Chapter Summaries

Harry left Hogwarts for the summer and traveled with Ginny and Ron to King's Cross, where he realized that Filch had caught them because of Jerry, Ryan's cat. The chapter left Harry recognizing the source of the familiar meow as Luna greeted Ginny with Jerry in her arms.

• Hagrid arrived at Hogwarts's gates with Hephaestus, and he urged Harry to reconsider staying with the Dursleys.
• Harry rode in a carriage with Ginny and Ron, and Ron learned that Harry had overheard him criticizing Harry and Draco.
• Ron decided to practice the Muffliato Charm, while Ginny and Harry were exasperated by his response.
• Harry, Ginny, and Ron traveled by train to King's Cross, where Harry noticed Luna holding Jerry.
• Harry realized that Jerry's familiar meow had led Filch to catch them that night.

Ryan showed Kate and Penelope statues and newspapers documenting stories he had inserted into Britain’s past, explaining that he had traveled through time while protecting their memories. He asked them to choose which Rider’s power to release into the wizarding world, leaving the choice between Mirror World, Game Disease, and Nebula Gas.

• Kate and Penelope explored the fairy grotto and found statues of armored figures, including a youthful statue of Ryan marked 1992.
• Ryan produced nineteen newspapers, and Kate and Penelope recognized the figures and events described in them as stories linked to Dark Wizards who had died mysteriously.
• Kate guessed that Ryan had fabricated the newspapers for a social experiment and wanted her to spread the stories while Penelope developed them.
• Ryan explained that the newspapers recorded real stories he had acted out in the past under the identities of dead Dark Wizards, and that his protection had kept Kate and Penelope’s memories unchanged.
• Ryan asked Kate and Penelope to choose a Rider’s power—Mirror World, Game Disease, or Nebula Gas—to release across the wizarding world.

Ryan chose to unleash the Mirror World, a realm hidden within mirrors, across the world. Harry continued covering reflective surfaces at Privet Drive, unaware that the new world might be connected to the watcher he sensed in mirrors.

• Kate chose the Mirror World after learning about the dangerous powers contained in Ryan's statues, and Penelope agreed with her decision.
• Ryan poured his magic into divided time and expanded the Mirror World from a mirror in Axminster across the world.
• Ryan explained that the Mirror World reflected reality and people's hearts, and that it would endure as long as humans, wizards, and wizard-created magical fields existed.
• Harry woke at 4 Privet Drive and covered the wardrobe mirror, which had recently made him feel watched.
• Dudley entertained Vernon and Petunia with household magic, while Harry kept his engagement to Ginny secret from them.

Harry returned to the Dursleys and realized he wanted their blessing, even as he prepared to tell them he was engaged to Ginny. Aunt Petunia hinted that he could stay by boasting about Dudley’s Hogwarts friends and their visits, leaving Harry to understand that she was trying to keep him at home.

• Harry returned to the Dursleys on June 18 but stayed silent about his plan to leave for Sirius’s house.
• Harry noticed Uncle Vernon’s small gesture of dislike and wondered whether to tell the family he was engaged to Ginny.
• Dudley used his wand to serve breakfast, and the Dursleys praised him while Harry learned he had joined a Quidditch team.
• Aunt Petunia boasted that Cedric Diggory and other Hogwarts students would visit the Dursleys through their Floo Network connection.
• Harry realized Aunt Petunia had been watching him and was asking whether he wanted to stay.

Harry discovered a quest interface that offered a path to revive Lily Evans, then left Privet Drive with Sirius. Sirius brought him to his newly purchased magical estate at 10 Rosaceae Drive.

• Harry recalled Ryan telling him that he would install something for him, and saw a quest to revive Lily Evans appear on a virtual interface.
• Harry learned that reviving Lily required the Resurrection Stone and the Magic of Love she had left within him, while James could not be brought back.
• Harry packed his belongings and left 4 Privet Drive with Sirius, who picked him up in an Aston Martin.
• Sirius drove Harry through a mist-hidden gate to 10 Rosaceae Drive, where Harry saw a vast and lavish magical estate.

Ryan spent a busy summer with Kate, Penelope, Fleur, and Luna before watching Harry discover the wizarding world’s new construction industry. The chapter ended with Sirius revealing that he had bought Harry a manor as a gift for his future marriage to Ginny.

