Chapter Summaries

Lucius Malfoy bought Wade’s Streaming Mirror set and its footage for six thousand Galleons to protect Draco, and Wade sold Dumbledore a Sub-Mirror. The chapter left Wade explaining the product’s future features while Dumbledore warned him about the dangers facing its inventor.

• Lucius Malfoy returned to the Headmaster’s Office and offered Wade six thousand Galleons for the mirrors and their footage, and Wade accepted.
• Wade gave Lucius the mirrors and instructed him to transfer the money to his Gringotts vault by Monday.
• Wade told Dumbledore that a Sub-Mirror would normally cost about one hundred Galleons, and Dumbledore bought one.
• Wade explained that the mirrors would eventually offer multiple programs, while Dumbledore asked about the attacks Marchioni had faced.
• Wade suggested offering trade-ins to protect Marchioni, and Dumbledore nodded in approval.

Lucius privately admonished Draco for using the dangerous Entrail-Expelling Curse, then left him in Snape’s care for detention. Outside the castle, Lucius told Narcissa that Draco could not reveal who had taught him the spell, and decided to leave the mystery to Dumbledore.

• Lucius warned Draco that learning dangerous magic without understanding it could have harmed him, and promised to protect him from Vincent’s retaliation.
• Lucius advised Draco to handle conflicts with classmates indirectly and told him to study or play Quidditch instead of acting impulsively.
• Draco left the classroom smiling until Snape assigned him detention processing Potion Ingredients, which made him turn pale.
• Lucius told Narcissa that Draco was unable to identify the spell’s teacher, possibly because of a Magical Contract.
• Lucius decided to leave the investigation to Dumbledore, then stopped himself after mentioning the Dark Lord.

Lucius Malfoy paid for the Crabbe family’s compensation and the Streaming Mirror set, then returned home and punished Dobby. When Lucius threw the mirror box to Dobby, the elf discovered a sock hidden beneath the mirrors.

• Lucius left Hogwarts with Narcissa while Ministry officials crowded around Marchioni to ask when the Streaming Mirror would go on sale.
• Lucius paid Gringotts the Crabbe family’s compensation and 6,000 Galleons for Wade Grey’s mirrors.
• Lucius returned to Malfoy Manor and whipped Dobby for accidentally dripping candle wax on the carpet.
• Lucius ordered Dobby to hide the Streaming Mirror box and went to his study.
• Dobby opened the box and found a pale yellow baby sock hidden beneath the mirrors.

Dobby used the sock to break free from the Malfoy family, then hid his freedom while he planned a safe departure. Ten days later, he reunited with Wade at Lupin’s house, determined to earn his own wages while remaining friends with his benefactor.

• Dobby celebrated receiving the sock and told Wade through the Book of Friends that he was free, then cried alone in the attic while Lucy and the other House-elves left him undisturbed.
• Dobby hid the sock and the Streaming Mirror, deciding to wait for a busy banquet before leaving so Malfoy would not suspect Wade had helped him.
• Wade told Dobby he had prepared money and clean clothes at Remus’s house, prompting Dobby to flee Malfoy Manor and weep in a forest.
• Ten days later, Dobby arrived at Lupin’s house in Wade’s clothes and bandages, refusing the money and declaring he would find paid work on his own.
• Wade offered Dobby help and a job, and Dobby tearfully agreed that they were friends.

During the final exams, Wade arranged with Dumbledore and Fawkes to confront the Basilisk on June 13. Dumbledore defended the plan to the former headmasters, explaining that Tom Riddle could control the Basilisk and that it had already killed Myrtle.

• Michael complained about the A History of Magic exam while Neville asked where Wade had gone.
• Wade asked Dumbledore to help arrange a Basilisk hunt and requested Fawkes's aid in blinding the creature.
• Fawkes agreed, and Wade set the confrontation for June 13, after the Quidditch match.
• Phineas Black objected to destroying what he considered Slytherin's legacy, but Dumbledore recalled that the Basilisk had killed Myrtle fifty years earlier.
• Dumbledore warned that Tom Riddle could control the Basilisk and use it as a weapon, then said he would attend the confrontation himself.

