Chapter Summaries

After Penelope Clearwater was attacked, Hogwarts canceled the Quidditch match and imposed a strict lockdown while students searched for clues to the Chamber of Secrets. Aaron agreed to accompany Harry, Ron, and Hermione to visit Hagrid, though the chapter ended with them realizing their Invisibility Cloak could not cover everyone.

• Aaron warned Hermione and Ron that the Basilisk's attacks made it unsafe to wander alone and suspected the timing of the diary's theft and the Chamber's reopening was more than coincidence.
• Professor McGonagall canceled the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff match after another attack, and Aaron agreed that Hermione and Ron could take credit for his discoveries if they had to tell Dumbledore.
• The students learned that Ravenclaw prefect Penelope Clearwater had been petrified, and Snape announced Dumbledore's lockdown rules for all Hogwarts students.
• Aaron cautioned Draco against openly mocking Dumbledore, then prepared to practice advanced Magic Arrays after feeding his two roosters.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Aaron under the Invisibility Cloak and asked him to come with them to see Hagrid; Aaron agreed when Harry explained he feared being sent back to the Dursleys if Hogwarts closed.
• Hermione realized the Invisibility Cloak could not cover four people, while Ron pointed out that they might need to bring a pet as well.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Aaron visited Hagrid to ask about the Chamber of Secrets, but the Ministry arrested Hagrid and Lucius Malfoy forced Dumbledore to leave Hogwarts. Hagrid hinted that they should follow the spiders, leaving the group with a new lead and the task of protecting the school.

• Aaron used the remaining Invisibility Potion so the four friends could travel together to Hagrid’s hut.
• Hagrid trembled with worry and began to answer their questions about the Chamber of Secrets before visitors arrived.
• Cornelius Fudge came with Dumbledore and took Hagrid away as a precaution, despite Dumbledore’s trust in him.
• Lucius Malfoy presented the governors’ order suspending Dumbledore, who agreed to leave Hogwarts and assured the hidden students that help would always be available.
• Before leaving, Hagrid told the group to follow the spiders, and Aaron warned Harry not to trust Dumbledore too readily.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed the spiders into the Forbidden Forest to question Aragog about the Chamber of Secrets, with Aaron reluctantly joining them. They found themselves surrounded by Acromantulas, and Aragog revealed he knew nothing beyond Hagrid keeping him in a cupboard.

• After Hagrid was sent to Azkaban and Dumbledore left Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione searched for spiders but found none inside the castle.
• Draco praised his father for driving Dumbledore out and suggested Snape should become headmaster, while Aaron argued Hogwarts needed someone who could control the panic.
• Harry and his companions found spiders during Herbology and later asked Aaron to join them in following the spiders to the Forbidden Forest.
• Aaron warned that they were surrounded by at least a hundred spiders, but Acromantulas seized Harry, Ron, and Hermione and dragged them to their lair.
• Aragog told Harry that he knew nothing about the castle except that Hagrid had once kept him in a cupboard, while Aaron prepared the group to flee.

Aaron, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Fang escaped the Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest with help from the Weasley family's car. Aaron then revealed that the Chamber of Secrets was likely hidden in the girls' bathroom where Moaning Myrtle had died, though he complained that the location threatened his dignity.

• Aaron used an advanced lightning Magic Array to blast a path through the Acromantulas, then led the others toward the exit as the spiders pursued them.
• Harry tripped and the group was surrounded, but the Weasley family's car rammed through the spider swarm and carried them out of the Forbidden Forest.
• Ron vomited after the escape, while Hermione admitted they should have listened to Aaron before entering the forest.
• Harry reasoned that the Chamber could not be in the Common Room, Forbidden Forest, or Black Lake, and pressed Aaron for its likely location.
• Aaron connected the Halloween crime-scene puddle to the bathroom where Moaning Myrtle had died and said he had withheld the clue because he dreaded entering the girls' bathroom.

With the Mandrakes ready and the school preparing to lift its lockdown, Ginny told Aaron that Tom Riddle’s Diary had begun influencing her and that she might be connected to the attacks. Aaron identified the diary as the likely culprit and arranged to take it from her, but Percy misunderstood their conversation and demanded an apology from him.

• Professor McGonagall announced that exams would begin on June 1 and that the Mandrakes could restore the petrified victims that night.
• Ginny approached Aaron and confessed that strange events had begun after she obtained Tom Riddle’s Diary, while Aaron concluded that she had been controlled.
• Ginny admitted that she still had the diary, and Aaron told her to bring it to him at dinner without letting anyone see it or opening it.
• Ginny explained that she had sought Aaron’s help because she did not want Harry Potter to know, and Aaron promised to keep her secret.
• Percy accused Aaron of bullying Ginny and demanded an apology; Aaron apologized, Percy took ten points from Slytherin, and Ginny angrily left.

