Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore brought Vaughn to Newt Scamander’s home in Dorset to ask Newt to shelter a herd of Unicorns, while Tina kept Vaughn company. In the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore asked Newt to encourage Vaughn’s interest in Magical Creatures, leaving Newt to realize that Dumbledore wanted him to teach the boy.

• Dumbledore Apparated with Vaughn to Newt Scamander’s home, where Tina initially slammed the door in Dumbledore’s face.
• Newt welcomed Dumbledore and Vaughn inside, and Tina warmed to Vaughn while Newt learned that he was Arthur and Charlie Weasley’s brother.
• Newt agreed to shelter the Unicorns in his basement until Dumbledore dealt with the Dark Wizard, then prepared to leave with Dumbledore.
• Tina took Vaughn to see Magical Creatures as Dumbledore and Newt Apparated to the Forbidden Forest to find the Unicorns.
• Dumbledore told Newt about Vaughn’s achievements and asked him to cultivate Vaughn’s interest in Magical Creatures, and Newt realized Dumbledore wanted him to teach the boy.

Vaughn toured Newt’s expanded Basement with Tina and saw the Magical Creatures Newt had rescued from smugglers. After claiming the reward for rescuing the Forbidden Forest Unicorns, Vaughn gained the ability to understand them, then returned to Hogwarts with Dumbledore, who asked whether he would visit Newt again.

• Tina showed Vaughn the rescued Magical Creatures in Newt’s Basement, including Horned Beasts, Billywigs, and a Winged Carriage Bird.
• Dumbledore and Newt expanded the Basement and released the Unicorns, completing Vaughn’s side quest.
• Vaughn claimed the reward and gained the ability to understand Unicorn language, hearing the Unicorns insult him and Dumbledore.
• Tina served a midnight snack, and Vaughn, Tina, and Dumbledore later left the Scamander home for Hogwarts with Fawkes.
• Dumbledore told Vaughn that Newt wanted him to visit again, and Vaughn wondered suspiciously what Dumbledore was plotting.

Vaughn considered seeking Newt’s help with his curiosity about Magical Creatures and the origins of Magic, while Hogwarts was swept by influenza and Hermione asked him for study help. The chapter left Harry anxious about approaching exams and Ron resigned to Vaughn and Guoguo Tea tormenting Scabbers.

• Vaughn recorded his questions about Magical Creatures and the origins of Magic, hoping Newt would support his research.
• An influenza outbreak filled Hogwarts with students whose Energy Potion made smoke pour from their ears, and Fred and George turned the steam into shapes.
• Vaughn sent Guoguo Tea after Scabbers, and the cat chased Ron across the Great Hall.
• Hermione asked Vaughn about Transfiguration and whether she could study with him regularly before exams.
• Hermione’s warning about exams unsettled Harry, while Ron lamented Scabbers’ lost fur and realized he was getting used to being bullied.

Harry and Ron worried about Halloween gifts as Vaughn advanced his Potions research with Snape. After Ron nervously asked Vaughn to lend him money, Vaughn agreed and hinted that he wanted Ron’s help with something.

• Harry realized Halloween was approaching, and he and Ron worried about finding money for gifts.
• Harry learned Gryffindor’s first Quidditch match would be against Slytherin after Halloween, while Ron grew increasingly anxious around Vaughn.
• Vaughn used the Scarpin Transfiguration Curse to restore a finished potion’s Traits, impressing Snape, who awarded Slytherin ten points.
• Snape deducted two points from Gryffindor after finding Ron outside his office and accusing him of spying.
• Ron asked Vaughn to lend him ten Sickles for Halloween gifts, and Vaughn gave him the money before saying he needed Ron’s help with something.

Hogwarts’s Halloween feast was interrupted when Professor Quirrell reported a troll in the underground classrooms, sending students back to their common rooms. Harry and Hermione realized Ron and Vaughn had not heard the warning and set out to find them.

• The students celebrated Halloween at Hogwarts, while Harry learned that Wood had made the team train that afternoon.
• Vaughn used a Muffling Charm on Ron at breakfast, and later called him away from the Halloween feast.
• Professor Quirrell burst into the Great Hall, announced that a troll was in the underground classrooms, and fainted.
• Dumbledore suspended the banquet and sent the students back to their common rooms while he and the professors headed to the Basement.
• Harry and Hermione realized Ron and Vaughn might be unaware of the troll and decided to search upstairs for them.

