Chapter Summaries

Wayne brought Cho and Hermione into Newt’s suitcase, then went into the Forbidden Forest to recruit magical creatures for it. He returned with several new species, including Kneazles and Mooncalves, and planned to keep gathering creatures he could care for.

• Wayne showed Cho and Hermione the expanded home inside his suitcase, where they met Mia the Thunderbird and helped him tend the plants.
• At dinner, Wayne spoke with Penelope about her prank products and teased her about testing them.
• Wayne left the castle at night and captured five Kneazles, persuading them to live in his suitcase.
• Wayne lured more than a dozen Mooncalves into the suitcase and prepared cave-like nests and fireflies for them.
• Wayne gathered Billywigs, Clown-faced birds, and Screech owls before ending his collecting trip after several hours.

Wayne visited the Centaurs and Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest, then returned to Hogwarts and helped the Weasley twins plan a product demonstration. The chapter ended with Ron refusing to test the twins’ new joke products.

• Wayne reunited with Hestia and Diana, visited the Centaurs, and declined Firenze’s offer to teach him prophecy.
• Firenze told Wayne where to find the Acromantula nest, and Wayne gave Aragog a tonic made with Venomous Leopard venom.
• Wayne returned to Hogwarts and advised Fred and George to demonstrate their products to attract customers.
• Fred and George cornered Ron and asked him to test their products, but Ron refused after remembering Harry’s Ton-Tongue Toffee mishap.

Ron tested Fred and George’s prank products for a Galleon, while Wayne refused to join Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team and collected Potions from Snape. Snape’s distracted Potions lesson ended in an explosion that injured Neville and Seamus and left Snape with a swollen head, while Hermione escaped harm thanks to Wayne’s defensive ring.

• Ron agreed to test Fred and George’s prank products for a Galleon, and the twins paid him an extra Galleon after he tried the Babbling Gum and Motion-Sickness Biscuits.
• Wayne declined Woodley and Cedric’s invitations to join the Quidditch team, then confronted Snape and collected Liquid Luck, a Potential Potion, Wolfsbane Potion, and other Potions.
• Wayne asked Snape to help him acquire a House-elf, but Snape pushed him out of his office and refused.
• Snape punished Harry in Potions class, assigned Neville to work with Seamus, and watched as their cauldron exploded while Hermione’s defensive ring shielded her.
• Ron spread an exaggerated story about Snape being struck on the head, and Hermione thanked Wayne for the ring that had protected her.

Wayne’s repeated system draws finally gave him Water Walking and a shiny Gardevoir, whom he summoned to serve as head housekeeper in his little world. Gardevoir appeared at maximum affection and greeted Wayne, leaving him pleased with his new companion.

• Wayne visited Snape in the hospital wing, laughed at his pig’s head, and lost fifty Hufflepuff points; Snape vowed to deal with Neville and Seamus first.
• Wayne drew Snape’s pig-headed likeness, and Hufflepuffs copied and spread it around the school.
• Wayne’s roommates Toby and Norman asked a Billywig to sting them, then floated in a dizzy, euphoric state until the poison wore off.
• Wayne sacrificed his friends’ romantic luck before making repeated system draws, gaining Water Walking and testing it by controlling the lake’s currents.
• Wayne’s final Golden reward was a shiny female Gardevoir, whom he summoned and welcomed as the head housekeeper of his little world.

Wayne introduced Gardevoir to the magical creatures in his suitcase while Hermione discovered that the fourth-floor trapdoor concealed the Philosopher’s Stone and decided to alert Dumbledore. When she and Wayne reached the Headmaster’s Office, they learned Dumbledore would not return until Monday.

• Wayne gave Gardevoir books about magical creatures, then introduced her to the animals in his suitcase, where she quickly befriended the Kneazles.
• Wayne treated Norman and Cedric to food, lent Norman the injured Billywig, and paid Cedric to write two essays.
• Hermione found Nicolas Flamel’s name in an alchemy book and deduced that the Philosopher’s Stone was hidden beneath the fourth-floor trapdoor.
• Hermione told Harry and Ron about her discovery, then decided to report her suspicions about Snape to Dumbledore after Wayne urged her to prioritize the Stone’s safety.
• Wayne and Hermione went to the Headmaster’s Office, where the Gargoyle told them Dumbledore would be away until Monday and complained that Wayne had not given it a Christmas gift.

Wayne spent time with Hermione and his magical creatures before joining her in telling Dumbledore about her suspicions concerning the Philosopher’s Stone. Dumbledore reassured Hermione that Snape was helping protect it, then asked Wayne to stay behind after Hermione left.

