Chapter Summaries

Li Weide found the hollow tree where Ravenclaw’s Diadem was hidden, but his search was interrupted when he discovered a stolen, depressed dragon being held by illegal poachers. He joined Newt in rescuing it and subdued the camp, then confronted the five remaining wizards as Newt urged him not to kill anyone.

• Li Weide used the Obscurus Drone to scout Albania’s forest and found the hollow stump beneath a nearby mountain where the Diadem was hidden.
• Li Weide spotted a rare black dragon chained at a wizard camp and learned that the poachers planned to take it apart.
• Li Weide found Newt hiding near the camp, and Newt said he had called for backup.
• Li Weide and Newt confronted the poachers, and Li Weide protected Newt with a magical watch before attacking the camp.
• Li Weide freed two armored trolls from their collars and used spells, enchanted plants, and vines to defeat most of the wizards.
• Li Weide asked the five remaining wizards how they wanted to die, while Newt urged him not to kill anyone.

Li Weide and Newt subdued the poachers and freed a depressed fire dragon, but Newt feared the Ministry would kill it unless it could recover. Li Weide left before Newt’s reinforcements arrived and found Ravenclaw’s Diadem, which prompted him to vow to beat up Tom again.

• Li Weide used vines and Biting Cabbages to recapture the poachers, then forced the remaining wizards to surrender and knocked them unconscious.
• Newt freed the fire dragon and explained that it was depressed because it believed its unusual appearance made it ugly.
• Li Weide warned Newt that magically changing the dragon’s appearance would only be temporary, but agreed to try to help it avoid being killed by the Ministry.
• Li Weide left with Slytherin before Newt’s reinforcements arrived and traveled to the tree hollow they had investigated.
• Li Weide found Ravenclaw’s Diadem and, seeing how pristine and powerful it was, declared that he had to go back and beat Tom up again.

Li Weide used Ravenclaw's Diadem to finish his research and create a gemstone that converted and stored Residue as Pure Magic Power. After leaving the Diadem behind, he received a letter from Newt asking him to visit and help a depressed dragon, giving him a chance to catch up with Tom as well.

• Li Weide tested Ravenclaw's Diadem and found that it greatly enhanced his senses and thinking, then spent a week using it to resolve his research.
• Li Weide realized the Diadem could make its wearer overestimate their abilities after taking it off, and asked Slytherin to remind him it was only a tool if he ever refused to remove it.
• Li Weide learned that Tom had fled to Henry's house to avoid being beaten, then told Slytherin to have him return because Tom needed occasional correction.
• Li Weide used insights from the Diadem to create a sapphire pendant named Hogyoku that converted and stored Residue, and also made a microscope and improved the Energy Core.
• Newt wrote that he had brought a depressed dragon back to the United Kingdom and asked Li Weide to visit and use Transfiguration to grant its wish.
• Li Weide decided to visit Newt, both to help the dragon and to see Tom.

Li Weide transformed Newt’s depressed dragon into a Hungarian Horntail, giving it a day of flight and joy before shrinking it and taking it along. The dragon chose to leave with Li Weide, who named it Alduin, while Newt was left demanding an explanation.

• Li Weide left Tom embedded in a courtyard wall after their rough sparring, and Tom secretly escaped and admitted he had learned a few spells.
• Li Weide and Newt returned to the depressed dragon, and Li Weide asked it to choose the form it wanted.
• The dragon chose a Hungarian Horntail, and Li Weide used Ancient Magic to transform it, allowing it to fly and breathe Dragon Flame for a day.
• The Hogyoku replenished Li Weide’s spent Ancient Magic, and the dragon silently asked to go with him.
• Li Weide shrank the dragon to owl size, named it World Destroyer—Alduin, and left with it as Newt called after him for an explanation.

Li Weide took Alduin away from Newt to protect the dragon from execution, then set off on a holiday with his companions. At a North Sea campsite, he examined the carriage’s levitation core and realized he could use it in another invention.

