Chapter Summaries

Sean struggled to summon his broom during Flying Class, then watched Neville crash and Harry catch Neville’s Remembrall. In the hospital wing, Millicent ordered Janson to teach Sean a lesson, using a loophole in the older students’ agreement to leave Sean alone.

• Professor Flitwick awarded Sean one point after he controlled a feather with the Levitation Charm.
• Sean failed to summon his broom during Flying Class while Harry and Malfoy showed flying talent.
• Madam Hooch took Neville to the hospital wing after he fell and broke his arm, and Malfoy provoked Harry with Neville’s Remembrall.
• Sean gave up on flying and recalled that Millicent was still recovering in the hospital wing.
• Millicent ordered Janson to teach Sean a lesson, arguing that the ban on upper-year students troubling Sean did not apply to second- and third-years.

Sean studied in the Hogwarts library, where Hermione discovered how much more advanced his homework was than her own. The chapter left him arriving at the Great Hall and noticing that Blaise looked worried.

• Sean declined Blaise's offer to accompany him to the library and encouraged him to meet the upperclassman who had asked him out.
• Sean finished his homework, researched topics in the library, and borrowed two books after Madam Pince limited him to five at a time.
• Hermione sat in Sean's chair and read his homework, then rewrote her own assignments after comparing them with his.
• Sean invited Hermione to walk to the Great Hall with him, but she chose to remain in the library.
• Sean found Blaise waiting at the Slytherin table, looking worried.

Sean learned that Slytherin second-years planned to force him into a traditional Pureblood Duel and eagerly prepared to fight. He entered the common room to face Janson, while Samuel and Ilina watched to judge whether he was worth supporting.

• At dinner, Blaise warned Sean that second-years planned to challenge him to a Pureblood Duel, which Slytherins could not refuse without losing access to their common room and table.
• Sean welcomed the chance to duel, believing he could win and finally put his panel to use, then hurried with Blaise to the Slytherin Common Room as others followed.
• Samuel asked Ilina whether they should intervene, but Ilina said they should only prevent fourth-years and older from troubling Sean and wanted to see how he handled the challenge.
• Sean fed Kulkan, changed into athletic clothes, and entered the common room, where Janson mocked him for wearing Muggle clothes.

Sean accepted Janson’s challenge to a Slytherin Pureblood Duel over his earlier role in costing the House points. The duel began in their common room, where Sean and Janson exchanged spells and Sean sent levitating furniture flying at his opponent.

• Sean defended his understanding of Slytherin and presented himself with aristocratic courtesy, making Janson’s accusation harder to press.
• Janson challenged Sean to a Pureblood Duel, citing Sean’s part in a fight that cost Slytherin points.
• Sean accepted the challenge, and Janson chose to hold the duel where they stood as the other students cleared space.
• Janson opened with Expelliarmus, but Sean dodged behind a table and avoided the spell.
• Sean cast Petrificus Totalus, which Janson blocked with Protego, then Sean levitated nearby furniture and sent it crashing toward Janson.

Sean defeated Janson in a Pureblood Duel by trapping him with the carpet and binding him with the Thorn Curse, then stopped Janson from ambushing him after the duel. Samuel and Ilina invited Sean to talk, and he offered to host them in his room.

• Samuel and Ilina watched Sean fight Janson, with Ilina deciding to wait until the duel ended before judging whether to invest in Sean.
• Sean used the Levitation Charm to turn the carpet into a trap, sweeping Janson off his feet and wrapping him in its folds.
• Sean cast the Thorn Curse, binding and injuring Janson until he could no longer resist, and Samuel declared Sean the winner of the Pureblood Duel.
• Janson tried to attack Sean from behind, but Sean petrified him, and Samuel ordered Janson's former friends to take him to the Hospital Wing.
• Samuel invited Sean to talk with him and Ilina, and Sean agreed to meet them in his room.

