Chapter Summaries

Dylan joined Neville for breakfast and Herbology on the first day of term, while Ron received a furious Howler from Mrs. Weasley about taking the Flying Car. At the Greenhouses, Professor Sprout was angry after Lockhart demonstrated how to treat injuries from the Whomping Willow, and Dylan left to prepare for class.

• Dylan learned that Harry and Ron had received detention for flying the Magical Flying Car to Hogwarts, then helped clean up when Errol crashed into his porridge with Ron's Howler.
• Mrs. Weasley's Howler loudly scolded Ron for taking the car, warned him to behave at Hogwarts, and greeted Dylan and Ginny before tearing itself apart.
• Dylan reassured Ron about Mrs. Weasley's anger and the Ministry's investigation into Mr. Weasley, then finished breakfast with Neville.
• Neville told Dylan that Professor Sprout had taught him gardening tips over the summer, while Dylan said he had studied magic, conducted experiments, and made money.
• Professor Sprout announced that Herbology would move from the Second Greenhouse to the Third, and Dylan realized she was upset after Lockhart demonstrated treatment for Whomping Willow injuries.
• Dylan told Neville that Harry's injuries were not serious and hurried after Professor Sprout to prepare for class.

Dylan attended his first lessons of term, impressing Professor McGonagall with his Transfiguration before Gilderoy Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class descended into chaos. Dylan transformed every Cornish Pixie into a keychain, rescued Neville, and restored the classroom.

• Dylan and Neville repotted mandrakes in Herbology, while Ron struggled with the task alongside Harry.
• Dylan transformed a frog into a gemstone in Transfiguration and developed it into a moving crystal frog with Professor McGonagall’s guidance; Ron’s broken wand caused an explosion.
• Dylan sat with Neville in Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class, where Lockhart released Cornish Pixies and then fled to retrieve his wand.
• Dylan cast his wide-area Transfiguration spell, turning the rampaging pixies into keychains and freeing Neville from their grasp.
• Dylan collected the keychains, repaired and tidied the classroom, and considered storing the pixies in his Suitcase and experimenting with magical-creature genes.

Dylan continued expanding his magical knowledge while his questions exhausted Hogwarts’ professors, and Lockhart’s failure in Defense Against the Dark Arts prompted arguments among students. After a late-night lesson with Professor Flitwick, Dylan left intending to take Lockhart’s Signed Photo to the Restricted Section.

• Dylan reflected that Max Level Spells did not replace broader magical knowledge and that he needed more theory to improve his magic.
• After Lockhart fled from the Cornish Pixies, students debated whether he was a fraud or had deliberately staged a lesson, while Dylan’s role in saving them drew attention.
• Dylan arrived at dinner with Professor Flitwick after peppering him with questions, and Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape discussed how much time Dylan demanded from his tutors.
• Dean mocked Lockhart at the Gryffindor table, arguing with Lockhart’s book fans as Seamus and Neville tried to intervene.
• Dylan met Professor Flitwick in his office to discuss the energy fusion of Compound Spells and took notes until nearly ten o’clock.
• Dylan left Professor Flitwick’s office and decided to take Lockhart’s Signed Photo to the Restricted Section.

Dylan used a genuine Professor Lockhart signature to gain access to Hogwarts Library’s Restricted Section, hoping to find useful ancient magic and soul-related knowledge. After dismissing several books as impractical, he borrowed three books and left with seven days to read them.

• Dylan forged an application using a page from Gadding with Ghouls, then Wood arrived looking for Harry and explained that they had arranged Quidditch practice.
• Dylan presented the application to Madam Pince, who checked the signature with an alchemical device and let him enter the Restricted Section.
• Dylan found the first books he examined disappointing, dismissing their ritual-based curses as outdated and ineffective.
• Dylan searched deeper and selected books about cursed magical items, ancient magic and ultimate spells, and souls and forbidden manipulation.
• Madam Pince registered the three books and told Dylan to return them in seven days.

