Chapter Summaries

Hermione stayed with the Weasleys, watched Goose frighten Scabbers, and traveled to Diagon Alley by Floo Powder. After Harry mispronounced the destination and landed in Knockturn Alley, Hermione went to find him but instead confronted the shopkeeper of Borgin and Burkes about Lucius Malfoy’s sale of dark magic items.

• Molly praised Hermione’s nonverbal spellcasting, while Hermione kept her wandless magic secret.
• Ron complained that Goose was frightening Scabbers, and Hermione called Goose away from the rat.
• Ron reached Diagon Alley using Floo Powder, but Harry mistakenly said “Diagonally” and vanished to an unknown destination.
• Hermione arrived in Diagon Alley and headed for Knockturn Alley to find Harry.
• Hermione frightened the suspicious wizards in Knockturn Alley with conjured flames and saw Lucius Malfoy leave Borgin and Burkes with Draco.
• Hermione entered Borgin and Burkes and challenged the shopkeeper about Lucius Malfoy selling dark magic items.

Hermione pressured Borgin into handing over a crate of illicit goods by threatening to expose his dealings to Arthur Weasley. Borgin recognized her as the witch who defeated Voldemort and gave her the goods willingly, while Harry watched her stash them away.

• Hermione told Borgin that Arthur Weasley was about to search his shop and demanded the goods from Borgin’s last transaction.
• Borgin considered attacking Hermione, but she warned him that her disappearance would bring the Ministry and Dumbledore after him.
• Borgin recognized Hermione Granger and offered her the crate as a gift, hoping to gain her favor.
• Harry waited outside and watched Hermione store the crate in her backpack instead of handing it over to Arthur.
• Hermione left with the alchemy materials and thought of Lucius Malfoy as she planned to bother him later.

Hermione and Harry reunited with the Weasleys before the family went to Flourish and Blotts for Gilderoy Lockhart's crowded book signing, where Lockhart announced he would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. After Draco Malfoy mocked Harry and Ginny defended him, Hermione tried to coax the frightened Malfoy into posing for a photograph with Lockhart.

• Hermione found the Weasleys with Harry in Diagon Alley, and Molly hugged Hermione after hearing she had gone into Knockturn Alley to find him.
• Hermione cleaned soot from Ginny's face with Aguamenti as the Weasleys headed to Flourish and Blotts.
• At Lockhart's book signing, Lockhart pulled Harry into a photograph and announced he would be Hogwarts' new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Lockhart spotted Hermione and invited her into a photograph, but she claimed camera flashes made her lose control and fire spells.
• Draco Malfoy mocked Harry, Ginny confronted him, and Hermione offered to arrange a photograph of Malfoy with Lockhart.
• Hermione told Malfoy that Lockhart had agreed to pose with him because he was heir to the Malfoy family, but Malfoy still did not move.

Draco Malfoy joined Harry and Lockhart for photographs, but Lucius Malfoy soon provoked Hermione by praising the wizard who gave Harry his scar. Hermione turned Lucius’s words into grounds for a renewed Ministry investigation, and after the Malfoys left, she noticed Voldemort’s diary in Ginny’s book bucket.

• Draco thanked Harry and the others, but Lucius stopped him and introduced himself to Harry.
• Lucius called Harry’s scar and the wizard who gave it to him legends, then made a pointed remark about Hermione’s Muggle parents.
• Hermione recorded Lucius’s words, accused him of willingly serving Voldemort, and urged the Ministry to reopen its investigation; Arthur agreed to file an application.
• Lockhart declared Lucius a Death Eater and promised to bring him to justice, while Lucius left with Draco.
• Hermione noticed Voldemort’s diary in Ginny’s book bucket and realized Lucius had planted it at Hogwarts to open the Chamber of Secrets and target Muggle-born students.

Hermione rescued Harry and Ron after their Flying Car chased the Hogwarts Express, then attended the Sorting Ceremony and was summoned to Dumbledore’s office. Harry and Ron were sent to Snape’s office, while Hermione headed to the Headmaster’s Office to explain her unauthorized Apparition.