Aaron joined the professors after Ginny Weasley was taken to the Secret Chamber and revealed that the attacker was a sentient Diary controlling a Basilisk. He told them he suspected the Chamber was in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, setting the group up to search for Ginny.

• Aaron waited in the Great Hall for Ginny, then hurried to the staff room when Professor McGonagall summoned the teachers and students after Ginny was taken.
• Professor McGonagall confirmed that Ginny was missing, and Aaron identified the monster as a Basilisk and explained that its gaze could kill or petrify.
• Aaron told the professors that a sentient Diary containing the memories of the Heir of Slytherin was the mastermind and that Ginny had last handled it.
• Aaron said he knew a possible location for the Secret Chamber and identified Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

Aaron and the professors prepared to enter the Chamber of Secrets after learning that Ginny had been taken there by Tom Riddle’s Diary. They found the entrance in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom, where Harry opened the Slytherin-marked tap with Parseltongue.

• Aaron urged the professors to contact Dumbledore and brought two roosters and a silver longsword as preparations to face the Basilisk.
• Aaron told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Tom Riddle’s Diary was behind the attacks and had been controlling Ginny.
• The group reached Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom, and Myrtle agreed to cooperate after Aaron promised to investigate her death.
• Hermione spotted a Slytherin snake carved on the tap, and Aaron explained that Parseltongue was needed to open it.
• Harry hissed “Open” at the tap under the group’s watch.

Aaron and the Hogwarts professors opened the Chamber of Secrets and descended with Harry, Ron, and Hermione to search for Ginny. After finding animal bones and the Basilisk’s enormous shed skins, Lockhart pretended to faint to avoid leading the way, but Aaron woke him and sent him ahead.

• Aaron pushed Lockhart down the opened passage to test it, then the professors and students followed by sliding into the Chamber.
• McGonagall allowed Harry, Ron, and Hermione to join the search for Ginny, while Aaron gave Ron and Hermione the two roosters for protection.
• The group landed among animal bones, and Aaron warned everyone not to look down as they began searching for Ginny.
• Snape insisted that Lockhart lead the way, but Lockhart found the Chamber filled with enormous Basilisk skins and pretended to faint.
• Aaron splashed water on Lockhart and slapped him awake, then told him to lead through the path blocked by shed skins.

Lockhart admitted that he had fabricated his heroic stories and tried to abandon the search for Ginny, while the others reached the sealed entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. After the barrier revealed Aaron Gaius’s name and Harry confessed that he had told Tom Riddle about Aaron, Aaron decided to enter alone, and Abei tried to follow him.

• Lockhart refused to help, confessed that he had stolen and embellished other people's stories, and was bound by Professor McGonagall.
• Aaron and the others reached the snake-carved wall, where Harry used Parseltongue to open it, revealing a magical barrier that Professor Flitwick estimated would take at least twelve hours to break.
• The barrier displayed Aaron Gaius's name and the numbers one, three, five, seven, and Harry admitted that he had told Tom Riddle about Aaron.
• Aaron concluded that anyone under sixteen could pass through the barrier and decided to enter because Riddle had targeted him, while Professor Snape and Professor Sprout warned him against the danger.
• Aaron said the roosters could not pass through the barrier, and Abei flew at it, repeatedly clawing and biting as it quickly repaired itself.

Aaron, Harry, Ron, and Hermione entered the Secret Chamber and found Ginny near death, where Tom Riddle revealed that he had used her to restore his strength and admitted he was a Horcrux. Riddle reflected Ron’s attack, leaving the group facing him inside the Chamber.

• Aaron entered the barrier with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and the four made their way into the Secret Chamber despite the professors’ objections.
• They found Ginny beneath the statue of Salazar Slytherin, and Aaron said she had only a short time left to live.
• Aaron called out Tom Riddle, who emerged from the shadows as the System assigned Aaron a mission to destroy Voldemort’s Horcrux.
• Riddle explained that he had manipulated Ginny, fed on her life and soul, and used her to release the Basilisk and lure Harry and Aaron into the Chamber.
• Ron attacked Riddle with Expelliarmus, but Riddle reflected the spell and knocked Ron’s Wand from his hand.

Aaron and the others faced Tom Riddle after Aaron revealed that Riddle was Voldemort, and Riddle tried to recruit Aaron before attacking him. Aaron broke the seal on his power and prepared to fight, but Riddle summoned the Basilisk as the chapter ended.

