Chapter Summaries

Moriarty declared he would complete the Wand Set within twenty-four hours, then used his Matrix and Alchemy to build one in an empty classroom at Hogwarts. After recovering from the effort, he picked up the finished Wand Set, leaving its performance untested.

• Moriarty told Dumbledore and the gathered wizards he would win the wager and promised a report on the completed Wand Set in The Daily Prophet within twenty-four hours.
• Dumbledore gave Moriarty an empty classroom and arranged for Ollivander and Horace to hand over their compiled materials and information.
• Lilith offered to show Fleur and the Beauxbatons students around Hogwarts, while Jericho returned to his dormitory to sleep.
• Moriarty reviewed Ollivander's wand records, used his Matrix to select materials, and fashioned a Wand Set with magical enhancements and runes.
• The first Wand Set was complete, but Moriarty exhausted his mental power and magic; after resting for two hours, he recovered and picked it up.

Moriarty completed the Wand Set and received mastery of Dragon Language, discovering that it could make the alchemical item levitate. After handing the Wand Set to Dumbledore, he went to meet Nicolas Flamel despite the French wizards’ objections.

• Moriarty refined the Wand Set, tested its quick wand-drawing functions, and completed his first alchemy item.
• The system rewarded Moriarty with mastery of Dragon Language, and he used it to make the Wand Set rise into the air.
• Moriarty connected Dragon Language to alchemy and considered how dragons, elves, Diana, Nicolas Flamel, and Merlin might be linked.
• Moriarty announced that the Wand Set was complete, handed it to Dumbledore, and left to fulfill his wager.
• Moriarty encountered French wizards outside the Chamber of Secrets and insisted on meeting Nicolas Flamel as a fellow alchemist.

Moriarty spoke with Nicolas Flamel after winning their wager, and Flamel revealed that he had learned to make the Philosopher’s Stone from a mysterious book. The chapter ended with Moriarty studying the Book of Abraham the Jew and realizing its images carried different meanings for different readers.

• Nicolas Flamel admitted that Moriarty had beaten him and explained that the loss had renewed his respect for the possibilities of Alchemy.
• Moriarty described his Alchemy Matrix and urged Flamel to pursue new discoveries himself rather than merely observe other wizards.
• Flamel showed Moriarty a centuries-old diary page and revealed that the Philosopher’s Stone came from the Book of Abraham the Jew.
• Flamel recounted how an angel’s dream led him to the book, which he deciphered over twenty-one years with a Hebrew scholar.
• Moriarty revealed that he also possessed a Philosopher’s Stone, then accepted Flamel’s twenty-one-page book and examined its first complete illustration.
• Moriarty interpreted the illustration of two snakes around a staff, and Flamel explained that he and Perenelle saw different meanings in the same image.

Moriarty and Nicolas Flamel interpreted the pictures in The Book of Abraham the Jew, debating what they revealed about Alchemy and the choices their owners made. Nicolas gave Moriarty the book, and they parted with a promise to race against time, though Moriarty accidentally broke Nicolas's hand.

• Moriarty interpreted the book's first three picture sequences as depicting corruption and sublimation, then the creation of new substances and the Philosopher's Stone.
• Moriarty and Nicolas offered different interpretations of a battle between Hermes and a scythe-bearing figure, while Nicolas explained that his experiments had led him to discover lead could remove mercury's volatility.
• Moriarty examined a colorful picture of a mountain flower, a Golden Gryphon, and a massive black dragon, then wondered where the book's final two pictures were.
• Nicolas confessed that he had avoided the book for centuries out of fear of its influence and gave it to Moriarty.
• Moriarty said he had chosen the sky while Nicolas had chosen the recliner, and they clasped hands after promising to race against time.
• Moriarty noticed that their handshake had broken Nicolas's wrist and offered to conduct an experiment to replace his hand.

