Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting visited Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel with Dumbledore, hoping to exchange ideas and learn about Nicolas's alchemical research. He and Nicolas became absorbed in conversation, while Dumbledore and Perenelle discussed Ye Ting's studies and friendships.

• Ye Ting accepted Dumbledore's invitation to meet Nicolas Flamel and arranged to visit after the holidays.
• Dumbledore Apparated with Ye Ting to Nicolas's secluded home, which was hidden behind the Fidelius Charm.
• Ye Ting tested the charm with his anti-magic Infinity Blade, and Dumbledore praised the weapon and its role in destroying Voldemort's diary.
• Dumbledore revealed the manor and introduced Ye Ting to Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel.
• Ye Ting and Nicolas launched into an intense discussion that left the food cold and Dumbledore and Perenelle waiting.
• Perenelle and Dumbledore discussed Ye Ting's thirst for knowledge and his female friends at Hogwarts and Beauxbatons.

Ye Ting spent a week with Nicolas Flamel, learning from his research and receiving his six centuries of notes. He rejected the Philosopher's Stone's form of immortality and considered other ways to preserve himself and those he cared about.

• Ye Ting and Nicolas Flamel exchanged ideas, while Perenelle and Dumbledore discussed Ye Ting staying with the Flamels.
• Ye Ting accepted the Flamels' invitation and spent a week at their home as Nicolas shared his discoveries and manuscripts, including knowledge about making the Philosopher's Stone.
• Ye Ting offered to help Nicolas make another Philosopher's Stone, but Nicolas refused and asked why Ye Ting wanted its theory rather than its promise of immortality.
• Ye Ting explained that he rejected living indefinitely while aging and losing loved ones, and Nicolas and Perenelle said they were ready to face death.
• Ye Ting considered other paths to immortality and resolved to pursue a way to become a being with both human and Dragon nature.

Ye Ting reflected on how his Dragon Animagus transformation was changing his body and inspiring him to find a way for others to become Dragon Animagi. After learning from Nicolas and his wife for a week, he realized their final days had arrived as their supply of the Elixir of Life ran out.

• Ye Ting considered how his Dragon Animagus form had increased his magic and vitality, altered his aging, and brought him closer to dragonkind.
• Ye Ting decided to pursue a stable method of creating Dragon Animagi so the people he cared about could share his strength and long life.
• Ye Ting prioritized learning from Nicolas and his wife, whose remaining Elixir of Life was nearly gone after they lost the Philosopher's Stone.
• Ye Ting spent a week at the couple's manor absorbing their knowledge and listening to their memories.
• Nicolas and his wife changed their usual routine on Sunday, and Dumbledore later took Ye Ting away from the manor.
• Dumbledore confirmed that Nicolas and his wife were about to die, leaving Ye Ting saddened by the loss of his mentors.

Ye Ting attended Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel’s funeral, where Dumbledore recalled his friendship with Nicolas and the Flamels’ estate left their books and manuscripts to Ye Ting. After the funeral, Dumbledore reunited with Newt Scamander and met Newt’s family.

• Ye Ting and Dumbledore paid their respects at the Flamels’ tombstone as wizards, Beauxbatons representatives, and the Ministry delegation gathered for the funeral.
• Dumbledore delivered a eulogy describing Nicolas’s friendship, magical work, and past defense of Paris, then told Ye Ting that family, love, and friendship mattered most.
• The Flamels’ estate distribution revealed that Nicolas and Perenelle had left all their books and manuscripts to Ye Ting.
• Dumbledore stayed after the funeral to visit old friends, and Newt Scamander arrived with Porpentina Scamander, Queenie Kowalski, and Rolf Scamander.

After Nicolas Flamel’s funeral, Ye Ting received the Order of Merlin, First Class, and learned that Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban. While shopping in Diagon Alley, he bought The Monster Book of Monsters and met Senior Penelope, who showed him how to open one safely.

• Newt Scamander introduced his grandson Rolf to Dumbledore and Ye Ting, explaining that Rolf had attended Ilvermorny and been sorted into Thunderbird.
• A week after Nicolas Flamel’s funeral, Cornelius Fudge presented Ye Ting with the Order of Merlin, First Class.
• The Ministry announced that Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban, prompting panic and a nationwide search involving Dementors.
• Ye Ting visited Flourish and Blotts, where copies of The Monster Book of Monsters fought each other, and he subdued one with a punch to its cover.
• Senior Penelope opened a Monster Book by stroking its spine, then left the shop with Ye Ting and discussed Hagrid using the aggressive books as a textbook.

