Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue used a series of staged duels to drain the Reincarnators’ resources and win Gilderoy Lockhart’s favor, but he conceded when Eunuch Liu proved resistant to his emotional influence. The students and Snape were left astonished by the fighters’ apparent skill.

• The second Reincarnator fought Xu Yue with advanced spellcasting, spent heavily, and conceded while believing the match helped earn Gilderoy Lockhart’s favor.
• As more Reincarnators challenged and conceded, the watching students grew increasingly convinced that Xu Yue was the Slytherin heir and the Chamber of Secrets’ inheritor.
• Xu Yue recognized that Eunuch Liu was protected from his emotional influence, inferred that he carried the diary Horcrux, and conceded after a few exchanges rather than risk pushing him further.
• Yuji and the other Reincarnators concluded that Xu Yue had exhausted his resources, then praised Eunuch Liu and urged everyone to seek Gilderoy Lockhart’s autographs.
• Gilderoy Lockhart happily signed the students’ books and became more favorably disposed toward them, while Snape wondered whether their extraordinary skill meant he should assign them harder work.

Xu Yue manipulated Snape and Gilderoy Lockhart into putting the Reincarnators through dangerous tutoring while preparing to cash in on their gains. After Dumbledore was dismissed, Gilderoy Lockhart exposed Liu Kun as the Chamber of Secrets heir, and Liu attacked students before fleeing; the professors began searching for the Chamber as Xu Yue received a mission involving Harry.

• Xu Yue revealed that he had encouraged Snape's harsh tutoring and Lockhart's pixie lessons, and noted that Yuji had been petrified after spotting the Basilisk's eyes in a reflection.
• After Dumbledore was dismissed, Gilderoy Lockhart publicly named Liu Kun as the Chamber of Secrets heir, prompting Liu to confess and attack students with dark spells before escaping.
• Xu Yue joined the professors' search with Harry's group, while Hermione explained that a Basilisk had petrified students who had not looked directly into its eyes.
• A mission ordered Xu Yue to keep the professors out of the Chamber of Secrets while ensuring that Harry entered it.

Xu Yue led Harry, Hermione, and Ron into the Chamber of Secrets after immobilizing the professors, and they found the Basilisk’s bones and shed skin. There, they faced a voice claiming to be Liu Kun and Voldemort fused together, who challenged Xu Yue to lift the restriction and fight.

• Xu Yue and the professors discovered an age-based curse blocking adults from entering the Chamber, and the professors concluded that only young wizards could pass.
• Xu Yue argued that he and Harry should enter, then immobilized the professors, grabbed Harry, and jumped into the passage as Hermione and Ron followed.
• Inside the Chamber, Hermione gave everyone small mirrors for protection, while Xu Yue said he would stop the Basilisk from opening its eyes.
• A hidden voice mocked the group, and Xu Yue identified it as Liu Kun or Voldemort.
• The voice confirmed it was Liu Kun and Voldemort fused together and challenged Xu Yue to lift the restriction and defeat it.

Xu Yue stopped Liu Voldemort’s attempt to finish fusing with Voldemort, killed the Basilisk, and took the diary containing the fused soul. He then went to alter Harry and the other children’s memories.

• Xu Yue used Obliviate on the three bewildered children and confronted Liu Voldemort as the fusion continued.
• Liu Voldemort summoned the Basilisk and attacked Xu Yue, but Xu Yue blinded them with dazzling light and confused them with illusions.
• Xu Yue found the diary hidden in the passage and killed the charging Basilisk with Avada Kedavra.
• Liu Voldemort tried to negotiate, but Xu Yue used Legilimency to transfer his memories into the diary and killed him.
• Xu Yue kept the diary and went to alter Harry and the others’ memories.

After Xu Yue and the others defeated Voldemort and killed the Basilisk, Gryffindor won the House Cup, and the students left for the holidays. The Reincarnators believed they had weakened Xu Yue and planned to return with reinforcements next year.

• Hermione explained that Xu Yue had used the Basilisk to block Voldemort’s curse before defeating him, and Dumbledore concluded that Voldemort’s resurrection had failed and killed him.
• At the end-of-term feast, Dumbledore awarded Gryffindor 200 points for saving the school, securing its overwhelming House Cup victory.
• Gilderoy Lockhart announced that he would leave Hogwarts to gather material for a book about his experiences and the Chamber of Secrets.
• Prince Su and the other Reincarnators celebrated Lockhart’s favor and their expected reinforcements, while Prince Su vowed to punish Liu Kun after the mission.
• Xu Yue encouraged Harry to ask the Dursleys for permission to visit Hogsmeade himself, and the family greeted Harry warmly when the train reached King’s Cross.
• Eren and Ande Hai welcomed their respective groups, and Prince Su claimed that the Reincarnators had drained Xu Yue’s money and would finish him off next year.

