Chapter Summaries

Mu En learned that Riddle might be returning, reported Regulus Black’s identity and the destroyed Horcrux to Dumbledore, and then confronted the Daily Prophet over its accusations against him. He installed Rita Skeeter as editor-in-chief and ordered her to launch a campaign against Fudge, declaring himself a dictator.

• Harry told Mu En that he had seen a healthy Voldemort speaking with someone in a white version of Hogwarts, and Mu En cautioned against drawing conclusions while warning that Riddle might be returning.
• At Hogwarts, Mu En learned that the Daily Prophet had published a front-page attack accusing him of being a violence-worshipping criminal, but he dismissed the matter as unimportant.
• Mu En told Dumbledore that R.A.B. was Regulus Black and that the Horcrux had been destroyed, then borrowed books on Living Corpses and examined Hermione’s Time-Turner.
• Mu En went to the Daily Prophet’s offices and confronted editor-in-chief Barnabas Cuffe, silencing him with magic after explaining his view of power and provocation.
• Mu En appointed Rita Skeeter editor-in-chief, ordered her to publish damaging information about Fudge, and magically compelled Barnabas to acknowledge her authority.

Mu En and the others attended Regulus's funeral, where Sirius recounted Regulus's sacrifice and Rita Skeeter prepared to publicize his story. Afterward, Mu En and Dumbledore discussed the remaining Horcruxes and the strange world Harry had seen when one was destroyed, leaving Mu En considering whether an ancient being in Greece could confirm Dumbledore's theory.

• Mu En read reports about student letters defending him and news criticizing Fudge, then joined Harry and Hermione on their way to Regulus's funeral.
• Sirius welcomed the guests, including the Weasley family, Hogwarts staff, Scrimgeour, Moody, Kingsley, and Rita Skeeter, and explained that Kreacher would regard Harry and Hermione as his young masters.
• Sirius described Regulus's sacrifice at the funeral, and Mu En delivered a speech honoring the dead before Regulus was buried.
• Mu En and Dumbledore discussed a Cambridge student's future at Hogwarts, Hellenred's move, and the mystery of Riddle's Horcruxes.
• Mu En told Dumbledore about Harry's vision of a pale world after a Horcrux was destroyed, and Dumbledore connected it to a story in The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
• Mu En said he knew an ancient being in Greece who might confirm whether such a world existed.

Mu En investigated Borgin’s discovery that Avalon might be Atlantis, a drifting city connected to merfolk and ancient alchemy. He left the possibility open and considered seeking out Hippasus to verify the conjecture.

• Mu En tested a caged baby’s reactions to blood and its consciousness, then decided its condition still needed refinement.
• Harry prepared to visit Diagon Alley with Hermione and the others, but an owl delivered Borgin’s letter about Avalon, prompting Mu En to join him.
• Harry, Mu En, Chris, Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny met in Diagon Alley, where the group discussed school books and a new Firebolt broomstick.
• Mu En met Borgin in Knockturn Alley, examined a stone from Avalon, and recognized traces of merfolk magic on it.
• Borgin said merfolk had identified the place as Atlantis and linked it to the Lady of the Lake, Nicolas Flamel, and the origins of merfolk and alchemy.
• Mu En found Borgin’s theory plausible and realized that he could seek out Hippasus to investigate it.

Muen restored the Living Corpses to human form, learned that Riddle sought the other three founders’ relics, and discovered that Riddle had returned to the real world. After being expelled from Avalon, Muen returned to Hogwarts and learned that Dumbledore had found a new Horcrux.

• Muen used a reversal array to restore the Living Corpses, who briefly shared what they remembered before dying as humans.
• The restored victims told Muen that Riddle intended to obtain three more things, including a sword, and Muen realized they might be the other founders’ relics.
• Avalon appeared, and Muen confronted Vivian, who identified Merlin as the source of Avalon’s power and said Riddle had returned to the real world.
• Vivian and the others forced Muen out of Avalon, where he wondered who the voices speaking as “we” belonged to.
• Muen buried the restored victims and reasoned that Riddle might be seeking the relics of the other Hogwarts founders.
• Muen met Dumbledore outside his office, where Dumbledore revealed that he had found a new Horcrux.

