Chapter Summaries

Bell tried to help Harry sever the connection between his soul and Voldemort's with Frostmourne, but Harry could not wield the sword's full power. When Harry charged at Voldemort and fell, Frostmourne flew into Voldemort's hand and froze his right arm.

• Bell warned Arthur that killing Voldemort might destroy Harry's soul, so Arthur left the decision to him.
• Bell told Harry to cut the line connecting his soul to Voldemort's, but Harry's swings only weakened it slightly.
• Bell changed his plan and urged Harry to charge at Voldemort with Frostmourne.
• Voldemort used Black Mist to trip Harry, sending him sprawling and knocking Frostmourne toward him.
• Voldemort caught Frostmourne, but the sword erupted with soul-freezing cold and froze his right arm.

Bell freed Harry from Voldemort’s Black Mist and watched him fight, but Harry’s strength rapidly faded as Voldemort drew power from his soul. Bell stepped in to replace him and continue the battle.

• Bell deflected Voldemort’s attack and used All Spells End to free Harry from the Black Mist.
• Harry disarmed Voldemort with a powerful Expelliarmus, retrieved Frostmourne, and fought him with his Wand and sword.
• After ten minutes, Harry struggled to keep fighting, and Bell explained that Voldemort had been drawing power from Harry’s soul.
• Bell took Frostmourne back, blocked Voldemort’s attack, and entered the field to continue the fight.

Bell restrained Harry and studied the effects of Voldemort draining his power while explaining that Voldemort depended on the magic array beneath him. Voldemort then tried to recruit Bell with a grand speech about his rise and ideals, leaving Bell stunned and wondering whether he had stolen Grindelwald's manuscript.

• Bell bound Harry and asked him to report every sensation while Bell dealt with Voldemort.
• Bell warned Voldemort that leaving the magic array would reduce him to a ghost, then cut the connection to slow Voldemort's drain on Harry.
• Harry described the cold sensation in his head, and Bell examined the changes to his soul.
• Voldemort recounted his past and invited Bell to join his cause.
• Bell was dumbfounded by Voldemort's speech and wondered whether he had stolen Grindelwald's manuscript.

Bell used Frostmourne to test how Voldemort’s soul affected Harry, while restraining Voldemort and drawing his soul into the sword. Harry remained healthy, and Bell confirmed that Voldemort was doomed as most of his soul had already been absorbed.

• Bell rebuked Voldemort for trying to recruit him without knowing his name, then severed Voldemort’s right arm with Frostmourne.
• Bell checked Harry and found no immediate ill effects from Voldemort’s earlier siphoning of his magic.
• Voldemort tried to escape as black mist, but Bell gathered him back together and pinned him to the ground with magic.
• Bell pinned Voldemort with Frostmourne and repeatedly increased its suction while monitoring the sensations Harry experienced.
• Bell stopped the experiment when the distortion began affecting Harry’s soul, then told Harry the operation had succeeded and he would remain healthy.
• Harry asked whether Voldemort would die, and Bell said that more than half of Voldemort’s soul had been absorbed and the rest would soon dissipate.

After Voldemort’s defeat, Bell reassured Harry that the soul distortion would keep him from eating for a day, then let Snape approach the defeated Dark Lord. Bell left the spectators behind and told Yomi that the experiment had succeeded, suggesting Kagura come study at Hogwarts.

• Bell told Harry that the distortion affecting his soul would prevent him from eating lunch and dinner, and Harry thanked Bell for helping him survive and defeat Voldemort.
• Snape demanded the chance to kill Voldemort himself, but Bell reminded him to consider Harry before stepping aside.
• Bell offered to create a stronger Voldemort for Shanna to practice on, then led his family and friends out of the barrier.
• Arthur asked what the Order of the Phoenix members should do, and Bell told them to go home.
• Bell told Yomi the experiment had succeeded and suggested Kagura run away from home to study at Hogwarts, while Yomi said Kagura should decide for herself.

The Hogwarts News Agency published a sensational report claiming Bell Menethil would join Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team and had secretly concealed professional-level skills. Hermione objected to the article’s distortions, while Little Wolf considered retaliating against the newspaper and went to find Gabrielle.

