Chapter Summaries

After a Quidditch Pitch brawl left Slytherin worse off than Gryffindor, Dumbledore detained Kyle and heard his account of what had started the fight. Dumbledore considered moving Kyle to Slytherin so he could bring the House under control.

• Dumbledore arrived at the Quidditch Pitch and found both Houses injured, with Kyle disguised as Snape responsible for many of Slytherin’s casualties.
• Hannah and Hermione described how the fight began, while Kyle claimed he had acted in self-defense and tried to escape before Dumbledore petrified him.
• Dumbledore sent injured students to the hospital wing, directed Snape and McGonagall to investigate, and took Kyle to his office.
• Kyle recounted the events to Dumbledore, who concluded that Pansy had attacked Hannah and was relieved that Kyle had not started the fight.
• Dumbledore teased Kyle about Hannah and Hermione, then suggested transferring him to Slytherin so he could bring the House under control.

After refusing Dumbledore’s suggestion to join Slytherin, Kyle helped Hannah and Madam Pomfrey treat the injured students from the House brawl. The chapter ended with Snape and McGonagall reprimanding their Houses, while Dumbledore’s point penalties put Ravenclaw in first place.

• Kyle refused Dumbledore’s suggestion that he reveal Grindelwald’s surname and transfer to Slytherin.
• Kyle found Hannah and joined her in helping Madam Pomfrey treat the injured Gryffindors, easing the chaos in the Hospital Wing.
• Snape learned from Draco Malfoy that Kyle, George, and Fred had beaten many Slytherins, and angrily condemned the fight and Kyle’s impersonation of him.
• McGonagall scolded George and Fred for leading the brawl, while Dumbledore deducted two hundred points each from Gryffindor and Slytherin and two hundred from Hufflepuff.
• Dumbledore awarded Hannah twenty points for standing up for her friend and helping treat the injured, leaving Hufflepuff down one hundred and eighty points as Ravenclaw moved into first place.

Kyle avoided serving his detention with Snape and hid in Dumbledore’s office, where he read a book on the Dark Arts. Learning about Horcruxes led him to suspect that Voldemort had created them to preserve his life.

• Professor McGonagall assigned Kyle to help Snape process potion ingredients, the Weasley Twins to clean toilets, Ron to polish silverware, and Harry to answer Lockhart’s admirers’ letters.
• Snape went to the Hufflepuff common room to find Kyle, but Kyle had hidden in Dumbledore’s bedroom after eating in the underground kitchens.
• After Dumbledore left to visit the injured students, Kyle searched the bookshelves in the Headmaster’s office and found Advanced Dark Arts Unveiled.
• Kyle read about cruel spells, magical enslavement, and Horcruxes, rejecting the idea of using them to achieve immortality.
• Kyle compared the book’s account of Horcruxes with Voldemort’s survival after Lily’s protection repelled the Killing Curse and concluded that Voldemort had created Horcruxes.

Kyle and Cedric worried that Hufflepuff’s Quidditch team could not match Slytherin’s new Nimbus 2001 brooms, so Kyle proposed building rocket-powered flying brooms. They headed to the Owlery to ask Alfred for Muggle rocket-construction books.

• Kyle behaved himself after the House brawl and earned back the points Dumbledore had deducted.
• Lockhart caught the flu, and after Snape gave him a potion, he returned to class with a foul stench that sparked rumors across Hogwarts.
• Cedric, now Hufflepuff’s Quidditch captain with Kyle as vice-captain, trained the team and spied on Slytherin’s practice.
• Kyle offered to buy Hufflepuff new brooms, but Cedric refused and worried that their players could not overcome the gap in broom performance.
• Kyle proposed adding a rocket engine to flying brooms, and Cedric agreed the idea had potential.
• Kyle and Cedric went to the Owlery to write to Alfred for books on rocket construction.

Kyle and Cedric built a rocket-propelled flying broom called Fei Dian and tested it at the Quidditch Pitch. Kyle launched it successfully, leaving Hogwarts students and staff staring as it roared into the clouds.

• Kyle received a package and a jealous letter from Grindelwald, then wrote his father an excessively affectionate reply.
• Kyle and Cedric used the alchemy laboratory at Akina Mountain Manor to build their first rocket-powered broom.
• Kyle named the broom Fei Dian and took it to the Quidditch Pitch, where he encountered Ron, Hermione, and Hannah.
• Kyle warned everyone to stand back, mounted Fei Dian, and launched into the sky amid blazing exhaust and a thunderous roar.
• Students and professors across Hogwarts watched Fei Dian rise into the clouds and vanish, leaving the Muggle-born students wondering why Hogwarts had launched a rocket.

