Chapter Summaries

Amosta warned Amelia that their connection could endanger her family amid Voldemort’s return, then invited her and Sirius to eat. After the meal left all three unconscious, the disguised waiter returned and recognized Sirius before aiming his wand at Amosta.

• Amosta told Amelia he held no grudge against her parents and warned that Voldemort’s return made their relationship dangerous for her family.
• Sirius transformed into a dog when a waiter entered, then ate with Amosta and Amelia after the waiter served their meal and wine.
• Amosta deduced that someone inside the Ministry of Magic Congress had taken his wand and killed with Fiendfyre.
• Amelia and Sirius became dizzy and collapsed, while Amosta also slumped unconscious over the table.
• An hour and a half later, the waiter returned, recognized Sirius as an Animagus, and pointed his wand at Amosta.

Amosta let a vampire steal a counterfeit fang so he could track the people behind the theft and recover his wand. He sent Sirius and Amelia after the culprit while he stayed behind, waiting for the Ministry of Magic Congress to apologize.

• A vampire disguised as a Muggle waiter used magic to take Amosta’s fang, but Amosta secretly replaced it with the vampire’s own fang and watched him escape.
• Amosta revived Amelia and Sirius with purple smoke and explained that the waiter had drugged them with Hell’s Boiling Potion.
• Amosta revealed that the fang on the table was counterfeit and that he had placed a tracking charm on the fang the vampire stole.
• Sirius and Amelia accepted Amosta’s request to follow the tracking charm and find the mastermind, who likely had Amosta’s wand.
• Amosta declined to join them because the Aurors were watching him and said he would wait for the Ministry of Magic Congress to apologize.

Amelia and Sirius tracked the Vampire who had poisoned them to MACUSA headquarters, where they discovered he had entered disguised as Graves. The chapter left them in the lobby as Sirius indicated that the Vampire had gone downstairs.

• Amelia and Sirius left Amosta’s room, and Sirius revealed that he had escaped Azkaban by using Animagus to evade the Dementors.
• Sirius followed the fang’s direction on a broomstick with Amelia and traced the Vampire to the Woolworth Building, MACUSA’s headquarters.
• Amelia and Sirius entered the building and learned from Dylan that Graves had gone inside shortly before them.
• Amelia suspected the Vampire had disguised himself as Graves and bypassed MACUSA’s security measures.
• Sirius pointed downstairs, showing Amelia where the Vampire had gone.

Amelia and Sirius entered MACUSA’s underground detention levels to pursue the vampire impersonating Graves. They found the prison strangely deserted, and after Sirius led them through the Honesty Waterfall, a blast tore through a distant wall and sent a torrent of water toward them.

• Amelia explained that the underground chambers could only be reached by hidden Portkeys or the fireplace in Graves’s office, and she and Sirius took the Floo route.
• Amelia suspected the vampire had kidnapped Graves and realized why it had gone underground, then hurried into Graves’s office and traveled with Sirius to the Detention Chamber.
• Amelia and Sirius found the underground corridors empty, while powerful interference magic defeated their attempts to determine a direction.
• Sirius caught a scent and rushed down a corridor with Amelia following; they passed through the Honesty Waterfall, which restored Sirius to human form and washed away disguise magic.
• Amelia noticed the open gate beyond the waterfall and suspected the area should have been guarded, while Sirius smelled blood; an explosion then ripped through a distant metal wall and unleashed a torrent of water.

Amelia and Sirius escaped the flooding water prison as Morgans fled through the Ministry’s fireplaces and destroyed their exit. Fawkes transported them to Graves's office, where Selena Hilde and a group of Aurors confronted them.

• Amelia told Sirius that the flood was highly poisonous Potions released from the execution chamber, and they fled as it pursued them.
• Morgans, riding a Venomous Tentacula, caught up with Amelia and Sirius and revealed that he intended to carry out his plan.
• Morgans reached the fireplace corridor first, escaped through its last intact fireplace, and destroyed it behind him.
• Sirius summoned Fawkes, who carried him and Amelia past the Anti-Apparition Charm to Graves's office on the ninety-eighth floor.
• Sirius and Amelia arrived too late to catch the person who had just left Graves's office, and Selena Hilde entered with a group of Aurors.

