Chapter Summaries

The premiere of The Boy Who Lived sparked controversy and drove wizards to buy Dreamscape Cinema merchandise and collect commemorative cards. When Eugene warned Adam that goblins were making moves, Adam decided to send Yog to deal with them, while expecting he might have to intervene himself.

• Hogwarts issued a statement explaining why it had concealed Voldemort’s survival and warning that the films would increasingly diverge from reality, prompting wizards to plan for the next installment.
• Dreamscape Cinema launched film merchandise and a twenty-four-card commemorative set, and wizards eagerly devised ways to collect the cards and claim the gold-backed reward.
• Adam praised the cinema manager for making customers feel they had profited as the manager’s account book showed soaring revenue.
• The manager told Adam that the goblins had begun making moves, and Adam decided to have Yog handle them rather than spoil his chance to watch the film cast react.
• Adam expected Yog might not be ruthless enough to defeat the goblins, so he prepared to step in himself if necessary.

Adam brought Sebastian, Yog, and Ominis from the founders’ era to the future, where Regulus helped them adjust and Yog took on the goblin problem. At the premiere of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry and Ron worried that the film would reveal their past rule-breaking.

• Adam reflected on how the wizarding population had grown and said he and his allies were ready to face a changing relationship between the wizarding and Muggle worlds.
• Sebastian asked to travel to the future and teach at Hogwarts, and Adam agreed after making the group take an Unbreakable Vow.
• Adam left the newcomers with Regulus to help them adapt and assigned Yog to deal with the goblins.
• At the Chamber of Secrets film premiere, Harry worried about revisiting the trouble he had faced in his second year.
• Harry and Ron fretted that the film might expose their flying-car trip to Harry’s relatives and their flight to Hogwarts, potentially getting them in trouble.

Harry and Ron watched the film of Harry’s second year, while the audience reacted to the Weasleys’ rescue and Harry’s accidental trip to Knockturn Alley. Lucius and Draco recognized their past actions on screen, and Draco challenged his father over whether they had been villains.

• The film showed the Weasleys rescuing Harry from the Dursleys, and Molly blushed as the audience watched her reunion with Arthur.
• Harry recalled the warmth of the Weasley family as Ron joked that Fred and George might be sent to prison too.
• Harry’s Floo Powder mistake sent him to Knockturn Alley, where the film showed him encountering Lucius and Draco selling dangerous goods.
• Draco worried about the film revealing their past, and Lucius explained that the Ministry had already tried their crimes and cleared out Knockturn Alley.
• Harry and Ron left to get drinks when Lockhart appeared, while Lucius wondered if the film cast them as villains and Draco pointed out that they had acted like villains.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione watched embarrassing scenes from their past unfold in a movie, while Adam tried to keep them in the screening room. The chapter left Hermione trapped in the restroom with the movie audio still playing.

• Harry and Ron watched the flying-car scenes and accepted that they could not escape the consequences of their past actions.
• Ron fled the theater when the Howler scene began, but Adam amplified its sound through the screening room system.
• Adam stopped Ron from leaving the screening room by checking his ticket and asking him to stay.
• Hermione cringed at her former admiration for Lockhart and fled to the restroom.
• Hermione discovered that the restroom notice required the movie audio to play there as well.

The audience watched scenes from Harry Potter’s second year at Hogwarts, including his encounter with a strange voice and the discovery of bloody writing on a wall. The movie revealed Professor Binns explaining the Chamber of Secrets legend, while Professor McGonagall questioned Dumbledore about what he had known.

• The theater audience discussed whether Ron’s slug-vomiting scene had really happened and learned that The Quibbler was investigating which movie scenes were real.
• Hermione recalled Harry’s detention with Lockhart and recognized the strange voice Harry had heard before the trio found bloody writing on a wall.
• A wizard explained that Hogwarts later installed surveillance magic across public areas, prompting Adam to mock the wizard’s supposed wish to roam the halls at night.
• The trio decided not to tell professors about Harry’s encounter, and McGonagall challenged Dumbledore about whether he had known of it.
• Professor Binns explained the Chamber of Secrets legend, and the audience recognized it as the movie’s central mystery.

Hermione and Harry watched the film revisit the trouble Dobby caused while trying to protect Harry, and Adam argued that House-elves’ power and ambition had to be contained. Meanwhile, Yog attacked a goblin camp, wiped out nearly everyone there, and began questioning its last survivor about other camps.