• Max became the Quidditch commentator after Snape and Professor McGonagall clashed over who should replace Lee Jordan, and Hufflepuff remained on course for third place.
• The Hogwarts News Agency reported that Bell would join Ravenclaw’s team and quoted Hermione and Shanna Menethil about his Quidditch ability.
• Hermione angrily rejected the article’s claim that she had said Bell deliberately hid his skills and vowed not to be interviewed by the agency again.
• Little Wolf praised Bell’s ability and asked Hermione to help tear down the news agency, but she refused.
• Little Wolf said he would ask Gabrielle to go with him and ran off.

Students gathered for the Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor Quidditch match as Professor McGonagall worried that Bell might influence Bei Lang to throw the game. When Shanna arrived to commentate with a letter signed by Headmaster Snape, McGonagall tried to stop her, and Shanna threatened to blow up the commentator’s booth if anyone interfered.

• Students hurried to the stands for the Ravenclaw-Gryffindor match, which drew extra attention because Bell had joined Ravenclaw’s team.
• Professor McGonagall worried that Bell might persuade Bei Lang to undermine Gryffindor, but she had been unable to get Bei Lang to take her warnings seriously.
• Professor McGonagall discovered that Shanna, not Max, had arrived to commentate.
• Shanna showed McGonagall a letter appointing her commentator, signed by Headmaster Snape.
• Professor McGonagall objected to Shanna’s appointment, and Shanna insisted she had the authority to commentate and threatened to blow up the booth if stopped.

Shanna took over as Quidditch commentator after Max was left stuck in the washroom, but Professor McGonagall struggled to keep her focused on the match. Shanna began praising her brother Bell and his sword Frostmourne, giving McGonagall a chance to ask about the weapon.

• Professor McGonagall objected to Shanna replacing Max as commentator, but Shanna said Max could not come because he was living in the washroom after eating something dirty.
• Shanna began her commentary by announcing that Max had diarrhea, and Professor McGonagall repeatedly ordered her to stick to the match.
• Shanna praised her brother Bell and started telling the crowd stories about their childhood, prompting Professor McGonagall to threaten to remove her as commentator.
• Shanna introduced Bell by boasting that he had forged the Magic Sword Frostmourne, and Professor McGonagall asked her to explain more about it.

Shanna teased Professor McGonagall by describing Frostmourne while withholding its other abilities, then began commentating as Bell entered the Quidditch arena. Hermione and the others settled into ordinary seats, and Hermione stopped Little Bell from reshaping them with magic.

• Shanna told Professor McGonagall that Bell had forged Frostmourne, which enhanced spellcasting and outmatched Yomi's Lion King, but she refused to explain its other abilities.
• Shanna spotted Bell entering the arena and waved to him from the commentary booth, while Bell saw Professor McGonagall's livid expression.
• Hermione, Phyllis, and Lena stopped searching for the Gryffindor team after hearing Shanna commentate and returned to their seats.
• Phyllis lamented the ordinary seats after years of Bell or Shanna transforming them for matches.
• Little Bell tried to use magic to remodel the seats, but Hermione stopped her because the crowd made it dangerous.
• Hermione promised Little Bell she could demonstrate her curses later, and Bell's next lesson for her would be learning to reduce their power.

Bell played Chaser for Ravenclaw in a Quidditch match against Gryffindor, while Shanna commentated and Professor McGonagall reprimanded her. The chapter ended with Bell scoring Ravenclaw’s first goal after Gryffindor’s Beaters turned on each other.

• Bell chose to play Chaser after ruling out the other Quidditch positions.
• Madam Hooch started the match, and Bell won the opening race for the Quaffle against Gryffindor’s Chaser.
• Shanna called the Gryffindor players insulting names and admitted she did not know most of their names, prompting Professor McGonagall to scold her.
• Bei Lang attacked his Gryffindor teammate, and Madam Hooch ruled that the match could continue because no harm had yet been done.
• Gabrielle passed the Quaffle to Bell, who feinted past a Gryffindor Chaser and scored Ravenclaw’s first goal.

A Quidditch match was briefly suspended after Little Wolf attacked a Gryffindor teammate, then resumed once he returned to play. Shanna’s broadcast commentary and Bell’s sunflower seeds drew Professor McGonagall’s ire as the match continued.