After Gryffindor won the final Quidditch match, Wade’s June Challenge drew the students’ attention with its warning of lethal danger and demanding spell requirements. Harry entered the challenge and discovered that the creature awaiting the contestants was far more terrifying than the rumored spiders.

• Gryffindor defeated Ravenclaw in the final Quidditch match, and Wood celebrated the victory.
• Students found Wade’s June Challenge notice in the Entrance Hall and rushed to qualify for the dangerous event.
• Fred and George frightened Ron with talk of spiders, spreading a rumor that spiders would be the challenge’s opponents.
• Snape tested Harry’s Shield Charm at the crowded registration before letting him enter the classroom.
• Professor Kettleburn offered Harry a chance to withdraw, then pointed out a hidden creature whose yellowish-brown eyes froze Harry with fear.

Harry learned that a Basilisk lived in Hogwarts's pipes and followed Michael to the girls' bathroom, where Wade and Dumbledore were investigating a hidden entrance. Harry opened the entrance with Parseltongue, leaving the way into the Chamber accessible.

• Professor Kettleburn showed Harry a Basilisk painting and warned him that the monster's deadly gaze and venom made it dangerous.
• Harry refused to withdraw from the Challenge, and Michael led him to the girls' bathroom, saying Wade needed his help with the blocked entrance.
• Harry found Wade and Dumbledore examining a snake-marked faucet while Moaning Myrtle watched from a stall.
• Wade asked Harry to speak Parseltongue, and Harry hissed “open,” causing the faucet to blaze with white light.

Wade and Dumbledore entered the Secret Chamber ahead of the other Challengers while Harry learned that Voldemort had awakened the Basilisk and killed Myrtle fifty years earlier. They found the Basilisk’s shed skin and continued toward the creature after Fawkes returned.

• Wade and Dumbledore explained to Harry that Slytherin’s heir had awakened the Basilisk fifty years earlier and that the heir was Tom Riddle, later known as Voldemort.
• Harry realized that Myrtle might have been the person the Basilisk killed, but chose not to tell her.
• Wade and Dumbledore went down the pipe to scout ahead, telling Harry to wait for the other Challengers.
• Wade and Dumbledore walked through the damp tunnel and discovered the Basilisk’s enormous shed skin.
• Wade and Dumbledore left the shed skin behind for the students, and Fawkes returned to Dumbledore amid a flash of red light and a roar.

Fawkes drove the blinded Basilisk into the Chamber of Secrets, where it attacked the students who followed. As Dumbledore helped protect them, he taught Wade an enhanced Slowing Charm, which Wade quickly mastered and used against the Basilisk.

• Fawkes wounded the Basilisk and chased it deeper into the Chamber, while Dumbledore and Wade followed behind.
• The students entered the Chamber, believing Dumbledore had made the Basilisk's gaze harmless, and the Basilisk lunged at the first boy inside.
• Dumbledore slowed the Basilisk with a silent spell, giving nearby students time to rescue the boy and begin fighting back.
• Dumbledore taught Wade the enhanced Slowing Charm, and Wade recognized its connection to a first-year spell and Ancient Runes.
• Wade quickly mastered the charm and slowed the Basilisk long enough for students to strike it, impressing Dumbledore.

As Hogwarts students from all four Houses fought the Basilisk together, Harry and Neville dealt it two fatal wounds and brought it down. Harry recovered after Michael gave him an antidote, while Wade and Dumbledore remained invisible nearby and the students began asking where Wade was.

• Wade and Dumbledore stayed invisible in the Chamber as Wade used the Slowing Charm to hinder the Basilisk and the students formed a united defense.
• Neville stabbed the Basilisk in the neck with Wade’s sword, and Harry drove a severed fang into its eye from his broomstick, killing it.
• Harry collapsed from Basilisk venom, and Michael gave him an antidote that quickly restored him.
• Robert asked Michael where he had obtained the antidote, then wondered why Wade had not joined the fight.
• An unseen voice explained that Wade had stayed out because a judge joining the match would be unfair to the participants.