• Li Weide persuaded Newt to let Alduin leave with him, and Newt agreed to tell the Ministry of Magic that the dragon had escaped.
• Tom visited Newt to ask about Hydras, and Li Weide discussed the possibility of finding one and tasting its meat.
• Li Weide left Riddle Manor with Andrews and the others, while Slytherin stayed behind to train Tom.
• Three days later, Li Weide and his companions camped on a North Sea reef, where Alduin grew to full size and Tom Cat flew after it on a broomstick.
• Andrews explained how the carriage’s levitation core worked, and Li Weide decided the Gubraithian Fire Energy Core could help with a new idea.

Li Weide upgraded the carriage’s levitation core and developed a floating castle model, then began planning a mobile castle as a future base. He also named a clever mouse Jerry, who immediately became Tom Cat’s rival and playmate.

• Li Weide replaced the carriage’s levitation core, making it fly much faster, and sent his blueprints to Nicolas Flamel for refinement.
• Li Weide showed Andrews and Ilena a floating castle model and explained that he planned to build a gigantic mobile castle himself.
• Andrews imagined the castle as a hidden stronghold armed with magical weapons, while Li Weide discussed designing its materials and rune circuits.
• Tom Cat chased a mouse, and Li Weide named it Jerry despite Toby’s worried protests.
• Jerry grew smarter after drinking Nutrient Potion, and his rivalry with Tom Cat quickly sparked another chase that left Toby despairing.

Li Weide sent Andrews, Toby, Ilena, Tom Cat, and Jerry to find a house while he went to Diagon Alley, where he met the Chinese wizard Zhang San. Zhang San left with his wife after telling Li Weide he planned to apply to the Ministry of Magic, and Li Weide continued into the busy street.

• Li Weide gave Andrews Galleons and sent him and Toby to find a house, while assigning Tom Cat and Jerry a packed schedule of lessons and warning Ilena that he would check her progress.
• Li Weide told Ilena that her father had stopped searching for her, and she vowed to confront him herself while Andrews warned her not to show him mercy.
• Li Weide Apparated into a secluded corner of Diagon Alley and met Zhang San, a Chinese wizard who had traveled from the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom.
• Li Weide and Zhang San exchanged stories about their pasts, and Zhang San said he planned to try for a Ministry of Magic position.
• Zhang San left with his wife, and Li Weide wondered whether they might be Cho Chang's grandparents before heading into Diagon Alley.

Li Weide searched Diagon Alley for materials and a quick way to earn money, then met Hagrid and Tom at an ice cream shop. Tom’s advice changed Li Weide’s view of how to fund his plans, and Li Weide ended by asking Tom to visit the Malfoy family manor with him.

• Li Weide bought ice cream and let Alduin melt its serving before licking it.
• Hagrid met Li Weide, said Dumbledore had delivered his Hogwarts acceptance letter, and admired Alduin while they ate ice cream.
• Tom arrived at the parlour, tried to hide his dread at seeing Li Weide, and changed his order to vanilla ice cream.
• Li Weide told Tom he was seeking materials and a way to earn money for his experiments.
• Tom suggested Li Weide first build wealth and power before gradually reforming the system, and Li Weide agreed that he had been rushing.
• Li Weide asked Tom to visit the Malfoy family manor, leaving Tom dismayed that his supposed day off had become work.

Li Weide bought and tamed five Nymphadoras in Knockturn Alley, then used forged Ministry papers to purchase a luxurious carriage. When Tom arrived, Li Weide prepared him to visit Pure-blood families and asked him to dress more suitably.

