Chapter Summaries

Harry uncovered Draco's plan to repair a Vanishing Cabinet so Death Eaters could invade Hogwarts, and realized someone had altered Draco’s memories and placed a sophisticated restriction in his mind. As Harry prepared to leave Draco’s dream, he sensed a mental current and suspected another person had opened a door inside it.

• Harry learned from Draco’s memories that Draco was repairing a Vanishing Cabinet to let Death Eaters enter Hogwarts and attack the school.
• Harry confirmed that Pansy had used Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Draco while he worked on the cabinet, and that Draco possessed a Hand of Glory.
• Harry discovered that Draco’s memories of the Christmas feast had been altered to conceal another accomplice, and considered Lockhart, Voldemort, and the Dark Council as possible culprits.
• Harry examined Draco’s memories further, then prepared to leave the dream through an entrance opened by the McGonagall Bird.
• Harry felt a mental current near the Dream Realm door and noticed that Malfoy Manor remained in the dream after Draco had been hypnotized.
• Harry suspected that someone else had opened a door inside Draco’s dream.

Harry discovered a hidden Dream Realm entrance in Draco’s dream and explored it before returning safely to the Common Room. He realized Draco’s secret activities could help expose the Death Eaters’ planned attack on Hogwarts, then encountered Hermione and asked what time it was.

• Harry found a Dream Realm entrance concealed in a mirror inside Draco’s dream and stepped through it with the McGonagall Bird.
• Harry returned to the real world and used a gold coin and his spiritual power to verify that he had truly awakened.
• Harry concluded that Draco’s secretive behavior could reveal the Death Eaters’ plan to attack Hogwarts and decided to tell Dumbledore what he knew.
• Hermione found Harry awake in the Common Room, and Harry asked her what time it was.

After Professor McGonagall reprimanded Harry for entering Draco's dream, Harry returned to his Dormitory to sleep and unexpectedly entered a strange dream. There, a black-robed stranger challenged him with powerful magic, and the chapter ended as Harry controlled Fiendfyre into a flower around himself.

• Professor McGonagall scolded Harry for entering Draco's dream and warned him not to repeat it, saying she would inform Dumbledore.
• Harry visited the Library but left without disturbing Qiu, then returned to the Dormitory exhausted and fell asleep.
• Harry found himself lucid in a vast desert and sensed a hidden presence in the Dream Realm.
• A black-robed man appeared and attacked Harry with a misty snake and necromantic skulls, which Harry countered with a Shield Charm, a whirlwind, and his Patronus.
• The stranger sent corrosive black rain toward Harry, but Harry's Fiendfyre consumed it and spread across the dream space.
• Harry drew the Fiendfyre into petals around himself as the black-robed man praised his control and promised to show him something more interesting.

Harry fought a black-robed opponent who attacked him with bizarre magical creatures, including a worm that survived Fiendfyre, Sandlurkers, and Byakhee. Harry summoned five enormous black flying creatures to seize the Byakhee, then prepared to counterattack.

• Harry considered whether his opponent would use Ancient Magic and reflected on how the Enchanted Body potion and Meditation Method had increased his magical power.
• A giant worm covered in smaller creatures burst from the sand and charged Harry, but its smaller worms devoured Fiendfyre while protecting its body.
• Harry evaded the worm with Apparition as over thirty Sandlurkers emerged from the sand and attacked him with stone weapons.
• The black-robed man sent two Byakhee after Harry, but five enormous black winged creatures appeared and caught them in their jaws.
• Harry mocked the black-robed man's tricks and announced that it was his turn to put on a show.

Harry defeated the black-robed intruder’s Sigurson Moss by transforming into a Gundam, then watched a Horror Hunter kill the weakened summoner. After the intruder vanished, Harry realized the desert dream remained and suspected the scene held special significance.

• Harry’s summoned Horror Hunters devoured the Sandlurkers and frightened the tiny worms off Sigurson Moss, though they still avoided the giant creature.
• Harry transformed into a Gundam and charged Sigurson Moss, cutting it apart with a Light Sword and Beam Saber.
• The black-robed figure weakened when Sigurson Moss died, and a Horror Hunter attacked and swallowed him.
• The intruder vanished after warning Harry Potter that he would remember him, and Harry dismissed his creatures and Gundam.
• Harry noticed the desert dream persisted after the intruder disappeared and concluded that the scene had special meaning.

