Chapter Summaries

Harry dealt with Myrtle’s persistent attention while deciding to seek help from Mr. Weasley, then joined Ron at the Ravenclaw Quidditch pitch to meet the prospective players. Roger reported changes to the team, and Harry welcomed Cho Chang as a new player.

• Harry avoided Myrtle by staying in Ravenclaw Tower and decided to write Mr. Weasley for help after Ron told him how Oliver Hornby had stopped Myrtle from stalking her.
• Harry explained to Ron that Ravenclaw was checking candidates for three official spots and choosing substitutes because several former players had graduated.
• Roger told Harry that Henry had switched to Beater and introduced Cho Chang as his replacement.
• Harry recognized Cho Chang from the train and welcomed her onto the Ravenclaw team after praising her flying and early-morning training.

After Quidditch tryouts, Harry and Ron found Lupin arguing with Hagrid about the danger posed by Aragog’s Acromantula colony in the Forbidden Forest. Lupin explained that Dumbledore had tasked him with contacting werewolves to gather information, while he remained optimistic that their side would defeat Voldemort.

• Richard House became Keeper and Bradley Jones filled the remaining Beater position, while Phoenix and Roger remained the Seekers and Chambers became a reserve.
• Harry and Ron found Lupin confronting Hagrid over the centaurs’ fear of Aragog and the thousands of Acromantulas he led.
• Lupin warned that Aragog’s offspring might become dangerous after he died, and Hagrid said he would speak with Aragog while Lupin planned to consult Dumbledore.
• Lupin told Harry and Ron that Dumbledore had asked him to contact werewolves in the Forbidden Forest and gather information about Voldemort.
• Lupin said he could not imagine their side losing, and Ron admitted he was afraid of living spiders.

Harry learned that Myrtle had heard he liked her, and her excited announcement spread through Hogwarts. The story then shifted to Rotherham, where the wizard Old Hanks felt a threatening presence outside his church as his teapot Portkey failed.

• Harry asked Ron why he feared spiders, and Ron explained that Fred had turned his teddy bear into a giant spider when he was three.
• Myrtle appeared, asked Harry if it was true, then plunged through the floor and shouted that Harry Potter liked her.
• Old Hanks, a wizard managing a mysterious family's business from Rotherham Church, sold unusual magical items and suspected someone was watching him.
• Old Hanks felt a savage, transparent snake outside the church and reached for his teapot Portkey, but it did not work.

Voldemort cornered Old Hanks in a church, but a time-stopping Kamen Rider intervened and destroyed the body Voldemort was using. Old Hanks survived as Voldemort’s remaining wisp of black smoke vanished.

• Voldemort confronted Old Hanks and revealed that Fenrir Greyback’s body had been provided for him.
• Voldemort used a ritual to bind Old Hanks and force him to face him.
• A silver-gray-suited stranger stopped time and appeared in the church.
• The stranger transformed into Kamen Rider Cronus and stopped Voldemort’s killing curse.
• Cronus resumed time and destroyed Voldemort’s body, leaving Old Hanks alive as black smoke escaped and disappeared.

Voldemort survived by possessing a black adder and planned to take over Antonin Dolohov in Azkaban so he could rebuild his strength and seize the Elder Wand. Meanwhile, Harry woke from a vivid dream with his scar burning, as Ron called his name in his sleep.

• Voldemort awakened inside a black adder after being swallowed by it and reflected on how he had been reduced to his weakest state.
• Voldemort recalled how Kronos had stopped his Killing Curse, shaking his confidence and convincing him that the wizarding world was advancing beyond him.
• Voldemort planned to possess Antonin Dolohov in Azkaban, rally his imprisoned followers, and eventually seize the Elder Wand and occupy the Ministry of Magic.
• Harry woke from a vivid dream two hundred miles away with his lightning-shaped scar burning.
• Harry got out of bed after hearing Ron call his name in his sleep and thought about how others might interpret their relationship.

Harry recalled a vivid dream in which Voldemort regained a body, sought a mysterious wand, and ended up as a snake in a rubbish dump. He told Ron and Draco about the dream, and the three realized Voldemort might be turning to Antonin Dolohov sooner than they had expected.