After winning his wager with Nicolas Flamel, Moriarty left the Chamber of Secrets to a cheering crowd and celebrated Hogwarts and Slytherin’s victory. He returned to the Slytherin Dungeon to eat and rest, where Lilith gave him a card bearing the Hogwarts motto and a warning about becoming the very evil he once fought.

• Nicolas Flamel declined Moriarty’s offer of help, and Moriarty left with The Book of Abraham the Jew as the system issued rewards and Alchemy missions.
• The system granted Moriarty a Dragon Language manuscript when he checked in at the Chamber of Secrets, and he emerged to a cheering crowd of students and wizards.
• Moriarty fired a celebratory flare and led the crowd in declaring Hogwarts, Slytherin, and England the winners.
• Dumbledore dismissed the students for an afternoon holiday, and Moriarty returned to the Slytherin Dungeon, where he advised Soldaya to challenge stronger opponents.
• Lilith gave Moriarty a card bearing the phrase “Do Not Tickle a Sleeping Dragon,” and Moriarty identified its story as one about a dragon-slaying youth becoming an evil dragon.

Jericho admitted to Moriarty that he wanted to leave Hogwarts and follow him around the world after their recent adventures. Moriarty promised to take him someday, but said he could not leave school yet, and Jericho discovered Lilith had already traveled with Moriarty during the summer holiday.

• Lilith stopped Moriarty from going to Hogsmeade and urged him to rest after forty-eight hours without sleep.
• As the magical world celebrated Moriarty's victory, many Hogwarts students struggled to readjust to ordinary school life.
• Jericho proposed turning classrooms into immersive role-playing experiences, then admitted to Moriarty that he wanted to leave school and travel with him.
• Lilith told Moriarty that other students were also complaining about school and imagining they could graduate early.
• Moriarty promised Jericho he would take him into the world one day, but Jericho learned that Lilith had already joined Moriarty on an adventure in Greece.

Moriarty, Jericho, and Lilith attended Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration lesson, where they learned to turn beetles into buttons. After class, Lilith asked Moriarty to go to the library with her to research Potion ingredients, while Moriarty also planned to look up information on dragons.

• Moriarty, Jericho, and Lilith saw Professor McGonagall in her Animagus form before class, and she arrived in a foul mood.
• Professor McGonagall taught the students to transform beetles into buttons, and Moriarty earned ten points for Slytherin with a flawless result.
• Lilith transformed her beetle into a button that still had legs and crawled in circles, then improved her spell by removing its vitality.
• Jericho struggled with the transformation, while Professor McGonagall deducted ten points from Slytherin after Larpo complained about the class.
• Professor McGonagall assigned a Transfiguration essay of at least fifteen inches, and Lilith invited Moriarty to the library to research Potion ingredients as he sought information on dragons.

Moriarty, Lilith, and Jericho attended their first Potions class of the year, where Professor Snape taught Swelling Solution. As the students struggled to follow his rapid instructions, Moriarty used an unusual grinding method that Snape allowed, leaving Lilith curious about its purpose.

• Jericho told Moriarty and Lilith that Keith and Larpo had glared at him and run away, and Moriarty pulled him out of the library before Madam Pince could catch them.
• Moriarty said Old Flint had promised to send him dragon legends, and Jericho worried that the school motto might refer to a dragon-slaying boy sealed beneath the Castle.
• Professor Snape began the Swelling Solution lesson by questioning Percy, Keith, and Lilith, then demonstrated the potion-making steps at high speed.
• Moriarty and Lilith kept pace with Snape’s instructions while Jericho distracted Keith and nearly knocked over his cauldron.
• When Snape ordered the class to grind the ingredients, Moriarty pounded them instead; Lilith questioned his technique, and he told her to watch Snape.
• Jericho copied Moriarty’s method and finished grinding in two minutes while the other students struggled.

