Chapter Summaries

Andy told Dumbledore he had no interest in changing the Wizarding World, leaving Dumbledore conflicted about the future of wizards. Dumbledore then explained Magical Transformation and revealed his family’s history with Phoenixes and an Obscurial nephew, prompting Andy to suspect the Dumbledore bloodline had been transformed by Phoenix magic.

• Andy told Dumbledore that he cared about magic but had no desire to change the Wizarding World or its people.
• Dumbledore worried that wizards needed to change to survive alongside rapidly advancing Muggles, but he had no feasible plan for reform.
• Andy brushed aside Dumbledore’s question about the Wizarding World and urged him to explain Magical Transformation.
• Dumbledore explained that Magical Transformation integrated external power into the body, either by taking power from Magical Creatures or borrowing it from nature.
• Dumbledore said a Phoenix appeared when a member of the Dumbledore Family needed help and revealed that his nephew, an Obscurial, had lived until nearly thirty.
• Andy suspected Ariana Dumbledore had also been an Obscurial and wondered whether a Dumbledore ancestor had used Phoenix power to complete Magical Transformation.

Andy learned from Dumbledore that Magical Transformation relied on combining external power, potions, and Human Transfiguration, and that Slytherin’s manuscripts could help him discover a safer method. Dumbledore also explained how celestial changes affected magic, leaving Andy considering how the stars might influence the magic power rooted in life.

• Andy asked Dumbledore about phoenix-powered Magical Transformation, and Dumbledore described its use of external power, potions, and Human Transfiguration.
• Dumbledore explained that Magical Transformation was dangerous and that Voldemort’s strong will and Dark Arts expertise had helped him survive repeated transformations.
• Andy realized Slytherin’s manuscripts could help him find a pattern linking Celestial Magic Power and potions.
• Andy asked about stellar magic, and Dumbledore invited Hermione to explain what Muggles knew about sunlight, the moon, and celestial effects.
• Dumbledore said that the stars affected magic power, citing werewolves’ transformations and centaurs’ visions, while Andy wondered whether celestial changes influenced life and therefore magic.

Andy and Dumbledore discussed astrology, gods, and the relationship between life, souls, and magic before Andy and Hermione reflected on the conversation in the Ravenclaw Library. Andy ended the night wondering whether powerful wizards cultivated different forms of magic and what power he might use for Magical Transformation.

• Andy asked Dumbledore why Hogwarts taught Astronomy, and Dumbledore said the course might exist to indulge certain fantasies.
• Andy asked whether gods existed and whether Wizarding World history had been altered, but Dumbledore said he had found no answers after once pursuing the question himself.
• Andy and Hermione left Dumbledore's office and went to the Ravenclaw Library to write down and think through what they had learned.
• Andy considered how life, souls, bodies, death, and magic power might relate, then wondered whether magic could be absorbed and used in different forms.
• Andy compared Voldemort's power to a Magic Path Technique and Dumbledore's strength to an inherited Phoenix Force, then wondered what power he should use for Magical Transformation.

Andy chose Slytherin’s moonlight-based method for Magical Transformation and studied its requirements, including daily incantations at noon and six months of full-moon exposure for the potion. He planned to begin preparing it in February and decided that a Prisoner of Azkaban arriving during his third year could serve as the test subject.

• Andy considered using Pure Moonlight for Magical Transformation, then wondered whether his Animagus process had combined the sun’s and moon’s powers.
• Andy returned to his dormitory, retrieved Slytherin’s manuscript and books on celestial knowledge, and went to the Ravenclaw library.
• Andy studied the method and learned that it required a daily incantation at noon and six consecutive months of full-moon exposure for the potion.
• Andy calculated that starting in February would let him complete the potion’s preparation by August, outside Britain’s rainier months.
• Andy anticipated that a Prisoner of Azkaban would arrive during his third year and decided the prisoner could be his test subject.

Andy planned to capture Sirius Black for his Magical Transformation experiments, then registered as an Animagus and became a target of newspaper attention. He hid at Hogwarts to study and prepare for summer, while adding Aisha Collins and Xenophilius Lovegood to his list of people he planned to confront.

