Chapter Summaries

Paris was overrun by contagious zombies, and French officials asked Britain and Dumbledore for help. Ted linked the outbreak to a Dark Wizard from France and warned that he could revive and assemble dry bones, leaving Minister Frong terrified about what lay beneath Paris.

• Zombies emerged beneath Paris, infected civilians, and spread through several districts as President Mitterrand declared a state of emergency and ordered the military to contain the outbreak.
• Fudge learned that the International Confederation of Wizards required Britain to assist France, then set out while privately taking satisfaction in France’s crisis.
• Dumbledore arrived in Paris and told Minister Frong that St. Mungo’s had an antidote for the curse, while Ted explained that Britain had developed it after a Dark Wizard fled France and attacked there.
• Ted confirmed that the Dark Wizard could revive the dead and had fought Dumbledore, prompting Minister Frong to ask whether he could revive dry bones too.
• Ted said the wizard could revive and assemble dry bones, and Minister Frong urgently called for him to be stopped.

President Mitterrand ordered France to contain the Undead Curse and search the Paris Catacombs after Minister Frong warned that an enemy might be preparing to raise millions of skeletons. Dumbledore discovered that Grindelwald had escaped Nurmengard, while Ted set up defenses around Paris and summoned his allies.

• Mitterrand declared a state of war, ordered strict quarantine measures, and summoned General Peter to prepare an underground search with French wizards.
• Minister Frong asked Dumbledore for help, and Dumbledore promised to delay the enemy’s Ritual Magic before traveling to Nurmengard.
• Dumbledore found Nurmengard empty and realized Grindelwald had escaped during the chaos in Paris.
• Ted invited his friends to Paris, erected twelve iron towers, and built magical arrays around the city using materials supplied by the French.
• When French officials resisted cooperating, Ted demonstrated his power by dismantling a zombie-filled apartment building, and Minister Frong agreed to provide the resources he requested.

Ted coordinated the underground teams in Paris using the Ideal Land map, rescued a badly injured team by drilling down from above, and reassured the remaining explorers. As Dumbledore and international reinforcements arrived, Dumbledore used magic through the mist to interfere with Lane’s ritual and buy time.

• Ted contacted the underground teams, gathered their reports, and used Map Editing to reveal their positions across Paris.
• Ted located a team suffering heavy casualties, demolished an empty apartment building, drilled down to them, and rescued the survivors.
• Ted told the teams that a curse-lifting potion was available and urged them to prioritize safety while continuing the underground survey.
• Ted received an old map of the catacombs as Dumbledore returned and covered Paris in mist to conceal the crisis.
• Wizarding reinforcements from nearby countries and the National Wizarding Union arrived, including the Elf Elder from the Wizengamot.
• Dumbledore sent his Magic Power through the mist and into the earth, disrupting Lane’s Large-scale Spiritualism Ritual and buying time.

Lane’s ritual in the Paris catacombs began raising the dead, but Dumbledore slowed it by mixing natural magic into the Death Magic. Ted received a mission to find the Undead Altar and called on young wizards to help stop Lane before the Scourge broke out.

• Lane absorbed the catacombs’ Death Magic and prepared to command millions of undead, while his ritual transformed him into a corpse-like figure.
• Dumbledore altered his Magic Power and mixed it into the Death Magic, slowing Lane’s absorption and the undead’s revival.
• Ted received a mission to find the Undead Altar, with a deadline to explore 187 kilometers of underground passages.
• Mr. Weasley arrived in Paris with the Weasleys, Hermione, Neville, Harriett, and Jerry to join Ted’s effort.
• Ted posted a call for help on the Utopia Forum, urging young wizards to come to Paris and stop Lane.

Ted gathered nearly a hundred Little Wizards and wizards from across Europe to search the Paris catacombs through the Ideal Land, protecting them from real harm while they fought undead. After the teams located the dangerous central area, Ted went ahead alone and unexpectedly found a living person underground.

• Nearly a hundred Little Wizards and their parents arrived in Paris to help Ted, while hundreds of adult wizards struggled to coordinate across language barriers.
• Ted created psionic translation earpieces and organized the adult wizards to supply Magic Power for his plan to cover Paris with the Ideal Land.
• Ted upgraded the Little Wizards’ game abilities, equipped them with Familiar Cats, and sent twenty teams into the catacombs to map and fight the undead safely.
• The teams pinpointed a two-kilometer central area, but powerful elite monsters defeated all teams except Ted’s and his friends’.
• Ted told his friends to support him from behind and entered the core area alone, where he discovered a living person.

Ted fought Barty Crouch Jr. in the tunnel and learned that the fugitive had returned, while Barty Crouch Sr. handed command to Kingsley Shacklebolt. Ted continued into the core area and defeated a Skeleton Archer.

