Chapter Summaries

Sean met Mallow in Knockturn Alley, learned that two more Dark Wizards had been placed under his control, and ordered caution in investigating a smuggling operation protected by a suspected Auror. After a peaceful spell at home, Sean went with his family to Bulstrode Manor, where the House-elf’s treatment of Old John hinted at an unfriendly reception.

• Mallow told Sean he had recruited two ambitious Dark Wizards and had not finished investigating the smuggling kingpin because a suspected Auror guarded the area.
• Sean told Mallow to continue the investigation cautiously, gave him potions, and left the Black Hat Bar with Aldrich.
• Sean returned home, bought Potion Ingredients, and spent peaceful days with Martha and Cesar.
• Sean decided to visit Bulstrode Manor and traveled there with his parents, Cesar, Aldrich, and Old John.
• An elderly House-elf called Old John an old Squib and led him away to rest, leaving Sean concerned about the visit.

Sean and Yad reunited with Yad’s mother at Bulstrode Manor, where Sean realized she knew about his Spiritual Vision and was secretly watching over the family. Gavin gathered Yad and Sean, and after trading barbs with Borel, Sean revealed that he was preparing a Transfiguration paper.

• Aldrich explained that Gavin’s mother had upheld the family’s pure-blood ideology, and Yad said he had not wanted Sean to know about his grandmother.
• Yad reunited with his mother, who embraced him and then welcomed Sean, Martha, and Cesar.
• Yad’s mother hugged Sean, praised him for protecting his parents, and asked him to visit her room that night for something she had kept for him.
• Gavin called Sean and Yad over, and Sean conjured chairs for them before sitting down.
• Borel teased Sean about his Potions papers, and Sean replied that he was preparing a Transfiguration paper.

Sean negotiated a forty-five-percent annual profit share in the New Mind Recovery Potion with Gavin, then joined his family for lunch at Bulstrode Manor. After lunch, Sean took Aldrich to explore the estate.

• Gavin offered Sean a share of the New Mind Recovery Potion profits, and Sean negotiated the deal up to forty-five percent of annual profits.
• Gavin agreed to the deal, while Sean decided he would appreciate Gavin’s help as long as it did not endanger his family.
• Elena led the family to lunch, where Gavin welcomed Sean’s family back to the Bulstrode family.
• Sean observed Aldrich and recalled how the Bulstrode family had educated him and trained him in Charms.
• After lunch, Yad joined Gavin for tea, Martha and Elena put Cesar down for a nap, and Sean took Aldrich to wander around the estate.

Sean visited the Training District at Bulstrode Manor with Aldrich, but their reunion with the adult wizards there was interrupted by an injured child. After Sean helped treat the child, one of Aldrich’s friends learned that Sean was the Unknown Young Master he had just mentioned.

• Sean toured the Training District with Aldrich and saw that the children there were lively and well cared for.
• An Explosion Charm accident injured a child, and Aldrich rushed into the house to help him.
• Sean recognized the magical injuries and gave Aldrich potions to treat the child before sending him to the infirmary.
• The adult wizards arrived, recognized Aldrich, and carried the child to the infirmary after Aldrich warned them to save his hand.
• An old friend joked that Aldrich had been assigned to the Unknown Young Master, and Sean identified himself as that young master.

Sean intervened when Borel’s people blocked an injured child from receiving treatment at the Bulstrode family hospital. After defeating the guards and Borel’s attendant, he identified himself and ensured the doctors treated the child, then waited outside the treatment room.

• Sean left Aldrich and his friends to read outside, but went to investigate an argument near Bulstrode Mansion.
• At the family hospital, Sean found the injured child still outside because the entrance guards were refusing to let him in while someone was being treated.
• Sean recognized Borel’s attendant, attacked the guards, and defeated her after she tried to fight him.
• Sean identified himself as Sean Bulstrode, and the child’s companions carried the child inside for treatment.
• Sean told the doctors and nurses to devote all their efforts to treating the child, then waited outside the treatment room.

Doris Flitwick and Borel Bulstrode confronted Sean after he let patients into the family hospital and attacked two servants. Sean healed the servants and challenged his uncle, while Doris refused to acknowledge him as family.

