Chapter Summaries

Inside Voldemort’s Soul Maze, the Master revealed that he had created the magic Voldemort used and claimed to be the world’s sole ruler. He vanished after sensing a power that could harm him, and Serena Pendragon arrived at Hogwarts and identified him as Grindelwald.

• The Master explained that Voldemort’s Soul Maze drew on the Squib Legion’s memories and that its magic was based on his own creations.
• Voldemort tried to summon the Squib Legion’s power but found that he could not contact them.
• The Master sensed a power capable of harming him and vanished from the Soul Maze, leaving Voldemort behind.
• Serena Pendragon and her companions appeared on the Hogwarts grounds, where she demanded to know what was happening with Grindelwald.
• Old Barty Crouch reached for his lost Wand, while Mrs. Weasley pulled Fred and George back as they tried to approach Grindelwald.

Serena Pendragon and the others tested their magic against The Master, but nothing could harm him, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald warned that he might be able to erase every wand. As the group armed themselves with replacement wands, they noticed the moon had grown larger and turned deathly pale, prompting Dumbledore to ask Serena how Herpo had died.

• Gellert Grindelwald quieted the gathering and urged everyone to focus on defeating The Master.
• Serena Pendragon cast the Killing Curse at The Master, and the others followed with spells, but all their magic vanished without effect.
• Dumbledore told everyone to take wands from defeated Dark Wizards, while Serena explained that Herpo had sacrificed his followers and The Master had killed him without resistance.
• Grindelwald warned that The Master might be able to erase every wand in the world, and Dumbledore noted that his influence was still affecting the surrounding Wizards.
• Harry pointed out that the moon had grown by at least a full size and turned deathly pale, so Dumbledore asked Serena how Herpo had died.

Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald concluded that the Master’s true body was the moon and that they had to stop him from reaching it. With ordinary magic proving useless, Serena Pendragon proposed using War Magic through Voldemort’s Squib Legion as they searched for another kind of magic the Master did not know.

• Serena Pendragon said the Master had devoured Herpo, and Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald deduced that Herpo had been only a temporary vessel for the Master’s descent.
• Ominis Gaunt explained the moon’s vast magical influence, and Dumbledore speculated that the Master’s body had been separated from his soul and banished from the sun.
• Gellert Grindelwald looked at the Master through a puddle of Mead, suffered bleeding eyes, and recovered when a dark crimson Phoenix shed a tear.
• Dumbledore confirmed that conventional spells vanished without effect, and Serena Pendragon offered to take control of Voldemort’s Squib Legion to wield War Magic.
• Gellert Grindelwald and Dumbledore judged that the Squib Legion’s War Magic might not be enough and proposed seeking magic the Master did not know.

The group prepared to stop The Master from fusing with the moon by using Expansion Magic to immobilize him and Muggle weapons as a backup. They set out with grenades, knowing they might have only one chance to interfere with him.

• Luna suggested using Expansion Magic, and Serena Pendragon proposed the Full Body-Bind Curse to prevent The Master's soul from moving during the fusion.
• Gellert Grindelwald suggested using Muggle weapons against The Master and asked Serena Pendragon to provide them.
• Serena Pendragon emptied a bag of Muggle weapons, including a tank, onto the grass and demonstrated how to use a grenade.
• The group took grenades as backup weapons, and Gellert Grindelwald urged everyone to move because they might have only one chance.

Serena Pendragon took control of Voldemort's Squib Legion and used Vizet's enhanced curse to shatter the invisible barrier protecting The Master. After the group bombarded him with spells and grenades, The Master emerged strangely transformed and began rebuilding his skeletal protection.

• Serena Pendragon took control of Voldemort's Squib Legion using Vizet's method.
• Serena Pendragon cast the enhanced Ancient Magic: Potent Blasting Curse, and her beam cracked The Master's invisible barrier.
• Serena Pendragon and the others attacked the barrier with spells and grenades until it shattered.
• The group bound The Master and Voldemort with Expansion Magic and hurled grenades into the smoke around them.
• The Master emerged with a human upper body and a skeletal lower half, and the group's attacks began disappearing again.
• The Master spoke directly into everyone's minds and drew bones from the battlefield to rebuild his skeletal protection.

