Chapter Summaries

Professor Smith warned his students about the dangers of Acromantulas and taught them about Kappas and Werewolves. He left them with an essay on Kappas and promised a lesson on identifying and dealing with Werewolves.

• Professor Smith told the class that Dumbledore had encountered the dangerous monster in the Forbidden Forest while he had found Acromantulas.
• Professor Smith explained that Acromantulas could understand and speak human language, eat people, and overwhelm students who entered the forest.
• Albert agreed that Acromantulas were dangerous, while Fred and George recalled their own encounter with them.
• Professor Smith taught the class about Kappas, including how to protect oneself and defeat one.
• Professor Smith warned that Werewolves could attack people and that a bite or scratch from a transformed Werewolf could ruin a victim’s life.

Albert asked Professor Smith to teach him the Undetectable Extension Charm, and Professor Smith explained how it worked and why its use was regulated. Albert failed to cast it during his first attempts, but Professor Smith offered him a note to borrow books on the spell from the Restricted Section.

• Albert stayed after class and asked Professor Smith to keep his promise to teach him the Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Professor Smith told Albert he planned to leave Hogwarts around May and said he wanted to teach students as much useful knowledge as possible before then.
• Professor Smith demonstrated the Expansion Charm on a teacup and explained the spell's effects, risks, and Ministry regulations.
• Professor Smith revealed that a certain family had helped shape the regulations to profit from approved enchanted products, and Albert admitted he would do the same if given the chance.
• Albert tried casting the Expansion Charm several times but failed, so Professor Smith offered to write him a note to borrow books about it from the Restricted Section.

Mundungus traded Swamp Diggers' pelts with Albert, who negotiated a long-term arrangement and asked about snake eggs. After Dumbledore brought Albert and the others into the Hog's Head Pub, Albert demonstrated his corporeal Hippogriff Patronus.

• Mundungus set up his stall outside the Hog's Head Pub and offered Albert the Swamp Diggers' pelts.
• Albert negotiated a price of six Galleons and asked Mundungus whether he had found a source for snake eggs.
• Mundungus Apparated away, but Albert spotted him hiding nearby by his footprints.
• Albus Dumbledore invited Albert and the others into the Hog's Head Pub and asked how he had learned the Patronus Charm so quickly.
• Albert summoned his Hippogriff Patronus, while Fred wondered what his own Patronus would be.

Albert learned about the advanced application of the Patronus Charm from Abforth and tried sending a message with it, but produced only silver vapor. After leaving the Hog's Head with Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, he went to Zoko's Joke Shop and had to sneak back toward Hogwarts when Hogsmeade filled with students.

• Abforth explained advanced magic and described the confidence, happy memories, magical strength, and wand movements needed for the advanced Patronus Charm.
• Abforth said a message-bearing Patronus could find its recipient by a known location or by tracking them, though Albert did not yet know the Tracking Charm.
• Albert attempted to cast the advanced Patronus Charm but produced only a wisp of silver vapor, then wrote down Abforth's instructions.
• Albert left the Hog's Head with Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, who wanted to visit Zoko's Joke Shop for more U-No-Poo.
• The four lingered at Zoko's until Hogsmeade filled with students, then used the Disillusionment Charm and took a long detour to avoid being caught.

Albert struggled to learn the Undetectable Extension Charm until he discovered the missing casting requirement, then succeeded and began planning protective gear. Back in the dormitory, Lee Jordan’s Probity Probe caused trouble, and Albert hinted that Defense Against the Dark Arts equipment would become highly profitable.

• Lee Jordan used a Probity Probe to search the dormitory and tried to open Albert’s enchanted cabinet while Fred and George warned him off.
• Albert practiced the Undetectable Extension Charm in the Room of Requirement, studied a Restricted Section book, realized he had to specify the amount of space to expand, and successfully cast the spell.
• Albert considered having Swamp Diggers’ fur made into protective gloves and a container for a Mandrake.
• At lunch, Albert found Lee Jordan with a swollen eye, learned he had been punched for poking people with the Probity Probe, and demonstrated that it reacted to his Protective Bracelet.
• Albert told Fred and George that protective gear would be valuable because many wizards were poor at Defense Against the Dark Arts, hinting that he knew demand would soon surge.

