Chapter Summaries

Muen studied accounts of the Academy of Athens before investigating the disappearance of Jason Williams with Loreton and Charon. They learned that Jason had been smuggled to Aydın Province in Turkey, near Miletus.

• Muen reviewed records describing how people had entered the Academy of Athens, but none explained how its gateway appeared.
• Loreton told Muen that Jason Williams, a former Security Management Department intern, had been missing for four days.
• Muen and Loreton met Charon at the Three-Headed Dog Bar, where he shared his investigation into black-market book sellers and recent stowaways.
• Charon brought in an elderly smuggler, who described a skinny, golden-haired cripple among the people he had sent abroad.
• Loreton identified the cripple as Jason Williams, and the smuggler said Jason had gone to Aydın Province in Turkey, near Miletus.

Mu En investigated Jason Williams’s home and discovered that Williams had been studying the Academy of Athens while corresponding with an unknown contact. Mu En’s group traveled to the coast near Miletus to search for the hidden realm, leaving Harry and the others preparing to enter the sea.

• Mu En took Loreton, Harry, and Shuckleton to Jason Williams’s home, where he calmed Williams’s mother and entered the study.
• Loreton uncovered an Ancient Runes Confundus Charm, while Harry deduced that Williams had abandoned Dark Magic research to seek the Academy of Athens.
• Mu En found evidence that Williams had burned letters from a regular correspondent, then took the study’s documents and a quill before leaving.
• Charon identified the Hand of Glory as a notorious theft organization, and Mu En’s group Portkeyed to the ruins near Miletus in Turkey.
• Mu En concluded that Williams had hoped to reveal the hidden realm using the Milesian School’s ruins, and Loreton found a market selling Gillyweed.
• Harry swallowed Gillyweed, and Mu En kicked him off a sea cliff to begin their underwater search.

Mu En led Harry, Loreton, and Shuckleton through an underwater ruin and into a hidden mountain realm, where Shuckleton betrayed them and revealed himself as the leader of the Hand of Glory. With Harry and Loreton facing Shuckleton and his allies, Mu En refused to flee and prepared to fight.

• Mu En found Triton's Mask in the ruins of Miletus and used its power to transport the group into a mountain hollow.
• Mu En destroyed a giant serpent statue with a spell he called a Weather Charm, prompting Shuckleton to question whether it was Ancient Magic.
• Shuckleton attacked Mu En with Avada Kedavra, then seized Harry and demanded that Mu En and Loreton throw away their wands.
• Shuckleton revealed that he was an Ilvermorny History of Magic professor and the leader of the Hand of Glory, while Mu En revealed his furry, pointed-eared form.
• Harry broke free and wounded Shuckleton with a flaming sword, but Shuckleton escaped the strike and several robed allies, including Jason Williams, appeared around them.
• Loreton identified an Anti-Apparition Jinx and urged Mu En to escape with Harry, but Mu En stepped toward Shuckleton's group and chose to fight.

Mu En defeated Shuckleton’s group and stripped them of their ability to cast spells before leading Harry and Loreton deeper into the hidden realm. They found what Mu En identified as Herpo the Foul’s retreat, but when the chamber flooded, Mu En teleported the entire room away.

• Mu En repelled the attackers’ spells, defeated the transformed Three-Headed Dog, and incapacitated the man who entered his consciousness.
• Mu En used an ancient lunar spell that left Shuckleton, Jason Williams, and the others unable to cast spells, then Loreton bound them and seized their wands.
• Mu En and Harry continued into the hidden realm, found a broken Basilisk statue, and followed a tunnel to ornate bronze doors that Mu En opened.
• Inside the chamber, Mu En identified the papers as evidence that the room belonged to Herpo the Foul, then the doors sealed and water began flooding in.
• Mu En teleported the entire chamber away as a torrent burst through the surrounding walls.

On Christmas Day, Harry and Mu En exchanged gifts and Mu En guided Harry through the first steps of making a wand from Golden Apple wood. Two days later, Hermione visited and told Harry she wanted special training because she felt too weak to put her knowledge into practice.

• Harry received a Golden Apple branch from Mu En and opened Christmas gifts, including Lily Evans's old Potions notebook from Snape.
• Mu En received a Christmas letter and article drafts from Rita Skeeter, who offered to correct her past mistakes and report truthfully about Hogwarts.
• Mu En read Herpo's manuscripts and discovered that Herpo had been a student of Thales.
• Harry asked Mu En for help with wandmaking, and Mu En advised him to balance the Golden Apple wood with suitable runes and orichalcum.
• Hermione visited Harry at Moonlight Castle and admitted she wanted special training because she felt weak and unable to apply what she learned.

