Chapter Summaries

Ethan tested his protective painting against the Basilisk’s gaze, then painted a living Serpent portrait with golden eyes in the Chamber of Secrets. Arthur followed him there, discovered Ethan was behind the Chamber incidents, and became the portrait’s target after choosing to oppose him.

• Ethan entered the Chamber of Secrets and proved he could look directly into the Basilisk’s eyes without being harmed.
• Ethan used Lumin to paint golden eyes onto the Giant Snakeskin Canvas, creating a dangerous Tier 1 living portrait.
• Ethan sent the Basilisk away and revealed himself as the one who had opened the Chamber of Secrets when Arthur found him.
• Arthur decided to arrest Ethan for the chance to end his rival’s rise and advance his own standing.
• Ethan asked Arthur whether he had come of his own free will, and Arthur answered that he had.
• Ethan opened the painted serpent’s eyes, unleashing two blinding beams at Arthur.

Ethan battled Arthur after Tom’s dark magic transformed him into a monstrous host, using a series of magical tricks to wear him down. Just as Tom seemed to have won, Ethan revealed the Acromantula Heart and prepared to deliver his judgment.

• Ethan blinded Arthur with golden magic, but Arthur’s sealed wardrobe burst open and Tom’s dark magic merged with his body.
• Tom transformed Arthur into a towering monster and attacked Ethan, who used a portal, fused with the Bird of Death, and sent the painted Snake Head to tear off Tom’s arm.
• Tom kept attacking until Ethan was knocked down, then declared himself the winner and moved in to kill him.
• Ethan revealed the Acromantula Heart pendant, which restored his life force and magic, and announced that Tom would face his judgment.

Ethan defeated and destroyed Tom Riddle’s remnant soul inside the diary, then healed Arthur enough to keep him alive. The battle fulfilled an ascension condition, raising Ethan’s Soul Fusion Degree to 68% and unlocking the power to merge the five Great Serpent Portraits.

• Ethan shaped Lumin and Dragon Flame into the Spear of Destiny, pierced Arthur’s body, and caused the Chamber of Secrets to collapse.
• Tom escaped into the diary, but Ethan entered its pages and crushed Tom’s remnant soul after it sought help from a memory of Dumbledore.
• Ethan received the commemorative painting The Scream of Tom and claimed the Masterless Diary as an Extraordinary Item.
• Ethan cast a Healing Spell on the badly disfigured Arthur while the Basilisk surveyed the ruined Chamber of Secrets.
• Ethan’s art exhibition fulfilled an ascension condition, increasing his Soul Fusion Degree from 60% to 68%.
• Ethan felt his magic surge, and the system revealed that he could merge the five Great Serpent Portraits to unleash their true power.

Ethan unleashed his enormous living painting, the Great Serpent, on Hogwarts, terrifying the students and overwhelming the castle. After the serpent swallowed Dumbledore and the castle into eternal sleep, Harry heard a voice telling him to wake up and save the world.

• Ethan completed the Great Serpent Portrait and sent the serpent to frighten Hogwarts.
• The serpent coiled around the Slytherin Common Room and crawled past every Hogwarts house, causing students, ghosts, and staff to panic.
• Peeves warned Dumbledore that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, and Dumbledore ordered the professors to evacuate the students.
• Dumbledore recognized the monster as Ethan Vincent's living painting, but the Great Serpent swallowed him and the castle into darkness.
• Harry drifted in the darkness until an ethereal voice told him to wake up and save the world.

Ethan staged a confrontation with Harry in the Chamber of Secrets as Mr. Lamp, intending to make his name famous. After Harry stabbed him, Ethan’s Breaking Out of the Shell progress reached 100%, and the dark eggshell burst with light.

• Harry woke alone, found Hermione’s note pointing to the Chamber of Secrets, and hurried there while Luna reported his movements to Ethan.
• Ethan prepared the Basilisk with a White Veil, drank Ageing Potion, and disguised himself as Mr. Lamp to face Harry.
• Mr. Lamp declared that he planned to destroy Hogwarts and kill Harry to make his name resound throughout the world.
• Dumbledore’s Phoenix brought Harry the Sorting Hat, which produced the Sword of Gryffindor, and Harry thrust the sword into Mr. Lamp’s chest.
• Ethan grabbed Harry’s wrist as his painting filled the displayed requirements, raising Breaking Out of the Shell progress from 87% to 100% and breaking the eggshell in brilliant light.

