Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting became a celebrated but increasingly isolated Ravenclaw student while focusing on studying magic with Hermione and Cho Chang. He struggled with the disorganized style of wizarding textbooks and began compiling his own concise notes, aiming to master the knowledge in Hogwarts’s libraries.

• Orianna’s beauty attracted attention, and Ye Ting’s popularity grew among Ravenclaw students, though he kept most people at a distance.
• Ye Ting retaliated after Draco Malfoy insulted him, leaving Draco hanging upside down until Snape rescued him and costing Ravenclaw ten points.
• Ye Ting excelled in his classes and studied regularly in the library with Hermione and Cho Chang.
• Ye Ting criticized wizarding textbooks for their flowery prose and inconsistent terminology, then began reorganizing their information in his own notes.
• Ye Ting filled nearly half a notebook in less than a week and planned to read all the books in the Ravenclaw common room and Hogwarts libraries during his seven years at school.

Ye Ting skipped History of Magic and Defense Against the Dark Arts while adjusting to Hogwarts’s shifting castle and enjoying the spectacle of Himari leading its cats. As flying lessons approached, Hermione and the other first-years grew increasingly focused on broomsticks, while Ye Ting looked forward to flying but disliked the idea of riding a broom.

• Ye Ting skipped Professor Cuthbert Binns’s and Professor Quirrell’s classes to study in the library.
• Ye Ting struggled with Hogwarts’s moving staircases and doors, while Himari wandered the castle and commanded the respect of its cats.
• Himari became a Hogwarts spectacle as cats followed her through the castle, sometimes carrying Orianna on her back.
• Ye Ting anticipated Madam Hooch’s flying lessons but thought riding a broomstick was ridiculous.
• Hermione repeatedly studied Quidditch Through the Ages and questioned Cho Chang about broomstick flying as the first-years discussed the coming lessons.

Ye Ting excelled at his first flying lesson and discovered a thrill in pushing his limits on a broom. After dazzling the students with daring flights around Hogwarts, he returned to the lawn to practice aerobatics.

• Ye Ting silently summoned his broom while most of the first-years struggled to make theirs move.
• Madam Hooch taught the class how to mount and fly, and Neville Longbottom lost control, flew into the Forbidden Forest, and broke his wrist.
• Ye Ting rose easily and showed superior skill as classmates struggled to hover or control their brooms.
• Ye Ting raced around Hogwarts, diving through bridge arches, circling towers, and performing barrel rolls.
• Ye Ting returned to the lawn to practice aerobatics on his broom.

Ye Ting dazzled the young wizards with difficult broom stunts before spotting Hermione losing control of her broom. He caught her as she fell, and they crashed through several trees before coming to a stop on the ground.

• Ye Ting performed a series of difficult stunt-flying maneuvers, impressing the students and Madam Hooch.
• Ye Ting ended his flight when his broom began creaking from the strain.
• Hermione lost control of her broom and fell from the sky despite Madam Hooch's warning.
• Ye Ting dove after Hermione, caught her in midair, and steered them toward the nearby forest.
• Ye Ting and Hermione crashed through several trees and rolled along the ground before stopping.

Ye Ting was badly injured while protecting Hermione during a flying lesson, and his popularity swept through Hogwarts as girls crowded to visit him. He woke in the hospital wing to find Hermione asleep beside him and Penelope bringing him breakfast, leaving him touched by her care.

• Ye Ting took the worst of the impact when he protected Hermione in a fall during flying class, and the students carried him to the hospital wing.
• Hermione cried beside Ye Ting and accepted the other girls' accusations as they escorted him away.
• News of Ye Ting's injury spread through Hogwarts, and girls crowded the hospital wing to visit him while the boys envied his popularity.
• Ye Ting woke the next morning to find Hermione asleep beside his bed, with Himari curled nearby and Orianna posing as a toy.
• Penelope brought Ye Ting breakfast and food for his kitten, explaining that she remembered his usual preferences and had worried he would be hungry.