• Harry called a timeout and landed to find out why Little Wolf had gone after a Gryffindor teammate.
• Gabrielle praised Bell’s improvised move and asked whether he had won Little Wolf over, but Bell denied it and said Little Wolf had attacked after a Bludger nearly hit her.
• Bell gave Shanna a huge pile of Smile Sunflower Seeds through the commentary room window after she asked over the broadcast system.
• Professor McGonagall confiscated Shanna’s seeds and scolded her for neglecting her commentary.
• The match resumed, and Little Wolf stopped attacking his own teammates and played seriously.
• Shanna praised Bell while commentating and suggested replacing Flying Broomsticks with Flying Shoes, prompting Professor McGonagall to shout at her.

Bell and Shanna helped Ravenclaw defeat Gryffindor in a long Quidditch match, with Shanna relaying Harry’s position and Bell repeatedly stopping him from catching the Golden Snitch. Ravenclaw celebrated its victory, while Bell’s reputation improved among Ravenclaws and collapsed among Gryffindors.

• Shanna tried to curse a Gryffindor Beater, but Professor McGonagall stopped her and told her to commentate on the match.
• Shanna spotted Harry chasing the Golden Snitch and told Bell where Harry was flying.
• Bell struck the tail of Harry’s broom with the Quaffle, disrupting his chase, and Ravenclaw later regained the ball.
• Shanna complained that Professor Flitwick had refused to let her join Ravenclaw’s Quidditch team, and Professor McGonagall corrected her about her House.
• Ravenclaw beat Gryffindor 330 to 200 after Bell delayed Harry from catching the Golden Snitch until his teammates were tiring.
• Shanna celebrated Ravenclaw’s victory with Butterbeer at the team’s banquet.

At Ravenclaw’s celebration banquet, Shanna welcomed Lena and Phyllis while insisting that she counted as a Ravenclaw. Gabrielle asked whether Shanna would favor Slytherin in the next match, and Shanna’s answer left her reassured; Gabrielle also admitted she was still trying to help her sister find a partner.

• Bell reminded Shanna to drink less, and Shanna eagerly ate after skipping lunch.
• Lena worried that she and Phyllis did not belong at the Ravenclaw banquet, but Shanna had a Little Eagle confirm that she was a Ravenclaw and encouraged them to eat.
• Gabrielle asked Shanna whether she would favor Slytherin when Ravenclaw played them next, and Shanna made Gabrielle say that she was a Ravenclaw.
• Shanna could not find Gege and asked whether Gabrielle had given up promoting her sister; Gabrielle said she would keep trying because her sister still liked no one.
• Shanna wished Gabrielle good luck in helping her sister.

Bell tried to avoid Hermione and studying, but Hermione caught him skipping classwork and took him to the Library. Yomi then told him that Kagura was escaping her family and would arrive that night, giving Bell a chance to leave Hermione’s study session.

• Bell tried to sneak through the corridor, but Hermione found him and accused him of avoiding his studies.
• Hermione pointed out that Bell had used a Quick-Quotes Quill for his notes and had played Canyon War with Little Bell and Fina during Charms Class.
• Hermione took Bell to the Library to study, and Bell blamed Professor Flitwick for telling her about his game.
• Yomi told Bell that Kagura would dock at eight that night and wanted to discuss the next steps of their operation.
• Yomi explained that Kagura had used Potions she mailed to knock out the night watch and escape her family.

Bell inspected and repaired the Spirit Essence Conversion Array in the Forbidden Forest, then accompanied Yomi to the beach to meet Kagura. Kagura arrived safely and reunited with Yomi, while she and Bell immediately resumed their bickering.

• Bell inspected the Spirit Essence Conversion Array and repaired its sluggish Magic Power flow, intending to keep letting Kagura use it.
• Yomi rushed Bell out of Hogwarts with a temporary Out-of-School Permit so they could meet Kagura at the beach.
• Yomi paced anxiously while Bell checked that Kagura's yacht was on schedule.
• Kagura's Magical Yacht arrived, and Bell guarded against her attempted midair attack as she landed in Yomi's embrace.
• Yomi welcomed Kagura and asked whether she had caused trouble, while Kagura teased Bell for wriggling around.

