Chapter Summaries

After hearing Adam’s account of Tom Riddle, Ominis considered whether a different upbringing could have changed him. Adam invited Ominis to raise Tom’s supposed child in the future and asked him to investigate the Gaunt family, while Ominis agreed to return home to learn soul magic for Anne.

• Ominis described the Gaunt family’s decline and reflected that Tom Riddle had surpassed its pure-blood descendants in Dark magic.
• Ominis said he thought raising young Tom from childhood could have changed his path.
• Adam asked Ominis to consider traveling a hundred years into the future to raise Tom’s supposed child, and suggested he could investigate Marvolo Gaunt in his own era.
• Adam left, and Sebastian urged Ominis to hurry with the soul magic because Anne was still asleep.
• Ominis agreed to return home that weekend to make inquiries and pursue the soul magic for Anne.

Adam improved Anne's treatment until she could keep a normal schedule and her curse stopped worsening, then learned that Yog had packed an extraordinary number of adventures into less than half a year. The chapter left Anne stable but vulnerable to magic, while Adam continued studying soul magic and the Unforgivable Curses.

• Adam recorded Anne's waking time and estimated that her improved treatment would eventually require more than three years of sleep, though she now slept for only eighteen hours after each session.
• Adam chose to study the Imperius Curse first, reasoning that it revealed the most about controlling souls, and tested its effects on a vole and a spider.
• Adam spent less than half a year developing a second version of Anne's treatment plan while Yog completed trials, fought goblins, and rescued magical creatures.
• Adam told Sebastian and Ominis that Anne could resume a normal schedule and that her curse would not worsen, provided she avoided using magic or being struck by soul-affecting magic.
• Sebastian vowed to protect Anne with his life.

Adam invited Yog to become a Hogwarts professor in the future, then joined Sebastian and Ominis to find Salazar Slytherin’s hidden study. Ominis hoped the study would contain clues about his aunt, and the group reached its entrance.

• Adam offered Yog a teaching position at Hogwarts after he graduated, and Yog accepted the possibility.
• Sebastian told Adam and Ominis that Salazar Slytherin had left a study somewhere in Hogwarts.
• Ominis explained that he wanted to search the study for clues about his aunt, who had entered it to investigate Slytherin’s intentions.
• Ominis led Adam and Sebastian to an ornately carved wall and explained that lighting the surrounding braziers would open the study.
• Sebastian complained that Ominis had refused to show him the entrance before, and Ominis said Sebastian had not been able to control his power.

Adam, Sebastian, and Ominis explored a hidden passage beneath Hogwarts in search of Salazar Slytherin’s study. They discovered Ominis’s aunt Nocoto Gaunt’s skeleton and learned she had died trapped behind a door that required the Cruciatus Curse to open.

• Adam opened a snake-covered door with lock-picking magic after his Parseltongue phrases failed.
• Adam blasted through the maze’s iron gates and walls with a spell he called “Serious Punch,” clearing a path for Sebastian and Ominis.
• Adam found a recent female skeleton beside another door and suspected it belonged to Ominis’s aunt.
• Ominis found and read a parchment beside the skeleton, learning that the door required the Cruciatus Curse and that its writer had been trapped.
• Ominis read the parchment’s signature and identified the skeleton as his aunt, Nocoto Gaunt.

Adam, Sebastian, and Ominis reached Salazar Slytherin’s study after Adam opened its magically sealed door with Enhanced Alohomora. Inside, Adam found Slytherin’s notes on creating mummies and recorded the locations of his experiments, while Sebastian and Ominis wondered what spell Adam had really used.

• Adam used Zombie Levitation and conjured a cloth so Ominis could collect his aunt’s remains.
• Adam cast Crucio at the wailing-face door and explained that its enchantment responded to a soul in pain; Sebastian’s attempt had no effect.
• Adam opened the door with Enhanced Alohomora, revealing Salazar Slytherin’s study.
• Adam read Slytherin’s book on creating mobile mummies and memorized the locations where Slytherin had experimented.
• Sebastian and Ominis entered the study and wondered what spell Adam had used to break the enchantment that had trapped Ominis’s aunt.

