Chapter Summaries

On the first day of classes, Allen prepared for his Ancient Magic Class while Harry and Ron were sent to advanced Potions by Professor McGonagall. The chapter left Hermione identifying Slughorn’s potions and privately thinking of Allen’s scent.

• Allen told Hermione and Luna to attend his Ancient Magic Class that afternoon and planned to inspect the grounds for a combat-training area.
• Professor McGonagall redirected Lavender and Parvati to History of Magic, sent Ron to Potions with Harry, and reminded Harry to rebuild the Quidditch team.
• Harry and Ron reached Slughorn’s advanced Potions class late, and Slughorn welcomed Ron despite his objections and supplied books and equipment.
• Slughorn recognized Hermione as the chief executive officer of Umbrella Corporation and apologized for previously declining her invitation.
• Hermione identified Veritaserum and a powerful Love Potion, while Harry and Ron fought over the newer copy of Advanced Potion-Making.

Slughorn challenged his students to brew the Water of Life and Death for a vial of Felix Felicis, and Ron relied on annotations in Lavinia Tugwood’s old textbook. Ron’s potion vanished and released a stimulant smoke, and Harry accidentally produced the same effect on Slughorn.

• Slughorn offered Felix Felicis to the first student who brewed the Water of Life and Death within an hour.
• Ron discovered Lavinia Tugwood’s note recommending crushing sopophorous beans with a knife, and he showed Harry how to do it.
• Hermione told Slughorn that she and other students had learned advanced potion techniques in Allen Harris’s Training Class.
• Ron followed Lavinia’s altered instructions, causing his potion to vanish and release smoke that would keep those exposed awake for three days.
• Slughorn explained that Lavinia had altered a sleeping draught into a stimulant, and Draco mocked Ron.
• Pansy began answering Slughorn’s question about Secrissa Tugwood, but Harry’s potion released the same green smoke over Slughorn.

Allen began his first Ancient Magic Class by telling students they could choose to become protectors rather than remain protected, then had them line up for measurements. The lesson left the students expecting personalized training tools and a small gift from him.

• Ginny hurried Harry to Allen’s first Ancient Magic Class while Ron stayed behind to finish his Potions homework.
• Harry noticed Pansy Parkinson avoiding Allen, and students from every house gathered outside the classroom.
• Allen told the class that his conflict with Dumbledore came from their differing ideals and urged students to choose their own path; his speech stirred them to cheer.
• Allen asked the students to line up with their wands, then explained that Mister Handy would measure their bodies and wands to prepare personalized training tools.

Allen introduced the students to enchanted textbooks designed for his Ancient Magic Class, explaining how they worked and what they could do. He then told the class to put them away and follow him to the practice grounds for their first lesson.

• Allen distributed ornate floating textbooks and explained that their pages would display course material when students recalled it.
• The students discovered the books could serve as inkless, inexhaustible notebooks, while Ginny hesitated to write because the enchanted pages reminded her of Riddle’s Diary.
• Allen explained that each book could store and release one spell, and that its Raven-shaped clasp would open only for its first owner.
• Allen described the books’ privacy, carrying clasp, and replacement cost, while Neville promised to take care of his.
• Allen fastened his own textbook to his belt, then directed the students to put theirs away and follow him to the practice grounds.

Allen brought the Ancient Magic students to a grassy site near the Black Lake and Forbidden Forest, where he planned to build their practical training grounds. He announced a free-for-all contest to select a teaching assistant for each year, then shaped the terrain and began with the sixth years.

• Harry worried that Hagrid was angry with him, while Ginny suggested Hagrid was more upset that Ron had skipped Care of Magical Creatures.
• Allen showed the students the future site of Ancient Magic practical classes and explained that it would improve their combat abilities.
• Allen announced that each year's teaching assistant would be chosen as the last student standing in a free-for-all, with all spells allowed except Unforgivable Curses.
• Draco planned to team up with other Slytherins against Hermione, while Goyle hesitated and Draco worried Allen might disapprove.
• Allen transformed the field into mock combat terrain with earth walls and trenches, then called the sixth years to begin.

Allen Harris’s sixth-year melee lesson erupted into a chaotic battle as students used illusions, ambushes, and powerful spells. Allen intervened when Draco Malfoy went too far, while Hermione Granger retaliated against Slytherins who had attacked her, leaving the fight still underway.