Mu En discussed Voldemort’s Horcruxes and the differing accounts of the land between life and death with Dumbledore, then returned to Moonlight Castle and began teaching Harry Bio-Alchemy. The chapter ended with Mu En showing Harry a magically enhanced frog that could shoot fireballs.

• Dumbledore told Mu En that the Grey Lady’s account suggested Riddle had found Ravenclaw’s Crown in Albania and likely made it a Horcrux.
• Mu En and Dumbledore considered the Goblet and Crown likely Horcruxes, and Mu En agreed to investigate clues linking them to the families involved.
• Mu En told Dumbledore that he had visited Avalon and that Vivian had said Voldemort had returned, though their experiences of the afterlife differed from the ghosts’ accounts.
• Mu En returned to Moonlight Castle, heard about Harry’s progress with Occlumency and magic, and told him Voldemort had officially returned to life.
• Mu En took Harry to a laboratory and explained that his Bio-Alchemy strengthened living creatures with objects while rejecting the creation of beings with souls.
• Mu En placed an old alchemical frog on an iron bed, and it opened its eyes, hopped, and shot a fireball.

Mu En began teaching Harry Bio-Alchemy by demonstrating a magically modified frog and assigning him several body-enhancement projects. After Harry’s first lesson, he learned more about Meteor and Lucifer before Lucifer’s story about Mu En and Sophie provoked an explosive argument.

• Mu En showed Harry a frog that could cast simple spells and explained that he would teach Individual Modification rather than life-making Bio-Alchemy.
• Mu En set Harry goals involving a permanently enhanced creature, a temporary modification to one limb, and eventually applying Rapid Recovery to his whole body.
• Mu En anesthetized Harry and demonstrated a dermis-layer modification while Harry took notes.
• Harry asked about Meteor, and Mu En explained that its soul had formed after it absorbed magic over time.
• Mu En identified Lucifer as a Star Child and described a legend about Hal, prompting Lucifer to share stories about their childhood and Sophie.
• Lucifer accused Mu En of pursuing Sophie, and their argument ended with a whistle sounding through the castle and flames bursting from the bathroom showerhead.

Mu En visited Lucius Malfoy to question him about the black notebook that had caused the Chamber of Secrets incident. He learned whom Voldemort had trusted with his belongings and left with new leads for his investigation, while warning Lucius that Fudge must step down.

• Mu En arrived at Malfoy Manor and met Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.
• Mu En confronted Lucius with the black notebook and asked what he knew about it.
• Lucius said Voldemort had given him the notebook to hide, but he did not know what it was or dare to examine it.
• Lucius named Severus Snape, Regulus Black, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr. among Voldemort's trusted followers.
• Mu En told Lucius that Fudge must step down, then left Malfoy Manor with new leads for his investigation.

On the Hogwarts Express, Harry, Hermione, and Draco spent the journey with Astoria while Mu'en learned that Dumbledore had investigated Barty Crouch Jr.'s apparent imprisonment. Their Pensieve examination revealed that the body in Crouch Jr.'s grave was a woman's, and Mu'en concluded that Crouch Jr. had never been in Azkaban.

• Kingsley told Mu'en that the Ministry was inspecting Hogwarts-bound students and patrolling the train because Sirius Black had escaped.
• Hermione and Harry shared a compartment with Draco and Astoria, where Draco read Harry's superhero comics as Hermione taught Astoria Transfiguration and Harry worked on diagrams.
• Dumbledore summoned Mu'en to examine his memories of Azkaban, including the dying House-elf Hokey and a prisoner who had erased her memories.
• Dumbledore showed Mu'en the coffin believed to hold Barty Crouch Jr., and Mu'en recognized the corpse as a woman.
• After using the photograph to identify a skull, Mu'en concluded that Barty Crouch Jr. had never been in Azkaban.

