Chapter Summaries

Harry began training Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle in duelling before asking Professor Keltburn about Dementors. Keltburn explained that Dementors fed on human and demi-human souls, leaving Harry wondering whether an Animagus could avoid them by becoming an animal.

• Harry considered his workload, decided to keep playing Quidditch for the year, and told Draco Malfoy about his secret mission and Dementor training.
• Harry woke Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle for an early training session and taught them to plan their attacks and fight with a desire to win.
• Harry defeated all three in under a minute, then explained how linked spells formed combos and assigned them to prepare strategies for the next day's one-on-one practice.
• Harry visited Professor Keltburn to ask about Dementors and learned that they were transformed humans who fed on human and demi-human souls.
• Harry asked whether an Animagus could evade Dementors by becoming an animal, and Professor Keltburn said the idea had not been researched.

Harry learned that Marcus Flint was leaving Hogwarts for Durmstrang, while Dumbledore persuaded Flint’s father to keep him at school for another week. The chapter ended with Mu En painting with Cendrillon, who objected to the revealing outfit he had designed.

• Draco Malfoy told Harry that Marcus Flint was transferring to Durmstrang because his father feared Hogwarts amid rising tensions with the old families.
• Harry dismissed the matter and went to find Hagrid to ask about animal organs used to make wand materials.
• Dumbledore persuaded Old Flint to let Marcus attend a week of lessons with a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor before leaving.
• Old Flint told Marcus their family needed to avoid politics and build their business, and rejected Marcus’s suggestion that the Dark Lord might return.
• Old Flint ordered Marcus to work with him during holidays and told him to call the Dark Lord the enemy of the entire Wizarding World.
• Mu En painted with Cendrillon, who suggested changes to the flowers and complained that the outfit he designed was too revealing.

Uncle Mu En helped Cendrillon try on a magical dress, then reviewed Harry’s wand design and discussed his plan to become an Animagus. Harry left to reconsider his choices, while Uncle Mu En planned to use the week to prepare the Mandrake Root.

• Uncle Mu En tested his enchanted painting, and Cendrillon entered it to change into a pale-blue dress.
• Cendrillon discovered the dress had no fabric on the back, and Uncle Mu En blamed the way he had painted it.
• Harry showed Uncle Mu En his first wand-making plan, and Uncle Mu En revised the rune array and warned him to reconsider using a Phoenix feather core.
• Uncle Mu En told Harry that becoming an Animagus was theoretically possible but carried severe risks, and asked him to wait a week before deciding.
• Harry left to finish his homework and rethink his wand core, while Uncle Mu En decided to use the week to prepare the Mandrake Root.

Moen oversaw Dumbledore’s attempt to stabilize Nagini’s reshaped soul, then met with Rufus Scrimgeour and Rita Skeeter to discuss the Ministry and uncover who had ordered her articles. Rita named Minister Fudge and several families, including the Malfoys, Flints, and Farleys, as the chapter ended with Moen recalling her report about Marcus’s injury.

• Nagini’s transformation failed amid painful convulsions, and Dumbledore took over with the Elder Wand as Moen left to meet a guest.
• Moen found Rita Skeeter and Rufus Scrimgeour waiting downstairs at the Hog’s Head Inn.
• Scrimgeour told Moen that Madam Bones had become uncompromising, dismissed people from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and rejected his efforts to work with her.
• Moen restored Rita’s voice and pressed her to reveal who had directed her first article about Hogwarts.
• Rita confessed that Minister Fudge and several families, including the Malfoys, Flints, and Farleys, had instructed her to write the articles.
• Moen recalled Rita’s report about Marcus being injured.

Harry, Draco, and McCleary discussed wand cores, Quidditch, and the newly announced Duelling Tournament, whose prizes included Harry’s Rage Potion. Draco learned that Gemma Farley would compete and worried about qualifying for cross-year Exhibition Matches; the chapter ended with Hellenred asking Harry where to find Professor Jones.

• Harry explained to Draco that he felt a deeper connection to snakes than to dragons and considered using materials from an aging Thestral for a wand core.
• McCleary showed Harry and Draco that he had become Slytherin Quidditch captain and planned a match against Gryffindor as well as training for upcoming games.
• Harry silenced the crowd with a magically amplified voice and revealed that a Rage Potion gave its drinker immense combat power, including the strength to kill a troll.
• Harry, Draco, and McCleary learned that the Duelling Tournament would rank the top three in each year, with a gold belt for each year’s champion.
• Pansy told Draco that Gemma Farley would enter the tournament, and Draco admitted that qualifying for cross-year Exhibition Matches would be difficult.
• Hellenred approached Harry and asked where Professor Jones was.