Adam, Sebastian, and Ominis explored Salazar Slytherin’s study, where Ominis found writings that shook his beliefs about his family and Salazar’s pure-blood ideology. Adam challenged Ominis to decide for himself what was right and secretly removed the curse on his eyes, leaving Ominis discovering that he could see.

• Adam explained that his enhanced unlocking spell could open doors blocked by mechanisms, spells, or seals, and agreed that Sebastian could teach a simplified version to Yog.
• Adam noticed that most of Salazar Slytherin’s study contained Dark magic and wondered whether Voldemort had also found the place.
• Ominis read Salazar Slytherin’s thoughts and concluded that his family had been right, blaming their beliefs for his aunt’s death and his blindness.
• Adam urged Ominis not to let Salazar define right and wrong, and reminded him that he could guide the last child of the Gaunt Family.
• Adam discovered a curse covering Ominis’s eyes and removed it while speaking to him.
• Ominis noticed the candles in his vision, canceled his perception spell, and realized he could see.

Adam helped Ominis recover his sight and conceal his aunt’s remains before revealing he planned to return to the future. He vanished after promising to come back in two years, leaving Sebastian and Ominis to prepare for his eventual return and find a safe place for the remains.

• Adam warned Ominis that his newly recovered eyes were fragile, and Ominis struggled to believe he could see again.
• Adam, Sebastian, and Ominis left Salazar Slytherin’s study with a spellbook, Ominis’s aunt’s remains, and Adam’s copied study; Adam stored the remains in a candy tin at Ominis’s request.
• Sebastian realized Adam was considering returning to the future, and Adam explained that his improved treatment plan could run automatically and that he missed his family.
• Adam told Sebastian and Ominis he planned to return when Ominis and the others graduated, then cautioned that time travel carried risks.
• Adam transformed into Professor Gandalf’s appearance and vanished, promising to return in two years and asking Sebastian to tell Yog.
• Sebastian and Ominis discussed how they might meet again and agreed Ominis needed to hide his aunt’s remains somewhere people would not mistake them for candy.

Adam returned home for a comforting meal, reunited Klon with the group chat, and reflected on how time changed his friends and family. He reviewed his responsibilities, then headed to Hogsmeade to begin a publicity campaign at the Dreamscape Cinema.

• Adam ate Madam Li’s home cooking and spent two days recharging with her and Mr. Reed.
• Adam visited the Ministry of Magic, checked on Uther in Egypt, and brought Klon back from the Arctic into the group chat.
• Adam added preserving his loved ones’ youth to his plans and reviewed his notes on Britain’s ongoing reforms and the goblins.
• Adam noticed an upcoming date on his memo list, decided to begin a publicity campaign, and Apparated to Hogsmeade.
• Adam went to the Dreamscape Cinema, one of the popular businesses in the Hogsmeade complex.

Adam addressed concerns that the completed first film of The Boy Who Lived could provoke people whose real lives it portrayed. He ordered a list of sensitive characters across the whole series and worried that revealing Professor Snape’s past could lead to disaster.

• The cinema's general manager told Adam that the first film was finished ahead of schedule but its portrayals of real people could cause controversy.
• Adam dismissed suggestions of changing characters’ appearances and decided to identify everyone whose portrayal, changed history, or personal secrets could create a dispute.
• Adam ordered the general manager to prepare a list of those characters from the entire film series within three days.
• Adam considered his influence in the Wizarding World, including his ownership of much of Gringotts and control of the magical plant industry.
• Adam worried that revealing Professor Snape’s past could anger Snape, while concealing it would leave him depicted only negatively.

Adam summoned Professor Snape and showed him a film about a parallel world where his plan with Professor Dumbledore unfolded without Adam’s interference. Snape reacted with fury, and Adam tried to calm him by offering to discuss the film’s release before asking whether he wanted a wife.

• Adam decided to show Professor Snape a parallel-world story rather than erase Snape’s storyline from his films.
• Professor Snape came to the Headmaster’s Office after receiving Adam’s Patronus message and challenged him about neglecting Hogwarts.
• Adam explained his research into time and parallel timelines, then drew Snape into a dream-film about Snape’s plan with Professor Dumbledore.
• Professor Snape attacked Adam after watching the film, and Adam used an anti-magic field to stop his spells.
• Adam tried to negotiate with the exhausted Snape and finally asked whether he wanted a wife.

