Chapter Summaries

Kyle learned to control Kirin by guiding its landing with a weather spell, then retrieved the Resurrection Stone and asked Grindelwald to teach him Fiendfyre. Grindelwald began teaching him Every Spell Ends as a safeguard and showed how it could extinguish Kyle’s fire before asking him to try the spell.

• After Grindelwald pointed out his mistake, Kyle guided Kirin with a weather spell while Lan summoned it, and the lightning struck the forest instead of Kyle.
• The exhausted Lan received a large pile of food, and the next morning Kyle retrieved the Resurrection Stone from Grindelwald.
• Kyle asked Grindelwald to teach him Fiendfyre, and Grindelwald agreed to first teach him Every Spell Ends.
• Grindelwald demonstrated Every Spell Ends by extinguishing Kyle’s Majestic Destroyer Flame, then told Kyle to cast the spell himself.

While Kyle considered developing a Susanoo-like defense, Hermione and Ron infiltrated the Slytherin common room but found no evidence against Draco. Another student was petrified after attacks devastated creatures in the Forbidden Forest and Black Lake, and Dumbledore ordered the professors to search Hogwarts’s sewers.

• Kyle imagined combining Every Spell Ends, Super Protego, and Fiendfyre into a Susanoo, but Grindelwald pointed out that he could not yet maintain or power the spells together.
• Hermione and Ron used Polyjuice Potion to enter the Slytherin common room, while Harry accidentally transformed into a catboy and was admitted to the school hospital.
• Hermione and Ron questioned Draco but found no reason to suspect him as Slytherin’s heir.
• Centaurs and merfolk reported that their tribes had been attacked, while the unicorns and other Forbidden Forest creatures had also likely suffered.
• After another student was petrified, Dumbledore told the professors to search the Hogwarts sewers for the Basilisk.

Kyle and Konan went to the illegal Mysterious Circus in Paris, where they found magical creatures and half-breeds being abused. Kyle flooded the circus to free them, and his associates arrived to erase memories and send the captives to Newt Scamander.

• Kyle and Konan entered the French wizarding district and followed their tickets to the Mysterious Circus.
• At the circus, Kyle saw a Half-Orc girl with fox ears and a tail being whipped while Viktor Krum stood nearby.
• Konan said she wanted to buy the girl, but Kyle used Water Style: Great Exploding Water Surge to overwhelm the circus and trap everyone inside a water prison.
• Kyle and Konan left with Krum and the freed girl, and Kyle contacted Alfred for help.
• Three associates Apparated and Kyle ordered them to erase the spectators' memories and send the magical creatures and half-breeds to Newt Scamander in Dorset.

After a cleanup, Kyle confronted Krum, who recognized him as Grindelwald’s son and challenged him. Kyle let Krum go and named the fox-eared girl Hydrangea before returning home with Konan.

• Kyle asked Konan what she planned to do with the fox-eared girl, and she pointed out that he was her manager.
• Krum recognized Kyle’s eyes, drew his wand, and demanded to know what Gellert Grindelwald was to him.
• Kyle disarmed Krum with a wandless spell and revealed that Grindelwald was his father.
• Krum assumed Grindelwald had escaped Nurmengard and reassembled his forces, but Kyle returned his wand and let him leave.
• Kyle learned that the girl had no name or family, named her Hydrangea, and invited Konan to go home.

Kyle helped Snape use the Resurrection Stone to see Lily, then met with Dumbledore to discuss Hogwarts's crisis and learn where the Chamber of Secrets entrance was. Dumbledore revealed that it lay in Myrtle's bathroom, though the Basilisk's location remained unknown.

• Kyle photographed Harry wearing cat ears and traded Snape's potions for Colin's camera.
• Kyle delivered the Resurrection Stone to Snape, who summoned Lily's phantom and vowed to create a world where she existed.
• Kyle climbed into Dumbledore's office and discussed the drainage-pipe search, Lucius Malfoy's efforts to remove Dumbledore, and the risk to Hagrid.
• Dumbledore showed Kyle a Pensieve memory of Myrtle's death fifty years earlier in the third-floor bathroom.
• Dumbledore explained that the Chamber entrance was beside a snake-carved faucet and opened by speaking Parseltongue, but the Basilisk had vanished and evaded his tracking.

Hogwarts opened a Duelling Club led by Gilderoy Lockhart and Severus Snape, while Harry watched Cho and Cedric together with envy. Lockhart unexpectedly displayed powerful duelling skills, and Kyle suspected that he had acquired Tom Riddle's diary.

