Chapter Summaries

Harry and Ginny mistook Bill Weasley’s curiosity about Harry for romantic interest, and Ginny alerted Mrs. Weasley. Fred and George tried to eavesdrop on Mrs. Weasley confronting Bill, while Bill himself had just begun to accept Harry after the engagement ceremony.

• Harry asked Ginny whether Bill had ever had a girlfriend, and Ginny told him Bill had once been nicknamed Dumbledore the Second.
• Ron, Draco, Harry, and Ginny speculated that Bill had fallen for Harry, and Ginny decided to tell Mrs. Weasley.
• Fred and George followed Mrs. Weasley invisibly to Bill’s room and tried to listen through the door with an Extendable Ear.
• Bill cast an Anti-Intrusion Charm, forcing Fred and George to flee before they could hear the conversation clearly.
• Bill reflected that he had started to accept Harry, but Mrs. Weasley opened his bedroom door as he began speaking about the engagement ceremony.

Molly Weasley learned that Bill’s awkward question about Harry had come from spending too long among goblins, not from romantic interest. After she cleared up the misunderstanding, Draco explained how goblins’ views on bribery and ownership differed from wizards’.

• Molly confronted Bill about asking Draco about Harry’s size and urged him to find a girlfriend.
• Bill explained that he had worked among goblins and mummies in Egypt, then asked Molly not to tell Fred and George or leave Harry and the others confused.
• Molly realized she had ignored Fred and George after they had caused trouble, but Bill reassured her that he had put an Anti-Intrusion Charm on the door.
• Molly removed the charm and went to explain Bill’s behavior to Harry, Ron, Ginny, and the others.
• Draco told Harry and Ron that goblins valued makers over buyers and considered goblin-made objects inherited by wizards to be stolen property.

Bill was immobilized by his family, who accused him of wanting Harry and tried to match him with wizards who resembled Harry. After Bill used the Mist Potion to show that he had said nothing during the conversation with his mother, Sirius remained suspicious because Bill had asked about Harry’s measurements.

• Bill woke to his father, Charlie, Percy, and Sirius confronting him with photographs of men who resembled Harry.
• Mr. Weasley explained that Fred and George had altered Smoke Bombs to reveal the conversation between Bill and Mrs. Weasley, and Percy began to doubt Bill.
• Sirius mistook Bill’s reaction to Percy’s question for interest in a wizard named Jestu and offered to arrange a meeting.
• Bill asked to examine the Mist Potion, inhaled it, and recalled the scene showing that he had not spoken during the conversation with his mother.
• Bill explained that he had been shocked and described what he and Mrs. Weasley discussed afterward, but Sirius pointed out that Bill had asked about Harry’s measurements.

Harry, Ron, and Ginny joked about Bill’s troubles and planned summer visits while Ron complained that Fred and George were wasting time before the Triwizard Tournament. Fred and George silenced Ron with an Engorgement Charm, leaving him swelling like a balloon.

• Harry noticed that Bill had stopped receiving love letters, though Bill still looked troubled.
• Ron told Harry he preferred visiting Sirius’s house, and Ginny arrived to tease him and sit in Harry’s lap.
• Ron and Ginny discussed the expanded Burrow and argued about Fred and George’s experiments.
• Ron claimed the Triwizard Tournament made practicing magic important, then Fred and George hit him with an Engorgement Charm.
• Ron swelled uncontrollably as Fred and George asked whether he would help them.

Ron’s prank by Fred and George ended, and Ginny explained that she had been working at The Quibbler. Ron tried to use her position to advertise his inventions, while Harry learned that Ginny had been spending time with Ryan and grew jealous.

• George used magic to restore Ron after Fred and George had inflated him and bounced him around the room.
• Ron accused Fred and George of mistreating him, but Harry and Ginny admitted they had been distracted and had not helped.
• Ginny said she had been doing layout and sorting work at The Quibbler, with her parents’ knowledge.
• Ron asked Ginny to help him place an advertisement, but she defended The Quibbler’s commitment to publishing unconventional views and refused.
• Ginny said Ryan had been spending time with Luna, and Harry realized Ginny had been seeing Ryan without him for half a month.

Harry discovered a new task requiring him to reach Little Hangleton in the Mirror World and defeat a Mirror Beast without summoning the Nether Dragon. He found the village and sensed the beast calling to him, leaving the task’s confrontation still ahead.

