Chapter Summaries

Li Weide welcomed Hagrid into the compartment, encouraged the others to make him feel at home, and bought snacks for the group as the Hogwarts Express departed. Annie told Li Weide that Grindelwald had investigated his supposed family and become wary, leaving Li Weide to consider how he could profit from the misunderstanding.

• Li Weide watched Flitwick and the others welcome Hagrid, who worried that he was too stupid to learn magic, and saw Flitwick reassure him.
• Li Weide bought all the trolley's snacks for the compartment, then watched the witch restock and wondered whether she was more than she seemed.
• Tom bought Annie's limited-edition Professor Dumbledore card, and the Hogwarts Express departed from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.
• Annie told Li Weide that Grindelwald's people had investigated his family, learned that the Li Family supposedly owned a mountain range, and been turned away.
• Li Weide told Annie to let Grindelwald see the information and realized that Grindelwald's wariness could make the supposed family connection a useful way to profit from Pure-blood Families.

Li Weide defended the Hogwarts Express after a giant attacked it, then faced the masked wizards behind the assault. He devastated their ranks with magic, leaving just over twenty of the hundreds standing.

• The Hogwarts Express made an emergency stop, and Li Weide caught his companions before they were injured.
• Li Weide found the locomotive smashed by a giant and ordered the students to evacuate while he confronted it.
• Li Weide turned the giant’s club into a python, then summoned a Stone Giant that knocked the giant unconscious.
• Masked wizards emerged from the fog and identified Li Weide as their target before attacking him.
• Li Weide used Stone Giants and a Weather Charm to strike down many attackers, then unleashed Ancient Magic that killed most of those who remained.

Li Weide faced more than twenty powerful masked wizards who seemed to be testing him, while the Mutual Aid Society gathered behind him and Annie sent a distress signal for Grindelwald. As the attackers launched a rapid barrage, Li Weide used five metal shards to block their spells and summoned a massive bolt of lightning.

• Li Weide realized the surviving masked wizards had dodged his ultimate spell and suspected they had come to test him rather than kill him.
• Flitwick, Tom, Annie, and other Mutual Aid Society members joined Li Weide, while Annie revealed she had sent a distress signal to Grindelwald.
• Andre and Abraxas arrived with upper-year students, and Li Weide told them to protect the others as he went to face the masked wizards alone.
• An elderly witch raised a powerful protective barrier around the students and described herself as skilled in support magic.
• The masked wizards attacked Li Weide with a coordinated barrage that he deflected, and he suspected they wanted to capture him alive.
• Li Weide accelerated the five metal shards around him to stop the next volley, then swung his wand and summoned a massive bolt of lightning.

Li Weide fought more than twenty hostile wizards, killing several while using Apparition, enchanted metal shards, a revolver, and illusions to evade their attacks. He trapped the survivors in an illusion that made them Apparate in place, then questioned whether their battle with him had even been real.

• Li Weide Apparated behind one wizard repeatedly, broke his Shield Charm with metal shards, and wounded him before blocking the others’ spells.
• Li Weide shot and killed a second wizard through conjured coin-shields, then used an Ancient Magic-enhanced Disillusionment Charm to kill a third with Sectumsempra.
• The frightened wizards tried to retreat, but their leader used the White Mist to locate Li Weide and ordered the others to attack him with Killing Curses.
• Li Weide used a phantom double and lightning cast from behind the wizards to confuse them and strike their group.
• The surviving wizards Apparated but reappeared where they started, and Li Weide told them their perceptions and even their memories of the fight might be illusions.

Li Weide outmaneuvered the fleeing wizards and captured their leader and the rest of the attackers. Dumbledore, Headmaster Dippet, the Aurors, healers, and Grindelwald arrived only after the battle was over.

• The lead wizard ordered the attackers to flee on broomsticks, but Li Weide used phantoms to defeat the two wizards who stayed behind.
• Tom and the others debated whether Li Weide's apparent body on the battlefield was real while Li Weide watched the fleeing leader.
• The attackers filled the sky with White Mist and tried to Apparate away, but Li Weide's spell sent them back in front of him, where he struck down their leader.
• The old Witch lowered the Protective Magic, and Li Weide had the Mutual Aid Society bind the captured wizards and the giant.
• Dumbledore, Headmaster Dippet, Ministry Aurors, St Mungo's healers, and Grindelwald's Followers arrived after the capture.

