Chapter Summaries

Morris learned from Professor McGonagall that Tom Riddle had been Voldemort’s real name, then kept the memory notebook secret and continued questioning Tom. The chapter left Morris skeptical of Tom’s claim that Dark Magic would not harm him.

• Morris asked Professor McGonagall about Tom Riddle, and she confirmed that Tom Riddle was Voldemort’s real name.
• Morris returned to his dormitory and decided not to tell Professor McGonagall about the notebook, fearing it would be confiscated.
• Morris contacted Tom and tested his knowledge with increasingly difficult questions, learning that Tom could answer accurately across several subjects.
• Morris continued speaking with Tom over the next few days and eventually told him that he was researching Dark Magic.
• Tom assured Morris that Dark Magic would do him no harm, but Morris doubted him.

Morris discovered that the Patronus Charm had removed the Dark Magic impurities from his soul, then visited Lockhart to offer him a new magical item. Lockhart tested Morris’s Whip Wand and watched it transform into a bone whip.

• Morris asked Tom how to remove Dark Magic’s influence, but Tom assured him that strong will could resist it without offering a concrete solution.
• Morris cast the Patronus Charm and used Magic Manifestation to confirm that the black impurities in his soul had vanished.
• Morris entered the Great Hall on Valentine’s Day and learned from Cho Chang that Lockhart had arranged the decorations and cupids.
• Morris went to Lockhart’s office to propose a deal involving merchandise collected by Mr. Frick.
• Morris showed Lockhart the Whip Wand and explained how to activate it, and Lockhart transformed it into a bone whip.

Morris sold Lockhart a thought-controlled bone whip for a thousand Galleons and later received an invitation from Robert Hilliard to a gathering. The chapter left Morris deciding how to respond to the invitation.

• Morris demonstrated the bone whip to Lockhart, who bought it for a thousand Galleons.
• Morris left with the gold and considered turning more shoddy wands into magical items.
• Morris found Fred and George receiving anonymous Valentine messages from people they had pranked.
• During Potions, Snape expelled a dwarf who interrupted class and found a card addressed to Morris.
• Morris read Robert Hilliard’s invitation to a small gathering at six that evening on the castle’s third floor.

Morris joined a private Ravenclaw study group after Robert invited him because of his Bone Dragon photograph and his potion skills. When Algernon revealed he needed the Draught of Living Death, Morris offered to sell him some from his stock.

• Morris arrived at the gathering and learned that Robert’s group was made up of upper-year Ravenclaws who met to exchange knowledge.
• Algernon showed Morris the Daily Prophet photograph of him riding the Bone Dragon, and Robert explained that he had seen Morris during the Christmas holidays.
• Robert said Morris was qualified to join the group, while Algernon revealed that he worked as an intern at the Daily Prophet and had taken the photograph.
• Morris described himself as a skilled potion-maker, prompting Algernon to explain that he needed the Draught of Living Death.
• Morris offered to sell Algernon some of his stock, saying he had fifty or sixty bottles.

Morris learned Apparition from Robert in a single try and tested a rune-inscribed gem intended to hide magical traces from the Trace. When he resumed talking to Tom Riddle's Diary, Tom asked for his blood to restore his magic, but Morris gave it a Gap Energy Crystal instead and refused to provide blood.

• Morris sold Algernon about a dozen bottles of Draught of Living Death and asked Robert how to learn Apparition.
• Robert agreed to teach Morris outside Hogwarts, and Morris successfully Apparated on his first attempt in a clearing near Hogsmeade.
• Morris returned to his dormitory and inspected a rune-inscribed gem he planned to test against the Trace during the summer holidays.
• Morris reopened Tom Riddle's Diary, and Tom said their conversations had drained his magic and asked Morris to provide blood.
• Morris placed a Gap Energy Crystal on the diary, which absorbed it, then refused Tom's request for blood by claiming bleeding caused him to fall into a coma.