Ye Ting woke in the infirmary and reassured Cho Chang and Hermione that he had recovered. Hermione apologized for causing his injury, then broke down crying as she explained that she had tried flying because she wanted to match him.

• Penelope fed Himari and Ye Ting breakfast, and Ye Ting asked whether Hermione had eaten.
• Cho Chang arrived with Hermione's breakfast and warned Ye Ting to wait for Madam Pomfrey to examine him before leaving.
• Cho Chang told Ye Ting that Hermione had cried over his injuries, and Hermione hurriedly denied it before apologizing to him.
• Ye Ting comforted Hermione and asked why she had flown so recklessly.
• Hermione admitted she had seen Ye Ting fly well and thought she could do the same, then burst into tears.

Hermione’s flying accident and Ye Ting’s rescue left her shaken, but Penelope and Ye Ting helped her regain her confidence. After a stream of visitors and gifts, Ye Ting agreed to join Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team and was eventually allowed to leave the hospital wing.

• Penelope comforted Hermione by urging her not to measure herself against Ye Ting, and Ye Ting warned Hermione not to risk her life trying to surpass him.
• Girls crowded the hospital wing to visit Ye Ting, while Penelope and Cho Chang stopped him from eating their gifts in case they contained love potions.
• Dumbledore praised Ye Ting for saving Hermione and awarded Ravenclaw twenty points.
• Flitwick invited Ye Ting to join Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team, and Ye Ting accepted.
• At Cho Chang and Penelope’s insistence, Ye Ting stayed in the hospital wing for another day before he was allowed to leave.

After his hospital discharge, Ye Ting rejected Roger Davies’s offer to become Ravenclaw’s Seeker and insisted on trying out as a Chaser. They agreed to settle the dispute with a one-on-one contest at Quidditch training, where students gathered to watch.

• Roger Davies invited Ye Ting to join Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team as a Seeker and suggested Cho Chang as his substitute.
• Ye Ting explained that he preferred playing Chaser and challenged Roger to a contest: the first to score five goals would win.
• Roger and Ye Ting agreed that Ye Ting would become a Chaser if he won, but would accept the Seeker position if he lost.
• Roger publicized the match, and Ravenclaw students gathered at the pitch to watch.
• Ye Ting arrived with his three roommates and saw Cho Chang practicing, while Hermione and Penelope watched from the stands.

Ye Ting faced Roger in a Quidditch practice match and scored the opening goal with a sudden burst of speed, leaving the spectators amazed. The match continued with Ye Ting ahead 1:0.

• Ye Ting arrived on the pitch to cheers, and Roger gave him a broom and offered him the first attack.
• Cho Chang wished Ye Ting luck before the players cleared the field and the match began.
• Ye Ting tested the Cleansweep Five, then circled with the Quaffle while Roger struggled to predict his approach.
• Ye Ting accelerated past Roger and scored at close range, putting the score at 1:0.
• The referee and spectators were stunned, while Hermione and Penelope cheered Ye Ting enthusiastically.

Ye Ting defeated Roger in a head-on collision, winning the second round and earning the Ravenclaw players’ admiration. As the next round began, Ye Ting decided to beat Roger through Quidditch skill rather than relying on his superior strength and speed.

• Roger charged Ye Ting, but Ye Ting’s shoulder sent Roger and his broom flying and knocked the Quaffle away.
• Ye Ting recovered the Quaffle, and the referee announced that Roger had lost the round.
• The spectators and Ravenclaw players cheered for Ye Ting, while Roger recovered and confirmed he was ready to continue.
• Roger challenged Ye Ting to show him real Quidditch skill, and Ye Ting resolved to answer by defeating him with skill alone.

Ye Ting defeated Roger in their Quidditch contest, scoring twice and proving superior in both technique and physical ability. Roger tried to recover on offense, but Ye Ting calmly stole the Quaffle from him, leaving the crowd convinced Ravenclaw’s prospects had changed.

