilisk, then collected several of its fangs with Snape’s permission.
• George disarmed Lockhart as he prepared to cast a Memory Charm, and Snape used Legilimency to expose his plan to claim credit for the Basilisk’s defeat.
• Snape restrained Lockhart and said he would be handed over to the Aurors.
• Dumbledore questioned George, Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny, but learned no clues about the Diary’s disappearance.
• The school announced that the professors had killed the Basilisk, and classes, Quidditch matches, and final exams continued as scheduled.

George began secretly learning Dark Magic from Voldemort’s Diary while planning to destroy the soul fragment once he had learned enough. Meanwhile, Black Widow tracked George to the hidden Mutant School but failed to see it and left to get help from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s technology division.

• George met Voldemort’s soul fragment in the Forbidden Forest and told him that Ginny had exposed his plans and the Basilisk had been killed.
• George asked Voldemort to teach him the Three Unforgivable Curses and Fiendfyre, while both plotted to exploit the other.
• Voldemort agreed to guide George, believing he could win George’s trust and take over his body.
• George secretly studied Dark Magic with Voldemort over the following days, improving quickly while preparing to destroy the Diary’s soul fragment.
• Black Widow searched for the Mutant School, failed to find it despite passing its entrance repeatedly, and went to summon S.H.I.E.L.D. technology agents as George watched from inside the gate.

George recognized Black Widow as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and decided the school would stand its ground rather than relocate. After Natasha led an infiltration team to the school, she entered the grounds and came face-to-face with George.

• Professor X detected an intruder near the school, and George recognized her as Black Widow, whom he had previously Memory Charmed.
• George refused to relocate and promised the mutant students an amusement-park trip if they performed well in a real battle.
• Black Widow’s agents detected a strange magnetic field concealing the school and prepared interference devices to bypass it.
• That evening, Black Widow led three teams of elite S.H.I.E.L.D. agents toward the school and used an interference device to see it.
• Black Widow bounced off an invisible barrier while trying to climb the wall, then entered the school and encountered George.

Black Widow secretly entered the school to negotiate with George on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s behalf, but George caught and punished her before hearing her proposal. She offered help for the mutants in exchange for surveillance of adopted children, Professor X’s transfer to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base, and George and Wolverine joining the Avengers Initiative.

• George confronted Black Widow after she failed to cross the school’s Runic Barrier.
• George transformed Black Widow’s combat suit, disarmed her, bound her to a tree, and whipped her with an alloy rod before letting her down.
• Black Widow explained that she had come on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D. and offered to stop the CIA’s hunt for Professor X, arrange his treatment, and find families for the Mutant Children.
• Black Widow said S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted adopted children monitored and Professor X transferred to a specialized base.
• Black Widow invited George and Wolverine to join the Avengers Initiative.

George refused Black Widow’s offer to join the Avengers Initiative, and his students defeated the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents waiting outside the school. He expelled Black Widow and ordered Nick Fury to meet him the next day to discuss S.H.I.E.L.D.’s survival.

• Black Widow tried to persuade George to join the Avengers Initiative and warned that S.H.I.E.L.D. would capture him and the mutant children if he refused, but George rejected her offer.
• Black Widow ordered the agents stationed outside to begin an operation to seize George and the others, but her earpiece received no response.
• Professor X and Wolverine led the students into the school with the defeated agents, and Riktor and Little Wolf Girl told George that the students had completed the mission without help from the professors.
• George refused to kill Black Widow or the agents and had Wolverine throw them out of the school.
• George told Black Widow to have Nick Fury meet him at two the next afternoon to discuss whether S.H.I.E.L.D. would survive, then used magic to send her outside and restored the Runic Barrier around the school.

George met with Nick Fury and revealed that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., offering the secret in exchange for protections and restored rights for the school and Professor X. Nick Fury was shaken by the revelation and was told to investigate it himself.

• Black Widow found the barrier restored, called for support, and reported the incident to Nick Fury.
• George sent everyone back to rest before the next day's negotiations with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury arrived at Mutant School with Black Widow and Hawkeye Barton and discussed George's force field over tea.
• George asked Nick Fury to end the CIA's pursuit of Professor X, return his property, stop interfering with the school, and restore the students' identities in exchange for a secret.
• George revealed that Doctor Zola had rebuilt Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D. and that many agents and senior officials were Hydra members.
• George explained that he and Professor X had learned the secret through psychic abilities, and Nick Fury agreed to investigate.

Nick Fury accepted George’s warning about Hydra and left to investigate S.H.I.E.L.D.’s infiltration. George then invited Natasha to teach at his school, and she left open the possibility of joining after helping Fury.

