Recaps

Li Weide met Tom Riddle at Woods Orphanage, gained power through the Merit System, and drew Tom into a partnership that led them to rescue trafficked children and encounter Nagini. After Dumbledore arranged to erase their ties to the orphanage, Li Weide and Tom left with Professor Hicks, Toby, and a new household in Godric’s Hollow.

• Li Weide refused to give Tom Riddle his room, defeated him with magic, and discovered the Merit System could reward good deeds and help him pursue his ambition.
• Li Weide studied spells and manipulated Tom into helping around the orphanage, while Dumbledore arrived and invited both boys to Hogwarts.
• Li Weide and Tom fought off traffickers, freed eight captive children, and found themselves facing Nagini beneath the hideout.
• Li Weide and Tom bought wizarding supplies in Diagon Alley, where Tom chose a Yew Wand and Li Weide chose a Beech Wand.
• Dumbledore questioned the boys about the raid and Nagini, then warned them that the traffickers’ gold could bring danger to the orphanage.
• Li Weide rescued the injured house-elf Toby and accepted him as his servant before Professor Hicks came to collect the boys.
• Professor Hicks erased the orphanage residents’ memories and records, then took Li Weide and Tom to Godric’s Hollow, where Li Weide recognized Queenie’s passive Legilimency.

Li Weide and Tom escaped Dumbledore’s guardianship and settled into a hidden tower, where Li Weide explored dark magic and learned Apparition and Nightmare Magic. After following a mysterious blue flame into the Forbidden Forest, Li Weide met the Dream Maker, accepted a vial of Ancient Magic Power without absorbing it, and disappeared after hearing a disturbance.

• Li Weide used magic to master the first two stages of Occlumency, but Grindelwald’s attack forced him to flee with Tom and Toby before Dumbledore arrived and drove Grindelwald away.
• At the Hog’s Head, Li Weide and Tom agreed to live together without guardians, and Li Weide concealed his Occlumency from Dumbledore.
• Li Weide claimed the abandoned Somnolun Family tower, discovered its collection of dark magic books, and secretly studied them while planning with Tom to buy second-hand wands.
• Li Weide bought battered wands, learned Apparition from Toby, and began practicing Nightmare Magic, eventually shaping a dreamscape before waking exhausted.
• After dreaming of a black figure telling him to find it, Li Weide followed the blue flame from the lighter into the Forbidden Forest and through a stone toad portal.
• Li Weide met the Dream Maker, who revealed that he had created Nightmare Magic and used dreams and the Ancient Magic-powered lighter to guide Li Weide to him.
• Li Weide refused to absorb the Dream Maker’s Ancient Magic Power but accepted a vial and an offer of dream lessons, then left the chamber and vanished under a Disillusionment Charm after hearing a nearby crash.

Li Weide awakened Ancient Magic, subdued Nagini, and learned about the senior female student’s vanished name and the Residue tied to her past. After arriving at Hogwarts with Tom, he helped him stand up to bullies and began searching for her missing Notebook, which someone had recently taken.

• Li Weide subdued Nagini with Ancient Magic after Aurelius lost control of his Obscurus, then Dumbledore took charge of Aurelius and Nagini.
• Dumbledore confirmed that Li Weide could wield Ancient Magic and revealed that the senior female student’s name had disappeared from memories and Hogwarts records.
• Li Weide learned from the senior female student about Residue, Ranrok, and her past, and she taught him how Ancient Magic could strengthen spells.
• Li Weide and Tom arrived at Hogwarts, where Li Weide used a fabricated pure-blood family history to repel the Blacks and later endured a confrontation with Abraxas Malfoy’s group.
• After the Sorting Hat announced Tom belonged in Azkaban before sorting him into Slytherin, Tom questioned whether Li Weide’s teasing and help showed that he was a friend.
• Tom fought Abraxas and other Slytherin students, and Li Weide took the blame until Professor Slughorn canceled his detention and gave him access to the Forbidden Forest.
• Li Weide and Tom broke into the Restricted Section, but the senior female student’s Notebook was missing, and Tom decided to seek his mother’s Gaunt relatives during the holiday.
• Li Weide suspected that someone had used Divination to find the Notebook and planned to watch its listed locations, while he and Tom earned points in Slughorn’s Potions class.

Li Weide uncovered Grindelwald’s scheme and began building a circle of allies, confronting goblins and Wizarding Supremacists while drawing Tom into his plans. He founded the Student Mutual Aid Club to challenge pure-blood bullying, and the arc ended with the club growing as Grindelwald recognized something familiar in Li Weide’s words.

• Li Weide discovered that Annie Rosier was spying for Grindelwald, but chose to keep her close and act as if he knew nothing.
• Li Weide and Tom befriended Charlie Prince, challenged pure-blood prejudice, and formed a group with their friends that later trained in the Room of Requirement.
• During Forbidden Forest detention, Li Weide killed a giant and questioned goblins, learning they were searching for powerful magical remnants.
• Li Weide recruited Andre through an Unbreakable Vow and secretly planned to use the remnants to strengthen his allies.
• Li Weide and Tom raided the goblin camp, killed the goblins and Wizarding Supremacists there, and agreed to conceal their involvement.
• Li Weide led his friends in beating Abraxas Malfoy and other bullies, then pressured Abraxas to reveal the students plotting against them.
• With Professor Slughorn as faculty advisor, Li Weide founded the Student Mutual Aid Club, which quickly attracted more than 170 students.
• Li Weide required Abraxas to apologize to those he had bullied before joining, then urged club members to reject bloodline distinctions and support one another as Grindelwald read Annie’s account of the speech.