• Li Weide let Tom explore Diagon Alley while he spoke with Hagrid about Magical Animals and carriage regulations.
• Li Weide used Nightmare Magic to leave a Knockturn Alley shop with five Nymphadoras without paying.
• Li Weide tamed the Nymphadoras and bought a luxurious carriage by making a blank parchment appear to be an official Ministry document.
• Tom arrived at Diagon Alley and was astonished to learn the carriage belonged to Li Weide, who had Andrews drive it.
• Li Weide asked Tom to change into more presentable clothes, and Tom excitedly guessed that Li Weide planned to use his family name to pressure the Pure-bloods.

Li Weide staged an elaborate arrival at Malfoy Manor to impress the Malfoys, who treated him as a powerful and valuable ally. During the visit, he examined the ill Old Malfoy and suspected he had contracted Dragon Pox, leaving the family alarmed and Tom wondering whether Li Weide could cure it.

• Li Weide arrived at Malfoy Manor in a lavish carriage with Tom, Toby, and Andrews, and Old Malfoy was impressed by the display.
• Old Malfoy welcomed Li Weide warmly and thanked him for helping Abraxas improve through his club.
• Old Malfoy grew too ill to continue talking, and Li Weide examined him after offering to help.
• Li Weide sent Toby to fetch a Healer and said Old Malfoy's symptoms suggested Dragon Pox.
• Tom suspected Li Weide might be able to cure Dragon Pox because he had a fire dragon with many bloodlines.

Li Weide examined Old Malfoy and confirmed that he had Dragon Pox, while Healer Jinnis Devant and her colleagues began treating him and tracing the infection to the Romania Dragon Sanctuary. The Malfoys believed Li Weide would seek a cure from his powerful family, and he left them with that hope while denying to Tom that he had caused the illness.

• Li Weide told the Malfoys that Old Malfoy likely had Dragon Pox and could not treat the bacterial infection himself.
• Toby brought Healer Jinnis Devant from St. Mungo's, and she confirmed Old Malfoy had early-stage Dragon Pox.
• Jinnis warned that the illness was contagious, summoned more healers, and learned that the Malfoys had recently visited the Romania Dragon Sanctuary.
• Old Malfoy asked Li Weide for help, and Abraxas pleaded with him to seek a cure, leading Old Malfoy to believe Li Weide would appeal to his family.
• After the Malfoys left for St. Mungo's, Tom asked Li Weide if he had caused the illness, and Li Weide denied it while arguing about what kind of Dark Lord he intended to become.

Li Weide used a Dragon Pox cure recipe to gain support and spread rumors that a powerful family backed him, while Grindelwald and Dumbledore investigated his supposed connections. Their search led them to Zhang San, whose repeated encounters with people asking about Li Weide left him exasperated.

• Li Weide arranged for Professor Slughorn to verify his Dragon Pox cure recipe and secure benefits for him through St. Mungo's.
• The Malfoy Family and other pure-blood families heard that Li Weide had obtained the recipe from his powerful family, and Li Weide allowed the rumor to spread.
• After Old Malfoy improved, Abraxas and his mother visited Riddle Manor to thank Li Weide, but Tom told them Li Weide had already left.
• Li Weide went fishing with Slytherin, who concluded that a powerful family must be behind Li Weide's remarkable achievements.
• Grindelwald investigated Li Weide's supposed family after learning that Zhang San had joined the Ministry of Magic, and discovered that Zhang San and Li Weide had both visited the Soviet Union.
• Dumbledore visited Zhang San and asked whether he knew Li Weide, prompting Zhang San to complain that people had asked him the same question eight times that month.

Dumbledore visited Zhang San to ask about Li Weide and the mysterious family people believed stood behind him. Zhang San explained the fragmented nature of China’s wizarding society, and Dumbledore left acknowledging that suspicion—and concern about Grindelwald—had also motivated his visit.