Vaughn defeated the Troll while Ron watched, then arranged for Ron to alert him if the professors returned. He followed Quirrell upstairs toward the Philosopher’s Stone, relying on something in his pocket for confidence.

• Quirrell left the Great Hall and hurried upstairs after confirming the professors were gone.
• A Troll appeared before Vaughn and the invisible Ron, and Vaughn destroyed it with a series of spells.
• Vaughn lifted the Phantasmal Charm from Ron and asked whether he had wet himself; Ron denied it.
• Vaughn used burned hair to place a lasting magic on Ron and himself, then told Ron to guard the basement exit and summon Dumbledore if needed.
• Vaughn followed Quirrell upstairs, trusting the object in his pocket.

Vaughn followed hurried footsteps to the fourth floor and found Harry and Hermione hiding in a classroom. Harry’s scar hurt when he saw a black-robed figure, and Vaughn attacked the figure with Expelliarmus as it tried to stun Harry.

• Vaughn used the Phantasmal Charm and an Ear-Amplifying Charm while tracking hurried footsteps through Hogwarts.
• Harry and Hermione searched for Vaughn and Ron, but Harry felt compelled to go to the fourth floor and led Hermione there.
• Harry and Hermione hid in a Charms classroom when a black-robed figure passed through the corridor.
• Harry’s scar erupted in pain when he saw the figure, which stopped and turned toward them.
• The black-robed figure began to cast a spell at Harry, but Vaughn appeared and struck its Protego shield with Expelliarmus.

Vaughn fought Voldemort through the Black-robed Man, driving him away with Sectumsempra and Fawkes’s feather while protecting Harry and Hermione. After the professors gathered the students in Dumbledore’s office, Dumbledore sent the others for medical checks and asked Vaughn to stay behind.

• The Black-robed Man called for his master, and Voldemort’s power surged through him as Harry experienced another painful vision.
• Vaughn struck the Black-robed Man with Sectumsempra, then ignited Fawkes’s feather as the man began casting Avada Kedavra.
• Fawkes arrived and was reduced to a bald chick by the clash of green light and flames, while the Black-robed Man fled as Dumbledore approached.
• Vaughn carried Harry and Hermione into a classroom, then thanked Fawkes as Dumbledore arrived and checked on them.
• Professor McGonagall scolded Vaughn, Ron, Harry, and Hermione in Dumbledore’s office, while Snape and Flitwick were sent to clean up the Troll.
• Dumbledore sent McGonagall to take the students and Quirrell for examination, then told Vaughn to stay behind.

Vaughn confronted Dumbledore about the Philosopher’s Stone, Quirrell’s attack, and the cover-up, prompting Dumbledore to agree to explain his plans. Snape then arrived furious that Dumbledore had involved Vaughn, but learned Vaughn had volunteered to help raise Harry as part of a transaction.

• Vaughn challenged Dumbledore over hiding the Philosopher’s Stone, concealing the battle, and Quirrell casting the Killing Curse on students.
• Vaughn concealed what he knew about Voldemort’s identity while Dumbledore questioned him, and Dumbledore agreed to explain the situation if Vaughn kept it secret.
• Snape remembered Lily’s death and recognized the dark magic of his former master before a Patronus summoned him to Dumbledore’s office.
• Snape accused Dumbledore of manipulating Vaughn and using Harry and Ron to recruit him.
• Dumbledore told Snape that Vaughn had offered to help raise Harry as part of a transaction.

Dumbledore showed Snape Vaughn’s memory of Voldemort surviving the battle as a Remnant Soul and explained how Tom and Harry’s intertwined destinies had shaped the events. After Snape left, Dumbledore revisited his conversation with Vaughn and dwelled on Vaughn’s revelation that Voldemort had made a Horcrux.

• Dumbledore showed Snape the memory of Quirrell casting the Killing Curse and explained that Voldemort had survived as a Remnant Soul preparing to return.
• Snape recognized that Vaughn’s Sectumsempra had wounded Voldemort through Quirrell and predicted Voldemort would hate Vaughn and Harry.
• Dumbledore said the events surrounding Voldemort, Harry, and Vaughn had been shaped by the intertwined destinies of Tom and Harry.
• Snape asked what Dumbledore would give Vaughn in exchange for helping train Harry, and Dumbledore described Vaughn’s demands for fame, recognition, and fair treatment for Slytherin.
• After Snape left, Dumbledore revisited his memory of Vaughn identifying Horcruxes as the reason Voldemort had not died.

