Chapter Summaries

Nelson and Tom reached Dumbledore’s office after a playful, spell-fueled dance through the castle, where they discovered the Slytherin House Point Hourglass had lost its gems. Tom gave Dumbledore evidence about Professor Sakes, and an old headmaster’s portrait raised the possibility of another set of missing jewels.

• McGonagall praised Nelson’s carpentry and told him that Dumbledore wanted to see him as soon as possible.
• Nelson and Tom limped back from the Forbidden Forest, where Peeves warned Nelson about Question Mark’s pranks and Nelson admitted he had absorbed some of Peeves’s magic.
• Nelson and Tom tap-danced through the corridor under a spell, then noticed that the Slytherin House Point Hourglass’s green gems were missing.
• Slughorn brought Nelson and Tom into Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore explained that Professor Sakes had helped Chris Jewell dig a secret passage.
• Tom handed Dumbledore a notebook containing evidence of Professor Sakes’s questionable dealings, prompting Dumbledore to plan a visit to the Ministry.
• An old headmaster’s portrait asked about another set of missing jewels.

Tom met Salazar Slytherin, who revealed that Tom carried his blood and led him toward the Chamber of Secrets. Meanwhile, Nelson offered to show Dumbledore how Aberforth had sent Gioconda away, and Dumbledore defended involving students in dangerous matters; the chapter ended with Slytherin noticing the changed entrance to the Chamber.

• Tom faced Slytherin in Dumbledore’s office, apologized for removing the portrait’s gemstones, and learned that Slytherin’s blood flowed through the Gaunt family and into him.
• Nelson used Lost Mist to give Slytherin a physical form, and Slytherin left the office with Tom to visit the Chamber of Secrets.
• Nelson offered to show his memory of Aberforth sending Gioconda away, then entered Dumbledore’s Pensieve.
• Dumbledore told Slughorn that Nelson and the other students were already entangled in danger, and that Nelson could not be guided like an ordinary student.
• Tom showed Slytherin around Hogwarts, and Slytherin stopped when he saw that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets had changed.

Tom opened the Chamber of Secrets with Slytherin, who explained the risks of Nel’s Word Spirit Art and revealed that Nel had absorbed dangerous amounts of magic while dealing with Peeves. Slytherin offered to teach Tom his magic, but Tom insisted his name was Tom Marvolo Riddle as Slytherin’s portrait began to fade.

• Slytherin entered the girls' bathroom with Tom and asked him to open the Chamber of Secrets as its heir.
• Tom opened the entrance, and Slytherin learned that Tom had removed the chamber's gems and chandelier decorations.
• Tom told Slytherin that Nel had used Animagus magic to separate Nagini's blood curse from her soul.
• Slytherin explained that Word Spirit Art conflicted with the Patronus Charm and that Nel had absorbed too much magic while dealing with Peeves.
• Slytherin invited Tom to come to the chamber daily for lessons in Slytherin magic, but Tom corrected him that his name was Tom Marvolo Riddle.
• The Chamber filled with the light of Slytherin's runes as the portrait's colors grew thin.

Nelson gave Dumbledore a memory that helped him understand Professor Sakes’s departure, while Slughorn admitted he had mistakenly deducted Slytherin’s points and promised to apologize. Tom told Nelson that Salazar Slytherin would teach him magic daily, and the chapter ended with the two finding a Ministry warning in the Daily Prophet.

• Nelson handed Dumbledore the memory, and Slughorn confessed that he had accidentally deducted Slytherin’s points.
• Slughorn refused Dumbledore’s offer to restore the points and said he would apologize to the Slytherin students.
• Dumbledore explained that Nelson’s memory clarified Professor Sakes’s flight and decided to seek out Aberforth.
• Nelson met Tom outside the abandoned girls’ lavatory, and Tom described meeting Salazar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Tom said Slytherin would teach him magic for two hours every day, and he and Nelson returned to their dormitory.
• Tom found a Daily Prophet notice warning wizards to avoid Diagon Alley and Charing Cross Road.

Martha returned to London, where Professor Sakes helped her exchange money and sent her toward the West City Orphanage after learning she had once lived there with Nelson Williams and Tom Riddle. Meanwhile, Nobby Leach waited for Sakes to be arrested, unaware that she had already boarded the Icarus to travel to America.