• Ryan gave up watching the show with Kate and Penelope and spent more time with them during their summer stay at Smith Castle.
• Ryan kept Fleur company and spent much of his time with Luna, while Hermione went to France with her family.
• In a video, Sirius explained to Harry that Water Construction Company used Muggle-inspired composite materials to build its manor.
• Sirius said he had paid 100,000 Galleons for the manor and planned to give it to Harry and Ginny as a wedding home.
• Harry realized Sirius had arranged the manor in just twelve days after receiving his letter and was dumbfounded.

Harry traveled with Sirius through a portable Anywhere Door to the Black House, where he met Lupin and Tonks. Tonks thanked Harry for bringing her and Lupin together, and she revealed that she was a Metamorphmagus.

• Harry learned that Sirius had arranged for his and Ginny's engagement banquet to be held at the Black House on the twenty-first.
• Sirius told Harry he wanted to do more for him, and Harry said Sirius had made him feel as though he had a father.
• Sirius opened the portable Anywhere Door and took Harry to the Black House's Entrance Hall.
• Harry met Tonks, who insisted Sirius call her by her surname and changed her hair to bubblegum pink in anger.
• Tonks embraced Harry, thanked him for bringing her and Lupin together, and explained that she was a Metamorphmagus.

Harry remained troubled by his defeat in the Mirror World, but Ron’s account of the Nether Dragon in a new comic gave him hope that it could be beaten. Harry discovered he could tell Ron about the Mirror World and explained that he needed to face the threat lurking in reflective surfaces.

• Harry sulked at Sirius’s home until Ron arrived and excitedly described a new Doraemon comic featuring a Nether Dragon.
• Harry learned that Luke Skywalker had defeated the Nether Dragon using Momotaro’s Rice Ball, then asked Ron how the dragon had been beaten.
• Ron wondered whether Harry was anxious about his coming engagement to Ginny, and Harry dismissed the concern.
• Harry told Ron that another version of himself had summoned a Nether Dragon from a mirror and driven him out of the Mirror World.
• Harry said the threat made him afraid to look at mirrors, windows, lake surfaces, and Ginny’s eyes.

Harry entered the Mirror World to reclaim the dark version of himself, who summoned the Nether Dragon to fight him. Harry began using their shared memories to unsettle him, leaving the other Harry clutching his head as he struggled to remember their dormitory.

• In the Black House, Harry and Ron read how Luke used love and Momotaro’s Rice Ball to overcome Dr. Sabo’s hatred and defeat the Nether Dragon.
• Harry entered the Mirror World alone, explaining that another Ron might appear if Ron came with him.
• Harry emerged near the ruins of the Potter family home in Godric’s Hollow and met his mirror counterpart.
• Mirror World Harry summoned the Nether Dragon, but Harry asked him to name the dormitory’s residents.
• Mirror World Harry faltered while trying to recall the names, and Harry calmly watched him clutch his head.

Harry merged with his Mirror World self to gain the memories and knowledge needed to seek the Resurrection Stone and bring his mother back. He then used the Mirror World as a transfer point, but accidentally pulled Ginny through the mirror and into his arms.

• Harry persuaded his Mirror World self to join him, and the two merged as the Mirror World shattered around them.
• Harry returned to Black House and told Ron that he had resolved the conflict with his other self through conversation rather than a battle.
• In Smith Castle's basement, Kate and Penelope confronted Ryan about the task and the preview they had watched, and Ryan blamed Ron's early access for spoiling his plans.
• Harry explained that he had gained knowledge of the Mirror World and could use it to travel between places in the real world.
• Harry reached through the mirror to find Ginny and pulled her out of the Mirror World into his arms.

Bill Weasley returned to Britain and met Old Jack in Ottery St. Catchpole, then learned Harry had taken Ginny away before her engagement party. Bill confronted Harry, determined to oppose the match, while Ginny hoped to earn his blessing.

