Chapter Summaries

Hermione discovered that Ginny had been controlled by Tom Riddle’s Diary and identified it as Voldemort’s Horcrux. She resisted Tom’s influence, confronted him, and later helped destroy the Diary with a Basilisk Fang, leaving Lockhart terrified after witnessing the deed.

• After Mrs. Norris was Petrified, Ginny privately told Hermione that a black diary named Tom had been controlling her and making her do terrible things.
• Hermione took the Diary, recognized it as Voldemort’s Horcrux, and resisted its attempt to influence her mind.
• Hermione exposed Tom Riddle’s identity, rejected his offer to help restore his body, and used an invisible force against the Diary.
• Several days later, Hermione handed Tom a Basilisk Fang, and he plunged it into the newly made Diary, destroying it as it screamed and bled.
• Lockhart watched Tom and Hermione destroy the Diary, realized the young man was Voldemort, and froze in terror as Hermione turned toward him.

Hermione forced the soul fragment in Tom Riddle’s Diary to submit, then persuaded him that he would need to replace his original self to survive. She used the Spellbook’s soul energy to give Little Voldy a body, leaving him stunned by her power.

• Hermione used the Spellbook to gain complete control over the Diary and tortured Tom until he surrendered.
• Hermione learned that Tom could gain a body by absorbing soul power from someone he manipulated.
• Hermione warned Tom that his original self would destroy him rather than share power, and urged him to kill Voldemort and take his place.
• Hermione sent soul energy from the Spellbook into the Diary, allowing Little Voldy to manifest as a young Tom Riddle.
• Little Voldy recognized Hermione’s abilities and regretted not surrendering sooner.

Hermione recruited Young Voldy to help her change the Wizarding World, starting with the Chamber of Secrets and making Draco Malfoy its recognized heir. She forced Lockhart to choose between taking credit as Hogwarts’s hero and dying a hero’s death, and he chose fame and survival.

• Hermione told Young Voldy that she wanted to change the Wizarding World and planned to make Draco Malfoy the recognized Heir of Slytherin.
• Hermione used the Spellbook to strengthen Young Voldy, who managed to pick up a quill and use simple magic.
• Hermione asked Young Voldy whether he knew where the Room of Requirement was and how to open it.
• Hermione and Luna confronted Lockhart, and Hermione offered him a choice between claiming credit for defeating Voldemort and dying in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Lockhart chose Hermione’s first plan, agreeing to become Hogwarts’s hero, resign from his teaching post, and pursue a Ministry career.

Hermione collected basilisk remains and the destroyed Diary, then learned from Little Voldemort about a hidden chamber beneath Hogwarts tied to ancient magic and erased history. She entered the Map Chamber and discovered a book containing the missing portion of Hogwarts’ history.

• Hermione collected basilisk fangs and blood, gave Luna the destroyed Diary, and left Luna to clean up while Lockhart accepted his fate.
• Hermione questioned Little Voldemort about ancient magic and learned that a Hogwarts headmaster had mentioned a hidden place connected to an event a hundred years earlier, whose records had been erased.
• Hermione opened a concealed stairway beneath the Astronomy Tower with Alohomora and followed it with Little Voldemort to an ancient magical door.
• The door drew Hermione into the Map Chamber, where she found the four Keepers’ portraits empty and a book on the central platform.
• Hermione read the book and recognized it as the missing portion of Hogwarts’ history.

Hermione found the ancient magic sealed beneath a valley near Hogwarts and absorbed it into her Spellbook, gaining four abilities. In Marvel, she interrupted the fight between Tony, Rhodey, and Ivan Vanko by stripping Ivan’s armor apart with a spell.

• Hermione used a school history book to locate the mine where ancient magic had been sealed a hundred years earlier.
• Hermione blasted open the mine entrance, entered its deepest chamber, and let the Spellbook absorb the black-and-red magical light.
• Hermione gained the ancient magic abilities Element, Silence, Strength, and Link, then tested her elemental form and invisible force.
• Hermione traveled toward Stark Tower to collect supplies but diverted to the explosion and arrived at Tony and Rhodey’s battle with Ivan Vanko.
• Hermione cast Expelliarmus on Ivan’s armor, causing it to fly apart, and Rhodey asked whether it was Justin Hammer Tech.

