Chapter Summaries

Murphy secured Arkaim’s alliance and became Empress Sophia’s sworn elder brother and Guardian Shaman instead of marrying her. After completing the ceremonies and advancing his Soviet plans, he prepared to return to Hogwarts while Madame Yaga accepted that her life was nearing its end.

• Madame Yaga proposed that Murphy marry Sophia, but Sophia declined to discuss marriage, so Murphy suggested they become sworn siblings instead.
• Sophia named Murphy her sworn elder brother and Guardian Shaman, and agreed to establish diplomatic relations with the British Ministry of Magic.
• Madame Yaga told Sophia she was dying from age and Felipe Carlos’s curse, and explained that she had proposed Murphy as a powerful protector for Arkaim.
• News spread that Ivan had rebelled and been killed by his son George Weasley, who inherited his title as an earl, while rumors about Murphy’s bond with Sophia circulated.
• Murphy rescued the captives from Ivan’s residence, sent wizards into the Soviet Union with Sophia’s approval, and completed the ceremonies before preparing to return to Hogwarts in June.
• Murphy offered Madame Yaga an anti-aging potion, but she refused and said she looked forward to returning to her ancestors.

Murphy praised his students for the research and inventions they had accomplished during the year and urged them to value friendship and cooperation. When they worried he was leaving, he assured them he would not abandon them, though he might not continue teaching.

• Murphy praised Dean Thomas's group for designing and testing single-person flying armor, and Lucius's group for publishing research disproving bloodline theory.
• Murphy commended Cho Chang's group for developing the Gender-Switching Potion and the Animal Transformation Potion.
• Murphy praised the Weasley brothers for inventing Message Notebooks and developing a ritual for enchanting objects.
• Murphy encouraged the students to keep researching, cherish their friendships, and avoid discrimination and rivalry.
• A student asked whether Murphy would teach them next year, and Murphy promised he would not abandon them.

Harry discovered a messaging notebook on Tom’s desk that said Tom was already dead and had to seize the Philosopher’s Stone to survive. After Harry and Tom concealed what they knew from each other, the group entered the Forbidden Forest to find an injured unicorn, where Harry chose Hagrid and Tom chose Fang as their guides.

• Harry went to the Slytherin Common Room to tell Tom about their detention and found a notebook on his desk ordering Tom to seize the Philosopher’s Stone for the reward of survival.
• Harry shut the notebook when Tom arrived, told him about the detention, and suspected Tom had been near the fourth-floor corridor rather than chatting with an older student.
• Harry asked Hermione what she would do if threatened with death and reassured himself that stealing under duress might be excused as necessity.
• Argus Filch escorted Harry, Tom, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Cho Chang to Hagrid’s hut, where Hagrid explained that they had to find an attacked unicorn.
• Hagrid offered to split the group between himself and Fang; Harry chose Hagrid, while Tom chose Fang.

Tom and Cho Chang found a hooded figure drinking a unicorn’s blood in the Forbidden Forest, and a Centaur identified it as Voldemort seeking the Philosopher’s Stone. Tom chased the figure and confronted him, revealing that he was Tom Riddle and showing him the diary.

• Cho Chang explained unicorns and gave Tom a Wolf-Transformation Potion as they followed the trail of blood through the Forbidden Forest.
• Tom and Cho found a dead unicorn, then saw a hooded figure drinking its blood; a Centaur drove the figure away and said it sought the Elixir of Life.
• The Centaur suggested the figure was Voldemort, prompting Tom to question whether the diary and the hooded figure were two different Voldemorts.
• Tom asked the Centaur to protect Cho and chased the hooded figure using the strange sense he felt in his mind.
• The figure recognized Tom’s Flight Spell and demanded to know who had taught it to him; Tom showed him the diary and said his name was Tom Riddle.

Tom learned from Voldemort that he was a dead body carrying a fragment of Voldemort’s soul and agreed to bring Harry to him in exchange for freedom and resurrection. After Voldemort severed the diary’s control over him, Tom asked to be injured so the Centaurs would not suspect him.

• Voldemort recognized the diary and discovered that its soul fragment was gone, while another force blocked his Legilimency.
• Voldemort told Tom that he was a walking corpse and explained that the diary held his sixteen-year-old memories and a piece of his soul.
• Voldemort offered to free Tom from the diary and remake his body if Tom brought Harry to him.
• Tom wrestled with whether to betray Harry, then agreed on the condition that Voldemort make him the main person after resurrection and stop the diary from controlling him.
• Voldemort restricted the diary and returned it to Tom as the Centaurs approached.
• Tom asked Voldemort to injure him so the others would not suspect him, and Voldemort cast the Bone-Breaking Curse.

