Chapter Summaries

After the Centaurs’ divination eased Harry’s fears, Andrew punished Harry, Ron, and their friends for breaking curfew. The next morning, Andrew led a Hogsmeade group and used a clever spell to keep track of its members.

• Andrew told Harry and the other two they would miss two days of Hogsmeade Week and clean toilets beside the Slytherin common room.
• Hagrid, Sirius, and Professor Nina left Harry, Ron, and the third member to reflect on how Andrew had set the adventure in motion.
• Professor McGonagall announced strict rules for Hogsmeade Week and assigned students to supervised routes.
• Andrew led the snack route, attached enchanted flower petals to the students’ clothes, and warned them to stay in sight.
• Kevin questioned Andrew about the unfamiliar magic he had used to track the group.

Andrew led the students on a guarded shopping trip around Hogsmeade, then used a Time-Turner to rest before attending Professor Nina’s gathering. The gathering took place at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, where former colleagues teased Andrew about dating before Nina returned with the other class representatives.

• Andrew guided the students through Hogsmeade’s shops while staying alert for danger, then dismissed them after returning safely to school.
• Andrew used a Time-Turner to sleep, woke for lunch, and left Percy’s notes alone before heading to the gathering.
• Professor Nina held the gathering at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, explaining that she had split the class representatives into different groups to help them get acquainted.
• A Gryffindor Seventh Year female Prefect and other students teased Andrew about dating and offered to introduce him to older girls.

Andrew Taylor attended a teahouse gathering with two younger students to help Professor Nina build connections and improve the Anti-Dark Arts course. He put the girls at ease and promised to show them the Hufflepuff kitchen and ask about a quick trip to Honeydukes.

• Andrew reflected on his guilt about involving Sirius's family member in the cursed Anti-Dark Arts post and his efforts to help the new professor settle in.
• Eve Jensen and Luna Lovegood arrived, and Andrew introduced himself and learned that Professor Nina had brought them with their families' permission.
• Andrew bought Eve and Luna drinks and eased their nerves by talking about school and the Hufflepuff common room's proximity to the kitchen.
• Andrew promised to show Eve and Luna the kitchen after they returned to Hogwarts and offered to ask Professor Nina for time to visit Honeydukes.

Nina brought Taylor and several students together for an informal discussion about Anti-Dark Arts, hoping to draw Taylor into a more ordinary student life. The gathering ended with Taylor escorting two younger students back to school while Nina and the others chose what to do next.

• Nina reflected on Taylor's extraordinary abilities and worried that his life lacked the emotional experiences of an ordinary student.
• Nina led the students to a large table, bought refreshments, and began their discussion despite the strain on her wallet.
• Andrew and the other students discussed Anti-Dark Arts questions, course material, and practical adventuring knowledge.
• Nina ended the gathering, asked the students to collect feedback for next week, and arranged to meet at the Three Broomsticks.
• Nina asked Taylor to take two younger students back to school, and he agreed while offering them time to buy snacks.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed their inability to find Mundungus and their concerns about Andrew Taylor studying too much. Andrew later helped Luna with her Transfiguration studies in the library, where he developed an idea for an experiment and left to test it.

• Dumbledore told Professor McGonagall that no one had found Mundungus or Peter, and asked how Andrew's Transfiguration was progressing.
• Professor McGonagall said Andrew was beginning his first self-transfiguration trial but worried that his intense studying and lack of friends could harm his well-being.
• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall agreed to reduce Andrew's duties next term if he did not improve, and to train Bob to take on more work.
• Andrew showed Eve and Luna the kitchen, then accepted Luna's invitation to go to the library with her.
• Andrew used Luna's quill and ink to write down an idea from Transfiguration Today, then recommended two introductory books to help Luna with her studies.
• Andrew said he needed to run an experiment and left the library.

Andrew began practicing Human Transfiguration under Professor McGonagall’s supervision and successfully transformed his arm into three different animal arms before restoring it each time. He left with a warning not to attempt full-body transformations or use the magic on other students until he had practiced more.