In Serbia, Zou learned from Brach that Harry had created the dream in which he summoned six Horror Hunters and a Metal Magic Puppet that killed Sigurson Moss. Harry then found a Dream Realm Gate inside a pyramid in his own dream, but he could not enter it.

• Brach recovered from the backlash of his dream simulation and told Zou that Harry had summoned six Horror Hunters and a Metal Magic Puppet that killed Sigurson Moss.
• Zou examined Brach’s memories and explained that Harry had created the dream, rather than merely summoning magical creatures within Brach’s simulation.
• Zou suggested that the puppet might be connected to the Tower Chapters and the Colossal God Soldier, but said he had never foreseen the Tower Chapters appearing.
• Brach paid Zou the Felix Felicis he owed from their bet, then admitted he had used an item Zou had given him when building the dream.
• Harry explored a desert dream and found a pyramid emitting fluctuations like a Dream Realm Gate, but could not enter it despite trying several methods.

Harry discussed unusual sealing spells from Ravenclaw's and Slytherin's legacies with Qiu after the spells surfaced in his mind during a dream battle. The two agreed the Founders had deliberately left the spells behind, and Neville arrived to say Professor McGonagall wanted Harry.

• Harry left the dream without discovering what the pyramid meant, then woke tired and was teased by Seamus and Dean, who mistook his defense of his dry pajama pants for evidence of a dirty dream.
• Harry threatened his roommates into keeping quiet, but Lavender looked at him strangely that afternoon.
• Harry took Qiu for a walk and explained that sealing spells from both Founders' legacies had surfaced in his mind while he fought magical creatures in a dream.
• Qiu said she had encountered the same spells without Ravenclaw's understanding accompanying them, and she agreed with Harry that the Founders may have deliberately left them behind because they were important.
• Neville arrived with Luna and Rolf and told Harry that Professor McGonagall wanted him.

Harry went to meet Professor McGonagall after Neville found him, wondering why Luna had been able to guess where he was. He arrived at the staffroom with Neville and Qiu, where several professors, Hermione, and Lavender were waiting, but the chapter ended before they explained why they had summoned them.

• Neville told Harry that Professor McGonagall had asked him to find Harry, and Luna had led Neville to him.
• Harry noticed Luna and Rolf together and privately wondered whether Luna had a talent for Divination.
• Harry, Qiu, and Neville went to the staffroom and found Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Vector, Professor Burbage, Hermione, and Lavender there.

Harry and his friends waited through most of the Easter holidays for Draco and the Death Eaters to attack Hogwarts, but nothing happened. As Harry considered provoking Draco through his dreams, Neville arrived with news of an unexpected development.

• Harry and the others watched Draco and guarded the Vanishing Cabinet, but Draco made no move before or during the Easter holidays.
• Gryffindor remained the favorite to win the Quidditch Cup, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, and their friends stayed at Hogwarts in case the Death Eaters attacked.
• With less than a week of the holidays left, Harry suggested entering Draco’s dream again to push him into summoning the Death Eaters, and Ron questioned whether it was a bad idea.
• Neville rushed into the Common Room and told Harry and Ron that something unexpected had happened.

Harry and Ron learned that Cedric and Rolf had jointly obtained Helga Hufflepuff’s inheritance after holding hands before her statue. The group left the Black Lake ready to examine the inheritance and consider pursuing Gryffindor’s as well.

• Neville led Harry, Ron, and Lavender to the Black Lake, where they found Cedric, Yi Qianqian, Rolf, and Luna.
• Yi Qianqian told Harry that Cedric had obtained Hufflepuff’s inheritance with Rolf, prompting the group to demand an explanation.
• Luna recounted how she suggested that Cedric and Rolf try together after their separate attempts had failed.
• Cedric and Rolf held hands before Hufflepuff’s statue, causing the Golden Cup to react and granting them the inheritance.
• Cedric urged everyone to focus on sorting out the inheritance, while Harry proposed putting Gryffindor’s inheritance on their agenda.

Hermione was astonished to learn that Cedric and Rolf had tried together, while Ron suggested bringing Rolf into their secret group. Hermione blushed as she considered the possibilities for obtaining Gryffindor's legacy.