After Voldemort broke Tom’s limbs, Tom sought Professor Murphy, whose Mending Charm repaired his body. Murphy reassured Tom during another crisis over whether he was human, arguing that conscious choice defined humanity, and left Tom with an offer of help.

• Tom survived Voldemort’s Bone-Breaking Curse, but Firenze’s dittany leaves could not heal him.
• Tom asked Harry to take him to Professor Murphy, who treated his injuries with the Mending Charm.
• Murphy explained that the charm restored Tom’s broken bones and tissue, while ordinary healing methods were less effective because Tom’s body regenerated weakly.
• Tom questioned whether people differed from objects, and Murphy said conscious choice and control of one’s will were what made someone human.
• Murphy told Tom to rest and said he could ask for help whenever he had problems.

With Dumbledore away, Harry Potter and his friends entered the traps protecting the Philosopher’s Stone, while Tom secretly followed them. Tom joined Harry in the final chamber, where an enormous mirror stood.

• Harry Potter realized that Hagrid had revealed Fluffy’s weakness to the cloaked wizard who gave him Norbert, and Professor McGonagall told the group that Dumbledore had gone to London.
• Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley decided to seek the Philosopher’s Stone that night, while Tom stayed hidden from them.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione lulled Fluffy to sleep and descended through the trapdoor; Tom followed after using a Summoning Charm to reclaim the flute.
• The three friends passed the traps, with Ron sacrificing himself in the wizard’s chess room and Hermione leaving Harry to continue through the flames.
• Tom drank the remaining potion and entered the final chamber, where Harry noticed him and Tom apologized.

Harry found the Philosopher’s Stone in the mirror and gave it to Tom after learning that Tom needed it to survive and was being pressured by Voldemort. Before they could leave, Severus Snape stunned Harry, disarmed Tom, and took Tom away for punishment.

• Tom searched the mirror for the Philosopher’s Stone while Harry explained that it was likely Dumbledore’s trap.
• Harry saw his friends and Hogwarts in the mirror, then found the Philosopher’s Stone in his pocket.
• Harry questioned Tom about Voldemort and his need for the Stone, then chose to trust him and handed it over.
• Tom began to consider another way to survive, but Severus Snape entered and stunned Harry.
• Severus Snape disarmed Tom, sealed his mouth with a spell, and took him away to face the deputy headmistress.

Snape was knocked unconscious, and Quirrell revealed that he was working for Voldemort and took Harry and Tom to a graveyard to prepare a resurrection potion. After Tom tried to resist, Voldemort used the diary to restore Tom’s memories, leaving him on the verge of waking as Tom Riddle.

• Quirrell stunned Snape and admitted that his stutter had been an act, then took the Philosopher’s Stone from Tom.
• Quirrell failed to touch Harry without being burned, so he used magic to carry Harry and Tom out of Hogwarts to the Forbidden Forest and then to a graveyard.
• Voldemort ordered Quirrell to brew potions using the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry’s blood, and told Tom that the graveyard was near Riddle House, where Tom’s parents had lived.
• Tom pretended to accept Voldemort’s offer, then threw the diary at Quirrell and attacked him with a snakewood wand, but Quirrell shielded himself and petrified Tom.
• Voldemort called Tom Lucas and used the diary to return his lost memories, saying that he would awaken as Tom Riddle.

Tom confronted the memories and personality of Tom Riddle, then chose to embrace the destiny of the Savior and was reborn with a new personality. In the graveyard, he appeared to submit to Voldemort while asking how they would make the resurrection potion.

• Tom was overwhelmed by Tom Riddle’s memories, including his cruelty, his pursuit of Horcruxes, and the murder of Moaning Myrtle.
• Tom relived Lucas Brightson’s memories of a ruined world and heard Murphy’s words urging him to choose who he would become.
• Tom rejected the path of becoming a Dark Lord, embraced his role as the Savior, and let the light of his memories overwhelm Riddle’s personality.
• At Hogwarts, Murphy sensed that the seed he had planted in Tom had bloomed and left the rest to him.
• In the graveyard, Tom’s magical power surged as the notebook’s dark magic transferred into him, then he rose and addressed Voldemort as his master.
• Tom told Voldemort that he had obtained the Elixir of Life formula from Severus Snape and asked how they would make the resurrection potion.

