Chapter Summaries

Gerald discovered that Hogwarts was under attack after explosions and fire erupted across the castle, while Dumbledore was away. He returned to the Gryffindor Common Room, where the students waited anxiously without knowing who had attacked or what they wanted.

• Gerald heard explosions, saw Hogwarts surrounded by fire, and learned from Professor Flitwick that the school was facing real enemies.
• Gerald returned to the Gryffindor Common Room, where the Gryffindor students had gathered and the prefects struggled to keep order.
• Gerald told Fred, Lee Jordan, and Kenneth that the explosions suggested several groups were attacking Hogwarts.
• Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet revealed that Dumbledore had been away for more than a week, leading Gerald to suspect the attackers had chosen their moment because of his absence.

Death Eaters broke into the Gryffindor Common Room and attacked the students with Killing Curses. As the older students struggled to defend everyone, Gerald organized the Dreamweaver Group to launch a counterattack.

• Cormac McLaggen urged the first-years to fight, while Wood and Charlie Weasley argued over whether to leave the Common Room.
• Three hooded Death Eaters blasted open the portrait hole and threatened to kill the Gryffindors.
• Charlie Weasley raised a Shield Charm against the tall wizard’s Killing Curse, but Wood blocked it with a chair just in time.
• Charlie ordered the older students to defend the younger ones as the attackers overwhelmed their shields with a barrage of curses.
• Gerald persuaded Fred, George, Lee Jordan, Kenneth, and Damian Grant to prepare a surprise counterattack using the items Cedric had given them.
• Gerald gave the signal, and the Dreamweaver Group attacked.

Gerald rallied Gryffindor students to overwhelm three Death Eaters in their Common Room with massed spells and Cedric’s enlarged Biting Cabbages. Two Death Eaters fell, and the last fled as the students advanced.

• Gerald attacked first, then urged the Gryffindors to use their numbers and flood the three Death Eaters with spells.
• Gerald marked the Death Eaters with purple pollen, and his group released Cedric’s enlarged Biting Cabbages to attack them.
• A Biting Cabbage severed one Death Eater’s leg, while Gerald’s spell left a deep, cursed wound that would not heal.
• Gerald incapacitated the tall Death Eater with a lightning strike as the Gryffindors pressed their attack.
• The female Death Eater fled from the advancing students, firing curses behind her.

Gerald defeated a female Death Eater attacking Gryffindor Tower, then went to investigate the battle spreading through Hogwarts. In the Great Hall, he found several professors fighting the attackers but could not locate Black or Snape.

• The female Death Eater dispelled Gerald's Impediment Jinxes, but he caught up with her and knocked her unconscious with Palm Thunder.
• Gerald left Charlie and the other Gryffindors to guard the three captured Death Eaters and headed downstairs to investigate the attack.
• Gerald found Professor McGonagall and Flitwick fighting five Death Eaters in the Great Hall with help from McGonagall's Transfigured constructs.
• Gerald saw Silvanus Kettleburn and Ackerman Shacklebolt battling other attackers, while Professor Sprout struggled to protect Hufflepuff students including Cedric.
• Gerald searched the Great Hall and worried that Black and Snape were missing, suspecting Black might be the target of the attack.

Gerald discovered that Saints and Death Eaters had joined forces to attack Hogwarts, then helped Professor Sprout defeat the attackers before rushing to the Astronomy Tower. There, Snape and Sirius Black faced a coordinated group led by Amycus Carrow, who taunted Snape until he cast the Killing Curse.

• Gerald realized the attackers included Saints as well as Death Eaters, united by their belief in pure-blood supremacy.
• Cameron Osborne rallied the Hufflepuff students to defend the younger pupils while Professor Sprout fought three attackers.
• Gerald killed Carl Nott with a point-blank Confringo and searched her memories, learning that the Saints had been summoned by the Carrow and Rosier families and that Aiger Rosier helped organize the attack.
• Gerald and Professor Sprout subdued the remaining attackers, and Sprout bound the last one with vines.
• Gerald learned that Snape and Sirius Black had gone to the Astronomy Tower and ran there after recognizing the danger.
• Gerald found Snape and Black surrounded by Amycus Carrow and his squad; after the attackers taunted him, Snape shouted Avada Kedavra.

Gerald watched Snape apparently kill Sirius Black, then learned that Black had only been drugged with an improved Draught of Living Death as part of Dumbledore’s plan to test whether Voldemort had returned. Dumbledore concluded Voldemort was not yet directing the Death Eaters, while Snape’s apparent betrayal strengthened his standing among them.