• Andy planned to build a hidden laboratory prison and capture the escaped Azkaban prisoner, suspecting the man might contact Voldemort through Snape.
• Andy completed his Animagus registration with Professor McGonagall, and she predicted The Daily Prophet would publicize his achievement.
• The Daily Prophet featured Andy's Animagus transformation, while Aisha Collins mocked him in an article.
• Andy avoided the attention at Hogwarts and focused on practicing magic and studying Magical Transformation and Celestial Magic Power.
• Luna Lovegood gave Andy The Quibbler, whose article accused him of being controlled by a dark wizard or possessed by an evil spirit.
• Andy resolved to confront the escaped prisoner, Aisha Collins, and Xenophilius Lovegood during summer vacation.

Andy deepened his study of the Dark Arts, recognized their pull on his ambition, and decided to pause his research while planning to build up his Divination talent over summer. After the year-end celebrations, he and the other students left Hogwarts, with Andy preparing for a summer focused on Magical Transformation experiments and watching for threats to Harry.

• Andy raised his Dark Arts talent to four points, then stopped studying when he realized the subject was drawing him toward dangerous ambitions.
• Andy planned to save Potential Points over summer so he could improve his Divination talent in third year.
• Hermione beat Andy in the year-end results, and she celebrated with him during an afternoon in Hogsmeade.
• Andy beat Cedric at the final Duel Club gathering after Cedric worried that he might not have earned full marks.
• The students attended the end-of-term banquet and left Hogwarts the next morning for Hogsmeade Station.
• Andy told Hermione not to forget their expedition and privately planned his summer experiments, laboratory, prison cell, and surveillance of Harry.

Andy and Hermione discussed their plans to explore the Gaunt Family Old Residence, and Andy explained how Voldemort's Horcruxes preserved his soul and enabled his immortality. The chapter ended with Hermione apologizing for suspecting Andy might make one, and Andy asking what she had meant to say earlier.

• Andy and Hermione agreed to visit the Gaunt Family Old Residence in seven days and settled into a train compartment.
• Andy explained that his magical talents let him sense and overcome magical traps and mechanisms.
• Andy told Hermione that making a Horcrux required murder to split one's soul and that Voldemort used Horcruxes to survive bodily destruction.
• Hermione feared Andy might pursue Horcruxes, but Andy assured her he would never split his soul.
• Hermione apologized for doubting Andy, and he asked what she had been about to say.

Andy and Hermione discussed whether Voldemort might have turned the Resurrection Stone into a Horcrux, then returned home after the train journey. Andy reunited with Isabel and Helen, while Isabel complained that his Apparition had spoiled her chance to ride the Knight Bus.

• Hermione asked Andy what Voldemort might do if he discovered the Resurrection Stone, and they decided to investigate whether it had become a Horcrux.
• Andy and Hermione arrived by train, and Mister Granger offered Andy a ride before Andy Apparated home from a secluded corner of the parking garage.
• Andy found Isabel at home and learned she was upset because he had Apparated instead of giving her a chance to ride the Knight Bus.
• Andy unpacked and joined Isabel in the living room, where she cleverly turned his teasing about missing her into a promise to share snacks.

After the Weasleys won the Daily Prophet's Galleon Grand Prize, Sirius spotted a familiar rat in the prize photograph and realized he could not stay in Azkaban. On the seventh day of vacation, Andy met Hermione to begin their adventure and explained that she could use magic outside school.

• Andy heard that Arthur Weasley had won seven hundred Galleons and resolved to win next year's prize himself.
• Andy settled into his vacation routine, kept the Fat Cat Patronus with Isabel, and prepared with Hermione for their planned operation at the Gaunt Family Old House.
• Sirius received The Daily Prophet from Fudge, recognized the rat on Ron's shoulder as the missing-toed rat, and decided he had to escape Azkaban.
• Andy packed Little White Mice to test for magical traps and Apparated to Hermione's home.
• Hermione arrived dressed for an expedition and worried that she could not use magic during vacation, so Andy explained that the Ministry's concern was magic being exposed to Muggles.

Andy and Hermione traveled to Little Hangleton to explore the Gaunt family’s old residence. After Hermione recovered from Apparition, they reached the dilapidated house and found no magical protections around it.

• Hermione worried about breaking the law, and Andy explained that Fudge had changed after becoming Minister of Magic.
• Hermione showed Andy a Muggle anesthetic that worked on wizards, and he asked to keep it for use on a prisoner.
• Andy Apparated with Hermione to Little Hangleton, where she rested after feeling nauseated.
• Andy transformed nearby stones and tree stumps into a pavilion so Hermione could rest in the shade.
• Andy and Hermione reached the Gaunt family’s old residence, and Andy found no magical protections around it.