• Wayne took Hermione to his case, where she met Gardevoir and saw him exercise the overweight Niffler, Jerry.
• Hermione apologized for thinking Wayne was bullying Jerry, then agreed to let Wayne rest his head on her lap; they both fell asleep by the lake.
• Hermione and Wayne visited Dumbledore, and Hermione recounted her Halloween discovery, Snape’s spell during Harry’s Quidditch match, and her deductions about Nicolas Flamel and the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Dumbledore praised Hermione’s reasoning and assured her that Snape and several other professors were protecting the Philosopher’s Stone.
• After Hermione said goodbye, Dumbledore asked Wayne to remain in the office.

Dumbledore asked Wayne to let Harry face Quirrell without too much help, and Wayne agreed after securing permission to take part in the trials beneath the trapdoor. After Jerry stole a ruby and Wayne returned it, he discovered Toby and Norman floating from Billywig venom, while the incident inspired Fred and George to plan a trip to the Forbidden Forest.

• Wayne identified Quirrell as the person targeting the Philosopher's Stone, and Dumbledore admitted he wanted Harry to confront him as part of Harry's growth.
• Wayne agreed to stay out of Harry's way in exchange for permission to participate in the trials beneath the trapdoor.
• Jerry produced a stolen ruby from Wayne's pocket, so Wayne returned it to Dumbledore, who allowed Jerry to visit again.
• Wayne found Toby and Norman floating after they had drained a Billywig and took them to Madam Pomfrey, who said they would need a week to recover.
• After Hufflepuff students identified Billywig venom as the cause, Fred and George decided to visit the Forbidden Forest to find the insects.

Wayne learned Sectumsempra, studied Devil’s Snare, and visited the hospitalized Toby and Norman with homework disguised among their snacks. He trained with Gardevoir in his trunk and watched winter give way to mid-February.

• Wayne tested Sectumsempra and found that Reparo could not mend the vase it had cut.
• Professor Sprout taught Devil’s Snare in Herbology, and Wayne answered her questions before taking a plant from the greenhouse.
• Wayne, Hannah, and Bones visited Toby and Norman with snacks and assignments, and Wayne told the professors they would submit their homework on time.
• Wayne transplanted Devil’s Snare by the swamp in his trunk and asked Gardevoir to care for it.
• Wayne and Gardevoir trained in a duel, which ended when Wayne knocked her out of Mega Evolution.
• The term’s first month passed, and the weather warmed as mid-February arrived.

Wayne secretly altered the challenges guarding the Philosopher’s Stone to make Quirrell’s attempt more dangerous while keeping Harry safe. Dumbledore inspected the traps and returned battered, and the chapter ended with Cedric suspecting Wayne was cheerful because Valentine’s Day was near.

• After recovering, Toby and Norman challenged Wayne to a fight, but he defeated them with one Expelliarmus each.
• Wayne prepared the fourth-floor challenges by placing Biting Cabbages and Rage Potion beneath Devil’s Snare, hiding a key inside a reinforced Bludger, and enhancing the chess pieces.
• Wayne used Gardevoir to clear the chess and troll challenges, then added troll mucus to the Potions challenge before reaching the Mirror of Erised and leaving it untouched.
• Wayne returned to the corridor and fed Fluffy steaks, while Dumbledore inspected every challenge and came back to his office with torn pajamas and injuries.
• The next morning, Cedric noticed Wayne humming and guessed that he was excited about Valentine’s Day.

Wayne juggled Valentine’s Day invitations while Newt Scamander reported that he had left New York to search for what Wayne wanted. On Valentine’s Day, Wayne took Hermione to his hidden sanctuary and gave her a rare Potential Potion, while his preparations for the rest of the day remained underway.

• Wayne received a swarm of Valentine’s Day letters and chocolate, then read Newt Scamander’s letter saying he had left New York to search for what Wayne wanted and planned to return to Dorset in June.
• Wayne arranged to spend Valentine’s Day with Cho and Hermione by claiming he needed to tutor Cedric in map-making, and he also promised Penelope a visit that night.
• Cedric pleaded with Wayne to teach him how to handle romantic invitations, but Wayne teased him about the girls who had asked him out.
• Wayne took Hermione from Gryffindor Tower to the unicorns’ dwelling in the Forbidden Forest, then brought her into his hidden world.
• Wayne showed Hermione the new library he had built and gave her a Potential Potion that Snape had provided, while Hermione worried that the gift was too valuable to accept.

Hermione and Cho tested Wayne’s Potential Potion, while Newt Scamander searched Albania for Nagini and confirmed she was alive. At Hogwarts, Quirrell reported what he had learned about the professors’ obstacles, but Voldemort demanded that he uncover the rest.

