Chapter Summaries

Gerald used the Marauder’s Map to help himself, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan evade Filch after their prank, then shared the map with the twins and hinted at a future plan. On Thursday morning, he headed to his first Potions lesson and worried that Snape might discover his secrets.

• Gerald found the Marauder’s Map in Filch’s office and used it to see Hogwarts and everyone moving through it.
• Gerald spotted Filch blocking their planned escape route and guided Fred, George, and Lee through a secret passage to Gryffindor Tower.
• Gerald showed the twins the Marauder’s Map, called them partners, and kept his larger plan secret.
• Filch found no evidence against the boys, and the next few days passed without incident.
• Gerald got up early on Thursday for flying class, ate breakfast, and prepared to face Snape in Potions while fretting about his secrets.

Gerald attended his first Potions lesson with Snape, impressed the class by answering difficult questions, and showed skill brewing the Cure for Boils. The chapter ended with Gerald adjusting the recipe after Snape pointed out a flaw in his potion.

• Gerald found that his book on magical herbs barely covered the spirit herbs he had gathered and went to Potions class.
• Snape questioned the students, and Gerald answered questions about potion ingredients and brewing while Ravenclaw and Gryffindor lost points.
• Snape taught the class to brew the Cure for Boils and warned them to add porcupine quills only after the snake fangs had dissolved.
• Gerald brewed with Lee Jordan and noticed similarities between Potions and the alchemy of cultivation systems.
• Snape told Gerald his potion was too pale and advised him to reduce the porcupine quills by one-third, and Gerald thanked him.

Gerald brewed a successful boil-cure potion in Potions class and earned points from Snape before heading to his first flying lesson. He learned to control a broom steadily but still dreamed of flying on the Sword of Gryffindor.

• Gerald followed Snape's instructions while brewing the potion, and Snape awarded Gerald and Lee Jordan two points each for their successful brew.
• Gerald, Lee Jordan, George, and Fred walked to flying class while the twins and Lee Jordan traded stories about their childhood broom mishaps.
• Gerald reflected on how he hoped to fly on a sword one day and decided the Sword of Gryffindor would make a good flying sword.
• Madam Hooch instructed the students to summon their brooms, and Gerald's broom flew neatly into his hand while Lee Jordan struggled with his.
• Gerald mounted his broom and rose about a meter into the air, then found that leaning his body guided the broom steadily forward.

Gerald practiced flying, then visited the Hogwarts library to research how potions and alchemy might overlap. He found a dusty book on Eastern herbs that suggested others in the wizarding world had explored the same field.

• Gerald steadied Lee Jordan on his broom while Fred and George raced around the Black Lake during flying class.
• Madam Hooch let the students fly short distances, and Gerald completed several laps around the grounds.
• Gerald declined to join Fred, George, Lee Jordan, and Kenneth Towler in watching Quidditch practice, choosing to visit the library instead.
• Gerald found books on potions and herbology and considered whether spiritual herbs could be used when brewing potions.
• Gerald discovered the neglected booklet Eastern Herbology Studies, which mentioned herbs such as ginseng, lingzhi, and fo-ti.

Gerald borrowed advanced books on potions and Eastern herbs, then used Hagrid’s hut to refine spiritual herbs into liquid. He finished with bottles of Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid, Three-Yang Water, and Seven-Star Dew, eager to see how much his cultivation would increase.

• Gerald borrowed four advanced books from the library after learning that potion-making shared principles with alchemy.
• Gerald went to Hagrid’s hut, where Hagrid welcomed him and helped prepare a low flame for brewing.
• Gerald extracted Ironwire Vine into eleven bottles of Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid.
• Gerald refined Heaven-Subduing Flower and Seven-Star Grass into Three-Yang Water and Seven-Star Dew.
• Gerald examined the Seven-Star Dew and anticipated the cultivation gains from drinking the spiritual liquids.

