Chapter Summaries

Vizet, Snape, and Dumbledore discovered Hermione and Ron brewing Polyjuice Potion in an abandoned bathroom, intending to investigate the Chamber of Secrets. After Dumbledore took the students away, Vizet approached Moaning Myrtle and asked about her death.

• Vizet identified the ingredients in the cauldron as components for Polyjuice Potion, and Snape speculated that someone planned to infiltrate a location.
• Hermione and Ron entered the bathroom while discussing stealing ingredients from Snape’s storeroom to brew Polyjuice Potion and investigate the Chamber of Secrets.
• Snape caught Hermione and Ron, took one hundred points from Gryffindor for breaking curfew and attempting theft, and Dumbledore questioned them.
• Dumbledore left with Hermione and Ron to talk with them, while Snape and Vizet stayed in the bathroom.
• Moaning Myrtle appeared, and Vizet asked whether she had been in the bathroom when she died.

Draco returned to the Slytherin Common Room after questioning in the Headmaster's Office and grew suspicious of Pansy's questions. Pansy and the diary's Riddle plotted to frame Vizet Lovegood as the Heir of Slytherin, while Riddle left the diary and merged into Pansy.

• Draco entered the Slytherin Common Room and avoided telling Pansy why Snape had taken him to the Headmaster's Office.
• Pansy returned with the diary and told Riddle she feared the House-elf's appearance meant they had been discovered.
• Riddle persuaded Pansy that Dumbledore had deceived Draco and urged her to find a scapegoat.
• Pansy agreed to frame Vizet Lovegood by drawing him to a new diary that Riddle would use to lead him toward the Chamber of Secrets.
• Riddle praised Pansy, left the diary, and dissolved into light that entered her body.

Vizet discovered that Parseltongue opened the hidden entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, and he, Snape, and Dumbledore descended into the pipes. They reached a bone-strewn cave tunnel, where Vizet sensed and mapped the Ancient Magic Power before following the others onward.

• Moaning Myrtle told Vizet that she had seen huge yellow eyes before she died in the bathroom.
• Vizet found a deeply carved snake pattern on a tap, and speaking Parseltongue caused the washbasins to move and reveal a pipe.
• Dumbledore sent his Patronus into the pipe to sense what lay below, then agreed to descend with Vizet and Snape.
• Vizet used a Bubblehead Charm expanded by Transfiguration to protect his body as he entered the filthy, winding pipe.
• Vizet, Snape, and Dumbledore reached a cave tunnel littered with old animal bones, where Vizet used Magic Eye to map the Ancient Magic Power before Dumbledore led them onward.

Vizet, Dumbledore, and Snape found a Basilisk’s Snake Shedding in the mountain tunnel, and Vizet struggled to cut through its strong hide. Dumbledore persuaded Snape to teach Vizet Sectumsempra, and Snape began demonstrating the spell on the shedding.

• Dumbledore spotted a giant shape in the tunnel and sent a rat ahead, then identified the object as a Basilisk’s Snake Shedding.
• Vizet recognized the shedding as evidence that a Basilisk had driven the Spiders from the castle.
• Vizet combined his cutting technique with controlled magic to make a precise cut in the shedding.
• Dumbledore suggested that Snape teach Vizet a more labor-saving cutting method, and Snape agreed to explain Sectumsempra.
• Snape taught Vizet how to gather magic into a point and extend it into a Thread, then demonstrated Sectumsempra along the Snake Shedding.

Vizet used memories and Ancient Magic Power to imitate Snape’s Sectumsempra and cut the snake shedding, though his spell also destroyed nearby bones and injured his fingers. After gathering and cleaning the snake skin, he triggered a reaction in Wizard Combat Guide and followed Dumbledore and Snape deeper into the cave.

• Snape demonstrated Sectumsempra by cleanly slicing the snake shedding and told Vizet to control the spell’s sharpness without unleashing its Dark Magic.
• Vizet joined memories of young Snape, Snape’s demonstration, and sword energy to cast Sectumsempra, cutting the snake shedding and the surrounding bones.
• Vizet kept casting until the snake skin was reduced to small pieces, then restored the memories and healed cuts on his fingers.
• Snape gave Vizet a barely passing mark, and Dumbledore pointed out a door ahead that seemed to require Parseltongue.
• Vizet collected and cleaned the snake skin, triggering Wizard Combat Guide to absorb his Ancient Magic Power as he followed Dumbledore deeper into the tunnel.

Vizet, Dumbledore, and Snape entered the Chamber of Secrets and searched it for threats and hidden passages. As Vizet discovered the name “Spell Command” in his Wizard Combat Guide, he saw a vision of a python emerging from a cracking skull.