After Vaughn and Ron killed a Troll, Gryffindor held a celebration where Ron exaggerated his part in the battle. Harry and Hermione discussed the mysterious Black-robed Man and Dumbledore's secrecy, then headed to check on Vaughn.

• Filch posted a notice explaining that Vaughn and Ron lost points for breaking school rules but earned points for defeating the Troll.
• Percy and the twins hosted a Gryffindor celebration, where Ron embellished the story of the Troll fight and invented a spell to claim credit.
• Harry and Hermione agreed that Ron had exaggerated how difficult the battle was.
• Harry wondered why Dumbledore wanted to keep the fourth-floor incident secret and considered whether a professor was the Black-robed Man.
• Hermione rejected Harry's suspicion of Snape and revealed that Snape had taught Vaughn Sectumsempra.
• Hermione left to see Vaughn, and Harry followed her.

Vaughn reviewed Voldemort’s weakness after their clash and used his new reputation points to improve the Patronus Charm and Vanishing Spell. He successfully conjured a Patronus shaped like a Maine Coon, and the memories of his past and present lives moved him to tears.

• Vaughn concluded that Voldemort was draining Quirrell’s life and had fled because he feared losing his servant and resurrection plan.
• Vaughn checked his system panel and found that his reputation points had increased by one to six.
• Vaughn spent four reputation points on the Patronus Charm and one on the Vanishing Spell, leaving one point unused.
• Vaughn cast the Patronus Charm and recalled happy memories from both his past and present lives.
• Vaughn conjured a translucent blue-white Maine Coon Patronus and realized that tears were running down his cheeks.

Vaughn recovered from the intense emotions of casting his first Patronus Charm and reflected on why it took the form of a Maine Coon. He then tested the Vanishing Spell, discovered that vanished objects remained suspended in an unstable state, and left investigating its effects on living beings as a future project.

• Guoguo Tea confronted Vaughn’s silver-blue Maine Coon Patronus Charm, then calmed down after realizing it was magic.
• Vaughn considered why his Patronus took the form of a cat resembling Guoguo Tea, then ended the spell.
• Vaughn used the Vanishing Spell to make a pebble disappear and sensed that the spell still preserved it in a fragile microscopic state.
• Vaughn dispelled the Magic, restoring the pebble, and considered testing the spell on a simple living creature to investigate what happened to its body and soul.
• Vaughn decided to postpone soul research until after developing his new potion, recognizing that such research was taboo in the Wizarding world.

Vaughn worried that Dumbledore distrusted him because of his knowledge of Horcruxes and decided Harry could help reassure the Headmaster. Harry and Hermione visited Vaughn in the Slytherin common room, where Vaughn tested Harry’s perception of a spell that made a pebble truly disappear.

• Vaughn considered how to earn Dumbledore’s trust and blamed Tom for the difficulty of borrowing books about the Dark Arts and souls.
• Harry and Hermione encountered a sick, mocked Professor Quirrell, and Harry dismissed the idea that Quirrell was trying to steal the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Harry and Hermione entered the Slytherin common room with help from a senior student and went to Vaughn’s dormitory.
• Hermione admired Guoguo Tea and asked about Vaughn’s spell after watching him make a pebble disappear.
• Harry sensed that Vaughn’s spell had erased the pebble rather than made it invisible, and Vaughn told him his problem was serious.

Vaughn manipulated Harry into asking Dumbledore to teach him Occlumency, then argued that he should teach Harry instead of Snape. He revealed his own skill with Occlumency and cast a Patronus, leaving Dumbledore reassured but still silent about Vaughn's secrets.

• Vaughn told Harry that Voldemort's influence was entering his thoughts and that Occlumency could protect him, then persuaded him to write Dumbledore for help.
• Harry sent the letter at lunch, and Dumbledore sprayed Pumpkin Juice over Snape's meal after reading it.
• Vaughn warned Dumbledore that Snape's hostility could make Harry unwilling to learn from him and might drive him into rebellion.
• Dumbledore challenged Vaughn to prove he was more suitable than Snape to teach Occlumency, and Vaughn pointed out that the Sorting Hat had already revealed his knowledge of the subject.
• Vaughn cast a Patronus before Dumbledore, who praised it and quietly showed relief.