Xu Yue discussed Sirius's escape from Azkaban and the wizarding world's hunt for him, while the new Reincarnators pursued Gilderoy Lockhart and the Dark Lord faction. Harry fled to The Leaky Cauldron after inflating Marge, and Xu Yue revealed that the escaped fugitive was Harry's godfather.

• Duke Philip asked Xu Yue about Sirius, and Xu Yue explained how the Daily Prophet photograph of Ron's family had exposed Peter Pettigrew and prompted Sirius to escape.
• Prince Su instructed the new Reincarnators to court Gilderoy Lockhart and choose the Dark Lord faction, then led them to Flourish and Blotts to trigger the faction option.
• Xu Yue watched the Reincarnators buy Lockhart's deluxe books and considered helping raise their price.
• Harry lost his temper when Marge insulted his parents and turned her into an inflated balloon, then fled to The Leaky Cauldron in shame.
• Harry told Xu Yue he would apologize to the Dursleys, and Xu Yue revealed that Sirius was Harry's godfather.

Xu Yue told Harry that Sirius Black had betrayed his parents, then reminded him that the records might not reveal the whole truth. As the new term approached, Harry reunited with Ron and Hermione at The Leaky Cauldron, where Crookshanks attacked Scabbers, who was actually Peter Pettigrew.

• Xu Yue told Harry the story of Sirius Black's connection to his parents' deaths, and Harry angrily blamed Black for their deaths.
• Xu Yue cautioned Harry that the truth might differ from the records, then accompanied him to meet Cornelius Fudge.
• Cornelius Fudge reassured Harry that he would face no punishment and promised increased Auror patrols to protect him from Sirius Black.
• Ron and Hermione arrived at The Leaky Cauldron before the new term, and Crookshanks immediately fought with Ron's rat, Scabbers.
• Scabbers was revealed to be Peter Pettigrew, who had been hiding in rat form with the Weasley family.

Xu Yue mediated a quarrel between Ron and Hermione before they boarded the Hogwarts train with Harry. When Dementors boarded the train and approached their compartment, Xu Yue cast a Patronus Charm.

• Xu Yue healed Scabbers and helped Ron and Hermione apologize to each other.
• Xu Yue and the others encountered Prince Su and the Reincarnators at the station before boarding the Hogwarts train.
• Xu Yue identified the sleeping passenger as Professor Lupin and told the others that Hagrid had become a professor.
• The train stopped in a dark forest, and Dementors boarded and moved toward the students' compartment.
• Harry's forehead burned as the Dementors approached, and Xu Yue raised his wand and cast a Patronus Charm.

Xu Yue destroyed the Dementors with an astonishing Patronus Charm, then discussed Sirius Black with Harry and Lupin aboard the train. At Hogwarts, Xu Yue and Hermione received Time-Turners, and Xu Yue planned to use one for all the elective courses while investigating its unique temporal power.

• Xu Yue cast a Patronus Charm that took the form of a gigantic Chinese dragon and wiped out every nearby Dementor, restoring Harry and the others’ spirits.
• Lupin praised Xu Yue’s Patronus, then overheard the trio discussing Sirius Black and reacted with conflicted feelings about his former friend.
• Xu Yue told Lupin that only those involved knew what had truly happened, leaving Lupin unsettled.
• At the Sorting Ceremony, seven Reincarnators joined Gryffindor, bringing the house’s total to ten, and Dumbledore announced that Hagrid and Lupin would teach at Hogwarts while Dementors guarded the grounds.
• McGonagall gave Xu Yue and Hermione Time-Turners after they signed a confidentiality agreement, and Xu Yue planned to take every elective course and study the Time-Turner’s power.

While using a Time-Turner with Hermione, Xu Yue studied how Divination revealed an unchangeable fate and observed Professor Sybill Trelawney’s unusual connection to it. During Hagrid’s Hippogriff lesson, Malfoy insulted a Hippogriff and faced its rising hoof.

• Xu Yue and Hermione used the Time-Turner together, and Xu Yue realized that the past was fixed by an immutable force beyond Reincarnation Space.
• In Divination class, Xu Yue saw that Professor Sybill Trelawney stood apart from the world’s lines of fate, while Hermione dismissed the class as nonsense.
• Professor Sybill Trelawney read Harry’s teacup and declared that he faced an omen of death.
• Xu Yue tested whether he could act differently during the repeated lesson, but the fixed past stopped him from moving his fingers to cast a spell.
• At Hagrid’s Hippogriff lesson, students envied Xu Yue’s Unicorn Horse Head, and Malfoy insulted a Hippogriff that stared at him.
• The Hippogriff raised its hoof toward Malfoy.

