Chapter Summaries

Harry, Tris, Sirius, Remus, and Dumbledore searched the house and found Voldemort’s Ring Horcrux beneath a stone table. Dumbledore recognized its black gem as the Resurrection Stone, but Tris stopped him just before he touched it.

• Harry and Tris sensed the Horcrux more strongly downstairs, so the group searched the first floor again.
• Sirius moved the stone table, and Remus uncovered a hidden floor tile and lifted out old clothes.
• A Ring fell from the clothes, and Harry faintly sensed that it was a Horcrux.
• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort had made the Horcrux when he was sixteen, and Tris briefly explained Horcruxes to Harry and Ron.
• Sirius noticed the black gem on the Ring, and Dumbledore identified it as the Resurrection Stone.
• Dumbledore reached for the Ring, but Tris shouted for him to stop before he touched it.

Dumbledore and the others discovered that the Gaunt family Ring concealed a deadly curse, then searched Riddle House without finding anything. At Dumbledore Manor, they reviewed their Horcruxes and concluded Voldemort likely took Hufflepuff’s Cup, leaving Dumbledore asking Tris where it might be.

• Dumbledore tested the Ring with a conjured hand, which was destroyed by the dark magic unleashed when it touched the Ring.
• Dumbledore stored the Ring safely, and the group searched Riddle House but found no Horcrux there.
• Dumbledore brought the group to Dumbledore Manor, where he revealed Slytherin's Locket, Ravenclaw's Diadem, and the Gaunt family's Ring.
• Dumbledore explained that the objects were significant heirlooms and confirmed Voldemort had encountered Hufflepuff's Cup before it disappeared.
• Sirius concluded Voldemort had taken the Cup, and Dumbledore asked Tris where it might be.

Tris steered the discussion toward Gringotts as a possible place Voldemort might have hidden a Horcrux, and Sirius identified the Lestrange and Malfoy families as likely custodians. The chapter ended with Tris realizing that Sirius had correctly guessed the Malfoys had once kept a Horcrux, which Tris had already taken into his Portable Space.

• Tris suggested Voldemort's remaining objects were likely hidden somewhere safe or connected to him, prompting the group to consider Gringotts.
• Dumbledore explained that Nicolas Flamel had moved the Philosopher's Stone from Gringotts to Hogwarts after asking him to protect it.
• Sirius described Gringotts' highly secure family vaults and said a Ukrainian Ironbelly guarded their entrance.
• Sirius named the Lestrange family as a possible keeper of Voldemort's Horcruxes and suggested the Malfoys might have kept one too.
• Tris realized Sirius's guess about the Malfoys was correct, though the Horcrux was already in Tris's Portable Space.

Tris returned to Hogwarts after Christmas, focused on becoming stronger and catching up with his friends on the train. On the way back to his compartment, he met Luna Lovegood alone and began talking with her.

• Tris decided he needed to improve his own strength instead of relying on Dumbledore to protect him.
• Harry, Ron, Neville, and Hermione shared stories about their Christmas holidays aboard the Hogwarts Express.
• Harry invited Hermione to attend the Quidditch World Cup with them, saying Sirius could arrange tickets.
• Tris met Luna Lovegood in an otherwise empty compartment and greeted her by name.
• Luna explained that she was alone because she had not met anyone else, leaving Tris speechless.

Tris met Luna on the train, returned to Hogwarts, and experimented with astral teleportation. After appearing in Hogsmeade at night, he encountered Aberforth Dumbledore and revealed that Nagini had regained her human form.

• Luna told Tris that he seemed to have too many secrets, and he left her to read.
• Tris returned to Hogwarts and saw Dementors, which he welcomed as valuable alchemical materials.
• Tris used the Star Chart Disk to teleport out of Hogwarts, but found that attempts to teleport back were deflected.
• Tris teleported to Hogsmeade and met Aberforth Dumbledore while heading back toward Hogwarts.
• Tris told Aberforth that he had met Nagini and visited Credence Dumbledore's grave, then offered to arrange a conversation between them.
• Aberforth appeared behind Tris and pressed his wand against Tris's back after realizing Tris had lied about Nagini.

