Chapter Summaries

Dylan defeated Lockhart with Sectumsempra during a dueling demonstration, and Snape healed Lockhart before accusing Dylan of seriously injuring a professor. Lockhart claimed the duel had been a planned lesson and ended the demonstration, leaving Snape and Dylan to help begin basic dueling practice.

• Students reacted to Lockhart's apparent injuries as he cried for help, and Dylan prepared to heal him.
• Snape silenced the crowd, mocked Lockhart, and healed his wounds with Vulnera Sanentur.
• Snape announced that Dylan would receive detention for seriously injuring a professor, but Lockhart insisted he had only pretended to be hurt to build Dylan's confidence.
• Fred and George secretly retrieved Lockhart's pink robes while Snape and Dylan considered what to do next.
• Lockhart ended the demonstration and asked Snape to divide the students into groups for basic dueling training.
• Dylan left the platform and joined Neville.

Dylan helped Neville overcome his fear during the dueling lesson, while Lockhart’s demonstration went awry after Malfoy summoned a snake. Harry calmed the snake by speaking Parseltongue, leaving Dylan intrigued by the research possibilities of Harry’s ability.

• Snape paired Dylan with Neville, and Dylan reassured Neville before helping him practice Expelliarmus during the duels.
• Ron’s wand malfunctioned and blasted his hair, while Hermione’s opponent grappled with her instead of dueling by spell.
• Lockhart asked Harry and Malfoy to demonstrate defensive magic, but Malfoy summoned a Black Snake and Lockhart failed to stop it.
• Harry spoke to the snake in Parseltongue, and it slithered away from Lockhart.
• Dylan realized that Harry could command snakes and privately considered the research value of Harry’s Living Soul.

After Harry spoke Parseltongue at the Duelling Club, students suspected he was the Heir of Slytherin, and Dylan tried to reassure him that he had not opened the Chamber of Secrets. Harry’s classmates began avoiding him, while Dylan planned a Memory Bottle for Snape that would evoke memories of Lily’s death.

• Students at the Duelling Club speculated that Harry was the Heir of Slytherin, and Dylan left with Professor Snape as the crowd focused on Harry.
• Dylan considered making Snape a Memory Bottle scented to recall Lily, and wondered if he could use Potions to bring back particular memories.
• Harry worried that he might be descended from Slytherin, so Dylan used a Cheering Charm and argued that Harry had not opened the Chamber of Secrets.
• Ron, Neville, and Seamus reassured Harry, and he finally set aside his fears about his ancestry.
• During Friday's classes, students avoided Harry because he could speak Parseltongue, leaving him to wonder how Dylan endured being shunned.

Dylan earned a Level Five Obliviate Charm, helped Neville and Professor Sprout dress the Mandrakes, and learned that the Basilisk had attacked Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick. He left Hogwarts for Christmas intending to buy a secluded house, while also thinking about saving Cedric and using the connection to expand his access to magical creatures.

• Dylan unlocked the achievement for tearing open Lockhart and gained a Level Five Obliviate Charm, then considered how to improve it.
• Dylan and Neville helped Professor Sprout dress the Mandrakes, and Dylan received a Chinese Chomping Cabbage for his help.
• Dylan learned that the Basilisk had Petrified Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick, and he reassured Neville that the victims could be restored with Mandrake potion.
• Dylan prepared Christmas gifts and told Harry and Ron that he would leave Hogwarts for the holiday rather than stay at school.
• Dylan boarded the train on Christmas Eve and planned to find a secluded property that could serve as a safe house and Portkey destination.
• Dylan reflected on saving Cedric and hoped to use Cedric's Ministry connections to obtain permits and access to magical creatures.

Dylan studied Obsidian Flowers and refined a powerful healing Potion while considering the need for better test subjects. He went to Gringotts to look at manors, uncovered a Goblin’s attempted overcharge, and ended the chapter at Fortescue’s ice cream shop as a Wanted Poster image of Karthus appeared in frost.