• Hermione drank Wayne’s Potential Potion, gained a stronger Stupefy and successfully cast the Shield Charm, then spent the morning with him.
• Wayne gave Cho the second Potential Potion after they flew together and played in a conjured amusement park.
• Newt Scamander questioned Kahn in Albania, learned that a venomous giant serpent had been seen with a strange ghost, and suspected the ghost was Voldemort and the serpent was Nagini.
• Newt used Fantastic Beasts to search for Nagini and found traces confirming she had passed through the forest, but the trail disappeared beneath snow.
• Quirrell told Voldemort that Sprout’s obstacle was likely Devil’s Snare and Flitwick’s involved Quidditch and the Flying Charm, while he had no clues from Snape or McGonagall.
• Voldemort called Quirrell useless and ordered him to obtain clues about every professor’s obstacle.

As Gryffindor and Hufflepuff prepared for their crucial Quidditch match, Harry feared Snape would target him as referee, while Wayne reassured Hufflepuff and devised a way to restrain Snape. The match began with Snape making biased calls until Wayne and Lawrence threatened him, after which he refereed more normally.

• Fred told Harry that Snape would referee the match, and Harry grew frightened but resolved to play rather than withdraw.
• Ron reminded the Gryffindor team that Snape disliked Wayne too, easing Harry's worries.
• Wayne assigned Cedric to shadow Harry and disrupt his focus, then encouraged Hufflepuff before the match.
• Snape repeatedly penalized Gryffindor and Hufflepuff until Lee Jordan criticized his refereeing on air.
• Lawrence pointed her wand at Snape, and Wayne sent him a warning on his broom that made him stop making extreme calls.

Cedric caught the Golden Snitch to win Hufflepuff’s Quidditch match, worsening tensions with Gryffindor. Later, Wayne and Hermione discovered Hagrid was incubating a Norwegian Ridgeback egg, and Wayne used Ho-Oh’s flame to help it hatch as Hermione realized he intended to persuade Hagrid to send the dragon away.

• Cedric stayed close to Harry during the match, then spotted the Golden Snitch above Snape and caught it to secure Hufflepuff’s 210:40 victory.
• Gryffindor players and spectators reacted angrily to an insulting rating sheet, and the match deepened the hostility between the Houses.
• Wayne and Hermione noticed Hagrid borrowing dragon books and went to his cabin, where Wayne discovered a dragon egg hidden in the fireplace.
• Hagrid told Wayne and Hermione he had won the Norwegian Ridgeback egg in a card game, and Wayne explained that ordinary fireplace flames were too cool for it.
• Wayne summoned Ho-Oh, whose golden flame warmed the egg, and asked Hagrid to let him draw a little blood once Norbert hatched.
• As they left Hagrid’s cabin, Hermione remarked that she had expected Wayne to keep Norbert, not persuade Hagrid to send it away.

Wayne managed the fallout after Malfoy discovered Hagrid’s newly hatched Fire Dragon, Norbert, and persuaded Malfoy to keep quiet in exchange for visiting the dragon. With Norbert soon due to leave for the Romanian Dragon Reserve, the group gathered at Hagrid’s Hut, where Wayne drew a sample of the dragon’s blood.

• Wayne examined Norbert and explained that Malfoy was more likely to use the dragon’s existence to threaten Harry than report it immediately.
• Wayne told Hagrid to contact Ron’s brother Charlie at the Romanian Dragon Reserve and arranged to speak with Malfoy after two days.
• Wayne convinced Malfoy not to expose Norbert by offering him visits with the hatchling, and Malfoy agreed.
• Harry, Ron, Malfoy, Cho, and Hermione visited Norbert at Hagrid’s Hut, where Malfoy and Ron took turns touching the dragon.
• Wayne drew blood from Norbert despite Hagrid’s protests, leaving Norbert and Hagrid screaming.

Harry, Ron, and Malfoy delivered Norbert to Charlie's friends but were caught sneaking back by McGonagall and Snape, who each lost Gryffindor and Slytherin one hundred points. As the other houses celebrated the punishment, Wayne wondered whether to confront Quirrell over the injured Unicorns.

• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy took the sleeping Norbert to the Astronomy Tower, where Charlie's friends collected him by broomstick.
• McGonagall caught the three near the professors' quarters, and Snape persuaded her to deduct one hundred points from each of them and assign detention.
• Students celebrated the steep losses to Gryffindor and Slytherin, while Hermione earned twenty points for Gryffindor in Charms.
• Hagrid apologized to Harry and Ron for the lost points, and Wayne prepared medicine for the injured Unicorns.
• Wayne considered confronting Quirrell to test Voldemort's strength, noting that his magical power and spell mastery had grown.

Wayne healed a Unicorn and prepared to help catch Quirrell, then learned his Order of Merlin award had been approved. As Easter approached, he trained Mia and secretly set out with Gardevoir and Jerry, while Harry, Ron, and Malfoy began their detention with Hagrid.

