Chapter Summaries

Amosta resisted the Twin Serpent Wand’s attempt to ensnare him with visions of absolute power, then underwent another magic riot that increased his strength. He concealed the resulting change to his eyes and prepared to leave Merlin’s Sleeping Place.

• Amosta nearly submitted to the Twin Serpent Wand after imagining himself ruling the wizarding world, but remembered Godric Gryffindor’s words and broke free of its influence.
• Amosta realized the Twin Serpent Wand belonged to Morgan le Fay, not him, and turned away from Vitia Creona after recognizing the danger she had led him into.
• Amosta experienced a magic riot when magic from the fissures of time poured into him, and he used the magic imprinted in his eyes to absorb and store it.
• Amosta saw that his eyes had turned a deeper violet and concluded that his strength had increased.
• Amosta used an illusion spell inspired by Professor Lockhart to make his eyes look normal again.

Amosta escaped the temporal barrier with the Twin Serpent Wand and confronted Vitia, who demanded the Druidic Order’s holy artifact. He refused to hand it over, arguing that their magical contract did not apply because the wand had not been found in Merlin’s Sleeping Place.

• Amosta realized the passage through the barrier had vanished and that he might have to take up the Twin Serpent Wand to leave the altar.
• Vitia waited anxiously near the marshes until Amosta emerged from the temple carrying the wand.
• Vitia demanded the Twin Serpent Wand, overwhelmed by the hatred and grief of the Druidic Order’s past sacrifices.
• Amosta refused to surrender the wand and pointed out that the contract only required him to hand over the artifact if it came from Merlin’s Sleeping Place.
• Amosta argued that Vitia could not prove the wand had been found in Merlin’s grave, leaving it in his possession.

Amosta watched the Twin Serpent Wand reveal a mysterious phantom that spoke to Vitia, then teleport her away as the Secret Realm collapsed. He escaped to Stonehenge five days later, received an urgent letter, and left after restoring the damaged stones and modifying the Muggles’ memories.

• The Twin Serpent Wand rejected Amosta and summoned a shadow that spoke to Vitia, who reacted with shock and reluctance.
• Vitia thanked Amosta, then the wand teleported her out of the temple before he could learn what the shadow had told her.
• Amosta failed to follow Vitia as the Secret Realm began collapsing, but remembered the Sword of Gryffindor before escaping.
• Amosta emerged at Stonehenge and learned from a Muggle guide that five days had passed outside the Secret Realm.
• A white owl delivered Amosta a letter, and he restored the fallen stones before casting Obliviate on the Muggles.

Harry noticed that the Dursleys had been treating him unusually kindly for two weeks, and Uncle Vernon finally asked about his studies at Hogwarts. The chapter ended with Vernon asking whether Harry knew a way to treat sick people there.

• Harry compared his miserable summer with the holidays he imagined other young wizards enjoyed and recalled how much the Dursleys hated magic.
• Harry overslept, found that Dudley had eaten most of breakfast, and received bread and eggs from Uncle Vernon instead of being shouted at.
• Harry realized the Dursleys had behaved strangely toward him for two weeks and suspected they were planning something.
• Uncle Vernon asked Harry how his studies were going, and Harry cautiously answered that he had learned a few things at Hogwarts.
• Uncle Vernon asked Harry whether he knew a way to treat sick people at Hogwarts.

Harry questioned the Dursleys about why they wanted to know what magic he could perform, and Aunt Petunia revealed that Corvulus Breen had cancer. The chapter ended before Harry learned what the Dursleys wanted him to do.

• Harry told Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia that he could treat minor problems and might be able to handle poisoning.
• Aunt Petunia sent Uncle Vernon and Dudley into the living room, then rebuked Harry for being disrespectful.
• After Aunt Petunia mentioned a wizarding hospital, Harry confirmed that it was called St Mungo's, though he had only guessed.
• Aunt Petunia asked Harry to name the company where Uncle Vernon worked and its owner.
• Aunt Petunia told Harry that Corvulus Breen had cancer.

