Chapter Summaries

Amosta persuaded Professor McGonagall to secretly monitor Hogwarts students to prevent further attacks, while rejecting mass interrogations as illegal. Professor McGonagall then asked him to assist Gilderoy Lockhart with Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Amosta abruptly fled.

• Amosta argued that Hogwarts had to monitor students because the Heir might attack again and petrification might not be the worst outcome.
• Amosta proposed using Legilimency or Veritaserum on every student, but Professor McGonagall rejected the plan as illegal.
• Professor McGonagall agreed to Amosta's monitoring proposal and asked him to keep it confidential, especially from adventurous Gryffindors.
• Professor McGonagall told Amosta that Gilderoy Lockhart was teaching at Hogwarts and struggling to help students prepare for their exams.
• Professor McGonagall offered Amosta a paid assistant position, and Amosta slammed the door and left when he learned Lockhart taught Defence Against the Dark Arts.

Amosta prepared to return to Hogwarts as an Investigator while planning a surveillance network, then encountered Hagrid, Ron, and Harry in a corridor. Seeing Harry triggered a sudden, overwhelming reaction in Amosta, and the chapter ended with Harry confirming his identity while feeling uneasy under Amosta’s scrutiny.

• Amosta planned to seal off remote areas of Hogwarts and place Panoramic Telescopes around the castle, while deciding against audio monitoring.
• Harry and Ron pressed Hagrid about why he had changed his mind about speaking to Dumbledore regarding Breen becoming a Ministry Investigator.
• Hagrid stopped when he saw Amosta and greeted him nervously, surprising Amosta with his reaction.
• Amosta recognised Ron and then Harry, but seeing Harry left him dizzy and nearly unable to stand.
• After recovering, Amosta identified Harry Potter, and Harry confirmed who he was while feeling apprehensive about Amosta’s investigation.

Amosta spoke with Harry and Hagrid before entering the Slytherin common room to meet Draco Malfoy. He learned that Draco knew Harry was a Parselmouth, then revealed he had returned because he had forgotten something in the Slytherin dormitory.

• Amosta told Harry that Snape had shared his opinions about him, then clarified that he preferred to judge Harry for himself.
• Amosta told Hagrid that the Board of Governors, not the Ministry, had commissioned the Chamber of Secrets investigation, and Hagrid realized he had misunderstood the situation.
• Amosta entered the Slytherin common room by guessing its password and introduced himself to Draco Malfoy.
• Draco offered Amosta money to get Harry expelled and revealed that Harry was a Parselmouth.
• Amosta refused to help expel Harry without confirming who attacked Creevey and Filius Flitwick, then told Draco he had hidden something in the dormitory and forgotten about it.

Amosta Breen returned to his former Hogwarts dormitory to retrieve a hidden Acromantula, with Draco Malfoy following to keep watch. After Amosta released the creature, it wrecked the dormitory, and Malfoy threatened to report him to his father.

• Draco Malfoy followed Amosta to the dormitory and made him promise to answer for any damage or missing belongings.
• Amosta recognized Malfoy's bed and used his blood and a golden-snake safeguard to open a hidden compartment beneath the floor.
• Amosta found a motionless spider on a stone casket and revived it with a breeze.
• The fist-sized spider rapidly regained its enormous Acromantula form and smashed the dormitory while Malfoy lay paralyzed.
• Malfoy recovered, shouted at Amosta for hiding the creature beside his bed, and threatened to tell his father.

Amosta killed the Acromantula that attacked him and Draco Malfoy, recovered the stone casket, and erased all traces of the fight. Later, in his new Hogwarts quarters, he set out a photograph of himself and Grandma Felena.

• The Acromantula lunged at Amosta and Malfoy, but Amosta split it in two with an unnamed spell.
• Amosta searched the Acromantula for venom, then used a poisonous potion to neutralize the stone casket’s protections and took the casket.
• Amosta repaired Malfoy’s dormitory, vanished the spider’s corpse, and asked Malfoy to keep the incident secret; Malfoy agreed.
• Malfoy burned his half-written letter in the Common Room and began writing a new one.
• Amosta entered the office and bedroom Professor McGonagall had arranged for him, set out his belongings, and placed a photograph of himself and Grandma Felena on his desk.

