Chapter Summaries

Harley celebrated Christmas at Hogwarts, where she gave Professor Snape a knitted scarf and drank nearly a bottle of Mead without getting drunk. She then studied the Wizarding School Potion Championship and learned how its contestants would gather ingredients and brew Potions.

• Professor Dumbledore welcomed Harley and Hermione to the Christmas feast, and Professor Snape wore the silver scarf Harley had knitted for him.
• Harley drank nearly a bottle of Mead before Professor McGonagall noticed, while Dumbledore’s own drink vanished into the air as a toast.
• Harley thanked Professor Snape for liking his scarf and considered asking him for Void-Forbidden Flowers to help her recover to Sequence 5.
• Harley researched the Potion Championship, which involved a specified Potion in the first round and ingredient-gathering and brewing in the next stage.
• Hermione asked why reclusive Potion Masters judged the championship, and Harley explained they wanted to meet promising young people and potential collaborators.

Harley spent the rest of the holidays studying Professor Snape’s advanced Potion recipes before visiting Hagrid with Hermione. Hagrid told them about his illegally bred Blood Tibetan Mastiffs and proudly served sandwiches made with preserved Flesh-Eating Slugs.

• Harley learned that the Quidditch match would have no spectators, then focused on studying Professor Snape’s improved Potion recipes over the holidays.
• Harley and Hermione visited Hagrid the day before students returned, and Harley realized she had missed the chance to gather winter Potion ingredients in the Forbidden Forest.
• Hagrid told Harley and Hermione that his friend had supplied him with Blood Tibetan Mastiffs bred from Three-Headed Dog and Swallow-tailed Dog blood, and he complained that Fang was afraid of the cold.
• Hagrid thanked Harley for the wool sweater she had made him and revealed that his sandwiches contained salted, dried Flesh-Eating Slugs.

Harley received and privately explored a photo album of her parents, grieving over the childhood she never got to experience. When Hogwarts students returned, Professor Lockhart announced that he had stopped the attacks and caught the criminal, then promised a surprise.

• Hagrid gave Harley a photo album of her parents and a book about Fantastic Beasts, and Fang escorted Harley and Hermione back to the castle.
• Harley examined the album in her tent, recognized Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew in a photograph, and noticed a magically erased person beside them.
• Harley cried over the final photograph, which showed Lily holding baby Harley while James and Lily smiled at them.
• The students returned to Hogwarts, and Harley put the album away before the Christmas feast.
• Professor Lockhart claimed that he had ended the attacks and found the criminal, then raised a bottle of Firewhisky to announce a surprise.

On Valentine's Day, Professor Lockhart filled the Great Hall with decorations and attracted a swarm of owls delivering cards, reviving the professors’ memories of his disastrous student prank. Harley protected the Gryffindor table with a makeshift umbrella and left with Hermione while the owls crowded around Lockhart.

• Harley entered the Great Hall and saw Lockhart’s pink decorations and outfit, then used Spider Silk to catch the confetti above the Gryffindor table.
• Lockhart announced that students and fans had sent him Valentine’s cards, and a huge flock of owls flew into the hall.
• The professors remembered how Lockhart had once arranged hundreds of fake love letters to himself, covering the House tables with feathers and droppings.
• The Weasley Twins made an ice umbrella, Hermione warned Ron about falling owl droppings, and Ron rushed to join his brothers.
• Harley expanded her Spider Silk and covered it with ice to shelter the Gryffindor table, which students from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw joined.
• Harley finished breakfast, left with Hermione, and severed her connection to the umbrella so it would remain in place.

Professor Lockhart’s Valentine’s Day Cupids disrupted lessons across Hogwarts, and one delivered love letters to Professor Snape and Harley Potter before Snape drove them away. At dinner, Fred and George admitted they had paid their younger brother Ronnie to arrange Snape’s letter as a prank.

• Lockhart’s Cupids interrupted classes to deliver Valentine’s cards, frustrating the professors with their powerful magic and loud readings.
• A Cupid began reading a love letter addressed to Professor Snape, but Snape set its harp on fire and threw it and another Cupid out of the classroom.
• A second Cupid announced a message for Harley Potter, but Snape burned its harp, sealed the classroom, and gave Harley detention until the end of term.
• Gossip spread through Hogwarts that someone had sent Snape a love letter, and students suspected Fred and George.
• Harley asked Fred and George about the letter, and they confessed that they had paid Ronnie ten Knuts to arrange the prank.

