Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore explained to Harry why he had delayed reviving Darren and showed him a memory revealing how much Darren had known about Harry’s Obscurus and how he had offered his life to save Harry. The chapter ended with Dumbledore admitting that he could have stopped Darren from dying but chose not to intervene.

• Dumbledore told Harry that Darren had chosen to let Voldemort kill him and that he had delayed reviving him because Darren might still feel disgusted by his bloodline.
• Harry asked about the Deathly Hallows, and Dumbledore confessed that he had hidden his past with Gellert because he feared Darren and Harry would despise him.
• Dumbledore showed Harry a memory in which Darren learned that Voldemort’s soul was inside Harry and asked Dumbledore to erase his memories.
• In the memory, Darren offered his life and soul if that was what it took to keep Harry alive.
• Dumbledore told Harry that Darren had likely considered transferring Harry’s soul into his own body, then admitted he could have stopped Darren’s chosen death but had not.

Dumbledore showed Harry a memory revealing that Voldemort had spared Darren, treated him with care, and altered his memories after their fifth-year battle. Harry feared Darren could not bring himself to kill Voldemort, while Dumbledore asked how they could bring Darren back; the chapter ended with Snape entering and collapsing at Darren’s lifeless body.

• Dumbledore told Harry he had let Darren go because he believed Darren wanted to die and might refuse to kill Voldemort.
• Dumbledore showed Harry a memory of Voldemort holding back in a battle with fifth-year Darren, then giving him a potion and altering his memories before sending him back to Grimmauld Place.
• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort had treated Darren with care and feared Darren might save him, while Harry concluded Darren could not bring himself to kill Voldemort.
• Harry suggested erasing Darren’s memories of Voldemort, but Dumbledore said Darren’s skill with memory magic would make him notice anything missing.
• Dumbledore asked Harry how they could bring Darren back to life, then Snape entered the office and fell to his knees beside Darren’s lifeless body.

After Snape learned Darren could still be saved, Harry repeatedly explained what had happened while the others gathered. Snape proposed magical contracts to keep Darren alive, and Hermione suggested binding him through marriage contracts with many people, though the group wondered how Darren would react.

• Snape begged Dumbledore to save Darren, and Dumbledore left Harry to explain the situation to him.
• Harry recounted Darren's actions and his despair as Hermione, Ron, Luna, Ginny, Fleur, Tonks, Kingsley, and others arrived.
• Snape explained that Life Share, Master-Servant, and Marriage Contracts could prevent Darren from choosing death.
• Snape said a Marriage Contract could be dissolved at the cost of one-tenth of a person's life, but Hermione proposed that many women contract with Darren so he would not risk harming them all.
• Harry and Ron doubted Darren would agree, while Mr. Weasley wondered if Darren might be pleased before someone interrupted him.

Harry and the others agreed to use Hermione’s Marriage Contract plan to make Darren feel responsible for others and keep him alive. Dumbledore supported the plan, admitting he was willing to risk Darren’s anger because he could not bear to lose him.

• Mrs. Weasley agreed to the plan despite worrying that it would cause Darren pain, and Kingsley held a vote that everyone, including Harry, supported.
• Harry said he would ask Dumbledore for help and told Hermione to make sure the girls entered a Marriage Contract with Darren only if they willingly agreed.
• Hermione, Ginny, and the others kissed Darren and left to discuss the plan with the girls.
• Harry explained Hermione’s Marriage Contract idea to Dumbledore, who believed Darren’s responsibility for many lives could keep him alive.
• Dumbledore confessed that he wanted Darren to live even if Darren blamed him, and apologized as he wept beside Darren.

Dumbledore explained that the Resurrection Stone could let Snape and Harry reach Darren’s soul, and they entered it with him. At King’s Cross Station, they found Darren with Voldemort, but Darren seemed to have lost all reason.

• Snape begged Dumbledore to save Darren, and Harry agreed to help.
• Dumbledore explained how the Resurrection Stone could hold a soul and guide it back to life.
• Dumbledore, Snape, and Harry used the Resurrection Stone and lost consciousness.
• Harry awoke in a foggy place that became King’s Cross Station and found Darren holding a suffering child.
• The child transformed into Voldemort, who led Darren by the hand while Darren remained blank and unresponsive.

