Chapter Summaries

Snape learned that Remus Lupin would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and, after hearing Harry and Ron warn Andy about him, left for the Great Hall without confronting them. Andy later told Hermione that Malfoy suspected he was connected to Hogwarts’s recent attacks, and the conversation led Andy to consider whether curses could interfere with fate.

• Snape read that Sirius Black had been cleared and Remus Lupin would become Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, while planning to resurrect Lily and treat Harry better.
• Snape found Andy and Malfoy together and warned Andy not to miss the Opening Feast.
• Harry and Ron arrived, and Snape greeted them with a forced, fatherly smile before heading to the Great Hall.
• Andy sent Malfoy, Harry, and Ron back to the Great Hall and waited for Hermione to return.
• Hermione told Andy she had sent the letter, and Andy explained that Malfoy had asked whether he planned to drive away Lupin.
• Andy wondered whether the Defense Against the Dark Arts curse was a kind of magic that interfered with fate.

At Hogwarts’ Opening Feast, Andy fielded questions about catching Sirius Black, who had become a popular idol among the students. As the new school year began, Cedric stepped away from Andy’s Duel Club to focus on his exams, and Andy reconsidered the club’s usefulness.

• Michael and other students asked Andy how he had caught Sirius, and Andy explained that Sirius was an Animagus who had stayed in Azkaban for twelve years.
• The students admired Sirius’s story, and Andy escaped their questions when Professor McGonagall arrived with the first years.
• Andy noticed Snape giving Harry a frightening attempted smile and saw Remus Lupin seated beside Professor Flitwick.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students, introduced Lupin as the new professor, and began the feast.
• Cedric told Andy he was leaving the Duel Club to prepare for his Ordinary Wizard Examination, and Andy agreed that exams came first.
• Andy brought up the club with Zhang Qiu again because dueling with the Little Wizards no longer prepared him for opponents like Sirius, Snape, and Dumbledore.

Andy and Hermione received Time-Turners from Dumbledore after promising to use them only for studying. Dumbledore explained that the Time Reversal Spell had been lost, leaving Andy wondering whether he could find it in a book.

• Andy signed up for every elective and discussed the courses with Hermione on their way to breakfast.
• A Ravenclaw prefect told Andy and Hermione that Dumbledore wanted to see them in his office.
• Dumbledore gave Andy and Hermione Time-Turners and warned them about the dangers of using them to change the past.
• Andy asked whether researching a Time-Turner counted as studying, and Dumbledore explained that creating one required advanced alchemy and the lost Time Reversal Spell.
• Andy asked Dumbledore whether anyone had written the spell down in a book.

Dumbledore told Andy that Time-Turners could go back at most five hours, and Andy and Hermione began using theirs to manage their crowded schedules. During Charms Class, Andy theorized that the lost Time Reversal Spell was recorded in a book that had hidden itself in the past, and he decided to search for it in the Department of Mysteries.

• Dumbledore explained that a Time-Turner could reverse time by no more than five hours and gave one each to Andy and Hermione.
• Andy concealed his Time-Turner and realized he and Hermione would need to use it to attend overlapping classes.
• During Charms Class, Andy reasoned that a book recording the Time Reversal Spell might have traveled into the past and hidden there.
• Andy suspected the book could be in the Department of Mysteries’ Data Storage Room and considered returning to the past to find it.
• Andy concluded that he would need the book’s exact temporal coordinates to locate it.

Andy pursued clues about the Time Reversal Spell and recovered the Resurrection Stone from Snape, who warned him about involving Malfoy. Snape then gave Andy his analysis of the Green Liquid, which appeared to preserve brain activity, and speculated that the brains in the Department of Mysteries had been altered to retain basic instincts.

• Andy reasoned that he would need to use the Time-Turner twice to return to an exact point in time and decided to search the Department of Mysteries for clues.
• After Defense Against the Dark Arts, Andy went to Snape’s office while Hermione headed to the Great Hall.
• Snape warned Andy that Malfoy lacked the ability to keep Andy’s secrets, and Andy replied that Malfoy had sought him out the previous night.
• Andy asked for the Resurrection Stone, and Snape returned it to him.
• Snape gave Andy his analysis report on the Green Liquid and said it preserved brain activity, while the brains in the Brain Room had likely been altered to retain basic instincts.

