Chapter Summaries

Harry prepared for his first Quidditch match against Slytherin, enduring Snape’s deduction of two Gryffindor points before joining his teammates on the pitch. He secretly wore armor beneath his uniform, and the chapter ended with Harry and Marcus Flint exchanging fierce grins before the match.

• Snape congratulated Harry on the coming match, then deducted two Gryffindor points for his unauthorized visit to the staff room and reminded him about Saturday detention.
• Harry joined Gryffindor’s Quidditch team, and Fred and George disrupted Oliver Wood’s familiar pre-match speech until everyone laughed.
• Ron, Hermione, Seamus, and Neville cheered Harry from the stands with a colorful banner reading “Potter Will Win.”
• Angelina warned Harry that Slytherin played dirty, while Madam Hooch told Marcus Flint to play fairly.
• Harry revealed through his thoughts that he had hidden a suit of armor beneath his uniform, and he returned Flint’s vicious grin with one of his own.

Harry played in a Quidditch match, survived a Bludger strike, and chased the Golden Snitch before his broom began bucking uncontrollably. As Harry investigated who had cursed it, he spotted Snape muttering while watching him, while Dumbledore made no move to help.

• Gryffindor scored several times as Lee Jordan commentated and Professor McGonagall reprimanded him for straying from the match.
• Harry deflected Flint's Bludger with a Shield Charm, then raced Terence Higgins toward the Golden Snitch and knocked Flint away when he charged at him.
• Harry's broom began shaking violently, and his repeated Finite spells only briefly stabilized it.
• Hermione looked through binoculars and concluded that Snape was cursing Harry, then hurried away from the stands.
• Harry pretended to struggle with the broom so he could identify who was responsible, then used a Long-Distance Vision Charm and saw Snape staring at him and muttering.

Harry caught the Golden Snitch and led Gryffindor to victory over Slytherin, while Hermione and Ron argued with him about who had cursed his broom. Harry left Hagrid’s Hut questioning why Dumbledore had done nothing to stop the curse.

• Hermione set Snape’s robes on fire, and Harry’s broom stopped shaking as he caught the Golden Snitch to win the match for Gryffindor.
• Harry told Professor McGonagall he had lost his grip on the broom, then declined his teammates’ invitation and went with Hermione and Ron to Hagrid’s Hut.
• Hermione accused Snape of cursing Harry’s broom, but Hagrid rejected the claim and refused to explain why he thought Harry could not have been the target.
• Harry pointed out that his broom had stopped shaking before Hermione set Snape’s robes on fire, casting doubt on Snape’s involvement.
• Ron suggested the curse might have been carried out on Dumbledore’s orders, and Hermione angrily rebuked him.
• Harry said he did not suspect Dumbledore but questioned why the headmaster had stood by without stopping the curse.

Harry served detention in Snape’s office, where the professor gave him a mundane task and left him convinced Snape did not intend to kill him. Dumbledore then summoned Harry to his office, where Harry noticed the portrait of Phineas Black and worried that it might recognize him.

• Ron warned Harry not to attend his Saturday detention with Snape, but Harry went anyway, accompanied by Filch.
• Snape confirmed that he had assigned Harry detention and told him to squeeze mucus from Flobberworms without magic.
• Harry watched Snape change Marcus Flint’s grade from D to T, then learned that T meant “Troll.”
• After Snape dismissed him, Harry concluded that Snape did not want him dead and wondered who might be trying to harm him.
• Dumbledore invited Harry to the Headmaster’s Office, and Harry followed him there after thinking about Veratia and Gellert.
• Harry entered the office and realized Phineas Black’s portrait might recognize him.

Harry met with Dumbledore after the Quidditch match and challenged him about why he had not intervened when Harry’s broom was cursed. Dumbledore asked whether Harry feared him, and Harry revealed that he was avoiding eye contact because he had read that it could expose his thoughts.

• Dumbledore offered Harry overly sweet lemonade and candy during their late-night meeting.
• Phineas Black recognized Harry, but Dumbledore had Dilys Derwent and the other portrait Headmasters restrain him before he could speak.
• The portrait Headmasters laughed when Harry called Phineas a good Headmaster, and Euphrasia Moore praised Phineas for uniting the Houses.
• Harry told Dumbledore that someone had cursed his broom on the Quidditch pitch and asked why Dumbledore had remained indifferent.
• Dumbledore asked Harry if he was afraid of him, and Harry explained that he was avoiding his eyes because he had read about magic that could read another person’s thoughts.