• Hermione reacted with disbelief when she heard that Cedric and Rolf had tried together.
• The group accepted that Cedric and Rolf had experimented after Luna suggested it.
• Ron enthusiastically suggested adding Rolf to their special group.
• Hermione wondered about possible combinations for obtaining Gryffindor's legacy and blushed at the thought of a handsome, cheerful face.
• Ron noticed Hermione's red face and asked what was wrong.

Harry and the others saw the Dark Mark above Hogwarts, then watched flames engulf the castle as the Ministry of Magic came under attack elsewhere. Beneath the Ministry, Allen Dismask and the Dark Council found the Gate of the Other Shore.

• Harry used contract magic to coordinate with nine others, then hurried toward the main building after spotting the Dark Mark.
• Fires broke out across Hogwarts while Ron questioned why the professors and Order of the Phoenix had not stopped the attackers.
• Rufus Scrimgeour led Ministry personnel in a fighting retreat against Dark Wizards and dark creatures that had infiltrated the Ministry.
• Amelia Bones, Sirius, and Order of the Phoenix members joined the Ministry battle, leaving Hogwarts exposed to invasion.
• Allen Dismask, Ilhaus Brunei, William Dorom, Rasconi Forsell, and other Dark Council members entered the Department of Mysteries and searched its doors.
• Dismask opened the room containing a tattered veil and identified the solitary doorway as the Gate of the Other Shore.

Dismask and six Wizards used Sixfold Annihilation to lift the Gate of the Other Shore and its stone platform from the floor. Dismask summoned a huge Bone Dragon to carry it away, and the group prepared to conceal their escape through the underground railway.

• Dorom confirmed that the Gate of the Other Shore was the reason the United Kingdom's Ministry of Magic had been built there, and Dismask urged the Wizards to begin their rehearsed spell.
• The six Wizards formed a six-pointed-star Magic Array while Dismask cast a spell that lifted the gate and its stone platform inside a gray spherical net.
• Brunei approached the gate but stepped back after Dorom warned him about Sixfold Annihilation and its danger to living creatures and magic.
• Dismask drank a potion and summoned a Bone Dragon over thirty meters long, explaining that its undead nature would let it carry the gate despite Sixfold Annihilation.
• Dismask asked the six Wizards to maintain a Confundus Charm canopy around the Bone Dragon, then proposed escaping through the underground railway to avoid damaging the building.

Harry and the Hogwarts professors fought Death Eaters who had set magical fires and attacked the castle with powerful spells. Harry helped defeat Rodolphus Lestrange, while other Death Eaters remained at large.

• Harry jumped from a corridor window and joined Lupin in investigating the fires.
• Professor McGonagall summoned house-elves to fight the flames, while Professor Flitwick explained that ordinary spells could not extinguish them.
• A hidden attacker fired a Killing Curse at Professor McGonagall, and she raised a stone wall to block it.
• The attacker triggered an Earthquake Spell, which Professor Flitwick countered before it could damage Hogwarts.
• Harry ran toward a battle and stunned a cloaked Death Eater who had been fighting Madam Hooch and Professor Sinistra.
• Harry revealed the unconscious man as Rodolphus Lestrange, whom he recognized from their previous encounter.

Harry realized the Death Eaters had entered Hogwarts to search for something and led the others to the Room of Requirement, where he joined a fight against Bellatrix and the Carrow siblings. Meanwhile, three Death Eaters incapacitated Professor McGonagall in the Headmaster's Office, but a mysterious golden-red-haired girl appeared and attacked them.

• Harry captured Rodolphus Lestrange and learned that Professor Lupin and Professor Flitwick had encountered Antonin Dolohov, who escaped.
• Harry suspected the Death Eaters were searching for an object and opened the Room of Requirement, where he found Professor Vector, Madam Pomfrey, Dobby, and another house-elf unconscious.
• Harry joined Ron, Lavender, Draco, and Yi Qianqian in their fight against Bellatrix Lestrange and the Carrow siblings, while Professor Lupin and Professor Flitwick arrived to help.
• Three Death Eaters defeated Professor McGonagall in the Headmaster's Office and began searching for what the Dark Lord wanted.
• A golden-red-haired girl appeared in the office and petrified one of the Death Eaters with a powerful spell.

Ginny and Black Ginny defeated three Death Eaters who had ambushed Professor McGonagall while searching the Headmaster's Office for a sword. After Ginny revived McGonagall, the professor praised her for outsmarting their enemies.