• Students formed squads and took cover as Allen created twenty-seven powerful duplicates that hovered above the field.
• Draco Malfoy’s group ambushed Hufflepuffs with a Web Spell and follow-up attacks, prompting protests that Allen ruled did not violate the melee rules.
• Hermione Granger blocked a Slytherin ambush, then used Legilimency, Transfiguration, and Oppugno to drive two attackers from the field.
• Harry Potter protected Neville while watching Draco’s squad hold its position against several teams and use Mirror Image and lightning spells.
• Allen reversed Draco’s lightning spell, eliminated the paralyzed Susan Bones, and warned Draco to control his power and avoid excessive follow-up attacks.
• Hermione defeated two Slytherins who had insulted her in their thoughts, then told the remaining attackers she knew they had not shared that hostility.

The sixth-year melee ended with Hermione Granger victorious, while the fifth-year battle ended when Luna revealed her overwhelming magical skill and made the remaining squad forfeit. Harry and the others reflected on how training had changed their classmates, as Hermione explained that Luna had acted because she was afraid of trouble.

• Michael Corner and Edward used a grease spell to make Vincent Crabbe slip, and Michael hit Crabbe with Incendio before being injured himself.
• Crabbe and Padma Patil left the arena forfeit and received treatment from Allen, who healed their injuries and compensated Crabbe for his ruined clothes.
• Hermione defeated the remaining sixth-year competitors, while Harry told Ginny and Neville that Draco Malfoy had become braver and the Training Class members were better prepared for combat.
• Ginny joined a squad of Training Class members in the fifth-year battle, but Luna appeared and revealed that she could multiply herself into twenty-seven figures.
• Luna surrounded the squad with her figures, prompting them to leave the arena, and Hermione told Harry that Luna had hidden because she was afraid of trouble.

Allen ended the student melee and announced that Ancient Magic Class would hold monthly battles to choose teaching assistants. Later, Dumbledore invited Harry to his office, teased him about Ginny, and prepared to explain why he had called him there.

• Eddie Carmichael yielded the seventh-year battle to Cho Chang, angering Marietta Edgecombe, while the third-years ended their match in a fistfight that Allen had to stop.
• Allen appointed the fourth-year teaching assistants and announced monthly melees, allowing students to forfeit without affecting their grades this year.
• Harry spent the evening excitedly talking with Ron before receiving Dumbledore’s invitation to the Headmaster’s Office.
• Dumbledore put a broken ring into the hole in a damaged Diary and hid it in his desk before Harry arrived.
• Dumbledore advised Harry to take Ginny to Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, then turned serious and said Harry must be wondering why he had summoned him.

Dumbledore showed Harry memories of Voldemort’s family and his first meeting with young Tom Riddle at Wool's Orphanage. He then asked Harry to help draw out Professor Slughorn’s secret and train with trusted friends to become Animagi, while privately hoping to keep Harry away from dangerous Ancient Magic.

• Dumbledore showed Harry a memory of the Gaunt family and explained how Merope had used a Love Potion on Old Tom Riddle before being abandoned and dying after Voldemort’s birth.
• Harry watched Dumbledore visit Tom Riddle at Wool's Orphanage, where Tom admitted to using magic, stealing from other children, and speaking to snakes.
• Dumbledore told Harry that Professor Slughorn had been close to Tom Riddle at Hogwarts and that he needed something Slughorn would not easily give up.
• Harry realized Dumbledore wanted him to let Slughorn try to recruit him, and Dumbledore confirmed that he should agree.
• Dumbledore asked Harry to bring trusted friends, including Ginny and Ron, to train with Sirius Black in Animagus transformation near the Whomping Willow.

Rabastan Lestrange, Dolphin Rowle, Gilderoy Lockhart, and other Death Eaters brought a group of imprisoned Muggles to Voldemort’s underground base in Albania. Voldemort ordered the Muggles into rows, then turned his attention to Dolphin’s enjoyment of torturing them.

• Rabastan Lestrange led Gilderoy Lockhart and a Hell Hound through the man-eating forest to the concealed underground base.
• Rabastan ordered Dolphin Rowle to stop torturing Muggles because Voldemort needed them for his ritual preparations.
• Rabastan and Dolphin opened the cages and forced the starving, terrified Muggles into two lines, burning an old woman who failed to keep up.
• The Death Eaters led the Muggles through the tunnels to Voldemort, who ordered them to stand in rows.
• Voldemort fixed his gaze on Dolphin and asked whether he enjoyed torturing the Muggles.

Voldemort summoned the Devil Grand Duke Baal through a blood-and-soul sacrifice after gathering Muggles and preparing a ritual in Albania. Baal appeared and complained that Voldemort had used an outdated, wasteful method to call him.

