Chapter Summaries

Percy caught Harry and Ron returning from the Restricted Section, but Aaron persuaded him to give Harry a lighter punishment. Harry told Aaron about the Invisibility Cloak, Snape’s encounter with Quirrell, and a mirror where he saw his parents, then invited Ron and Aaron to visit it that night.

• Percy questioned Harry and Ron, and Aaron persuaded him to spare Gryffindor points in exchange for Harry copying the school rules during the holiday.
• After Percy left, Aaron warned Harry about the risks of entering the Restricted Section and asked what he had encountered there.
• Harry described a terrifying book, an encounter with Filch and Mrs Norris, and how his father's Invisibility Cloak had helped him sneak in.
• Harry told Aaron and Ron that he had seen Snape confront Quirrell, and Aaron urged Harry to keep the encounter secret and behave himself.
• Harry revealed that he had found a Magical Mirror and seen his parents, then invited Ron and Aaron to visit it that night.

Harry, Ron, and Aaron sneaked out to see the Mirror of Erised, which showed Harry his parents and Ron his imagined achievements, while Aaron saw only himself. After Filch and Mrs. Norris nearly caught them, Aaron and Ron persuaded Harry to leave the mirror and return to their dormitory.

• Harry, Ron, and Aaron found the Mirror of Erised in a dusty classroom, where Harry saw his parents and Ron saw himself as Head Boy and Quidditch captain.
• Aaron explained that the mirror showed a person's deepest desires, but said it could not reflect his own.
• Harry spent more than ten minutes looking at his parents in the mirror, and Aaron warned Ron not to let Harry become lost in the illusion.
• Aaron left the classroom, then rushed back after spotting Mrs. Norris, and the three hid beneath the Invisibility Cloak while Filch searched the room.
• After Filch and Mrs. Norris left, Harry wanted to keep looking, but Aaron and Ron urged him to leave, and Ron pulled him toward the door.

Dumbledore warned Harry about the Mirror of Erised and learned that Aaron had seen himself in it, prompting him to watch Aaron closely. After the holiday, Hermione told Aaron she had identified Nicolas Flamel and learned that the Philosopher’s Stone was hidden at Hogwarts, and Aaron advised her not to alert Dumbledore without evidence.

• Dumbledore found Harry staring into the Mirror of Erised, explained its dangers, and said it would be moved.
• Harry told Dumbledore that Aaron had discovered the mirror’s secret and had seen only himself.
• Dumbledore privately worried that Aaron’s family and House might complicate his plans, then put away the mirror.
• After the holiday, Hermione told Aaron that Nicolas Flamel had made the Philosopher’s Stone and that the stone was guarded at Hogwarts.
• Hermione said she had learned about the stone from Hagrid and suspected someone was trying to steal it, while Harry and Ron suspected Snape.
• Aaron advised Hermione not to tell Dumbledore yet, warning that she had no evidence and might alert the person seeking the stone.

Hermione worked out that Hagrid could reveal how to get past the Three-headed Dog and agreed to involve Aaron in investigating the attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone. Hagrid noticed Abei's dragonlike growl and became curious about what kind of creature Aaron's “White Cat” really was.

• Aaron advised Hermione to watch Hagrid for signs that the person seeking the Philosopher's Stone had begun acting, and warned her not to trust anyone besides Hagrid and Dumbledore.
• Hermione asked Aaron to help her and planned to tell Harry and the others about Nicolas Flamel.
• Hagrid asked to borrow Aaron's dragon encyclopedia, but Abei guarded the book and growled when Hagrid pressed the matter.
• Hagrid suspected Abei was not an ordinary cat, but Aaron denied it and left with Abei and the encyclopedia.
• Hagrid watched them go and resolved to find a way to examine the mysterious creature.

Hermione, Harry, and Ron suspect Snape is trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone and make plans to watch him and Hagrid while keeping up with their studies. When they ask Hagrid about the protections around the Stone, he reveals Snape helped design them and agrees to tell them more if they borrow Aaron's cat, Abei.