• Harry recalled a dream of Voldemort confronting an old man in a church about a wand and then transforming through several bodies before becoming a snake.
• Harry woke with his scar throbbing and wondered whether Voldemort had regained a body and whether Draco's father was in danger.
• Helena found Harry in the common room, but he told her the experience had only been a nightmare.
• Harry brought Draco to Ron and asked about Antonin Dolohov, whom Ron said had killed his mother's brothers and their families and was imprisoned in Azkaban.
• Harry recounted his dream, and Draco and Ron speculated that Voldemort might be recovering his power and could seek Dolohov soon.

Harry, Ron, and Draco decided to warn their families after suspecting Voldemort planned to target Dolohov and Azkaban. Meanwhile, Riddle told Dumbledore that Voldemort had died again and revealed that Harry was an unknown Horcrux, but Dumbledore chose to wait for Harry to share what he knew.

• Harry, Ron, and Draco agreed to write to their families and Sirius with warnings about Voldemort’s plans.
• Riddle told Dumbledore that Voldemort had died the previous night and likely had been in Yorkshire.
• Riddle revealed that Voldemort had used Greyback as a body and that Harry was a Horcrux Voldemort did not know about.
• Dobby volunteered to find Harry, but Dumbledore asked him to wait and said he trusted Riddle.
• Dumbledore and Riddle debated whether Harry inspired kindness through love or his own character.

Dumbledore, Arthur Weasley, and Lucius Malfoy discussed Voldemort’s hunt for the Elder Wand and devised a plan to protect the Malfoy family while drawing Voldemort toward a false lead. Dumbledore revealed that Voldemort was near Rotherham and that the supposedly dead god Kronos had returned to life.

• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort’s actions had been prompted by an article in The Quibbler, and he gave Lucius Malfoy a single-use warning device made with Fawkes’s tail feather.
• Arthur Weasley confirmed that a new decree would send prisoners other than serious criminals to an isolated island in Ireland.
• Dumbledore and Lucius planned to leave the Elder Wand with Dumbledore and let The Daily Prophet suggest it had fallen into Lucius’s hands, protecting the Malfoys and misleading Voldemort.
• Dumbledore identified Rotherham as the place where Voldemort had died again and said Voldemort might still be nearby in snake form, so Aurors could not safely capture him.
• Dumbledore revealed that Harry had recalled the name Kronos, a god of time believed to be dead, and that the power behind the name had come alive.

Dumbledore recognized that his faction held unprecedented power and decided which dangerous magical knowledge needed to be sealed away. At Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, and Draco worried over unanswered letters until Sirius explained that their fathers were busy briefing Dumbledore about Harry’s dream.

• Dumbledore concluded that Greek mythology and its related spells needed to be sealed away, while the Time-Turner alone required sealing because no modern wizard had developed spells using its name.
• Arthur Weasley agreed to arrange the sealing, while Ron, Harry, and Draco complained that their fathers had not replied to their letters.
• Draco revealed that he had become Slytherin’s new Quidditch Seeker, and Ron said he would only cheer for him against Hufflepuff.
• A bald eagle arrived with Sirius’s letter for Harry, and Harry learned that Sirius, Arthur, and Lucius had told Dumbledore about his dream and were too busy handling the matter to reply.

Harry, Ron, and Draco discussed the Elder Wand and the information they had gathered after the dream while the rain kept Quidditch practice indoors. That night, Myrtle barged into Ravenclaw Tower and groped Harry while he was bathing.

• Ginny caught a cold after Herbology, and Ron made her drink Pepperup Potion, leaving steam pouring from her hair and making her angry with him.
• Ron told Harry and Draco that he had learned about the Elder Wand through Luna and an article in The Quibbler, but Draco revealed the story had also appeared in The Daily Prophet.
• Draco explained that Lucius Malfoy had reluctantly handed the Elder Wand to Dumbledore and arranged for the story to be published, while Harry distracted the others by discussing the new prison called Cage.
• Ron suggested they stop investigating the dream, and Draco defused an argument by changing the subject to gossip about Ryan.
• Myrtle entered Ravenclaw Tower that night and groped Harry while he was bathing.

Rumors about Myrtle’s restored ability to touch the living spread through Hogwarts, and the school tightened its protections. As Halloween arrived, Harry and Ron headed to Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party in the basement, while Harry remained miserable about Myrtle’s groping.

