Chapter Summaries

Ted and his companions found the hidden entrance to the Guardians’ secret realm and reached a burial chamber with a transportation spell. Ted tested the spell and jumped into the stone coffin first, leaving the group to follow.

• Phineas revealed to Sirius that he knew where the Guardians had sealed Ancient Magic and how to reach it, and Ted rejected the mission to become a Guardian.
• Ted led his companions to a hidden spot in the Forbidden Forest and detected the entrance beneath an old tree using psychic energy.
• Ted dug a tunnel beneath the tree, and the group broke through into a burial chamber.
• Ted found a transportation spell in an empty stone coffin and tested its destination by sending Little Soft and Parker through it.
• After confirming the destination seemed safe, Ted jumped into the coffin first and told Neville and the others to follow in order.

Ted and the other students discovered the Guardians’ secret base beneath Hogwarts, where four portraits demanded they leave and tried to test them with magical puppets and creatures. Ted’s group fought back with their own magic and summoned allies, leaving the battle still underway.

• Ted used the Marauder’s Map to confirm that the group had arrived beneath Hogwarts, then sent Little Soft to scout the hidden base.
• A glowing map appeared on the floor, and four portraits identified the visitors as unqualified and ordered them to leave.
• Ted told the portraits that they knew about Ancient Magic and Morgana, prompting the portraits to threaten to erase their memories.
• The portraits activated magical puppets, and Ted and the others fought them with spells, weapons, and Ron’s Mecha Magic Bear.
• The portraits summoned magical creatures, but Ted unleashed his pets while Neville deployed a variety of magical plants.

Ted and his companions defeated the four professors’ defenses and persuaded their portraits to let them pursue the Ancient Magic and Morgana’s power. The professors opened a door to the next area, and Ted sent Little Soft through first to check for traps.

• Ted and his companions destroyed the four professors’ defensive measures with their unusual magic.
• Ted argued that modern magic was powerful enough to challenge Ancient Magic and that evil did not depend on its use.
• Ted revealed that the Goblins had reached Morgana’s power and that he knew a secret passage to it.
• Ted explained his ties to Ravenclaw’s legacy and recounted how the group gained the Founders’ inheritances and defeated Tom and the Basilisk.
• The bearded professor agreed to let them proceed, and the floor sank to reveal a door.
• Ted picked up Little Soft and sent it through the door to scout for traps.

Ted and the others uncovered a sealed sphere of concentrated negative emotions beneath Hogwarts, chose not to touch it, and recruited four ancient professors to return to the school. As they headed back, Ministry forces advanced into the corrupted Forbidden Forest to investigate its undead creatures.

• Ted and his companions defeated two powerful Magic Puppets and opened the vault beneath the stone bridge.
• Ted recognized the sphere inside as dangerous, compressed negative emotions that could spawn a powerful monster or explode, and the group left it sealed.
• Ted persuaded the four ancient professors to leave the vault and accompany them, then stored their portraits in a Crystal Ball.
• Ted completed the Ancient Magic mission and received experience points and the Mind Agony spell card.
• Ministry personnel organized a force of about forty wizards and advanced into the Land of Corruption to clear out undead Magical Creatures and investigate its center.

Ted brought four former Guardians to the Secret Base and studied Ancient Magic, using it to improve his spells and develop new magic. Meanwhile, Ron, Jerry, Hermione, Neville, and Harriett each pursued unconventional magical paths, leaving their group with new inventions and experiments underway.

• Professor Fitzgerald accused Ted of tricking the four Guardians, and Ted defended his deception as an exercise of Ravenclaw wisdom.
• Ted learned that Ancient Magic developed a wizard’s inherent magical traits but could dangerously magnify them, and he used its principles to improve his lightning magic, Blizzard, and Safety Helmet Curse.
• Ted perfected the group-carrying Teleport: Dalaran spell, learned about ancient arrays and Magic Puppets, and began building a more powerful Magic Powered Mecha with Ron.
• Jerry worried when Ron became so absorbed in the unfinished mecha that he shared sunflower seeds with it, while Jerry and Hermione committed to developing magical stand-ins.
• Neville created a dangerous new magical plant under Professor Rackham’s guidance, and Harriett developed a direct method of enhancing and projecting Magic Power that Neville also adapted.

