Chapter Summaries

Grindelwald revealed that the Purifiers had targeted the Riddle Family because of Li Weide’s magical products, so the family moved into the Safe House while Li Weide settled his animals in Newt’s suitcase and began building a castle inside it. Meanwhile, Nagini was cornered by a group of Dark Wizards, but as she prepared to Apparate, her teacher appeared.

• Grindelwald explained that the Purifiers had noticed the Riddle Family’s business, and Li Weide helped arrange for the family to hide in the Safe House.
• Grindelwald declined Li Weide’s help with the investigation, while Andrews kept the Riddle Family’s affairs running from their new refuge.
• Li Weide brought Tom Cat, Jerry, and Alduin to Hogwarts, placed them in Newt’s suitcase, and began building a castle inside it.
• A group of Dark Wizards tracked Nagini into the woods and pursued her, forcing her to disguise herself and hide among them.
• A Dark Wizard recognized Nagini’s smell and raised an alarm, but Nagini’s teacher appeared as she prepared to Apparate.

Miravia rescued Nagini from a group of Dark Wizards and sent the sleeping attackers to Li Weide, while Li Weide sought loyal House-elves for his secret work. After reflecting on her own future, Nagini said she planned to travel and then return to Li Weide.

• Miravia put Nagini’s attackers to sleep, learned they had targeted Nagini because of her work capturing Dark Wizards, and sent them to Li Weide rather than killing them.
• Li Weide asked Toby to find abandoned House-elves, explaining that he had a way to redirect their loyalty with Nightmare Magic.
• Li Weide visited the Goblin Workshop and found that Miravia had delivered a group of Dark Wizards for him to use.
• Miravia told Nagini she had not yet decided what to do with her new freedom, and Nagini said she would rest, travel, and eventually return to Li Weide.

Li Weide recruited twenty-seven abandoned House-elves by using Nightmare Magic to alter their perceptions, then put Toby in charge of them as they worked on the Moving Castle. Over the following months, Andre joined Hydra, Grindelwald advanced his investigation of the Purifiers, and Li Weide took the elves to Africa to help raise Basilisks.

• Li Weide used Nightmare Magic to make twenty-seven House-elves follow him, then introduced them to Toby as their new boss.
• Miravia and Nagini spotted Li Weide with the elves in Diagon Alley; Miravia decided to seek a position in the Department of Mysteries so she could explore it, and Nagini agreed to train with her.
• Toby managed the House-elves as they inscribed runes throughout the Moving Castle, freeing Li Weide to focus more on club affairs and help students improve their practical assessment results.
• During Christmas break, Andre passed Li Weide's ideological assessment and became Hydra's third member, while Grindelwald uncovered clues linking old unsolved cases to the Purifiers.
• After the break, Li Weide's research progressed, the Basilisk breeding farm was completed, and he took Professor Slughorn and the House-elves to Africa to raise Basilisks.

Li Weide and Professor Slughorn secured a concealed tract of land in Ethiopia and began establishing a research base there. Slughorn started setting up a Potions laboratory, while Li Weide considered how to expand the workforce without revealing his enslaved wizards.

• Li Weide and Professor Slughorn signed a contract with the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic, paying five thousand Galleons a year for a vast, hidden territory.
• After reaching Ethiopia, Slughorn told Li Weide that the loose restrictions on the land would let him conduct potion experiments he had long wanted to try.
• Li Weide brought Slughorn to the plain and summoned more than twenty House-elves, who unpacked supplies and installed giant Vanishing Cabinets linking the site to Britain.
• Li Weide had the House-elves build Slughorn a Potions laboratory near the river, and Slughorn enthusiastically directed the work.
• By evening, the House-elves had built several buildings, and Li Weide decided he would eventually need more workers but could not use his enslaved wizards around Slughorn.

Li Weide struck a bargain with Slytherin to help raise Basilisks in Africa, offering Tom purified Magic Power in return. After showing Slytherin his potion-assisted supply of Rooster Eggs, Li Weide sent him through the Vanishing Cabinet to begin work.

• Li Weide chose to start by breeding young Basilisks rather than cloning the thousand-year-old Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets.
• Slytherin refused to go to Africa until Li Weide offered Tom purified Magic Power as payment for his help.
• Li Weide showed Slytherin pale green Rooster Eggs produced using a Gender-bending Potion and specialized feed.
• Slytherin took a basket of Rooster Eggs and traveled through the suitcase's Vanishing Cabinet to Africa, disguising himself from Professor Slughorn.