Albert asked Professor Smith for help with the Undetectable Extension Charm, then wrote letters seeking advanced Transfiguration advice from Adolf. After sending them, he crossed paths with Isabelle, who hurried away without speaking much to him.

• Albert successfully expanded a teacup after Professor Smith explained why his Undetectable Extension Charm had failed, leaving Katrina discouraged by the gap between their abilities.
• Albert wrote to Adolf about his Transfiguration difficulties and asked how advanced spells could be applied to magical mirrors.
• Lee Jordan gave Albert the Wizard Cards competition schedule, and Albert revised it while his friends discussed their Fire-Making Spell essays.
• Albert encountered Filch, learned from Nearly Headless Nick that Peeves had left U-No-Poos around the second floor, and continued to the Owlery.
• Albert sent letters to his family, the tailor shop in Diagon Alley, and Adolf in France, then met Isabelle as she returned from Hogsmeade.

Albert practiced the Advanced Patronus Charm, learned tailoring to make gloves, and prepared for Gryffindor’s approaching Quidditch match. A wager conversation drew Charlie’s anger toward Fred and George, who denied they had money to bet.

• Albert practiced the Advanced Patronus Charm and raised his Undetectable Extension Charm to level two, making a small expanded wooden box.
• Albert learned Tailoring and eventually made a glove template after ruining more than a dozen attempts.
• Fred, George, and Lee discussed betting on Gryffindor’s match against Slytherin with Kenneth Troller, while Albert refused to sell his Wit-Sharpening Potion.
• Kenneth Troller asked Albert whether he could obtain more Wit-Sharpening Potion after learning Albert had met Dagworth.
• Percy went to find Charlie, who confronted Fred and George about betting against Gryffindor, and they denied having any money.

Gryffindor and Slytherin began a vicious Quidditch match, with Slytherin taking an early lead through dirty tactics. After calling a timeout to prevent Fred and George from being surrounded, Charlie urged Gryffindor to retaliate, and the twins invoked Albert’s supposed advice to fight back.

• Charlie warned Gryffindor’s players to protect themselves against Slytherin, while Albert told Aaliyah he expected the match to turn into a fight.
• Slytherin fouled Gryffindor early, scored first, and knocked Angelina nearly off her broom.
• Kenneth Troller complained that most bets favored Slytherin, then paid Albert ten Galleons to settle their bet privately.
• Slytherin’s Beater hit Fred and knocked him from his broom as Slytherin extended its lead to 80:30.
• Fred punched one of the players who had ambushed him, and Charlie called a timeout to keep the twins from being surrounded.
• Charlie told Gryffindor to take down Slytherin in retaliation, and Fred and George claimed Albert had told them to use an eye for an eye.

Charlie led Gryffindor in a violent Quidditch match against Slytherin after their fouls escalated, but Gryffindor lost badly and many players were injured. Professor McGonagall initially gave Charlie detention, then canceled it after he defended his actions, and the injured players recovered in the Hospital Wing.

• Charlie responded to Slytherin’s fouls by having Gryffindor fight back, and the match descended into a brawl.
• Angelina was struck and carried off the pitch as Gryffindor fell behind 140:40.
• Charlie told Wood he planned to study dragons rather than join a professional Quidditch team.
• Gryffindor lost 310:70 after a two-hour match, and most players from both teams went to the Hospital Wing.
• Professor McGonagall scolded Charlie and canceled his detention after he argued that Slytherin had started the trouble.
• Albert and the others visited the injured players, while Madam Pomfrey angrily compared the match to a gang fight.

After Gryffindor’s Quidditch defeat sparked rumors blaming Charlie, Albert helped Fred and George identify the people spreading them. The twins retaliated against Marcus McLaggen with laxatives, and the story of his humiliating collapse displaced the gossip about Charlie.

• Albert told Fred, George, and Lee Jordan that Kenneth Troller had paid him five Galleons early to settle their bet, and explained that he had not wanted to leave Kenneth unable to pay.
• Fred and George told Albert that rumors blamed Charlie for filling the Quidditch team with friends and relatives, and Albert suggested they find out who was spreading them.
• Fred and George discovered that Marcus McLaggen was spreading the rumors with help from Kenneth Troller.
• Fred proposed putting laxatives in the school’s soup, but Albert warned that targeting everyone would cause serious trouble, so the twins agreed to target Marcus alone.
• Fred and George gave Marcus doctored water, borrowed Albert’s camera to photograph his diarrhea, and caused stories about his collapse to replace the rumors about Charlie.