• Hermione remembered using Lockhart’s signature to enter the Restricted Section and stealing Snape’s potion ingredients, then decided to wait until she had watched the whole series before apologizing again.
• Harry watched his past Quidditch accident and remembered how Dobby’s interference led to his broken arm and the painful regrowth of his bones.
• Lucius reacted uneasily to Dobby’s abilities, and Adam warned that a powerful, ambitious species had to be contained.
• Adam wondered whether Yog had begun dealing with the goblins, while Yog used linked spells and a Killing Curse to slaughter most of a goblin camp.
• Yog transformed one goblin into a barrel that exploded, then used a spell to question the last survivor about the locations of other camps.

Adam watched the second film with the others as Harry and Malfoy took part in Lockhart’s dueling demonstration, and Harry’s Parseltongue revealed him to the audience. The film showed panic spreading at Hogwarts after Justin was petrified, while Harry wondered what the movie could teach him about his own past.

• Adam checked in with Yog, who said everything was going smoothly and that he was almost done.
• Harry and Ron watched Lockhart’s dueling demonstration, where Snape disarmed Lockhart before Harry and Malfoy stepped onto the platform.
• Harry spoke Parseltongue in the film, and viewers reacted with shock while Adam wondered whether Ominis could teach the language at Hogwarts.
• The film showed Harry being suspected as the Heir of Slytherin after Justin was petrified, and Harry and Ron discussed why the basilisk’s victims had not been killed.
• Harry reasoned that the victims had only seen the basilisk indirectly, as Adam had based their fates on the earlier case of Mrs. Norris.

Harry and the others watched the movie reveal the mystery of the diary and the Chamber of Secrets, while Lucius realized the diary Voldemort had given him might have known his role in Ginny’s attack. After Hermione became the latest victim, Hogwarts faced panic and the possibility of closing, with the real heir still unknown.

• Harry and Ron watched their movie selves discover a book in the girls’ bathroom and questioned why it had been left there.
• Harry saw his younger self begin talking to Tom Marvolo Riddle’s diary, alarming Lucius, who remembered giving it to Ginny Weasley.
• The diary showed Harry a memory identifying Hagrid as the person blamed for opening the Chamber of Secrets fifty years earlier.
• Professor Grindelwald suggested to Professor Dumbledore that Harry and Tom repeating the same answers was meaningful, but Dumbledore said the scene had not happened in reality.
• The movie revealed Hermione as another victim, and Professor McGonagall warned that Hogwarts might have to close as the audience wondered who the heir was.

Harry and Ron followed Hagrid’s clue into the Forbidden Forest, then learned Ginny had been taken into the Chamber of Secrets. As they tracked the clues to the Chamber’s entrance, the film revealed the enormous shed skin of the basilisk, leaving the audience to face the danger Adam had encountered.

• Harry and Ron followed Hagrid’s hint into the Forbidden Forest and escaped a swarm of Acromantulas in the flying car.
• Harry and Ron learned that Ginny had been taken into the Chamber of Secrets, while viewers wondered who the heir was.
• Professor Lockhart was exposed and forced to accompany Harry and Ron as they searched for the Chamber.
• Harry found the entrance to the Chamber in an abandoned girls’ bathroom, prompting Lucius to react uneasily.
• Harry saw the basilisk’s enormous shed skin and realized the danger Adam had faced.

Harry watched his younger self face the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets and learned that Tom Riddle was Voldemort. The movie left Harry watching with Ron as his past self drew a mysterious sword from the Sorting Hat.

• Harry calculated that his younger self had almost no chance against the basilisk, then watched him enter the Chamber of Secrets to save Ginny.
• Tom Riddle revealed that he had controlled Ginny, released the basilisk, and misled Harry about Hagrid before explaining that he was Voldemort.
• Fawkes brought Harry the Sorting Hat, but the basilisk attacked him, and Fawkes blinded it to give him a chance to fight.
• Harry's movie self drew a sword from the Sorting Hat while Ron watched with his eyes shut, worried that seeing the basilisk would Petrify him.

Adam worried that Yog had been trapped by the goblins and abandoned the fourth film premiere to find him. He learned that Yog had nearly finished clearing the Scottish Highlands, but the goblins had become so elusive that he had not found any in over a week.