• Tom told Nelson that the Leaky Cauldron had been blown up during a clash between protesters and Aurors, and that Professor Sakes, Chamberlain, and Karkaroff had been named as wanted suspects.
• Martha arrived in London, struggled to find her way, and met Professor Sakes, who exchanged her American cash for pounds and gave her additional money.
• Professor Sakes learned that Martha had lived at West City Orphanage with Nelson Williams and Tom Riddle, then gave her directions and said the money was owed to them.
• Nobby Leach ordered Aurors to keep fighting protesters and insisted that Sakes would escape through the Floo Network, despite warnings that Diagon Alley needed reinforcements.
• Professor Sakes boarded the Icarus at the Port of London and told Boatswain Jack that traveling somewhere unexpected was the point.

After the students recovered from Salem’s attack, Hogwarts rallied around Slytherin, which had lost all its House points, and began helping it earn them back. As Flitwick took over Charms and the school celebrated its unity, McGonagall arranged to have Nelson help her in London, though the fighting in Diagon Alley was still ongoing.

• Flitwick became the substitute Charms teacher, and the students recovering from Salem’s attack were given time off to rest.
• Slytherin’s House Cup score was revealed to be zero, and Slughorn publicly apologized for the points he had deducted.
• Nelson’s friends and students from the other houses encouraged Tom and Slytherin to try to regain points before the end of term.
• Dumbledore led the gathered students in singing the school song, while Nelson, Tom, and even Slytherin joined in.
• In Flitwick’s first Charms class, Moody pressed him to award points, and Flitwick gave Slytherin three points as students began answering questions enthusiastically.
• Nelson and Tom spoke with McGonagall, who arranged for Nelson to help her in London and warned that fighting in Diagon Alley had not ended.

McGonagall told Nelson about her past love with Doug and her fear of repeating her parents’ painful relationship. She brought Nelson to Highland Hero Village to visit her family, but after a hostile wizard threatened her father, Nelson confronted the villagers.

• McGonagall asked Nelson for advice about returning to see Doug, whom she had not seen in several years.
• Nelson encouraged McGonagall to let her hair down and face the visit as herself, and she described how Doug proposed and how she accepted.
• McGonagall explained that her parents’ marriage had made her fear relationships between witches and Muggles, while Nelson argued that love mattered more than secrecy laws.
• McGonagall and Nelson traveled through the Floo Network to Highland Hero Village, where they hurried through its shabby streets.
• A drunken wizard insulted McGonagall and threatened to hang her Muggle father, so Nelson stepped between them and prepared to confront him.

Nelson and McGonagall confronted a drunken wizard who had harassed her, and Nelson discovered that Borgin Burke was selling a drug made from Muggles. McGonagall stopped Nelson from taking revenge, and they left for their destination as Nelson resolved to give the offenders a lesser punishment.

• Nelson used magic to terrify the drunk and read enough of his memories to learn that he had buried his Squib brother and abused Muggles.
• Nelson forced the drunk to answer questions and learned that Borgin Burke was selling a drug made from Muggles, with customers now expected to supply them.
• Nelson became furious at the revelation, but McGonagall reminded him not to take the law into his own hands.
• Nelson put away his Wand and left with McGonagall, saying the village had once been prosperous ten years earlier.
• The chapter ended with a Life Restart Simulator account of Tom Riddle's childhood and early years at Hogwarts, including his growing rivalry with Nelson.

Nelson and McGonagall crossed the Scottish Highlands toward her childhood home, discussing the village’s corruption and her unresolved feelings about Doug. They arrived by Side-Along Apparition, where McGonagall reunited with her mother and immediately asked about Doug.

• Nelson and McGonagall admired the Highlands as she recalled her father bringing her to a church there to escape and help her reach Hogwarts.
• McGonagall worried about explaining to Doug why she had left, while Nelson urged her to decide what she wanted and offered to help.
• Nelson learned that Highland Hero Village had been founded by wizards mistakenly searching for Godric Gryffindor’s hometown, and McGonagall connected the village’s decline to pure-blood extremists and Borgin Burke’s influence.
• McGonagall told Nelson not to investigate Borgin Burke himself and proposed testing his Side-Along Apparition instead of walking up the mountain.
• Nelson Apparated with McGonagall to her village, where she rushed into her mother’s arms and asked how Doug was.

Nelson visited Minerva McGonagall’s home and met her parents, Isobel and Robert, while helping Minerva reconsider her view of their marriage. Minerva asked about Doug and realized her mother was hiding something, but Robert’s silence left his fate unclear.

• Isobel welcomed Nelson to the McGonagall home, and he charmed her with praise about her Quidditch days and Minerva.
• Nelson met Robert, then noticed religious items and magical objects sharing the McGonagalls’ home.
• Nelson silenced the kitchen and explained to Minerva that her parents’ pain might reflect how deeply they loved each other.
• Minerva asked Isobel how Doug was, and Isobel claimed he was married to a farmer’s daughter from the southern village.
• Minerva sensed something was wrong, demanded to know what had happened to Doug, and Robert said nothing.