Dumbledore explained that Darren’s soul was sealed inside the Resurrection Stone and that defeating Voldemort might bring him back. After revealing that he and Harry were alive in the Stone’s space, Dumbledore faced Voldemort, who ultimately asked Darren to remove his bloodline if he returned to life.

• Dumbledore told Harry that Darren’s body had died and his soul had sealed itself away, leaving defeat of Voldemort as their only apparent way to bring him back.
• Snape found Voldemort with Darren, seized Darren, and questioned Voldemort about what he had done to him.
• Dumbledore and Harry appeared, and Voldemort accused Dumbledore of arranging his death and destroying his Obscurus.
• Dumbledore revealed that the space inside the Resurrection Stone was prepared to hold Darren’s soul until he could rescue him, and said he did not know why Voldemort had appeared there.
• Voldemort stopped Harry from taking Darren away and asked Darren to remove his bloodline if he came back to life.

Dumbledore reunited with Ariana in the hall, where she found Darren alive but seemingly vacant and worried about caring for him. Voldemort argued with Dumbledore about love and his restored soul as Dumbledore remained in the hall.

• Voldemort told Dumbledore and Harry to take Darren and the sleeping girl away, then revealed that the girl was Ariana.
• Dumbledore called for Ariana, who woke in a small carriage and embraced him when she saw he was alive.
• Ariana told Dumbledore how Darren had tried to die, then found Darren standing blankly beside Snape.
• Ariana took Darren's hand, and Darren blinked at her while ignoring Harry.
• Dumbledore explained that Darren instinctively recognized Ariana because she had been inside his soul, while Voldemort denied that he had learned to love.
• Voldemort told Dumbledore to leave, but Dumbledore sat down on the hall floor.

Dumbledore explained that Darren carried the founders’ bloodlines because Voldemort had brought powerful ancestral blood to Malfoy Manor, where it mixed with Harry’s blood and magic. He revealed that Darren was a split-off part of Harry’s soul, made whole by his love for Harry, and the chapter ended with Harry asking why Dumbledore had told them.

• Dumbledore said his explanation of Darren’s origins involved the founders and asked Voldemort to clarify the bloodline connection.
• Voldemort recalled finding powerful blood in the Slytherin Ancestral Home and bringing it to Malfoy Manor, where Lily Potter was also brought after a battle.
• Harry asked how Darren could have a soul, and Dumbledore concluded that Darren was part of Harry because Harry’s soul had split in two that night.
• Dumbledore told Harry that Darren’s love had made his split-off soul whole, and Harry cried as he understood how deeply Darren cherished him.
• Harry asked Dumbledore why he had revealed the truth.

Dumbledore told Harry that Darren was his independent younger brother and that Darren’s death would not kill Harry, then helped return Harry and Snape to Darren. Half a month later, Darren was recovering in the Hospital Wing and read Rita Skeeter’s flattering account of their interview.

• Dumbledore explained to Harry that Darren’s soul was complete, that Harry must treat him well, and that Darren’s death would not affect Harry.
• Ariana took Voldemort with her as Dumbledore and the others returned, and Harry and Snape found Darren breathing faintly.
• Dumbledore discovered that thirty or forty women were waiting to enter Marriage Contracts with Darren, while Hermione said she only wanted him to live.
• Half a month later, Darren read Rita Skeeter’s newspaper interview, which portrayed him as a humble, grieving hero despite his private threats to her.

Darren’s interview made him more famous than Harry, while Hermione misread his words as proof of his hidden suffering and resolved to protect him. Five years later, Darren relaxed on the beach as Ginny and Carol discussed Hermione’s busy work as Minister for Magic, and he settled down to calm Tom within his soul.

• Darren read Rita Skeeter’s interview, which praised his sense of responsibility and humility, and secretly enjoyed the dramatic photograph he had arranged.
• Darren learned that Peeves had anonymously written The Potter Brothers, helping make him more popular than Harry.
• Hermione brought Darren water, worried that he was suffering, and embraced him after he reassured her that he was happy.
• Hermione decided she would become Minister for Magic and drive the Centaurs out to protect Darren from their supposed mistreatment.
• Five years later, Carol brought Darren news about Hermione’s work, while Ginny invited him to join her; Darren stayed on the beach to calm Tom inside his soul, and Ginny kissed his cheek.

