Chapter Summaries

Roy found the magical anchor Voldemort had left in Hogwarts, hidden inside a silver Trophy, and brought it to Dia Jobana. When Dia examined it, purple smoke emerged, leaving her unconscious and then hostile as Roy prepared to fight her.

• Roy hurried to Dia Jobana’s office and announced that he had found Voldemort’s magical anchor inside the Castle.
• Roy showed Dia the silver Trophy, and she brought it to her office to examine it at her curse-breaking workbench.
• Purple smoke poured from the Trophy, and Dia collapsed as Roy dragged her away from it.
• Dia suddenly awoke with purple eyes and attacked Roy, forcing him to draw his wand and prepare for battle.

Roy stopped the mind-controlled Professor Dia by flooding Jobana’s office and kept the purple smoke from spreading. Professor McGonagall recognized the Trophy as connected to Tom Marvolo Riddle, while Dumbledore was summoned.

• Roy fought the crazed Dia and knocked her unconscious with a powerful stream of water.
• Roy continued flooding the office until the purple smoke from the Trophy had dispersed.
• Aisling entered the office, covered Dia with a blanket, and guarded the doorway while Roy suppressed the smoke.
• Professor McGonagall arrived, sent Dia to the Hospital Wing, and organized the students to manage the flood.
• McGonagall examined the Trophy and recognized Tom Marvolo Riddle’s name as Roy confirmed its connection to him.

Dumbledore destroyed the Dark Magic inside the Trophy while Roy watched, then Roy stopped a hidden remnant from ambushing Dumbledore. The professors were left to deal with the aftermath as Roy turned Dumbledore’s rebuke back on him.

• Dumbledore recognized the Trophy’s Dark Magic and ordered Snape and Professor McGonagall to evacuate the students.
• Dumbledore trapped the Trophy and its purple mist in a barrier and burned them with green flames, destroying the Trophy and the magic inside it.
• Dumbledore reflected on Tom’s use of the Trophy, then drained the water from the third floor.
• A remnant of purple magic rose from the Trophy’s fragments and attacked Dumbledore from behind, but Roy struck it with Amaterasu.
• Roy patted Dumbledore on the shoulder and told him that he still had much to learn.

Roy tried to visit the injured Professor Jobana, but Dumbledore confiscated his Medical Gun after learning it could fire a Killing Curse and ordered him to wait in the Headmaster’s Office. Snape took the trophy fragments from Roy, leaving Roy with neither his weapon nor the fragments.

• Roy collected the blackened silver fragments and hid them in a pouch before asking about Professor Jobana.
• Dumbledore stopped Roy from going to the Hospital Wing and took his Medical Gun so it could accompany the professors to see Professor Jobana.
• Roy warned Dumbledore that the gun’s red safety setting fired a Killing Curse, prompting Professor McGonagall to scold him and Dumbledore to secure the weapon.
• Snape stayed behind, demanded the trophy fragments from Roy, and took the entire pouch when Roy asked to keep half.

Dumbledore returned Roy’s Medical Gun and listened as Roy pitched a magical AI project before recounting how he had discovered Voldemort’s magic in the trophy. The chapter ended with Dumbledore learning Roy had raided the Slytherin Common Room in search of Voldemort’s belongings.

• Dumbledore told Roy that Professor Jobana was recovering from Tom’s mind-disrupting curse.
• Dumbledore praised Roy’s growing power and returned the Medical Gun, then offered to introduce him to Nicolas Flamel.
• Roy described his plan to build a magical AI that could search Hogwarts’s vast collection of books.
• Dumbledore asked Roy to explain everything that had happened and how he found Voldemort’s magic in the trophy.
• Roy recounted meeting Professor Dia and searching the Slytherin Common Room for Voldemort’s belongings, leaving Dumbledore baffled.

Roy and Dumbledore discussed the removal of Voldemort’s curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position and agreed to search for more of Voldemort’s protections. Dumbledore concluded that Voldemort had created multiple Horcruxes and explained how his arrogance would shape where he hid them.