Mu En tested Grindelwald’s willingness to teach Hogwarts students and agreed to work with him, then returned to the school amid growing excitement over the Duelling Tournament. He demanded that a young wizard apologize to Cendrillon for insulting her as a painting.

• Grindelwald asked whether Mu En had arranged their first meeting and who had shaped the public belief that Dumbledore could defeat him; Mu En denied knowing anything about either matter.
• Mu En explained that he had asked Grindelwald to teach at Hogwarts and challenged him to prove he would not spread hatred among the students; they clashed briefly and agreed to cooperate, with Dumbledore’s support.
• Lucifer told Mu En that students were crowding the school to register for the Duelling Tournament, so Mu En returned to Hogwarts and answered their questions about the event.
• Mu En explained that the tournament would separate its schedule from Quidditch and that the Exhibition Match would follow exams, then found Cendrillon overwhelmed by students outside his office.
• After a young wizard mocked Cendrillon as merely a painting, Mu En defended her as his friend and assistant and ordered the student to apologize.

Muen answered students’ questions about the duelling tournament, then advised Hellenred on studying the Muggle world after graduation. The discussion ended with Draco Malfoy eagerly suggesting a trip to a shooting range to try Muggle guns.

• Muen explained that the tournament would follow formal duelling rules and answered students’ questions, including concerns about Quidditch scheduling.
• Fred and George fled when Percy approached, and Muen invited Hellenred and Cendrillon into his office to discuss graduation.
• Hellenred asked how to learn about Muggles, and Muen recommended attending university to study science and engineering, perhaps after trying a community school.
• Harry and Draco Malfoy arrived, and Hellenred suggested Draco ask his father to let them travel and study in the Muggle world.
• Draco Malfoy eagerly proposed visiting a shooting range and firing Muggle guns.

Mu En advised Hellenred about choosing a university subject and helped Harry with questions about the Patronus Charm. After meeting Neville, Harry invited him to join their intensive training so he could prepare for the Duelling Tournament, and Neville agreed.

• Mu En advised Hellenred to explore university subjects before choosing what to study, while Harry asked him about wands and difficulties with the Patronus Charm.
• Harry, Draco, and Hellenred left Mu En's office and found Neville writing his name in the Duelling Tournament registration book.
• Neville admitted he feared being mocked and losing badly, and Harry encouraged him not to withdraw.
• Harry invited Neville to train with him and Draco, warning that the sessions would be painful and tiring.
• Neville accepted, and Harry arranged to meet him at the Great Hall entrance at six the next morning.

Neville Longbottom joined Harry and Draco for morning training, where an unseen voice's cruel taunts pushed him to keep fighting and defeat Draco. Mu En discovered that the voice belonged to Grindelwald, who admitted he had genuinely called Neville trash.

• Neville woke before dawn, met Harry and Draco, and struggled through their warm-up and morning run.
• Neville chose Draco as his opponent, but Draco immediately hit him with Petrificus Totalus.
• An aged voice mocked Neville's private doubts and challenged him to prove he was not worthless by winning.
• Neville fought Draco again, endured painful brambles, and managed to cast Petrificus Totalus before collapsing from his injuries.
• Neville tearfully declared that he had swung his wand and won, while Harry noticed Mu En and Grindelwald watching from the corridor.
• Mu En confronted Grindelwald about interfering with the students, and Grindelwald said he genuinely thought Neville was trash.

Harry, Draco, and Hermione investigated the mysterious elderly wizard who had appeared with Mu En Jones, while Draco considered how to develop his dueling style. In Defense Against the Dark Arts, the man introduced himself as Grimm and revealed that he was Gellert Grindelwald, leaving the students shaken as he prepared to teach them about Dark Magic.

• Harry helped Neville up after Neville defeated Draco, and Neville described hearing an old man's voice in his mind.
• Draco asked Harry and Hermione for advice on building a combat style, and Hermione explained that powerful wizards developed combat systems around their strengths.
• Hermione recognized the mysterious elderly wizard as Grindelwald when he arrived to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Grindelwald claimed he was not Gellert Grindelwald despite confirming that Grindelwald was alive and could leave Númenor at will.
• Ron affirmed that Grindelwald was qualified to teach them about Dark Magic, satisfying Grindelwald's basic objective.

Grindelwald warned the Hogwarts students that Dark Magic exacted a hidden price, demonstrating its effects through a staged killing and the projection of his damaged soul. He urged them to confront the cost of his choices, while Mu En let the lesson unfold and encouraged Hermione to look.