• Hal and Kevin woke to find Andrew in the dormitory, and Andrew joined them for breakfast plans before his supervised practice.
• Professor McGonagall warned Andrew that Human Transfiguration was dangerous and told him to remain careful.
• Andrew transformed his left arm into a baboon’s arm, tested its strength, and restored it without harm.
• Andrew successfully repeated the transformation with a gorilla’s arm and a monkey’s arm, learning to control the required magical force.
• Professor McGonagall warned Andrew not to alter the rules of Human Transfiguration or transform other students, and scheduled another supervised practice for the next morning.

After his first successful Human Transfiguration, Andrew investigated Hogwarts’ old rules and discovered that the school had once used brutal punishments, including one given to Arthur Weasley. Meanwhile, Hal’s inquiries into Andrew’s activities produced no scandal, and the students concluded he had simply gone to the Library with Luna.

• Dumbledore praised Andrew’s promising approach to Transfiguration, while McGonagall handed him prepared documents.
• Andrew asked Madam Pince where he could find records of Hogwarts’ past rules, and she directed him to Filch’s office.
• Andrew read records of harsh punishments under caretaker Apollyon Pringle, including Arthur Weasley receiving one hundred strokes of the cane for staying out until four in the morning.
• Andrew decided the old punishments were terrifying and considered using their history in a new chapter of A Legend, while planning to soften the story in a reply letter.
• Hal told Hughes and Kevin that Andrew had gone to the Library with Luna, and they dismissed the outing as ordinary.

Andrew was assigned to keep score at Quidditch tryouts and unexpectedly learned that he had been added to Ravenclaw’s team roster, drawing envy from his classmates. He prepared to attend tryouts after using his Time-Turner to nap, while Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed his new place on the team and his unusual use of the device.

• Norman told Andrew that he had been added to the Quidditch team roster and would need to attend Sunday training and fly the full distance to the pitch.
• Andrew’s roommates and other students heard the news and reacted with envy, while Eileen Bri welcomed him to the team and explained his training obligations.
• Bell, Kevin, and Hal speculated that Andrew’s visits to the Head of House had earned him a place on the roster, but Andrew wondered why he had been selected.
• Andrew used the Time-Turner to rest before heading to Quidditch tryouts, where he was due to keep score.
• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed Filius’s support for Andrew and considered telling Miss Granger about using a Time-Turner to sleep.

Andrew settled into a manageable school routine, then received a huge bag of heartfelt letters from Dumbledore’s former students and decided to publish them as a separate memoir. He planned to resume writing A Legend before Christmas while continuing his studies, but he still wondered what had happened to the Horcrux.

• Bell won a place on the House team and received a Cleansweep Seven, while Andrew joined the team as its mascot.
• Andrew opened a package of letters from Dumbledore’s former students and discovered that the supposedly selected collection weighed over twenty pounds.
• After reading several letters, Andrew decided they were too heartfelt to discard and proposed publishing them as a separate memoir to benefit the Hogwarts Student Aid Fund.
• Andrew planned to outline a new installment of A Legend and resume updates before Christmas, while keeping up his Transfiguration practice and working harder on Charms and Potions.
• Andrew recalled Draco answering a question in Care of Magical Creatures, then being outperformed by Hermione, and wondered what had happened to the Horcrux.

Tom Riddle worked in a Potions Shop while fearing that the other Voldemort’s returning power had disrupted his resurrection. Meanwhile, Voldemort punished Wormtail and doubted that his own second attempt to build a body would succeed.

• Tom Riddle served customers at the Potions Shop and resolved to use its new ingredients and methods to rebuild his body through Ritual Magic.
• Tom realized that the other Voldemort’s recovering power had interrupted the Horcrux’s resurrection and weakened him.
• Tom decided he would reclaim the name Voldemort after completing his resurrection.
• Voldemort cursed Wormtail for his failures but recognized that he still needed him as his only follower.
• Voldemort began to doubt that his second attempt to build a body would survive, though he planned to gather more strength.