• Vizet suggested using the altered wall message to provoke the Heir, and Dumbledore and Snape agreed it could draw him out without renewing panic at Hogwarts.
• Vizet used his wand to rearrange the Chamber’s warning into a taunting message, then cast a Patronus at Snape’s request.
• Vizet opened the Chamber’s stone door with Parseltongue, and Dumbledore checked that the hall held no immediate danger.
• Vizet, Dumbledore, and Snape searched the hall but found no secret entrance or response to Vizet’s Parseltongue.
• Vizet’s Wizard Combat Guide revealed the name “Spell Command,” and he remembered Salazar Slytherin’s promise that he could learn to control it after passing a trial.
• Vizet saw a vision of a python crawling out of a skull as cracks spread across the skull.

Vizet collapsed after the python shattered the Skull Head, and Dumbledore and Snape returned him to Hogwarts, where Madam Pomfrey treated him in the Hospital Wing. Harry woke briefly amid the commotion before falling asleep again, while Madam Pomfrey scolded Dumbledore and Snape for letting Vizet end up in the hospital once more.

• The python emerged from the Skull Head and smashed its cracked, granite-like shell, causing memory fragments to surge into Vizet and make him collapse.
• Snape caught Vizet as the Dark Mark on his arm flared painfully and then vanished; Dumbledore said he trusted Vizet and chose to return to the surface to seek another way to uncover the chamber’s secret.
• Harry endured the pain of Skele-Gro and the Soul Soothing Potion as his arm’s bones grew, then briefly woke and saw Dumbledore, Snape, Madam Pomfrey, and Vizet in the Hospital Wing.
• Madam Pomfrey angrily questioned Dumbledore and Snape about Vizet’s collapse, while Snape blamed Dumbledore’s advice that danger should accompany a wizard.

Vizet watched Salazar Slytherin create a rooster egg through a series of magical experiments, revealing the process behind producing a Basilisk. By observing Salazar cast the Killing Curse, Vizet also learned how the curse worked and found himself able to cast it.

• Vizet realized he had entered a memory of Salazar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets, where Salazar was trying to create a rooster egg.
• Vizet watched Salazar conduct many experiments using Ritual Magic, Alchemy, Bloodline Magic, and other fields of magical knowledge.
• Salazar created an egg-shaped object in a garnet vessel, cultivated it inside a rooster, and used an Irish Phoenix and repeated Killing Curses as part of the process.
• Salazar's rooster turned to ash, leaving behind a bone-white egg threaded with pulsing red lines, which he recorded as a successful rooster egg.
• Vizet concluded that death magic helped give the egg and the resulting Basilisk their deadly properties, and he studied the experiment for clues he could understand.
• After watching Salazar cast the Killing Curse repeatedly, Vizet mastered its method and identified the emotion and Wand movement required to cast it.

Vizet watched Salazar use biological alchemy and Ancient Magic Power to hatch a Basilisk and began theorizing about forming a curse order contract. Salazar’s memories ended when the Basilisk hatched, and Vizet drifted toward waking as he sensed Hogwarts and its surroundings.

• Salazar used Thestral blood, Ritual Magic, and Alchemy to transform the rooster egg into a Basilisk egg.
• Salazar nurtured the Basilisk egg with Ancient Magic Power and used Mental Magic to communicate with it and build trust for a curse order.
• Vizet wondered whether he could use Ancient Magic Power, Parseltongue, and Mental Magic to connect with the Basilisk, and whether he might form a curse order with a Mandrake.
• Salazar’s memory ended as the Basilisk hatched, leaving Vizet unable to witness the curse order’s formation.
• Vizet began regaining consciousness and sensed the Ravenclaw Common Room, the Forbidden Forest, the Thestrals, and Hogwarts’s greenhouses.

Luna woke with a strange sensation of falling and later decided Vizet was resting in the Hospital Wing. She and Hanna and Neville found him there, where Vizet woke and greeted them.

• Luna woke early, waited for Vizet, and described feeling like a Fudi Bat flying through the dark.
• Neville told Luna and Hanna that Colin had been attacked again and that Dumbledore thought the attacker had been trying to damage Colin’s camera as a prank.
• Luna reassured Hanna and Neville that Vizet was safe and said he was probably resting in the Hospital Wing.
• Luna, Hanna, and Neville hurried to the Hospital Wing after saying goodbye to Professor Sprout.
• Madam Pomfrey examined Harry’s recovering arm and said he could leave after breakfast.
• Luna, Hanna, and Neville found Vizet asleep, and he woke to greet them.

After recovering in the Hospital Wing, Vizet encouraged Neville and Hanna to draw on their love of Herbology to improve their spellwork. The chapter left them successfully casting a much stronger Tickling Charm on a caged Pixie.

