Chapter Summaries

Li Weide and Slytherin found the Ravenclaw Diadem’s hiding place in the Albanian Forest, but Li Weide spotted a stolen fire dragon being held by wizards who planned to dismantle it. He joined Newt to rescue the dragon and overwhelmed the camp, leaving five wizards facing him as he asked how they wanted to die.

• Li Weide used the Obscurus to scout the forest and found the hollow tree stump beneath a nearby mountain, where the diadem was hidden.
• While returning to the site, Li Weide saw the fire dragon Newt had been caring for chained in a wizard camp, and hurried there with Slytherin.
• Li Weide found Newt hiding near the camp; Newt said he had called for backup, but Li Weide went to confront the wizards before they could dismantle the dragon.
• Li Weide gave Newt a defensive watch and attacked the camp with spells, freed two armored trolls from their collars, and turned them against the wizards.
• Li Weide used Chinese Chomping Cabbages and animated vines to subdue most of the camp, then challenged the five remaining wizards as Newt urged him not to kill anyone.

Li Weide and Newt subdued the poachers and freed the depressed fire dragon, whose appearance made it believe itself ugly. After leaving Newt to try to help the dragon, Li Weide found Ravenclaw’s diadem and planned to beat up Tom for turning it into a Horcrux.

• Li Weide used vines and Chinese Chomping Cabbages to gather the poachers, then forced the five remaining wizards to surrender and knocked them unconscious.
• Newt freed the fire dragon from its chain and explained that it was depressed because it thought its unusual appearance made it ugly.
• Li Weide and Newt discussed using Transfiguration to change the dragon’s appearance, while Newt warned that the Ministry might kill it if it could not return to a dragon sanctuary.
• Li Weide left with Slytherin before Newt’s reinforcements arrived, asking Newt not to reveal that he had entered the country illegally.
• Li Weide and Slytherin returned to the tree hollow and found Ravenclaw’s diadem, prompting Li Weide to complain that Tom had wasted it by making it a Horcrux.

Li Weide used the Ravenclaw Diadem to complete his research and create a sapphire device that converted and stored residue, then asked Slytherin to keep him from becoming dependent on the diadem. After Newt invited him to help a dragon, Li Weide decided to visit and considered giving Tom the beating he had once promised.

• Li Weide returned to Riddle Manor with the Ravenclaw Diadem, examined it, and wore it to boost his senses and intelligence.
• Li Weide spent a week immersed in research while Tom stayed at Henry's house to avoid being beaten.
• Li Weide told Slytherin that the diadem made him reluctant to remove it, and asked Slytherin to remind him that it was only a tool if he ever became too attached to it.
• Li Weide explained that Tom needed occasional discipline so he would not become overconfident, while Slytherin wondered whether Li Weide could see Tom's future.
• Li Weide used his research to create a sapphire pendant that converted and stored residue, and also made a microscope and improved the Energy Core.
• Newt invited Li Weide to help a dragon fulfill its wish, and Li Weide decided to visit, possibly to deal with Tom as well.

Li Weide transformed the fire dragon into a Hungarian Horntail and discovered that the Hogyoku replenished his Ancient Magic Power. After the dragon showed it wanted to leave with him, Li Weide shrank it, named it Alduin, and departed with it, leaving Newt demanding an explanation.

• Li Weide and Newt returned to the fire dragon, and Li Weide asked it to choose a dragon form.
• The dragon chose the Hungarian Horntail, and Li Weide used Ancient Magic to transform it temporarily into one.
• Newt worried that the transformation would last only a day, while Li Weide discovered that the Hogyoku converted Pure Magic Power into Ancient Magic Power.
• The dragon flew in its new form, and Li Weide shrank it to owl size after it indicated that it wanted to go with him.
• Li Weide named the dragon Alduin and left with it, while Newt called after him to demand an explanation.

Li Weide took Alduin in after Newt agreed to let the dragon escape the Ministry’s execution, then set out on a seaside trip with his companions. While inspecting the Thestral Carriage’s levitation core, Li Weide came up with a new use for the Gubraithian Fire Energy Core.

• Li Weide convinced Newt to let Alduin leave with him, and Newt decided to tell the Ministry that the dragon had escaped.
• Tom visited Newt to ask whether the Hydra that appeared as his Patronus existed, and Li Weide discussed Newt’s uncertain discovery of nine serpent skulls in North Sea ruins.
• Li Weide left Riddle Manor with Andrews and the others, while Slytherin stayed behind to train Tom.
• Three days later, Li Weide and his companions reached a North Sea reef, where Alduin resumed dragon size and Tom Cat flew after it on a broomstick.
• Li Weide examined the carriage’s levitation core after Andrews removed it for inspection, then realized the Gubraithian Fire Energy Core could be useful again.