• Harry noticed that his task panel had been forgotten and read the new task about finding Little Hangleton and defeating its Mirror Beast.
• Harry pretended to be tired and left Ginny, then entered the Mirror World through a window after reaching the British Library.
• Harry used a map to choose the Little Hangleton beside Great Hangleton and traveled there through a puddle he had turned into a mirror.
• Harry followed the call he sensed along the road, turned down a steep slope, and arrived at Little Hangleton.

Harry reached a shadowed house in the valley and confronted a powerful Mirror Beast resembling a muscular, green-eyed Thestral. After his Phoenix form was struck down, he spotted a cracked black stone marked with a triangle and circle between the beast’s wings.

• Harry followed the powerful sensation to a dark forest and found a ruined house hidden in the valley.
• Harry summoned a crimson sun that illuminated the valley and collided with a black shadow rushing through the trees.
• The shadow revealed itself as a muscular, green-eyed creature resembling a Thestral, and Harry hid underground while projecting his consciousness into the sun.
• Harry transformed the crimson sun into a Phoenix and fought the creature, but the beast defeated him and set the valley ablaze.
• Harry searched the flames and discovered a cracked black stone marked with a triangle and circle between the creature’s wings.

Harry completed Task Three in the Mirror World, defeated the Mirror Beast, and learned the location and protective magic of Voldemort’s Horcrux and the Resurrection Stone. He woke in a graveyard, received Task Four, and was confronted by his family and friends after returning.

• Harry used Phoenix Harry to attack the Mirror Beast and knock the black stone from its body.
• The stone entered Harry, and the Phoenix absorbed the flames covering Little Hangleton and Great Hangleton before flying away.
• Harry woke in a graveyard and learned that Task Three was complete and the stone was the Resurrection Stone tied to Voldemort’s Horcrux.
• Harry learned that the Horcrux’s protection was a shifting curse and received Task Four, which required him to break it with precise magic control.
• Harry returned through the glass window and found the Weasley family, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, and Dumbledore waiting for him.
• At Smith Castle, Ryan showed Kate and Penelope the fight, while Peter Pettigrew’s soul continued serving the castle under the Lord God’s control.

Ryan explained that Harry's Phoenix Metamorphosis came from his own magic, while Harry convinced Dumbledore and the others that he had found a Horcrux in the Mirror World. They left to investigate Gringotts, and Dumbledore asked Riddle which vault held it.

• Ryan told Kate and Penelope that Harry had never learned Phoenix Metamorphosis and had instead shaped his own magic into the power he used.
• Dumbledore, Snape, Sirius, and the others decided to confiscate Harry's wand, but Harry claimed he had found a Horcrux through a Mirror Beast in the Mirror World.
• Harry explained that the Nether Dragon could have defeated the Mirror Beast but would not have given him information about the Horcrux's location.
• Dumbledore and the others chose not to confiscate Harry's wand and left to confirm which Gringotts vault held the Horcrux.
• Dumbledore asked Riddle whether the Horcrux was in the Lestrange Vault, and Riddle said Voldemort had trusted Bella most among the Death Eaters.

Riddle reasoned that Voldemort had hidden a Horcrux in the Lestranges’ Gringotts vault and infiltrated the bank to search for it. He found a small Golden Cup inside the vault and revealed himself as Hogwarts's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Tom Riddle.

• Riddle concluded that the Lestranges likely kept a Horcrux in their family vault at Gringotts.
• Riddle bypassed Gringotts's defenses and reached one of the deepest vaults guarded by a dragon.
• Riddle opened the vault door with his wand and entered as the door sealed behind him.
• Riddle searched the vault’s treasures without being harmed by its protective curses.
• Riddle found a small Golden Cup and revealed his face as Tom Riddle.

Riddle used a spell inspired by the Fat Friar’s ghostly magic to reclaim the soul inside Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup. After completing the Sacred Sacrifice, the two versions of Riddle merged.

• Riddle touched the Golden Cup and experienced memories recorded in it, including those of its previous owners.
• Riddle recalled deciding to reclaim the Horcruxes because Harry Potter’s progress made him fear falling behind.
• Riddle drew inspiration from the Fat Friar’s unusual magic and devised a spell called Sacred Sacrifice.
• Riddle chanted a Hebrew poem and summoned a white-haired version of himself from the Golden Cup.
• Riddle absorbed the other self’s flames as starlight transformed its wings, then the two Riddles overlapped.