• Roy asked whether the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor position had been removed, and Dumbledore said they needed to keep searching for Voldemort’s safeguards.
• Dumbledore warned Roy to bring him anything he found and never handle dangerous Dark Magic himself.
• Roy asked whether the magic in the Trophy was a Horcrux, and Dumbledore concluded that Voldemort had created more than one Horcrux.
• Roy showed Dumbledore a silver fragment he had kept and argued that Voldemort could have hidden his Horcruxes somewhere they would never find.
• Dumbledore said Voldemort would hide his soul in a discoverable place surrounded by dangerous magic, and predicted that his arrogance would ultimately make him pay.

Roy learned that he needed to master love magic to make Mia’s protective necklace, while Dumbledore warned him that protecting someone was harder than destruction. He visited the exhausted Professor Jobana, explained how Voldemort’s curse had made her attack him, and left her studying a fragment of the cursed trophy.

• Roy agreed to search for Voldemort’s Dark Magic creations while Dumbledore promised to handle the attackers coveting the diamond.
• Dumbledore gave Roy an ancient book and told him to learn love magic to make Mia’s necklace, explaining that Lily had used it to protect Harry.
• Professor Jobana recovered and returned to teaching, while Roy learned from Madam Pomfrey that his Medical Gun had helped her injuries.
• Roy brought Hufflepuff students’ gifts to Professor Jobana and told her that Voldemort’s curse had made her attack him.
• Professor Jobana examined a fragment of the trophy, asked to keep it, and wondered whether she could borrow the curse’s mind-disrupting power.

Roy and his friends restored the Special Operations Office, and Roy decided to begin brewing the Potions needed for the protective magic that could help Mia. Dumbledore arranged for Snape to teach him, and Roy ended the day at a gathering in the base.

• Roy and his friends cleared the weeds and dust from the Special Operations Office and strengthened its secrecy magic.
• Roy reflected on the complexity of the protective magic and decided to ask Snape for help brewing its Potions.
• Roy wrote to Dumbledore, who replied that Snape would supervise Roy brewing Potions in his office on Monday, Thursday, and Sunday nights instead of serving detentions.
• Roy joined his friends for an autumn-night dinner in the restored base.

Roy and the others held an outdoor barbecue, where Aisling gradually abandoned her refined manners and joined in. The next night, Cedric won nine duels for Hufflepuff, but Cho mistook his glances for mockery and glared at him.

• Roy, Cedric, and their friends invited Aisling to join their barbecue outside the Special Operations Office.
• Aisling tried the poorly cooked meat, then put away her knife and began eating with her hands alongside everyone else.
• Fred and George complained that Percy had given Angelina their place in the first round of the Dueling Tournament, while Aisling declined to compete.
• Cedric defeated nine lower-year students from the other houses, helping Hufflepuff take first place in the league standings for the week.
• Cedric watched Cho after defeating her, but Cho mistook his glances for mockery, and Roy smugly assumed his romantic advice had worked.

After the first Dueling Club league matches, Roy went to Snape’s office to begin brewing the Potions for the Love Protection Charm and found Aisling waiting there. Their vicious banter and Aisling’s kick left Snape stunned as the two prepared to work with him.

• Cedric led Hufflepuff’s lower-year team to three victories, while Gryffindor won the upper-year division and Hufflepuff took first place overall by two points.
• After the matches, Roy headed to Snape’s office with the book Dumbledore had given him to brew Potions for the Love Protection Charm.
• Roy found Aisling outside Snape’s office, and she said she had come to learn Potions and was involved because his diamond remained in her family’s vault.
• Roy insulted Aisling, who kicked him through Snape’s office door and traded harsh insults with him.
• Aisling laughed at Roy’s reply, kicked him again, and returned to her polite manner, leaving Snape stunned by their behavior.

Roy and Aisling prepared Potions ingredients under Snape’s watchful eye, with Snape praising Aisling and silently criticizing Roy’s rough methods. Their conversation about Lily Evans and Voldemort angered Snape, who ended the chapter mocking Roy’s ignorance of Lily’s Potions talent.