Li Weide gave Tom a capsule of Pure Magic Power in front of Slytherin, and Tom gained a tremendous boost despite the frightening experience of swallowing it. After testing Tom’s new abilities, Li Weide said he intended to share the power with other trusted people, while making clear that he considered himself far stronger than they were.

• Li Weide made Tom swallow a fist-sized capsule containing Pure Magic Power while Slytherin watched, and Tom feared he was choking.
• Tom recovered and realized the power had greatly strengthened his magic, while Li Weide admitted he had used Tom to gather experimental data.
• Slytherin defended Li Weide by recalling the pain he had endured to obtain the power, and Tom apologized for doubting him.
• Tom tested his enhanced abilities and found that he could cast spells, including the Patronus Charm, with ease.
• Slytherin returned to Africa satisfied, and Li Weide told Tom he planned to give Pure Magic Power to other trusted people.
• Tom wondered at Li Weide’s strength after hearing that the power would benefit him far less, while Li Weide privately felt he had successfully reminded Tom to fear him.

Li Weide strengthened his trusted companions with improved Pure Magic Power capsules and continued refining the Hogyoku. When Ravenclaw's Diadem spoke of the Philosopher's Stone and hinted at its identity, Li Weide summoned the old man to help explain.

• Li Weide gave Pure Magic Power capsules to Andre Shafiq, Annie Rosier, Iliana Yuriev, Filius Flitwick, Grace McLaggen, and Rubeus Hagrid, reassuring Hagrid that he had great potential.
• The companions took the improved capsules and found their magical abilities greatly increased, while Tom received their gratitude for helping develop the formula.
• Li Weide assigned Tom and Andre to guide the new recruits into Hydra, then returned to work on the Moving Castle and the Hogyoku's purification process.
• After reducing purification losses to thirty percent, Li Weide heard a voice from Ravenclaw's Diadem say that the Philosopher's Stone was more suitable than sapphire.
• When Li Weide asked who was speaking, the voice gave an unclear reply, so he summoned Toby and sent him to bring the old man from Ethiopia to Ms. Paris's office.

Li Weide learned that the Ravenclaw Diadem contained a thinking consciousness created from Ravenclaw’s memories and knowledge, which had awakened through his magic. After confirming it could learn from him without reading his hidden secrets, he decided to keep the diadem and use it to develop new ideas.

• Slytherin and Hufflepuff explained that Ravenclaw had placed an intelligent consciousness in her diadem, much like the one in the Sorting Hat.
• Hufflepuff suggested that the magic Li Weide released when he freed Miravia had reactivated the diadem’s dormant consciousness.
• Li Weide, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin each put on the diadem and confirmed that its consciousness could respond to them.
• The consciousness told Li Weide that it had fully awakened while helping him improve the Hogyoku and had copied the knowledge he used.
• After learning that the consciousness would not read his secrets, Li Weide chose to keep the diadem and ask it to help him innovate.

Miravia used Nightmare Magic to get herself and Nagini admitted as Unspeakables, then learned that the Department of Mysteries studied love behind a locked door. At Hogwarts, Li Weide showed Tom and Annie his shrinking flying castle and invited them to live with him in a future Sky City.

• Miravia altered the Department of Mysteries Head’s perceptions, allowing her and Nagini to pass the recruitment examination without undergoing Legilimency.
• The Head showed Miravia and Nagini the Department’s circular hall and research library, and told them to study its projects for a month before choosing one.
• Miravia asked about a locked door, and the Head revealed that it concealed the power of love and could only be opened once that power was understood.
• In Li Weide’s trunk, Tom and Annie examined his miniature flying castle, and Li Weide explained that it could shrink and return to its original size.
• Li Weide said he planned to turn the castle into a Sky City where his comrades could live, then asked whether Tom would stand with him above the heavens.

As the school year ended, Li Weide prepared to leave the Safe House and move his completed castle out of his suitcase. With Lucifer powering it, the castle rose into the sky and cloaked itself, beginning its flight.

• Li Weide waited for Ms. Paris before leaving Hogwarts and told her she could visit his home while entrusting Grindelwald to her care.
• On the Hogwarts Express, Li Weide gave Andre Shafiq a black ring and discussed providing him with operating funds.
• After reaching the station, Li Weide left the Safe House and used Mithril to create a magic circle on a hilltop.
• Li Weide and Lucifer activated the castle inside the suitcase, transferred it onto the hilltop, and restored it to full size.
• Lucifer powered the castle as it took off from the hill and disappeared under a magical cloak.