Albert discussed ways to skip class with Fred, George, and Lee Jordan while assembling a magical self-defence device called Banshee's Wail. He left the twins considering whether to develop symptom-causing potions and antidotes for profit.

• Fred and George visited Albert in the Room of Requirement, where he explained that Madam Pomfrey had cured his illness and he could skip History of Magic because he was prepared for the exam.
• Fred and George showed Albert a photograph of Marcus McLaggen and discussed excuses and potions for skipping class with Lee Jordan.
• Fred and George told Albert that Filch had caught Kenneth Troller using U-No-Poo and made him scrub the corridor, after the twins had secretly set him up.
• Lee Jordan asked about Albert's device, and Albert explained that Banshee's Wail would use Mandrake root's cry to knock people unconscious.
• Albert suggested that the twins investigate plants that could cause illness symptoms and develop antidotes, leaving them to weigh the work and risks against the chance to earn Galleons.

Gerber Smith and the other Will de Smiths met to discuss their fears that Rowena Smith might threaten the candidates at Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Albert safely sealed the Banshee’s Wail and considered letting Fred and George test it.

• Bade Blod summoned Gerber Smith, Tiberius Ogden, and Moggy MacDougal to discuss what Rowena Smith knew about the Will de Smiths.
• Bade Blod read Albert Anderson’s letter describing Ravenclaw’s Chamber and Rowena’s conjectures.
• Gerber Smith and the others agreed that Moggy would watch over the candidates while Rowena remained at Hogwarts, and Gerber promised to intervene if necessary.
• Tiberius Ogden suggested that Albert return the Bronze Book after Rowena left Hogwarts.
• Albert sealed the Banshee’s Wail in a silver container, confirmed it was contained, and burned his backup instructions.

Albert tested Banshee's Wail, a powerful device that rendered its victims unconscious, and used specially processed salt to revive them. When Fred opened it in the Room of Requirement, he and the others collapsed, and Albert revived them before they blamed him for not warning them.

• Albert returned to the Gryffindor dormitory with butter cookies and showed Fred, George, and Lee Jordan his Undetectable Extension Charm cage and an unconscious rat.
• Albert fed the rat specially processed salt after the Revival Charm failed, and the rat woke up.
• Fred opened Banshee's Wail in the Room of Requirement, knocking himself, George, and Lee Jordan unconscious while Albert protected himself with earplugs.
• Albert revived Lee Jordan and the Weasley twins with the salt, and they complained that he had not warned them before threatening to beat him up.

Albert and his dormmates discussed self-defense and wandless magic before Lee Jordan revealed that Professor Smith had asked about their Forbidden Forest adventure. Albert accidentally exposed that his story about an Acromantula attack was false, then admitted Hagrid’s dangerous pet Fluffy had been involved while keeping the rest secret.

• Albert defended his use of physical training, and he and his dormmates argued about whether wizards could rely on magic without their wands.
• Lee Jordan told Albert that Professor Smith had asked whether Fred and George encountered an Acromantula in the Forbidden Forest.
• Fred and George speculated about Professor Smith’s interest, and Albert accidentally revealed that they had never been ambushed by an Acromantula.
• Albert explained that Hagrid’s pet Fluffy had been in the Forbidden Forest, but he refused to share more because he had promised to keep it secret.
• Albert said Dumbledore had probably sent Fluffy back to Greece, while privately knowing it was still hidden in the Forbidden Forest.

Albert grew uneasy about Professor Smith and organized Defense Against the Dark Arts practice with Fred, George, and Lee Jordan. He began training them in practical spells and showed them how much force a well-cast Obstacle Curse could have.

• Albert compared his Rune Stone Divination with a book and discussed Divination and next year's classes with Lee Jordan, Fred, and George.
• Albert invited his roommates to practice in the Room of Requirement, claiming he needed to prepare for a search for Gryffindor's treasure in the Forbidden Forest.
• Albert had Fred, George, and Lee Jordan take turns casting the Obstacle Curse at him while he practiced the Shield Charm.
• Albert demonstrated a powerful Obstacle Curse that sent Lee Jordan flying into cushions.
• Albert advised the trio to master practical defensive spells before learning stronger magic and offered to study spells from Practical Defensive Magic and Its Countermeasures Against the Dark Arts with them.