Ye Ting reunited with Hermione at the Magical Menagerie, paid for her to adopt Crookshanks, and later encountered Dementors guarding Hogwarts. One Dementor attacked him with its soul-draining presence, bringing painful memories flooding back.

• Ye Ting told Hermione that Ministry honors were easily bought and offered to teach her to become an Animagus after his research into Dragon Animagi succeeded.
• Hermione chose to adopt Crookshanks, and Ye Ting paid the twenty Galleons when she lacked enough money.
• Ye Ting left the Magical Menagerie with Himari as Hermione complained that he had decided to pay for Crookshanks without her consent.
• Ye Ting walked from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts instead of taking the train and found Dementors stationed at the gates.
• One Dementor lifted its hood and breathed at Ye Ting, flooding him with cold and painful memories of his desperate journey through time and space.

Ye Ting helped Cho Chang recover from the Dementors’ effects and escorted her, Hermione, and Marietta into Hogwarts, where his Patronus drove the Dementors away. At the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore warned students about the Dementors and introduced Remus Lupin and Hagrid as new teachers.

• Ye Ting gave Cho chocolate and used his Patronus to comfort Cho Chang, easing the Dementors’ influence on her and the nearby students.
• Ye Ting escorted Cho Chang, Hermione, and Marietta through the Hogwarts gates, where the Dementors fled from his Patronus and earned him the nickname “The Man Who Made Dementors Afraid.”
• Harry Potter was called away by Professor Minerva McGonagall after fainting on the train, while Draco Malfoy mocked him to the Slytherins.
• Professor Flitwick returned with Hermione to preside over the Sorting Ceremony, which placed only four new boys in Ravenclaw.
• Dumbledore warned students that Dementors were stationed around Hogwarts and prohibited students from leaving without authorization.
• Dumbledore introduced Remus Lupin as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and announced Hagrid as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor.

Ye Ting used a Boggart to help Hermione, Cho Chang, and Penelope practice the Patronus Charm. After demonstrating how he could control the Boggart and make it become a Dementor, he guided Hermione through her first attempt, which produced a wisp of silver vapor.

• Word spread that Harry Potter had fainted at the sight of a Dementor while Ye Ting had driven the Dementors away, earning Ye Ting admiration.
• Ye Ting chose a Boggart for Patronus practice because using real Dementors would risk conflict with the Ministry of Magic.
• In the Room of Requirement, Ye Ting showed the girls the Boggart’s shifting forms and used Transfiguration to make it become a Dementor.
• Ye Ting explained why the girls needed to practice the Patronus Charm while facing a Dementor, and Hermione volunteered to go first.
• Hermione recalled receiving her Hogwarts letter and produced a wisp of silver vapor from her wand before approaching the wardrobe.

Hermione repeatedly faced a Dementor while practicing the Patronus Charm, drawing strength from memories of Ye Ting protecting her. She finally produced a silver Patronus before collapsing into Ye Ting's arms.

• Ye Ting released a Dementor, and Hermione's first attempt failed as frightening memories overwhelmed her.
• Ye Ting comforted Hermione with a Chocolate Frog, but her second attempt also ended with her losing consciousness.
• Hermione chose memories of Ye Ting protecting her and asked whether he would always stay by her side.
• Hermione cast a silver Patronus that confronted the Dementor, and Ye Ting used his dragon Patronus to drive it back into the wardrobe.
• Hermione's strength gave out and her Patronus vanished, so Ye Ting caught her as she collapsed.

Hermione, Cho Chang, and Penelope practiced the Patronus Charm against a Boggart Dementor, with Hermione nearly producing a corporeal Patronus. At breakfast, Ye Ting discovered that Hermione had a Time-Turner to attend every elective and warned her about overexertion, while promising to keep her secret.

• Hermione successfully cast an almost complete Patronus, and Ye Ting praised her before giving her chocolate and ending her practice for the night.
• Cho Chang and Penelope repeatedly practiced against the Boggart Dementor until Ye Ting stopped them after they produced silver mist with the Patronus Charm.
• Ye Ting and Hermione helped the exhausted Cho Chang and Penelope back to the dormitory.
• Ye Ting noticed Hermione had scheduled several classes at the same time and deduced that she had a Time-Turner.
• Hermione admitted she had the Time-Turner and asked Ye Ting to keep it secret; he agreed and warned her to seek his help if she struggled.
• Hermione kissed Ye Ting on the cheek and walked away, while Ye Ting worried about the dangers of time travel.