Darren reassured Voldemort that he would keep living, while hiding that he had urged his loved ones to have children because their constant visits disrupted his life. Ten years later, Darren was bored with his peaceful life at Hogwarts, and his daughter Daisy worried about his emotional state.

• Ginny covered Darren with a blanket and left, after which Darren warned Voldemort to hide his identity from her and the wider Wizarding World.
• Voldemort complained that Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Snape could publicly add their names to Darren’s while he could not, and Darren explained that Voldemort’s name would cause panic.
• Voldemort questioned whether Darren urged his friends to have children because he wanted to die, and Darren insisted that he would persevere and keep living.
• Ten years later, Darren played video games in the Hogwarts Headmaster’s Office while his wives worked, and he lamented that he could find no villain to make life interesting.
• Daisy entered the office, saw Darren sighing, and worried about his emotions because her mothers had taught her to watch over him.

Daisy saw Darren’s concern for Muggles in the newspaper as proof of his kindness and encouraged him to make a potion that could turn Muggles into wizards. At Hogwarts, Polly Flinders was called for sorting and nervously noticed Snape watching Darren.

• Daisy remembered how people had hurt Darren and resolved to protect him.
• Darren asked Daisy whether a potion that made Muggles into wizards could bring people together, after reading about a Muggle war.
• Daisy mistook Darren’s excitement about the idea for compassion, hugged him, and promised that she and the others would help.
• Polly Flinders noticed a man at the teachers’ table secretly looking toward Darren and suspected he was Snape.
• Professor McGonagall called Polly’s name, and Polly headed to the Sorting Hat while thinking about recipes.

Polly was sorted into Hufflepuff and watched Darren Potter get sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. Darren appeared frightened and upset, but Polly suspected he was deliberately hiding how clever he was and felt relieved that he was not an ordinary transmigrator.

• Polly asked Mister Sorting Hat for Hufflepuff and was sorted there, where Hannah comforted her.
• Harry Potter was sorted into Gryffindor, and Hannah wished he had joined Hufflepuff.
• Polly and Hannah admired Darren Potter as Professor McGonagall called his name.
• The Sorting Hat placed Darren Potter in Slytherin, and he looked toward Harry with tearful eyes.
• Polly decided Darren was pretending to be frightened and concluded that he was smarter than she was.

Becky Greengrass recounted her hatred of both Muggle-borns and Pure-bloods, her family’s submission to Voldemort, and the years she and her sisters spent in hiding. At Hogwarts, Darren saved her from a Killing Curse and survived it, leaving Becky shaken as she warned him to keep the incident secret and gave him thirty thousand Galleons.

• Becky recalled watching her parents submit to the Dark Lord and later flee with her and her sisters after he fell into trouble.
• Becky, Daphne, and Astoria hid in the Muggle world until the Daily Prophet reported that the Greengrass ancestral estate would be auctioned off.
• At sixteen, Becky met Darren after Malfoy had been provoking her, and she decided she might befriend the boy despite his rejection.
• An attacker cast a Killing Curse at Becky, and Darren stepped in front of it, taking the curse and falling into her arms.
• Becky discovered that Darren had survived, abandoned her idea of sending him to the family laboratory, and warned him to conceal what happened.
• Becky gave Darren thirty thousand Galleons as payment for saving her life.

Becky Greengrass learned that the little boy had donated her Galleons to Longbottom and secretly prevented the donation from being traced back to her. At the start of term, she pulled him onto the Hogwarts Express and protected him in her compartment while pretending she meant to have him taught a lesson.

• Becky interrogated the attackers who had tried to curse her, beat them, and took their wallets to add to the boy’s Galleons, but discovered he had already withdrawn the money.
• Becky learned that a Thestral from St. Mungo's had withdrawn the Galleons and overheard that the boy had donated money to Longbottom.
• Becky forced Veritaserum on the receptionist and her colleague, made them forget the donation, and cast Obliviate on the receptionist while leaving her a memory of the boy appearing.
• At King's Cross Station, Becky saw the boy arrive with another boy and hauled him onto the Hogwarts Express when he ran back outside instead of boarding.
• Becky took the boy into her compartment, stopped the other passengers from cursing or drawing wands on him, then pretended not to understand and told them to keep trying to teach him a lesson.

