Chapter Summaries

After securing a hidden Knockturn Alley house as a laboratory, Li Weide received his Senior female student's latest Residue Converter and suspected she was secretly researching a cure for her symptoms. When the Obscurus sensed that Slytherin was in danger, Li Weide set out for Northern Europe to find him.

• Li Weide finished clearing and renovating the Knockturn Alley house, concealed it with the Fidelius Charm, and returned to the Safe House in his John Wick disguise.
• Toby brought Li Weide a box containing the latest Residue Converter and its blueprint from his Senior female student, whose message suggested she and the Goblins had turned to a more important project.
• Li Weide sensed through the Obscurus that Slytherin might be in trouble and followed a wisp of black mist pointing northward.
• Li Weide told Toby he was leaving on a long journey, then flew north on a broomstick because wartime closures had shut down international Floo travel.

Li Weide rested on a small island in the North Sea and modified a Flying Broomstick to travel faster toward Slytherin, while grumbling about the cost of Alchemy and brooms. Meanwhile, Tom received the Mutual Aid Club members at his estate and prepared to teach them how to remove the Trace, warning them to keep it secret.

• Li Weide landed on an uninhabited island, set up a concealed camp, and began modifying his Flying Broomstick.
• Li Weide carved Ancient Runes into the broom's core, successfully activated the modifications, and flew onward at several times its original speed.
• Newborn delivered a note to Tom, who left the house and transformed his crutch into a self-moving wheelchair to meet the visitors.
• Henry, Alphard, Flitwick, Grace MacLaggen, Charlie Prince, Annie, and the other Mutual Aid Club members told Tom that Li Weide had sent them to practice magic.
• Tom led the group to his Wooden House and agreed to teach them how to remove the Trace, warning them not to reveal the secret.

Li Weide crash-landed in the Soviet Union, found a wizarding settlement, and fought off a group of drunken wizards who insulted him. He learned that they had been provoked by another Chinese wizard surnamed Zhang, whose identity he wanted to discover before continuing his journey to rescue Slytherin.

• Li Weide survived his Flying Broomstick's explosion, gathered its fragments, and flew toward a nearby town in the Soviet Union.
• Li Weide accidentally entered a wizarding settlement, found a tavern, and ordered food from its owner, Old Paul.
• Andrews insulted Li Weide and tried to attack him, so Li Weide sent him flying and fought off his companions.
• Li Weide defeated the group with a Bat-Bogey Hex and learned that Andrews had been beaten earlier by a Chinese wizard surnamed Zhang.

Li Weide questioned Andrews Ivanov and learned that the former Auror had been framed for leaking a witness’s location and spent ten years in prison. He concluded that Bruski Yuriyev, now Head of the Auror Office, had likely framed Andrews for both advancement and the confiscated money, leaving Andrews to face the truth about why he survived prison.

• Li Weide kept Andrews at the tavern after the other men fled and questioned him about his work.
• Andrews admitted that he poached and smuggled Magical Animals after prison, and revealed that he had once been an Auror framed for taking a bribe and leaking information.
• Andrews explained that he had been arrested after a witness died and more than a thousand Galleons appeared in his account, ending his promising career and leading to ten years in prison.
• Li Weide learned that Bruski Yuriyev had replaced Andrews and become Head of the Auror Office, while Yuriyev came from a prominent pure-blood family.
• Li Weide suggested that Yuriyev had framed Andrews to take his position and the confiscated Galleons, and warned that Andrews was fortunate the pure-bloods had not considered him worth killing.

Li Weide offered to help Andrews Ivanov get revenge if Andrews became his guide, then hired him for two Galleons a day. Andrews accepted the job and prepared to leave with Li Weide, hoping this powerful young wizard could help him reclaim what he had lost.

• Andrews asked Li Weide to let him pursue revenge, and Li Weide offered to help if Andrews followed him afterward.
• Li Weide revealed that he was a Hogwarts student nearing his third year, and Andrews and Old Paul were shocked by his strength and age.
• Li Weide stayed at Old Paul's tavern, while Andrews remained unsure whether he could trust him.
• The next morning, Andrews appeared ready to work, and Li Weide offered him two Galleons a day to be his guide.
• Andrews accepted the job, and Li Weide said they would leave in half an hour.

Li Weide hired Andrews Ivanov as his guide and set off in Andrews's Thestral carriage, giving him new clothes and feeding the Thestrals Nutrient Potion. During the journey, Li Weide repaired the carriage interior and identified the cause of his Flying Broomstick's failure, then realized the broken Sensing Component might be useful for something else.

