Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore summoned Dylan to examine the Mirror of Erised and question him about the Diary, Harry, and the coming crisis. Dylan revealed his theory that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul had entered Harry, and the chapter ended with Dumbledore and the former headmasters discussing Dylan and considering other candidates for Karthus.

• Dylan transformed a book into a chair, then looked into the Mirror of Erised and saw a joyful Christmas gathering with his family, friends, professors, and Vera.
• Dumbledore told Dylan that Lucius had been taken away by Vera and the other Aurors had left, then revealed that the Sword of Gryffindor was hidden inside the Sorting Hat and asked Dylan to safeguard it.
• Dylan confirmed that he suspected the Diary was a Horcrux and proposed that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul had entered Harry when Voldemort’s curse rebounded.
• Dylan teased the Sorting Hat, discussed his vision of Hogwarts surviving with everyone smiling, and left Dumbledore’s office.
• Dumbledore consulted the portraits about Dylan, and they agreed he was clever but not necessarily bad; Dumbledore said the Mirror of Erised did not lie and that they needed to consider other candidates for Karthus.

Dylan reunited with Ginny at Hogwarts’s celebratory feast and gave her an Obsidian Restorative Potion, while the Weasley Twins discussed helping him sell it. Dumbledore announced rewards for Neville, Harry, and Ron, mourned Lockhart’s disappearance, and canceled the final exams, leaving the students celebrating through the night.

• Dylan arrived at the Great Hall, greeted Neville and Ginny, and gave Ginny an Obsidian Restorative Potion that restored her strength.
• Dylan explained that he had developed the Potion, and Fred and George offered to help sell it while Ginny suggested her father might have useful Ministry connections.
• Dylan reminded Ginny to tell him if she encountered anything strange again, then joined Neville as the professors and students celebrated without a curfew.
• Dumbledore restored Gryffindor’s standing by awarding Neville one hundred points and Harry and Ron two hundred points each for their help during the crisis.
• Dumbledore spoke ambiguously about Lockhart’s misfortune and announced that the final exams were canceled, prompting cheers throughout the Great Hall.

After the end-of-term feast, Dylan claimed the Dementor’s Kiss achievement reward and gained a wizard version of the ability. He also received a random Voldemort spell, then considered capturing Dementors and Death Eaters for future experiments.

• Dylan returned to the dormitory with Harry, Ron, and Neville, and they discussed Ginny’s guilt, Karthus, and the danger that might still threaten Hogwarts.
• Dylan checked his System Panel and claimed the Riddle’s Torment achievement, receiving the first-level wizard version of Dementor’s Kiss.
• In a vision, Dylan used the ability to drain a woman’s happy memories and soul, then woke with the power and found it listed among his traits.
• Dylan claimed the end-of-year achievements and received the Max Level Dark Mark spell, which he tested as a limited-range tracking mark.
• Dylan planned to study Dementors and use them to guard captured Death Eaters, and he considered applying for a Time-Turner in Third Year.

Dylan completed every Refinement Task for the Killing Curse and unlocked five powerful traits while tormenting Tom and taming the Basilisk. After Gryffindor won the House Cup, the students left Hogwarts for the holiday, and Dylan arranged to keep in touch with Harry by telephone.

• Dylan used the Serpent's Eye, birds, roosters, and magic to tame the Basilisk after it tried to ambush him, then tortured Tom's Horcrux while completing his Killing Curse tasks.
• Dylan's System Panel revealed five Killing Curse traits, including a lethal domain, teleportation, soul-burning trajectories, a fear-inducing explosion, and marks that strengthened the other traits.
• Dumbledore announced that Gryffindor won the House Cup with 888 points, while Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin placed second, third, and fourth.
• Harry rejected invitations to stay with Dylan or Ron because he feared his guardians would cause trouble, so the friends exchanged the Dursleys' telephone number and planned to call him.
• Dylan met Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest and accepted 50,000 Galleons and a month of meat for Norberta's food fund.
• The students boarded the Hogwarts Express, and Harry asked Ron and Dylan to call him at the Dursleys' home during the holiday.

Dylan returned home and shared an awkward dinner with his affectionate parents, using a spell to make his mother's unsettling stargazy pie seem like prawns while getting his father to eat it too. Over dinner, his parents revealed that Professor Flitwick and a student named Vera had written to them asking about Dylan's upbringing.

