Chapter Summaries

Noah brought Angelina to Constantine for an exorcism trial, but Constantine was leaving for a job in Budapest, so Noah arranged for Professor Snape to join them and transported the group there. After arriving and learning little about the mission, they heard that the vampire ancestor might be named Marcus.

• Noah brought Angelina to Constantine, who said he could not conduct her trial because he was leaving for a job.
• Noah contacted Dumbledore, and Professor Snape joined the group after Fudge agreed to the trip.
• Noah opened a portal and took Constantine, Snape, and Angelina to Budapest instead of having them buy plane tickets.
• Snape used Memory Charms on nearby homeless people, and the group headed into the city to find a map and a place to stay.
• Noah asked Constantine about the mission, and Constantine said he had heard the vampires' sleeping ancestor was named Marcus.

Noah, Snape, Angelina, and Constantine learned that Budapest’s vampires and werewolves had become a problem the local Ministry of Magic could not address directly. Constantine offered them a ten-thousand-Galleon job to investigate the creatures’ plans, and Noah accepted, claiming Angelina would handle it.

• Noah suspected the vampire leader Marcus was the Marcus from Underworld and discussed the local situation with Snape and Angelina.
• Noah revealed that Snape had a daughter, surprising Angelina, while Snape agreed that people should have time to adjust to the news.
• Constantine explained that the Ministry of Magic had contacted the Exorcist Guild because an old agreement prevented it from acting against the vampires and werewolves.
• Constantine said the previous exorcists had disappeared, and Noah learned the job was to discover what the creatures were planning.
• Constantine mentioned extra payment for each vampire or werewolf they dealt with, and Noah accepted the job while assigning it to Angelina.

Noah and Angelina investigated a reported gathering of vampires and werewolves, with Noah intending to let Angelina handle the mission while protecting her. They reached the subway station where the creatures had gathered, and Noah prepared to confront them, chiefly wondering whether the Ministry of Magic could afford the reward.

• Noah accompanied Angelina on a mission to investigate a werewolf and vampire hunt while thinking about Alexander Corvinus and the value of his blood.
• Noah and Angelina met Aurors, who warned them that armed werewolves and vampires were gathered ahead and advised them to leave.
• Noah explained guns to Angelina as they continued toward the subway station.
• Noah reassured the nervous Angelina and told her to focus on protecting ordinary people and killing the monsters if necessary.
• Noah and Angelina sensed the creatures inside the subway station, and Noah considered whether the Ministry of Magic could afford to pay for the mission.

Snape refused the Hungarian Ministry official’s request to handle the werewolves and vampires, explaining that Noah and Angelina were already helping the exorcists. Angelina protected bystanders during a violent clash, then attacked the monsters and drew their attention.

• A Hungarian Ministry official asked Snape to help deal with the werewolves and vampires, but Snape said Noah and Angelina had gone with the exorcists.
• Snape showed the official his Tier Five Mage Level and explained that Noah had reached Tier Four, urging him to seek Noah instead.
• Noah watched Selena from a distance while Angelina went ahead alone to test herself against the creatures.
• A burly black man opened fire, and Angelina cast a defensive spell before moving the injured and frightened people to concealed locations.
• Angelina attacked a female vampire and a werewolf with Expelliarmus, prompting the monsters to turn their weapons toward her.

Angelina attacked werewolves and vampires in a Budapest subway station, while Noah arrived and destroyed two transformed werewolves with a golden spell. As Noah turned toward the remaining vampires, a formally dressed man rushed in and called for him to wait.

• Angelina fought the magical creatures, deflected bullets, and drove them to flee while protecting nearby ordinary people.
• Noah arrived and froze the creatures, then reassured Angelina that the wounded bystanders would survive and Aurors could treat them.
• Noah burned the two transformed werewolves to ash with a golden spell, frightening the bystanders and the vampires.
• Noah turned toward the remaining vampires, but a middle-aged man rushed in and addressed him as Mr. Phileas.

