Chapter Summaries

Sean killed the Basilisk, gained three abilities from it, and began fighting Tom while Tom possessed Millicent. Sean restored his strength with the Pure White Pocket Watch, but the duel left him at a disadvantage as Harry could not join in.

• Sean tried to attack Tom with the Sword of Gryffindor, but the sword shrank and became intangible to him.
• Sean's panel awarded him Venomous Flow, Snake King Scales, and Snake King Eyes after he defeated the Basilisk.
• Tom realized the Basilisk's death had ruined much of his plan and threatened Sean.
• Sean restored his physical and mental energy with the Pure White Pocket Watch, then exchanged spells with Tom.
• Harry drew his Wand to help, but the force of Sean and Tom's duel kept him from participating.
• Sean and Tom traded powerful spells, and Sean gradually fell into a disadvantage.

Sean overpowered Tom, who was possessing Millicent, and seized the Horcrux Diary. He attacked it with Basilisk-derived poison, which could destroy a Horcrux.

• Sean used the Smoke Rope Curse and potions to overwhelm Tom with a giant smoke hand, but Tom countered with explosions and a protective barrier.
• Sean dispersed the smoke, kicked Millicent’s possessed body into a wall, and used the Bone Extraction Curse to disable Tom.
• Sean snapped Millicent’s Wand, took the Diary, and rejected Tom’s offer of protection in exchange for preserving it.
• Tom claimed the Diary was invincible, but Sean pointed out that a Basilisk Fang, the Sword of Gryffindor, or certain spells could destroy it.
• Sean cast Venomous Flow on the Diary, striking it with Basilisk-derived poison.

Sean defeated Tom’s diary phantom, gained new abilities, and underwent his third Magic Awakening. After waking in the infirmary, he spoke with Gavin about Millicent, the Malfoy family, and his family before Gavin warned him to keep the Dark Magic spells in his notes secret.

• Sean defeated Tom’s phantom, gained Explosion Charm LV3, Transfiguration LV3, and Magic Awakening (3/7), and drew Lumos LV2 from Millicent.
• Sean saved Millicent with two potions, collected Basilisk parts, and lost consciousness as his third Magic Awakening began.
• Sean woke three days later in the infirmary and told Gavin that he expected to spend the next year studying and writing papers.
• Gavin thanked Sean for saving Millicent and said the Bulstrode family had secured a Romanian Dragon Farm from the Malfoy family as compensation, with the farm placed under Sean’s father’s name.
• Sean asked Gavin how he would treat a Squib sibling, and Gavin promised that the child would be loved by their grandparents.
• Gavin invited Sean home for the holidays and warned him to keep the Dark Magic spells in his notes and his use of them secret.

After recovering in the Hospital Wing, Sean caught up with Harry and his Slytherin friends before Snape warned him that news of his Basilisk victory had spread through Slytherin. Sean left the Hospital Wing knowing someone there might be targeting him, while still owing Snape three essays.

• Harry told Sean that Hermione and Ron would recover in two days and that he had freed Dobby by returning the Diary to Malfoy with a sock inside.
• Blaise, Andy, and Janson visited Sean; Janson said Gavin had not blamed him for being absent, and Andy reported that Dorian was close to defeat.
• Blaise announced that he had broken up, but Sean and the others teased him and turned back to discussing Andy's business.
• Sean was discharged without Dumbledore questioning him and found Snape waiting outside the Hospital Wing.
• Snape told Sean that word of his killing the Basilisk had spread and warned him to be careful, while demanding his three overdue essays before term ended.

Sean returned to the Slytherin Brotherhood meeting, where its leaders challenged his claim that he had killed the Basilisk and declared him expelled from both the organization and Slytherin House. He rejected their authority, left the Brotherhood, and fought off two members who tried to stop him.

• Sean returned to the Slytherin Common Room, where Malfoy and Millicent watched him with hostility, then followed Samuel to a Brotherhood meeting.
• A fifth-year from Oliver's faction challenged Sean's place, and Sean disarmed and blasted him across the room.
• Ilina asked whether Sean had really killed the Basilisk, and Sean confirmed that he had.
• Oliver declared that the Brotherhood had stripped Sean of membership and expelled him from Slytherin House, while Ilina verified the Brotherhood's parchment and fell silent.
• Sean announced that he was leaving the Brotherhood, dismissed its authority to expel him from Slytherin, and knocked down two members who tried to stop him.