Dylan studied soul magic in the library, then discovered a comfortable Room of Requirement entrance that appeared in a corridor and read there before his lesson with Snape. On his way downstairs, he encountered Harry and Ron, who vomited a slimy slug in front of him.

• Dylan read about souls, emotions, the Killing Curse, and the possibility that Obliviate could affect a person's soul.
• Dylan and Neville directed Colin toward the Quidditch Pitch to find Harry, then ate with Harry and the others.
• Dylan found a new entrance to the Room of Requirement, which provided a reclining chair and enchanted book-turning clamps to help him study.
• Dylan left for Snape's office and slipped on slime on the Fourth Floor, where Harry was dragging Ron along.
• Ron vomited a living, slime-covered slug, and Dylan recoiled as Ron opened his mouth again.

Dylan helped Ron recover after a spell rebounded and made him vomit slugs, then attended a Potions lesson with Professor Snape. Snape explained why he wanted Dylan to visit less often and ended by announcing an assessment.

• Dylan used a spell to make Ron vomit the slugs caused by his rebounded curse, then gave him potions to help him recover.
• Ron complained that Malfoy had insulted Hermione, and Dylan warned him to be more careful with his broken wand and temper.
• Dylan arrived at Professor Snape's Office and brewed a Potion under Snape's close instruction.
• Snape told Dylan to visit every two or three weeks because he had already taught him the basics and wanted him to practice more advanced Potions.
• Dylan explained the techniques he had learned, and Snape praised his memory before telling him to prepare for an assessment.

Dylan learned that Snape, McGonagall, and Flitwick planned a duelling assessment to evaluate his abilities, then punished Malfoy and his followers with an Explosive Diarrhea Curse after they blocked his way. The assessment had no scheduled date yet, and McGonagall told Dylan she would reduce their tutoring sessions despite his interest in learning to become an Animagus.

• Snape told Dylan that McGonagall and Flitwick would join him in a duelling assessment, and Flitwick explained that it would help the professors evaluate Dylan's progress and plan his instruction.
• Dylan encountered Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle on the stairs and knocked them down with conjured birds before using an Explosive Diarrhea Curse on them.
• Dylan found McGonagall in her office, where she said the professors had not set the assessment date and announced that she would reduce their tutoring sessions.
• McGonagall told Dylan he was ready to learn about becoming an Animagus but warned that the process was lengthy, complicated, and potentially dangerous.
• Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle rushed to the bathroom, where Peeves added Dungbombs to the stench and Moaning Myrtle startled Malfoy.

Dylan arrived at his late-night Duelling Assessment expecting a spell test, but Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Snape, and Hogwarts’ Guardian Stone Statues had prepared an arena. He duelled Professor McGonagall, whose powerful Transfiguration overwhelmed his defenses, and ended the fight having gained new insights from her skill.

• Dylan saw Peeves tormenting Slytherins with a foul-smelling prank and learned Ron and Harry had earned detention.
• Harry told Dylan that Hagrid wanted to see him and discuss something, and Dylan agreed to visit when he had time.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Dylan to the Great Hall at ten o’clock, where he found an arena, Guardian Stone Statues, and Professors Flitwick and Snape waiting.
• Professor McGonagall began the assessment by duelling Dylan, using a Flame Lion and Guardian Stone Statues against his water magic and summoned birds.
• Dylan countered Professor McGonagall with a Bat-Bogey Hex and then matched her Flame Lion with one of his own, but her greater Transfiguration skill prevailed.
• Dylan bowed to Professor McGonagall and praised her Transfiguration, saying the duel had taught him new insights.

Dumbledore arrived after McGonagall’s assessment of Dylan and repaired the ruined dueling platform, then watched Dylan duel Professor Flitwick. Dylan earned full marks by defending against Flitwick’s attacks and extinguishing his Fiendfyre, and Snape prepared to test him next.