• Myrtle’s return to a living appearance and her touch frightened students, while Harry’s account fueled rumors that she had groped him.
• Professor McGonagall and the other professors inspected the common rooms and found that Myrtle had entered Ravenclaw Tower only once because she had regained living traits and had died as an ungraduated Ravenclaw.
• Nick’s Deathday Party was moved from the Great Hall to a basement classroom, disappointing Dumbledore and ruining Hermione’s bet with Ryan.
• Harry and Ron discussed the party and the rumors about Myrtle, and Harry shouted that she had groped him only once.
• Harry and Ron went to the basement instead of the decorated Great Hall, and Draco suggested restricting Myrtle to the third-floor bathroom.

Harry, Ron, and Draco attended Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party, where Nick explained that Harry and Dumbledore had helped bring ghost food into the world. The ghosts waited for the Headless Hunt to arrive, and Harry realized Nick planned to use the feast to embarrass them.

• Harry conjured a magical sun to light the cold passage, while Draco taught Ron a Warming Charm and Harry explained the spell’s connection to his Dark Curse.
• Harry, Ron, and Draco reached the party and endured the ghosts’ music as Nearly Headless Nick welcomed them.
• Harry saw that the tombstone-shaped cake welcomed him as the Nemesis of Peeves, and Nick explained that Harry’s role in bringing Ravenclaw’s Diadem into the world had helped Dumbledore create ghost food.
• Harry said the ghosts were waiting for the Headless Hunt, and he realized Nick wanted to humiliate them because their detached heads would make eating the ghost food difficult.

Harry attended Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday feast with Ron and Draco, but the living guests had no food or warmth, and Helena was absent. The Headless Hunt arrived to little notice as the ghosts focused on the food, leaving Nick furious at being ignored.

• Draco explained that Nick had prepared nothing for the living guests, while Harry asked him to overlook the mistake because they had arrived late.
• Harry asked Nick why the Grey Lady was absent, and Nick hinted that Helena stayed away because the Bloody Baron was there.
• Harry agreed with Ron and Draco to leave after the Headless Hunt arrived, and the three used warming charms as the cold worsened.
• The twelve ghostly horses and their headless riders burst into the classroom, but the ghosts kept eating instead of watching their arrival.
• Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore accused Nick of relying on Dumbledore’s handiwork, then led the Headless Hunt to dinner as Nick seethed at being ignored.

Nearly Headless Nick tried to embarrass the Headless Hunt at his deathday party, but Patrick Delaney-Podmore exposed how Nick had neglected his living guests. Nick admitted his mistake and apologized as Harry and his friends left for the Halloween feast.

• Harry realized Nick had arranged the party meal and stage to spite the Headless Hunt, while Patrick Delaney-Podmore seemed to understand his plan.
• Nick invited the Headless Hunt to perform and mocked them for being unable to eat cake, prompting Patrick to confront him about the banquet and its living guests.
• Patrick pointed out that Harry Potter and his friends had been left without food, and Nick admitted he had acted out of spite and forgotten their needs.
• Patrick apologized for stealing Nick's limelight, and Nick apologized to the guests before urging Harry and his friends to leave for the Halloween feast.
• As they left, Draco told Ron that Crabbe and Goyle hoped to join the Slytherin Team and that Dudley had become the new Keeper.

Harry learned that Dudley had become Hufflepuff’s goalkeeper after Diggory discovered his talent and helped him join the team. In Riddle’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Harry learned how magic could protect young wizards from dangers such as electrocution, while finding most of his other classes dull.

• Harry, Ron, and Draco discussed how Dudley became a goalkeeper despite his difficulty flying, and Draco explained that Diggory had discovered Dudley’s talent while Loki told him to keep acting as usual.
• Draco revealed that Diggory had become Hufflepuff’s new Seeker ahead of schedule and was expected to become the next captain.
• Harry and the others reached the Great Hall after the feast had ended, but ate food Crabbe and Goyle had packed away.
• Professor Riddle taught Harry’s class about high-voltage electricity and explained how young wizards could use Transfiguration and instinctive magic to protect themselves.
• Harry realized that many dangers that threatened Muggles were less dangerous to wizards if they had time to react, then found most of his other classes uninteresting.

Ryan stayed busy managing the Room of Requirement’s spoils, restraining Voldemort, and spending time with his friends, but he was more troubled by the God of Death’s silence. His plan to inherit Kronos’s divine name accelerated his progress toward godhood, and he suspected the God of Death had become an unconscious force bound to the Afterlife.