• Snape appeared to kill Sirius Black, and Amycus Carrow and Aiger Rosier believed he had finally acted on his hatred.
• A messenger warned that Dumbledore had returned, so the Death Eaters retreated; Snape stayed behind and pretended to abuse Black’s body.
• Dumbledore arrived and Snape revealed that Black was in a deep coma from an improved Draught of Living Death, not dead.
• Dumbledore explained that he had staged the attack to test whether Voldemort had regained power after hearing reports of Death Eater activity and the Dark Mark over Albania.
• Dumbledore judged that the Death Eaters lacked unified command, and said the raid had also captured criminals and improved Snape’s credibility with them.

Dumbledore explained that Sirius Black had agreed to fake his death to protect Harry, but Professor McGonagall confronted him for allowing students to be endangered by the attack. The professors discussed Gerald Green’s lethal defense of students, identified his bleeding curse as Snape’s Sectumsempra, and ended by arranging for Snape to take Black to the Hospital Wing.

• Dumbledore told Snape that Sirius Black would fake his death because hiding while alive would not stop his enemies from searching for him.
• Professor McGonagall confronted Dumbledore for keeping the professors uninformed and allowing an attack that injured students.
• Dumbledore described Gerald Green’s role in killing two Death Eaters, while Snape and Professor Sprout defended Gerald’s actions as necessary to protect others.
• Snape recognized Gerald’s bleeding curse as Sectumsempra, which he had invented and recorded in his old Potions textbook.
• Dumbledore reassured Professor McGonagall that Gerald had acted to save lives and decided the student from the Rosier family could graduate without trouble.
• Dumbledore asked Snape to take Black to the Hospital Wing, and Snape blamed Black’s weak constitution for his delayed awakening.

After the attack, Gerald returned to the Gryffindor Common Room, where the students thanked him for defending them, while Dumbledore’s glance left him uneasy. In the days before Easter, Gerald prepared to take the Animagus Potion, and the chapter ended as his transformation began during a storm.

• Dumbledore glanced toward the invisible Gerald on the Astronomy Tower, then left with the others, and Gerald returned to the Gryffindor Common Room.
• The Fat Lady let Gerald into the Common Room, where students discussed his actions and then applauded him after Charlie Weasley and Wood began clapping.
• A week later, students and professors attended Sirius Black’s funeral by the Black Lake, where Dumbledore praised Black for giving his life to protect Hogwarts.
• Gerald exchanged Flying Letters with Black about Animagus Potions and chose Easter Eve, when a thunderstorm was forecast, for his first transformation.
• With Lee Jordan and Fred watching, Gerald drank the potion; golden light enveloped him, his body began to change, and he floated outside the window as rain bounced away from the glow.

Gerald transformed into a silver dragon during a thunderstorm, alarming Hogwarts and drawing the attention of its staff and students. He flew to the Forbidden Forest to wait out his first transformation and learned from Hermes about an enormous stone gate hidden underground.

• Gerald discovered that his Animagus form was a dragon, though he had not yet gained any supernatural abilities beyond flight.
• Fred, George, Kenneth, Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore, and other Hogwarts residents saw the dragon, while Professor Kettleburn tried to get Gerald to stay for a photograph.
• Gerald flew to the Forbidden Forest, struggled to control his new body, and found Hermes in an underground cavern.
• Gerald waited with Hermes until he could change back and asked about its life in the forest.
• Hermes told Gerald that it had found an enormous, undecorated stone gate beneath the Forbidden Forest and showed him its image through their soul connection.

Gerald explored an immense, rune-carved stone door beneath the Forbidden Forest but could not open it, then learned that Dumbledore wanted to meet him about his dragon Animagus form. The next morning, Gerald went to the Headmaster's Office, where Dumbledore had not yet arrived.

• Gerald and Hermes struck the enormous stone door, but it remained unmarked and shut.
• Gerald noticed three familiar-looking recesses in the door and wondered about its origins before deciding to focus on cultivation and magic.
• Gerald replied to messages from Vivian and Lee Jordan, then received Dumbledore's request to meet him the next morning.
• Gerald agreed to meet Dumbledore despite his plans to take the train to London, and Dumbledore offered to take him himself.
• Gerald arrived at the Headmaster's Office the next morning and found only Fawkes and the portrait of Dilys Derwent there.

Gerald examined the Sword of Gryffindor and questioned the Sorting Hat before admitting to Dumbledore that he had transformed into an Eastern dragon. He asked to investigate his family’s curse, and Dumbledore took him to meet Nicolas Flamel.