• Vizet told Madam Pomfrey that his latest illness had been an accident, then reassured Luna and the others that there was no Heir of Slytherin.
• Hanna told the group that Colin's camera had been destroyed, and Dumbledore took Harry aside to speak with him privately.
• Neville admitted he worried about losing points and struggling with potions and spells, so Luna, Hanna, and Vizet encouraged him.
• Vizet suggested that Neville and Hanna use subjects they enjoyed to understand magic, and demonstrated by connecting the Tickling Charm to their relaxed feelings in the Greenhouse.
• Neville and Hanna imagined leaves tickling their legs and cast brighter Tickling Charms that struck the caged Pixie.

Vizet advised Neville and Hanna on using Magical Plants to explore other spells, then joined Ravenclaw Quidditch training with the team’s new Sweep Seven Stars. As the rival teams watched his increased speed, their captains considered how quickly they would need to catch the Golden Snitch to compete.

• Vizet used a Tickling Charm on the Pixies and encouraged Neville and Hanna to experiment with Magical Plants and ask professors for help.
• Neville and Hanna thanked Vizet on the way to the Great Hall, where students joked about the Heir of the Chamber of Secrets and the Weasley twins claimed to be responsible.
• Roger Davies briefed Vizet and the Ravenclaw team on new tactics as they adapted to their Sweep Seven Stars.
• Flint watched Vizet’s fast flying and signaled to his Beaters, while Oliver Wood and Angelina Johnson discussed how Gryffindor could counter him.
• The Hufflepuff captain warned Cedric that he needed to find the Golden Snitch quickly to overcome Vizet’s advantage.

After Quidditch practice, Vizet and Luna walked by the Black Lake and discussed their plans to visit the Forbidden Forest once the Chamber of Secrets matter was resolved. They also wondered whether their renewed memory bond might let them sense each other’s dreams, but the feeling had already faded.

• Roger Davies praised the Ravenclaw team's improved coordination and gave Cho Chang and Grant Page advice before reminding them of their upcoming match against Hufflepuff.
• Vizet and Luna walked around the Black Lake, and Vizet reassured Luna that they could explore the Forbidden Forest after the Chamber of Secrets matter was resolved.
• Luna excitedly listed the creatures and places she hoped to find in the Forbidden Forest, including Crumple-Horned Snorkacks, Centaurs' Altars, and Thestrals.
• Vizet and Luna discussed the unusual scenes they had sensed after renewing their memory bond and wondered whether thoughts or emotions had caused them.
• Luna tried to sense Vizet's dream again but felt nothing, and Vizet suggested the experience might depend on certain conditions.

Vizet visited Dumbledore after a potion lesson and used a magical testing artifact, which revealed that he had obtained a Spell Command connected to Voldemort. He learned that the command had changed from a Dark Mark-like image into a python pattern, and ended by asking Dumbledore why a reaction from the artifact would be dangerous.

• Luna received Dumbledore's message and accompanied Vizet to the Great Hall before his private potion lesson with Snape.
• Snape taught Vizet how specialized antidotes used the Broad-Spectrum Potion as their foundation, and Vizet applied the theory to his studies.
• Luna led Vizet to Dumbledore's Office, where Dobby fainted upon seeing him and Vizet handed over Dobby's memory of the attack on Harry.
• Dumbledore asked Vizet to touch a silver testing artifact, which revealed the python pattern of Vizet's Spell Command.
• Dumbledore connected Vizet's Spell Command to Voldemort and asked whether it had first appeared as a Dark Mark; Vizet demonstrated the mark and asked why a reaction to the artifact would be troubling.

Dumbledore explained the dangers and uncertain terms of a Curse Order Contract, and Vizet decided to recreate the circumstances of its formation to learn what it required of him. With Dumbledore’s help, Vizet designed a process and concluded that Basilisk snake-shedding fragments were the key condition.

• Dumbledore warned Vizet that a Curse Order Contract could impose lifelong restrictions and that breaking it might cost him his life.
• Vizet compared Dumbledore’s description of forming a Curse Order Contract with Salazar Slytherin’s memories of raising the Basilisk.
• Vizet proposed recreating the contract’s formation, and Dumbledore agreed to help him examine the process.
• Vizet chose the Fourth Floor room where the Mirror of Erised had been kept and the Chamber of Secrets as possible locations, and set midnight as the likely time.
• Vizet used his memories to draw a Ritual Magic Array and asked Dumbledore to assess it.
• Vizet reviewed how he had obtained the Curse Order and concluded that the Basilisk’s snake-shedding fragments were essential to recreating its formation.