After the Basilisk was slain, the students left the Secret Chamber with its scales, and Dumbledore revealed how effortlessly he could dismantle and collect the creature. Wade asked how he had done it, and Dumbledore explained that magic was the embodiment of a wizard’s will.

• Wade announced that the Basilisk had been slain and credited Phoenix Fawkes with blinding it.
• Professor McGonagall sent the students back to their Houses after allowing them to have a late-night snack.
• The students secretly collected Basilisk scales as they left, while Professor Snape warned them about poisoning.
• Wade removed a Basilisk fang and stored it in his schoolbag before Dumbledore emerged from his Disillusionment Charm.
• Dumbledore used magic to dismantle and collect the Basilisk, leaving Wade amazed by his power.
• Dumbledore told Wade that magic was the embodiment of a wizard’s will.

Wade reflected on the extraordinary magic Dumbledore had displayed while defeating the Basilisk, realizing how far he still had to go. Hogwarts students celebrated the Secret Chamber challenge, and the chapter ended with Gryffindor winning the House Cup as the school sang about Harry and Neville’s bravery.

• Wade recalled Dumbledore’s ability to shape matter through his will and recognized the vast distance between their magical abilities.
• Hogwarts students celebrated Harry and Neville as heroes, and the Gryffindors sang a song about their fight against the Basilisk.
• Dumbledore left the Secret Chamber open to visitors, while Colin Creevey, Rolf Scamander, and Michael helped students take photographs by the Basilisk’s shed skin.
• Snape focused on studying the Basilisk’s remains, and Myrtle enjoyed the crowds visiting her territory.
• Marchioni sold snake-shaped Magic Golem Pets, and the Daily Prophet published photographs of the Basilisk’s shed skin.
• Dumbledore announced the end-of-term House points, Gryffindor won the House Cup, and Goyle nervously sang along until Malfoy ordered him to stop.

After earning top marks, Harry learned that he had to spend part of the summer with the Dursleys to preserve the protective magic Lily had left him. As the students prepared to leave Hogwarts, Wade advised Harry to hide a page from the Book of Friends so his friends could rescue him if the Dursleys mistreated him.

• Wade placed first in every subject, and the SSC members discussed their summer travel plans over breakfast.
• Dumbledore summoned Harry and told him he had to return to the Dursleys for at least part of the summer because Lily's protection depended on his staying with Petunia each year.
• Harry returned to the Great Hall in despair and told Ron and the others that he had to go back to the Dursleys.
• Wade told Harry to hide a page from the Book of Friends and send a message if the Dursleys locked him up.

On the Hogwarts Express, Wade left his friends to investigate a moving black dot marked on a piece of parchment, transforming into a peregrine falcon to escape through the window. His friends realized he was an unregistered Animagus and worried about what danger he might face.

• Cedric thanked Wade for his History of Magic notes and offered to help him in the future.
• Students visited Wade to discuss holiday invitations and business opportunities, while Michael and the others grew tired of fielding requests to find him.
• Wade noticed a black dot moving across a piece of parchment in the Book of Friends and told his friends he had to leave secretly.
• Wade transformed into a peregrine falcon, took his belongings and the parchment, and flew out of the train window.
• Ryan realized Wade was an Animagus, and Michael told him to keep Wade's unregistered transformation secret.

Wade tracked Peter Pettigrew to a fishing boat and attacked him after catching him stealing supplies. Peter transformed into a rat to evade Wade’s spells, but blood spread through the sea as a shark approached.

• Wade followed Peter Pettigrew’s location using the Tracking Parchment and flew over the sea as a peregrine falcon.
• Wade spotted a fishing boat and watched Peter transform from a rat into a man to steal food and fresh water.
• Wade immobilized Peter and dragged him over the boat’s rail into the sea.
• Wade dove in with a Bubble-Head Charm and attacked Peter with a series of spells as Peter tried to escape in rat form.
• Peter’s blood spread through the water, and a shark swam toward them.

