Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore and Snape learned from Dobby’s memory why Lucius mistook Vizet for Voldemort: fear, the Dark Mark, and the side effects of Baruffio’s Brain Elixir had distorted his judgment. Dumbledore proposed using Vizet to draw Lucius toward their side before Voldemort returned.

• Dobby sneaked into Lucius’s study and found a Dragon Hide notebook belonging to Abraxas Malfoy, whose contents explained Lucius’s suspicions about Vizet.
• Dumbledore and Snape realized Dobby had also believed Vizet was Voldemort reborn and had fainted from fear when he encountered him.
• Snape traced Lucius’s fear and erratic judgment to his conflicted history with Voldemort and his dependence on Dreamless Sleep Potion and Baruffio’s Brain Elixir.
• Dumbledore proposed using Vizet to help bring Lucius over to their side and suggested that the Malfoy family’s wealth could be kept from Voldemort.
• Dumbledore warned that Draco might suffer when Voldemort returned because of Lucius’s past actions.

Dumbledore and Snape traced Dobby’s search for Voldemort’s notebook and discussed whether Draco Malfoy could still be guided away from danger. Meanwhile, Pansy wrote in the diary about making a notebook to retaliate against the students who altered the corridor’s writing.

• Dumbledore told Snape to bring Dobby back to the Malfoy manor and let Lucius decide what to do, while Snape warned Dumbledore not to risk his life.
• In Dobby’s memory, Dobby searched Lucius’s robes for a missing object and feared Harry Potter was in danger; Dumbledore and Snape suspected it was a notebook linked to Voldemort’s plans for Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore suggested he was trying to help a child find his way back, but Snape challenged him about atoning for past mistakes and left without taking the offered Lemon Sherbet.
• Dumbledore wondered whether emotion or memory could be used to modify memories, then turned his attention to the corridor writing that students were discussing.
• Pansy wrote in the diary that Slytherin had been insulted and promised to make a notebook with materials the House-elves would soon deliver.

As winter Coolick grew popular, Vizet and Luna helped M produce more while Fred and George sought careful students to assist with making White Smoke Powder. They recruited Hannah and Neville, who joined the work despite their nerves.

• Vizet adjusted the Coolick formula with warming ingredients, and the winter special became popular throughout Hogwarts.
• Vizet brewed base syrup while Luna prepared ingredients, and Fred and George processed materials for White Smoke Powder.
• Fred and George decided to find off-site help and chose Hannah Abbott after learning she was careful with Herbology.
• Fred and George brought Hannah and Neville to help, reassuring them that they would be paid and taught step by step.
• Neville agreed to try, and Hannah nervously joined the group as they prepared to begin.

Hanna revealed that the Leaky Cauldron’s Old Tom was her great-granduncle, while Neville spoke of his Auror parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom. Dumbledore summoned Vizet to the Chamber of Secrets entrance, where Vizet and Professor McGonagall prepared to investigate the Basilisk’s lair.

• Hanna suggested selling Coolick at the Leaky Cauldron, and Fred and George grew excited when they learned its owner, Old Tom, was her great-granduncle.
• Neville revealed that his parents were Frank and Alice Longbottom, and said they were fine despite their serious injuries.
• Vizet received Dumbledore’s message about the Chamber of Secrets and exchanged a silent farewell with Luna before leaving.
• Professor McGonagall joined Vizet on the way to the abandoned bathroom, where Dumbledore explained the precautions for facing the Basilisk.
• Vizet opened the snake-marked tap, revealing the mouth of a thick pipe leading into the Chamber of Secrets.

Vizet, Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall entered the Chamber of Secrets and confronted the Basilisk and the student who had summoned it. Dumbledore subdued the creature, and they discovered Pansy Parkinson trapped in a bone cage.

• Professor McGonagall transformed into a Tabby Cat and scouted ahead while Vizet followed her through the pipes.
• Vizet waited for Dumbledore, who cleared the bone-strewn passage and asked about Vizet's use of Voldemort's image to frighten Dobby and about the Malfoy family.
• Professor McGonagall reported that a girl was nearing the great doors and suspected she was a Slytherin student.
• Dumbledore and Vizet found the Chamber doors open and heard someone speaking Parseltongue to summon the Basilisk.
• Dumbledore used bone constructs to capture the Basilisk and illuminate the Chamber.
• Professor McGonagall recognized the frenzied girl imprisoned in a bone cage as Pansy Parkinson.