Nelson rushed to find Minerva after she Apparated away and discovered her cornered by dark wizards in a ruined village. He rescued her and began subduing the attackers, while the village’s missing residents and Doug’s fate remained unresolved.

• Nelson used his Silver Falcon and Mayflies to search the Scottish Highlands for Minerva, while Isobel and Robert discussed him and Doug at home.
• Nelson’s Mayflies found Minerva surrounded by hollow-eyed wizards in a neglected village filled with imprisoned Muggles.
• Minerva confronted the wizards, demanded to know where Doug was, and buried ten attackers in a pit after they ignored her pleas.
• The wizards attacked Minerva with murderous spells and drove her into a crumbling church as Nelson raced toward the village.
• Nelson arrived on the Silver Falcon, carried Minerva to safety, and fought the wizards with two Wands and swarms of Mayflies.

Nelson defeated the wizards who had imprisoned the Muggles and forced them to unlock the village’s doors. After sending McGonagall away, he confronted Isobel, who revealed the cruelty behind her pursuit of happiness and asked him to protect her daughter after she died.

• Nelson used Mayflies, magic, and Apparition to overwhelm the village wizards, while McGonagall searched among the freed Muggles for someone she hoped to find.
• The remaining wizards surrendered, broke their Wands, and agreed to open the Muggles’ locked doors for Nelson.
• Nelson told McGonagall to leave the village, then let Isobel stun her and sent her away on the Silver Falcon.
• Isobel confronted Nelson and forced him to read her memories, revealing that she had used Drugs and inflicted horrific suffering on people she considered enemies.
• Isobel asked Nelson to protect her daughter’s happiness after her death, while Nelson challenged her belief that the people she harmed had been happy.

Isobel forced Nelson to experience her memories, revealing how she chose Robert, began killing people she saw as threats to her family, and created the drug that Caractacus Burke planned to exploit. Nelson resisted her attempt to justify her actions and prepared to fight as she attacked him.

• Isobel poured her memories into Nelson, overwhelming him with her emotions and memories of her life with Robert and their children.
• Isobel’s memories showed how she began murdering people she believed threatened her family and used dark magic to preserve her youth.
• Isobel gave Caractacus Burke the drug formula, while he eagerly envisioned using the drug to fulfill his ambitions.
• Nelson fought through the emotional effects of the memories and rejected Isobel’s plan to use fear and the drug to control the Scottish Highlands.
• Nelson stalled while four wizards freed the Muggles, then told Isobel that Robert would oppose her actions and that he would raise his wand against her.
• Isobel angrily sent a jade-green poisonous cloud surging toward Nelson.

Nelson fought Isobel, who unleashed deadly poison and transformed into a monstrous form after he refused to kill her. McGonagall witnessed her mother’s death, and a final drop of venom delivered Isobel’s cryptic warning to Nelson.

• Nelson subdued Isobel with chains and spells, but her poisonous fog kept him from safely approaching her.
• Nelson and Tom discussed how to stop Isobel without killing her, and Nelson chose to leave her fate to her own will and McGonagall’s judgment.
• Isobel unleashed the poison inside her and transformed into a monster, forcing Nelson to withdraw as she destroyed the empty village.
• McGonagall arrived and declared that Isobel should have received a Dementor’s Kiss, while Isobel’s own poison consumed her.
• A drop of Isobel’s venom evaporated into silver vapor and reached Nelson’s mind, warning him to remember her appearance and beware the eyes behind him.

Nelson and McGonagall left the ruined village after Isobel's death, while Grindelwald retrieved a mysterious third eye from the poisoned swamp. Nelson then investigated an old missing-person case and realized Isobel's revenge had begun around the time he first entered Limbo and met Grindelwald beneath the inverted Black Tower.

• Nelson mistook sunlight reflected on the lake for an eye and blasted the grassland before consoling the grieving McGonagall.
• Nelson led McGonagall away and left Fiendfyre to consume the village and Isobel's remains.
• Grindelwald endured the poisoned swamp's venom to recover an emerald-green stone eye he called the third eye.
• Nelson disguised himself as Igor Karkaroff, bribed a police officer, and searched the missing-person files.
• Nelson found that Kohler Jones had died four years earlier and connected the start of Isobel's revenge to his first visit to Limbo and meeting Grindelwald beneath the inverted Black Tower.

