Chapter Summaries

After resting at the Leaky Cauldron, Amosta encountered the Malfoys and spoke privately with Lucius about his troubles and the Ministry’s silence over Amosta’s role in the Chamber of Secrets. Lucius questioned why the Daily Prophet had credited Harry Potter and his friends instead, leaving Amosta to ask what Lucius thought the reason was.

• Amosta rested at the Leaky Cauldron and heard its patrons gossip about Gilderoy Lockhart’s fifteen-year prison sentence.
• Draco Malfoy enthusiastically recounted Slytherin’s Quidditch championship to Amosta.
• Narcissa Malfoy took Draco away while Lucius stayed behind with Amosta.
• Amosta cast Muffliato and remarked that Narcissa was beautiful and intelligent.
• Amosta pointed out that Arthur Weasley had caused Lucius trouble by finding incriminating items at his manor.
• Lucius asked Amosta why the Daily Prophet had ignored his role in defeating the beast in Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets and credited Harry Potter and his friends instead.

Amosta Breen confronted Lucius Malfoy about the diary he had slipped into Ginny Weasley’s schoolbag, warning that Voldemort might return and that Draco and Narcissa could be in danger. Lucius tried to threaten Amosta with his connections and secrets, but Amosta revealed he knew about Lucius’s dealings and rose to face him.

• Amosta told Lucius he had requested his Hogwarts position so Voldemort would not target him for what happened at the school.
• Amosta revealed that Lucius’s gift to Ginny Weasley was no ordinary diary, but an object made by the Dark Lord.
• Lucius denied that Voldemort could return, then asked Amosta what the diary was after fearing for Narcissa and Draco.
• Amosta said he wanted to save Draco and hoped Lucius would prepare to protect Draco and Narcissa, but told Lucius to wait for death.
• Lucius threatened to expose Amosta’s connections and background, but Amosta mocked him and cited his contraband dealings with Cacus.

Lucius Malfoy insulted Amosta Breen and was trapped in a white void, where Breen impaled him with a spear before apparently sparing his life. Lucius awoke in the bar and warned Draco to respect Professor Breen, certain that Breen would return to Hogwarts.

• Amosta Breen transported Lucius Malfoy into a white void and bound him with icy chains.
• Lucius begged Breen to spare him and his family, but Breen pierced his abdomen with a bronze spear.
• Breen told Lucius there would not be a next time, and Lucius lost consciousness.
• Lucius woke in the bar beside Narcissa and Draco, while Tom explained that Breen had left and Lucius had stood motionless.
• Draco warned that Breen was powerful, and Lucius advised his son to show Breen respect.
• Lucius declared that Breen would definitely return to Hogwarts.

Amosta returned to the orphanage with gifts and promised to improve the children’s lives, including providing televisions and computers. When he offered to solve their schooling problem, Hammer Jr. told him that Sister Vitia had already arranged for many of them to attend public school in September.

• Amosta arrived at the renovated orphanage and greeted the children as they gathered around him.
• Amosta told the children about his travels, including Egypt, and promised to provide televisions and computers for the dormitories.
• Hammer Jr. asked Amosta to stay longer, and Amosta promised he would.
• Amosta said he would address the children’s schooling, but Hammer Jr. revealed that Sister Vitia had already arranged public school places for many of them.
• Amosta asked who Sister Vitia was.

Amosta attended a lively dinner at the orphanage and spoke with volunteer Vitia Hill about the children and their difficult pasts. On the rooftop, she revealed that her real name was Vitia Creona and addressed him as Mr. Golden Viper.

• Amosta watched the orphanage children enjoy a banquet and left the dining hall to spend time alone on the roof.
• Vitia Hill brought Amosta a coat and explained that her father had helped resolve the children's schooling problem through his connections.
• Amosta thanked Vitia and recalled the orphanage's harsh living conditions from his childhood.
• Amosta and Vitia discussed their pasts, and Vitia said her own upbringing had not been as wonderful as he imagined.
• As the moon sank westward, Amosta asked Vitia for her real name, and she revealed that she was Vitia Creona and called him Mr. Golden Viper.

Vitia revealed that the Druidic Sect had discovered Golden Viper’s identity through a costly act of divination and sought Amosta Breen’s help opening Merlin’s Ruins. She showed him the vision that exposed him, leaving Amosta to understand how the sect had found him.

