Chapter Summaries

Lockhart opened the Dueling Club and called Harry and Noah up for a demonstration, but Snape intervened and took Noah's place. Snape revealed that he had dreamed of repeatedly dueling Noah and his friends in the Room of Requirement, always winning.

• Lockhart introduced the Dueling Club and said it would teach students to defend themselves.
• Noah's friends worried about having to duel him, and Noah joked that he would wait ten seconds before defeating them.
• Lockhart summoned Harry and Noah to demonstrate, but Snape argued that Noah should face a professor instead.
• Lockhart avoided dueling Noah, so Snape volunteered to be his demonstration partner.
• Snape told Noah he had dreamed of dueling Noah and his friends in the Room of Requirement, where Noah had lost every match.

Noah and Professor Snape fought to a draw in a classroom duel, revealing Noah’s formidable skill to the watching students. After the duel, Snape questioned why Noah’s Mage Alliance included no Slytherins, and Noah said they were afraid but now had a goal.

• Noah worried that Snape’s dreams might have revealed his abilities and weaknesses before they faced each other in a duel.
• Noah blocked Snape’s Expelliarmus, and their spells collided with enough force to scatter the watching students and knock Lockhart off the platform.
• Noah and Snape ended the duel before their magic could damage the classroom further, then discussed their more dangerous fights in the Room of Requirement.
• The students gathered around Evan and the others to ask about Noah, while Snape remarked that Noah’s organization was developing well.
• Snape asked why no Slytherins had joined the Mage Alliance, and Noah replied that they were afraid but now had a goal.

Draco recounted how Noah Finneal and his friends repeatedly outmatched him, making him question his pure-blood beliefs. After Hermione defeated him in a duel and Noah’s group gained the respect of students across Hogwarts, Draco decided to find out how they had become so powerful.

• Draco recalled insulting Hermione and watching Ron’s spell backfire before Noah intervened and defeated Slytherin captain Marcus.
• Draco suspected Noah was secretly from a pure-blood family after Noah became the first person found at the Chamber of Secrets scene.
• Draco learned the Chamber had been opened fifty years earlier and wondered whether its monster would target Noah.
• Draco witnessed Noah and Snape’s powerful spell exchange and saw Noah’s companions demonstrate their strength in later matches.
• Draco tried to challenge Hermione, but she defeated him with one spell and left him questioning his family’s pure-blood beliefs.
• Draco decided to investigate how Noah and his friends had become so capable, even if he risked being beaten again.

Harry and Noah searched Hogwarts for the voice of the Basilisk, and Noah explained how he had deduced the creature’s identity. After Noah exposed Draco following them, Harry heard the voice nearby again, and the three prepared to pursue it.

• Harry persuaded Noah to search Hogwarts for the voice, and they spent the night circling the castle without hearing it.
• Noah told Harry that the cat had been petrified because it saw the Basilisk’s reflection, while Colin had looked through his camera.
• Noah noticed Draco following them and drew his wand, prompting Harry to ready his wand as well.
• Draco emerged and struggled to explain why he had been tailing them.
• Harry heard the Basilisk’s voice nearby, and Noah asked what they were waiting for.

Noah, Harry, and Draco pursued the Basilisk through Hogwarts, where Noah unleashed the powerful Blazing Storm spell against it. As the magic drained him and he grew dizzy, the three boys still kept their eyes shut.

• Draco followed Noah and Harry despite Noah warning him that the monster was dangerous.
• Noah told Harry and Draco not to look into the Basilisk’s eyes, and the three prepared to face it.
• Nearly Headless Nick appeared, but the Basilisk attacked before Noah could explain the danger.
• Noah sensed the Basilisk above them and ordered everyone to close their eyes; Harry heard it call them three delicious meals.
• Noah cast Blazing Storm, filling the corridor with intense heat as the Basilisk shrieked.
• Noah felt his magic nearly exhausted and grew dizzy while the spell continued.

Noah, Harry, and Draco found the Basilisk badly burned, and the professors arrived after Noah’s fire magic had nearly killed it. Harry questioned the dying snake and learned that a red-haired girl named Weasley had released it alongside another Parseltongue.