Chris agreed that Hermione should remain at school and asked Mu En to give her specialized defensive training. Mu En tested Hermione in a duel, pushing her to fight for victory until she finally cast a faster, more instinctive spell and was struck down.

• Mu En used magic to help Chris plant a tree, and Chris thanked him for protecting Hermione during the danger at school.
• Chris decided not to withdraw Hermione from school and asked Mu En to train her in defensive magic.
• Mu En took Hermione and Harry to Greece for a sparring match, then began dueling Hermione himself after noticing Harry could not bring himself to attack her.
• Mu En criticized Hermione for treating combat like a classroom exercise and pressed her to fight with victory as her goal.
• Hermione cast a swift Aguamenti as Mu En used Sectumsempra, and she collapsed in pain while Mu En told her to remember it and named adrenaline as a fighter's other friend.

Mu En recovered ancient writings that revealed Hippasus had been resurrected by Herpo’s Horcrux magic and had survived as a ghost for over two thousand years. Hippasus identified himself as the guide to the Academy of Athens, then vanished, leaving Mu En to turn his attention back to the coming Duelling Tournament.

• Mu En read Hippasus’s recovered manuscript and learned that Herpo had saved him with a Horcrux after Pythagoras’s followers threw him into the sea.
• Mu En restored a damaged portrait in the manuscript, and Loreton recognized it as Diogenes, prompting Mu En to suspect a link to the man he had met in the Old City.
• Mu En found the man sharing food with dogs and called him Hippasus, who explained that he was a ghost whose flesh-and-blood appearance was a side effect of a Horcrux.
• Hippasus told Mu En that he had left the Academy of Athens a thousand years earlier and was now its guide, then vanished with the two dogs.
• Mu En left the alley and decided to focus on preparing for the spring and summer term Duelling Tournament.

Mu En trained Hermione and Harry during the final days of the holiday, then returned to Hogwarts as the new term approached. There, Dumbledore told him the Ministry had summoned him to Hagrid’s hearing next Wednesday.

• Mu En advised Hermione to develop a battlefield-controller style, and Harry also asked him for combat training.
• Chris picked up Hermione and Harry from Privet Drive, while Mu En walked through the snow to Hogwarts.
• Fred and George told Mu En that Moaning Myrtle had visited the boys’ Prefects’ Bathroom; Mu En admitted he had arranged for Cedric to let her out and asked them to send Ron to him.
• Dumbledore explained that Hagrid’s hearing was next Wednesday and that the Ministry had summoned Mu En, possibly because Fudge preferred approaching someone less famous.

Mu En accepted Dumbledore’s request to testify at Hagrid’s retrial, hoping the case might also make people consider Voldemort’s return. At Hagrid’s hut, Hagrid described the shame and isolation he had endured after being branded a murderer.

• Dumbledore asked Mu En to attend the retrial of Moaning Myrtle Elizabeth Warrenhogwarts’s death as a witness for Hagrid.
• Mu En challenged Dumbledore’s willingness to risk his life, and Dumbledore said he wanted to clear Hagrid’s name.
• Mu En visited Hagrid, who embraced him and thanked him for agreeing to testify.
• Hagrid told Mu En that he had carried the murderer label for fifty years and had never dared visit his father’s grave.
• Hagrid recalled that classmates had painted insults on his door after he was expelled and made the school’s handyman.

Mu En learned that Hagrid had helped populate and control much of the Forbidden Forest before encountering Luna Lovegood there. When Acromantulas attacked them, Mu En drove them off and discovered Luna had come to see the unicorns.

• Hagrid told Mu En that Aragog was an Acromantula and explained his many connections to the creatures of the Forbidden Forest.
• Hagrid described how he observed magical creatures and revealed that he had tried matching a Manticore with a Fire Crab.
• Mu En left Hagrid's hut and spotted Luna Lovegood heading into the Forbidden Forest, then followed her.
• Luna gave an oak cork to a Bowtruckle, which warned her about danger ahead, and she told Mu En that Wrackspurts had alerted her to his presence.
• Several Acromantulas surrounded Mu En and Luna, and Mu En attacked them with wind blades and ordered the survivors to warn their ancestor.
• Luna said she had come to see the unicorns, and a pair of unicorns emerged from the woods behind her.

Mu En gave Ron a watch that temporarily suppressed his curse, while the students returned to Hogwarts amid rumors about Dumbledore and Draco’s conflict with his father. The chapter ended with Snape reacting furiously after Ron revealed that Snape had protected the students during the Christmas explosion.