• Doris complained about sharing Bulstrode Manor’s hospital with people she despised and urged Borel to build a private one.
• Doris recalled that she had pushed Borel to arrange Sean’s assassination, but both attempts had failed.
• Borel and Doris found two servants injured and learned that Sean had attacked them after bringing people in for treatment.
• Borel agreed to Doris’s demand to teach Sean a lesson, hiding his disgust behind an affectionate smile.
• Sean relieved the servants’ curse and rebuked Borel and Doris for their treatment of them.
• Doris rejected Sean’s claim of kinship, and Sean turned to Borel to ask what he had to say.

Sean and Borel fought at Bulstrode Manor after Sean challenged his uncle, and their duel showed they were evenly matched despite Borel's greater spell power. The battle continued outside the family infirmary, where Borel countered Sean's earth attack with roots and sent Thorn Vines sweeping toward him.

• Sean and Borel traded insults and ordered Doris, Millicent, and the attendants to retreat before they began dueling.
• Sean dodged Borel's purple light ribbons and struck with Bombarda, forcing Borel to retreat as White Mist.
• Sean used earth-and-stone hands to try to seize Borel, then exchanged spells with him and attacked with fireballs that Borel blocked with Protego.
• Borel transformed into White Mist and fled through a window, while Sean pursued him outside and continued attacking.
• Sean sent waves of earth and stone toward Borel, but roots beneath the ground stopped his Transfiguration, and Borel summoned Thorn Vines that swept toward Sean.

Sean fought Borel until Gavin intervened, then realized Borel had concealed his strength from his father. After several days at Bulstrode Manor, Gavin offered Sean control of the Training District, but Sean asked what Gavin was really planning.

• Sean and Borel exchanged spells until Gavin arrived and stopped their duel.
• Sean's panel declared the duel a draw and awarded him Thorn Curse LV5, leading him to suspect Borel had hidden his strength from Gavin.
• Borel left Bulstrode Manor with Millicent and Doris, while Sean stayed with his family and explored the library.
• Gavin allowed Sean to take books from the Bulstrode family library and offered him control of the Training District through Aldrich.
• Sean asked Gavin to explain what he was really trying to do.

Sean took control of the Training District and assessed how it fit into his plans for building influence before Voldemort returned. Back home, he resumed his studies and began researching Damocles's newly published Wolfsbane Potion.

• Gavin offered Sean an interest-bearing advance to cover the Training District's expenses, and Sean agreed to take responsibility for the force.
• Sean left Gavin's home with his family while Aldrich stayed behind to help relocate and develop the Training District.
• Sean divided his forces into the Official Route within the Slytherin Brotherhood and Ministry, Mallow's Dark Wizards, and the Training District under Aldrich.
• Sean returned home, where Emerald had maintained the house and Kulkan continued sleeping after eating Basilisk tissue.
• Sean resumed academic correspondence with Potions masters and read Damocles's paper announcing the Wolfsbane Potion, which let Werewolves retain their rationality during transformation.
• Sean immediately began researching the Wolfsbane Potion using Damocles's paper.

Sean spent the summer studying ways to make the Wolfsbane Potion cheaper and easier to brew. He developed a low-cost substitute for one ingredient and left with Aldrich to test it at the Training District’s new laboratory.

• Sean studied the Wolfsbane Potion formula and sought ways to reduce its cost and brewing difficulty.
• Aldrich continued relocating the Training District to a renovated orphanage outside London, where a laboratory for Sean was nearly ready.
• Sean calculated that a simple potion made from six inexpensive ingredients could replace one costly Wolfsbane Potion ingredient.
• Sean asked Aldrich about the laboratory, then decided they would buy ingredients in Diagon Alley and test his substitute at the orphanage.
• Yad and Martha discussed Sean’s research and agreed to support his work as long as he stayed healthy.

Sean visited an orphanage Aldrich had prepared and tested his revised Wolfsbane Potion recipe in its laboratory. After brewing successfully, he stored the potion and ate a huge meal, leaving the orphanage children astonished by his appetite.

