Chapter Summaries

Allen visited Hermione in the hospital wing, gave her a set of Ilvermorny textbooks, and donated more books to Hogwarts’ library. Later, he found Harry and Ron outside a girls’ bathroom with a black diary, where Percy challenged them and accused Allen of acting suspiciously.

• Allen asked Hermione about her recovery and gave her a belated Christmas gift of Ilvermorny textbooks, while Hermione hid Professor Lockhart’s card and eagerly opened the books.
• Allen donated sixteen sets of Ilvermorny textbooks to Madam Pince, one for her and fifteen for the Hogwarts library.
• Allen found Harry and Ron outside a girls’ bathroom, holding a tattered black diary, and called out to them.
• Percy emerged and questioned Harry, Ron, and Allen about being outside the bathroom and about Allen’s gifts.
• Allen challenged Percy’s authority to question how he gave gifts, and Ron complained about Percy’s arrogance.

Hermione left the Hospital Wing and reunited with Penelope, while Hogwarts recovered from the attacks and prepared to revive the petrified victims. On Valentine's Day, Allen tried to avoid Lockhart’s love-letter delivery scheme but ended up targeted by one of the Dwarfs.

• Hermione was discharged from the Hospital Wing, and Penelope helped her carry Allen’s Christmas gift, a box of Ilvermorny textbooks.
• Penelope opened the box and sent the books flying back with them, then told Hermione that Allen had given her her beautiful robes as a Christmas gift.
• Madam Pomfrey said the Mandrakes were growing up and would soon be ready to restore the petrified victims, while Peeves taunted Harry with a song.
• Allen saw Lockhart volunteer to erase unpleasant memories, then fled the Great Hall on Valentine’s Day to escape the decorations and Lockhart’s speech.
• Allen tripped a Dwarf chasing Penelope, but it switched targets and tried to deliver five musical messages to him.
• Allen cast Silencio on the Dwarf before it could sing, and the Dwarf left after glaring at him.

Allen stopped the Dwarfs from embarrassing him with their Valentine's songs, but when he brought the petrified group to Professor Lockhart's office, he found Daisy confronting Lockhart over their relationship. The chapter ended with Daisy accusing Lockhart of deceiving her, while Lockhart admitted only to being grateful for her affection.

• Allen ignored Percy's threat to report him for using magic in the corridor and accepted losing Ravenclaw five points to stop the Dwarfs from singing.
• The Dwarfs serenaded Allen outside the library until Madam Pince chased them away with a feather duster.
• The Dwarfs later cornered Allen on his way to Ravenclaw Tower, so he petrified and bound them before dragging them toward Professor Lockhart's office.
• Allen overheard Daisy confronting Lockhart and saw her clutching him while Lockhart held a wand.
• Daisy told Allen that Lockhart was her boyfriend, but Lockhart denied it and called their correspondence normal interaction with a fan.
• Daisy challenged Lockhart about his letters and invitations, and he responded that he was grateful for her affection.

Allen stopped Lockhart from erasing his and Daisy’s memories after discovering Daisy in the professor’s office, then arranged for her safe escape and exposed Lockhart to Rita Skeeter and Mr. Harris. The next day, Allen confronted Lockhart during class by volunteering to play a troll.

• Allen disarmed Lockhart when he tried to use his wand, then took Daisy out of his office with the petrified Dwarves.
• Daisy explained that she had entered Hogwarts with the Dwarves and found Lockhart’s flirtatious letter to a female fan; Allen told her he suspected Lockhart planned to erase their memories.
• Allen sent Daisy with Gaia to the edge of Hogwarts so she could Apparate home, then returned to Ravenclaw Tower.
• Allen anonymously urged Rita Skeeter to interview Lockhart and sent Mr. Harris a full account of what had happened to Daisy.
• During Defence Against the Dark Arts, Allen volunteered to play the troll in Lockhart’s lesson and performed for the laughing class.

Allen exposed Lockhart’s attempt to use a Memory Charm and beat him during a Defense Against the Dark Arts demonstration. He then pressured Rita Skeeter to report truthfully on Lockhart, who remained delighted by the prospect of an exclusive interview.