• McGonagall praised Dylan’s greatly increased magical power, and Dumbledore arrived after tracking missing statues to the hall.
• Dumbledore restored the Guardian Stone statues and repaired the platform while McGonagall admitted she had used Piertotum Locomotor for Dylan’s assessment.
• Flitwick attacked Dylan with powerful and nonverbal spells, and Dylan defended himself, countered the attacks, and transformed Invisible Blades into King Cobras.
• Flitwick summoned Fiendfyre, but Dylan overwhelmed it with ice and water and cast its Counter-Curse, earning full marks.
• Dumbledore applauded Dylan and repaired the platform, while Snape gave Dylan a bottle of Reparo Potion and began preparing to test him.

Dylan defeated Professor Snape in a private duelling assessment by unleashing a hundred Sectumsempra spells, then recovered with a potion and Achievement Rewards. After Dylan left, the professors discussed whether he could have learned the Unforgivable Curses and considered the mysterious dark wizard Karthus, also known as the Fool, but concluded there was no reason to suspect the child.

• Dylan and Professor Snape exchanged spells, and Dylan used hidden Sectumsempra attacks before launching dozens of spells in succession.
• Dylan fired a hundred Sectumsempra spells, nearly exhausted his Mental Power, and forced Professor Snape to the edge of the platform.
• Professor Snape gave Dylan a Revival Potion, warned him about overexerting himself, and acknowledged that Dylan had won the assessment.
• Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and Professor Snape questioned Dylan about his consecutive casting technique and praised his spellwork before he left.
• The professors discussed whether Dylan could have learned the Unforgivable Curses and heard Dumbledore describe Karthus, the Fool, and his attacks on Dark Wizards.
• Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall dismissed the idea that Dylan was connected to Karthus, while Dumbledore and the others stayed behind to clean the Great Hall.

After dueling Hogwarts professors, Dylan discovered that his new achievements had granted him powerful spellcasting abilities. As he juggled schoolwork, experiments, and caring for magical creatures, he began looking forward to using the Basilisk as a future experimental subject.

• Dylan told Harry and Ron that he had drawn against the professors in an assessment duel, while Harry described his miserable detention with Lockhart and the strange, vicious voice he had heard in Lockhart’s office.
• The next morning, Dylan checked his achievements and gained the Max Level Cheering Charm, Rapid Meditation, and Fifty Consecutive Spells.
• Dylan considered how Fifty Consecutive Spells could improve his combat endurance and speed up his Spell Mastery tasks.
• Dylan spent his days studying, experimenting with potions and Dark Magic, improving his Pet Space Suitcase, and exchanging letters with his parents about making money.
• Dylan periodically helped Hagrid visit Norberta and Coal Ball in the Forbidden Forest, searched unsuccessfully for the Unicorn he had rescued, and collected other magical creatures for his experiments.
• After lamenting the Troll and Three-Headed Dog he had missed as experimental subjects, Dylan realized that this year’s Basilisk could serve as an even better one.

Dylan completed the Crucio Refinement Task and unlocked Pain Spreads, then prepared birthday gifts for Professors McGonagall and Flitwick. As McGonagall’s birthday approached, Harry and Ron revealed their unusual handmade gifts, while Dylan continued visiting the Restricted Section under the pretense of studying for Professor Lockhart.

• Dylan cast Crucio on fifty cockroaches, completed its ten-thousand-use Refinement Task, and unlocked the Pain Spreads trait.
• Dylan decided to make Professor McGonagall a Transfiguration Notebook with a moving Quidditch scene and Professor Flitwick a Magical Music Box.
• Hermione told Dylan she had finished the Magical World Puzzle Map he gave her and promised to prepare a birthday gift for him next year.
• Dylan showed Hermione the completed notebook, and she worried that Harry’s Troll scene and Ron’s Three-Headed Dog might embarrass Professor McGonagall in front of Professor Snape.
• Harry and Ron defended their Transfigured gifts, then returned to their dormitory to finish them before McGonagall’s birthday.
• Dylan returned Restricted Section books and borrowed more, telling Madam Pince that Professor Lockhart had insisted he study them.

Dylan gave Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick handmade birthday gifts, then refused to attend Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party. At Halloween, Mrs. Norris was petrified and the Chamber of Secrets was declared open; Dylan restored her with a potion and remained eager to capture the Basilisk and study Tom’s soul.