Nelson encountered Aurors while traveling through London and later met Martha, an old friend who had returned from the United States. When the Aurors confronted him at a café, they mistook him for a Dark Wizard and linked him to a previous encounter involving pink Hawaiian shorts and a penguin beak.

• Nelson introduced himself to two Aurors in an Underground station, then vanished beneath an oncoming train and used a spell to derail it, leaving one Auror with a penguin beak.
• Nelson found the Leaky Cauldron’s Floo Network disconnected and met Martha on Charing Cross Road.
• Nelson and Martha caught up over coffee, discussing their time in the United States and Martha’s work as a tailor.
• Nelson sent Martha out of the café, whereupon Aurors locked the doors and declared him under arrest.
• A wizard with a penguin beak revealed pink Hawaiian shorts, and the Aurors recognized Nelson as the person who had mocked the same disguise earlier.

Nelson talked his way out of a mistaken arrest by Ellen Wordsworth and continued toward the orphanage with Martha. Martha told him about a woman surnamed Sakes who had given her money that turned into blank paper, then a penguin-costumed stranger gave Nelson balloons for the orphanage children.

• Nelson recognized that Wordsworth's group was mostly unprofessional staff from the Department of International Magical Cooperation and persuaded her to let him leave his Wand and go.
• Wordsworth agreed that they had caught the wrong person, and Nelson left the café to rejoin Martha.
• Martha told Nelson that a woman surnamed Sakes had given her pounds that later became blank paper and had claimed to know him.
• Nelson dismissed Martha's questions about her childhood memories and the strange money, calling the paper a fading bank deposit receipt.
• A penguin-costumed stranger gave Nelson a large bunch of balloons for the orphanage children, and he and Martha continued on their way.

Penguin recounted his ordinary life, his devotion to Nelson Wiltning, and the Antarctic research that gave him purpose. After seeing the Black Tower and a vision of a giant Titan, he traveled to London and began a plan to force Nelson back toward his greater ambitions.

• Penguin described losing his father in Paris and joining Durmstrang before becoming a Nurmengard follower.
• Nelson Wiltning transferred Penguin to The Hub in Kraków, where Penguin secretly observed his projects and conversations.
• After Penguin’s eavesdropping was discovered, Nelson assigned him to study Magic Penguins in Antarctica.
• Grindelwald later told Penguin to seek Nelson when the Black Tower revealed its light, and Penguin eventually saw the Tower during the Triwizard Tournament.
• Penguin left Antarctica, saw the Titan in a Water Screen, and traveled to London to find Nelson.
• Penguin decided to act as a catalyst for Nelson by targeting two witches and challenging the boundaries between worlds and power.

Nelson left Martha after receiving a Wizengamot summons and was tried for allegedly violating the International Statute of Secrecy. The Wizengamot dismissed the accusation after Nelson exposed flaws in the evidence, and he left with Tom to track down the person impersonating him.

• Nelson received a summons from the Wizengamot, burned it, and contacted Tom, who was dueling Ludwig at Hogwarts.
• Nelson appeared before Judge Shafiq and argued that his Wand records and a Muggle witness disproved the charge against him.
• Nelson revealed that witness Wordsworth showed signs of a Confundus Charm, prompting Judge Shafiq to order her tested.
• The Wizengamot voted against finding Nelson guilty, and Judge Shafiq had Wordsworth taken to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
• Nelson met Tom outside the hearing, explained that Minerva's mother was a dark wizard, and asked Tom to help find the person wearing Nelson's face.

Nelson and Tom discussed a suspicious trial, growing Muggle awareness of magic, and the dangers of prophecy while heading to collect their reward from Nobby Leach. Nelson accidentally made a prophecy that the Unspeakable Boggart said matched their research, leaving Tom wondering whether Dumbledore’s failure was still uncertain as Nobby greeted them.

• Nelson and Tom suspected someone had impersonated Nelson and discussed how the trial and reports of magic in Muggle newspapers suggested a larger scheme.
• Tom told Nelson that St. Mungo's had treated over a thousand Muggle patients, and Nelson worried that the wizarding world might be revealed in the wrong way.
• Nelson told Tom that prophets saw only incomplete futures and warned him not to trust fate too completely.
• Nelson jokingly prophesied that the Dark Lord would sweep across the world and that a blood-connected lover would fail to stop him, while two parallel worlds would be squeezed together.
• The Unspeakable Boggart revealed that Nelson’s words had lit a Prophecy Orb and matched a result from the Department of Mysteries’ research, then thanked Nelson for saving his son.
• On the way to collect their reward, Tom asked whether Nelson had only prophesied Dumbledore’s failure, and Nobby Leach greeted them at the elevator.