• Sean bought the ingredients for Wolfsbane Potion in Diagon Alley, then traveled with Aldrich to the former orphanage.
• Sean declined to meet the children and asked Aldrich whether he could take responsibility for the orphanage.
• Sean brewed Wolfsbane Potion for twenty hours using an ingredient replaced by a potion made from six low-grade materials.
• Sean's experimental brew succeeded, and he stored the finished Wolfsbane Potion in his enchanted bag.
• Sean ate a large meal in the orphanage cafeteria, astonishing the children with his appetite.

Sean used Snape’s advice to advance his research into cheaper, easier-to-brew versions of the Wolfsbane Potion. While buying textbooks in Diagon Alley, Sean heard that Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban.

• Snape read Sean’s letter, brewed and tested a possible substitute ingredient for the Wolfsbane Potion, then sent Sean several suggestions.
• Sean used Snape’s advice to find a new direction for replacing the second ingredient and continued researching ways to reduce the potion’s cost and difficulty.
• Blaise visited Sean near the end of the holiday, but Sean soon sent him away and resumed his research until the eve of term.
• Sean and Aldrich went to Diagon Alley to buy textbooks and overheard people discussing Harry Potter’s aunt and Minister Fudge.
• While waiting at Flourish and Blotts, Sean heard that Sirius Black, a former Death Eater, had escaped from Azkaban.

Sean returned to Hogwarts with Blaise, Andy, and Janson, decided to take all five electives, and encountered a Dementor aboard the train. After the Dementors left, he guessed that the shabby wizard walking through the train was their new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor.

• Sean said goodbye to Aldrich at King's Cross and reunited with Blaise and Andy, then discussed Andy's O.W.L.s and offered him distribution rights to the New Mind Recovery Potion.
• Janson joined Sean, Blaise, and Andy on the Hogwarts Express and advised Blaise about choosing third-year electives.
• Sean decided to take all five electives so he could obtain a Time-Turner and spend more time on his research.
• The train stopped in darkness as a Dementor approached Sean's compartment, checked for Sirius Black, and left; Sean resolved to learn the Patronus Charm and seek opportunities to study Dementors.
• Sean saw a shabby adult wizard walking toward the front of the train and bet Blaise that the man was their new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor.

Sean learned that his research and close ties to the Bulstrode family had changed how Slytherins treated him, and he resolved to take control of the Slytherin Brotherhood through Barrett. After the Sorting Ceremony, Dumbledore announced that Ministry Dementors would be stationed at Hogwarts and that the rules would change.

• Malfoy mocked Harry for fainting after encountering Dementors, while Sean joked to Blaise that Malfoy was devoted to bothering Harry.
• Sean noticed that older Slytherins treated him warmly, and Blaise and Janson explained that his potion research and connection to the Bulstrode family had made him valuable to them.
• Janson revealed that the Slytherin Brotherhood had tried to block Sean’s paper, but the master had protected him, strengthening Sean’s resolve to take control of the Brotherhood through Barrett.
• After the Sorting Ceremony added eight first-years to Slytherin, Malcolm Badock introduced himself to Sean and asked for his help settling in.
• Harry and Hermione returned to the Great Hall, and Dumbledore announced that Ministry Dementors would be stationed at Hogwarts and that the rules would change.

Dumbledore welcomed Remus Lupin and Rubeus Hagrid as Hogwarts teachers, while Snape’s intense hatred of Lupin drew Sean’s attention. Sean signed up for all five elective courses to help secure a Time-Turner, then arrived at Snape’s office to find Dumbledore and Lupin there as well.

• Dumbledore warned students not to approach the Dementors and announced Lupin as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and Hagrid as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor.
• Sean noticed Snape’s furious reaction to Lupin and understood that Lupin had badly hurt Snape in the past.
• Sean learned that Samuel and Ilina controlled the Slytherin Brotherhood Reserve Organization, Barrett had regained influence, and Oliver Flitwick had joined the Brotherhood and obtained a promising Ministry position.
• Sean signed up for all five elective courses because he planned to obtain a Time-Turner.
• A message summoned Sean to Snape’s office at eight the next morning, where he found Snape speaking with Dumbledore and Lupin.