• Li Weide dressed in expensive clothes and explained that hiring Andrews would give him a respectable identity as he pursued revenge.
• Li Weide gave Andrews new clothes and asked him to follow a compass pointing northeast, while securing Old Paul's promise to keep their agreement.
• Andrews changed into the new clothes, and Li Weide gave him Nutrient Potion that restored the two sickly Thestrals to health.
• Andrews drove Li Weide away in the Thestral carriage as townspeople heard that Andrews had landed a well-paying job.
• Li Weide expanded and furnished the carriage compartment, then diagnosed his Flying Broomstick's malfunction as damage to its Sensing Component.
• Li Weide studied the broken component and excitedly realized it could have another use.

Li Weide stopped to rest with Andrews and tested an alchemical watch that automatically blocked incoming spells. Impressed by its potential, Li Weide took it back to improve as they continued toward Slytherin.

• Andrews landed the Thestral carriage in a secluded spot so the exhausted Thestrals could rest.
• Li Weide conjured a table and chairs, shared food with Andrews, and urged him to reclaim what he had lost.
• Li Weide gave Andrews a watch and attacked him with Stunning Spells to test its protective device.
• The watch’s Goblin Metal plate automatically blocked the spells, though the plate became dented under the repeated attacks.
• Li Weide repaired the plate, explained the device’s potential, then took the watch back to study ways to improve it before they resumed their journey.

Li Weide and Andrews reached the ancient tomb where the Obscurus clothing was located, and Li Weide realized Slytherin had likely entered the dangerous tomb despite vowing never to return. Rather than go inside themselves, Li Weide sent the Obscurus through the entrance to search for him.

• Li Weide and Andrews landed on a mountaintop, and Li Weide said he had come to rescue someone whose situation he did not know.
• Andrews insisted on accompanying Li Weide, and they drank Nightingale and Agility Potions before traveling through the forest.
• Li Weide flew unaided across difficult terrain while Andrews followed on a Flying Broomstick.
• Andrews recognized a decayed statue and a half-open Stone Door as signs of an ancient tomb, and Li Weide suspected Slytherin had gone inside.
• Li Weide told Andrews they would not enter, revealed that he could control an extracted Obscurus, and sent it through the doorway.

Li Weide entered the Ancient Tomb with the Obscurus, found Slytherin, and escaped with him by following shifting weak points in the tomb’s magic. The tomb’s black mist pursued them and attacked as they fled, leaving Li Weide and Andrews shaken on a distant cliff.

• Li Weide sent the Obscurus into the Ancient Tomb, where an illusion and his Nightmare Magic helped him locate Slytherin.
• Li Weide reached Slytherin, absorbed his ghostly form into the Obscurus, and learned to follow the tomb’s rapidly shifting weakest points in magic toward the exit.
• Li Weide guided the Obscurus through the tomb’s traps and pursuing black mist until his consciousness reconnected with his real body.
• Li Weide stored the Obscurus and Slytherin in the Goblin Metal Container and fled with Andrews as the tomb’s shadows attacked.
• Li Weide Apparated away, and Andrews escaped with the help of metal pieces from his watch; the shadows stopped near the Low Mountain and returned to the tomb.

Li Weide escaped the Ancient Tomb with Andrews and rescued Slytherin, but their journey back was interrupted by a group of pursuing wizards. After Li Weide and Slytherin defeated them and fitted them with Red Collars, Andrews discovered they were Aurors, leaving Li Weide facing the consequences of attacking them.

• Li Weide and Andrews fled the Ancient Tomb in a Thestral carriage, and Li Weide revealed that he had rescued Slytherin.
• Slytherin apologized for getting Li Weide into danger and promised to teach him without holding anything back.
• A group of wizards on Flying Broomsticks attacked the carriage, and Slytherin and Li Weide flew back to fight them.
• Li Weide and Slytherin defeated the attackers without killing them, and Li Weide put Red Collars on them.
• Andrews recognized the attackers as Aurors, but Li Weide declared that he would have fought even the Minister for Magic.

Li Weide’s attempt to recruit Andrews was derailed when Soviet Aurors attacked them, forcing him to enslave the squad with Goblin Collars and flee the country. After reaching Sweden and noticing something unusual about a nightingale, he returned to Riddle Manor, where an irritated Tom confronted him.