After leaving the Slytherin Brotherhood, Sean reassured Blaise, Andy, and Janson that he was not worried about their threats and fed Kulkan the Basilisk remains he had saved. At breakfast, he met the newly recovered Luna, who thanked him for killing the Basilisk, while his Mind Recovery Potion thesis remained unfinished.

• Sean told Blaise, Andy, and Janson that the Slytherin Brotherhood had expelled him and threatened to remove him from Slytherin, but he did not take the threat seriously.
• Sean gave Kulkan Basilisk meat, blood, and eyes, and she ate them before going to sleep on his pillow.
• Sean returned to working on his Mind Recovery Potion thesis, which he hoped to finish and revise before the school year ended.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione returned to the Gryffindor table, and Sean noted that Professor Sprout had restored those who had been petrified.
• Luna thanked Sean for killing the Basilisk, and Sean spoke with her about her praise before returning to breakfast.

During Transfiguration class, Sean demonstrated advanced third-stage Transfiguration, prompting Professor McGonagall to ask Dumbledore to exempt him from the lessons. Dumbledore approved but privately summoned Severus, still troubled by his own doubts about Sean.

• Sean transformed a rat into an ornate silver wine jug, then successively changed it into a chest, a wardrobe, and a towering silver tree.
• Professor McGonagall recognized Sean’s advanced third-stage Transfiguration and asked him to speak with her after class.
• Professor McGonagall went to Dumbledore and requested that Sean be exempted from Transfiguration lessons except for examinations.
• Dumbledore approved the request, and Professor McGonagall returned to class.
• After Professor McGonagall left, Dumbledore silenced the office portraits and sent a message asking Severus to come to his office.

Dumbledore asked Snape to watch Sean closely because he feared Sean might be connected to Tom’s Horcruxes, while Snape defended Sean’s innocence. McGonagall later told Sean he had been granted an exemption from Transfiguration classes if he earned full marks in every term’s examination, and Sean accepted.

• Dumbledore told Snape that McGonagall had requested a Transfiguration exemption for Sean and warned him to watch Sean for signs that he was Tom’s incarnation.
• Snape agreed to keep a closer eye on Sean but questioned Dumbledore’s suspicions and defended Sean’s past actions.
• A portrait asked Dumbledore why he had not told Snape that Sean was suspected of killing a student, and Dumbledore said there was no conclusive evidence and Sean had acted in self-defense.
• McGonagall told Sean he could stop attending Transfiguration classes if he earned full marks in every examination, and Sean accepted the condition.
• Sean left for the library with Blaise, who reacted enviously to the news of Sean’s exemption.

Sean beat Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe after they confronted him over his Dragon Farm, then attacked another Slytherin Brotherhood Reserve Organization member who tried to intimidate him. He left for class with Blaise, while his improved Mind Recovery Potion was nearly ready for publication.

• Sean returned to the Slytherin Common Room and noticed that its residents were rejecting him because of the Slytherin Brotherhood Reserve Organization's stance.
• Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe blocked Sean and demanded that he return the Dragon Farm, so Sean punched all three and went back to his room.
• Sean checked on the sleeping Kulkan and continued writing his paper about his improved Mind Recovery Potion, which Snape had judged favorably.
• A member of Oliver's faction confronted Sean and reached for his forehead, so Sean snapped the man's finger, punched him, and kicked him aside.
• Sean left the Common Room with Blaise and explained that someone had tried to bully him based on rumors.

Sean finished his paper and submitted it to Snape, who spent twenty-three days criticizing it before approving it for submission to The Golden Cauldron. Meanwhile, Sean kept his distance from Slytherin's factional disputes, and Blaise revealed that he had recently broken up with someone.