Moriarty used his gold cauldron and prepared ingredients to brew the Swelling Solution faster, while Keith’s failed attempt caused an explosion and a furious confrontation with Professor Snape. After Keith was taken to the Hospital Wing, Moriarty suspected something serious had happened to him and planned to visit after dinner.

• Moriarty explained to Lilith that his gold cauldron and prepared ingredients would shorten the brewing time to forty-five minutes.
• Keith’s cauldron exploded after he copied Moriarty’s method without properly covering the powder with Magic Power, and Moriarty froze the spilled potion before it hit nearby students.
• Keith accused Professor Snape of retaliating against him and insulted him, so Snape sealed Keith’s mouth, took thirty Slytherin points, assigned detention, and recommended his expulsion.
• Professor Snape sent Larpo to take Keith to the Hospital Wing and deliver a letter to the Headmaster’s Office.
• Moriarty, Lilith, and Jericho left class, and Moriarty said they would visit Keith after dinner because his outburst suggested something had happened to him.

Moriarty discovered that Keith had insulted Snape without lying or being under a curse, leaving the cause of his outburst unexplained. The next morning, Tonks’s disastrous cooking with Hufflepuff students sparked chaos in the Great Hall, where a Howler revealed Keith’s grandfather pleading to save him from expulsion.

• Keith begged Moriarty for help after Snape reported his insult to his grandfather, and Moriarty used Legilimency to confirm that Keith’s memories were genuine.
• Moriarty found no sign that Keith had been cursed or was lying, but could not explain his sudden outburst.
• Moriarty received a Wizard Chess mastery reward, then learned from Cedric that Tonks had led students into the kitchen to cook snake soup, braised lion’s head, and owl.
• Moriarty entered the Great Hall and found students furious over the disastrous food, including owls cooked for breakfast and a Howler roasted with one of them.
• Moriarty opened the Howler, and Keith’s grandfather angrily lamented his possible expulsion before begging Snape, the School Governors, and Dumbledore to spare him.

Dumbledore investigated a poison incident and a chaotic breakfast in which Tonks and the Hufflepuffs butchered animals to cook for Moriarty. The professors realized Tonks had been poisoned, but the chapter ended with McGonagall revealing that Tonks had killed 137 owls.

• Dumbledore ordered the students back to their common rooms and told Moriarty that a fourth-year Slytherin had brewed a brain-targeting poison that hospitalized herself and her friend.
• Dumbledore and the professors took Moriarty to the kitchen to investigate Tonks’s cooking, while Diana warned Dumbledore that the Castle’s troubles resembled events from her homeland.
• Moriarty and the professors found Tonks and the Hufflepuffs slaughtering snakes and owls to prepare several dishes, and Dumbledore cleared the blood and freed the surviving animals.
• Tonks clung to Moriarty, kissed him, and explained that she had made snake stew for him because she knew he liked dragon stew.
• Tonks admitted she had substituted owls for chickens in her soup, and McGonagall revealed that Tonks had killed 137 owls.

After Tonks's enchanted rampage injured Hufflepuff students and destroyed Hogwarts' symbols and owls, Moriarty demanded an explanation for the students' abnormal behavior. Dumbledore revealed that the Headless Knight had prophesied a vampire-linked disaster among the elves, and hinted that someone else investigating vampires might bring them closer to the truth.

• Moriarty gave Tonks Mollifying Solution and reassured her that the school would replace its owls, while she regretted harming the Houses and their students.
• Moriarty demanded that Dumbledore and Diana explain the strange incidents affecting Hogwarts, and Dumbledore led him and Diana to his office.
• Dumbledore told Moriarty that the Headless Knight had appeared in Merlin's Mural during the celebration of Moriarty's magical acceptance and had made a prophecy to Bill Weasley.
• Dumbledore explained that the prophecy foretold vampires causing the elves of Avalon to grow despairing and violent, and Diana confirmed that her people were already showing those symptoms.
• Dumbledore said he had sent Bill to investigate vampires across Europe and revealed that another person was investigating them too, prompting Diana to ask who it was.