• Black Ginny petrified one Death Eater, let another's Killing Curse pass through her, and stunned him with a counterattack.
• Black Ginny broke the last Death Eater's dark magic with an Ice Blade Charm, then blasted and petrified him.
• Ginny took control, confiscated the three Death Eaters' wands, stunned them again, and bound them with ropes.
• Ginny revived Professor McGonagall and gave her a Restorative Potion.
• Professor McGonagall learned that Ginny had defeated the attackers and praised her for using an ambush.

Harry chased Bellatrix after she escaped the Room of Requirement, then realized the Death Eaters had used the attack to search for Hogwarts treasures, including the Sword of Gryffindor. He found Professor McGonagall and Ginny had defeated three Death Eaters, and Dumbledore arrived to take charge as the search for remaining attackers continued.

• Bellatrix escaped Harry's Silver Light Net as black smoke, and Harry pursued her but lost her through a broken window in the dark.
• Harry deduced the Death Eaters had used fires and an Earthquake Curse as distractions while Bellatrix's group searched for the Horcrux in the Room of Requirement.
• Harry remembered Voldemort also wanted the Sword of Gryffindor and hurried with Ron and Cedric to the Headmaster's Office.
• Harry, Ron, and Cedric found Professor McGonagall and Ginny with three bound Death Eaters, and Professor McGonagall revealed Ginny had subdued them after she injured them.
• Harry reported that Rodolphus and the Carrow siblings had been captured, while Bellatrix and Dolohov escaped; Professor McGonagall explained Satima had been knocked unconscious before sending a warning.
• Dumbledore arrived by Floo, summoned Fawkes, and vanished with the phoenix to deal with the remaining danger.

The Death Eaters used an attack on the Ministry of Magic to distract from their assault on Hogwarts, where they sought Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor. Their plan was exposed and costly, though Dolohov and Bellatrix escaped, leaving Voldemort with fewer options and both sides aware they had underestimated their opponents.

• Voldemort’s forces attacked the Ministry of Magic, stole the mysterious door from the Death Chamber, and caused heavy casualties before the Order of the Phoenix and Madam Bones helped repel them.
• Dolohov emerged from the Vanishing Cabinet, took down Professor Vector and a house-elf, and joined Bellatrix in overpowering Dobby after he sent a warning.
• Captured Death Eaters revealed that Voldemort had sent them to find Ravenclaw’s Diadem and the Sword of Gryffindor, after learning several of his Horcruxes had been compromised.
• Voldemort’s inspection of the Gaunt family ring had triggered Sirius’s concealed trap, badly injuring him and keeping him inactive for a long time.
• Rabastan Lestrange and two Death Eaters ambushed Professor McGonagall, but Ginny defeated them; five Death Eaters were captured while Dolohov and Bellatrix escaped.

After the Death Eaters’ failed attack, Dumbledore left Draco under watch without confronting him, and Draco grew increasingly frightened and suspicious. Harry and the others turned their attention to the unknown accomplice and questioned why Voldemort wanted the Sword of Gryffindor, wondering if he planned to make another Horcrux.

• The professors discovered that the Death Eaters had sent a magical device through the closed Vanishing Cabinet to open it from the Hogwarts side.
• Dumbledore took no action against Draco for a week, which left Draco panicked and wondering whether Voldemort had lost faith in him.
• Alice Natalie’s pursuit of Ron stalled as the holidays ended and students prepared for exams.
• Harry and his friends found no leads on the unidentified person who had been with Draco and Pansy at the Christmas feast.
• Yi Qianqian asked why Voldemort wanted the Sword of Gryffindor, and Hermione wondered if he intended to make another Horcrux.

Harry and his friends discussed whether Voldemort might make another Horcrux, then focused on exams and Quidditch as Hermione grew anxious over Jacob Covenas’s disappearance. Cedric summoned them to meet Dumbledore about important news, leaving them without knowing what had happened to Jacob.

• Harry, Hermione, and Ron considered whether Voldemort might make another Horcrux after failing to obtain the Sword of Gryffindor.
• As exams approached, Harry spent much of his time reassuring an increasingly nervous Qiu.
• Harry let Qiu catch the Golden Snitch in the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw match, and later helped comfort her after she objected to his pity.
• Harry and Ron learned that Jacob Covenas had stopped writing to Hermione and had been missing since the night the Death Eaters invaded.
• Cedric told Hermione that Dumbledore wanted to see her and said Harry and the others could come because there was important news.