Andrew continued his Human Transfiguration training with Professor McGonagall, who discussed Animagi and his future research. He then dealt with Professor Trelawney’s complaint about Hermione Granger and left for class late.

• Andrew earned twelve Ravenclaw points in Arithmancy as his Housemates urged him to keep pace with Hermione Granger.
• Professor McGonagall told Andrew he could finish transforming his whole body by the end of next month and advised him to study Animagus magic after preparing for Weather Divination over the summer.
• Professor McGonagall explained that Animagi were harder to detect and could resist harmful effects, though Human Transfiguration was more flexible.
• Professor Trelawney complained to Andrew that Hermione Granger had argued with her and walked out of Divination.
• Andrew told Professor Trelawney that Hermione had already been removed from her class and that assigning her Detention would require a written request to reverse the removal.
• Andrew realized he was late for Transfiguration and planned to ask Professor McGonagall what had happened between Hermione and Professor Trelawney.

After Hermione Granger left Divination, Professor McGonagall questioned her about abandoning classes and pursuing every certificate, while Andrew was assigned to teach McGonagall’s lesson. McGonagall let Hermione keep her unusual timetable on the condition that she remain the top-ranked student and return her Time-Turner if she lost that position.

• Andrew told Professor McGonagall that Miss Granger had argued with Professor Trelawney and left Divination, and he had removed her from the class without assigning detention.
• Professor McGonagall left Andrew in charge of her lesson and went to speak with Granger.
• Students in Muggle Studies gossiped about Granger’s departure from Divination while she continued earning House Points.
• Professor McGonagall asked Hermione why she had abandoned Divination, and Hermione said she wanted to focus on subjects she valued and keep first place in several classes.
• Professor McGonagall agreed Hermione could keep her timetable and Time-Turner as long as she stayed the top-ranked student, and Hermione promised she would.

Andrew took over Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class and tried to guide the students through their lesson. He left them studying until the bell, while they debated whether his supervised class had really been self-study.

• Andrew reassured himself that he would supervise a study period rather than teach, then took charge of the class when Professor McGonagall left.
• Andrew silenced the students, sent Hal and another student to the back, and used his Wand to put the lesson’s Transfiguration instructions on the blackboard.
• Andrew demonstrated how to make a watermelon seed grow legs and crawl, then offered extra credit for turning it into a flying beetle.
• Andrew handed out seeds, threatened Detention for students who failed to learn the spell, and circulated to help them with their transformations.
• Andrew ended the lesson and told the students to study until the bell; after he left, they cheered and argued over whether the class counted as self-study.

Taylor’s attempt to teach a class and Andrew’s progress in Transfiguration drew attention at Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore agreed Andrew was ready for broader study, while Andrew began helping Luna with difficult Transfiguration concepts.

• Students at lunch gossiped about Taylor teaching, the potion’s side effect, and Hermione’s argument with Professor Trelawney.
• Dumbledore asked Professor McGonagall about Taylor’s state of mind, and she said he had become livelier and was nearing full-body Human Transfiguration.
• Professor McGonagall proposed giving Taylor access to the entire Restricted Section, including books on Dark Magic, and Dumbledore approved.
• Andrew reviewed the Transfiguration spells he still needed to master and planned to focus on Charms after completing Human Transfiguration.
• Luna asked Andrew to explain passages from the Transfiguration books he had recommended, and he began reviewing her notes.

Ginny, Hannah, and Beverly enjoyed a relaxed afternoon while discussing schoolwork, magical stories, and rumors about Luna. Luna joined them after studying Transfiguration, hoping to make images of unusual creatures so Professor Nina might take her seriously.