Li Weide improved a levitation core and unveiled his plan to build a gigantic flying castle as a mobile base. The chapter ended with Tom Cat gaining a clever mouse companion named Jerry, whose arrival immediately sparked another chase.

• Li Weide replaced the carriage's levitation core, making it fly much faster, and sent his designs to Nicolas Flamel for refinement.
• Li Weide stayed up thinking through an idea, then showed Iliana and Andrews a floating castle model and announced he would build a real, enormous castle.
• Andrews imagined the castle as Li Weide's hidden mobile headquarters, while Li Weide explained that he could construct it himself using magic.
• Tom Cat chased a mouse that had stolen a bread crumb, and Li Weide named the mouse Jerry despite Toby's worries.
• Li Weide found that Jerry was exceptionally intelligent, but Jerry taunted Tom Cat and started another fight.

Li Weide sent his companions ahead to find a home while he went to Diagon Alley, where he met the Chinese wizard Zhang San. Zhang San left with his wife after telling Li Weide he planned to seek work at the Ministry of Magic.

• Li Weide told Andrews and Toby to rent a house and arranged for Tom Cat and Jerry to learn various skills, while reminding Iliana to keep studying.
• Li Weide told Iliana that her father had stopped searching for her, and she vowed to confront him herself as Andrews urged her not to forgive him.
• Li Weide Apparated into a secluded corner of Diagon Alley and met a sharply observant Chinese wizard named Zhang San.
• Li Weide and Zhang San exchanged stories about their travels and backgrounds, and Zhang San said he planned to try the Ministry of Magic's recruitment assessment.
• Zhang San left with his wife, and Li Weide went out into the busy streets of Diagon Alley.

Li Weide searched Diagon Alley for materials and ways to fund his experiments, where he ran into Hagrid and Tom. After Tom offered advice on pursuing change gradually, Li Weide invited him to visit Abraxas, turning Tom’s supposed day off back into work.

• Li Weide worried about the cost of materials for his Moving Castle and sat outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour with Alduin.
• Hagrid met Li Weide, shared ice cream, and admired Alduin while recognizing its dragon-like behavior.
• Tom arrived for ice cream, reluctantly joined Li Weide, and learned that he was looking for materials and money for experiments.
• Tom advised Li Weide to gain resources first and reform gradually, and Li Weide agreed that he had been too eager for quick success.
• Li Weide invited Tom to visit Abraxas and the Malfoy Family manor, frustrating Tom as his day off ended.

Li Weide bought and magically tamed five Abraxans, then acquired a luxurious carriage and summoned Tom to join him. As they prepared to visit pure-blood families, Li Weide told Tom to dress more presentably and hinted that he needed him to help shoulder his burdens.

• Li Weide asked Hagrid about buying a carriage, then disguised himself and went to Knockturn Alley to find Abraxans.
• Li Weide used Nightmare Magic to leave an old witch confused and walked away with a suitcase containing five Abraxans without paying.
• Li Weide tamed the Abraxans and used Nightmare Magic to obtain the documents for buying a luxurious carriage without magical creatures.
• Tom arrived at Diagon Alley and was astonished to learn the carriage and Abraxans belonged to Li Weide, with Andrews waiting to drive them.
• Li Weide welcomed Tom into the carriage, told him to change into more presentable clothes, and Tom asked if Li Weide planned to use his family name to pressure the pure-bloods.

Li Weide visited the Malfoys, where Old Malfoy misread his elaborate arrival as proof of his powerful backing and welcomed him warmly. After Li Weide examined Old Malfoy, he suspected the wizard had Dragon Pox and summoned a healer, leaving Tom wondering whether Li Weide could cure it with help from his dragon.

• Li Weide arrived at Malfoy Manor in a luxurious carriage, and Old Malfoy took the display as confirmation that he had made the right choice in befriending him.
• Li Weide chatted with the Malfoy couple about Abraxas, while Tom recognized that the carriage, companions, and attendants had all been arranged to impress Old Malfoy.
• Old Malfoy grew visibly unwell, and Li Weide examined him after he refused to go to St Mungo's.
• Li Weide sent Toby to fetch a healer and told the Malfoys he suspected Old Malfoy had Dragon Pox.
• Tom recalled Li Weide's fire dragon and feared that Li Weide might intend to use it to cure Dragon Pox.

Li Weide arranged for Healer Ginny Devant to examine Mr. Malfoy, who was diagnosed with early-stage Dragon Pox. After the Malfoys pleaded for help, Li Weide agreed to ask someone else for a cure, while Tom suspected him of causing the illness.