Becky Greengrass reflected on how Zhuang Dong had saved her from a Werewolf and tried to distance herself from her feelings for him. At the Sorting, Bulstrode realized she cared about Zhuang Dong and threatened to expose her unless she pretended to date him, but Becky refused, citing their different backgrounds and her family’s expectations.

• Becky killed the Werewolf after Zhuang Dong stepped in front of her, then recognized his admiration for her and warned him away.
• Becky watched Zhuang Dong at the Sorting and told Bulstrode that he had merely been caught up in the Werewolf attack, concealing that he had saved her.
• Bulstrode mocked Becky for her interest in Zhuang Dong and threatened to reveal it unless she claimed to be dating him.
• Becky rejected Bulstrode’s proposal and insisted that she could never be with Zhuang Dong because he was Muggle-born and her family would not allow it.

Becky Greengrass learned that the boy who had caught her attention was Darren Potter, Harry Potter’s younger brother, and watched him be sorted into Slytherin. She pulled the upset Darren along with her and told him to prepare for the prefect selection tournament, even though he did not know magic.

• Bursd told Becky Greengrass that the boy was Muggle-born, then learned his surname was Potter and realized he was Harry Potter’s younger brother.
• Darren Potter was sorted into Slytherin, stared at Harry Potter without receiving the acknowledgment he wanted, and sat beside Malfoy with Cassandra on his other side.
• Becky grabbed Darren as the students were leaving and brought him along, wondering whether he had subconsciously chosen Slytherin because of her.
• Becky told Darren about the prefect selection tournament and advised him to use his fists since he did not know magic.

Becky Greengrass’s feelings for the Potter brat grew as she watched him endure punishment, injury, and rumors during their years at Hogwarts. By the time she heard Harry Potter had been petrified, she worried about him but stopped outside the Head of House’s office, unsure what right she had to ask.

• Becky watched the Potter brat leave the Slytherin table to talk with Harry Potter, then carried out the Head of House’s punishment by using the Screaming Curse on him.
• After the others left, Becky helped the Potter brat up, and he concealed the truth about her actions from Cassandra.
• Bulstrode warned Becky to accept his threat and pretend or stay away from the Potter brat, so Becky resolved to keep her distance.
• At the end of term, Becky found the Potter brat in the Hospital Wing after he had suffered the Cruciatus Curse, and she secretly kissed his forehead.
• In their second year, Becky watched the Potter brat get sent to the Hospital Wing after a magical outburst and toasted the new year with Bulstrode.
• In her seventh year, Becky worried when she heard Colin had seen Harry Potter petrified, but she stopped outside the Head of House’s office when she saw Cassandra inside.

Becky Greengrass watched Darren Potter’s bloody ordeal and tried to convince herself she had moved on, but seeing him again stirred her feelings and made her suspect her parents were among the Death Eaters. She drafted a letter asking them about it, then destroyed it and returned to keeping order in the Slytherin Common Room.

• Becky searched for Potter, watched McGonagall carry him away, and told Bulstrode that he was alive and she no longer cared about him.
• Bulstrode showed Becky a Remembrall recording of the blood-covered Potter, and Becky trembled as she watched.
• Becky saw Potter enter the Common Room and leave exhausted, then wondered why the Death Eaters had targeted him.
• Becky recognized two Death Eaters who looked like her parents and wrote a letter asking whether they had taken part, but crumpled it without sending it.
• Becky ordered the Slytherin students to stop watching Remembralls and began reading “Ministry of Magic Unspoken Rules.”

Snape watched Harry invite Darren Potter to eat with Gryffindor and realized that Slytherin’s rules would make Darren pay for accepting. He prepared to punish Darren, while Quirrell tried to dissuade him.

• Snape watched Harry and Darren at breakfast and readied his wand in case Harry tried to attack Darren.
• Snape realized Harry was inviting Darren to eat with Gryffindor, which Slytherins would treat as betrayal.
• Snape understood that Darren would be punished by the Slytherins if he accepted, and that stopping them could get Darren expelled from Slytherin.
• Snape said he needed to prepare Potter’s punishment, and Quirrell stammered that such harsh treatment was unnecessary.