Tris spoke with Nagini through the fireplace and confirmed she had prepared for the favor he requested, which he planned to pursue over the weekend. After Aberforth learned Tris could sometimes remove curses, he offered to share knowledge of Gubraithian Fire in exchange for a favor, and Tris agreed to hear him out.

• Nagini told Tris that her preparations were complete and that he could visit whenever he wished.
• Tris admitted to Aberforth that he had broken Nagini's blood curse and explained that he might be able to remove curses affecting individuals.
• Aberforth said he might ask Tris for a favor and tested his interest by mentioning Gubraithian Fire.
• Aberforth revealed that he knew the spell's complete incantation and magical structure, and Tris asked to hear about the favor.

Tris returned to Hogwarts from Indonesia and was summoned to Dumbledore’s office to meet a Greengrass family representative, who expected Tris to honor an agreement. The chapter ended with Tris realizing the meeting was likely connected to the Greengrass blood curse and wondering why Aberforth was involved.

• Harry and Ginny met Tris by the Black Lake while they were skating, and Tris concealed that he had recently been away in Indonesia.
• Snape and Lockhart told Tris that a distinguished visitor wanted to see him because they had an agreement.
• Tris followed the professors to Dumbledore’s office, where he found several staff members, Sirius, Aberforth, and an unfamiliar man.
• The man, identified as Mr. Greengrass, questioned whether Tris was the person he had been waiting for, and Snape defended Tris.
• Tris inferred that the meeting concerned the Greengrass family blood curse and wondered why Aberforth had arranged it.

Tris learned that Aberforth’s grandmother had been a Greengrass who died from the family blood curse, and Coeus Greengrass reluctantly agreed to let Tris attempt to break it. Dumbledore showed Tris Hufflepuff’s Cup, which he had secretly stolen from Gringotts, and the chapter ended with Tris rejoining Daphne and Sirius at Hogwarts.

• Tris learned that Aberforth’s grandmother had come from a separate branch of the Greengrass family and had died young from a blood curse.
• Coeus Greengrass doubted that Tris could break the curse and said he could not take an underage wizard by Apparition, so Aberforth arranged Floo access to his manor.
• Dumbledore kept Tris behind and revealed that he had obtained Hufflepuff’s Cup from the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts.
• Tris wondered how Dumbledore had stolen the cup without being detected and considered whether his own Shadow Magic could get him into Gringotts.
• Tris noticed Daphne with Coeus outside Hogwarts, apologized for ignoring her, and deflected Sirius’s teasing by pointing out that he wore Slytherin robes.

Tris traveled with Coeus and the others to the Greengrass family castle, where he examined several people suffering from the family’s blood curse. He discovered that a foreign flame was consuming their souls, and Coeus asked him to save the afflicted relatives.

• Tris asked Daphne if she had a blood curse, and she angrily kicked him for the question.
• Coeus opened the Hog's Head fireplace connection, then led Daphne and the others through the Floo Network to the Greengrass estate.
• Tris saw more than a dozen people from several families waiting at the castle, each with a haggard relative suffering from the curse.
• Tris used his spiritual sight and saw a foreign flame inside each patient's soul fire, draining the soul's power.
• Coeus introduced his sick younger sister and told Tris the Greengrass family would give anything if he could break their loved ones' curses.

Tris agreed to treat Lolisa, a Greengrass family member afflicted by a curse, and Snape brewed a strengthened Draught of Living Death to put her safely to sleep. As Tris prepared to use Samadhi True Fire, he grew angry at her husband’s interference and eyed the family as a source of money.

• Tris offered to ease Lolisa’s curse first, and Professor McGonagall vouched for his confidence.
• Lolisa’s husband refused a Stunning Spell and explained that she regularly used the Draught of Living Death to sleep.
• Snape brewed a stronger Draught of Living Death and sold the Greengrass family ten doses for thirty Galleons each.
• Lolisa drank the potion and fell into a deathlike sleep, then Coeus’s house-elf placed her on a cushioned couch.
• Tris brought Samadhi True Fire toward Lolisa’s forehead, and he sharply warned her husband to stop questioning him.