• Harry cautiously opened his eyes after checking the Basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick and saw that its eyes had been destroyed and its body badly burned.
• Noah and Draco opened their eyes, and Draco realized Noah’s magic had inflicted the Basilisk’s injuries.
• Professor McGonagall and the other professors arrived, and Snape confirmed that the Basilisk was close to death.
• Noah pointed out that the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets had not yet been found, and the professors sent the students away while the four Heads of House stayed behind.
• Harry questioned the Basilisk in Parseltongue, and it revealed that a red-haired girl named Weasley had released it with another Parseltongue.

After Harry identified Ginny Weasley as the girl connected to the Chamber of Secrets, Professor McGonagall led the professors to question her while Noah finished off the Basilisk. Noah then challenged Draco's assumptions about power and pure-blood status, and Snape affirmed that Noah's teacher was beyond Voldemort's reach.

• Harry's words led the professors to suspect Ginny Weasley, and Noah suggested they question her rather than speculate.
• Noah killed the barely living Basilisk with Sectumsempra, while he and Snape lamented the loss of valuable creature parts.
• Professor McGonagall led the professors, Noah, Harry, and Draco toward the Gryffindor common room.
• Draco asked Noah why he was so powerful, and Noah rejected the idea that his strength depended on his parents' blood status.
• Snape said Voldemort was insignificant compared with Noah's teacher, and Noah told Draco that Voldemort's influence was limited to Britain.

Noah warned Professor McGonagall, Harry, Draco, and the others that Voldemort’s ambitions would provoke foreign intervention, then helped question Ginny about the Chamber of Secrets. Ginny revealed that a talking notebook had manipulated her and identified its owner as Tom Marvolo Riddle.

• Noah explained that other countries would crush Voldemort’s rule if he took power, and Professor McGonagall agreed to inform the Headmaster.
• Draco realized his family’s hopes for Voldemort could bring disaster, while Noah and the others arrived at the Gryffindor common room.
• Professor McGonagall questioned Ginny, but Ginny panicked and tried to flee until Harry caught her.
• Noah used a Calming Charm on Ginny, who confessed that a talking notebook had taught her to open the Chamber of Secrets and control a snake.
• Ginny said the notebook had made her write messages in blood and named its owner as Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Noah explained that Tom Marvolo Riddle’s name could be rearranged into Voldemort’s, then deduced that the Chamber of Secrets was beneath the abandoned girls’ bathroom. He led Harry and Draco toward it, leaving them astonished by his reasoning.

• Noah identified Tom Marvolo Riddle as Voldemort and used a magical rearrangement of the name to show Harry and Draco the connection.
• Draco admitted that he no longer felt proud at the thought of becoming a Death Eater, while Harry realized Voldemort’s memory was inside the school.
• Noah considered the Chamber of Secrets and Slytherin’s possible undiscovered treasure, and concluded that the sixteen-year-old Voldemort’s soul would not frighten him.
• Harry asked whether Noah knew the Chamber’s location, and Noah reasoned that Parseltongue and the school’s pipes were the keys to finding it.
• Noah connected the Basilisk’s movements and Moaning Myrtle’s death to the abandoned girls’ bathroom, and Harry and Draco understood his deduction.

Noah, Harry, and Draco opened the Chamber of Secrets and followed its passage underground. After passing a pile of bones and burning the Basilisk’s shed skin, they opened the final door and entered the true chamber.

• Noah identified the sink as the entrance, and Harry opened it by speaking Parseltongue.
• Draco asked to accompany Noah and Harry, and Noah agreed after warning him about the danger.
• The three descended with Levitation Charms and landed on a pile of bones in the passage.
• Harry spotted the Basilisk’s shed skin, and Noah explained that molting would have left it temporarily blind before burning it with a spell.
• Harry used Parseltongue to open the snake-covered iron door, revealing the true Chamber of Secrets.

Noah, Harry, and Draco explored the Chamber of Secrets and encountered Tom Marvolo Riddle, a memory who revealed that he was using Life Exchange to resurrect himself. Riddle admired Noah and invited him to join forces, leaving Harry and Draco stunned.