• Hermione tells Harry and Ron that Fluffy guards the Philosopher's Stone, and they decide to watch Snape and Hagrid for signs of a theft attempt.
• Hermione adds exam revision to their plan, persuading Harry and Ron to study because she cannot afford to lose her bet with Draco.
• Over the next few weeks, the trio repeatedly visits Hagrid and asks whether anyone has tried to learn how to get past Fluffy.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione ask Hagrid who designed the other protections, and Hagrid admits Snape helped design them.
• Hagrid insists that only he and Dumbledore know how to get past Fluffy, then offers to tell the trio more if they borrow Aaron's pet cat, Abei.

Hagrid enlisted Harry and Ron to borrow Aaron’s unusually intelligent cat, Abei, so he could observe it, offering information about the Philosopher’s Stone’s protections in return. Harry and Ron began trying to lure Abei with chicken legs, but its attachment to Aaron and refusal to let them touch it made their plan difficult.

• Hagrid asked Harry, Ron, and Hermione to borrow Abei, explaining that he wanted to study the cat and would tell them who designed the Philosopher’s Stone’s mechanisms.
• Hermione refused to help and left Hagrid’s hut, while Harry and Ron agreed to try borrowing Abei and asked Hagrid to share his secret afterward.
• The next day, Harry and Ron sat with Aaron in the Great Hall and offered Abei chicken legs to win its favor.
• Abei waited for Aaron’s permission before eating Harry’s chicken leg, then eagerly devoured Ron’s offering after Aaron allowed it.
• Ron tried to pet Abei, but the cat bared its teeth, and Aaron explained that it generally would not let boys touch it without his permission.

Harry and Ron abandoned their attempt to win Abei over and planned to borrow the cat secretly so they could show it to Hagrid. Hagrid gave them a sleeping draught, and the boys returned to the Common Room to plan while hiding their scheme from Hermione.

• After Abei ignored their gifts of chicken legs, Harry and Ron decided that secretly taking it was their only option, but rejected using Scabbers as bait.
• Harry and Ron visited Hagrid, who gave them a pet sleeping draught and warned that one drop would put Abei to sleep for two hours.
• Harry and Ron returned to the Common Room and began planning how to use the draught to take Abei.
• Hermione brought Harry and Ron a stack of revision notes, and they concealed the sleeping draught while pretending to discuss Quidditch.
• When Hermione asked whether Hagrid or Abei had changed their minds, Harry and Ron said no and acted disappointed.

Harry and Ron tried to get Aaron to help them avoid Hermione’s revision schedule, then continued plotting to steal Abei with food. Their plan failed when Abei refused to eat the chicken because it might belong to someone else.

• Harry and Ron followed Aaron to the library, where he confronted them about tailing him.
• Harry and Ron claimed they wanted Aaron to ask Hermione to ease their revision workload, but Aaron refused and told them to speak to her themselves.
• Harry and Ron waited beneath the Invisibility Cloak outside a bathroom for Aaron and Abei to arrive.
• Harry and Ron lured Abei with chicken legs, but Abei carefully closed the food container and returned inside without eating.

Harry and Ron failed to lure Abei away from Aaron and decided they needed Hermione’s help. After initially refusing, Hermione agreed to join their plan, provided they made sure nothing went wrong.

• Harry and Ron abandoned their attempt to take Abei after Aaron returned, then concluded that Hermione was their best chance of getting the cat to lower its guard.
• Harry and Ron waited up to ask Hermione for help, but she sent them to bed and told them to explain the next day.
• Harry and Ron described Cat Luring Plan 3.0 to Hermione and asked her to help them steal Abei for Hagrid to inspect.
• Hermione refused, but Ron accused her of favoring Aaron, and Harry rebuked Ron for pressuring her.
• Hermione reluctantly agreed to help, warning Harry and Ron that they must ensure the plan did not go wrong.

Hermione helped Harry and Ron borrow Abei from Aaron, despite her unease about their plan to abduct him. After Abei ate a chicken leg dosed with six drops of Sleeping Potion, he collapsed, leaving the trio to carry out their plan while he slept until dawn.

• Hermione asked Aaron to lend her Abei for the night, and he agreed after telling her to keep the dragon warm and prevent anyone from removing his clothes.
• Aaron handed Abei to Hermione after dinner and left the Great Hall, while Hermione warned Harry and Ron not to let their plan go wrong.
• Ron offered Abei a chicken leg, and the dragon ate it before collapsing from the Sleeping Potion.
• Harry revealed that he had added three extra drops on top of Ron's three, so Hermione agreed to keep Abei asleep until morning.

