Chapter Summaries

Slytherin held a commanding lead while Draco focused on preventing Harry from catching the Snitch, leaving Gryffindor with few options. When a rogue Bludger relentlessly pursued Harry and Draco, Harry insisted the teams keep playing and treated the danger as Gryffindor’s only chance.

• Wood and Marcus refused to pause the match, while Draco and Adrian guarded Draco against Gryffindor’s attempts to disrupt Slytherin’s strategy.
• Slytherin extended its lead, and Wood told Harry that Gryffindor would have to rely on luck to turn the match around.
• Marcus ordered Draco to keep Harry from catching the Snitch until Slytherin scored four more goals, and Draco stayed close as Harry flew to evade a fast-moving Bludger.
• Harry rejected Wood’s plan to request a timeout, arguing that the Bludger could give Gryffindor an advantage because it was also endangering Draco.
• Wood told Gryffindor to keep Slytherin from scoring, while Flint trusted Draco to handle the Bludger and urged Slytherin to score more goals.

Aaron secured two roosters as protection against the Basilisk, then watched Harry and Draco compete for the Golden Snitch while an out-of-control Bludger attacked them. Harry caught the Snitch, but Slytherin won, and Lockhart made Harry’s fractured arm boneless while trying to heal it.

• Aaron hid two roosters in a soundproofed, Disillusioned cage and warned Abei not to eat them.
• Aaron joined Hagrid, Hermione, and Ron at the Quidditch pitch, where they watched a rogue Bludger pursue Harry and Draco.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch as the Bludger struck both Seekers, and Slytherin won the match by a score of two hundred to one hundred and ninety.
• Aaron destroyed the Bludger and reset Draco’s fractured arm before Crabbe and Goyle carried Draco toward the hospital wing.
• Lockhart ignored Harry’s request for Aaron’s help and used Brackium Emendo, removing every bone from Harry’s fractured arm.

After learning how to counter the Basilisk, Aaron encountered it near Colin and secretly helped Colin avoid being killed. Colin was petrified, and Dumbledore asked Aaron to take him to the School Hospital.

• Madam Pomfrey treated Harry’s broken arm while Draco teased him about Lockhart’s failed healing.
• Aaron returned a book about Basilisks to Madam Pince, then learned from Abei that the Basilisk was waiting near Colin.
• Aaron distracted Colin into taking photographs so he would not look directly into the Basilisk’s eyes.
• The Basilisk petrified Colin and left him alive, while Aaron assured himself he would help restore him once the Mandrakes matured.
• Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore arrived, and Dumbledore asked Aaron to take Colin to the School Hospital.

After Colin was Petrified and Dobby warned that the Chamber of Secrets had reopened, Harry and his friends feared Aaron might be involved in the attacks. The chapter ended with Hermione struggling to consider Aaron’s guilt as Ron reminded her that Muggle-born students like her were in danger.

• Dobby admitted that he had sealed the barrier and sent the Bludger after Harry to drive him away from Hogwarts, then warned that the Chamber of Secrets had reopened.
• Dumbledore questioned Aaron about finding Colin, and Aaron asked him to keep their conversation confidential.
• Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and Madam Pomfrey discovered Colin Petrified and found that the film in his camera had melted.
• Madam Pomfrey healed Harry’s arm, and Harry left the hospital to tell Ron and Hermione about Dobby’s warning and Colin’s attack.
• Harry and Ron said Aaron’s repeated presence near the attacks made him suspicious, while Hermione struggled to believe it and Ron pointed out that she was Muggle-born.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione began brewing Polyjuice Potion so they could question Aaron about the Chamber of Secrets, while becoming convinced that he was choosing victims for the monster. As they arrived at the Dueling Club, Aaron remained focused on finding the Chamber and Slytherin’s heir.

• Hermione explained the risks of brewing Polyjuice Potion, but Harry and Ron agreed to proceed and planned to use the Invisibility Cloak to steal rare ingredients from Snape’s office.
• Harry got Lockhart’s permission to borrow Moste Potente Potions, and the trio brewed the potion in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom, sneaking into Snape’s office for ingredients.
• By mid-December, the trio needed hair or another personal item from Draco, Crabbe, or Goyle, so they planned to collect some during a duel.
• Harry and Ron told Hermione they believed Aaron was investigating students to select the monster’s next victims, and the three planned to challenge Draco and his friends at the Dueling Club.
• Aaron attended the Dueling Club with Abei after failing to find the Chamber or uncover Slytherin’s heir, hoping to take a break from his investigation.

