Chapter Summaries

Hagrid led the students to their Care of Magical Creatures lesson, where Bell demonstrated how he controlled The Monster Book of Monsters with fire. The lesson ended in chaos when Ron accidentally set his textbook ablaze, and he blamed Bell for tricking him.

• Hagrid led the students to an empty paddock beside the Forbidden Forest and asked them to open their textbooks.
• Bell showed that he could tame The Monster Book of Monsters by burning it with carefully controlled flames, then told the others to use fire to make their books obey.
• Hermione and Hagrid questioned Bell about his method, and Bell said that the strong devoured the weak.
• Ron, Harry, and Neville tried to put out a bonfire after Ron successfully cast the Flame Spell on his textbook.
• Ron decided Bell had tricked him with an illusion and blamed him for the burning book.

During Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures lesson, the students learned to tame their Monster Books of Monsters before Hagrid introduced them to Hippogriffs. Bell volunteered to approach a black Hippogriff, but ignored Hagrid’s instructions to bow and stood proudly before it.

• Hermione put out the flames from Ron’s Monster Book of Monsters after Bell’s Flame Spell burned most of it to ashes.
• Hagrid showed the students how to calm their books by stroking their spines, then went into the Forbidden Forest to fetch Magical Animals.
• Hagrid returned with more than ten Hippogriffs and explained that they were proud creatures who expected respect and had to make the first move.
• When no student volunteered to approach a Hippogriff, Hermione persuaded Bell to step forward.
• Bell asked Hagrid to bring him the black Hippogriff instead of Buckbeak, then stood tall rather than bowing as Hagrid had instructed.

Bell tamed a Hippogriff, then helped Hermione safely ride one. The outing ended when Malfoy attacked Buckbeak with a curse that rebounded off his protective Shield Charm, leaving him bleeding and unconscious.

• Bell made a Hippogriff kneel, named it Xiao Hei, and rode it through the sky.
• Bell helped Hermione approach a reddish-brown Hippogriff respectfully, and she flew several laps before returning safely.
• Buckbeak chased Malfoy and attacked him while his Shield Charm blocked its blows.
• Malfoy cast the Breaking Curse at Buckbeak, but the spell rebounded and struck his shoulder.
• Hagrid restrained Buckbeak, and Bell determined that Malfoy was unconscious but at risk from blood loss.

Bell helped Hagrid remove Malfoy’s Shield Charm after Malfoy’s Curses rebounded and left him unconscious. On the way back to the castle, Bell explained the danger of Hermione’s Defensive Trinkets, and the two ended up heading back together while their classmates watched.

• Bell took control of Malfoy’s Shield Charm and dispelled it, allowing Hagrid to carry Malfoy to Madam Pomfrey.
• Hagrid left Bell to handle the remaining students, and Bell sent the Hippogriffs back to the Forbidden Forest before leaving with Hermione.
• Hermione worried that Hagrid might get in trouble, while Bell said it depended on Dumbledore’s attitude.
• Bell explained that Magic Power infused into Malfoy’s Defensive Trinket had caused Malfoy’s Curses to rebound and revealed that Hermione’s ring and bracelet had the same potential danger.
• Hermione kicked Bell for failing to explain the trinkets earlier, and Bell picked her up and carried her toward the castle.

Bell examined Qiongqi and explained to Hermione that magic could be used without fixed incantations or gestures, then shared his speculative classification of Wizards. The chapter left Hermione stunned when Bell said she did not yet qualify as an Elementary Wizard.

• Bell released Qiongqi from a bottle and studied its Magic Power while Hermione asked whether she and Shanna could cast the Patronus Charm.
• Bell argued that fixed-incantation Curses were basic and split a boulder without using a Curse to demonstrate direct control of Magic Power.
• Bell explained his levels of Wizard: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Ultimate, placing himself at the start of Intermediate and Professor Dumbledore near its peak.
• Hermione asked about Shanna and herself, and Bell placed Shanna in the upper Elementary stage but said Hermione did not yet qualify as an Elementary Wizard.