• Sean gained a level-three Grinning Ghoul ability after knocking down a member of the Slytherin Brotherhood Reserve Organization, but he ignored Slytherin's efforts to get him to compete with Hermione in Charms.
• Hermione dominated Professor Flitwick's Charms questions while Slytherin fell silent rather than ask Sean to challenge her.
• Sean and Blaise ate dinner with Andy and Janson, where Blaise said he had just broken up with someone and seemed unusually upset about it.
• Sean completed his paper in the library and handed it to Snape, who took it without comment.
• Snape criticized Sean's paper for twenty-three days before declaring it ready to be sent to The Golden Cauldron's editorial department.

Sean refused Jennifer’s invitation to work against Oliver until she proved her loyalty over her family ties, then decided he might use the Flitwick family conflict to help seize control of the Slytherin Brotherhood. As finals approached, Blaise seemed to have fallen in love with his ex-girlfriend, and the school year neared its end.

• Snape berated the Potions Club members for failing to finish their essays and warned the sixth-years he would bar them from his classroom next year if their essays remained incomplete.
• Jennifer asked Sean to help bring down Oliver, but Sean refused unless she showed an unwavering stance against her family ties.
• Sean considered using the Flitwick family conflict and planned to recruit Oliver as an untraceable ally in taking control of the Slytherin Brotherhood.
• Blaise prepared for finals with less anxiety than the previous year, while Sean realized Blaise appeared to have fallen in love with his ex-girlfriend.
• The second school year drew to a close as the story approached an uproar over essays.

The Golden Cauldron’s editor-in-chief approved Sean Bulstrode’s paper on improving the Mind Recovery Potion, but Ministry pressure threatened its publication. Gavin Bulstrode responded by appealing to the Wizengamot Academic Committee, which began strengthening oversight of interference in academic work.

• The editor-in-chief struggled to find a strong paper for the next issue and asked his staff to seek work from respected potion masters.
• The managing editor brought in Sean Bulstrode’s paper, and the editor-in-chief approved it as the issue’s front-page headline because it lowered costs and improved the Mind Recovery Potion.
• An intern editor reported that someone in the Ministry had pressured the typesetting department to oppose the paper’s prominent placement.
• The editor-in-chief told typesetting to proceed as normal and sent a note to Gavin Bulstrode, leaving him to handle the interference.
• Gavin sent a letter to the Wizengamot Academic Committee condemning interference in academic work, and the committee increased its inspections and oversight.

The Slytherin Brotherhood apologized to Gavin Bulstrode for interfering in Sean Bulstrode’s academic affairs, while Sean remained unaware of the Ministry’s response. After the exams, Lockhart was arrested and sentenced, and Blaise told Sean that the results were out.

• The Slytherin Brotherhood expelled the member who had interfered with Sean Bulstrode’s academic affairs and sent an apology to the Bulstrode family.
• Gavin reiterated that he opposed academic interference, and the Brotherhood concluded that he was protective of Sean but would not intervene in ordinary power struggles.
• Ministry Aurors took Lockhart from Hogwarts, and he was later sentenced to have his Wand snapped, imprisoned in Azkaban, and surrender half his property for compensation.
• Sean finished the exams and continued working on his paper about Transfiguration and Alchemy while Snape tolerated his renewed Alchemy research.
• Blaise told Sean that the exam results were out, then was chased and struck by Madam Pince’s feather duster for making noise in the library.

Sean received his year-end grades, then watched Hermione apologize to Katherine Bishop after challenging her first-place finish. A Snowy Owl delivered Sean a package, but Rob arrived with a letter before Sean could open it.

• Sean saw that all his grades were O except for an E in Defense Against the Dark Arts, which Lockhart had lowered, and Blaise reacted angrily.
• Hermione told Sean that Katherine Bishop had taken first place and complained that circumstances had kept her and Sean from winning.
• Katherine confronted Hermione, who apologized and agreed to compete fairly with her next year.
• A familiar Snowy Owl dropped a package to Sean in the Great Hall, and Rob arrived with a letter before Sean opened it.

Sean received news that his mother, Martha, had given birth to his little brother, Cesar, and experienced a strange vision involving his grandfather Gavin. Snape advised him to secure family backing for his potion patent, and Sean arranged for Andy to manage the business in exchange for thirty percent of his share.

• Sean saw a vision of his family and heard Gavin say they needed to talk after the holidays.
• Sean read Yad's letter and learned that Martha had given birth to Cesar Bulstrode.
• Snape warned Sean that people might use underhanded methods to seize profits from his Mind Recovery Potion formula and advised him to seek Gavin's protection.
• At the end-of-term feast, Sean asked Andy to manage the potion business and offered him thirty percent of Sean's share.