• Bill Weasley encountered Old Jack, who recognized him and welcomed him despite his unusual clothes.
• Bill told Old Jack he had returned from Egypt to work at the Britain headquarters and reconsidered his opposition to Harry and Ginny’s engagement.
• Bill returned to The Burrow and saw Harry emerge from a mirror with Ginny, convincing him that Harry had taken her away.
• Harry, Ron, and Ginny discussed Bill’s protectiveness and his likely opposition to their engagement.
• Sirius tried to convince Bill that Harry and Ginny were not there, but Bill spotted Ginny in Harry’s arms and confronted Harry.

After Harry explained the Mirror World to the Weasleys and Sirius, the adults argued over whether anyone else should enter it. Meanwhile, Ryan and Penelope discussed the Mirror World’s layers and Ryan teased an upcoming television program.

• Mr. and Mrs. Weasley arrived at the Black House, and Mrs. Weasley scolded Bill for opposing Ginny’s marriage to Harry.
• Harry explained how he discovered the Mirror World and brought Ginny through the mirror, prompting Bill to think of Charlie’s interest in the Nether Dragons.
• Mr. Weasley and Sirius considered entering the Mirror World, but Mrs. Weasley forbade it after hearing about the dangerous versions of people inside.
• Tonks and Ron tried to present themselves as children to distract Mrs. Weasley, while Ginny quietly helped Harry avoid a scolding and kissed him.
• At Smith Castle, Ryan explained the Mirror World’s three layers to Penelope and Kate, then announced plans for magical television and a Death Eaters survival program.

Harry summoned and dismissed a Nether Dragon before the gathered Order of the Phoenix and Weasley family, proving the Mirror World threat could be overcome. The group debated how to use the dragon against Voldemort while Harry was left overwhelmed by their plans on the eve of his engagement banquet.

• Harry summoned a Nether Dragon, whose roar overwhelmed nearly everyone present except Harry and Hagrid.
• Harry told the Nether Dragon to return, and it vanished into smoke before he checked on Ginny.
• Hagrid, the Weasleys, and others urged Harry to summon the dragon again, while Sirius and Mrs. Weasley scolded him for risking his life.
• Tonks suggested that the Nether Dragon meant they could win, and the group discussed a victory celebration and using the dragon against Voldemort.
• Harry recalled that Sirius had brought him to 10 Rosaceae Drive, where Dumbledore had asked him to demonstrate everything from the Mirror World.

Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix debated whether Harry and the other young witches and wizards should be informed about Voldemort, and then discussed how Voldemort could be permanently killed. The chapter ended with Dumbledore saying they would allow Voldemort to revive before defeating him when their side was strongest.

• Mrs. Weasley objected to involving Harry and the others in the war, but Dumbledore, Sirius, Moody, Snape, Mr. Weasley, and Professor McGonagall argued that they needed to know the truth.
• Dumbledore told the group that Voldemort was expected to revive during the summer holiday, after Percy asked whether the timing would affect his O.W.L.s.
• Harry asked whether Professor Riddle was the only one who could truly kill Voldemort, and Dumbledore explained that Voldemort could be defeated or imprisoned but would keep a chance to return unless Riddle killed him.
• Dumbledore confirmed that they planned to let Voldemort revive and then eliminate him when their side was at its strongest.

Dumbledore explained that a mysterious wizard called the Magician may have come from a magical society on the moon, and revealed that his investigation had led to clues in America. Harry realized the farm he and his friends had visited was likely connected to that investigation.

• Ron asked who Grindelwald was, and Harry remembered Voldemort mentioning him during their first year.
• Harry questioned how Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape knew what had happened in the Chamber of Secrets, and Dumbledore explained that a fake Philosopher’s Stone had recorded the battle.
• Moody and the others reacted with disbelief when Dumbledore said the Magician might truly have come from the moon.
• Dumbledore said his intuition linked the Magician to the moon and that some force had prevented wizards from considering the possibility of lunar wizarding society.
• Dumbledore revealed that his investigation had uncovered American farms whose missing produce and his friends’ silence pointed toward a hidden connection.
• Harry, Ginny, and Ron recognized that the farm they had visited was in America and matched the trail Dumbledore had found.

The group discussed Grindelwald’s rise and why wizarding history downplayed Dumbledore’s defeat of him. Dumbledore, Riddle, and the others explained why Grindelwald’s plan to unite wizards against Muggles was dangerous but unlikely to succeed, comparing Muggle society to a powerful, unaware giant.

