Chapter Summaries

Moriarty maneuvered among Britain’s powerful families as the Ministry for Magic election gathered momentum, while Fudge sought support from the Peverells. At Fudge’s gathering, Moriarty discussed cooperation with American wizarding officials and was invited to compete in the next Quidditch World Cup.

• Old Flint publicly backed Fudge for Minister for Magic, while Old Fli supported Dumbledore on behalf of the Fli Family.
• Marcus Flint urged Hogwarts staff and students to support Dumbledore, prompting Lucius and Narcissa to suspect Moriarty was pressuring Fudge through the school.
• Fudge went to Peverell Manor but was turned away while Justus Peverell met with Moriarty.
• Moriarty arrived at Fudge’s gathering with the Peverell family, where Jericho introduced his father, James Branch, an American magical sports official.
• Moriarty and Jericho discussed cooperation for the Quidditch World Cup, and James invited Moriarty to join the American national team while Ludo Bagman urged him to represent Britain.

Moriarty chose to join the British National Quidditch Team and used the Power Families’ support to force Fudge into negotiating over a proposal that redistributed Ministry authority. By the end of an all-night bargain, Fudge had secured their backing, while Moriarty’s Wand Set Plan and Joint Education Plan had been approved internally.

• Moriarty invited Ludo Bagman and James Branch to Slytherin Castle, then chose the mission to lead Britain to the Quidditch World Cup championship.
• Barty Crouch urged Moriarty to show Fudge that he was not fit to become Minister of Magic.
• Justus Peverell and Leon Minchum confronted Fudge with a motion based on Moriarty’s plan, and Fudge tore up the proposal before Moriarty restored it with a spell.
• Moriarty threatened to seek the Hogwarts Headmaster’s opinion and support from Lockhart and Marcus, prompting Fudge to agree to negotiate.
• After an afternoon and night of bargaining, Fudge accepted appointments and concessions for the Power Families and approved Moriarty’s Wand Set Plan and Joint Education Plan internally.

Moriarty recruited James Branch and Ludo Bagman into a plan to make him a Quidditch star and develop a new broomstick before the school year began. On the Hogwarts Express, he discovered that Diana was the beautiful new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, and she teased him before he left her compartment.

• Moriarty invited James Branch and Ludo Bagman to Slytherin Castle and proposed a star-making plan built around his winning the World Cup with the British National Team.
• James Branch and Ludo Bagman agreed to cooperate, seeing the plan as a chance to profit even if Moriarty failed.
• Moriarty shut himself in a laboratory to develop a new Flying Broomstick, with help from Jericho and Marcus.
• Moriarty, Jericho, and Marcus arrived at the station in an invisible-to-Muggles Unicorn Carriage and found students crowding around the front of the express train.
• Leon told Moriarty that a woman was alone in School Governors' Compartment Number One, and Moriarty suspected she was Diana.
• Moriarty visited Diana, who revealed she was the new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, teased him, and left him without a reply as he walked out.

Moriarty joined Lilith, Tonks, Penelope, and Gemma in Compartment Two, where their teasing revealed Lilith’s jealousy over Diana. He then went to meet the new student Soldaiya Selwyn, who challenged Moriarty’s assistants for a chance to serve him.

• Moriarty found the witches in Compartment Two after recognizing Lilith by her boot, and Penelope revealed that Lilith had brought them there out of concern about Diana.
• Tonks compared herself with Diana, and Moriarty reassured the four witches that they did not need to compete with her.
• Marcus told Moriarty that Soldaiya Selwyn was waiting at the end of the train, so Moriarty went there with Marcus and Jericho.
• Soldaya challenged Marcus and Jericho to a duel, asking Moriarty to let him stay by his side if he defeated them.

Jericho disarmed Soldaya without a wand, prompting Moriarty to rebuke Soldaya for his arrogance and warn him to control his behavior. Moriarty then found Nicolas Flamel’s Alchemy Items aboard the train, announced a school project, and met the mischievous Weasley twins before ordering the older students to prepare for the new professors.

• Jericho used Wandless Magic to disarm Soldaya, and Moriarty praised him while advising Soldaya to hide his abilities.
• Moriarty scolded Soldaya for provoking the group and warned him that reckless behavior could land him in Gryffindor.
• Leon showed Moriarty Nicolas Flamel’s luggage and Alchemy Items, and Moriarty announced a major Alchemy project for the school year.
• George and Fred approached Moriarty, praised him as the Slytherin Prince, and tricked Jericho into confusing their names.
• Moriarty found the twins entertaining and told Marcus to have the older students change into their uniforms early for the new professors.

Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle joined Hogwarts for the opening feast, where Flamel’s presence briefly overwhelmed Moriarty before Lilith snapped him out of it. The Sorting Ceremony began, assigning Cedric Diggory to Hufflepuff and Soldaiya Selwyn to Slytherin, while the Weasley twins confused the Sorting Hat with a prank.

• Moriarty led the Slytherins into the Great Hall and led the students in applauding Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle.
• Nicolas Flamel’s powerful presence left Moriarty dazed until Lilith called to him, and Dumbledore reflected on people and possibilities he had lost.
• Professor Diana arrived, winked at Moriarty, and stirred excitement among the students before Professor McGonagall began the Sorting Ceremony.
• The Sorting Hat placed Cedric Diggory in Hufflepuff and Soldaiya Selwyn in Slytherin; Soldaiya told Moriarty he would prove himself through his actions.
• Fred and George Weasley tricked the Sorting Hat by swapping names, then left it confused as the students laughed.

At the opening feast, Dumbledore announced that Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle would teach compulsory Alchemy and introduced Diana Sarvar as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Leon Minchum was named Head Boy, and the students received their revised timetables before the feast began.

• George and Fred joined the Gryffindor table, where the students discussed sneaking out at night and Alchemy.
• Dumbledore introduced Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle as professors and announced compulsory Alchemy classes in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Moriarty reassured the Slytherins that age would not prevent students from learning Alchemy.
• Dumbledore named Leon Minchum Head Boy and announced that Professor Randy had resigned and Diana Sarvar would teach Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• Diana announced the revised Defence Against the Dark Arts class times, and Leon arranged for the prefects to distribute the new timetables.

Moriarty unlocked the Sign-in Task, gained Occlumency, and collected an antidote to Veritaserum from Snape’s office before heading toward the Chamber of Secrets. He rescued Lilith from Filch, whose enchanted oil lamp had exposed and immobilized her, then returned to the Slytherin dormitory.

• Moriarty spent 10,000 points to unlock the Sign-in Task and gained Occlumency in the Slytherin boys' dormitory.
• Moriarty sneaked out under a Disillusionment Charm, while Lilith followed him, and he signed in at Severus Snape's office to obtain an antidote to Veritaserum.
• Moriarty headed toward the Chamber of Secrets, while Lilith lost track of him in the basement and encountered Fred and George fleeing Filch with Lee Jordan already captured.
• Filch's enchanted oil lamp dispelled Lilith's Disillusionment Charm and immobilized her, but Moriarty cast a Memory Charm on Filch and led Lilith away.
• Moriarty explained that Filch's oil lamp was an Alchemy Item, then returned to his dormitory after Lilith went back to the Slytherin Common Room.

Filch caught Lee Jordan wandering at night and earned Gryffindor a fifty-point deduction, while the Weasley twins grew determined to oppose him. Moriarty led the students to their first Alchemy class in the Chamber of Secrets, where Nicolas Flamel began the lesson by summoning a candle for each student.

• Professor McGonagall stopped Filch from whipping Lee Jordan, then punished him with detention and deducted fifty points from Gryffindor.
• The Weasley twins took Lee to the Hospital Wing, while Charlie questioned them about Lee's nighttime absence and suspected they had also been out.
• Jericho and Soldaya exchanged barbed remarks about their abilities and the upcoming Alchemy class.
• Moriarty led the Little Snakes and Little Badgers to the Chamber of Secrets, where officials and reporters joined Dumbledore and the professors to observe the lesson.
• Nicolas Flamel said, “Candle,” and a floating metal sphere dispensed a short white candle onto each student's table.

Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle introduced the students to alchemy’s deeper principles, its history, and its reliance on mystery rather than ordinary magic. They began a practical lesson using candles, while Flamel hinted at a September-related announcement.

• Nicolas Flamel turned a stone table into gold with the Philosopher’s Stone, then explained that goldmaking was only a primitive understanding of alchemy.
• Perenelle said that alchemy could accomplish what magic could and could not, including overcoming death through the Elixirs of Life Nicolas had made.
• Tonks answered questions about alchemy’s history and Hermes Trismegistus, earning points for Hufflepuff.
• Nicolas Flamel defined alchemy as transforming what was temporarily unnecessary into what was needed, and described it as a miracle produced by mystery interfering with reality.
• Nicolas Flamel assigned the students to use candles to practice shaping and transformation, then noted that it was September.

Moriarty read about the magical meanings of the months before Nicolas Flamel introduced the students to Alchemy and its step-by-step learning plan. The class began practicing how to transform candles into corn, and Lilith offered the first clue about how to start.

