Chapter Summaries

Snape broke the first seal on the Resurrection Stone, then traveled to Godric's Hollow and collected ashes from Ignotus Peverell's grave. At Hogwarts, the Hufflepuff team prepared to fill roster vacancies and recruit new reserves for the coming Quidditch season.

• Snape stopped using the Philosopher's Stone when its magic faded, then drew a mana-gathering array to help it recover before leaving Spinner's End.
• Snape visited Godric's Hollow, conjured a Patronus in the form of a silver doe, and paused at Lily's statue.
• Snape opened Ignotus Peverell's tomb and collected a small amount of ash in a vial before returning to Hogwarts.
• The Four Troublemakers left construction of the alchemy production lines to Alfred's alchemists after Dumbledore increased the procurement budget to twelve thousand Galleons.
• Cedric, Kyle, and the remaining Hufflepuff players planned selections to replace their graduated Beater and Keeper and recruit younger reserves.

Hufflepuff held crowded Quidditch tryouts, with Kyle and Cedric watching applicants compete for the remaining team positions. Five applicants made the cut, including Rolf Scamander as a reserve.

• More than fifty students signed up for Hufflepuff's Quidditch tryouts, and Cedric divided them into five groups for broom-racing tests.
• Kyle caught an applicant with a Cushioning Charm after he crashed into an iron ring.
• Kyle admired a girl in the second group and said he wanted her as his Beater partner, but he changed the subject when Hermione overheard him.
• After the tryouts, Cedric announced that the top five applicants had made the cut.
• Rolf Scamander placed fifth and joined Hufflepuff's team as a reserve.

Cedric put the newly recruited Hufflepuff players through their first team training in Grindelwald’s enormous Quidditch practice ground, while Kyle demonstrated the power expected of a Beater. After the rookies tried the different positions, Kyle invited Hannah to give Beater a try, and she stepped forward with a bat.

• Cedric introduced himself as Hufflepuff captain and coach, then made the new players introduce themselves loudly.
• Kyle demonstrated Beater training by blasting a Bludger through a target and the stands, prompting Rolf to volunteer for a turn.
• The rookies tried all three Quidditch positions, but none showed the accuracy needed to become a Beater.
• Kyle asked Hannah to try the Beater position, and she picked up a metal bat.

Kyle persuaded Hannah to consider becoming Hufflepuff’s Beater while the Four Troublemakers resumed their studies and research. He then modified his own eyeball with alchemical runes in Dumbledore’s office and had Dumbledore heal it back into place.

• Kyle encouraged Hannah to train as a Beater, and she agreed after Kyle and Cedric reassured her about her flying skills.
• The Four Troublemakers returned to their routine of attending important classes, developing an alchemy production line, and pursuing separate research projects.
• The Weasley Twins focused on building mechs, while Cedric studied the magical abilities of his Hydra bloodline.
• Kyle removed one of his eyes and inscribed it with alchemical runes that condensed into a black magatama.
• Dumbledore healed Kyle’s modified eye with the Elder Wand and ate a Cockroach Cluster while lamenting how exhausting Kyle was.

Kyle engraved Susanoo spells into both eyes, giving himself a pair of One-Tomoe Sharingan, then showed them off at breakfast. He discussed the mechs with the Weasley Twins and Cedric, who admitted their project was just a living target.

• Kyle used Super Protego and the Patronus Charm to create ocular techniques for Susanoo, then estimated how long he could sustain its stronger forms.
• Kyle completed the procedure on his right eye, and Dumbledore warned him not to dismantle his body again.
• The next morning, the Weasley Twins and Cedric asked about Kyle's crimson eyes, and Kyle threatened to defeat the twins without moving.
• The Weasley Twins recalled how Kyle had beaten Cedric after he challenged him with the White Flash Technique.
• Kyle asked how the large mech was progressing, and the Weasley Twins said it was just a living target.

