Chapter Summaries

Jon and Grindelwald discussed what Prophet Animagi can perceive and why they may be born when the magical world faces a crisis. Grindelwald explained that the growing power of the Muggle world had already broken the balance, and Jon rejected Grindelwald’s failed attempt to stop that change.

• Jon said that Prophet Animagi saw the direction of the future rather than specific events, and Grindelwald agreed that their visions might be the magical world’s response to a crisis.
• Grindelwald said his earlier campaign had aimed to change the world’s course, and Jon connected the crisis to the conflict between Muggles and wizards.
• Grindelwald described how the rise of the Church, the establishment of magical schools, and the Statute of Secrecy had shaped the balance between the two worlds.
• Grindelwald revealed that Pierre Bonaccord had also been a Prophet Animagus and had pushed through the Statute of Secrecy despite opposition.
• Grindelwald said he had tried to unite wizards and disrupt Muggle development, but Jon told him the balance had already been broken.

Jon explained to Grindelwald why the Wizarding world could not win an all-out war against the Muggles and revealed how Grindelwald’s plan to keep the worlds balanced had risked triggering catastrophic destruction. He then argued that Muggle progress need not threaten wizards because wizards could integrate into Muggle society, and Grindelwald asked how.

• Grindelwald explained that a war with the Muggles would begin with a Wizarding civil war and end in defeat because Muggles vastly outnumbered wizards and would adapt once the Wizarding world lost its secrecy.
• Grindelwald described his plan to provoke recurring wars within the Muggle world and support a puppet, keeping Muggle civilization weakened and the two worlds in balance.
• Grindelwald admitted that he had lost Albus Dumbledore’s support after accidentally killing Dumbledore’s sister in Godric’s Hollow.
• Jon showed Grindelwald a memory of a mushroom cloud and explained that Grindelwald’s pressure had accelerated Muggle weapons research, leading to the destruction of two American cities.
• Jon said Muggle advancement would not necessarily threaten wizards because wizards could integrate into Muggle society, and Grindelwald asked how.

Jon told Grindelwald that wizards should learn from Muggle science, then asked how to separate a girl’s soul from the soul of her Blood Curse and turn it into a Horcrux. Grindelwald said the souls had fused too deeply for magic to separate them, but hinted that there might still be hope.

• Jon argued that the Wizarding world should learn from Muggles and their scientific advances.
• Grindelwald said he believed his death was near and refused to leave Nurmengard, citing his crimes and the trouble his escape would cause.
• Jon asked Grindelwald how to split a soul and revealed that he wanted to separate a girl’s soul from the soul of the Blood Curse and make it a Horcrux.
• Grindelwald said the souls had been fused for fifteen years and that no magic could separate them without harm.
• Grindelwald said the plan might have worked if attempted at the girl’s birth, then hinted that there was still some hope.

Gellert Grindelwald explained to Jon Hart how magic, souls, and Horcruxes worked, then warned him that using a dead wizard’s soul against the soul of the Blood Curse was unlikely to help. Jon left with only a slim hope of delaying the curse and said he was going to Albania.

• Grindelwald explained that magic could not directly affect the soul and that the Killing Curse caused death rather than destroying souls.
• Grindelwald explained how Horcruxes preserved a soul fragment and how magic could act as a medium for one soul to harm another.
• Grindelwald warned Jon that a dead wizard’s deteriorating soul might fail to harm the Blood Curse or make it flare sooner.
• Jon thanked Grindelwald, who asked to be buried in Braunau, Austria if he died.
• Jon told Grindelwald he was going to Albania, and Grindelwald wished him luck in the cursed land.

A black-clad girl fleeing toward Ghileu was attacked and bitten by Fenrir Greyback, who then reunited with Yorman and gathered a group of green-eyed people from across Europe. The chapter ended with Remus Lupin introducing himself to Greyback without showing fear.