Tris treated Greengrass relatives for their blood curses and earned a fortune, then diagnosed Astoria with an undeveloped curse and removed it. After Snape returned from the Floo journey, he revealed that Tris and Kingsley had not emerged at the other end.

• Tris charged twenty thousand Galleons per patient and cured the first Greengrass woman, prompting other relatives to seek treatment.
• Tris amassed one hundred and eighty thousand Galleons and worried that Molly would make him hand over his earnings.
• Tris examined the younger Greengrass relatives and found that Daphne's sister Astoria had an undeveloped blood curse.
• Coeus agreed to pay for Astoria's treatment, and Tris removed her curse with Samadhi True Fire.
• Snape returned from the fireplace and told Coeus that Tris and Kingsley Shacklebolt had not emerged at their destination.

Tris and Kingsley were diverted from their Floo journey and trapped in a strange building, but Tris shattered the illusion surrounding them. They found themselves surrounded by the group that had abducted Tris in Egypt, and Kingsley recognized the blond wizard as Buckbeak.

• Tris and Kingsley arrived in an enormous, unfamiliar building after their Floo journey was intercepted.
• They discovered the building had no exit and that an Anti-Apparition enchantment prevented them from escaping.
• Tris used his Primordial Spirit to break the illusion, revealing a wasteland and a magic circle surrounded by more than a dozen wizards.
• Tris recognized Yasen Ross and the scarlet-eyed vampire from the group that had abducted him in Egypt.
• Buckbeak said Apparition and Astral Teleportation had been blocked, and Kingsley recognized him as a former deputy head of the French Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Tris and Kingsley faced thirteen Dark Wizards inside a one-way magical barrier, and Tris discovered that a magic circle beneath them powered it. After dodging their attacks, Tris struck the ground to damage the circle, causing the earth to surge.

• Tris recognized Buckbeak as the former deputy head of France's Department of Magical Law Enforcement, wanted for his ties to Dark Wizards.
• Kingsley warned Tris that Buckbeak was highly skilled, while Tris cautioned Kingsley to be careful as thirteen Dark Wizards surrounded them.
• Tris attacked the nearest wizard with Sectumsempra, but the spell struck a barrier that trapped him and Kingsley while allowing attacks from outside.
• Tris sensed that a magic circle carved into the paving powered the barrier and realized that damaging it would bring the shield down.
• The vampire wizard, the Necromancer, and Buckbeak attacked Tris, but he used the Deluminator to evade their spells and struck the ground with his wand.
• The ground rumbled and surged like waves beneath the group.

Tris broke the Dark Wizards’ magical barrier and used the Deluminator to fight the silver-gray-haired wizard in a shadow mirror world. Though his opponent gained the upper hand and warned that Tris could not keep reshaping the borrowed world, Tris prepared a counterattack.

• Tris used Transfiguration to make the ground ripple, breaking the magic circle and bringing down the barrier.
• The vampire wizard attacked Tris with ropes, but the spells passed through him as he fought from the shadow mirror world.
• The silver-gray-haired wizard entered the shadow world and injured Tris with Shadow Magic, then attacked him with a Fire Serpent, a fissure, and shadow hands.
• Tris reshaped the shadow world to erase the attacks, exhausting himself as the silver-gray-haired wizard explained that Tris lacked full control over it.
• Tris called the wizard a fellow practitioner and, after warning that villains talked too much, reached toward him with a grasping motion.

Tris used the Deluminator to control his Shadow Mirror World and nearly crushed the Shadow Wizard who had entered it. The Vampire Wizard rescued his companion, and the Necromancer then attacked Tris with a giant gray hand.

• The Shadow Wizard entered Tris's Shadow Mirror World, expecting his greater experience to give him the advantage.
• Tris used the Deluminator to alter and compress the space around the Shadow Wizard, trapping him.
• The Vampire Wizard burned his blood to break through the Shadow Mirror World and pull the Shadow Wizard back to the real world.
• The Shadow Wizard thanked Mr. Toredor, while the Vampire Wizard showed the strain of his rescue.
• The gray-haired Necromancer mocked them and summoned a giant gray hand to seize Tris inside the mirror world.