• Ted exchanged a rapid series of spells with Barty Crouch Jr. and enjoyed fighting a skilled opponent.
• Ted revealed himself, identified himself as a Hogwarts fourth-year, and heard Barty Jr. introduce himself by name.
• Barty Jr. fought Ted with powerful spells and Dark Magic, then escaped through a cloud of choking fog after blasting open the tunnel ceiling.
• Barty Crouch Sr. recognized the situation on the live broadcast, surrendered his wand, and left Kingsley Shacklebolt in charge.
• Ted entered Sagittarius’s territory, defeated a fused Skeleton Archer, and picked up its card.

Ted cleared the Zodiac Undead guardians and deployed Little Soft to consume the rapidly awakening undead, while Lane abandoned his patience and created an incarnation to confront Dumbledore. Lane’s incarnation began attacking Dumbledore as gathered wizards evacuated and a White Bone Gate unleashed a vast undead army.

• Ted defeated the White Bone Giant Scorpion by hardening the ground with Finger Pointing to Steel, then sent Little Soft to eat undead and objects infected with Death Magic.
• Ted fought through Libra’s undead-producing flesh-and-bone factory with his cards and companions, and continued clearing the Death Nun, corpse lice, blood crab, and fused-child guardians.
• Dumbledore’s interference and the gathered wizards’ efforts disrupted Lane’s ritual, so Lane shaped a magical incarnation and sent it to attack Dumbledore.
• Lane’s incarnation attacked Dumbledore with bone magic and transformed a French wizard into a monster before other wizards suppressed the mutation.
• Wizards began evacuating as Lane raised a White Bone Gate and sent hordes of undead creatures onto the battlefield.

Lane unleashed a vast undead army through the White Bone Gate as French soldiers and wizards fought to hold it back, while Ted and Little Soft cleared the underground tunnels. Dumbledore continued battling Lane in the sky, and Lane considered using the Rotten Sac Curse to force a decisive clash.

• Lane raised the White Bone Gate and sent hordes of skeletons, zombies, knights, and other undead into the battle.
• France's general ordered soldiers to fire on the undead; firearms destroyed weaker creatures, but the White Bone Knights resisted and charged until heavy weapons and wizard spells drove them back.
• The commander deployed artillery and tanks, whose shells shattered several Skeleton Cavalry, including one bearing a major's family crest.
• Ted cleared the eleventh Zodiac Undead while Little Soft devoured the tunnels, split into two, and fled from powerful undead it could not swallow.
• Dumbledore kept Lane occupied in an aerial battle, and Lane weighed spreading the Rotten Sac Curse across the city to force a direct clash.

Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr. took advantage of the weakened formation to attack Lane, but Voldemort killed Barty afterward to conceal his humiliation. In the aftermath of the Paris disaster, officials sought to recruit Ted while Fudge suppressed news about him, and Ted celebrated his gains.

• Barty Crouch Jr. returned to Voldemort and helped weaken the formation, but its final guardian struck him with a mental attack.
• Voldemort hit Lane’s main body with Avada Kedavra, and Dumbledore destroyed Lane’s incarnation with golden flames.
• Voldemort killed Barty Crouch Jr. to keep him from revealing how Lane had humiliated him, then Apparated away to pursue his plans.
• French officials investigated the destruction in Paris, found that much of the underground bones had vanished, and invited Ted to join them.
• Fudge restricted news about Ted in Britain, while Ted remained pleased with his experience, cards, Little Soft, and Barty Crouch Jr.

Ted completed the quest in the tomb and found Barty Crouch Jr. dead, apparently killed after someone shot Lane in the back. He collected a huge amount of experience and cards, and considered using Ghostification on Barty’s nearby soul.

• Ted completed the Wave City Death - Deep into the Tomb quest, received Card Dungeon and Flip Trap cards, and learned that Dumbledore had turned the enemy to ash.
• Ted found Barty Crouch Jr.’s corpse and reconstructed that someone had shot Lane from behind before killing Barty with Avada.
• Ted considered using his Ghostification card to turn Barty Crouch Jr. into a ghost, since Barty’s soul remained nearby and intact.
• Ted counted a haul of about eighty-five thousand experience points, bringing his Experience Pool to roughly one hundred and forty thousand.
• Ted reviewed the many cards dropped by the undead, including materials, items, spells, and summons.
• Ted summoned the Music Zombies, which began howling uncontrollably, and found a wanted poster on the Highway Robber Zombie.

Ted fused cards into powerful new undead summoning cards, advanced his Wizard abilities, and helped Anderson adjust to his puppet body. Anderson, formerly Barty Crouch Jr., began a new life serving Ted and received a quest to take revenge on Voldemort.