• Moriarty read passages about the magical meanings of January through September from the Magical Moon blackboard and earned fifty points for Slytherin House.
• Nicolas Flamel explained September's significance, and Perenelle transformed a candle into corn to demonstrate Alchemy.
• Moriarty's first attempt to infuse a candle with Magic Power made it explode, and he concluded that the candle needed a force to neutralize the Magic Power.
• Tonks suggested using a Runic Rune to shape the candle, prompting Nicolas Flamel to outline three stages of Alchemy study and caution Moriarty against rushing ahead.
• Moriarty meditated with his candle, and Perenelle asked the students what first came to mind when they thought of candles; Lilith answered, "Light the candle!"

Moriarty and the students learned how mental strength stabilized candles and began practicing alchemical shaping and conversion. After the students struggled with essential conversion, Dumbledore encouraged them to persevere, and the lesson ended with the students less afraid of failure.

• Moriarty identified mental strength as the reason his candle burned steadily, and Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle explained its role in Alchemy.
• Nicolas Flamel revealed that he had given Filch a kerosene lamp and special shoes to help catch students sneaking around at night.
• Moriarty shaped part of a candle into corn, then discovered that converting it into real corn required balancing Magic Power, mental strength, the Magical Moon's natural power, and both materials' essences.
• Jericho smashed his candle and complained about the difficulty, while Dumbledore and the professors attempted the conversion and Dumbledore produced wax-tasting popcorn.
• Dumbledore recounted how Headmaster Armando had discouraged his proposal for an Alchemy class, then urged the students to learn through repeated failures.

Moriarty negotiated with Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle for their help developing the Wand Set, but rejected their condition that he commit to becoming an influential Alchemy master. He chose the system mission that unlocked the Alchemy storyline and ended by insisting he could finish the project without them.

• Moriarty presented Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, and Perenelle with the approved proposal for a Ministry-school Wand Set project and offered the Slytherin Family's Space Magic Array for their help.
• Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle agreed to assist only if Moriarty promised to become an Alchemy master and gain influence in the field.
• The system offered Moriarty four missions, and he ruled out becoming Nicolas Flamel's disciple or using the Imperius Curse before weighing the remaining choices.
• Moriarty refused to let the Flamel couple arrange his future and chose the mission that unlocked the Alchemy storyline.
• Nicolas Flamel questioned how Moriarty would complete the Wand Set without their help, and Moriarty confidently said Alchemy could not stump him.

Moriarty and Nicolas Flamel wagered on who could create the Wand Set first, with the loser bound to serve the winner’s demands. Moriarty mobilized his allies and British supporters, but the wager drew public attention so quickly that the system warned him it threatened his Ultimate Mission.

• Dumbledore proposed a wager, and Moriarty and Nicolas Flamel agreed that the first to create the Wand Set would win.
• Moriarty and Nicolas Flamel set their terms: Moriarty would become Nicolas Flamel’s student if he lost, while Nicolas Flamel would continue taking the Elixir of Life and help Moriarty create future alchemy items if he lost.
• Nicolas Flamel began sending letters, while Moriarty left the Chamber of Secrets and gathered allies to organize research and support for the Wand Set.
• Moriarty assigned Tonks, Marcus, Leon, Jericho, and Lilith tasks involving runes, supporters, wand research, and communications, then took Potions and searched for a way to create alchemy items faster.
• Lucius, the School Governors, and The Daily Prophet publicized the wager, prompting Britain’s magical world and the Ministry of Magic to support Moriarty.
• The system warned Moriarty to quell the public attention because it endangered his Ultimate Mission.

Moriarty announced that he would make the Wand Set’s alchemical technology public, shifting attention toward alchemy’s future and drawing a crowd of supporters and experts to Hogsmeade. As preparations and international interest grew, Moriarty remained in his dormitory while the village became a festive hub for the coming contest with Nicolas Flamel.

• Moriarty offered The Daily Prophet an interview, then announced he would make the Wand Set technology public once it was successfully developed; Nicolas Flamel soon made the same pledge.
• Lockhart spoke at Honeydukes, while Horace Slughorn and Snape organized a shed to sort and identify magical materials supplied by Pure-blood families.
• Ollivander inspected wands at the Three Broomsticks, and Lilith, Leon, Charlie Weasley, and Hogwarts students delivered collected wand information and compatible conduits for Moriarty’s experiments.
• Diana discovered that students had skipped her class and named Moriarty first on the list of absentees.
• Academic masters arrived to debate alchemy, Old Fli supplied parchment and dinner, and Old Flint brought a dragon and boasted of the Flint family’s dragon reserve.
• James Branch arrived to support Moriarty, while Ludo Bagman announced that French and British Ministers for Magic would soon meet as Hogsmeade filled with excited wizards.