Li Weide explained why he wanted the students to fear and respect him, then joined Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Headmaster Dippet to investigate the coordinated attacks on the Hogwarts Express, Hogwarts, and the Ministry. The captured attackers had vanished from their tent after the Minister of Welfare ordered them taken to the Ministry, and Li Weide began questioning who had delivered the order.

• Tom warned Li Weide that killing the attackers would make his classmates fear and respect him, and Li Weide said he had deliberately shown off his strength to earn that reaction.
• Dumbledore checked Li Weide for injuries, and Headmaster Dippet confirmed the healers were treating injured students while the Aurors had survived.
• Dumbledore revealed that attackers had also struck Hogwarts and the Ministry, delaying him and Grindelwald from reaching the train.
• Grindelwald agreed to interrogate the captured attackers, but he and Li Weide found the prisoners missing from their guarded tent.
• An Auror said the Minister of Welfare had ordered the prisoners taken to the Ministry, and Li Weide asked who had conveyed the order.

After attackers targeted Li Weide on the Hogwarts Express, Dumbledore warned him that wealthy Pure-blood Families might be conspiring to seize his valuable secrets. Li Weide concealed his own plans, returned to Slytherin, and was left eager to exploit the confusion surrounding the attack.

• Grindelwald and Dumbledore pursued the people who had taken someone toward Hogwarts, while Li Weide stayed behind and learned that the mysterious witch Helora Paris had healed the seriously injured students.
• Li Weide and Tom discussed why criminals might target Li Weide for his inventions, and Li Weide insisted that he still needed to attend Hogwarts for their cause.
• Li Weide reached Hogwarts, joined the start-of-term feast, and told Dumbledore that the attackers had likely targeted him rather than the students; Dumbledore concluded that powerful people had joined forces to steal his secrets.
• Dumbledore told Li Weide to trust no one and keep using the Safe House during holidays, while Li Weide secretly resolved to use the attack and resulting confusion to his advantage.
• Li Weide returned to the Slytherin common room, where Iliana revealed that she had chosen Slytherin, and reassured his worried friends that the attackers had probably sought his secrets.
• Tom teased Li Weide that being his friend seemed more dangerous than being Li Weide, and Li Weide challenged Tom to keep considering himself a friend.

After Senior Sister gave Li Weide a detector and maps, she demanded that he search for Ancient Magic hotspots so she could escape her prison. She then brought Dumbledore into the dream to speak with him, leaving Li Weide and the professor face-to-face with her.

• Li Weide met Senior Sister in her garden, where she told him that accepting her original body had increased her magic.
• Senior Sister explained that she had watched Li Weide's battle and was frustrated that his Ancient Magic had barely advanced.
• Senior Sister gave Li Weide a hotspot detector and surveyed maps, ordering him to set out the next day to find enough Ancient Magic to free her.
• Li Weide agreed to go, and Senior Sister decided to speak with Dumbledore herself about her situation.
• Senior Sister pulled Dumbledore into the dream, where he approached her and Li Weide with a scrutinizing expression.

Li Weide and Senior Sister explained her plan to free herself from the residue in her body, and Dumbledore questioned the risks of using Li Weide as a temporary vessel. Li Weide decided to leave Hogwarts and use Nightmare Magic to conceal his absence, with Dumbledore arranging a banquet to gather everyone and keep Grindelwald away.

• Senior Sister revealed to Dumbledore that she had taught Li Weide Ancient Magic, then told him her story and plan to transfer the residue into Li Weide before moving it into prepared vessels.
• Dumbledore warned that absorbing the residue could endanger Li Weide, but Senior Sister said his Ancient Magic talent and self-control made him the best choice.
• Li Weide proposed using Nightmare Magic to make people believe he remained at Hogwarts while he was away, and Senior Sister explained how the spell could create that subconscious impression.
• Dumbledore agreed to give Li Weide a Special Contribution Award at the next night's banquet so he could cast the spell on everyone gathered there.
• Li Weide asked Dumbledore to keep Grindelwald away from Hogwarts during his absence, and Dumbledore agreed.

Li Weide recovered from the previous night’s battle and became the focus of admiration at Hogwarts, while Tom struggled with envy and his own ambitions. At the Special Contribution Award ceremony, Li Weide announced that he had already finished and began turning translucent.