Andy discussed souls, death, and other dimensions with Snape, then wondered whether souls and magic existed outside the atom-based reality humans perceived. He shared his theory with Hermione in the Great Hall, where she agreed that spells resembled code commands for controlling reality.

• Andy asked Snape about souls, and Snape explained that souls could govern people and reach other dimensions, though he did not know what happened to them after death.
• Andy asked whether Snape had asked Lily how she lived in the world beyond death, but Snape said he had not and dismissed Andy.
• After leaving the dungeon, Andy wondered whether higher-dimensional beings had created reality from atoms and whether souls could travel between dimensions because they were not made of atoms.
• Andy met Hermione in the Great Hall and asked whether atoms might be code used by higher-dimensional beings to create reality.
• Andy proposed that spells were commands for controlling reality, and Hermione said the idea sounded unbelievable but resembled how computer code worked.

Andy and Hermione speculated about souls before heading to class, while a lawsuit over the bounty owed to Andy reached the Ministry of Magic. Sirius agreed to attend a hearing, but the case could be dropped if the Ministry paid Andy before it began.

• Andy and Hermione discussed whether souls were made of atoms and whether souls carried what they learned from the body to other dimensions.
• Ministry employees gossiped that Andy Collins had sued Minister Fudge over the bounty, and Kyle learned that Andy was the student behind it.
• Sirius met Fudge and Madam Bones, read the lawsuit, and agreed to attend a hearing.
• Sirius accused Fudge of owing Collins the ten-thousand-Galleon reward for capturing him, while Fudge insisted the Ministry was preparing to pay.
• Madam Bones explained that the Ministry would not accept the case if it paid Collins before the hearing, and Sirius regretted that the matter might not reach court.

Andy and Hermione found Professor Trelawney’s Divination classroom, where Hermione eagerly praised her and Trelawney spoke of a terrifying world beyond the tangible one. Trelawney’s warning left Andy unsure whether she had sensed something real or was simply making another vague prediction.

• Hermione hurried Andy toward Divination Class and explained her admiration for Trelawney, while Andy called the professor a fraud.
• Andy led Hermione up a spiral staircase, and a trapdoor opened to admit them into Trelawney’s classroom.
• Hermione introduced herself to Trelawney and praised her as the greatest Divination master of the century.
• Trelawney told Hermione she had strong spiritual sensitivity, and Hermione accepted her words admiringly.
• Andy asked Trelawney what she meant by the tangible world, and she recoiled from him and warned him not to approach a terrifying world.

Hermione urged Andy to take Professor Trelawney’s warnings seriously, while Andy remained torn between rationally accepting her claims and instinctively suspecting she was a fraud. During their first Divination lesson, Trelawney made several predictions, and Andy and Hermione began a tea-leaf reading exercise.

• Hermione warned Andy not to explore higher dimensions before they were prepared, and Andy questioned whether she believed Professor Trelawney.
• Professor Trelawney introduced Divination and told Neville to worry about his grandmother, warned Parvati Patil about a red-haired man, and gave Lavender Brown a date for something she feared.
• Trelawney instructed the class to practice reading tea leaves and predicted Neville would break a teacup and choose one with a blue pattern.
• Neville startled and knocked teacups off the table, prompting Hermione to declare that Trelawney’s prophecy had come true.
• Andy and Hermione prepared their tea leaves, exchanged cups, and Andy opened the textbook to interpret Hermione’s cup.

Andy struggled to read the future in tea leaves during Professor Trelawney's Divination lesson, but resolved to keep studying the subject. Afterward, Andy and Hermione used the Time-Turner to gain three hours for homework and reading before Arithmancy.

• Hermione read Andy's tea leaves and predicted he would face trials, while Andy guessed that Hermione might drop some Elective Courses.
• Andy tried repeatedly to interpret his tea leaves, but Professor Trelawney told him that his knowledge and understanding obscured his ability to see the future.
• Ron told Andy that Fred had earned an E by predicting his brothers would die, but Andy said he still wanted to learn Divination.
• After class, Andy persuaded Hermione to turn the Time-Turner three times so they could use an extra three hours for homework and reading.
• Andy and Hermione arrived three hours earlier and planned to work in the Ravenclaw Library before going to Arithmancy Class.