Ethan hatched the Eternal Burning Sunflower and used its explosive power in the Chamber of Secrets, while Harry escaped with the Phoenix. Ethan remained behind amid the destruction, watching Harry as the chamber collapsed.

• Ethan hatched the Eternal Burning Sunflower, and the Spider Pendant began replenishing the life and magic the flower consumed.
• Harry pulled his sword from Ethan’s chest as sunflowers burst through Ethan’s shattered mask, and Ethan declared that Harry had made him change his mind about Hogwarts.
• Ethan commanded the Eternal Burning Sunflower to bloom, filling the Chamber of Secrets with golden flowers that dazzled Harry.
• The sunflowers exploded, destroying pillars and collapsing the chamber, while the Phoenix carried Harry through a hole in the ceiling and shielded him from the flames.
• Harry saw Ethan standing amid the golden-red dust, his face clear again and his cobalt-blue eyes fixed on Harry.

Ethan triggered Salazar Slytherin’s True Chamber by plunging Hogwarts into a life-or-death crisis, then entered the hidden land and claimed Slytherin’s gifts. He left with a route to ascension unlocked and planned to have the Great Serpent spit Hogwarts back out.

• Harry escaped the collapsing underground passage on Phoenix, while Ethan collapsed and protected himself from the falling rocks.
• The Basilisk awakened and transformed into a towering Pure White Door after the Chamber of Secrets opened.
• Ethan entered the door, encountered silent white ghosts, and found a Red Apple and a Silver Key hidden behind a brick.
• Salazar Slytherin’s message unlocked the Mortal-to-Knower pathway and revealed that a dangerous beast awaited deeper in the hidden land.
• Ethan resolved to advance toward Knower and planned to emerge with the relic and make the Great Serpent spit Hogwarts back out.

Hagrid, Fudge, Lucius, and others watched Hogwarts emerge from a magical barrier and heard Mr. Lamp claim responsibility for the attack while praising Harry Potter and the Enlightenment Lamp Society. They entered the damaged castle to find the students alive but unconscious, and Harry reported that Mr. Lamp was not human.

• Hagrid tried to break the barrier around Hogwarts as Fudge, Lucius, the Aurors, Mike Arthur, and Dobby arrived.
• The barrier vanished, golden Sunflowers appeared and burned, and Mr. Lamp announced that the Enlightenment Lamp Society had made him change his plan to destroy Hogwarts.
• Fudge and Lucius reacted to Mr. Lamp's message, while Lucius concluded that Ethan Vincent's actions must be part of a brilliant plan.
• Hagrid rushed into Hogwarts, and Fudge and the Aurors found a cracked corridor and unconscious students who were still alive.
• Harry arrived with a Phoenix and told Fudge that Mr. Lamp had blown up the underground beneath Hogwarts; when asked what Mr. Lamp looked like, Harry said he was not human.

Fudge arrived at Dumbledore’s office intending to blame Ethan Vincent, but Ethan’s presence terrified him into silence. As Ethan helped repair Hogwarts, he woke Snape from a dream of Lily and greeted him with a cryptic remark.

• Fudge and the Aurors reached Dumbledore’s office, where Ethan was already speaking with Dumbledore.
• Ethan asked who the Wizarding World’s true enemy was, and an Auror blamed the Dark Lord while Lucius privately concluded Ethan meant the Ministry.
• Dumbledore sent Ethan to help wake the professors and students and repair Hogwarts, and Ethan left as Fudge hiccupped in fear.
• Harry and Hagrid praised Ethan’s kindness, while Dobby decided he needed to warn Harry about him.
• Ethan repaired the school with his wand, then went to wake Snape and found him dreaming of Lily.
• Snape woke in pain, saw Ethan, and angrily shouted his name.

After the Hogwarts attack, Ethan rallied the shaken students and helped Harry regain their trust, while Snape vowed to watch him. The Chamber of Secrets incident ended with Arthur disgraced and badly injured, and Arthur blamed Ethan as they faced each other at the term’s final banquet.

• Snape woke among the sleeping students, realized Ethan was behind the incident, and warned him that he would be watching him.
• Ethan told the awakened students that the attack was only an appetizer and urged them to grow strong enough to face future crises.
• Harry arrived exhausted and faced the students’ suspicions, but Ethan gave him a magical Red Apple and prompted the students to apologize.
• Harry ate the apple as the sun rose over Hogwarts, and the students’ fears eased as the Chamber of Secrets incident came to an end.
• At the final banquet, the injured Arthur entered the Great Hall and confronted Ethan, blaming him for the destruction of his future.