Noah questioned Selena after killing her companion and learned that the Death Walkers had come to hunt werewolves, whose whereabouts and plans remained unclear. After an Auror revealed that Victor had murdered Selena’s human family and raised her under a false identity, Selena agreed to take Noah to confront him.

• Ferencz asked Noah to spare a vampire for questioning, and Noah killed the male vampire while leaving Selena alive.
• Selena said the Death Walkers had found werewolves nearby but did not know what they were pursuing, so Noah agreed to help investigate.
• Ferencz said an agreement prevented him from revealing the vampires’ lair, and Noah asked Selena to guide him there in exchange for legal recognition.
• A black Auror told Selena that Victor had killed her parents and raised her as his daughter after his own daughter died.
• Selena doubted the Auror’s account but agreed to take Noah to Victor and verify the truth face-to-face.

Noah and Constantine followed Selena to a vampire gathering place outside Budapest, where Noah launched a direct attack on the mansion. The vampires opened fire, but their leader turned back to find that the assault had already gone disastrously wrong.

• Noah sent Angelina back through a portal, then insisted Constantine accompany him while Selena led them toward the vampire lair.
• After more than an hour in the rain, Noah and Constantine reached a large mansion outside Budapest with Selena.
• Noah blasted open the mansion's iron gates, setting off its alarm and drawing the vampires outside.
• The vampire leader accused Selena of betraying them and mistook Noah and Constantine for exorcists, then ordered armed Death Walkers to open fire.
• The leader turned away to go inside, but cries from behind made him look back in alarm.

Noah stopped a vampire attack with magic, defeated the vampires at their mansion, and captured their leader, Klein. He asked Selena to read Klein’s memories to locate the vampire elders and confirm what he knew about Victor, leaving her increasingly despondent over what she learned.

• Noah cast Impedimenta and the Heavy Armor Charm to halt the vampires’ bullets, then used Wind Blade to cut down the attackers.
• Noah sent Constantine and Chas to finish off the wounded vampires while he entered the mansion.
• Noah found Klein trying to flee, subdued him, and learned that the vampires had developed technology with help from human scientists.
• Noah asked Selena to drink Klein’s blood and search his memories for the elders’ whereabouts and the truth about Victor.
• Selena read Klein’s memories and grew increasingly despondent as Noah waited.

Selena learned from Klein's memories that Victor had killed her parents and betrayed the vampires by conspiring with the werewolves, then helped Noah confront Victor. When Victor refused to reveal the contract, Noah summoned Snape to help extract the information.

• Selena told Noah that Klein's memories revealed the werewolves were hiding beneath the city and showed her how to reach them.
• Noah killed Klein, and he and Selena fought their way to the sleeping elders and awakened Victor with stored blood plasma.
• Selena asked Victor if he had killed her parents, and he admitted that he had.
• Victor refused to disclose the contract's location, and Selena explained that she could not learn his memories from his blood yet.
• Noah opened a magical doorway to Snape, who had been reading a childcare book, and asked him for help questioning Victor.

Noah and Snape questioned Victor about the missing contract, learning it was hidden with Marcus’s father, but Noah discovered he had accidentally burned Marcus and the other sleeping vampire elders to ashes. Gunfire outside interrupted the investigation, and Noah headed out to see what Constantine and the others had done.

• Snape used magic to compel Victor to answer, and Victor said Marcus had left the contract with his father.
• Selena revealed that vampires and werewolves shared the same father, while Noah stopped Snape from attacking her and urged her to keep living.
• Victor told Noah that Marcus had just died, and Noah realized that his earlier spell had burned him alive.
• Noah set the other sleeping vampire elders on fire, only to learn from Victor that they might have known more about the contract.
• Gunfire sounded outside the mansion, and Noah went to investigate the disturbance caused by Constantine and the others.

Noah let Selena keep her revenge against Victor, then left the mansion with Professor Snape and met Alexander Corvinus, who asked them to spare the werewolves. Alexander revealed that he was Marcus's father and had given the werewolves a chance to escape, though he did not know how long they would survive the Ministry of Magic's assault.