• Hermione and Ginny boarded the train, while Harry and Ron were turned away from the platform and pursued it in Ron’s Flying Car.
• Hermione Apparated into the air and saved Harry and Ron as they fell, but Ron’s car crashed into the woods and Scabbers was lost.
• At Hogwarts, Luna Lovegood was sorted into Ravenclaw and Ginny Weasley was sorted into Gryffindor.
• Dumbledore summoned Harry and Ron to Snape’s office and Hermione to the Headmaster’s Office.
• Hermione left Harry and Ron in the corridor and climbed the spiral staircase to Dumbledore’s office.

Dumbledore offered Hermione the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching assistant so she could cover for the unqualified Gilderoy Lockhart. Hermione accepted after learning that Voldemort’s curse on the post affected professors, not assistants.

• Dumbledore showed Hermione Fawkes and explained that the phoenix was nearing rebirth.
• Dumbledore revealed that Lockhart had been hired despite stealing other people’s experiences and lacking teaching ability.
• Hermione found her appointment letter and recoiled, suspecting that the Defense Against the Dark Arts position was cursed.
• Dumbledore confirmed that Voldemort had cursed the position but said teaching assistants were exempt.
• Dumbledore cited Hermione’s recent Apparition feats and her agreement to fulfill one condition, and Hermione accepted the appointment.

Hermione brewed potions in Tony Stark’s lab, accidentally ruining a batch when Tony and Pepper barged in. Tony questioned whether her potions worked, then revealed he planned to make Pepper CEO of Stark Industries, and Hermione gave Pepper a necklace for her birthday.

• Hermione’s potion brewing went wrong when Tony and Pepper entered without knocking, and she scolded Tony for ruining her batch.
• Tony found his lab transformed by Hermione’s potion-making and protested after she poured corrosive potion onto the floor.
• Hermione showed Tony several potions and explained their effects, but he doubted they could work.
• Tony privately asked Hermione for a health-enhancing potion, and she embarrassed him by asking if he had impotence.
• Tony told Pepper he had a birthday surprise for her, and Hermione revealed that he planned to make her CEO of Stark Industries.
• Hermione gave Pepper a necklace, which Pepper immediately put on despite Tony calling it ugly.

Hermione agreed to find Bruce Banner after Fury told her General Ross had captured him, while Ross’s helicopter carried Banner away from Grayburn College. The escape was interrupted by a yellow, bone-spiked monster revealed to be Emil Blonsky, who demanded that the Hulk fight him.

• Hermione finished brewing her potions, then answered Fury’s call and agreed to find Banner at Grayburn College.
• General Ross’s forces captured an unconscious Banner after he visited Dr. Samuel Sterns, known as Mr. Blue.
• Banner woke aboard Ross’s helicopter with Betty Ross beside him and learned that the Hulk was supposedly gone for good.
• A yellow giant attacked the streets, and Banner realized someone had used blood collected from the Hulk.
• The monster called himself Emil Blonsky and roared for the Hulk to come out and fight.

Hermione helped trigger Hulk’s return during Abomination’s rampage, then stripped off Hulk’s underpants with a spell, sending him into a rage that turned the fight in his favor. As Hulk and Abomination resumed their destructive battle, Fury called Hermione and asked if she could subdue them.

• Ross ordered the army to stop Abomination, but Abomination slaughtered the soldiers and threatened the remaining helicopter.
• Banner agreed to face Abomination as Hulk, and Hermione kicked him out of the helicopter before jumping after him on her Broomstick.
• Hulk emerged from the rubble and fought Abomination, who eventually pinned him down and stabbed him with a bone spike.
• Hermione cast Expelliarmus at Hulk, causing his underpants to burst apart and provoking a furious surge of strength.
• Hulk overpowered Abomination, but Abomination kicked him away and the two resumed fighting as Hermione watched.
• Fury called Hermione and asked whether she could subdue Hulk and Abomination before they destroyed more of New York.

Hermione negotiated with Fury for access to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s rare magical materials in exchange for intervening in the Hulk and Abomination fight. She descended into the battle, but the two monsters ignored her and resumed fighting as Fury warned Ross not to interfere.