• Gerald discovered that the Sword of Gryffindor was a low-grade spirit artifact and spoke with the Sorting Hat about its ability to think and talk.
• Dumbledore asked Gerald about the dragon seen the previous night, and Gerald admitted that it was his Animagus form.
• Gerald explained that childhood books about Eastern dragons might have influenced his transformation and asked Dumbledore for help contacting Nicolas Flamel about his family’s curse.
• Dumbledore offered to take Gerald to Flamel and suggested bringing Flying Letter Notebooks for him and his wife.
• Dumbledore Apparated with Gerald to Flamel’s hidden home in Devon, where Nicolas Flamel opened the door.

Gerald learned that Nicolas Flamel had been Joseph Green’s only student and that Joseph’s alchemical experiments were tied to the Green Family’s Bloodline Curse. Nicolas began explaining Joseph’s quest for immortality, leaving Gerald wary of the taboo behind the curse and the Star-Gazing Disc.

• Nicolas Flamel recognized Gerald as a descendant of Joseph Green, and Perenelle mistook him for Joseph before Dumbledore clarified who he was.
• Nicolas revealed that Joseph had been his only student, and Gerald asked about the Bloodline Curse affecting the Green Family.
• Nicolas and Perenelle explained that Joseph had touched a taboo, after which his grandson Braid’s descendants lost their magical talent.
• Gerald suspected the family’s alchemical devices were connected to the curse and decided not to activate the Star-Gazing Disc until he understood the taboo.
• Nicolas explained that Joseph had helped complete the Philosopher’s Stone and then pursued a way for body and soul to escape aging.

Gerald learned that Joseph Green’s search for immortality led him to forbidden beings who cursed the Green family, and Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel warned him not to investigate them yet. After Gerald showed Nicolas the Flying Letter Notebooks he had invented, Nicolas offered to take him as an alchemy student.

• Nicolas Flamel recalled how Joseph Green returned from a three-year disappearance aged decades, claimed to have found a new path to immortality, and later died after encountering forbidden beings.
• Dumbledore and Nicolas explained that Joseph’s actions had cursed the Green family and refused to reveal more about the beings until Gerald was older and stronger.
• Gerald asked whether the forbidden beings were gods and explained that he had found Paracelsus’s notebook in Albania while seeking clues about the family curse.
• Nicolas dismissed the beings as ancient immortals rather than gods, and Dumbledore advised Gerald to set the curse aside for now.
• Gerald gave Nicolas and Perenelle two Flying Letter Notebooks, and Nicolas praised their design after learning Gerald had invented them at twelve.
• Nicolas asked Gerald whether he would be willing to become his student.

Gerald impressed Nicolas Flamel with his alchemical inventions and became his student, then returned to London to visit his family. After Gerald left, Dumbledore told the Flamels about Gerald’s extraordinary abilities and asked Nicolas to teach him ancient magic when he was ready.

• Gerald showed Nicolas Flamel his Q&A Notebook and explained how Muggle inventions had inspired his alchemical devices.
• Nicolas Flamel accepted Gerald as his student and promised to prepare study materials and contact him through Flying Letter.
• Dumbledore took Gerald to the Leaky Cauldron, where Gerald headed to visit his grandfather and family.
• Dumbledore returned to the Flamels and asked Nicolas to teach Gerald ancient magic when he was ready.
• Dumbledore described Gerald’s broad talents and his encounter with three Death Eaters, leaving Nicolas stunned.

Gerald returned home during the holidays, spent several peaceful days with his family, then visited his London company and met with Winslet. The chapter ended as Winslet flirted with him, testing his resolve to pursue immortality.

• Gerald arrived at Uncle Jack’s house and reunited with Aunt Mary and Grandpa Henry, bringing them sixty bottles of Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid.
• Gerald shared dinner with Uncle Jack’s family, caught up with Luke and Bill, and spent several relaxing days helping and sightseeing with them.
• Gerald visited his company’s London office, where Winslet told the receptionists that he was the company’s actual owner.
• Gerald followed Winslet upstairs and struggled with his attraction to her before she moved closer and asked whether he had forgotten about her.

Gerald visited Winslet, learned that the Saints had successfully created a Holy Infant, and received Nicolas Flamel's first study plan. At Flamel's workshop, Gerald said he wanted to create an alchemical device that could think for itself, and Flamel began explaining that wizarding portraiture was a necessary first step.