Li Weide invited Miravia and Nagini to visit his new home, sending them enchanted rings that led to his castle in the sky. After they arrived, he welcomed them to his Moving Castle.

• Li Weide checked that the castle’s systems were stable, then sent Tom’s owl with a letter inviting Miravia and Nagini to visit.
• Miravia and Nagini discussed the Department of Mysteries’ sealed door and wondered whether Li Weide could explain the power of love.
• Miravia received Li Weide’s letter and discovered that its two circles were enchanted rings that displayed directions to his home.
• Miravia and Nagini activated the rings outside the Ministry of Magic and Apparated to a garden beside a sheer drop into the clouds.
• Li Weide greeted them and revealed that his home was a Moving Castle floating high above the ground.

Li Weide welcomed Miravia and Nagini into his flying castle, hoping to recruit Miravia while giving them a home. Over lunch, Miravia asked Li Weide about love magic and the locked door at the Department of Mysteries, leaving him wondering whether he himself understood love.

• Miravia admired Li Weide’s flying castle, and he showed her how he could make her favorite flowers bloom before offering her a place to stay.
• Nagini persuaded Miravia to settle into the castle, and Li Weide assigned rooms to both women and arranged for House-elves to help care for them.
• Over lunch, Nagini revealed that she and Miravia had become Unspeakables so Miravia could investigate a locked door in the Department of Mysteries.
• Miravia asked Li Weide to help open the door, which required understanding love, but he explained that he had only guided his friend toward recognizing familial love.
• Li Weide suggested that Miravia ask Dumbledore about love magic, then privately wondered whether he himself was someone who did not understand love.

Li Weide removed the remaining Residue from Miravia and secretly restored her strength with Pure Magic Power from the Hogyoku. He admitted he wanted her to join his cause and urged her to pursue a grand, turbulent life with him.

• Li Weide and Miravia improved the castle's concealment and changed the Hydra Rings so their holders could return to the castle like using Portkeys.
• Miravia asked Li Weide to remove the Residue still affecting her, fearing she might lose control and absorb too much again.
• Li Weide drew the Residue from Miravia and, despite her refusal, infused her with Pure Magic Power from the Hogyoku until her strength returned and increased.
• Li Weide told Miravia that he had deliberately made her owe him more because he wanted her to join his cause.
• Li Weide challenged Miravia's wish to live quietly and invited her to help him turn the whole world upside down.

Tom left his family to visit Li Weide, only to arrive in the path of a Killing Curse during Miravia’s combat lesson. After Li Weide demonstrated a deadly new Basilisk-inspired spell and offered to teach it, Tom refused because he no longer used Dark Arts.

• Tom said goodbye to the Riddles and used his ring to teleport to Li Weide.
• Miravia’s Killing Curse flew past Tom when he arrived at the Moving Castle, leaving him too frightened to move.
• Li Weide apologized and offered Tom a powerful spell as compensation, while Tom demanded to learn the strongest one.
• Li Weide demonstrated a spell that summoned a phantom serpent whose rays turned targets to stone and shattered them.
• Li Weide explained that the spell would kill anyone it struck, and Tom judged it an Unforgivable Curse before refusing to learn it.

Li Weide taught Tom Soul Magic after Tom agreed not to use Dark Arts, repeatedly warning him against splitting his soul. As Li Weide demonstrated soul puppets, Toby delivered a letter from Grindelwald revealing that he had found the Purifiers' hiding place.

• Tom asked Li Weide and Miravia to teach him Nightmare Magic, but they refused because it was Dark Arts.
• Li Weide offered to teach Tom complete Soul Magic and warned him that splitting his soul could weaken his magic and cause a backlash.
• Li Weide learned Soul Magic from Ravenclaw's Diadem and used the lesson to steer Tom away from damaging his soul.
• Over the following week, Li Weide taught Soul Magic to Tom, Miravia, and Nagini, emphasizing the dangers of soul-splitting.
• Li Weide demonstrated two soul wolves that attacked a target, then explained how soul puppets could be created with Soul Magic.
• Toby delivered Grindelwald's letter, and Li Weide learned that Grindelwald had found the Purifiers' hiding place.

Li Weide, Tom, Miravia, and Nagini joined Grindelwald’s operation against the Purifiers, while Dumbledore arrived to keep the raid from endangering innocents. Tom insisted on fighting and was assigned to the eastern attack, with Miravia promising to stay by his side.

