Chapter Summaries

Li Weide defeated Grindelwald in their sparring match, then negotiated with him over their shared opposition to the International Statute of Secrecy. Grindelwald agreed to talk, though he warned that Dumbledore would oppose their goal.

• Grindelwald escalated his attack by casting spells from across his body, but Li Weide split his counterattacking spells to match the assault.
• Li Weide used a turning spell to force Grindelwald to Apparate, then exploited the opening to deceive him and appear behind him with a wand at his lower back.
• Grindelwald conceded defeat, and Li Weide said that he had won through luck while acknowledging Grindelwald had held back.
• Abernathy and Tom reacted with shock as Grindelwald and Li Weide put away their wands and sat down to talk.
• Grindelwald asked whether Li Weide would become his enemy, and Li Weide said they shared a goal of confronting the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Grindelwald warned that Dumbledore would oppose making the International Statute of Secrecy ineffective.

Li Weide and Grindelwald agreed that the wizarding world needed greater strength and unity before confronting the Muggles or abolishing the International Statute of Secrecy. As Li Weide built ties with Nicolas Flamel, Dumbledore revealed that Li Weide’s cat, mouse, and dog had been listed as next year’s students.

• Li Weide told Grindelwald that wizards needed enough strength before abolishing the International Statute of Secrecy, and Grindelwald admitted that his earlier plans had underestimated Muggle power.
• Li Weide told Tom that he and Grindelwald were merely using each other, then explained that the wizarding world first needed to unify and strengthen its fighting force.
• Grindelwald proposed policies to encourage wizarding couples to have more children and resolved to unify the wizarding world while waiting for its population to grow.
• Li Weide devoted the final months of term to alchemy and impressed Nicolas Flamel through their correspondence.
• Dumbledore told Li Weide that Nicolas Flamel had invited him to visit, then revealed that Tom, Jerry, and Spike appeared on the Book of Admittance’s list of incoming students.

Li Weide explained how Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike became magical and won Dumbledore’s support for his research, while Tom reflected on Li Weide’s growing influence and his own fading ambitions. After the school year ended, Miravia and Nagini welcomed Li Weide at King’s Cross, and he began considering ways to obtain a Muggle car.

• Li Weide told Dumbledore that Tom Cat had drunk an experimental potion meant to cure Squibs, and Dumbledore praised his research and offered help.
• At the end-of-term feast, Tom watched Li Weide encourage Mutual Aid Society graduates and recognized how Li Weide’s network was expanding through businesses and the Ministry of Magic.
• Li Weide asked Tom about his dreams, and Tom admitted that he no longer expected to defeat Li Weide but did not want to become his enemy.
• Li Weide and Tom discussed how uncertain the future was before they left Hogwarts for summer holiday.
• Miravia and Nagini met Li Weide at King’s Cross Station, while Tom left with his family’s car.
• Li Weide joked about Tom’s inherited wealth, then considered buying a car and thought of Mr. Weasley and Mr. LeMay’s interest in Muggle inventions.

Li Weide returned to the Moving Castle and learned that Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike had been admitted to Hogwarts. After settling the castle outside London, he tried to take Miravia for a drive, but sped off before the three animals could get in.

• Li Weide told Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike that Dumbledore had arranged for them to attend Hogwarts, and they cheered at the news.
• Li Weide anchored the Moving Castle outside London, where he planned to refine its accumulated magical power and prepare a gift for Nicolas Flamel.
• Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike brought out a car, and Li Weide invited Miravia to ride with him while he learned to drive.
• Li Weide discovered the car had no gasoline, and Tom Cat filled its tank before Li Weide started driving.
• Li Weide accelerated through the garden gate with Miravia in the car, leaving Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike behind.

Li Weide explained that he was modifying a car as a gift for Nicolas Flamel, and Miravia agreed to advise him. A week later, she tested the modified car and discovered that its consciousness, Draaman, gave wildly suggestive driving instructions before taking control to prevent a crash.

• Li Weide told Miravia he planned to modify a car for Nicolas Flamel, whom Dumbledore intended to introduce him to.
• Miravia offered advice but said Li Weide should do the actual work, and he brought the car to the laboratory to work with the research puppets.
• After a week, Li Weide showed Miravia the modified car and introduced its consciousness, Draaman, which could drive autonomously.
• Miravia chose to drive herself, but Draaman gave her suggestive instructions that made Li Weide suspect a problem with its Soul Imprint.
• The car lurched through the garden gates toward a tree, and Draaman took control at the last moment to stop it.
• Li Weide hurried away with the car to modify it again, while Miravia watched him go and realized something was wrong.