• Ted fused Flying Pisces with corpse-related cards to create the red Flying Corpse Fish, then combined undead performers into the blue Death Rock Band.
• Ted fused skeletons and weapons into the red White Bone Brotherhood, a squad of assassins that pursued a target until the target died or the squad was destroyed.
• Ted spent experience to reach Wizard level 11, raised his Spirit to 20, and improved Magic Power and Magic Power Penetration.
• Ted asked Anderson whether his new Magic Puppet body was uncomfortable, and Anderson requested changes to its shoulders.
• Ted revealed that Anderson was Barty Crouch Jr., who had recovered from his past idol worship and now served him.
• Anderson's new main quest tasked him with taking revenge on Voldemort, his former master.

Ted acquired knowledge about Witcher mutations, Signs, and Space Marine augmentation, then used new ideas and collaborators to advance a group effort to treat werewolves. Lupin gained control over his transformations, while the group planned a third research stage to eliminate werewolf transformations through potions.

• Ted acquired Witcher mutation and Sign knowledge and considered combining it with Space Marine augmentation.
• Ted and Lupin’s research let Lupin control his transformations, and Sirius recruited dozens of werewolves for further study.
• Ted, Sirius, and Lupin formed the Cure Werewolf Group with Slughorn, Snape, Mr. Belby, and other experts.
• The group completed its second research stage, allowing Lupin to shift between human and wolf forms while taming his feral instincts.
• The group planned a third stage using potion mutations to remove werewolf transformations, while Sirius gave the recruited werewolves work at a furniture factory.
• Ted’s friends and other students improved after a real combat exercise.

Lupin and Ted investigated Walter’s encounters with his dead sister and an old house, uncovering a witch’s Limbo ritual. Ted destroyed the witch, freed Walter’s sister to move on, and confirmed that a realm of the dead existed.

• Lupin’s Muggle detective work expanded as corpses, haunted houses, and cursed objects became more common after the worlds of the living and dead fell out of balance.
• Walter told Lupin and Ted that he had seen his dead twin sister drawn through a door and later found a house linked to a witch who had predicted his danger.
• Ted and Lupin found the street painter Ginala, recognized her prophetic talent, and followed Walter to the old house.
• Ted broke through the witch’s defenses, cremated her corpse and human-faced rat, and discovered that Walter and his sister could open a passage to Limbo.
• Ted entered Limbo and brought Walter’s sister back long enough to free her soul to move onward, easing Walter’s grief.
• Ted told Lupin that the land of the dead existed, though he did not know whether Heaven and Hell did.

Ted’s werewolf research group survived Fenrir Greyback’s attack, and Ted arranged for Barty Crouch Jr. to publish embarrassing stories about Voldemort through Rita Skeeter. At the Quidditch World Cup campsite, Ted reunited with his friends and shared a tender moment with Hermione before they joined them.

• Fenrir Greyback led werewolves in an attack on Ted’s laboratory, but Ted killed Greyback and captured the remaining attackers for punishment and experiments.
• Ted had Rita Skeeter publish Barty Crouch Jr.’s stories about Voldemort’s humiliating childhood after using psionic power to deter her from smearing him.
• Ted returned to England for the Quidditch World Cup and met his friends at the crowded campsite near the stadium.
• Ted and Hermione walked away from the campsite, held hands, and Hermione reassured him that he had a family in her.
• Ron, Harriett, Neville, Jerry, and the others interrupted Ted and Hermione, telling Ted that he had them too.

Ted and his friends attended the Quidditch World Cup, where the Weasley Twins profited from selling fireworks and Ted promoted Salted Fish Home before warning them against betting heavily on the final. The Ireland and Bulgaria teams began their match as Ted watched from a top-level box, supporting Bulgaria to avoid wearing Ireland’s green hat.

• Hermione chased Ron, Harri, Neville, Jerry, and the other pranksters down a hill after they interrupted her moment with Ted, and Ron’s tumble swept his friends into a pile.
• Ted and Hermione returned to camp, where the Weasley Twins’ fireworks dazzled the crowd and their booth selling goods drew customers.
• Ted opened a temporary Salted Fish Home booth with Dobby and other employees, attracting a crowd of foreign wizards and the jealous attention of Fudge.
• George and Fred asked Ted to divine the winner of the final, and, despite his warning of a bad omen, they placed five Galleons on Ireland.
• Ted, Hermione, Jerry, and Sirius watched the final from a top-level box while Ted noticed Lucius watching him and the Ireland Team’s Leprechaun mascot scattered gold coins.

The Ireland Team defeated Bulgaria in the Quidditch World Cup final, while Ted learned that Fudge was considering restarting the Triwizard Tournament. That night, rioters, Voldemort, and Grindelwald’s followers converged on the campsite, where rival magical marks appeared in the sky and Voldemort was left stunned.

