Chapter Summaries

Roy and Tiago fought in a parking lot while both were impaired by poison and medication, until Dia stunned Roy and helped Tiago escape. The Heart of Africa remained clutched in Roy’s hand, leaving Tiago unaware that the diamond had not escaped with him.

• Tiago was shocked that Roy had tracked him down, and Roy claimed he had burned the Muggles blocking his way.
• The nerve toxin weakened Roy while Tiago’s medicine wore off, leaving Tiago helpless with uncontrollable laughter.
• Roy and Tiago charged at each other with a dagger and suitcases, but neither managed to injure the other.
• As Roy moved to stab Tiago, Dia hit Roy with a Stunning Spell and warned Tiago that the Ministry of Magic had sealed off the area.
• Dia helped Tiago escape in an invisible flying car with the suitcase, while Roy lay unconscious with the Heart of Africa in his hand.

The Ministry of Magic detained Hogwarts students and parents after Tiago’s attack caused a major breach of secrecy at King’s Cross, and Cornelius Fudge struggled to control the angry crowd. Dumbledore and McGonagall restored order before Roy arrived with evidence linking Tiago to the attack.

• The Ministry sealed King’s Cross, evacuated unaffected Muggles, and detained those connected to the magical station while postponing Hogwarts’s start of term.
• Cornelius Fudge tried to flee the increasingly furious waiting hall, but Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall stopped him and led him back inside.
• The detained students and parents erupted into arguments and fighting until Professor McGonagall shouted them into silence and restored order.
• Dumbledore asked where Roy Smith was, and Roy entered the hall supported by Aisling, with Snape following behind.
• Roy said attackers had ambushed him with neurotoxin and again in the parking lot, then showed everyone Tiago’s Fly Head.

Aisling found Roy unconscious in the sealed King's Cross parking lot after losing Tiago's accomplice, and woke him by slapping him. Roy remained paralyzed by poison, while Aisling secured the diamond and waited for help with him.

• Aisling followed Tiago's accomplice through the station but lost him in the crowd, then searched the parking lot and found Roy unconscious.
• Aisling noticed Roy had been hit with a Stunning Spell and poisoned, called Snape on her communicator, and slapped Roy until he woke.
• Roy checked that the diamond was still in his left hand and asked Aisling to secure it and call Dumbledore.
• Aisling put the diamond in her bag and told Roy that Snape and Ministry reinforcements had arrived while the station remained sealed off.
• Roy warned Aisling that her skirt was exposed as she crouched beside him, and she punched him in the right eye.

Roy recovered in his St. Mungo's room after fighting an attacker who sought the magical diamond, while Aisling stayed with him and offered to secure it in a Grindelwald family vault. He revealed that he had used a newly developed Phasing Charm during the attack, and Aisling left him to rest.

• Roy asked Aisling why she was at the hospital instead of helping question the students and parents still at the train station.
• Aisling explained that she had rejected prophetic visions after learning Occlumency, and she refused Roy's requests to identify his attacker.
• Aisling offered to store Roy's diamond in a protected vault built by her granduncle Grindelwald, and Roy agreed.
• Aisling questioned how Roy had escaped the crowd and retrieved the diamond, and Roy said the Ancient Magic in him interfered with her prophecies.
• Roy told Aisling that he had developed a Phasing Charm, and she left the room after telling him to rest.

Roy returned to the Hogwarts Express after recovering from the station attack, while the Ministry dismissed the incident as a prank and failed to recover his luggage. He reunited with his friends, confirmed the diamonds were secure, and arrived at Hogwarts to begin the 1990–1991 school year.

• Roy read the Ministry’s statement about the station incident and complained that his stolen luggage was unlikely to be recovered.
• Fred and George joined Roy in his compartment, teased him about the attack, and borrowed Cedric’s homework to copy.
• Aisling visited Roy and confirmed with a gesture that the diamonds had been hidden in the vault beneath Grindelwald’s castle.
• Roy spent the train journey browsing Wizard Cards while Fred and George copied homework and Cedric studied.
• Roy, Cedric, Fred, and George rode a Thestral-drawn carriage to Hogwarts in the cold rain, and Roy began the new school year.

Roy raced through the rain to Hogwarts after falling into mud, while Professor McGonagall waited for him to receive his Order of Merlin honor. He finally crashed into the Great Hall with Cedric, Fred, and George, disrupting the ceremony before it began.

• Roy and Cedric, Fred, and George sprinted through the muddy courtyard after Roy joked that the last to arrive was gay.
• Roy tripped into a muddy flowerbed, and Cedric, Fred, and George ran ahead while chanting that Roy was gay.
• Professor McGonagall waited anxiously for Roy as the Order of Merlin guests gathered in the Great Hall for his award ceremony.
• McGonagall dried Cedric, Fred, and George and learned from them that Roy had fallen into a mud pit.
• Roy charged toward the Great Hall with his face and clothes caked in mud, then crashed into Cedric, Fred, and George at the entrance.