Albert kept secretly observing Professor Smith and practicing magic, while Katrina asked him about Wit-Sharpening Potion for the Wizard Cards competition. He joined Fred, George, and Lee Jordan in the Room of Requirement to train their dueling skills.

• Albert continued practicing his Patronus Charm while distracted, though he made little progress beyond gaining skill experience.
• Katrina asked Albert whether Wit-Sharpening Potion worked and requested undiluted potion; Albert warned her it was dangerous and contraband, then she walked away upset.
• Albert found Fred, George, and Lee Jordan practicing the Leg-Locker Curse and freed George with a counterspell.
• Albert advised the boys to learn to cast spells quickly and quietly, then had them practice dueling and coordinated Obstacle Curses.
• Albert secretly misled the boys about his reason for emphasizing the Obstacle Curse, while their magical dueling nevertheless improved.

Albert practiced the Shield Charm against Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, while the three urged him to search the Forbidden Forest for Gryffindor's Secret Treasure. He refused until after exams, insisting they prepare thoroughly before facing the forest's dangers.

• Albert blocked Fred, George, and Lee Jordan's Obstacle Curses with his Shield Charm until the three ended their attack.
• Fred accused Albert of using them as sparring partners, and Albert argued that they had improved their magic through practice.
• Albert explained that he wanted to master silent casting and warned the trio not to enter the Forbidden Forest before they were ready.
• Fred asked when they would search for Gryffindor's Secret Treasure, and Albert postponed the trip until after exams.
• Albert warned that Acromantulas could ambush them and insisted on more training and safety preparations before any adventure.

Albert and his friends launched the First Wizard Cards Tournament, using the entry fee and prize to encourage contestants to attend. The new, refined Wizard Cards drew strong interest, and Albert officially began the tournament, leaving the first round underway.

• Albert reassured Fred, George, and Lee Jordan that the paid entry fees and champion’s prize would bring contestants to the tournament.
• Albert explained to Shanna that thirty-two contestants would compete in the first eliminations, with the final rounds scheduled for later.
• Angelina and Aaliyah asked about the new Wizard Cards, and Albert showed them the refined cards while explaining that they were not yet ready for sale.
• Albert began calling contestants, declared two absent students to have lost, and advanced Angelina and another contestant without a match.
• Albert declared the First Wizard Cards Tournament underway and conjured sparks like exploding fireworks.

Albert refereed the first Wizard Cards tournament, where many contestants struggled with the rules and Shanna defeated Katrina in the most exciting match. Filch tried to break up the tournament as an illegal gathering, but Albert showed him Dumbledore’s approval and sent him away; the organizers then returned to the unfinished elimination round.

• Albert refereed the elimination matches as inexperienced contestants made basic mistakes, and he warned spectators not to interfere.
• Shanna defeated Katrina in a close match, and Albert and the crowd applauded her victory.
• Filch arrived after hearing that an illegal gathering was taking place and ordered the crowd to disperse.
• Albert showed Filch a parchment bearing Dumbledore’s approval of the Wizard Cards Club, and Filch left in a fury.
• Fred and Lee Jordan wondered who had informed Filch, but Albert told them to return to their duties while the first round continued.

Albert and his friends retaliated against Marcus McLaggen by using a Confundus Charm to make him enter the ladies' bathroom, where students caught and beat him. The incident left Marcus publicly disgraced and punished, while Fielder hinted that he suspected Albert’s involvement.

• Albert told the students that the Wizard Cards would not be widely available until next year, then identified Marcus McLaggen as the person trying to cause trouble for Fred and George.
• Albert proposed using a Confundus Charm on Marcus, and he cast it when Marcus passed the ladies' bathroom.
• Marcus entered the ladies' bathroom, was chased out by a group of girls, and was taken away by Filch.
• Professor McGonagall gave Marcus a week of detention and deducted fifty points, while his mother sent him a Howler in the Great Hall.
• Fielder told Albert that Marcus had seemed Confunded and said he was glad someone had pranked him; Albert noted that McGonagall had found no charm on Marcus.
• Fred and George spread rumors and took bets about Marcus, while Lee Jordan wondered whether Fielder knew Albert had cast the spell.