Dumbledore dismissed his suspicion that Harry had traveled from a century ago, while Harry began teaching Ron and Hermione the Disarming Charm in the Room of Requirement. As his friends practiced, Harry considered how to develop the spell into a chain that could disarm multiple enemies at long range.

• Dumbledore told Harry that Legilimency was the spell he had asked about, then sent him away to sleep; afterward, he thought of Newt Scamander but rejected the idea that Harry was the Harry from a hundred years ago.
• The next morning, Harry led Ron and Hermione to the Room of Requirement and showed them the training ground he had prepared as their secret base.
• Harry demonstrated Expelliarmus and showed how combining it with Wingardium Leviosa could turn a simple disarming spell into a dangerous attack.
• Harry warned Ron and Hermione that Dark Wizards would not fight politely, then taught them the wand movements for Expelliarmus.
• Hermione mastered the Disarming Charm first, and Ron learned it soon afterward.
• As Ron and Hermione practiced, Harry recalled Verathea's idea for using marked targets to make a single Disarming Charm disarm several enemies over long distances.

Harry tried to create a magical mark and decided to find a tactful way to get Ron a better wand. After Ron showed progress in Charms, Harry and his friends learned from Hagrid that Fluffy guarded something connected to Nicolas Flamel, whose Philosopher’s Stone could turn stone into gold and grant immortality.

• Harry struggled to create a magical mark and resolved to find a way to give Ron a new wand without hurting his pride.
• Ron successfully made a desk float in Charms Class, earning praise and points from Professor Flitwick.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Hagrid, who revealed that Fluffy had bitten Snape and guarded something on the fourth floor connected to Nicolas Flamel.
• Harry showed Ron Dumbledore’s Chocolate Frog Card, which named Nicolas Flamel as Dumbledore’s alchemy partner.
• Harry told Ron and Hermione that Flamel had a Philosopher’s Stone that could create gold and grant immortality.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione suspected Snape was after the Philosopher’s Stone and planned to help guard it while searching for Fluffy. Their investigation was interrupted when Hermione confronted Pansy Parkinson, and a quarrel escalated into a standoff with Marcus Flint targeting Harry.

• Hermione concluded that Snape might be trying to steal the Philosopher’s Stone, and Harry asked where Fluffy was being kept.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione agreed to protect the Stone and spent the following days practicing spells and searching for clues.
• Hermione demanded that Pansy apologize for knocking Lavender’s books to the floor, but Pansy insulted Hermione with a slur.
• Hermione disarmed Pansy and Daphne Greengrass, then used Scourgify on Pansy, making her kneel as pink bubbles poured from her mouth.
• Marcus Flint stepped forward with older students, and Harry, Ron, Neville, and Seamus raised their wands to defend Hermione.
• Marcus fired an orange-red spell at Harry, hoping to take revenge for their Quidditch collision.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione defeated a group of Slytherin sixth-years who had attacked them, and Prefect Gemma Farley punished the Slytherins for their conduct. As Harry prepared to leave, Farley challenged him to a Wizard's Duel.

• Harry deflected Flint's spell and disarmed him, while Ron disarmed another Slytherin who had aimed at Harry.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione defeated the Slytherin sixth-years, and Harry freed Neville from a spell.
• Harry demanded that Flint apologize to Hermione, then forced him to kneel when he refused.
• Gemma Farley arrived, heard a Slytherin student's account, and deducted House points from Flint and Pansy Parkinson.
• Harry praised Farley as a fair Prefect, but she stopped him and challenged him to a Wizard's Duel.

Gemma Farley challenged Harry to a Wizard's Duel after he insulted Slytherin, offering to end the house's harassment if she won. Harry defeated her and demanded that Parkinson and Flint apologize to Hermione.

