Recaps

Zhang Xiao tried to protect Neville during flying class, but a faulty school broom sent them both hurtling into the sky. After they regained control and flew back, Neville leaped from the broom to save Zhang Xiao, leaving Zhang to dive after him.

• Zhang Xiao helped Neville summon his broom and switched places with him to prevent the accident he remembered from the book.
• Neville told Zhang Xiao that his broom was shaking, and Zhang realized it might be faulty before the broom shot into the sky with both boys aboard.
• Neville grabbed Zhang Xiao and helped him climb onto the broom, and Zhang managed to steer them back toward the lawn.
• As the broom faltered on the way back, Neville asked Zhang Xiao if they were friends and then jumped off, urging him to survive.
• Zhang Xiao let go of the broom and lunged after Neville.

Zhang Xiao saved Neville from a fatal fall, then plunged toward the ground himself. Harry, Ron, and Malfoy risked expulsion to help him, and the chapter ended with Zhang Xiao embracing them in gratitude as Dumbledore and Fawkes departed.

• Zhang Xiao caught Neville in midair and used a talisman to slow Neville’s fall, but continued falling himself.
• Harry flew to help Zhang Xiao, and Ron and Malfoy joined him despite Madam Hooch’s warning that anyone who moved would be expelled.
• Harry repeatedly tugged Zhang Xiao to slow his descent, but his broom cracked near the ground and he fell safely a few meters below.
• Ron caught Zhang Xiao and cushioned his landing, while Harry and Malfoy landed nearby; Ron was left groaning from the impact.
• Zhang Xiao thanked Harry, Ron, and Malfoy and hugged them, while Dumbledore told Fawkes that they were no longer needed and vanished in a flash of fire.

After Neville’s fall from a malfunctioning broom, Professor McGonagall punished and rewarded the students who tried to save him, while Snape defended Zhang Xiao’s actions. Harry and Ron later learned they would join Gryffindor’s Quidditch team, and Harry discovered his father had been a Seeker at Hogwarts.

• Professor McGonagall deducted points from Harry, Ron, Neville, and Zhang Xiao for their reckless actions, then awarded points for their courage and Hermione’s quick thinking.
• Professor McGonagall gave Zhang Xiao 150 points for his bravery and calm decisions, while Snape argued that Zhang had acted as an exemplary Slytherin.
• Madam Hooch suspended Flying Class until she could inspect every school broom, and McGonagall took Harry and Ron away to discuss their punishment.
• Harry told Zhang Xiao that McGonagall had made him Gryffindor’s new Seeker and Ron a reserve Keeper.
• Hermione told Harry that his father had been one of Hogwarts’s best Seekers, and Harry lingered by his father’s display in the House Trophy Room.

After the Flying Class incident made Neville and Zhang Xiao more popular, Zhang Xiao learned he had been assigned Forbidden Forest detention with Malfoy. He suspected Dumbledore planned the punishment as a test of the first-years and a way to draw out whoever was pursuing the Philosopher’s Stone.

• Neville gained classmates’ support, received more patience from professors, and kept up with lessons with Hermione’s help.
• Zhang Xiao spent his days studying and helping Hagrid tend the vegetable patch, while Malfoy grew upset after receiving a letter from home.
• McGonagall objected to sending first-years into the Forbidden Forest, but Dumbledore said he would follow them and agreed to schedule the detention after Halloween.
• Zhang Xiao and Malfoy received the Forbidden Forest punishment, and Malfoy panicked about the creatures said to live there.
• Zhang Xiao reasoned that Dumbledore’s defenses around the Philosopher’s Stone were designed to test newcomers and lure out the person trying to steal it.

The author explained that the book would not receive a second round of promotion, despite good reader retention, because readers had grown wary of Harry Potter fanfiction with Chinese elements. The author decided to keep writing for the readers who had supported them over the years.

• The author's editor said the book would not get a second round of promotion, though its follow-through readership was good.
• The editor praised the book's integration of Eastern elements but said it had arrived at a bad time, when readers reacted strongly against Chinese elements in Harry Potter fanfiction.
• The author described spending years considering how to combine Eastern ideas with the Harry Potter world while preserving its sense of reality and internal logic.
• The author said they had first conceived the book years earlier and delayed writing it while waiting to play Hogwarts Legacy as a Slytherin.
• The author recalled abandoning an earlier novel seven years ago and thanked the readers who had remained supportive since then.
• The author rejected the editor's joke about repaying readers with cross-dressing and vowed to keep writing.

