Chapter Summaries

Allen accepted Godric Gryffindor’s honor duel for Rowena Ravenclaw, which they postponed until after the Carnival and arranged to fight on Flying Broomsticks. After Ravenclaw tied her handkerchief to Allen’s broom in front of the crowd, Gryffindor realized it looked like a public token of her favor.

• Gryffindor challenged Allen to an honor duel for Rowena Ravenclaw, and Allen accepted.
• Ravenclaw stopped them from fighting during Helga Hufflepuff’s Carnival and proposed holding the duel after the Stilt Fire-Barrel contest.
• Allen and the crowd watched the Stilt Fire-Barrel contest, which ended with a brown-haired champion offering his barrel to a witch in the stands.
• After the contest, Gryffindor and Allen prepared to duel on Flying Broomsticks with enlarged Warthog Bladders tied to their waists.
• Ravenclaw tied a blue handkerchief to the tip of Allen’s broom, and Gryffindor grew jealous at the apparent gesture of favor.

Allen Harris and Godric Gryffindor fought a dangerous broomstick duel with their wands forbidden, while Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff watched. After a fierce clash among flaming barrels, both brooms were damaged and the duelists plunged toward the ground.

• The host announced that Allen Harris and Godric Gryffindor would duel by trying to pierce each other's warthog bladder with their broom handles.
• Allen and Gryffindor exchanged aerial attacks, with Allen relying on his superior flying skills and Gryffindor using his strength to protect his bladder.
• Helga Hufflepuff apologized to Rowena Ravenclaw for the duel and worried about the danger, while Ravenclaw watched Allen compete.
• Gryffindor drove Allen into the floating fire barrels, but Allen spun through one and used his momentum to crash into Gryffindor.
• Gryffindor punched Allen as their brooms collided and broke; the two lost control and plunged toward the ground as Hufflepuff prepared a Damping Charm.

Allen Harris and Godric Gryffindor continued their brutal Flying Broomstick duel, each refusing to yield despite their injuries. They charged into a final head-on collision, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Allen punched Gryffindor and maneuvered his broom back into the air while Gryffindor skidded across the ground before taking flight again.
• Allen and Gryffindor traded increasingly fierce blows as their broomsticks and bodies suffered damage.
• Allen taunted Gryffindor about the length of his Mithril wand, provoking him into another head-on charge.
• Hufflepuff worried that Gryffindor might lose, while Ravenclaw said Allen had not used the Cushioning Charm she designed.
• Allen and Gryffindor flew at full speed toward each other and collided with a bang, shocking the spectators.

Allen Harris defeated Godric Gryffindor in a brutal broom contest, then Ravenclaw treated Allen’s injuries back at the treehouse. The chapter left Allen recovering while Ravenclaw prepared to apply ointment and ordered him to turn around.

• Allen broke Gryffindor’s Warthog Bladder with a snapped broom tip, but both men fell as their brooms came apart.
• Helga slowed Gryffindor’s fall with a Levitation Charm, while Allen used black smoke to fly down without a broom or wand.
• Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff reached the injured men, and Ravenclaw helped Allen return to the treehouse on a floating disc.
• Ravenclaw gave Allen a bone-healing potion and magically reset his broken arm, warning him not to use it until the next day.
• Ravenclaw refused Hufflepuff’s offer to send medicine, prepared ointment, and ordered Allen to turn his back; Allen protested that he could treat himself.

After Ravenclaw treated Allen’s injuries, they attended Hufflepuff’s fried Two-headed Bull Ball eating contest, where Allen beat Gryffindor’s record before learning what the meatballs were. Hufflepuff also warned Ravenclaw that Allen would eventually have to return to his own time, leaving Ravenclaw to insist she already understood.

• Ravenclaw treated Allen’s scraped legs and helped him into Helga’s Tavern, where the crowd celebrated the eating contest.
• Hufflepuff invited Allen to compete, and Allen sat down across from Gryffindor, whose record was thirty-six meatballs.
• While Allen ate, Hufflepuff privately told Ravenclaw she knew Allen came from another time and warned that he would eventually have to leave; Ravenclaw said she understood.
• Allen tied Gryffindor’s record at thirty-six and then broke it by eating a thirty-seventh meatball.
• After Allen asked how the meatballs were made, Hufflepuff explained they came from the testicles of magical Two-headed Bulls, making Allen spit out the next one and stop eating.
• Hufflepuff declared Allen the record holder with thirty-seven meatballs and announced that he could become famous across Britain if no one beat his score before the carnival ended.