Gerald gave Hagrid Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid, then drank Three-Yang Water and advanced to the ninth level of Chain-Form Essence Refinement. He decided to consolidate his cultivation before attempting the next breakthrough and planned to sell his surplus potion at the Hog’s Head.

• Gerald gave Hagrid three bottles of Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid as thanks, and Hagrid offered to note the locations of herbs for him.
• Gerald drank Three-Yang Water and advanced to the ninth level of Chain-Form Essence Refinement.
• Gerald decided not to use Seven-Star Dew yet, choosing to consolidate his cultivation before attempting to refine essence into qi.
• Gerald decided to sell his surplus Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid at the Hog’s Head and planned to try the next day.
• Gerald returned to Gryffindor Tower, where Fred and George teased him for being an unusually studious Gryffindor.

Gerald joined Fred, George, and Lee Jordan in searching for a secret base and guided George into summoning the Room of Requirement. The group discovered a large room equipped for developing joke toys, and Fred and George marveled at Gerald’s supposed divination skills.

• Gerald agreed to help Fred and George find the mysterious room on Hogwarts’s Seventh Floor.
• Gerald steered the brothers toward picturing a place to develop joke toys, and George walked along the corridor three times while focusing on that need.
• A door appeared in the wall, and Fred, George, Lee Jordan, and Gerald entered the Room of Requirement.
• The group found a spacious workshop stocked with alchemical equipment and a workbench.
• Gerald claimed divination had helped him guide George, leaving Fred and George astonished by his abilities.

Gerald used the idea of inherited prophecy to explain how he might know things before they happened, while considering how to find Peter Pettigrew and investigate Victor Green’s death. In the Room of Requirement, he became interested in Fred and George’s alchemy and asked them to teach him.

• Lee Jordan agreed that divination and prophecy were innate talents, giving Gerald a possible explanation for future predictions.
• Gerald considered tracking down Peter Pettigrew to learn whether he had been involved in Victor Green’s death, but he still needed the date and location of Pettigrew’s staged death.
• Gerald watched Fred and George study alchemy and learned that they had read hundreds of alchemy books collected by their father.
• Gerald recognized similarities between alchemy and artifact refining and imagined combining Newt Scamander’s suitcase with a Spatial Ring.
• After Lee Jordan pointed out that it was eleven at night, Gerald left the workbench with Fred and George and asked them to teach him alchemy.

Gerald began learning alchemy with Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, then attended Herbology, where he wondered whether magical-plant growing methods could help him cultivate spirit plants. The chapter ended with him asking Professor Sprout if he could grow something in the greenhouse.

• Gerald told Fred and George he wanted to learn alchemy, and they agreed to teach him while warning that the work would be dull.
• Gerald, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan returned to Gryffindor Tower and went to bed.
• Gerald woke early, crossed the rainy grounds, and found Cedric Diggory helping Professor Sprout in Greenhouse One.
• Professor Sprout taught the class about dittany and bubotubers, then showed them how to grow and harvest dittany.
• Gerald considered using Herbology methods to grow spirit plants and asked Professor Sprout if he could grow something in the greenhouse.

Gerald secured Professor Sprout’s permission to grow herbs in the greenhouse and considered ways to earn money. He used a secret passage to reach Hogsmeade, where he arrived in the rain.

• Professor Sprout let Gerald use a greenhouse flowerpot, provided he cared for whatever he grew himself.
• Gerald considered growing Ironwire Vine and selling potions or other goods to fund his studies.
• Gerald declined George’s invitation to study alchemy and decided to go shopping in Hogsmeade.
• Gerald checked the Marauder’s Map and chose the secret passage behind a mirror in a third-floor storeroom.
• Gerald followed the passage to the back storeroom of Scrivenshaft’s Quill Shop and stepped out onto Hogsmeade’s streets.

