Chapter Summaries

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, the twins, and Guoguo Tea searched for Colin Creevey, whom they suspected was hiding with the Diary. Guoguo Tea reported that Creevey was hiding somewhere beyond the animals’ reach, leaving the group worried that the professors might find him before they could stop Snape.

• Harry and Ron waited with Hagrid, then hid under the Invisibility Cloak and headed to the Quidditch Pitch to meet the others.
• Ron’s legs went numb from crouching, so Harry carried him out of the castle and reunited with the group at the pitch.
• Harry and Ron learned that the others had not found Creevey, and Guoguo Tea arrived to report that he was hiding outside the castle animals’ reach.
• George suggested Creevey had left Hogwarts or was hiding somewhere animals could not enter, while Hagrid grew grim.
• Ron explained the Whomping Willow Passage and the Shrieking Shack, and Hermione urged the group to keep searching before the professors found Creevey.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, the Weasley twins, Hagrid, and Guoguo Tea searched for Colin Creevey and Peeves while keeping watch on Snape, but found no trace of either. At the Black Ancestral Home, Vaughn explained that Voldemort was waiting for a major distraction before acting and urged Dumbledore to keep Creevey’s disappearance from drawing the professors’ attention.

• Hermione sent Hagrid and Guoguo Tea to search for Creevey, the twins to look for Peeves, and herself, Harry, and Ron to attend class and watch Snape, using Telephone Mirrors to stay in contact.
• By noon the next day, the searchers had found neither Creevey nor Peeves, while Snape continued teaching and taking points from Gryffindor.
• Harry proposed that Hermione subdue Snape if the school or Snape found Creevey first, and the group agreed to keep searching and watching him.
• At the Black Ancestral Home, Sirius confronted Vaughn and Dumbledore over their dangerous plan involving Harry, but accepted that they had laid a trap for Voldemort.
• Vaughn told Sirius and Dumbledore that Voldemort was waiting for a major disturbance to draw attention away from Hogwarts, and warned that Creevey’s disappearance could bring the professors into the search.
• Vaughn urged Dumbledore to invent a convincing excuse for Creevey’s absence so the boy would not be harmed when news of Voldemort’s return became public.

Vaughn explained Voldemort’s planned attack on Gringotts and sent Sirius to Hogwarts to watch Snape, while Dumbledore learned that Azkaban was under assault. Vaughn left through a circular portal as Jacob Rosier’s forces began freeing Death Eaters from Azkaban and Selwyn questioned why they should stay.

• Vaughn told Dumbledore and Sirius that Corban planned to attack Gringotts, and that Bill had warned Egyptian Gringotts in advance.
• Vaughn sent Sirius to Hogwarts to deal with Snape when Voldemort’s plan began, warning him not to meet Harry beforehand.
• Vaughn told Dumbledore that WAC wizards and Amelia had made preparations, but Dumbledore suspected he was withholding more information.
• Phineas alerted Dumbledore that Death Eaters had attacked Azkaban and the Dementors had gone out of control, so Dumbledore left with Fawkes to help Kingsley and Amelia.
• Vaughn revealed that he had expected an Azkaban attack, then entered a circular portal after saying he had fulfilled his promise to Amelia.
• At Azkaban, Jacob Rosier oversaw the escape of Death Eaters while Selwyn questioned the need to remain as Aurors and the Ministry approached.

Jacob’s Pure-blood Alliance force fled Azkaban after discovering that the riot had been contained and Norbert was struck down by an unseen attacker. Dumbledore arrived to find the prisoners secured and the Dementors controlled, and realized Vaughn and Amelia had prepared for the crisis in advance.