Ye Ting explained how personal history constrained travel through the Sea of Chaos and began researching spacetime travel. At Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall discussed Harry’s supposed death prediction from Divination, and Ye Ting turned it into a joke.

• Ye Ting concluded that he could enter different points in other worlds’ histories through the Sea of Chaos, but personal history prevented travelers from changing events that preceded their arrival.
• Ye Ting began researching spacetime travel and expected to make progress within a year.
• Ye Ting attended Hogwarts classes, though he focused on his own work and was interested mainly in Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures.
• Professor McGonagall transformed into a tabby cat during a lesson on Animagi, but the students barely reacted after their Divination class.
• Harry told Professor McGonagall that Sybill Trelawney had predicted his death, and Ye Ting joked that her prediction was accurate because everyone eventually died.

Hagrid’s Hippogriff lesson ended in disaster when Draco Malfoy insulted one and was injured, putting Hagrid and the creature at risk. Meanwhile, Remus Lupin impressed the students with a practical lesson, though Ye Ting wondered how they would react if they learned Lupin was a werewolf.

• Hagrid taught the class how to approach Hippogriffs, while Ye Ting used dragon’s might to make the creatures submit and rideable.
• Harry successfully rode a Hippogriff, and Ye Ting made another carry Hermione around.
• Draco Malfoy insulted a Hippogriff, which clawed him and left him bleeding on the grass.
• Lupin led his class to a corridor and used Waddiwasi to shoot chewing gum into Peeves’s nostril.
• Lupin quickly won the students’ admiration, and Ye Ting wondered whether they would still praise him after discovering he was a werewolf.

Ye Ting left Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team and continued experimenting with a spatial portal in the Chamber of Secrets. After Sirius Black broke into Hogwarts and destroyed the portrait guarding Gryffindor’s common room, Dumbledore gathered the students in the Great Hall for the night.

• Oliver Wood rallied Gryffindor’s team to help him win the Quidditch Cup in his final year.
• Ye Ting persuaded Roger to let him leave Ravenclaw’s team and agreed to train Cho Chang as the team’s next core player.
• Ye Ting worked alone to stabilize his spatial portal in his private laboratory in the Chamber of Secrets while the other students visited Hogsmeade.
• After the Halloween feast, the Grey Lady summoned Ravenclaw’s students to the Great Hall on Dumbledore’s order.
• The students learned Sirius Black had broken into the castle and destroyed the Fat Lady’s portrait while trying to enter Gryffindor’s common room.
• Dumbledore ordered the students to remain in the Great Hall overnight and conjured sleeping bags for them.

As the students speculated about how Sirius Black had entered Hogwarts, Ye Ting explained several ways to bypass the castle’s protections. Dumbledore’s search found no trace of Black, while the school tightened its security and kept Harry Potter under close watch.

• Hermione, Cho Chang, and the other students debated how Sirius Black had broken into Hogwarts, and Ye Ting explained that secret passages, house-elves’ Apparition, and Animagus transformations could bypass its defenses.
• Dumbledore searched Hogwarts Castle thoroughly, but the professors found no sign of Black.
• The Fat Lady’s portrait was replaced by Sir Cadogan, whose constant dueling challenges and frequent password changes tormented the Gryffindors.
• Professors patrolled the corridors and kept Harry Potter under stricter supervision, with Percy Weasley following him and Madam Hooch overseeing his Quidditch training.

Snape substituted for Lupin and used a lesson on werewolves to hint at Lupin’s secret, which Hermione deduced with Ye Ting’s help. Ye Ting explained Lupin’s ties to the Marauders and the role of Wolfsbane Potion, then again warned Hermione that the Time-Turner and her extra classes were exhausting her.

• Snape replaced Lupin in Defence Against the Dark Arts, taught the class about werewolves, criticized Lupin, and assigned essays on identifying and killing them.
• Hermione noticed that Lupin’s monthly absences fell around the full moon and connected a Boggart’s white sphere to the same clue, concluding that Lupin was a werewolf.
• Ye Ting told Hermione that Snape had been hinting at Lupin’s secret and described how Lupin, Sirius, James Potter, and Peter Pettigrew had been close friends who bullied Snape.
• Hermione reasoned that Dumbledore trusted Lupin because Snape made him Wolfsbane Potion, and Ye Ting revealed that he sometimes helped prepare it.
• Ye Ting warned Hermione that the Time-Turner and her extra classes were wearing her down, but Hermione said she still wanted to keep trying.