Zhang Xiao discovered the Room of Requirement and used it to practice spells, then noticed his spellcasting capacity rose in sudden jumps that might be linked to Daoist Meditation. He left exhausted but pleased, planning to gather more data on whether combining Eastern cultivation with Western magic could strengthen him.

• Zhang Xiao avoided attention at Hogwarts and went to the Seventh Floor seeking a quiet place to practice.
• Zhang Xiao entered the Room of Requirement, which had created a practice area filled with self-repairing dummies.
• Zhang Xiao practiced offensive and defensive spells until he reached his limit of thirty-six consecutive casts.
• Zhang Xiao compared his spell-count records and suspected that seated Meditation might explain sudden increases in his magical capacity.
• Zhang Xiao took a stamina-restoring pill, resumed practicing, and returned to his dormitory exhausted but satisfied.

Zhang Xiao worried that events were being pulled back onto their original course as Harry and Ron’s feud with Hermione and Slytherin’s hostility continued. When Daphne Greengrass mocked his friends and attacked him with Dark Magic, he blocked her spell and stunned her, declaring that the pure-bloods only respected force.

• Harry and Ron complained to Zhang Xiao after Hermione refused to let them copy her homework.
• Zhang Xiao noticed familiar conflicts and bullying returning, and wondered whether the timeline resisted change.
• Daphne Greengrass mocked Zhang Xiao and his friends in the Slytherin common room while the pure-blood students laughed.
• Zhang Xiao drew his wand and told the students a story about a Muggle-born wizard who fought his way to respect in Slytherin.
• Daphne attacked Zhang Xiao with a powerful Dark spell, but he deflected it with Protego.
• Zhang Xiao stunned Daphne with Stupefy and declared that the pure-bloods feared force rather than virtue.

Zhang Xiao defeated the Slytherin pure-blood students who had planned to humiliate him, leaving Professor McGonagall and Snape to investigate the fight. Professor McGonagall asked Zhang to explain what had happened.

• Pansy Parkinson attacked Zhang Xiao, but he disarmed her and tossed her wand into the pool.
• The pure-blood students fired jinxes at Zhang Xiao, who dodged and counterattacked with unusual nonverbal magic, knocking down most of them.
• Zhang Xiao stunned Malfoy, who had fired several spells while deliberately aiming away from him.
• Professor McGonagall and Snape arrived to find the students sprawled across the Common Room and demanded an account of the incident.
• Snape threatened to use Veritaserum, and Professor McGonagall asked Zhang Xiao to tell them what had happened.

After Daphne Greengrass attacked Zhang Xiao with Dark Magic, Professor McGonagall and Snape dealt with the aftermath and sent Zhang to the Headmaster's Office at Dumbledore's request. Zhang arrived to find the former headmasters arguing in their portraits, and Dilys Derwent called for them to listen to Dumbledore.

• Zhang Xiao told Professor McGonagall that Daphne had insulted and attacked him, while Snape ordered Marcus Flint to take the injured students to his office.
• Snape rebuked Daphne Greengrass for losing control, and Professor McGonagall took Zhang and Daphne with her before Daphne was led away for her case to be handled.
• Professor McGonagall's Patronus summoned Zhang to Dumbledore's Office and gave him the password, Super Drooble's Best Blowing Gum.
• Zhang followed the Patronus to the gargoyle, spoke the password, and climbed the revealed staircase to Dumbledore's Office.
• The portraits of former headmasters argued with Phineas Nigellus Black as Zhang entered, until Dilys Derwent called for everyone to listen to Headmaster Dumbledore.

Zhang Xiao spoke with Dumbledore about the attack and his unknown Eastern family, then consulted his father, who explained the attackers’ motives and promised an Azure Luan elder would visit him. The chapter ended with Zhang Chengdao warning that the attackers might be trying to assess the Zhang family and exploit any weakness.

• Dumbledore asked Zhang Xiao why he thought the attack had happened, praised his reasoning, and questioned him about his family and the East.
• Zhang Xiao told Dumbledore he knew little about his heritage, and Dumbledore sent him away, praising him for standing up to bullies and hoping he would change Slytherin.
• Zhang Xiao contacted his father, Zhang Chengdao, who said his Gyrfalcon messenger plan had failed but an Azure Luan elder would come stay with Zhang Xiao.
• Zhang Chengdao agreed that the attack had been a test and explained that the attackers wanted to gauge the Zhang family’s strength before deciding how to approach them.
• Zhang Chengdao warned that the attackers might be hoping the Zhang family was weak so they could exploit them.