Morris grew wary of Tom’s repeated questions about his blood and kept their conversations brief. After Hagrid was taken to Azkaban and Dumbledore was dismissed, Harry, Hermione, and Ron feared the attacks would resume, while Morris knew the notebook containing the culprit remained in his drawer.

• Morris reduced his conversations with Tom, who kept asking about his supposed illness and blood.
• Draco Malfoy told Slytherin students that his father expected Dumbledore to be dismissed and replaced.
• Harry told Morris that Hagrid had been taken to Azkaban on suspicion of causing the attacks.
• Hermione said all twelve governors had signed Dumbledore’s dismissal and that Lucius Malfoy had pressured them.
• Harry feared the attacks would resume and vowed to prove Hagrid innocent, while Morris urged patience and Ron suggested protecting Hermione.

After Dumbledore’s removal, Morris refused to be drawn into Tom’s growing desperation to learn about the Chamber of Secrets, and Tom abandoned his attempt to recruit him as a host. Morris secretly followed Tom’s diary as it left the dormitory and watched it land in Gilderoy Lockhart’s path.

• McGonagall became acting headmistress after Dumbledore was removed, while rumors spread that Snape might take over.
• During the Easter holidays, Morris gave Tom another Gap Energy Crystal, but Tom’s answers soon became perfunctory.
• Tom asked Morris whether he had heard of the Chamber of Secrets, and Morris said he was not interested.
• Tom stopped responding to Morris, then used the diary to leave the dormitory while Morris and Guantou secretly followed.
• The diary fell in a corridor, where Gilderoy Lockhart stepped on it, picked it up, and began reading it.

Morris stopped Lockhart from taking Tom Riddle’s diary and resisted Tom’s Imperius Curse, then forced Tom to lead him to the Chamber of Secrets. On the way, Morris caught Draco Malfoy wandering the corridors after hours.

• Morris stunned Lockhart and confronted Tom as he emerged from the floating diary.
• Tom cast the Imperius Curse on Morris, but Morris pretended to be controlled and revealed that he had resisted it.
• Morris threatened to destroy the diary unless Tom took him to the Chamber of Secrets, and Tom agreed.
• Morris followed the floating diary through Hogwarts with Guantou at his side.
• Guantou alerted Morris to someone following them, and Morris bound the fleeing figure with Incarcerous.
• Morris discovered that the person he had caught was Draco Malfoy and told him to keep quiet.

Morris forced Draco to reveal that he had been sneaking into the Restricted Section, then took him to the abandoned girls' bathroom and opened the Chamber of Secrets with Tom Riddle. Morris pushed Draco into the passage first and followed him down.

• Morris questioned Draco, who admitted he had been reading in the Restricted Section and using potions and magical items to avoid being caught.
• Morris freed Draco from his ropes but ordered him to come along, then led him to the second-floor girls' bathroom.
• Draco insulted Moaning Myrtle, who shrieked at him before retreating to a cubicle in tears.
• Tom Riddle appeared and used Parseltongue to reveal the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.
• Morris told Draco to scout the Chamber first and pushed him into the pipe, then climbed in after him.

Morris dragged Draco into the Chamber of Secrets to frighten him, then led him through the passage toward the basilisk. At the entrance, Tom Riddle's Diary opened the carved wall, revealing the way forward.

• Morris found Draco in the passage and told him they were in the Chamber of Secrets, where a basilisk awaited.
• Morris frightened Draco into following him deeper into the passage by warning that the monster would kill him if he stayed behind.
• Morris and Draco passed animal bones and found an enormous, freshly shed basilisk skin, which Morris planned to take home and make into a sofa.
• Morris reached a wall carved with intertwined snakes and used Tom Riddle's Diary to make it open.

Morris and Draco entered the Chamber of Secrets, where Tom Riddle revealed that he was Lord Voldemort and tried to recruit Morris. Morris rejected him and asked to see the basilisk, leaving Tom to respond.