• Dylan reviewed his research on Obsidian Flowers and described a Potion that could reattach a recently severed limb, though he still needed to test and improve it.
• Dylan decided that Goblins were poor research subjects and considered capturing Dark Wizards, then traveled to Diagon Alley to ask Gringotts about buying a house.
• An Old Goblin offered Dylan a manor for five hundred thousand Galleons, but Dylan used Legilimency to learn that its true price was two hundred thousand and left without buying it.
• Dylan admired the manor and planned to borrow money for Karthus from the Old Goblin after work, then shopped for books, newspapers, and Potion ingredients.
• Dylan entered Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour, found Fortescue absent, and watched frost form a Ministry of Magic Wanted Poster image of Karthus before the stove’s flames turned it to mist.

Dylan spent Christmas Eve helping Fortescue reconnect with his daughter Vera, then returned home for Christmas with his family. After buying a house from Gringotts and resuming his studies at Hogwarts, Dylan helped the professors surprise Snape with a birthday celebration, which left Snape unexpectedly moved before the cake’s description ruined the moment.

• Dylan met Fortescue’s daughter Vera and encouraged her to spend Christmas Eve with her father, and she agreed to come back after work.
• After Vera left, Fortescue eagerly closed his shop to prepare for Christmas Eve, while Dylan went home and celebrated with Maeve and Hubert.
• An attacker stole more than three hundred thousand Galleons from the Old Goblin, and Dylan later used his bargaining skills to buy a Gringotts estate for two hundred and ten thousand Galleons.
• Dylan spent the rest of the winter holiday conducting experiments at home before returning to Hogwarts, where he noticed Dumbledore had tightened supervision and suspected Dumbledore had taken a book about Horcruxes.
• Dylan, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Flitwick surprised Snape with a birthday party in his office, and Snape was touched by the celebration until he heard what the cake contained.

Dylan investigated the blank Diary Harry and Ron found after Hermione was attacked, then secretly tested it with Dark Magic and discovered it was a resilient Horcrux. He completed the Animagus potion and drank it during a thunderstorm, whereupon scales appeared on his skin and a creature’s image came to mind.

• Harry and Ron told Dylan that Hermione had been attacked, shared their discovery of Tom Riddle’s Diary and clues about the Basilisk and the Chamber of Secrets, and asked him to divine what would happen.
• Dylan gave a vague prophecy that Hogwarts would remain safe and kept the Diary, then went to the Forbidden Forest to complete the Animagus preparation and bury its ingredients until a thunderstorm.
• Dylan cast repeated Killing Curses and other Dark Magic on the Diary, restored it with creatures’ life force, and used it to ask Tom whether he would spare women and children.
• Dylan dug up the blood-red Animagus potion during a storm, drank it, and felt a second heartbeat as scales appeared across his skin.

Dylan completed his Animagus transformation into a Norwegian Ridgeback Fire Dragon and discovered he could breathe powerful Dragonfire even in human form. While Hogwarts awaited a Mandrake-based cure for the petrified students, Lockhart transformed the Great Hall for Valentine’s Day, and Neville learned that the Defense Against the Dark Arts post was cursed by That Person.

• Dylan transformed into a Fire Dragon, tested his magic and wings with Norberta and Coal Ball, and recorded his discoveries while wondering why he had gained a Magical Creature form.
• Dylan returned Tom’s Diary to Harry without finding clues, claimed the Ghostly Aura Magic Array achievement reward, and continued practicing his transformation and flight.
• Professor Sprout announced that the Mandrakes would soon leave their infancy, giving Hogwarts hope that Professor Snape could brew restorative potions.
• Neville worried that his twitching right eyelid foretold trouble, and Dylan listened as he fretted over Harry and Ron’s sadness after Hermione’s attack.
• Lockhart decorated the Great Hall with flowers and falling heart-shaped papers for Valentine’s Day, while Dylan suspected Professor Flitwick had helped cast the charms.
• Dylan reminded Neville of Hagrid’s explanation that That Person had cursed the Defense Against the Dark Arts post, preventing professors from serving for a second year.

Dylan endured Lockhart’s disruptive Valentine’s Day celebration, continued his magical research, and advised Neville and other students on choosing their Third Year electives. When Tom’s Diary disappeared, the Quidditch match was canceled amid renewed fears of the Chamber of Secrets monster, and Dylan learned that students trusted the amulets enchanted with his spells.