• Beverly and Hannah talked with Ginny about grades, House Points, and the pressure to compete with talented students.
• Beverly explained that Luna had left their group to study after becoming interested in Transfiguration and unusual magical creatures.
• Ginny and Hannah discussed the Fountain of Fair Fortune, while Beverly speculated that Fudge had benefited from it.
• Luna arrived, explained that she had forgotten to replace her Wand behind her ear, and said she found Transfiguration more interesting than expected.
• Luna said she hoped to recreate images of the creatures she described so Professor Nina might believe her.

Andrew achieved a perfect full-body Human Transfiguration under Professor McGonagall’s supervision and discussed his next research project with her. He planned to begin by turning grass into sugar as a step toward developing Bread Magic and challenging Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration.

• Andrew transformed completely into a red-furred baboon, then returned to human form with his wand.
• Professor McGonagall praised Andrew’s transformation and said he had mastered the Transfiguration curriculum apart from flawless summoning.
• Andrew told Professor McGonagall he wanted to study food transfiguration, eventually turning air into starch to make bread.
• Andrew proposed starting with Grass Bread and using his thesis to introduce enzymes and catalysts.
• Professor McGonagall approved Andrew’s project and told him to submit a proposal so he could use his laboratory.

Andrew began a project to convert wood into sugar through Transfiguration, aiming to develop research that others could build on. Professor McGonagall approved his proposal and granted him access to every book in the Restricted Section, warning him to avoid Dark Magic.

• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed Andrew's ambitious plan to bring Muggle knowledge into the Wizarding world and agreed to approve his project.
• Andrew drafted a proposal on converting wood into sugar and chose termites as his initial test subjects.
• Andrew decided to conduct the experiments carefully rather than simply copy an existing result, hoping others could continue the work.
• Professor McGonagall approved Andrew's proposal and directed him to collect his initial funding from Professor Alice.
• Professor McGonagall told Andrew that he could access every book in the Restricted Section and cautioned him to approach Dark Magic carefully.

Andrew’s roommates noticed that he had started disappearing again, while Andrew focused on a new research project involving enzymes and magical transformation. He realized he had repeatedly borrowed Restricted Section books without submitting the required authorization slip and decided he needed to apologize.

• Hal, Kevin, Bell, and Hughes discussed Andrew’s renewed absences and headed to the library to study.
• Andrew registered three Restricted Section books with Madam Pince, then declined his roommates’ invitation to dinner so he could continue working.
• Andrew reviewed his progress in transforming substances with enzymes and purifying them for his experiment.
• Andrew realized he had borrowed Restricted Section books without submitting the required authorization slip and resolved to apologize.

Andrew studied forbidden Magical Transformation research while struggling to adapt Muggle enzyme methods to Hogwarts’ magic and lack of laboratory equipment. He produced a glucose-rich mixture and planned to ask Professor McGonagall for help with storage and magical translation.

• Andrew realized that Hogwarts lacked the equipment and conditions needed to store and study his enzyme using ordinary Muggle laboratory methods.
• Andrew concluded that he would need to translate the enzyme process into magical steps, since other wizards could not reproduce its Muggle techniques.
• Andrew read Restricted Section records describing Magical Transformation, an irreversible and taboo practice that used experiments on humans and magical creatures to pursue greater power.
• Andrew used Legilimency to push away the disturbing memories and turned his thoughts to A Legend before heading to eat.
• Andrew tested the mixture produced by his experiment and confirmed that it contained a large amount of glucose.
• Andrew decided to take his results to Professor McGonagall and ask for help with the problems he could not solve alone.

Andrew showed Professor McGonagall an enzyme experiment that was still reacting, and she alerted Dumbledore. Snape analyzed the resulting liquid, revealing its contents with a spell that Andrew immediately wanted to learn.

• Andrew demonstrated his enzyme experiment to Professor McGonagall and explained how he had used transfiguration and Muggle methods to process the wood.
• Professor McGonagall warned Andrew about the dangers of magical experiments, then went to inform Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore examined the murky mixture and summoned Snape to identify it.
• Snape declared the mixture to be mildly toxic sugar water with rotted roots and trace magic, and Andrew eagerly wondered what spell Snape had used.