Chapter Summaries

Andy learned that Azkaban contained another hidden room and used a Time-Turner and Polyjuice Potion to return there as Uchiha Obito. He watched his other self and Dumbledore arrive, but the two Andys’ time-traveling actions formed a causal loop he could not untangle.

• Andy concluded that Snape was distracted by a private concern and left his office without pressing him.
• Andy recalled discovering a hidden room in Azkaban that seemed connected to the power of Death.
• Andy returned four hours in time, disguised himself as Uchiha Obito, and used a Portkey to reach Azkaban.
• Andy hid and watched Dumbledore and his other self arrive and discuss fate.
• Andy realized each version of himself had traveled to Azkaban because of information and actions from the other, and decided to ask Hermione to help untangle the loop.

Andy entered Azkaban in disguise and confronted Voldemort while the Dark Lord held five Aurors captive. Their first duel began with Andy blocking Voldemort’s Killing Curse with Expelliarmus, but Voldemort’s power overwhelmed him.

• Andy entered Azkaban after seeing an injured Auror receive treatment and made his way toward the prison’s depths.
• Andy found Voldemort outside a cell where five Aurors were making their last stand, and ordered him to leave with his followers.
• Voldemort fired the Killing Curse at Andy, who met it with Expelliarmus.
• Andy’s spell held against Voldemort’s curse, but the pressure of Voldemort’s magic made Andy’s abilities seem ineffective.

Andy used an unconventional barrage of Fiendfyre, spells, and giant rocks to seize the initiative against Voldemort. He created a harmless path through the flames for five Aurors and urged them to escape while he continued fighting.

• Voldemort overwhelmed Andy's Expelliarmus with a Killing Curse, but Andy remained prepared to fight him alone.
• Andy hurled an enlarging stone at Voldemort, forcing him to break their magical connection and destroy it.
• Andy attacked with Fiendfyre, spells, and more giant rocks, temporarily forcing Voldemort onto the defensive.
• Andy told five nearby Aurors to leave through the Fiendfyre, but they mistook his warning for a threat to silence them.
• Andy sent harmless Fiendfyre over the Aurors, and one of them thanked him before leading the others away.

Andy drew Voldemort’s attention while searching for the hidden doorway in Azkaban, which opened and unleashed a chilling power. Trusting his divination that he would return home safely, Andy entered the doorway as Voldemort, Dumbledore, and Pendant Andy escaped.

• Andy kept attacking Voldemort while edging toward the stone wall where he had seen Uchiha Andy enter a hidden room.
• Pendant Andy watched with Dumbledore, while Dumbledore suspected the Masked Man was connected to Gellert Grindelwald because of his Fiendfyre.
• Andy approached the wall, and a doorway appeared as an intense supernatural cold erupted from within.
• Voldemort fled toward Azkaban’s gates, while Dumbledore led Pendant Andy away and the Dementors went berserk.
• Andy entered the dark doorway, and it closed behind him as Voldemort, Dumbledore, and Pendant Andy watched from a distance.

Voldemort realized the Masked Man had used him to reach a hidden room in Azkaban and waited to ambush him. A Dementor riot forced Voldemort to abandon that plan, while Pendant Andy and Dumbledore left without intervening, and Andy resolved to seek the Time Reversal Spell.

• Voldemort recognized that the Masked Man had entered the hidden room and decided to wait outside to kill him.
• Pendant Andy panicked that Voldemort would ambush his future self, but Dumbledore reassured him and concealed them with a spell.
• A Dementor riot sent Death Eaters and prisoners fleeing in terror, and Voldemort flew off to help them.
• Pendant Andy suggested capturing the escapees, but Dumbledore refused to interfere because of the rules of time.
• Dumbledore and Pendant Andy left Azkaban, and Andy decided to visit the Department of Mysteries to obtain the Time Reversal Spell.

Andy investigated a frozen room in Azkaban and realized that the Dementors and the room’s mysterious object were connected to the Death Dimension. He began lifting the black cloth covering the object, believing his stolen death magic would protect him.