• The Ireland Team overwhelmed Bulgaria during the match, and Krum caught the Snitch after his team had fallen far behind.
• Ted helped the Twins collect their bet winnings after the bookmaker tried to pay them with fake Leprechaun gold.
• Ted learned that masked rioters planned to attack the campsite and told Lucius to take part as usual.
• Masked wizards set fires and spread chaos through the campsite while Grindelwald’s followers waited, confused, to announce the Saint Organization’s return.
• Voldemort disguised as a Spanish wizard cast the Dark Mark, causing the rioters and campers to flee.
• A blue Deathly Hallows Mark appeared beside the Dark Mark, leaving Voldemort staring at the competing symbols.

Voldemort fled after seeing his former followers abandon him and Grindelwald’s symbol appear, then retrieved his Horcrux ring to regain a measure of control over himself. At the Quidditch World Cup, Ted and the students contained the panic and its damage, while news of Grindelwald’s escape provoked outrage at the British and Austrian Ministries of Magic.

• Voldemort released the Dark Mark, watched his former followers scatter, and Apparated away after Grindelwald’s emblem appeared in the sky.
• Voldemort returned to the Gaunt Family’s ancestral house, reclaimed the Horcrux ring, and briefly felt clearer-headed as he restrained his urge to kill.
• Ted swallowed the two emblems with a firework dragon and used amplified magic to quiet the panicking crowd and direct the response.
• Hermione and the other students used Ideal Land’s power to extinguish fires, treat the injured, and shelter the displaced, while Ron patrolled the campsite and confronted Malfoy and Harriett.
• Wizards learned that Grindelwald had escaped from Nurmengard, and public anger turned against the British and Austrian Ministries of Magic for failing to protect them and concealing the news.

After the Quidditch World Cup disaster, Fudge gave up on pleasing anyone and began making decisions for his own amusement, while Ted used his rescue mission’s publicity to promote himself and Ideal Land. The chapter ended with Fudge refusing to help the Elves against primitive Goblins, leaving the Ministry officials stunned.

• Fudge got drunk, ranted about being bullied and oppressed, then agreed to support Headmaster Akin’s proposal to bring more schools into the Triwizard Tournament.
• Ted entered Rita Skeeter’s dream to arrange publicity, found her clinging to his leg, and fled before giving her instructions through a Two-way Mirror.
• Rita published an exaggerated article condemning Fudge and praising the Hogwarts students who used Ideal Land to rescue people, while also reporting that Ludo Bagman had fled his Goblin debts.
• Hermione compared Rita’s account of the World Cup injuries to the Battle of Verdun, and Ron reacted in shock when she explained the Muggle battle’s casualties.
• After the Elves requested help against Goblin tribes harassing their settlement, Fudge rejected his officials’ objections and told the Elves the Ministry could not help them.

Fudge sent a small team to assist the Elves while magical incidents and visitors kept the British wizarding world busy. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore arrived with the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Gellert Grindelwald, leaving Ted wary as the school year began.

• Fudge faced pressure from Ministry officials and sent five Aurors and thirty-eight Hit Wizards to help the Elves.
• A Japanese Onmyoji’s smuggled magical creatures escaped during a Knockturn Alley fight, and Ted picked up a Kuda-gitsune to develop as Jerry’s pet.
• Ted exchanged for a Minecraft Alchemy Table blueprint and traveled to Hogwarts, where over fifty new students were Sorted, including the older Ginala and a one-legged boy.
• Dumbledore introduced Gellert as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, and Ted later confirmed to Dumbledore that the man was Grindelwald.
• Ted learned that Grindelwald had taken control of Durmstrang and gathered followers, while Dumbledore warned Ted not to approach him.
• Ron and Lavender had started dating, Harriett and Malfoy had grown close, and Ginny’s attention left Neville overwhelmed.

At Hogwarts, students traded advice about pursuing romance while Professor Gellert taught Ted’s class about Drowners and assessed the students’ unusual combat skills. The chapter ended with Ron, Neville, and Jerry discovering Harriett giving younger Gryffindors romantic advice.

• Harriett told the boys how Sirius had used a dropped Galleon to court a girl, and Seamus later tried the trick but lost money when his crush claimed the coin.
• Hagrid told Ted that Professor Gellert had asked him to buy Drowner Brains, and Ted later saw Gellert teach the class about Drowners and their uses.
• Professor Gellert learned that most of the students had mastered the Shield Charm and became interested in Ted’s Ideal Land project.
• Neville recommended the Super Sense Spell for detecting gasified Drowners, and Ron later questioned him about using it while kissing Ginny.
• Jerry said the Super Sense Spell was only slightly useful for kissing, and the three boys found Harriett teaching Gryffindors her advice on romance.