• Snape ordered Roy and Aisling to gather ingredients and begin preparing them in his office.
• Aisling took charge of the work, and Snape praised her careful handling of the ingredients.
• Snape inspected Roy’s preparations and disapproved of his careless-looking technique, but chose not to confront him.
• Roy and Aisling discussed Lily Evans, her talent, and the possibility that Voldemort had feared her.
• Snape shouted at them to keep quiet while brewing, then later scoffed at Roy’s claim that he was jealous of Lily’s talent.

Roy and Aisling finished preparing potion ingredients under Snape’s supervision, then Roy was summoned from Transfiguration class to identify his recovered luggage. At Hogwarts’ gates, he spotted a steel dagger among his belongings and wondered how it had ended up there.

• Roy and Aisling finished processing potion ingredients, and Snape sent them back to their dormitory.
• Roy noticed Professor McGonagall was late to Transfiguration class, but she arrived angrily and took Roy outside.
• Professor McGonagall told Roy that the Ministry of Magic had recovered his luggage and warned him to check for dangerous curses.
• Roy met Dumbledore and the Aurors at the Hogwarts gates, where they had laid out his belongings as evidence.
• Roy spotted a sealed bag containing a steel dagger and wondered whether the attackers had picked it up.

Roy met with Dumbledore in the Hufflepuff common room to discuss a secret plan involving Gringotts, and rumors spread that they intended to rob the bank. Aisling revealed she had helped devise a plan to lure the attackers to Gringotts, but Roy insisted he had his own bait.

• Dumbledore visited the Hufflepuff common room and discussed Gringotts with Roy while other students tried to eavesdrop.
• Students spread rumors that Roy and Dumbledore were planning to rob Gringotts.
• Aisling told Roy the whole school was talking about the supposed robbery, and he denied that he and Dumbledore intended to rob a bank.
• Aisling correctly guessed that they planned to lure the attackers to Gringotts with a staged security buildup and a fake diamond.
• Aisling revealed she had proposed the plan to Dumbledore, and Roy showed her a steel dagger wrapped in special tape as his own bait.

Roy and Aisling struggled with the complicated first stage of their ritual potion under Snape’s close supervision, eventually completing and preserving the base liquid. On the way back, Roy explained his newly developed repulsion and attraction spells to Aisling, who asked him to teach her before they parted outside the Hufflepuff Common Room.

• Roy and Aisling made several mistakes while mixing the potion’s base liquids, and Snape scolded Roy while insisting that he follow his instructions.
• Snape closely supervised Roy and Aisling through the difficult brewing steps, personally handling some of them before storing the completed base liquid.
• Aisling asked Roy about the spell he had used to knock a drop of creature mucus away from his cauldron, and Roy described his improved Knockback Jinx.
• Roy explained how he had adapted the Knockback Jinx into “Almighty Push” and “Universal Pull,” then demonstrated by lifting himself slightly off the ground.
• Aisling asked Roy to write down the spell so she could practice it, then said goodbye and headed toward the Slytherin Common Room.

Roy gave Aisling his Hormone Gun as a birthday gift to repay her for providing rare Potions ingredients, while trying to avoid accepting her help as charity. When Roy returned to the Hufflepuff common room, he found Dumbledore waiting and teasing him about the gun.

• Roy admitted that Aisling had given Snape the Potions ingredients and said he owed her another favor.
• Roy gave Aisling his Hormone Gun as the birthday gift he had missed giving her.
• Aisling accepted the gun and reflected on Roy's pride and the feelings he hid behind his jokes.
• Aisling remembered Roy saying she did not see him as one of her own and muttered that they should go their separate ways.
• Roy found Dumbledore waiting in the Hufflepuff common room, and Dumbledore teased him for giving Aisling the gun.

Dumbledore warned Roy to be careful while carrying a fake treasure to Gringotts, and Roy began the staged trip the next morning. At the Three Broomsticks, Roy met Remus Lupin, one of Dumbledore’s arranged decoys and bodyguards, and shared a meal with him.