• Dylan arrived home, greeted Hubert and Maeve, and asked for something to eat.
• Maeve served stargazy pie, and Dylan used Eidolon Mentis to imagine the fish heads as salt and pepper prawns.
• Dylan encouraged Hubert to eat the pie, and Maeve backed him up until Hubert reluctantly took a bite.
• Hubert changed the subject and asked Dylan about school, while Maeve mentioned that Professor Flitwick and Vera had written to them.
• Maeve said Flitwick and Vera had praised Dylan and asked about his growth, leaving Dylan curious about what else they had said.

Dylan spent the day gathering Muggle plants and creatures for his Suitcase Space, then visited Borgin and Burkes to investigate Mr. Borgin’s allegiance to the Fool. He demanded that Borgin hand over his Galleons, but the chapter ended before Borgin answered.

• Dylan bought small animals, seedlings, and aquatic creatures at Muggle markets and stored them in his Suitcase Space.
• Dylan instructed Coal Ball and Norberta to protect the new creatures and plants from the other inhabitants of his space.
• Dylan traveled invisibly to Knockturn Alley and entered Borgin and Burkes, where Mr. Borgin had been cheating a customer.
• Mr. Borgin greeted Dylan as Lord Fool and claimed to be a loyal believer, though Dylan saw through his flattery.
• Dylan ordered Mr. Borgin to hand over all his Galleons, and Borgin’s expression turned sour.

Dylan brought Mr. Borgin a huge supply of Acromantula Venom to sell, collected the Galleons from their previous deal, and made him affirm his support for Delphini and the Fool. After leaving Knockturn Alley, Dylan went to Gringotts to finalize his property purchase, where the contract transformed into a crystal ball.

• Dylan revealed a bottle enchanted with an Undetectable Extension Charm and told Mr. Borgin it held venom from 444 Acromantulas.
• Dylan ordered Mr. Borgin to sell the venom and hand over the Galleons; Mr. Borgin gave him roughly 20,000 Galleons from the previous sale.
• Dylan asked whether Mr. Borgin acknowledged Delphini, and Mr. Borgin declared his loyalty to her and the Fool.
• Dylan vanished after telling Mr. Borgin to hold Delphini's Galleons until he collected them; Mr. Borgin began planning how to profit from the new venom.
• Dylan changed back into his own appearance and went to Gringotts, where the Old Goblin welcomed him to inspect his house and sign the contract.
• The Old Goblin sealed Dylan's contract, and golden flames transformed it into a crystal ball.

Dylan used the Imperius Curse on a Gringotts goblin to buy five additional properties and learned from the Crystal Balls’ ancient Contract Magic. After earning the So Many Properties! achievement, he received ten max-level household spells and considered how magical laws could be bypassed through other kinds of magic.

• Dylan detected the Crystal Ball’s magical connection and asked the Old Goblin about the room’s protections before secretly casting the Imperius Curse on him.
• Dylan controlled the Old Goblin into buying five more properties with his ninety-eight thousand Galleons, then studied the Contract Magic as it erased the goblin’s memories.
• Dylan returned to an empty house, read Maeve’s note saying his parents had gone out, and used his Divination Crystal Ball to check whether he would have a younger sibling.
• Dylan unlocked the So Many Properties! achievement and opened its Max Level Spells Gift Package, mastering ten household and cooking charms.
• Dylan reviewed Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration and reasoned that belief and other branches of magic could achieve things that Transfiguration alone could not.

Dylan expanded his Pet Space and created a Small Sea, then explored the transformed world with Norberta and Coal Ball. Norberta and Coal Ball eagerly played in the water, while the Basilisk watched in shock and fear.

• Dylan spent 600,000 Galleons to expand the Pet Space by 60,000 cubic meters.
• Dylan flew through the forest in Norwegian Ridgeback form with Norberta and the nervous Coal Ball riding on his back.
• Dylan spent 100,000 Galleons to create a Small Sea, reshaping part of the forest and leaving the Basilisk stunned.
• Norberta eagerly plunged into the sea, caught a fish, and ate it.
• Dylan gave Coal Ball permission to play, and Coal Ball transformed into a shadow and ran toward the water.

Dylan tested the Killing Curse’s teleportation effect, partially protected and cleaned Hawkwood Manor, and planned to fill it with enchanted portraits. He set up hidden Safe Houses, encountered Remus Lupin at one, and finished the last property near Harry’s home while deciding to investigate Nagini’s blood curse next year.

• Dylan used the Killing Curse to teleport through the air, then failed to hide all of Hawkwood Manor with one Fidelius Charm and concealed its villa area instead.
• Dylan cleaned Hawkwood Manor and decided to ask the professors to create enchanted portraits for it.
• Dylan hid several Safe Houses with the Fidelius Charm and planned to make them Portkeys.
• Dylan discovered Remus Lupin staying in a dilapidated Safe House, but left without disturbing him because Lupin would soon teach at Hogwarts.
• Dylan secured his final Safe House at Number 9 Wisteria Walk near Number 4 Privet Drive and decided to wait until next year to look into Nagini’s blood curse.

