Chapter Summaries

After Jino Luthor killed the dark wizards in Knockturn Alley, he compelled Lockhart to send a letter to Hogwarts. Dumbledore learned that Lockhart had withdrawn from the Defense Against the Dark Arts post and recommended Jino for the position, leaving Snape questioning the unexpected candidate.

• Kingsley and the Aurors investigated the corpses of Knockturn Alley’s dark wizards and concluded that a powerful wizard had killed them instantly with Avada Kedavra.
• Jino visited Lockhart at an inn and compelled him to write a letter to Hogwarts Castle.
• Snape confronted Dumbledore over hiring Lockhart as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Dumbledore read Lockhart’s letter, which said he was unfit for the job and recommended Jino Luthor instead.

Jino Luthor arrived at Hogwarts to take up a teaching position, and Dumbledore and Snape questioned him about his mysterious background and unusual magic. After Jino left, Dumbledore told Snape that his way of casting spells was unheard of.

• Dumbledore and Snape discussed the unknown Jino Luthor and wondered whether he was connected to the massacre of Knockturn Alley’s Dark wizards.
• A week later, Jino arrived at Hogwarts, where Snape met him at the gates and led him to the headmaster’s office.
• Jino told Dumbledore and Snape that he had traveled with a magical poet, had never received a formal magical education, and cast spells using hand seals.
• Jino described Voldemort as a stupid madman and claimed his friend Joker could easily defeat him, drawing Snape’s scorn.
• After Jino left for his faculty room, Dumbledore told Snape that Jino’s spellcasting method was unheard of.

Harry Potter spent the end of his holiday at the Dursleys’ before meeting Hermione in Diagon Alley and returning to Hogwarts. At the start-of-term feast, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Jino Luthor, arrived and was invited to address the students.

• Harry looked through an album of moving photographs and tried to calm Hedwig, but Vernon ordered him to control the owl and Petunia grounded him.
• After his punishment ended, Harry went to Diagon Alley with Hagrid and met Hermione, who helped him shop for textbooks.
• Harry and Hermione parted at Diagon Alley after Hermione reminded him when term began.
• At the Great Hall feast, Fred told Ron that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was young and handsome.
• Jino Luthor entered the Great Hall, sat beside Dumbledore, and was introduced as the new teacher.

Jino Luthor introduced himself as Hogwarts’s new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and demonstrated dazzling wandless magic. He arranged weekend classes and offered Harry a wish—even the resurrection of his parents—leaving Harry shaken but determined to deliver Jino’s message to Slytherin.

• Jino introduced himself at the feast and conjured a river of stars without a wand, impressing the students and drawing Dumbledore and Flitwick’s attention.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron discussed Jino before meeting him in a corridor, where he asked them to tell the Houses about his Saturday and Sunday classes.
• Jino promised Harry he could grant any wish, including resurrecting his parents, then disappeared; Harry decided to go to Slytherin and deliver the message.
• Harry encountered Malfoy and told him to notify their year about Jino’s weekend classes, warning him that Jino would deal with him if he failed.

On the first day of school, Professor Jino Luthor stunned the young wizards by stopping the rain, reshaping the Quidditch pitch, and clearing the sky with magic. He promised to teach them the Dark magic they had missed, then suggested his lessons would make them grow through blood and tears.

• Ron complained about the rain and Malfoy's insults while Harry waited eagerly for Jino to arrive.
• Jino appeared on the pitch, suspended the raindrops, raised an earthen wall, and parted the clouds to reveal the sun.
• Jino asked whether anyone wanted to leave, and the young wizards stayed, impressed by his power.
• Jino apologized for the subject's stagnant progress and promised to teach the magic they had not learned before.
• Malfoy asked how Jino planned to teach them, and Jino said that blood and tears would make them grow.

Jino Luthor began his first Dark Arts lesson by pairing the young wizards for shielded duels, then ended the twenty-minute fight and promised the winners a chance to ask questions or learn powerful spells. Harry and Malfoy both received winning marks, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Hermione Granger asked Jino Luthor what he had done before coming to Hogwarts, and he said he had traveled the world and defeated dangerous enemies.
• Jino assigned the students numbered opponents and gave them magical shields, with victory going to whoever left more marks on an opponent’s shield.
• Harry Potter and Malfoy were paired, exchanged spells, and then fought hand-to-hand in the mud.
• Jino ended the lesson after twenty minutes and told the winners they could use their marks to ask him questions or learn powerful spells.
• Harry saw that Malfoy had also received a silver-blue cross mark on his wrist.

After Jino’s combat lesson inspired students to study magic and settle rivalries through duels, Dumbledore confronted him about the risks and his mysterious identity. Jino overwhelmed Dumbledore with his power and revealed that he knew about Voldemort’s Horcruxes.