Lady Arthur rejected Arthur and offered Ethan her former son's Gringotts vault, leaving Arthur humiliated and unconscious. With the Round Table Council ended, the Enlightenment Lamp Society rose to prominence as Ethan’s influence and magical insight grew.

• Arthur accused Ethan before his mother, but Lady Arthur told him not to call her Mother and offered to make Ethan her son instead.
• Lady Arthur gave Ethan Arthur’s Gringotts key and left without acknowledging Arthur, whose hair turned white before he collapsed.
• Arthur regretted abandoning the Round Table Council’s original ideals and apologized to his mentor before Ethan placed two silver coins over his eyes, making him spit blood and pass out.
• The professors took Arthur away, and Ethan saw faint Lamps kindle in the minds of Ravenclaw students as the Enlightenment Lamp Society’s era began.
• Ethan’s Lamp grew brighter, strengthening his influence and magic as he resolved to pursue ascension and restore Ravenclaw’s true essence.

After the feast, Ethan discussed summer plans with Luna and revealed to Hermione that he had a Time-Turner. He planned to use it to reach an era when Ancient Magic still existed, leaving his hopes for mastering the lost art unresolved.

• Justin apologized to Harry for believing he had attacked him, and Harry said he forgave him because following Ethan was a good choice.
• Dumbledore awarded Harry two hundred points and gave Ethan a Special Contribution Award for the work of his Enlightenment Lamp Society.
• Ethan told Luna he wanted to hold an art exhibition in her wizarding village, and they discussed their summer plans.
• As students boarded the Hogwarts Express, Hermione worried about keeping up with Ethan in Ancient Runes, and he explained that he wanted to learn Ancient Magic through practice.
• Ethan asked Hermione whether she had a Time-Turner, then revealed that he had one too: Salazar Slytherin's Silver Key, which he hoped could take him back to an age when Ancient Magic existed.

After leaving Hogwarts, Ethan stayed at the Lovegoods’ home and painted a powerful freezing card as protection for his planned journey into the past. The painting froze the bedroom and trapped Ethan and Luna until he escaped them through a Portal, leaving him eager to use the new card despite Mr. Lovegood’s warning to be more careful.

• Ethan and Luna left the train station, greeted the Weasleys, and Ethan offered to deal with Ron’s rat Scabbers.
• At the Lovegoods’ home, Ethan reviewed his cards and decided to paint an escape tool before using the Silver Key to travel into the past.
• Ethan mixed Refined Ghoul Bone Powder into his paint and traced the Freezing Charm onto a canvas, creating an intense freezing aura that covered the bedroom.
• Luna entered the frozen room to reach Ethan, but the cold immobilized them both until Ethan opened a Portal and sent them to the first floor.
• Mr. Lovegood and Luna urged Ethan to protect himself, and Ethan promised to be more careful before revealing his new Chilling Aura card.

Ethan used the Silver Key to travel to 1612, the year of the Goblin Rebellion, and arrived in a Goblin camp. Surrounded by hostile Goblins, he brushed away their leader’s enchanted axe and prepared to fight.

• Ethan revealed his Chilling Aura card to Mr. Lovegood and signed a tablecloth, frightening villagers who watched the Lovegood house from the forest.
• Ethan packed weapons and painting tools before using the Silver Key, reassured Mr. Lovegood that he would respect history, and promised Luna she could join him another time.
• The Silver Key sent Ethan through a blinding light and a vision of enormous eyes, then dropped him into damp soil among Goblins.
• Ethan learned from the Goblin leader that the year was 1612, during the historic Goblin Rebellion.
• The Goblin leader threw an enchanted axe at Ethan, but Ethan slapped it aside and cast, “[Break].”

Ethan disguised himself as [Mr. Lamp], froze a goblin camp, and found an Ancient Magic Relic before using the Silver Key to return. Eve Black arrived afterward and prepared her Hogwarts squad for a possible new human enemy.

• Ethan killed the goblin leader with crimson fire and knocked an attacking goblin unconscious with a Stunning Spell.
• Ethan called himself [Mr. Lamp] and froze the goblins with the Chilling Aura, then received a message that he had lit a faint radiance in history.
• Ethan followed a golden light to the goblins’ Ancient Magic Relic, a scroll-shaped metal box, and learned that Lord Ragnok had clues to Ancient Magic.
• The Silver Key absorbed magic from the relic and transported Ethan away from the camp.
• Eve Black and her Hogwarts squad found the frozen goblins and heard a survivor scream that [Lamp] had come.
• Eve Black warned her squad that they might face a new human enemy pursuing Ancient Magic.