Allen and Ravenclaw traveled to the future Hogwarts site by the Black Lake, where Ravenclaw confirmed that the school’s name came from Allen’s warthog encounter. They camped there for the night, and Allen protected their tent with spells and summoned Hell Hounds to guard it.

• Allen transformed into a Phoenix and carried Ravenclaw from the tree house to a mountain by the lake.
• Allen and Ravenclaw chose a grassy lakeside spot, set up their tent, and discussed the Black Lake and the nearby Dark Forest.
• Ravenclaw suggested naming the school Hogwarts after a warthog had brought her to a cliff by the lake, and Allen realized she had derived the name from his encounter.
• Ravenclaw cast a Magic Alarm around the tent, and Allen added protective spells and summoned six Hell Hounds to guard the camp.
• Allen warned Ravenclaw to be careful when dealing with archdevils and promised to write down the tricks they used to deceive people.

Allen discussed the Statute of Secrecy with Ravenclaw and resolved to focus on strengthening himself before using the Time-Turner to return and save her. The next morning, they set out to hunt, and Ravenclaw urged Allen to stay in the past rather than leave.

• Allen explained the Statute of Secrecy to Ravenclaw and said he suspected Muggle technology would soon make secrecy impossible.
• Allen said he would focus on improving his strength, and Ravenclaw noticed the Time-Turner around his neck.
• After waking, Allen relieved himself out of Ravenclaw’s sight, and she teased him about how much he had left behind.
• Ravenclaw summoned six Hell Hounds to guard camp, then rode with Allen on his Shadow Steed to hunt in the woods.
• Ravenclaw told Allen that taking off the Time-Turner would mean he did not have to leave, but Allen said he had to return and save her.

Allen and Rowena hunted in the forest together, easing the tension between them after Allen realized how long she had waited for him. When a gamekeeper confronted them at the Black Lake, Allen pulled Rowena into a run toward camp.

• Allen apologized to Rowena and leaned against her as they wandered through the forest in silence.
• Rowena used Hell Hounds to drive a deer from cover, then killed it with a magically formed arrow and explained her traditional hunting method.
• Allen and Rowena took turns hunting, collecting deer and other small animals before reaching the far side of the Black Lake.
• They began processing their prey when a gamekeeper arrived and accused them of illegally hunting deer.
• Allen grabbed Rowena's hand and ran toward camp as the gamekeeper chased them, calling them poachers.

Allen and Ravenclaw escaped a Muggle gamekeeper, then stopped at the lakeside and shared a quiet, intimate moment. Allen worried about their future daughter, Helena, and ended by asking Ravenclaw whether she knew about her.

• Allen dragged Ravenclaw away from the gamekeeper, whose arrow bounced off an invisible shield and sent him fleeing in terror.
• Allen turned back toward the lakeside, and the exhausted Ravenclaw collapsed with him after he stopped to retrieve their venison.
• Ravenclaw confronted Allen about why they had run instead of Apparating, then scuffled with him and began dry-heaving from exhaustion.
• Afterward, Ravenclaw treated Allen's worsening injuries, and they rested together beside the Black Lake.
• Allen worried about the fate of their future daughter, Helena Ravenclaw, and asked Rowena whether she knew about Helena.

Allen and Rowena Ravenclaw faced the future costs of changing their timeline and chose not to use the Time-Turner to remain together. After Allen vanished, Ravenclaw returned to the tavern alone, transformed in appearance and asking for pudding.

• Ravenclaw told Allen that their daughter would have to be born and become a ghost, and that she planned to kill her after guiding her so she would escape being consumed by Death.
• Ravenclaw considered removing Allen’s Time-Turner but pushed it aside, deciding that Allen would bear the sin of completing the Sorcerer’s Stone so they could pursue a chance to control death.
• Allen and Ravenclaw spent their remaining time together by the Black Lake, setting research aside as Allen bottled his memories and gave them to her.
• When the Time-Turner ran out, Ravenclaw stood alone at the camp and said goodbye to Allen.
• Ravenclaw arrived at Hufflepuff’s tavern dressed in a blue, star-studded gown and circlet; when Hufflepuff asked what she wanted, she answered, “Pudding.”

The founders agreed on the plan to establish a magic school, and Ravenclaw named it Hogwarts and chose its location. Allen arrived in the past at Ravenclaw’s research room, where he waited as she finished mysterious, magic-filled documents.