Bell persuaded Hermione to learn the Patronus Charm to protect herself from Dementors, then decided Shanna should help teach her how to channel emotions into the spell. Hermione agreed to learn but was wary of asking Shanna for guidance, and Bell left the lesson to be arranged between them.

• Bell reassured Hermione about her magical ability and asked whether she wanted to learn the Patronus Charm.
• Hermione eagerly agreed, and Bell explained that the spell required balancing happy emotions with the intent to protect.
• Hermione said she had tried the spell the previous night but could not produce even white mist.
• Bell told Hermione that Shanna should teach her because Shanna was more skilled with the Patronus Charm than he was.
• Hermione questioned why she had to ask Shanna, while Bell hoped the lessons would bring them closer.

Bell learned why Malfoy had returned from the hospital so smugly: Malfoy blamed Hagrid and Buckbeak for an injury he had caused himself. Bell then asked Hermione about her elective classes, and she left him confused by getting angry when he pointed out that she looked tired.

• Bell saw that Malfoy had returned from the hospital with his arm bandaged and a smug expression.
• Hermione told Bell that Malfoy had blamed Hagrid and Buckbeak for his injury and claimed his father would get Hagrid dismissed and Buckbeak killed.
• Bell reassured Hermione that Dumbledore would protect Hagrid, calming her worries.
• Bell asked Hermione what she thought of Divination and Muggle Studies, and she admitted that she disliked them, especially Divination.
• Bell noticed Hermione's dark circles and urged her to give up unhelpful classes and get more sleep, but Hermione kicked him and stormed off before waiting for him to catch up.

Bell interrupted Lupin’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson after noticing that Hermione had not been given a turn against the Boggart. He infused the creature with a fabricated memory, transforming it into a powerful Troll and surprising Lupin.

• Lupin led the third-years to the Teacher’s Lounge and taught them how to face a Boggart, calling on several Gryffindors and Neville twice.
• Bell objected that Hermione and other students had not faced the Boggart, and Lupin admitted he had overlooked them.
• Bell extracted a fabricated, fearful memory and sent it into the Boggart, making it grow into a nearly five-meter Troll.
• The Troll roared and frightened the students, but Bell ordered it to be quiet, and Lupin asked how Bell had restored the Boggart.

During Defense Against the Dark Arts, Bell explained his experiment with the Boggart and watched Hermione confront hers. The Boggart revealed a painful fear involving Bell, and Bell comforted Hermione before Lupin urged him to face the creature himself.

• Bell explained that he had tested whether a Boggart absorbed fear, then sent Hermione to practice against it.
• The Boggart transformed into Bell, and Bell sealed Hermione off from the class with a Soundproof Barrier as it spoke to her.
• Hermione turned pale and nearly fell before Bell's magically amplified voice brought her back to her senses.
• Hermione cast Riddikulus, turning the fake Bell into a gray-furred rat, and Bell embraced her and promised the Boggart's words would never come true.
• Lupin asked Bell to try facing the Boggart, but Bell refused to reveal what he feared most.

Bell studied the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram and connected its theory to the creation of his mutated Patronus, Qiongqi. He considered forming a Shikigami contract with Qiongqi and left the idea untested, focusing instead on refining the theory.

• Hermione remained troubled by the fake Bell’s words, but Shanna helped her regain her fighting spirit, and Hermione learned to cast white mist.
• Bell had two Boggarts placed in his suitcase so he could examine them later.
• Bell reasoned that protection and happiness balanced against killing intent and anger had caused his Patronus to mutate into Qiongqi.
• Bell considered treating Qiongqi as an independent entity and forming a Shikigami contract that could let it persist without extra Magic Power.
• Bell returned his attention to the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram to refine his untested theory.

Bell killed and cremated the unusually intelligent gray rat Scabbers after it fled the Gryffindor Common Room, while Crookshanks watched. Ron arrived to find Scabbers reduced to ashes and charged at Bell in a rage.