Bell turned Yomi and Kagura into cats outside the Shrieking Shack and left them to enter its secret passage without him. At Hogwarts’s front gate, Kagura kept Bell out because he had no pass, and Yomi freed herself from the transformation while Kagura remained a cat.

• Bell Apparated with Yomi and Kagura to the Shrieking Shack, then transformed them into cats and told them they needed to enter the hidden passage alone.
• Bell left, and Kagura’s angry roar inspired a rumor that a murdered witch haunted the Shrieking Shack and that her killer was named Bell.
• Yomi and Kagura reached Hogwarts’s front gate, where Kagura refused to let Bell in because he lacked a pass.
• Yomi ended her own transformation by disrupting Bell’s Magic Power, but said she could not safely do the same for Kagura.

Bell performed a difficult ritual to separate Byakuei from Kagura, then cut off her arm to stop a rampaging Killing Stone fragment. The next morning, Hermione asked where Kagura was staying, still unaware of what had happened to her.

• Kagura and Yomi questioned whether Bell should postpone the ritual, but he insisted on performing it that night.
• Bell spent six hours separating and killing Byakuei, then cut off Kagura's arm when the Killing Stone fragment began to consume her.
• Yomi helped stop Kagura's bleeding while Bell dealt with her injuries, then returned to his dormitory and collapsed into bed.
• The next morning, Bell told Hermione that the ritual had gone smoothly and that Kagura would be lively again.
• Hermione asked where Bell had arranged for Kagura to stay, noting that Hogwarts did not allow outsiders to remain there.

Professor McGonagall confronted Yomi and Kagura after learning Kagura had entered Hogwarts through a Secret Passage beneath the Whomping Willow, then ordered Yomi and Bell to the Faculty Lounge. Kagura demanded compensation for the arm Bell had cut off, while Bell told her she could eventually develop strength like her Magical Arm herself.

• Hermione spotted Kagura, Yomi, and Professor McGonagall outside the Great Hall, where McGonagall demanded to know how Kagura had entered Hogwarts.
• Kagura revealed she had used a Secret Passage beneath the Whomping Willow, and Yomi explained she had only learned about it from Bell the previous night.
• Professor McGonagall ordered Yomi to take Kagura to the Faculty Lounge and told Bell to come with them while she went to inspect the passage.
• Kagura attacked Bell and demanded he make her replacement arm as powerful as her Magical Arm, but Bell said she would have to gain that strength herself.
• Hermione offered to accompany Bell, but he told her to find Shanna and the others instead.

Hermione insisted that she and Bell apologize to Professor McGonagall for knowing about the Secret Passage, and the group went to find her in the Faculty Lounge. They waited for McGonagall to arrive, where she found them eating breakfast, and Bell offered her a plate of food.

• Hermione admitted that she had known about the Secret Passage and dragged Bell toward the Faculty Lounge to apologize to Professor McGonagall.
• Hermione tried to unlock the lounge door with a spell, but Bell stopped her and summoned Lim to fetch the key and breakfast.
• While waiting, Hermione and Yomi enjoyed the food in the lounge.
• Professor McGonagall entered, hungry and muddy from investigating the Secret Passage, and scolded the group for eating there.
• Bell offered McGonagall a plate of food before they discussed the Secret Passage.

Bell explained how he had discovered a secret passage into Hogwarts and revealed that Sirius Black had told him about it years earlier. He told Snape and McGonagall that Peter Pettigrew had framed Black and survived, leaving Snape demanding to know where Peter was.

• Bell served Professor McGonagall food tailored to her tastes before she questioned him about bringing Tsuchimiya Kagura into Hogwarts through a secret passage.
• Snape and the other Heads of House arrived, and McGonagall said Bell had discovered a passage into Hogwarts and brought an outsider inside.
• Bell said he had learned of the passage from Sirius Black about three years earlier, surprising Hermione and provoking Snape to seize him by the collar.
• Bell told Snape that Peter Pettigrew, not Black, had caused Lily Evans's death, and that Peter had faked his own death.
• Bell explained that Peter had exposed himself three years earlier, prompting Black to escape Azkaban, and said he had verified the story using Potions and Curses.
• Snape accepted that Bell was likely telling the truth and demanded to know where Peter was.