Selena confronted Amelia and Sirius over his illegal entry, but Amelia warned that a disguised Vampire had infiltrated the Department of Security and massacred the underground detention cells. After Kebel confirmed the deaths, the Aurors mobilized, and Sirius urged Selena to send a small team with him and Amelia to investigate before committing more forces.

• Selena entered Mr. Graves's office and prepared to arrest Sirius for entering New York illegally, while Amelia tried to protect him.
• Amelia explained that a Vampire had used Mr. Graves's face, escaped through the Floo Network, and attacked the underground detention cells.
• Selena sent Kebel to verify Amelia's claims, and he returned injured, confirming that many people underground had died.
• Selena dispatched Aurors to seek support, trace the Vampire's route, and begin rescue and lockdown efforts.
• Sirius told Selena to keep most Aurors on standby and send a small team with him and Amelia to investigate first.

Selena, Sirius, and the Aurors traced the Vampire who had impersonated Grevis to Grevis’s Manhattan safe house, where they found signs that the Venomous Tentacula had been taken through. A private, fixed-location fireplace offered a way to pursue the Vampire and Grevis, but also revealed a serious breach of magical law by Grevis.

• Selena explained that Morgans had likely subdued Grevis and impersonated him to steal Breen’s fang, while Sirius said Amosta had tracked the Vampire back to the Congress Building.
• Alex reported that the Vampire had traveled by fireplace to a Muggle villa on Manhattan Island, and Selena agreed to investigate with Sirius, Amelia, and Eriel.
• Sirius and the others followed animal tracks through Grevis’s safe house to a study, where Selena found a letter from Scamander addressed to Grevis.
• Eriel discovered that the study fireplace connected only to fixed locations, allowing the group to follow the Vampire but revealing Grevis’s serious violation of regulations.

Sirius, Amelia, Selena, and Eriel traveled through the fireplace to the abandoned hall, where they discovered Grevis among the Vampires as the blood pool began reviving an ancient power. The chapter ended with Selena confronting Grevis while he aimed his wand at the fang above the pool.

• Sirius persuaded Selena, Eriel, and Amelia to travel through the fireplace in sequence rather than summon more Aurors.
• The blood pool drained the Venomous Tentacula, then absorbed its blood-formed remains and surged with renewed power.
• Morgans claimed that injecting the fang's power would bring the Vatican back, and the wizard at the pool began the ritual.
• Sirius and the others arrived in the hall and found Grevis standing among the Vampires, pointing his wand at the floating fang.

Selena, Eriel, Amelia, and Sirius confronted Thrak Grevis, who admitted to conspiring with the vampires and killing Chago Piorio to obtain Amosta Breen’s fang. Grevis revealed that his crimes were driven not by a desire for power but by his impending death.

• Selena recognized Grevis’s betrayal as hundreds of vampires surrounded the group.
• Grevis explained that he had obstructed the Learning Machine’s arrival to keep Amosta Breen away from New York.
• Grevis admitted killing Chago Piorio and framing Breen so he could search for and seize the fang.
• Grevis described his grandfather’s humiliation by Grindelwald and insisted he was an ordinary wizard, not someone seeking greater power.
• Grevis exposed his cursed, withered body and told them he was about to die.

Grevis explained how his family’s expectations and his ambition led him to become an Auror and head of the Department of Security, before a Dark Magic curse threatened his life. He revealed that he had partnered with vampires to revive their ancestor in exchange for lifting the curse, leaving the crowd to hear the full extent of his betrayal.

• Grevis described his upbringing as the Graves family’s heir and his successful rise through MACUSA’s Department of Security.
• Grevis recounted how he led the operation that wiped out a group of vampires attacking Muggles, an achievement that led to his appointment as head of the Department of Security.
• Grevis said he learned while recovering at St. Josiah's Hospital that a Dark Magic curse would kill him within months.
• Grevis admitted that he sought out the surviving vampires and agreed to fund and protect their plan to revive their ancestor in exchange for lifting his curse.
• Grevis explained that he relied on forbidden Potions to prolong his life while the vampires pursued their resurrection plan.