After Terence Higgs was attacked outside the Slytherin Common Room, Harley suspected the attack could force the Ministry to pressure Dumbledore and close Hogwarts. Worried that the Heir might exploit the turmoil, she decided to speak to a professor about the Diary.

• Harley returned to the table and learned that Hermione and the other girls were guessing who had sent her a love letter.
• Peeves announced that Terence Higgs, a Slytherin Pure-blood, had been attacked, and Professor McGonagall sent the students back to their common rooms.
• Fred and George suggested that the Heir of Slytherin might have lost control of the Monster or gone mad, while Nick told Harley there had been nothing unusual around Higgs.
• Harley told Hermione that the attack on a Pure-blood could lead the Ministry to pressure Dumbledore and possibly close Hogwarts.
• Harley worried that the Heir could take advantage of the political turmoil and resolved to speak to a professor about the Diary.

Harley told Dumbledore that Voldemort’s Diary was the key to the Chamber of Secrets, but their discussion was interrupted by Fudge and Lucius Malfoy arriving to demand Hagrid’s arrest. Lucius argued that the law and the available evidence supported taking Hagrid away.

• Harley tried the Headmaster’s password, then used her gloved ability to open the entrance and met Dumbledore outside his office.
• Dumbledore examined Harley’s glove and warned her not to use its magic for unlawful purposes before inviting her into his office.
• Harley told Dumbledore that Draco Malfoy had said his father planted Voldemort’s black Diary at Hogwarts and that it could open the Chamber of Secrets.
• Professor McGonagall brought Fudge and Lucius Malfoy into the office, and Harley hid in the shadows.
• Fudge said the attacks and pressure from a complainant required the Ministry to arrest Hagrid, while Dumbledore insisted that he trusted him.
• Lucius claimed Hagrid’s past actions and refusal to identify the Monster constituted evidence that he had unleashed the Chamber’s Monster.

Harley watched Lucius and Fudge use Hagrid as a scapegoat while forcing Dumbledore out of Hogwarts. Dumbledore accepted the dismissal order and asked Fudge to keep Hagrid in Ministry custody, while Harley remained in the Headmaster’s Office after the others left.

• Harley overheard Lucius and Fudge accuse Hagrid of being the Heir of Slytherin and realized they were using him as a political scapegoat.
• Lucius presented the Board of Governors’ unanimous order dismissing Dumbledore, and Dumbledore accepted it while saying Hogwarts would not truly be without him until the castle and its people rejected him.
• Dumbledore asked Fudge to keep Hagrid in a Ministry cell until his trial, and Fudge agreed without much conviction.
• Dumbledore summoned Fawkes and said they would leave Hogwarts for a while but return soon.
• Lucius left after warning Dumbledore to clear out the Headmaster’s Office, and Fudge told Dumbledore that the Ministry would restore peace at Hogwarts.
• Fudge noticed Harley in the corner, apologized that he could not stop the Board’s decision, and hurried out.

After Dumbledore agreed to leave Hogwarts rather than defy the law, he warned Harley that the culprit would strike again and gave her Fawkes’s help. The next morning, Harley learned that the Daily Prophet had blamed Hagrid for opening the Chamber of Secrets, and she explained the events of fifty years earlier to Hermione.

• Dumbledore told Harley he would obey the law and leave Hogwarts, despite Lucius Malfoy and Cornelius Fudge forcing him out.
• Dumbledore warned Harley that the culprit was plotting something inside Hogwarts and gave her a connection to Fawkes through one of his feathers.
• Harley considered Dumbledore’s principles, then left the Headmaster’s Office as he departed with Fawkes.
• Harley read the Daily Prophet’s report accusing Hagrid of opening the Chamber of Secrets and Professor Lockhart of catching the culprit.
• Harley told Hermione how Hagrid’s dangerous creature had escaped, leading to a student’s death, his expulsion, and his imprisonment.

Lockhart announced that Hagrid was the Heir of Slytherin as Aurors arrived to hunt the Monster, while Harley continued researching and gathering potion ingredients. With Hogwarts under tighter security and Hagrid in custody, Harley used the Room of Requirement to prepare a potion that could unseal her Sequence.