Amosta examined a vial containing a memory he had extracted and the destroyed Ravenclaw's Diadem, but chose not to restore the memory without expert appraisal. After spotting Hagrid returning to his hut, Amosta reconsidered his suspicions and concluded that Hagrid was not involved in the Chamber of Secrets.

• Amosta found a hidden vial of his extracted memory after seeing Harry Potter and wondered whether it contained his forgotten knowledge of the Harry Potter plot.
• Amosta decided to have the memory examined by a Memory Magic expert before merging with it.
• Amosta inspected Ravenclaw's Diadem, which he had destroyed with Fiendfyre after Voldemort made it a Horcrux, and failed to repair it with Reparo.
• Amosta saw Hagrid return to his hut and wondered whether Hagrid knew something about the Chamber of Secrets.
• Amosta decided Hagrid was not a suspect because Dumbledore trusted him, and he considered offering the damaged Horcruxes to Dumbledore for a fair price.

Amosta showed Snape a network of hidden Panoramic Telescopes that transmitted images of activity throughout Hogwarts, leaving Snape alarmed by the scale of the surveillance. Amosta wondered why Dumbledore had paid so little attention to him since his return.

• Snape visited Amosta in an unused classroom after Dumbledore asked him to invite Amosta to the feast.
• Amosta revealed a wall of images from hidden Panoramic Telescopes and explained that they transmitted pictures through magical magnetic fields.
• Snape asked how Amosta had concealed the telescopes and whether Dumbledore knew about the system.
• Amosta spotted Percy kissing a girl with long brown curls in the basement of Ravenclaw Tower.
• Amosta told Snape that Dumbledore's lack of attention since his return differed from what he had expected and asked Snape why.

The students and professors gathered for the start-of-term feast, where Amosta Breen joined the staff table as Hogwarts’ new security guard. As the students speculated about his past and purpose, Dumbledore endorsed Amosta’s surveillance system for protecting them while the Chamber of Secrets attacks remained unresolved.

• Harry worried that the empty seat beside Snape meant something troubling and avoided Neville’s questions about Hermione.
• Amosta arrived late, apologized for forgetting the feast, and took a seat beside Snape.
• Students traded conflicting stories about Amosta’s schooldays while Malfoy stayed quiet after his father warned him not to provoke Amosta.
• Dumbledore thanked Amosta for protecting the students and approved the alchemical surveillance system despite concerns about privacy.
• Amosta called someone a traitor under his breath, making Snape’s expression darken, while Lockhart sensed danger as he watched Amosta.

Amosta began monitoring Hogwarts at night for clues to the Chamber of Secrets, but the first night revealed nothing unusual. Professor Lockhart visited him, mistook him for an admirer, and confidently claimed there would be no more attacks now that he was at Hogwarts.

• Amosta watched the castle through surveillance screens as students and staff returned to their rooms, noting several students sneaking out and Peeves causing a flood in an abandoned lavatory.
• Lockhart left his office and came to visit Amosta, who hid the surveillance room before letting him in.
• Lockhart saw Amosta’s copy of Wander with Werewolves and concluded that Amosta had come to Hogwarts to get close to him.
• Lockhart spent an hour talking about his books and promised that the Chamber of Secrets attacks would stop because he was there.
• Lockhart gave Amosta a signed set of his books and left, while Amosta laughed at his peculiar confidence.

Harry faced growing suspicion and hostility over the attacks, while Hermione suggested that Amosta Breen might help clear his name. The chapter ended with Harry considering whether to prove his innocence to Breen.