• After Voldemort and the Death Eaters retreated, Dumbledore left Azkaban with Andy without investigating the room.
• Andy found a vast, frost-covered room whose cold felt comfortable to him and traced it to an object hidden beneath a black cloth on a stone platform.
• Andy suspected the object was connected to the Death Dimension and reasoned that the Dementors’ desperate attempt to enter the room confirmed their connection to it.
• Andy compared Dementors with the dead summoned by the Resurrection Stone and guessed their abilities were amplified effects of death magic.
• Andy resolved to grow stronger, then reached out and slowly lifted one corner of the black cloth.

Andy lifted the Black Cloth and briefly experienced overwhelming despair from the mirror connected to the Death Dimension. He decided to steal the mirror and hide it in Voldemort's father's graveyard, then opened the door and confronted the Dementors with his Patronus.

• Andy uncovered the mirror, felt its despair-inducing power, and let the Black Cloth fall after a few seconds.
• Andy reasoned that his living nature kept him from adapting to the Death Dimension and decided not to uncover the mirror again.
• Andy chose Voldemort's father's graveyard as a hiding place and wrapped the mirror in the Black Cloth.
• Andy opened the doorway, summoned his Fat Cat Patronus, and prepared to face the Dementors.

Andy drove the Dementors from Azkaban with his Fat Cat Patronus and escaped with the mirror containing power from the Death Dimension. After Andy Apparated away to test whether the Dementors could still sense the mirror, the furious creatures swarmed toward the mainland.

• Andy used his Fat Cat Patronus to drive the Dementors out of Azkaban and flee the prison.
• Andy realized the mirror's chill could expose its hiding place and considered whether his Patronus could help him explore the Death Dimension.
• Andy Apparated from Azkaban with the mirror, knowing the Dementors might attack people after losing it.
• Andy appeared in an uninhabited wilderness and began testing whether distance would hide the mirror from the Dementors.
• The Dementors erupted into a riot, abandoned Azkaban, and flew toward the mainland.

After stealing the mirror connected to the Death Dimension, Andy returned to Hogwarts and struggled to untangle the time-traveling versions of himself. He arranged another swap so he could attend class without revealing his identity, then headed to the library to find Hermione.

• Andy left Azkaban, telling himself the Ministry was responsible for dealing with the escaped Dementors, and returned to Hogwarts.
• Andy sent his Fat Cat Patronus to find Hermione and learned she was in class while another version of him was there.
• A message from another Andy instructed him to wait in the third-floor bathroom until class ended, then travel back two hours to swap places with Class Andy.
• Andy waited as Accessory Andy and Dumbledore traveled through time, then watched Accessory Andy become Uchiha Andy after seeking Polyjuice Potion from Snape.
• Andy left the hiding place and went to the library, where Hermione was waiting.

Andy reunited with Hermione after traveling through time to Azkaban, where he encountered and later became the Masked Man who entered a hidden room. Hermione considered how the room’s location could have passed between his past and future selves, then suggested that part of history might still be unfinished.

• Andy met Hermione in the library and asked her for food after nearly ten hours without eating.
• Hermione asked whether the Ministry of Magic had suffered serious casualties, and Andy explained that he had traveled to Azkaban with Dumbledore and met his future self as the Masked Man.
• Andy told Hermione that he later traveled back, put on the mask, and entered the hidden room in Azkaban, completing the event he had witnessed.
• Andy and Hermione realized that neither version of him seemed to have discovered the hidden room’s location first.
• Hermione discussed time paradoxes and parallel timelines, then suggested that a piece of history might still be incomplete.

Andy concealed the mirror he had taken from the hidden room and grew alarmed when Hermione reminded him that Harry had seen events from the perspective of someone lying on the ground, despite there being no snake in Azkaban. He concluded Harry’s dream had shown an illusion created by Voldemort after his escape, leaving Andy wondering what Voldemort was trying to achieve.