Tom stole a Raven Coin and used it to transport himself and Harry to Murphy at the Three Broomsticks, where Murphy discovered the supposed Philosopher’s Stone was fake. Murphy realized Dumbledore had likely kept the real Stone and asked Rasim whether he had found Nicolas Flamel’s location.

• Tom tried to escape Voldemort with Harry and the Stone, but Quirrell’s attack injured him and disrupted their Apparition.
• Tom found a Raven Coin in Harry’s pocket and activated it, transporting them to a private room at the Three Broomsticks.
• Tom recognized Murphy as the prophet before losing consciousness, and Murphy took the red stone from his hand.
• Murphy discovered the stone was only a red crystal and concluded that Dumbledore had kept the real Philosopher’s Stone elsewhere.
• Murphy crushed the fake stone and contacted Rasim to ask whether he had located Nicolas Flamel.

Murphy found Nicolas Flamel after Voldemort stole the last of the Elixir of Life and killed Perenelle. He followed Voldemort’s trail to Little Hangleton, where Quirrell was attempting to resurrect him, and the chapter ended with Murphy’s added potions making the cauldron explode.

• Rasim told Murphy that Nicolas Flamel had been found, then reported that someone had broken into Flamel’s home.
• Murphy reached Flamel’s house and learned that Voldemort had taken the last of the Elixir of Life and killed Perenelle.
• Flamel said he and Perenelle had accepted death and refused to seek revenge or resist it.
• Murphy tracked Voldemort’s resurrection attempt to the graveyard at Little Hangleton and found Quirrell tending the cauldron.
• Murphy immobilized Quirrell and poured several other potions into the cauldron, which exploded as Murphy backed away.

Murphy killed Voldemort after the Elixir of Life gave him a monstrous body, then used the resurrection potion to bring Tom back as Lucas. He left Lucas in Laura’s care and took Quirrell to Nicolas Flamel, demanding gratitude for avenging Flamel’s wife.

• Voldemort’s grotesque body emerged, and Murphy killed him with a pillar of green light before burning away the remains.
• Murphy freed Quirrell, searched his memories, and confirmed how Voldemort had prepared the resurrection potion.
• Murphy resurrected Tom using the potion, the Elixir of Life, and Harry’s blood, then helped him choose the name Lucas.
• Murphy took Lucas to the Magic Research Institute and left him with Laura, then brought Harry and Quirrell back to the Three Broomsticks.
• Murphy took Quirrell to Nicolas Flamel and asked whether Flamel felt grateful that Murphy had killed Voldemort and avenged his wife.

Murphy asked Nicolas Flamel for his alchemical knowledge and the Philosopher’s Stone, explaining that he wanted to study its effects on aging and matter conversion. Flamel offered his books and notes but refused to change the couple’s plans for their estate, then asked Murphy what he would do if he withheld the Stone.

• Nicolas Flamel mourned Perenelle and thanked Murphy for what he had done, though his grief left him unable to feel much.
• Murphy asked why Flamel still cared about the Philosopher’s Stone and pressed him to pass on his alchemical knowledge.
• Flamel said he and Perenelle had agreed to donate their property to the French Ministry of Magic, the British Ministry of Magic, Beauxbatons, and Hogwarts, but offered Murphy his books and notes.
• Murphy explained that he wanted the Stone to support his research into aging and to investigate its ability to convert matter into gold.
• Flamel asked what Murphy would do if he refused to hand over the Philosopher’s Stone, and Murphy told him to guess.

Murphy persuaded Nicolas Flamel to name him the heir to his alchemical research and the Philosopher’s Stone, then agreed to handle Flamel’s affairs after his death. He left Flamel’s cottage and summoned Lucius Malfoy to prepare for the relocated School Governors’ hearing.

• Flamel agreed to make Murphy his legal heir, writing a will that left him the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir of Life, and his alchemical research and possessions.
• Murphy offered Flamel an Anti-Aging Potion, but Flamel refused because he feared renewed vitality would make him afraid of death and delay his reunion with Perenelle.
• Flamel asked Murphy to manage his affairs after he died, and Murphy agreed to wait until the will was confirmed before Flamel took the extra-strength Draught of Living Death.
• Murphy left Flamel alone, returned to the Three Broomsticks with Quirrell, and sent a Lightning Raven to wake Lucius Malfoy for the relocated School Governors’ hearing.

Professor McGonagall learned that Quirrell had taken Harry, Lucas, and the Philosopher's Stone, then was summoned with the others to the Three Broomsticks. There, she found Lucas gravely wounded, while Ron learned that Harry was alive but unconscious.