Zhang Xiao learned that the Daoist Order would deal with the pure-bloods through overwhelming force, while the Shafiq family was attacked after Slytherin students targeted him. He ended the chapter by declaring that he wanted to change Slytherin.

• Zhang Chengdao told Zhang Xiao that the Daoist Order would back him and could force the pure-blood families into line, then said the Order was invincible in Huaxia and about evenly matched with wizards abroad.
• The school punished the ten Slytherin students who attacked Zhang Xiao, emptying the house’s Gem Hourglass, while Daphne lost 200 points and withdrew from school.
• Students from the other houses mocked the Slytherins, and the Weasley twins taunted them during Quidditch practice.
• The Daily Prophet reported that masked attackers had wrecked the Shafiq manor and defeated its family members, frightening the Shafiq students at Hogwarts.
• Zhang Xiao recalled his father’s question about whether he wanted a title or real leadership and declared, “I want to change Slytherin!”

Zhang Chengdao’s alliances split the pure-bloods, while Zhang Xiao met with Dumbledore, who tested his intentions for Slytherin and offered conditional support. After Dumbledore advised him on how lasting change could be achieved, Zhang Xiao left with a clearer path, and Dumbledore chose to keep observing him.

• Zhang Chengdao’s cooperation agreements won over several pure-blood families and weakened their alliance against the Zhang family.
• Dumbledore told Zhang Xiao that he had become influential among part of Slytherin and asked where he intended to lead it.
• Zhang Xiao said he wanted Slytherin to embrace pride, responsibility, acceptance, and glory, and Dumbledore gave him a feather to use to contact him once.
• Zhang Xiao asked Dumbledore why his efforts to change things seemed to fail, and Dumbledore advised him to find and work through the connections that pulled them back to their original course.
• Dumbledore told the portraits he believed Zhang Xiao for now and would continue to observe him, while Fawkes indicated he liked Zhang Xiao.

After Slytherin lost the Quidditch match, Zhang Xiao reflected on Professor Quirrell’s suspicious actions and his efforts to encourage Harry and Ron to work harder. Davis then told Zhang that Hagrid had invited him to the Hut-on-the-Rock, where Harry and the others were waiting.

• Malfoy complained that Slytherin had lost after Harry caught the Golden Snitch, and he speculated that someone had tampered with Harry’s broom to help Slytherin.
• Zhang Xiao suspected Professor Quirrell had caused Harry’s broom to go out of control, though Malfoy laughed at the idea.
• Zhang Xiao recalled encouraging Harry and Ron to finish their homework and help them make up with Hermione after she saved Harry during the match.
• Davis told Zhang Xiao that Hagrid had invited him to the Hut-on-the-Rock, where Harry and the others were waiting.
• Zhang Xiao gave Malfoy the latest issue of Dragon Ball and left the Common Room.

Zhang Xiao cooked a meal for Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid, then revealed that Nicolas Flamel owned the Philosopher’s Stone. The others realized the object guarded by Fluffy was likely the Stone, leaving them with a new lead in their suspicions about Snape.

• Harry told Hagrid that he and Ron had seen Snape near Fluffy and suspected him of trying to steal what the dog guarded.
• Hagrid explained that Fluffy was his and that Snape was one of the Stone’s guardians, then accidentally revealed Nicolas Flamel’s name.
• Zhang Xiao harvested bok choy and cooked wild boar and cabbage stew with help from Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
• Hagrid and the children loved the meal, and they shared it with rock cakes before taking a walk.
• Zhang Xiao identified Nicolas Flamel as Dumbledore’s friend and the owner of the Philosopher’s Stone, which could grant immortality.

After discussing what they would do with the Philosopher’s Stone, Zhang Xiao decided to visit the Hogwarts kitchens and ask the house-elves for Chinese food. The house-elves were horrified when they learned he had struggled to adapt to Hogwarts meals.

• Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Zhang Xiao shared their ideas about the Philosopher’s Stone, and Zhang said he would display it as a collectible.
• Zhang Xiao decided to launch the Hogwarts Special Meals Plan because he was tired of potatoes and roast meat.
• Cedric guided Zhang Xiao to the kitchens and gave him advice about speaking with house-elves; Zhang thanked him with a Bulma figurine.
• Zhang Xiao entered the kitchens and told the house-elves that he was an international student from China who had struggled with the local food.
• The house-elves interrupted Zhang Xiao with shrieks and sobs, while their leader cried that the situation was a disgrace.