• Ye Ting feinted a left turn, reversed direction beyond Roger’s ability to react, and scored to make it 2:0.
• The crowd cheered Ye Ting and began hoping he would help Ravenclaw win the Quidditch Cup.
• Roger recovered his confidence and attacked, aiming to exploit Ye Ting’s presumed lack of defensive experience.
• Ye Ting turned his broom around, caught Roger from behind, and stole the Quaffle as he passed him.

Ye Ting defeated Roger 3:0 and became Ravenclaw’s Chaser, while Cho Chang was named the team’s Seeker. The next morning, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Neville Longbottom had lost Gryffindor points after Filch caught them wandering at night, and Ye Ting recognized Malfoy’s trap.

• Ye Ting scored from beyond the scoring area and defeated Roger 3:0, then Roger conceded and left the pitch.
• Cho Chang celebrated with Ye Ting, who became Ravenclaw’s Chaser after promising to help her train; Cho became the official Seeker.
• News of Ye Ting’s victory spread through Hogwarts, and Draco Malfoy accused him of cheating and complained about him in letters home.
• Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Neville Longbottom were caught wandering at night by Argus Filch and each cost Gryffindor ten points.
• George and Fred Weasley praised the boys at breakfast while Percy threatened to report Ron, and Malfoy laughed with his two lackeys.
• Ye Ting realized Malfoy had lured Harry and Ron out at night with a false invitation to a wizard’s duel in the Trophy Room.

Ye Ting and his friends discussed the forbidden fourth-floor corridor and the three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor. Ye Ting suggested Dumbledore had designed the challenges either to test students or to lure a would-be thief, but the suspected thief and the purpose of the hidden object remained unknown.

• Anthony Goldstein told Ye Ting that three students had explored the forbidden corridor, and Hermione objected when Anthony suggested they go there too.
• Hermione denied being Ye Ting’s little girlfriend, but Ye Ting calmed her by stroking her hair.
• Penelope said a three-headed dog guarded the corridor’s trapdoor and claimed Dumbledore and several professors had built a challenge course there.
• Cho Chang and the others agreed that the professors were protecting something hidden beyond the challenges.
• Ye Ting proposed that Dumbledore had set the challenges as either a test for students or a trap to draw out someone planning to steal an object.

Ye Ting planned to wait until the end of term to pursue the Philosopher's Stone without alerting Dumbledore, while preparing to learn Wizard Chess and build a superior broomstick. He decided to use the Room of Requirement as a laboratory for studying broomsticks and working with rare magical materials.

• Ye Ting decided to delay his attempt to obtain the Philosopher's Stone until the end of term so he could follow Harry or meet him during the obstacles.
• Ye Ting planned to learn Wizard Chess and replace his Cleansweep Five with a handmade broomstick better suited to his flying.
• Ye Ting considered using his rare branch from G'hanir for a wand but kept it hidden until he learned wand-making.
• Ye Ting recalled that he had recently summoned branches of Fusang and Ruomu, whose magical properties and symbolism could make them powerful broomstick materials.
• Ye Ting decided to find a laboratory and use the Room of Requirement to study flying broomsticks.

Ye Ting explained his view that magic was governed by purposeful laws and described his ambition to master those laws by becoming a mage. He believed his exceptional learning ability would let him study magic without the limits that forced other mages to specialize.

• Ye Ting compared Ancient Runes to programming languages and explained how wizards compiled runes into usable spells.
• Ye Ting concluded that magic’s purposeful laws suggested the world was idealistic or had been created by people.
• Ye Ting chose to pursue the difficult path of becoming a mage despite having talents suited to martial arts and time-space abilities.
• Ye Ting reasoned that his learning ability and limitless potential would let him master many kinds of magic and ultimately understand the world’s rules.

Ye Ting helped with the Wingardium Leviosa lesson and later searched for Hermione after she went missing on Halloween. When Quirrell announced that a Troll was in the dungeons, Ye Ting slipped away with Orianna to reach the third-floor bathroom.