• Lockhart celebrated Valentine’s Day with gloomy dwarves who delivered and loudly recited cards, while Dylan transformed classroom doors to keep them out.
• Dylan postponed his Gringotts property handover so he could focus on research, reading, flying practice, and his many other pursuits.
• Dylan chose all four elective courses and recommended Divination to Neville as an easy subject; Neville, Harry, and Ron marked it on their lists.
• Harry discovered that Tom’s Diary had vanished, and Professor McGonagall canceled the Gryffindor–Hufflepuff Quidditch match and sent students back to their common rooms.
• Neville told Dylan that Harry suspected a Basilisk was behind the attacks, while Seamus revealed that he had bought an amulet enchanted with Dylan’s spell.

After Penelope Clearwater was attacked, fear spread through Hogwarts, and Dylan helped the Weasley Twins sell protective amulets while continuing his magical studies. As attacks increased, Hagrid was taken by the Ministry and Dumbledore was forced to leave Hogwarts, leaving the students terrified and the school vulnerable.

• Professor McGonagall announced that Penelope Clearwater had been attacked and warned that Hogwarts might close if the culprit was not caught.
• Dylan reassured Neville and Seamus, then cast protective spells in their dormitory as the Gryffindors grew afraid of another attack.
• The Weasley Twins persuaded Dylan to make more amulets, sold them to anxious students, and gave Dylan sixty percent of the profits.
• Dylan improved his Norwegian Ridgeback transformation, flying, spellwork, and Obsidian Restorative while his Patronus Charm remained stalled.
• The Chamber of Secrets monster attacked again, the Ministry took Hagrid away over the petrification cases, and Dylan concealed Hagrid's memories about him with Mnemosyne's Veil.
• Old Malfoy used the Hogwarts Board of Governors to force Dumbledore to leave, and students began moving through the castle in frightened groups.

Harry and Ron returned from the Forbidden Forest with news about Hagrid’s Acromantula, Aragog, and a recent hunter using Unforgivable Curses. After Harry revealed that Dumbledore had warned him to watch Dylan, Dylan wondered what the old wizard had discovered about him.

• Neville told Dylan that Malfoy had bullied a Hufflepuff student, and Dylan said he would spend the evening reading in his Suitcase.
• Harry and Ron asked Dylan to divine their trip to the Forbidden Forest, and he warned them about spiders but predicted they would return safely.
• Harry and Ron returned after encountering hundreds of Acromantulas and learned from Aragog that Hagrid had not opened the Chamber of Secrets and that a person skilled in Unforgivable Curses had been hunting the spiders.
• Harry told Dylan that Dumbledore had warned him to keep an eye on Dylan, and Dylan suggested Dumbledore was in the Forbidden Forest and that they should focus on finding the Heir of Slytherin.
• Dylan went to the Owlery and then breakfast, wondering whether Dumbledore suspected his magic, his role in recent attacks, or the identity behind his alternate account.

As Hogwarts prepared for final exams, Dylan helped Professor Sprout harvest mature Mandrakes and brought them to Professor Snape, who asked him to brew the Restorative Draught and warned him about the Restricted Section. Later, Dylan and Professor McGonagall suspected Lockhart had spread a rumor about a student being murdered at Hogwarts, and Dylan wondered whether Lockhart truly intended to kill someone.

• Harry and Ron asked Dylan for a study plan, and he told them to review their professors’ assignments as they prepared for exams.
• Neville told Harry, Ron, and Dylan that the Mandrakes had matured, and Dylan agreed to help Professor Sprout harvest them.
• Dylan asked Professor Sprout for the remaining Mandrakes, and she agreed to give them to him for Potion-making.
• Dylan took the Mandrakes to Professor Snape, brewed the Restorative Draught with him, and learned that Snape would supervise his Dark Magic studies next year.
• Professor Snape warned Dylan to be careful and use every spell he knew if he encountered danger.
• Professor McGonagall received Professor Flitwick’s letter about a reporter claiming a student would be murdered at Hogwarts, and Dylan suspected Lockhart might be behind the rumor or planning an actual killing.