After Ye Ting and his friends drove off the Dementors at the Quidditch match, the Ministry of Magic blamed him for destroying its guards and ordered him to stand trial. Hogwarts students and professors united to prevent the Aurors from taking him away.

• The Dementors invaded the Quidditch pitch, Harry fainted, his Nimbus 2000 was destroyed, and Diggory won the match for Hufflepuff.
• Ye Ting, Hermione, Cho Chang, and Penelope summoned Patronuses to drive away the Dementors, and Ye Ting's dragon Patronus burned several of them; Dumbledore awarded Ravenclaw two hundred points.
• Ye Ting explained that Fudge kept the Dementors at Hogwarts because he needed to capture Sirius Black and restore his reputation.
• Dumbledore confronted Fudge over the Dementors entering Hogwarts, and Fudge apologized before demanding that Hogwarts answer for the injured and destroyed Dementors.
• The Ministry sent Ye Ting a trial summons and two Aurors to take him away, prompting students and professors to rally around him and block the Aurors.

Ye Ting agreed to accompany Dumbledore and two Aurors to the Ministry of Magic, where he revealed his remarkable skill in alchemy and declared that he had come to lodge a complaint, not be judged. The group descended into the Ministry as one Auror feared the confrontation would go badly.

• Dumbledore asked Ye Ting what he thought they should do, and Ye Ting chose to go to the Ministry with the Aurors.
• Dumbledore agreed to accompany Ye Ting and represent Hogwarts, while Hermione and Penelope kissed Ye Ting goodbye and Cho Chang regretted not acting first.
• Ye Ting expanded the telephone booth with an Undetectable Extension Charm, astonishing the Aurors and earning Dumbledore's praise.
• Ye Ting bypassed the booth's usual operation and sent it descending without making a call, explaining that he had manually activated it through alchemy.
• Ye Ting told the Aurors he had come to complain about the Ministry allowing Dementors to attack him and his classmates, leaving one Auror apprehensive.

Ye Ting was escorted to the Ministry of Magic for a hearing after demonstrating how easily its entrance telephone booth could be breached. Dolores Umbridge took over his detention from Scrimgeour, leaving Ye Ting in her custody without his wand.

• Dumbledore persuaded Scrimgeour and the Aurors that Ye Ting had breached the telephone booth to demonstrate its outdated security.
• Scrimgeour recognized Ye Ting and escorted him through the Ministry toward Courtroom Ten.
• A Ministry security wizard confiscated Ye Ting’s purple wand on the Minister’s orders, despite Scrimgeour’s objections.
• Dolores Umbridge confronted Scrimgeour and announced that she would take over detaining Ye Ting.
• Scrimgeour nodded to Ye Ting and Dumbledore, then limped away as Umbridge assumed control.

Ye Ting handed over his Silencing Bell when Umbridge demanded his alchemical items, and she triggered its stored sounds after throwing it away. The Ministry staff blamed the accident on Umbridge’s mishandling, while an alchemy authority praised Ye Ting’s creation.

• Umbridge ordered Ye Ting to surrender his alchemical items after Dumbledore left for the Wizengamot.
• Ye Ting gave an Auror his enchanted pouch, and Umbridge took the Silencing Bell from it.
• The bell silenced Umbridge, and she panicked and threw it down the corridor.
• The bell released its stored sounds in a devastating blast that injured Aurors and damaged the Ministry corridor.
• An elderly alchemy authority declared that the bell contained no Dark magic and praised Ye Ting for creating it.

During the Ministry’s inspection, Umbridge tried to confiscate Ye Ting’s self-made Sun Wheel, which erupted into golden flames and destroyed Hall 957. The Ministry’s reinforcements arrived after the hall had burned to ashes, while the injured Aurors and Umbridge were left facing the aftermath and the Sun Wheel remained under guard.

• Umbridge ordered the Aurors to continue inspecting Ye Ting’s belongings after the gathered wizards and Ministry staff dispersed.
• An Auror found Ye Ting’s Sun Wheel, and Umbridge accused Ye Ting of making and selling an unregistered broom before ordering its confiscation.
• When an Auror lifted the Sun Wheel, it burned his hand, flashed with blinding light, and set him and nearby Aurors ablaze.
• The Sun Wheel flew through the hall as golden flames spread, while Aurors fled and Umbridge was knocked down, trampled, and scalded in the boiling fountain.
• The fire consumed Hall 957 before Ministry reinforcements arrived; dozens of Aurors were injured, Umbridge was badly scalded, and three Aurors guarded the Sun Wheel.