• Lockhart tried to cast Obliviate on Allen, but Allen dodged the spell and recognized it as a Memory Charm.
• Allen seized Lockhart, dragged him around the classroom, and kicked him through the door, leaving him bruised and bleeding.
• Lockhart claimed the beating was part of his demonstration and announced that Rita Skeeter would interview him for the Daily Prophet.
• Allen sent Rita a message threatening to reveal that she was an illegal Animagus unless she reported truthfully on Lockhart, and Rita replied, “As you wish.”
• Lockhart continued boasting about the interview, while students around the castle heard that Allen had beaten him.

Allen’s evidence against Gilderoy Lockhart led to Lockhart’s arrest and exposure as a fraud. Dumbledore took over Defense Against the Dark Arts, with Allen assisting him, while the Mandrakes neared maturity and the petrified students’ recovery.

• Rita’s report in the Daily Prophet accused Lockhart of stealing other wizards’ achievements and using Memory Charms on them, and officers of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement arrested him at Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore temporarily became the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and Allen later became his second-year assistant.
• Dumbledore’s engaging lessons kept the young wizards busy, and the Chamber of Secrets attacks seemed to have stopped.
• In March, Professor Sprout told Allen that the dancing Mandrakes would soon be mature enough to restore the petrified people.
• Albert wrote that family connections and the Aurors had helped investigate Lockhart, and Renn had assisted with the sentencing document; Allen believed Lockhart faced at least ten years in Azkaban.

As Ravenclaw prepared to face Gryffindor in a Quidditch match, Professor McGonagall canceled the game after Penelope Clearwater was Petrified in another attack. Allen resolved to investigate the Chamber of Secrets with Harry and first seek Gaia’s explanation of Tina’s warning that there was more than one monster.

• Allen chose Care of Magical Creatures and Ancient Runes as his third-year electives, while keeping his other subjects.
• Ravenclaw trained intensively for its Quidditch match against Gryffindor, and both teams arrived confident of winning.
• Professor McGonagall canceled the match and ordered the students back to their House common rooms.
• Professor Flitwick announced that Penelope Clearwater had been attacked and Petrified, and shared an image of her in the hospital.
• Allen decided to find Harry and confront the Basilisk, but planned to ask Gaia about Tina’s warning first.

Allen sneaked out of Hogwarts and crossed a lifeless Forbidden Forest to meet Gaia, who told him that a monster had escaped from the castle and was poisoning the forest. The Ministry had also come to take Hagrid away as a suspect, while Benny remained in the Unicorn settlement recovering from poison.

• Allen slipped through the castle doors while Professor Snape admitted Dumbledore and Minister Fudge, who had come to investigate attacks on Muggles.
• Allen overheard Fudge say that Hagrid would be taken away because the Ministry suspected him of the attacks, and Allen realized how much power mattered.
• Allen entered the Forbidden Forest and found dead trees, fallen branches, and poisoned bird corpses scattered through the silent woods.
• Gaia met Allen and explained that Benny was badly poisoned but was recovering in the Unicorn settlement after drinking water mixed with powdered Unicorn horn.
• Gaia blamed the forest's destruction on a monster that had escaped from the castle, and reminded Allen that his royal father's blessing made him immune to poison.

Allen and Gaia discovered that the monster from the Chamber of Secrets was a Cockatrice and confronted it in the Forbidden Forest. Allen wounded it but was bitten and met its deadly gaze, while Gaia attacked the creature and was bitten in turn.

• Allen and Gaia saw a creature’s poison gas wither the Forbidden Forest and fled into the sky as it emerged.
• Gaia identified the creature as a Cockatrice, and Allen decided to fight it despite her warning about its venom and deadly eyes.
• Allen stunned the Cockatrice unsuccessfully, then closed his eyes and attacked it with the Silver Sword.
• The Cockatrice bit Allen and sprayed venom after he wounded it, and its gaze made him dizzy.
• Gaia dived down to stomp the Cockatrice, which bit her leg as she attacked it.

Allen saved Gaia from the Cockatrice, then received a system reward that let him sense animals' emotions. He found Hagrid's distressed dog, Fang, and calmed him, leaving Fang at the hut while resolving to look after him.

• Allen removed the Cockatrice's fangs from Gaia, treated her wound, and received healing from her Unicorn Healing Spell.
• Allen stored the Cockatrice's corpse and accepted the system reward, gaining Beast Heart Connection.
• Allen learned that system rewards could be tied to the gratitude of living creatures, while system tasks could offer lottery opportunities.
• Allen found Fang distressed at Hagrid's hut, opened the door, and sensed the dog's worry and fear of abandonment.
• Allen stopped Fang from running off to find Hagrid, soothed him to sleep, and carried him back to his doghouse.

