Chapter Summaries

Bell extracted Number Two’s soul while trying to learn the attackers’ origins, but gained no useful information. After disposing of the evidence, he returned to Hogwarts and concealed that he had killed seven intruders.

• Bell found that Number Two’s memories had been altered and that he could not identify his own family.
• Bell used Soul Extraction on Number Two, bound his soul, and failed to read its memories.
• Bell suppressed his anger with Occlumency and used magic to bury the corpses and erase signs of the battle.
• Bell returned to Hogwarts’s main gate, where Snape and Hagrid questioned him.
• Bell told Snape and Hagrid that he had only taken a walk and that nothing had happened outside.

Bell learned that two intruders had been restrained while a third remained in Shanna’s custody, where she was still torturing them for information. He rushed to the abandoned Underground Classroom to stop the interrogation.

• Snape dismissed Hagrid’s demand to investigate the disturbance outside, and Hagrid went alone.
• Bell asked Snape about the situation, and Snape said two intruders were restrained while the Aurors were on their way.
• Bell realized that three intruders had been involved and asked where the last one was.
• Snape said Shanna refused to hand over the third intruder and was keeping them in her custody.
• Bell hurried toward the abandoned Underground Classroom to reach Shanna.

Bell and Shanna learned where Wallace had hidden Phyllis and her friend, then rescued the two girls from the third-floor bathroom. There, Moaning Myrtle tried to blackmail Bell into becoming her boyfriend, and Bell stopped Shanna from attacking her.

• Bell arrived at the abandoned classroom and persuaded Shanna to stop spinning Wallace so he could question him.
• Wallace revealed that Phyllis and the other girl were hidden in the abandoned bathroom on the third floor, and Bell put him to sleep with a spell.
• Bell and Shanna found Phyllis and her friend asleep behind a concealment barrier in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
• Moaning Myrtle threatened to expose Bell for entering the girls' bathroom unless he broke up with Hermione and became her boyfriend.
• Bell quickly pressed down Shanna's Wand and dimmed the curses on it before she could attack Moaning Myrtle.

Bell and Shanna brought two girls put to sleep by Wallace to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey failed to lift the powerful Sleeping Charm. Bell suggested that Yomi try, while Hermione, Little Wolf, and the rest of Bell’s family were already there after the castle explosion.

• Bell and Shanna left Moaning Myrtle in the bathroom after Shanna threatened her with her Wand.
• Bell examined Phyllis and the other girl, found no injuries, and took them to the Hospital Wing.
• Bell found Hermione being examined, Little Wolf asleep, and Yomi waiting silently in the Hospital Wing.
• Madam Pomfrey examined the two girls and cast the Revival Spell, but they remained asleep.
• Bell suggested that Yomi remove Wallace’s powerful Sleeping Charm, and Madam Pomfrey asked Yomi to help.

After Bell used the Revival Spell stored in his Wand to wake Phyllis and Lena, he stayed with an exhausted Hermione in the infirmary. William responded to the attack on his children by launching a covert war against suspected Pure-blood Families, while Bell strengthened security around his family.

• Yomi used Bell's Wand to revive Phyllis and Lena, who remembered nothing after heading to morning practice.
• Shanna explained the attack to Phyllis and Lena while Bell took Hermione to a bed for an examination.
• Hermione asked Bell to stay with her, and he held her hand until she fell asleep.
• William abandoned his slow investigation and began a covert war against families he suspected of targeting the Menethil Family.
• William stationed the Menethil Family's Special Operations Team outside Hogwarts after Bell and Shanna talked him out of placing Aurors inside.
• Bell upgraded Ten Thousand Snakes and Mad Bear, arranged for Little Bell to have constant company, and left Little Wolf to fend for himself.

Little Wolf survived the Werewolf virus without becoming a Werewolf and gained powerful regenerative abilities, while Bell planned to prepare him for close combat. Two weeks after the Hogwarts attack, Bell visited an exhausted Snape, who had spent the time answering Ministry inquiries, and began to explain why he had come.

• Bell discovered that Little Wolf’s wolf bloodline had apparently overcome the Werewolf virus, leaving him with enhanced regeneration.
• Bell decided to use the Wang Family’s secret technique as a model for Wolf Armor, though he lacked the knowledge to forge it yet.
• Two weeks after the attack, students had moved on, while Snape remained worn down by the Ministry’s suspicions that he had helped the intruders.
• Bell entered the Headmaster’s Office, and Snape angrily demanded to know why he had come.
• Bell said he had come for two main reasons and began with offering Snape his condolences.

Bell asked Snape for an underground classroom to practice increasingly powerful Soul Curses, and Snape let him choose an abandoned room. While Bell prepared to secure it, Penelope contacted him with an exciting discovery, but his remark about having read her diary shocked and enraged her.