At Hogwarts’ end-of-term feast, Sean received a flood of letters and gifts after his paper appeared in The Golden Cauldron, while Gryffindor won the House Cup and ended Slytherin’s seven-year streak. Before leaving Hogwarts the next morning, Sean sorted his correspondence, delegated business contacts to Aldrich, and reviewed his current abilities.

• Owls delivered Sean letters and gifts from people across Europe, including those seeking cooperation, academic exchange, or personal connections.
• Gryffindor won the House Cup by a narrow margin after Sean received no points for his paper, ending Slytherin’s seven consecutive victories.
• Blaise advised Sean to ignore resentful Slytherins, and Sean said their reactions troubled him less than they had the previous year.
• Sean used his wand to send his letters and gifts flying behind him to the Slytherin Common Room, impressing the professors and making Slytherins wary of his skill.
• Sean checked on the sleeping Kulkan, then sorted his letters and directed business inquiries to Aldrich.
• Sean reviewed his panel and noticed that his Troll Strength and Troll Hide had risen to LV1 as he had grown.

Sean returned to his family after his second year at Hogwarts and reunited with his parents and baby brother, Cesar. He planned to spend the holiday at home with them.

• Sean left Hogwarts with Blaise, Andy, and Janson and arrived at King's Cross, where Aldrich and Emerald were waiting for him.
• Sean sent Janson home, then asked Emerald to take his luggage and Kulkan home and prepare food for her.
• Sean traveled home with Aldrich and John, the family's Squib driver.
• Sean reunited with Martha and Yad, hugged them, and held his sleeping younger brother, Cesar.

Sean bonded with his newborn brother Cesar, then learned from Gavin that his pale gray eyes marked the Bulstrode family’s rare Spiritual Vision ability. Gavin explained that Sean had only begun to awaken it, leaving him with a powerful talent he had yet to master.

• Sean held Cesar for the first time, and the brothers smiled and clasped hands before Cesar fell asleep.
• Sean found Gavin visiting and went with him to the study to talk.
• Gavin explained that pale gray eyes identified Bulstrode relatives with a rare inherited talent.
• Sean recalled seeing images when he received a letter from home, and Gavin said the letter had served as a medium that initially awakened his ability.
• Gavin named the talent Spiritual Vision and explained that it could reveal a medium’s past, present, and future, but said Sean had only taken the first step toward mastering it.

Sean and Aldrich disguised themselves with Polyjuice Potion and entered Knockturn Alley, where Sean sought the Black Hat Bar. After a local Dark Wizard tried to guide and rob them, Sean seized him and forced him to lead the way.

• Sean agreed to visit Bulstrode Manor with Yad and Martha to see his grandmother and discuss the New Mind Recovery Potion.
• Sean spent the holiday studying, researching Alchemy, and spending time with his family before preparing Polyjuice Potion for himself and Aldrich.
• Sean and Aldrich traveled to Diagon Alley and transformed into unfamiliar locals before entering Knockturn Alley.
• A Dark Wizard offered to guide them, but the crowd scattered when Sean asked for the Black Hat Bar.
• Sean grabbed the Dark Wizard and ordered him to guide them to the Black Hat Bar.

Sean and Aldrich entered Knockturn Alley to meet Mallow, who had been hiding from the Ministry of Magic’s investigation. After reaching Black Hat Bar without a fight, Sean sat at a table occupied by a witch while Aldrich kept watch.

• A dark wizard mistook Sean’s strength for the result of magical creature alterations and agreed to lead Sean and Aldrich to Black Hat.
• Sean recalled that Mallow and his followers had been wanted since the Hogsmeade incident, and that Barrett had helped divert suspicion from them.
• The guide brought Sean and Aldrich to the alley outside Black Hat Bar, then tried to leave, so Sean kicked him into the gathered dark wizards.
• Sean and Aldrich walked through the alley to Black Hat’s entrance without being attacked.
• Aldrich opened the door, and Sean entered the clean, brightly lit bar and sat at a table occupied by a witch.