Adam offered Professor Snape a chance to revisit his youth in a parallel world and undo his regrets. Snape chose to go himself, and Adam sent his soul to the past.

• Adam offered to bring Lily Evans and young versions of Lily and Severus Snape from a parallel world, but Snape reacted with anger and temptation.
• Adam proposed sending Snape’s soul to a parallel world where he could live through his youth again, warning that he might die there before returning.
• Professor Snape considered the risk and chose to go to the parallel world himself.
• Adam prepared a magic array, warned Snape to stay safe and conceal his identity, and sent his soul away.

Adam watched a recording of Severus Snape’s life in a parallel world, then welcomed him back with his wife, Lily Snape, and their daughter, Eileen Snape. Snape planned to stay at Hogwarts until Eileen finished her education and believed his potion-making skill could later earn him the Head of the Potions Department position.

• Adam used a crystal ball to watch a recording of Snape’s life in the parallel world as the return spell’s twenty hours passed.
• Snape returned through the magic circle looking cheerful and dramatically changed, leaving Adam stunned.
• Snape introduced his wife, Lily Snape, and daughter, Eileen Snape, to Adam.
• Snape asked Adam to ensure Eileen’s name was entered in the Book of Admittance, and Adam agreed to handle it.
• Snape decided to remain at Hogwarts to oversee Eileen’s education, even though Professor Slughorn might take the Head of the Potions Department position.
• Snape said he was confident his potion-making skill could eventually persuade Professor Slughorn to give up the position.

Adam learned that Professor Snape had used Muggle scientific methods to improve potion brewing, including Felix Felicis, and realized the breakthrough could reshape Potions. The discovery broadened Adam’s thinking about how future wizards might advance magic and strengthened his resolve to develop higher education for wizards.

• Adam suspected Professor Snape’s achievements came from deeper potion research developed during his second life.
• Professor Snape said he had applied Muggle theories such as chromatography and improved several potion-brewing methods.
• Professor Snape showed Adam a bottle of Felix Felicis brewed in a month less time, with a higher success rate and fewer side effects.
• Adam recognized the work as an epoch-making breakthrough and reconsidered how the Wizarding World might progress.
• Adam thought of Professor Longbottom’s developing Druid Path and became more certain that wizards needed higher education.

Adam discussed Professor Snape’s achievements with him and learned that, in a parallel world, Snape had defeated Voldemort and received a First Class medal. Snape explained that Voldemort had hunted him and his family, and Adam suspected Snape had been named in a prophecy as Voldemort’s killer.

• Eileen praised her father’s achievements, including his Order of Merlin, First Class medal, and role as Hogwarts headmaster.
• Adam teased Professor Snape about his accomplishments and asked how he had defeated Voldemort.
• Professor Snape explained that he had not joined either the Death Eaters or the Order of the Phoenix, but Voldemort had targeted him and his family.
• Adam suggested that Voldemort’s pursuit might have been connected to Snape’s half-blood heritage and skill as a Potions Master.
• Professor Snape said Voldemort had hunted them as if he meant to kill them outright, and Adam asked whether Snape had been the person named in Voldemort’s prophecy.

Adam examined how Professor Snape’s role in the parallel world had changed the prophecy, then arranged experimental soul treatment for Neville’s parents at Hogwarts. The Longbottoms agreed to the treatment and were to be discharged into a Hogwarts ward.

• Professor Snape and Adam realized that the parallel-world informant who had told Voldemort about the prophecy had been Professor Snape himself.
• Adam used his crystal ball to obtain the altered prophecy and considered how the identity of the Chosen One and the prophecy might influence each other.
• Adam reviewed his plans for the film’s release and for expanding experimental soul treatment beyond Anne.
• Adam explained the risks and benefits of treatment to Neville and Mrs. Longbottom, and Neville accepted on behalf of his parents.
• Adam arranged for Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom to be discharged and admitted to a Hogwarts ward for experimental treatment.