After defeating Janson, Sean discovered that his duel reward was a higher-level Protego, while Blaise explained how warning Sean had cost him a relationship. More than a month later, Snape praised Sean’s burn ointment, awarded Slytherin a point, and summoned him to his office.

• Sean said goodbye to Samuel and Ilina after establishing a mutually beneficial relationship with them.
• Sean checked his duel reward and learned he had obtained Protego LV1, with the ability’s level determined by his opponent.
• Blaise told Sean that a second-year girl had ended their relationship because she blamed him for Janson losing the duel.
• Sean gave Blaise his homework to use as a reference after Blaise admitted he had fallen behind while dating.
• Snape praised Sean’s burn ointment, awarded Slytherin a point, and called Sean to his office.

Snape asked Sean what Potions meant to him, then invited him to pursue Potions further at a specific time and place. After Astronomy class, Sean left Blaise and headed into another dungeon passage to attend the meeting.

• Snape asked Sean for his personal view of Potions, and Sean described it as the art of matter and time.
• Snape remembered Lily’s similar words, then gave Sean a note inviting him to go further in Potions.
• Sean accepted Snape’s invitation and left his office, where he found Blaise waiting.
• After Astronomy class, Sean said goodbye to Blaise and went down a different dungeon passage.

Sean attended his first Potions Club meeting, where he met its members and learned how the group discussed potion-making techniques. Snape watched him throughout the session and left him a slip of paper as the meeting ended.

• Sean arrived early and met Grant Wang, Larina Brock, Buck Ake, and Jennifer Flea, who revealed that she was related to the Flitwick family.
• Sean took his place at the fifth table and noted that the club included one Hufflepuff, one Ravenclaw, and three Slytherins.
• Snape began a discussion about altering standard potion-making procedures and brewing habits, while Sean carefully recorded the members' advice.
• Snape kept an eye on Sean during the meeting but did not speak to him directly.
• After the meeting ended, Snape placed a slip of paper on Sean's table as he prepared to leave.

Sean used Snape’s Potions reading list to prepare for the club, then tried to warn Harry that Malfoy’s duel challenge was a trap. Harry refused to back down and left with Ron, while Sean accepted that their friendship might end.

• Sean read Snape’s list of twelve Potions books and kept the note in his desk drawer.
• Blaise told Sean that Malfoy planned to duel Harry, and Sean decided to warn his friend.
• Sean reassured Blaise that he was prepared for the other Slytherins to disapprove of his warning Harry.
• Sean told Harry that Malfoy would not show up and was likely setting a trap, but Harry insisted on going to the duel.
• Ron followed Harry as Sean watched them leave and wondered whether his friendship with Harry was ending.

Sean bought Potion Ingredients from Andy Morgan, who proposed selling the Mind Recovery Potions Sean brewed in exchange for a cut of the profits. Sean agreed to a deal and took Blaise to the Room of Requirement to brew the potions in private.

• Sean paid Andy three Galleons and eleven Sickles for a large bag of Potion Ingredients.
• Andy revealed he knew Sean had joined the Potions Club and offered to sell the Mind Recovery Potions Sean brewed for thirty percent of the profits.
• Sean agreed to give Andy potions the next day in exchange for half the payment in Galleons and half in Mind Recovery Potion ingredients.
• Blaise warned Sean that Andy was building a business before graduation and explained his family’s approach to choosing successors.
• Sean and Blaise went to the Room of Requirement, where Sean conjured a private, fully equipped potion-brewing room.

Sean finished brewing Mind Recovery Potions to earn money for his magical studies, then learned Hermione was worried about Harry’s planned duel with Malfoy. After refusing to press Harry again, Sean considered challenging Malfoy himself to a Pureblood Duel.