• Luna visited the unicorns with Mu En, then asked him about the Spirit World and Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.
• Ron brought Mu En Christmas presents, and Mu En gave him a Life Dial that temporarily suppressed his curse and began treating him to remove it.
• Ron told Fred and George about the watch, and they persuaded him to let them examine it while he wrote to his mother.
• Harry and Draco discussed rumors about Dumbledore and the Board of Governors, while Draco recalled his father slapping him and ordering him to avoid Harry.
• At the feast, Ron revealed that Snape had protected the students during the explosion, prompting Snape to glare at the Gryffindor table and cover his ears.

Muen and Professor Sprout prepared the second-years for a Mandrake repotting lesson, while Harry and his friends visited Hagrid and learned about James Potter’s friends. When Harry asked Neville about his parents, Neville angrily refused to tell Draco anything, leaving the corridor tense as class began.

• Muen learned that his Mandrake Roots would fill at least two greenhouses, and Sprout said he could take some when they matured.
• During Sprout’s lesson, Harry silenced Hermione’s earmuffs and used spells to protect Neville when a Mandrake’s scream knocked him down.
• Harry, Draco, and Hermione visited Hagrid and saw Norbert; Hagrid told them about Aragog and the Marauders, but knew little about James and Lily’s relationship.
• Harry and Hermione decided to ask a classmate’s parents about James and Lily, and Draco suggested Neville’s family might know them.
• When Harry asked Neville about his parents, Neville said he would tell Harry but not Draco, then shouted that Draco did not deserve to know.
• Draco demanded an explanation as students accused him of bullying Neville, until a displeased voice ordered them to stop blocking the classroom doorway.

Mu En helped Neville Longbottom and Draco Malfoy resolve their quarrel over their families’ ties to the Death Eaters, and Neville revealed that his parents had been left at St. Mungo’s after being tortured by them. The chapter ended with Draco asking Ron what the Death Eaters and the Dark Lord had done, while Mu En examined Neville’s wand.

• Mu En taught the class how to repel Red Caps and warned that he would release one somewhere in the school.
• Mu En brought Neville, Harry, Draco Malfoy, and Hermione to his office and asked them to explain their argument.
• Draco apologized to Neville for their past conflict, and Mu En helped them recognize that their parents’ histories did not justify hostility between them.
• Neville apologized to Draco and revealed that Death Eaters had left his parents at St. Mungo’s Hospital for many years; the others promised to keep it secret.
• After Harry and Hermione left, Draco asked Ron Weasley what the Death Eaters and the Dark Lord had done.
• Mu En took Neville’s wand and asked whether it was really his.

Mu En spoke with Neville about his exhausted wand, while Harry helped Draco question the beliefs he had grown up with. At the Three Broomsticks, Arthur and Molly Weasley thanked Mu En for helping save their children and warned him that Fudge’s allies would dominate Hagrid’s hearing, but Mu En welcomed the news.

• Mu En examined Neville’s worn wand, explained that it had been changed for a previous owner, and let Neville decide whether to replace it.
• Harry told Draco that Death Eaters were trash and heard Draco admit that his sheltered upbringing had left him ignorant of the wider world.
• Mu En met Arthur and Molly Weasley at the Three Broomsticks, where they thanked him for helping protect their children from Peter Pettigrew.
• Arthur told Mu En that many Wizengamot members would be away at a Greek conference, leaving Fudge’s allies positioned to obstruct Hagrid’s hearing.
• Mu En called the warning good news and prepared to face the hearing.

Hagrid and Dumbledore arrived at the Ministry of Magic for Hagrid’s hearing, only to discover it had been moved to an earlier time and a lower courtroom. The hearing began without Mu En, and Hagrid was left sitting on the floor after his chair broke.

• Mu En returned to Hogwarts, told Snape the competition needed more planning, and gave him a box of cakes from the Weasleys.
• Hagrid eagerly set out for the Ministry with Dumbledore, who had arranged to meet another friend there.
• Perkins told Dumbledore and Hagrid that the hearing had been moved to eight o’clock in Courtroom Ten, and they hurried downstairs.
• Dumbledore went to the Wizengamot seats while Hagrid entered the courtroom, where the assembled officials and Fudge looked down on him.
• Fudge announced the hearing and named Mu En as the defense witness, but Hagrid’s chair broke beneath him and the hearing began before Mu En arrived.

Mu En learned that Hagrid’s Ministry hearing had started early after someone changed the scheduled time, but he delayed leaving breakfast until McGonagall forced him to go. He arrived at the courtroom, challenged Fudge over the altered time, and used magic to slap a Wizengamot member while pretending not to know what had happened.