• Nick Fury believed most of George’s warning, agreed to his conditions, and promised to deal with Hydra within a week.
• Nick Fury departed with Hawkeye, leaving Natasha to handle George’s requests.
• George urged Natasha to question her loyalty to S.H.I.E.L.D. and offered her a teaching position at the school.
• Natasha said she needed time to think and would not consider joining until she had helped Fury clear out Hydra.

George mastered the Killing Curse, then retrieved the frozen Steve Rogers from the Arctic and brought him back to the school. Professor X and Wolverine recognized the thawing man as Captain America.

• George practiced the Killing Curse on a trout in the Marvel Universe and reflected on its effects and risks.
• Black Widow told George that the CIA had withdrawn its warrant for Professor X and agreed to arrange identification for the students and a new teacher.
• George and Isabelle flew the X-Jet to the Arctic, where George used the Tracking Charm to locate Steve Rogers beneath an iceberg.
• George blasted open the iceberg and retrieved Steve Rogers and his shield from the frozen airplane.
• George returned Steve Rogers to the school, where Wolverine and Professor X recognized him as Captain America.

George revived Captain America and brought him to the school, where Wolverine and Professor X helped persuade him to become a teacher. The next day, Black Widow arrived to arrange identification documents and recognized his resemblance to Captain America, but George introduced him as the new teacher Shi Aimin.

• George explained that he had tracked down Captain America and wanted him to teach combat tactics at the school.
• George revived Captain America, who woke up disoriented, grabbed his shield, and tried to escape.
• Wolverine blocked Captain America, and George disarmed and restrained him after a brief fight.
• George flew Captain America over New York and showed him the city in 2010, revealing that he had been frozen for sixty-five years.
• After Professor X persuaded him overnight, Captain America agreed to stay at the school as a teacher.
• Black Widow arrived to arrange identification documents, and George introduced Captain America as the new teacher Shi Aimin.

George welcomed Captain America, now using the identity Shi Aimin, as a teacher and left student recruitment to Professor X. That night, George split off a new clone in a giant panda at the Bronx Zoo, escaped by magic and flight, and headed toward downtown New York to investigate the world.

• George introduced Captain America as Shi Aimin and invited Black Widow to reconsider joining the school.
• Professor X told George about Jessica Campbell, now Jessica Jones, and George entrusted him with recruiting her and future students.
• George discovered he had created a giant panda clone at the Bronx Zoo and noted that all his bodies shared their physical enhancements.
• George unlocked the panda enclosure with Alohomora, sprouted wings, and flew toward downtown New York to look for clues about the world.
• A zoo security guard saw the panda fly away, dismissed it as a hallucination, and then found the enclosure empty.

George investigated the unfamiliar world and identified it as the world of The Sorcerer's Apprentice after discovering that magician Drake Stone was a real sorcerer. He became excited by the prospect of learning this world's immortality-granting magic.

• George flew to Manhattan, confirmed that the world was in 2010, and searched for a private home with a computer.
• George entered a villa and used the Imperius Curse to make its bald resident turn on the computer and search for magic-related news.
• George found videos of Drake Stone's performances and recognized him as a modern inheritor of the Morgana Faction.
• George recalled the history of Merlin, Morgana, Balthazar, Veronica, Horvath, and Merlin's reincarnation, David.
• George concluded that this world's magicians could live indefinitely and decided that learning their magic could help him avoid death.

George confirmed that Balthazar and Horvath were still sealed, then tracked down Drake Stone to steal his magic ring and the Book of Morgana. He immobilized Drake and found the book, leaving Drake captive and bewildered.

• George failed to track Balthazar and Horvath, erased a bald man's memories, and left after magically restoring his hair.
• George tracked Drake Stone to his tower and waited until Drake had gone to bed before sneaking inside.
• George burst into Drake's bedroom, petrified him with a Full Body-Bind Curse, and seized his magic ring with his metal-manipulating power.
• George subdued the six models, carried Drake to the living room, and searched his memories with Legilimency.
• George found the Book of Morgana in a box beneath Drake's bed while Drake remained immobilized.

George spared Drake and imprisoned him in an enchanted box, ordering him to teach George spells from the Book of Morgana. He tracked down David Stuart, revealed that he was a mage trapped in panda form, and asked the reincarnated Merlin to help him become human again.

• George threatened Drake, then agreed to spare him if he taught George every spell he knew from the Book of Morgana during a prison term of up to a year.
• George had Drake cancel his plans, packed him into an enchanted box, and stored it in his Requip Space.
• George used a Tracking Charm to locate David Stuart, hoping to build a connection with him and eventually learn magic from Balthazar.
• George entered David's apartment and woke him, then explained that he was a mage who needed help undoing his Druid magic.
• George told David that he was Merlin's reincarnation and placed the Merlin Dragon Ring in his hand.

George used threats and promises to persuade David to let him stay, then learned the Morgana Faction’s magical system while they grew closer. After a week without an attack, George created Morgana’s Ring inside his box to improve his magical studies.