Andy and Hermione searched the ruined Gaunt house and found a gold ring with a black gemstone. Suspecting the smooth discovery was a trap and the ring might be tied to Dumbledore’s fate, Andy used Potential Points to raise his Divination to level two, then sensed intense dread from the ring.

• Hermione explained the Gaunt Family’s history of intermarriage and Parseltongue as Andy and Hermione approached the ruined house.
• Andy burned the Dark Arts-marked dead snake from the door and entered the house with Hermione, using mice to check for cursed objects.
• Hermione found an open box containing a gold ring with a black gemstone, and Andy warned her not to touch it.
• Andy considered whether the stone was the Resurrection Stone and wondered if Voldemort had used the ring against Dumbledore.
• Andy raised his Divination talent to level two and felt intense dread while staring at the ring.

Andy used divination to see how Dumbledore would be cursed by the ring, then destroyed the Horcrux while preserving the Resurrection Stone. He left the story preparing to test the ring’s curse on a Little White Mouse.

• Andy touched the Resurrection Stone with his wand and saw a vision of Dumbledore destroying the ring, putting it on, and being cursed by it.
• Andy told Hermione that his divination had revealed they had saved Dumbledore’s life.
• Andy warned Hermione that Voldemort might influence them, then used his Fat Cat Patronus to break apart Voldemort’s soul fragment as he emerged from the ring.
• Andy burned the ring with Fiendfyre, destroying the Horcrux while the Resurrection Stone remained unharmed.
• Andy put the ring on a Little White Mouse’s front paw to begin testing Voldemort’s curse.

Andy and Hermione tested Voldemort’s cursed ring, then Andy recklessly tried to summon Dumbledore and nearly drained all his magic. Dumbledore followed the fleeting call to the Gaunt house, where he surprised the pair as they discussed the ring and joked about killing him.

• Andy and Hermione tested the ring’s curse on two white mice, and both died.
• Hermione suggested searching the Restricted Section for a way to break the curse, while Andy decided to try summoning Dumbledore.
• Andy’s Summoning Charm nearly drained his magic, but he stopped it before suffering lasting harm.
• Dumbledore felt the brief summons at the Hog’s Head Pub and went to the old Gaunt residence to investigate.
• Dumbledore overheard Andy and Hermione discuss the cursed ring and their plan to ask him for help before the pair opened the door and found him there.

Andy and Hermione showed Dumbledore the cursed ring containing the Resurrection Stone and revealed that they had destroyed another of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Dumbledore identified a possible way to break the curse, leaving Andy to seek thousand-year-old Basilisk venom.

• Andy told Dumbledore that he and Hermione had destroyed a Horcrux and showed him the ring containing the Resurrection Stone.
• Andy said the Resurrection Stone belonged to him and Hermione, then asked whether Dumbledore held the Elder Wand; Dumbledore brought out his wand.
• Dumbledore asked how Andy had guessed, and Andy said Madam Bathat had told him Grindelwald searched for the Deathly Hallows in Godric’s Hollow and met Dumbledore there.
• Dumbledore examined the ring and warned that its powerful curse could kill almost anyone.
• Dumbledore explained that severing the connection between the ring and the Resurrection Stone could break the curse, possibly with Basilisk venom, preferably from a thousand-year-old serpent.

Andy, Hermione, and Dumbledore separated the Resurrection Stone from its cursed ring and discussed what the Deathly Hallows could do. Dumbledore lent Andy the Elder Wand, then revealed that he needed the Resurrection Stone to apologize to someone who had died many years ago.

• Dumbledore summoned Godric Gryffindor's sword, and Andy used Snake Blood from the Millennial Basilisk to strengthen its blade.
• Dumbledore severed the ring from the Resurrection Stone, and Andy destroyed the ring with Fiendfyre.
• Andy tested the Resurrection Stone with a white mouse and learned from Dumbledore that it could not truly bring back the dead.
• Andy and Hermione discussed the legend of the Three Deathly Hallows, and Andy questioned Dumbledore's claim that they were merely powerful alchemical items.
• Andy gave Hermione the Resurrection Stone and his wand, then asked to experience the Elder Wand's power.
• Dumbledore handed Andy the Elder Wand and said he needed the Resurrection Stone to apologize to someone who had died many years earlier.