• Ye Ting vanished the conjured bison and repaired the classroom before Professor Flitwick began the Wingardium Leviosa practice.
• Hermione mastered Wingardium Leviosa after two attempts, while Ron failed and insulted her by calling her a know-it-all.
• Ye Ting noticed Hermione was missing during the Halloween feast and learned from Lisa Turpin that she had been seen near the bathroom.
• Professor Quirrell rushed into the Great Hall, announced that a Troll was in the dungeons, and fainted.
• Ye Ting slipped away from the Ravenclaw students, and Orianna dispelled her shrinking effect before carrying him toward the third-floor bathroom.

Ye Ting rushed to save Hermione from a Troll in the girls’ bathroom and used physical spells to wound and freeze it. The Troll was immobilized, leaving Ye Ting and Hermione safe for the moment.

• Ye Ting entered the third floor, encountered a Troll, and heard Hermione scream from the girls’ bathroom.
• Ye Ting found Hermione trapped by the Troll and cut its back with Sectumsempra, drawing its attention away from her.
• Hermione tried to distract the Troll as it charged Ye Ting, but his Shield Charm stopped its club just above his head.
• Ye Ting blasted the bathroom sinks, drenched the Troll with water, and froze it solid.

After defeating the troll, Ye Ting gained admiration at Hogwarts while Quirrell and Draco Malfoy suffered reputational and personal setbacks. As Quidditch season approached, Ye Ting trained with Ravenclaw and designed new tactics that left the team eager for the Cup.

• Stories of Ye Ting defeating the troll spread through Hogwarts, while students mocked Quirrell for fainting and Draco Malfoy claimed the troll attack had been a scheme by "that Mudblood."
• After Draco Malfoy was knocked unconscious by a metal ball with gears, the school’s view of Quirrell worsened and students praised Ye Ting’s earlier judgment of him.
• As the weather turned cold and Quidditch season neared, Ye Ting joined Ravenclaw’s team as its main attacking Chaser alongside Roger and another Chaser.
• Ye Ting used ideas from Muggle sports and aerial warfare to devise new Quidditch tactics, training programs, and hand signals for Ravenclaw.
• Roger named Ye Ting the team’s next captain, and Ravenclaw players guarded their training sessions while learning the new tactics and anticipating the Quidditch Cup.

Harry and Ron told Ye Ting and Hermione that Snape had injured his leg and seemed to be trying to reach the three-headed dog’s guarded chamber, though Ye Ting and Hermione doubted he was guilty. Ye Ting, Hermione, and Cho Chang attended Harry’s first Quidditch match, which began with Gryffindor playing Slytherin.

• Harry and Ron told Ye Ting and Hermione that Snape had been bitten and had asked how anyone could watch three heads at once.
• Harry accused Snape of trying to get past the three-headed dog and suggested he had let the troll into Hogwarts as a distraction.
• Hermione and Ye Ting rejected the accusation, and the four students failed to work out what the dog was guarding.
• Cho Chang brought Ye Ting to the Quidditch pitch to observe the teams, and Hermione joined them with lion flags enchanted by Ye Ting.
• Ron and other Gryffindors bought the enchanted flags, and Ye Ting suggested that he and Hermione make more to sell.
• Madam Hooch started the Gryffindor–Slytherin match, and the players flew into the air.

During a Quidditch match, Harry Potter’s broom went out of control while several people secretly cast spells on it. Ye Ting stopped Harry from being killed by turning him into a giant balloon, but Harry drifted away on the wind.

• Angelina Johnson scored for Gryffindor, and Harry Potter spotted the Golden Snitch before Marcus Flint rammed him and the Snitch disappeared.
• Harry’s broom began jerking and carrying him higher as he lost control, while Slytherin scored and the crowd noticed his danger.
• Ron Weasley blamed Snape and ran to disrupt his spell, while Ye Ting used his wand to steady Harry’s broom and Hermione searched the stands for the other spellcasters.
• Ron shoved Snape into the Slytherins, interrupting his spell and sending Harry’s broom diving toward the ground.
• Ye Ting cast a spell that inflated Harry into a giant balloon, saving him from injury as he bounced off the ground and drifted away; his Nimbus 2000 flew into the forest.