Chapter Summaries

Snape punished the Slytherins after Hally insulted him, then summoned Rhine Snow and Harry Potter for what they suspected would be special tutoring. Later, Hagrid invited them for tea and revealed that he had fought poachers in the Forbidden Forest, including members of the notorious Slytherin Party.

• Snape made the Slytherins stand, hoisted Marcus Flint upside down, and took fifty points from Slytherin after reprimanding them for their behavior.
• Snape assigned Rhine Snow and Harry Potter detention in his office the following Tuesday, and they suspected he intended to tutor them rather than punish them.
• Hedwig delivered Hagrid's invitation, and Harry accepted, inviting Rhine, Ron, and Hermione to join him for tea.
• Rhine, Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Hagrid's hut, where Rhine noticed bloodstains on a crossbow and asked about Hagrid's encounters with enemies.
• Hagrid explained that he sometimes fought poachers seeking valuable magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest and identified the infamous group from a century earlier as the Slytherin Party.

Hagrid told Rhine about the Slytherin Party and the Ancient Magic hidden in Hogwarts, then privately asked whether Rhine might have giant blood. Rhine reassured Hagrid that he was proud to call him a friend, and the chapter ended with the system awarding Rhine Staff Mastery after Yuan Hong regarded him as a kindred spirit.

• Hagrid said the Slytherin Party had been destroyed after a conflict over Ancient Magic at Hogwarts, and Rhine considered asking the Basilisk about it.
• Hagrid privately asked Rhine whether he was a Half-Giant because Rhine understood troll language and had befriended a troll.
• Rhine told Hagrid he was Muggle-born and praised Hagrid as a kind and noble person, saying he would be honored to be a Half-Giant like him.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ron came back into the hut and told Hagrid they thought highly of him too.
• Hagrid embraced Rhine, Hermione, Harry, and Ron as the system announced that Yuan Hong regarded Rhine as a kindred spirit and rewarded him with Staff Mastery.

Rhine persuaded Hagrid to join the Pokémon Project, showing him how his knowledge of magical creatures could help the venture and protect creatures from poachers. On the way back, Rhine and his friends divided Hagrid’s valuable gifts, and Ron reflected on his family’s sacrifices and hoped they might become rich someday.

• Rhine encouraged Hagrid to overcome his doubts by pointing to Madame Maxime’s success and telling him his Half-Giant blood did not have to hold him back.
• Rhine explained the Pokémon Project and demonstrated Huhu’s improved fire abilities, convincing Hagrid that his expertise with magical creatures could help the project and protect the Forbidden Forest.
• Hagrid agreed to join the project, revealed that Aba the troll was living in a suitable part of the Forbidden Forest, and gave Rhine and his friends Rock Cakes and assorted belongings.
• Rhine identified Hagrid’s gifts as valuable, and the group divided them, with Rhine taking the Erkling-hide bag, Harry taking a fox-fur scarf, Hermione taking Dragon Hide gloves, and Ron receiving a Unicorn Hair blanket.
• Ron explained that his mother gave the family the best of what she had and rarely bought anything for herself, and Rhine assured him that the Weasley children would someday become successful and wealthy.

Rhine claimed the Battle Prowess Natural and Staff Mastery talents, discovering that staff techniques could draw on Malevolent Qi to unleash devastating attacks. After two days of training, he returned to the Gryffindor common room, where Harry asked him for help putting on makeup again.

• Harry hesitated to ask Rhine for something, then let him go when Rhine said he needed the bathroom.
• Rhine claimed Battle Prowess Natural and Staff Mastery, gaining instinctive combat skill and mastery of the Ancient Staff.
• Rhine discovered that his staff techniques drew on Malevolent Qi and cracked the bathroom wall with a single strike.
• Rhine considered searching the Room of Requirement for Ravenclaw's Diadem so he could destroy it and claim Voldemort's reward.
• Rhine spent the next two days studying Ancient Magic, absorbing spiritual energy, and practicing his new abilities.
• Harry waited for Rhine in the Gryffindor common room and asked him to help put on makeup again.

Harry dressed as Hally to feel closer to his mother, Lily, and Rhine helped him with his makeup. His unusual appearance unsettled the professors, but Harry’s improved schoolwork kept them from stopping him, until Voldemort urged Quirrell to teach him Defense Against the Dark Arts.