Kyle and Cedric planned improvements to the Fei Dian broom, while Dumbledore recruited the Four Troublemakers for a Halloween performance. Kyle persuaded Harry, Ron, and Hermione to join them, and Harry and Ron decided to skip Nick’s Deathday Party.

• Kyle and Cedric finalized a second-generation Fei Dian design to improve its defenses, maneuverability, exhaust, and appearance, and the Weasley twins joined their broom-making work.
• Dumbledore offered the Four Troublemakers House points to perform at the Halloween dinner, and Kyle agreed after bargaining for fifty points each.
• Kyle recruited Harry, Ron, and Hermione for the performance by offering them the same House-point reward.
• Harry and Ron realized their plans to attend Nick’s Deathday Party conflicted with rehearsals, and Kyle explained how unpleasant the ghost party would be.
• Harry and Ron decided not to attend the party, while Hermione agreed they could explain their absence to Nick.

Kyle staged a Halloween performance of “Gokuraku Jodo” with Harley, Ron, and Roelf, then the feast was interrupted by the discovery of Mrs. Norris petrified beside a warning about the Chamber of Secrets. The chapter left the students gathered in the corridor as Dumbledore confirmed Mrs. Norris was alive and Lockhart offered his nearby office.

• Harley, Ron, and Roelf performed “Gokuraku Jodo” while Hannah and Hermione sang and the Four Troublemakers played instruments backstage.
• Kyle spotted Snape wiping his nose and asked Colin Creevey to photograph him.
• Ron rushed into the Great Hall and reported that Mrs. Norris might be dead, prompting Filch and the others to hurry to the third floor.
• The crowd found Mrs. Norris hanging petrified from a torch bracket beside a message warning that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened.
• Kyle recognized that Mrs. Norris was not dead, and Dumbledore confirmed she had been hit by an advanced Petrification Curse.
• Lockhart claimed the discovery as his own and offered his nearby office for the discussion.

After Mrs. Norris was petrified, Dumbledore questioned Harry and Ron while Kyle considered whether a Basilisk lurked in the Chamber of Secrets. Kyle escorted Hermione and Hannah toward their common rooms and warned them to stay together, then took Hannah back by a shortcut.

• Harry and Ron told Dumbledore that they had heard a threatening voice in the corridor before finding Mrs. Norris petrified.
• Kyle suggested that Mandrakes could cure Mrs. Norris, and Snape was assigned to brew the restorative potion after Kyle objected to Lockhart’s offer.
• Dumbledore and Kyle considered the Chamber of Secrets and suspected that its monster might be a Basilisk, but Kyle could not determine where it was hiding.
• Kyle met Hannah and Hermione in the corridor, explained the danger, and warned them not to wander around the castle alone.
• Kyle escorted Hermione to the Gryffindor Common Room, then took Hannah by a shortcut and the two plummeted from the eighth floor railing.

Hufflepuff and Gryffindor opened Hogwarts’s Quidditch season with Kyle and the Weasley Twins turning the match into a Bludger Snooker contest. Kyle’s shot wrecked Harry’s broom, but Dumbledore stopped Harry’s fall as Kyle continued after the other Bludger.

• Hufflepuff and Gryffindor took the opening match, and Kyle traded tricks and taunts with Fred and George before the game began.
• Hufflepuff’s Cadwallader used a feint with Kyle’s Bludger Snooker to break through Gryffindor’s defense and shoot at goal.
• Fred and George used a Bludger to deflect Cadwallader’s Quaffle and defend the hoop against Kyle’s attack.
• Kyle opened the first two Gates and dodged the Twins’ Bludgers before smashing one into the tail of Harry’s Nimbus 2000.
• Harry’s broom broke apart and he fell screaming, but Dumbledore used Aresto Momentum to stop his fall and bring him safely to the ground.
• Kyle straightened his bent bat and flew toward the other Bludger.

After Hufflepuff crushed Gryffindor in Quidditch, Kyle worked on a new broom and spent time with Hannah before hearing a scraping sound that suggested the Chamber of Secrets was active. Kyle rushed off to investigate, and Hannah followed despite his warning to contact Professor Dumbledore.

• Kyle led Hufflepuff to a 450-point victory over Gryffindor, with Cedric catching the Golden Snitch.
• Kyle left Hufflepuff’s celebration to work with Cedric on the second-generation Fei Dian broom.
• Hannah found Kyle and joined him for dinner in the kitchen after Cedric left them alone.
• Kyle heard a scraping sound near the common room and suspected the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk were involved.
• Kyle gave Hannah a Two-way Mirror and told her to contact Professor Dumbledore while he followed the sound, but Hannah chased after him.

