Chapter Summaries

Lynn tried to kill Fontana and the basilisk, but the basilisk’s rapidly growing armor blocked his attacks. Trapped atop its head, he used a metal scepter from an ancient spellbook to pierce the armor, though the basilisk’s slam left him badly hurt.

• Fontana poured a silvery-white potion over the basilisk, whose armor grew over its exposed eyes and blocked Lynn’s Killing Curse.
• Lynn punched the armor, stunning the basilisk briefly but failing to break through, while Fontana commanded it in Parseltongue.
• Lynn found a metal scepter inside a thousand-year-old spellbook and used it to strike the armor as the basilisk smashed its head into the ground.
• The first strike only penetrated partway, and the impact left Lynn injured.
• Lynn repeated the strike as the basilisk slammed its head down again, and the scepter finally pierced the armor.

Lynn gained the complete title The Ruler of Hogwarts, which let him command the castle and unseal the scepter. With Hogwarts’s animated statues distracting Fontana and the basilisk, Lynn killed the beast and faced Fontana while badly injured.

• Lynn pulled the scepter from the basilisk, causing it to collapse, and received the title The Ruler of Hogwarts.
• The castle’s winged piglets, stone knight, and broom-riding witch came alive and attacked Fontana and the basilisk.
• The scepter transformed into a short sword, and Lynn used it to free his hand from his armor.
• Lynn cast Avada Kedavra (Double Amplification) through the basilisk’s exposed flesh, killing it.
• Lynn landed beside Fontana’s corpse-like basilisk, leaned on the knight for support, and pointed his left hand at the resurrected ghost.

Lynn questioned Fontana about her goblin accomplice while Harry, Hermione, and Ron discovered the goblin was using the Headmaster’s stone guard to damage Hogwarts Castle. Harry and Hermione attacked the goblin as Lynn defeated the basilisk, and Harry’s spell struck it.

• Lynn asked Fontana where her goblin accomplice was, but she only told him to guess.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron spotted a goblin trying to destroy the stone guard outside the Headmaster’s office.
• Hermione realized the goblin’s explosive spell was damaging Hogwarts Castle through the stone guard.
• Ron went to find a professor while Harry and Hermione stayed to watch the goblin.
• As Lynn’s Killing Curse brought down the basilisk, the goblin cast another Explosion Curse and Harry hit him with Petrificus Totalus.

Harry and Hermione captured the goblin Fabre while Dumbledore defeated O'Brien on Corvo Island and exposed the weakness in his accusations. Lynn learned that Fabre had been caught, collapsed from his injuries, and was revealed to be Professor Lockhart when his Improved Animagus form ended.

• Harry and Hermione petrified the goblin, and Professor McGonagall arrived with Ron and Professor Flitwick to hear their account.
• Dumbledore overpowered O'Brien and the other wizards on Corvo Island, then severed O'Brien's legs after he denied that the American Magical Congress planned to destroy Hogwarts.
• Lynn force-fed Fontana Veritaserum, but she claimed it could not work because she was not in her real body and taunted him about who would lose.
• Professor McGonagall told Lynn that Harry and Hermione had caught Fabre near the Headmaster's office, and Fontana broke down in disbelief.
• Lynn collapsed, and Dumbledore reassured him before he fell asleep and his Improved Animagus form ended, revealing that Professor Lockhart was Lynn.

Lynn woke after five days in the hospital wing and learned that Dumbledore had revealed his identity as Professor Lockhart to the whole school. Hermione explained how she had uncovered his disguise and demanded the reward he had promised her.

• Lynn woke up and found Hermione watching over him, then learned he had been asleep for five days.
• Hermione told Lynn that Dumbledore had exposed his identity after he lost consciousness, and that students across Hogwarts now knew he had posed as Professor Lockhart.
• Hermione explained that she had first suspected Lynn when she visited his office as Umr, using Polyjuice Potion to test him.
• Lynn realized Hermione had used the Restricted Section permission slip and Polyjuice Potion to investigate his identity.
• Hermione reminded Lynn of his promised reward and pinched his arm when he pretended not to remember.