Sirius confronted Thrak Grevis and Morgans over the vampires’ crimes and resurrection plan, but Grevis ordered an attack before the dispute could continue. Fawkes brought dozens of Aurors into the sealed hall, and the battle began as Selena and Eriel led teams toward Grevis.

• Sirius challenged Grevis over trusting the vampires and warned that resurrecting their ancestor could endanger the American wizarding world.
• Morgans defended the vampires’ use of human blood, while Amelia accused them of binding human souls into the blood mass.
• Grevis dismissed his former subordinates’ silence, then ordered the vampires to kill Sirius, Amelia, Selena, and Eriel.
• Sirius raised walls to shield the group, called Fawkes, and Fawkes brought dozens of Aurors into the hall.
• The Aurors formed three shielded teams and advanced toward Grevis as Fawkes watched him resume casting spells over the blood pool.

The Aurors struggled to contain the Vampires as the blood pool neared completion, and Fawkes’s song stopped them from succumbing to its influence. Graves killed Morgans and transferred a mass of pearly white light into the Vampire’s ancestral shell, while Amosta realized what Graves had done and rose from his seat.

• Sirius urged Amelia to use more than the Disarming Charm, but she struggled to take the Vampires’ lives as the battle raged.
• The collapsing hall crushed many Vampires, and the blood drawn into the pool intensified its evil influence over both sides.
• Fawkes sang to dispel the Aurors’ murderous frenzy, and Sirius called for reinforcements as their magic ran low.
• The blood pool dried, and the resurrected Vampire’s appearance prompted the remaining Vampires to kneel in worship.
• Graves killed Morgans with the Killing Curse, then performed a painful ritual that sent pearly white light into the Vampire’s ancestral shell.
• Amosta opened his eyes at the World Trade Center hotel, murmured “Horcrux,” and stood up.

Thrak Grevis resurrected the Vampire progenitor, and the creature’s blood magic subdued everyone in the hall. Grevis’s curse was lifted, revealing that he had planned the resurrection for his own ends, and he began to explain the truth to the bewildered Aurors and Vampires.

• Thrak Grevis’s spell sent a crimson wave from the blood pool, forcing the Vampires and Aurors, including Sirius, to their knees under the Blood Monarch’s control.
• The Vampire progenitor rose from the pool and opened its red eyes, while Sirius realized their group needed Amosta’s help but could not call for him.
• Grevis laughed as his ruined body returned to youthful health, astonishing Sirius, Amelia, Eriel, and Selena.
• Grevis mocked the resurrected progenitor and told the Vampires and Aurors that the truth behind his actions was more interesting than they expected.

Graves explained that he sought a way to control the vampire progenitor and gain immortality, using an ancient Dark Magic book he found in Knockturn Alley. Amosta arrived after Fawkes helped break the Anti-Apparition Charm and revealed that Graves had used the progenitor as a vessel for his soul, confirming a possibility Amosta had long suspected.

• Sirius questioned Graves about his transformation, and Graves explained that he had sought a way to ensure the resurrected vampire progenitor could not enslave him.
• Graves recounted searching for answers in Britain, visiting St. Mungo's and then Knockturn Alley, where he found an ancient book describing a powerful Dark Magic spell.
• An explosion broke the Anti-Apparition Charm, and Amosta arrived, prompting relief among Sirius, Amelia, and the Aurors and fear among the vampires.
• Graves declared that he had attained immortality, but Amosta said Graves had used the vampire progenitor as a vessel for his soul and called the attempt foolish.
• Fawkes landed on Amosta's shoulder and asked what he had figured out about Graves.

Amosta confronted Graves in the ruined hall while Dumbledore, speaking through Fawkes, watched. Graves cast the Killing Curse with Amosta’s wand, but its power turned against him, leaving only golden flames where he had stood.

• Fawkes revealed that Dumbledore was present, and Amosta refused to explain the soul magic he had mentioned.
• Graves recognized Dumbledore and mocked Breen for bringing him to New York in a bird’s form.
• Amosta warned that Graves had lost too much of his reason to repent, while Graves threatened to make him kneel.
• Amelia offered Amosta her wand, but he declined and invited Graves to attack him.
• Graves cast Avada Kedavra with Amosta’s wand, but a surge of power overwhelmed him and he vanished in golden lightning and flames.