• Hermione told Fury she would not intervene unless S.H.I.E.L.D. addressed her interest in its rare plants and materials.
• Fury offered Hermione a chance to identify S.H.I.E.L.D.'s suspected magical materials, and she agreed.
• Hermione asked whether Fury wanted Hulk and Abomination captured alive or dead, then flew toward them on her broomstick.
• Hermione blasted Hulk and Abomination apart with three fireballs, but they quickly ignored her and resumed their brawl.
• Fury warned Thaddeus Ross not to interfere, and Ross questioned whether Hermione could do anything against the two monsters.

Hermione captured Abomination and Hulk by using spells to incapacitate them, then made Hulk clearheaded with a potion. The two former enemies ended the fight as miserable captives, vomiting slugs side by side.

• Hermione stripped Abomination’s shorts with a Disarming Charm, then drew his attention and trapped Hulk in the Mirror Dimension.
• Hermione repeatedly knocked Abomination out of the air with Full Body-Bind Curses before wounding him with Sectumsempra.
• Hermione made Abomination vomit slugs until he shrank back into Blonsky, then released Hulk from the Mirror Dimension.
• Hermione cast the Slug-Vomiting Charm on Hulk and gave him Baruffio’s Brain Elixir, leaving him clearheaded and unable to fight.
• Hulk reverted to Banner, and Banner and Blonsky reached toward each other before vomiting slugs together.

Hermione defeated Hulk and Abomination, then stopped General Ross from taking them and claimed them as part of her deal with Nick Fury. She used a portal to reach S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, where she appraised the magical ingredients Fury had gathered for her.

• Hermione refused to hand Hulk and Abomination over to General Ross, and a call from Nick Fury prompted Ross and his soldiers to leave.
• Nick Fury arrived, thanked Hermione for saving New York, and had agents carry the injured Hulk and Abomination aboard his aircraft.
• Hermione opened a portal directly into Fury's office in Washington, D.C., and Fury followed her through.
• Fury ordered dozens of boxes of collected ingredients brought to his office, and Hermione recognized them as valuable magical materials.

Hermione collected magical materials from S.H.I.E.L.D. and left Nick Fury with Goose before returning to Hogwarts, where she obtained dangerous plant seeds from Professor Sprout. She then read one of Gilderoy Lockhart’s books and reminded him that his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class was about to begin.

• Hermione identified and packed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s magical materials, then let Goose spend time with Nick Fury, who discovered the cat no longer wanted him to pick it up.
• Hermione checked her Spellbook and saw that her Soul Energy had risen to 5768 after the night’s deaths.
• During Herbology, Hermione asked Professor Sprout for Venomous Tentacula and Eastern Biting Cabbage seeds, and Sprout gave her the last packets she had.
• Hermione read Lockhart’s account of banishing a Banshee and was impressed by his writing despite suspecting he had stolen the adventures.
• Hermione reminded Lockhart that his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class would start in ten minutes and asked whether he had prepared a lesson plan.

Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson descended into chaos when he released Cornish pixies and proved unable to control them. Hermione froze the pixies with a spell, while Lockhart claimed the disaster had been a planned teaching exercise.

• Lockhart gave Hermione a quiz filled with questions about his personal life and announced that she would serve as his teaching assistant.
• Lockhart introduced himself at length to the class and presented a cage of Cornish pixies as the subject of a practical lesson.
• Lockhart released the pixies, which rampaged through the classroom and seized his wand.
• Lockhart called on Hermione to handle the pixies, and she immobilized them all with Full Body-Bind.
• Lockhart claimed he had staged the chaos to teach the students a lesson, but the students clearly did not believe him.

Hermione endured Lockhart’s boastful Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, then met Luna Lovegood in the library and witnessed her briefly cast a corporeal Patronus. The chapter left Hermione grading upper-year exam papers and despairing at how poorly Hogwarts students had been taught.

• Lockhart praised his teaching and claimed Hermione’s appointment as his assistant proved his ability, while the students dreaded his lessons.
• Hermione went to the library to read about dangerous magical experiments and found Luna Lovegood sitting at her usual table.
• Luna practiced the Patronus Charm, briefly forming a hare, and Hermione explained how concentration and happy memories helped cast it.
• Hermione and Luna introduced themselves and read together while nearby students whispered about Hermione’s reputation.
• Hermione helped Lockhart mark upper-year Defense Against the Dark Arts exam papers and found the students’ answers alarmingly poor.