Sean received a Time-Turner from Snape to manage his overlapping elective classes, then discovered an unexpected talent for Arithmancy. The chapter ended with Sean wondering whether Arithmancy was connected to his Spiritual Vision Ability.

• Dumbledore and Lupin visited Snape, who insisted on dealing with Sean's schedule before discussing Lupin's matter.
• Snape gave Sean a Time-Turner and explained its limits, warning him not to take it apart or let versions of himself meet.
• Sean used the Time-Turner to attend Arithmancy while another version of him joined Blaise for Divination.
• Sean quickly solved Professor Vector's Arithmancy exercise and impressed her with his potential.
• Sean sensed his Spiritual Vision Ability stirring during Arithmancy and wondered whether the two were connected.

Sean used his Time-Turner to attend overlapping classes and research a substitute for the second ingredient in the Wolfsbane Potion, then began Divination with Blaise and met Professor Trelawney. The chapter left Sean skeptical of Trelawney's claimed ability to divine the future.

• Sean told Andy and Blaise that he had attended both Arithmancy and Muggle Studies that morning using a secret magical object.
• Sean used the Time-Turner to return to Arithmancy while another version of him researched Wolfsbane Potion ingredients in the library.
• After curfew, Sean drank three Mind Recovery Potions, turned the Time-Turner, and returned to the morning to continue his library research.
• Sean and Blaise went to Divination in the North Tower and joined Harry and Ron in Professor Trelawney's classroom.
• Professor Trelawney welcomed the students and claimed the tower helped her maintain her Inner Eye, while Sean doubted her abilities.

During Divination, Trelawney unexpectedly made a genuine prophecy about Harry involving a black dog, a werewolf, betrayal, and death, prompting Sean to consider his own potential for Prophecy. At Care of Magical Creatures, Hagrid brought out a group of Hippogriffs, and Sean wondered what he might gain by dueling them or Hagrid.

• Trelawney gave several students frightening predictions before she entered a trance while reading Harry's tea leaves and prophesied an enemy, betrayal, and death.
• Sean recognized the black dog, werewolf, and rat in the spilled tea leaves and considered Trelawney's uncontrolled prophetic talent and the Bulstrode family's Spiritual Vision Ability.
• After Divination, Sean concluded that his Spiritual Vision talent might help him learn Prophecy, though he preferred to awaken his Spiritual Vision Ability.
• At lunch, Malfoy continued mocking Harry for fainting because of the Dementor, while Harry's side showed little reaction.
• Sean went to Care of Magical Creatures carrying the biting Monster Book of Monsters and questioned Hagrid's choice of teaching materials.
• Hagrid brought more than a dozen Hippogriffs to class, and Sean considered dueling them or Hagrid to gain an ability.

Sean stopped Buckbeak from injuring Malfoy and warned him not to make trouble, then urged Harry, Ron, and Hermione to speak to Hagrid about the dangers in his teaching. Later, Snape punished Gryffindor after Neville successfully brewed a Shrinking Solution, leaving Hermione furious.

• When Buckbeak slashed at Malfoy, Sean froze the Hippogriff with a spell and prevented it from hurting him.
• Sean made Malfoy thank him and warned him that he would challenge him to a Pureblood Duel if he stirred up trouble.
• Sean told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Hagrid should change how he introduced dangerous magical creatures, and they decided to speak to Hagrid.
• In potions class, Neville successfully brewed a Shrinking Solution that turned his pet toad into a tadpole, and Snape restored the toad with an antidote.
• Snape deducted five points from Gryffindor for Hermione helping Neville, leaving Hermione furious.

Lupin led the Defense Against the Dark Arts class to the staff room for a practical lesson on Boggarts. After impressing the students by driving off Peeves, he revealed a Boggart inside a shaking wardrobe.

• Lupin took the students out of the classroom for a practical lesson and used Waddiwasi to shoot chewing gum into Peeves's nostril.
• Snape asked Sean about his research into a substitute for the second ingredient and told him to keep working toward a breakthrough by next weekend.
• Harry told Lupin that Sean had published Potions papers in The Golden Cauldron and was highly valued by Snape.
• Lupin explained that the class would learn how to deal with Boggarts, then approached the wardrobe where one was hiding.