• Noah offered Selena his wand to kill Victor, but Professor Snape explained that she could not use its magic, so Noah put it away.
• Noah and Professor Snape discussed Barty Crouch Jr.'s surveillance, Snape's daughter Lily, and the possibility of her studying at Kamar-Taj after Hogwarts.
• Noah and Professor Snape left the mansion and found Constantine, Chas, and armed soldiers waiting outside.
• Alexander Corvinus introduced himself as Marcus's father and explained that he was immortal because of an unexpected disaster.
• Alexander burned a scroll and asked Noah and Professor Snape to spare the werewolves, whom he had warned to flee.

Noah and Snape learned why Alexander Corvinus had burned the contract and accepted blood from him for themselves and Selena. Noah’s system identified it as the Blood of the Undying and explained that fusing blood from a higher life-form could enhance his body, prompting Noah to think of a powerful visitor arriving next year.

• Alexander Corvinus explained that Memory Charms faded from his mind and said he had planned to burn the contract because he was tired of living.
• After soldiers reported what they had found, Alexander Corvinus ordered them to disarm, but Noah and Snape said the Ministry of Magic would handle their memories.
• Alexander Corvinus gave blood to Noah and Selena, saying it could protect Selena from sunlight and asking them to keep his blood secret.
• Noah’s system identified the blood as the Blood of the Undying and explained that it could be fused into his bloodline to grant abilities.
• The system told Noah that blood from a physically superior life-form could help him retain his body at higher levels, and Noah recalled that a powerful visitor would arrive next year.

After returning from Hungary, Noah spent his last days of holiday with Ms. Heifen and prepared to return to Hogwarts. Just after dinner, Snape arrived at the orphanage and asked Noah to take him to the United States that night.

• The Hungarian Ministry paid Noah and Constantine fifteen thousand Galleons, and Noah gave most of his share to Ms. Heifen.
• Noah reflected that he intended to change the future and make sure Voldemort died, rather than let events follow the old plot.
• Noah booked a farewell dinner with Ms. Heifen before his return to Hogwarts the next day.
• Snape arrived at the orphanage, met Harry and Ms. Heifen, and questioned how she had learned magic.
• Snape asked Noah to take him to the United States that night after seeing a message in Hogsmeade.

Noah and Professor Snape oversaw the birth of Snape’s daughter in Ricard’s laboratory, then spent the night dealing with the newborn’s care. After returning to Hogwarts exhausted, Noah resumed studying Elemental Magic in the System Space.

• Noah and Professor Snape went with Ricard to the basement, where Hank Pym monitored the machine preparing the child’s birth.
• Ricard operated the bionic machine, and Professor Snape held his newborn daughter as Noah admired her green eyes.
• Snape, Ricard, Pym, and Noah took the hungry baby to a hospital and stayed awake with her through the night.
• Noah returned to Hogwarts and slept while Snape remained at the hospital with his daughter.
• Noah entered the System Space Library and began studying an intermediate Elemental Magic volume.

Noah learned that Barty Crouch Jr. planned to abduct Harry, with Lucius Malfoy providing intelligence to Dumbledore. Snape then revealed that Dumbledore intended to return to public life and run for Minister of Magic, leaving Noah convinced he would easily win.

• Noah finished studying in the System Library and checked that he had reached Tier 4, Level 1.
• Angelina settled into the Mage Alliance, while Snape returned to Hogwarts with a baby girl named Lily Snape, angering Harry.
• Snape pulled Noah from History of Magic and told him Barty Crouch Jr. planned to take Harry, based on information from Lucius Malfoy.
• Noah and Snape discussed the pure-bloods’ influence and Dumbledore’s plans to improve the magical world.
• Snape revealed that Dumbledore intended to run for Minister of Magic and train a successor before retiring.

Noah and the Hogwarts staff planned to stop Barty Crouch Jr. from resurrecting Voldemort, with Noah tasked to give Harry the Portkey. After discussing Snape’s future and reflecting on his time at Hogwarts, Noah wondered why he had not named his organization Ark.