• Bell went to the Gryffindor Common Room to retrieve Fina and encountered Crookshanks chasing a gray rat.
• Bell caught the rat, sensed that its thoughts were unusually clear, and wondered whether it was a spirit or an Animagus.
• Bell killed the rat with a curse and cremated its body after Crookshanks refused to eat it.
• Ron saw Bell burn Scabbers to ashes and called him a murderer before rushing at him.

Bell faced Ron’s fury after killing Scabbers, while Harry, Neville, and Hermione reacted with little sympathy for the rat. Bell offered Ron compensation, but Ron remained intent on getting revenge.

• Harry and Neville restrained Ron as Bell arrived to find Fina, and Hermione soon joined them after chasing Crookshanks and Scabbers.
• Ron accused Bell of killing Scabbers, leaving Harry and Neville unimpressed and Hermione asking Bell for an explanation.
• Bell joked that anyone should kill a rat they saw, then admitted he had been rash and offered Ron compensation.
• Ron rejected Bell’s offer and insisted that he wanted to avenge Scabbers.

Bell tried to compensate Ron for Scabbers’s death, then persuaded him to accept a Personal Terminal instead. Ron took the latest model while insisting it was only a memorial for Scabbers, and Hermione confronted Bell about the witches he had added as friends.

• Bell discovered he had no money to offer Ron and asked Harry and Neville whether they owned Personal Terminals.
• Bell teased Ron about being left out at Christmas and lacking a way to contact girls, while mentioning that George and Fred had bought terminals with their business earnings.
• Ron denied being jealous of his brothers but demanded ten Galleons, claiming he wanted a terminal as a memorial for Scabbers.
• Bell handed Ron a new Personal Terminal worth twelve Galleons, and Ron decided to name it the Scabbers Phone.
• Hermione asked Bell which pretty witches he had added as friends, leaving him unable to answer.

As Halloween approached, Bell and Hermione discussed their first trip to Hogsmeade, and Hermione questioned how much Bell spoiled his younger sister, Shanna. Shanna found them and demanded to join their outing, while Bell called Hermione his sister-in-law, leaving Hermione delighted but still determined to keep the trip just for the two of them.

• Hermione asked Bell whether he had visited Hogsmeade, and he told her he had not and suggested she ask Shanna about it.
• Hermione wondered whether a dramatic event explained Bell and Shanna's closeness, but Bell said he loved Shanna because she was his younger sister and agreed to try to spoil her less.
• Shanna found Bell and Hermione in an abandoned classroom and asked to join their Hogsmeade trip.
• Bell agreed to take Shanna, but Hermione objected that Shanna would be breaking the school rules and interrupting their date.
• Bell scolded Shanna for speaking rudely to Hermione and called Hermione his sister-in-law, making Hermione blush; Hermione apologized to Shanna but remained opposed to her joining the trip.

Hermione and Bell went on their first date in Hogsmeade, visiting the Shrieking Shack and Honeydukes Sweetshop. They left with a large haul of candy and continued their stroll through the village.

• Hermione and Bell arrived early in Hogsmeade and decided to explore the village together.
• At the Shrieking Shack, Bell offered to break through its barrier, but Hermione clung to him and asked to leave it alone.
• Bell and Hermione passed the Three Broomsticks and went to Honeydukes, where Bell ate Lim's roast mutton skewers among the sweets.
• Hermione stopped Bell from bringing out more skewers, and they bought a large assortment of candy before leaving the shop.
• Hermione worried they had bought too much candy, and Bell said they could share it with their family and friends and eat the rest slowly.

Bell and Hermione shopped at Madam Malkin's, where Hermione chose clothes for both of them as Christmas gifts. They had a picnic on a hill, joined by Fina, while Lim returned to Hogwarts after seeing Bell eat the lunch she had prepared.

