Chapter Summaries

Kyle and the Weasley twins attended the Ministry of Magic’s crowded Order of Merlin Medal ceremony with their friends and family. The ceremony had not yet begun, and Snape watched Kyle and the twins from a distance with a sour expression.

• George and Fred woke Kyle before dawn, and he dressed in formal robes for the ceremony.
• Kyle admired Konan, Hermione, and Hannah in their gowns before the group left the Leaky Cauldron in Ministry vehicles.
• Kyle and the other medal recipients arrived at the Ministry’s ceremony hall, where more than a hundred Wizengamot members and medal recipients had gathered.
• Snape attended after Kyle repeatedly invited him, but he stood apart and glared at Kyle and the Weasley twins.
• Flitwick chatted with Cho Chang and Cedric while McGonagall and Sprout celebrated their Houses’ medal recipients.

At the Order of Merlin ceremony, Cornelius Fudge gave a long speech before awarding medals to the Four Troublemakers. During the banquet, Kyle accidentally provoked a fight between Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy, which ended with Arthur gloating over Lucius.

• Cornelius Fudge praised the Ministry and Hogwarts, then awarded the Four Troublemakers Order of Merlin, Second Class medals with Dumbledore.
• At the banquet, Arthur Weasley approached Lucius Malfoy, and the two exchanged hostile stares while Kyle’s homemade sound player interrupted them.
• Kyle accidentally bumped into Lucius, causing Lucius’s raised fist to strike Arthur in the face.
• Arthur retaliated with moves he had learned from his sons and quickly knocked Lucius down before others restrained them.
• Arthur taunted Lucius as he struggled on the ground, saying he had always wanted to see his jealous expression.

The Four Troublemakers watched Hagrid’s successful date with Madam Maxime until Fleur Delacour insulted Hagrid as unworthy of her. Kyle defended his friend by listing Hagrid’s strength, wealth, and character, leaving Fleur stunned.

• After Lucius and Draco left the banquet, the Four Troublemakers watched Hagrid and Madam Maxime enjoy their date, which they had helped prepare.
• Fleur Delacour called Hagrid unworthy of Madam Maxime, and Kyle warned her to watch her words because Hagrid was his friend.
• Fleur explained that she had mistaken the Four Troublemakers’ interest in Hagrid and Madam Maxime for shared contempt toward Hagrid.
• Kyle challenged Fleur’s judgment and argued that Hagrid’s strength, wealth, and character made him a worthy partner for Madam Maxime.
• Fleur was left dazed by Kyle’s defense of Hagrid.

After the Ministry banquet, Kyle postponed telling Dumbledore about Sirius until they were back at Hogwarts. Aboard the Hogwarts Express, he inspected the Weasley twins’ giant mech and teased Cedric about the serpent-style spells Cedric had learned from him before leaving to find Hermione.

• Fleur left the banquet embarrassed after failing to ask Kyle for his contact information, and Kyle decided to wait until Hogwarts to tell Dumbledore about Sirius.
• Ten days later, aboard the Hogwarts Express, George and Fred showed Kyle and Cedric the twenty-meter-tall shell of their mech inside the expanded suitcase.
• Kyle asked Cedric how his Great Serpent Style spell research was progressing, and Cedric hinted that he wanted Kyle to experience the spells firsthand.
• Kyle pointed out that Cedric’s spells would be ineffective against the wizard who had taught them to him, and Cedric awkwardly left to patrol the train.
• Kyle complained about Cedric’s prefect duties and left the compartment to look for Hermione.

Kyle fought off a Ministry search party of nearly two hundred Dementors surrounding the Hogwarts Express, using his honey badger Patronus and Susanoo. He cleared the train and ordered the prefects to account for the students.

• The Hogwarts Express stopped in darkness, and a Dementor entered Kyle and Percy's carriage as students emerged to find out what had happened.
• Kyle summoned his honey badger Patronus, which attacked the Dementor, then formed Susanoo and broke through the carriage roof.
• Kyle saw nearly two hundred Dementors surrounding the train and used Susanoo to destroy them with silver sword strikes.
• Umbridge climbed onto the roof and ordered Kyle to stop, but he flicked her off the viaduct and continued fighting.
• Three Patronuses herded the remaining Dementors toward Susanoo, and Kyle's honey badger searched the train after the last Dementors vanished.
• Kyle dismissed Susanoo and told the prefects to count their students and make sure they were safe.