• Rumors about Harry spread, and Draco Malfoy mocked him by threatening that someone might chop him up and use him as Mandrake fertilizer.
• Snape took twenty points from Gryffindor and gave Ron two days of detention for pointing his wand at Malfoy.
• Harry told Hermione and Ron that Wood had asked him to postpone investigating the culprit until after the Quidditch final, leaving him feeling guilty.
• Hermione proposed asking Amosta Breen for help, while Harry and Ron said Breen had taken no visible investigative action and Fred and George were secretly monitoring him.
• Hermione advised Harry that Breen's public defense of him as Investigator might carry more weight than Dumbledore's words, and Harry hesitated outside the Gryffindor common room.

As Hogwarts students struggled through Snape’s homework and Wood’s Quidditch training, Amosta Breen posted a reward for information about the Chamber of Secrets attacks. Harry realized Filch would likely accuse him and hesitated to approach the Investigator, leaving the Entrance Hall shaken and unsure what to do.

• Neville nearly burned himself while staying up to finish Snape’s essay, and McGonagall promised to speak with Snape about easing the workload.
• Wood pushed the Quidditch team through training in cold rain until Ron arrived and rushed Harry to the Entrance Hall.
• Harry and the team found a notice from Amosta Breen offering two hundred Galleons for useful information about the attacks.
• Malfoy taunted Ron about the reward, while Neville warned Harry that Filch had gone to see the Investigator.
• Harry remembered that Filch blamed him and his friends for Mrs. Norris’s petrification, but he chose not to speak with Amosta Breen and left for the dormitory.

Harry went to Amosta Breen’s office to discuss the suspicions surrounding him, while fearing that Filch had reported him. The chapter ended as Harry asked Breen whether he believed Harry was Slytherin’s heir and had opened the Chamber of Secrets.

• Harry decided to follow Hermione’s advice and talk to Amosta Breen about the rumors surrounding him.
• Harry encountered Filch, who warned him that someone would soon get the punishment they deserved.
• Harry entered Breen’s office and noticed a photograph showing a younger Breen with brown eyes, unlike his present pale violet eyes.
• Breen gently asked Harry what he thought had upset Filch, then prepared to address the reason for Harry’s visit.
• Harry gathered his courage and asked Breen whether he believed Harry was Slytherin’s heir and had opened the Chamber of Secrets.

Harry visited Amosta Breen, who said he did not believe Harry had opened the Chamber of Secrets but refused to publicly clear him without evidence. Amosta explained that his notice was meant to provoke the cautious attacker, then questioned Harry about his presence in the third-floor corridor on Halloween night.

• Harry asked Amosta whether he thought Harry had opened the Chamber of Secrets, and Amosta said he did not.
• Amosta explained that his notice was meant to provoke the person behind the attacks into making a mistake.
• Harry asked Amosta to post a notice declaring him innocent, but Amosta refused without conclusive evidence.
• Amosta asked Harry to explain why he, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger had appeared in the third-floor corridor after Nick's Deathday Party on Halloween night.

Amosta Breen failed to learn Harry's secrets, while Fred and George planned to investigate Breen's office. The twins used a staged nosebleed to escape class and entered the office, ready to uncover the mystery behind its drapes.

• Amosta considered ways to gain Harry's trust and watched the castle through a concealed surveillance wall.
• Harry told the Weasleys that Breen would not punish him without evidence, and Fred and George decided to investigate Breen's office.
• During Charms, George ate a suspicious sweet and developed a severe nosebleed, giving the twins an excuse to leave class.
• Fred and George entered Breen's office using Alohomora and prepared to pull back the black drapes.

Fred and George Weasley discovered Amosta Breen’s castle-wide surveillance system while breaking into his office, then realized he had trapped them inside. Amosta returned to reveal the intruders, while the twins remained locked in the surveillance room.

• Fred and George pulled aside a curtain in Amosta Breen’s office and found a wall displaying images from around Hogwarts alongside moving words on parchment.
• The twins marveled at the surveillance system and realized Amosta might have watched their previous nighttime adventures around the castle.
• Fred and George tried to leave but found the door locked, then failed to break through its defensive enchantments or escape through the protected window.
• Amosta left the prefects’ bathroom, walked to his office, and announced that he would reveal the identity of the intruder.