Kyle ambushed the Basilisk in the castle corridor, badly injuring it with flashbangs, magic, and his sword, but Hannah's arrival helped it escape. He followed its blood trail until it vanished, then gently warned Hannah not to act recklessly again.

• Kyle tracked the Basilisk to the third-floor corridor and waited in ambush after two students passed.
• Kyle attacked the Basilisk with flashbangs, Feng Qiu Huang, fire, wind, and exploding tags, severely injuring it.
• The Basilisk charged Kyle, and he blinded himself to its gaze before striking at it with his shadow-flame sword.
• Hannah arrived during the fight, and Kyle blocked the Basilisk's escape route before pursuing it through the mist.
• The Basilisk broke through the wall and escaped, and Kyle followed its blood trail until it disappeared.
• Kyle gently told Hannah not to be so reckless next time.

After Kyle fought off the Basilisk, he showed Dumbledore an alchemical surveillance system that could help the professors track the monster and identify the Heir of the Chamber of Secrets. Dumbledore tasked Kyle with expanding the system across Hogwarts within a week.

• Dumbledore and the professors questioned Kyle about his fight with the Basilisk, and Snape suggested that Harry's Parseltongue might help them find the Chamber's entrance.
• Kyle blasted open a wall and revealed drainage pipes, explaining how the Basilisk moved around the castle and escaped.
• Dumbledore sent Kyle and Hannah away, but Kyle stayed to present crystal-ball surveillance tools he had made.
• Kyle demonstrated that the crystal balls could record video and audio, show live footage, and broadcast messages around Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore asked Kyle to install the surveillance system throughout the school, and Kyle agreed to finish in about a week.

After completing Hogwarts’s Skynet surveillance system, Kyle showed Cedric a dangerous bone-based fighting technique while trying to help him find a path to greater strength. The four friends followed spiders into the Forbidden Forest to harvest Acromantula venom, where an Acromantula attacked them from behind.

• Kyle, George, Fred, and Cedric finished installing Skynet, and Kyle celebrated with a barbecue in the Forbidden Forest.
• Cedric told Kyle he felt lost about how to become stronger, so Kyle demonstrated Shikotsumyaku and Early Fern Dance, but Cedric refused to learn it.
• Kyle considered whether Cedric should gain power by fusing a magical creature’s bloodline, then joined the others in exploring the Forbidden Forest for Acromantula venom.
• George found spiders leading the group to the Acromantula colony, where the four discussed how to collect venom without destroying it.
• An Acromantula sneaked up behind the four, and Kyle blocked its strike with a Flying Thunder God Kunai before hitting its head with a Rasengan.

Kyle and his friends fought off Aragog’s Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest, then negotiated a regular supply of venom. The group collected the venom while Kyle celebrated by barbecuing a spider leg.

• An Acromantula ambushed Kyle and his friends, but Kyle struck it down, and the group prepared to fight the charging spiders.
• Kyle, Fred, George, and Cedric battled the Acromantulas while Cedric collected venom from their corpses.
• Aragog emerged and ordered his kin to attack, but he offered compensation when Kyle’s group proved too strong.
• Kyle threatened the encircling spiders until Aragog agreed to provide venom regularly, and the Acromantulas filled the group’s bottles.
• Kyle lit a bonfire and began barbecuing an Acromantula leg while his friends collected venom.

After another Basilisk attack, Dumbledore revealed that Ginny Weasley had been manipulated by Tom Riddle’s diary and sent Kyle to recover it. Kyle returned empty-handed, and the destroyed surveillance crystal balls showed that someone had concealed the diary’s disappearance.

• After collecting Acromantula venom, Kyle, Cedric, George, and Fred saw the castle lights still on and hurried back, where Professor Flitwick told them Ginny had been identified as Slytherin’s heir.
• At the Headmaster’s Office, Dumbledore explained that Ginny had been manipulated by a notebook made by Tom Riddle, Voldemort’s former name, and Ginny revealed she had thrown it into Moaning Myrtle’s Bathroom.
• Dumbledore reassured Ginny that she would not be expelled, while Professor McGonagall took her to the hospital wing and the Weasley twins learned she was safe.
• Kyle searched the third-floor bathroom but could not find the diary, then reported that several surveillance crystal balls had been destroyed.
• Dumbledore reviewed the remaining footage and found that the surveillance system had failed to capture what happened before the crystal balls were destroyed.

