Chapter Summaries

Harry, Ron, and Hermione struggled with heavy sixth-year coursework and silent-spell practice while neglecting Hagrid, and Harry prepared to captain Quidditch tryouts. Hermione urged Harry to embrace his fame and handle the tryouts independently, while Tierra was away studying with Slughorn.

• Harry and Ron found their sixth-year classes and homework overwhelming, while Harry excelled at Potions with help from the Half-Blood Prince’s book.
• Snape and Tierra trained advanced students to cast spells silently, and Tierra’s Practical Dark Arts Class also required wandless casting.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione worried about their distance from Hagrid, but Ron resisted visiting him before Quidditch tryouts because he feared encountering Grawp.
• Harry noticed Tierra was absent from breakfast because he had gone to question Slughorn, as he often did on weekends.
• Hermione told Harry that students were eager to join the Quidditch team because of his fame, and Ron said he would rather face Harry at tryouts without Tierra beside him.

Harry received a new Advanced Potion-Making book and a parcel of sweets and a letter from Sirius, but planned to keep the old book by disguising the new one. Hermione read reports of increasing Dementor attacks and Stan Shunpike’s arrest, leaving Harry and his friends worried about Voldemort’s possible involvement.

• Owls brought Harry a new Advanced Potion-Making book and a parcel from Sirius containing a letter and sweets.
• Harry switched the covers of the old and new books so he could keep Prince’s book and return the disguised copy to Slughorn.
• Hermione said reports of more Dementor attacks suggested someone might have reopened Tierra’s seal, possibly Voldemort.
• Hermione reported that Stan Shunpike had been arrested on suspicion of Death Eater involvement after overhearing a secret plan.

Harry held Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts and selected several players, including the expelled Durmstrang student Avdey Grunya. Meanwhile, Tierra showed Horace Slughorn the Chamber of Secrets and revealed that the Golden Books Conference had witnessed two Godhood Ascension Rituals.

• Harry organized Quidditch applicants into groups, and Hermione used the Levitation Charm to rescue a first-year who had crashed near a goalpost.
• After a chaotic morning of tryouts, Harry selected Katie Bell, Robbins, Ginny Weasley, and Avdey Grunya for the team.
• Horace Slughorn explored Tierra's transformed Chamber of Secrets and asked about its remarkable objects.
• Tierra explained that Slytherin was the Chamber's namesake and told Slughorn that the biographies about him and Harry were mostly true.
• Tierra revealed that the Golden Books Conference had witnessed and facilitated the Godhood Ascension Rituals of two Godhood Attainers, astonishing Slughorn.

Harry watched Ron overcome his nerves and save all five shots at the Gryffindor Keeper tryouts. Meanwhile, Tierra explained his pursuit of power to Slughorn and reflected on how fear of the world had driven him to harm others even as he treated them as real people.

• Harry threatened to jinx anyone who refused the Keeper's instructions as the crowd jeered at the candidates.
• Ron saved all five shots, beating McLellan and prompting Harry and the crowd to celebrate him.
• Slughorn asked why Tierra was not at the Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts, and Tierra explained that power mattered more than political appearances.
• Tierra said that magical power, skill, and knowledge would bring influence to him.
• Tierra reflected that fear and alienation from the world had led him to exploit and hurt others, even while he helped and cared for them.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Hagrid after the Quidditch trials and learned that his Acromantula, Aragog, was dying. Hagrid said Aragog had gone mad and attacked his family after Tierra tried to treat him, leaving Ron stunned when he learned what kind of creature Aragog was.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Hagrid and greeted Buckbeak outside his hut.
• Hagrid let the trio into his hut after Harry threatened to blast the door open.
• Hermione apologized for missing Care of Magical Creatures, and Hagrid complained that they had sent Tierra to speak for them.
• Hagrid told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Aragog was dying and that Tierra's attempt to treat him had caused him to go mad and attack Hagrid and his family.
• Hermione asked what Aragog was, and Hagrid revealed that he was an Acromantula, making Ron freeze.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione learned from Hagrid that Tierra and Horace Slughorn were making a Philosopher’s Stone for Nicolas Flamel, and Hermione suspected Flamel was preparing for a Godhood Ascension Ritual. Draco Malfoy overheard their conversation and touched the Dark Mark on his arm.