• Jacob noticed that Azkaban was unnaturally quiet, and the Alliance cleared the mist to inspect the fortress.
• Jacob ordered Norbert to approach, but a red beam knocked him from the air before he reached Azkaban.
• After the Dark Mark flared, Jacob led the Alliance into retreat, and the group Apparated to Ireland, leaving Norbert behind.
• Dumbledore and Kingsley arrived at Azkaban, where Dumbledore inferred that Vaughn had planned for the attack and helped Amelia prepare.
• Scrimgeour reported that the Aurors had secured the prisoners and contained the Dementors, then returned his temporary post to Kingsley.
• Dumbledore agreed to take charge of the Dementors and suspected Vaughn had allowed him to come for that purpose.

Vaughn responded to an attack on the Scamander Residence and fought a disciplined group of North American wizards, suspecting DeSantis was involved. He had killed several attackers, but the battle was still underway as he used an enhanced form of Sectumsempra.

• William reported that Scrimgeour had returned from Azkaban and that attacks across England were causing chaos.
• Vaughn ordered WAC committee members to help the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes while Lupin continued the original plan.
• Vaughn received a signal from the Scamander Residence and used a Dimension Gate to reach Dorset, where the Scamander Couple remained safe in the Basement.
• Six black-robed wizards ambushed Vaughn, who dodged their Killing Curses and identified them as trained North American wizards.
• Vaughn used deception and spells to kill several attackers, then suspected DeSantis was present after the group countered his Blinding Charm and discovered his disguise.

Vaughn fought off six North American wizards at the Scamander Residence, then discovered DeSantis had targeted Newt and Tina. After guiding the couple to safety through a Dimension Gate, Vaughn realized Li Nanyu had arrived and was keeping DeSantis occupied.

• Vaughn killed three North American wizards with his Variant Sectumsempra, but Anti-Apparition prevented him from escaping as the others attacked.
• Vaughn discovered Dumbledore's protective magic on the trapdoor and concluded DeSantis had targeted Newt rather than luring Vaughn into a trap.
• Vaughn entered the Basement and told Newt and Tina that he had defeated the attackers but suspected DeSantis was still nearby.
• Vaughn sent Newt and Tina through a Dimension Gate to Hogwarts, despite Tina's worries about his safety.
• Vaughn recognized Li Nanyu's greeting and understood that Li Nanyu was restraining DeSantis, leaving Vaughn free to continue his plans.

Vaughn returned to Hogwarts after checking on Barty Jr., preparing the sea cave, and coordinating with Amelia, while attacks struck The Burrow and WAC Headquarters. At Hogwarts, he learned the story behind Dumbledore and Newt’s old bet, then offered Dumbledore a deal in exchange for the bet’s prize.

• Vaughn reinforced Barty Jr.'s Persona Armor, prepared surprises for possible Death Eaters in Voldemort's sea cave, and met with Amelia to coordinate plans.
• Vaughn returned to Hogwarts with a captured North American wizard whose memories of DeSantis had been erased by triggered Memory Magic.
• Vaughn suggested sending the wizard to the International Confederation of Wizards to expose the Magical Congress and trouble DeSantis.
• Dumbledore confronted Vaughn about the attacks on The Burrow and WAC Headquarters, and Vaughn explained that House-elves and Aberforth had helped defend them.
• Newt explained that Dumbledore had enchanted the Scamander Residence trapdoor as part of a bet about whether Newt would ever need its protection.
• Vaughn offered Dumbledore information about where Voldemort and Harry would meet in exchange for the prize from Dumbledore's bet with Newt.

Vaughn traded information about Voldemort’s cave for Newt’s help mentoring a student research group, while Dumbledore prepared to hide in Hogsmeade. At Hogwarts, Draco joined Harry’s effort to protect the school, deepening Ron’s distrust as Hermione warned that Snape might send someone else to retrieve the Diary.

• Vaughn told Dumbledore about the cave on Ireland’s western coast and showed him the fake Slytherin Locket, and Dumbledore agreed to the deal.
• Vaughn asked Newt to mentor and advise a student research group studying Magical Creatures, and Newt agreed to work from home.
• Dumbledore decided to hide in Hogsmeade and keep his return from Professor McGonagall.
• Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle arrived at Harry’s dormitory to help find Peeves, and Draco mocked Ron before leaving.
• Harry explained his secret cooperation with Draco, but Ron called him a traitor and argued that Draco could not be trusted.
• Hermione suggested Snape might send another Death Eater to retrieve the Diary, and she urged the group to take action rather than wait.