• Salazar Slytherin argued for admitting only pure-blood students, while Gryffindor and Ravenclaw opposed his restrictions.
• Hufflepuff redirected the discussion to the school’s location and name, and Ravenclaw proposed a castle by a lake called Hogwarts.
• Allen arrived in Ravenclaw’s Chamber of Secrets, which appeared as her private research room in the past.
• Ravenclaw told Allen to wait while she completed three final documents, and he studied her room and its powerful magical objects.
• Allen noticed that Ravenclaw’s documents were gold-foil pages covered in moving silver writing that radiated dense magic.

Ravenclaw explained the Nether Scroll and Allen’s task to study its pages, then the two reconciled through a tender moment as Allen combed her hair. She revealed that Helena had become a ghost and that she had faked her own death, leaving Allen to learn that Helga still secretly supported her.

• Ravenclaw explained the Nether Scroll’s origins, structure, and role in the foundations of modern magical education, and assigned Allen to study as much of it as he could endure.
• Ravenclaw described how studying the Nether Scroll had helped her develop Mind Tentacles, which could probe thoughts beyond the defenses of Occlumency.
• Allen told Ravenclaw that he loved who he was beside her and gently combed her hair, easing the distance between them.
• Ravenclaw told Allen that Helena had become a ghost and that everyone else believed she had died of illness.
• Ravenclaw explained that she had controlled Baron to find Helena and had faked her death because she no longer wanted to remain at Hogwarts.
• Ravenclaw said Helga knew she was alive and still sent her what she needed, though Helga was no longer willing to see her.

Ravenclaw explained how her plans had estranged Helga and led to Godric’s transformation into the Giant Squid, then gave Allen the Nether Scroll and described Netheril’s astonishing magical achievements. She revealed that she and Gryffindor had found the sunken Floating City of Atlas and discovered that Netheril’s wizards believed gods could be challenged.

• Ravenclaw said Helga had resented her role in Helena’s death and still provided her with food despite their estrangement.
• Ravenclaw explained that the Nether Scroll had triggered Godric Gryffindor’s inherited blood curse, transforming him into the Giant Squid, and said he wanted a duel with Allen.
• Ravenclaw told Allen that studying divine power would change her way of thinking and that they would not meet during his third crossing.
• Ravenclaw handed Allen the Nether Scroll and described how its discoveries had enabled Netheril to develop wandless spellcasting, Mythallars, Floating Cities, and other powerful magic.
• Ravenclaw said she and Gryffindor had found the sunken city of Atlas and learned that Netheril’s wizards believed gods were only more powerful Arcanists.

Ravenclaw explained how Karsus’s attempt to seize a god’s power destroyed Netheril and revealed that Herpo the Foul had become the current Death God. She warned Alan not to study the Nether Scrolls without her help and offered to guide him as her Chosen, while insisting that he must remain on the path of magic.

• Ravenclaw described Netheril’s arrogance toward the gods and how Karsus’s Avatar disrupted magic worldwide, bringing down the Floating Cities and leading to Netheril’s eventual destruction.
• Ravenclaw told Alan that Herpo the Foul had become the Death God, whose divine portfolio had reshaped him while his greed still drove him to devour souls.
• Ravenclaw revealed that Salazar had bred a Basilisk for his Chamber of Secrets and warned Alan that reading the Nether Scrolls alone could cause madness or other unpredictable harm.
• Ravenclaw explained that divine power could help someone withstand the Nether Scrolls and said she had become a demigod after obtaining divine blood from Baal.
• Ravenclaw told Alan that becoming a god would obstruct his magical progress, then offered to help him master the Nether Scrolls if he became her Chosen.

Allen studied the Nether Scrolls until their knowledge transformed his understanding and practice of magic. Ravenclaw warned that he still needed to prepare for the Underworld and urged him to reply to Hufflepuff before taking on his next tasks.

• Allen studied the Nether Scrolls with Ravenclaw, and the overwhelming knowledge nearly overwhelmed his mind until Ravenclaw calmed him.
• After finishing the scrolls Ravenclaw had gathered, Allen mastered wandless spellcasting, extended-range magic, spell transformation, and advanced counterspells.
• Ravenclaw told Allen that his new abilities were not enough to survive entering the Underworld without protection and that his next tasks would help him rescue her when he returned to his own time.
• Ravenclaw asked Allen to write Hufflepuff a reply, explaining that Hufflepuff wanted to discuss Helena and had threatened to stop sending pudding.
• Ravenclaw told Allen to delay dealing with Hufflepuff's concerns until he had finished his next tasks, and she took his hand.