• Hagrid revealed that Tierra had given him Elixir of Life to help Aragog and that Tierra and Horace Slughorn were making a Philosopher’s Stone for Nicolas Flamel.
• Hagrid panicked after realizing he had disclosed a secret and warned Harry, Ron, and Hermione not to tell anyone, especially Tierra.
• As they left Hagrid’s hut, Hermione argued that Nicolas Flamel’s demand for the Stone suggested he planned to attempt a Godhood Ascension Ritual.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed the risks of something going wrong at Hogwarts without noticing their voices carrying to the Owlery.
• Draco Malfoy overheard their conversation while cleaning the Owlery and darkly stroked the Dark Mark on his arm.

Hermione excitedly revealed in the Great Hall that Tierra and Professor Horace Slughorn were making the Philosopher's Stone, so Tierra rewound time and made her repeat the news quietly. After warning Hermione not to reveal everything she knew, Tierra left her wondering whether he would let her help with the work.

• Hermione rushed up to Tierra in the Great Hall and loudly announced that she had discovered he and Professor Horace Slughorn were making the Philosopher's Stone.
• Tierra reversed time by a few minutes, keeping the memories of Hermione, Harry, and Ron, and had Hermione deliver the news quietly.
• Tierra explained that Hermione had been too loud and told her that she should sometimes keep what she noticed to herself.
• Ron agreed with Tierra that Hermione could be too nagging, and Hermione ate dinner in irritated silence.
• Hermione quietly asked Tierra whether she could watch or help prepare potions for making the Philosopher's Stone.

Tierra explained why Slughorn might be able to persuade Snape to postpone Harry’s detention, while Harry hoped to delay it and wished he could serve detention under Tierra. After the group returned to Gryffindor Tower, Hermione read the Daily Prophet, Harry studied, Tierra calculated, and Ron sulked.

• Hermione thanked Tierra for agreeing to let her observe him refining a Philosopher’s Stone, while Tierra told Harry he first needed to improve his Dark Arts exercise accuracy.
• Slughorn invited Harry, Tierra, and Hermione to dinner, but Harry said he had detention with Snape; Slughorn left to ask Snape to postpone it.
• Tierra explained that Slughorn favored talented and influential people, and that Snape’s magical reputation made him likely to be within Slughorn’s circle.
• Tierra described the three detention tasks he had offered Mercedes Amisitia, who chose to assist with order in the Dark Arts Slow Classes.
• The group returned to Gryffindor Tower, where Hermione read the Daily Prophet, Harry studied his Potions textbook, Tierra calculated, and Ron stared at the ceiling.

Voldemort hurried his Godhood Ascension Ritual because he needed the Philosopher’s Stone and rare metals, while Harry prepared for the Hogsmeade trip and experimented with spells from the Half-Blood Prince’s book. Tierra stopped Harry from trying a suspicious spell and warned him to be cautious with student-made magic.

• Voldemort reflected that he needed the Philosopher’s Stone and ritual materials to imbue his Horcruxes with the attributes of laws, and he felt confident after receiving a message.
• Robbins Kelly told Harry that Snape had postponed his detention for a week, allowing Harry and Tierra to attend Slughorn’s dinner together.
• Harry learned that the mid-October trip to Hogsmeade had not been canceled, despite rising attacks and tighter security around the school.
• Harry read Advanced Potion Making and recalled using the Half-Blood Prince’s spells on Crabbe and Filch, which had cost Gryffindor points and earned him detention.
• Tierra stopped Harry from attempting a spell marked “Nvbl” and warned him to use the student-created spells cautiously.

During a cold trip to Hogsmeade, Tierra explained why Harry’s unusual magical ability was tied to Voldemort. The chapter ended with Tierra revealing that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul lived inside Harry.

• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Tierra traveled to Hogsmeade through freezing winds and took shelter in Honeydukes.
• Harry read Advanced Potion-Making while Hermione argued that he should focus on Tierra’s mathematical exercises.
• Tierra explained that different kinds of magic were best learned through different methods and said Harry had exceptional talent for Dark Magic.
• Tierra explained how Voldemort used Horcruxes to survive and revealed that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul had attached itself to Harry.