After Malfoy was injured by Buckbeak, Hagrid faced threats of trouble, while Lupin’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson introduced the students to a Boggart. Harry fainted when it became a Dementor, and Xu Yue wondered what fear it would reveal in him.

• Buckbeak injured Malfoy after Malfoy provoked him, and Hagrid rushed Malfoy to the hospital wing as Malfoy vowed revenge.
• Malfoy complained about Buckbeak in the dining hall, while Gryffindor students worried that his father would target the creature and Hagrid.
• The Daily Prophet reported that Sirius Black had been seen near Hogwarts, exciting the Gryffindor Reincarnators, who planned to support him.
• Professor Lupin introduced the class to a Boggart and explained that students could defeat it by casting Riddikulus while imagining something funny.
• Harry fainted when the Boggart transformed into a Dementor, while Xu Yue wondered what image the Boggart would reveal from his own heart.

Xu Yue faced his Boggart, which manifested as a mysterious girl whose voice threatened to shatter his soul, and sent her away with Riddikulus. After days of distraction, he rejoined Harry, Hermione, and Ron for their first visit to Hogsmeade, where the Dementors silently moved aside as Xu Yue’s group passed.

• While Harry lay unconscious, Xu Yue stepped into the Boggart’s range and saw it manifest as a beautiful girl in a black lace dress.
• Xu Yue cast Riddikulus, turning the girl into a ridiculous face and ending the frozen scene.
• Xu Yue told Ron and Hermione that his Boggart had become a pretty girl, and Lupin stopped Hermione from vigorously patting Harry’s chest.
• After several days of distraction, Xu Yue reassured Harry, Hermione, and Ron that he had been researching, then discussed their visit to Hogsmeade.
• Professor McGonagall warned the students to behave before allowing them to leave for Hogsmeade.
• As Xu Yue and his friends walked through the passage, the Dementors silently turned away, prompting a nearby student to doubt the Ministry had ordered it.

Ron took Scabbers to a pet shop, where he learned the rat was simply too old to be helped. As Harry and Ron searched for him after Sirius Black chased him away, Xu Yue offered to help find Scabbers.

• Ron told Hermione he wanted to take Scabbers to a doctor, and she agreed to visit the pet shop before Honeydukes.
• Prince Su gathered more than thirty cloaked students at the Hog's Head to discuss welcoming back Lord Bright and reviving The Dark Lord, alarming Aberforth Dumbledore.
• Harry comforted Ron after the pet-shop clerk said Scabbers was too old to recover.
• A large black dog appeared, and Scabbers fled from Ron before Sirius Black chased him away.
• Xu Yue arrived with a Rocket Crossbow, heard Ron's account, and drew his wand to help find Scabbers.

Xu Yue stopped Sirius Black from capturing Scabbers, and George and Fred gave Harry the Marauder’s Map after showing him and Ron a secret passage. When they returned to Gryffindor Tower, they found the Fat Lady missing and her portrait slashed, while the Gryffindor Reincarnators believed a powerful figure had arrived.

• Sirius Black cornered Scabbers in an alley, but Xu Yue appeared and made him let the rat go in exchange for dog food.
• Xu Yue returned Scabbers to Ron, who thanked him for saving his beloved pet.
• George and Fred led Xu Yue, Harry, and Ron through a secret passage from Honeydukes back to Hogwarts and showed them the Marauder’s Map.
• George and Fred gave the Marauder’s Map to Harry after Xu Yue refused it.
• Xu Yue and the others found the Fat Lady’s portrait slashed and the Fat Lady missing, while Gryffindor’s Reincarnators welcomed the sign of an arrival.

After Sirius Black was reported inside Hogwarts, Harry searched the Marauder's Map and spotted Peter Pettigrew's name, while Xu Yue helped Snape prepare Wolfsbane Potion for Lupin. During a rainy Quidditch match, Xu Yue stayed comfortable in the stands as Dementors approached, drawn by the students' joy.

• Dumbledore ordered the students to sleep in the Great Hall while the professors searched the castle, and Prince Su and the Gryffindor squad secretly made plans beneath their blankets.
• Harry used the Marauder's Map to search for Sirius but saw Peter Pettigrew's name near him and dismissed it as a possible flaw in the map.
• Snape took over Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, taught the class about werewolves, then asked Xu Yue to help prepare Wolfsbane Potion for Lupin.
• Xu Yue refused to play in the freezing rain during the Quidditch match and watched from a comfortable enclosure while Hermione and Ron protested.
• Dementors approached the match, drawn by the joyful emotions around Hogwarts despite the Ministry's warnings.

Harry caught the Golden Snitch despite a Dementor attack, and Xu Yue drove the Dementors away with a powerful silver dragon Patronus. As Harry recovered from the match, the Reincarnators planned to act on their suspicions about Snape, while Harry secretly followed Snape and a Hufflepuff student.