• Cho invited Cedric to attend the Duelling Club, and Harry saw them together and grew jealous.
• Kyle recognized the club's flashy stage as a sign that Lockhart would lead it and told the Weasley Twins they should challenge him.
• Lockhart and Snape appeared before the students, and several students mocked Lockhart over his past failures and humiliations.
• Kyle watched Lockhart duel Snape and noticed that Lockhart had become far more capable than before.
• Kyle concluded that Tom Riddle's diary had fallen into Lockhart's hands.

Kyle uncovered signs that Lockhart was working with Tom and tried to capture him, but Lockhart escaped after a Basilisk attack killed a student in the Slytherin dormitory. Dumbledore prepared to leave Hogwarts and entrusted Kyle and McGonagall with authority to defend the school against Tom and Lockhart.

• At the Duelling Club, Lockhart fought Snape evenly, Hermione defeated Pansy, and Harry revealed that he could speak Parseltongue when Draco's summoned snake went out of control.
• Kyle watched Lockhart return to his office and saw him communicate through an old notebook with someone who warned him to follow their plan.
• Kyle and Dumbledore raided Lockhart's office, but Flitwick's reconstruction showed that Lockhart had escaped through the window.
• Snape reported that the Basilisk had entered through a secret passage in the Slytherin common room and killed a student in the dormitory.
• Dumbledore said the Ministry would likely take Hagrid and that Hogwarts might be shut down if another pure-blood student died.
• Dumbledore planned to grant Kyle and McGonagall part of the Headmaster's authority, and Kyle promised to hold back Tom and Lockhart while Dumbledore was away.

After another attack killed a Slytherin student, Dumbledore kept the students in the Great Hall overnight while Kyle pondered the young Tom Riddle’s motives. The next morning, the Ministry took Hagrid away and Lucius Malfoy presented Dumbledore’s suspension order, prompting Dumbledore to leave Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore told the students that an attack in the Slytherin common room had killed a student and arranged for everyone to sleep in the Great Hall.
• Kyle wondered why young Tom Riddle was attacking and killing, but fell asleep without finding an answer.
• Cornelius Fudge arrived to take Hagrid into Ministry custody, while Dumbledore insisted that Lockhart was responsible and had escaped.
• Kyle warned Hagrid to use the Eight Gates if the Ministry tried to harm him.
• Lucius Malfoy presented an order signed by all twelve governors suspending Dumbledore, and Kyle kicked Lucius out of the Entrance Hall.
• Dumbledore told the students he would not truly leave unless they all betrayed him, then departed; Hagrid urged them to follow the spiders before leaving with the Aurors.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Hagrid’s clue into the Forbidden Forest, where Aragog revealed that Lockhart had ordered the Acromantulas to attack Hogwarts. As the spiders overwhelmed them, Mr. Weasley’s Centurion Star Destroyer arrived and stopped in front of the trio.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the Great Hall under the Invisibility Cloak and followed spiders into the Forbidden Forest.
• The trio found Aragog, who said Hagrid had never opened the Chamber of Secrets and warned that a greater darkness was brewing in the forest.
• Aragog told them Lockhart had threatened the Acromantulas and ordered them to attack Hogwarts that night.
• Hermione attacked Aragog, but the spiders surrounded the trio and charged at them.
• Mr. Weasley’s Centurion Star Destroyer crushed its way through the Acromantulas and stopped beside Harry and Ron.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione fought through the Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest using the Weasleys’ heavily armed tank, then hurried to warn Hogwarts. At the Great Hall, they learned Ginny had been abducted by Lockhart and taken into the Chamber of Secrets.

• Ron drove the tank while Hermione operated its weapons, mowing down the Acromantulas and setting the forest ablaze.
• Hermione fired the tank’s main cannon at Aragog’s web, destroying it and killing the Acromantulas nearby.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione left Hagrid’s hut to warn the professors that the creatures might attack Hogwarts.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Hermione, Harry, Ginny, and Ron to the Great Hall, where she discovered Ginny was missing.
• Professor Flitwick reported that Lockhart had abducted Ginny and taken her into the Chamber of Secrets, leaving a threatening message on a corridor wall.

After learning that Ginny had been taken and the Forbidden Forest creatures were attacking Hogwarts, Kyle and Snape entered the Chamber of Secrets to rescue her. They confronted Tom Riddle and Lockhart, but Tom’s Protego deflected Kyle’s opening attack.