Harry learned that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul had been attached to him since he was a baby, and he confronted Tierra over keeping the truth from him. Tierra could not remove the fragment without harming Harry, but said she could stop it from affecting him.

• Harry fled Honeydukes after reacting with despair and anger, and Tierra followed him while Hermione stayed behind with Ron.
• Horace Slughorn invited Hermione, Harry, and Tierra to another gathering on October twenty-seventh.
• Tierra told Harry she had recognized Voldemort’s soul fragment in him at the end of their second year.
• Tierra explained that the fragment had grown alongside Harry’s soul and that she had avoided killing Voldemort at the Ministry because his death might allow him to return through Harry.
• Harry asked Tierra to remove the fragment, but she said it was too deeply connected to his soul to remove safely and offered instead to stop it from affecting him.

Tierra caught Mundungus Fletcher with stolen valuables from Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place and arranged for Aurors to arrest him. The group left The Three Broomsticks subdued, and Tierra suggested they return to school.

• Harry and Ron recognized the silverware as belonging to Sirius, and Mundungus Fletcher appeared in green flames.
• Tierra confronted Mundungus about stealing valuables from Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place and explained that a third of the Black family assets legally belonged to him.
• Tierra summoned two Auror versions of himself, who arrested Mundungus and took him away for questioning.
• Hermione challenged Tierra over his staged arrest, while Harry and Ron drank in silence and thought over what had happened.
• Tierra suggested that the group return to school instead of continuing their outing.

After returning to the Common Room, Harry, Hermione, and Tierra settled down to read while Ron searched for something to do. Dumbledore and Tierra discussed Mundungus Fletcher’s punishment, then agreed that Dumbledore would ask Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a plan Tierra said would hurt only Voldemort.

• Hermione stopped Ron from taking a first-year’s seat by the fireplace and reminded him to behave like a prefect.
• Harry, Hermione, and Tierra returned to the Common Room and read, while Ron had nothing to occupy him.
• Dumbledore summoned Professor Tierra to his office, where they discussed Tierra’s Dark Arts teaching and Mundungus Fletcher’s punishment.
• Tierra asked Dumbledore to persuade Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, explaining that he wanted to keep his own involvement faint.
• Dumbledore questioned Tierra’s motives, and Tierra assured him that the plan would harm only Voldemort.

Tierra arranged for Horace Slughorn to teach Harry Occlumency while Slughorn worked on the Philosopher's Stone. After puzzling over why Slughorn wanted to finish it quickly, Harry concluded that Nicolas Flamel was about to become a god.

• After Potions class, Tierra asked Horace Slughorn to tutor Harry in Occlumency, and Slughorn reluctantly agreed.
• Tierra and Slughorn scheduled Harry's first Mind Defense lesson for Saturday evening, then Tierra sent Harry to fetch lunch while he continued talking with Slughorn.
• On his way to the Great Hall, Harry wondered why Slughorn needed to finish brewing the Philosopher's Stone ahead of time.
• Harry joined Hermione and Ron at lunch and whispered that Nicolas Flamel was about to become a god.
• Hermione cautiously checked that no one had overheard Harry, then asked how he could be sure.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron discussed the Philosopher’s Stone before Harry received a package and letter from Sirius describing an economic crisis in smaller Wizarding Worlds. Sirius explained that trade agreements with the British Magical Federation had caused Greece and Albania to collapse, leaving the consequences of the trade boom unresolved.

• Hermione agreed with Harry’s thoughts about the Philosopher’s Stone and wondered when Nicolas Flamel would become a god.
• Letters and packages arrived chaotically in the Great Hall under Hogwarts’ new mail-delivery system, and Harry accidentally dropped his parcel onto another student.
• Harry received a package and letter from Sirius, who had traveled through several magical communities and sent back assorted goods and souvenirs.
• Harry read that trade agreements had caused large quantities of Galleons to flow into countries such as Greece and Albania.
• Sirius wrote that Greece and Albania had declared bankruptcy because they lacked materials for making potions and magical objects, collapsing their economies and magical environments.

Tierra explained to Hermione how his defeat of the Magical Union Army and Trade Agreement let him use Gringotts’ vast fortune to drain other wizarding societies of resources and undermine their Ministries. He argued that whether they fought him or not, their governments would lose control, leaving them vulnerable to comprador rule or popular unrest.