Zhang Xiao visited the Hogwarts kitchen and taught the house-elves how to cook several Chinese home-style dishes. He left them cookware and rice, promising to teach them more, and looked forward to escaping Hogwarts’ potato-heavy meals.

• Yunbo and the other house-elves blamed themselves for failing to serve Zhang Xiao food he enjoyed, and Yunbo asked him for recipes from his homeland.
• Zhang Xiao brought cookware and ingredients to the kitchen and showed the house-elves how to make stir-fried tomatoes and eggs.
• The house-elves hesitated to eat food Zhang Xiao had cooked, but tried it so they could learn the flavor and praised it enthusiastically.
• Zhang Xiao taught Yunbo and the other house-elves to make Fish-Fragrant Shredded Pork and Kung Pao Chicken.
• Zhang Xiao left the house-elves cookware, seasonings, Wuchang Rice, and a rice steamer, and promised to teach them more dishes.

Zhang Xiao drew attention at lunch with his priceless Chinese tableware and offered Draco Malfoy a set of Yuan Blue-and-White Porcelain if his family could persuade powerful Muggles to publicly return a hundred Chinese cultural artifacts. Malfoy planned to ask his parents, and news of Zhang Xiao’s unusual meal spread among the young wizards.

• Zhang Xiao brought Malfoy to his usual lunch seat, where an assortment of rare Chinese tableware appeared before him.
• Malfoy admired the porcelain and asked Zhang Xiao where he had obtained it.
• Zhang Xiao asked whether Malfoy’s family still had ties to powerful Muggles, and Malfoy admitted that they did.
• Zhang Xiao offered Malfoy a set of Yuan Blue-and-White Porcelain if his family helped arrange the public return of a hundred Chinese cultural artifacts.
• Malfoy decided to write to his parents, and word of Zhang Xiao’s tableware and food spread among the young wizards.

Zhang Xiao’s tomato and egg stir-fry became so popular at Hogwarts that Dumbledore added it to the school menu. Later, Zhang Xiao passed a test in the Room of Requirement and opened the Golden Book and Jade Register, whose glow and clear note left him refreshed.

• Harry, Ron, Hermione, Cedric, and students from all four houses asked Zhang Xiao to share his tomato and egg stir-fry, until silver basins of it appeared on every table in the Great Hall.
• Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore tried the dish, and Dumbledore officially added it to the Hogwarts menu.
• Hagrid expanded his vegetable patch with the house-elves’ help and began raising Yorkshire pigs.
• As November brought colder weather, Malfoy grew increasingly anxious about his approaching detention in the Forbidden Forest.
• Zhang Xiao visited the Room of Requirement, placed the Golden Book and Jade Register on the silk testing cloth, and opened its clasp after the eight characters lit up.

Zhang Xiao entered the Golden Book and Jade Register and met a recorded memory of Zhang Chengdao, who explained how Daoist magic and wizarding magic differed and complemented each other. The lesson left Zhang Xiao ready to begin studying the Daoist Order’s foundational Golden Light Spell.

• Zhang Xiao opened the book, pricked his finger on its jade page, and was pulled into a constructed space.
• Zhang Xiao met a recorded Zhang Chengdao, who explained that the space preserved his teachings for Zhang Xiao to study.
• Zhang Chengdao demonstrated Daoist magic as a practice of serving all living beings and wizarding magic as a practice focused on serving oneself.
• Zhang Xiao concluded that the strength of wizarding magic came from grasping the heart, then exhausted himself through intense contemplation.
• Zhang Chengdao told Zhang Xiao to keep his mind calm and began teaching him the Golden Light Spell.

After Zhang Xiao exhausted himself studying, the Room of Requirement gave him a luxurious bedroom and an exceptionally restorative sleep, but he could not summon that room again. He resumed his Daoist training and practiced the Thunder Talisman before preparing for his detention with Malfoy and the two little ones.

• Zhang Xiao collapsed from exhaustion, and the Room of Requirement transformed into a luxurious bedroom where he slept.
• Zhang Xiao woke refreshed in the mysterious room, but the room would not let him inspect its belongings or return when he tried to summon it again.
• Zhang Xiao reviewed his father Zhang Chengdao's teachings about Daoist arts, implements, and methods, and chose to prioritize the Golden Light Spell.
• Zhang Xiao studied the Thunder Talisman and attempted to draw one while visualizing thunder and lightning, but struggled to divide his attention.
• Zhang Xiao packed his supplies and prepared for that evening's detention with Malfoy and the two little ones.