Roy Smee and three companions crashed into the Great Hall covered in mud, disrupting the ceremony held in Roy’s honor. Professor McGonagall dragged them away, and Dumbledore restarted the celebration with music.

• Roy Smee and three mud-covered companions burst into the Great Hall in a human pyramid, splattering the new carpet.
• The students and guests reacted with shock and amusement as Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout struggled to handle the spectacle.
• Dumbledore introduced Roy to the elderly witch beside him as a gifted student, despite Roy’s mud-covered state.
• Professor McGonagall hauled Roy and the others toward the underground classrooms while Charlie cleaned the mud from the entrance.
• Dumbledore invited the orchestra to play and urged the guests to keep dancing.

Roy returned to the Great Hall for the Sorting Ceremony, where the Sorting Hat embarrassed him with a song assembled from memes Mia had taught it. He then received an Order of Merlin First Class for his bravery during the kidnapping incident, while Aisling watched from the audience and vowed to earn an honor of her own.

• Roy and the other three students quietly returned to the Great Hall as the Sorting Hat sang a bizarre song about him.
• The Sorting Hat's song revealed that Mia had taught it Roy's favorite strange songs, leaving Roy mortified in front of the school.
• The first-years were sorted, and Cho Chang joined Ravenclaw, disappointing Cedric.
• Dumbledore announced that Roy's Order of Merlin honor had been upgraded from Second Class to First Class for his bravery during the kidnapping incident.
• Roy accepted the award amid cheers and flashing cameras, while Aisling envied the attention and vowed to receive an honor herself.

Roy received the Order of Merlin and delivered a prepared acceptance speech before publicly declaring war on the attackers who had targeted him at King's Cross. He returned to a cheering Hufflepuff audience, while Dumbledore and Aisling regretted having encouraged him to answer the reporter.

• Madam Cassandra presented Roy with his medal, and Roy officially joined the Order of Merlin.
• Roy read Professor McGonagall's formal acceptance speech and thanked his teachers and classmates.
• Roy answered routine questions from reporters before one asked about the King's Cross attack.
• After Dumbledore and Aisling nodded to him, Roy accused Fly Head and his followers of attacking him and declared war on them.
• The Hufflepuffs cheered Roy's speech, while Dumbledore and Aisling covered their eyes in dismay.

Roy, Aisling, and Dumbledore debated how to protect the Horned Serpent Gem and Mia from the attackers, who had shown themselves willing to ignore the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Dumbledore decided they would have to use a plan he had prepared for Tom, though he did not reveal what it was.

• Roy and Aisling argued over his confrontation with the attackers before Dumbledore redirected them to discuss what to do next.
• Aisling proposed claiming that the gem was in her family's vault, but Roy refused because the attackers might target her.
• Aisling suggested that Dumbledore claim the gem, and he explained that it was needed to power a necklace that could treat Mia's Obscurus.
• Roy said they needed to draw out and kill the attackers to keep Mia safe, while Dumbledore worried their escalating attacks could threaten Hogwarts and the British Wizarding World.
• Dumbledore considered using a move he had prepared for Tom and told Roy and Aisling that they had no choice but to use it.

Tiago and Dia discussed Roy’s public declaration of war and Tiago’s failure to discover how Roy had taken the diamond. At the Scamander home, Mia saw Roy’s declaration making the front page of the Daily Prophet, while she still knew nothing of the recent events.

• Tiago read the newspaper and mocked Dumbledore’s reaction to Roy’s speech.
• Tiago admitted he still could not work out how Roy had taken the diamond or escaped the crowd.
• Dia left Tiago’s house to teach a class attended by Sir Smee, telling Tiago to enchant items for their planned return.
• Mia saw Roy’s photograph and read the Daily Prophet headline about his declaration of war on terrorists.

Roy and the Hufflepuff and Slytherin students attended their first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson with Professor Dia Jobana, who announced a new Dueling Club and demonstrated her practical approach to teaching. Aisling showed off her Disarming Charm while Roy missed most of the lesson, and he ended by anticipating their next duel.

• Roy and Aisling led their housemates to the third-floor activity hall, where the two groups exchanged their familiar disdainful greetings.
• Professor Dia Jobana introduced herself and announced that Hogwarts would organize a new Dueling Club.
• Dia warned students not to use Dark Magic on fellow students and asked those who knew the Disarming Charm to raise their hands.
• Dia called on Aisling to demonstrate, and Aisling disarmed her with a controlled spell, earning ten points for Slytherin.
• Roy realized he had missed most of the lesson and privately vowed to show Aisling what he could do in the Dueling Club.

Professor Jobana called Roy to her office after class and asked for his help with the curse on Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts position. A golden-haired Golden Retriever appeared beside her as she made the request.

• Professor Jobana ended class after teaching practical spell techniques and told the students they would practice casting at the weekend Dueling Club.
• Roy learned that the Dueling Club would meet every weekend and that its House tournament would use a points-based league format.
• Professor Jobana stopped Roy after class and invited him to her office.
• Roy met a golden-haired Golden Retriever in Professor Jobana’s office and reacted excitedly to the dog.
• Professor Jobana reminded Roy of the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position and asked him to help her with it.