• Gemma challenged Harry to a one-on-one duel and asked him to apologize to Slytherin if he lost.
• Harry said he wanted Parkinson and Flint to apologize to Hermione if he won.
• Draco agreed to judge, and Harry and Gemma began their duel with Disarming Charms.
• Harry countered Gemma's Transfiguration and spells, predicted her dodge, and bound her with Incarcerous.
• Gemma conceded, and Harry reminded her to fulfill her promise.

After Harry defeated Gemma in a duel, she made Pansy and Marcus apologize to Hermione, earning Harry’s respect. Harry then welcomed Neville and Seamus into his Dueling Club and remembered how Cassandra had pushed him to take spell practice seriously.

• Gemma ordered Pansy and Marcus to apologize to Hermione, and they obeyed.
• Harry praised Gemma, while students left surprised that Slytherin had admitted fault.
• On the way back, Hermione and Ron discussed Gemma’s strength and Harry’s tutoring.
• Neville asked Harry to tutor him and Seamus, and Harry agreed to let them join the Dueling Club.
• Harry remembered Cassandra’s harsh training and how she had once protected him from a spell.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron voted to admit Neville and Seamus to the club.

Harry stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas and joined Fred and George's plan to make Professor Quirrell remove his turban. He fetched Neville's Chinese chomping cabbage as a backup, and the prank was about to begin.

• Harry signed up to stay at Hogwarts for the Christmas holiday because he felt more at home there and wanted to explore the castle.
• Harry thought about giving Ron a wand for Christmas, then learned from Fred and George that the Weasleys were going to Romania and Ron would stay at Hogwarts.
• Fred and George invited Harry to help hit Quirrell with snowballs so they could see what he hid beneath his turban, and Harry agreed.
• Harry went to the dormitory to fetch the Chinese chomping cabbage in case snowballs failed, while his friends slept.

Harry and the Weasley Twins ambushed Professor Quirrell with snowballs, but when he refused to remove his turban, Harry released a Chinese Chomping Cabbage on him. The chapter ended with the cabbage biting Quirrell on the back of the head as he adjusted his turban.

• Harry packed a Chinese Chomping Cabbage and Dragonhide gloves before meeting Fred and George to plan their ambush of Quirrell.
• Hedwig delivered a letter from Gemma Farley inviting Harry to meet her, and Harry sent back a reply agreeing to go.
• Harry met Cedric Diggory in the Great Hall, then joined Fred and George, who had prepared piles of snowballs and ice balls.
• Fred and George threw snowballs at Quirrell, but he only patted his turban and showed no sign of removing it.
• Harry put on his Dragonhide gloves, took the cabbage from his enchanted pouch, and pretended to fall near Quirrell.
• The Chinese Chomping Cabbage bounced from its shattered pot and bit Quirrell on the back of the head, making him scream.

Professor Quirrell fled after a Chinese chomping cabbage bit his head, deepening Harry’s suspicions about the secret beneath his turban. Harry helped the Weasley twins avoid harsher punishment, and the three began speculating that Quirrell was hiding Dark Arts research.

• A Chinese chomping cabbage bit Professor Quirrell, who refused help and hurried away with bloodied garlic falling from his turban.
• Harry claimed the cabbage had been his responsibility, and Professor McGonagall docked Gryffindor ten points while excusing him from further punishment.
• Professor McGonagall gave Fred and George detention for their snowball cannon prank.
• Harry told Fred and George that Quirrell’s refusal to remove his turban suggested he was hiding a secret, possibly related to the Dark Arts.
• Fred and George asked Harry what they should do about their suspicions.

Harry prepared for the approaching holiday while Hermione and Ron argued over spells and drinks in the Great Hall. When Draco insulted Ron, Hermione used a history book to reveal that a Malfoy ancestor had fought alongside a Weasley ancestor, leaving Draco determined to question his father about Cassandra Malfoy.

• Harry told the twins to wait before pranking a professor again, then declined their invitation to a snowball fight and spoke with Hagrid as he brought in a fir tree.
• Harry told Ron that Professor Sprout had confiscated Neville’s Chinese chomping cabbage after it bit Professor Quirrell.
• Hermione quizzed Ron on spell incantations and discussed Tooth-strengthening Potion with him.
• Draco insulted Ron for drinking Coke and associating with Muggle-borns, so Hermione challenged his knowledge of Malfoy family history.
• Hermione read Bathilda Bagshot’s account of Cassandra Malfoy, who had fought alongside a Weasley ancestor during the Goblin Rebellion.
• Draco stormed off, planning to ask his father about Cassandra Malfoy when he went home.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione traveled home for the holiday, and Harry planned to take Ron to Ollivander’s to see whether a new wand would help him with magic. After they arrived at the station, Hermione invited them to dinner at her home before going to Diagon Alley.