Kyle proposed combining biological modification with alchemy to create artificial Tailed Beasts, after the Weasley Twins realized their giant mech suit would consume too much energy to be practical. The group agreed to pursue the new project, with Kyle handling biological modification and the twins researching puppet cores.

• Fred and George explained that their mech suit designs were too large, costly, and energy-hungry to be useful in combat.
• Kyle showed the twins an illusion of Two-Tailed Matatabi and suggested combining biological modification with alchemy.
• Kyle explained that puppet cores could replace a modified Kneazle-leopard's brain and allow it to use its full combat strength.
• George and Fred embraced the idea, calling it a biological mech suit and a combat companion, respectively.
• Kyle assigned himself the biological modifications and left puppet-core research to the Weasley Twins, while Cedric asked to join the project.

Harry could not get permission to visit Hogsmeade, so George and Fred offered to help him sneak out with Ron. They arranged to meet Harry at the Astronomy Tower after breakfast, leaving their plan for the next day.

• Harry failed to get Professor McGonagall to make an exception for his missing Hogsmeade permission form.
• Harry brooded over missing the trip and imagined Cho Chang going to Hogsmeade with Cedric.
• George and Fred realized Harry wanted to see Cho and offered to help him sneak into Hogsmeade.
• George and Fred told Harry to meet them at the Astronomy Tower after breakfast and bring his Invisibility Cloak for the return trip.

Fred and George launched Harry from Hogwarts in their electromagnetic cannon, while Kyle checked on the growing clones he planned to use against Voldemort. The chapter left Kyle waiting for the clones to mature before sending them to Albania to track Voldemort and his Horcruxes.

• Harry questioned the safety of Fred and George’s iron-ball transport, then climbed into the Armstrong Cannon wearing the Invisibility Cloak and secured himself to the ball.
• Fred and George fired Harry from the Astronomy Tower toward Hogsmeade, joking that his screams might have been thanks.
• Kyle inspected six growing bodies for the Six Paths of Pain and planned to finish them after the holiday season.
• Kyle checked on the White Zetsu clone, whose Whomping Willow cells slowed its growth, and expected it to be ready by Easter.
• Kyle planned to send the Six Paths of Pain and White Zetsu to Albania to track Voldemort and hoped to place White Zetsu near him.

Kyle went to Hogsmeade and found Harry outside Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, where Harry was waiting for a chance to spy on Cedric and Cho Chang. Harry invited Ron inside, and his friends mistook the invitation as a sign that he was gay, while Ginny worried about Draco’s feelings for him.

• Kyle stocked the nutrients for the cloned bodies in his suitcase and then went to Hogsmeade using the Weasley Twins’ electromagnetic cannon.
• Harry followed Cedric and Cho Chang to Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop but hesitated outside because he had no female companion.
• Hermione and Ginny arrived with Ron, who had been mooching off Ginny’s spending money.
• Harry invited Ron into the tea shop, and Ron, Hermione, and Ginny stared at him in shock.
• Ginny worried that Draco’s apparent feelings for Harry made him a greater romantic rival than Cho Chang.

Harry tried to recruit Ron to accompany him to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop so he could talk to Cho Chang, but the others mistakenly thought the two were a couple. Kyle invited Hermione into the tea shop too, then reconsidered and suggested they go to the Three Broomsticks instead.

• Ron warned Harry that only couples went to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, and Ginny told Kyle what had happened.
• Kyle joked that he knew two married men, while Harry and Ron both denied being romantically involved.
• Harry told Ron he wanted to talk to Cho Chang, and Ron agreed to accompany him after suggesting Harry dress as a girl.
• Ginny left heartbroken after seeing Harry and Ron head off together and Kyle invite Hermione into the tea shop.
• Kyle changed his invitation to the Three Broomsticks, and Hermione showed a flicker of disappointment.