• Morris and Draco entered the vast chamber and stopped before a statue of Salazar Slytherin.
• Tom appeared and asked Morris whether he knew who he was, and Morris identified him as Voldemort, the wizard who had started the war.
• Tom revealed the names Tom Marvolo Riddle and Lord Voldemort, frightening Draco but failing to alarm Morris.
• Tom praised Morris's intelligence and ambition and offered to guide him, but Morris refused and explained that he pursued power and knowledge for their own sake.
• Morris told Tom he disliked his methods and asked him to show the basilisk.

Morris refused Tom’s offer and battled the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, using curses and summoned bone spikes to blind it. The wounded Basilisk still struck Morris hard enough to knock him from the shadows, while Draco fainted after seeing the monster.

• Tom threatened Morris and Draco, then used Parseltongue to release the Basilisk from Slytherin’s statue.
• Morris told Draco to close his eyes and hide, then used Shadow Concealment to avoid the Basilisk’s gaze.
• Morris struck the Basilisk with three curses, but saw that it was adapting to them.
• Morris summoned bone spikes that pierced both of the Basilisk’s eyes, enraging and disorienting it.
• The Basilisk lunged at Morris and disrupted his Shadow Concealment, but his bone armor softened the impact when it knocked him into a pillar.
• Draco opened his eyes, saw Morris and the Basilisk, and fainted.

Morris defeated Tom Riddle’s Basilisk with his Bone Dragon and revealed his plan to use an Enslavement Mark on Tom’s soul fragment. The chapter ended as Morris prepared to bind Tom to his will.

• Morris summoned his Bone Dragon, which battered the Basilisk to death while Tom watched in disbelief.
• Tom accepted that Morris had won and asked him to destroy his soul rather than let him suffer.
• Morris picked up Tom’s black notebook and identified it as a vessel containing a fragment of Tom’s soul.
• Morris explained that he would stamp Tom’s unprotected soul fragment with an Enslavement Mark so it would obey him.

Morris used the Enslavement Mark to bind Tom Riddle, whose soul fragment was in the diary, and moved him into the Skeleton Wolf when the Horcrux began to collapse. After learning how Tom had controlled Ginny Weasley and attacked Hogwarts, Morris stored the Skeleton Wolf and turned his attention to the Basilisk and the waking Malfoy.

• Morris marked Tom Riddle’s soul with the Enslavement Mark, making Tom submit to him.
• Tom explained that the diary was his Horcrux and that the vessel was rejecting him, so Morris transferred him into the Skeleton Wolf.
• Tom told Morris how he had controlled Ginny Weasley, drained her life and magic, and used the Basilisk to attack the castle.
• Morris sent Tom back into the containment circle and tried unsuccessfully to shrink the Basilisk’s corpse.
• Malfoy groaned as he began to wake, and Morris went over to him.

Morris returned from the Chamber of Secrets with Draco and tried to open its entrance by learning the language of snakes. Dumbledore found him outside the girls' bathroom after discovering Lockhart unconscious in a corridor.

• Draco woke beside the mangled Basilisk, and Morris warned him that Voldemort might remember him as an enemy before leading him out of the Chamber.
• Morris used Shadow Concealment to carry Draco up the pipe and told him to keep their adventure secret.
• Morris asked Tom to teach him the language of snakes, but his practice failed to open the passage and Moaning Myrtle drove him from the bathroom.
• Dumbledore found Morris outside the girls' bathroom and explained that he had come after seeing Lockhart unconscious in a corridor.

Morris told Dumbledore that he had defeated the Basilisk and destroyed Voldemort’s diary Horcrux, then learned from Tom how Horcruxes were made and why Voldemort had chosen them. The next morning, Morris headed toward the Chamber of Secrets to deal with the Basilisk’s corpse, but Fawkes appeared and asked him to grab his tail.