Vizet and Dumbledore discussed the curse order, and Dumbledore revealed his fear that Snape might accept a dangerous contract before they understood Voldemort’s possible return. At midnight, Vizet attempted to awaken the Ritual Magic Array before the Mirror of Erised, but its response was faint, leading him to wonder whether he should focus on Voldemort.

• Vizet explained that he wanted to use Basilisk shedding fragments and a Ritual Magic Array to learn about the curse order he already possessed.
• Dumbledore said he would handle the preparations and admitted he did not want Snape to be ruled by a curse order before they uncovered Voldemort’s secrets.
• Vizet connected Dumbledore’s warning about curse orders to something that had happened in 1945, but Dumbledore declined to explain further.
• Vizet returned to the Mirror of Erised at midnight and found that its left-hand image had changed to a question-mark-shaped python pattern.
• Vizet used Guardian Meditation to resonate with the Ritual Magic Array, sensed only a faint response, and asked whether he should recall Voldemort instead of focusing on himself.

Vizet used Mental Magic and Ritual Magic to witness young Voldemort making a contract with the Basilisk, then realized that his own Curse Order required no price because Voldemort had already sacrificed his capacity for love. He told Dumbledore that the Curse Order was still an empty shell and that he needed direct contact with the Basilisk to gain the trait of petrification.

• Vizet recalled his encounter with Voldemort, triggering the Ritual Magic Array and placing his consciousness inside the Chamber of Secrets.
• Vizet witnessed young Voldemort contract with the Basilisk, which took his emotion of love in exchange for the Curse Order trait of death.
• Vizet understood that his contact with the Basilisk's Snake Shedding had formed an empty Curse Order Shell, and that he needed to touch the Basilisk itself to obtain petrification.
• Vizet told Dumbledore that he owed no price because Voldemort had already paid, then shared his memories of the ritual.

Vizet and Dumbledore investigated Curse Orders and learned how a contract had shaped Voldemort’s Killing Curse and led to the death of the potion inventor Dilumduo Odina. Dumbledore advised Vizet to conceal his own abilities by inventing a false Curse Order Contract, but warned him never to reveal it to anyone.

• Vizet let Dumbledore examine a memory, and Dumbledore concluded that Voldemort’s ultimate death Curse Order explained his unusually fast, accurate, silent Killing Curse.
• Dumbledore told Vizet that Dilumduo Odina’s Curse Order had enabled him to invent Amortentia, but Dilumduo later died after violating his contract.
• Dumbledore explained that Dilumduo’s contract forbade him from killing a relative, and Finn McCool arranged for Dilumduo to kill his half-brother, who had become a Tebo Warthog.
• Vizet wondered whether Curse Orders guided their holders toward predetermined fates, and Dumbledore said the possibility was worth considering.
• Vizet asked whether he should fabricate a Curse Order Contract, and Dumbledore approved the idea but told him not to disclose it to anyone.

Grindelwald warned Serena Pendragon of a coming accident in Mumbai, while Dumbledore discussed Vizet’s fabricated Curse Order Contract and Voldemort’s secrets. The chapter ended with Snape urgently asking how love could be used to defeat Voldemort.

• Grindelwald asked Serena Pendragon to find old issues of Today's Transfiguration and told her a large-scale accident would happen in Mumbai early next year.
• Dumbledore warned Vizet that he needed to make his fabricated Curse Order Contract seem authentic and suggested Voldemort might reveal his own weakness.
• Dumbledore let Vizet leave the Mirror of Erised in his office after confirming the Curse Order had no hidden dangers.
• Snape asked Dumbledore why he needed a fragment of Snake Shedding, and Dumbledore said his investigation had revealed that love could defeat Voldemort.
• Snape urgently asked Dumbledore how he could use love to defeat Voldemort.

Dumbledore and Snape viewed Dobby’s memories to investigate Voldemort and the clues surrounding his return. They saw Lucius arrange to frame Arthur Weasley’s family and later worry that Voldemort was hiding in a blind spot beneath Dumbledore’s nose.

• Dumbledore avoided telling Snape more about the Spell Command and suggested they seek clues in Dobby’s memories.
• In Malfoy Manor, Lucius offered to pay Old Crabbe’s fines and proposed giving Arthur Weasley’s family a Dark Lord artifact to make them look guilty.
• Dumbledore and Snape watched Dobby listen as Lucius and Draco discussed the Dark Mark and events involving Dumbledore and Vizet.
• After Draco left Lucius’s study, Dobby kept eavesdropping while Lucius searched in silence.
• Lucius wondered whether Voldemort had come to warn him and suspected the Dark Lord was hiding in a blind spot beneath Dumbledore’s nose.