• Bell recalled that the Ministry had blamed Snape for the attack on Hogwarts because Bell had kept the other seven attackers secret.
• Bell asked Snape for an underground classroom where he could practice Soul Curses without risking his laboratory or involving Shanna and the others.
• Snape agreed and suggested empty classrooms near the kitchen, but Bell chose to find a secluded room instead.
• Penelope called Bell to share a discovery, and Bell accidentally revealed that he had read her diary.
• Penelope reacted with horror and fury, wishing she could cast a Killing Curse on Bell.

Penelope confronted Bell after discovering that he had read her entire post-graduation diary, which revealed that she still had feelings for him. She asked him to promise not to transfer her from her job, then sent him the latest footage from the Explorers.

• Penelope learned that Bell had read her entire diary and questioned him about it.
• Penelope told Bell she still wanted to keep working with him, and he promised not to transfer her.
• Penelope teased Bell about Hermione before turning to the urgent matter.
• Penelope transferred an encrypted video file from the Explorers to Bell.

Bell watched footage of a gigantic cosmic lifeform discovered by the Explorers and agreed to oversee construction of a Space Battleship to approach it. He named the creature N'Zoth as preparations began to bring Muggle scientists into the project.

• Bell studied the Explorers' footage and saw a tentacled creature in space swallow nearby meteors.
• Bell projected a Magic Power model of the creature, and Penelope confirmed it was a cosmic lifeform discovered between the Solar System and Centaurus.
• Penelope told Bell that the Cosmic Exploration Department had assigned him to build a Space Battleship for close contact with the creature.
• Bell agreed to build the battleship after learning that two earlier Explorers had been eaten and ordered Sebas to recruit a Special Operations Team to bring in Muggle scientists.
• Bell named the cosmic lifeform N'Zoth.

Bell and Hermione traveled home for Christmas separately after Hermione chose to spend the holiday with her parents, though Bell cheered her up on the train. Bell returned to his family home, where his grandmother mistook Yomi for Hermione.

• Bell monitored the Space Battleship project as Muggle scientists helped its construction progress.
• Hermione decided to spend Christmas with her parents rather than join Bell's family gathering, and Bell tried to cheer her up on the train.
• Hermione questioned Bell about his promise to Penelope, then asked him to tell a joke; Bell kissed her instead and told her he loved her.
• Bell and the others returned home, where Panisa greeted them and mistook Yomi for Hermione.
• Bell corrected Panisa and introduced Yomi, while Panisa looked between them with a kindly smile.

Bell gathered the Christmas gifts he, Little Bell, and Little Wolf had prepared and brought them to the family gathering. Little Bell accidentally carried an unfamiliar black box with her gifts, and she realized it belonged to Bell just as he reacted in alarm.

• Bell sorted the Christmas gifts and let Little Bell carry the ones she had prepared while Little Wolf played in the garden.
• Little Bell accidentally knocked over her gifts, then stacked them again and unknowingly added a large black box from the back of the desk.
• Bell and Little Bell brought the gifts to the dining room, and Bell went to fetch Little Wolf.
• Little Bell handed out her gifts to the family and noticed she had one extra box, which she recognized as Bell's and planned to return.
• Bell reentered the dining room, saw the black box, and exclaimed in alarm.

Little Bell and Helena opened Bell's sealed box, triggering a pull that swallowed Bell's family and drew Bell in after them. They landed on an icy plain inside the box, where Aoun realized Bell was missing and Shanna studied their strange surroundings.

• Helena persuaded Little Bell to open Bell's box by claiming it might contain a wish she could help fulfill.
• Ancient Runes sealed the box, and Helena used her Wand to break the seal.
• The box released a powerful suction that pulled Bell's family inside, and Bell jumped in after them.
• Shanna used Wingardium Leviosa to slow everyone's fall and land them safely on an icy plain.
• Aoun asked where Bell was, while Shanna examined the red-veined ice, nearby mountains, and the black wall at the edge of the box's space.

Bell explained that the Cursed Box was an unfinished device he had built to study soul absorption, but it had released uncontrolled skeletons. The group held off the skeletons until a Skeletal Dragon appeared, leaving Drude stunned by Bell’s handiwork.

• Aoun searched for Bell, who descended from the sky with Little Wolf and helped Little Bell calm her Obscurus.
• Bell explained that the Cursed Box indiscriminately absorbed nearby souls and could not control the souls inside it.
• Skeletons burst through the ice, and Aoun and the others fought to hold the line while Shanna eagerly joined in.
• Justin asked Helena whether Bell was a Dark Wizard, and Helena explained that her family was accustomed to Dark Magic.
• Bell knocked Little Wolf away from the bones he was chewing, then a Skeletal Dragon emerged from the mountains and Drude demanded to know where Bell had found dragon bones.

Bell explained that the attacking skeletons were temporary bodies formed around soul fragments and revealed that the group had not truly killed any of them. As thousands of skeletons kept emerging, Shanna confronted the Death Knight while the others continued fighting.