• Voldemort ordered Dolphin Rowle to drain seven Muggles’ blood to fill the ritual’s Hexagram array.
• Voldemort used the blood sacrifice because the other summoning knowledge his Death Eaters had found was inadequate or too costly.
• Voldemort chanted an infernal incantation that drew the souls of thirty-six Muggles into the skulls surrounding the array.
• Baal emerged from the blood pool, and Voldemort stopped chanting.
• Baal questioned why Voldemort had summoned him so wastefully and remarked that times had changed.

Voldemort negotiated with Baal for a way to kill Allen Harris, but Baal refused to attack his friend and instead offered Voldemort knowledge of demon summoning. After seeing the destructive power of a summoned demon, Voldemort accepted Baal’s offer and asked to make a contract.

• Baal appeared in the Imprisonment Chamber, and his fear aura overwhelmed the Death Eaters while Voldemort remained unaffected.
• Baal attacked Bellatrix from within the array, but Voldemort countered the attack and ordered his followers to leave.
• Voldemort offered Baal 777 Muggles to kill Allen Harris, but Baal refused because he and Allen were friends.
• Baal offered Voldemort demon-summoning knowledge, explaining that Voldemort and his followers would be more compatible with chaotic demons than orderly devils.
• Voldemort summoned a Hundred-Eyed Demon, which slaughtered the paralyzed Muggles until Voldemort ordered it to stop.
• Baal showed Voldemort a Balor entry in his book, and Voldemort asked to make a contract for the demon knowledge.

Voldemort contracted with Baal to kill the person Allen Harris loved, offering more souls for an attack on Allen’s relatives and friends. The next morning, Allen collected specially modified training wands in Diagon Alley while Luna spent time with him in Ravenclaw’s Tower.

• Voldemort signed Baal’s contract and received a book about demons from the Bottomless Abyss.
• Baal took the souls of 666 Muggles as payment, then agreed to target the person Allen Harris loved once Voldemort gathered enough mortals.
• Allen met Aurors Pope and Pluto at Ollivanders and checked the wands Garrick Ollivander had prepared for student training.
• Allen paid Ollivander, packed the wands into his waist pouch, and went with his guards to collect clothes and buy ice cream.
• Luna stayed in Ravenclaw’s Tower with Allen, playing with the Resurrection Stone while their avatars handled errands and classes.

Luna absorbed the remaining soul energy in Allen’s wand and said she needed more faith to recover her power, while Allen learned that Voldemort planned to hire a devil to assassinate him. At Hogwarts, Emily caught Pansy investigating an old cabinet in the Room of Requirement and proposed selling hidden valuables for pocket money, while Pansy warned her not to sell the cabinet.

• Luna used the Resurrection Stone to absorb soul energy and told Allen she needed faith to restore her strength.
• Lucius warned Allen through the Omniscience Mark that Voldemort intended to hire a devil to assassinate him.
• Dementors tested Hogwarts’s protective barrier, and the Aurors drove them away with a Patronus.
• Emily followed Pansy to the Room of Requirement, where she found Pansy examining an old cabinet containing the skeleton of a five-legged creature.
• Pansy said she was acting to keep the Harris Family out of the matter, and Emily accepted her answer before proposing they sell hidden books and valuables for money.
• Emily collected magical books, curios, and sherry, while Pansy pleaded with her not to sell the cabinet.

The Hogwarts houses held Quidditch tryouts as students struggled to master nonverbal spells. Slytherin and Gryffindor settled their lineups, Ravenclaw kept its disciplined team intact, and Ron ended up displaced from Keeper to Beater.

• Snape taught sixth-years nonverbal spellcasting through paired jinxing and shielding practice, while other classes also began requiring the technique.
• Draco selected Pansy as a starting Beater after her aggressive, balanced performance, and Emily beat Draco for Slytherin's Seeker position.
• Allen sent his clone to oversee Ravenclaw's tryouts, where Cho Chang stayed on the team and the established lineup largely remained unchanged.
• Harry and Ginny quieted Gryffindor's unruly tryout, where Cormac McLaggen defeated Ron for Keeper and Ron was assigned to play Beater instead.
• Harry told Ron and Ginny that Sirius Black would begin teaching them to become Animagi that weekend, then said his potion was wearing off and he needed to sleep.
• Ron cheered up somewhat after hearing Harry mention gifts from Allen's Ancient Magic Class, then complained about how expensive Harry's book seemed.

Allen outfitted the Ancient Magic students with dragon-hide robes and specially weakened metal wands, then added individually tailored spells to their enchanted textbooks. He established the Patronus Charm as a prerequisite for learning dark magic and ended by teaching the class to combine ordinary spells with the Lightning Spell.

