Chapter Summaries

Muen taught his Defense Against the Dark Arts students about Boggarts, explained his approach to teaching Dark Magic, and announced that older students would learn dueling. The lesson ended with Miss Schmitz objecting that teaching students to fight was inappropriate for a school.

• Harry used Riddikulus to heal the dead cat Boggart and make it spring back to life, impressing Muen.
• Muen assigned an essay on identifying and handling Boggarts, and confirmed that second- and third-years could attend first-year classes.
• Muen explained that he wanted students to understand the dangers of Dark Magic and teach them practical emergency spells.
• Muen announced that fourth- and fifth-years would study evasion, counterattacks, and dueling, exciting the students.
• Miss Schmitz stood up and argued that teaching students to fight and duel was inappropriate at school, and Muen wondered whether she had mistaken him for a soft touch.

Mu En defended practical dueling as essential to Defense Against the Dark Arts and demonstrated how vulnerable the students were by disarming them all. He left them with a choice between learning to protect themselves and remaining helpless, and Fred and George answered by asking to improve.

• Miss Schmitz refused to sit until Mu En answered her, so he used magic to make her take her seat and explained that dueling was within the rules.
• Mu En argued that wizards faced greater conflict and danger because of their extraordinary powers, then gave the class thirty seconds to prepare before attacking them.
• The students tried defensive spells and other tricks, but Mu En disarmed them and halted their spells in midair before sending the magic out through the windows.
• Mu En explained that students needed to learn how to use their wands properly and said the Shield Charm would be the standard for passing his OWLs.
• Mu En asked whether they would rely on the Ministry after being attacked or use their wands to protect themselves and others, and Fred and George asked him to help them improve.

After Mun’s teaching methods prompted professors to demonstrate their own combat magic, Harry and Draco went to the Slytherin Quidditch tryouts. Flint dismissed Harry because of his Shooting Star, but Harry convinced him to test the broom on the pitch, where Flint released every ball.

• McGonagall, Flitwick, and Snape responded to students’ questions about dueling with demonstrations, while Trelawney tried to distract her class with tea leaves.
• Harry and Draco discussed Slytherin’s tryout bribery traditions as they walked to the pitch, and Harry gave Draco a packet of tissues.
• Flint mocked Harry’s Shooting Star and refused to let him try out, while Remy Garde offered Harry a better broom.
• Draco flew the course on his Nimbus and caught the practice Snitch after nearly half an hour.
• Harry challenged Flint to let him prove his broom’s ability, and Flint released all the balls for the test.

Harry tried out for Slytherin’s Seeker position with Meteor and completed the course in under fifteen minutes, catching the Golden Snitch. After Meteor struck Marcus with a Bludger, Harry descended with the Snitch and Draco asked to try the broom.

• Draco reminded Harry that he had beaten up Marcus the previous year, and Harry headed into the tryout despite his confusion.
• Harry flew Meteor through three laps and toward the goal hoops at extraordinary speed, while Marcus took Garde’s bat and sent a Bludger after him.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch, and Meteor struck the Bludger back into Marcus, knocking him from his broom.
• Garde praised Harry’s performance, and Mcchealy revealed that Harry’s time was under fifteen minutes.
• Draco congratulated Harry and asked if he could try Meteor.

After earning the Seeker position, Harry introduced Draco to Comet, whose flight left Draco impressed. Meanwhile, Mu En prepared a Dueling Club notice and helped Ab Foras care for Nagini, before a familiar, ragged Mundungus arrived at the Hog’s Head Inn.

• Harry explained that Comet was the friend who had wanted him to join the team, and the broom struck Draco before letting him ride it.
• Draco praised Comet after his flight, then raced back to retrieve his forgotten Nimbus 2001.
• Harry and Draco saw Ron acting dazed outside the castle, while Harry focused on studying Ancient Runes.
• Mu En finished a Dueling Club notice, sent it with a large cat, and declined Cendrillon’s invitation to the Fat Lady’s tea party.
• At the Hog’s Head Inn, Mu En discussed Nagini’s recovery with Ab Foras and made them a sour, bitter drink called “My name is neither me nor you.”
• Mundungus entered the inn in rags, and a bandaged patron remarked that he had been missing for some time.

Mu En taught the seventh-year advanced class the Feynman Learning Method and assigned students to tutor younger pupils as a way to master their subjects. After class, Lee Jordan announced that Professor Jones was starting a Dueling Club, with three professors set to duel at its first gathering.