Vizet completed the Basilisk’s Curse Order by communicating with it and showing it a memory of Salazar Slytherin, calming the creature and filling the Curse Order Shell. He left the Basilisk willing to follow him to find its master as Dumbledore’s skeleton giants fell apart.

• Pansy ordered the Basilisk to kill Vizet, but Dumbledore restrained it with the Armored Skeleton Giants.
• Vizet cast an Improved Extinguishing Charm and used Ancient Magic to access the Basilisk’s memories and begin completing its Curse Order.
• The Basilisk repeated that it wanted to live, so Vizet showed it a memory of meeting Salazar Slytherin.
• The Basilisk recognized Salazar as its only master and stopped struggling, allowing Vizet’s Curse Order Shell to fill and become complete.
• Vizet told the Basilisk he would take it to Salazar, then announced to Pansy that he had succeeded as the Armored Skeleton Giants fell apart.

Vizet subdued Pansy and uncovered the notebook’s connection to the Chamber of Secrets, a trapped Runespoor, and the Basilisk. He and Dumbledore questioned whether Pansy and the notebook were merely scapegoats, then entered Salazar Slytherin’s statue to investigate further.

• Vizet calmed the Basilisk, which remembered Salazar Slytherin but ignored Pansy’s commands.
• Pansy attacked the bone cage with the notebook, and Vizet taunted her until she drew her Wand and turned gray-white and rigid.
• Vizet used a spell to reveal the notebook’s instructions and maps leading from the Slytherin Common Room to the Chamber of Secrets.
• Vizet inspected the notebook and found that it was Unplottable and imprisoned a Runespoor, which might explain Pansy’s ability to speak Parseltongue and the Basilisk’s disobedience.
• Vizet suggested that Pansy and the notebook might be scapegoats, and Dumbledore agreed the possibility warranted consideration.
• Vizet opened Salazar Slytherin’s statue, Dumbledore made a bone ladder, and Professor McGonagall entered the cavern first in her Tabby Cat form.

Vizet and Dumbledore discovered that Voldemort had destroyed the Chamber of Secrets, while Dumbledore and Snape investigated Pansy Parkinson and the notebook. Snape found no suspicious traces along Pansy's route and entered Lockhart's office, where Harry, Hermione, and Ron watched in alarm.

• Vizet gathered the ashes from the destroyed stone chamber, removed Pansy's petrification, and left the Chamber of Secrets with the Basilisk.
• Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore agreed that Pansy was likely a scapegoat and planned to investigate her movements and Slytherin House.
• Snape told Dumbledore that Lucius had fainted while viewing Dobby's memories in the Pensieve, and Dumbledore revealed that Pansy had been caught with the notebook that commanded the Basilisk.
• Dumbledore gave Snape a map of Pansy's route, and Snape investigated its locations without finding traces of Dark Magic.
• Snape entered Lockhart's office after silencing and shoving Lockhart, while Harry, Hermione, and Ron watched from the corridor.

Harry reasoned that Snape was a stronger wizard than Lockhart, and Snape later confronted Lockhart about Pansy Parkinson and discovered he had used Love Potion. After Snape stunned Lockhart, he returned to Dumbledore, who revealed that Lockhart had just been approved to hold a Duelling Club.

• Harry explained to Ron that Vizet rarely asked Lockhart questions because Lockhart’s classes were worse than studying from books, and Hermione led them to the library.
• Snape questioned Lockhart about whether Pansy Parkinson had visited him, then used Revelio to uncover Love Potion in a perfume bottle.
• Snape warned Lockhart never to use the potion on students and stunned him when Lockhart appeared to reach for his Wand.
• Snape returned to Dumbledore and said Lockhart was unconscious on the floor.
• Dumbledore told Snape that he had approved Lockhart’s request to hold a Duelling Club so students could learn to protect themselves.

Vizet used the Spell Command to enter the Mirror World with the Basilisk and reunite it with Salazar Slytherin. Slytherin explained that he valued ability and ambition over pure-blood status, while Vizet began to suspect the Chamber of Secrets legend had been designed as a trial.