Hermione led Harry, Ron, Fred, and George through Hogwarts to provoke a crisis, but Harry heard a murderous voice and led them to Mrs. Norris, who had been petrified beside a message declaring that the Chamber of Secrets had opened. After escaping the arriving professors, the group decided they had to investigate the monster before it targeted students, including Ginny.

• Hermione proposed creating chaos at Hogwarts to make everyone vigilant, and she led the others out to find a target.
• Harry heard a cold voice threatening to kill and followed it through the castle while the others could hear nothing.
• Harry led the group to a third-floor corridor, where they found a message announcing the Chamber of Secrets had opened and Mrs. Norris petrified.
• Hermione hid the group beneath the Invisibility Cloak and transfigured Fred and George into monkeys to conceal them from Professor McGonagall, Snape, Filch, and Professor Rosier.
• Back in Gryffindor Tower, the group discussed the unknown monster, and Ron reminded the twins that Ginny could become its next target.
• Harry suggested meeting Hagrid to investigate without drawing the professors’ attention.

After Goyle was attacked, Harry, Hermione, and Ron met Fred and George at Hagrid’s Hut and pressed Hagrid about what he knew. Hagrid revealed that the events that led to his expulsion fifty years ago were connected to the Chamber of Secrets, whose monster was a Basilisk.

• Hermione refused to transform Fred and George, so Harry took the twins beneath the Invisibility Cloak and then returned for Hermione and Ron.
• Harry told Hermione and Ron that Goyle had been attacked and that he had heard the mysterious voice again.
• At Hagrid’s Hut, Hermione noticed Hagrid’s reaction to the attack and questioned him about the incident fifty years earlier.
• Hagrid explained that he had been expelled after Aragog was blamed for killing a student, and Hermione connected the old incident to the Chamber of Secrets.
• Fred and George described the legend of the Chamber, and Harry repeated the warning written on the wall.
• Hagrid confirmed that the monster inside the Chamber of Secrets was a Basilisk.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred, and George pieced together that a Basilisk was moving through Hogwarts’ pipes and that the Chamber of Secrets entrance was likely in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. They found Myrtle and asked how she had died, but her account ended before she revealed who or what had entered the bathroom.

• Hermione explained that a Basilisk could kill with its gaze, and Hagrid said Aragog had told him the Chamber’s monster was a Basilisk.
• Harry revealed that he could understand snakes, and Hermione identified his ability as Parseltongue.
• Hagrid revealed that Moaning Myrtle had been the student killed fifty years earlier, prompting Hermione to deduce that the Basilisk traveled through the pipes.
• Hermione concluded that the Chamber’s entrance was probably in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom, and the group returned to Hogwarts under concealment.
• Harry and the others questioned Myrtle about her death, and she said Olive Hornby had mocked her before she hid in the bathroom and heard someone enter.

Harry and his friends opened the Chamber of Secrets and followed its tunnels toward the Basilisk, while Voldemort and Snape entered behind them. They reached a carved wall blocking the way, leaving Harry to find how to open it.

• Moaning Myrtle recalled seeing enormous yellow eyes before she died, and Harry and his friends found a snake engraved on a broken tap.
• Harry spoke Parseltongue to the tap, causing the sinks to vanish and reveal a passage into the Chamber of Secrets.
• Dumbledore realized Harry had entered the Chamber, while Snape met Voldemort, who was disguised through Peter Pettigrew, and followed him inside.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George slid through the pipe, proceeded cautiously through the tunnel, and found the Basilisk's enormous shed skin.
• The five reached a wall carved with intertwined snakes and green gemstone eyes, and looked to Harry to open the way.