Li Weide discovered that Draaman’s vulgar consciousness had been created from his own Soul Imprint, then received Dumbledore in the castle and discussed their bonds of family and an upcoming visit to Nicolas Flamel. Dumbledore reassured him that Flamel would welcome the alchemically modified car he had prepared as a gift.

• Li Weide and Weide Two realized Draaman’s consciousness had been formed from Li Weide’s own Soul Imprint, and Li Weide ordered Weide Two to keep Draaman’s vulgar behavior in check.
• Toby informed Li Weide that Dumbledore had arrived, and Li Weide joined Dumbledore and Nagini in the sitting room.
• Li Weide told Dumbledore that he considered his friends and Hogwarts his family, and Dumbledore offered to be part of that family.
• Dumbledore said Nicolas Flamel was in France and that they could visit him whenever Li Weide was ready.
• Li Weide explained that he planned to give Flamel a car modified through alchemy, and Dumbledore said the gift suited Flamel’s interest in assessing Li Weide’s alchemical skill.

Li Weide showed Dumbledore his magically modified car, then traveled with him to France to meet the alchemist Nicolas Flamel. The chapter ended with Li Weide and Flamel meeting at Flamel’s hidden manor and beginning their long-awaited acquaintance.

• Li Weide demonstrated Draaman’s flying car to Dumbledore, who approved of its features but cautioned him to use its lethal combat mode carefully.
• Dumbledore and Li Weide left the Moving Castle in the improved car, while Miravia returned to sleep, Nagini went to train, and Toby put Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike to work.
• Draaman carried Li Weide and Dumbledore through occupied France to Nicolas Flamel’s concealed manor, where a shabby building opened to reveal the estate.
• Li Weide admired Flamel’s metallic puppet as it guided them through the manor grounds to the garden.
• Dumbledore introduced Li Weide to Nicolas Flamel, and Li Weide greeted the alchemist with a careful handshake.

Miravia went to the Ministry of Magic out of boredom while Nagini took Tom Cat, Spike, and Jerry to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies and clothes. After Nagini left Mr. Malkin’s shop, Spike tracked her scent out of Diagon Alley and found it vanished at the entrance to a secluded alley.

• Miravia decided to visit the Department of Mysteries, while Nagini stayed behind to take The Trio to Diagon Alley for supplies.
• At Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel’s home, Dumbledore spoke with Perenelle about longevity, death, and reuniting with departed friends.
• Nagini Apparated to Diagon Alley with Tom Cat, Spike, and Jerry, where they bought supplies and arranged for Mr. Malkin to tailor their clothes.
• When Nagini did not return to the shop, Spike left to search for her and followed her scent through the Leaky Cauldron into the Muggle world.
• Spike lost Nagini’s scent at the entrance to a secluded alley and wondered why she had left Diagon Alley.

Nagini woke imprisoned by a woman who wanted to learn how she broke the Maledictus blood curse, and learned the woman’s group had controlled the Pure-blood Families behind the Purifiers’ attack. After Toby alerted Li Weide that Nagini had been captured, Li Weide left Nicolas Flamel’s manor to find her, and Nicolas offered to guide him with divination.

• Nagini woke unable to move or transform and realized an unknown attacker had captured her after controlling her with the Imperius Curse.
• A woman revealed that her group wanted to study how Nagini had broken the Bloodline Curse and had controlled the Pure-blood Families that incited the Purifiers.
• The woman admitted she hated light and left Nagini trapped in darkness.
• Toby sent Li Weide a message through the Hydra Ring that Nagini seemed to have been captured.
• Li Weide told Dumbledore and the Flamels he had to leave at once, and Nicolas Flamel returned with a crystal ball to help him find her.

Li Weide and Dumbledore discovered that Nagini had been abducted under an Imperius Curse by a witch with scarlet eyes, whom Miravia identified as a High Vampire. Miravia arrived with a captured werewolf who knew where the vampires lived, giving them a lead to rescue Nagini.

• Nicolas Flamel's crystal ball briefly showed Nagini being held in a culture dish, but an unknown force interfered with his divination.
• Li Weide learned that Toby had sent word about Nagini's disappearance on the day it happened, though time had passed differently at Nicolas Flamel's manor.
• Li Weide and Dumbledore used Prior Incantato in the alley to see Nagini enter under a witch's control before the witch Apparated away with her.
• Miravia arrived with a bruised werewolf and identified the cloaked witch as a High Vampire with scarlet eyes.
• Miravia explained that she had subdued the werewolf, who could lead them to the vampires' lair.

Li Weide questioned a werewolf aboard his magically enlarged flying car and learned how true vampires and werewolves concealed themselves and sustained their races. The werewolf revealed that his kind abducted human children to turn them into fully accepting werewolves, leaving Li Weide furious and determined to learn more.