Allen followed Ravenclaw to her hidden cave beneath the Black Lake, where she was building a Wizard Tower and using imprisoned Muggles to empower a magic stone. Ravenclaw revealed that she had prepared a semifinished Sorcerer’s Stone for Allen, who would complete it during his final time-turning.

• Ravenclaw brought Allen to her concealed cave beneath the Black Lake, where undead laborers and devils were constructing a Wizard Tower.
• Ravenclaw showed Allen a chamber where transformed Muggles and imprisoned Obscuruses surrounded a blood pool and blue flame.
• Ravenclaw explained that she was draining the lives of Muggles who had persecuted witches and young wizards to strengthen the red-flowing magic stone.
• Allen recognized the stone as the material for a Sorcerer’s Stone and wondered whether Nicolas Flamel had used plague victims to make one.
• Ravenclaw told Allen she had made a semifinished Sorcerer’s Stone for him and that he would complete it during his final time-turning.

Allen learned that he needed the Resurrection Stone and knowledge of Underworld power to help Ravenclaw return to the human world. After absorbing Underworld energy, he trained in Ravenclaw’s phantom techniques and ended surrounded by her duplicates.

• Ravenclaw told Allen that he needed to find the Resurrection Stone and study Underworld power to strengthen it.
• Ravenclaw guided Allen in absorbing Underworld energy from an Obscurus, giving him darkvision and leaving his skin and hair pale.
• Allen attacked Ravenclaw with lightning, and she demonstrated Phantom Shield by absorbing the spell.
• Allen cast the Killing Curse, and Ravenclaw evaded it by making her head incorporeal and splitting it apart.
• Ravenclaw demonstrated Multiple Shadows, shadow-walking, and Mirror Image, then surrounded Allen with duplicates until he surrendered.

Allen went to the Forbidden Forest to hunt magical creatures as gifts before meeting Helga Hufflepuff, wearing elaborate robes designed by Ravenclaw. Finding his catch too meager, he headed toward the comparatively quiet Hogsmeade village to look for a more suitable present.

• Allen's bloodstained robes sent the Forbidden Forest's animals fleeing until he used shadows to remove the stains and calm his aura.
• Allen recalled that Ravenclaw wanted to impress Helga with his Nether Scroll research and seek her help obtaining materials, though he felt awkward about their approach.
• Allen avoided going straight to meet Helga and hunted in the Forbidden Forest for gifts, but judged the deer he caught too shabby.
• Allen walked toward Hogsmeade to find a better present and frowned at the village's sparse, rustic appearance.

Allen traveled through ancient Hogsmeade to Hogwarts, reflecting on the village’s history and the school’s early days. He met Bonnie at the castle and revealed that he was Allen Harris, an old friend of Helga Hufflepuff.

• Allen found Hengist of Woodcroft’s residence where the Three Broomsticks would later stand, then continued through Hogsmeade without finding any useful shops.
• Allen walked toward Hogwarts with his prey and observed its sparse student population and the traditional teaching methods of the early school.
• Bonnie confronted Allen on the stone bridge and offered to inform the person he sought.
• Allen sent Hufflepuff’s invitation letter to Helga Hufflepuff with a three-eyed Raven, frightening Bonnie with his wandless magic and appearance.
• Allen lowered his hood, identified himself as Allen Harris, and asked Bonnie whether she still burned her food.

Allen reunited with Helga Hufflepuff, who worried over the effects of his magic and condemned Rowena Ravenclaw for Helena’s fate. Allen admitted he had known about and approved Rowena’s plans, leaving Hufflepuff furious at them both.

• Bonnie recognized Allen Harris and recoiled in shock at his youthful appearance and magic.
• Helga Hufflepuff hurried over, took Allen to her office, and examined him despite his insistence that he was fine.
• Hufflepuff warned Allen about the effects of his powers and angrily blamed Rowena Ravenclaw for Helena’s fate.
• Hufflepuff explained that Rowena had raised Helena to choose to become a ghost without telling her the truth.
• Allen confessed that he had known about Rowena’s plans and approved them to preserve the future.
• Hufflepuff called Allen and Rowena a pair of bastard parents.