Aaron attended Lockhart’s Dueling Club, where Snape effortlessly blasted Lockhart off the platform. When Lockhart tried to avoid another demonstration by pairing students, Snape nominated Aaron to duel Harry, but Aaron suggested Draco instead.

• Draco asked Aaron to join the duels, but Aaron said he wanted to observe other wizards’ fighting styles rather than compete.
• Lockhart began the Dueling Club with Snape as his assistant and boasted that he could have stopped Snape’s attack.
• Snape disarmed Lockhart with one spell, sending him flying off the platform as the Slytherins cheered.
• Aaron challenged Lockhart to repeat the demonstration, but Lockhart avoided it by proposing student duels in pairs.
• Snape nominated Aaron to duel Harry, but Aaron suggested Draco take his place; Lockhart urged Aaron to face Harry, and Harry reluctantly agreed to use only the Disarming Charm.

Aaron defeated Harry in a disarming duel, while Hermione, Harry, and Ron gathered hair for their Polyjuice Potion plan. Harry’s duel with Draco ended with him speaking Parseltongue to stop a snake, leaving the students suspicious that he was connected to the Chamber of Secrets.

• Aaron defeated Harry with Expelliarmus, and Lockhart postponed Harry’s planned duel against Draco.
• Hermione collected Crabbe’s hair, while Harry took Goyle’s hair during Ron’s fight with him.
• The dueling platform descended into chaos, and Snape repeatedly used Finite Incantatem to stop dangerous spells.
• Harry and Draco began their final duel, but Draco summoned a cobra with Serpensortia after Harry struck him with Rictusempra.
• When the cobra approached Justin, Harry spoke Parseltongue and stopped it, prompting the students to suspect he was linked to the Chamber of Secrets.

After Harry spoke Parseltongue in the Great Hall, suspicion fell on him as Slytherin’s heir while Aaron used the incident to rethink his search for the heir. The next day, Harry found Justin and Nearly Headless Nick petrified, and Filch arrived and accused Harry of being caught red-handed.

• Harry spoke Parseltongue while saving Justin, and Aaron suspected the heir might be a descendant of Salazar Slytherin rather than someone who had inherited his will.
• Draco warned Hermione that Harry might be Slytherin’s heir, while Hermione secretly took Draco’s hair for her Polyjuice Potion and asked Aaron what he was doing.
• Aaron checked his two roosters and updated his suspect board, adding people who might be able to speak Parseltongue to his investigation.
• Harry doubted himself after Ron and Hermione explained the history of Parseltongue, then faced suspicious stares from classmates the next day.
• Harry heard the Basilisk’s voice and found Nearly Headless Nick and Justin petrified in a corridor, where Aaron soon joined him.
• Filch found Harry and Aaron beside the victims and accused Harry of being caught red-handed.

After Nick and Justin were found attacked, Professor McGonagall brought Harry and Aaron to Dumbledore’s office, where Fawkes was reborn from his ashes and Hagrid reported another dead rooster. Dumbledore said he believed Harry, but Aaron admitted he was hiding something beneficial to Hogwarts and refused to reveal it because it might cost Slytherin house points.

• Professor McGonagall escorted Harry and Aaron to Dumbledore’s office after Nick and Justin were found attacked.
• Aaron cleaned the Sorting Hat with Scourgify, then Fawkes burst into flames and was reborn as a chick from his ashes.
• Dumbledore explained that Fawkes was a Phoenix, while Aaron reassured Abei after the Holy Dragon compared himself to the newly reborn bird.
• Hagrid arrived with a dead rooster, said it was the fourth killed recently, and received Dumbledore’s permission to protect the coop.
• Dumbledore told Harry he believed him and asked both boys if they had anything to confess.
• Aaron said he had hidden something important that benefited Hogwarts, but refused to reveal it because Slytherin might lose points.

Aaron received Christmas gifts, including a powerful dragon-slaying sword, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione prepared to use Polyjuice Potion to investigate him as a possible heir of Slytherin. The trio planned to act that night, but Aaron approached them at dinner and nearly disrupted their preparations.