Ted completed preparations to hatch his Dragon Egg while Aurors suffered a deadly defeat in the Forbidden Forest. As professors went to assist the Ministry, a strange, dense fog rolled over Hogwarts, and Ted warned his friends to prepare for danger.

• Ted used Professor Luke Wood’s lost knowledge to gather the final material and begin incubating his Dragon Egg in a magic circle at the Secret Base.
• Crypt Lord Aragog and Centaur undead ambushed the Aurors near the Land of Corruption, killing two wizards and injuring several others.
• Professor McGonagall told Ted that Fudge and Dumbledore were discussing the Aurors’ defeat, then said the professors would go to the Forbidden Forest to help.
• A thick fog suddenly covered Hogwarts as Ted returned to the Great Hall, and he warned his friends that something dangerous might be happening.

Ted organized Hogwarts students and staff to prepare for danger as strange fog spread, while Dumbledore’s party confronted the necromancer Lane in the Forbidden Forest. Lane unleashed a vast undead force and darkened the sky over Hogwarts, where an undead Goblin attack began.

• Ted warned the prefects and Student Council presidents about the danger and organized students into watch teams and combat groups.
• Professor Trelawney and Hagrid joined the Great Hall’s preparations, while Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Snape, Moody, and the Aurors fought undead creatures near Lane’s cave.
• Lane emerged from the cave and revealed that he had become a necromancer after absorbing a half-Death Knight’s power and raising creatures and Goblins as undead.
• Lane unleashed Dark Sky, spreading darkness and Death Magic across the Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts, and Hogsmeade as more undead rose.
• Ted lit the Great Hall and gathered the combat teams, while an undead Goblin leader and his forces attacked Hogwarts and ordered them to kill every Little Wizard.

Ryan led an undead army against the assembled wizards, whose forces included Dumbledore, several professors, and dozens of Aurors. As the battle began, the wizards attacked Ryan’s charging undead while thousands of reanimated magical-creature remains closed in around them.

• Ryan introduced his elite undead commanders, including Aragog, Magrui, Haituo, and Prut, and described their abilities.
• Ryan compared his level 18 power and more than two hundred undead with the wizards’ forces, led by level 20 Dumbledore.
• Ryan ordered his undead army to attack the assembled wizards.
• The wizards cast spells at the charging undead while Dumbledore illuminated the battlefield and Ryan watched from across it.
• Thousands of skeletal magical creatures crawled from the earth and surrounded the battlefield.

Ted used enchanted surveillance eyes to detect seven undead Goblins infiltrating Hogwarts and led a group to intercept them. After the Goblins were ambushed and the battle began, Ted spotted a second enemy team approaching from the Whomping Willow, revealing Lane’s feint.

• Ted sent Anzu to plant enchanted eyes around Hogwarts and tracked the seven undead Goblins on a real-time Magic Sand Table.
• Ted, Neville, Harriett, and their companions went to intercept the Goblins while older students guarded the Great Hall.
• Ted’s Ice Ring and Flame Storm ambushed the Goblins, killing one Goblin and destroying their undead mounts.
• Ted’s companions prepared to fight the remaining Goblins, and Ron summoned Magic Powered Mecha Unit 01 and climbed into its cockpit.
• Ted spotted five undead Wizards infiltrating from the Whomping Willow and realized Lane had used the Goblins as bait.

Ted deployed four Magic Puppets to intercept a group of Undead Wizards while his companions fought undead attackers elsewhere at the school. Ted's Safety Barrier Spell held against Goblin Pierce's dark curse, and the battle remained underway.

• Ted activated four Magic Puppets to block five Undead Wizards, while Anzu watched over the Twins, Peggy, and the other students providing support from the tower.
• Goblin Pierce drove a coffin nail through his own heart to curse Ted, but Ted's Safety Barrier Spell absorbed the attack.
• Hermione fought an undead opponent with spells and Frost Magic but hesitated to strike decisively, leaving their fight at a stalemate.
• Harriett chased an Undead Goblin with her wand shaped like a bat while Neville advanced with a sword, golden magic, and fierce magical plants.
• Ron used Magic Powered Mecha Unit 01 to burn his opponent, and Jerry appeared behind his own opponent and destroyed it with a dagger.

Harriett’s unfinished attack accidentally sent an Undead Goblin into Neville’s Elephant-Eating Vine, while Dumbledore turned the Forbidden Forest battle against Lane and sealed off his escape. Although the wizards believed Lane was defeated, his heart had already been carried away toward Europa.