• George told David that Morgana’s followers would kill him if they found him and promised protection in exchange for help regaining his human form.
• David agreed to the deal, while George began studying the Book of Morgana in David’s living room.
• George used magic to make breakfast, clean David’s apartment, and repair his refrigerator, convincing David to keep him around.
• George entered a small box and told David to carry it and call for him if danger arose; he then asked Drake to help him study the world’s magic.
• After a week without Horvath or Balthazar appearing, George formed Morgana’s Ring inside the box to boost the efficiency of meditation, study, and spell practice.

George’s panda clone studied Mimicry Magic before Horvath attacked David with summoned wolves. George fought Horvath with magic and Magnetism Control, wounding him, but Horvath summoned a Stone Giant as the battle continued.

• On the tenth day after George’s new clone appeared, his panda clone learned about Mimicry Magic from Drake.
• David called George out of the box for help when Horvath attacked him with wolves, and George knocked the wolves back into paper cutouts.
• Horvath attacked George with an iron spear, but George stopped and redirected it with Magnetism Control; Horvath survived by turning into cockroaches.
• George blocked Horvath’s force attack with Protego, then struck him with a Severing Spell after Horvath blocked his Killing Curse with a trash can.
• Horvath summoned a five-meter-tall Stone Giant, and George countered with Confringo.

George and Balthazar drove Horvath away after George destroyed his Stone Giants, then escaped with David to a rooftop to discuss their next steps. Balthazar could not restore George to human form and told David that Horvath would keep hunting him unless they recovered the sealed Matryoshka Doll and sealed Horvath again.

• George destroyed Horvath’s Stone Giants with repeated Explosion Curses, while Horvath began running low on magic.
• Balthazar arrived on a Steel Giant Eagle, and Horvath escaped into a mirror using Mirror World magic.
• Balthazar took George and David away on the giant eagle before the approaching police arrived.
• David recognized Balthazar as the wizard who had given him the ring ten years earlier and trusted George enough to join them.
• George asked Balthazar to help turn him back from a panda, but Balthazar said only his teacher might be powerful enough to do so.
• David resisted getting involved, but Balthazar warned that Horvath would continue pursuing him unless they found the sealed Matryoshka Doll and sealed Horvath again.

Balthazar, David, and George raced to Chinatown to retrieve the Matryoshka Doll, but Horvath reached it first and ambushed them. George broke free of a mental attack and struck Horvath and his ally, sending the doll flying.

• Balthazar located the Matryoshka Doll in Chinatown, and George flew him and David there.
• Balthazar went to retrieve the doll while George and David waited on the rooftop, where they chatted about Chinatown and George's panda origins.
• Horvath and two Morgana Faction wizards burst out of a building after defeating Balthazar and revealed they had found the doll first.
• George attacked Horvath with Sectumsempra, but Horvath transformed into cockroaches while the female wizard trapped George with Mental Magic.
• Horvath ordered the male wizard's fire dragon to hold off Balthazar and prepared to attack George as David struggled to cast a spell.
• George broke free, grew to nearly five meters tall, and struck Horvath and the female wizard, sending them flying and knocking the Matryoshka Doll from Horvath's grasp.

George and Balthazar pursued Horvath after defeating his allies and recovering the Matryoshka Doll. The chase ended with George freezing Horvath's cockroach form as Balthazar confronted the witch.

• George retrieved the Matryoshka Doll, then helped Balthazar kill the male wizard and destroy the fire dragon.
• Horvath fled with the witch, and George persuaded Balthazar to pursue them rather than let them escape.
• Horvath and Balthazar transformed commandeered police cars into supercars, while George followed from the air and attacked Horvath through the fog.
• Horvath transformed his car into a tank and fired at George, whose Three Pillars defense blocked the shell.
• Balthazar transformed the tank into Scattered Petals and reached for Horvath, who turned into cockroaches to escape.
• George cast Immobilize All and froze Horvath's cockroaches in place.

George and Balthazar sealed Horvath and another Magician in the Matryoshka Doll, then recruited David to learn magic and began training in David’s hidden base. In the Fairy Tail world, George helped Levy study with Morgana’s Ring before they left the guild, where a mysterious man appeared afterward.

• George gave Balthazar the Matryoshka Doll, and Balthazar sealed the female Magician and Horvath inside it.
• George and Balthazar returned to David and persuaded him to take the Dragon Ring and learn magic.
• David led Balthazar and George to his abandoned subway training base, where their formal lessons began.
• In the Fairy Tail world, Levy told George that Morgana’s Ring helped her study magic more efficiently.
• George and Levy left the guild with Sarusuke, Droy, and a cat, and a long-haired man appeared outside and used Iron Dragon Slayer Magic.