• Li Weide told the Malfoys that Mr. Malfoy's symptoms suggested Dragon Pox, but that he could not treat the infection himself.
• Toby brought Healer Ginny Devant from St Mungo's, and she confirmed that Mr. Malfoy had early-stage Dragon Pox.
• Ginny warned the family about contagion, brought in more healers, and traced a possible source of infection to the Malfoys' trip through the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary.
• Mr. Malfoy apologized to Li Weide, and Abraxas begged him to save his father; Li Weide agreed to ask someone who might be able to help.
• Mr. Malfoy assumed Li Weide would seek help from his powerful family and went to St Mungo's feeling hopeful.
• Tom asked Li Weide whether he had caused the illness, and Li Weide denied it while arguing with Tom about what kind of Dark Lord he intended to become.

Li Weide’s Dragon Pox cure brought him wealth and influence while spreading rumors that a powerful family backed him. Grindelwald and Dumbledore both began investigating that supposed family, and the chapter ended with Zhang San being repeatedly questioned about Li Weide.

• Li Weide told Tom that he planned to send a Dragon Pox cure recipe to St Mungo’s through Professor Slughorn so the recipe would be trusted and bring him benefits.
• Professor Slughorn delivered Li Weide’s recipe to St Mungo’s, and rumors spread that Li Weide had obtained it from a powerful family; the Malfoys thanked him after Elder Malfoy improved.
• Li Weide went fishing with Slytherin while Slytherin suspected that a great family stood behind him.
• Grindelwald sent people to find Li Weide’s supposed family, while Dumbledore watched Grindelwald’s subordinates to stop them from making contact.
• Grindelwald learned that Zhang San had joined the Ministry of Magic and, after discovering Zhang San had met Li Weide in the Soviet Union, concluded that he belonged to Li Weide’s family.
• Dumbledore visited Zhang San to ask about Li Weide, and Zhang San complained that people had asked him the same question eight times that month.

Dumbledore visited Zhang San to ask whether Li Weide had a powerful family behind him, while Zhang San questioned him about why people kept asking about Li Weide. Zhang San explained how Chinese wizarding families operated, and Dumbledore left admitting that he also wanted to prevent Grindelwald from joining forces with Li Weide’s family.

• Zhang San invited Dumbledore in, served him tea, and asked who Li Weide was and why so many people had questioned him.
• Dumbledore explained that Li Weide had supplied St Mungo’s with a Dragon Pox cure, leading others to suspect he had a powerful family behind him.
• Zhang San said he had met Li Weide only once in Diagon Alley and denied any connection to the missing Soviet Auror chief’s daughter.
• Dumbledore and Zhang San discussed Li Weide’s unusual abilities and the hidden, family-based structure of wizarding society in China.
• Dumbledore said he would tell others Zhang San was not connected to Li Weide’s family, but Zhang San doubted they would believe him.
• Zhang San pointed out that Dumbledore also wanted to stop Grindelwald from joining forces with Li Weide’s family, and Dumbledore admitted it.

Dumbledore found Li Weide at Iliana and Andrews’s home and questioned him about his trip to the Soviet Union, then learned Iliana had escaped her father. He offered to help Iliana enroll at Hogwarts and arrange legal identities for her and Andrews.

• Dumbledore learned from Vita that the Li Family rejected Grindelwald’s offer of cooperation, so Grindelwald decided to focus on Weide instead.
• Li Weide prepared to leave Iliana and Andrews’s home with Tom, but Tom revealed that he had told Dumbledore where to find them.
• Dumbledore arrived and identified Iliana as a Yuriev and Andrews as a wanted criminal, then asked Li Weide why he had traveled to the Soviet Union.
• Tom explained that Li Weide had gone to rescue Slytherin and brought Iliana back by accident, prompting Dumbledore to reprimand Li Weide for taking such risks.
• Iliana told Dumbledore that she had escaped after her father killed her mother, and Dumbledore offered to help her enroll as a transfer student and arrange legal identities for her and Andrews.

Dumbledore comforted Iliana and discussed how to help her pursue revenge without killing her father, while arranging for her to attend Hogwarts under a new name. He also considered accepting a position in the International Confederation of Wizards to oppose Grindelwald, leaving Li Weide to question whether Dumbledore should feel obliged to take on that responsibility.

• Dumbledore listened to Iliana's confession, comforted her, and promised that the adults would handle what came next.
• Dumbledore asked Li Weide whether he had encouraged Iliana to seek revenge, and Li Weide said he would help her bring her father down and send him to prison rather than kill him.
• Dumbledore and Li Weide discussed changing Iliana's name and enrolling her at Hogwarts as a transfer student.
• Dumbledore asked Li Weide about his future plans, and Li Weide said he intended to start a business rather than join the Ministry of Magic.
• Dumbledore told Li Weide that the International Confederation of Wizards had invited him to hold a seat, and Li Weide advised him that he should accept and oppose Grindelwald.
• Li Weide admitted that his earlier words about great power and responsibility had been moral blackmail, but Dumbledore replied that someone had to accept it for the world to improve.