Harry and his friends found Colin Creevey in the Chamber of Secrets, then faced Snape, Voldemort, the Basilisk, and the arriving Death Eaters. Draco helped them, but Lucius attacked his own son, Snape wounded Harry, and the chapter ended with Snape fending off the group.

• Harry and his friends entered the Chamber of Secrets and found Colin Creevey unconscious beneath Salazar Slytherin’s statue.
• Snape disarmed Harry, and Voldemort emerged with the Basilisk; Hermione tried to blind the serpent while the group fought back.
• Draco arrived and ordered Snape to stop, while Fawkes pecked out the Basilisk’s eyes.
• Lucius, Jacob Rosier, and Corban Yaxley joined Voldemort, and Lucius cast the Killing Curse at Draco.
• The Basilisk fell in front of Draco and took the curse, while Hermione, Harry, and a hidden wizard disarmed the Death Eaters.
• Snape struck Harry with Sectumsempra and prepared to attack the others, who joined forces against him.

Sirius and Hermione fought to protect Harry and the others, but Peter completed a ritual that resurrected Voldemort. As Voldemort prepared to kill Ron, a mysterious sphere took him away, while Vaughn arrived in the Chamber and began treating Nagini’s Blood Demon Curse.

• Sirius arrived and battled Snape while Hermione knocked out the wandless Death Eaters; Fawkes carried Fred and George away.
• Fawkes evacuated Hermione and Draco after Ron pulled Draco to safety, leaving Harry and Ron behind as Peter brought a Cauldron into the Chamber.
• Peter sacrificed dust, his arm, and Harry’s blood in a ritual that restored Voldemort to a living body.
• Harry stopped Peter from killing Ron with a Disarming Charm, but a strange sphere seized Ron before Voldemort’s Killing Curse struck him.
• Voldemort took Ron’s wand and confronted Harry as Harry collapsed, while Sirius and Snape continued fighting.
• Vaughn entered the Chamber through the pipe with Nagini and used Parseltongue and the Blood Demon Curse to reach her lost memories.

Vaughn altered Nagini’s and Peeves’s memories, took the Diary, and helped the others escape the Chamber of Secrets. He then confronted Voldemort, who recognized the scheme to let him resurrect and attacked Vaughn, beginning a duel that wrecked the Chamber.

• Vaughn hid his persona armor in Nagini’s Mindscape, altered her memories, and wounded her as Voldemort summoned the stone cauldron.
• Vaughn restrained Peeves, removed the Diary from him, and planted suggestions that freed him from its influence; Peeves promised to leave Ginny alone.
• Vaughn entered the Chamber, healed Harry’s Sectumsempra wound, and sent Sirius, Harry, Ron, and Creevey through a Dimension Gate while Snape evacuated the others.
• Voldemort realized Vaughn and Dumbledore had arranged for his resurrection so they could kill him, and he chose to attack Vaughn before leaving Hogwarts.
• Voldemort and Vaughn exchanged spells and used spatial magic, damaging the ancient Chamber as their duel continued.

Vaughn fought Voldemort in the Chamber of Secrets and endured the Dark Lord’s fear-inducing Legendary Magic until their Killing Curses collided and both were incapacitated. After Dumbledore rescued him, Vaughn woke in the hospital wing and learned that Creevey and Harry had also suffered a serious blow.

• Vaughn used Voldemort as a test of his strength while wondering what the Dark Lord’s Legendary Magic was.
• Voldemort’s fear-based magic stopped Vaughn from escaping, but Vaughn countered Voldemort’s Killing Curse with the same spell.
• Their spells collapsed in a magical storm, Voldemort vanished as black mist, and the damaged Chamber of Secrets rewound before Vaughn disappeared.
• Vaughn woke in the hospital wing and teased Dumbledore for waiting until the last moment to save him.
• Dumbledore identified fear as the likely effect of Voldemort’s Legendary Magic and warned Vaughn that Legendary Wizards’ abilities went beyond what he had seen.
• Vaughn asked about Creevey and Harry, and Dumbledore said Vaughn should visit them after recovering.

