Chapter Summaries

Edward arranged for Audrey to join his wandless magic lessons and explained Roselle’s plagiarism and dangerous later-life gamble to her. After returning to classes, Edward faced Snape’s sarcasm in Potions and Umbridge’s interrogation and punishment in Defense Against the Dark Arts.

• Edward asked Dumbledore if Audrey could attend wandless magic lessons, and Dumbledore agreed to begin the training in a week.
• Audrey discovered that works she thought Roselle had written were by other authors, and Edward explained Roselle’s accomplishments, his later attempt to become a god, and the danger he faced.
• Edward returned to Potions Class, where he traded barbs with Snape and watched Cedric lose points for talking.
• Umbridge questioned Edward about his age, exchange trip, and money, then tried to reach into his robes after spotting Lilith.
• Umbridge deducted fifty points from Hufflepuff for Edward bringing Lilith to class, while Edward held the cat back.

Edward led the students in attacking Umbridge with a barrage of spells after a venomous snake appeared on her, then convinced Dumbledore that they had been trying to save her. Dumbledore told Edward to take Audrey out to explore, and Edward invited her to leave Hogwarts with him for a few days.

• Edward used a conjured venomous snake and a Conjunctivitis Curse to frighten Umbridge, while the students overwhelmed her with spells and sent her to the Hospital Wing.
• Dumbledore questioned Edward about the incident, and Edward insisted the students had acted to save Umbridge; Dumbledore agreed not to punish them and suggested Edward take Audrey out to explore.
• Edward reassured the gathered students that they would not be punished and told Cedric they should claim they were saving someone.
• Edward met Audrey after Snape taught Defense Against the Dark Arts, and she discussed his teaching with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
• Edward told Audrey that Dumbledore had asked him to take her out for a few days, and she wondered whether they were meant to lie low.

Edward and Audrey took Lilith to Mount Titlis, where they enjoyed the snowy scenery and tried skiing before spending three days exploring Switzerland. Audrey then woke Edward because she felt something calling her from a distant forest, where they found the dragon from Gringotts caught in chains and apparently drawn to her.

• Edward took Audrey and Lilith to Mount Titlis, where they admired the mountain view and Lilith caught a snow hare she insisted was a big rat.
• Edward and Audrey tried skiing, but Audrey repeatedly fell, and Lilith tumbled with Edward when he tried to take her along.
• Over the next three days, Edward and Audrey visited local sights, sampled food, soaked in hot springs, and watched sunrises and sunsets.
• Audrey woke Edward at night and told him she felt something calling to her from a distant forest.
• Edward and Audrey flew toward the source, where a chained dragon crashed into the forest after roaring and breathing fire.
• Audrey said the dragon seemed to have come for her, but Edward's crystal Pendulum warned that going closer was dangerous.

Edward and Audrey discovered Griphook and a group of warlocks capturing a fire dragon, then were attacked when Griphook demanded Audrey’s Dragon Bone Wand. After the dragon killed the warlocks and Audrey calmed it, they treated its injuries and began figuring out how to transport it.

• Edward and Audrey found Griphook’s group preparing to butcher a captured fire dragon, but Audrey decided not to risk rescuing it.
• The warlocks exposed Edward and Audrey, and Griphook recognized Audrey’s Dragon Bone Wand as a missing Gringotts wand and demanded it back.
• Griphook interrupted their Apparition and offered the warlocks 5,000 Galleons for the wand, prompting them to attack Edward and Audrey.
• Edward used the Taunting Doll to distract the attackers, then stunned and bound the warlocks while Griphook became fixated on Ravenclaw’s Diadem.
• The fire dragon broke free and burned every warlock to death, then responded to Audrey and collapsed from its injuries.
• Edward and Audrey healed the dragon with spells and potions, and Edward considered making a larger Undetectable Extension item to transport it.

Edward and Audrey rescued a wounded fire dragon by defeating the Aurors who had arrived in response to its distress signal. Two days later, Dumbledore read a newspaper headline claiming that hundreds of Aurors had been defeated by two dark warlocks.

• Edward used Spirit Channeling to see visions of goblins worshipping a god in the darkness, but could not determine what they meant.
• Edward and Audrey retreated when his divination warned of danger, then realized an Anti-Apparition Charm gave them a chance to fight.
• Dawlish and Lucas led Aurors into the forest, where Edward and Audrey ambushed them and subdued all thirty-two Aurors.
• Edward, Audrey, and Lilith tended to the fire dragon and prepared to keep the unconscious warlocks contained.
• Two days later, Dumbledore read a newspaper headline about hundreds of Aurors being defeated by two dark warlocks and sat bolt upright.