Harry learned that Corvulus Breen, the owner of Vernon’s drill company, had cancer, and the Dursleys wanted him to use magic to help Breen so Vernon could advance at work. Harry agreed to assess Breen’s condition only if the Dursleys returned his magic books, and they planned to visit Breen the next day.

• Aunt Petunia told Harry that Corvulus Breen had cancer and explained that Vernon hoped to rise to a higher position at the company.
• Harry objected that using magic on a Muggle could get him into trouble, while Petunia insisted the family would explain his actions and pay for treatment.
• Uncle Vernon accused Harry of ingratitude and demanded that he help Breen.
• Harry demanded the return of his magic books before agreeing to help, and Aunt Petunia gave in.
• Harry said he needed to see Breen’s condition before asking his friends for advice, and Vernon agreed to take him on the family’s visit the next day.

Harry endured a night of etiquette training and wore a suit remade from Dudley’s clothes as the Dursleys took him to visit the seriously ill Mr. Breen at Breen Manor. The chapter ended with Harry meeting Mr. Breen’s trusted butler, Mr. Lawrence, at the manor entrance.

• The Dursleys drilled Harry in manners and Aunt Petunia altered Dudley’s old suit so Harry could dress for the visit.
• Uncle Vernon told the family that last year’s lost order had cost them a chance at a luxurious life, and they drove to Breen Manor in Mayfair.
• The Dursleys passed through the manor gates and walked toward the house, where the solemn staff suggested that Mr. Breen was gravely ill.
• Uncle Vernon hurried to greet Mr. Lawrence, and Aunt Petunia warned Harry to treat the trusted butler with respect.
• Harry forced a smile at Mr. Lawrence and thought of Hogwarts caretaker Filch.

The Dursleys brought Harry to Mr. Breen’s manor, hoping to persuade his steward to let Harry help treat Mr. Breen’s illness with a wizarding potion. Harry recognized Professor Breen in a photograph at the end of the chapter.

• Lawrence led the Dursleys and Harry to a reception room and told them Mr. Breen could not see them for another two hours.
• Uncle Vernon instructed Harry to observe Mr. Breen’s condition and planned to offer a friend’s help, while Harry considered giving the Muggle a Pepperup Potion.
• Uncle Vernon showed Petunia and Dudley a photograph of Mr. Breen’s younger days as they waited.
• Lawrence returned and warned the Dursleys to keep their meeting with Mr. Breen to five minutes.
• Harry glanced at the photograph, bumped his forehead, and exclaimed that the man in it was Professor Breen.

Harry visited the dying Mr. Breen with the Dursleys and recognized his resemblance to Professor Breen, who had once taught at Hogwarts. After learning Mr. Breen had never married, Harry returned home determined to send Hedwig with a letter.

• Harry remembered Professor Breen’s power and mysterious departure from Hogwarts as he wondered whether Mr. Breen was related to him.
• Harry and the Dursleys visited Mr. Breen, who lay gravely ill in a hospital room at his manor.
• Mr. Breen spoke weakly to Vernon, and Vernon regretted his private plans to cause him trouble.
• Harry asked Lawrence whether Mr. Breen had children, and Lawrence said that Mr. Breen had never married.
• Back at the Dursleys’ home, Harry announced that he needed to open Hedwig’s cage so she could deliver a letter.

On July 29, Professor Breen visited Harry Potter at Number 4 Privet Drive after receiving Harry’s letter. The Dursleys panicked at his arrival, and Harry revealed that he had found someone to cure Dudley before Professor Breen invited them to breakfast.

• Harry waited anxiously for a reply to his letter while Hedwig rested in her cage.
• Amosta appeared on Privet Drive, found Number 4, and knocked on the door.
• Aunt Petunia screamed at Amosta and fled inside, where the Dursleys cowered as he entered.
• Harry hurried downstairs and excitedly greeted Professor Breen, who magically restored the overturned table and breakfast.
• Harry told Uncle Vernon that he had found someone to cure Dudley, and Amosta invited the Dursleys to join them for breakfast.