• Li Weide took Miravia, Dumbledore, and the werewolf into his flying car and asked the werewolf about vampires.
• The werewolf explained that vampires had four ranks: blood slaves, lesser vampires, higher vampires, and ancient Blood Ancestors, and that their small numbers kept them hidden.
• Li Weide realized vampires might be targeting him and Nagini because their race had difficulty reproducing.
• The werewolf explained that werewolves spread through bites but secretly abducted human children to transform them and teach them to accept their werewolf identity.
• The werewolf said fully accepting werewolves could transform at will, while those who resisted were forced to transform during full moons and lost their reason.

Li Weide questioned a captured werewolf about the Werewolf King and the High Vampires, learning that Camilla might have taken Nagini and that vampires possessed powerful abilities but remained few in number. He decided to pursue the vampires’ approximate stronghold and suspected their interest in Nagini and the Bloodline Curse was tied to expanding their population.

• Li Weide learned that werewolves revered a single Werewolf King and that the captured werewolf was one of his sons.
• The werewolf named Camilla, Nosferatu, and Leoncourt as the three frequently active High Vampires and described Camilla as a cunning vampire who targeted young women.
• Li Weide and Dumbledore suspected Camilla had taken Nagini, and Li Weide decided to investigate a roughly located vampire stronghold despite the werewolf’s warning about the dangers.
• The werewolf described vampires’ magical and physical abilities, their resilience, and the devastating casualties werewolves suffered when attacking them.
• Li Weide learned that vampires remained few because turning and reproduction were difficult, and he speculated that they wanted Nagini or him to help remove that limitation.
• Li Weide suspected vampires might have used werewolves as combat practice and wondered whether the Purifiers were failed experiments created while vampires tried to control the Bloodline Curse.

Li Weide prepared an operation to rescue Nagini by recruiting Grindelwald, using Lucian and his werewolves to locate the vampires, and deploying a disguised wizard force. Before dawn, the team ambushed Lucian’s squad, and Tom insisted on joining the dangerous mission.

• Li Weide learned how werewolves tracked vampire magic and blood scent, then recruited Lucian for the operation and secretly controlled him with a Puppet Worm.
• Dumbledore went to Gellert Grindelwald, who ordered Vinda Rosier to mobilize the fighters in the Ministry of Magic.
• Li Weide sent the vampire-identification method to his laboratory and told Toby to alert Andrews and the people in Knockturn Alley.
• Lucian waited with his squad to seize children ordered from a Dark Wizard, but Li Weide’s cloaked wizards ambushed them and subdued every werewolf except Lucian.
• Li Weide ordered Lucian to control his subdued subordinates with Puppet Worms, while Tom challenged Li Weide’s reluctance to treat him as a capable fighter.

Li Weide, Tom, and their allies joined Grindelwald and Dumbledore to attack a hidden vampire stronghold concealed by an illusion. After the wizards pushed back the Blood Slaves, real vampires struck from both the front and rear as Grindelwald’s Followers shifted formation.

• Li Weide gathered Miravia’s armed wizards and Lucian’s werewolves, then led them with Tom to meet Grindelwald and Dumbledore.
• Slytherin and Hufflepuff joined the group, and Lucian’s werewolves transformed with silver weapons ready.
• Grindelwald’s forces attacked the peaceful-looking town, breaking its illusion and revealing a deathly valley and a black castle.
• Lucian explained that the charging enemies were Blood Slaves, and Li Weide and the other wizards cut down many of them as the group advanced.
• Real vampires fired crimson beams at the wizards from the front and behind, and Grindelwald’s Followers changed formation.

Li Weide’s forces and Grindelwald’s Followers fought off a vampire ambush with silver-inlaid combat suits, coordinated defenses, and powerful magic. The Lesser Vampires retreated after Slytherin and Li Weide killed two of them, but Li Weide warned that much larger vampire forces might still be waiting.

• The Lesser Vampires abandoned their attacks on Grindelwald’s tightly coordinated Followers and targeted Li Weide’s Hydra Wizards instead.
• A vampire’s attempt to bite a Hydra Wizard failed against the silver-inlaid combat suit, and the wizards severed the vampire’s hand before it regenerated.
• Li Weide sent Tom to help Grindelwald’s Followers clear out the Blood Slaves while Dumbledore and Hufflepuff supported the battle against the vampires.
• Li Weide and Slytherin joined the fight, freezing and killing two vampires with a Freezing Charm, a silver sword, and a Killing Curse.
• The remaining vampires fled, and Li Weide warned the Hydra Wizards that a high-ranking vampire could command at least fifty Lesser Vampires.