After Ginny Weasley was abducted into the Chamber of Secrets, the professors ordered Lockhart to rescue her while secretly preparing their own response. Harry and Ron set out to find Lockhart, and Dylan reassured the Weasley Twins that Ginny would likely be safe.

• Dylan and Professor McGonagall received Professor Flitwick’s Scarlet Howler summoning them to the Staff Room.
• Professor Flitwick reported that the Heir of Slytherin had abducted Ginny Weasley and left a threat about her bones remaining in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Professor Snape and the other teachers pressured Lockhart to enter the Chamber of Secrets and rescue Ginny, and Lockhart left to prepare.
• Professor McGonagall ordered the teachers to patrol and announced that students would leave Hogwarts the next morning.
• Harry and Ron emerged from under the Invisibility Cloak and decided to find Lockhart and tell him what they knew.
• Professor McGonagall escorted Dylan to the Gryffindor Common Room, where Dylan reassured Fred and George that Ginny would probably be all right.

Harry and Ron entered the Chamber of Secrets to rescue Ginny, but Dylan secretly intervened, captured Lockhart and Riddle, and shrank the Basilisk. Harry found Ginny safe as Fawkes arrived with the Sorting Hat and a sword, while Dylan disappeared without explanation.

• Harry opened the entrance beneath the girls' bathroom and descended into the Chamber with Ron and Lockhart to find Ginny.
• Lockhart stole Ron's wand and tried to erase Harry and Ron's memories, but the spell backfired, causing an explosion that blocked the passage and knocked Lockhart unconscious.
• Dylan appeared beside Ron, erased Ron's memory, stored Lockhart in the Suitcase, crossed the rubble through the shadows, and collected pieces of the Basilisk's shed skin.
• Harry found Ginny and encountered Riddle, while Dylan restrained Riddle and confronted the Basilisk with his magic.
• Dylan struck Riddle with the Killing Curse, took Riddle and the Diary away, and shrank the frightened Basilisk into a small snake before disappearing.
• Harry opened his eyes to find the Chamber empty, then rushed to Ginny as Fawkes arrived carrying the Sorting Hat, which said Dumbledore had sent it with a sword.

Dylan returned to Gryffindor Tower as Ministry Aurors searched the school, and he reunited with Vera, who stopped them from searching his dormitory. After Vera left to investigate news that Kaelthas had taken the Chamber of Secrets monster, Dylan went into his suitcase and examined the Basilisk he had captured.

• Two Aurors confronted Dylan in his dormitory and demanded to search his suitcase, but Vera arrived and ordered them to leave.
• Vera told Dylan that the Ministry had sent Aurors to protect Hogwarts and investigate the reported murder threat and the Chamber of Secrets.
• An Auror announced that Kaelthas had taken the monster from the Chamber of Secrets, so Vera led her team to the professors.
• Dylan returned to the dormitory with Neville and Seamus, then entered his Pet Space Suitcase to check on the recovering Basilisk.
• Dylan transformed into a Norwegian Ridgeback, measured and examined the Basilisk, and washed the grime from its fangs.

Dylan examined the captured Basilisk, claimed several Achievement Rewards, and gained the Serpent's Eye of Finality along with a powerful Snake Summons Spell. After studying the new abilities and securing Tom's Diary, he left the laboratory unsure how events outside had unfolded.

• Dylan collected scales, horn powder, and teeth from the Basilisk, then considered using it as a foundation for researching a True Dragon.
• Dylan claimed his Achievement Rewards and mastered the Max Level Serpensortia, summoning a giant snake.
• Dylan received the Serpent's Eye of Finality, gained Parseltongue, and created Revelations of the Worm, whose Mental Pollution affected Coal Ball as well as enemies.
• Dylan considered how the new trait could help control the Basilisk and decided he might use Tom to control it if necessary.
• Dylan told Coal Ball to keep other creatures away while he preserved the Basilisk's materials, then placed Tom's Diary in a concealed corner and prepared to leave the Suitcase Space.

