Vol. 17The Paris Mysteries

Severus and his allies pursued clues to Napoleon’s hidden heart, the Water of Immortality, and the secrets tied to Lily’s trapped soul. They uncovered a shrine beneath Les Invalides, where a vision warned of a coming war in Europe.

  • Severus and Gong Saiyi traced clues linking Napoleon, Pomona, and a hidden boat while preparing to face the other world.
  • Severus sent Klimian and Kreacher to retrieve the boat, then agreed to accompany Gong Saiyi as he searched his memories for a way forward.
  • Severus followed Paris clues to Napoleon’s hidden heart and the Water of Immortality while gathering allies.
  • Alessandro, Haji, Felix, and Mrs Norris found a golden Mass bell, but Alessandro could not explain what he saw at the Fountain of the Seas.
  • Severus and Alessandro followed Paris clues tied to fountains, Grindelwald, and hidden messages, with Severus finding a trail toward Siena and prophecy.
  • Alessandro, Felix, and Haji entered the sewers beneath Saint-Sulpice as Severus blasted open a concealed area marked by an ultraviolet arrow.
  • Severus and Gong Saiyi searched for the hidden score and clues to Lily’s trapped soul, while Severus and Lucius uncovered a shrine beneath Les Invalides.
  • Severus burned the red substance in a censer, revealing a politician calling for a purge, and Lucius warned that Europe would be plunged into war.
Chapters 1604–1703 Read from ch. 1604

Arc 65The Boat Beneath Paris

Severus and Gong Saiyi followed clues linking Napoleon’s history, Pomona, and a hidden underworld boat while Severus prepared to recover a Horcrux and face the other world. The arc left Klimian and Kreacher heading to retrieve the boat as Severus and Gong Saiyi searched their memories for a way forward.

  • Severus and Gong Saiyi retraced their steps through the Louvre and investigated clues connecting Napoleon, the cemetery, and the renovations, while Severus learned that Pierre Brongniart had delivered an offer of treasure in exchange for his surrender.
  • Severus and Felix confronted Lawrence, found part of Napoleon’s manuscript, and learned that Lawrence’s client had contacted him only by phone.
  • Georgiana grew closer to Napoleoni in Rouen, sang “Amazing Grace,” received the mail ship Pomona, and considered Mr. Martin’s offer to adopt her.
  • Severus learned from Garcia that she knew about the wizarding world, then reacted furiously when Gong Saiyi explained that a story she had read concerned a man saving an angel bewitched by a devil.
  • Severus and his companions connected the Saint-Martin Canal, mummies, and legends of a red-clothed prophet to a hidden boat guarded by Inferi, but Severus initially refused to retrieve it.
  • Severus assigned Klimian to drain the sea cave, destroy the Inferi, and recover the boat, with Kreacher guiding him and Felix agreeing to help protect the world.
  • Severus and Gong Saiyi considered the boat’s limits and Napoleon’s possible resurrection, then reviewed a Memory as Severus recalled his confrontation with Pomona and Gong Saiyi agreed to accompany him to the other world.
  • Severus said he wanted to see the library Pomona had called heaven, and he suspected that nuclear power was behind Europe’s panic after noticing that riot-struck places had lost power.
Chapters 1604–1628 Summaries Read

Arc 66The Hidden Heart of Paris

Severus pursued clues to Napoleon’s hidden heart and the Water of Immortality while gathering allies in Paris. The search uncovered a concealed golden Mass bell, but Alessandro and Felix still did not know what the Fountain of the Seas revealed.

  • Severus confronted his past with Dumbledore, Lily, and Harry, then moved Draco and their household into hiding in Saas-Fee.
  • Gong Saiyi and Severus traced historical clues through Paris and concluded that the National Library of France was the starting point of a hidden plan involving Napoleon’s heart.
  • Severus and his allies investigated Montsouris Park, the catacombs, the Saint-Michel Fountain, and the city’s old waterworks, while Severus searched for the Water of Immortality.
  • Severus attended a Napoleon Foundation gathering and used Veritaserum to learn that consecrated vessels and Napoleon’s gold seal had been stolen.
  • Monica helped Severus guide Alessandro toward the fountain’s hidden clue, and Alessandro, Haji, Felix, and Mrs Norris uncovered a niche containing a golden Mass bell.
  • Haji drove Alessandro and Felix to Place de la Concorde, where they searched the fountains and nearby landmarks, but Alessandro could not say what he saw at the Fountain of the Seas.
Chapters 1629–1653 Summaries Read

Arc 67The Paris Clues

Alessandro and Severus followed a chain of clues through Paris, uncovering hidden fountains, library secrets, and a trail tied to Grindelwald. Severus found a concealed message pointing toward Siena and prophecy, while Alessandro’s search led into the sewers beneath Saint-Sulpice.

  • Alessandro awakened a fountain with perfume and found a solid-gold censer boat, then followed its clues toward Strasbourg.
  • Hathor drew Alessandro into a plan involving Napoleon and Josephine, but he refused and escaped through a mirror with the censer.
  • Severus identified Pierre as Asmodeus and investigated the Paris clues, while he and Felix followed the map toward the Innocence Fountain in Luxembourg Garden.
  • Severus connected the fountain and the National Library’s clues to a wider search, while Alessandro pursued the Rose Line and the bishops’ inscriptions around Saint-Sulpice.
  • Severus found a circus ticket and coded equations in The Man Who Laughs, then enlisted Gong Saiyi and researchers to identify the Navier-Stokes equation and investigate Victor Hugo’s diary.
  • Mrs Norris led Alessandro, Felix, and Haji into the sewers, while Severus searched the botanical garden and found a green-painted wall marked with a horned monster.
  • Severus and Gong Saiyi revealed a fluorescent scorpion and the inscription “Chiaroscuro 160.82.45,” which Gianluca linked to the color sienna and sixteen cities.
  • Severus considered prophecy and Siena, then blasted open the area marked by an arrow under ultraviolet light.
Chapters 1654–1678 Summaries Read

Arc 68The Hidden Shrine

Severus and Gong Saiyi pursued clues linking Napoleon, a hidden score, and the wax figure that might lead to Lily’s trapped soul. Severus and Lucius eventually uncovered a shrine beneath Les Invalides, where burning the red substance revealed a politician whose words pointed toward a coming war in Europe.

  • Severus and Gong Saiyi found dragon blood hidden beneath a Bes statue and continued searching for the concealed sheet music.
  • Severus and Gong Saiyi traced clues through a church and Napoleon’s history, while Severus confronted Eugene Beauharnais about the hidden spirit and his missing wife.
  • Gong Saiyi fought Grace over the wax figure, while Severus learned from Eugene that the sealed spirit could be found near the former Place de Grève.
  • Severus recovered an onyx cup from underground tunnels with help from Alessandro’s companions, then learned that Alessandro had disappeared.
  • Severus recruited Lucius and Baldwin to investigate the missing people, the aurora, and a hidden shrine beneath Les Invalides.
  • Severus found a silver-white alchemical scorpion inside the shrine and connected its strange signs to Napoleon, falling stars, and the red grease.
  • Severus transfigured a golden rose into a censer and burned the red fat, causing smoke to shatter a crystal ball and reveal a politician calling for a purge.
  • Lucius recognized the politician as a man imprisoned alongside the outcasts he had denounced and warned that Europe would be plunged into war.
Chapters 1679–1703 Summaries Read
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