Amosta let Fred and George off for breaking into his office but warned them to keep his surveillance system secret. After the twins told Harry and Ron about it, Harry considered the monitoring a useful way to clear his name while Hermione questioned whether it had been authorized.

• Amosta treated George's nosebleed, warned the twins how dangerous his office defenses could have been, and refused to explain his surveillance system.
• Amosta chose not to punish Fred and George for breaking in, but threatened them if they revealed his secret or damaged his surveillance points.
• Fred and George told Harry and Ron about the surveillance system in the common room while a pale figure watched from the shadows.
• Harry fetched his Invisibility Cloak, and he, Ron, and Hermione discussed whether Amosta's monitoring was acceptable.
• Hermione argued that the surveillance could help identify Slytherin's Heir, and Harry admitted he wanted it to prove his innocence.

Amosta's investigation into the Chamber of Secrets attacks remained stalled as he considered a warning that someone was searching for his underground identity, Golden Viper. Snape arrived with news that Dumbledore wanted to see him, leaving Amosta facing a possible dismissal.

• Harry became less suspected as the attacks remained quiet, and Hermione prepared to leave the hospital after losing her black fur.
• Amosta concluded that his notice had failed to draw out the attacker and read Cacus Fley's warning that an unknown group was seeking Golden Viper.
• Cacus also reported that Lucius Malfoy appeared to be plotting to drive Dumbledore out of Hogwarts.
• Amosta connected Cacus's interest in the treasure commission to Adelheid Fleury's appointment at St. Mungo's and wondered who had issued the commission.
• Snape visited Amosta's office and said that Dumbledore wanted to see him, suggesting Amosta might be dismissed.

Amosta met with Dumbledore, who asked him to take over as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor while continuing to investigate the attacks. Amosta decided to accept the role so he could get closer to Harry Potter and his friends, and ended by challenging the Dark Lord’s curse.

• Dumbledore thanked Amosta for protecting the students and urged him to rest, then raised concerns about the current Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Dumbledore asked Amosta to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts and offered to pay him for a full year, explaining that Voldemort had cursed the position.
• Amosta considered how his intervention had changed events and concluded that Harry Potter and his friends’ information could help him find the Chamber of Secrets.
• Amosta decided that becoming a professor could help him gain Harry Potter and his friends’ trust, then cleared Dumbledore’s desk with his wand and accepted the challenge of the curse.

Amosta prepared a voodoo-doll candle to divert the curse attached to the Defence Against the Dark Arts position, then confronted the curse when it detected the deception. He forced it back into the doll and survived, while Lockhart unexpectedly regained his energy and resumed writing to Nika.

• Amosta made a candle from Norwegian Red Scale Dragon blood, his own blood, and a lock of his hair, then swore to accept Albus Dumbledore’s invitation to become Assistant Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• The curse cast by Voldemort struck, but Amosta’s prepared voodoo doll initially received it as a substitute.
• The curse realized it had been deceived and expanded into a dark bubble that pressed toward Amosta.
• Amosta used his wand and powerful magic to force the curse back into the voodoo doll, leaving a crack in its face and weakening the candle flame.
• Albus Dumbledore watched the confrontation from his office, while Professor Lockhart suddenly regained his energy and wrote a reply to Nika.
• Amosta examined the damaged voodoo doll and relaxed after surviving the curse.

Amosta began settling into his new role as Hogwarts' Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and discussed how to divide classes with Professor McGonagall. He left the assignment unresolved and went to speak with Professor Lockhart before the new week began.

• Amosta joined Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, and Snape for breakfast, where the professors congratulated him and Snape warned him about the post.
• Professor McGonagall thanked Amosta for taking the job and proposed that he teach fifth- through seventh-year students while Professor Lockhart taught the younger years.
• Amosta declined to give Professor McGonagall a definite answer, saying he wanted to discuss the division of classes with Professor Lockhart.
• Amosta hurried to find Professor Lockhart so they could settle their teaching arrangements before the new week.