• Gerald told Winslet to call him Master, and she reported that the Saints' Holy Infant Plan had succeeded and that she would attend its summer ceremony.
• Gerald read messages from Vivian and Nicolas Flamel, who summoned him to his home for an alchemy lesson the next morning.
• Gerald traveled by Floo Powder to the Flamel residence and followed Nicolas Flamel into his vast underground Alchemy Workshop.
• Nicolas Flamel asked Gerald what alchemical device he most wanted to make, and Gerald chose one capable of thinking like the Sorting Hat.
• Nicolas Flamel explained that Gerald would first need to learn wizarding portraiture, since portraits could think, remember, and offer advice.

Gerald studied advanced alchemy with Nicolas Flamel, then returned to Hogwarts and arranged a major sale of Flying Letter Notebooks to the French Ministry of Magic. The chapter leaves Gerald with a successful international deal and a growing business connection through Lee Jordan’s uncle, Ryan Drake.

• Nicolas Flamel explained how magical portraits use aether and Memory Crystals to preserve memories and personalities, and described the Sorting Hat as an example of life alchemy.
• Nicolas Flamel taught Gerald the principles of stable nested runes and choosing Energy Storage Crystals during Gerald’s holiday visits to Devon.
• Gerald bought fifty thousand ballpoint pens for Hogwarts, said goodbye to his family, and returned to school on the Hogwarts Express.
• Lee Jordan told Gerald that his uncle had arranged a meeting with the French Ministry of Magic to buy Flying Letter Notebooks, and Gerald promised him a commission.
• Ryan Drake visited Hogwarts, where Dumbledore witnessed the French Ministry of Magic’s purchase of one thousand Flying Letter Notebooks, and Gerald gave Ryan a one-Galleon commission per notebook.

Gerald visited Hagrid and Hermes, then learned that Kenneth had been acting withdrawn and discovered that Slytherin students had cornered him. Fred and George made the Gryffindor Quidditch team, while Lee Jordan failed to qualify; the chapter ended with Gerald preparing to learn why Kenneth had been targeted.

• Gerald visited Hagrid's Hut, saw Lightning enjoy its new feed, and collected Hermes's valuable shed skin.
• Gerald learned Cedric would pause work on the Flying Letter Notebooks to try out for Hufflepuff's team, then heard his friends speculate about Kenneth's gloomy mood.
• Gerald and the others asked Kenneth what was wrong, but he said he was fine and stayed under his blanket.
• Fred and George passed the Gryffindor Beater tryouts, while Lee Jordan failed to make the team and Gerald suggested he might be better suited to commentary.
• Roger Davies told Gerald that Avery Selwyn and two other seventh-year Slytherins had cornered Kenneth outside the broom shed, and Gerald wondered why they had targeted his roommate.

After learning that Avery Selwyn had targeted Kenneth because of Gerald, Gerald vowed to settle the score and offered Kenneth’s father a job at his wizard battle center. Fearing the Selwyn family might threaten his relatives, Gerald arranged protection for them and decided to learn the Fidelius Charm.

• Roger Davies and Vivian told Gerald that Avery Selwyn had bullied Kenneth and that the Selwyn family had targeted Kenneth’s father at the Ministry because Gerald had killed one of their relatives.
• Gerald refused his friends’ offers to join him, said he would handle the Selwyns himself, and went to speak with Kenneth.
• Kenneth explained that he had endured the bullying in silence and that his father had been demoted to exhausting work at the Ministry.
• Gerald offered Kenneth’s father a manager’s job at his wizard battle center, paying five hundred Galleons a month.
• Gerald contacted Winslet and Lupin to protect his relatives, and Lupin and Black went to his grandfather’s house to cast protective charms.
• Lupin recommended the Fidelius Charm, and Gerald arranged to learn it the next afternoon.

Gerald went to the Slytherin Common Room to confront Avery Selwyn for bullying Kenneth, defeating the students who tried to stop him. He found Selwyn inside and began fighting him and his followers, but the battle was still underway when the chapter ended.

• Gerald left Kenneth and headed to the Slytherin Common Room to demand an explanation from Avery Selwyn.
• Gerald knocked out prefect Archil Nott and defeated more than a dozen Slytherin students who attacked him.
• Gerald used Legilimency on Archil Nott to learn the password, then entered the Slytherin Common Room.
• Gerald confronted Avery Selwyn, who blocked his Stunning Spell and mocked him.
• Gerald blasted Selwyn and his followers with Explosive Talismans and continued attacking them with spells and talismans.