Andy discovered that Divination and Arithmancy were increasing the red liquid in his System Panel, even though he was unsure what he had learned. Hermione grew confident in her own prophetic talent and offered to use Tarot Cards to guide Andy through the trials ahead.

• Andy realized his Divination Class experience had improved his ability to prophesy, but decided to focus on raising his willpower and soul attributes before attempting Magical Transformation.
• Andy and Hermione enjoyed Professor Vector’s Arithmancy Class, and Andy calculated Hermione’s personality and destiny.
• After class, Andy saw that the System Panel credited him with effectively improving his ability to prophesy through Arithmancy.
• Hermione recited what she had learned about divination and Arithmancy, then insisted her prediction that Andy would face trials and hardships had been accurate.
• Andy agreed to let Hermione use Tarot Cards to help him through the trials he expected to face.

Andy drew The Devil, The Tower, and Temperance in a tarot reading with Hermione, and interpreted them as a warning about his Magical Transformation experiments and the danger they posed to his mind. He decided to control his desires and balance his mental state, but he left the Great Hall still intending to continue rather than give up.

• Hermione taught Andy how to shuffle and draw three Tarot Cards, then interpreted The Devil as a warning that his ambitions could lead him to evil and avoid responsibility.
• Hermione explained The Tower as a call to face obstacles and leave his current limits, and Temperance as a need for self-control and balance.
• Andy connected the cards to his Magical Transformation experiments and his pursuit of the magic of death, and considered whether to abandon them.
• Andy reasoned that raising his Will attribute could help him resist the effects of Dark Arts Transformation on his mind.
• Hermione explained that the cards represented Andy's situation, obstacle, and answer, leading him to accept the reading as advice to control his desires and balance his mind.
• Andy told Hermione he had decided to give up, then left with her to head to class.

Andy refused to abandon Magical Transformation despite fearing the prophecy, then used a Time-Turner to travel back and secretly go to Knockturn Alley. He arrived at the hideout of notorious thug Yoshimar Reed, beginning his experiment.

• Andy woke, had breakfast with Hermione, and read a newspaper report about Cornelius Fudge being sued over Andy's withheld reward money.
• Andy and Hermione studied in the library, where Andy used a Time-Turner to return two hours into the past after Hermione went to the washroom.
• Andy made himself invisible and traveled through the Forbidden Forest to Knockturn Alley, renewing his Disillusionment Charm when he arrived.
• Andy went to find Yoshimar Reed, a notorious thug he had investigated over the summer, and pushed open the door to his target's location.

Andy captured Yoshimar Reed and began the Dark Arts Transformation ritual using Reed’s blood and the Resurrection Stone. After returning to Hogwarts and rejoining Hermione, he found that she had noticed he seemed more relaxed.

• Andy stunned and bound Yoshimar Reed, then took him to a cave and locked him in an iron cage.
• Andy prepared a bottle with Reed’s blood and the Resurrection Stone, then buried it in the cemetery in Godric’s Hollow to begin the ritual.
• Andy returned to Hogwarts and hid in a bathroom stall until his other self entered the bathroom.
• Andy met Hermione and went with her to the Great Hall, where she asked why he seemed more relaxed.
• Andy said he had not practiced magic for two days, and Hermione agreed that the explanation sounded like him.

Andy began pursuing prophecy and curse magic as a way to study fate, then hurried to the Headmaster's Office after wondering whether the Invisibility Cloak could block Voldemort's curse. Malfoy told Andy that Snape had warned him to stay away, but Andy dismissed Snape as useful to Voldemort’s resurrection and told Malfoy to continue his own task.

• Andy chose books on prophecy and curses in the Restricted Section and explained to Hermione that magic itself was not evil.
• Andy wondered whether the Invisibility Cloak could block Voldemort's curse and left Hermione to watch his books while he headed for the Headmaster's Office.
• Malfoy stopped Andy and reported that Snape had called him dangerous and warned Malfoy to stay away from him.
• Andy told Malfoy not to worry about Snape because Snape was helping Voldemort return, and Malfoy asked whether Andy meant to use Voldemort against Dumbledore.