Edward and Dumbledore visited Grindelwald at Nurmengard, where Grindelwald revealed that Edward had once been an Obscurial and was descended from the Dumbledore family. Edward asked whether he was the child of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, earning a beating before Grindelwald began explaining his origins.

• Dumbledore learned from a newspaper that a mysterious warlock had ignored Anti-Apparition Charms and suspected Edward was involved.
• Edward and Audrey brought an injured, unusually large Ukrainian Ironbelly to Hagrid so he could care for it.
• Dumbledore told Edward and Audrey that Umbridge had recovered and wanted Edward sent to Azkaban.
• Audrey chose to stay at Hogwarts, while Dumbledore took Edward to Nurmengard to meet Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald recognized Edward as a former Obscurial and said he had Dumbledore family blood, though his surname might not be Dumbledore.
• Edward asked whether Dumbledore and Grindelwald were his parents, and the two men beat him before Grindelwald explained his origins.

Audrey joined a student dueling event and proved herself a formidable fighter, while she and Hermione investigated the Heir of Slytherin and the Chamber of Secrets. The chapter ended as Professor Sprout noticed that Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe were missing from Herbology.

• Umbridge berated Snape for holding a practical Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, and Snape sent her back to the Hospital Wing with a Disarming Charm.
• Audrey defeated a succession of students in the evening duels, earning Snape’s admiration and making other boys wary of challenging her.
• Professor Sprout introduced the students to mandrakes during Herbology.
• Hermione told Audrey that she had found clues about the Heir of Slytherin, and the two discussed opening the Chamber of Secrets and its promised purification.
• Professor Sprout noticed that Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe were missing from class.

After Draco Malfoy was found petrified beside a message claiming the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, Audrey investigated the scene while Harry was accused of attacking him. Back in the Great Hall, Audrey stopped the students from fighting, then challenged anyone still eager for a fight.

• Goyle and Crabbe reported that Malfoy had been found stiff and unresponsive in the Girls' Bathroom, with a bloody warning on the mirror.
• Pansy Parkinson accused Ron of cursing Malfoy, but Audrey defended him, and Hermione and Audrey slipped away with Harry to investigate.
• Madam Pomfrey confirmed that Malfoy had only been petrified, while Crabbe accused Harry of attacking him in a duel.
• Audrey told Dumbledore and the professors that she had been investigating the Chamber of Secrets and had enlisted Malfoy's help.
• Umbridge confronted Dumbledore over the incident, but Dumbledore sent the students back to the Great Hall.
• Slytherins accused Harry of harming Malfoy, and Audrey used her wand to silence the crowd before challenging the students to fight her.

Audrey investigated the Chamber of Secrets after Malfoy was petrified and discovered that Moaning Myrtle had heard the same strange voice before she died. The search for the Chamber continued as Hagrid was taken to Azkaban and Dumbledore faced pressure to leave Hogwarts.

• Harry insisted on helping investigate Malfoy's petrification because he was being blamed and felt responsible for Malfoy.
• Audrey, Hermione, and Ron searched books about the Chamber and learned that a student had died when it opened fifty-one years earlier.
• The Weasley brothers said Hagrid had been blamed for opening the Chamber fifty-one years ago and that the Ministry was taking him to Azkaban.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the Weasley brothers hurried off to find Hagrid while Audrey investigated the Girls' Bathroom.
• Audrey found a snake engraved on a faulty tap and tried speaking Parseltongue, but the Chamber did not open.
• Moaning Myrtle appeared and told Audrey she had heard the strange voice before she died and again the previous night.

Audrey learned that Moaning Myrtle had died when the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty-one years earlier. After Fred was taken by a giant spider in the Forbidden Forest, Audrey and Harry followed mysterious notes to the Girls' Bathroom, where bewitched Muggle-born students attacked them and the entrance to the Chamber opened.

• Audrey questioned Moaning Myrtle, who recalled seeing enormous yellow eyes before she died fifty-one years earlier.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and George returned to the Great Hall and reported that a giant spider had taken Fred in the Forbidden Forest; Professor McGonagall sent enchanted statues and armor to rescue him.
• Audrey and Harry received threatening notes summoning them to the Girls' Bathroom, and Hermione arrived under the control of an unknown force.
• Audrey identified the approaching Hogwarts students as Muggle-borns under the Imperius Curse and shielded herself and Harry from their spells.
• A voice spoke in the language of the Sorting Hat, and a washstand shifted to reveal a large pipe leading into the Chamber of Secrets.

Audrey and Harry reached the Chamber of Secrets, where Voldemort revealed himself and unleashed the giant snake against them. Audrey burned the snake’s tail, but it turned on her as Voldemort’s attempt to control it failed.