Li Weide and his allies attacked a vampire castle to find Nagini, but discovered it belonged to Count Nosferatu rather than Camilla. When Nosferatu reshaped the castle into a maze to delay them, Li Weide used Ancient Magic to destroy it and reveal the vampires ahead.

• Lucian warned that the vampires had retreated into the castle, while Miravia captured a Lesser Vampire and learned that the attackers were not Camilla’s female servants.
• Miravia identified Count Nosferatu as the castle’s high-ranking vampire, and the wizards advanced to capture him before Nagini’s danger increased.
• Miravia sealed the castle in white mist as Li Weide, Dumbledore, Slytherin, and the others broke through its walls and fought their way inside.
• Count Nosferatu transformed the castle into a maze, blocking the wizards’ paths and preventing flight, while Grindelwald and Dumbledore realized he was stalling for time.
• Li Weide used his vampire-detecting pocket watch to locate the vampires, drained his Ancient Magic, and made the maze disintegrate, revealing a group of black-robed figures.

Li Weide and the assembled wizards used ultraviolet light to weaken the vampires, then rejected Count Nosferatu’s offer to negotiate and captured him after defeating his followers. Elsewhere, Nagini’s transformation was interrupted when Ancient Magic emerged from her body, delighting the woman who had been tormenting her.

• Li Weide’s forces illuminated the vampires with ultraviolet light, suppressing their abilities.
• Li Weide refused Count Nosferatu’s attempt to negotiate and ordered the wizards to attack.
• Li Weide and the strongest wizards captured Count Nosferatu, and the remaining vampires were killed.
• Li Weide sealed Nosferatu’s mouth and prepared to question him about Nagini.
• A woman tried to transform Nagini, but blue Ancient Magic erupted from Nagini and extinguished the crimson light.

Camilla tortured Nagini to uncover the secret of her linked beast soul, but Li Weide and Miravia rescued Nagini and pursued the vampire. Camilla escaped Li Weide only to encounter Miravia, who trapped her and cast the Killing Curse.

• Camilla began pulling Nagini’s soul from her body to investigate the connection to her beast soul.
• Li Weide broke into the room, fought Camilla, and drove her away while Miravia freed Nagini and put her to sleep with a dream.
• Li Weide pursued Camilla through the air and severed one of her bat wings, but she vanished into the forest.
• Camilla paused in a secluded forest to consider how the wizards had found her and defeated her vampires, then discovered Miravia waiting ahead.
• Camilla tried to dodge Miravia’s Blasting Curse but was struck and realized Miravia had somehow returned her to its path.
• Miravia aimed a Killing Curse at Camilla.

Miravia defeated Camilla’s attack and severed her left hand, while Li Weide and Grindelwald used the vampire threat to launch a global hunt. After Nagini recovered, Li Weide upgraded the Hydra Rings and tested a video call with Tom Riddle.

• Miravia fought Camilla with Fiendfyre and magic that disrupted her awareness, but Camilla summoned a tornado, lightning, and a fire tornado before Miravia’s spell severed her left hand as she Apparated away.
• Li Weide found Camilla’s severed hand and considered the High Vampire useful experimental material, while Miravia joined his people to continue the retaliation.
• The Ministry of Magic publicized vampire attacks, issued safety guidance, and offered rewards for vampire heads, bringing Vampire Hunters into prominence; Li Weide and Grindelwald kept werewolves’ existence secret so they could hunt vampires.
• More than half a month later, Nagini recovered, and Li Weide improved the Hydra Ring with an independent consciousness to detect danger and trigger its emergency escape function.
• Li Weide mailed upgrade components for the new rings and tested their video-call feature with Tom Riddle, who said the times were about to change.

Camilla prepared to awaken the Blood Ancestor of her vampire bloodline, while Li Weide and Tom discussed the vampires’ weaknesses and turned their attention to Nagini’s recovery. Tom found Nagini pushing herself through brutal training and began teaching her that strength came from understanding what she was fighting for.

• Camilla entered a hidden chamber, filled the tubes connected to a stone coffin with blood, and prepared to awaken the Blood Ancestor of her bloodline.
• Li Weide explained to Tom that Blood Ancestors slept to advance, that vampire descendants guarded their resting places, and that Camilla was likely to awaken her ancestor.
• Tom realized that Li Weide had gained valuable vampire research and captured vampires, including Nosferatu, for his experiments.
• Li Weide told Tom that Nagini had mostly recovered and sent him to see her at the training ground.
• Tom found Nagini badly injured after fighting five Combat Puppets, but she insisted on continuing so she would not hold others back or be captured again.
• Tom told Nagini to cultivate what was within and asked her to consider what she was fighting for before introducing the Magic of Love.