• Harry and Ron agreed to wait for the fourth film after the third showed little difference from reality.
• Cedric, his wife, and Amos Diggory attended the premiere because the film covered the Triwizard Tournament year.
• Adam wondered why the goblins had not started a war and feared they might have targeted Yog.
• Yog told Adam that the goblins were cunning, prompting Adam to teleport to his location and apologize for leaving him to face them alone.
• Yog explained that he had swept through the Scottish Highlands several times and had found no goblins for over a week.

Adam learned that Yog had nearly wiped out the goblins and urged him to leave the remaining ones to the Ministry of Magic, which was preparing to impose its rules on magical creatures. Adam returned to Dreamscape Cinema to watch the Triwizard Tournament film, where Cedric and Harry reached the cup together, leaving Cedric in the screening room visibly upset.

• Yog told Adam that he had captured a goblin nest and used an Out-of-Body Experience to question its members, but had not found the other goblins.
• Adam praised Yog, then asked him to leave the remaining goblins to the Ministry of Magic so they could negotiate with them.
• The Ministry of Magic discussed how magical creatures would be classified, and Eugene said dissatisfied creatures could choose death instead.
• Adam returned to Dreamscape Cinema and watched the film's final Triwizard Tournament task, where Harry and Cedric reached the cup together.
• Amos Diggory accepted the film's outcome, but Cedric's expression turned extremely ugly.

The film showed Cedric being killed after the Triwizard Tournament trophy transported him and Harry to Voldemort, prompting Cedric to suspect Adam had made the movies to reveal something real. As Voldemort dueled Harry, Dumbledore and Grindelwald recognized that the opposing spells might be locked together because the boys' wands shared a phoenix feather core.

• The Portkey took film-Harry and film-Cedric to Voldemort, who killed Cedric with the Killing Curse.
• Amos Diggory tried to leave the theater, but Cedric insisted on staying to watch and said Adam's films might have a purpose.
• Voldemort resurrected himself, summoned the Death Eaters, and challenged Harry to a duel.
• Dumbledore reflected that he had understood Voldemort too late and had failed to teach him well.
• Harry's Disarming Spell locked Voldemort's Killing Curse in a stalemate, and Grindelwald and Dumbledore linked it to the phoenix feather cores shared by their wands.

The film showed Harry escaping Voldemort through Priori Incantatem, Cedric’s death, and Barty Crouch Jr.’s exposure, leaving viewers shaken by the story’s revelations. After Adam left the premiere and newspapers fueled a rush for tickets, Harry went to work and caught Ron hiding a copy of The Quibbler.

• Professor Dumbledore explained that the Twin Wands had triggered Priori Incantatem, allowing the echoes of Voldemort’s victims to help Harry escape with Cedric’s body.
• Amos Diggory wept as the film showed the cheering crowd unaware of Cedric’s death, while Professor Dumbledore watched Harry’s grief in silence.
• Harry noticed Professor Moody’s suspicious behavior, and Professor Dumbledore and the others exposed him as Barty Crouch Jr.
• Cedric watched Professor Dumbledore deliver his funeral eulogy in the film and struggled to comfort his tearful father and girlfriend.
• Adam left the premiere, and newspapers reported on the film as wizards rushed to get tickets.
• Harry arrived at the Ministry of Magic, noticed people pitying him, and caught Ron hiding The Quibbler at Auror Headquarters.

Harry discovered that The Quibbler had published sensational reports and photos about his romantic history in Dreamscape Cinema’s movie coverage, and he wrote Adam an angry letter. The Ministry of Magic announced the goblins’ defeat and the creation of a new wizarding bank, leaving foreign ministries puzzled by Britain’s sudden strength and a Chinese official baffled by the notice’s Chinese translation.

• Harry found The Quibbler’s headlines and photos portraying his encounters with Cho Chang and Pheobe’s younger sister as romantic scandals.
• Ron explained that Dreamscape Cinema had authorized The Quibbler’s coverage in exchange for the issue revenue and promotional offers.
• Harry wrote Adam to complain, and Adam replied that he had already removed Harry’s kiss with Cho Chang after Cedric died.
• The Ministry of Magic announced that the goblins had been defeated and ordered the surviving goblins to surrender for trial.
• The Ministry announced that a new wizarding bank would take over Gringotts’s former operations, reassuring British wizards about their money and currency.
• Foreign ministries wondered how Britain had become so powerful, while a middle-aged official in an Eastern nation learned the notice had been published in both English and Chinese.