• Morris told Dumbledore about the Basilisk and handed over Voldemort’s destroyed diary, explaining that Tom Riddle had lured him into the Chamber of Secrets.
• Dumbledore assured Morris that he would check on Ginny Weasley, while Morris returned to his dormitory and fell asleep.
• The next morning, Morris summoned Tom and learned about Horcruxes, including their creation, dangers, and lasting effects on the soul.
• Morris rejected the idea of making a Horcrux despite wanting a long life, then set off to deal with the Basilisk’s corpse.
• Fawkes appeared on the staircase and prompted Morris to grab his tail, pecking him as he accidentally pulled out a feather.

Morris learned that Parseltongue required him to use his magic, then began repairing the Basilisk’s corpse in the Chamber of Secrets during the Easter holidays. In late April, Hagrid returned from Azkaban, and Morris was summoned to meet Minister Fudge and Lucius Malfoy at Hagrid’s hut.

• Dumbledore told Morris he had entered the Chamber by speaking Parseltongue and explained that Morris’s hissing had failed because he had not used his magic.
• Dumbledore took one Basilisk fang as evidence to help free Hagrid and gave Morris the rest of the Basilisk’s corpse.
• Morris used his magic to open the Chamber of Secrets and spent the Easter holidays trying to repair the Basilisk’s body.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Morris from Charms class and told him that Hagrid had returned from Azkaban.
• Morris arrived at Hagrid’s hut, where Fudge praised him for helping resolve the Heir incident and Lucius Malfoy watched him with a condescending smile.

Morris defended his account of defeating the Basilisk and revealed that Draco Malfoy had supposedly fought alongside him, while hinting that the Malfoy family had owned the diary. Lucius left to confront Draco, and Morris learned about Azkaban as Dumbledore discussed evidence against Lockhart with Fudge.

• Fudge questioned Morris about defeating the monster, but Morris refused to reveal the details, and Lucius Malfoy challenged his account.
• Dumbledore told Lucius that he was under investigation, and Morris explained how Voldemort's diary had controlled Ginny Weasley and released the Basilisk.
• Morris claimed that Draco Malfoy had entered the Chamber of Secrets and helped defeat the Basilisk and Voldemort, then suggested the diary had belonged to the Malfoy family.
• Lucius left to question Draco after Dumbledore warned him to stop spreading Voldemort's possessions, and Hagrid thanked Morris for helping him.
• Morris asked Hagrid about Azkaban while Dumbledore spoke with Fudge about Lockhart and evidence.

Morris confirmed to Harry and Ron that he had defeated the Heir of Slytherin and the monster in the Chamber of Secrets, then explained what had happened to Ginny. Later, Professor McGonagall discussed elective choices with Morris and Hermione, and Morris proposed dropping core classes because he had already reached fifth-year level in most subjects.

• An official notice said the attacker had been stopped, and Professor Snape revived the petrified students with a mandrake potion.
• Harry and Ron asked Morris if he had found the Heir of Slytherin, and Morris confirmed he had killed the monster in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Ron told Morris that Ginny remained in the Hospital Wing, and Morris explained the events that had drained her life force.
• Professor McGonagall told Morris and Hermione that they had both selected every elective and asked how they would fit the classes into their schedules.
• Morris suggested dropping some core classes because he had reached at least fifth-year level in them, and Professor McGonagall said she would speak with Snape about his advanced Potions exam.

Professor McGonagall explained how Time-Turners would let Hermione and Morris attend classes that clashed, then arranged for Morris to take the Ministry’s safety test. The test turned into an unexpected recruitment pitch from Vaughn Hardy, which Morris declined before Hardy began the Time-Turner training.

• Professor McGonagall showed Hermione and Morris a Time-Turner and explained that each turn of its hourglass sent the user back one hour.
• Two days later, Professor McGonagall brought Morris to a fourth-floor classroom to meet Vaughn Hardy from the Ministry’s Department of Mysteries.
• Hardy asked Morris to consider joining the Department as an Unspeakable and presented him with a letter of intent to sign after graduation.
• Morris declined the offer, though he said he might visit the Department of Mysteries sometime.
• Hardy accepted Morris’s decision, took out Morris’s Time-Turner, and prepared to begin the safety test.