Tony raced to save Pepper from the Iron Soldier explosion, but Hermione’s Golden Snitch necklace shielded her. When Tony and Pepper returned to Stark Tower, they learned Hermione had just flown away as a sinister gust after asking about a delivery from S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Ivan Vanko insisted that the Iron Soldier armor was built by Hammer Industries and warned Tony that the Iron Soldiers would self-destruct.
• Tony spotted Pepper near the wreckage and urged her to run, but the Iron Soldier exploded before she could escape.
• Pepper survived because Hermione’s Golden Snitch necklace created a magical shield, and Tony told her Hermione might be back from Asgard.
• Pepper persuaded Tony to return to Stark Tower so they could check on Hermione.
• Happy told Tony and Pepper that Hermione had asked whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had delivered anything, then turned into a sinister gust and flew away.

Hermione exposed Talos, a Skrull impersonating Nick Fury, after Goose frightened him into revealing his identity. The real Fury arrived and concealed Talos’s connection to S.H.I.E.L.D., while promising Hermione the magical materials she had requested.

• Hermione confronted the apparent Fury about the missing magical materials and summoned Goose, whose presence made him panic.
• Hermione accused Fury of being a Skrull and used magic to restrain him, prompting him to trigger the alarm.
• Brock Rumlow and armed agents arrived, and Natasha chose to trust Hermione despite the impostor’s claims.
• Hermione cast Specialis Revelio and revealed that Fury was a green-skinned Skrull, whom Rumlow’s agents took into custody.
• The real Nick Fury arrived, realized Hermione had exposed Talos, and thanked her while promising to deliver her materials.

Hermione collected her promised magical materials from S.H.I.E.L.D. after helping expose an alien spy, then returned to Stark Tower and recounted her adventures to Tony and Pepper. The conversation was interrupted when Agent Sitwell arrived to see her.

• Hermione confronted Fury over her reward, and Fury promised to keep searching for magical materials and double her payment for future help.
• Natasha took Hermione to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s classified warehouse, where Hermione used magic to collect rare materials.
• Hermione appeared in Tony's workshop as a black-and-red wind and told him she had mastered elementalization.
• Tony asked Hermione about Ivan Vanko and her time in Asgard, then began considering building an army of robots.
• Pepper welcomed Hermione home, checked that she was safe, and thanked her for the Golden Snitch necklace.
• JARVIS announced that Agent Sitwell was waiting outside to see Hermione.

Sitwell confessed to Hermione that he was a Hydra member and asked to defect for protection. Hermione revealed she already knew about Hydra and ordered him to remain undercover and secretly take her to the alien he was interrogating.

• Sitwell told Hermione that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., named Alexander Pierce as its leader, and admitted he belonged to the organization.
• Sitwell asked Hermione for protection, explaining that Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s dealings with aliens had made him fear for his life.
• Hermione revealed that she had discovered Hydra through Sitwell’s memories and named Brock Rumlow, Grant Ward, and John Garrett.
• Hermione accepted Sitwell’s offer to serve her and told him to stay with Hydra while she guaranteed his safety.
• Sitwell told Hermione that Pierce had put him in charge of interrogating an alien, and Hermione asked him to take her to meet it in secret.

Hermione interrogated the captured Talos and revealed she intended to use him to summon every Skrull hiding on Earth. Talos refused to betray his people, so Hermione used the Imperius Curse to take control of him.

• Hermione gave Sitwell a one-use healing bracer, and he eagerly pledged himself to her.
• Hermione entered the secret S.H.I.E.L.D. prison with Sitwell and told Talos that Fury could not help him.
• Hermione named Beto, Pagon, and Carl, exposing Talos's claim that he had come to Earth alone.
• Hermione used the Cruciatus Curse on Talos and announced that he would summon the Skrulls hiding on Earth.
• Talos refused to betray his people, so Hermione cast the Imperius Curse on him.

Hermione used the Imperius Curse to make Talos reveal Skrull identities, then tracked the Skrulls to a warehouse and forced them to slaughter one another. She began restoring Talos's memories, leaving him to discover why he had summoned the Skrulls.