• Dylan gave Professor McGonagall a Quidditch planner and shampoo, then spent the following weeks making Professor Flitwick a music box for his birthday.
• Dylan declined Hermione’s invitation to Nearly Headless Nick’s five-hundredth Deathday Party, while Fred and George accidentally woke him with a loud Frog Croaking Egg.
• Dylan considered capturing the Basilisk and later packed pumpkin pastries for Harry, Ron, and Hermione to take to the Deathday Party.
• After the Halloween Feast, Dylan found Mrs. Norris petrified beneath the warning that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, and Malfoy threatened Hermione and other Muggle-born students.
• Dylan calmed Filch with a Cheering Charm and used a Mandrake Restorative Draught to cure Mrs. Norris; students then discussed the Chamber legend and the monster.
• Dylan told Neville that he was not afraid of Slytherin or the Chamber’s monster and said he wanted to find a ghost to practice on.

Dylan recruited Neville to provide Mandrake for his research, practiced the Patronus Charm, and completed a new tracking trait for Sectumsempra. He learned Hermione and Harry planned to brew Polyjuice Potion to investigate Malfoy, then went to the Restricted Section to research Animagus transformation and heard Madam Pince criticize Lockhart’s supposed potion research.

• Dylan reassured Neville about the Basilisk and asked him to bring Mandrake roots, leaves, and a young plant for his experiments.
• Dylan practiced the Patronus Charm but failed to summon a corporeal Patronus, then told Hermione, Harry, and Ron he lacked the rare ingredients they needed for Polyjuice Potion.
• Neville brought Dylan a young Mandrake, guessed that Dylan was studying Animagus transformation, and declined Dylan’s offer to study it together.
• Dylan planted Neville’s Mandrake in his Suitcase, completed Sectumsempra’s Refinement Task, and unlocked its Fated Tracking trait.
• Dylan found Wood waiting outside his dormitory to wake Harry, then heard that Malfoy’s Slytherin teammates had received Nimbus 2001 brooms.
• Dylan visited the Restricted Section to research an Animagus Transformation Potion, where Madam Pince mistook Hermione and him for Lockhart’s assistants and urged Dylan to tell Lockhart to stop researching potions.

Dylan researched Animagus practice, watched Gryffindor defeat Slytherin despite Dobby’s attacks on Harry, and learned that Mandrake leaves only needed to be held in his mouth during a Full Moon. As news of another attack spread, Dylan helped the Weasley twins enchant amulets, then visited Hagrid and encountered the Unicorn he had previously saved.

• Dylan put a Mandrake leaf under his tongue while researching Animagus transformations, then watched Harry catch the Snitch as Dobby’s bewitched Bludger repeatedly attacked him.
• Lockhart made Harry’s broken arm bones disappear, and Hermione, Ron, and Madam Pomfrey took Harry to the Hospital Wing to regrow them.
• Professor McGonagall told Dylan that Mandrake leaves only counted for the Animagus process when held in the mouth from one Full Moon to the next, and Dylan discarded his leaf.
• After Colin was attacked and Ginny withdrew to her dormitory, Fred and George asked Dylan to help their amulet business, and he enchanted their Amethysts with Protego and a Permanent Sticking Charm.
• Dylan met Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest, heard that a Unicorn he had rescued had recovered, and later found the Unicorn in a moonlit clearing and asked to draw its blood.

Dylan collected a small amount of blood and a shaving of horn from a Unicorn before traveling to Diagon Alley to exchange money. In Knockturn Alley, disguised as Karthus, he robbed and controlled Dark Wizards, then escaped as Aurors arrived and fought them.