Harry and Ron brought Abei to Hagrid in exchange for information about the Philosopher’s Stone protections, while Draco overheard them and mistook their visit for a betrayal. Hagrid’s dragon egg hatched into a Norwegian Ridgeback named Norbert, leaving Draco outside as the dragon breathed fire.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to Hagrid’s hut with Abei, and Draco followed them with Crabbe and Goyle after suspecting their visit was suspicious.
• Hagrid listed Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick, and Quirrell as the people who helped protect the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Draco overheard Hagrid and the trio discussing Abei, assumed Hermione had betrayed Aaron, and sent Crabbe and Goyle to fetch him.
• A pot rattled over Hagrid’s fire, and Hagrid removed a scorching dragon egg that he said he had won from a stranger.
• The egg hatched into a Norwegian Ridgeback, which Ron identified and Hagrid named Norbert.
• Norbert sneezed dragon fire and burned a large patch of Hagrid’s beard while Draco watched from outside.

After Abei shrugged off a powerful sleeping draught and ate Norbert’s eggshell, Hagrid concluded that Abei was an exceptionally rare magical creature. Hagrid wanted to examine it, but Hermione protected Abei and made him promise to ask Aaron before approaching it.

• Norbert hatched and breathed Dragon Fire, while Abei woke and began eating the dragon’s eggshell.
• Hagrid learned that Harry and Ron had given Abei six drops of sleeping draught, yet Abei remained lively.
• Hagrid concluded that Abei was a rare magical creature, possibly as impressive as a dragon or Phoenix, while Draco watched from outside the hut.
• Hagrid approached Abei to observe it, but Hermione blocked him and insisted she had to protect it.
• Hagrid agreed not to approach Abei without permission and said he would ask Aaron later, then turned his attention back to Norbert.

Aaron learned that Harry, Ron, and Hermione had taken Abei to Hagrid’s hut and hurried to intervene, while Abei met the newly hatched Norbert. Their tense encounter ended with Norbert preparing to attack after Abei ate his eggshell.

• Crabbe and Goyle told Aaron that Harry, Ron, and Hermione had taken Abei to Hagrid’s hut, so Aaron rushed toward the Forbidden Forest with a spare pet outfit.
• Abei finished eating the scattered eggshells, joined Hermione, and avoided Hagrid when he tried to pet her.
• Abei approached Norbert, and the two young dragons inspected each other while Hermione and Hagrid watched.
• Abei walked behind Norbert and crunched on a piece of his eggshell, provoking him.
• Norbert’s neck reddened as Hagrid shouted for everyone to separate the dragons.

Abei and Norbert fought after Norbert’s Dragon Fire scorched Abei’s clothes, and Abei decisively defeated the newly hatched dragon. Norbert then attacked Abei from behind with another burst of Dragon Fire, leaving Hermione rushing to check on it.

• Norbert’s Dragon Fire narrowly missed Abei but scorched its hat, making Abei turn angrily on Norbert.
• Hagrid and Hermione failed to stop the young creatures with Stunning Spells, and Hagrid agreed to let them fight while promising to intervene if Abei was hurt.
• Abei pummeled Norbert, pinned its wings, and knocked it unconscious as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid watched.
• After Hagrid and the others discussed Norbert’s defeat, Norbert suddenly blasted Abei away with Dragon Fire from behind.
• Hermione cried out and rushed to check on Abei.

Abei transformed and fought Norbert in Hagrid's hut, revealing its wings and the ability to block dragon fire. As Abei gained the upper hand in the aerial battle, Aaron arrived.

• Hermione found Abei unharmed, but it transformed into a fierce, scaled form and attacked Norbert.
• Abei dodged Norbert's fire and lunged at it, but Norbert evaded the strike and kept its distance in the air.
• Norbert taunted Abei from above, and Abei's sides began to swell as Hagrid prepared to intervene.
• Abei revealed white wings, took flight, and blocked Norbert's dragon fire with a white Magic Array.
• Abei beat Norbert back in the air as Aaron arrived at Hagrid's hut, panting.

Aaron caught Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione with Abei and Norbert after Draco alerted him, then demanded an explanation for Abei’s abduction. He agreed to keep the incident quiet to protect Abei’s identity, and Hagrid proposed using the Fidelius Charm with Draco as Secret Keeper.