• Sean explained to Blaise that he needed to earn money, then finished four usable Mind Recovery Potions and kept two while planning to give two to Andy to sell.
• Sean and Blaise left the Room of Requirement, and Blaise went to meet another girl while Sean headed to the library.
• Hermione asked Sean to stop Harry from dueling Malfoy, but Sean said Harry had refused his advice and that Hogwarts would not expel him.
• After Hermione stopped pressing him, Sean decided to challenge Malfoy to a Pureblood Duel and use it to test his grandfather’s support.

Sean challenged Draco Malfoy to a Pureblood Duel for disgracing Slytherin by challenging Harry and then setting a trap instead of facing him. Malfoy accepted, and their duel began in the Slytherin Common Room.

• Sean explained that Malfoy's dishonorable conduct gave him grounds for a Pureblood Duel and decided to confront him.
• After studying in the library, Sean found Malfoy boasting that Harry Potter would be expelled and challenged him in front of the Slytherins.
• Malfoy accepted, confident that his pure-blood upbringing would let him defeat Sean.
• Malfoy opened with Densaugeo, but Sean blocked it with Protego and sent tables and chairs flying at him.
• Sean cast Herbivicus at Malfoy as their duel continued.

Sean defeated Malfoy in a duel and sent him to the Hospital Wing, then returned to studying as rumors spread through Slytherin. That night, Lucius Malfoy confronted Dumbledore and Snape at Hogwarts, demanding an explanation.

• Malfoy dodged Sean’s Thorn Curse, but vines sprouted from the table and wrapped around his arm; Sean defended against Malfoy’s spells with Protego and attacked him with flying furniture and a carpet.
• Sean vanished amid the wreckage, seized Malfoy from behind, choked off his spell, and knocked him unconscious before kicking away his Wand.
• Sean received the Petrifying Charm from his duel reward, then had Goyle and Crabbe take Malfoy to the Hospital Wing under the pretense of a failed magical experiment.
• Samuel and Ilina discussed whether the Malfoy family would retaliate and decided to wait for the Bulstrode family and Hogwarts to reveal their positions.
• Lucius Malfoy visited Draco in the Hospital Wing, then confronted Dumbledore and Snape in the Headmaster’s Office and demanded an explanation.

Lucius demanded that Dumbledore punish Sean for injuring Draco, but Snape explained that Draco had lost a Pureblood Duel. Gavin Bulstrode compensated Lucius for Draco’s injuries, then insisted that Draco honor the duel’s rules by keeping away from Sean or becoming his follower at Hogwarts.

• Lucius threatened Dumbledore unless he handed over Sean, and Snape explained why Sean had challenged and defeated Draco in a Pureblood Duel.
• Gavin arrived and offered Lucius a shop in Hogsmeade as compensation for Draco’s injuries, which Lucius accepted.
• Gavin reminded Lucius that Draco had to keep his distance from Sean or become Sean’s follower under the rules of a Pureblood Duel.
• Lucius accused the Bulstrode family of challenging the Malfoys, while Gavin argued that he was merely claiming his grandson’s rights.

Lucius Malfoy and Gavin Bulstrode settled the dispute over Draco and Sean’s Pureblood Duel, with both agreeing not to pursue the matter further. After Gavin left, Dumbledore asked Snape to guide Sean, and news of the settlement raised Sean’s standing in Slytherin.

• Lucius weighed the risks of challenging the Bulstrode family and agreed to drop the matter if the duel’s consequences were undone.
• Gavin accepted Lucius’s offer and thanked him, after which Lucius left Hogwarts.
• Gavin declined to visit Sean and Millicent, then Apparated away from the school grounds.
• Dumbledore confirmed that the Philosopher’s Stone’s defenses were ready and asked Snape about Harry and Sean.
• Snape said he had brought Sean into his Potions Club and intended to develop his talent for Potions.
• News of Lucius and Gavin’s visit spread through Slytherin, and Sean’s standing rose to roughly Malfoy’s level, slightly surpassing Millicent’s.

Sean wondered why the Slytherins had become friendly after his duel with Malfoy, then recalled that Halloween might bring trouble for Harry and the others. He left the danger to be dealt with when it came and focused on classes and Slytherin’s chance of winning the House Cup.

