Chapter Summaries

Harry regretted arranging to stay isolated with the Dursleys and fell asleep while trying to focus on strange images in a dream. He then witnessed Frank Bryce discover a mysterious man and woman in the Riddle House, where the man drank a life-giving potion and mentioned Nagini.

• Harry realized he would rather endure the Dursleys' insults than spend the summer alone and considered asking the Weasleys to take him away early.
• Harry drifted to sleep and found that focusing on the strange, wavering images in his dream made them clearer.
• Frank Bryce woke with pain in his injured leg and noticed a light in the Riddle House.
• Frank entered the house to investigate and overheard a woman offer a drink to the Dark Lord.
• The man praised the drink's vitality, compared it to Unicorn blood, and asked the woman to feed the remainder to Nagini.

Frank overheard Voldemort and Vitia Creona discussing their plan to use Harry Potter and their fear of powerful wizards, before Voldemort discovered him and Nagini attacked. Two hundred miles away, Harry woke from a dream in a cold sweat.

• Frank overheard Vitia Creona warn Voldemort that killing Bertha Jorkins had put them in danger.
• Voldemort insisted he would use Harry Potter to restore his power, despite Vitia's concerns about Dumbledore and Amosta Breen.
• Voldemort discovered Frank and called for Nagini as Vitia shouted for them not to harm another innocent person.
• Frank lost consciousness as emerald and bleak green light flashed around him.
• Harry jolted awake from a dream at Number Four, Privet Drive, sweating with fear.

Harry woke from a vivid dream of Voldemort with his scar burning and decided to seek help from Sirius, while Amosta and Sirius searched the sea for Azkaban. As Sirius worried about reaching Harry before his birthday, Amosta sensed something strange as a storm approached.

• Harry woke from a dream involving Voldemort, a young woman, and an old man, with his scar burning fiercely.
• Harry considered writing to Dumbledore, Professor Breen, and Sirius, then sent Hedwig with a letter to Sirius and another to Ron asking for help leaving the Dursleys.
• Amosta and Sirius reached their twenty-first day at sea without finding Azkaban, as Sirius navigated by his uncertain memories of the stars.
• Sirius noticed the air growing heavy with moisture and headed for the cabin as a storm approached.
• Amosta studied the rising waves and told Sirius that something felt off.

Amosta and Sirius reached a supernatural storm near Azkaban, where an ancient force resisted their approach. As Amosta offered Sirius a Portkey to safety, Sirius refused to leave him behind.

• Amosta sensed that the storm near Azkaban was unnatural and warned Sirius that a powerful force was resisting their approach.
• A colossal wave threw their ship into the air, and Amosta shielded it with a violet magical barrier.
• Amosta steered the ship through towering waves and lightning while sensing an oppressive soul power ahead.
• Amosta told Sirius that a Portkey in his room could take him back and said the danger ahead was his personal secret.
• Sirius rejected Amosta's offer to leave, insisting that he would take responsibility for bringing him back.

Amosta and Sirius faced a supernatural storm and a formation of waterspouts as they tried to reach Avalon Island. When Amosta’s Fiendfyre Tengshe began to fail and he prepared to retreat, two glowing objects rose from his chest.

• Amosta ordered Sirius to stay in the cabin, then appeared on the boat and saw hurricanes, vortices, and waterspouts gathering around them.
• Sirius watched from the cabin and feared that Amosta would try to fight the overwhelming forces instead of escaping.
• Amosta summoned a flaming Tengshe and drove it toward the waterspouts while crushing gravity pinned Sirius to the cabin floor.
• The formation stripped away the Tengshe’s flames, and Amosta severed two waterspouts before more formed in their place.
• Amosta accepted Sirius’s call to retreat and prepared to use the Portkey, but two glowing objects rose from his chest.

Amosta and Sirius attempted to enter Azkaban, but the Founders’ relics intervened and a burst of white light transported them to a strange place at sea. Amosta woke weak and disoriented, and a familiar voice announced that they had finally made it in.