• Audrey and Harry escaped through a tunnel and found a snake-carved door that Harry opened by speaking Parseltongue.
• Audrey and Harry entered the Chamber of Secrets and met a man who identified himself as Voldemort.
• Harry attacked Voldemort with Expelliarmus, but Voldemort dodged and summoned a giant snake from the statue.
• Audrey struck the snake with spells and cast Fiendfyre, burning much of its tail before Voldemort dispelled the flames.
• The injured snake went berserk and attacked Audrey, ignoring Voldemort’s orders.

Audrey defeated the basilisk and claimed a mysterious pendant, but Wormtail killed her in the Chamber of Secrets before Voldemort could use her life force and magic. Harry then attacked Wormtail as Voldemort demanded answers about the pendant.

• Audrey’s hiss drove the basilisk to smash its head against a pillar, and a Serpent Pendant flew from its skull into her hand.
• George, disguised as Ron and holding Harry hostage, demanded the pendant, while Edward sensed Audrey was in danger from Nurmengard.
• Audrey used the Disillusionment Charm and taunted Wormtail, then broke his control over George, who stunned himself.
• Wormtail revealed himself as the red-haired figure who cast the Killing Curse on Audrey, enraging Voldemort because he needed her life force and magic.
• Wormtail picked up the pendant and denied hiding anything from Voldemort, while Harry charged at him with his wand.

Audrey survived the Fiendfyre after Edward rescued her, and she received a message from Salazar Slytherin about a possible path to godhood through the Deathly Hallows. She woke in the hospital, where Harry, Hermione, Edward, and the injured Weasley brothers gathered around her.

• Harry shot Voldemort with a revolver, while Audrey disarmed Wormtail and killed him with Fiendfyre; Voldemort vanished after being struck by the bullets.
• The Fiendfyre spread out of control, but Edward rescued Audrey, Harry, and Fawkes just before the flames engulfed them.
• Audrey met a wisp of Salazar Slytherin's consciousness, who told her that Slytherin believed the Deathly Hallows might lead to the entrance to God's Abode.
• Audrey woke in the hospital after being unconscious for a day and night, and Hermione explained that the giant snake was a basilisk and that Malfoy had been petrified by its reflected gaze.
• Edward told Audrey that Fred had escaped but was badly injured, and Fred arrived in a wheelchair with George and Ron, who were also injured.

After Audrey survived Voldemort’s attack at Hogwarts, she and Edward told Dumbledore what they had learned about the Chamber of Secrets and Voldemort’s Horcruxes. The chapter ended with Edward and Audrey leaving a Chinese restaurant in London, while Edward worried about fulfilling a certain Goddess’s food shopping list.

• Audrey explained to Dumbledore that Voldemort had acted strangely in the Chamber of Secrets, Wormtail’s behavior was contradictory, and someone else might have entered it.
• Edward told Dumbledore that Voldemort had created six Horcruxes, including Harry, and identified the locations of the Diary, Hufflepuff’s Cup, and Slytherin’s Locket.
• Audrey told Edward about Slytherin’s legacy and the consciousness that had communicated with her, and Edward considered using a candle to enter her mindscape and remove it.
• Madam Pomfrey took Harry’s notebook away and told him to rest instead of finishing his essay.
• Two days later, Edward and Audrey left a Chinese restaurant in London, and Edward resolved to complete a Goddess’s shopping list.

Edward returned to Nurmengard and asked Grindelwald to contact his former followers about legendary artifacts and phoenix feathers. At Hogwarts, the Ministry questioned Audrey and Harry over their report of Voldemort’s return, and Dumbledore warned them to be cautious after Aurors were assigned to patrol the school.

• Edward reunited with Grindelwald and asked him to find legendary weapons, books, and phoenix feathers through his old followers.
• Edward noticed Aurors at Hogwarts and learned that Audrey and Harry had been summoned to the Headmaster’s Office for questioning.
• At the meeting, Fudge and the Ministry officials challenged Audrey and Harry’s account, while Snape demanded that Umbridge apologize to Audrey.
• Dumbledore agreed to let Aurors patrol Hogwarts rather than escalate the dispute with the Ministry, and he apologized to Audrey and Harry.
• Dumbledore explained to Edward, Audrey, and Harry that his reputation for weakness could not quickly be changed, then warned them to watch out for Umbridge.
• After leaving the office, Audrey asked Edward what he planned to do.

Edward impersonated a Ministry employee, attacked Fudge while posing as Voldemort, and caused chaos at the Ministry before searching unsuccessfully for a working Time-Turner. He returned to Hogwarts with a broken Time-Turner, and the next morning the students read that Voldemort had returned.