Kyle joined Hermione, Hannah, Ginny, Harry, Ron, and Professor Lupin after driving off the Dementors that attacked the Hogwarts Express. The train continued toward Hogwarts while Umbridge realized the failed operation had ruined her political career.

• Kyle found Hermione and Hannah in a compartment with Ginny, Harry, Ron, and Professor Lupin, whom he identified by his suitcase.
• Lupin wondered how Hermione had cast a corporeal Patronus and how Kyle had used such a powerful composite spell.
• Kyle expanded the compartment with an Undetectable Extension Charm and explained how Dementors affected Harry and Ginny.
• Kyle urged Harry to eat chocolate, which helped him recover from the Dementors’ influence.
• Umbridge returned to the viaduct after the train had left and realized that the loss of two hundred Dementors had ended her political ambitions.

After the Ministry blamed Umbridge for the illegal Dementor raid, the students arrived at Hogwarts and Kyle showed Dumbledore proof that Sirius was innocent. Kyle arranged to wait until after the feast before bringing Ron to meet Sirius and pursuing Peter Pettigrew.

• The Ministry concluded that Kyle’s actions against the Dementors had been lawful, and Fudge sent Umbridge to the Centaur Office.
• Harry reassured Ron and Draco that he was well as the students arrived at Hogwarts, where Dementors guarded the gates.
• Dumbledore pulled Kyle aside and asked about the important matter he had mentioned in an owl.
• Kyle showed Dumbledore a memory of capturing Sirius in Diagon Alley and revealed Sirius, who urged them to capture Peter Pettigrew immediately.
• Kyle persuaded Sirius to wait until after the feast and planned to bring Ron to the Headmaster’s office, while Dumbledore magically sealed the office to keep Sirius inside.

At the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore announced that Dementors would guard Hogwarts, Remus Lupin and Rubeus Hagrid had joined the staff, and classes would be delayed for a two-week boot camp. After the feast, Kyle stopped Ron and brought Harry along to meet Dumbledore.

• Kyle and Dumbledore arrived after the Sorting Ceremony, and Kyle checked that Scabbers was still in Ron's pocket.
• Dumbledore warned the students about the Dementors and announced Lupin as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and Hagrid as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor.
• Dumbledore announced that classes would start two weeks late and that students would take part in a House-based boot camp featuring Muggle weapons and equipment.
• The students excitedly questioned the Four Troublemakers about boot camp as the feast began.
• Kyle stopped Ron from returning to his dormitory and summoned Harry to accompany them to Dumbledore's office.

Sirius and Lupin learned that Peter Pettigrew had been hiding as Scabbers, but Dumbledore’s spell revealed that the rat was only a transfigured animal under an Imperius Curse, showing Peter had escaped. The next morning, Kyle and Hannah chose their electives as students prepared for military training.

• Harry and Ron entered Dumbledore’s office and learned from Sirius, Lupin, and Dumbledore that Peter Pettigrew had supposedly been hiding in Ron’s pocket as Scabbers.
• Kyle pulled Scabbers from Ron’s pocket and bound it with Shadow Magic while Sirius tried to attack the rat.
• Dumbledore’s spell revealed that Scabbers was an ordinary rat disguised by Transfiguration, and Kyle detected a fading Imperius Curse indicating that Peter had escaped.
• Kyle took Ron from the office, and Ron kept quiet about Sirius and Peter while Harry, Sirius, and Lupin stayed behind to talk.
• The students discussed the upcoming military training and submitted elective choices; Kyle and Hannah selected Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies.

Hogwarts held its first two-week military training program, which taught students magical control, survival skills, and basic firearm knowledge before ending in a House parade. Dumbledore planned to repeat the training for first-years, while the ceremony left the professors enduring cheeky House slogans and the remaining formations still to come.

