Chapter Summaries

Aya, Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigated the Chamber of Secrets and found an old report blaming Hagrid for a Muggle-born student's death. When they confronted Hagrid, he denied killing the student and revealed that she had died after seeing a big yellow eye, leaving the group with a possible clue about the Chamber's monster.

• Aya, Harry, Ron, and Hermione learned that Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets supposedly held a monster meant to purge those he considered unworthy of magic.
• Hermione found an old Daily Prophet report stating that a Ravenclaw student had died and Hagrid had been expelled after being blamed for keeping a deadly Acromantula.
• Hermione recognized the victim as Moaning Myrtle, and Harry, Ron, and Aya decided to ask Hagrid about the accusation.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Aya went to Hagrid's hut, where Hagrid admitted he had kept a giant spider named Aragog but insisted Aragog had not killed anyone.
• Hagrid revealed that Moaning Myrtle had said she saw a big yellow eye before she died, and Aya connected the clue to the Basilisk she had encountered.

Aya and her friends identified the Chamber of Secrets monster as a Basilisk and told Dumbledore, who confirmed Aya had already killed it and began investigating Hagrid’s framing. The chapter ended when Aya lost control after revealing the diary, Harry picked it up, and her system registered it as a special item.

• Hermione found a book describing Basilisks, and Aya’s quest list updated to show the Basilisk defeated and new side quests added.
• Harry revealed that he could speak Parseltongue, and he joined Aya, Hermione, and Ron in deciding to tell Dumbledore about the Basilisk and investigate Hagrid’s case.
• Dumbledore confirmed that Aya had found the Chamber of Secrets and killed its Basilisk, then asked how she had been controlled and found the entrance.
• Aya showed Dumbledore the black diary, became controlled again, and dropped it as Xiaohua was controlled instead.
• Harry picked up the diary, triggering Aya’s system to record the discovery of special item number two.

Aya fought Dumbledore when he took her diary, then negotiated to keep it while he removed its Dark Magic. The diary’s connection to Harry and the Chamber of Secrets raised Dumbledore’s suspicions, and Aya agreed to let him photograph her Basilisk before she and Harry returned to the Great Hall.

• Aya stopped Harry from touching the diary, but Dumbledore took it from Xiaohua and recognized its danger.
• Aya attacked Dumbledore with Xiaohua and her magic until he agreed to let her keep the diary under conditions and remove its Dark Magic.
• Dumbledore offered Aya access to the Forbidden Forest and asked about the diary; Aya said Malfoy Senior had passed it to her in Diagon Alley.
• Dumbledore asked Harry whether he could understand Parseltongue, then requested photographs of Aya’s Basilisk, which she agreed to provide that night.
• Aya and Harry joined Hermione and Ron in the Great Hall, where Aya called the meeting with Dumbledore smooth despite Harry’s objections.

Aya sneaked into the Forbidden Forest with Xiaohua and defeated a nest of Acromantulas, then learned from Snape that their meat was edible. After enjoying roasted spider legs, she brought portions to the Gryffindor common room and traded them for snacks, where her friends began joining in.

• Aya disguised her bed, borrowed Harry's Invisibility Cloak, and slipped out with Xiaohua to visit the Forbidden Forest.
• Aya climbed a tree and used Morning Glory to support Xiaohua as she fought a swarm of Acromantulas, collecting more than thirty spider corpses.
• Aya asked Snape to appraise an Acromantula and learned that its venom was valuable and its meat was non-toxic.
• Aya took a spider to the kitchen, where Duoduo roasted its legs, and Aya found the meat savory and sweet.
• Aya returned to the common room and offered spider-leg portions in exchange for snacks, prompting several Gryffindors, including Hermione, Harry, and Ron, to trade with her.

Aya shared Acromantula meat with Harry, Hermione, and Ron, then eagerly attended Lockhart’s Duelling Club. She challenged Draco to a wand-only duel and disarmed him before he could cast his spell.

• Aya traded away her cooked spider legs and shared Acromantula meat with Hermione, Harry, and Ron, startling them when she revealed what they were eating.
• Hermione questioned Aya about hunting spiders in the Forbidden Forest, but Aya dodged the conversation by claiming she needed to feed Xiaohua.
• Aya and her friends went to Lockhart’s Duelling Club, where Snape sent Lockhart flying during their demonstration.
• Aya tried to challenge Snape, but he insisted she use only her wand, so she turned to Draco and challenged him instead.
• When Lockhart counted down for their duel, Aya cast Expelliarmus on one and knocked Draco’s wand from his hand before he could act.