Hermione persuaded Lockhart to consider a political career while Harry endured their late-night letter work, but Harry then heard an unexplained whisper nearby. Hermione told the unseen presence to stop scaring Lockhart, leaving its source unknown.

• Lockhart made Harry and Hermione help him answer fan letters as detention.
• Hermione encouraged Lockhart to enter politics and suggested ways he could build a heroic public image.
• Harry panicked as Hermione proposed arranging an assassination attempt to boost Lockhart’s popularity.
• Lockhart declined to face Dark Wizards, though Hermione’s advice greatly impressed him.
• Harry heard someone whispering nearby, and Hermione addressed the unseen presence.

Harry heard a basilisk threatening to kill someone, and the next morning he and Ron found Mrs. Norris petrified beside a bloody warning. As Filch accused Harry and the professors arrived, Hermione announced that she knew who the culprit was.

• Harry heard the basilisk whisper about blood and killing, but Hermione urged him not to worry about it.
• Ron fetched Hermione the next morning, and she joined Harry at the corridor where Mrs. Norris hung petrified beside a message declaring that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened.
• Filch found Mrs. Norris and accused Harry of murdering his cat, while students gathered and Malfoy insulted Muggle-born wizards.
• Dumbledore stopped Filch from attacking Harry and examined the bloody writing with the other professors.
• Hermione said she knew who had committed the crime.

Hermione exposed Draco’s suspicious remark as apparent evidence, then helped revive Mrs. Norris after discovering that a Petrification Cure Potion was needed. The real cause of the petrification remained unknown as the investigation continued.

• Hermione blamed Draco for the attacks because he had said, “You'll be next,” and Draco panicked and slapped himself while denying it.
• Dumbledore told Filch that Mrs. Norris had been petrified rather than killed, and Lockhart claimed he could cure her before Hermione intervened.
• Hermione’s countercurse failed, revealing that Mrs. Norris had not been affected by a petrification curse, and Hermione vouched for Harry’s whereabouts the previous night.
• Snape proposed using a Petrification Cure Potion, and Hermione produced a bottle she had brewed herself.
• Snape praised Hermione’s potion, which was given to Mrs. Norris and restored her; Filch thanked Hermione repeatedly.

Hermione investigated Snape’s actions at Hogwarts and then traveled to New York after Pepper revealed Tony was suffering from palladium poisoning. She examined Tony and began preparing a potion to save him.

• Hermione suggested Snape might have been trying to clear Harry as a suspect, but Harry and Ron rejected the idea.
• Hermione encouraged Harry to try her mysterious suggestion for improving his relationship with Snape, then left to begin investigating and await the Class Trial.
• Pepper told Hermione that Tony had survived an attack by a whip-wielding assailant in Monaco but had been hiding his palladium poisoning.
• Hermione opened a Portal to meet Tony, Pepper, Nick Fury, and Natasha at a doughnut shop, where Tony admitted S.H.I.E.L.D.’s antidote could only temporarily ease the poisoning.
• Hermione examined Tony with magic, confirmed his poisoning was severe, and took out a cauldron and ingredients.

Hermione brewed an antidote from rare ingredients and forced Tony to drink it, curing the palladium poisoning in his blood. After she revealed that the potion required unicorn blood, Fury warned her to keep the secret, and Tony realized how much she had sacrificed to save him.

• Hermione brewed a potion and insisted that Tony drink it despite his doubts about its ingredients and effectiveness.
• Tony drank the potion and discovered that the palladium in his blood had dropped to zero and that other toxins were gone.
• Hermione warned Tony that using the Iron Man Armor too much could poison him again, then refused his offer to pay for eight or ten bottles a month.
• Hermione revealed that the potion required unicorn blood, an ingredient used to make the Elixir of Life.
• Fury cautioned Hermione to keep the secret of the Elixir of Life from greedy politicians, and Tony understood how precious the potion she had used to save him was.