• Harriett’s giant Magic Power hand dissipated before striking, but the Undead Goblin fled into Neville’s Elephant-Eating Vine and was eaten.
• Lane’s undead forces gradually wore down the wizards while Dumbledore watched and prepared his response.
• Dumbledore unleashed a powerful Patronus Phoenix and joined Fawkes in a fiery assault that destroyed many undead creatures.
• Dumbledore countered Lane’s attacks, blocked his escape with a magical array, and helped the wizards win the battle.
• Professor McGonagall received Ted’s letter, rushed back to Hogwarts, and found the school safe.
• Lane’s heart, carried by an undead bird, crossed the strait toward Europa while Dumbledore continued searching for survivors.

After Dumbledore decisively defeated Lane in the Forbidden Forest, the Ministry faced the disappearance of nearly thirty Dementors, while Ted received rewards for protecting the school. In November, Ted began crafting an adamantine component for an Almost Invincible Belt that might even block the Killing Curse.

• Dumbledore used Transfiguration and Fawkes to overwhelm Lane, leaving a vast cleared area and corrupted land in the Forbidden Forest.
• Fudge discovered that nearly thirty Dementors had vanished after the battle, while Ted held the four that had come to the school.
• Ted completed the hidden Protect the School (Red) mission and gained 3,460 experience points and six cards, including Blink (Red).
• Ted used adamantine refined from gold to engrave a core component for the Almost Invincible Belt, a Gnome engineering blueprint he had gained at the start of November.

Ted reviewed the magical items he had made for his friends and struggled to summon a corporeal Patronus by reconnecting with the joy he felt when Hogwarts accepted him. As Gryffindor prepared to face Slytherin in the Quidditch opener, Ted discovered that Snape was studying monstrous specimens in his office.

• Ted described the Bamboo Dragonfly, Gliding Cloak, Rocket Shoes, Magic Surfboard, Spider Silk Bracers, and other items, along with how his friends had used them in battle.
• Ted recounted Hermione's self-invented spells and how she used gravity magic to defeat an Undead Goblin, while the other students admired the group’s growth.
• Ted repeatedly failed to produce more than silvery light with the Patronus Charm, then searched his memories and found pure joy in receiving Hogwarts's admission letter.
• Ron panicked about his Quidditch debut as Gryffindor's Keeper against Malfoy, Slytherin's Chaser, with Snape refereeing.
• Ted peeked into Snape's office and saw a two-headed, four-armed Troll in a glass jar and a Three-Headed Runespoor King specimen.

Ron endured a rough Quidditch debut as Gryffindor lost to Slytherin, while Dumbledore pushed the professors to teach more practical magic and Ted and his friends pursued new research. Ted, Hermione, and the Weasley Twins began developing a magical tabletop game, and Ted found knowledge that could help bring it to life.

• Ron's friends teased him about facing Snape and the Slytherins, but he decided to play in the match.
• Gryffindor lost after the Slytherins fouled freely and Snape ignored them; Ron's old broom went out of control, though he still blocked two goals.
• Dumbledore urged the professors to teach practical combat skills, and Ted, Hermione, Neville, and others received extra instruction or pursued specialized work.
• Anzu brought back a rare Golden Snitch, which Hagrid traded for with flame turkeys and bird feathers.
• Ted researched Dementors and planned a Gastly breeding project while he, Hermione, and the Weasley Twins developed a customizable magical tabletop game.
• Ted discovered a scroll about creating autonomous cursed corpses, which could aid his magical-puppet research and the tabletop game's development.

Ted began adapting Animagus transformation into a ritual for an Azerothian-style druid form, then successfully transformed into a Shadow Raven after communicating with Anzu. He returned to Hogwarts and found that his friends’ first test of their magical tabletop game had failed in several ways.

• Ted assigned the Twins, Hermione, and Klara tasks for the magical tabletop game while Professor McGonagall began giving him Animagus training.
• Ted modified the Animagus ritual to follow his own approach, secured leave from Professor Flitwick, and shared ideas for game pieces with his friends before entering the Forbidden Forest.
• Ted completed the ritual in a cave and transformed into a Shadow Raven while Anzu watched over him.
• Ted flew back to Hogwarts and changed back into human form after a day and a half away.
• Ted found his friends testing the tabletop game, but the game pieces, settings, Magic Power use, and controls all had serious problems.