• Lucius Malfoy’s information led Dumbledore and the others to suspect that Winky was preparing Voldemort’s resurrection and intended to lure Harry to the graveyard.
• Dumbledore’s group planned to have Sirius Black scout the graveyard, then use Noah to give Harry the Portkey and track him if he was transported elsewhere.
• Snape told Noah that he preferred to keep working at Hogwarts rather than become headmaster, and refused Noah’s suggestion that Lily become his disciple.
• Noah visited the empty Room of Requirement and reflected on his growth, his plans for Kamar-Taj, and the Mage Alliance.
• Noah regretted not naming his organization Ark.

Noah told Harry that Voldemort was likely to return and explained Dumbledore’s plans, then hinted that Snape was secretly working against Voldemort. Harry remained unsure whether to believe him, and Noah sent him to obtain a tear for use in a Pensieve.

• Noah watched Ron spar with Harry and saw that Ron had recovered after realizing how suspicious his former rat had been.
• Noah took Harry to his room and told him that Voldemort was likely to return, prompting Harry to infer that Dumbledore wanted to expose the Death Eaters.
• Noah explained that Dumbledore might leave Hogwarts to become Minister of Magic and that McGonagall or Snape could replace him as headmaster.
• Noah described a spy who had joined Voldemort’s enemy after the person he loved was killed, hinting that Snape was avenging Lily while maintaining his cover.
• Harry questioned whether Noah’s account was true, and Noah told him to use the teleportation device only without adding magic.
• Noah told Harry to obtain someone’s tear and use a Pensieve, while Harry worried that Snape would not fall for it.

As final exams approached, Sirius Black confirmed that Barty Crouch Jr. was preparing Voldemort’s resurrection, and Dumbledore gathered his allies to plan their response. Harry agreed to help with the ritual, while Noah prepared to locate and protect him; Dumbledore resolved to eliminate Voldemort and the Death Eaters who answered his call.

• Noah watched Harry behave meekly in Potions after Snape reprimanded him for meddling in Snape’s memories.
• Sirius returned after finding evidence that Barty Crouch Jr. was near Voldemort’s father’s grave and had used dark magic to hasten Voldemort’s rebirth.
• Dumbledore held a meeting with Harry and Lucius Malfoy, who reported that Barty was urging him to speed up their plans.
• Noah explained that his magic could bypass the area’s Apparition barrier and that Harry’s enchanted pendant would help him locate Harry.
• Harry agreed to take part in the Resurrection Spell, and Sirius took him aside to give him instructions.
• Dumbledore told Noah he intended to kill Voldemort and deal with the Death Eaters who appeared, then wished Noah well as he prepared to leave Hogwarts.

Harry was transported without his wand to a graveyard, where Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr. used him in a resurrection ritual. Voldemort returned to life, and Harry was left staring at how ugly he was.

• Noah and Snape transported Harry from his dormitory to a graveyard while he was still in pajamas and without his wand.
• Harry wandered through the graveyard until Nagini and Voldemort revealed themselves, with Barty Crouch Jr. at Voldemort’s side.
• Barty Crouch Jr. bound Harry to a statue and began the resurrection ritual, using Thomas Riddle’s bone and his own hand.
• Barty Crouch Jr. cut Harry and poured his blood into the cauldron as Voldemort’s body formed within the flames and black mist.
• Voldemort emerged in a black robe, and Harry recognized him while thinking that he was extremely ugly.

Voldemort returned to life, restored Winky’s hand, and summoned the Death Eaters while Harry awaited rescue. Dumbledore and Noah entered the graveyard through a magical portal, where the gathered Death Eaters recognized Dumbledore and believed Noah was Kamar-Taj’s successor.

• Voldemort took his wand and regrew Winky’s sacrificed hand before activating the Death Eater mark.
• Lucius Malfoy sensed Voldemort’s return, left Dumbledore’s office, and went to join him.
• Dumbledore instructed William Weasley to spread news of Voldemort’s return and prepared to go with Noah.
• Noah opened a magical portal to the graveyard, and Dumbledore stepped through before Noah followed.
• The Death Eaters saw Dumbledore and Noah emerge and concluded that Noah was Kamar-Taj’s successor.