• Amosta’s Ravenclaw’s Diadem and Gryffindor’s early sword awakened and resisted Azkaban’s defenses.
• A clear eagle cry and deep lion’s roar preceded a white light that swallowed Amosta and made him lose all sense of time and space.
• While trapped in the light, Amosta concluded that the Four Founders were guiding him toward the Twin Serpent Wand and questioned how Merlin fit into their plans.
• Amosta woke beside Sirius in the middle of the sea, where they stood on the water without understanding why they did not sink.
• A familiar, younger-sounding voice laughed and said that they had finally made it in.

Amosta and Sirius encountered a younger Godric Gryffindor aboard a damaged ship while stranded at sea, and realised he could not see them. They then saw Rowena Ravenclaw emerge from the cabin as Gryffindor spoke of finding an island, leaving the nature of their apparent journey through time unexplained.

• Amosta and Sirius saw a ship materialise from empty space, with Godric Gryffindor aboard and sailing toward Azkaban.
• Sirius recognised Gryffindor and excitedly tried to get his attention, but Amosta explained that Gryffindor could not see them.
• Amosta urged Sirius to take him aboard, where Sirius spotted Gryffindor's lion flag and celebrated their encounter.
• Gryffindor turned toward the cabin and spoke to Rowena Ravenclaw, who emerged wearing the Diadem of Ravenclaw.
• Rowena told Gryffindor that magic should not be abused lest they lose themselves.

Amosta and Sirius witnessed a memory of Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw discussing the persecution of young wizards and how to protect them. The founders resolved to create a way to find gifted children before their persecutors, then turned their attention to the danger on the island.

• Amosta guessed that Ravenclaw’s Diadem had triggered a memory of the founders searching for Azkaban, and he and Sirius approached Gryffindor and Ravenclaw for answers.
• Gryffindor and Ravenclaw discussed moving Hogwarts to the magically protected waters, then Ravenclaw revealed that The Vatican had executed three children in Caerleon after they displayed magic.
• Gryffindor condemned The Vatican and the Royal Wizarding Association, while Ravenclaw argued that education and action were needed to overcome prejudice against wizards of Muggle blood.
• Ravenclaw proposed a countrywide spell that would record children’s magical outbursts in a book, allowing people to reach them before their persecutors; Sirius recognized the idea behind the Book of Admission and the Quill of Acceptance.
• Gryffindor agreed that discrimination would eventually end but said they first had to ensure the world was not destroyed.

Amosta and Sirius accompanied Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw to Azkaban, where the founders confronted a swarm of Dementors. When Ravenclaw began destroying a shrunken Dementor, Amosta intervened and raised his wand against her.

• Sirius overcame his fear of Azkaban and agreed to leave the ship with Amosta, Gryffindor, and Ravenclaw.
• Gryffindor and Ravenclaw recognized Azkaban from ancient texts and Helga's prophecy, and the group traveled to the island.
• Thirty or forty Dementors attacked Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, but Gryffindor froze them with power from his sword.
• Ravenclaw drew one Dementor to her palm and shrank it as she drove out its evil force.
• Amosta landed on the island and raised his wand at Ravenclaw, ordering her to stop.

Amosta and Sirius watched Ravenclaw and Gryffindor try to destroy a Dementor, learning that even their combined magic could not erase it. Gryffindor revealed that Dementors were wizards who had been manipulated by Herpo into splitting their souls with Horcruxes, leaving Amosta shaken by the implications.

• Amosta angrily aimed his wand at Ravenclaw as she prepared to attack the Dementors, but Sirius's shout brought him back to himself.
• Ravenclaw and Gryffindor combined their powers to crush a Dementor, but it survived in a tiny, nearly transparent form.
• Gryffindor sent his lion Patronus to swallow the weakened Dementor, which reappeared as an even smaller ghost.
• Ravenclaw concluded that a Patronus could destroy a Dementor only through happiness, not the power of the soul.
• Gryffindor explained that Herpo had tricked wizards into repeatedly splitting their souls with Horcruxes, turning them into Dementors that were difficult to destroy.
• Amosta realized the revelation could explain Voldemort's Horcruxes, while Gryffindor and Ravenclaw resolved to find a way to destroy the Dementors.