• Students flocked to the library and Professor Flitwick’s office to learn spells after Jino’s lesson, while duels strained rivalries and kept Filch busy.
• Jino gave Harry advice on concentrating, then welcomed Dumbledore into his office.
• Dumbledore questioned whether Jino’s practical lessons could encourage dangerous ambition and noted that no wizarding records mentioned him.
• Jino answered Dumbledore’s magical pressure with a far greater force that shattered a bookshelf, then said Voldemort could die whenever he chose.
• Jino mentioned Horcruxes, leaving Dumbledore shocked that he knew about them.

Jino revealed himself to Dumbledore as a godlike conqueror and demanded that the headmaster help him take control of the world. Dumbledore refused, and Jino unleashed a storm of lightning against him.

• Jino caused the office to rise high above Hogwarts and told Dumbledore he was a god, a conqueror, and the ruler of a universe.
• Dumbledore demanded that Jino leave their world, while Hogwarts professors searched for the missing headmaster and prepared for the worst.
• Jino easily blocked Dumbledore’s spells and admitted he had come to find a few things and conquer the world.
• Jino offered Dumbledore a choice between helping him rule the world or becoming his enemy, and Dumbledore answered with another spell.
• Jino declared that he regretted Dumbledore’s choice and summoned a violent storm of lightning to strike him.

Jino killed Dumbledore, then summoned his soul and Ariana so they could reunite before moving on together. After returning to Hogwarts, Jino faced questions about Dumbledore’s disappearance and offered Snape a chance to serve him in exchange for bringing back the person Snape missed.

• Jino summoned Dumbledore’s soul from his charred corpse, then called Ariana so the siblings could reunite before leaving the world together.
• Jino summoned Nick Flamel and learned how to refine the Philosopher’s Stone before returning to Hogwarts.
• McGonagall and the professors confronted Jino about Dumbledore’s disappearance, but he denied that he could have defeated the headmaster and went to eat.
• Snape confronted Jino in his office, accused him of killing Dumbledore, and warned that Voldemort would return.
• Jino told Snape that he could defeat Voldemort by being invincible, then offered to bring back the person Snape missed if he served him.

Jino persuaded Snape to serve him by showing him Lily's soul and promising to resurrect her, then began eliminating Voldemort's Horcruxes. He destroyed the soul fragment in Tom Riddle's diary, leaving six more Horcruxes to deal with.

• Jino summoned Lily's soul and offered to resurrect her if Snape obeyed him and took charge of Hogwarts.
• Snape accepted Jino's offer and resolved to serve him for Lily's sake.
• Jino listed Voldemort's seven Horcruxes and summoned Ginny Weasley, telling her that Tom Riddle's diary contained Voldemort's soul fragment.
• Ginny gave Jino the diary, and he pierced it with a golden blade before burning the escaped soul fragment with flames from Heaven.
• Jino declared that six Horcruxes remained.

Jino killed Voldemort, arranged for Snape to become Hogwarts's headmaster, and left the wizarding world with the Resurrection Stone. Back home at Elliot Manor, he used the Philosopher's Stone to heal his sleeping mother.

• Jino trapped Voldemort in a golden net and destroyed him after revealing that he had eliminated all seven Horcruxes.
• Jino told Snape to cooperate with him and win Harry Potter's favor, then helped secure Snape's unanimous appointment as Hogwarts's new headmaster.
• Jino revived Lily, but refused her request to revive James, and later received the Resurrection Stone from the Reapers.
• Jino said farewell to the Hogwarts students and vanished from the school.
• Jino returned to Elliot Manor and placed the Philosopher's Stone in his mother's hand, healing the wounds in her soul.

Hael awoke aboard a drifting Kryptonian ship, learned that Krypton had been destroyed, and traced an escape ship to Earth. The Justice League then detected an unidentified object heading for Smallville and prepared to respond.

• Hael woke from a long unconsciousness, killed two alien creatures with heat vision, and asked the ship’s computer for an explanation.
• Hael read the ship’s records and learned that Krypton had been destroyed, but a nearby escape ship had departed before its destruction.
• Hael traced the escape ship’s route to Earth and identified its destination as the Solar System.
• At the Justice League meeting, Batman proposed an observation station, and Jino approved the plan.
• Singer reported that an unidentified object near Mercury was diving toward Smallville, and Jino ordered a civilian evacuation.
• Jino and the Justice League members gathered their weapons and prepared to leave for Smallville.

Clark recovered a Kryptonian spacecraft from the ocean, prompting Jino and the others to search for its occupant. In Smallville, Hael attacked LuthorCorp’s underground lab and took General Zod’s corpse to create a weapon against Earth’s most powerful superheroes.

• Clark lifted the sunken Kryptonian spacecraft from the seabed and brought it to Jino and Diana.
• Jino explained that Singer could not track a Kryptonian at full speed and sent the four searchers in different directions.
• Hael attacked Luthor Factory in Smallville, drove off the firefighters, and entered the LuthorCorp Underground Lab.
• Hael killed a researcher, ignored the fleeing staff, and found General Zod’s corpse in a nutrient tank.
• Hael broke into the tank, took Zod’s corpse, and said he would use it to make a weapon against Earth’s most powerful superheroes.