• Harry showed Rhine a photograph of Lily as a student and explained that dressing up helped him feel closer to her, so Rhine agreed to help with his makeup for a week.
• Professor McGonagall ordered Hally to remove his makeup, but Hally argued that it was made with Transfiguration and that his studies had improved; she excelled in class, leaving McGonagall unable to stop him.
• Professor Binns awarded Gryffindor a point for Hally’s retro clothing, while Professor Sprout praised his appearance and let him continue dressing up.
• Rhine and Hally went to Defense Against the Dark Arts, where Quirrell and the Voldemort possessing him were shocked to see Harry cross-dressed again.
• Voldemort demanded that Quirrell stop telling stories and teach Harry Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Quirrell revealed his true skill as a wizard and taught the class about Dark Magic before demonstrating his combat ability. Seeing the students’ interest grow, he challenged Rhine to spar with him.

• Quirrell agreed to reveal his abilities, and Rhine noticed his change from timid teacher to imposing wizard.
• Quirrell explained that Dark Magic drew power from negative emotions and offered to teach the students how to resist it.
• Quirrell urged Hally to change out of her clothes and makeup, but she defended using her appearance to humiliate Dark Wizards.
• Quirrell held practical sparring, easily disarming Hermione and defeating several other young wizards.
• Quirrell called Rhine Snow forward to demonstrate his skills in Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Rhine challenged Quirrell to a duel and overwhelmed him with precise spells and powerful fire magic, forcing Voldemort to take control of Quirrell's body. The battle continued as Voldemort tried to bind Rhine, only to discover Rhine's strength was far beyond expectation.

• Rhine agreed to duel Quirrell and opened with a barrage of spells that kept the professor on the defensive.
• Rhine combined Transfiguration, fire, and wind magic into a powerful stream of flames, prompting Voldemort to take control of Quirrell.
• Rhine used his Control Fire at Will talent to reshape the flames into weapons and creatures that surrounded Voldemort.
• Voldemort found an opening and used a glittering rope to try to pull Rhine off balance, but Rhine did not move.
• Rhine's strength reversed the pull and dragged Voldemort toward him.

Rhine defeated Quirrell in class and taught the Gryffindors to seek spells suited to their own talents and desires. After helping Malfoy in the corridor, Rhine planned for his detention with Harry in Snape’s office and suggested Harry give Snape a photo of his mother.

• Rhine used the Ancient Staff to knock Quirrell unconscious, then explained that mastering magic depended on discovering spells suited to each wizard’s inner traits and desires.
• Hermione resolved to learn the Shield Charm to protect Rhine and others, while Harry’s desire to stop the source of the green light prompted him to disarm Quirrell’s wand.
• The Gryffindors left class discussing Rhine’s advice, and Seamus proudly declared himself an artist of explosions.
• Rhine steadied Malfoy after someone shoved him in the corridor and noticed that their enemy relationship had softened to mere acquaintances.
• Rhine reminded Harry about their detention in Snape’s office and suggested he give Snape a copy of a photo of Harry’s mother.

On his way to Snape’s office, Rhine discovered that the system identified Peeves as the Underworld’s Night Patrol God and offered powerful soul-related talents for befriending him. Rhine decided to frighten Peeves into behaving, then leapt at him with his Vajra Indestructible Body power.

• Rhine and Harry left the Gryffindor common room for Snape’s office and encountered Peeves in the corridor.
• The system identified Peeves as the Night Patrol God and revealed the talents Rhine could gain by befriending him.
• Rhine considered the value of awakening souls and appointing ghost generals, and saw Peeves as a chance to gain those abilities.
• Peeves sensed Rhine’s pressure, demanded an apology, and threatened him.
• Rhine summoned a trace of gold in his palm and lunged at Peeves, who cried out that a little wizard was trying to murder a ghost.

Rhine intimidated Peeves, learned that the four founders feared Ancient Magic and met mysterious ends, then calmed the distressed ghost with a promise to show him Tom and Jerry. Their relationship advanced to Close Friendship, granting Rhine the Ghost God of Night talent.