• Grindelwald questioned the students about the Unforgivable Curses and condemned their secret experiments on goblins and Bundimuns.
• Grindelwald used the Imperius Curse on a goblin, transformed it into Tom Riddle, and ordered it to break its own neck; Mu En dispelled the students’ panic.
• Grindelwald explained that Dark Magic’s price lay hidden in the soul and projected his own, revealing a decayed, mutilated figure.
• Grindelwald described how the resentment of those he had killed had damaged his soul and reflected on the choices he regretted.
• Grindelwald noticed Hermione looking away and gently urged her to study his projected soul.

Mu En manifested his soul for Grindelwald’s class, revealing its imposing form and a blue-violet flame tied to a bargain with Lucifer, then offered advanced students a chance to study the technique. After class, Harry brooded over Grindelwald’s warning about arrogance and wondered whether his soul held traces of Voldemort before meeting Cho Chang and Draco by the Black Lake.

• Mu En projected his soul before the young wizards, and Grindelwald noticed the age in its aura despite its youthful aggression.
• Mu En explained that he had stopped studying Dark Magic and pointed out a blue-violet flame in his soul, which he said took on unwanted costs; he then offered an advanced course in soul projection.
• Grindelwald finished his lesson with warnings drawn from his life, and students left the classroom divided over whether to trust him and his claims about Dark Magic.
• Mu En reassured Grindelwald that not every student would accept his advice, while Grindelwald told him that even a perfect teacher could not change everyone's path.
• Harry went to the Black Lake alone, reconsidered whether he had become arrogant, and wondered if his soul contained traces of Voldemort.
• Cho Chang spoke with Harry by the lake, then left when Draco arrived; Draco teased Harry about her, and Harry told him to stop.

Grindelwald offered to train Neville Longbottom to win the Duelling Tournament and confront Voldemort, and Neville accepted despite his fear. After Grindelwald returned to Nurmengard, Mu En wondered why Snape treated Neville differently from Harry but stopped himself from speculating.

• Grindelwald told Mu En that Neville was also a child of prophecy and that he wanted to give the overlooked boy a chance to become a hero.
• Grindelwald challenged Neville to take first place in the Duelling Tournament and offered to teach him how to win and kill Voldemort.
• Mu En explained the demands of becoming Grindelwald's apprentice, and Neville agreed to train with him on Saturday.
• Grindelwald left for Nurmengard, saying it was better for him and Neville not to meet again until their training.
• Mu En considered why Snape seemed to care about Harry but openly disliked Neville, then set the thought aside and began planning the tournament schedule with Cendrillon.

The Hogwarts Duelling Tournament was announced, and students prepared for its opening weekend. As the sixth-years gathered at the transformed Quidditch pitch, Fred and George collected bets and Ron spotted Madam Rosmerta.

• A notice announced that the Duelling Tournament would begin on Saturday with the sixth-years, followed by first-year matches on Sunday, and that Hogsmeade businesses would serve the students.
• Fred and George complained that drawing lots made it difficult to set betting odds, while Percy proudly described arranging stalls for The Three Broomsticks Inn and Honeydukes.
• Draco Malfoy approached Fred and George with a proposal for a partnership, and they agreed to speak with him.
• Students gathered at the transformed Quidditch pitch, where a raised platform stood in the middle of the grounds.
• Fred teased Ron after he blushed at the sight of Madam Rosmerta, then persuaded him to bet his remaining Sickles on Percy or Ginny.

Hogwarts opened its first Duelling Tournament with a lively celebration led by Mu En and The Weird Sisters, then began the sixth-year matches. After Jemma Farley easily won her opening duel, Draco Malfoy and Harry discussed their plans for the tournament before a scream from Longbottom and Grindelwald’s roar echoed through the castle.

• Hogsmeade merchants filled the arena grounds, and Mu En and Hagrid surprised the crowd with The Weird Sisters and a singalong before Lee Jordan opened the tournament.
• Lee Jordan explained the tournament rules, and Draco Malfoy volunteered to choose the terrain for the first sixth-year duel.
• Jemma Farley defeated her Hufflepuff opponent on a desert battlefield with a Shield Charm and silent Transfiguration, leaving Draco shocked by her skill.
• Draco told Harry he wanted Farley to reach the top three so he could defeat her in the Exhibition Match, and the two agreed not to hold back if they faced each other.
• Harry and Draco returned to the castle, where they heard Longbottom scream and Grindelwald order him to endure it.