• Harry overcame the Dementors' influence long enough to seize the Golden Snitch, then fainted and fell from his broom.
• Xu Yue cast a dragon-shaped Patronus that destroyed the Dementors and caught Harry before he hit the ground.
• Gryffindor won the match, and Xu Yue bought the recovering Harry a new Rocket Crossbow after his old broom was smashed.
• The Reincarnators discussed Xu Yue's powerful Patronus and decided to test whether Snape could help them rescue Lord Bright.
• Harry spotted Peter Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map, then followed Snape and a Hufflepuff first-year under his Invisibility Cloak as Snape discussed the Dark Lord.

Snape exposed Harry while pursuing a Hufflepuff Reincarnator, then confiscated the Marauder’s Map and saw its insults before Lupin took it from him. Xu Yue left believing Lupin would soon discover Pettigrew was alive, while Harry and Hermione planned to comfort Hagrid and see Buckbeak before its execution.

• Snape bound the Hufflepuff Reincarnator after deducting fifty points, then exposed Harry hiding nearby and demanded the object he was concealing.
• Harry handed Snape the Marauder’s Map, and Snape revealed its insulting messages from Moony, Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail.
• Lupin took the map from Snape, while Xu Yue left under a Disillusionment Charm and anticipated Lupin would use it to uncover Pettigrew’s survival.
• Malfoy bragged that Buckbeak would be executed, but Crabbe warned him not to insult Lord Xu Yue.
• Harry lamented Hagrid’s distress, and Xu Yue suggested Harry and Hermione visit him that night while explaining he had work to do on the full moon.
• Hermione covered for Xu Yue, and Harry and Hermione decided to see Buckbeak off in his place.

Harry and Hermione followed Ron into the passage beneath the Whomping Willow, where Sirius Black and Professor Lupin revealed that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and Sirius had been framed. Snape captured Sirius and Lupin, but Hogwarts Reincarnators ambushed him as he left the passage.

• Fudge brought the executioner to Hagrid's hut, but Scabbers bit Ron and fled toward the Forbidden Forest, leading Harry and Hermione after him.
• A Black Dog dragged Ron through a hollow beneath the Whomping Willow into the Shrieking Shack, where Ron identified the dog as Sirius Black.
• Sirius disarmed Harry and Hermione and claimed Peter Pettigrew was the real murderer, while Lupin confirmed that the Marauder's Map had changed his view of Sirius.
• Snape arrived, disarmed Sirius, restrained Lupin, and took them toward Hogwarts while taking fifty points from Gryffindor for Harry breaking school rules.
• Hogwarts Reincarnators ambushed Snape with multiple Disarming Charms and knocked his wand away.

Prince Su’s team tried to rescue Bright while fighting Snape, the transformed Lupin, and the Dementors, but Bright turned against them after Sirius Black disarmed Prince Su. Xu Yue then helped defeat the remaining Reincarnators, leaving his scheme to exploit the group intact.

• Prince Su and the Reincarnators ambushed Snape, but the freed Lupin transformed and attacked their ranks as Snape recovered his wand.
• Prince Su sent Mao Xiong to cover the retreat and revived Bright, but the Dementors joined the attack and forced them to fight on three fronts.
• Yuji persuaded Prince Su to keep fighting, and the Reincarnators used spells and a bear Patronus to hold back Lupin and the Dementors.
• Prince Su tried to attack Harry, but Sirius Black disarmed him; Bright realized the Reincarnators were not allies and attacked them with curses.
• Xu Yue secretly prompted Yuji to target Harry, then struck down the remaining Reincarnators with precise spells and left them unconscious.

After the Hogwarts battle, the Reincarnators paid for the trouble they caused and were given a chance to reform, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione faced Peter Pettigrew's escape and Lupin's likely departure. Xu Yue secretly rescued Peter and ordered him to help revive the Dark Lord by next year; as the students left for summer, the Reincarnators assessed their losses and discussed rival factions.

• Prince Su and the other Reincarnators woke in the infirmary, paid their debts, and received extra lessons and leniency from Hogwarts.
• Harry mourned Peter Pettigrew's escape, Ron recoiled at learning his pet rat had been Peter, and Xu Yue told them Lupin might not teach next term.
• The Ministry withdrew its encirclement of Hogwarts, while Dumbledore acknowledged Sirius Black's innocence and called for a more harmonious school.
• Xu Yue revealed that he had used a Time-Turner to rescue Peter Pettigrew, then ordered him to help revive the Dark Lord by next year.
• Gryffindor won the House Cup, Harry apologized to Uncle Vernon's family, and he arranged to attend the World Cup with his friends.
• Prince Su and the other Reincarnators reviewed their losses and learned that Beiyang's people were likely at Kunlun Cultivation Academy and the French Legion was active around Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.