Hael attacked the Kent farm to find the Kryptonian escape pod, but Clark and Jino Luthor arrived before he could kill Jonathan and Martha. Jino blocked Hael’s escape and charged him, beginning a fight.

• Hael crashed into Kent Farm, seized Jonathan, and demanded to know where the Kryptonian escape pod was hidden.
• Faora stopped Hael from striking Jonathan, but he punched her through the barn and discovered the pod beneath it.
• Hael grabbed the pod and fired Heat Vision at Jonathan and Martha, but Clark arrived and blocked the attack with his own Heat Vision.
• Hael urged Clark to submit, then tried to escape when Jino Luthor and two others approached.
• Jino’s silver-blue spatial nets destroyed Hael’s wormhole, and Jino charged him to fight.

Jino fought and defeated Hael, Krypton’s strongest warrior, at Kent Farm, then used Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth to learn that Hael had hidden General Zod’s body at the Arctic Outpost. The League learned where the body was, but what they would do next remained unresolved.

• Jino recognized Hael as a Kryptonian clone warrior and chose to fight him alone.
• Jino and Hael exchanged blows at extreme speed, damaging the ground around them.
• Jino empowered by Lucifer’s power struck Hael in the chest and left him severely injured.
• Jino questioned Hael about General Zod’s body, but Hael initially refused to answer.
• Wonder Woman tied the Lasso of Truth around Hael, and he revealed that he had hidden Zod’s body at the Arctic Outpost.

Hael’s experiment gave birth to Doomsday in an Arctic cavern and sent him to kill every member of the Justice League. Doomsday slaughtered tourists on the ice field and continued toward his targets.

• Doomsday tore free from the blood-filled cultivation tank in Hael’s cavern.
• Hael’s projection ordered Doomsday to kill every member of the Justice League and showed him images of the team.
• Doomsday recognized the blond figure in the projection and smashed through the glacier into the Arctic sky.
• Doomsday landed on a couple, killing the woman and then crushing her boyfriend’s head.
• Doomsday killed the fleeing tourists with Heat Vision and set off toward the Justice League.

Jino spoke with Death and learned that a monster created by Hael using General Zod had killed the people on the frozen plain. The monster had escaped the outpost and was heading toward America.

• Clark and the others found bodies and deep trenches across the ice field, and Batman confirmed that Heat Vision had caused the damage.
• Jino saw Death collect a victim's soul and spoke with her while the others wondered whether he had gone mad.
• Death told Jino that a gray-black monster that could not die had killed the people.
• Jino explained that Hael's creation, made using General Zod, had escaped the outpost after growing from its embryo.
• Jino and the others followed the monster's footprints toward America.

A monster attacked Metropolis and headed for Justice League Tower, prompting Lois Lane to call Jino. The heroes lured it to a remote area, where Jino faced it as it emerged from a crater.

• Lois Lane and her supervisor Johnny argued over whether the Daily Planet should focus on Metropolis’s public safety or the Justice League.
• A huge monster raced between Metropolis’s skyscrapers toward Justice League Tower, and Lois called Jino for help.
• Jino arrived as Clark struck the monster into the sky, while Diana and Batman guided it toward a sparsely populated area.
• Diana dropped the monster from high above, and it crashed into the ground, forming a crater.
• The monster climbed out of the crater, and Jino summoned the power of Heaven and challenged it as it charged at him, Clark, and Diana.

Jino defeated Doomsday by trapping the immortal monster in an endless dream rather than trying to kill him. Just as Clark and Diana thought the fight was over, Batman warned that the American military had launched nuclear missiles toward the outskirts of Metropolis.

• Doomsday hurled boulders at Jino, who blocked them with his Bio-Force Field and blasted Doomsday with Heat Vision.
• Doomsday fired golden beams at Jino and Clark, then charged Jino and fought him in a rapid exchange of punches.
• Jino struck Doomsday with the power of dreams and sent the monster into an endless dream where countless versions of Jino surrounded him.
• Jino explained to Clark that Doomsday would fight forever in his dream, while Diana joined them and declared that everything was over.
• Batman called Clark and warned him that the American military had launched several nuclear missiles toward the outskirts of Metropolis.

Jino destroyed the nuclear missile aimed at him, then went to the White House to confront the president and the generals responsible. He killed one general and prepared to kill the other.

• Jino formed a bolt of Heavenly Magic and destroyed the nuclear missile before it could reach him.
• Jino flew to the White House, where security personnel let him enter without resistance.
• Jino ordered everyone to leave, then confronted the president and accused him of authorizing the nuclear strike.
• The president blamed two generals, and Jino threw him to the floor before confronting them.
• One general called Jino a tyrant and blamed him and the Justice League for attracting threats to Earth.
• Jino killed the cursing general and turned his glowing red eyes on the remaining general.