• Rhine stopped Peeves from disturbing Harry by threatening him with a glowing palm that made him fear complete annihilation.
• Peeves revealed that he had known the four founders and shared stories about Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and the Sorting Hat.
• When Rhine asked about Ancient Magic, Peeves panicked, warned that the founders had gone mad and met terrible ends, then began ramming his head against a wall.
• Rhine promised to bring Peeves Tom and Jerry during the school break, and Peeves calmed down and floated away.
• Rhine's relationship with the Ghost God of Night reached Close Friendship, rewarding him with the Ghost God of Night talent.

Rhine claimed the Call Souls, Awaken Spirits and Ghost God of Night talents, discovering that they strengthened his body and magic and let him perceive memories and summon souls through magical portraits. He then arrived late with Hally at Snape’s office, where a photograph of Lily greeted Snape and stunned him.

• Rhine claimed the Call Souls, Awaken Spirits and Ghost God of Night talents while Hally waited for him.
• Rhine found that Ghost God of Night boosted his physique, defense, and magic beneath the night sky.
• Rhine used Call Souls, Awaken Spirits to understand that magical portraits held traces of soul aura and could serve as mediums for contacting the dead.
• Rhine and Hally arrived forty minutes late at Snape’s office, and Hally offered him a photograph as a gift.
• Lily’s image greeted Snape, asking why he had gotten so old, and Snape stopped breathing in shock.

Snape recognized Lily in a photograph and agreed to teach Hally potion brewing and magic, then introduced her to his Dark Magic spell Sectumsempra. The chapter ended with Hally learning that Snape had created the dangerous spell and being warned to use it only in dire circumstances.

• Hally showed Snape a photograph of her mother Lily, and Snape took it away before ordering Hally and Rhine to process Flobberworms.
• Snape examined Hally's magical abilities and told her she would come weekly for lessons in potions and magic.
• When Hally asked about her father, Snape cast Inverted Golden Bell on her and made her hang upside down.
• Hally speculated that Snape might have been involved with Lily, and Snape hastily lowered her with a spell.
• Hally demonstrated that she had already mastered Inverted Golden Bell, so Snape decided to teach her Sectumsempra, a Dark Magic spell he had created.

Snape taught Harry Sectumsempra, but Rhine’s extraordinary spellwork and potion skills made Snape suspect he might be Voldemort in disguise. Rhine knocked Harry unconscious and withstood Snape’s attack, leaving Snape stunned by his near-impenetrable defenses.

• Harry hesitated to learn Sectumsempra after seeing the damage it did, but trusted Snape and decided to practice it.
• Snape refused Harry’s request to teach Rhine, then watched Rhine demonstrate that he had already learned Inverted Golden Bell and Sectumsempra and could process advanced potion ingredients flawlessly.
• Snape grew wary of Rhine, suspecting Voldemort might be controlling his body and using his friendship with Harry as a cover.
• Rhine denied having sinister intentions, then knocked Harry unconscious and said he wanted to ask Snape about another potion.
• Snape attacked Rhine with Sectumsempra, but Rhine’s golden body repelled the spell, shocking Snape.

Rhine persuaded Snape that he was not connected to Voldemort, then demonstrated his soul-summoning magic using Harry’s blood and Lily’s photograph. Lily’s spirit emerged, leaving Snape stunned and hopeful.

• Rhine disarmed Snape, explained that he wanted to discuss a resurrection potion, and showed him a note insulting Voldemort.
• Snape admitted that he had tried every known resurrection potion after Lily’s death and believed only the legendary Resurrection Stone could summon souls.
• Rhine said the Resurrection Stone’s magic could be replicated and offered Snape a chance to reclaim Lily.
• Rhine used Harry’s blood and Lily’s photograph as a medium, then cast Call Souls, Awaken Spirits to summon Lily’s soul.
• Lily’s translucent soul emerged from the photograph, and Snape stared at her in disbelief.

Rhine summoned Lily’s soul, allowing her to see Harry and forgive Snape while urging him to live well and protect Harry. After the spell failed and Lily warned against resurrection, Snape vowed to bring her back, while Rhine’s actions deepened their friendship and earned him rewards.

• Rhine summoned Lily, who recognized the sleeping Harry and thanked Rhine for looking after him.
• Lily told Rhine she would wait to meet Harry when he was more mature, then reunited with Snape and praised his change of path.
• Snape confessed that he had passed Trelawney’s prophecy to Voldemort, and Lily acknowledged his mistake while telling him to let go of the past, protect Harry, and teach well.
• Call Souls, Awaken Spirits drained Rhine until it failed, and Lily warned Snape that resurrection was taboo and terrifying before fading away.
• Snape vowed to revive Lily despite her warning and thanked Rhine, whose bond with Grand Supreme Elder reached Life-and-Death Friendship and granted him Alchemy Profound and the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover Refinement Method.