• Bell and Hermione left Zonko's Joke Shop and entered Madam Malkin's, where Hermione eagerly browsed the clothes.
• Bell offered to buy Hermione clothes as Christmas gifts, and she agreed after making him promise not to give her anything else at Christmas.
• Hermione chose two items for herself and two for Bell after spending over an hour shopping.
• Bell rejected Hermione's suggestions of the Hog's Head Pub and the Three Broomsticks, and they set up a picnic on a hill.
• Bell brought out Lim's abundant lunch, then called Fina from his pocket to join them.
• Lim, who had secretly followed Bell and Hermione, returned to Hogwarts after seeing Bell eat her food.

Bell and Hermione continued their Hogsmeade date, and Bell brought her into his family’s Menethil Magical Item Shop. They left with Hermione carrying a bag full of dangerous magical items Bell insisted would keep her safe.

• Bell offered to buy Hermione a Quick-Quotes Quill, then promised to teach her Legilimency after she mastered the Patronus Charm.
• Hermione discovered that the Menethil Magical Item Shop belonged to Bell’s family, and Bell explained how William had bought the former Dervish and Banges shop.
• Toby closed the shop to visitors while Bell showed Hermione its magical wares.
• Bell gave Hermione a large assortment of magical weapons and asked Toby to fetch an enchanted carry bag.
• Hermione reluctantly left the shop with the bag, realizing she would need to learn what many of its items did.

Bell and Hermione returned to Hogwarts for the Halloween Eve feast, where Shanna greeted Bell with an enthusiastic tackle and punished Fina for supposedly failing to protect him. Bell joined the feast at the Slytherin table under Penelope’s watch, leaving him to eat while Shanna kept her promise to celebrate with her friends.

• Bell and Hermione walked back to Hogwarts after visiting Hogsmeade, with Hermione disappointed by the Hog’s Head and Madam Puddifoot’s but pleased by the Three Broomsticks’ Butterbeer.
• Shanna flew into Bell with her Flying Shoes, knocked him down, and checked him for injuries.
• Shanna pulled Fina from Bell’s pocket, then threw her aside and banned her from the castle for the night; Bell failed to stop her.
• Bell followed Shanna to the Slytherin table, where Penelope watched him on Professor McGonagall’s orders.
• Shanna reminded Bell not to trouble Penelope and stayed with her friends, while Bell returned to the Ravenclaw table and ate so eagerly that the other students moved away.

After Sirius Black infiltrated Hogwarts and attacked the Fat Lady’s portrait, the students gathered in the Great Hall to sleep under guard. Bell reunited with Shanna, met her friends Phyllis and Lena, and asked Shanna to try to get along with Hermione; the chapter left Shanna bringing Hermione over to meet her friends.

• The prefects led Ravenclaw students back to the Great Hall, where they learned that Sirius Black had entered Hogwarts and torn apart the Fat Lady’s portrait after failing to enter Gryffindor Tower.
• Shanna joined Bell with sleeping bags and introduced her friends Phyllis and Lena.
• Bell privately asked Shanna to make an effort to get along with Hermione, and Shanna reluctantly agreed.
• Hermione found Bell, and Shanna told her that Bell had been worried about her before leading her to meet Phyllis and Lena.

After Shanna grew close to Hermione, Hermione discovered that Bell already knew Professor Lupin was a Werewolf and learned that Dumbledore and Snape likely knew too. The next day, Bell tried to avoid a Quidditch match in a worsening storm, but Hermione and Shanna refused to stay inside.

• Shanna linked arms with Hermione and introduced her to her friends, while avoiding Bell for the rest of the evening.
• After Black vanished again, Hermione told Bell she suspected Professor Lupin was a Werewolf, and Bell revealed he had suspected it from their first meeting.
• Bell reassured Hermione that Dumbledore knew Lupin's identity and suggested Snape's lesson on Werewolves had a purpose.
• As a Quidditch match day arrived amid a violent storm, Bell suggested watching the game on their Personal Terminals, but Hermione and Shanna both refused.