Dylan was summoned to Dumbledore’s office, where he spoke with Harry and Auror Vera about Quirrell’s death and Voldemort. Dumbledore then questioned Dylan about Horcruxes, and Dylan calmly denied knowing what they were while trusting his Occlumency to protect his secrets.

• Fawkes found Dylan in the dormitory and guided him to Dumbledore’s office.
• Dylan arrived to find Harry and Vera there, and learned that Vera was an Auror and an old acquaintance from the ice cream shop.
• Dylan asked about Quirrell, and Dumbledore explained that Voldemort’s departure had depleted Quirrell’s life force and damaged his soul.
• Vera told Dylan that she had handled Quirrell’s body and had since become captain of an Auror squad.
• Dumbledore asked whether Dylan had read about Horcruxes, and Dylan said he had found no explanation of them in the books he had studied.
• Dylan met Dumbledore’s gaze calmly, relying on his Occlumency trait to keep his thoughts protected.

Dylan, Harry, Dumbledore, and Vera discussed Lockhart’s disappearance and Karthus’s attack on the Chamber of Secrets, while Vera revealed that Karthus was gaining supporters as the self-proclaimed Fool. Lucius arrived and clashed with Dylan, then confronted Dumbledore over failing to detect the new Dark Lord.

• Dumbledore asked Dylan about Lockhart’s disappearance, and Harry recounted how Lockhart had tried to attack him before his spell backfired.
• Harry explained that Karthus had taken Tom and the Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets, leaving Ron unconscious.
• Vera said Karthus appeared to be building support to replace Voldemort, and she had cleared the Chamber and arranged for Dumbledore to return to Hogwarts.
• Dylan wondered whether Vera’s influence could help him avoid needing to save Cedric and connect with Cedric’s father.
• Lucius entered, insulted Dylan and Vera, and was mocked by Dylan for disregarding the Slytherin Code of Conduct.
• Lucius accused Dumbledore of failing to notice Karthus in the Chamber, and Dumbledore replied that Lucius’s reinstatement order had kept him outside Hogwarts.

Dylan left Dumbledore's office after Dumbledore reclaimed his position as headmaster, then confronted the weakened Tom Riddle inside his Pet Space. He began using the Diary to research Horcruxes and master Avada Kedavra, leaving Tom trapped as his experimental subject.

• Lucius challenged Dumbledore's return and claimed the governors had nominated him as headmaster, while Dumbledore revealed that several governors feared Lucius had threatened their families.
• Dylan mocked Lucius, reassured Hermione that Dumbledore would remain headmaster, and returned to his dormitory before entering his Pet Space to study the Diary.
• Dylan restored the Diary with stolen Life Force and forced Tom Riddle to emerge, then used Space Control to crush Tom's attempt to probe his surroundings.
• Dylan outlined experiments involving Tom and the Diary, including research into Horcruxes, Mental Pollution, and consciousness, and decided to begin by refining Avada Kedavra.
• Dylan cast the Killing Curse at Tom to fulfill the spell's mastery task, and Tom reacted with alarm at the strange spell.

Dylan repeatedly cursed and restored Tom’s Diary while experimenting with his Horcrux, then confined Lockhart and returned to Hogwarts. There he learned Dobby had been freed through Harry’s trick with a notebook, and Snape caught him admitting he sweetened a restorative potion.

• Dylan struck Tom’s Diary with hundreds of Killing Curses, repeatedly replenished its Life Force, and stopped after Tom wrote that Dylan was a pervert.
• Dylan sealed the Diary away and checked on Lockhart, using Imperio to make the dazed wizard eat and rest in the warehouse.
• Dylan left Lockhart under guard, returned from Suitcase Space, and heard Harry explain that Lucius had dismissed Dumbledore’s accusations and thrown Harry’s sock-hidden notebook to Dobby, freeing him.
• Dylan joined Harry, Ron, Neville, and Hermione for the meal, where Hermione praised the restorative Potion he had made sweeter with honey and milk.
• Snape overheard Dylan’s explanation and, after teasing him about the Potion, ordered him to follow to dinner.