Lynn woke after defeating the basilisk and learned that Dumbledore intended to reveal his identity as the Hogwarts professor who had saved the school. He accepted the benefits of the revelation, learned the Ministry was controlling the public account, and discovered that Slytherin had marked him as master of the castle.

• Lynn asked Dumbledore why he wanted to reveal his identity, and Dumbledore argued that Lynn’s reputation would help him reform Hogwarts sooner.
• Lynn agreed to set aside his concerns about being exposed and asked about the American Magical Congress; Dumbledore said he would handle outside matters and that Fontana awaited trial.
• Dumbledore showed Lynn a Daily Prophet article praising him for saving Hogwarts while omitting the Slytherin heir and the American Magical Congress.
• Dumbledore told Lynn that the Order of Merlin was considering awarding him a medal, but Lynn focused on the black diamond-shaped mark left by Slytherin’s scepter.
• Dumbledore explained that Lynn would gradually discover the castle’s powers as its master and warned him that visitors would soon arrive.

Lynn stayed in the hospital wing while students and professors visited him, then went to see the recovering Snape and tried to coax him into eating an apple. Later, the Weasley twins reminded Lynn of his offer to fund their alchemical research, and he agreed to discuss it.

• Madam Pomfrey stopped Lynn from leaving the hospital wing and required him to remain under observation as students brought him gifts and wished him well.
• Lynn visited Snape with apples, thanked him for helping catch the culprit, and traded teasing remarks with him.
• Lynn relaxed in the hospital wing while Hermione massaged his legs and discussed Umr's studies with him.
• Fred and George visited Lynn and accepted his earlier offer to sponsor their alchemical item research.

After recovering from the Chamber of Secrets crisis, Lynn arranged a business deal with the Weasley twins and returned to teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts as Professor Belloc. Dumbledore was reinstated, Justin Finley recovered from petrification, and Gryffindor pulled ahead in the House Cup race.

• Lynn agreed to fund the Weasley twins' prank products in exchange for priority on his requests, with a contract to be signed at their home with their parents' consent.
• Hermione asked Lynn whether his inheritance included a marriage arrangement, and Lynn denied that possibility.
• Lynn and Snape left the school hospital after two weeks, while Justin Finley recovered from petrification and received postponed exams.
• The governors removed Mrs. Rowle and Malfoy from the Board of Governors and appointed Old John, allowing Dumbledore to return as headmaster; Mrs. Rowle fled Britain before Aurors could arrest her.
• Lynn resumed teaching under the name Professor Belloc, and Dumbledore awarded Harry and his friends fifty points for stopping the goblin, leaving Gryffindor well ahead of Slytherin.

Lynn announced that he would step down as Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts professor after the term, while continuing his studies. As the final exams approached, he set Umr’s reward for her results and asked Tom to choose between returning to the seal or taking responsibility for a new life.

• Lynn told his fifth-year students that his one-year agreement to teach at Hogwarts was ending, and he would remain a student.
• Lynn told Umr she could earn a game console and cartridges by passing her exams with top marks, or just the console by earning at least an E in every subject.
• Lynn warned Umr that he would confiscate the console if she neglected her studies to play it.
• Lynn asked Tom to decide whether to return to the Spirit Sealing Soul Banishment seal or accept a new body and take responsibility for his past.

Lynn confronted Tom with the harm he had caused and helped him decide to make amends and live as a normal person. Tom agreed to be resurrected, and Lynn left Hogwarts with Dumbledore to meet an old friend who might help restore Tom’s body.

• Lynn reminded Tom that his actions had harmed Harry, Neville, Myrtle, Hagrid, and many others, not only Beshilde.
• After thinking for the rest of the day, Tom said he would make amends and accept the consequences of his crimes.
• Lynn told Tom that Dumbledore would arrange a way to give him his own body, then informed Dumbledore of Tom’s decision.
• Lynn set practical dueling exams for the Hogwarts students and graded their performances.
• Dumbledore took Lynn from Hogwarts with Fawkes to visit an old friend who might help with Tom’s resurrection.