• Noah, Harry, and Draco reached Slytherin's statue in the Chamber of Secrets and discussed opening it.
• Tom Marvolo Riddle appeared beside them, and Noah identified him as Voldemort and a Horcrux.
• Noah questioned how Riddle could still act after Professor McGonagall took the diary, and Riddle admitted he had begun casting Life Exchange.
• Noah realized Riddle was waiting in the Chamber for the spell to finish and resurrect him if the diary survived.
• Riddle praised Noah, compared him to his younger self, and invited him to join in ruling the world.

Noah rejected Riddle’s offer and attacked to stop him from reviving and killing Ginny. After Riddle’s Fiendfyre failed against Noah’s Elemental Magic shield, Noah unleashed a horde of fire dragons through a golden ring, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Noah refused to become Riddle’s servant and attacked him, warning Harry and Draco to stay out of the fight.
• Riddle blocked Noah’s Wind Blades with the Heavy Armor Charm and revealed he was wielding Ginny’s wand.
• Riddle cast Fiendfyre, but Noah’s pale golden shield stopped the flames from reaching him.
• Riddle recognized Noah’s defense as Elemental Magic, while Harry and Draco reacted to the gap between Noah’s strength and his age.
• Noah opened a golden ring before Riddle, and countless fire dragons burst from its black void toward him.

Noah overwhelmed young Riddle with Elemental Magic in the Chamber of Secrets, but Riddle survived and counterattacked with Unforgivable Curses. As Noah gathered magic for another assault, Ginny’s uncertain condition left the fight unresolved.

• Riddle realized Noah wielded Elemental Magic, but his defenses failed to stop Noah’s fire dragons from engulfing him.
• The blast threw Harry and Draco across the chamber, and both recognized how powerful Noah was.
• Riddle survived the flames badly burned, while Noah admitted his magic was running low and mocked him.
• Riddle launched the Killing Curse and then the Cruciatus Curse, forcing Noah to defend himself as Riddle fought desperately.
• Noah blasted apart a weakened curse and began gathering magic, worried that Ginny might not hold on much longer.

Dumbledore and the four Hogwarts house heads investigated the diary Horcrux and feared Tom Riddle had used Ginny to resurrect himself. They reached the Chamber of Secrets and found Noah had defeated Riddle, though the Chamber had been nearly destroyed.

• Snape identified the diary as a Horcrux, and the professors learned Ginny was gravely unwell after Riddle apparently used Life Exchange on her.
• The professors sensed a powerful eruption of heat and magic beneath Hogwarts and hurried to the basement.
• Dumbledore questioned Moaning Myrtle and learned that Harry, Draco, and Noah had entered the Chamber of Secrets.
• Dumbledore and the other professors entered the Chamber and found its carvings burned away, its water evaporated, and Noah exhausted while Harry and Draco stood stunned.
• Noah told Dumbledore that Riddle had tried to resurrect himself through Ginny, that Noah had defeated him, and that Ginny would likely recover.

Noah defeated Voldemort in the Chamber of Secrets and learned that he had misunderstood how to stop the Life Exchange spell. He revealed that a Horcrux might be hidden in the Room of Requirement, offered Hogwarts his original magic, and uncovered Salazar Slytherin’s Notes inside the statue.

• Dumbledore explained that killing a newly resurrected person soon after Life Exchange could still break the spell, surprising Noah, who had rushed to defeat Voldemort to save Mrs. Weasley.
• Noah told Dumbledore that he had sensed Voldemort’s magical fluctuations in the Room of Requirement and believed a Horcrux was hidden there.
• Noah offered to share his original magic with Hogwarts, explaining that he wanted to strengthen the school and support the Mage Alliance beyond his time there.
• Noah used a pale golden fireball to destroy the damaged Slytherin statue, revealing Salazar Slytherin’s Notes inside.

Dumbledore and the Heads of House considered the Mage Alliance’s future and agreed to safeguard it as long as it upheld its ideals and rules. At Malfoy Manor, Draco told Lucius what Noah had done, including killing the young Voldemort, leaving Lucius stunned.