• Aaron revealed that Tom Riddle was Voldemort, and Riddle explained that he had sought Harry to learn how he had survived Voldemort’s downfall.
• Fawkes arrived outside the barrier with the Sorting Hat, but Abei struck the phoenix before calming it and the adults began trying to break through.
• Riddle offered Aaron a place at his side, but Aaron refused and challenged him; Riddle disarmed him and repelled spells from Hermione and Ron.
• Aaron removed his ring and restored half his sealed power, then sent Hermione to protect Harry, Ron, and Ginny while he prepared for another fight.
• Riddle opened Salazar Slytherin’s statue to summon the Basilisk, and Aaron began carving a sacred Magic Array into the floor.

Aaron, Harry, Ron, and Hermione faced Riddle and the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, where Fawkes blinded the serpent and Aaron fought it while buying time to prepare. The group escaped immediate danger with help from Abei, while Aaron deceived Riddle into believing he valued a fair duel.

• Abei summoned a Holy Dragon, and Fawkes attacked the Basilisk, pecking its head and blinding it.
• Aaron blocked the Basilisk's tail and stabbed its jaw with his sword, whose Magic Crystals absorbed the creature's blood and venom.
• Riddle sent the wounded Basilisk after Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and Harry drew a sword from the Sorting Hat to face it.
• Abei stopped the Basilisk from reaching Harry, and Aaron secretly told Abei to keep it alive and search for Riddle's diary.
• Aaron claimed he had spared the Basilisk for fairness, and Riddle praised him and promised to spare him if he defeated it.

Aaron lured Riddle and the Basilisk into a blood-powered Magic Array, then used his Longsword to kill the Basilisk and revealed a plan to attack Riddle while their spells were locked in combat. He boosted his Magical Energy to Archmage level and prepared to activate the Array, betting his stronger physique would let him survive its backlash better than Riddle.

• Aaron evaded the Basilisk while dragging his Longsword across the Secret Chamber floor, completing a Magic Array with the creature’s blood as it smashed the pillars.
• Aaron unleashed the Longsword’s silver slash and cut the Basilisk in two, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione vomited at the sight.
• Riddle confronted Aaron and Harry, but Aaron revealed the Longsword’s power and challenged Riddle to face him inside the Array.
• Riddle cast the Cruciatus Curse against Aaron’s Sectumsempra, and Aaron used the system to raise his Magical Energy to entry-level Archmage.
• Aaron explained that Riddle was trapped in the spell clash and said he would activate the Array, relying on his superior physique to survive its attack.

Aaron activated the Magic Array and used a lightning storm to strike himself and Riddle, then survived with help from Fawkes’s healing tears. Riddle recovered because Harry, Ron, and Hermione had not finished him off, leaving Aaron and his friends facing him again.

• Aaron completed the Magic Array while holding Riddle in place with Sectumsempra, and the resulting lightning struck them both, conducted in part by Aaron’s Mithril sword.
• Fawkes healed Aaron with Phoenix tears, and Aaron woke as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny gathered around him.
• Aaron learned that Ginny was still unconscious but had regained some of her life force, and he asked Harry to return his sword.
• Riddle rose from the ground as his injuries rapidly healed, and Aaron scolded Harry, Ron, and Hermione for leaving him alive.
• Hermione’s fire spell and Harry’s charge failed against Riddle, who knocked Harry back and left Ron asking Aaron to use the lightning attack again.

Aaron and the others defeated Tom Riddle by destroying his Diary, freeing Ginny and ending the threat in the Secret Chamber. They emerged to find the professors, while Aaron—badly weakened—was taken for medical attention and Hermione learned the secret of his ring.

• Abei retrieved the Diary, and Aaron revealed that it was Tom Riddle’s Soul Container and that several weapons in the Secret Chamber could destroy it.
• Riddle cast the Killing Curse at Aaron, but Aaron threw the Diary into its path, destroying it and reducing Riddle to ash.
• Ginny woke up, and Aaron reassured her that she would not be expelled and that the petrified victims would soon recover.
• Hermione touched Aaron’s ring and felt its powerful magic, then agreed to keep its secret.
• Aaron, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny reached the professors, who realized Aaron was badly injured as Snape tried to reach him through the barrier.

After Aaron defeated Tom Riddle and the Basilisk, Dumbledore freed the group and heard their account of the Chamber of Secrets. Aaron asked Dumbledore to play down his role, while the others returned to Hogwarts, where Ginny was reunited with her parents and Lockhart was exposed.