Amosta and the Hogwarts founders investigated the Dementors on Azkaban and found a seal beneath ancient ruins linked to Merlin. After Ravenclaw opened it, they prepared to descend into a dark pit filled with a deathly aura.

• Amosta reasoned that Herpo had likely forced many wizards to split their souls, creating the Dementors.
• Gryffindor released the suppressed Dementors, and Ravenclaw captured one with her diadem for study.
• Ravenclaw and Gryffindor discovered a stone pillar in the ruins that Ravenclaw identified as a seal, while Sirius recognized the site from Azkaban.
• Ravenclaw used her diadem to break the seal, prompting the Dementors to gather around the group again.
• The pillar rose and exposed a bottomless-looking opening that released a powerful aura of darkness and death.
• Amosta warned the others that they would see horrors below, and the group prepared to enter the pit.

Amosta and Sirius followed Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw through a hidden ruin beneath Azkaban Island, which Herpo had built above a vast lake of lava. The group reached a cavern where Gryffindor concluded they would have to descend toward the lava, leaving Sirius terrified and Amosta expecting a concealed route.

• Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw plunged into the hidden passage, followed by Amosta and Sirius inside the memory.
• Ravenclaw examined the underground chamber and noted that its intense concentration of magic exceeded Hogwarts.
• Gryffindor and Ravenclaw traveled through the ruined corridor as Amosta considered Herpo, Horcruxes, and Dementors.
• The group entered an enormous cavern above a lake of lava, where towering pillars of fire erupted from the molten surface.
• Gryffindor said they would need to descend to the lava, while Sirius panicked and Amosta reasoned that a proper route must exist.

Ravenclaw used Parseltongue to reveal a staircase leading into the magma, built from the severed hands and heads of House-elves. Horrified by Herpo the Foul’s cruelty and the elves’ treatment, Amosta began questioning the origins of House-elves as the group prepared to descend.

• Ravenclaw recalled Salazar Slytherin’s account of Herpo the Foul, the earliest recorded Parselmouth, and said she had learned Parseltongue from Salazar.
• Ravenclaw chanted in Parseltongue, splitting the magma and raising a staircase from the lake.
• Sirius nearly lost his hold on the world of memories after seeing the staircase appear, and Amosta steadied him.
• Ravenclaw stopped Gryffindor from attacking when they saw the steps were made of House-elves’ severed hands, with their heads lining the staircase.
• Gryffindor said Helga Hufflepuff would be enraged by the sight, while Amosta wondered whether House-elves had been created there as slaves.

Sirius and Amosta followed Gryffindor and Ravenclaw into Herpo the Foul’s underground lair and discovered a chamber where Dementors were being bred from stolen souls. Ravenclaw warned that they had to destroy every Dementor, while the danger of Herpo’s plan remained unresolved.

• Sirius realized that Amosta had been investigating Herpo and suspected the ancient wizard was still alive.
• Amosta identified the bones floating in the lava as remains of extraordinary creatures, including what may have been an ancestral Dragon.
• Ravenclaw opened a gigantic stone door marked with basilisks by speaking Parseltongue.
• Sirius sensed the cold of Dementors in the chamber beyond the lava and began shaking from memories of Azkaban.
• Amosta recognized the vast hall beyond the next door as a Dementor processing plant, where stolen spiritual power nurtured thousands of embryos.
• Ravenclaw concluded that they had to destroy every Dementor, since leaving even one alive would mean failure.

Amosta, Sirius, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor explored the heart of the Secret Realm, where they discovered how Dementors were bred and entered Herpo's library. They found a manuscript about Hallows and left to investigate the final chamber.

• Amosta explained that Azkaban's rising Dementor population likely resulted from the influx of prisoners after Voldemort fell.
• Gryffindor led Ravenclaw, Amosta, and Sirius through a damaged door into Herpo's library.
• Ravenclaw touched a bloodstained spellbook, which crumbled because Merlin had destroyed the library's protective magic centuries earlier.
• Ravenclaw read a manuscript about a dangerous magic called a Hallow and said it was the opposite of a Horcrux.
• Sirius connected the Hallows to the tale of the three brothers, and Amosta suggested the Hallows might truly exist and be linked to Herpo.
• Ravenclaw asked Gryffindor to join her in examining the last stone chamber beyond the library.