• Kyle helped Professor McGonagall train Gryffindor students, integrating magical-control exercises with military posture and planning Forbidden Forest cookouts, camping, and firearm lessons.
• Dumbledore approved the training after observing its progress, while Madam Pomfrey opposed it because students sometimes fainted or got hurt.
• The two weeks ended without anyone mastering water treading, though many students, especially first-years, learned tree climbing; Sirius watched Harry from the Forbidden Forest in black dog form.
• Dumbledore rejected Kyle's proposed Forbidden Forest battle royale, so Hogwarts held a parade on the Quidditch Pitch instead.
• Percy led Gryffindor past the reviewing platform as the students chanted slogans teasing Professor McGonagall, then Slytherin marched by and mocked Professor Snape.
• Snape silently decided he would find trouble with Cho Chang during the next day's fourth-year Ravenclaw lesson.

After military training ended, Kyle and Hermione began the new semester, and Kyle advised Hermione about using her Time-Turner to attend overlapping electives. In Muggle Studies, Professor Burbage mistook a hair dryer for a fire-making device and demonstrated it by blasting flames from its nozzle.

• Kyle noticed that Hermione's Muggle Studies, Divination, and Arithmancy classes all overlapped, and Hermione revealed she had a Time-Turner.
• Kyle warned Hermione that using the Time-Turner would increase her exhaustion and gave her bottles of an improved Invigoration Draught.
• Kyle saw Hermione use the Time-Turner to attend overlapping classes before joining her and Little Iron Girl in Muggle Studies.
• Professor Burbage explained that electricity let Muggles perform magic and identified a hair dryer as an alchemical fire-making tool.
• Professor Burbage used her wand to power the hair dryer, which shot a blast of flame across the classroom.

Hermione used the Time-Turner to sample her classes, then dropped Muggle Studies and Divination while praising Arithmancy. At Hagrid’s first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, the students faced a herd of Hippogriffs and feared the course would grow even more dangerous.

• Hermione decided to drop Muggle Studies and use the Time-Turner to try her remaining classes before choosing which to keep.
• Hermione complained to Kyle that Professor Trelawney’s Divination lesson was useless, then crossed Divination off her timetable while keeping Arithmancy.
• Hagrid led the Care of Magical Creatures students to a paddock after the Four Troublemakers had persuaded him not to start with untamed horse-shaped water monsters.
• Kyle whistled, and Buckbeak led eleven Hippogriffs to the fence, frightening the students as they rushed to eat Hagrid’s raw meat.

Hagrid introduced the students to Hippogriffs, and Hermione rode Buckbeak with Hannah before the class took turns flying. Pansy’s jealousy over Draco’s closeness to Harry led her to pull Harry from Buckbeak, provoking the Hippogriff.

• Hagrid explained that Hippogriffs were proud and required respect, while Hannah guided Hermione to bow to Buckbeak.
• With Kyle’s help, Hermione climbed onto Buckbeak, and Hannah joined her for a flight around the paddock.
• Draco pushed Ron into another line so he could stand with Harry, while Pansy watched them jealously.
• Harry and Draco bowed to Buckbeak and climbed onto his back together.
• Pansy grabbed Harry’s foot and pulled him down, causing him to tear out Buckbeak’s feathers.
• Buckbeak turned his furious gaze on Pansy and raised his claws at her.

Kyle protected the students after Pansy provoked Buckbeak, then helped Hagrid recover from the incident and suggested using Fang for a future lesson. The chapter ended with Kyle proposing to claim that Dumbledore had approved the plan.

• Kyle restrained Buckbeak as Pansy was thrown into a tree, then told Hannah to treat her and sent her to the Hospital Wing.
• Kyle reassured Hagrid that Pansy was responsible for getting hurt, and Hagrid's class ended with the students cautiously interacting with the Hippogriffs.
• Hagrid considered introducing the students to Kelpies in his next class, but Kyle and Hermione warned him to tame them first.
• Kyle suggested Fang as a safer creature for the students to meet, and explained that he had arranged a permit for Hagrid to keep the three-headed dog.
• Kyle said Hagrid could tell parents that he, the teaching assistant, had arranged the lesson, effectively implicating Dumbledore.

Kyle continued serving as Snape’s Potions teaching assistant while Pansy struggled through class with her injuries. Meanwhile, Rita Skeeter uncovered claims about Kyle’s parentage and Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s past, but withheld her article until she could investigate the Saints in Europe.

• Madam Pomfrey’s workload increased, and Pansy returned to class with her injured arm still in a cast.
• Snape made Kyle assist with Potions lessons and refused to excuse Pansy from preparing ingredients.
• Rita Skeeter learned that Kyle was supposedly Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s son and researched their history.
• Rita completed an article about Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Kyle but worried that Grindelwald’s Saints might target her.
• Rita put the article away and decided to investigate rumors about the Saints before publishing it.