The Master immobilized everyone who had attacked him and examined them as though they were curiosities, while Voldemort realized Serena Pendragon had taken control of the Squib Legion. The Master recognized Vizet Lovegood’s name and wondered why so many people persisted because of him.

• The Master cast Petrificus Totalus, freezing Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the others in place.
• Voldemort woke, saw Serena Pendragon switch wands as they shattered, and concluded that Vizet had helped her steal control of the Squib Legion.
• Voldemort began drawing blood toward himself to mend his injured body while The Master ignored him.
• The Master stopped before Neville, mocked his protection of his Gnosis, and considered keeping some of the prisoners for amusement.
• The Master sensed Vizet Lovegood in Neville and said that Odin, Xutikutli, Hades, and Hecate had also mentioned him.
• The Master asked what was so charming about Vizet Lovegood that made Neville and the others persist.

The Master erased the traces connecting Vizet Lovegood to the future, intending to prevent his return, and destroyed the Wands in everyone's hands. As despair gripped the group and a light flashed near Xenophilius Lovegood's home, Serena Pendragon, Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald broke free and attacked The Master.

• The Master identified Vizet Lovegood's connections to the others and began uprooting the traces he had left behind.
• Neville realized The Master was erasing the Longbottom family's Magic Contract with Vizet, while Dumbledore understood he was removing Vizet's Marks to obstruct his return.
• The Master declared that no one could use Wands and caused the Wands in everyone's hands to crumble into ash.
• The Master urged everyone to accept despair, and the despair in the group mysteriously vanished as a light flashed on the horizon near Xenophilius Lovegood's home.
• The Master turned toward the light, and Serena Pendragon, Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald broke free of their restraints and attacked him together.

Serena Pendragon, Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald attacked The Master together, but he effortlessly repelled them and stripped Serena of her Silver-Blue Light. Serena then attacked him with Muggle weapons as explosions and smoke engulfed his figure.

• Serena Pendragon, Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald launched a coordinated attack on The Master while Voldemort watched.
• The Master stopped Serena’s fist with one finger, sent her flying, and blocked Dumbledore’s sword, Grindelwald’s sword, and the miniature tower.
• The Master reclaimed Serena’s Silver-Blue Light and questioned Dumbledore about his ability to fly, but Dumbledore stayed aloft.
• Serena attacked The Master with flashbangs and grenades, filling the area with explosions, smoke, and fire.

Serena Pendragon, Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald attacked The Master, but he froze all three and investigated the Sword of Gryffindor’s ability to reform after being destroyed. The Master then turned his attention to Voldemort, recalling that Herpo had asked him to deal with him first.

• Voldemort understood The Master's cruel, playful attitude and secretly hoped Dumbledore and the others would die alongside him.
• Serena Pendragon, Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald renewed their attack on The Master with a submachine gun, the Sword of Gryffindor, and flaming weapons.
• The Master stopped their assault and cast Petrificus Totalus, freezing all three attackers.
• The Master shattered the Sword of Gryffindor twice and watched it reform both times.
• The Master descended beside Voldemort, called him an interesting collectible, and recalled Herpo's instruction to deal with him first.

The Master revealed that he had fully returned and began drawing the moon toward the earth, threatening to destroy Hogwarts Castle as a meaningful prelude to his descent. As he trapped Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the others, an unidentified voice objected to his choice.

• The Master dismissed Voldemort’s fears and sensed that the others still held on to hope because of Vizet Lovegood.
• The Master summoned the moon closer, causing the Forbidden Forest and Black Lake to transform under its pull.
• The Master confirmed that his body had returned and decided to make his complete descent more meaningful by destroying Hogwarts Castle.
• The Master trapped Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the others in a Magical Energy Field and forced them to watch as the moon descended faster.
• An unidentified voice said that no one would like the sight and that destroying Hogwarts was not a good choice.