As Nicolas Flamel’s arrival prompted Hogwarts students to worry about Moriarty’s wager, Moriarty emerged after eleven hours of unsuccessful research into the Wand Set. He went to meet Peeves, who claimed he could help Moriarty win, while Jericho had gone to the library.

• Vonweikapei arrived at Hogwarts and asked Dumbledore to bring him to Nicolas Flamel, but Dumbledore persuaded him to wait and eat first.
• Slytherin students learned that Flamel was expected to act, while Keith and Larpo guarded Moriarty’s dormitory and refused to let anyone inside.
• Lilith and Moriarty’s friends gathered outside the dormitory, worried after Moriarty had been locked away for eight hours, but they eventually fell asleep waiting.
• Moriarty left his dormitory after eleven hours of research without finding a way to develop the Wand Set, then sent the sleeping students back to their dormitories.
• Lilith accompanied Moriarty on a nighttime walk, where the Bloody Barro told him Peeves was waiting and wanted to meet him alone; Barro added that the American kid had gone to the library.

Moriarty searched Hogwarts for the Headless Knight after Peeves suggested it might be a master alchemist, while also checking on Jericho and Gemma Farley. The search led Moriarty, Lilith, and Jericho into Dumbledore’s empty office, where a silver glint from a suit of armor caught Moriarty’s eye.

• Peeves told Moriarty that the Headless Knight portrait might be a master alchemist and that it wandered through other Murals.
• Moriarty and Lilith found Jericho asleep in the Restricted Section, and Moriarty woke him and learned he had been researching alchemy.
• Lilith led Moriarty and Jericho to Gemma Farley, who had fallen asleep over advanced alchemy books, and Moriarty conjured a bed for her.
• Moriarty, Lilith, and Jericho searched Hogwarts for the Headless Knight but found no trace of it in the Murals or other locations.
• Moriarty realized they had not checked the Headmaster’s Office, learned from Paro that Dumbledore was in Hogsmeade, and entered the office with Lilith and Jericho.
• Moriarty saw a silver glint reflected from a suit of armor in the office.

Moriarty, Lilith, and Jericho encountered a headless suit of armor in Phineas Nigellus Black's Mural, which claimed to be King Arthur's thirteenth Knight of the Round Table. After Moriarty threatened to remove the Castle's Murals, the armor recognized him as Slytherin's descendant and offered a matrix-based solution to his alchemy problem.

• Moriarty spotted a bloodstained, headless suit of armor appearing in Phineas Nigellus Black's Mural.
• The armor introduced itself as the unknown thirteenth Knight of the Round Table and insulted Moriarty's muddled thoughts.
• Lilith accused the armor of stealing other portraits' Murals, and it admitted Merlin and King Arthur had assigned it the task.
• Moriarty threatened to remove every Mural in the Castle, and the armor learned he was Slytherin's descendant.
• The armor offered to help Moriarty solve his alchemy problem with an Alchemy Matrix, explaining that elves' and dragons' languages were close to occult studies.

Moriarty completed an Alchemy Matrix that transformed his thoughts into a system, then recovered far sooner than Mr. Armor expected. Mr. Armor revealed that Merlin had studied mysticism and considered using dragons as alchemical materials, while Moriarty remained wary of his account.

• Moriarty’s mind formed an Alchemy Matrix, which Mr. Armor said had used up all his thoughts to create a system.
• Lilith and Jericho worried about Moriarty, and Mr. Armor explained that he had exhausted his thoughts but would recover.
• Moriarty regained his awareness quickly and questioned Mr. Armor about Merlin, who had supposedly abandoned mysticism after Salazar persuaded him to stop.
• Mr. Armor said Merlin had considered turning dragons into a powerful Alchemy Item and claimed dragons and elves were suited to mysticism.
• Jericho recoiled after learning Mr. Armor was a male knight who had hoped to obtain an elf head, and Moriarty left to eat and rest.

After recovering his mental power, Moriarty investigated Hogwarts' old dragon-stew stories and had House-elves bring dragon meat from Hogsmeade. He then met Fleur Delacour as Beauxbatons arrived, and she predicted that he would win his wager, which he confirmed.

• The system replenished Moriarty's drained mental power after he left the Headmaster's Office with Lilith and Jericho.
• Moriarty questioned House-elves about the ancient dragon-stew banquet and connected its stories of black dragons in the Forbidden Forest to Hogwarts' motto.
• House-elves fetched dragon meat from Hogsmeade, while rumors spread that Moriarty had found a way to win his wager and Firenze interpreted the morning star's omen.
• Moriarty and his friends returned to the Great Hall and found Dumbledore, the Ministers, Madame Maxime, and the Beauxbatons delegation there.
• Fleur Delacour greeted Moriarty, revealed that her Veela intuition predicted his victory, and Moriarty told her that she was right.