Dumbledore brought Lynn Belloc to Nicolas Flamel's home to ask for a fragment of the Philosopher's Stone. Flamel gave him one, and Dumbledore revealed that its remaining magic could reshape a body for certain souls that had not yet died.

• Fawkes brought Dumbledore and Lynn to the Le Me family courtyard, where the alchemical gate Doyle and the doll Flandeau welcomed them.
• Dumbledore introduced Lynn to Nicolas Flamel, who praised Lynn's recent achievements and served them tea with the help of Flandeau.
• Flamel said his reserve of Elixir of Life would last only until winter and that he planned to hold a farewell gathering in autumn.
• Dumbledore asked Flamel for a fragment of the Philosopher's Stone, and Flamel retrieved a box of its weakened fragments.
• Dumbledore took a fragment and explained that its residual magic could reshape a body for certain souls that had not yet died.

Dumbledore brought Lynn to Nicolas Flamel to learn about Hogwarts’s scepter, which Lynn had activated after killing the basilisk. Flamel explained its powers and its significance as a symbol of authority at Hogwarts, leaving Lynn with a claim to a more orthodox legacy than Dumbledore’s.

• Dumbledore told Nicolas Flamel that the soul he had found belonged to Voldemort, and Flamel gave him a box of Philosopher’s Stone fragments.
• Lynn showed Flamel the scepter, which Flamel recognized as Hogwarts’s treasure, created through the work of the Four Wizards.
• Flamel explained that Lynn could transform the scepter into anything he imagined, and Lynn changed it into a raven whose senses he could share.
• Lynn transformed the scepter into a short sword and successfully cast a Refilling Charm through it.
• Flamel said the scepter’s greatest purpose was to mark its holder as Hogwarts’s master through the orthodox legacy of the Four Wizards.

Lynn and Dumbledore gathered the materials needed for Tom’s resurrection, and Lynn prepared the resurrection potion with Tom at the end-of-year feast. The potion began its seven-day boil, leaving Tom’s return to a body underway.

• Lynn and Dumbledore visited magical markets and reclusive wizards across Europe to collect the materials Tom needed.
• Back at Hogwarts, Lynn filled out Defense Against the Dark Arts report cards and spent time picnicking with Ian, Cedric, and Umr.
• Lynn, Ian, and Cedric discussed Hogwarts’ Student Council system and the prestigious role of its male and female Presidents.
• During the end-of-year feast, Lynn and Tom brewed the resurrection potion in the Room of Requirement while keeping their work secret.
• Lynn added the Philosopher’s Stone fragment to the potion, which turned blood-red and began its seven-day boil.

Lynn stayed at Hogwarts during the holidays while waiting for Tom's body-making potion to finish, exploring the castle and visiting Snape. He followed Snape through the Floo Network to Knockturn Alley, where Snape faced a shopkeeper who complained about Lynn coming along.

• Lynn explored Hogwarts's secret passages, animated statues, and paintings while the castle emptied for the holidays.
• Lynn visited Snape and asked to accompany him when Snape prepared to leave Hogwarts for a private matter.
• Snape agreed to take Lynn after warning him to keep quiet and avoid causing trouble.
• Snape and Lynn traveled by Floo Powder to Knockturn Alley.
• A shopkeeper confronted Snape about bringing Lynn and threatened to replace his shop's Floo Network connection.

Lynn accompanied Snape through Knockturn Alley to meet Shabur, a former colleague who wanted a potion formula. After Snape sold it to him, Lynn spotted a green Dark Mark-like tattoo on Shabur’s left arm.

• Lynn emerged from Borgin’s fireplace, complained about the soot, and followed Snape into Knockturn Alley.
• Snape warned Lynn about the dangerous alley and explained how Ministry corruption let prohibited goods and wanted wizards remain hidden there.
• Snape and Lynn found the impoverished, one-legged Shabur, who tried to bargain over a potion formula and its ingredients.
• Snape refused to lower his price, and Shabur paid him for the formula.
• Lynn noticed a green tattoo of a python emerging from a skull on Shabur’s left arm and hurried after Snape.