• A black-clad girl hurried across a bridge toward Ghileu while wolves howled behind her.
• Fenrir Greyback attacked the girl, tore away her mask, bound her, and bit her throat.
• Fenrir Greyback carried the wounded girl back across the bridge and met Yorman and the green-eyed group.
• Fenrir Greyback greeted the group and heard the members introduce themselves as people from across Europe.
• Remus Lupin introduced himself as being from Wales and met Fenrir Greyback's gaze fearlessly.

Remus Lupin joined Fenrir Greyback’s werewolf group after recounting his history with Greyback and the rejection he faced from wizards. Greyback then revealed that he had gathered the werewolves in Romania to recruit allies for the Dark Lord.

• Greyback recounted how Lyall Lupin had nearly exposed him, then admitted he had bitten Lyall’s young son in revenge.
• Lupin told the werewolves that he had been bitten as a child, rejected by his father, and later driven from Hogwarts by Dumbledore.
• Greyback demanded that Lupin prove himself by killing a captured Muggle girl, and Lupin used a silent Killing Curse on her.
• Greyback accepted Lupin into the group after seeing his magical skill.
• Lupin asked why Greyback had gathered the werewolves in Romania, and Greyback said he intended to recruit allies for the Dark Lord.

Jon Hart read about a Romanian girl killed by what he suspected was a wizard’s Killing Curse, then studied a guide to Albania while eating breakfast in Shkodër. A refined wizard approached him, and Jon introduced himself under the name Kristoff Patrick.

• Jon Hart read a newspaper report about Gina Pistol, whose throat had been bitten and whose death had been diagnosed as an acute heart attack.
• Jon suspected Gina had been murdered by a wizard using the Killing Curse and wondered whether a werewolf was involved.
• Jon read Aleen Shafiq’s guide to Albania and learned the story of national hero George Skanderbeg.
• William Smith approached Jon, identified himself as an English wizard, and introduced himself.
• Jon shook William Smith’s hand and gave his name as Kristoff Patrick, from Austria.

Jon met William Smith at an inn and agreed to travel with him to Kruja City, where Jon hoped to find something important for making a Horcrux. As William returned to pack, a strange man also announced that he was heading to Kruja, leaving Jon with an unexpected second traveling companion.

• Jon introduced himself to William Smith, who claimed to be an English Hogwarts graduate from Slytherin and praised Professor Snape.
• Jon told William he was going to Kruja City, and William proposed that they travel there together.
• Jon reread an account of Skanderbeg’s history in Kruja and wondered whether it was connected to wizarding history.
• A disheveled stranger approached Jon and said he was also going to Kruja.
• William returned and asked what was happening, and Jon told him they would have another traveling companion.

Jon recruited the strange traveler Xander to accompany him and William Smith toward Kruja, then led the group through a difficult journey across Albania. At an inn near their destination, Jon served wine and revealed that he suspected one of them was a werewolf.

• Jon introduced himself to Xander and William Smith, then invited Xander to travel with them to Kruja.
• Jon, Smith, and Xander traveled south by Muggle transportation, with Xander frightening off hostile locals along the way.
• The group reached a town near Kruja at dusk and stopped at an inn to eat and rest before continuing at night.
• Jon used a Confundus Charm to obtain a better barrel of wine and served it to Smith and Xander.
• After watching them drink, Jon announced that there was a werewolf among them and challenged the werewolf to confess.

Jon exposed William Smith as a Werewolf named Jean Cruise, who planned to bite him under the full moon as part of Fenrir Greyback’s effort to turn more wizards into Werewolves. After Jean revealed that the Dark Lord had sent him to Kruja, Jon stopped him and used Legilimency, leaving the reason for the mission unresolved as night fell.

• Jon used Veritaserum and a paralysis potion to force William Smith to reveal that he was a Werewolf.
• Jon explained how he had recognized William’s false identity and deduced his plan to attack during the full moon.
• Jean admitted that he had planned to bite Jon and identified himself as part of Fenrir Greyback’s effort to raise Werewolves’ status by turning wizards.
• Jean revealed that he served the Dark Lord and had been ordered to go to Kruja, but Jon stopped him before he could explain further.
• Jon used Legilimency on Jean as Xander watched, while the moon emerged from behind the clouds.