Vaughn studied Memory Magic and used Legilimency on Harry during their first Occlumency practice session. He glimpsed Harry’s memories and a romantic dream before Harry forcibly expelled him.

• Vaughn read The Past and Present of Memory Magic and became interested in its connection to the soul.
• Snape refused to renegotiate his deal with Vaughn until Vaughn defeated Potter at Quidditch.
• Harry met Vaughn in the Room of Requirement to begin learning Occlumency.
• Vaughn explained that he would use Legilimency to invade Harry’s thoughts and memories, and Harry agreed to proceed.
• Vaughn successfully cast Legilimency and saw Harry’s memories, including a dream of holding a girl’s hand, before Harry expelled him.

Vaughn continued training his Legilimency on Harry, using the promise of sweet dreams to persuade Harry to cooperate. After reviewing Harry’s memories with Dumbledore, Vaughn found no sign that Tom had tampered with them, but Dumbledore warned that Tom could secretly manipulate people through their memories.

• Ron accused Vaughn of using Harry as a target for practicing magic, and Vaughn magically made Ron’s teeth fall out.
• Hermione made Harry question whether his thoughts about the practice were really his own, but Harry kept returning to train with Vaughn.
• When Harry grew discouraged, Vaughn promised him a Sweet Dream Charm, and Harry eagerly cooperated in exchange for a pleasant dream.
• Harry asked Vaughn to keep his romantic dream secret, and Vaughn promised before taking a memory of it to Dumbledore.
• Vaughn showed Dumbledore the collected Nodes from Harry’s memories and found no evidence of tampering, while Dumbledore warned that Tom could hide malice inside people’s memories.

Harry struggled with nerves ahead of Gryffindor’s Quidditch match against Slytherin, where he would face his friend Vaughn as a rival Seeker. After Ron was transformed by one of Fred and George’s prank biscuits, Harry felt better and prepared to take the field.

• Harry and Ron worried about the upcoming match while sitting in the cold courtyard, and Ron pointed out that Harry was smaller and more agile than Vaughn.
• Harry asked Vaughn for a stronger Sweet Dream Charm, wished him luck, and then stayed awake all night because he wanted to win.
• The next morning, Harry grew more nervous as Hogwarts students discussed the match and encouraged him.
• Ron ate Fred and George’s Canary Cream and transformed into a giant canary before changing back and angrily confronting the twins.
• Harry ate and drank before entering the changing room, while Hermione went to wish Vaughn luck in Slytherin’s changing room.
• Vaughn thanked Hermione, then ordered his Slytherin teammates to get ready to take the field.

Vaughn used speed and cunning to help Slytherin dominate Gryffindor in the Quidditch match, while Flint and Pucey obstructed Harry as he pursued the Golden Snitch. The match continued with Harry in danger and Fred rushing to help him.

• Slytherin supporters cheered Vaughn as the teams entered the pitch, and Madam Hooch reviewed the rules before starting the match.
• Vaughn disrupted Gryffindor’s formation by drawing the Bludger toward its players, helping Slytherin take an early lead.
• Harry spotted a golden flash and dove after the Snitch, but Flint and Adrian Pucey blocked his path and battered his broom.
• Vaughn kept Fred and George occupied by luring the Bludger toward them while Ron and Hermione worried about Harry.
• Fred broke away from Vaughn to help Harry, while Hagrid arrived and offered Ron and Hermione Rock Cakes.

Harry’s broom went out of control during the Quidditch match, and Vaughn saved him from falling before catching the Golden Snitch. Slytherin won, while Harry’s suspicions about Snape proved misplaced.

• Ron spotted Snape watching Harry and warned Hagrid that he might be jinxing him.
• As Harry’s broom bucked wildly, Hermione set fire to the Slytherin stands to interrupt Snape, then realized Snape might not be responsible.
• Vaughn spotted the Golden Snitch and began diving as Angelina scored for Gryffindor.
• Harry fell from his out-of-control broom, and Vaughn broke away from the Snitch to catch him and carry him safely to the ground.
• Vaughn returned to the sky, caught the Golden Snitch, and secured Slytherin’s victory.