After Hagrid was arrested and Dumbledore was forced to leave Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick asked Allen to lead the second years’ Defence Against the Dark Arts studies. As the castle tightened security amid fears of further attacks, Allen struggled to find a chance to investigate the Cockatrice in the Forbidden Forest.

• Fear spread through Hogwarts after Hagrid was sent to Azkaban and Dumbledore was forced to depart.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick appointed Allen to lead the second years’ Defence Against the Dark Arts studies, and he accepted.
• Allen’s lessons went smoothly, winning the respect of students from all four houses, including Malfoy and the Slytherins.
• Madam Pomfrey refused Allen entry to the hospital wing, while professors ordered students to travel around the castle in groups.
• Malfoy strutted around the school, pleased by Dumbledore’s suspension and confident that the Chamber of Secrets’ heir would not target him.
• With Ravenclaw’s common room crowded late into the night, Allen found it difficult to sneak away and trace the Cockatrice’s movements in the Forbidden Forest.

Allen investigated ancient ruins in the Forbidden Forest after the Niffler found a thousand-year-old Hufflepuff's Cup there. He discovered that the ruins had round wells connected to a powerful underground ventilation system and began exploring the collapsed stone house, which might be linked to the Cockatrice.

• Allen learned that Harry and Ron had escaped the Forbidden Forest after entering Acromantula territory with the Enchanted Car.
• Professor McGonagall announced that exams would begin on June 1 and said the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam would emphasize Allen's notes.
• The Niffler brought Allen a Hufflepuff's Cup found among collapsed stone-house ruins in the Forbidden Forest.
• Allen followed Tina to the ruins and found round wells with air rushing downward, leading him to suspect they were exits from an underground ventilation system used by the Cockatrice.
• Allen entered the stone-house ruins and found a narrow, dark corridor blocked by fallen stones.

Allen followed a Human-Faced Spider down a well into an underground cavern, where he discovered a Cockatrice statue and evidence that the tunnels might lead to the Chamber of Secrets. He entered a brightly lit hall and reached a Bronze Gate marked with a pure-blood restriction.

• Allen spotted a Human-Faced Spider fleeing through the ruins and followed it to a well that led underground.
• Allen returned Tina and the Niffler to the Pet Space despite their attempts to stop him, then climbed down the well and nearly fell when a stone step gave way.
• Allen reached a cavern where the Human-Faced Spider attacked him, and he petrified it after burning its web with Incendio.
• Allen found traces of Cockatrice venom and concluded that the Human-Faced Spider might have carried a Cockatrice through the wells toward the Chamber of Secrets.
• Allen entered a grand hall where magical lamps lit up, revealing a Bronze Gate engraved with a warning that only pure-blood wizards could enter.

Allen captured a rare Two-headed Cockatrice and discovered that Merlin's Gem revealed a hidden mechanism in the Cockatrice statue. After using the statue to open Slytherin's Bronze Gate, he was poised to enter when a sudden change interrupted him.

• Allen found a tiny Two-headed Cockatrice biting him, resisted its venom and glare, and placed it in the Pet Space.
• Allen failed to open the Bronze Gate and returned to the Human-Faced Spiders' cave, where he noticed the Cockatrice statue's eyes had changed.
• Allen used Merlin's Gem to reveal red light in the statue's eyes, and its beams instructed him to place his hands inside them.
• Allen put his hands into the statue's eyes, felt blood drawn from his middle fingers, and heard a rumble from the hall.
• Allen returned to find the Bronze Gate open, but a sudden change occurred just as he was about to enter.

Allen fought the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets and survived when the roosters’ crows killed it. He explored beyond the Bronze Gate and found a vast hall containing statues and ruined specimens of ancient creatures.

• Allen dodged the Basilisk, released his roosters, and fought it with a wand and the Silver Sword while trying to keep it from killing them.
• The Basilisk struck Allen and knocked away his sword, but the roosters crowed and caused it to collapse.
• Allen pierced the Basilisk’s head with the Silver Sword and removed its venomous fangs.
• Allen passed through a corridor lined with magical-creature statues and entered a vast ceramic-walled hall.
• Allen found display cases of ancient creatures whose specimens had decayed into unrecognizable remains.