• Lockhart accused Hagrid of being the Heir of Slytherin and blamed Dumbledore for protecting him.
• Aurors led by Mr. Higgs arrived to hunt the Monster, and Harley went to the library with Hermione.
• Professor McGonagall became interim Headmistress as Aurors guarded Hogwarts and students were escorted around the school.
• Harley received Void-Forbidden Flowers from Professor Snape and collected the remaining materials from a package Hagrid had left for her.
• Harley brewed her Sequence potion in the Room of Requirement, adding the Void-Forbidden Flower last.

Harley used a Potion to extract a Beyonder Characteristic from herself, strengthening her Demoness abilities, then turned it into a new Sealed Artifact called the Judgment Glove. As Easter began, she chose her third-year electives while considering how to make magical objects to contain her Sequence 4 characteristic.

• Harley drank the Potion, endured its brief agony, and extracted a mixed Beyonder Characteristic containing her own, Disciplinary Paladin, and Imperative Mage powers.
• Harley tested her strengthened Disease, Frozen World, and Mythical Creature Form abilities in the Forbidden Forest, then prepared the characteristic to make a Sealed Artifact.
• Harley completed the Judgment Glove, which held Judgment, Stupefy, and Law of All Laws abilities but softly chanted her Honorific Name three times a day.
• Harley chose Divination, Care of Fantastic Beasts, and Ancient Runes as her third-year electives, hoping to learn occult knowledge and how to make magical objects.

At the Easter feast, Professor Lockhart revealed that he had planned the attacks and used strange magic to kill Auror Till Higgs before escaping. After the Great Hall was evacuated, Harley remained behind as Lockhart returned to speak with her.

• Harley noticed that Professor Lockhart had skipped the Easter feast and suspected something was wrong.
• Professor Lockhart entered the Great Hall, claimed he had planned the attacks, and vanished after casting Peskipiksi Pesternomi.
• Till Higgs ordered the Aurors to regroup, then became rigid and exploded into a shower of blood and body parts.
• Professor Snape silenced Malfoy and Crabbe, while Professor McGonagall ordered the students to return to their common rooms.
• Shacklebolt organized the Aurors to protect the students and search for Lockhart, while Harley stayed behind in the Great Hall.
• Professor Lockhart returned and addressed Harley as he approached her.

Harley confronted Professor Lockhart after he revealed that Tom Riddle was Voldemort, then fought him as he attacked her with powerful illusions. She exposed the trick behind his attacks and forced him to reveal himself, but Lockhart remained confident that she could not overcome him.

• Harley questioned Lockhart about Tom Riddle, and he identified him as Voldemort while claiming that he and Harley were both unusually gifted.
• Lockhart launched a surprise spell at Harley, but her Spider Silk warned her in time for her to dodge.
• Lockhart attacked with illusory iron spears and spells, while Harley defended herself with an ice wall and evaded the real attacks.
• Harley used the Judgment Glove to punish the unseen attacker and expose Lockhart's position.
• Harley used Black Flames to reveal Lockhart again, and he proclaimed himself the illusion master despite being struck by an invisible whip.

Harley faced Professor Lockhart in the Great Hall, where he revealed his crimes and alliance with Tom before summoning a Basilisk to kill her. She borrowed power from her past self and prepared to confront the creature, while Lockhart disappeared.

• Harley questioned Professor Lockhart and coaxed him into admitting that he stole the stories for his books by manipulating and rewriting people's memories.
• Professor Lockhart admitted he had arranged for the Monsters to lure Harley to the Great Hall and confessed that he wanted to kill her.
• Professor Lockhart revealed that he and Tom had agreed to work together, then a Basilisk burst through the Great Hall wall.
• Harley used her Magic Mirror to observe the Basilisk and prayed to her past self for strength, temporarily approaching her former Sequence 4 power.
• Harley stopped using Spirit Vision and prepared to withstand the Basilisk's gaze, while Professor Lockhart vanished.

Harley fought Professor Lockhart and a Basilisk in the Great Hall while waiting for Auror Captain Kingsley and Professor McGonagall to arrive. After Lockhart caught her in an illusion and nearly killed her, Harley unleashed her Frozen World and killed him, leaving the Basilisk frozen as help approached.

• Harley spotted Lockhart hiding in the Great Hall and warned the approaching Aurors that he was skilled in illusions and memory magic and that a Basilisk was present.
• Kingsley ordered the Aurors to stay outside while he and Professor McGonagall entered, and Harley continued fighting the Basilisk while waiting for them.
• Lockhart's illusion ambushed Harley, but she escaped the attack and decided to kill him before he could strike again.
• Harley unleashed her Frozen World across the Great Hall, freezing the Basilisk and locating Lockhart near the main entrance.
• Harley sent four Ice Spears into Lockhart's hiding place, dispelling his illusion and killing him.