• Harry told Hermione and Ron that Gemma Farley had asked to be friends with him, and Hermione said Gemma had challenged him only because she was a Prefect.
• Harry explained that Ron’s wand might be making spells difficult for him and offered to buy him a new wand for Christmas.
• Hermione invited Harry and Ron to her home for dinner, and her parents agreed to drive them to Diagon Alley afterward.
• At the station, Draco lowered his head and hurried past Harry, Ron, and Hermione, while Hermione watched him with a sweet smile.
• Ron recognized the Grangers’ car and pointed out its winged letter “B” emblem.

Draco asked Lucius about rumors of Cassandra Malfoy and a Harry Potter who had fought beside her against the Goblins. Lucius confirmed their family history but left Draco wondering why Cassandra had been kept secret.

• Mr. Granger enthusiastically asked Ron about the Weasleys’ flying car, and Ron agreed to arrange a visit during the summer.
• Draco returned home troubled, then told Lucius that he had heard Cassandra Malfoy had fought alongside a Weasley.
• Lucius reacted sharply to the name Harry Potter, then clarified that he meant a different Harry Potter from the past.
• Lucius explained that Cassandra had joined that man in defeating the Goblin Rebellion and The Ashwinder Party, before both vanished after confronting Runcorn.
• Draco asked why his family had never told him about Cassandra, despite her exceptional talent.

Lucius told Draco about Cassandra’s disappearance and urged him to befriend Harry for the Malfoy family’s interests. After dinner at the Grangers’, Harry and Ron stayed the night, and the children began considering Christmas gifts for their professors.

• Lucius explained that Cassandra stole Merlin’s Treasure, vanished after muttering Potter’s name, and was meant to be welcomed back into the Malfoy family if found.
• Draco recounted his encounters with Harry, and Lucius reprimanded him for insulting Hermione before advising him to befriend Harry.
• Harry and Ron enjoyed a generous dinner at the Grangers’ home and were too full to get up from the table.
• Mr. Granger invited Harry and Ron to accompany him to the bank the next day and offered to drop them at the Leaky Cauldron.
• Hermione remembered she needed Christmas gifts for the professors, prompting Harry to wonder what they should give them.

Harry bought Christmas gifts and potion ingredients in Diagon Alley, then helped Ron get a wand that suited him. After drinking Ageing Potion to look nineteen, Harry entered Knockturn Alley and used Imperio on a wizard who threatened him.

• Harry decided to give Professor Snape a photograph of his parents and brought a shopping list for gifts, potion ingredients, and older-looking clothes.
• Harry bought supplies in Diagon Alley, including Ageing Potion from Zonko's Joke Shop, and took Ron to Ollivanders.
• Mr. Ollivander identified problems with Ron's hand-me-down wand and fitted him with a Willow Wood wand that worked perfectly.
• Harry drank the Ageing Potion in a restaurant bathroom, transformed into a nineteen-year-old, and left Ron behind.
• Harry entered Knockturn Alley, lured a threatening wizard into a small alley, and cast Imperio on him.

Harry used the Imperius Curse to make Darkie take him to Borgin and Burkes, where he bought seeds for dangerous magical plants. After lifting the curse, Harry transformed Darkie into a Flobberworm and erased his memory.

• Harry used the Imperius Curse to take Darkie's wand and make him lead the way to a shop in Knockturn Alley.
• Darkie brought Harry to Borgin and Burkes, where Harry gave the name Sebastian and asked Mr. Borgin for Chinese chomping cabbage and Venomous Tentacula seeds.
• Harry paid five Galleons for the seeds and asked Mr. Borgin about his grandfather, Herbet Borgin.
• Harry returned to the alley with Darkie and lifted the Imperius Curse.
• Darkie confronted Harry about using an Unforgivable Curse, but Harry transformed him into a Flobberworm and cast Obliviate Maxima.