Lynn learned from Snape about Shabur’s past as a Death Eater and the former followers who had escaped punishment. Back at Hogwarts, Lynn and Tom prepared to use a finished potion to help Tom reshape his body, and the chapter ended as they opened the cauldron.

• Lynn asked Snape whether Shabur was a Death Eater, and Snape warned him not to speak Voldemort’s name aloud.
• Snape explained that Shabur had squandered his inheritance, escaped Azkaban by claiming he had been cursed, and later lost money gambling.
• Lynn returned to Hogwarts with Snape and became interested in the former Death Eaters who still lived comfortably in wizarding society.
• After seven days of brewing, Lynn guided Tom through opening the cauldron in the Room of Requirement.
• Lynn confirmed the potion was ready and completed its final step while Tom and Umr watched.

Lynn guided Tom through the steps for using the potion to regain a body, while Umr wondered about his age and future name. Alone in the sealed cauldron, Tom realized he could not remember his own appearance and feared what might emerge.

• Lynn explained the rebirth procedure and warned Tom to remain in the cauldron for three hours while imagining his own appearance.
• Tom entered the potion, and Lynn sealed the cauldron and set an alarm for three hours later.
• Umr asked Lynn to help her be considered older than Tom and suggested he take the surname Bashat, while Lynn said Tom would have to choose his own name.
• Tom tried to picture his face in the darkness but realized he could not remember what he looked like.
• As Tom sat anxiously in the potion, he thought about the figure who had lingered in his mind and wondered whether she had been afraid while imprisoned inside his body.

Lynn and Umr waited for Tom to emerge after his body was reshaped, but were shocked to discover he had become a girl. Tom put on the prepared robe and climbed out of the cauldron, insisting he had not wanted the transformation.

• Umr counted the future Belloc family's members and teased Lynn about finding him a sister-in-law.
• Lynn warned Umr to be careful about dating and marriage, and Umr said her future boyfriend would need to be like him.
• Lynn told Umr to keep her eyes covered while Tom emerged, then waited for Tom to open the cauldron lid himself.
• Tom climbed out of the cauldron, and Lynn froze after seeing his slender arms and soft voice.
• Umr turned around, saw Tom had become a girl, and handed him the robe.
• Tom put on the robe, climbed out of the cauldron, and said he had not wanted the change.

Tom transformed into a girl resembling Beshilde when she was reborn, and Lynn brought her to Dumbledore to discuss whether the change could be reversed. Tom chose to remain as she was, hoping to atone for her past by living in Beshilde's place.

• Lynn accused Tom of deliberately remaking her body to resemble Beshilde, but Tom said she had forgotten her original appearance while in the cauldron.
• Lynn took Tom to Dumbledore, who confirmed that Tom had not intentionally chosen to become a girl.
• Dumbledore explained that killing Tom's current body might restore her former state, but the method was cruel and risky.
• Tom said she had considered the consequences and wanted to live in Beshilde's place as a way to atone for her death.

Tom chose to live at Hogwarts, while Lynn returned home with Umr and spent the summer working on a school reform proposal. A Daily Prophet photo of the Weasleys in Egypt revealed Scabbers’s missing toe, prompting Lynn to form a plan as Sirius Black recognized the rat in Azkaban.

• Tom chose to stay at Hogwarts rather than continue living with Lynn’s family, and Dumbledore agreed to arrange her identity and accommodation.
• Lynn brought Umr home, bought her a Super Famicom and games, and spent the summer writing to his contacts and drafting reforms for Hogwarts.
• Hermione tried to persuade Lynn to travel to France with her family, but he declined and encouraged her to enjoy the trip with her parents.
• Lynn saw a Daily Prophet photograph of the Weasleys and Harry in Egypt and noticed that Scabbers was missing a toe.
• Sirius Black saw the same photograph in Azkaban and recognized Scabbers by his severed finger.