Jon uncovered Jean Cruise’s role as a werewolf follower of Fenrir Greyback and killed him when he transformed. After learning that Xander Skanderbeg was sent to watch him, Jon asked to visit Kruja City, and Xander offered to carry him there as a Giant Eagle.

• Jon used Legilimency to learn that Jean Cruise, alias William Smith, was a follower of Fenrir Greyback and had come to Albania on Voldemort’s orders.
• As the full moon emerged, Jean began transforming into a werewolf, and Jon shot him seven times with silver bullets.
• Jon burned Jean’s body to ashes with a small box of flames and told Xander he had silenced the room to protect the Statute of Secrecy.
• Xander revealed that he was Xander Skanderbeg, an ancestor of George Skanderbeg, and had been sent to watch the two wizards who had entered Albania.
• Xander agreed to take Jon to Kruja City, transformed into a Giant Eagle, and called for Jon to climb onto his back.

Jon flew with Xander to Kruja, where he discovered that the Skanderbeg family had a unique tradition of transforming into Giant Eagles and practicing magic without wands. Their history led him to wonder whether Albanian magic came from a different tradition than Norse magic.

• Jon recalled killing the Werewolf Jean and regretted losing the chance to use his soul for Astoria's Horcrux, while considering Fenrir Greyback as a stronger alternative.
• Xander brought Jon to Eagle's Nest Mountain, where two Giant Eagles escorted them and then flew back to their nests.
• Xander welcomed Jon to Kruja and explained that every descendant of Skanderbeg could transform into a Giant Eagle.
• Xander told Jon that the Skanderbeg descendants did not use wands and invited him to meet the elders.
• Jon considered the family's history and wondered whether Albanian magic had a different origin from the Norse magic system.

Jon entered Kruja with Xander and learned that the isolated community preserved ancient magic, including Wandless Casting. After receiving a welcome feast, Jon was summoned to meet Kruja’s elders in the Bat Hall.

• Jon followed Xander into Kruja’s mountain home, where Giant Eagles lived alongside the wizards.
• Xander led Jon through the cave to the dining hall, where Kruja’s witches welcomed him with a feast.
• Jon watched a witch use precise Wandless Casting to pour wine, but she accidentally splashed herself and embarrassedly served him the cup.
• Xander told Jon that the elders would receive him in the Bat Hall, then led him there.

Jon sought a branch from Kruja’s Kalaba Soul Tree to help create a Horcrux, but Elder Phineas agreed to trade one only if Jon brought back the teeth of Transylvanian vampires. The chapter ended with Jon discovering that Albus Gaunt had fulfilled the same bargain fifty years earlier by killing Count Dracula.

• Elder Phineas welcomed Jon after he confirmed that Jon had slain a werewolf threatening Kruja.
• Jon asked for a branch of the Kalaba Soul Tree, but Phineas refused because it was Kruja’s sacred relic.
• Jon reminded Phineas that another foreign wizard had received a branch fifty years earlier, and offered to help Kruja in exchange.
• Phineas asked Jon to kill the vampires attacking Kruja and bring back their teeth, and Jon agreed to travel to Transylvania with Xander.
• Phineas showed Jon a room filled with vampire teeth, including Count Dracula’s fangs, and Jon saw the name Albus Gaunt beside them.

Jon traveled from Kruja to the Transylvanian town of Ghileu to investigate the death of Gina Pistol and the werewolf attacks. Using a small stone, he summoned Gina as a Wraith and began questioning her, but Xander sensed someone hiding nearby.

• Jon left Kruja with Xander, receiving a scarf from an Albanian girl before the Giant Eagles saw them off.
• Jon told Xander to fly to Ghileu so he could investigate the murdered girl and the Death Eater werewolves.
• Jon and Xander reached Ghileu before nightfall, found Gina Pistol's grave, and went to the cemetery.
• Jon turned a small stone three times and summoned Gina as a Wraith, asking her to tell him what had happened.
• After Jon's magic ended, Xander shouted at someone hiding in the bushes.