• Bell ordered the Skeletal Dragon to retreat, and Drude questioned how Bell had subdued it.
• Aoun demanded help as Shanna outperformed him against the skeletons, and Bell explained that most of their souls came from the Killing Stone.
• A Death Knight mounted on a skeletal horse charged through the skeleton horde, and Shanna stopped it with a Magic Power Impact.
• Bell revealed that there were around three thousand skeletons and that everyone had zero kills because the skeletons would reassemble unless their souls were erased.

Bell brought everyone out of the Cursed Box and comforted Little Bell over dinner before returning to Hogwarts and immersing himself in soul research. Hermione eventually dragged him out of the Underground Classroom, where he discovered that spring—and the Easter Holiday—had already passed.

• Bell used Ancient Runes to lead everyone out of the Cursed Box and back into the dining hall, where William scolded him for bringing danger into the castle.
• Bell conjured dinner and comforted Little Bell until she began eating.
• Bell spent the rest of the Christmas Holiday with his family, and his grandparents and maternal grandparents returned to the United States while Helena and her husband resumed their travels.
• Back at Hogwarts, Bell focused on soul research and skipped classes, while Hermione took notes and tutored him after school.
• Hermione dragged Bell out of the Underground Classroom, and he realized he had missed the Easter Holiday; Hermione told him she had gone on a picnic with Sister Yomi, Shanna, and the others.

Bell took a day off to watch the Quidditch House Cup final with Hermione, Shanna, Gabrielle, and their friends. After awkwardly promising to spend the day with Gabrielle, he joined the group in the stands as the Gryffindor-versus-Slytherin match was about to begin.

• Hermione persuaded Bell to leave his underground work and watch the Quidditch final with her.
• Gabrielle confronted Bell for rarely spending time with her, and he promised to play with her all day.
• Gabrielle introduced Bell to her friend Louise, whose confusion over Bell's relationship with Gabrielle and Hermione left her bewildered.
• Bell and the others settled in to watch Gryffindor face Slytherin in the House Cup final.
• The chapter recalled that Gryffindor had narrowly won the previous year's cup after Harry repeatedly caught the Snitch early in matches.

Little Wolf joined Gryffindor’s Quidditch team as a Beater, but his instincts and the rough rules of the Quidditch he had learned at home turned the House Cup final into chaos. Snape called a time-out as Slytherin led by a wide margin, but its players risked being knocked out before the match could finish.

• McGonagall admitted Little Wolf to Gryffindor’s team, where Harry made him a Beater after he repeatedly carried the Quaffle toward his own hoops.
• At the House Cup final, Little Wolf bit the Quaffle at the opening whistle and earned Gryffindor an immediate penalty.
• Little Wolf flew to Bell in the stands and proudly handed him the Quaffle before the match resumed.
• Little Wolf repeatedly struck Slytherin players with his club, drawing penalties and leaving Slytherin ahead 100–10.
• Snape called a time-out after nearly half an hour because Little Wolf’s attacks threatened to put the Slytherin players in the infirmary.

Snape confronted Bell about Little Wolf’s rough play and Bell had Qiongqi relay an order for him to be gentler. The match resumed at a calmer pace, while Little Bell asked to play Quidditch and was told she would have to wait until she was older.

• Snape entered the Repelling Jinx and demanded that Shanna explain Little Wolf’s rule-breaking.
• Bell promised to tell Little Wolf to be gentler and had Qiongqi relay the instruction.
• Snape left, and the match resumed with less violence as the spectators booed and then returned to watching.
• Little Bell told Bell she wanted to play Quidditch, but he said she would have to wait until she turned eleven and attended Hogwarts.

Bell learned that Little Fina had roared in pain and set the house inside his suitcase ablaze. He entered the burning room to find out what had happened to her.

• Penelope called Bell in alarm after Little Fina roared during their game and then disconnected.
• Ke Ersha Apparated to Bell and reported that Fina had started howling and set the house on fire.
• Bell returned to the suitcase, ordered Ke Ersha to guard its entrance, and told the other House-elves to keep the fire from spreading.
• Bell used a Shield Charm and icy magic to approach the blazing house, then kicked open its damaged door and entered.

Bell entered the burning house and found Fina undergoing a painful transformation as her Magic Power surged through her body. He used his Wand to steady her Magic Power, easing her pain while Fina’s golden flames engulfed him.

• Bell saw that the fire had destroyed the gifts Shanna had given him and found Fina growing larger amid the flames.
• Fina’s body erupted in golden fire as her transformation caused intense pain and burned up her Personal Terminal.
• Bell recognized that Fina’s Magic Power was rampaging through her body and approached her despite the heat.
• When Fina’s flames instinctively surged at him, Bell dismissed his Shield Charm and used the Fire Escape Technique to reach her.
• Bell pressed his Wand to Fina’s forehead and helped control her Magic Power, easing her pain as flames spread over his body.