• Dumbledore gave Roy a glass imitation weapon and warned him not to approach the attackers or act rashly.
• Roy left Hogwarts openly with an iron box, intending to make his visit to Gringotts seem genuine while keeping it low-profile.
• Roy went to the Three Broomsticks, where he recognized Remus Lupin as one of Dumbledore’s arranged extras.
• Roy introduced himself to Lupin and claimed he was visiting his sick sister, while both men pretended not to know the other’s role.
• Roy ordered a lavish breakfast, offered Lupin the tomato dishes he claimed to be allergic to, and called for more beer.

Roy and Lupin drew attention to Roy’s location at the Three Broomsticks before splitting up to reach Diagon Alley. Tiago, disguised as Josh Johnson, used Roy’s signature to track him and saw him at the Leaky Cauldron with the sealed iron box.

• Roy and Lupin ate at the Three Broomsticks until near noon, drawing customers’ attention to Roy’s whereabouts.
• Josh Johnson approached Roy, introduced himself as a diplomatic official, and asked for an autograph; Roy signed his notebook.
• After Josh left, Roy traveled through the Floo Powder Network while Lupin searched for the man and then Apparated toward Gringotts.
• Tiago emerged from hiding after Lupin left, revealed his disguise, and fed Roy’s signed page into a tracking machine.
• The machine showed Roy at the Leaky Cauldron with the sealed iron box, and Tiago watched him on its screen.

Roy arrived at Gringotts with a fake glass item to deposit, while Lupin waited for him in the VIP lounge. The Goblins took them deep underground to the most secure vaults, and Roy reached Vault 007.

• Roy waited at the Leaky Cauldron until he believed Lupin had reached Gringotts, then carried the iron box to the bank.
• A Goblin manager recognized Roy as Dumbledore’s guest and led him to the VIP lounge, where Lupin greeted him.
• Lupin told Roy that Gringotts would take them to the highest-security vaults deep underground.
• Roy rode a mine cart with Lupin and the Goblins, asking about the Thief-Proof Waterfall as they descended.
• The Goblins cleared their path past seven Fire Dragons and brought Roy to a vault marked 007, which Roy confirmed was his.

Roy and Lupin secured the Ravenclaw vault with separate passphrases, but a disguised attacker struck as Roy began revealing his own. Roy exposed and fought off the impostor, Tiago, who escaped by Apparating, leaving the street in chaos.

• The goblin manager explained the single-digit vaults’ history and showed Roy and Lupin how to set passkeys for Vault 7.
• Roy and Lupin each spoke a passphrase into the vault’s hand-shaped grooves, and the door closed automatically.
• Outside Gringotts, Lupin revealed his long passphrase and asked Roy to share his own.
• A second Lupin attacked the real Lupin with Stupefy, while Roy recognized the impostor and blasted him into Flourish and Blotts with Almighty Push.
• Roy used Universal Pull on the impostor, Tiago, but Tiago broke free with a smoke bomb and Apparated away.

Roy and Lupin exposed a plot by Goblins inside Gringotts to abduct Lupin and alter his memories, but Dumbledore sent Roy away while he handled the matter. Back at Hogwarts, Lupin gave Roy a clue to a hidden map before heading to the Hospital Wing.

• Lupin told Roy that Goblins inside Gringotts had abducted him and nearly altered his memories, and Roy healed his injuries.
• Dumbledore arrived and ordered Roy and Lupin to leave before the Ministry Aurors arrived, promising to deal with Gringotts himself.
• Roy Apparated with Lupin to the Special Operations Office in the Forbidden Forest and introduced him to Cedric, God Connor, Gabriel, Fred, and George.
• Roy escorted Lupin through Hogwarts, where Lupin recalled his school days and told Roy to look for a map in Filch's office using the passwords “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good” and “Mischief managed.”
• Lupin went to the Hospital Wing alone, leaving Roy wondering about his painful past.