Wade killed Peter Pettigrew after tracking his escape from Azkaban, then returned to the Hogwarts Express and told his friends Peter would not appear again. On a fishing boat, Gilderoy Lockhart and Garr realized Peter had died before they could reach land.

• Wade watched sharks devour Peter Pettigrew’s body, then flew back to the Hogwarts Express.
• Wade told Michael, Theo, and Ryan that Peter had escaped from prison and that he had made sure Peter would not return.
• The train arrived at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, where Wade saw the Grays and a man with a cane and a spinning magical eye.
• Gilderoy Lockhart and Garr crawled out of the fishing boat’s cabin and saw that Peter was gone.
• Lockhart asked Garr whether he had seen who killed Peter.

Lockhart and Garr escaped Azkaban with Peter Pettigrew, who promised to lead them to the Dark Lord. After Peter died aboard a fishing boat, Lockhart and Garr hid from the fishermen and set out toward an uncertain life in Muggle society.

• Lockhart freed Garr, a vampire who transformed into a bat, and the two escaped their cells while Lockhart used Obliviation on other prisoners and Dementors.
• Lockhart and Garr found Peter Pettigrew in a secure cell and freed him after he promised the Dark Lord would protect them.
• Peter refused to release the imprisoned Death Eaters, fearing his former companions, and the three fugitives escaped Azkaban together.
• Garr flew to find a fishing boat, but Peter died after they boarded it, leaving Lockhart and Garr without a guide to the Dark Lord.
• Garr advised them to hide in Muggle society and avoid using magic, and Lockhart agreed as they hid aboard the boat and planned to Obliviate the fishermen.

Fiona and her friends held a funeral for Millie, while Moody watched the road and warned Wade about possible attackers. Wade then read about Peter Pettigrew’s escape from Azkaban with Lockhart and Garr and wondered where the two fugitives had been when Peter died.

• Ferdinand delivered a eulogy at Millie’s funeral, and Fiona cried as she remembered her hamster.
• Moody mistook a cyclist’s delayed appearance from behind a truck for evidence of an attack and warned Wade to stay alert.
• Wade told Moody that Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons had consisted mostly of stolen stories and student plays.
• Moody and Wade discussed the Daily Prophet’s reports that Peter Pettigrew, Lockhart, and Garr had escaped from Azkaban.
• Wade questioned what Garr could do and wondered where Garr and Lockhart had been when he found Peter.

Wade read messages from his friends, including updates about the Streaming Mirrors, Harry’s holiday, and Professor Murray’s invitation to see ancient Alchemy items. Dumbledore invited Wade to witness the destruction of Slytherin’s Locket on July 19th, along with Harry, Sirius, and Kreacher.

• Moody warned Wade that Garr might be a Wild Wizard whose untrained magic could be dangerous.
• Wade replied to Marchioni, who planned to sell Streaming Mirrors in seven countries with a mix of Wizarding and Muggle programs.
• Professor Murray invited Wade to see ancient Alchemy items, and Wade accepted.
• Harry told Wade that Sirius and Lupin were protecting him at the Dursleys’ home while an Auror watched over the area.
• Dumbledore told Wade that he planned to destroy Slytherin’s Locket on July 19th and invited him to attend with Harry, Sirius, and Kreacher.

Wade spent the morning at home with his parents and checked whether the Golems had noticed anyone suspicious nearby. He left for the day as Ferdinand watched him fly away as a peregrine falcon and wondered how magic could change someone’s weight so drastically.

• Wade woke early and passed the enchanted mirror, which praised his pajamas and recommended an outfit.
• He reflected on how the three Golems handled the household chores and kept his non-magical parents safe from the risks of hiring House-elves.
• Coco told Wade that Alastor Moody had damaged a bicycle with Diffindo the previous night without attracting Muggles’ attention.
• Wade finished breakfast, said goodbye to Ferdinand, and went upstairs to change before leaving.
• Ferdinand watched Wade fly away as a peregrine falcon and asked Coco how someone so heavy could become such a small bird.