• The students examined their chained metal wands and protective robes, then changed into house-themed outfits designed by Allen.
• Allen explained that students could wear the dragon-hide robes outside class, and he transferred shared and individually tailored spell lessons into their textbooks.
• Allen gave Draco the Drowning Curse, praised his Lightning Spell practice, and urged Harry to use Sectumsempra more freely during protected practical lessons.
• Allen asked who could cast the Patronus Charm and made it a requirement for students who wanted to learn dark magic, while offering other lessons to those who preferred not to.
• Allen demonstrated how Aguamenti could carry the Lightning Spell around cover and told the class that spells were useful when wizards knew how to combine them.

Allen and Hermione visited Hogsmeade during a snowstorm, where they ordered unusual drinks and watched reports of Muggles disappearing abroad. The chapter left Ron unsettled after he saw Hermione with Allen and Harry kissing Ginny, while Seamus urged him to find a girlfriend.

• Luna stayed at Hogwarts for choir practice and asked Neville to lend her his toad.
• Allen and Hermione walked through the snow to Hogsmeade in warm enchanted robes, followed by Auror guards.
• Allen ordered Godigan Tea at the Three Broomsticks, and Hermione watched a television report about Muggles disappearing abroad.
• Harry, Ron, and Ginny joined Seamus at the pub, and Ginny took Harry to fetch drinks.
• Ron saw Allen and Hermione holding hands and noticed Harry and Ginny kissing, then told Seamus he had to leave.
• Seamus told Ron that Harry was a good choice for Ginny and suggested Ron pursue Lavender Brown.

Professor Slughorn invited the Torrance twins, Allen, Hermione, Harry, and Ginny to join his Slug Club dinners. Allen left the Three Broomsticks with three Aurors on official business, while Harry told his friends that Dumbledore wanted him to get close to Slughorn.

• Slughorn invited Lisa Torrance and Louis Torrance to a Slug Club dinner, and they accepted.
• Slughorn invited Allen and Hermione, who both agreed to attend; Allen teased Hermione about Butterbeer foam before licking it from his finger.
• Harry waved Slughorn over and accepted an invitation to his dinner party, and Slughorn also invited Ginny.
• Three Aurors arrived to speak with Allen, who left the Three Broomsticks after telling Hermione he had official business.
• Hermione joined Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Seamus, and Harry told them that Dumbledore wanted him to get close to Slughorn.

Harry and his friends found Katie Bell gravely injured by a cursed Opal Necklace in Hogsmeade, and Hermione secured the necklace while Dumbledore partially treated Katie. As the Aurors began investigating, Harry accused Pansy Parkinson without evidence, and McGonagall sent the students back to their dormitories.

• Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny encountered Katie Bell and Leanne arguing in the snow, and Katie collapsed after the package they struggled over fell open.
• Hermione restrained Katie, identified the Opal Necklace as cursed, and sent Hagrid for help while the Aurors transported Katie to Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore and Snape examined Katie; Dumbledore removed part of the curse and ordered Madam Pomfrey to transfer her to St. Mungo's for treatment.
• Leanne explained that Katie had taken the package from the Three Broomsticks and that the necklace was exposed during their struggle; Harry suspected Katie had been under the Imperius Curse.
• Harry accused Pansy Parkinson of the attack but admitted he had no evidence, and McGonagall told the group to return to their dormitories.
• Dumbledore awarded Hermione thirty points and Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Leanne fifteen points each for helping Katie.

Allen used Umbridge’s younger brother, Alex Cracknell, to test whether she still cared for him, then revealed that he had only been made unconscious and offered Umbridge a chance to start over. The chapter ended with Umbridge stunned by Allen’s decision to spare her and his explanation of what he considered true power.

• Allen visited the Werewolf Umbridge in Umbrella headquarters and ordered Four-Eyes to bring in the Muggle he had captured, who turned out to be Umbridge’s younger brother, Alex Cracknell.
• Umbridge initially showed no recognition of Alex, so Four-Eyes prepared to test a new Wolfsbane Potion on him during the full moon.
• When Four-Eyes poured the potion down Alex’s throat and Allen ordered her to strike him with a spell, Umbridge recognized her brother and desperately begged for his safety.
• Allen explained that Alex had only been hit with Obliviate, opened Umbridge’s cage, and told her that her concern for Alex had ended her ordeal.
• Allen recounted Umbridge’s family history and said he was giving her a chance to become a person again, then explained that choosing to pardon someone was a greater form of power than punishing them.