• Li Weide learned that Hagrid had been sorted into Gryffindor and Eileen Prince into Slytherin, and read the Daily Prophet’s account of the attack.
• Tom urged Li Weide to use the Slytherin students’ admiration to promote the Mutual Aid Society, but Li Weide chose to let his reputation spread without making a speech.
• Li Weide entered the packed Slytherin Common Room and received cheers, while Professor Slughorn comforted the envious Tom.
• At the Great Hall ceremony, Headmaster Dippet handed Li Weide the Special Contribution Award trophy and told him to begin.
• Li Weide smiled and said he had already finished as his figure turned translucent before Headmaster Dippet.

Li Weide left Hogwarts through a hidden Floo Network station and set out with Slytherin, while Tom remained unaware that his friend was gone. Tom’s persistent feeling that he had forgotten something ended with him realizing the empty bed mattered, but he still did not recall why.

• Dumbledore warned Li Weide that Senior Sister might be using him, but Li Weide insisted she could be trusted and departed through the Floo Network.
• Li Weide met Slytherin at a hidden station in the Forbidden Forest, where Slytherin explained Dumbledore had arranged a safe route back to school.
• Li Weide used a map and directional watch from Senior Sister to guide his broomstick journey, with Slytherin riding along.
• Flitwick asked Tom to invite Li Weide to guide the Duelling Club, and neither Flitwick nor Tom realized Li Weide had already left.
• Tom went to the dormitory, forgot why he had gone there, and later sat up in distress, insisting he had forgotten something important.

Li Weide and Slytherin finished exploring Ancient Magic hotspots, but masked wizards delivered a new map that delayed their return. At Hogwarts, Tom sought Dumbledore’s help for his persistent sense that he had forgotten something, then discovered his course selection form was blank.

• Li Weide escaped an ancient wizard’s tomb with Slytherin, studied its Rune Stones, and marked their final mapped destination as complete.
• Li Weide and Slytherin prepared to leave on a Flying Carpet, but masked wizards delivered another map, prompting Li Weide to change course.
• Tom visited Dumbledore because he kept feeling he had forgotten important things, and Dumbledore examined him before attributing the feeling to stress.
• Tom left Dumbledore’s office planning to rest, then Little Lantern’s question about Li Weide made him find a blank course selection form in his schoolbag.

Tom used Occlumency to resist a strange effect that erased his thoughts of Li Weide, but he eventually forgot what he was trying to remember and began wondering where Li Weide had gone. Meanwhile, Li Weide traveled by Flying Carpet with Slytherin and tested whether incense could be used by ghosts.

• Tom realized that thinking about Li Weide triggered memory loss, so he used Occlumency to replace the name with Friend W.
• Tom stood up during Professor Binns's lecture, blamed it on a dream about a Graphorn, and later collapsed after trying to think about Li Weide again.
• Tom woke in History of Magic, could not recall what he had been thinking about, and wondered where Li Weide had gone.
• Li Weide and Slytherin continued their journey on the Flying Carpet while Li Weide worked on research and Slytherin avoided Muggle aircraft and radar.
• Li Weide lit incense for Slytherin to test, and Slytherin noticed that green smoke passing through him behaved strangely.

Li Weide discovered that incense let Slytherin enjoy food as a ghost, while Tom found that everyone and everything seemed to have forgotten Li Weide. Tom turned to Dumbledore for help, but Dumbledore also asked who Li Weide was.

• Li Weide gave Slytherin incense, and Slytherin used its smoke to conjure food that he could taste as a ghost.
• Tom found that Annie did not remember Li Weide, and the Daily Prophet article about him had been replaced by another story.
• Tom discovered that Li Weide's bed and cabinet were empty, and Henry said their dormitory had always been one person short.
• Tom found the Lantern Ghoul outside Dumbledore's office, but it denied knowing Li Weide and called Tom “the great Lord Riddle.”
• Tom asked Dumbledore where Li Weide had gone, and Dumbledore asked who Li Weide was.

Tom questioned whether Li Weide had ever existed after Dumbledore failed to recognize him, then began to suspect that the world itself had changed. He left Dumbledore’s office determined to bring Lord Weide back.

• Tom told Dumbledore about Li Weide, and Dumbledore found the account detailed despite having no memory of the student.
• Tom suspected a curse had implanted false memories after he fainted during History of Magic, but recalling the Lantern Ghoul revealed that he knew how to make Puppet Armor and Lantern Ghouls.
• Dumbledore examined Tom and found no sign of a curse, then offered to inspect his memories in the Pensieve.
• Tom noticed Dumbledore had kept a September first newspaper and questioned whether something important had happened that day.
• Tom viewed a copied memory in the Pensieve, where Li Weide’s battle was absent, then left Dumbledore’s office insisting he would bring Lord Weide back.