Harry practiced Transfiguration and the Patronus Charm before Hermione learned he was planning to go to Azkaban for Sirius Black, a plan Uncle Mu En supported. At the Hog's Head Inn, Harry used Parseltongue to calm Nagini while Uncle Mu En explained why her unstable soul and memories made her recovery difficult; Dumbledore was summoned to help.

• Draco Malfoy struggled to control transformed objects, and Harry advised him to animate and reshape his robes in stages.
• Harry practiced the Patronus Charm, but his attempt dissolved before forming a distinct shape.
• Hermione confronted Harry about his plan to go to Azkaban, and Uncle Mu En revealed that he supported the mission and suggested Hermione join it.
• Uncle Mu En took Harry to the Hog's Head Inn, where Ab Foras explained that Nagini alternated between human and snake states and could not retain memories.
• Harry used Parseltongue to calm Nagini, and Uncle Mu En explained that her soul lacked a stabilizing structure while Dumbledore's memory work had also encountered problems.
• Uncle Mu En sent for Dumbledore, then demonstrated the danger of Nagini's malformed soul as he waited for him to arrive.

Mu En, Dumbledore, and Harry worked together to stabilize Nagini by removing her beastly nature and restoring her human memories. Dumbledore gave Harry the Basilisk ring and urged Mu En to be less distant with the boy, while Mu En reflected on his own childhood and confronted Lucifer about inviting Harry for Christmas.

• Harry, Mu En, and Dumbledore devised a plan to treat Nagini using Harry’s Parseltongue, Mu En’s magic, and Dumbledore’s restoration of her memories.
• After the work ended, Dumbledore reassured Harry that he had done well and gave him the Basilisk ring.
• Dumbledore told Mu En he worried Harry might overwork himself to avoid disappointing his uncle, and Mu En thanked him for raising the concern.
• Dumbledore asked what Mu En had done at twelve, and Mu En explained that he had killed enemy soldiers after his village was destroyed in war.
• Mu En realized Lucifer had invited Harry to spend Christmas with him, and Lucifer admitted it was true.

Mu En watched the dueling tournament, advised Harry on preparing for an Animagus transformation and an Azkaban break-in, then experimented with a magical painting. The chapter ended with Mu En and Cendrillon discovering they could touch across the painting’s boundary, and Mu En painted a flower on Cendrillon’s hand.

• Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood won their first-year matches with Flame On and a Transfiguration Spell, respectively.
• Mu En rejected merchants’ requests to set up stalls at the tournament and promised Percy and the other helpers extra gifts.
• Harry told Mu En he wanted to become an Animagus, and Mu En gave him Mandrake Root leaves and advice about timing and preparations for a prison break.
• Mu En told Harry to find Mundungus through Ab Foras and use former Azkaban prisoners to learn about the prison.
• Mu En tested an unfinished magical painting with Cendrillon, finding that his brushstrokes shaped what she experienced inside it.
• Mu En and Cendrillon discovered they could feel each other through the painting, and Mu En turned paint on her hand into a pink flower.

Harry recruited Draco to help him break into Azkaban and use Riddle’s diary to force Mundungus to cooperate. The two disguised themselves and tracked Mundungus to Hogsmeade, where they confronted him as self-proclaimed bad guys.

• Harry told Draco about the planned prison break and the Dark Lord’s survival, and Draco reluctantly agreed to help him find Mundungus.
• Harry and Draco left Hogwarts through a secret passage revealed by Fred and George, then prepared disguises and agreed that Harry would act while Draco did the talking.
• At the Hog’s Head Inn, Draco and Harry claimed they had been sent by the snake’s doctor and learned that Mundungus had just passed by.
• Harry and Draco caught up with Mundungus in the village, knocked him down, and introduced themselves as bad guys.

Harry and Draco coerced Mundungus into finding recently released Azkaban prisoners, then Harry joined Hermione and Hagrid to seek a Centaur’s help with a dying Thestral. After meeting Ronan, Harry learned he could use the Thestral’s heartstring for a wand and offered to repair Hagrid’s unstable wand.

• Harry and Draco bound Mundungus, stunned his two companions, and paid him to find any minor offenders who had left Azkaban within a week.
• At the Hog’s Head Inn, Draco drank a glass of sherry and later passed out, while Ab Foras warned Harry and Draco not to discuss business there again.
• Hagrid summoned Harry and Hermione to the Forbidden Forest to discuss the dying Thestral and asked the Centaurs to handle its remains.
• Hagrid introduced Harry and Hermione to Ronan, who agreed to take the Thestral’s body and let Hagrid keep its heartstrings.
• Harry told Hagrid he planned to make a wand and offered to try repairing Hagrid’s wand, and Hagrid agreed to let him use it.