After waking, Vaughn reviewed the growing public panic and concluded he was escaping destiny’s influence, then visited Xenophilius to approve news articles. He returned to Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore demanded that he reassure the people worried about him.

• Vaughn read the Daily Prophet’s reports of attacks and magical incidents, and decided to let public anxiety grow before turning opinion around.
• Vaughn reflected that the Diary and Voldemort’s early resurrection had not triggered destiny’s intervention, and planned to control destiny’s theme and travel to China.
• Vaughn visited Xenophilius Lovegood and approved articles prepared for The Quibbler and the Daily Prophet.
• Vaughn returned to Hogwarts and teased Dumbledore, who urged him to visit the Great Hall and the Burrow to reassure people.
• Dumbledore complained that Molly was sending frequent letters, the pixies had gone on strike, and he might have to send Creevey and Draco to St. Mungo’s if no one received reassurance.

Vaughn negotiated with Dumbledore over the secret to becoming a Legend, offering information about Voldemort’s Horcruxes in exchange. Dumbledore revealed that Vaughn was already on his own Path of Legends, which centered on achieving an ideal.

• Vaughn asked Dumbledore how he would fare against Voldemort at his peak, then offered Horcrux information for the secret of becoming a Legend.
• Dumbledore agreed to Vaughn’s terms, and Vaughn named Voldemort’s five deliberate Horcruxes and suggested he might make Nagini a seventh.
• Dumbledore realized Vaughn had confirmed information he had largely already deduced, but accepted that Vaughn alone could help him find the Cup and Locket.
• Dumbledore told Vaughn he was already on the Path of Legends, and Vaughn connected that path to Renown.
• Dumbledore explained that each person’s Path of Legends differed and that becoming a Legend was, at heart, about achieving an ideal.

Dumbledore explained that becoming a Legend meant strengthening Free Will by pursuing an ideal that changed many lives and resisted Destiny, and Vaughn realized that his own Path of Legends was tied to his influence over people’s destinies. Vaughn then revealed that Voldemort’s Horcruxes were in his possession and in the Lestrange Family vault, leaving Dumbledore to consider how to retrieve Hufflepuff’s Cup.

• Dumbledore explained that a wizard became a Legend by giving substance to Free Will through an ideal that affected many lives.
• Vaughn realized his Path of Legends was tied to Renown and the changes he brought to people’s destinies, and decided to focus on creating change.
• Vaughn asked how Legendary Wizards differed in strength, and Dumbledore warned that China’s Legendary Wizards and their paths were largely unknown.
• Dumbledore asked where the cup and the Locket were, and Vaughn said the Locket was with him and Hufflepuff’s Cup was in Gringotts.
• Vaughn told Dumbledore that Bellatrix Lestrange had placed the cup in her family vault, which required keys used by both a Goblin and Bellatrix to open.
• Vaughn warned Dumbledore that Bellatrix had placed a Gemino Curse and a Burning Charm on the cup.

Vaughn ended the Hogwarts house-elves’ strike by blaming it on dark magic pollution, then privately encouraged Dobby’s desire for freedom. At Malfoy Manor, Voldemort decided to leave England and recruited Lucius for an undisclosed task after testing his loyalty.

• Vaughn silenced the Hogwarts house-elves and claimed their strike had resulted from dark magic pollution, prompting them to return to work.
• Vaughn asked Kreacher, Dobby, and Winky to keep his actions secret, and encouraged Dobby to seek work and friendship with Hermione Granger.
• Vaughn returned to his laboratory, recorded his discoveries about influencing the elves, and sent a letter home before anticipating turmoil in the English Wizarding World.
• At Malfoy Manor, Voldemort announced that he would leave England once Nagini and Peter recovered, and said he would seek allies among the Americans.
• Voldemort dismissed Corban’s concerns, told the Death Eaters to prepare, and kept Lucius behind to assign him a task after deciding Lucius had proven his loyalty.