Gerald sold Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid at the Hog's Head, where Snape bought a bottle for ten Galleons and Aberforth purchased the remaining stock. As Gerald prepared to leave, Aberforth deduced from his hands that he was a teenager.

• Gerald entered the Hog's Head and offered Aberforth Foundation-Stabilizing Liquid to sell.
• Aberforth sampled the potion, agreed to sell it for Gerald, and offered two Galleons per bottle.
• Snape arrived, questioned Gerald about the potion, and bought one bottle for ten Galleons.
• Aberforth bought the remaining six bottles for fourteen Galleons and told Gerald to cover his hands next time.
• Gerald realized Aberforth had recognized that he was a teenager from his smooth, unscarred hands.

Gerald returned to Hogwarts with alchemy materials and began learning the craft from Fred and George in the Room of Requirement. After successfully purifying moonstone, he considered making a magical book that could converse with its reader and answer questions.

• Gerald bought potion and alchemy materials in Hogsmeade and returned to Hogwarts through the secret passage.
• Gerald joined George and Fred in the alchemy workshop, where his powerful Incendio startled them and Lee Jordan fell onto a stool.
• Fred explained alchemy while George demonstrated how to purify moonstone, and Gerald followed the process with exceptional precision.
• George approved Gerald's three portions of purified moonstone powder, and Gerald began considering what alchemy item to make.
• Gerald thought of Tom Riddle's Diary and imagined creating a magical book that could understand questions and provide answers.

Gerald studied alchemy and ancient runes intensively while gathering and cultivating spirit herbs at Hogwarts. In early November, Professor McGonagall told him that Dumbledore wanted to see him.

• Gerald learned alchemy from Fred and George, who gave him a list of five books to study before attempting his planned alchemical item.
• Gerald spent the next month studying in the library, improving his cultivation and preparing to explore ancient magic.
• Gerald visited Hagrid twice and gathered mostly Ironwire Vine, along with one Heaven-Subduing Flower.
• Gerald propagated Ironwire Vine successfully in the greenhouse, and Professor Sprout helped the Heaven-Subduing Flower take root there.
• Professor McGonagall stopped Gerald in the Entrance Hall and told him that Headmaster Dumbledore wanted to see him.

Dumbledore summoned Gerald Green to his office, where he examined Gerald’s Transfiguration and explained why he had watched him since childhood. He warned Gerald that power could lead people astray, leaving Gerald to wonder whether Dumbledore had seen a resemblance to Grindelwald in him.

• Gerald followed Professor McGonagall to Dumbledore’s office and noticed that Fawkes triggered a message identifying him as an unawakened Phoenix Divine Beast.
• Dumbledore asked Gerald to transform a quill, and Gerald turned it into a frog with a spell.
• Dumbledore revealed that Gerald’s name had appeared in the Book of Admittance only when he was eight and that he had visited Gerald in Nameless Town.
• Dumbledore recalled seeing Gerald care for Henry Hall and described how Gerald’s magic had seemed unusually restrained.
• Dumbledore told Gerald that he saw a shadow of himself and a gifted young man in him, and urged him to remember what kind of person he wanted to become.

Gerald considered telling Dumbledore that Peter Pettigrew was alive but decided to wait for a better opportunity. After Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed their preparations against Voldemort, Gerald entered the Room of Requirement to attempt a dangerous cultivation breakthrough.

• Gerald chose not to reveal Peter Pettigrew's survival to Dumbledore yet, reasoning that the consequences would be difficult to control.
• Gerald bowed to Dumbledore, who welcomed being addressed as Professor, and left the Headmaster's Office.
• McGonagall questioned Dumbledore's treatment of Gerald and Harry, and Dumbledore explained that he was preparing alternatives because Voldemort might still be alive.
• Gerald went to the Room of Requirement, where he had determined it could transform and stabilize existing materials but could not create things from nothing.
• Gerald drank the Seven-Star Dew and began attempting to refine essence into qi with the Divine Firmament Five-Elements Heavenly Thunder Art.