Amosta recovered his wand after Graves was seemingly destroyed, but Dumbledore warned that Graves was not finished. The Progenitor Puppet then transformed into a vast sea of blood that consumed the vampires, overwhelmed the ruined outpost, and swallowed Graves's escaping phantom.

• Amosta summoned his wand back to his hand, while Sirius and the others questioned whether Graves had truly died.
• Dumbledore warned Sirius that Graves was not finished, and a hateful phantom emerged from Graves's ashes.
• The Progenitor Puppet turned into red light, rose above the mountains, and descended as a massive sea of blood.
• The sea of blood dragged the surviving vampires inside, while Amosta shielded the Congress Aurors from its attacking faces.
• The blood sea swallowed the collapsing hall and pulled Graves's phantom into it, making him vanish into smoke.

Amosta and Dumbledore confronted the Vampire progenitor, whose blood-born body transformed into a monster made of countless souls. After Fawkes wounded it, the monster seized Amosta and Fawkes, leaving their allies unable to move.

• Amosta told Sirius and the Aurors that the Vampire progenitor looked formidable but was not especially powerful, though it might be difficult to kill.
• The Vampire progenitor reformed from the contracting sea of blood and ordered Amosta and Dumbledore to submit in exchange for eternal life.
• Fawkes and Amosta attacked the progenitor, and their clash engulfed the onlookers in a colorless world where they could not move.
• Fawkes struck the progenitor's chest and fell into Amosta's hand as a fledgling, while the progenitor transformed into a monster made of countless lingering souls.
• The soul monster swept a giant hand down and seized Amosta and Fawkes as Sirius and Amelia watched helplessly.

Amosta survived the vampire progenitor’s attack by transforming into his Tengshe Patronus and destroying the monster’s souls with a powerful domain. The unstable magic dissipated, the progenitor vanished, and an exhausted Amosta realized he had forgotten to ask its name.

• The vampire progenitor seized Amosta, leaving Selena, Amelia, and the others convinced he had been killed.
• Sirius realized the force restraining everyone had not vanished with Dumbledore’s power, and a white light began shining from the monster’s grasp.
• Amosta’s Tengshe Patronus appeared inside the monster’s palm and melted away the soul-heads forming its hand.
• The Tengshe created a domain of golden points that burned through the progenitor’s souls and exposed its dark core.
• The magic nodes burst apart, the Tengshe changed back into an unharmed but exhausted Amosta, and the vampire progenitor disappeared.
• Amosta watched the light fade and remarked that he had forgotten to ask the monster’s name.

Amosta and Dumbledore destroyed the Vampire progenitor, ending the battle and leaving MACUSA to handle Graves’s death and the political fallout. After resting at his hotel, Amosta prepared to meet whoever had come to his door, wondering how to shake them down.

• Amosta explained that the Vampire progenitor’s soul had been destroyed and that its body had dissolved into the blood covering the hillside.
• Amosta told Eriel to seal off the site, contain the news, and summon Samuel to manage the aftermath of Graves’s death.
• Sirius left to visit Remus, while Amosta returned to the hotel because MACUSA had not yet cleared him of surveillance.
• Amosta promised Amelia that he would visit her parents after meeting with Samuel.
• After sleeping through the day, Amosta heard someone arrive at his hotel room and opened the door, thinking about how to shake them down.

Amosta and Remus completed a month of negotiations to launch Learning Machine sales in the United States while MACUSA concealed Graves’s crimes and praised Amosta’s role in resolving the Vampire crisis. Amosta left for Britain with much of the profits secretly earmarked for a Gringotts vault in Paris, expecting to see the American Aurors again at Hogwarts.

• MACUSA portrayed Thrak Grevis as a hero killed while pursuing Vampires, while Amosta explained to Amelia that Samuel Kouhaug would deal with the Graves family privately.
• Samuel publicly thanked Amosta and announced plans to send elite American Aurors to Hogwarts for a security exchange, which Amosta accepted.
• Amosta and Remus finalized Learning Machine sales in the United States, and Amosta ordered most of their gold hidden in a Paris Gringotts vault.
• Amosta and Remus departed for Britain after Selena and Eriel brought Aurors to see them off; Amelia declined to attend the farewell.