Tris resisted the Necromancer’s soul-gripping attack, pulled him into the Shadow Mirror World, and used the same ability against him. After the Dark Wizards broke the world with the Thousand Knots' End Curse, Tris escaped with Kingsley using Ancient Magic, leaving the Vampire Wizard to wonder if he was Talbott.

• The Necromancer sent a gray claw across the boundary and seized Tris, but Tris remained unharmed and copied the attack.
• Tris pulled the Necromancer into the Shadow Mirror World with the Deluminator and used the copied gray claw to immobilize his soul.
• Four Dark Wizards broke the Shadow Mirror World with the Thousand Knots' End Curse, returning Tris and the Necromancer to reality.
• Tris summoned a ball of lightning and used Ancient Magic to teleport himself and Kingsley away before the Dark Wizards could react.
• The Vampire Wizard wondered aloud whether Tris was Talbott.

Tris escaped the organization’s wizards with Kingsley by using Talbott, an ancient lightning-powered teleportation spell that left them both twitching. The organization reconsidered pursuing him by force, while Tris explained the spell’s painful drawback and the lengthy preparation behind it.

• The Vampire Wizard and the Necromancer questioned what ancient magic Tris had used, and the Vampire Wizard suggested the organization try a different approach to recruiting him.
• Tris and Kingsley recovered from Talbott’s electrical effects after teleporting away from the wizards.
• Tris told Kingsley that Talbott had let them escape, despite making the teleport feel like a torture spell.
• Tris explained that Talbott could teleport him anywhere within sight, but required an enormous Lightning Cocoon made by storing natural lightning.
• Tris recalled spending over two months gathering lightning in Indonesia before using Talbott to escape after exhausting his magic.

Kingsley brought Tris back to Hogsmeade after Dark Wizards attacked them, where Coeus and the others learned they had been ambushed again by the group from Egypt. Snape demanded answers about the misdirected Floo Powder fireplace, and Coeus promised to investigate by the day after tomorrow.

• Kingsley Apparated with Tris to Hogsmeade, where Coeus and his relatives welcomed them back.
• Aberforth asked what had happened, and Kingsley said the group they had encountered in Egypt had appeared again.
• Snape asked Kingsley about the Ministry's captured attackers, and Kingsley explained that magical restrictions on their minds prevented conventional interrogation.
• Snape demanded that Coeus explain why the Greengrass fireplace had sent Tris and Kingsley somewhere else.
• Coeus promised Snape and the Ministry a satisfactory answer by the day after tomorrow, and Snape warned that he would investigate himself if it fell short.

On the train back to London, Tris told Harry, Ron, and Hermione about the rumored curse on Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts post and wondered why it had stopped. He suspected the Horcruxes’ discovery had weakened Voldemort and planned to question Tom Riddle in the Diary.

• Tris accepted the Marauder’s Map from Fred and George after agreeing to sponsor their prank enterprise.
• On the train, Tris noticed Lockhart was still at Hogwarts, and Harry and Hermione complained about his poor teaching.
• Tris explained that Voldemort might have cursed the Defense Against the Dark Arts post after being rejected for the job.
• Tris reasoned that the curse’s disappearance might be connected to the Horcruxes being found and decided to question Tom Riddle in the Diary using Samadhi True Fire.

Tris warned Percy that his Ministry ambitions might conflict with Penelope’s plans for a research career, urging him to consider their future together. Percy changed the subject to Fred and George’s frequent experiments, leaving his relationship worries unresolved.

• Tris worried that the system’s demanding daily training might make him lose his hair, but the system ignored his plea.
• Percy told Tris he hoped to join the Department of Magical Law Enforcement or the Department of International Affairs and Exchange, admiring their department heads.
• Tris teased Percy about wanting to become a Ministry official, and Percy gave up trying to intimidate his larger, stronger younger brother.
• Tris reminded Percy that Penelope wanted to pursue research and urged him to think carefully about how their plans might fit together.
• Percy deflected Tris’s advice by complaining that Fred and George’s experiments had caused frequent explosions in their room.