• Argus Filch woke Professor McGonagall and told her that two students had been taken from the Third Floor Corridor.
• Hermione Granger told Professor McGonagall that Quirrell had taken Harry and Tom, was seeking the Philosopher's Stone, and had controlled Tom.
• Severus Snape said Quirrell had knocked him unconscious and taken Harry, Lucas, and the Philosopher's Stone.
• An Auror summoned the professors, students, and Hagrid to the Three Broomsticks, where Minister for Magic Barty Crouch, Dumbledore, the School Governors, and Ministry officials had gathered.
• Professor McGonagall found Lucas Tom Brightson gravely wounded on a table, and Professor Murphy told Ron Weasley that Harry was alive but unconscious.

Harry awoke at the Three Broomsticks and learned that Tom had died after returning the Philosopher's Stone and saving him from Voldemort. Murphy explained that Tom’s memories led him to Nicolas Flamel’s home, where Perenelle Flamel had been killed and the Elixir of Life stolen.

• Harry woke in a Three Broomsticks booth and discovered that Tom had died from severe blood loss and a curse.
• Harry demanded to know who had killed Tom, and Murphy suspected Voldemort or Quirrell.
• Murphy recounted that Tom had given him the Philosopher's Stone and allowed him to read memories showing that Tom and Harry had stopped Voldemort’s plan.
• Murphy said he went to Nicolas Flamel’s home and found Perenelle Flamel dead.
• Murphy revealed that Voldemort had stolen the Elixir of Life and said he intended to stop him.

Murphy testified that he had stopped Voldemort’s resurrection at Little Hangleton, and Quirrell’s confession confirmed Voldemort was still alive but had not been resurrected. The Aurors then questioned Quirrell about his service to Voldemort and the events of the night.

• Murphy told the Aurors how he used potions to disrupt Voldemort’s resurrection and explained why he trusted Tom and Harry and how the Raven Coin brought them to him.
• Murphy said he did not know how Lucas Brightson died, so Rasim ordered Quirrell to be given Veritaserum and awakened.
• Quirrell admitted that Voldemort was his master and confirmed that the resurrection had been stopped just short of completion.
• Quirrell confessed that he had met Voldemort in the Albanian Forest, helped him return to Britain, and carried out the Gringotts robbery to obtain the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Rasim removed Quirrell’s turban and revealed Voldemort’s face on the back of his head, while Barty Crouch warned that Quirrell was close to death.
• Rasim demanded that Quirrell explain what he had done that night.

Quirrell described how Voldemort used him and a diary to control Lucas Brightson and seize the Philosopher’s Stone, but Lucas resisted and saved Harry before dying. Harry finally mourned Tom, realizing he had lost a friend he had only just trusted.

• Quirrell said Voldemort had promised Lucas Brightson freedom in exchange for the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry, and used a diary containing a soul fragment to control him.
• Quirrell explained that Voldemort tried to revive the diary’s soul inside Lucas, but Lucas escaped with Harry and the Stone, thwarting Voldemort’s return.
• Rasim and Dumbledore questioned Quirrell, who said Voldemort Apparated away and Quirrell attacked him with the Killing Curse before losing track of him.
• Harry realized Lucas had been controlled and had resisted Voldemort because he considered Harry a friend.
• Harry broke down in grief as he accepted that Tom was dead.

Quirrell recounted Voldemort’s failed resurrection and died before explaining the diary. The hearing revealed that the Philosopher’s Stone was a decoy, that Nicolas Flamel had bequeathed the real Stone and his alchemical works to Murphy, and that the school’s responsibility for a student’s death would be examined.

• Quirrell described Voldemort stealing the Elixir of Life from Nicolas Flamel, then said Murphy had stopped the resurrection plan at the graveyard.
• Quirrell died just as Dumbledore began asking him about the diary, and Rasim questioned Snape, Ron, Hermione, Cho, and the others about the events beneath the trapdoor.
• Murphy showed Rasim the shattered red crystal he had received from Lucas and said the real Philosopher’s Stone had never been among the traps.
• Winston Robinson revealed that Nicolas Flamel had bequeathed his alchemical possessions, including the Philosopher’s Stone, to Murphy, and said Nicolas and his wife had died.
• Kariman challenged Rasim’s proposal to hold no one responsible for the student’s death and called Hogwarts’s failure to protect him Dumbledore’s dereliction of duty.
• Kariman called for a hearing to begin and said the governors had questions for Dumbledore.