• Dumbledore told Snape that the Heir would struggle to threaten Hogwarts without the Basilisk, and Snape warned that the Heir might ally with Pure-blood Families.
• Dumbledore assigned Snape as Lockhart's assistant for the Duelling Club.
• Vizet guided the Basilisk to the Mirror of Erised and projected the python-shaped Spell Command into it, using Nauthiz to enter the Mirror World.
• Slytherin greeted the Basilisk and let it fall asleep after it expressed its exhaustion.
• Vizet inferred that the Basilisk had been bred to guard rather than cleanse Hogwarts, and Slytherin said he cared about talent and ambition, not pure-blood status.
• Vizet wondered whether the Chamber of Secrets legend had been Slytherin's trial to expose people targeting Muggle-born students.

Slytherin explained that he had left the Basilisk and the Chamber of Secrets as threats to protect early Hogwarts, then rewarded Vizet for completing the test by beginning to teach him about Bloodline Magic. The chapter ended with Slytherin asking Vizet to explain what he knew about Alchemy.

• Slytherin told Vizet that he had left rumors of the Basilisk and the Chamber of Secrets to deter people who threatened Hogwarts.
• Slytherin said the Basilisk would have killed anyone who endangered the school, and he dismissed the Pure-blood Theory as foolish.
• Slytherin explained that Ravenclaw's death had been an accident and that Vizet's test had confirmed the Basilisk could finally rest.
• Vizet showed Slytherin a bag of ashes from the stone chamber, and Slytherin said it had contained research on the Curse Order Contract and Bloodline Magic.
• Slytherin offered to teach Vizet about Bloodline Magic and asked what he knew about Alchemy.
• Vizet described transformation and regeneration as Alchemy's core concepts, citing the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life.

Vizet explored how the soul, body, and magical blood were connected, then learned from Slytherin how blood could be used to manipulate and strengthen that bond. Slytherin began teaching Bloodline Magic and confirmed that combining with a magical creature was one way to reinforce it.

• Vizet reasoned that bodily defects could reflect damage to the soul, using Polyjuice Potion and Alastor Moody’s missing eye as examples.
• Slytherin judged Vizet’s understanding sufficient and asked what maintained the body and soul; Vizet answered that magical blood did.
• Vizet explained that modern magical creature breeding made blood for potions easier to obtain, and Slytherin noted that wizards had grown less familiar with blood magic.
• Slytherin explained that blood connected the soul and body and could serve as a bridge for mobilizing their magical anchor point.
• Vizet suggested combining with a magical creature to reinforce the blood bridge, and Slytherin confirmed it was an effective method.

Slytherin explained how Bloodline Magic could transfer the talents of Magical creatures into a Wizard’s blood and transform them into Soul Talents, though the process risked producing aberrations. Vizet theorized that contact with Muggles helped keep Wizards from drifting too far from humanity, and Slytherin was surprised by his conclusion.

• Slytherin described Veela bloodlines, their drawbacks, and how they usually disappeared after three generations.
• Slytherin explained that potions and Ritual Magic could plunder a Magical creature’s talents and pass them down as Bloodline Magic.
• Vizet connected Bloodline Magic to Soul Talents and questioned why Wizards had not widely promoted the practice.
• Slytherin said the method was risky and could produce aberrations such as vampires and Blood-Curse Beasts.
• Vizet suggested that contact with Muggles helped counter the side effects of Bloodline Magic and keep Wizards connected to humanity.

Vizet studied Slytherin’s Bloodline Magic research and learned how it connected magical creature talents with Curse Orders. After Slytherin and the Basilisk returned to their statue form, Vizet reunited with Luna at the Astronomy Tower.

• Slytherin taught Vizet that his Bloodline Magic research combined aspects of Curse Orders and traditional Bloodline Magic to reduce their costs and limitations.
• Vizet learned that Slytherin used Petrification and Death Curse Orders to become a statue and temporarily avoid death, at the cost of having little time to move each day.
• Vizet compared Bloodline Potions to Polyjuice Potion and described how magical creature talents could form bridges that enabled swift spells and special effects.
• Slytherin ended the lesson, and the Basilisk chose to remain with him as they both returned to statue form.
• Vizet reflected that Bloodline Magic could help him understand and develop his own Curse Orders, including a gaze that petrified targets but currently harmed his eyes.
• Vizet climbed to the Astronomy Tower and reunited with Luna, who saw that everything had gone smoothly.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione found Lockhart injured in his office after Snape countered his attempt to erase Snape’s memories. McGonagall sent the students to dinner, and they left discussing their library study and Ron’s incomplete transformation of Scabbers.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione found Lockhart unconscious in his office and helped him sit up.
• Lockhart claimed a monster from the Chamber of Secrets had attacked him and asked for his wand.
• Lockhart questioned the students about the library, while Harry and Ron hid what they had really been doing.
• Professor McGonagall arrived, heard that the students had been studying, and sent them to dinner.
• Harry said he had learned the Revival Charm’s pronunciation, and Ron partially transformed Scabbers into a silver cup.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione celebrated their progress in Transfiguration, while Lockhart learned that Snape would assist him at the Duelling Club and began planning to flee Hogwarts. Before he could escape, a mysterious notebook identified as belonging to T.M. Riddle drew him into a conversation about the Chamber of Secrets.