• Alford and other seventh-years described how helping younger students with their work had made them study and understand the material more deeply.
• Mu En explained the Feynman Learning Method and assigned the advanced students to help younger pupils with homework and tutoring.
• The seventh-years left class discussing the method and Mu En’s new assignment arrangement.
• Fred tossed Lee Jordan a piece of candy, which gave Lee a loud voice to announce the Dueling Club in the Great Hall.
• Lee Jordan announced that the club’s first gathering would be Sunday at eight after dinner, where three professors would put on a real duel.

Mu En opened Hogwarts’ Dueling Club with a dramatic introduction and arranged an exhibition duel between Professor Flitwick and Professor Snape. The duel ended with both professors aiming wands at each other, and their eager looks suggested Mu En might be drawn into the action next.

• Harry and Hermione followed Professor Flitwick to the Great Hall, where Mu En created a stormy atmosphere for the Dueling Club’s opening.
• Mu En introduced Flitwick as a three-time underground dueling champion, prompting students to speculate fearfully about Snape’s past.
• Mu En declared that the club would feature real duels, and Flitwick and Snape agreed to demonstrate with an exhibition match.
• Flitwick and Snape exchanged fast, varied spells while Harry studied their tactics and recognized how a wizard’s battle involved more than direct attacks.
• The duel ended with Flitwick’s wand at Snape’s chin and Snape’s wand aimed at Flitwick, drawing thunderous applause from the students.
• Mu En realized that Flitwick and Snape both seemed eager to challenge him next.

Mu En opened the Dueling Club to practical sparring, where Harry fought Marcus Flint and Lee Jordan clashed with Flint before the professors organized supervised duels. He demonstrated his overwhelming presence to Oliver Hudlestone and urged the students to look beyond the Wizarding World when choosing their futures.

• Mu En agreed to spar with the professors later, then explained that the Dueling Club taught real dueling while classes focused on safety and invited a student to demonstrate.
• Harry dueled Marcus Flint with spells, and Mu En awarded both boys five points while reprimanding Gryffindors who had mocked Flint.
• Lee Jordan challenged Flint, and their spell exchange turned into a brawl until the professors separated and reprimanded them.
• The professors organized supervised one-on-one sparring, while Harry practiced against Draco and Hermione and Mu En watched the students duel.
• Oliver Hudlestone asked Mu En to show him the pressure of facing a powerful wizard, and Mu En briefly overwhelmed him with his presence.
• Mu En told Hudlestone and the gathered students that dark wizards were dangerous for their curses and cruelty, then urged them to explore the non-magical world and pursue the lives they wanted.

Mu En explained the limits of the wizarding world to Harry and Draco before teaching Hogwarts students about dueling through a demonstration. After fighting Snape and Flitwick with spectacular magic, Mu En claimed defeat and encouraged the students to pursue the impossible.

• Harry told Draco that ordinary people had weapons and entertainment that could challenge his assumptions about their world.
• Mu En healed the exhausted students, then explained that duels had rules while combat did not.
• At the students’ request, Mu En faced Snape and Flitwick in a duel, summoning his Raven-head Wand and elaborate robes.
• Snape and Flitwick attacked Mu En with layered spells, while Mu En transformed the Great Hall into an illusion of a moonlit sea and falling stars.
• Dumbledore dispelled the duel’s magic, and Mu En showed the students his burned arm and declared that he had lost.
• The students cheered, and Mu En told one who asked about becoming powerful that wizards made the impossible possible.

Mu En graded assignments, joined the Hogwarts routine, and prepared a ghostly attraction for Halloween. Harry confronted Colin Creevey about repeatedly photographing him, while Hagrid’s magically enlarged pumpkins became a school-wide prank rumor; the chapter ended with Mu En unveiling the Flying Dutchman on Black Lake.

• Mu En found Ron Weasley’s Red Caps essay unusually strong and added an encouraging note while grading assignments.
• Mu En left for the Hog’s Head Inn, and Harry joined Slytherin Quidditch practice in Marcus’s absence as the team trained under Garrard’s direction.
• Colin Creevey photographed Harry in the corridor and asked for a picture and autograph, so Harry warned him to stop invading his privacy and threatened to smash his camera.
• Harry found Hermione in the library, where she explained that Ron’s missing rat had disrupted her homework the previous night.
• Hagrid asked Harry for advice on Enlargement Charms, and his suddenly gigantic pumpkins prompted students to spread the rumor that Draco Malfoy had enlarged them as a prank.
• Two days before Halloween, Mu En released a filthy ship in a bottle into Black Lake, where it became the enormous Flying Dutchman and welcomed young wizards aboard.