• Li Weide used a Goblin Collar to break a Soviet Auror and learned that the squad had been searching for Yuriyev’s missing child when they were ordered to kill Andrews.
• Li Weide collared the Aurors and ordered them to remain loyal while working at the Ministry of Magic, then left the Soviet Union with Andrews and Slytherin.
• Li Weide told Slytherin that he had planned to help Andrews gain power and eventually use him to control the Soviet Ministry of Magic, and Slytherin agreed to help strengthen Tom.
• Li Weide and his companions flew southwest and rested in Sweden, where Andrews worried that Li Weide might collar him and chose to keep pursuing his revenge under Li Weide’s protection.
• Li Weide noticed the unusually obedient nightingale Andrews had been feeding, then returned by Thestral carriage to Riddle Manor.
• Tom complained that Li Weide had left him with too many duties, and Li Weide joked that Tom could not imagine how happy he had been while away.

Li Weide returned to Riddle Manor and taught the others the Flying Spell while Tom supervised their practice. In the woods, Li Weide exposed a hidden Animagus and discovered she was Ilena Bruski Yuriyev, the daughter of Andrews’s childhood sweetheart; after learning her father had killed her mother, Andrews collapsed, and Ilena agreed to help them seek revenge.

• Li Weide returned to Riddle Manor, reunited with the companions, and promised to teach them useful spells.
• Li Weide taught the Flying Spell while Tom helped the others practice and complained when Li Weide slipped away.
• Li Weide exposed a nightingale as Ilena Bruski Yuriyev, who had secretly followed Andrews from the Soviet Union.
• Ilena revealed that her father, Bruski Yuriev, had secretly used Love Potion on her mother and killed her after she stopped taking it.
• Andrews flew into a rage and attacked the woods, so Li Weide knocked him unconscious before the others arrived.
• Li Weide confirmed Ilena was telling the truth, and Ilena said she wanted revenge on her father too.

Ilena learned that Andrews Ivanov had been framed and chose to confront her father over her mother’s murder, while Li Weide brought Andrews to the Wooden House and persuaded him to pursue revenge by undermining Yuriyev’s power. Later, Slytherin went to meet Tom, who panicked at seeing his ghost, and Slytherin prepared to attack him with a spell.

• Ilena recognized Andrews Ivanov’s name, realized he might have been framed, and chose not to flee because her father had killed her mother.
• Li Weide brought the unconscious Andrews to the Wooden House, declined to reveal his private affairs to Tom and the other youths, and sent them back to Flying Spell practice.
• Andrews considered returning to kill Yuriyev, but Li Weide persuaded him to stay and target the power Yuriyev valued; Andrews agreed to train and asked for potions.
• Li Weide let Slytherin leave his metal sphere, and Slytherin decided to meet Tom after arguing with Li Weide about Dark Magic and the modern era.
• Slytherin appeared in Tom’s room, frightening him into running to Li Weide for help, then confronted him and asked for his wand before beginning to cast Avada Kedavra.

Slytherin chased and beat Tom, then explained his return as a ghost before the two fought again. Tom defeated him with a revolver, and ended the chapter demanding that Slytherin teach him Apparition.

• Li Weide sealed the battlefield so the fight between Slytherin and Tom would not wake the students, while Tom fled Slytherin without his wand.
• Slytherin bound Tom with vines and beat him, then explained his story to him after Li Weide returned Tom's wand.
• Tom challenged Slytherin to another duel, and Slytherin overwhelmed him with Apparition and powerful spells.
• Tom used his little basilisk to create an opening, then shot Slytherin with a revolver and pierced his Obscurus coat, ending the duel.
• Li Weide repaired Slytherin's coat, and Tom insisted that Slytherin teach him Apparition.

Li Weide developed a powerful, crash-resistant Flying Broomstick using a new Gubraithian Fire Energy Core, while Tom trained with Slytherin and continued to envy Li Weide’s strength. The broom’s commercial potential became clear, but Andrews warned that established Pure-blood families controlled the market.

• Slytherin told Tom to keep learning from Li Weide, then left Tom discouraged about ever surpassing him.
• Li Weide built Slytherin a secluded Stone House, where Tom secretly trained with him each night.
• Li Weide crashed his new Flying Broomstick through Tom’s roof, repaired it, and refused to pay Tom’s demand for damages.
• Li Weide showed the broom to Henry and Alphard, who praised its speed and safety and estimated it could sell for a thousand Galleons.
• Li Weide explained that he and Nicolas Flamel had created a Gubraithian Fire Energy Core that powered the broom.
• Andrews warned Li Weide that established Pure-blood families monopolized the market and would make selling the broom difficult.