Adam arranged for the people portrayed in his Harry Potter films to take part, discovering that Hermione and Ron had broken up after Ron became her subordinate at the Ministry. They both accepted their roles, and after he secured the other participants and launched the promotion campaign, the film reached its premiere day.

• Adam learned from Hermione that she and Ron had broken up, then used memory reading to discover that Ron had lost his shop job and later joined Hermione’s Ministry team as her subordinate.
• Adam traced their breakup to workplace gossip and arguments after Hermione became Ron’s team leader.
• Adam explained the film project to Hermione and Ron, and both accepted their assigned roles without denying their past relationship.
• Adam visited the remaining people in the film, accommodated reasonable requests, and rejected unreasonable ones.
• Adam’s promotional campaign spread, and the film’s premiere day arrived.

Adam brought Bernard and Eugene to watch the movie about Harry’s life, which drew a large wizarding audience. As the film exposed Harry’s unhappy childhood and his ability to speak Parseltongue, Harry feared how the audience would see him, while Adam reassured him that the ordeal would soon be over.

• Adam ran into Minister Eugene and Bernard at Dreamscape Cinema, and they questioned why the movie showed neither of them.
• Bernard and Eugene admitted they had not bought tickets, so Adam took them to his special screening room.
• Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Grindelwald watched the film begin with the day baby Harry was left at Privet Drive.
• The audience fell silent as the movie showed Harry being mistreated by his aunt’s family, and Harry asked Ron to stop drawing attention to him.
• The film showed Harry speaking Parseltongue, shocking the audience, and Adam told Harry that his life would be over soon.

Harry and the other wizards watched a movie that recreated Harry’s early life, bringing back memories of Hagrid, Diagon Alley, and the journey to Hogwarts. As the film reached the students’ school days, the audience fondly recalled Hogwarts, while Harry and Ron remembered how much worse things would become.

• Harry watched the audience react as the movie showed Hagrid breaking into the Dursleys’ house and giving Harry a birthday cake.
• Harry remembered Hagrid giving Dudley a pig’s tail, but Ron warned that the spell could have sent Hagrid to Azkaban, so Harry claimed he had remembered wrong.
• The movie showed Hagrid taking Harry to Diagon Alley, prompting the wizards to reminisce about buying their Hogwarts supplies there.
• Harry and Ron watched the film recreate their trip through Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, including Fred and George’s prank.
• The movie showed Harry arriving at Hogwarts and attending the Sorting Ceremony, leading the wizards to praise their school days while Harry and Ron recalled the hardships ahead.

The film showed Harry’s first Quidditch match, his nighttime discovery of the Mirror of Erised, and Dumbledore claiming he had seen wool socks in it. Hermione realized she had wrongly suspected Snape and planned to apologize, while Grindelwald questioned Dumbledore’s claim and suspected he was lying.

• Harry and Ron discussed Quirrell’s jinx on Harry’s broom and remembered that Harry still owed Snape an apology.
• Hermione recalled that she had mistakenly blamed Snape instead of Quirrell and decided to buy Snape a new robe.
• The film showed Harry receiving an Invisibility Cloak and discovering the Mirror of Erised, which prompted the audience to speculate about what Dumbledore had seen.
• Dumbledore told Harry that he had seen wool socks in the Mirror, and some audience members debated whether he was telling the truth.
• Grindelwald asked Dumbledore whether he had really seen wool socks, and Dumbledore replied that the Mirror was only a mirror to the truly happy.
• Grindelwald concluded that Dumbledore was lying and wondered why he had concealed what he saw.

The film revealed that Professor Quirrell had been possessed by Voldemort and showed Harry defeating him with the help of the Mirror of Erised. As the audience left with their own thoughts, Adam ordered the cinema staff to speed up production of the second film.

• Professor McGonagall regretted how she had treated Harry and tried to focus again on the film.
• Harry and Ron wondered why Adam was absent from the film, while Adam looked forward to the audience's reactions to the later installments.
• Professor Quirrell revealed Voldemort on the back of his head, shocking the cinema audience, including Lucius.
• Harry defeated Voldemort after the Mirror of Erised kept the Sorcerer's Stone from him, and Professor Dumbledore explained how it worked.
• Adam told the manager to have the staff work overtime so the second film would be ready the weekend after next.