• McGonagall urgently showed Mu En a letter summoning him to Hagrid’s hearing, but Mu En burned it and insisted the hearing should begin at ten because he had not received it.
• Harry and Draco told McGonagall that Hagrid had already gone to the castle that morning, and Mu En continued eating until McGonagall finally drove him to leave.
• At the Ministry hearing, Fudge questioned Hagrid’s claim that a Basilisk had attacked Hogwarts and accused him of making up the creature.
• Mu En burst into the courtroom, complained that someone had changed the time, and asked Fudge when he had received the notice.
• Mu En pointed out that Fudge’s claim meant either Dumbledore had lied or the Ministry had failed, then magically slapped a Wizengamot member and denied knowing who had done it.

Mu En Jones turned Hagrid’s hearing into a countersuit against the Ministry of Magic for wrongfully convicting him in Moaning Myrtle’s 1943 death. Amelia Bones opened a second trial, and Mu En expected the Ministry to face public clarification and compensation.

• Mu En Jones challenged the Wizengamot, declared the Ministry the defendant, and used magic to break Fudge’s chair before Dumbledore caught Fudge and Yaxley.
• Dumbledore argued that Fudge had unlawfully taken part in judicial work, and Amelia Bones chose to reclaim the Department of Magical Law Enforcement’s authority by opening a second trial.
• Amelia Bones formally heard Hagrid’s charge that the Ministry had wrongfully convicted him, while Fudge struggled to respond and Yaxley searched for chairs.
• Dumbledore pressured the Wizengamot into accepting that Mu En’s magic had not violated the law, and Newt Scamander offered his expertise to help Hagrid.
• Mu En told Hagrid that the Ministry’s case was unlikely to succeed and that they would seek a newspaper clarification and compensation.

Mu En helped Hagrid win his case against the Ministry of Magic, which was ordered to pay him twelve thousand Galleons. Afterward, Mu En met Newt Scamander, who asked about changes in Fawkes and then spoke with Dumbledore and Mu En about Legilimency, old friends, and his plans to travel.

• Newt Scamander refuted Fudge’s claim that Hagrid’s Acromantula had killed Moaning Myrtle, citing the evidence that a Basilisk was responsible.
• Umbridge advised Fudge to accept responsibility on behalf of the former Ministry, while Amelia searched the laws for a basis to award compensation.
• Mu En demanded thirty thousand Galleons for Hagrid’s decades of suffering, and a Wizengamot member choked after mocking Hagrid.
• Amelia set Hagrid’s compensation at twelve thousand Galleons, and the Wizengamot approved it unanimously.
• Hagrid celebrated the verdict with Mu En, then reunited with Newt Scamander outside the courtroom.
• At The Leaky Cauldron, Newt asked Mu En about Fawkes, and the group discussed Newt’s future travels and Queenie’s struggles as a natural Legilimens.

At the Dueling Club, Harry and Hermione fought a spectacular duel while Dumbledore and Newt discussed the Wizarding World’s future and the threat of Muggle advancement. Mu En announced Hogwarts’ first Duelling Tournament, leaving Draco eager to enter and determined to defeat someone on its stage.

• Dumbledore and Newt discussed declining wizarding standards, rapid Muggle progress, Voldemort’s return, and their hopes for the Wizarding World’s future.
• Draco duelled Ron, disarmed him, and was struck with Ron’s fist before turning his attention to Harry and Hermione’s match.
• Hermione unleashed lightning across Mu En’s barrier, but Harry endured it with a Shield Charm he had practiced on himself and healed Hermione afterward.
• Flitwick reprimanded Harry and Hermione for letting their duel become reckless, and the pair apologized to the spectators.
• Mu En announced a spring-term Duelling Tournament, prompting enthusiastic cheers and Fred and George to declare their interest.
• Draco asked about tournament divisions and cross-year duels, then vowed to crush a figure in the crowd onstage.

Mu En and Dumbledore discussed Fudge’s use of an alleged Azkaban escape attempt to block an investigation into Sirius Black. Mu En offered Harry the chance to break Sirius out, and Harry agreed to go learn the Patronus Charm.

• Mu En and Dumbledore read reports about Hagrid’s exoneration and an alleged Azkaban escape attempt, and concluded Fudge was using the news to block Dumbledore from investigating Sirius Black.
• Draco asked Harry to train him for the Duelling Tournament because he was determined to win, though he would not explain why.
• A former Slytherin headmaster’s portrait summoned Harry to Dumbledore’s office, where Mu En asked whether Harry wanted to seek information from Sirius Black.
• Mu En proposed that Harry break Sirius out of Azkaban, explaining that the Ministry feared losing public trust over the case.
• Harry agreed to go to Azkaban, and Mu En said he would need to learn the Patronus Charm.