Mu En and Dumbledore investigated Barty Jr.'s absence from Azkaban, while Hogwarts began the new school year with tighter safety rules and Lupin as the new professor. Mu En received an evasive reply from Barty Crouch and decided to seek him out, then opened his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class by challenging Fred and George to a fight.

• Mu En told Dumbledore that Barty Jr. might not have escaped Azkaban alone, then asked for Barty Crouch Sr.'s contact information.
• Flitwick and Lupin returned from inspecting the train, and Mu En welcomed Lupin as a Hogwarts colleague.
• Harry and Draco discussed Daphne and Draco's new Firebolt as they arrived at Hogwarts for the school year.
• Dumbledore warned students not to leave the school without permission and introduced Lupin as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor.
• Hermione explained her elective schedule to Harry and Draco, and Mu En received a letter in which Barty Crouch claimed his son was dead and refused to discuss him.
• Mu En went to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and challenged Fred and George to fight to wake up the class.

Mu En confronted Barty Crouch Sr. with evidence that Barty Jr. had escaped Azkaban and tempted him with a chance to replace Fudge, using a ring to expose the Crouch family’s secrets. After Barty Jr. escaped again, Mu En and Dumbledore learned that Barty Crouch Sr. had secretly kept his son imprisoned under the Imperius Curse for twelve years.

• Mu En visited Barty Crouch Sr. at the Ministry, told him that Barty Jr. had escaped Azkaban, and left Rufus Scrimgeour’s ring as an offer to join a plan for a different Minister.
• Barty Crouch Sr. put on the ring and went to find Winky, whom he discovered badly wounded in a house where Barty Jr. had been hidden.
• Winky explained that Barty Jr. had broken free of Barty Crouch Sr.’s Imperius Curse, stabbed her, and escaped under an Invisibility Cloak; Dumbledore determined that he had Apparated away.
• Mu En revealed himself through the ring, and Dumbledore saved Winky while Barty Crouch Sr. ordered her to tell them what had happened.
• Barty Crouch Sr. confessed that his wife had taken Barty Jr.’s place and died in Azkaban, and that he had kept his son imprisoned for twelve years because Barty Jr. remained devoted to the Dark Lord.

Mu En searched Barty Crouch Jr.’s home for Horcrux clues and learned that Jr. had treasured a locket with a photograph of his mother. He rejected Barty Crouch Sr.’s offer to help, leaving Dumbledore to pursue the Lestrange family and Scrimgeour to handle the Ministry response.

• Mu En questioned Winky, who recalled that Barty Crouch Jr. had valued a book and a locket.
• Mu En searched Jr.’s bedroom, found a copy of Mein Kampf and a locket containing a photograph of a blonde woman, and learned that Crouch Sr. had not buried her.
• Mu En and Dumbledore found no further clues, so Dumbledore said he would investigate the Lestrange family and asked Mu En to support stricter security measures.
• Barty Crouch Sr. offered to help through his foreign-affairs role, but Mu En refused to work with him and said his actions should be handled according to the rules.
• Scrimgeour arrived, and Mu En told him that public opinion was in place before leaving.

Harry and Draco led Neville, Ron, and Seamus through morning training, where Draco defeated Ron using tentacle-like robes. Neville remained troubled by Professor Trelawney’s ominous prediction, and the chapter ended with Harry reading a Daily Prophet headline about the Crouch family.