On Halloween, Mrs. Norris was found petrified beneath a warning that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, and the professors gathered to investigate. Mu En suspected the attack was a provocation aimed at him, while Dumbledore ordered a search of the castle for traces of Dark Magic.

• Mu En and Flitwick agreed to move the Dueling Club to Friday nights and discussed holding club competitions.
• Percy Weasley summoned Mu En after Mrs. Norris was found petrified beneath the Chamber of Secrets warning.
• Dumbledore brought Filch and the professors to Mu En’s office, where they confirmed Mrs. Norris was alive but petrified.
• Snape said Mandrake Root restorative potion could help Mrs. Norris, and Mu En supplied enough Mandrake Root to prepare it.
• Mu En suspected the attack was a warning aimed at him, and Dumbledore ordered a search of Hogwarts for traces of Dark Magic.

Harry learned from Mu En that advanced spells required deeper desires, though relying on a singular desire would limit how flexibly they could be used. Meanwhile, Mu En began investigating the Chamber of Secrets after Harry revealed that Moaning Myrtle had died at Hogwarts fifty years earlier.

• Harry discussed using ideas from basketball and football to improve Slytherin's Quidditch tactics, and Garrard agreed to look into them.
• Draco told the Slytherins that Mrs. Norris had been found petrified near the Chamber of Secrets, and McCleary recalled that Moaning Myrtle had died at Hogwarts fifty years earlier.
• Harry found Filch trying to scrub the writing from the wall on the second floor and erased it with his Cleaning Charm, though it took several attempts.
• Harry told Mu En about Moaning Myrtle's death, and Mu En decided to investigate the Chamber of Secrets to protect the students.
• Harry asked Mu En why he could not cast advanced spells, and Mu En explained that stronger magic required deeper desires that could also restrict a spell's flexibility.

Uncle Mu En taught Harry that resolve and strong foundations mattered more than chasing advanced spells, then investigated Myrtle and helped quell rumors about the petrification. As Slytherin’s Quidditch match against Gryffindor began, Flint ignored his teammates’ tactics, fouled Katie Bell, and McCleary failed to stop Gryffindor’s penalty shot.

• Uncle Mu En explained resolve as the foundation of spellcasting and advised Harry to strengthen his basics while he found his direction.
• Uncle Mu En asked Myrtle what she had seen outside her bathroom, then told Filch to stop students from disturbing her over baseless rumors.
• Harry helped train Slytherin’s Quidditch team and treated Garrard’s broken arm after a collision, allowing Garrard to recover in time for the match.
• Before the match, Flint rejected Garrard’s tactics, declared that the team should get the Quaffle to him, and led Slytherin onto the pitch.
• Flint ignored Garrard’s open position, fouled Katie Bell, and sent her out of the match as Gryffindor received a penalty shot.
• McCleary failed to block Angelina Johnson’s penalty shot, giving Gryffindor the opening goal.

Harry Potter withdrew from the Quidditch match, and several Slytherin players followed, forcing the game to end. As the crowd returned to the castle, Justin Finch-Fletchley accused Harry of speaking to a snake and declared him Slytherin's heir.

• Harry Potter stopped pursuing the Golden Snitch, apologized to Snape, and withdrew from the match.
• Flint expelled Harry from the team, but Draco refused to replace him and left the Common Room too.
• Pucey and two other Slytherin players withdrew, ending the match, while Mu En vanished after sensing that one of his wards had been triggered.
• Justin Finch-Fletchley shouted that Harry had spoken Parseltongue and ordered a snake to attack Hermione Granger, then accused Harry of being Slytherin's heir.

Harry and Hermione encountered a Basilisk in the castle, and Hermione’s year-old protective badge shielded her from its deadly gaze. Uncle Mu En and Dumbledore began searching Hogwarts for the escaped creature and whoever was directing it, while rumors accusing Harry of being Slytherin’s heir spread.

• Harry heard a snake threatening to kill and pulled Hermione behind him as they followed its voice.
• A Basilisk attacked them, but Hermione’s clover badge created a protective barrier; Harry used Parseltongue to make the snake retreat into a pipe.
• Uncle Mu En cut off the Basilisk’s tail and told Harry and Hermione to return to the Common Room.
• Uncle Mu En brought the tail to Dumbledore, who sealed Hogwarts with a detection ward and began organizing a search for the Basilisk.
• Young wizards accused Harry of being Slytherin’s heir because he spoke Parseltongue, and Dumbledore demonstrated that he could speak it too.
• Dumbledore traced the Basilisk’s scale as he and Uncle Mu En prepared to find the creature and the person behind the attack.