Jon and Xander met Ghileu’s mayor, Joseph Pistol, at his daughter Gina’s grave and told him that a Werewolf had killed her. Jon left Joseph seeking information about vampires in Transylvania while concealing who had cast the fatal spell.

• Joseph Pistol emerged from the bushes and identified himself as Gina’s father, asking Jon and Xander to reveal the truth about her death.
• Jon and Xander accompanied Joseph to a quiet tavern, where Jon agreed to explain what he knew.
• Jon told Joseph that a Werewolf named Fenrir Greyback had attacked Gina and that a spell had killed her, hiding that Remus Lupin had cast it.
• Joseph accepted Jon’s account and asked whether he could help; Jon questioned him about local vampire rumors.
• Joseph said no vampire attacks had been reported in fifty years, and Jon recalled that Tom Riddle had slaughtered Transylvania’s vampires fifty years earlier.

Fenrir Greyback led Remus Lupin and a pack of werewolves to Dracula’s Castle, expecting to find vampires, but discovered it crowded with Muggle tourists. After waiting through the night, they encountered a frightened vampire, and Greyback ordered him to lead them to the vampires’ nest.

• Fenrir Greyback complained that Jean had not caught up with the group as they traveled toward Dracula’s Castle.
• Remus Lupin questioned whether Greyback had chosen the right destination when he saw the castle crowded with Muggles and no vampires.
• Greyback and the werewolves waited for nightfall, but the Muggle tourists remained at the castle and treated Greyback’s howl as entertainment.
• Lupin noticed someone approaching through the forest, and Greyback identified the frail, pale figure as a vampire.
• Greyback showed the vampire his right arm and ordered him to take the werewolves to his nest.

Fenrir Greyback led a group of werewolves to a hidden vampire lair beneath an abandoned sewer and told Countess Iliana that Lord Gaunt could forgive the vampires and free them if they pledged loyalty to the Dark Lord. The chapter ended as Greyback presented a scroll bearing their mission.

• Fenrir Greyback showed the werewolves his Dark Mark and claimed the Dark Lord knew about the vampires.
• A vampire guide led the werewolves away from Dracula's Castle to a filthy dumping ground and revealed a hidden entrance beneath a broken bridge.
• The guide took the werewolves through a sewer inhabited by at least a hundred vampires to meet Countess Iliana.
• Countess Iliana said Lord Gaunt had killed her father and adult relatives fifty years earlier and left the survivors cursed.
• Fenrir Greyback offered the vampires forgiveness and freedom in exchange for loyalty, then revealed that Lord Gaunt had also given them a mission.

Jon and Xander toured Brown Castle as Jon searched for clues about the Vampires said to have haunted Transylvania. Xander revealed his people’s ancient hatred of Dracula, and the chapter ended when Jon spotted a threatening group approaching them.

• Jon reassured Xander that Mayor Pistol would not betray them and took him to tour Brown Castle.
• Jon listened to the guide explain that local animal populations had inspired legends of monsters such as Vampires and Werewolves.
• At the castle drawbridge, Xander claimed Vlad Tepes had been a Vampire who killed his ancestor George Skanderbeg and the captured Kruja warriors.
• Xander prayed toward the forest that the guide identified as an ancient burial ground for Vlad’s victims.
• Jon noticed a group of vicious-looking tourists striding toward them and reached into his pocket.

Jon spotted Fenrir Greyback leading a group of werewolves into Dracula's Castle and used a Phoenix tattoo and a loud mention of Hermione Granger to signal Remus Lupin. Lupin recognized the signal, and after waiting nearly two hours, Jon made himself and Lupin invisible so they could speak privately.

• Jon saw Fenrir Greyback and suspected the werewolves were connected to the Vampires at Dracula's Castle.
• Jon exposed a Phoenix tattoo while mentioning Hermione Granger, alerting Lupin without drawing the other werewolves' attention.
• Lupin recognized Jon's signal and continued following Greyback into the castle.
• Jon and Xander waited near the drawbridge for nearly two hours until Lupin approached them.
• Jon told Xander to keep watch, then cast Disillusionment on himself and Lupin.