• Aaron opened his parents’ postcards and found a Mithril Longsword among the gifts Jeans had prepared, then promised Abei he would take him to the Great Hall.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione finished preparing Polyjuice Potion and planned to drug Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, borrow their shoes and clothes, and question Aaron in Slytherin territory.
• At Christmas dinner, Aaron noticed the trio whispering and questioned them about their interest in Draco and the heir of Slytherin.
• Hermione told Aaron they had visited Hagrid, and Aaron reminded the trio to collect their Christmas presents before leaving.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione used Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle so they could investigate the Slytherin common room for information about the Secret Chamber. They reached its hidden entrance but could not get inside without the password.

• Harry and Ron stalled Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle with apologies and chocolate cakes laced with a sleeping potion.
• Harry and Ron hid the unconscious Slytherins in a broom closet and brought their shoes to Hermione in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione drank Polyjuice Potion and transformed into Goyle, Crabbe, and Draco Malfoy.
• The trio headed down a dark corridor toward the Slytherin common room, with Hermione leading as Draco.
• They found the common room's stone entrance but realized they needed a password and decided to wait for a real Slytherin.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione entered Slytherin’s common room disguised as Slytherins and sought out Aaron to ask about the Secret Chamber. Aaron denied being Slytherin’s heir, explained why he kept appearing at attack scenes, and hinted that his investigation had uncovered clues as the trio prepared to hear more.

• Hermione guessed Slytherin’s password, and she, Harry, and Ron entered the common room to look for Aaron.
• Ron learned that Aaron was popular with Slytherin girls, while Hermione identified Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle as likely sources for finding his dormitory.
• Niall, Slytherin’s prefect, mistook their request for a conversation about Quidditch and led them to Aaron’s room.
• Hermione asked Aaron whether he was Slytherin’s heir, and Aaron said he had been investigating the Secret Chamber since Halloween and was not the culprit.
• Aaron explained that Abei could sense killing intent, which was why he appeared at the attack scenes; Harry realized the attacks had not been coincidences.
• Aaron told the trio he had found a few clues about the Secret Chamber, though he still had a way to go before identifying the heir.

Aaron explained why he believed the Secret Chamber’s monster was a Basilisk and revealed that he had secretly prepared roosters to protect Hogwarts. He then showed Harry, Ron, and Hermione another wall of clues, leaving them stunned by the remaining names.

• Aaron identified the Basilisk as the Chamber’s monster and explained how its indirect gaze had petrified its victims.
• Aaron admitted that he had not risked confronting the Basilisk when Colin was in danger, but had sent Colin to use a camera so he would be petrified rather than killed.
• Aaron warned that telling Dumbledore or bringing in roosters could alert the heir, who had already killed a rooster and might release the Basilisk in retaliation.
• Aaron revealed two roosters he had hidden as a last resort to protect students, prompting Harry and Ron to realize they had wrongly suspected him.
• Aaron produced another wall of clues covered in names, most of them crossed out, and Hermione, Harry, and Ron stared at it in surprise.

Aaron revealed a list of twenty-three suspects for Slytherin’s heir and singled out Ginny Weasley because of her recent behavior. He asked the disguised Harry, Ron, and Hermione to investigate her, but their Polyjuice Potion began wearing off, forcing them to flee the Slytherin common room.

• Aaron explained how he had narrowed his suspects to twenty-three students, including Ginny Weasley, and described why her behavior seemed suspicious.
• Aaron said he had not found the Chamber of Secrets and listed the remaining places he had yet to search, but withheld the final location.
• Aaron asked Draco to investigate Ginny discreetly, and Ron eagerly agreed on the disguised group’s behalf.
• Aaron warned them not to frighten or bully Ginny, while Hermione tried to refuse the task.
• Hermione noticed the Polyjuice Potion wearing off, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione rushed out of the Slytherin common room.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione escaped after secretly questioning Draco and his companions, but they worried that Aaron would discover their deception. Draco woke from the broom cupboard and told Aaron that Harry and Ron had drugged and locked up him and his friends.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed the risks of their failed disguise and agreed to investigate suspects before Aaron asked about their progress.
• Draco woke in a broom cupboard, freed himself, and released Crabbe and Goyle from another cupboard.
• Draco accused Harry and Ron of drugging them with sleeping-potion-laced cake and locking them away, but decided not to confront them directly.
• Aaron asked Draco why he was angry, believing Draco had visited him the previous night to discuss the investigation.
• Draco realized Harry and his friends had impersonated him and told Aaron what had happened.