Adam reunited with his brothers over tea and served them a genuine Elixir of Life, then attended the premiere of a new film that opened with Harry being expelled after using magic against Dementors. The screening continued with the Order of the Phoenix’s members appearing, and Dumbledore accepted that the organization’s work would be revealed.

• Adam explained that Klon had brought the pepino melon from South America, and Bernard decided it was not sweet enough to be fruit.
• Adam served his brothers a genuine Elixir of Life made from immortality and agelessness potions, though they mistook it for a special sweet drink.
• Two weeks later, Adam arrived excitedly for a new screening while Harry worried about the films’ effects on real life and Hermione was absent.
• The film showed Dementors attacking Harry, who used the Patronus Charm and received an expulsion letter for using magic in front of Muggles.
• Wizards blamed Fudge for claiming the Dementors were all in Azkaban, and Dumbledore said revealing the Order of the Phoenix was acceptable now that Voldemort was gone.

The film showed the Wizengamot hearing that cleared Harry, then followed Umbridge’s oppressive rise at Hogwarts and the students’ secret Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons. It left Harry reminiscing about the group’s first meeting while Ron watched the film with his blindfold off.

• Wizards discussed the Order of the Phoenix and the fairness of the old Wizengamot as the film showed Harry’s hearing.
• Professor Dumbledore arrived early with a witness, and Madam Bones helped secure the dismissal of Harry’s charges.
• Umbridge appeared on screen, prompting Professor McGonagall and Professor Grindelwald to leave the screening room.
• The film showed Umbridge dismissing Professor Trelawney and escalating conflict with Professor Dumbledore.
• Harry led students from their first meeting at the Hog’s Head Pub to secret Defense Against the Dark Arts training in the Room of Requirement.

The film showed Harry’s connection to Voldemort, the Death Eaters’ escape from Azkaban, and Umbridge tightening her control of Hogwarts after Dumbledore left. Harry watched the film begin to reveal his Occlumency lessons with Snape and realized Adam was showing the incident he had feared.

• Dumbledore regretted neglecting Harry’s emotional strain, while Grindelwald bluntly reminded him that he had prioritized defeating Voldemort.
• The film showed Arthur returning home, Hagrid revealing that Dumbledore had sent him to negotiate with the giants, and Voldemort’s followers escaping Azkaban.
• The audience reacted angrily as the Ministry denied Voldemort’s return and blamed Sirius for the prison break, while Neville’s family history with Bellatrix was shown.
• Umbridge caught the students in the Room of Requirement, and Dumbledore took responsibility before escaping with Fawkes, but Umbridge used his departure to tighten her grip on Hogwarts.
• Hagrid introduced Grawp to Harry and the others, prompting viewers to joke that Hagrid’s dangerous creatures were a recurring feature of the films.
• Harry watched his on-screen Occlumency lessons with Snape and realized the film was showing the incident he had dreaded.

Harry feared Snape would blame him after the film revealed their shared past, while the screening room cheered Fred and George’s fireworks and watched Harry fall for Voldemort’s soul-link deception. Adam began sharpening a knife, hinting that darker events were approaching.

• Harry insisted that the film had fabricated the scene of Snape’s school days, hoping to avoid Snape’s anger.
• Fred and George’s fireworks drove Umbridge through Hogwarts, and the students and professors celebrated as the screening room cheered.
• Molly Weasley confronted Fred and George about their expulsion, but they argued that Umbridge’s order was invalid and that Professor Gandalf had later let them return.
• Harry saw Sirius Black being tortured through his connection with Voldemort and believed the vision was real.
• Adam sharpened a kitchen knife and warned that the films’ happy endings were no longer guaranteed.

Harry watched the next movie while recovering from injuries, and Sirius joined him, alive despite the film revealing his death. As the story turned to Voldemort’s return and Draco’s family, Draco wondered whether the movie would show him trying to kill Professor Dumbledore.

• Harry watched the ending of the previous movie and worried that it had never explained what happened to Sirius.
• Two weeks later, Sirius and Ron helped an injured Harry attend the next movie, where Professor Slughorn revealed that Sirius was dead in the film.
• The movie showed Professor Dumbledore recruiting Slughorn and sending Harry to the Weasleys, while Ron learned Fred and George had used Harry’s Triwizard Tournament prize money to start their business.
• Harry noticed the film’s realistic details and questioned why Ollivander’s Wand Shop appeared abandoned.
• Draco saw himself and Narcissa appear in the movie and wondered whether his role would involve killing Professor Dumbledore, then dismissed the idea as unlikely.