Riddle absorbed the Horcrux and gained Unicorn-like magic, while Ryan explained the dark curses hidden within Unicorn blood. Harry secretly carved Ginny’s name into pudding, but Ron caught him and tried to bargain for a trip to the Mirror World.

• Riddle transformed after absorbing the Horcrux, then took the Golden Cup and vanished.
• Ryan soothed the wailing Jerry and explained that Unicorns were born from rituals that stripped away negative emotions, leaving their pure blood full of soul-penetrating curses.
• Harry accidentally split the pudding he had decorated with Ginny’s name, repaired it with Reparo, and hid his activity when Ron entered.
• Ron ate the pudding, realized the plate could serve as a mirror, and demanded that Harry take him to the Mirror World.
• Harry refused and warned Ron that Mirror Beasts would emerge from reflective surfaces to attack him.
• Ron pointed out that Harry had lied about the Mirror Beasts fearing him, and Harry clarified that the creature he had encountered was a Horcrux.

Harry and Ron traveled to the transformed Diagon Alley through a mirror and explored its futuristic shops before heading to Ollivander’s Wand Shop. There they spotted Filch with a witch and Ron’s blunt remarks provoked a crowd of former Squibs, leaving Harry and Ron on the verge of a confrontation.

• Harry persuaded Ron to enter Diagon Alley through the mirror, where they emerged from a smooth, glasslike stone wall.
• Harry and Ron bought ice cream and marveled at the transformed shops and unusual buildings along the street.
• Harry led Ron to Ollivander’s Wand Shop, where a crowd had gathered to mourn the old Diagon Alley.
• Ron spotted Filch inside with a witch named Ms. Campbell, and a nearby wizard defended their relationship and praised them as Squibs.
• Ron rudely called them both Squibs, prompting the short, fat wizard to rally former Squibs against him and Harry.

Harry and Ron met Filch and Ms. Campbell at Ollivander’s shop and learned about the Magical Drama Academy, a vocational school for adult wizards and former Squibs. After Filch and Ms. Campbell left, Ollivander identified Harry and Ron’s wands and praised Harry, prompting Ron to demand recognition for his own deeds.

• Harry entered Ollivander’s shop and found Ron talking with Filch and Ms. Campbell, a former Squib who had recently become a witch.
• Ron praised Ms. Campbell while insulting Filch, and Filch revealed that he and Ms. Campbell were going to the Magical Drama Academy rather than Hogwarts.
• Ms. Campbell explained that the academy trained wizards for factory work and partnered with businesses including Charlie’s Candy Factory, William Pharmaceuticals, and Nimbus Racing Broom Company.
• Filch and Ms. Campbell left when Ollivander appeared, and Ms. Campbell invited Ron to contact her by owl.
• Ollivander described Harry’s Holly Wood wand and Ron’s willow wand, praised Harry’s achievements, and Ron demanded that he acknowledge Ron’s own accomplishments.

Ollivander explained the scarcity of Phoenix-feather wands and speculated that a Phoenix’s rebirth might create a new successor carrying its memories. Far away, Ryan reflected that his own immortality worked differently, letting him exist as a succession of unrelated identities.

• Ron’s embellished story about a Phoenix and Demiguise in Ravenclaw Tower led Ollivander to believe a new source of Phoenix feathers might be available.
• Ollivander told Harry that his recent Phoenix-feather wand cores came from Fawkes and that only two such wands had been sold, while older Phoenix wands used feathers gathered by his ancestors.
• Ollivander showed Harry two feathers from different periods of Fawkes’s life and suggested that a Phoenix might be reborn as a new individual inheriting its predecessor’s memories.
• Ryan watched Ollivander’s conversation while burning Phoenix feathers he had bought from him.
• Ryan explained to himself that Phoenixes renewed their existence through successive selves, whereas his own immortality erased his records and allowed him to take on new identities.

Ryan explained Ollivander's Phoenix Nirvana batch theory to Kate and Penelope and suggested they practice with feathers from the same batch. He then showed them Harry and Ron arriving at Flourish and Blotts, where they discovered a cage full of Monster Book of Monsters.