Vizet returned to confront the Master, bringing hope to the people held captive and revealing that he had prepared a strange, star-filled wand. The Master launched an attack that Serena Pendragon recognized as a form of erasure, and the chapter left Vizet facing it with his wand in hand.

• Vizet appeared before the captives, and Harry, Neville, Dumbledore, and others felt relief at his return.
• Voldemort considered his possible fates after Vizet defeated the Master and thought about taking revenge on Harry Potter.
• Xenophilius Lovegood heard his wife calling for him and realized Vizet might have brought her back, but the Master's restraints kept him from looking for her.
• Vizet walked toward the Master, who attacked him with a strange trajectory that Serena Pendragon understood as a magic of erasure.
• Vizet revealed an unfamiliar wand whose multicolored, aurora-like crystal body held drifting starlight.

Vizet blocked The Master’s attack, protected Hogwarts and the people there, and taunted him while revealing that he had made a new wand. After Vizet freed the prisoners, his friends and family reunited with him as The Master remained before his shield.

• Vizet cast Protego, shielding Hogwarts, the Forbidden Forest, the Black Lake, and the imprisoned people from The Master’s attack.
• Vizet called The Master Mr. Miklantikutli and accused him of changing his plan out of stupidity or cowardice, but The Master did not attack again.
• The Master examined Vizet’s wand, and Vizet explained that his previous wand had been destroyed and he had made a replacement.
• Vizet cast Finite Incantatem and freed most of the people restrained by The Master.
• Jupiter landed on Vizet’s arm, Fawkes pecked Gellert Grindelwald, and Pandora embraced Xenophilius Lovegood and Luna.
• Fred and George fired Magical Fireworks at The Master to celebrate Vizet’s return, and Mrs. Weasley stopped them from setting off more.

Vizet explained how The Master’s attempt to erase him instead left a trace that let him return to the present. He stood ready to face The Master, while revealing that his Wand had grown from a seed of hope.

• Vizet told The Master that the Wand’s craftsmanship came from his people and thanked him for causing the despair that nurtured the seed of hope.
• Luna explained to Xenophilius that the seed had been nurtured in a lake filled with Inferi, while Vizet lamented that it had not borne fruit for jam.
• Vizet mocked The Master for not knowing how he had returned and described the damage The Master had caused, prompting the students to stifle their laughter.
• Vizet explained that The Master had severed the connection to him rather than erasing him, leaving a break he could follow back to the present.

Vizet explained how he used the Severed Breach to return from the past and challenged The Master’s assumptions about his plans. He revealed that he was waiting for the Ritual Magic to be completed, then asked what The Master was waiting for.

• Vizet told The Master that he had chosen the most suitable method to return from the past rather than relying on luck.
• Pandora remembered how Vizet had rescued her from the river of time using Ancient Magic Power hidden in Carriage Castle and prepared several backup plans.
• Vizet explained that meeting Odin and the others had helped him refine his plans and learn about his uniqueness as a Descender.
• The Master questioned whether Vizet intended to use his uniqueness to defeat him and accused him of stalling.
• Vizet said he had answered many of The Master's questions and asked what The Master was waiting for while the Ritual Magic was being completed.

Vizet revealed that the golden light illuminating the world came from a Ritual Magic Array spanning the entire planet. He explained that the array connected traces of his memories preserved in the Department of Mysteries’ ancient legacies, leaving The Master to confront the fact that erasing his marks had failed.

• A humming spread across the world, calming despair as golden light illuminated landscapes, oceans, deserts, and battlefields.
• The Master rose into the air and shielded himself with a Magical Energy Field while examining the light.
• Vizet told The Master that he had established a world-sized Ritual Magic Array and reminded him that he had returned to the past.
• The Master sensed traces of Odin and Vizet, and Vizet explained that shared memories had left marks intertwined with theirs.
• Vizet introduced the Department of Mysteries and revealed that the Silent People studied ancient legacies that helped create the first magic.
• Vizet explained that those legacies preserved his traces around the world, allowing him to connect them and form the Ritual Magic Array.