• Li Weide told Miravia and the others that Grindelwald had found the attackers, and Tom vowed to send them to Azkaban.
• Grindelwald gathered his Followers of Grindelwald at a Muggle house and planned a coordinated raid on the Purifiers.
• Dumbledore arrived to oversee the operation and challenge Grindelwald’s authority and planned methods.
• Li Weide brought Tom, Miravia, and Nagini to the base, and Tom insisted on joining the fight despite Dumbledore’s concerns.
• Miravia agreed to protect Tom, and Grindelwald assigned him to the eastern attack after warning him to obey orders.

Grindelwald’s Aurors attacked a hidden Purifier settlement, but the enemy force proved far larger and more elite than expected. Tom joined the battle recklessly, then took cover behind Miravia as she fought through the attackers.

• Grindelwald’s Followers set a Confundus Charm and an Anti-Apparition Charm around the Purifiers’ territory, then started fires to force the wizards out.
• Over a hundred armed wizards emerged from the settlement and exchanged Blasting Curses with Grindelwald’s Aurors, revealing that the Purifiers were stronger than expected.
• Tom charged into the battle, but a Killing Curse nearly struck him until he raised an earthen wall; Dumbledore ordered him and Li Weide to stay behind cover.
• Miravia and Nagini took cover behind an earthen wall, while Miravia deflected incoming spells and defeated several opponents.
• Tom rushed behind Miravia to practice his magic during the battle, and he and Li Weide warned each other not to steal their kills.

Tom learned to fight more carefully under Li Weide’s guidance as Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Li Weide joined the battle against the formidable Purifiers. The chapter left Li Weide unleashing Lucifer’s giant fire serpent against the enemy while Tom began using his abilities effectively.

• Li Weide pulled Miravia away from Tom, forcing Tom to face enemy fire and recognize the danger of the battlefield.
• Miravia moved behind Li Weide, whose defensive strength made her uneasy, and Tom retreated with Nagini into the group’s formation.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald advanced to confront the Purifiers, and Li Weide joined them before calling Tom forward to learn from their example.
• Li Weide taught Tom to target a weakened enemy, and Tom knocked a Purifier down with rapid attacks and Soul Magic that pierced a Shield Charm.
• Li Weide unleashed Lucifer as a giant serpent of fire, burning enemies to ashes, while thunder began rumbling overhead.

Li Weide and his allies defeated the Purifiers, and Grindelwald learned they had attacked to capture Li Weide and use his supposed ability to remove magic from all wizards. Li Weide suspected the attack had been engineered to provoke Grindelwald, and he ended the chapter preparing to explain a strange clue he had found.

• Li Weide, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald shattered the Purifiers' formation with a Weather Charm, and their allies overwhelmed the enemy.
• Li Weide used Legilimency on the prisoners and discovered that they were all pure-blooded Englishmen, then found a troubling clue by examining them with his wand.
• Grindelwald returned with the Purifier leaders and explained that they had attacked after hearing Li Weide could purify bloodlines and turn wizards into ordinary people.
• Grindelwald said the Purifiers had confirmed Nagini was a cured Maledictus after seeing her fight Dark Wizards, which convinced them Li Weide's ability was real.
• Li Weide suspected someone had arranged for the Purifiers to attack publicly so Grindelwald would crush them, and he said he had found another strange detail.

Li Weide discovered that the Purifiers’ surging magic came at the cost of their life force, suggesting they had been used to mislead Grindelwald. After the Ministry blamed Pure-blood wizards and rewarded Li Weide, he began studying the dangerous magic traces while Miravia and Tom received their own gifts.

• Li Weide told Grindelwald that the subdued Purifiers were near death and that their magic had rapidly declined, leading Grindelwald to suspect their strength had been temporarily boosted at a severe cost.
• Grindelwald decided to let the Pure-blood wizards take the blame for now, though he resolved to pursue whoever had manipulated events, and Dumbledore warned Li Weide to stay indoors because he had been the original target.
• Li Weide returned to the Moving Castle and mapped the magic traces from the Purifiers, hoping to find a way to remove the life-draining effects of their power.
• The Daily Prophet reported that Pure-blood wizards had orchestrated the Hogwarts Express attack, while the Ministry sent Li Weide a box of Magic Manuscripts as a reward.
• Miravia showed Li Weide her appointment as Deputy Director of the Department of Mysteries, and Tom arrived with Combat Memories from Grindelwald’s Followers and asked Li Weide to buy a Pensieve.