Kyle and Hermione discussed Harry and Ron, then Kyle revealed that Sirius was innocent and had come to Hogsmeade to buy Harry a Firebolt. The chapter ended as Hermione reached to wipe Butterbeer foam from Kyle’s mouth and he drew her closer.

• Madam Rosmerta teased Kyle about his old alias, Bruce Wayne, before serving Butterbeers to him and Hermione.
• Hermione asked whether Harry and Ron might be romantically involved, and Kyle laughed off the idea while they gossiped about Harry and Cho Chang.
• Madam Rosmerta told Kyle and Hermione that Dementors had searched the bar after Sirius was spotted in Hogsmeade.
• Kyle told Hermione that Sirius was innocent and had come to Hogsmeade to buy Harry a Firebolt, and Hermione complained that Kyle had told George and Fred first.
• Hermione noticed foam at the corner of Kyle’s mouth and reached to wipe it away, but Kyle caught her hand and drew her closer.

Kyle and Hermione became a couple after sharing a kiss in Hogsmeade, while Snape discovered that Harry’s Invisibility Cloak was a Deathly Hallow. Snape realized all three Hallows were within Hogwarts and considered turning to Kyle to obtain the Elder Wand.

• Kyle and Hermione kissed at the Three Broomsticks, and Hannah saw them before leaving in tears.
• Hermione agreed to be with Kyle, and they returned to Hogwarts holding hands.
• Snape confronted Kyle about his Hogsmeade application, but Kyle told him to ask one of his fathers.
• Harry returned to Hogwarts heartbroken after Cho Chang rejected him, and Snape caught him without his Invisibility Cloak.
• Snape recognized Harry’s cloak as a Deathly Hallow and returned it, then considered asking Kyle for help getting the Elder Wand.

During Hogwarts’ Halloween feast, Dumbledore’s hired band entertained the students until a crash came from the tower where Sirius was staying. Kyle and Hermione went to investigate and found Dementors converging on the tower.

• Kyle joined Hermione at the Gryffindor table during the lavish Halloween dinner.
• Dumbledore’s Zang'ai Band performed a series of songs and roused the Great Hall.
• A loud crash from Sirius’s tower interrupted the festivities, and Dumbledore sent Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick to investigate.
• Hermione insisted on accompanying Kyle, and they left the castle together.
• Kyle and Hermione saw dozens of Dementors surrounding Sirius’s tower as Professor Flitwick flew ahead toward it.

Kyle, Hermione, Professor Flitwick, and Professor McGonagall fought off a swarm of Dementors after Sirius saved two students from an attack. The students survived, the Houses received points for the rescue, and the professors turned their attention to Sirius.

• Professor Flitwick trapped the Dementors around the tower in a light prison and destroyed those caught inside it.
• Kyle and Hermione blocked the fleeing Dementors while Susanoo and Professor McGonagall’s Patronus drove them into Kyle’s blade.
• Professor McGonagall found the two unconscious students alive and asked Sirius what had happened.
• Sirius explained that the Gryffindor students had sneaked away from the feast and been attacked by Dementors, exposing his presence when he rescued them.
• After Kyle destroyed the remaining Dementors, Professor McGonagall awarded Hufflepuff and Gryffindor sixty points each for the rescue.
• Professor McGonagall and the others turned their attention to Sirius.

After the Dementors attacked two students, Sirius fled to the Shrieking Shack while Kyle erased the couple’s memories. Dumbledore condemned the Dementors to the school and asked Kyle to lend him Saints to search for Peter Pettigrew.

• Professor Flitwick told Sirius he could not stay at Hogwarts, so Sirius left through the Whomping Willow for the Shrieking Shack.
• Kyle erased the two students’ memories of Sirius, leaving them to remember only that Dementors had attacked them.
• Dumbledore told the Great Hall that Dementors had attacked the students and promised to demand an explanation from the Ministry of Magic.
• After the students left, Dumbledore asked Kyle to summon Saints to help search for Peter Pettigrew.
• Kyle learned that the Order of the Phoenix members were too busy to help with the search.