• Harry accepted Ron and Seamus joining Neville’s morning training, and the group ran through warm-up exercises.
• Draco challenged Ron to a duel, dodged his spell, and caught him upside down with a robe-tentacle.
• Harry noticed Neville’s distraction and learned he was still thinking about Professor Trelawney’s prediction in Divination Class.
• Draco recounted how Trelawney read Neville’s tea leaves and declared that he had an omen of death because a monster had escaped.
• A barn owl delivered the Daily Prophet to Harry, whose front-page headline announced twelve years of blood, tears, and crime in the Crouch family.

Mu En used Professor Trelawney’s prophecy about death to guide his students through a discussion about how to treat the people they loved and assigned them to consider how they would live if death could come at any time. Over the weekend, the students debated their answers, and Harry went with the Weasley twins to help with their projector.

• Mu En explained that death was unavoidable, and Harry pointed out that Nicolas Flamel and Ignotus Peverell had not escaped it but eventually faced it.
• Neville said he had stopped worrying about the prophecy and wanted to use the time he had to care for and protect his grandmother, earning applause and twenty points for Gryffindor.
• Mu En assigned every year to write how they would spend each day if they might die at any time, then began a practical spell-combat lesson.
• Harry, Hermione, and Draco discussed the homework over the weekend; Draco reconsidered his carefree answer because of his responsibilities to the Malfoy family.
• Fred and George revealed that they had each answered “Mischief,” and Harry decided the question had helped him find his own answer.
• George and Fred asked Harry to help fix two magical runes on their projector, and Harry went with them.

Barty Jr. cast the Dark Mark over Diagon Alley, then entered the Ministry disguised as Eric and confronted his father, Barty Crouch Sr. After killing him, Barty Jr. escaped as Moody and Scrimgeour locked down the Ministry and discovered the murder.

• Barty Jr. cast the Dark Mark above Diagon Alley, prompting panic and an Auror response led by Scrimgeour and Moody.
• Disguised as Eric, Barty Jr. entered the Ministry and found Barty Crouch Sr. imprisoned in a cell.
• Barty Jr. wounded his father, argued with him about their past, and claimed the Dark Lord was alive after his Dark Mark reacted.
• Barty Jr. killed Barty Crouch Sr. with the Killing Curse and left the Ministry.
• Moody sensed the murder and ordered the Ministry sealed, while Scrimgeour backed the lockdown.
• The Aurors carried Barty Crouch Sr.'s corpse into the golden hall, silencing the Ministry's protests.

Mu En discussed Hogwarts education and recent Ministry deaths with Dumbledore and the others at the Hog's Head Inn. After leaving, he followed Nagini into the night and discovered she was carrying a shovel.

• Mu En joined Snape, Lupin, Hagrid, and Julius at the Hog's Head Inn, where they discussed the Dark Mark displayed in Diagon Alley and the children’s hopes and frustrations about Hogwarts.
• Nagini described young wizards lamenting that Hogwarts offered no music, art, or physical education classes, prompting Mu En and Dumbledore to discuss broadening students’ education.
• Dumbledore told the group that Barty Crouch Sr. and Eric’s family were dead, while the suspected culprit had escaped with a House-elf.
• Lupin described his teaching with Hagrid’s help, and Mu En invited him to teach wilderness combat at the Dueling Club.
• Mu En explained that he planned to exhibit his library with artifacts from Greece, and Snape grew eager about the knowledge it might make available.
• Nagini left the tavern carrying a long object, and Mu En followed her until she revealed that it was a shovel.

Nagini told Mu En she wanted to honor her inherited memories by staying beside Aurelius in death, and Mu En let her proceed. Half a month later, she held a farewell gathering at the Hog's Head Inn before her planned final journey, leaving Mu En uneasy about Dumbledore's role.