• Andy told Hermione that the hidden room contained a stone platform and a black-covered object, concealing that he had taken a mirror.
• Hermione reminded Andy that Harry had described seeing events from the perspective of someone lying on the ground, and Andy realized there had been no snake in Azkaban.
• Andy feared that Harry’s perspective and the time paradox pointed to a deeper problem, while Hermione urged him to stay calm.
• Hermione told Andy that Harry had fainted around 10:40 in the morning, before Andy and Dumbledore used the Time-Turner at 12:30.
• Andy reasoned that Voldemort had escaped before Harry’s dream and concluded that Voldemort had created an illusion, then wondered what he intended to accomplish.

Andy suspected Voldemort had used Harry’s visions to lure Dumbledore to Azkaban, then returned to the normal timeline and tried to reassure Hermione. The Daily Prophet reported that Dementors had attacked Muggles and all Azkaban prisoners had escaped, leaving the Ministry’s response uncertain.

• Andy reasoned that Voldemort may have wanted to lure Dumbledore to Azkaban, then returned to his usual timeline after more than ten hours away.
• At dinner, Malfoy mocked Harry’s collapse while Andy urged Hermione to stay calm amid the danger.
• A flock of owls delivered a Daily Prophet report showing that Azkaban had been attacked, its prisoners had escaped, and Dementors had attacked Muggles.
• Hermione feared for her Muggle family, so Andy offered to set up defensive magic at her home and later create a Safe House with the Fidelius Charm.
• Andy and Hermione noted that the report did not mention the Mysterious Man, and Hermione asked when they would leave.

After news spread that Azkaban had been attacked and its Dementors had fled, Hogwarts established a Duel Club to prepare students for the danger. Snape prepared to challenge Lupin, but Andy’s eager stare made him realize he might have to duel the boy instead.

• Andy reassured Hermione that they could visit the Forbidden Forest later, and they discussed the Dementor attacks and Voldemort.
• News that Azkaban had been attacked again panicked Hogwarts students, while the Weasley Twins sold protective charms and Professor McGonagall punished them for spreading rumors.
• Andy explained that some Slytherin students were excited because their families were Death Eaters imprisoned in Azkaban.
• Lupin Professor proposed a Duel Club, and Professor McGonagall announced that it would meet twice a month with Lupin in charge and other professors assisting.
• Snape planned to challenge Lupin at the club, then noticed Andy watching him intently and realized Andy wanted to duel him.

Andy looked forward to challenging Hogwarts professors in the Duel Club, while Snape resolved to train harder after hearing Andy had beaten him. Andy then took Hermione to visit her home by Apparition, but she hesitated to go inside because she did not know how to explain the dangers facing the Wizarding World.

• Andy anticipated challenging Snape and the other professors in the Duel Club, hoping to defeat them without using his Patronus Charm.
• Lupin Professor suggested teaching the students basic defensive spells, and Snape hinted that Andy would surprise them.
• Lupin Professor told Snape that Sirius and Harry had mentioned Andy defeating him, and Snape silently blamed Harry for spreading the news.
• Andy and Hermione left the Great Hall and Apparated to the Forbidden Forest, where Andy said Hogwarts was protected by Dumbledore and himself.
• Andy Apparated with Hermione near her home, where they saw her parents watching television through a window.
• Hermione said she missed home but decided not to go inside because she did not know how to tell her parents about the Mysterious Man and the dangers in the Wizarding World.

Andy protected Hermione’s home with a barrier against magical creatures and dealt with two Ministry of Magic personnel who arrived to investigate traces of magic. Hermione arranged for her parents to stay home during the attacks, and she and Andy returned to Hogwarts.

• Hermione entered her parents’ home while Andy cast a protective barrier over the building.
• Two Ministry of Magic personnel appeared to investigate detected magic, and Andy stunned them and altered their memories.
• Andy left the unconscious men at a bar, then returned to Hermione’s home unseen.
• Hermione’s parents agreed to take a few days off after seeing news reports about the attacks, and Hermione said goodbye before Apparating away.
• Hermione and Andy reunited, discussed their plans for safety, and Apparated back to the Forbidden Forest before walking toward the castle.