Kyle agreed to help Dumbledore capture Peter Pettigrew and dispatched the Saints to find him. After the Halloween Dementor attack, furious parents overwhelmed the Ministry with Howlers, and Fudge made Umbridge handle them.

• Dumbledore asked Kyle to arrange a search for Peter Pettigrew, and Kyle agreed to send the Saints.
• Kyle summoned more than twenty Saints at Hogwarts and ordered Johnny Depp to capture Pettigrew alive, showing them Pettigrew’s human and rat forms.
• The Saints departed to begin their search for Pettigrew.
• After Halloween, angry parents sent Howlers to the Ministry over the Dementor attack at Hogwarts.
• Fudge reassigned Umbridge to open the parents’ Howlers, and cursed letters covered her face with boils.

Snape struggled to perfect his resurrection magic while developing the Cursed Seal to control those revived by it. He began considering how the seal could also be used on the living.

• Snape inspected the first-year students’ potion work but found no mistakes to criticize, thanks in part to their military training and Kyle’s classroom improvements.
• The chapter explained that Kyle had equipped the Potions classroom with kitchen tools, safer workbenches, detailed instructions, and expanded brewing procedures before Snape dismissed him as teaching assistant.
• Snape studied the Resurrection Stone and reflected that his Impure World Reincarnation spell revived the dead imperfectly, leaving them with their vessels’ faces and without some senses.
• Snape considered breaking the remaining seals on the Resurrection Stone or seeking the Deathly Hallows, while preparing for a possible conflict with Dumbledore by building an Impure World Army.
• Snape developed the Cursed Seal to erase the wills of Impure World Reincarnation users and began considering its use to control the living.

Kyle helped Cedric, George, and Fred complete their first Animagus transformations by summoning a thunderstorm in the Forbidden Forest. They became a viper and two Huskies, and Kyle tried to leave before they transformed back naked.

• Kyle summoned the Thunderbird Lan to create the storm needed for the Animagus ritual.
• Cedric, George, and Fred drank their potions and transformed into a viper and two Huskies.
• Lan flicked one of the Huskies into the air and tried to swallow Cedric before Kyle stopped it.
• Kyle saw that the three could not include their clothes in their transformations and climbed onto Lan to leave before they changed back.

Sirius sent Harry seven new brooms for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, including a Firebolt for Harry and Nimbus 2001s for his teammates. Kyle responded by promising Nimbus 2001s for Hufflepuff, leaving Draco Malfoy and Professor Flitwick facing pressure to upgrade their own teams.

• Forty-two owls delivered seven broom packages to the Gryffindor table, and Harry recognized Sirius as the likely sender.
• Harry opened his package and revealed a Firebolt, while the Weasley Twins opened theirs and found a Nimbus 2001.
• Ron asked whether he could still join the Quidditch team after seeing the new brooms.
• Kyle declared that Hufflepuff would upgrade its equipment and promised to order Nimbus 2001s for the team.
• Draco Malfoy and Professor Flitwick realized that Slytherin and Ravenclaw would need new brooms to keep pace.

Kyle’s broom upgrades pushed Hogwarts’ Quidditch teams into an arms race, leaving Ravenclaw as the only team still using old brooms. Professor Flitwick agreed to buy Ravenclaw Nimbus 2000s and warned the team that they had better stop finishing last.

• Kyle headed to the Owlery to write to Butler Man as Hufflepuff received two Firebolts and five Nimbus 2001s.
• Roger Davies watched Hufflepuff unpack its new brooms and decided Ravenclaw needed an equipment upgrade.
• Roger and the Ravenclaw players pleaded with Professor Flitwick, who agreed to buy each of them a Nimbus 2000.
• Professor Flitwick asked Dumbledore to help pay for the broom upgrades, but Dumbledore pretended not to hear him.
• Professor Flitwick warned Roger that Ravenclaw had to improve after he spent money on their new brooms.