• Nagini explained to Mu En that she could not distinguish her own desires from Nagini's memories, but wanted to fulfill Nagini's wish to be buried beside Aurelius.
• Mu En apologized for creating Nagini and eventually left her alone on the hill as she dug her grave; she added an inscription to Aurelius's tombstone.
• Barty Jr. disappeared, while Harry dropped Divination for Arithmancy and received Mu En's invitation to the Hog's Head Inn.
• Harry and Draco Malfoy arrived at Nagini's farewell gathering, where Dumbledore, Mu En, Lupin, Flitwick, and Hellenred had gathered.
• Nagini said she wanted to leave everyone smiling, and Mu En asked whether Dumbledore had encouraged her plan.

Harry found the Room of Requirement and used it to begin experimenting on a living subject, while Fred and George sought help arranging a film screening. His first blood-conversion experiment on a white mouse failed, and he settled on a Murtlap as a better subject for the next attempt.

• Harry asked Fred and George to help him find a private classroom, and they led him to the Room of Requirement on the Seventh Floor.
• Harry entered the Room of Requirement and found a dusty classroom suited to his magical experiments.
• Fred and George asked Harry to help persuade Percy to approve a venue for their film screening, but Harry suggested they approach Professor Jones and Professor Burbage instead.
• Harry prepared a white mouse, administered an Alchemy Reagent Potion, and attempted to convert its blood using dragon blood and carved runes.
• The experiment failed after the mouse convulsed, but Harry recorded his observations and chose a Murtlap as a more suitable subject for his next attempt.
• Fred and George went to find Mu En, who asked the panting Weasley twins what they wanted.

Mu En agreed to help Fred and George arrange a Hogwarts movie screening, then learned that Grindelwald wanted Neville to hunt Barty Crouch Jr. Grindelwald took Neville to Knockturn Alley to harden him, where Neville was bewitched by an old woman before Borgin recognized Grindelwald.

• Mu En advised Fred and George to show Home Alone or Bram Stoker's Dracula and offered to arrange a screening for Halloween.
• Grindelwald asked Mu En to let Neville pursue Barty Crouch Jr. if Neville found a clue, and insisted he would take Neville outside school to make him stronger.
• Ron and Seamus woke late and discovered Neville had disappeared from Hogwarts.
• In Knockturn Alley, an old woman bewitched Neville and led him deeper into the alley while Grindelwald watched.
• Borgin confronted the old woman about Neville, then recognized Grindelwald and greeted him as Lord Grindelwald.

Grindelwald followed Neville after Borgin intervened, but Neville was taken to a basement where children were imprisoned and trafficked. A girl’s desperate plea helped Neville recover his memories, defeat his captor, and protect the other children; he held the injured girl and urged her to close her eyes.

• Borgin told Grindelwald that he intervened because a younger relative attended Hogwarts, and Grindelwald left the shop to follow Neville.
• An old woman led Neville to a derelict house, where she and an old man locked him in a cage among kidnapped children.
• A one-legged girl tried to alert Neville, then threw him a wand and begged him to save her as the old man tortured her with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Neville’s memories of his parents’ torture returned, and he attacked the old man with spells after the man cursed him and beat the girl.
• When the old man seized the girl and threatened her, Neville feinted surrender, used a snake and a summoned sword to kill him, then embraced the girl and told her to close her eyes.

Neville rescued eighteen abducted children and brought them to Diagon Alley, where Minister Fudge focused on the Statute of Secrecy and a photograph instead of helping them. Muen challenged Fudge, and Dumbledore proposed taking the children to Hogwarts.

• Neville freed the children from their cages, carried the injured girl with Wingardium Leviosa, and defeated the old woman who appeared on the stairs.
• Neville led the eighteen children to Diagon Alley, where Grindelwald's imposing presence kept troublemakers away.
• At The Leaky Cauldron, Fudge arrived and tried to question the children while a photographer captured his concerned expression.
• Muen smashed the photographer's camera and demanded that Fudge find the children's parents, provide for them, and cooperate with Scotland Yard.
• Fudge agreed to let the children rest at the pub while their families were contacted, but objected that the Statute of Secrecy required more discussion.
• Dumbledore arrived and suggested that the children stay at Hogwarts.