Li Weide returned to the Safe House, put Tom Cat and Jerry to work making an animated series, and chose the Malfoy Family to represent him in dealings with the Pure-blood Families. Old Malfoy invested two hundred thousand Galleons in Li Weide’s research, prompting other families to pour in funds as well, and Li Weide began buying rare materials.

• Li Weide returned to the Safe House, stopped Toby from punishing himself, and watched Tom Cat and Jerry perform a piano duet.
• Li Weide told Tom Cat and Jerry to create an animated series, and Toby praised the idea as a way to keep them from wrecking the house.
• Li Weide ignored most of the Pure-blood Families’ letters and replied only to the Malfoy Family, intending to use Old Malfoy as his spokesman.
• Old Malfoy invested two hundred thousand Galleons in Li Weide’s research, and news of the Malfoy Family’s investment drew other Pure-blood Families to contribute funds.
• Toby brought Li Weide a receipt showing the accumulated deposits, and Li Weide sent him to buy research materials, including items the Malfoy Family might have in its vaults.

Li Weide advanced his Basilisk research and secured a deal with Ethiopia to establish a breeding farm, while Tom arrived at the Safe House before school began. Li Weide told Tom that their revolution and plans for the Hydra had to respond to society’s actual conditions rather than rely on imagined schemes.

• Li Weide used his new funding to pursue two ways of cultivating Basilisks, but his genome comparisons had found no snake closer than a viper at 89% similarity.
• Li Weide returned to the Safe House, where Tom Cat and Jerry worked on an animated-film manuscript for MGM, and read Professor Slughorn’s letter about Ethiopia’s breeding-farm agreement for ten thousand Galleons a year.
• Li Weide replied that the farm’s lack of short-term profits did not matter because they had plenty of money.
• Tom arrived with his suitcase, explaining that he would stay at the Safe House for convenient access to the Floo Network and that Iliana would travel to Hogwarts with Andrews.
• Tom asked Li Weide how he planned to begin the revolution and deal with the Hydra, and Li Weide said they needed to judge society’s conditions instead of repeating Grindelwald’s impractical adventurism.

Li Weide and Tom discussed educating students, recruiting Hydra members, and learning more about the Wizarding World before preparing for the new term. At Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Li Weide offered the Malfoys a chance to cooperate on a fast new broom, using the prospect of profit to attract other Pure-blood families.

• Li Weide told Tom that students needed proper values before they could understand revolution, and that they needed to experience the Wizarding World beyond school.
• Li Weide admitted that a powerful family stood behind him, while warning that it would not rescue him if he faced danger.
• Li Weide refused to recruit Hydra members until he could find a way to ensure their loyalty, and Tom suggested improving the Unbreakable Vow.
• Li Weide sent money to Professor Slughorn for preparations in Ethiopia, then discussed House-elves with Tom before the new term began.
• At Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Elder Malfoy pushed other Pure-blood Wizards aside, and Li Weide offered to cooperate with the Malfoys on his fast broom.

Li Weide boarded the Hogwarts Express with Abraxas and reunited with his friends, while Tom asked him to help keep Grace McLaggen away. The chapter left Li Weide teasing Tom about his romantic attention and turning back to chat with the girls.

• Old Malfoy celebrated the Malfoy Family’s new partnership with Li Weide and pushed through the crowd to help him board the train.
• Li Weide asked Abraxas to treat him as a comrade, and Abraxas joined Andre in helping him load his luggage.
• Li Weide reunited with Andre, learned Andre was Head Boy and Abraxas was a prefect, and reassured Andre that he had earned his position himself.
• Andre took Li Weide to a spacious compartment where Tom, Charlie, and Henry were waiting.
• Tom cast a sound-isolating spell and complained that Grace McLaggen kept asking him questions, prompting Li Weide to tease him about his romantic luck.
• Tom insisted women only slowed his casting speed, and Li Weide said he would rather talk with the girls than keep him company.

Li Weide teased Tom about Grace before discussing Andre’s future and the risks of bringing him into Hydra. After lifting the Muffling Charm, Li Weide welcomed Hagrid into the Mutual Aid Society, where Hagrid found acceptance among the students.

• Li Weide refused to help Tom deal with Grace, and the two argued over why girls had shown interest in Tom but not Li Weide.
• Tom asked what Andre would do after graduating, and Li Weide said he would travel the world and send monthly reports on the Wizarding communities he encountered.
• Li Weide worried that Andre’s loyalty to him alone could threaten Hydra if Andre did not share its principles, while Tom dismissed Li Weide’s fears about danger.
• Li Weide lifted the Muffling Charm, leaving Tom to face Grace, and Flitwick arrived with Hagrid.
• Li Weide introduced Hagrid to the Mutual Aid Society, whose members welcomed him; Flitwick encouraged Hagrid to join, and Hagrid introduced himself to the group.