• Sean reflected that his strength and family background had earned him respect and friendly treatment from the Slytherins, after his nominal grandfather intervened over the duel with Malfoy.
• Sean noticed the other Houses celebrating the coming Halloween and remembered that Harry and the others might face trouble at Hogwarts, though he could not recall the details.
• Blaise arrived at breakfast exhausted, admitted he had been seriously dating, and Sean warned him not to fall asleep during Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class.
• Blaise credited Sean with restoring Slytherin’s points and predicted the House could win its seventh consecutive championship, while Sean worried that Harry and Dumbledore could help Gryffindor overtake them.

Sean celebrated Halloween at Hogwarts and helped Ilina arrange for Malfoy to join Slytherin’s Quidditch team in exchange for Nimbus 2000 brooms. The Halloween feast was interrupted when Quirrell announced that a troll was in the dungeons.

• Sean received pumpkin pie, roast chicken, and letters from his parents, then sent Rob to rest in the Owlery.
• After learning that Harry had received a Nimbus 2000 and become Gryffindor’s Seeker, Sean suggested to Ilina that Slytherin recruit Malfoy in exchange for a broom donation.
• Ilina acted on Sean’s plan, and Professor Snape agreed to let Malfoy join the team while the Malfoy family offered Nimbus 2000s to Slytherin.
• At the Halloween feast, Quirrell burst into the Great Hall and announced that a troll was in the dungeons.

Sean remembered that a troll had appeared during Harry and Ron’s first year and went after it, hoping to duel the creature and gain an ability. He knocked the troll down with its own club, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Sean realized he could duel intelligent Magical Creatures and wondered what ability he might gain from defeating the troll.
• Dumbledore sent the students back to their Common Rooms, and Sean slipped away from the Slytherin group to search for the troll.
• Sean found the troll attacking Harry in a second-floor Girls' Bathroom, with Hermione and Ron nearby.
• Sean’s spells barely affected the troll, so he hurled bathroom debris at it and drew it away from Harry.
• Sean blocked the troll’s club with Protego, ensnared its legs with Thorn Vines, and made it trip before smashing its club into the back of its head.

Sean subdued the Troll in the Girls' Bathroom, where Harry, Ron, and Hermione had gone against orders to protect Hermione. The professors punished Hermione for disobedience but awarded points to Harry, Ron, and Sean, while Snape reprimanded Sean as they left.

• Snape and Professor McGonagall found Sean beating the bound Troll with its own club, and Professor McGonagall persuaded him to stop.
• Professor McGonagall scolded Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Sean for leaving the Great Hall, and Hermione explained that the boys had come to rescue her.
• Professor McGonagall deducted five points from Gryffindor for Hermione's disobedience, while Dumbledore awarded five points each to Harry and Ron for their courage.
• Dumbledore awarded ten points to Slytherin for Sean defeating the Troll and told him to seek shelter if danger arose again.
• Snape took Sean away and reprimanded him for acting rashly, insisting he had only been concerned about Slytherin's points and championship streak.

Sean returned to the Slytherin Common Room, learned that earning ten points had cleared his debt to the House, and settled a deal to increase Mind Recovery Potion production in exchange for a larger share. After his friends left, he checked the panel and gained two new Troll-derived talents.

• Snape escorted Sean back to the Slytherin Common Room, where Blaise asked about the ten points Sean had earned.
• Blaise calculated that Sean had repaid his House debt, and Sean felt relieved to be free of it.
• Sean invited Blaise and Andy to his room, where House-elf Brew served them tea and sandwiches.
• Andy told Sean that Mind Recovery Potion sales were thriving and asked to increase production; Sean agreed to provide fifteen potions a week for a seventy-five percent share.
• After Andy and Blaise left, Sean checked the panel and gained Troll Strength and Troll Hide talents at level zero.