Dylan visited Harry on his birthday, giving him a protective sapphire and a bag of prank items to help him cope with the Dursleys. In early August, Dylan read that Sirius Black had escaped from prison.

• Dylan arrived at Number 4 Privet Drive, where Vernon Dursley refused to acknowledge Harry and slammed the door in his face.
• Harry came outside and happily accepted Dylan’s birthday gift, a sapphire Guardian Stone that could protect him and transport him to one of Dylan’s Safe Houses if he was near death.
• Dylan gave Harry an extension-charmed bag filled with prank items and warned Vernon not to mistreat him before leaving.
• Dylan returned home and continued his studies until an owl delivered the Daily Prophet in early August.
• Dylan read the headline announcing Sirius Black’s escape and examined the paper’s frightening photograph of him.

Dylan collected Delphini’s Galleons and his share of Acromantula Venom proceeds from Borgin before boarding the Hogwarts Express for the new school year. He reunited with the Weasleys, heard Ron complain about his summer, and settled in with Neville and Seamus as the train departed.

• Dylan visited Borgin and Burkes, took the enchanted Suitcase of Galleons Delphini had sent, and collected his share from Borgin.
• Dylan warned Borgin that only he could make contact and left the shop in a burst of Holy Light.
• At Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Dylan greeted Mrs. Weasley and Ginny, then boarded the Hogwarts Express while the family waited for Harry.
• Ron caught up with Dylan and complained about his mother’s lectures, the trip to Egypt, and Harry’s use of Dylan’s prank items against the Dursleys.
• Dylan joined Neville and Seamus in a compartment, shared fruit he had grown, and explained how to calm the Monster Book of Monsters.
• As the train departed, Neville told Dylan he had followed his advice and chosen only Divination as an elective.

Dylan encountered Dementors on the Hogwarts Express and captured several of them in his Suitcase Space, while Neville learned that Sirius Black had escaped from prison. The Dementors eventually began avoiding Dylan, frustrating him as he continued through the train.

• As the Hogwarts Express stopped in the rain, Dylan shielded Neville and faced a Dementor that entered their compartment.
• Dylan frightened and restrained the Dementor with his magic, then captured it inside his Suitcase Space.
• Neville recovered after Dylan gave him candy and explained that Dementors had come aboard amid the search for Sirius Black.
• Dylan left Neville in the compartment and walked through the train, where Dementors gathered around him and fled in terror.
• Dylan captured several more Dementors, but the others learned to avoid him, leaving him eager for them to attack again.

Dylan abducted seven Dementors from the Hogwarts Express and helped Neville and Seamus reach Hogwarts safely. Professor McGonagall summoned Dylan, Harry, and Hermione, then told the students that she had applied for something to let them take all their conflicting Third Year elective courses, leaving her explanation unfinished.

• Dylan took seven Dementors from the train, and their absence kept them from harming the students further.
• Dylan returned to Neville, then used warming charms and a magical shield against the rain as he, Neville, and Seamus traveled to Hogwarts.
• Professor McGonagall brought Dylan, Harry, and Hermione to her office, where Madam Pomfrey examined Harry and Hermione after their exposure to Dementors.
• Madam Pomfrey found no serious problems, gave Harry and Hermione sweets, and left Harry waiting outside with her.
• Professor McGonagall warned Dylan and Hermione that their elective courses conflicted, then revealed she had applied for something that would let them complete all their courses.

Professor McGonagall gave Dylan and Hermione Time-Turners after making them swear to keep the devices secret and use them safely. At the feast, Dumbledore warned Hogwarts about the Dementors and introduced Professor Lupin and Hagrid as teachers; afterward, Snape summoned Dylan to his office.

• Professor McGonagall made Dylan and Hermione swear to keep the Time-Turners secret and not use them to recklessly alter the past, then gave them the devices and explained their limits and dangers.
• Dylan and Hermione returned to the Great Hall after the Sorting Ceremony, where Dylan noticed Snape's cold reaction to him and Hermione quietly explained course arrangements to Harry.
• Dumbledore warned students that Dementors would guard Hogwarts until Sirius Black was captured and forbade students from leaving without authorization.
• Dumbledore introduced Professor Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Hagrid as the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher before beginning the feast.
• After the feast, Hermione discussed the Time-Turner's strange sand with Dylan, and a Slytherin student told Dylan that Snape wanted to see him.
• Dylan went to Snape's dungeon office, where Snape sat at his desk and greeted him with a slightly softened but still cold expression.