• Wayne healed the injured Unicorn with ointment and Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire, then gave it power to summon him if it encountered the Dark wizard again.
• Newt wrote that Nagini had escaped after he encountered her, and Wayne expected Newt to catch her eventually.
• Dumbledore told Wayne that his Second Class Order of Merlin Medal had been approved, and agreed to help with Wayne’s bet against the Weasley twins.
• Hermione worried about the final exams, so Wayne promised to provide Energy Potion as long as she got enough sleep.
• Wayne watched Mia summon rain in his suitcase, then connected minds with Gardevoir and set off with Jerry late at night.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy arrived for detention, and Hagrid took them away after Filch left.

Wayne fought Quirrell in the Forbidden Forest after rescuing an injured Unicorn, forcing Voldemort to take control of Quirrell’s body. As Hagrid sought help and Harry and the others watched, Wayne confronted Voldemort directly, and their battle continued amid the flames.

• Hagrid led Harry, Ron, and Malfoy into the Forbidden Forest to follow the trail of a wounded Unicorn.
• Wayne and Gardevoir intercepted Quirrell as he attacked the Unicorn, and Wayne trapped him inside a ring of flames.
• Wayne overwhelmed Quirrell with powerful spells until Quirrell begged Voldemort for help, and Voldemort seized control of his body.
• Hagrid found Wayne battling Quirrell, sent Malfoy with Harry, and ran to get Dumbledore.
• Voldemort took over the fight, but Wayne used Dynamic Perception to evade his attack and countered with Sectumsempra, lightning, and a Lightning Net.

Wayne defeated Voldemort’s attack in the Forbidden Forest with a powerful dragon-shaped Patronus, though Voldemort escaped. After Dumbledore reviewed Wayne’s memories, he thanked him for saving students and a Unicorn, then deducted and restored Hufflepuff points, while Snape confronted him about the school’s safety.

• Voldemort launched a Killing Curse at Wayne while Harry, Ron, Malfoy, Gardevoir, and the Unicorn were caught in the chaos.
• Wayne’s Expecto Patronum melted the Killing Curse and conjured a mighty dragon-shaped Patronus named Auelion, which struck Voldemort but could not stop him from escaping.
• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall arrived, and McGonagall took Harry, Ron, and Malfoy back to the hospital wing while Wayne arranged for Gardevoir to escort the Unicorn to Hestia.
• Wayne showed Dumbledore his unaltered memories of the battle in the Pensieve, and Dumbledore realized the attacker was likely Voldemort using Quirrell’s body.
• Snape entered Dumbledore’s office and demanded an explanation about the school’s safety, while Dumbledore deducted 150 points from Hufflepuff for Wayne’s actions and then awarded the house 100 points for his rescues.

Snape and Dumbledore reviewed Wayne’s battle with Voldemort, while Hogwarts learned that Wayne had driven off the Dark wizard and protected his classmates. Recovering in his suitcase, Wayne discovered that his Patronus was Aurelion Sol and that his four rune talents had shaped it.

• Snape watched Wayne’s memories in the Pensieve and learned that Quirrell had been possessed by Voldemort and that Wayne’s Patronus had driven Voldemort away.
• Harry, Ron, and Malfoy recovered in the hospital wing and told their visitors how Wayne had fought the Dark wizard in the Forbidden Forest.
• Professor McGonagall explained that the Dark wizard had come to poach Fantastic Beasts and announced that Wayne had regained one hundred of his deducted points for protecting others.
• Wayne rested in his suitcase, reviewed his battle, and received 2,500 points and the Sudden Impact talent from the system.
• Wayne summoned his silver-white dragon Patronus, recognized it as Aurelion Sol, and learned that his four rune talents had influenced its form.

Wayne helped Cedric understand why he could not cast a strong Patronus, endured Quirrell’s and Snape’s classes, and acquired Quirrell’s exam papers and Sectumsempra’s counter-curse. When the Easter holiday began, Wayne took Cho and Hermione to study in his trunk’s world, where Hermione worried about her Transfiguration exam.

• Wayne explained that Cedric needed stronger positive emotions to cast the Patronus Charm, then faced Sprout’s scolding during Herbology.
• Wayne learned that Quirrell had returned to teaching despite his severe injuries, and Quirrell gave him the Defense Against the Dark Arts final exam papers.
• Wayne let Toby and Norman see the exam papers, but they assumed Quirrell was trying to mislead him and advised him not to study them.
• Snape refrained from punishing Wayne in Potions, then gave him Sectumsempra’s counter-curse, Vulnera Sanentur, after questioning him about the spell.
• Wayne began the Easter holiday by taking Cho and Hermione to visit Hestia in the Forbidden Forest, then joined them in his trunk’s world as Hermione reviewed Transfiguration.