• Ryan explained that the Phoenix feathers in the furnaces came from different batches, then extinguished the furnaces and absorbed the remaining flames and feathers.
• Ryan reflected on Fleur's developed Veela bloodline while Kate and Penelope questioned what he was thinking.
• Ryan showed Kate and Penelope a scene of Harry and Ron arguing outside Flourish and Blotts after having their wands inspected.
• Ron pulled Harry into the bookstore and pointed out a cage full of fighting Monster Book of Monsters.
• The manager asked Harry to move aside, then approached the cage with thick gloves and a walking stick.

Harry and Ron visited Flourish and Blotts to buy their Third Year textbooks and learned that some magical books were dangerously difficult to handle. After Ron insulted other wizarding schools to impress a beautiful young woman, she bewitched him into leaving the shop and publicly calling himself a bastard.

• Ryan and Penelope discussed the detailed but narrow coverage of The Monster Book of Monsters as Harry, Ron, and others watched an image of the bookstore.
• Harry asked the manager about handling the biting Care of Magical Creatures books, and the manager explained that Professor Kettleburn had offered no advice and described the missing invisible books made by Professor Wenk.
• The manager sold Harry and Ron two tied-up books and suggested additional Third Year textbooks, then realized they had not received their booklist.
• Harry ordered Intermediate Transfiguration, Standard Book of Spells, Grade 3, Unfogging the Future, and two Ancient Runes reference books, while Ron complained that the manager had not recognized him.
• The manager recognized Harry as Harry Potter, and a beautiful silver-haired young woman entered the shop.
• Ron praised the young woman and insulted Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, after which she ordered him to leave and shout that he was a bastard ten times with an Amplifying Charm; Ron obeyed.

Fleur, a Half-Veela from Beauxbatons, enchanted Harry and Ron at Flourish and Blotts after Ron insulted her school and country. Mrs. Weasley explained Veela to the boys and questioned how they had reached Diagon Alley, while Harry concealed that he had used the Mirror World.

• Fleur confronted Harry for failing to stop Ron from insulting Beauxbatons and France, while her charm distracted Harry and the bookstore manager.
• Mrs. Weasley arrived with Ron, learned he had insulted Fleur, and dragged him and Harry outside.
• Mrs. Weasley explained that Fleur had Veela blood and described Veela and Half-Veela traits, while Ron worried about whether Half-Veela could transform.
• Mrs. Weasley questioned why Harry and Ron were in Diagon Alley, and Harry claimed they had come to buy textbooks.
• Harry produced Floo Powder to hide that he had used the Mirror World, and Mrs. Weasley warned the boys about the dangers of the outside world.

Ryan reunited Pheobe with Kate and Penelope at Smith Castle while Harry and Ron were sent back to The Burrow after being caught in Diagon Alley. Mrs. Weasley scolded Ron and barred him from dinner, while Harry wondered how the Weasleys had learned where they were.

• Ryan explained that Pheobe had spared Ron because she knew Ryan was his friend, while Kate and Penelope defended Ron's remarks about Beauxbatons.
• Pheobe arrived at Smith Castle, and Kate and Penelope imitated her French speech before greeting her.
• Pheobe kissed Ryan on both cheeks, and Kate pushed between them while Penelope realized Ryan had brought Pheobe there as a surprise.
• Ryan transported everyone to the second-floor lounge as Harry and Ron returned to The Burrow through the Floo Network with Mrs. Weasley.
• Mrs. Weasley reassured Harry, then shouted at Ron for his lack of shame and told him he would get no dinner.

At dinner, Arthur Weasley told the family that Ministry watchers in the North Sea had found evidence at Azkaban’s former location. The discovery included a weapon made from Antonin Dolohov’s thigh bone, leaving the family to wonder what had happened there.

• Fred and George secretly fed Ron while Molly quietly placed his favorite foods by them, and Ginny noticed that her mother and Arthur were acting strangely.
• Molly let Ron return to the table, and Arthur announced that the Ministry had kept watch over Azkaban’s former location on Dumbledore’s instructions.
• Arthur explained that Dumbledore and Riddle had found the site, though the island itself had vanished and only open sea remained.
• The family guessed that Dolohov or the other Death Eaters might have been found, but Arthur said none of them had yet been discovered dead.
• Arthur revealed that Aurors Dick and Finnidax had found a hunting weapon made from Dolohov’s thigh bone and rat bones marked with bite wounds on the seabed.