• Hermione compelled Talos to reveal the identities and locations of Skrulls living on Earth.
• Rumlow, secretly a Skrull, led agents to free Talos from his cell and took him to a warehouse filled with Skrulls.
• Gravik accused Talos of summoning the Skrulls and betraying their secret communications, while Talos denied doing so.
• Hermione revealed herself and, after Gravik ordered the Skrulls to shoot her, used the Imperius Curse to control them.
• Hermione divided the Skrulls into Talos's and Gravik's supporters, ordered each side to kill the other, and instructed the last survivor to kill themself.
• After the Skrulls died, Hermione used her wand to loosen Talos's memories so he could see how he had summoned them.

Hermione killed Talos and covered up the Skrulls’ deaths, while Hogwarts celebrated Lockhart as the hero who solved the petrification incidents. The chapter ended with Harry, Ron, and Ginny approaching Hermione and Harry asking whether Lockhart’s story was true.

• Hermione told Talos she had altered his memories and blamed him for the Skrulls’ deaths before killing him with Fiendfyre.
• Professor McGonagall announced that Lockhart had defeated the Basilisk, destroyed Voldemort’s Horcrux, and brewed the Mandrake antidote.
• Lockhart accepted the students’ applause and embellished his supposed battle in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Hermione watched from the back of the Great Hall, knowing Lockhart was playing the role she had arranged for him.
• Harry, Ron, and Ginny found Hermione, and Harry asked whether Lockhart’s account was true.

Harry questioned the claim that Lockhart had defeated the Basilisk, while Hermione kept her role in the events hidden and arranged to leave Hogwarts with Lockhart. At Malfoy Manor, Lucius struggled to protect Draco, who had been blamed for opening the Chamber of Secrets, while Dobby realized his efforts to stop Harry had been futile.

• Harry and Ron doubted that Lockhart had defeated the Basilisk, but Hermione urged them to accept that the danger had passed.
• Ginny grew more afraid of Hermione’s apparent involvement and moved closer to Harry.
• Professor McGonagall suspended classes, and Hermione obtained permission to leave Hogwarts with Lockhart as her escort.
• Lucius learned Hogwarts had accused Draco of opening the Chamber of Secrets, while Draco remained unconscious and was barred from leaving Malfoy Manor.
• Narcissa demanded that Lucius save Draco, and she resented his decision to use the Diary despite her warnings.
• Dobby overheard Lucius and Narcissa and wondered how Draco had become the culprit instead of Ginny.

Hermione and Gilderoy Lockhart visited Malfoy Manor to negotiate with Lucius, and Hermione revived Draco as a gesture of good faith. Draco woke, saw Hermione, and fainted again, leaving Lucius to hear the terms of her proposed deal.

• Lucius welcomed Hermione and Lockhart after Hermione warned that she could help save Draco.
• Hermione restored Draco's lost soul energy, and Narcissa and Lucius watched as he woke.
• Draco saw Hermione, screamed, and fainted again, prompting Hermione to joke that Lucius had frightened him.
• Narcissa sent Lucius and Hermione away to discuss business, and Lucius thanked Hermione for helping Draco.
• Lucius asked Hermione what deal she wanted to make.

Hermione pressured Lucius into revealing the whereabouts of Dark Wizards and Death Eaters so Lockhart could build his Auror record, offering testimony from Lockhart and Harry Potter to help Draco. After Hermione threatened Lucius with what she knew about the Diary and nearly killed him when he drew his wand, Lucius agreed to cooperate.

• Hermione told Lucius that Lockhart planned to become an Auror and asked him to help locate Dark Wizards and Death Eaters.
• Hermione threatened to publicize Lucius’s past and offered Lockhart’s testimony to help Draco explain his actions to the Ministry of Magic.
• Hermione revealed that she knew Lucius had given Ginny Weasley the Diary, and Lucius accused her of framing Draco.
• Lucius drew his wand at Hermione, but she fired a near-miss Avada Kedavra and warned him not to point his wand at her.
• Lucius agreed to give Hermione information about Dark Wizards and Death Eaters after she promised that Lockhart and Harry Potter would testify for Draco.

Hermione explained to Dumbledore why she had let Lockhart take credit for defeating the basilisk and destroying the Diary, then blamed Voldemort for the Forbidden Forest’s sudden winter. Hogwarts remained peaceful for the rest of the year as Hermione trained and sparred with Little Voldemort.