• Ron corrected Mr. Weasley about the Soviet Union’s moon efforts, impressing Mrs. Weasley with his knowledge.
• Sirius and Moody explained that Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald but refused the Ministry’s offer to become Minister for Magic.
• Sirius said the Ministry later minimized Dumbledore’s achievement to keep honor within its own system.
• Moody and Dumbledore described Grindelwald’s belief that wizards should unite and conquer the Muggle world.
• Riddle argued that a single warning to Muggles could bring devastating retaliation against wizarding society.
• Dumbledore compared Muggles to a dull giant that would survive because its scattered opponents would not all attack together.

Ryan used Peter Pettigrew’s soul and living rat body to make the external Smith Castle continuously absorb magic and strengthen its defenses. After Kate asked whether Ryan would intervene when Voldemort returned, Ryan promised he would prevent casualties, while admitting he did not want to attract Death’s attention yet.

• Ryan decided to use Peter Pettigrew’s wizard soul to imbue the external Smith Castle with magic, while keeping the real castle intact.
• Ryan realized Scabbers’s living body let Peter recover his magic after exhausting it, making him a limited, rat-powered perpetual motion machine.
• Kate joined Ryan in the dining room and asked what Harry and the others had discussed after the Nether Dragon appeared.
• Ryan told Kate that the group had discussed Grindelwald’s return and that Dumbledore had said Grindelwald controlled Durmstrang and was on their side.
• Kate asked whether Ryan would act when Voldemort returned, and Ryan promised to prevent casualties while avoiding a direct confrontation with Death for now.

Harry prepared for his engagement ceremony with Ginny as the Weasley family’s many relatives filled the manor’s tent. Ginny arrived at the ceremony with Mr. Weasley, while Harry waited nervously at the front.

• Harry questioned the traditional cake-cutting custom, and Kreacher explained that the cake symbolized happiness and having many children.
• Sirius teased Harry about having many children with Ginny, and Harry agreed to cut more pieces of cake.
• Sirius, Ron, and Draco directed guests as the decorated ceremony tent filled with Weasleys and Harry’s friends.
• Harry waited at the front of the tent with Ron as guests settled in and Sirius hosted the ceremony.
• Ginny entered along the blue carpet with Mr. Weasley as music played and pale blue petals drifted through the tent.

Harry and Ginny’s engagement ceremony took place at the Weasley manor, with Sirius and Mr. Weasley officiating and the guests celebrating with enchanted cake. After the ceremony ended, the gathering moved into a reception, where Harry and Ginny were surrounded by well-wishers while Ron hurried to the food.

• Harry watched Ginny arrive in a golden dress as Sirius began the ceremony.
• Harry accepted Ginny’s hand and said he wished to spend the rest of his life with her.
• Sirius declared the engagement concluded, and he and Mr. Weasley conjured a starry sky and a cake that transformed into portions for the guests.
• The guests ate the cake as part of the ceremony, while Harry and Ginny, Ron, and the people who served the cake watched.
• Sirius and Mr. Weasley transformed the tent into a reception space with a dance floor, tables, food, and a band.
• Ron rushed toward the food while Harry and Ginny received congratulations; Fred and George sold their inventions, and Hagrid sat with Draco, Charlie, and Bill.

At dinner, Draco told Harry, Ginny, and Ron how Bill had described Gringotts’s dealings over Ramses II’s mummy, which had secretly been sold as research information. Harry and Ginny then explained Bill’s efforts to delay their wedding, and Draco revealed Bill had asked intrusive questions about Harry’s body, leaving Ginny embarrassed about a boast she had made.

• Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Draco ate dinner with the Weasleys after Fred, George, and Percy disappeared into the house.
• Draco recounted Bill’s story about Ramses II, whose mummy had dried out after leaving its pyramid, and explained how Gringotts profited by selling research information to Muggle museums and the Egyptian Ministry of Magic.
• Harry and Ginny told Draco that Bill opposed their engagement and had repeatedly tried to postpone their wedding.
• Draco said Bill had asked whether Harry was interested in other girls and questioned him about tattoos, bathroom habits, and his size.
• Ginny admitted she had once claimed Harry had a Norwegian Ridgeback tattoo on his chest and objected to Bill asking about his size.