• Edward disguised himself as Corey and entered the Ministry, where he overheard Fudge and Umbridge plotting against Dumbledore.
• Edward used a possessed Warlock to enter Fudge's office, stunned Dawlish, and revealed himself as Voldemort before torturing Fudge with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Edward controlled Umbridge into dismissing the Aurors, then announced Voldemort's return and triggered an explosion at the Ministry.
• Edward searched the Time-Turner room during the ensuing panic and found only a broken Time-Turner.
• Edward returned to Hogwarts by Portkey, felt his potion digest slightly, and saw the news of the Ministry attack reported the next morning.

After the Ministry lost its Time-Turners and withdrew its Aurors from Hogwarts, Edward resumed giving divinations and tried to digest his Astrologer potion. He helped Neville find his lost belongings, promised Harry another special-bullet revolver in exchange for a future favor, and agreed to help the Weasley brothers predict a Quidditch match.

• Audrey showed Edward reports that Dark Warlocks had attacked the Ministry, leaving Fudge unconscious and stealing the Time-Turners during a transfer led by Umbridge.
• The Weasley brothers announced that the Aurors had left Hogwarts to guard Fudge, and the students celebrated their new freedom.
• Edward continued practicing divination, failed to gain abilities from the Abraham Family notebook, and used a dream vision to find Neville's lost wand and shoulder bag.
• Harry asked Edward for another revolver after losing the one destroyed by Fiendfyre, and Edward promised to bring one while asking Harry to lend him some of his father's belongings if Dumbledore returned them.
• The Weasley brothers persuaded Edward to predict a Quidditch match so they could profit from betting, and he warned them that divination was not infallible.
• Edward wrote down new Astrologer acting principles, noting that helping people with divinations could strengthen his identity and spirituality.

Edward continued testing how divination affected potion digestion, outmaneuvered Professor Trelawney in their supposed contest, and received a spacious enchanted suitcase from Professor McGonagall. The chapter ended with Malfoy waking from another nightmare of the basilisk, in which his dream self attacked it with a dagger.

• Edward recorded that successful reversals of divined outcomes might speed potion digestion, while noting that astrology remained necessary for fully digesting the potion.
• Audrey asked Edward to take her to his homeland, and he agreed to bring her and Lilith there.
• Professor Trelawney fell asleep drunk during class after Edward predicted it, and the Weasley brothers declared Edward the winner of their divination contest.
• Professor McGonagall asked Edward to predict a Quidditch result, and he correctly named the Ballycastle Bats as the winner.
• The Weasley brothers confronted Edward after losing money on other bets, and Professor McGonagall gave him an enchanted suitcase before thanking him for the prediction.
• Malfoy woke from a nightmare in which he saw the basilisk emerge in the girls' bathroom and his dream self stabbed its eye.

Edward prepared to become an Animagus, received Harry’s Invisibility Cloak from Dumbledore, and returned to the world of Lord of the Mysteries with Audrey, Lilith, and Anna. The chapter left Ikanser leading a team to 88 Minsk Street after the Silver Mirror revealed Edward’s location and punished him for refusing to answer its question.

• Malfoy panicked when Audrey confronted him, and Audrey suspected he was hiding something and decided to report him to Dumbledore.
• Edward completed the preparations for his Animagus transformation while Audrey and Lilith discussed whether he might become a cat.
• Dumbledore gave Edward Harry’s Invisibility Cloak, revealed that he had lost the Elder Wand, and agreed to help him pursue the Mystery Pryer pathway.
• Audrey reclaimed Anna from Hagrid, and Edward gathered supplies before leaving Harry Potter World with Audrey and Lilith.
• Ikanser used the Silver Mirror to locate Edward at 88 Minsk Street, accepted its punishment rather than answer an intimate question, and ordered his team to move out.

Edward visited Saint Samuel Church, where Arianna warned him that the Lord of Storms had noticed his tricks and revealed that Ince Zangwill had lost 0-08. Back home, Edward received the Master Key from the Machinery Hivemind and wondered whether the delivery meant the Church of Steam and Machinery had plans for him.

• Edward offered supplies to the Evernight Goddess and asked her to destroy a Psychiatrist Beyonder Characteristic, which she transformed into a red gem.
• Arianna told Edward that the Lord of Storms had turned his gaze on him and that his tricks had to stop, then said Ince Zangwill had lost Sealed Artifact 0-08.
• Edward returned home and opened the door to Ikanser Bernard after divination indicated there was no danger.
• Ikanser returned the Master Key, which the Tingen Machinery Hivemind team had found in the Blackthorn Security Company ruins.
• Edward suspected the Machinery Hivemind's visit was connected to his Walkman and wondered whether Steam was pursuing the God of Technology's position.