Tom discovered that everyone at Hogwarts remembered Li Weide’s past as Tom’s own, then vanished during the night. Dumbledore resisted a sudden change in his memories and recognized Li Weide in the newspaper, while Li Weide learned Tom was missing and began tracing the magic affecting him.

• Tom found that the Slytherin password was “Equality” and that the Mutual Aid Society’s history, including Iliana’s rescue, was attributed to him instead of Li Weide.
• Tom told Annie and the others that a curse had been lifted, then went to bed and slipped out of the dormitory while invisible at three in the morning.
• Li Weide’s image replaced the Ministry official’s photograph in the September 1st newspaper, and Dumbledore used Occlumency to preserve his memories as they changed.
• Slytherin told Li Weide that Tom had gone missing, and Li Weide began drawing runes to investigate the magic affecting him.
• Li Weide reasoned that letters and anyone approaching Tom would have their memories and senses altered, suggesting that Tom carried an effect that made people forget Li Weide.

Li Weide prepared to find Tom despite the risk that Nightmare Magic might affect him, and went to seek someone who understood the magic. Tom left Hogwarts to investigate the curse, then realized Dumbledore was affected by it whenever he came near him.

• Li Weide told Slytherin he was only fifty percent sure he could remove the Nightmare Magic and considered the possibility that it could erase him.
• Li Weide told Fawkes to wait and planned to consult someone knowledgeable about Nightmare Magic before seeking Tom.
• Tom left Riddle Manor to visit the Safe House and find out whether Toby had also forgotten Li Weide.
• Tom encountered Dumbledore at a wizarding inn, where Dumbledore said he had come to check on him and then forgot his second reason.
• Tom noticed Dumbledore fighting the curse and concluded that the magic affected people when they came close to him.

Li Weide learned from Senior Sister that Tom’s resistance to Nightmare Magic came from his deep emotional attachment to him, a factor Li Weide’s analysis had overlooked. Realizing Tom regarded him as a close friend, Li Weide left with a clearer sense of how to save him, while Senior Sister urged him to hurry back and free her.

• Senior Sister told Li Weide that Dumbledore’s attempt to approach Tom using Occlumency had failed because the curse altered his memories and even his reason for resisting it.
• Senior Sister explained that emotions could amplify magic and that Li Weide’s distrust had made him overlook how strongly Tom cared about him.
• Senior Sister recounted how Li Weide had helped Tom and argued that Tom’s deep feelings had changed the Nightmare Magic, making him the only Hogwarts victim to recognize that something was wrong.
• Li Weide reconsidered his relationship with Tom and realized Senior Sister’s explanation was right.
• Li Weide asked how to save Tom, and Senior Sister told him he already knew the answer and demanded that he hurry back to let her out.

Tom tried to escape the curse by staying away from people, but Li Weide tracked him down and was briefly affected when he approached. Li Weide recovered his memories and revealed that he still considered himself Tom’s godfather, leaving Tom stunned.

• Li Weide returned to his Goblin Workshop after Senior Sister offered him the workshop and her servants in exchange for her freedom.
• Tom went to a coastal inn and reasoned that his curse affected people within about five meters, then panicked that Li Weide might be harmed if he approached.
• Li Weide arrived at Tom’s room, but Tom Apparated away before they could speak.
• Li Weide tracked Tom to a reef, approached him, and briefly acted as though he had lost his memories.
• Tom tried to flee again, but Li Weide recovered and called himself Tom’s godfather, telling Tom to call him Dad.

Li Weide explained to Tom that his runaway Nightmare Magic had made Tom believe he was cursed and concealed Li Weide’s absence from Hogwarts. He revealed that he had used the magic to leave school and rescue Senior Sister, while Tom learned Dumbledore had approved the plan and the curse was gone.

• Li Weide told Tom that his curse had been lifted, and Tom waited for Dumbledore to confirm it.
• Tom confronted Li Weide about using magic on him, and Dumbledore admitted he had agreed to the plan.
• Dumbledore explained that Li Weide had been targeted after the Dragon Pox potion formula was released, so his magic made the school believe he was still present while he left to rescue Senior Sister.
• Li Weide explained that Tom’s strong emotions had amplified the Nightmare Magic until it ran wild, spread to Dumbledore, and altered their memories and perceptions.
• Li Weide said he dispelled the magic by invoking a father-son bond stronger than Tom’s feelings of friendship, leaving Tom furious but unable to challenge him.