Andy tested the Elder Wand’s power and asked Dumbledore why the other Deathly Hallows seemed weaker. Hermione gave Dumbledore the Resurrection Stone, and he began recounting a story from the summer of 1899.

• Dumbledore explained that the Resurrection Stone’s apparitions brought pessimism and that he wanted to see his Sister again.
• Andy tested the Elder Wand by destroying a tree with the Crushing Curse and restoring it with the Mending Charm.
• Andy returned the Elder Wand to Dumbledore and questioned why the Resurrection Stone and Invisibility Cloak seemed less powerful.
• Dumbledore said the Hallows’ power could bring arrogance, isolation, and pessimism, while Andy admitted he understood but did not fully agree.
• Hermione handed Dumbledore the Resurrection Stone, and he began telling them about the summer of 1899.

Dumbledore told Andy and Hermione how his youthful plans with Grindelwald ended after Ariana was struck by a spell, then arranged to send Andy the Resurrection Stone. Andy and Hermione Apparated to her home, where they shared lunch and planned an afternoon at an arcade.

• Dumbledore recounted how his friendship and plans with Grindelwald led to a confrontation with Aberforth, during which Ariana was struck by a spell whose caster he claimed not to know.
• Dumbledore said he would keep the Resurrection Stone briefly before having Fawkes deliver it to Andy's home, and congratulated Andy and Hermione on destroying another Horcrux.
• After Dumbledore left, Hermione scolded Andy for joking about their actions and worrying that they had killed Hogwarts's Basilisk.
• Andy and Hermione decided to visit an arcade, and Andy agreed to teach Hermione Apparition in a suitable place despite the Ministry's restrictions.
• Andy and Hermione Apparated to Hermione's home, ate KFC for lunch, and Hermione thanked Andy for learning about the Muggle world.

After reviewing Dumbledore’s remarks about the Deathly Hallows, Andy developed a theory that the Peverell Brothers had defeated Death and turned its powers into the Hallows. He studied “The Tale of the Three Brothers” and ended by wondering whether the Invisibility Cloak could protect a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from Voldemort’s curse.

• Andy reviewed his adventure at the Gaunt Family Old House and suspected Voldemort had planted the cursed Horcrux as a trap for Dumbledore.
• Andy reconsidered Dumbledore’s comments about the Deathly Hallows and connected their powers to arrogance, isolation, and pessimism.
• Andy theorized that someone might have slain Death and stripped away its powers to create the Three Deathly Hallows.
• Andy reread “The Tale of the Three Brothers,” interpreting the brothers’ crossing of the river as defeating Death and taking its power.
• Andy wondered whether wearing the Invisibility Cloak could let a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor escape Voldemort’s curse.

Andy considered whether the Invisibility Cloak could evade curses, while Sirius Black escaped Azkaban to seek revenge on Peter Pettigrew. At dinner, Kyle revealed that Black had escaped, and Helen began to explain what he had done.

• Andy read The Tale of the Three Brothers and wondered whether the Invisibility Cloak could evade curses and whether the Resurrection Stone had other powers.
• Sirius Black transformed into a dog, slipped past the Dementors, and escaped Azkaban after learning Peter Pettigrew was alive.
• Sirius swam away from Azkaban, intending to kill Pettigrew and reveal the truth.
• Kyle told Andy, Helen, and Isabel that Sirius Black had escaped and that the Ministry was keeping it secret.
• Helen reacted strongly to Black’s name, and Andy asked her to tell him what Black had done.

Andy learned more about Sirius Black’s supposed betrayal of James Potter and his escape from Azkaban, while Kyle revealed that Dementors could communicate. Andy ended the conversation intrigued by Dementors and wondering what he could learn from them.

• Helen told Andy that Sirius Black came from the pure-blood Black family but was sorted into Gryffindor and became close friends with James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.
• Helen explained that James Potter made Black the Secret Keeper for the Fidelius Charm protecting his family from Voldemort, whom she called the Mysterious Man.
• Helen and Kyle described how Black was blamed for betraying James and killing Peter Pettigrew after the Potters were murdered, while Kyle said Dumbledore had suspected an undercover agent but misidentified him.
• Kyle said Black had escaped Azkaban after the Dementors brought him food, and that Fudge was the last person known to have seen him.
• Andy learned that Dementors could communicate and asked whether they fed on happy emotions.