• Hermione told Professor McGonagall that Lockhart had coerced the Forbidden Forest creatures into attacking Hogwarts, while Flitwick reported that Ginny had been taken.
• Kyle persuaded Professor McGonagall to let him accompany Snape to rescue Ginny, and McGonagall animated Hogwarts’s statues to defend the castle.
• Kyle and Snape reached Myrtle’s bathroom, opened the passage behind the sink, and descended into the tunnel leading to the Chamber of Secrets.
• Snape used the phrase he had learned in Parseltongue to open the chamber entrance, where they found Ginny lying near the statue of Salazar Slytherin.
• Tom Riddle appeared with Lockhart as Tom drained Ginny’s life force, and Kyle attacked Lockhart while Snape fired Sectumsempra curses.
• Lockhart blocked Snape’s curses and deflected Kyle’s Kunai, then Tom cast Protego to knock Kyle’s lightning attack off course.

Kyle rescued Ginny from Tom Riddle’s curse, but Snape was badly injured while shielding them. As Cedric, George, and Fred defended Hogwarts from the Forbidden Forest creatures, Tom hatched the Hydra and sent it toward the castle.

• Kyle used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Ginny from the Chamber of Secrets, but Snape grabbed her cursed pendant and suffered its Dark Arts curse instead.
• Kyle and Snape broke the curse on Snape’s arm, though the damage was irreversible, and Snape took Ginny to Madam Pomfrey.
• Professor McGonagall allowed Cedric, George, and Fred to help defend Hogwarts, but George and Fred flew off while Cedric built a steel defensive line.
• Cedric set up replicated machine guns and mortars, while George and Fred bombarded the Forbidden Forest creatures and stopped their advance.
• Tom and Lockhart appeared in the Forbidden Forest, where Tom revealed the Hydra he had hatched and ordered it to attack Hogwarts Castle.

Kyle fought to protect Hogwarts as the Hydra attacked and Tom Riddle ambushed him. He outmaneuvered Riddle, destroyed the diary Horcrux with Fiendfyre, and left the battlefield silent except for the ongoing battle in the distance.

• The Weasley Twins' defenses halted the Forbidden Forest creatures until Lockhart arrived with the Hydra, prompting George and Fred to retreat.
• The Hydra fired a destructive energy projectile at Hogwarts, but Kyle redirected it into the Forbidden Forest while Professor McGonagall and the other professors prepared an earth giant.
• Tom Riddle ambushed Kyle and drained some of his life force, but Kyle escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique and confronted him near the Forbidden Forest.
• Kyle used taunts and a timed Rasengan strike to force Riddle into a vulnerable, materialized state, then seized the diary Horcrux from his robes.
• Kyle burned the diary Horcrux with Fiendfyre, and Tom Riddle's body turned to ash as Ginny's wand fell to the ground.

Kyle returned to Hogwarts while the professors and Weasley Twins battled the Hydra, and Dumbledore returned in time to kill it. Kyle and the others stripped the Hydra’s corpse for magical materials before Dumbledore could find it, leaving him baffled by its disappearance.

• Kyle returned to Hogwarts and saw the professors and Weasley Twins overpowering the Hydra.
• Dumbledore returned with Fawkes and Lockhart, bound the Hydra with Adamantine Sealing Chains, and killed it with a golden sword.
• Dumbledore praised the defenders and promised to apply for Order of Merlin medals for the Weasley Twins, Cedric, and Kyle.
• Kyle called Cedric, George, and Fred over, and the four began harvesting the Hydra’s corpse for magical materials.
• The four removed nearly the entire Hydra corpse, and Dumbledore wondered where the enormous monster had gone.

After the Chamber of Secrets battle, Kyle visited Snape in the Hospital Wing and considered replacing his damaged arm. Dumbledore asked Kyle to substitute as the next Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and Kyle began imagining a weapons-focused curriculum as Voldemort’s eventual return loomed.

• Kyle and the Weasley Twins went to the Hospital Wing, where Mr. and Mrs. Weasley thanked Kyle for saving Ginny.
• Madam Pomfrey told them that Snape’s arm had been saved but might never function normally again, and Kyle considered replacing it.
• The students cheered the Four Troublemakers after their role in the battle, while Dumbledore learned that Hagrid would be released and Lockhart would face trial.
• Kyle asked Dumbledore how he would fill the two vacant professor positions, and Dumbledore offered him a temporary Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching post.
• Kyle considered accepting and teaching students to use Weasley Industrial weapons as Voldemort’s return approached.