Amosta explained to Harry why magic protected wizards from many natural diseases, while Vernon and Petunia listened tensely. After Harry connected Amosta to Corvulus Breen, Amosta admitted he had known about Corvulus for a long time, but left unexplained how that knowledge fit with his childhood in an orphanage.

• Amosta explained that magic acted like an immune system and prevented most naturally arising diseases from harming wizards.
• Harry connected Amosta to Corvulus Breen after recognizing Corvulus in a photograph of Vernon's company employees.
• Harry told Amosta that Corvulus was gravely ill, and asked whether Amosta had already known about him.
• Amosta confirmed that he had known of Corvulus's existence for a long time.
• Harry pointed out that Hagrid had said Amosta grew up in an orphanage, and Amosta replied that the two facts did not conflict.

Amosta and Harry visited Breen Manor, where Lawrence recognized Amosta as the long-lost child of Belina Dett. Lawrence ushered them inside, while Amosta's expression grew complicated as he looked toward a hospital room on the top floor.

• Amosta and Harry arrived at Breen Manor and persuaded the guards to summon Lawrence by claiming Belina Dett's son wished to visit Mr. Breen.
• Lawrence hurried to the gate, recognized Amosta as a child who looked like the manor's owner when young, and said he had searched for him for years.
• Amosta explained that Harry had noticed the resemblance in a photograph and brought him to visit, then offered to leave if they had caused trouble.
• Lawrence grabbed Amosta and Harry by the arms and eagerly led them into the manor, thanking Harry for helping him find Amosta.
• As Lawrence brought them inside, Amosta looked toward a hospital room on the top floor and his expression grew complicated.

Amosta visited the dying Mr. Breen, and the two spoke about their lives, Amosta’s mother, and the past. Mr. Breen asked Amosta to call Lawrence so he could tell him something.

• Amosta stayed alone with the unconscious Mr. Breen after Lawrence left the hospital room.
• Mr. Breen woke, recognized Amosta, and asked him for a cigar; Amosta gave him a cigarette and lit it with magic.
• Mr. Breen asked whether Lawrence had found Amosta and what kind of life Amosta was living, and Amosta said his life was free and full of hope.
• Mr. Breen admitted that he could no longer remember Amosta’s mother, and Amosta told him she had been dead for many years.
• As Amosta prepared to leave, Mr. Breen asked whether Amosta hated him; Amosta said he regarded him as an innocent victim.
• Mr. Breen asked Amosta to call Lawrence so he could tell him a few things.

Amosta told Harry about his extraordinary memory and his mother’s rebellious youth, explaining that he had always known he was related by blood to the owner of Breen Manor. He left Harry with the revelation that his birth had been entirely planned by his mother.

• Amosta stayed at Breen Manor with Harry rather than leave in the storm, and Harry guessed that his excuse about the weather was a lie.
• Amosta told Harry that his exceptional memory let him remember everything from the moment he was born, including his blood connection to the manor’s owner.
• Harry apologized for asking whether Amosta knew why his family had abandoned him, but Amosta offered to talk about his origins.
• Amosta described how his mother had smoked, stolen, fought, and been expelled from a school for troubled youths before her parents disowned her.
• Amosta told Harry that his birth had been the result of his mother’s planning.

Amosta explained how his mother, Bellina, pursued a wealthy man and became pregnant, then recounted her rejection by Corvulus Breen and her family. Bellina wandered through the snow with her newborn son until Ms. Ferena called after her outside an orphanage.

• Amosta resumed explaining that Bellina had disguised herself to attend a reception, fallen for a wealthy man, and secretly become pregnant.
• On February 28, 1971, Corvulus Breen rejected Bellina and denied that her newborn son was his.
• Lawrence offered Bellina a check, but she refused it and walked away with the infant.
• Bellina’s family also refused to help her, and she continued wandering through the snowy streets with her hungry, crying baby.
• Ms. Ferena noticed Bellina passing the orphanage and left the gate to ask whether she needed help.

