Recaps

Li Weide built the Mutual Aid Society, researched magical residue, and maneuvered Annie and Grindelwald toward a trap while protecting Tom. During Christmas, Tom confronted his Gaunt relatives and met the Riddles, as Grindelwald discovered that the remaining magical power lay beneath Hogwarts.

• Li Weide rallied the Mutual Aid Society against bullying and Pure-blood Supremacy, then handed its management to Tom as angry pure-blood parents complained.
• Li Weide used a nightmare and an Unbreakable Vow to make the Malfoys support Abraxas and the society, but Tom distrusted how he had kept his promise.
• Li Weide captured Grindelwald’s Followers, studied magical residue, and used Annie’s belief that she had gained power to lure Nurmengard toward a trap in the Forbidden Forest.
• Li Weide found magical power hidden in a Goblin Metal sphere and let Annie absorb it, while Tom realized Li Weide was steering her toward betraying Grindelwald.
• Li Weide and Senior Sister captured a Goblin Craftsman, took his knowledge and a Goblin Ring, and prepared further traps as Grindelwald’s Followers searched the forest.
• Dumbledore brought Li Weide and Tom to Godric’s Hollow and accompanied Tom to meet the Gaunts, where Tom defeated Morfin in a duel and claimed the family ring.
• Tom met his grandfather at Riddle Manor and accepted his offer to make the manor his home, while Li Weide borrowed Tom’s ring for research.
• Annie returned to Nurmengard with her account of the ruins, and Grindelwald and Vita learned the remaining magical power was beneath Hogwarts and began planning an attempt to reach it.

Li Weide and Tom helped thwart Grindelwald’s attack on Hogwarts, while Dumbledore defeated him and the students kept their part in the victory secret. Grindelwald prepared to turn himself in, and Li Weide upgraded the system and discovered four new shop items.

• Li Weide gave Tom the Resurrection Stone, which summoned Merope, and later helped Dumbledore face his family’s spirits and forgive himself.
• Li Weide and Tom returned to Hogwarts, where Annie revealed a hidden chamber beneath the castle and Grindelwald’s followers entered through a secret passage.
• Li Weide and Tom used sleeping potions to incapacitate Grindelwald’s followers, while Li Weide stalled Grindelwald until Dumbledore arrived.
• Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald, who escaped, and Headmaster Dippet spared Li Weide, Tom, and Annie from expulsion before Dumbledore gave the boys Special Contribution Awards.
• Li Weide and Tom completed the Marauder’s Map, and Li Weide explained to Annie that Grindelwald lacked a shared program to win broad support.
• Li Weide passed political advice to Grindelwald through Annie, while Grindelwald let his captured followers face punishment and privately planned to turn himself in.
• Li Weide spent 20,000 Merit Points to upgrade the system and found Phoenix Tears, a Unicorn Horn, a Flying Charm, and Magical Creature Affinity in the new shop.

Li Weide tested his Flying Charm and helped Tom avoid expulsion as Grindelwald cleared his trial and gained influence through political reforms. The arc left Grindelwald pushing to reshape wizarding education, Tom settling into a secluded base at Riddle Manor, and Li Weide taming a mutated Venomous Tentacula.

• Li Weide tested his Flying Charm with Tom, whose unauthorized magic drew Ministry attention, and Dumbledore used the new spell to help secure Tom’s reinstatement.
• Grindelwald surrendered and stood trial, but the witnesses and evidence failed to prove his crimes, and the court acquitted him.
• Grindelwald returned to Britain, gained a senior Ministry position, and won support by promoting reforms that opened Ministry recruitment to more wizards.
• Li Weide absorbed residue converted by Senior Sister’s regulator, increasing his magical strength, while he watched Grindelwald’s reforms take effect.
• Grindelwald became Head of the Department of Education and proposed major changes to Hogwarts, but Dumbledore challenged his plans and Grindelwald chose a less aggressive approach.
• Dumbledore gave Li Weide and Tom permission to leave the Safe House and Fawkes’s tail-feather Portkeys, while Tom later accepted a secluded woodland house at Riddle Manor.
• Li Weide and Tom Cat wore down the mutated Venomous Tentacula, which accepted Tom Cat as an ally, and Li Weide named it Venomfang.

Li Weide helped Tom confront his family’s danger, then turned his attention to Nagini’s curse and Grindelwald’s growing influence. As war began and Hogwarts became a battleground for competing factions, Li Weide drew Annie and Alphard into the Mutual Aid Society and prepared to expand it.

• Tom rescued the Riddle family from Morfin Gaunt’s attack, but Morfin shot Old Tom before Li Weide arrived and saved him.
• Tom realized his magic had grown stronger because he cared about his family, while Grindelwald announced that Dark Arts would enter Hogwarts’s standard curriculum.
• Li Weide reunited with Newt, Tina, Jacob, and Queenie, and he and Newt began planning how to help Nagini recover from her transformation.
• Tom learned from Old Tom to focus on his own skill rather than rely on powerful spells, and he trained by blocking thrown pebbles with partial Shield Charms.
• Li Weide met Hagrid while investigating a depressed dragon, and Newt offered to adopt Li Weide and buy him books after learning he copied them from memory.
• As war broke out, Grindelwald brought the Riddle family home, while Li Weide warned Tom to accept Grindelwald’s help but resist his demands.
• Li Weide and Tom kept Nagini stable while searching for a cure, then learned Grindelwald had joined Hogwarts as a Ministry official and recruited the troubled Annie to their side.
• At Hogwarts, Li Weide defended Alphard from Walburga, helped him consider legal action against his family, and prepared to grow the Mutual Aid Society as Grindelwald arrived at the Sorting Ceremony.