Vizet confronted The Master about his arrogance and his reasons for waiting, then revealed that the moon had stopped descending. He explained that he had moved it farther away by relying on his deepening connection to the world, leaving The Master shaken and demanding answers.

• Vizet accused The Master of treating the Pathway and others as amusements because he believed he could control everything.
• Vizet argued that The Master was speaking with him because events had slipped beyond his control and he was waiting for an opportunity.
• Vizet revealed that The Master was waiting for the moon to fall, and everyone looked up and saw that it had stopped growing closer.
• The Master demanded to know what Vizet had done to the moon.
• Vizet explained that he had put distance between the moon and the world by using the stable connection he had gradually formed with it.
• Vizet recalled that The Master's erasure of his Marks had shown him that losing this connection would leave him adrift outside the world.

Vizet explained how his bond with the world let him increase the distance between the world and the moon, forcing The Master to abandon his temporary body. The moon then began to collapse and reveal The Master’s enormous skeletal true form.

• Vizet identified his promise of family as his Anchor Point and explained that emotional connection could change the distance between existences.
• The Master realized Vizet had used his bond with the world to push the moon farther away and angrily vanished.
• The students wondered what Vizet would do, and Fred and George recalled the nuclear bomb Vizet had thrown onto the moon.
• Ron noticed that the moon was contracting and changing as its surface collapsed inward.
• The moon revealed enormous bones that pulled and fitted together as The Master’s true form emerged.

As The Master’s colossal skeletal form vanished and descended toward them as a tiny white dot, Vizet revealed that his Ritual Magic Array was meant to welcome Mr. Miklantikutli. Xutikutli appeared beside Vizet, and the two greeted each other as they finally met in the same future.

• Vizet used his magic to ease the crowd’s discomfort as the moon transformed into a colossal skeletal shadow that frightened even retired Aurors.
• Serena Pendragon questioned Vizet about The Master, the treasury, and the Pathway, and Vizet explained that the treasury was the Otherworld and the Pathway was the Misty Illusory Realm he had created.
• The skeletal shadow and moon vanished, leaving a pitch-black sky where a tiny white dot appeared and began to grow as The Master approached.
• Vizet told Serena Pendragon that his Ritual Magic Array would fulfill a promise and welcome Mr. Miklantikutli.
• Xutikutli appeared beside Vizet in life-filled flames, and they greeted each other through magical ripples.

Vizet’s magic summoned those who had died fighting for the future, giving them a chance to face The Master again and finish what they had left undone. Godric Gryffindor and the other Hogwarts founders appeared among them, and the chapter ended with them arguing over what they had taught Vizet and Salazar condemning Horcruxes.

• Xutikutli charged toward The Master, while Vizet apologized in case his decision had displeased Miklantikutli.
• Figures from the past emerged one after another and conveyed their gratitude and excitement to Vizet through magical fluctuations.
• Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and Serena Pendragon began to understand the figures’ thoughts, while the others looked on in confusion.
• Neville recognized Godric Gryffindor, and the students identified Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and The Grey Lady among the arrivals.
• Godric Gryffindor summoned the Sword of Gryffindor and praised Vizet, while the founders proudly argued over who had guided him most.
• Godric Gryffindor warned that Salazar Slytherin had taught Vizet about Horcruxes, and Salazar declared that anyone who made them for immortality was foolish beyond even rats.

The four founders discussed Horcruxes and reconciled as they prepared to finish their work and protect the world. They renewed the Sorting Hat, with Dumbledore taking it last and looking wistful.

• Salazar Slytherin explained that he had studied Horcruxes because they concerned life and death, while the founders teased him about his past.
• Vizet apologized for struggling to choose among the founders, and Rowena Ravenclaw intervened as Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor bickered.
• The founders laughed together, then agreed to finish their unfinished work and use their strength to protect the world.
• Salazar Slytherin asked to borrow Godric Gryffindor's Sorting Hat, and Godric Gryffindor summoned it from Hogwarts Castle.
• Godric Gryffindor restored the Sorting Hat to new condition, and the founders and Dumbledore passed it around to instill new ideas.