• Lucius backed down, leaving Ginny free of the Diary, Harry cleared, Lockhart celebrated, and Draco recognized as the Heir of Slytherin.
• Hermione told Dumbledore that the damaged Diary was a Horcrux and explained that she had let Lockhart take the spotlight to avoid drawing attention to herself.
• Dumbledore asked Hermione about the Forbidden Forest freezing, and she blamed Voldemort for harming the spiders.
• Hermione continued practicing magic and alchemy in the Room of Requirement while working as Lockhart’s teaching assistant.
• Hermione defeated Little Voldemort in another sparring match after he used Avada Kedavra on an illusion of her.

Hermione let Tom Marvolo Riddle explore the Marvel Universe while Nick Fury called to ask for her help. Fury revealed that an attacker had stolen the Tesseract from a S.H.I.E.L.D. base.

• Tom Marvolo Riddle complained that Hermione called him Little Voldemort, and she teased him with the name Tom Cruise.
• Little Voldemort told Hermione that he had been training Lockhart with Cruciatus Curses, though Lockhart kept relying on Obliviate.
• Hermione brought Tom Marvolo Riddle to a New York street and let him explore the Marvel Universe.
• Hermione realized that the soul energy Tom Marvolo Riddle harvested went to her through the Horcrux.
• Nick Fury called Hermione and told her that the Tesseract had been stolen from a S.H.I.E.L.D. base.

Fury told Hermione that Loki had stolen the Tesseract, but she refused to help because S.H.I.E.L.D. had kept it secret from her. At Stark Tower, Hermione reunited with Pepper and explained that the basilisk threat at Hogwarts had been dealt with, while Tony continued working underwater on the tower’s reactor.

• Fury revealed that Loki had taken the Tesseract, and Hermione blamed him for hiding it and refused to help recover it.
• Hermione hung up on Fury and Apparated to Stark Tower.
• Tony fitted a new underwater reactor module and told Pepper the tower would become a symbol of clean energy.
• Pepper hugged Hermione and asked why she had been away from Stark Tower for so long.
• Hermione described the basilisk that had threatened Hogwarts, and Pepper checked that Hermione had not been hurt.
• Tony complained over the communicator that he was still underwater working while Hermione and Pepper talked.

Tony returned to Stark Tower for the launch of his clean energy project, where Coulson arrived with files on superpowered individuals and news that Nick Fury had lost the Tesseract. After seeing Hermione's classified records and learning how dangerous her missions had been, Tony and Pepper worried about her safety; Pepper then went to Washington, D.C., through Hermione's portal.

• Tony rushed back to Stark Tower after Hermione teased him about being distracted from his clean energy project.
• Coulson arrived and told Tony and Pepper that the Tesseract had been lost, while Hermione explained that Nick Fury had secretly recovered it from the ocean.
• Pepper projected S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files on superpowered individuals, and Tony and Pepper saw Hermione's restricted records of her battles against Iron Monger, Hulk, Abomination, and the Destroyer.
• Tony objected to S.H.I.E.L.D. putting Hermione in danger, and Pepper insisted she would not let the agency endanger her.
• Hermione opened a portal to Washington, D.C., and Pepper stepped through to finalize locations for the other clean energy towers.

Hermione recognized that Loki’s scepter was important and agreed to help S.H.I.E.L.D. find the Tesseract in exchange for triple the materials and the scepter. At the Helicarrier, she entertained Maria Hill with magical snacks as Steve Rogers arrived, while Banner reacted to her with fear.

• After learning Loki used a scepter to control Barton, Hermione recognized its significance and demanded triple the materials and the scepter in return for helping find the Tesseract.
• Fury accepted Hermione’s terms and brought her to the Helicarrier, where she said she would explain the scepter once everyone had arrived.
• Hermione gave Maria Hill a Chocolate Frog, which sprang free before Hill caught and ate it, then shared more magical snacks with her.
• Natasha brought Steve Rogers, Tony, and Dr. Banner into the Control Hall, and Steve paid Fury ten dollars after seeing the Helicarrier turn invisible.
• Fury bet Steve another ten dollars that Hermione would show him something beyond his understanding, while Banner recoiled upon seeing her.