Luna opened the ancient Metal Scroll and Ethan learned the Aldr Incantation, a rune that could suppress minds and souls and had been developed to treat lycanthropy. The scroll also contained a key marked 12, and the chapter ended when Ethan found an unexpected visitor at the Lovegood home.

• Ethan told Mr. Lovegood that he had wiped out an entire Goblin Camp, startling him into rushing upstairs to check the history books.
• Luna followed the glowing silver spiral on the Metal Scroll and opened it, releasing a surge of ancient magic.
• Luna found an antique key engraved with 12, and Ethan suggested they explore the corresponding Gringotts vault together.
• Ethan read a damaged note about an incantation created to weaken Wolf Nature and learned the Aldr Incantation.
• Ethan tried the Aldr Incantation, producing a weak gust that nudged and cracked a cup.
• An unexpected visitor knocked, and Ethan went to the door and looked through the peephole.

Professor Lupin visited Ethan and Luna under orders from Cornelius Fudge to watch Ethan, but Ethan’s jokes and moon-themed room repeatedly made Lupin fear his werewolf secret had been exposed. Lupin delivered their school notices and agreed to accompany them to Diagon Alley, while Ethan planned to use him as protection on the way to Vault 12.

• Lupin arrived at Ethan’s home to observe him for Fudge, while remembering that Fudge had threatened to expose his werewolf secret if he concealed anything.
• Ethan startled Lupin with the password “Little Bunny (Here Comes the Wolf)” and a room lit by a huge Moon Lamp, then explained that he had only thought Lupin liked the moon.
• Lupin gave Ethan and Luna their start-of-term notices and Hogsmeade permission forms, and Ethan asked Mr. Lovegood to sign his form because he had no parents.
• Lupin offered to take Ethan and Luna to Diagon Alley to buy their school supplies, and Ethan readily agreed.
• Ethan planned to use Lupin as a human shield while they went to Vault 12.

Ethan took Luna and Professor Lupin to Diagon Alley, where his confrontation with a dismissive Gringotts goblin escalated when he revealed the long-lost Vault 12 Key. Ragnok recognized the key and its connection to a mysterious figure from the 1612 Goblin Rebellion, leaving Ethan in control of the encounter.

• Lupin left the Lovegood home without meeting Mr. Lovegood, who later found Ethan dancing silently with Luna beneath a giant moon-shaped lamp.
• At the Leaky Cauldron, Ethan hung his paintings on the walls and permanently bonded them there, while Lupin arrived looking exhausted after a full moon.
• Lupin led Ethan and Luna through Diagon Alley to Gringotts, where a goblin dismissed them and treated Lupin with contempt.
• Ethan appeared on the counter, scattering coins, then showed Ragnok a brass key marked with the number 12.
• Ragnok recognized the key as the lost Vault 12 Key linked to a mysterious figure from the 1612 Goblin Rebellion, and Ethan asked whether he had time now.

Ethan forced Ragnok to escort him to Vault 12, where he found a treasure map and a mysterious ancient relic. The chapter ended with Ethan discovering the vault’s contents as goblins waited outside, intent on reclaiming them.

• Ragnok bowed to Ethan and let him use his back as a step after Ethan threatened not to open Vault 12.
• Gringotts managers and guards recognized the Vault 12 Key and escorted Ethan, Luna, and Professor Lupin underground.
• Ethan sheltered himself and Luna from the Anti-Thief Waterfall, while Lupin suffered its effects.
• Ragnok opened Vault 12, revealing a glowing stream of magic and an otherwise empty chamber with a stone pillar.
• Ethan found a treasure map and a snow-white ancient relic identified as the Pure White Holy Relic.

Ethan discovered that the Sacred Remains could absorb life force and use it to create living beings, then fought off the Goblins who tried to reclaim Vault 12. After knocking out the transformed Lupin and draining the Goblins, Ethan left with Luna and the unconscious professor, eager to begin his experiments.

• Ethan found a treasure map signed by a member of the Black Family and realized its hidden treasure could only be reached by traveling to the past.
• Ragnok led the Goblins in an attack, but Lupin transformed into a Werewolf and routed them while Ethan sealed the vault door.
• Ethan used an Alda Sign to knock Lupin out and force him back into human form, though his Wolf Nature remained intact.
• Ethan tested the Sacred Remains and discovered that it absorbed the Goblins' life force, leaving them alive but unconscious.
• Ethan levitated Lupin and left the vault with Luna, planning to return home and begin his experiments.