Moriarty, Dumbledore, and Professor Diana discussed the Vampires’ attacks on the Elves and the Headless Knight’s prophecy. After learning the Vampires were acting on a legend about a Headless Vampire Ancestor, Diana vowed to retaliate, while Moriarty challenged her to prepare for war rather than rush in angry.

• Dumbledore deduced that Moriarty had uncovered a secret of the Vampires, and Diana learned that he had used the Killing Curse against them.
• Diana explained that the Vampires were hunting Elves and insisted their emotional changes had begun earlier; Dumbledore urged her to reconsider whether the events were connected.
• Moriarty agreed with Diana that they should investigate the Headless Knight, then told Dumbledore he would search for it and suggested sending someone to visit Old Jew.
• Moriarty revealed that Old Jew had linked the attacks to a legend about a Headless Vampire Ancestor, enraging Diana and prompting her to set out to rally the Elves.
• Moriarty warned Diana that an unprepared war could destroy the Elves, but she vowed to fight the Vampires and demanded that he keep his promise to drink five large cups of black tea if they won.

Dumbledore, Moriarty, and Diana agreed to address the abnormalities affecting the Little Wizards and elves and to contact the Jewish Marquis. Dumbledore struggled to find an envoy, while Moriarty suspected he was being tested and wanted to investigate the connection between elves and dragons.

• Dumbledore served Diana and Moriarty tea, and Moriarty used a grotesque food story to make Diana regain her composure and focus on the vampire threat.
• Diana agreed to trust Dumbledore and Moriarty, but warned she would rally magical creatures against the vampires if they failed; she then reacted with excitement when Moriarty spoke Dragon Language and she understood him.
• Dumbledore proposed Rubeus Hagrid and then Remus John Lupin as envoys to the Jewish Marquis, but Moriarty rejected both choices.
• Dumbledore explained that the suitable Order of the Phoenix members were unavailable or unsuitable and admitted he did not know whom to send.
• Moriarty suspected Dumbledore was waiting for him to provide an envoy so he could test Moriarty's strength.

Moriarty chose Lucius Malfoy for the Jewish Marquis visit and arranged to meet him at Malfoy Manor the next afternoon. While planning to create a new flying broomstick to draw Lucius into a business deal, Moriarty received a mysterious delivery of more than a dozen long boxes at dinner.

• Moriarty confirmed Lucius Malfoy as his candidate and scheduled a visit to Malfoy Manor for three the next afternoon.
• Moriarty joked with Paro, who mused about being held by a voluptuous woman, then returned to the Slytherin Common Room and wrote to Lucius.
• Moriarty met Penelope in the library, encouraged her Quidditch ambitions, and studied broomsticks while planning to create a Firebolt ahead of time.
• Oliver Wood joined Moriarty and Penelope to study Quidditch before Moriarty sent his House-elf Luke to Diagon Alley to buy brooms.
• Moriarty noticed the Houses had grown cold toward Hufflepuff, then restored the dinner table after Poseidon led a delivery of more than a dozen large bags to him.
• Lilith asked Moriarty what the bags contained.

Moriarty dismantled and studied modern Flying Broomsticks, then used the Alchemy Matrix to discover the principles behind their Magic Circles. He wrote to Nicolas Flamel proposing that they build the best Flying Broomstick in the world, leaving the exact arrangement rules undisclosed so he could compare their findings.

• Moriarty showed Lilith and the students fifteen Flying Broomsticks, then discarded the defective Shooting Star after Jericho described its flaws.
• Moriarty used the Slicing Spell to open a Nimbus 1700 and reveal its complex Magic Circles, drawing students from every House to inspect it.
• Moriarty sent Marcus and Jericho to bring the brooms to his dormitory, where he dismantled the remaining fourteen and counted more than six thousand Magic Circles.
• Moriarty used the Alchemy Matrix to derive arrangement rules and concluded that the order of Magic Circles distinguished Flying Broomsticks.
• Moriarty wrote to Nicolas Flamel proposing a joint effort to make the world's best Flying Broomstick, and told Marcus to deliver the letter to Flamel in the Chamber of Secrets.