• Amosta led Vitia away from the city and into the wilderness, where he demanded to know how she had identified him as Golden Viper.
• Vitia explained that an elder had died performing Avian Divination to uncover his identity.
• Vitia asked Amosta to help the Druidic Sect open Merlin’s Ruins and obtain an artifact that might secure them a peaceful place to live.
• Amosta connected the request to the group that had posted a commission through Cacus Fley to explore magical ruins beneath Knockturn Alley.
• Vitia showed Amosta a vision of an elder priestess summoning a golden serpent, then collapsing after it appeared.
• Amosta recognized the serpent and realized how the Druidic Sect had located him.

Vitia Creona explained that the Druidic Order had identified Amosta Breen through costly divination and wanted his help retrieving a sacred relic from Merlin’s Ruins. Amosta questioned her motives and the ruins’ connection to Merlin, then returned to the orphanage without agreeing to the commission, still troubled by the mystery behind the prophecy.

• Vitia told Amosta that the Druidic Order’s divinations had led them from a snake mark in Knockturn Alley to his identity and that they had watched him after he left Hogwarts.
• Vitia explained that she had volunteered at the orphanage to show goodwill before asking Amosta to help retrieve the Druidic Order’s relic from Merlin’s Sleeping Place.
• Amosta questioned how Vitia knew the ruins were connected to Merlin and what the Order hoped to find, but Vitia refused to answer until he accepted the commission and entered the ruins.
• Amosta warned Vitia that she was fortunate not to have caused trouble at the orphanage, then asked what reward the Order could offer for the dangerous and valuable commission.
• Amosta returned alone to the orphanage, brushed off Hammer Jr.’s teasing, and went to bed thinking about the Druidic Order’s divination and its conflict with The Vatican.

Amosta agreed to help Vitia investigate Merlin’s Ruins and accompanied her to Stonehenge, where he sensed unusual distortions in the magic surrounding the stones. As they camped on the plain, Vitia said they should wait until the Muggles were asleep before entering the ruins.

• Amosta paid for tickets to Stonehenge after Vitia made no move to pay.
• Amosta recalled why he had agreed to Vitia’s request: the lure of Merlin’s Ruins and his concern about the Druid priest’s prophecy.
• Vitia told Amosta that the ancient Druids had built Stonehenge to perform stellar Divination and draw magical power from beyond the world.
• Amosta suspected Vitia had entered the ruins before and noticed that magic twisted strangely around Stonehenge’s stones.
• Amosta and Vitia ate dinner and pitched a tent among the Muggle campers without using magic.
• Vitia told Amosta to wait until the Muggles were asleep before they made their move.

Amosta and Vitia prepared to enter the ruins beneath Stonehenge, where the restored gate would become a Mirror of Erised that tested those seeking passage. As Vitia summoned a missing pillar, Amosta realized the ruins might be Merlin’s Sleeping Place on the Isle of Avalon and watched her warily.

• Amosta strengthened the Stunning Spells on the sleeping patrol workers as the Stonehenge stones began to reveal a mysterious mist.
• Vitia explained that the missing pillars were needed to open the ruins and that she and her teacher had each failed to enter several times.
• Amosta learned that the completed stone gate would become a Mirror of Erised, and that only those who faced an unwillingly revisited past could enter.
• Amosta connected the ruins’ island, the golden apple, and the Druidic Order with Avalon, the Isle of Golden Apples, and suspected the site was Merlin’s Sleeping Place.
• Vitia raised her staff and summoned an ancient stone pillar in a burst of white light while Amosta watched her cautiously.

In 1979, Vitia celebrated her birthday with her family as Mr. Hill feared for their safety and hoped to seek Albus Dumbledore’s protection. Holy attackers destroyed their home and killed her family, leaving the old priest to rescue Vitia and vow to keep fighting.

• Mr. Hill told Mrs. Hill he wanted to move their people to the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts and seek Albus Dumbledore’s protection, but she warned that Voldemort’s threat made it a dangerous time.
• Vitia’s family gathered to celebrate her birthday at their home in New Town.
• Holy attackers struck the house with a blast of light, destroying it and killing Vitia’s family and several disciples.
• Vitia vowed to avenge the dead and kill the attackers.
• The old priest used a tree that grew from the fireplace ashes to block the holy light, then comforted Vitia and vowed that they would fight to the end.