Rhine successfully called Lily's soul back, gaining Snape's gratitude and the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover Refinement Method. He collected rare ingredients from Snape's hidden stores and left with Harry to claim his talent and refine a Flying Tiger Pill.

• Rhine's Call Souls, Awaken Spirits magic reunited Snape with Lily and earned him the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover Refinement Method.
• Snape gave Rhine a restorative potion and asked when he could keep Lily's soul in the living world permanently.
• Rhine said he might strengthen his ability with potion ingredients, so Snape opened his hidden collection to him.
• Rhine gathered rare materials, including a tiger bone that could serve as the main ingredient for a Flying Tiger Pill.
• Rhine left Snape's office with Harry, eager to claim his talent and begin refining pills.

Rhine used the Room of Requirement to refine Flying Tiger Pills after gaining the Alchemy Profound talent, producing three Golden Elixirs and eighteen high-grade pills. He swallowed a Golden Elixir, and a thunderstorm gathered over Hogwarts, leaving Quirrell alarmed as lightning seemed to converge above him.

• Harry woke in the dormitory and learned that Rhine had carried him back after he fell asleep during detention with Snape.
• Rhine entered the Room of Requirement and claimed the Alchemy Profound talent before studying and improving the Flying Tiger Pill formula.
• Rhine refined three Golden Elixir-grade Flying Tiger Pills and eighteen high-grade Flying Tiger Pills in one batch.
• Rhine swallowed a Golden Elixir, and dark clouds and lightning gathered over Hogwarts Castle.
• Quirrell returned from the Forbidden Forest, sensed the lightning gathering above him, and urgently tried to wake his master.

Rhine absorbed a Flying Tiger golden core, greatly strengthening his body and magic, while Voldemort was forced to endure the lightning meant for the pill’s golden core. After leaving the Room of Requirement, Rhine found Jemma Farley sitting on a windowsill and warned her not to fall.

• Voldemort woke in Quirrell’s head and complained about the thunder before lightning began striking them.
• Rhine absorbed a Flying Tiger golden core and used the Flying Tiger Military Strategy’s cultivation method to strengthen his body and magic.
• Rhine’s Achieve Vajra Indestructible Body improved, changing its protection from one fatal calamity every three years to once every kun year.
• Rhine left the Room of Requirement and found Jemma Farley crying on a windowsill as she wrote a letter to her parents.
• Rhine told Jemma to sit properly and warned her that falling would traumatize him and make her an unjustly killed prefect.

Rhine Snow comforted Jemma Farley as she grieved over Slytherin’s likely loss of the House Cup, and she left him a warning about a planned attack in Flying class. A system message then introduced Gao Lanying and her Sun God Needle inheritance, though she had not yet appeared in the story.

• Jemma Farley explained her family’s decline and her ambition to become Head Girl and revive the Farley family.
• Jemma blamed Rhine Snow for ruining her prospects, and Rhine cheered her up by suggesting ways Slytherin could lose the House Cup in future years.
• Jemma thanked Rhine, joked about marrying him into the Farley family, and warned him that Slytherin first-years planned to target him in Flying class.
• After Jemma left, Rhine received a system message describing Gao Lanying’s martial skills, exceptional eyesight, and Sun God Needle inheritance.

Rhine received a reward for befriending Gao Lanying and considered combining his perception talents. Neville’s grandmother thanked Rhine for encouraging Neville’s Herbology studies and sent him a badge that Rhine sensed carried destiny.

• Rhine learned that befriending Gao Lanying had earned him Exceptional Martial Arts and considered fusing it with other talents.
• Hermes delivered letters from Warwick and Ollivander, and Rhine thought about whether letter-writing could earn him friendship rewards.
• Hermione and the others worried that Rhine had suffered from Hagrid’s Rock Cakes, while the Weasley brothers asked him to save them some.
• Neville received a package from his grandmother, including a letter and photographs of his parents, who remained at St Mungo’s Hospital.
• Neville gave Rhine a badge from the Lombarton family, and Rhine sensed that it was a Destiny Treasure.