• Zhang San invited Dumbledore in for tea and asked why people kept questioning him about Li Weide.
• Dumbledore explained that people suspected Li Weide’s Dragon Pox potion formula came from a powerful family and had connected Zhang San to that family because he had recently visited the Ministry of Magic and the Soviet Union.
• Zhang San said he had met Li Weide only once in Diagon Alley, and that they had both encountered the same hooligans in the Soviet Union without meeting there.
• Dumbledore asked whether Zhang San believed Li Weide belonged to a hidden family, and Zhang San said Li’s abilities suggested a strong background but his surname alone could not identify his family.
• Zhang San described how Chinese wizarding families educated young wizards, competed for resources, and often avoided both Muggles and other wizards.
• Dumbledore offered to tell others Zhang San was not connected to Li Weide’s family, but Zhang San doubted they would believe him and pointed out Dumbledore also wanted to keep Grindelwald from joining forces with the family.

Dumbledore confronted Li Weide about his trip to the Soviet Union, then learned Ilena had fled her father and offered to help her. The chapter ended with Dumbledore discussing Ilena’s enrollment and promising to resolve her and Andrews’s legal identities.

• Dumbledore learned that the Li Family might be an ancient wizarding dynasty, while Grindelwald gave up on seeking its cooperation and decided to approach Weide instead.
• Li Weide prepared to leave Ilena’s newly Transfigured home, but Tom revealed that Dumbledore had found them and admitted he had betrayed Weide again.
• Dumbledore questioned Li Weide about his Soviet trip, and Tom explained that Weide had gone to save Slytherin and brought Ilena back by accident.
• Dumbledore reprimanded Li Weide for taking dangerous risks, then listened as Ilena explained that she had escaped after her father killed her mother.
• Dumbledore offered to help Ilena enroll as a transfer student and resolve her and Andrews’s legal identities.

Ilena told Dumbledore about her grief, and he promised to help her pursue revenge without killing her father. As Dumbledore considered taking a seat in the International Confederation of Wizards to oppose Grindelwald, Li Weide warned him that responsibility should not be forced on him, but Dumbledore remained willing to accept what Li Weide called Moral Kidnapping.

• Ilena poured out her grief to Dumbledore, who comforted her and promised that the adults would help her.
• Dumbledore questioned Li Weide about encouraging Ilena's revenge, and Li Weide said he would help her bring her father down and send him to prison rather than kill him.
• Dumbledore and Li Weide discussed giving Ilena a new name and enrolling her at Hogwarts as a transfer student.
• Dumbledore asked about Li Weide's future plans, and Li Weide said he intended to start a business rather than join the Ministry of Magic.
• Dumbledore revealed that the International Confederation of Wizards had invited him to take a seat, and Li Weide advised him not to accept unless he truly wanted to.
• Dumbledore said he could not ignore Grindelwald and argued that someone had to accept Moral Kidnapping for the world to improve.

Li Weide returned to the Safe House, put Tom Cat and Jerry to work making an animated series, and used the Malfoy Family as his representative among the Pure-bloods. Old Malfoy and other families poured money into Li Weide’s research, leaving him with substantial funding and a list of materials to acquire.

• Li Weide returned to the Safe House, stopped Toby from punishing himself, and saw Tom Cat and Jerry perform a piano duet.
• Li Weide told Tom Cat and Jerry to make an animated series, and Toby praised the plan as a way to keep them busy and earn money.
• Li Weide ignored letters from other Pure-blood families and replied only to the Malfoy Family, choosing Old Malfoy to represent him in future dealings.
• Old Malfoy invested two hundred thousand Galleons in Li Weide’s research, prompting other Pure-blood families to visit the Malfoy estate and offer funding.
• After Toby brought back a Gringotts receipt showing the new funds, Li Weide gave him a list of research materials to buy and told him to ask the Malfoy Family for scarce items.

Li Weide pursued Basilisk research while arranging a breeding farm in Ethiopia and finding work for Tom Cat and Jerry. Tom arrived at the Safe House before the school term and asked about Li Weide’s revolutionary plans, which Li Weide said would have to adapt to real conditions.