• Ryan repaired or converted the Room of Requirement’s spoils and struggled to control his strength while fighting Voldemort.
• Ryan spent time with Penelope, Kate, Hermione, Luna, and Fleur, while Hamster Wheel PhD helped ease his fatigue and Jerry nearly ate Scabbers.
• Ryan wondered why the God of Death had not reacted to his actions or left the Afterlife, despite appearing to notice them.
• Ryan developed a divine name inheritance plan and inherited Kronos’s name, becoming a living God of Time and drawing closer to Lv7.
• Ryan theorized that the God of Death had absorbed the power of previous death gods until it lost its identity and could only influence events from within the Afterlife.

Ryan returned to Ravenclaw Tower and read a German newspaper report that twisted Grindelwald’s appetite into wild claims about Dumbledore and British politics. Harry and Ron discussed the report and the paper behind it before preparing for Charms class.

• Ryan returned to Ravenclaw Tower at dawn, found Harry still asleep, and read The Daily Prophet.
• Ryan saw a Der Spiegel report that linked Grindelwald’s appetite to a British book and alleged that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were secretly working together.
• Ron pointed out the report to Harry and explained that Der Spiegel published weekly speculations about Grindelwald.
• Harry dismissed the report as a joke and argued that Der Spiegel dared to publish it because Grindelwald was less dangerous than Voldemort.
• Harry got ready for Charms class while reflecting on Grindelwald’s beliefs and the wizarding world’s resistance to change.

Ryan sent a thought to Gellert Grindelwald in Nurmengard, prompting him to rise, gather his followers, and seize control of Austria’s Ministry of Magic. Grindelwald then planned to recruit Durmstrang and reflected on his past with Albus Dumbledore and a prophetic dream that could change everything.

• Ryan sent a thought into Gellert Grindelwald’s chest in Nurmengard, and Grindelwald woke and summoned his followers.
• Grindelwald took a new wand and ordered his followers to conquer Austria as a place to establish themselves.
• Grindelwald and his followers subdued the Austrian Ministry of Magic and imprisoned its staff.
• Grindelwald ordered Emeric to invite Durmstrang headmaster Igor Karkaroff to the Austrian Ministry of Magic.
• Grindelwald recalled meeting Albus Dumbledore, their Blood Pact and plans, Ariana’s death, and his later defeat by Dumbledore.
• Grindelwald remembered having a prophetic dream that could undo everything.

Grindelwald dreamed of seeing the Resurrection Stone at Hogwarts and resolved to obtain it to revive Ariana, while wizards across Britain embraced magically modified Muggle gadgets. As a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin began, Draco worried that his overconfident teammates were underestimating Gryffindor.

• Grindelwald dreamed that a boy used the Resurrection Stone to summon a dead woman, then wondered whether his escape from Nurmengard and the Triwizard Tournament were part of a prophecy.
• Wizards registered magically modified Muggle objects as gadgets, and unusual vehicles became common in Diagon Alley.
• Hogwarts students favored scuba gear for exploring the Black Lake, while Colin Creevey made money selling it and gave up photography.
• Oliver Wood rallied Gryffindor before its match against Slytherin, while Draco worried that Slytherin's confidence and assumptions about their brooms could cost them the game.
• Gryffindor and Slytherin began their match before a small crowd, and Slytherin captain Marcus Flint stole the Quaffle from Angelina Johnson.

Gryffindor defeated Slytherin in a bizarre Quidditch match after Draco Malfoy caught the Golden Snitch, and the players discussed his risky feint afterward. Harry, Ron, and Draco then realized Hagrid had been missing since he said he would deal with the Acromantula colony.

• Gryffindor scored repeatedly against Slytherin, taking a 140–10 lead while Draco pursued the Snitch with Stark close behind.
• Draco’s feint sent Stark crashing beneath the stands, but Stark recovered and returned to the match.
• Draco caught the Golden Snitch, bringing Slytherin’s score to 160, but Gryffindor won 170–160.
• Draco told Harry and Ron that Fred and George had kept him from catching the Snitch sooner by threatening him with Bludgers.
• Ron suggested visiting Hagrid, and Harry, Ron, and Draco realized they had not seen him since he mentioned sorting out the Acromantula colony.