Aaron confronted Harry, Ron, and Hermione after discovering they had secretly brewed Polyjuice Potion to investigate whether he was Slytherin’s heir. He left them to face his anger and exposed how their suspicion had damaged his trust in them.

• Aaron learned from Draco that Harry, Ron, and Hermione had deceived him, then went to wait outside the Gryffindor Common Room.
• Fred and George woke Harry and Ron and brought Hermione to the Common Room, where they learned Aaron was waiting and had asked them to bring his Christmas presents.
• Aaron took the three to a Transfiguration classroom and accused them of drugging and deceiving him while investigating the attacks.
• Hermione said she had helped brew Polyjuice Potion to prove Aaron’s innocence, while Harry and Ron admitted they had suspected him.
• Aaron asked Harry whether he had hoped Aaron was Slytherin’s heir, and Harry’s hesitation confirmed his suspicion.

Aaron confronted Harry, Ron, and Hermione over their suspicions and deception, then agreed to cooperate with them in finding Slytherin's heir under strict conditions. He accepted their help without forgiving them and reclaimed the Christmas gifts he had given them.

• Harry explained why he and Hermione had suspected Aaron, and Aaron said their actions had deeply hurt him.
• Hermione proposed that they cooperate to find the real culprit, and Aaron agreed on the condition that they keep his plan secret, investigate impartially, and report their findings to him.
• Aaron said cooperation did not mean forgiveness and asked Harry, Ron, and Hermione to return his Christmas presents.
• Aaron tore up Harry's Nimbus 2000 upgrade voucher, snapped the new Wand he had given Ron, and kept Hermione's annotated book by Nicolas Flamel.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione shook hands with Aaron and promised not to deceive him again.

Aaron and Harry’s search for the Secret Chamber stalled until they found Tom Riddle’s indestructible Diary in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. Harry discovered that the Diary could answer him and entered Riddle’s memories from fifty years earlier, where he learned about Riddle’s childhood.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione searched the Common Rooms and their suspects but found no clues, while Aaron refused to reveal another possible location.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ron investigated the flooded bathroom and found a blank Diary bearing Tom Riddle’s name; Aaron’s fire spell failed to destroy it.
• Harry agreed to investigate the name Tom Riddle, while Aaron asked to be told what Harry uncovered about the Diary.
• Harry later wrote in the Diary and received replies from Tom Riddle, who offered to show him memories from fifty years earlier.
• Harry entered Riddle’s memory, followed the young Tom to meet Headmaster Dippet, and learned that Tom had grown up in a Muggle orphanage.

Harry learned from Riddle’s memory that Hagrid had been wrongly blamed for the attacks fifty years ago, then shared his clues about the Chamber with the Diary. Riddle urged Harry to seek Hagrid’s help investigating the Forbidden Forest, while Aaron felt an unexplained jolt as he practiced Magic Arrays.

• Harry watched Riddle confront Hagrid and expose Aragog, who escaped after Hagrid knocked Riddle down.
• Harry concluded that Rubeus Hagrid had been wrongly accused and told the Diary that the Chamber’s monster was a Basilisk.
• Riddle expressed guilt over Hagrid’s expulsion, and Harry promised not to reveal the Diary’s existence to him.
• Harry told Riddle about Aaron Gaius, the suspected heirs, and the places they had investigated; Riddle advised him to seek Hagrid’s help exploring the Forbidden Forest.
• The Diary closed after Riddle said his time was running out, and Aaron suddenly jerked his hand and ruined an advanced Magic Array.

Aaron, Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigated the stolen Diary and suspected its thief was connected to Slytherin’s heir. As the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match began, Abei warned Aaron that the Basilisk had been released again.

• Harry told Aaron, Ron, and Hermione what he had learned about Tom Riddle's Diary, and they agreed not to involve Hagrid in the search for the Secret Chamber.
• Aaron chose all five third-year electives, while Draco selected Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and Ancient Runes.
• Harry discovered that someone had ransacked his dormitory and stolen Tom Riddle's Diary, so he, Ron, and Hermione decided to tell Aaron at the Quidditch match.
• Aaron reasoned that the thief was likely a Gryffindor with a connection to Slytherin's heir, and Hermione and Ron considered the possibility that the thief wanted to destroy the Diary.
• Abei alerted Aaron that Slytherin's heir had released the Basilisk again.