Professor Snape gave Dylan the recipe and ingredients to brew Wolfsbane Potion for the new professor, Professor Lupin, and Dylan began brewing it in the Gryffindor Common Room. When Harry accidentally knocked Hellebore into the cauldron during the night, Dylan decided the Potion should still work, though it would taste even more bitter.

• Professor Snape asked Dylan to brew a monthly bottle of Wolfsbane Potion and gave him its recipe and three batches of ingredients.
• Dylan returned to Gryffindor Tower and set up a protected brewing station near the dormitory door.
• Dylan began brewing the Wolfsbane Potion while Harry, Ron, and Neville watched.
• Harry stumbled into Dylan’s bottles during the night, spilling Hellebore into the boiling Potion.
• Dylan reassured Harry, cleaned up the mess, and continued brewing, expecting the Hellebore to make the finished Potion extremely bitter.

Dylan brewed Wolfsbane Potion for Lupin, but Snape took the bottle and said he would personally watch Lupin drink it. Dylan then attended his first Divination class of the term with Neville, where he read several possible futures in Neville’s tea leaves.

• Dylan finished brewing Wolfsbane Potion and gave the bottle to Professor Snape, explaining that Harry had accidentally added Hellebore.
• Professor Snape kept the Potion and said he would watch Lupin drink it before the Full Moon, while telling Dylan the remaining ingredients would count as his shares for October and November.
• Dylan reassured Neville on the way to Divination and used magic to clean the classroom shelves and cool the overheated room.
• Professor Trelawney introduced Divination and demonstrated tea-leaf reading, including predicting that Lavender Brown’s fear would come true on October 16.
• Dylan and Neville read each other’s teacups, and Dylan predicted that Neville might find lasting love, face tangled problems, and eventually teach at Hogwarts.

During Divination, Professor Trelawney gave Harry a frightening prediction about a skeletal hound and later delivered a mysterious prophecy about the Dark Lord’s power awakening. Dylan kept the prophecy to himself, reassured Harry, and joined Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class, where her Animagus demonstration failed to hold the students’ attention.

• Professor Trelawney read ominous signs in Harry’s tea leaves and warned that a huge, terrifying dog foretold death.
• Hermione challenged Trelawney’s interpretation, and the professor ended the lesson before disappearing into the shadows.
• After the students left, Trelawney admitted to Dylan that she lacked Divination talent except during special moments, then unexpectedly prophesied the Dark Lord’s return to power.
• Dylan concealed what he had heard, cleaned the teacups with Scourgify, and reassured Harry that he was not about to die.
• Professor McGonagall introduced Animagus transformation and demonstrated her cat form, but the students remained distracted.

Professor McGonagall reassured Harry that Professor Trelawney’s death prophecy was not worth worrying about, while Dylan and Hermione attended Arithmancy and debated what made someone a true seer. The chapter ended with Hermione questioning why Malfoy feared Dylan so much, and Dylan denying that he had done anything beyond trying to guide him.

• Hermione told Professor McGonagall that Professor Trelawney had prophesied Harry would face an omen of death, and McGonagall dismissed the warning as typical of Trelawney.
• Dylan used the Time-Turner with Hermione to return to before their next class, and they attended Arithmancy with Professor Vector.
• Hermione asked Dylan whether Trelawney was a genuine seer, and Dylan explained that prophecies could be difficult to judge before the future arrived.
• Hermione concluded that Trelawney was a fraud because she pressured others to believe her prophecies, but she chose to keep studying Arithmancy rather than drop the class.
• Hermione asked why Dylan had repeatedly made Malfoy cry, and Dylan claimed he had only tried to guide Malfoy away from rude behavior.

Dylan considered studying Alchemy with Dumbledore while helping Hermione quiet her Monster Book before Care of Magical Creatures. Hagrid led the class into the Forbidden Forest to meet a group of Hippogriffs, where he explained how the students should approach them.

• Dylan reflected on the Time-Turner’s connection to Alchemy and considered asking Dumbledore to teach him.
• Dylan quieted Hermione’s Monster Book by removing its Transfiguration Spell, and Hermione eagerly read it as other students copied his method.
• Hagrid led the students into the Forbidden Forest, where Malfoy mocked him and taunted Harry about the Dementors.
• Hagrid revealed more than a dozen Hippogriffs, and Hermione questioned the danger of meeting them so closely.
• Hagrid warned the students not to insult the proud Hippogriffs and told them to wait for the creatures to approach first.