Kyle offered to help Cedric fuse with the Basilisk bloodline, and Cedric agreed to take the dangerous path. Meanwhile, Harry, Ron, and Hermione planned to investigate Slytherin using Polyjuice Potion, and Kyle gave Hermione a forged Restricted Section permission slip bearing Dumbledore’s signature.

• Kyle demonstrated his precise control of Phoenix flames and offered Cedric the chance to fuse with the Basilisk bloodline, warning him of the danger.
• Cedric accepted Kyle’s help, and the two clasped hands in agreement.
• At breakfast, Harry, Ron, and Hermione suspected Slytherin’s heir might be a student in Slytherin House and discussed sneaking into the common room.
• Hermione proposed using Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves, but noted they needed the recipe from a book in the Restricted Section.
• Hermione asked Kyle for a Restricted Section permission slip, and Kyle forged one with Dumbledore’s signature.

Harry and the Weasleys learned that Lucius Malfoy had slipped Voldemort’s diary to Ginny, while Hermione sought the Polyjuice Potion recipe. In the library, Kyle gave the Savior Trio a way to break into Snape’s potion storeroom, setting them up for mischief.

• Harry recognized Ginny’s diary as the black notebook he had seen Lucius Malfoy handling at Borgin and Burkes, and Mr. Weasley realized Lucius had planted it in Ginny’s cauldron.
• Mrs. Weasley angrily blamed Lucius for using Ginny, while Harry wondered whether Lucius had reclaimed the missing diary.
• Kyle and Cedric entered the Restricted Section and found the book Magical Bloodlines.
• Hermione told Kyle she wanted to find the Polyjuice Potion recipe, so Kyle fetched her a book about potions.
• When Hermione worried about finding the ingredients, Kyle suggested the trio use a Blasting Curse to open Snape’s private potion storeroom.

Hufflepuff debuted its Fei Dian rocket brooms against Slytherin, while Kyle mocked the opposing team by transforming into Snape and Dumbledore. Hufflepuff won 370 to 20, and the other Houses were left stunned by the lopsided score.

• Hufflepuff entered the pitch with Fei Dian brooms sponsored by Kyle, despite having had little time to train with them.
• Kyle transformed into Snape and Dumbledore to taunt Marcus Flint and Slytherin, angering the professors and amusing Madam Hooch.
• Hufflepuff used the Fei Dian brooms' speed to take the Quaffle, while Lee Jordan's commentary earned him a smack from Professor McGonagall.
• Kyle held back during the match, and Hufflepuff's players built a lead of more than a hundred points despite struggling to handle their new brooms.
• Cedric caught the Golden Snitch, ending the match with Hufflepuff ahead 370 to 20.

Kyle returned home for Christmas and gave Grindelwald the Resurrection Stone Ring, which Grindelwald identified as a Horcrux and agreed to destroy without damaging the Stone. Grindelwald warned Kyle that the Resurrection Stone could not truly restore the dead and that gathering all three Deathly Hallows would bring about something terrifying.

• Kyle left Hogwarts through the Forbidden Forest and used Dumbledore’s Portkey to return home, where Konan welcomed him.
• Kyle gave Grindelwald the Resurrection Stone Ring, and Grindelwald confirmed that it was a Horcrux.
• Grindelwald said he could destroy the soul inside the ring while preserving the Resurrection Stone and return it by the following night.
• Grindelwald warned Kyle that the Resurrection Stone summoned sorrowful, detached, and lonely souls rather than truly reviving the dead.
• Grindelwald told Kyle that gathering all three Deathly Hallows could make resurrection possible if Kyle became Death, then warned him that doing so would cause something terrifying.

Kyle decided to return the Resurrection Stone to Snape and practiced Lightning Style: Kirin with Lan. Meanwhile, Gilderoy Lockhart slaughtered centaurs and fed them to a mysterious creature in a blood magic circle before setting his sights on the Acromantulas.

• Kyle decided to return the Resurrection Stone to Snape, reasoning that Grindelwald could intervene if Snape became addicted to it.
• Kyle had Lan summon a storm so he could form a lightning Kirin, but the beast crashed down on Kyle and the others.
• A hooded wizard entered centaur territory, killed three centaurs, and used Xin Ya to help capture the tribe.
• The wizard revealed himself as Gilderoy Lockhart and fed the unconscious centaurs to a light-like creature in a blood-drawn magic circle.
• Gilderoy Lockhart announced that he would next go to the Acromantula territory.