• Li Weide used his new funding to improve his Super Microscope and pursue both hatching young Basilisks and cloning a thousand-year-old Basilisk, though his closest genetic match was only an 89%-similar viper.
• Frustrated by the slow research and lack of trusted assistants, Li Weide returned to the Safe House, where Tom Cat and Jerry worked on an animation draft for MGM Film Company.
• Li Weide learned that Professor Slughorn had secured an Ethiopian breeding-farm deal in exchange for an annual donation of ten thousand Galleons, and he wrote to say the cost was acceptable.
• After resting, Li Weide found Tom at the Safe House, where Tom explained that he had come to use its fireplace to travel to the station and that Ilena would be brought to Hogwarts by Andrews.
• Tom asked how Li Weide planned to begin his revolution and what he would do about Hydra, and Li Weide argued that revolutionary plans had to account for actual social conditions rather than repeat Grindelwald’s impractical approach.

Li Weide discussed preparing students for revolution, delaying Hydra recruitment until he could protect its members’ beliefs, and learning more about wizarding society. As the new school year began, he arrived at Platform 9 3/4 and offered Old Malfoy a chance to cooperate on a fast broom, aiming to draw other Pure-blood families into investing.

• Li Weide told Tom that students needed proper values and firsthand experience of wizarding society before they could understand revolution.
• Li Weide admitted that the powerful family Tom believed stood behind him would not rescue him, then explained that Hydra would not recruit anyone until he found a way to safeguard its members’ beliefs.
• Tom suggested improving an Unbreakable Vow, and Li Weide complained that Tom left too much research to him before joking about needing a laboratory assistant.
• Li Weide sent Professor Slughorn money for negotiations with the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic and preparations for cultivating a Basilisk, then stayed out of his laboratory until September 1st.
• At breakfast, Tom asked whether the revolution would free House-elves, and Toby angrily took away Tom’s food after hearing him criticize their treatment.
• At Platform 9 3/4, Old Malfoy cleared a path through the Pure-blood wizards crowding Li Weide, and Li Weide offered him a partnership on a speedy broom in front of the others.

Li Weide reunited with his allies aboard the Hogwarts Express as the Malfoys secured a partnership with him and Abraxas and Andre took on new school roles. Tom sought Li Weide’s help avoiding Grace MacLaggen, but Li Weide refused to let him interrupt his time with the girls.

• Old Malfoy celebrated the Malfoy Family’s new alliance with Li Weide and urged the other Pure-blood families to join the broomstick collaboration.
• Abraxas helped Li Weide board the train, and Li Weide asked him to treat their relationship as comrades rather than formality.
• Li Weide met Andre, now Head Boy, and congratulated Abraxas on becoming a Slytherin prefect.
• Andre asked whether Li Weide had secured his Head Boy position, and Li Weide assured him that he had earned it himself before hinting he would need Andre’s help after graduation.
• Tom cast a sound-isolating spell and complained that Grace MacLaggen kept asking him questions, so Li Weide teased him about his romantic prospects.
• Tom admitted he had come to Li Weide to keep Grace away, but Li Weide said he wanted to talk with the girls instead.

Li Weide and Tom discussed Andre’s future in Hydra and agreed he should travel the world to report on wizarding societies. When Hagrid arrived at the compartment, Li Weide introduced him to the Mutual Aid Club, whose warm welcome made Hagrid feel accepted.

• Li Weide refused to lift the Silencing Charm until Tom addressed Grace, and the two argued about Tom’s feelings and Li Weide’s lack of romantic attention.
• Tom asked what Li Weide planned for Andre after graduation, and Li Weide said he would send Andre around the world to investigate wizarding communities and report back monthly.
• Li Weide removed the Silencing Charm, leaving Tom with no excuse to avoid Grace when she came over.
• Flitwick brought Hagrid into the compartment, and Li Weide introduced him as a friend and prospective Mutual Aid Club member.
• Flitwick encouraged Hagrid to join, and Hagrid introduced himself to the welcoming club members.