Andy learned that the Ministry of Magic’s poor oversight had let his incident fade away, and he realized the chaos caused by Voldemort’s return could be a chance to gain influence. He considered demonstrating his strength at the Duel Club and confronting Voldemort, hoping Dumbledore would intervene before he was defeated.

• Andy heard from his Fat Cat Patronus that the two Ministry employees had investigated Hermione’s home but found nothing and let the matter drop.
• Andy and Hermione joined the crowded Great Hall, where Andy predicted the Ministry would announce Voldemort’s return and said a confrontation between Voldemort and Dumbledore seemed inevitable.
• Andy realized the crisis could let him become a celebrated hero and gain access to the Ministry of Magic and the Department of Mysteries.
• Andy imagined facing Voldemort while Dumbledore watched over him, then gaining fame by defeating professors at the upcoming Duel Club.
• Andy considered preparing a safe house for his family.

Andy read the news that Voldemort had returned and considered how to protect Harry while maintaining his own safety. His family planned to leave Britain, but Andy decided to go home to explain his plans before returning to Hogwarts life.

• Andy decided that following Dumbledore’s plan to protect Harry could bring benefits and help him build a better relationship with Dumbledore.
• The Daily Prophet reported Voldemort’s return, and the Little Wizards realized the threat was real after hearing about the attack on Azkaban.
• Dumbledore confirmed Voldemort’s return and warned that a brutal war was about to begin.
• Andy read that Kyle planned to take the family abroad, destroyed the letter, and decided he would not flee Britain because he could defend himself and escape if necessary.
• Dumbledore’s speech stirred the students, while Andy told Hermione they should eat and go to class.
• Professor McGonagall dismissed the students to class, prompting their familiar groans of protest.

Andy brought Hermione to his home to arrange two Safe Houses for his family as war with Voldemort approached. Kyle and Helen learned that Andy planned to stay rather than flee, relying on the Fidelius Charm and a Portkey for protection.

• Hogwarts students discussed Voldemort's return, and Andy told Hermione he planned to face him and asked her to be a Secret Keeper.
• Hermione agreed to keep the Safe House secret despite worrying she was not strong enough.
• Andy took Hermione to St. Catchpole Village and introduced her to Kyle and Helen.
• Andy explained that Hermione would guard one Safe House while he guarded another, with a Portkey linking them.
• Kyle and Helen exchanged a look when they realized Andy was not planning to flee.

Andy proposed using the Fidelius Charm and two Safe Houses to protect Kyle and Helen from danger. After Hermione cast the spell on Andy’s home, Andy marveled at its ability to hide knowledge and speculated about making time or death into secrets, but Hermione warned him that the spell only concealed things rather than making them cease to exist.

• Andy proposed preparing two Safe Houses linked by a Portkey, with himself and Hermione as Secret Keepers, and Kyle and Helen approved the plan.
• Kyle told Andy and Hermione that Dementors were spreading across the world, causing severe Muggle casualties, and that the Ministry was trying to contain them.
• Kyle suggested renting a second Safe House in the Muggle World, and Andy planned to cast the Fidelius Charm on their home first.
• Hermione cast the Fidelius Charm on Andy’s home, making it invisible and impossible for Andy to remember until she revealed its address.
• Andy wondered whether the charm could hide concepts such as time and death, but Hermione explained that a secret still existed even when people could not know it.

Andy used the Fidelius Charm to hide his family in a villa as Voldemort’s return made the Wizarding World dangerous. At Hogwarts, the first Duel Club session began, and Snape unexpectedly chose Andy to duel.

• Andy wondered whether the Fidelius Charm could make the whole world forget something, then returned to Hogwarts with Hermione.
• Kyle and Helen arranged a villa for the family, and Andy concealed it with the Fidelius Charm so their relatives could shelter there during the war.
• Andy tried to prepare Harry for a dream meeting with Voldemort, then waited to see whether Voldemort would agree.
• On May 14, Hogwarts students gathered for the first Duel Club session, hosted by Lupin Professor and Professor Snape.
• Lupin Professor invited Snape to demonstrate a duel, but Snape pointed at Andy and ordered, "Collins, you're up!"