• Hermione learned from Tierra that he had deliberately created the crisis Sirius described by weakening foreign Ministries and buying up their magical resources.
• Tierra explained that the Magical Union Army’s defeat damaged the Ministries’ credibility, while his Trade Agreement and Galleons let him acquire scarce supplies.
• Hermione asked whether war could have been avoided, and Tierra said his control of Gringotts’ wealth made conflict inevitable and left him able to smuggle goods if trade was blocked.
• Tierra argued that high prices would tempt ordinary wizards to sell, drawing more people into the trade despite any official effort to stop it.
• Tierra explained that defeated Ministries would have to accept his transactions, while governments that avoided war would be divided by profiteering and unrest, potentially becoming comprador governments or being overthrown.

Tierra explained his plan to weaken foreign Ministries of Magic and attract their people to the British Magical Federation. Harry learned that Sirius wanted Mundungus Fletcher released, but Tierra said the charges against him were too serious for Sirius’s wishes to change the case.

• Tierra described his plan to buy magical resources, undermine foreign Ministries through proxy wars, and draw immigrants to the British Magical Federation.
• Hermione worried that Tierra’s plan would harm innocent wizards, and Tierra argued that it would take away conveniences rather than threaten their livelihoods.
• Harry opened Sirius’s letter asking for Mundungus Fletcher to be released and looked troubled as he passed it to Hermione.
• Tierra explained that Sirius claimed the confiscated belongings were his property and said he had given them to Mundungus.
• Tierra said Mundungus faced criminal charges for theft and selling dangerous Dark Magic items, with possible imprisonment of at least ten years.
• Tierra added that he could pursue espionage and national-security charges over Mundungus’s actions at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place.

Tierra arranged for Harry to learn Occlumency from Snape, with Dumbledore agreeing to let Voldemort glimpse selected memories in Harry’s mind. The chapter ended with Snape questioning Dumbledore’s trust in Tierra and the fairness of his choices for Harry.

• Tierra told Harry to reply to an objection by directing its sender to Tierra or Dumbledore, and had him add that Dumbledore tacitly approved of the economic plan.
• Tierra took Hermione to help Slughorn refine the Philosopher’s Stone, while Harry and Ron went to send the letter.
• Dumbledore asked Snape to teach Harry Occlumency and revealed that Snape would need to let Voldemort see memories from Harry’s mind.
• Snape challenged Dumbledore for trusting Tierra and allowing Harry to be used, while Dumbledore said he was too tired to interfere with Tierra’s plans.

Dumbledore told Snape to report that he would teach Harry Occlumency, while explaining his belief that Tierra was using Voldemort and Harry as part of a larger plan. He reassured Snape that Voldemort could not harm Harry, but revealed that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul lived inside him and kept Voldemort from dying.

• Snape asked how far he should take Harry’s Occlumency lessons, and Dumbledore told him to report them to Voldemort and teach Harry as much as he wanted.
• Dumbledore explained that Tierra’s vast knowledge and power had defeated him, so he had decided to let Tierra handle the Wizarding World’s conflicts.
• Dumbledore described how Tierra had used others’ plans and Voldemort’s resurrection to advance his own Godhood Ascension Ritual.
• Snape questioned Dumbledore’s willingness to involve Harry, and Dumbledore said Voldemort’s shattered soul could not harm Harry unless Voldemort undertook the ritual too.
• Dumbledore revealed that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul had attached itself to Harry when Voldemort’s Killing Curse rebounded, and that Voldemort could not die while the fragment remained in Harry.

Dumbledore told Snape that Harry had been destined to die to destroy Voldemort, but Tierra's plan might let him live. After Snape agreed to trust Dumbledore once more, the apparent Dumbledore vanished, revealing Tierra, who warned that Harry had little time left to grow and that his own time was running out.

• Snape accused Dumbledore of using him and raising Harry to die, then revealed his Patronus was still a silver doe and confessed his love for Lily had never changed.
• Dumbledore said Harry's death had been necessary in his original plan but that Tierra's plan might allow Harry to survive.
• Snape reluctantly agreed to trust Dumbledore one last time and left the office in despair.
• After Snape departed, Dumbledore's image vanished, revealing Tierra, who said Harry had little time left to grow peacefully and that he had little time left either.