• Dumbledore broke the barrier, and Aaron asked him to make the students’ contributions seem more equal so he would not draw attention.
• Professor McGonagall revealed that Lockhart was a fraud, and the professors decided to send him to the Ministry for investigation.
• Professor Snape took Aaron to the hospital, where Madam Pomfrey found that he would recover quickly without serious treatment.
• Harry told Dumbledore how the students investigated the attacks and found Tom Riddle’s Diary, while Mr. and Mrs. Weasley reunited with Ginny.
• Dumbledore assured the Weasleys that Ginny would not be punished, and Harry explained that Tom Riddle had been Voldemort.
• Ron revealed that Voldemort had tried to recruit Aaron, and Snape insisted that Aaron would never ally with him.

After the Chamber of Secrets was resolved, Dumbledore and the professors discussed Aaron’s role and arranged to end Hogwarts’s lockdown. Harry freed Dobby from Lucius Malfoy and considered asking Aaron to help the elf find work.

• Hermione and Harry explained that Aaron killed the Basilisk with his enchanted sword and defeated Riddle with a Magic Array, while Fawkes blinded the serpent.
• Dumbledore agreed to lift the lockdown, hold a feast, restore Hagrid to his post, and keep Aaron’s role low-key; he then told Harry that Voldemort’s attack had transferred some of his power to him, explaining his Parseltongue.
• Lucius Malfoy confronted Dumbledore, but the diary revealed his connection to Ginny’s ordeal, and he left with Dobby.
• Harry returned the diary to Lucius with a sock inside, freeing Dobby; when Lucius attacked Harry, Dobby blasted him away.
• Dobby asked to follow Harry, but Harry refused and suggested asking Aaron to help Dobby find a job.

After earning Magic Points for resolving the Secret Chamber crisis, Aaron bought Thoughtform Clone Magic and created a self-directed clone. Harry then visited with Dobby, newly freed from the Malfoys, and asked whether the Gaius family could give him a job.

• Aaron received three thousand Magic Points for finding the Secret Chamber, killing its monster, and destroying Voldemort's Soul Container, then spent two thousand to buy Thoughtform Clone Magic.
• Aaron created a Thoughtform that shared his memories and half his power, gave it a white wand, and asked it to study magic while staying out of sight.
• Abei warned Aaron that someone was approaching, so the Thoughtform hid with a Disillusionment Charm before Harry and Dobby entered.
• Harry explained that he had freed Dobby with a sock, and Aaron remarked that this would further offend the Malfoys.
• Harry asked Aaron whether the Gaius family could employ Dobby, who had nowhere to go.

Aaron explained why he could not employ Dobby, then suggested that Dumbledore could arrange a suitable job for him at Hogwarts. The next morning, Aaron recovered enough to receive visitors and watched as the Mandrake potion revived the five petrified victims, while he tried to pass credit for stopping the Chamber of Secrets incident to Harry and his friends.

• Aaron refused to take Dobby in, explaining that doing so could provoke the Malfoys and cause trouble for the Gaius Family.
• Aaron suggested Dumbledore and Hogwarts as a safe place for Dobby to work, and Harry and Dobby hurried off to ask him.
• Madam Pomfrey removed Aaron's bandages and served him a lavish breakfast after Snape and McGonagall arranged special care for him.
• Professor McGonagall delivered gifts from Aaron's friends, while Abei devoured nearly all the snacks.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout used Mandrake potion to revive Mrs. Norris, Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Penelope Clearwater, and Nearly Headless Nick.
• Aaron tried to credit Harry, Ron, and Hermione for solving the Chamber of Secrets, and Colin excitedly declared that Harry had saved them.

After recovering from the Chamber of Secrets, Aaron returned to Slytherin and learned that Dumbledore had made him seem like a hero by praising his role in the events. He then discovered that splitting off his Thoughtform and sealing his Magical Energy with the ring had reduced him to an early-stage High-level Mage, forcing him to adjust to his weakened strength.

• Madam Pomfrey cleared Aaron to leave the hospital, and he took Abei back to the Slytherin common room.
• Slytherins admired Aaron, and he told Xilin he would give her an autograph if she passed every subject in her Final Exams.
• Niall told Aaron that Dumbledore had credited him with helping find the Secret Chamber and fighting the Basilisk, prompting Aaron to realize the headmaster had subtly spread his fame.
• Aaron dodged Niall's questions about the Chamber by claiming he had been hit by an Oblivion Charm.
• Aaron reviewed the Thoughtform's drafts, objected to its many low-level Magic Arrays, and learned the Thoughtform could not make ultimate arrays with its limited Magical Energy.
• Aaron realized his Thoughtform and ring had reduced his Magical Energy to that of an early-stage High-level Mage, and accepted that the setback might keep him humble.