Zhang Xiao, Harry, Ron, Neville, and Malfoy set out with Hagrid to serve detention at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Hagrid revealed that something had been hunting unicorns, and Zhang Xiao ended the chapter with a premonition that something significant might happen that night.

• At dinner, Malfoy worried that the school would not protect its students, while Zhang Xiao recalled how Hogwarts's motto came from Salazar Slytherin's tragic encounter with a sleeping dragon.
• At eleven, Zhang Xiao and Malfoy met Filch in the Entrance Hall, where Harry, Ron, and Neville joined them for detention.
• Filch mocked the students and insulted Hagrid, so Zhang Xiao confronted him and sent him away before Hagrid arrived with Fang and a crossbow.
• Hagrid explained that Filch had bullied him since his school days, then led the students toward the Forbidden Forest.
• At the forest's edge, Hagrid warned them that an intruder had been hunting unicorns and said their task was to find tracks or unicorns.
• Zhang Xiao sensed that something big might happen that night.

Hagrid, Zhang Xiao, and Malfoy encountered an armored troll while following the unicorn blood trail in the Forbidden Forest. As Hagrid fought the creature, a signal firework revealed that Harry, Ron, Neville, and Fang had also run into trouble.

• Hagrid split the students into two groups, and Zhang Xiao gave Harry, Ron, and Neville Daoist Order Signal Fireworks.
• Hagrid, Zhang Xiao, and Malfoy followed the unicorn blood trail while Harry, Ron, Neville, and Fang took another path.
• Hagrid found tracks that did not belong near the forest's edge, then identified the charging creature as a troll.
• An armored troll attacked, and Hagrid fought it while ordering Zhang Xiao and Malfoy to run.
• Zhang Xiao stopped Malfoy from fleeing blindly, and a firework signal from Harry and Ron's group exploded overhead.

Zhang Xiao joined Harry, Ron, and Neville in distracting a magically sluggish troll while Malfoy went to fetch the professors. Their fragile plan collapsed when Dumbledore warned that a dangerous intruder was approaching and he had to leave to stop him, just as the troll suddenly sped up.

• Zhang Xiao sent Malfoy toward the edge of the Forbidden Forest to find the professors, then hurried to help Harry, Ron, and Neville face a troll.
• Zhang Xiao's spells failed to hurt the troll, so he proposed that the boys spread out and take turns distracting it as it chased them.
• Harry, Ron, and Zhang Xiao mocked the troll while keeping it occupied, but Zhang Xiao's growing sense of danger went unexplained.
• Dumbledore warned Zhang Xiao that a dangerous man had entered the Forbidden Forest and that he had to stop him, then the troll suddenly accelerated.

Zhang Xiao, Harry, Ron, and Malfoy fought a troll after Dumbledore left them to handle the danger. Ron finally knocked it out, and Zhang Xiao was left wondering how Ron's mispronounced Levitation Charm had worked.

• Dumbledore left Fawkes to watch over the group as the troll charged at Neville, and Harry and Ron tried to distract it.
• Malfoy joined the fight by casting a Shield Charm that sent Neville clear of the troll's club.
• Zhang Xiao and Harry attacked the troll with Fire Talismans, Thunder Talismans, and sparks fired into its nostril.
• Exhausted, Zhang Xiao urged Ron to use Wingardium Leviosa, and Ron levitated the troll's club and struck its head, knocking it out.
• As the others recovered, Zhang Xiao realized Ron had seemed to mispronounce the incantation.

After the students survived the danger in the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore confronted the weakened Tom Riddle, who vowed to return. As McGonagall and Snape rushed to the forest, Dumbledore returned to the students and sent Fawkes to help Hagrid.

• Zhang Xiao set aside his suspicion about Ron's mispronounced spell, while Ron confirmed that Harry was safe and Neville was unconscious after hitting a rock.
• Ron and Malfoy argued over their status as members of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, and Zhang Xiao stayed out of it.
• Dumbledore confronted Tom Riddle in the Forbidden Forest, warned him that he would fail again, and watched him retreat while promising to return.
• McGonagall summoned her Comet 260 and flew toward the Forbidden Forest, and Snape followed after accusing Dumbledore of breaking his promise.
• Dumbledore returned to the students, praised their teamwork to Fawkes, and asked the phoenix to help Hagrid.