• Draco alerted Aaron that Hagrid was raising a Norwegian Ridgeback and that Abei was fighting it, so Aaron kicked open Hagrid’s door.
• Aaron found Abei thrashing Norbert, called Abei down, and checked that it was unharmed.
• Aaron confronted Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, while Draco mocked the Gryffindors for staying silent and letting Hermione take responsibility.
• Hagrid admitted that he had arranged Abei’s abduction out of curiosity, and Aaron rebuked him for it.
• Aaron proposed a confidentiality agreement to protect Abei’s identity, and Hagrid suggested using the Fidelius Charm with Draco as Secret Keeper.

Aaron made Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione sign a simple agreement promising not to reveal Abei’s identity after they were caught raising Norbert. Hermione regretted betraying Aaron’s trust and ran after him to apologize, while Harry and Ron followed, only to find Filch and Professor McGonagall waiting outside.

• Aaron rejected Hagrid’s request to help Norbert control its size and wrote a simple agreement promising to keep Abei’s identity secret.
• Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione signed the agreement, and Aaron left with Abei while Draco followed.
• Hermione broke down over betraying Aaron’s trust, and Hagrid urged her to catch up and apologize.
• Hermione ran after Aaron, and Harry persuaded Ron to follow them.
• Harry and Ron left Hagrid’s hut and found Filch, Mrs. Norris, and Professor McGonagall waiting outside.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were caught at Hagrid’s hut with Draco and Aaron, and Professor McGonagall investigated their late-night actions and Hagrid’s dragon. She left the students facing detention and reduced the point penalties for Aaron and Draco after learning Abei had been frightened and its clothes scorched.

• Filch said Mrs. Norris had spotted Aaron, and Professor McGonagall confronted Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, and Aaron outside Hagrid’s hut.
• Draco explained that he had followed the Gryffindors and said they planned to take Aaron’s pet to Hagrid; Professor McGonagall took fifty points from each of the five students and assigned detention.
• Professor McGonagall went into Hagrid’s hut despite Harry’s attempt to stop her, discovered that Hagrid had raised a dragon, and said the dragon would have to be sent elsewhere.
• Aaron insisted Abei was unharmed, while Abei showed Professor McGonagall a hat scorched by dragon fire; she apologized and reduced the deductions to ten points for Draco and five for Aaron.

After Professor McGonagall punished the students for the incident with Norbert, Aaron took Abei back to the dormitory and prepared it to evolve. The next day, Gryffindor’s massive point loss left Slytherin overwhelmingly favored to win the House Cup.

• Professor McGonagall reduced Draco and Aaron’s punishments but deducted fifty points each from Harry, Ron, and Hermione, then assigned them detention with Filch.
• Aaron brought Abei back to the dormitory, scolded it for acting alone, and teased it over its stash of food and coins.
• Aaron checked Abei’s attributes and spent 190 Magic Points to bring its Magical Energy to 494, hoping it would evolve and gain fire breath.
• The next day, students saw Gryffindor’s score had fallen from 449 points to 299, while Slytherin remained first with 462 points.
• Draco revealed that Harry, Ron, and Hermione had each lost fifty points, and students across the Houses blamed them for destroying Gryffindor’s chance to catch Slytherin.

After Gryffindor lost 150 points, Draco wanted to mock Harry, Ron, and Hermione, while Aaron urged caution and helped search for them. The two finally found the trio during detention, where Draco taunted them and Ron nearly started a duel before Aaron stopped him.

• Slytherin celebrated its widened lead in the House Cup after Gryffindor lost 150 points, while Aaron warned Draco not to take too much pleasure in the trio's misfortune.
• Draco persuaded Aaron to help find Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and Aaron reminded him that they might be hiding at Hagrid's hut.
• Aaron and Draco failed to find the trio in the library or Great Hall, so they returned to the common room and headed to the entrance hall for detention.
• Harry told Ron and Hermione that people treated him differently and that Wood expected him to win back Gryffindor's lost points.
• Draco mocked Harry, Ron, and Hermione and offered to help them transfer to Slytherin, prompting Ron to prepare to duel him.
• Aaron stopped Ron and reminded him that Filch was about to arrive.