Allen explored the Chamber of Secrets and met Salazar Slytherin, whose portrait had survived by consuming the magic that once preserved the chamber’s treasures. Salazar judged Allen worthy and showed him a green gemstone that closely resembled Merlin’s Gem.

• Allen searched the upper chamber and found decayed books, a stone table, and several stone caskets beside an enormous skeleton.
• Salazar Slytherin’s portrait spoke to Allen and explained that he had spent the chamber’s magic preserving itself, leaving its other treasures to decay.
• Salazar told Allen he had preserved his portrait to guide a worthy young wizard and asked him to open a stone casket.
• Allen opened the casket and found a brilliant green gemstone nearly identical in shape to his blue Merlin’s Gem.
• Salazar said his descendant had failed his requirements, but Allen possessed the qualities the founders sought and was a Pureblood.

Allen received Salazar Slytherin's gem and research notes, then emerged into the Chamber of Secrets and destroyed Tom Marvolo Riddle's diary with a Basilisk fang. He rescued Harry and Ginny, and they left the Chamber with Fawkes.

• Salazar explained the gem's healing power and memory cost, gave it and his magical-creature research to Allen, and vanished as his portrait shattered.
• Allen stored Salazar's Gem and manuscript, then followed the newly opened passage into the outer Chamber of Secrets.
• Riddle confronted Allen and attacked, but Allen disarmed him and destroyed the diary with a Basilisk fang.
• Ginny woke and confessed that Riddle had controlled her, while Harry and Allen reassured her that the danger was over and she would not be expelled.
• Allen helped Ginny past the dead Basilisk, and the group left the Chamber through the tunnel with Fawkes waiting at the entrance.

After the Chamber of Secrets was resolved, Allen returned to Hogwarts and joined the celebratory feast, where the school honored Harry and awarded Ravenclaw the House Cup. Allen received a House-elf named Maggie from the system, and the chapter ended with Hogwarts returning to normal while Allen continued teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts and prepared to hand over Salazar Slytherin's notes.

• Allen, Harry, Ron, and Ginny escaped the Chamber through the sewer with Fawkes and returned to the girls' bathroom.
• Allen went back to his dormitory, ate pastries, and fell asleep instead of going to find Dumbledore.
• Edward woke Allen for the celebratory dinner, where Mrs. Weasley thanked him for saving Ginny and Mr. Weasley also expressed his gratitude.
• The recovered students celebrated in the Great Hall, Hagrid returned, Dumbledore awarded Allen two hundred points, and Professor McGonagall announced that exams were canceled.
• The system rewarded Allen with a prize draw, and he received a House-elf named Maggie, who cared for the creatures in his Pet Space.
• Hogwarts returned to normal, Dumbledore kept Allen teaching second-year Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Allen planned to hand over Salazar Slytherin's notes.

After Allen received an award for his role in defeating the Basilisk, he left Hogwarts for summer break and was invited to travel to Egypt with the Weasleys. The chapter ended with Allen setting off from home for the Burrow before the trip.

• Allen told Dumbledore how he found the Chamber of Secrets, credited Maggie with helping him, and gave Dumbledore Salazar's notes.
• Dumbledore praised the notes, awarded Allen two hundred points, and gave him the Special Award for Services to the School.
• Allen left Hogwarts on the Express, and Penelope hugged him goodbye before departing.
• The Weasleys visited the Harrises to thank Allen, and Arthur asked to take him to Egypt for the summer.
• Mr. Harris agreed to the trip, Mrs. Harris gave Allen a bag of Galleons, and Allen left with Mr. Harris for the Burrow.

The Weasleys and Allen arrived in Egypt, where Allen helped them get through airport security and Bill collected them. They reached Bill’s colleague Ahmed’s cool, magically enchanted home beside the Nile and settled in.

• Allen helped carry the Weasleys’ luggage, then used a Confundus Charm and fluent Arabic to distract a security guard who nearly spotted Scabbers.
• Mr. Weasley explained that Ludo Bagman had helped secure permission for them to carry their wands.
• Bill met the family at the airport and drove them in an enchanted vehicle through Cairo and the desert toward the Nile.
• The family admired the Pyramids and Great Sphinx before reaching Ahmed’s lush home in a village by the Nile.
• Allen and Ron were given a third-floor room with a balcony overlooking the Nile, and Ron guessed that temperature-regulating magic kept it cool.