• Dylan reassured a Unicorn, took a little of its blood and horn, and promised to return with food at the next Full Moon.
• Dylan traveled to Diagon Alley and exchanged 2.3 million Pounds Sterling for roughly five hundred thousand Galleons, using the goblin’s fee waiver.
• Dylan entered Knockturn Alley disguised as Karthus and used Imperius Curse to rob a Dark Wizard and the person he had targeted.
• Dylan attacked the Dark Wizards hiding nearby, controlled them with Imperius Curse, and collected their valuables while burning the useless remains.
• Dylan delivered a speech as Karthus and ordered the controlled Dark Wizards to attack the arriving Aurors.
• Dylan disappeared into Knockturn Alley as the Aurors struggled against the controlled Dark Wizards, and his robes secretly swept up the remaining gold and silver.

Dylan collected a ten-thousand-Galleon loan from Florin Fortescue and learned that the Aurors had arrested a woman named Delphini, who might be Voldemort’s daughter and one of his followers. He returned to Hogwarts, where Fred and George rushed over, saying they needed him.

• Dylan counted the meager loot he had taken from Dark Wizards and accepted ten thousand Galleons from Florin Fortescue to fund his purchases.
• Fortescue revealed that his daughter had recently graduated from Hogwarts and become an Auror, and Dylan wondered whether he had encountered her during the earlier clash.
• While walking through Diagon Alley, Dylan overheard Aurors discussing Vera’s arrest of Delphini, a Dark Wizard who followed Karthus and claimed to belong to the Lestrange Family.
• Dylan suspected Delphini might be Voldemort and Bellatrix’s daughter and decided he would ask Voldemort about her if they met again.
• Dylan returned to Gryffindor’s Common Room and heard from Neville that Fred and George had sold their Amethyst and many wooden plaques.
• Fred and George hurried up to Dylan and told him they needed him.

Dylan spent over a million Galleons to expand and transform his Pet Space Suitcase into a self-circulating forest ecosystem. He brought Coal Ball and Norberta inside to explore their new home, while the Suitcase’s costly sun and moon upgrades remained out of reach.

• Fred and George gave Dylan half their crystal-selling profits, and he added the Galleons to his savings.
• Dylan spent 1,000,000 Galleons on Internal Ecosystem Self-Circulation, 100,000 on a Forest Ecosystem Environment, and 235,190 to expand the Suitcase.
• Dylan explored the new forest and discovered that automatic sunlight cost 10,000,000 Galleons and moonlight cost 2,000,000.
• Dylan brought Coal Ball and Norberta into the Suitcase and showed them the forest.
• Coal Ball raced through the trees and Norberta flew above them as Dylan watched and warned them to be careful.

Dylan claimed several achievement rewards, mastered the terrifying dark spell Erebus Nexus, and received a magical library and a tribe of Goblins. He subdued the Goblins in his Suitcase Space and left them to join its growing ecosystem under his creatures’ watch.

• Dylan released spiders, cockroaches, and Cornish Pixies into the forest in his Suitcase Space, then ate dinner with Neville and checked his unlocked achievements.
• Dylan claimed the Max Level Dark Magic reward and learned Erebus Nexus, a spell that frightened nearby Dementors and left him wondering whether they had tried to cast the Patronus Charm.
• Dylan claimed the Authority Wand and Portable Magic Library, recognizing the library as useful for storing and finding his books.
• Dylan entered the Suitcase Space and summoned the Goblin Tribe, then killed one Goblin and used its body to grow a Corrupted Living Flower.
• Dylan intimidated the remaining Goblins, fed them, and instructed Coal Ball and Norberta to keep watch as the Goblins joined the forest ecosystem.

Professor Snape sent Dylan Hawkwood to demonstrate dueling at Lockhart’s new Duelling Club, urging him not to hold back. Dylan struck Lockhart with Sectumsempra, leaving him bleeding and screaming on the platform.

• Professor Snape told Dylan to duel Lockhart at the Duelling Club and assured him he would treat Lockhart if anything went wrong.
• Dylan entered the Great Hall and saw Lockhart introduce him as Professor Snape’s prize student and his demonstration opponent.
• Lockhart told Dylan to cast whatever spells he liked, and Dylan hit him with Sectumsempra.
• Lockhart collapsed with a bleeding gash but made no effort to heal himself, instead lying on the floor and screaming.