• Harry praised Ron for partially transfiguring Scabbers, and Ron joked that he deserved Gryffindor points.
• Harry and Ron noticed Hermione had become more willing to break school rules, and Hermione challenged them to say whether they preferred her old self.
• McGonagall told Lockhart that the Duelling Club had been approved for next Thursday and named Severus Snape as his assistant.
• After McGonagall left, Lockhart decided to flee Hogwarts and began packing his belongings.
• Lockhart found a notebook marked T.M. Riddle, wrote that he was Gilderoy Snape, and received a message from Tom Riddle about the Chamber of Secrets.

Lockhart learned that the notebook’s writer had framed Rubeus Hagrid and sought help from its mysterious young owner, who revealed Lockhart’s damaged, stitched-together form and the cause of his inability to use magic. Afterward, Vizet and Luna left Hogwarts together in the snow.

• Lockhart read the notebook’s claim that Dumbledore had manipulated its writer into identifying Rubeus Hagrid as the culprit fifty years earlier.
• The notebook recognized Lockhart as a professor and threatened to expose his fraud, then offered to help him become a normal wizard if he gave it blood.
• Lockhart cut his finger and was drawn into the notebook, where a young man showed him his distorted appearance and explained that he had stuffed other people’s memories into his own.
• The young man suggested helping Lockhart erase the people who knew his secret, while Lockhart listened in shock.
• After lunch, Vizet and Luna left the castle, with Luna clearing a snowy path and collecting colorful leaves along the way.

Vizet and Luna helped Professor Sprout dress the Mandrakes for winter, and Professor Sprout agreed to study Vizet’s unusually large, lively Mandrake over Christmas. After returning to Ravenclaw Tower, Vizet learned that a Duelling Club gathering would be held that night.

• Professor Sprout showed the students how to warm Mandrakes and choose scarves and socks according to their reactions.
• Luna and Vizet’s unusually large Mandrake cooperated readily and helped Neville and Hanna dress a fussy Mandrake.
• Professor Sprout gave the students plant-infused Biscuits and agreed to observe Vizet’s Mandrake over Christmas if he brought its special fertilizer.
• Vizet and Luna answered the Eagle Statue’s riddle with “Imagination!” and entered Ravenclaw Tower.
• Anthony told Vizet that the Duelling Club would hold a gathering in the Great Hall at eight that night.

Students anticipated the Duelling Club and discussed spells and tactics for its demonstrations and duels. Neville remained nervous about taking part, while Vizet and others offered him advice as the club approached.

• Anthony Goldstein, Terry Boot, Michael, and Chris Moen discussed the Duelling Club and recalled that Professor Flitwick had won the All-England Wizard Duelling Competition.
• Vizet advised Michael to combine the Dance Step Charm with the Leg-Locker Curse and warned him that the Shield Charm was difficult to use reliably under pressure.
• Michael decided to practice the Dance Step Charm and the Leg-Locker Curse before the evening club, which would not replace Astronomy.
• Fred and George teased the anxious Neville with suggestions about fireworks, while Luna compared opponents to Mandrakes.
• Vizet reminded Neville to use the Full Body-Bind Curse, and Fred, George, Luna, and Hanna continued joking about their ideas.

Professor Lockhart staged a dueling demonstration with Severus Snape and Vizet Lovegood, but Vizet’s Disarming Charm sent Lockhart flying into a wall. The chapter ended with Lockhart sliding to the floor as the students watched.

• Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall transformed the Great Hall for Lockhart’s dueling demonstration.
• Lockhart introduced Snape as his assistant, then changed his plan and asked Snape to choose a student opponent.
• Snape summoned Vizet Lovegood to the stage, and Vizet said he had read about the Disarming Charm but never used it.
• Lockhart explained the duel while Snape urged Vizet to restrain his strength.
• Vizet cast the Disarming Charm as the duel began, sending Lockhart crashing into the far wall.