Harley captured Professor Lockhart’s spirit after he died, but his body exploded, and Tom Marvolo Riddle appeared in the sealed Great Hall. Riddle explained his role in the attacks and tried to recruit Harley, who refused him.

• Harley used her Magic Mirror to capture Professor Lockhart’s spirit, but his torso exploded before she could search his body.
• Tom Marvolo Riddle appeared atop the Basilisk and sealed off the Great Hall, then introduced himself to Harley.
• Riddle tried to persuade Harley to join him, claiming he hated his future self and offering to help her take revenge for her parents.
• Harley sat down to question Riddle about the attacks and his relationship with Professor Lockhart.
• Riddle explained that he had used Ginny to launch an attack, manipulated Lockhart, and helped him fulfill his ambitions before his death.
• Riddle asked Harley to join him in changing the Wizarding World, and Harley refused.

Harley kept Professor Lockhart’s soul hidden in her Magic Mirror and fought the Basilisk while Riddle worked on his resurrection spell. She killed the Basilisk before Riddle finished, leaving him furious that Lockhart’s soul was missing and intent on taking it from her.

• Harley evaded Riddle’s attack as he sent the Basilisk after her and searched for Lockhart’s missing soul.
• Harley battered the weakened Basilisk with cursed Frost Spears and disease magic, then used her Sealed Artifacts to weaken and wound it at close range.
• Harley killed the Basilisk with an Ice Spear and retreated from its blood just as Riddle finished his spell.
• Riddle realized Harley had taken Lockhart’s soul with her Magic Mirror and threatened to kill her and take it back.

Harley battled Riddle in the Great Hall, using a disease and curse to weaken him before he destroyed his first body and returned through the Diary. She defeated him with Frozen World and Frost Spear, leaving the Diary suppressed and the battle over.

• Riddle attacked Harley with a transfigured serpent and Fiendfyre, but she dodged his Killing Curse and revealed that a pathogen she had placed on Lockhart had infected him.
• Harley used her Magic Mirror to curse Riddle and intensify the disease, but he destroyed his body and was reborn from the Diary inside the Basilisk.
• Harley filled the Great Hall with smoke and attacked while Riddle used Fiendfyre to defend himself.
• Harley unleashed Frozen World, freezing Riddle and suppressing his Fiendfyre, then freed herself with black flames.
• Harley pierced Riddle's heart with Frost Spear, and its cold kept the Diary from forming another body.

Harley sealed Riddle’s Diary after defeating the threat in the Great Hall, then reunited with Dumbledore, who had returned with Fawkes. Aurors arrived and questioned how a twelve-year-old had won the battle, while Dumbledore left Harley to explain what had happened.

• Harley sealed Riddle’s Diary inside enchanted ice and handed it to Fawkes to guard in the Headmaster’s Office.
• Harley confronted Dumbledore, who explained that Fawkes had brought him to Hogwarts after Kingsley reported danger in the Great Hall.
• Dumbledore lifted the magic sealing the Great Hall’s doors, which exploded as Aurors rushed inside.
• Rufus Scrimgeour questioned Dumbledore about the wrecked hall, the dead Basilisk, and Professor Lockhart’s body.
• Dumbledore told the Aurors that Harley had defeated the threats alone, and Scrimgeour demanded evidence of her victory.

After the Basilisk’s death, Dumbledore let the Aurors watch the battle footage while hiding Tom Riddle’s involvement. Fudge then turned to the political fallout, and Harley deftly secured him a share of the public credit for resolving the crisis.

• Dumbledore asked Harley’s permission to show Scrimgeour and the Aurors the battle footage, and Harley agreed.
• Dumbledore played the footage with Tom Riddle erased and Lockhart shown ordering the Basilisk to attack Harley.
• Scrimgeour praised Harley’s strength and offered her a place in the Aurors after graduation.
• Fudge told Dumbledore that the awakened Higgs boy had accused Draco Malfoy of attacking him and asked Dumbledore to help investigate and reverse his dismissal.
• Fudge proposed a Daily Prophet interview for Harley, and Harley agreed while suggesting that Fudge’s role in stationing Aurors at Hogwarts should also be publicized.