Muen and Dumbledore entered the Chamber of Secrets, where Dumbledore learned that a mysterious Parselmouth had ordered the Basilisk to kill. They discussed Salazar Slytherin’s fears and the Basilisk’s purpose, leaving its hidden master unidentified.

• Muen used a transfigured, big-eyed plant to scout the Chamber of Secrets, saw Slytherin’s statue and the Basilisk, then brought Dumbledore there.
• Dumbledore restrained the Basilisk and questioned it in Parseltongue while Muen explored the corridor and found that its pipe led to Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom.
• Dumbledore learned that a genuine Parselmouth had commanded the Basilisk to kill people, but neither he nor Muen could identify the master.
• Dumbledore explained that Slytherin had left the Basilisk to protect Hogwarts if it faced danger, and reflected on why Slytherin had founded the school despite his mistrust of Muggle-born and half-blood wizards.

Mu En and Dumbledore removed the Basilisk and inspected Hogwarts’ House Common Rooms, finding no immediate threat. In Slytherin, a fight over the House’s conduct erupted, and Harry challenged the students to consider whether their behavior reflected what Salazar Slytherin wanted.

• Mu En sealed the Basilisk into a ring and gave it to Dumbledore before they visited the corridor where Moaning Myrtle had died.
• Mu En and Dumbledore inspected the House Common Rooms with Patronuses but found no sign of danger; Mu En proposed monitoring the school more closely.
• Snape left the Slytherin Common Room to speak with Dumbledore, and tensions there boiled over into a fight between Marcus Flint and McCleary.
• Hellenred played chess with Harry, acknowledged that Harry could claim the role of Slytherin’s heir, and urged him to recognize the influence his identity could bring.
• Harry summoned and enlarged a snake, then rebuked the Slytherins for their arrogance and dishonorable victories and questioned whether they matched Salazar Slytherin’s ideals.

Harry challenged Slytherin’s pride in its pure-blood status and House Cup victories, then bet that students’ opinions would show how little those honors meant. He demanded an end to pure-blood doctrine in the Common Room password if he won, defended his vision of Slytherin, and left with Snape after a confrontation erupted.

• Harry mocked Slytherin’s claims of glory and accused Snape of favoring the House Cup, prompting a sixth-year to challenge him to a bet about students’ views of Slytherin and its awards.
• Harry accepted the sixth-year’s proposed penalty but staked a change to the Common Room password, demanding that it contain no pure-blood doctrine if he won.
• Harry condemned bloodline-based pride, declared that Slytherin should pursue honor through genuine strength, and challenged anyone who disagreed to duel him.
• When the Common Room erupted, Hellenred agreed with Harry, while McCleary claimed responsibility for the room’s damage as Snape summoned Harry to his office.
• Snape destroyed Harry’s protective great snake with a spell, and Harry followed him out, wanting to discuss his ideas.

Harry defended his choices to Snape, gave Hermione Norbert's dragon ring for protection, and warned the Weasley twins about the rumors surrounding his Parseltongue. The gossip spread through Hogwarts until a snake appeared before a watching crowd, but several Slytherins stepped forward to defend Harry.

• Harry told Snape he had never claimed to be Slytherin's heir and promised to earn back the points lost by withdrawing from the competition.
• Hermione found Harry after Dumbledore and Mr. Jones lifted her ban, and Harry later gave her Norbert's dragon ring to protect her.
• Harry spoke with Fred and George Weasley, who warned him that rumors could quickly turn people against him.
• The next day, students avoided Harry, and the Weasley twins distributed survey questionnaires while most Slytherins kept them secret.
• A snake slithered into the Great Hall as the crowd stared at Harry, and several tall figures in green-trimmed black robes stepped in front of him to defend him.

Harry faced suspicion and hostility over his Parseltongue and the Chamber of Secrets, while Hermione defended him against rumors in Gryffindor. The chapter ended with Fred and George arriving after Hermione petrified a student who insulted Harry.

• McCleary and another Slytherin challenged students from the other Houses for confronting Harry, and Professor McGonagall dispersed the crowd and reassured him.
• Hermione found Harry at lunch and condemned the students who had treated him like a spectacle, but Harry brushed off their behavior.
• Hermione overheard Gryffindors repeating rumors that Harry was the Heir of Slytherin and criticizing her friendship with him.
• Hermione confronted the students, defended Harry, and cast Petrificus Totalus on one who continued insulting him.
• Fred and George entered the Common Room and found Hermione standing over the petrified student.