Andy met with Malfoy, who misread Andy’s plans and promised to have his father defect to Dumbledore and reveal intelligence about Voldemort. After Malfoy suggested Hermione might hinder their plans, Andy warned him against overstepping and then went to meet Dumbledore.

• Malfoy told Andy he would urge his father to defect to Dumbledore and leak information about Voldemort.
• Andy advised Malfoy to keep the plan secret and explained that revealing Snape’s identity could help Lucius gain Dumbledore’s trust.
• Malfoy suggested Hermione’s identity might hinder their plans, and Andy blasted him against a wall and suspended him there.
• Andy released Malfoy after warning him that it was his last chance, and Malfoy became even more impressed by Andy’s power.
• Andy obtained the Headmaster’s Office password from Professor Flitwick and went to meet Dumbledore.

Andy learned that Dumbledore and Snape planned to let Voldemort return so they could locate the remaining Horcruxes. Dumbledore intended to have Snape rescue Peter Pettigrew and serve Voldemort, while Andy asked for more time to grow stronger.

• Andy entered Dumbledore's office and learned that Peter Pettigrew had been sentenced to the Dementor's Kiss in one month.
• Dumbledore said they had destroyed three Horcruxes but lacked clues to the rest, and proposed letting Voldemort return so they could find them.
• Andy suggested postponing Voldemort's return until the following year so he could learn more magic and gain strength.
• Dumbledore agreed to buy time and revealed that Voldemort needed an assistant, allowing Snape to leave his side temporarily.
• Andy realized that Dumbledore wanted Snape to rescue Peter Pettigrew, whose presence could help Voldemort trust Snape and delay his return.

Andy proposed testing whether the Invisibility Cloak could protect Lupin from Voldemort’s curse, prompting Dumbledore to warn him about investigating the dangerous Deathly Hallows. Andy agreed to restrain his curiosity, but Dumbledore sidestepped the request to use the cloak by saying Andy had given him an idea for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position.

• Andy suggested that Lupin use Harry’s Invisibility Cloak to test whether it could resist Voldemort’s curse.
• Dumbledore warned Andy that pursuing the Deathly Hallows and other unknown forces could bring dangerous consequences.
• Andy told Dumbledore that desire drove people, and Dumbledore replied that people also had to restrain their desires.
• Andy agreed to try to control his curiosity, then asked Dumbledore about using the Invisibility Cloak for Lupin.
• Dumbledore said Andy had given him an excellent idea about the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, and Andy realized Dumbledore had avoided answering his request.

Dumbledore explained to Andy how souls and minds differed, helping Andy rethink how magic, ghosts, and resistance to Dark Arts worked. Andy left the Headmaster’s Office to organize what he had learned, while Snape wondered how the discussion related to magic.

• Dumbledore described the soul as eternal and the mind as the power that drives thought, behavior, emotion, and magical control.
• Andy reconsidered his belief that the soul was the source of all Mind Power and proposed that ghosts could not cast spells because they lacked a mind.
• Dumbledore confirmed that ghosts had no mind, explaining that they could think and feel but lacked the drive to think and could not retain emotions.
• Andy connected mind to magical control and will to resistance against Dark Arts, then thanked Dumbledore for clarifying his questions.
• Andy left the Headmaster’s Office, and Snape privately questioned what the discussion had to do with magic.

Snape realized that his own desire to resurrect Lily made him no less driven by obsession than Andy, while Andy interpreted Dumbledore’s remarks as support for his Magical Transformation experiment using death magic. Andy focused on building his magical skills and planned to use the Time-Turner to prepare for the experiment.

• Snape asked whether Dumbledore trusted Andy, and Dumbledore warned that Andy would discover the dangers of souls and death for himself.
• Snape asked whether souls could be eternal, and Dumbledore cautioned him against disturbing the dead.
• Andy returned to the library and concluded that Mind Power could protect his soul during an experiment to steal death magic.
• Andy speculated that death magic might let an eternal soul transform a body, then decided to pursue the experiment after increasing his stats.
• Andy used a Time-Turner each night to gain three extra hours for studying and practicing magic.
• Andy planned to complete the Magical Transformation experiment with the Time-Turner and later steal another one from the Department of Mysteries.