During the Duelling Club, Aya brawled with Draco, beheaded a snake conjured during Harry and Draco’s match, and learned how to make snake soup. As the Christmas holidays began, Aya took Fred and George around Hogwarts to collect hidden items and revealed her magic could produce random loot, including coins.

• Aya and Draco fought hand-to-hand after Draco’s wand was knocked away, and Snape ended their match before either won.
• Draco conjured a snake during his duel with Harry, and Aya caught it and chopped off its head with her dagger.
• Snape cleaned up the snake, while Hermione helped Aya massage her numb arm after the snake had coiled around it.
• Aya obtained a snake soup spell with Xiaohua’s help, then watched Draco leave for the Christmas holidays.
• Fred and George paid Aya with food to guide them around Hogwarts, and Aya showed them how she collected random items and coins from hidden spots.

Aya celebrated Christmas at Hogwarts by handing out unusual gifts and joining her friends for a snowball fight. After everyone else went to the Hospital Wing, she gave Duoduo a Christmas bow and asked for snake-meat and spider-meat buns.

• Aya counted her Christmas presents, prepared gifts for her friends and the Weasleys, and sent presents to people who were away from school.
• Aya secretly delivered gifts to Ginny, Percy, Fred and George, Harry, and Ron, hiding Scabbers in a drawer while leaving Ron a box of cooked spider legs.
• Aya and the others exchanged Christmas greetings and went to breakfast; Ron found Scabbers after the rat chewed through his snacks.
• Aya and the students played a snowball fight in the courtyard, where her enormous snowball knocked George and a Hufflepuff student down.
• Everyone except Aya went to the Hospital Wing for Pepperup Potion before lunch, and Aya later brought Duoduo a Christmas bow and requested snake-meat and spider-meat buns.

Aya sold Snape a large batch of Acromantulas, prompting him to investigate how so many spiders had spread through the Forbidden Forest. After Hagrid was cleared of suspicion, Aya and her friends celebrated with him, but her casual revelation that she had fought over a hundred spiders left Hermione stunned and Hagrid distraught.

• Aya sold Snape more than a hundred Acromantulas, and Snape resolved to speak with Dumbledore about the threat in the Forbidden Forest.
• Aya received a damaged red notebook and a box of sweets from Dumbledore in exchange for agreeing to bring him noteworthy items.
• Hermione told Harry, Ron, and Aya that the Daily Prophet had reported Hagrid's name was cleared, while the culprit in the fifty-year-old attack remained unnamed.
• Aya, Harry, Ron, and Hermione brought Hagrid a feast to celebrate his exoneration, and Hagrid revealed he still had his wand but could not yet use it openly.
• Aya praised Hagrid for breeding giant spiders, and Hagrid tearfully insisted the Acromantulas were Aragog's descendants who would not hurt anyone.
• Aya told Hermione she had fought more than a hundred spiders, leaving Hermione shocked.

Aya and the others learned more about Hagrid’s Acromantula colony before Lockhart’s Valentine’s Day event filled Hogwarts with decorations and dwarf messengers delivering love letters. Aya shocked the older students with her blunt description of Amortentia, then spent History of Magic unable to sleep as the dwarfs interrupted class to sing confessions.

• Hagrid broke down after Aya revealed that she had served him Acromantula meat, and Hermione suggested finding a protection organization to take in Aragog’s colony.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Aya discussed Hagrid’s past and wondered whether the person who reported him might know more about what happened fifty years earlier.
• Lockhart announced a Valentine’s Day event, and Aya supported it only if it could get her out of homework.
• Lockhart decorated the Great Hall and brought in twelve dwarfs to deliver Valentine’s cards while the students reacted to Aya’s blunt comments about Amortentia.
• During History of Magic, the dwarfs repeatedly barged in to sing confessions, keeping Aya awake for the first time in the class.

Aya watched Ginny’s anonymous Valentine poem to Harry cause a public commotion, then planted Dungbombs in Lockhart’s office and discovered Percy’s relationship with Penelope Clearwater. Later she searched the Forbidden Forest for Acromantulas, gave Ron a white mouse for his birthday, and revealed that her birthday was June twenty-first and that she had not known friends gave birthday presents.

• Aya pulled Ginny to the front as a dwarf delivered Ginny’s Valentine poem to Harry, whose embarrassment drew Draco’s taunts.
• Aya mocked Draco, who insulted Harry and then left after shoving him.
• Aya planted two Dungbombs in Lockhart’s office and took a stack of newspapers from under his desk.
• Aya caught Percy embracing Penelope Clearwater and accepted Honeydukes sweets in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Aya found only a small group of Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest and collected their corpses to take to Snape.
• Aya gave Ron a white mouse for his birthday and told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that her birthday was June twenty-first and she had not known birthdays came with presents.