Kyle negotiated an appointment as Professor of Muggle Art Appreciation, though Dumbledore rejected his plan to build a student wizard army. The next morning, Aurors arrived with Hagrid, Lucius Malfoy came to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore told Kyle that the governors planned to remove Lucius from the board.

• Kyle asked Dumbledore to let him teach Muggle Art Appreciation with Fred and George as assistants, and Dumbledore approved the class but refused the assistants.
• Kyle proposed teaching students to use firearms alongside Shield Charms, but Dumbledore challenged his apparent plan to build an army.
• Kyle left the Headmaster's Office with his appointment letter, while the original Dark Arts Defence class was suspended.
• Aurors arrived at Hogwarts with Hagrid, and Lucius Malfoy came to the castle with a bandaged House-elf as Harry followed him carrying socks.
• Kyle urged Dumbledore to deal with Lucius, and Dumbledore said he had contacted the other governors to remove Lucius from the board.
• Harry returned with the House-elf, and Dumbledore sent Kyle to join the celebration as Hogwarts's hero.

Kyle became the substitute professor for Dark Arts Defence and appointed George, Fred, and Cedric as teaching assistants for a new course called Muggle Art Appreciation. He planned to turn the students into a wizard army through military drills and combat training, leaving open the prospect of a counterattack into the Forbidden Forest.

• Kyle told George, Fred, and Cedric that he would teach Dark Arts Defence and appointed them as his teaching assistants for Muggle Art Appreciation.
• Dumbledore blamed Gilderoy Lockhart’s crimes on the diary Horcrux and announced the new course, which would bring students from all years together every Friday.
• Kyle and the other three Four Troublemakers discussed a training program starting with standing and squatting drills, followed by running, crawling, and tactical exercises.
• Kyle planned to teach students how to climb trees and walk on water so they could face the creatures of the Forbidden Forest in a future battle.

Kyle devised a plan to create six magically enhanced clones called the Six Paths of Pain, then told Snape that his damaged arm could be restored. Snape refused the treatment and tried to escape, but Madam Pomfrey arrived with his medicine.

• Kyle imagined cloning six bodies and using personality endowment to give each one distinct abilities, then recorded the plan in a notebook.
• Kyle entered the Hospital Wing and told Snape his arm could be restored, briefly alarming him by pulling out a Black Cleaver.
• Kyle explained the treatment plan he had discussed with Dumbledore, but Snape refused.
• Kyle told Snape he had no choice and left the Hospital Wing, while Snape began plotting an escape.
• Snape tried to get out of bed, but Madam Pomfrey entered with his medicine.

Kyle and the other Troublemakers used Hydra materials to brew a Bloodline Fusion Potion, which Cedric drank after taking Felix Felicis. Cedric began developing snake-like traits, including slit pupils and a forked tongue, while the others laughed at his transformation.

• Kyle introduced guns in Muggle Art Appreciation, and Hogwarts students enthusiastically began military training despite the weapons’ painful recoil.
• Kyle, Cedric, and the Weasley Twins gathered at Akina Mountain Manor to complete the Hydra Bloodline Fusion Potion they had begun brewing after the battle.
• Kyle gave Cedric a spoonful of Felix Felicis before urging him to drink the scarlet potion.
• The potion spread through Cedric’s body, changed his eyes into golden snake-like slits, and gave him a long forked tongue.
• Kyle and the Weasley Twins laughed at Cedric’s appearance and joked about how he might kiss Cho Chang.

After taking Bloodline Fusion Potion and Felix Felicis, Cedric challenged Kyle to a duel, but Kyle overwhelmed him with powerful water, lightning, and storm magic. Cedric surrendered when Kyle summoned Kirin, and the others learned that the Thunderbird's name was Lan.

• Cedric felt his magic increase after taking the potions and challenged Kyle to a duel.
• Kyle and Cedric fought in the fields while George and Fred watched and doubted Cedric could win.
• Kyle raised a water wall, summoned Lan the Thunderbird, and used the storm it created to power his attacks.
• Cedric sent a towering rock giant at Kyle, but Kyle cut off its legs with Storm Release: Light Fang.
• Kyle formed Kirin in the storm clouds, prompting Cedric to surrender before the attack landed.
• Kyle dismissed Kirin, introduced the Thunderbird as Lan, and Cedric began petting it.