Amosta entered the hidden Secret Realm through the Mirror of Erised and found himself in a colorless space where time flowed unevenly. He was stunned when the legendary Godric Gryffindor forced his way into the realm and appeared before him.

• Vitia left through the water mirror, and Amosta followed after seeing a vision of a starving young woman carrying a newborn through a frozen London.
• Amosta crossed the mirror and arrived in a boundless realm where he could stand on a lake’s surface.
• He discovered that everything in the realm had lost its color and that time flowed at an uneven rate.
• Amosta realized the island and temple Vitia had mentioned were nowhere to be seen.
• A burly wizard forced his way through distorted space, landed on the lake, and was recognized by Amosta as Godric Gryffindor.

Amosta encountered Godric Gryffindor in the Merlin Ruins and struggled to understand how the founder had appeared a thousand years later. Gryffindor rode his unusual lion Patronus toward Avalon Island, which Amosta spotted floating in the sky, and Amosta followed him.

• Amosta was stunned to find a red-haired man who looked like Godric Gryffindor standing in the ruins.
• Amosta noticed the man carried a plain Mithril rapier rather than the Sword of Gryffindor, but heard him mention Rowena and Helga and realized he was the real Gryffindor.
• Gryffindor summoned a huge, fiery lion Patronus and rode it into the sky.
• Amosta spotted Avalon Island as a tiny black dot in the heavens.
• Amosta transformed into a shadow and flew after Gryffindor.

Amosta and Godric Gryffindor reached Avalon Island, where a twisted magical field and a lifeless swamp revealed a world devastated by death and decay. Amosta suspected the destruction was connected to the artifact Vitia Creona wanted, then attacked Gryffindor with his wand.

• Amosta followed Gryffindor through Avalon’s dense magic of death as Gryffindor cut a clearer path through the air with his silver sword.
• Amosta saw the enormous apple-shaped island floating above them and wondered what secrets the Merlin ruins concealed.
• The magical field shifted, forcing Amosta out of shadow form and sending him plummeting toward the island as Gryffindor flew safely down on his lion Patronus.
• Amosta slowed his fall with a gale and landed in a swamp filled with dead trees, bones, and ghostly wails.
• Amosta recalled Vitia Creona’s claim that only he could retrieve an artifact from Avalon and suspected it had caused the devastation.
• Gryffindor surveyed the ruined landscape in solemn anger, and Amosta suddenly slashed at him with his wand.

Amosta realized Godric Gryffindor was a phantom preserved by the Secret Realm’s chaotic time and followed him across Avalon Island’s swamp. The boat carried them toward the island’s center, where Amosta spotted the remains of many magical creatures and a colossal giant skeleton.

• Amosta tested Gryffindor’s body with a branch and confirmed it was an insubstantial phantom.
• Amosta deduced that Gryffindor’s ancient actions had left traces in the Secret Realm and wondered whether the phantom had appeared in response to his magic.
• Gryffindor dismissed his Patronus and led Amosta along the shore to an oak boat.
• Gryffindor and Amosta boarded the boat, which glided toward the center of the swamp.
• Amosta saw the skeletons of many magical creatures beneath the water and mist, then noticed a giant skeleton nearly as tall as a six-story building.

Amosta and Gryffindor sailed deeper into Avalon, where Amosta was bewitched by Sinkpunks and awakened an army of undead. He fought the skeletal giant with enormous water and fire serpents as their boat approached a majestic temple.

• Amosta and Gryffindor passed through the fog and saw the enormous skeletons of ancient creatures rising around the lake.
• Amosta was lured overboard by glowing Sinkpunks, then climbed back into the boat as the lake and world began to shake.
• The awakened skeletons surrounded the boat, and a skeletal giant rose to face Amosta.
• Amosta summoned a giant Water Python that smashed smaller undead creatures and battled the skeletal giant.
• Amosta created a second serpent of golden fire and used both serpents to coil around the giant as the boat neared a magnificent temple.