Ted completed his Patronus Charm and used his alchemy to produce a huge gold nugget, solving his money shortage. Meanwhile, his friends expanded the Magical Tabletop Game into a sprawling project, and Ted joined them to organize its growing designs.

• Ted raised his Transfiguration to level 6 by completing his first Shadow Raven transformation and finished his modified Patronus Charm after three days of work.
• Ted created a complex Alchemy Array and produced 1,264 grams of gold with the Pseudo-Sorcerer's Stone (Red).
• Ted arrived at the Research Classroom and found that Hermione, Harriett, Neville, Jerry, Ron, and other Little Wizards had greatly expanded the Magical Tabletop Game project.
• Ted joined the development effort and combined ideas for role-playing adventures, card battles, chess-piece battles, and other game modes.
• Ted designed Blank Chess Pieces that could develop characters from their users' minds and potentially provide data for creating virtual souls.

Ted and the Weasley Twins expanded their magic game, which earned Ted experience and drew attention across Hogwarts. After Professor McGonagall approved the game as a teaching tool, a larger test introduced new modes and brought Slytherin students into the project.

• The Weasley Twins tested their brutal story mode on Lee Jordan, while Ted discovered that players gave him experience.
• Rumors about Ted’s game spread through Hogwarts, and Professor McGonagall summoned him to explain his project.
• Ted told Professor McGonagall that the game taught combat, spellwork, and magical knowledge through play, and she allowed him to continue under her review.
• The third test invited thirty-six Little Wizards to try the expanded game, including the Weasley Twins’ story mode and Hermione’s magic card modes.
• Ted recruited Slytherin students to promote unity, and Wizard Alliance became the most popular mode as players competed in teams.

Ted and the students named their magical game Ideal Land and paused development to prepare for exams, while Ted continued trying to advance in the Book of Adventures. During the break, Ron joined a Wizard Cards match against Harriett and watched his own attack wipe out his minions.

• Ted reviewed the project’s research results, and Professor McGonagall and Snape praised the students’ achievements.
• The project team adopted Ideal Land as the game’s official name and paused development for half a month so students could rest and study for exams.
• Ted and his friends tried the Book of Adventures again but failed to defeat a powerful Dark Wizard and his creatures.
• Jerry played Wizard’s Chess against Neville’s clever dog Didi, which gained an advantage over him.
• Harriett challenged Ron to Wizard Cards, and her Chaos card redirected Ron’s Stone Giant Malphite into his own minions.

After the exams, Ted and the Ideal Land team prepared to launch their magical game as a Christmas gift to the students staying at Hogwarts. Ted introduced the completed virtual-reality game and its rules, then the first players entered its opening world.

• After the exams, Hermione invited Ted to visit her home during the next year's holiday, and he agreed.
• Ted cast a Weather Charm that made snow fall across the castle grounds until nightfall, astonishing his roommates.
• Ted led the Ideal Land team into the Great Hall and introduced the game to the students who had gathered to try it.
• Ted explained how Super Sense, the Daydream Charm, Mindscape Manifestation, and Contract Magic powered Ideal Land, and described its items and ways to progress.
• The first students placed their chess pieces on the game boards and entered the virtual world, where a novice guide welcomed Colin Creevey, Ginny, Luna, and the others to Summoner's Rift.

On Christmas Day, Ted introduced Ideal Land to Hogwarts students, gaining experience and Mind Power from their enthusiasm while the games sparked a lively celebration. After reaching Mind Mage level eight, he chose Mind Resonance, which let him draw strength from willing minds and boost Parker’s research.

• The Little Wizards watched Story Mode players fall quickly to the Magic Silver Golem boss, then played a chaotic five-versus-five match that Ginny’s team barely won.
• Ted’s Christmas game demonstration drew nearly the whole school to the Great Hall and earned him 658 experience points and a great deal of Mind Power.
• Ted gave Christmas presents to his friends and Snape, and the students and professors celebrated together with games, food, and Joyful Smoke.
• When Professor Trelawney refused to sit at a table with thirteen people, Ted tossed Scabbers under the table to make him the first to get up.
• After reaching level eight, Ted rejected talents based on eating brains and surviving through possession, choosing Mind Resonance instead.
• Ted used the students’ mental resonance to empower Parker, his Spirit Crystal Servant, as it worked on Ted’s research projects.