• Dumbledore discussed Noah’s vision for the Mage Alliance with the Heads of House and considered the organization’s growing influence.
• McGonagall said the professors had studied Noah’s notes and basic elemental spells, and Dumbledore promised to protect the Alliance while its members upheld its rules.
• Draco returned to Malfoy Manor and asked Lucius to speak with him privately.
• Draco recounted Noah’s teacher, Elemental Magic, the Basilisk’s death, and Noah’s killing of sixteen-year-old Voldemort.
• Lucius was horrified and repeatedly questioned how Draco’s account could be true.

Noah spent Christmas at the orphanage with Harry, where Harry revealed that Noah had fought a Basilisk at school. Ms. Heifen questioned Noah about the danger, and Constantine arrived as a visiting guest, impressed by Noah's achievement and curious about his magic.

• Noah woke late and went downstairs to find Harry telling the orphanage children stories about their school.
• Ms. Heifen sent the children away and invited Noah and Harry to share more about their school life.
• Harry told Ms. Heifen that Noah had excelled in his subjects, confronted a sixth-year student, and defeated the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Noah tried to leave the conversation, but Constantine and Chas arrived at the orphanage.
• Ms. Heifen questioned Noah about the Basilisk, and Noah reassured her that Harry and he were safe.
• Constantine praised Noah for killing the Basilisk and asked about his spell, and Noah said he had used Elemental Magic.

Noah met Constantine in London to arrange a joint exorcist agency backed by the Mage Alliance. Constantine agreed to their proposed partnership, and Noah suggested setting up at 221B Baker Street.

• Constantine praised Noah for killing the Basilisk and destroying Voldemort’s fifty-year-old soul, while Noah warned Harry not to repeat such dangerous antics.
• Constantine told Noah about the trouble surrounding Stark’s attempted assassination and the divisions among the Mutants in the United States.
• Noah proposed that Constantine establish an agency handling Muggle affairs, with the Mage Alliance providing support in exchange for a share of the earnings.
• Constantine accepted Noah’s proposed revenue split but refused to unite Britain’s exorcists, agreeing only to try to build the country’s biggest agency.
• Noah suggested that Constantine’s agency set up at 221B Baker Street in London.

After Noah and Harry left Constantine, Noah explained that their work with the exorcist could provide practical training, though they would need to address the Ministry’s restrictions on underage magic. Back home, Noah reassured Ms. Heifen and told her about the magical world, leaving her eager to learn magic after he absentmindedly agreed to teach her.

• Noah told Harry that the agency could give them practical experience and pocket money, and said he might ask Dumbledore for permission to use magic during the summer.
• Noah and Harry returned home and helped Ms. Heifen, who warned Noah to stay cautious before asking what he had been doing at Hogwarts.
• Noah told Ms. Heifen about his experiences and the conflicts in the British magical world, reassuring her that Dumbledore and his teacher could protect him.
• Ms. Heifen asked Noah to teach her magic, and Noah agreed before realizing what he had said.

Noah began teaching Ms. Heifen how to train her magic so she could try to become a witch, while Harry and Hermione helped. As Noah, Harry, and Hermione prepared to return to school, Ms. Heifen had committed herself to her studies and promised to keep Noah’s training method secret.

• Noah explained that Ms. Heifen could try to develop her magic by repeatedly practicing spells, and she agreed despite the long, uncertain effort.
• Noah had Ms. Heifen swear an oath to Merlin and began teaching her a practice spell, while warning her to study magical history and prepare for encountering ghosts.
• Noah enlisted Harry and Hermione to help teach Ms. Heifen, and Hermione agreed to keep helping during the holidays after Noah explained his hopes for Muggle-born families and Squibs.
• Harry reflected on the warmth Ms. Heifen had given him and on the children leaving the orphanage for adoptive families.
• Before Noah, Harry, and Hermione left for school, Ms. Heifen warned them to be careful and told them to study hard; she had learned about magic and resolved to guard Noah’s training method.