Moriarty visited Malfoy Manor to discuss a safe new-model broom with Lucius Malfoy, after Nicolas Flamel’s calculations confirmed the broom’s design rules. Lucius became interested in Moriarty’s claim that he had a broom that guaranteed safety, and they went inside to discuss it further.

• Nicolas Flamel calculated a sequence of numbers that matched the Alchemy Matrix’s ordering rules, confirming that he and Moriarty could produce a new-model broom.
• Moriarty visited Malfoy Manor, where Lucius Malfoy and Draco Malfoy welcomed him for afternoon tea.
• Lucius told Moriarty that he hoped Draco would become a great wizard after enrolling at Hogwarts in two years.
• Draco asked Lucius for a Flying Broomstick and permission to test-fly it at Hogwarts, but Lucius rebuked him and struck his shoulder with his cane.
• Moriarty asked whether Lucius would let Draco test-fly a broom that guaranteed safety, then claimed that he had one.
• Lucius questioned Moriarty about the supposed invention, and Moriarty suggested they continue their discussion inside.

Moriarty attended afternoon tea at Malfoy Manor, where Narcissa served him with elaborate formality. He revealed that his new Flying Broomstick combined extreme speed with safety, leaving Lucius doubtful and Draco eager to get one.

• Narcissa personally laid the table, arranged the tea setting, and prepared Keemun black tea for Moriarty and the Malfoys.
• Moriarty described Keemun black tea and explained that he had never tasted it during his years in East Tibet.
• Moriarty told Lucius that his new Flying Broomstick guaranteed both safety and greater speed than any other broom, and said he and Nicolas Flamel planned to release it before the 1990 Quidditch World Cup.
• Draco choked on his tea, then asked Lucius for the new broom after Moriarty’s claim convinced him.
• Draco knocked over his teacup, and Narcissa began replacing the stained tablecloth as Lucius angrily addressed his son.

Moriarty outmaneuvered Lucius’s attempts to gain a share of the new-model broom business, then used Nicolas Flamel’s plans to draw Lucius into helping him. The chapter ended with Lucius anxiously relying on Moriarty to persuade Flamel not to involve French wizards.

• Narcissa took Draco away from the dining room before Lucius could discipline him.
• Lucius offered to use his connections at Nimbus and Comet to help sell the new-model broom, but Moriarty said he had no need for Galleons or favors.
• Lucius abandoned his plan to exploit Moriarty and instead offered to handle the broom’s advertising through Malfoy family businesses.
• Moriarty reminded Lucius that Nicolas Flamel owned a share of the business and might give some of it to French wizards.
• Lucius worried that French wizards would profit from the broom and looked to Moriarty to persuade Flamel.

Moriarty persuaded Lucius to seek information from the Jewish Marquis about the Progenitor Vampire and the elves, offering the Malfoy family a share in the new-model broom business. After Moriarty left Malfoy Manor, Lucius began searching for the Marquis while Narcissa rested from preparing afternoon tea.

• Moriarty told Lucius that the Malfoy family could earn an alliance by finding the Jewish Marquis and uncovering the Progenitor Vampire's secrets and connection to the elves.
• Lucius agreed to set out within five days, and Moriarty promised the Malfoy family a share of the new-model broom business if Lucius returned safely.
• Narcissa served Moriarty an elaborate afternoon tea, and Moriarty praised her desserts and thanked the Malfoys for their hospitality.
• Moriarty left Malfoy Manor, satisfied that Lucius would investigate but exhausted by the formal socializing.
• Narcissa used Reparo to clear the dining table, then told Dobby to clean the kitchen.
• Lucius went to his study and began writing letters to locate the Jewish Marquis's residence.