Li Weide explained how Pure-blood families dominated Wizarding society and limited opportunities for Muggle-born Wizards, then described how Grindelwald’s Ministry reforms had begun to break their monopoly. Tom realized Li Weide had encouraged Grindelwald to act as a shield while others prepared to challenge Pure-blood control.

• Li Weide explained that Pure-blood families had preserved their status through inherited power and connections, while Muggle-born Wizards struggled to find opportunities after Hogwarts.
• Alphard and Henry admitted that their families had concealed ancestors who married Half-bloods or Muggles, and Henry noted that the Malfoys had once pursued a Muggle queen.
• Li Weide described how Pure-blood officials had suppressed alternatives to Flying Broomsticks and Floo Powder, prompting Flitwick to ask how the system could change.
• Li Weide told Flitwick that Grindelwald had already taken the first step by opening Ministry of Magic positions to candidates regardless of blood status.
• Tom realized Li Weide had used Grindelwald’s reforms to draw Pure-blood attention while encouraging others to challenge their control of social resources.

Li Weide explained how the wizarding world's upheaval would weaken the powerful Pure-blood families and give him time to build strength, while Tom suspected he was already preparing to profit from it. After the Dark Lord achievement progress unexpectedly reached 0.1%, Li Weide went to sleep and awoke to find Ilena caught in his security measures.

• Li Weide told Flitwick and the others to focus on their studies while the wizarding world underwent a long struggle against the Pure-blood families' monopoly.
• Tom suspected Li Weide had been preparing for the upheaval through his research, magical products, and business partnerships, and asked whether Pure-blood members would keep following him.
• Li Weide explained that some weaker Pure-blood families might join his cause to replace stronger ones, and Tom fell silent.
• Li Weide saw that his Dark Lord achievement progress had risen to 0.1% after receiving a system notification.
• Li Weide slept, then freed Ilena from a vine outside his window and scolded her after his security measures electrocuted her when she entered.

Li Weide sheltered Ilena and helped her use the Resurrection Stone to speak with her dead mother, then discovered that the spirits summoned in this world behaved unexpectedly. Tom demonstrated his Hydra Patronus, inspiring Li Weide to name their future organization Hydra.

• Li Weide reassured Ilena that her father would not find her and welcomed her into his camp as a talented witch.
• Li Weide gave Ilena the Resurrection Stone, and she summoned her mother, Anna, who spoke coldly before leaving the mist on her own.
• Li Weide wondered whether the strange behavior of the summoned spirits meant he had landed in a parallel version of the Harry Potter world.
• Tom entered and showed Li Weide his many-headed Hydra Patronus.
• Li Weide proposed naming their future organization Hydra, saying it would endure even if one head was cut off.

Li Weide founded Hydra with Tom as its first new member and explained that the organization would serve a shared belief rather than personal loyalty. He comforted Ilena and arranged for Andrews to train her, then defended the value of Hufflepuff and the equality of the Four Houses.

• Li Weide named the secret organization Hydra, joined it himself, and made Tom its first new member while warning him not to recruit others yet.
• Li Weide erased Ilena's memory of their conversation, then comforted her by suggesting her mother had spoken harshly to help her move forward.
• Ilena resolved to pursue her goal, and Li Weide arranged for Andrews to teach her while offering to guide her in Transfiguration during the holidays.
• Tom asked how Li Weide would choose Hydra's members, and Li Weide said the organization would endure through loyalty to a shared belief rather than to one leader.
• Tom joked that Li Weide belonged in Hufflepuff, and Li Weide rejected the prejudice that any Hogwarts House was inherently superior.

Li Weide reflected on the social roles represented by Hogwarts’ four Houses, then pushed ahead with research for breeding more powerful Basilisks. Frustrated that he could not build the magical microscope he needed, he set off with Slytherin to retrieve Rowena’s Coronet, leaving Tom behind.

• Li Weide described Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff as representing force, political leaders, intellectuals, and productive workers, and admitted that he wanted both to rule the world and improve it.
• Over the next week, Li Weide researched in his Knockturn Alley laboratory, sold defective experiments to Mr. Borgin, took another faulty Vanishing Cabinet, and received Professor Slughorn’s news that Basilisk breeding was nearly possible.
• Li Weide decided he needed protective glasses and a magical Super Microscope to study Basilisk DNA, but emerged from three days of research convinced that his brain was not enough.
• Li Weide asked Slytherin about Ravenclaw’s Coronet, learned that it could make thoughts more active, and decided to retrieve it with Slytherin’s help.
• Li Weide and Slytherin left on Li Weide’s Flying Broomstick by an illegal route, and Tom later found Slytherin’s note and complained that he had not been taken along.