Amosta, Sirius, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor discovered an ancient doorway in a chamber that reflected the real starry sky. Ravenclaw recognized that the door required coordinates to open safely and decided to take it away to protect it from the evil creatures on the island.

• Amosta followed Ravenclaw and Gryffindor into a chamber that appeared to stretch across the real starry sky.
• Sirius spotted an altar standing in the darkness, with an ancient archway draped in floating black curtains.
• Gryffindor sensed death within the arch and nearly tested it with his sword before Ravenclaw warned him away.
• Ravenclaw found three indentations on the lintel and identified them as coordinates needed to open the doorway safely.
• Amosta warned that entering without coordinates could cast them into the void and likely kill them.
• Ravenclaw decided to take the doorway with her so it would remain safe until they destroyed the evil creatures.

Amosta and Sirius returned from the founders’ memories with Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor after learning that the Dementors might eventually escape Azkaban. Amosta asked Sirius to reveal what he had seen to Dumbledore only if Amosta disappeared and Sirius needed to find him.

• Ravenclaw warned Gryffindor that the Dementors could spread beyond Azkaban, and they discussed creating measures to contain them.
• Ravenclaw sensed a mainland object with magical fluctuations like the stone pillar, while Gryffindor volunteered to investigate it.
• The founders’ memory ended, and Sirius and Amosta woke on the ship near Azkaban.
• Amosta showed Sirius Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor, which had emerged from the memory.
• Sirius promised to keep what he had seen secret, but Amosta asked him to tell Dumbledore in the future if Amosta disappeared and Sirius needed to find him.

Amosta returned from exploring Azkaban, and Sirius received a letter from Harry saying his scar had hurt again. Before they could go to Privet Drive to question Harry, Amosta received an urgent letter from Cacus Foley and left to investigate.

• Amosta flew back from Azkaban at dawn, and Sirius saw that his eyes had returned to their original color.
• Amosta declined Sirius's invitation to join the trip to the Quidditch World Cup and guided their wrecked ship beyond Azkaban's magical perimeter.
• Hedwig arrived with a letter from Harry, and Sirius read that Harry's scar had hurt again.
• Amosta told Sirius that Harry's scar reflected a hidden connection to Voldemort and agreed to go with him to Privet Drive to question Harry.
• A gray owl delivered a letter from Cacus Foley, and Amosta left Sirius to investigate it in person.

Amosta Breen arrived in Albania after Cacus Fley’s letter interrupted his return from Azkaban, and learned of people mysteriously disappearing near a lake. He reached a hidden camp in the forest and identified himself as Golden Viper, sponsored by Cacus Fley.

• Amosta questioned a Muggle policeman about an Italian tourist whose daughter had vanished from the lake, and learned that similar disappearances were common in Albania.
• The policeman warned Amosta to leave, but Amosta turned back and watched the grieving woman with fury in his eyes.
• Amosta traveled through a dangerous primeval forest, following the magical map in Cacus Fley’s letter.
• Amosta found a goat’s head hanging from a spruce tree and told it he wished to enter the camp.
• The goat’s head asked Amosta for his name and sponsor, and he answered that he was Golden Viper and Cacus Fley had referred him.

Golden Viper entered the House of Soul Eaters, a camp for Dark Wizards in Albania, and confronted an ugly wizard abusing a Muggle girl. The wizard mocked Golden Viper and threatened to make an example of him.

• A goat summoned the House of Soul Eaters from beneath the ground after Golden Viper revealed his identity.
• Golden Viper entered the camp, where the bar owner demanded ten Galleons for admission.
• Golden Viper noticed an ugly wizard feeding an enchanted love potion to a powerless Muggle girl and preparing to assault her.
• Golden Viper warned the ugly wizard to stop, but the bar owner cautioned him that troublemakers became fertilizer for the pumpkins.
• The ugly wizard rose and mocked Golden Viper's reputation, threatening to carve his story into his skull and hang it over the gate.