Amosta followed Gryffindor into an ancient temple on Avalon Island and discovered murals depicting a cataclysmic battle between a witch, a warrior, and Merlin. The final murals showed the witch’s defeat and the disappearance of a strange shape above the world, but the story left the meaning of the images unresolved.

• Amosta crossed the swamp, captured a tangible Sinkpunk, and followed Gryffindor toward the temple while time and space warped around them.
• Amosta found evidence that the temple had been uprooted from elsewhere and concluded that Merlin had created the island and its magical anomalies.
• Gryffindor led Amosta through the temple’s ruins to an intact stone wall covered in murals.
• Amosta studied murals showing a warrior and his army fighting a witch, then recognized Avalon Island among the scenes of destruction.
• The murals showed Merlin joining the warrior against the witch, whose defeat released a Death God-like phantom as a strange shape above the world vanished.

Amosta and Gryffindor studied murals depicting an ancient war and Merlin’s lonely final days, then headed toward the temple’s front hall. Amosta found the Chaotic Time Domain guarding the hall and prepared to leave, but Gryffindor told him to follow as the chapter ended.

• Amosta inferred from the murals that a war had driven something vital to wizards away from the world and wondered what became of Merlin and Morgan le Fay.
• Amosta suspected Gryffindor and Hogwarts’ founders had been involved in a long-hidden scheme connected to the Secret Realm and Vitia’s prophecy.
• Gryffindor cut through a ruined wall and led Amosta toward the front hall, while Amosta drank magic recovery potions and prepared to confront Vitia Creona.
• Amosta tested the Chaotic Time Domain with a stone, which aged into dust and vanished after traveling only five feet into it.
• Amosta turned to seek another entrance, but Gryffindor told him not to be afraid and to follow.

Amosta followed Gryffindor through a temporal barrier into the temple, where he discovered the Twin Serpent Wand, a divine artifact draining life from Avalon. Seeing Gryffindor reach for it and recognizing the creatures coiled around it as shrunken Basilisks, Amosta wondered whether Slytherin had built the Chamber of Secrets to study the wand.

• Gryffindor used his sword to cut a passage through the temporal field, and Amosta followed him through it.
• Amosta emerged inside the temple and saw Vitia waiting at its entrance, unaware he had arrived.
• Amosta recognized the staff on the altar as the Twin Serpent Wand, whose power was turning Avalon into a wasteland.
• Gryffindor admired the wand and reached for it, saying Salazar would like it.
• Amosta recognized the creatures coiled around the wand as shrunken Basilisks and wondered whether Slytherin had built the Chamber of Secrets to study them and the wand.

Amosta watched Godric Gryffindor suppress the Twin Serpent Wand and claim the Sword of Gryffindor, learning that Gryffindor planned to have the sword reforged. Before leaving the Secret Realm, Gryffindor appeared to see Amosta across time and told him that Salazar's Chamber of Secrets held the answers to his doubts.

• Gryffindor tried to take the Twin Serpent Wand but its magic repelled and burned his hand.
• The Sword of Gryffindor trembled, and Gryffindor used his silver sword and magic to suppress the Twin Serpent Wand.
• Gryffindor took up the Sword of Gryffindor and said he would have goblins reforge it under a new name.
• Gryffindor prepared to leave the Secret Realm, then turned toward Amosta and told him Salazar's Chamber of Secrets held the answers to his doubts.

After Godric Gryffindor vanished, Amosta weighed the mysteries surrounding the Twin Serpent Wand and the forces guiding him toward it. He chose to face the wand, imagining the immense power and dominion it might give him.

• Godric Gryffindor's influence disappeared, leaving Amosta alone with the Twin Serpent Wand and the clue that Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets held the answers to his questions.
• Amosta considered why the Four Founders and the Druidic Order's prophecy believed he could wield the wand, along with the unresolved mysteries surrounding Merlin, Morgan le Fay, and the founders.
• Amosta watched Vitia wait outside the altar and recognized that leaving the wand behind could allow its destructive magic to ruin the Isle of Avalon.
• Amosta debated whether to flee or confront the mysteries, then decided he had already chosen to face them.
• Amosta stood before the Twin Serpent Wand and imagined using its power to surpass the greatest wizards and rule the magical and Muggle worlds.