Professor Jobana recruited Roy to search Hogwarts for magical objects left behind by Voldemort, lending him an Egyptian Magic-Tracking Device. After Roy left, she and her golden retriever discussed planting traces for him to find while keeping Dumbledore from uncovering their plan.

• Professor Jobana asked Roy to help investigate the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, and Roy admitted he knew little about curses.
• Professor Jobana explained that she wanted Roy to locate objects Voldemort had left at Hogwarts so she could trace and dispel his magic.
• Professor Jobana gave Roy a Magic-Tracking Device and told him to keep their search secret.
• Roy eagerly took the device and left for class, promising to complete the mission.
• Professor Jobana and her golden retriever discussed whether Roy would find the traces they had deliberately left and agreed to keep them hidden from Dumbledore.

Roy attended Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class and then examined the machine Professor Dia had lent him to search for Voldemort’s hidden objects. He realized he needed a way into the Slytherin common room to find a magical trace to scan, and began considering how to get inside.

• Roy arrived at Transfiguration class on time, but Professor McGonagall assigned him a front-row seat to keep him apart from the other troublemakers.
• Roy completed the second-year transfiguration almost instantly and earned one Hufflepuff point.
• Professor McGonagall lectured Roy after class about behaving properly as a knight, and Roy promised to behave before hurrying back to his dormitory.
• Roy spread out the machine Professor Dia had lent him and considered how to use it to locate objects Voldemort had hidden at Hogwarts.
• Roy wondered whether Voldemort had left something in the Slytherin common room and began planning how to get inside.

Roy prepared a stealth suit and night-vision goggles so he could search the Slytherin Common Room without being recognized. After testing his low-frequency noise generator, he set out after midnight to begin the infiltration.

• Roy decided to sneak into the Slytherin Common Room at night rather than risk being recognized in disguise during the day.
• He built a Low-Frequency Black Noise Generator and tested it by silently appearing behind Tonks in the Hufflepuff common room.
• Roy assembled crude night-vision goggles and dressed in a black trench coat, naming his new look “Undertaker.”
• After midnight, Roy crept to the entrance of the Slytherin Common Room, activated his gear, and prepared to infiltrate.

Aisling worried that Roy had outpaced her and pushed herself to study for the coming Hogwarts Duelling League. Meanwhile, Roy secretly searched the Slytherin exhibition room for objects Voldemort had left behind, unaware that Aisling had found him.

• Aisling fell asleep in the Slytherin Common Room while clutching rare books she had been studying.
• Aisling reflected on Roy's growing reputation and resolved to preserve her dignity when they faced each other in the duelling arena.
• Roy entered the common room under cover of a noise-dampening device and searched its treasures with night-vision goggles.
• Roy began examining the exhibits in the Slytherin exhibition room for traces of magic.
• Aisling silently appeared at the exhibition room entrance with her wand, while Roy remained unaware of her.

Aisling entered the Slytherin collection room to confront a supposed thief, unaware that it was Roy searching the artifacts. She chased and unmasked him in Hogwarts, where Dumbledore found them in the corridor.

• Aisling overcame her fear of the strange noises and entered the collection room, determined to face the thief.
• Roy searched Slytherin's artifacts for items connected to Voldemort but found no useful leads.
• Aisling struck at Roy with spells, and he fled as she pursued him through Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore blocked Roy in a corridor, and Aisling tackled him, disarmed him, and removed his mask.
• Aisling recognized Roy and angrily demanded to know why it was him again, while Dumbledore wondered what the young people were up to.

After Roy sneaked into Slytherin’s common room and disrupted the school, Dumbledore punished him and sent him away with a heavy loss of House points and two months of detention. Aisling left the office pleased, laughing at Roy’s despair.

• Dumbledore questioned Roy about sneaking into Slytherin’s common room and keeping the school awake.
• Dumbledore deducted one hundred points from Hufflepuff, upsetting Professor Sprout and delighting Snape and Aisling.
• Dumbledore sentenced Roy to two months of detention with Filch on Monday and Thursday nights.
• Roy left the Headmaster’s Office dejected, while Aisling followed him out.
• Aisling burst into laughter at Roy’s despair.

After losing Hufflepuff a hundred points, Roy endured his classmates’ teasing and served detention with Fred and George in the Trophy Room. There, they discovered that Tom Marvolo Riddle had received the Hogwarts Special Contribution Award, and Roy realized he had found a breakthrough involving Voldemort.

• Roy apologized to the Hufflepuff students for losing a hundred house points, and they teased him about sneaking into Slytherin rather than seriously blaming him.
• Roy earned back the lost points by excelling in class, then joined Fred and George for detention cleaning trophies without magic.
• Fred and George found Roy’s Special Contribution Award trophy and read its inscription about his bravery in a kidnapping case.
• The three searched earlier award records and found Tom Marvolo Riddle’s trophy from June 1942.
• Roy recognized Riddle’s other name as Voldemort and told Fred and George, who recoiled in shock.