Bellina tried to kill her infant son and then herself, but Ferena stopped her from throwing the child into the river. Bellina leaped through the ice and drowned, leaving Ferena with the baby, whom she named Amosta Breen.

• Ferena chased Bellina through the snow and discovered that her infant was freezing and unfed.
• Bellina stepped over the bridge railing with the baby, but Ferena tackled her and shielded the child from Bellina’s attack.
• Ferena challenged Bellina’s belief that the infant deserved to die, and Bellina admitted that she was the one who deserved death.
• Bellina leaped into the icy river and asked Ferena to care for the child, naming him Amosta Breen.

Amosta Breen told Harry how Bellina Detta had abandoned him as a child and later died, then learned that Corvulus Breen had left him the family fortune and estate. Amosta declined the inheritance, left Lawrence to guard the ancestral home, and parted from Harry, planning to rest and search for someone.

• Amosta told Harry that Bellina Detta had abandoned him and that she later drowned after being swept downstream.
• Amosta said he had found no trace of his grandparents beyond reports that they had moved to the United States.
• Lawrence told Amosta that Corvulus Breen had changed his will to leave him the estate and remaining assets, but Amosta instructed Lawrence to follow Corvulus's earlier plan to donate the money.
• Amosta asked Lawrence to guard the Breen family home, then left with Harry and declined to say goodbye to the Dursleys.
• Amosta told Harry he planned to rest while adjusting to changes in his body, find a place to live, and look for someone before departing.

Fenrir Greyback confronted Lucius Malfoy at the Malfoy estate and asked him to use his connections to find a man known as Golden Viper. Lucius agreed to hear him out but was wary of provoking Greyback while Narcissa and Draco were upstairs.

• Greyback and his followers arrived at the Malfoy estate, and Greyback vowed revenge on someone who had left him with a grotesque silver arm.
• Greyback entered Lucius Malfoy's study and angered Lucius by openly examining his jeweled peacock mural.
• Lucius considered attacking Greyback but held back because Narcissa and Draco were resting upstairs and he could not guarantee their safety.
• Lucius poured Greyback redcurrant rum and asked what he wanted.
• Greyback asked Lucius to use his connections to identify a man known as Golden Viper in the den.

Fenrir Greyback pressured Lucius Malfoy to identify Golden Viper, but Malfoy refused until Greyback threatened Narcissa and Draco. Greyback then left a scorched wolf’s paw as payment, leaving Malfoy terrified and trapped.

• Malfoy refused Greyback’s request for Golden Viper’s identity and suggested he approach Cacus Foley instead.
• Greyback explained that he had avoided targeting Foley because the werewolves could not afford to lose their foothold in the underworld.
• Greyback howled, and Malfoy heard Narcissa and Draco scream upstairs, realizing Greyback had threatened his family.
• Malfoy drew his wand and demanded to know what Greyback wanted, but Greyback presented a blackened wolf’s paw as payment for help.
• Greyback left after warning that the werewolves would return if Malfoy failed to provide news, and Malfoy collapsed into his chair.

After Greyback’s werewolves broke into Malfoy Manor and threatened Draco, Lucius and Narcissa debated how to respond without provoking deadly retaliation. Lucius considered asking Fudge for access to the Auror Office’s underground-wizard list, then remembered Amosta Breen as a possible lead on Golden Viper but decided against approaching him.

• Draco told Lucius and Narcissa that two black-cloaked intruders had pinned him down and one had threatened his eyes with claws.
• Lucius sent Draco to sleep in his study, then told Narcissa that Greyback had demanded help finding Golden Viper.
• Narcissa urged Lucius to pay the Ministry and the underground world to kill the werewolves, but Lucius warned that Greyback’s retaliation could be worse than death.
• Lucius decided to ask Fudge for access to the Auror Office’s list of underground wizards, though he doubted it would help.
• Lucius remembered Amosta Breen’s strength and ties to Cacus Foley, considered asking him about Golden Viper, and rejected the idea.