Kyle helped the Weasley Twins plan a modernized force of Stone Guardians to defend Hogwarts, outlining coordinated ground and air tactics. He agreed to join the project with Cedric, while the mecha project remained unfinished.

• The Weasley Twins told Kyle that Dumbledore had tasked them with modernizing Hogwarts's Stone Guardians.
• Kyle explained Infantry-Tank-Artillery Coordination and proposed equipping the guardians with magically modified tanks, artillery, missile launchers, and infantry weapons.
• Kyle introduced Air-Ground Integration Tactics and proposed using C2 Dragons made from Blasting Clay as Hogwarts Army Aviation.
• George and Fred approved Kyle's plan but insisted that he and Cedric help carry it out alongside their stalled mecha project.
• Kyle reluctantly agreed to help build the Hogwarts Guard Army.

During Lupin’s Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson, Neville faced a Boggart that took Snape’s form in women’s clothing, and Kyle photographed the result. That evening, Snape found the humiliating pictures spread throughout the Great Hall and seized Colin, suspecting him of taking them.

• Kyle arrived late to Lupin’s lesson and followed the class to the staff room, where Peeves was driven away.
• Lupin introduced the class to a Boggart, and Kyle eagerly hoped it would reveal Snape dressed as a woman.
• Neville told Lupin that he feared Snape, so Lupin opened the wardrobe while Kyle prepared his camera.
• The Boggart transformed into Snape wearing an old-fashioned women’s outfit, and Kyle captured the image.
• Snape saw the photograph in the Great Hall and grabbed Colin, assuming the photography enthusiast was responsible.

Kyle brought Dumbledore a proposal for Hogwarts to buy weapons and equipment from Weasley Industrial, presenting it as a self-defense force against Voldemort’s Death Eaters. Dumbledore cut the plan from a twenty-thousand-Galleon brigade to an eight-thousand-Galleon regiment, and Kyle happily accepted the deal.

• Kyle brought the Weasley Twins and a twenty-thousand-Galleon arms procurement agreement to Dumbledore’s office.
• Kyle explained that the plan would use Muggle agricultural vehicles, converted with alchemy, to build an unmanned force, while also upgrading Hogwarts’s Stone Guardians and adding other defenses.
• Dumbledore crossed out the proposed border wall and Insight Project, and reduced the range of the rapid-strike system to twenty kilometers.
• Dumbledore cut the proposed force by more than half and lowered the budget from twenty thousand to eight thousand Galleons.
• Kyle accepted the revised proposal with a smile because he had expected Dumbledore to approve no more than five thousand Galleons.

The Four Troublemakers transformed the Chamber of Secrets into an underground armory and completed their first automated tank production line. As they celebrated over dinner, Kyle noticed Snape had been absent from meals for several days and wondered whether the Resurrection Stone had trapped him in an illusion.

• Dumbledore surveyed the tractors and construction equipment cluttering the grounds and regretted approving the military procurement project.
• Workers installed firing ports and machine guns in Hogwarts while the Four Troublemakers planned weapon production lines beneath the castle.
• The Four Troublemakers used Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets to build an automated factory for converting tractors into tanks and producing other military equipment.
• After forgetting lunch while working, Fred, George, Cedric, and Kyle devoured dinner in the Great Hall.
• George announced that the tank production line was finished, and Kyle noticed Snape's empty seat and worried that the Resurrection Stone had trapped him in an illusion.

Snape used the Philosopher's Stone to channel a vast amount of energy into the Resurrection Stone, attempting to break the seal that limited its power. He shattered the first of the three chains binding it, but two chains remained.

• Snape determined that another Deathly Hallow or overwhelming energy could break the seal on the Resurrection Stone.
• Snape took the Philosopher's Stone from his desk and used Kyle's tunnel to leave Hogwarts for Spinner's End.
• Snape prepared a protected basement and drew a magical array with Hydra blood to channel the Philosopher's Stone's power.
• Snape drank Felix Felicis and directed the Philosopher's Stone's energy at the Resurrection Stone.
• Snape discovered three pale-blue chains binding the Resurrection Stone and broke the first one.