Gerald broke through to the first layer of Refining Essence into Qi, awakening spiritual sense and condensing a thread of thunder. He quickly mastered several cultivation spells and turned to the Qi-Perception Spell for his next study.

• Gerald refined his primordial essence into five-element qi and advanced to the first layer of Refining Essence into Qi.
• Gerald discovered that he could perceive the room with his eyes closed and saw a strand of thunder form in his dantian.
• Gerald unlocked and practiced the Fireball Spell, quickly learning to make the fireball circle his body.
• Gerald successfully cast the Water Arrow Spell and Thunder Invocation Spell on his first attempts.
• Gerald stayed in the training room and examined the Qi-Perception Spell's mastery descriptions.

Gerald discovered that the Qi-Perception Spell let him see wizards’ auras and estimate their magical strength. After demonstrating precise control of Aguamenti in Charms, he saw that Snape’s power matched Flitwick’s, but Snape’s aura was edged with faint black wisps.

• Gerald saw pale red auras around Charlie Weasley and his teammates, with Charlie’s aura the strongest among them.
• Gerald confirmed that Flitwick had a much denser, brighter aura than the students, supporting his theory that aura color showed magical strength.
• In Charms, Gerald conjured water precisely with Aguamenti and earned five points for Gryffindor, while Lee Jordan spilled water across his desk.
• George and Fred arrived late and learned that Professor Flitwick had deducted points from each of them for oversleeping.
• Gerald saw Snape’s aura was as strong as Flitwick’s, but noticed faint black wisps around its edges.

Snape struggled to identify the unfamiliar body-strengthening potion while teaching the Gryffindors to brew Swelling Solution, and Gerald impressed him with his precise work and an effective ingredient-preparation method. As Snape watched Gerald help George, he felt that Gerald’s figure looked strangely familiar.

• Snape brooded over the body-strengthening potion he had bought, unable to identify its ingredients despite days of analysis.
• Snape taught the Swelling Solution lesson carefully, and Gerald brewed a potent batch with Lee Jordan’s help.
• Snape criticized Gerald’s handling of the bat spleens but acknowledged his precise execution.
• Vivian Carrow challenged Gerald for slicing pufferfish eyes crosswise, and Gerald defended the method by comparing it to crushing sopophorous beans.
• Snape confirmed Gerald was right and awarded Gryffindor five points, while Fred and George struggled to brew a proper solution.
• Snape watched Gerald help George and wondered where he had seen Gerald’s figure before.

Gerald discovered that the Green family had been a line of alchemists and suspected its talent had reawakened in him. He entered the Forbidden Forest to gather herbs and found that his Qi-Perception Spell highlighted Ironwire Vines.

• Gerald noticed the rat in Percy's pocket and chose not to expose it yet.
• Gerald found an old Alchemists' Council book signed by Braid Green and learned that the Green family had been renowned for alchemy before its bloodline died out.
• Gerald concluded that his alchemical talent might come from the Green family and decided to seek out its lost manuscripts.
• Gerald went to the Forbidden Forest to gather herbs after Hagrid failed to answer his door.
• Gerald activated the Qi-Perception Spell and spotted several glowing Ironwire Vines.

Gerald used the Qi-Perception Spell to gather spirit plants in the Forbidden Forest, then fought and killed three Acromantulas. He harvested their venom and hurried toward the forest’s outskirts, pleased with the day’s gains.

• Gerald gathered twenty or thirty Ironwire Vines and discovered a Darkgold Tree, harvesting its six fruits for a future pill.
• Gerald sensed three approaching Acromantulas and turned to face them when they caught up with him.
• Gerald used a fireball, wand spells, a powerful kick, and the Thunder-Summoning Art to kill all three spiders.
• Gerald collected the Acromantulas’ venom, worth around fifty or sixty Galleons, and hurried out of the Forbidden Forest.