Chapter Summaries

Li Weide tested an improved Pensieve that let Tom take over a memory and experience its dangers firsthand. The chapter ended with Tom repeatedly entering the Venomous Leopard hunt until he could defeat it, while Li Weide insisted the painful training was for his own good.

• Miravia encouraged Li Weide to make his own Pensieve, and he began designing an improved version while she offered to train Tom.
• Annie arrived at the Mobile Castle, Andre visited briefly, and Tom returned after spending part of the holiday at Riddle Manor.
• The Goblins of the Goblin Workshop delivered Li Weide's improved Pensieve, and he and Tom entered a memory of a Wizarding Supremacist fighting a Venomous Leopard.
• Tom watched the wizard kill the Venomous Leopard at the cost of an arm and a leg, then learned that Li Weide's Pensieve could let him take the fighter's place in the memory.
• Tom was repeatedly thrust into the hunt and killed by the Venomous Leopard, while Li Weide made him continue until he could defeat it.

Tom endured a week of painful Pensieve battles to become stronger while Li Weide helped outfit the Mobile Castle for Magical Animals. After Tom emerged from training, he aimed an Avada Kedavra at Li Weide, who did not dodge.

• Tom struggled with whether to train in Li Weide's improved Pensieve, then moved into the Training Ground and repeatedly faced its battle memories.
• Miravia defended Li Weide's efforts to help Tom, and Li Weide joked that he was training an elite lackey.
• Li Weide moved Andrews and Ilena into the Mobile Castle and enlisted its residents to prepare rooms for Magical Plants and Magical Animals.
• Miravia left the castle with a suitcase to supposedly rescue Magical Animals from poachers.
• Tom completed the Pensieve battles and told Li Weide he was torn over whether to keep the painful memories.
• Tom approached Li Weide and cast Avada Kedavra at him; Li Weide did not dodge.

Tom recovered from the Pensieve trial and confronted Li Weide with a Killing Curse, only to discover that Li Weide had manipulated his senses and was still far beyond him. After losing a furious duel, Tom recognized the need to control his emotions and prepared to revisit the battle through the Pensieve.

• Tom's Killing Curse failed to kill Li Weide, who revealed that Tom's perception of the encounter had been manipulated.
• Li Weide reflected that the Pensieve trial had strengthened Tom, then Tom returned to his room and slept until the next day.
• When Li Weide explained that pain synchronization in the Pensieve could be turned off, Tom became furious and challenged him to a duel.
• Li Weide defeated Tom, then advised him that strength also required emotional stability and restraint.
• Tom accepted Li Weide's lesson, placed a memory of their duel into the Pensieve, and calmly resisted Li Weide's attempt to provoke him.

Li Weide moved his laboratory into the castle, received a menagerie of rescued Magical Animals from Miravia, and gave her a skincare potion she planned to pass to Nagini. On September 1, he returned to school while the Mobile Castle continued roaming to collect negative energy, and he arranged a business meeting with Mr. Malfoy and the Shafiq Family.

• Li Weide moved his Knockturn Alley laboratory into the castle and kept the subdued Dark Wizards there as backup, while recognizing that he needed more skilled and trustworthy workers.
• Miravia returned with many Magical Animals she had rescued, and Li Weide settled them into the castle's animal room and adopted an ordinary bulldog named Spike.
• Li Weide gave Miravia a skincare potion, which she accepted for Nagini, then left with Nagini to continue traveling; Li Weide assigned Toby and Andrews to care for the castle's animals and plants.
• Li Weide, Tom, Annie, and Ilena arrived at King's Cross on September 1, while the Mobile Castle departed to collect negative energy for producing Pure Magic Power.
• Li Weide met Mr. Malfoy at the station and arranged to discuss a new business project in Hogsmeade, asking him to bring someone from the Shafiq Family.

On the Hogwarts Express, Li Weide explained to Tom that Grindelwald was deliberately appearing weak and revealed his plan to gather allies overlooked by the Wizarding World. After the Sorting Ceremony, Li Weide arranged to create businesses that would employ Mutual Aid Club graduates and strengthen his influence.

• An owl delivered Andre's report and a letter thanking Li Weide for helping the Malfoy Family and Shafiq Family make money.
• Li Weide told Tom that Grindelwald was no fool, had likely foreseen their plans, and would become an enemy if their arrangements failed.
• Li Weide explained that Andre was identifying marginalized peoples and groups so Li Weide could unite them by meeting their needs.
• At the Sorting Ceremony, Mutual Aid Club members introduced the club to the new students, building a base of future loyal members.
• Li Weide contacted Andrews and ordered him to prepare businesses that could guarantee jobs to Mutual Aid Club graduates.

Li Weide expanded his influence by launching a profitable Youth Potion business and drawing more families into his alliance, while also beginning experiments to clone Basilisks. After forgetting Christmas amid his work, he learned Tom had given out gifts in his name and would expect reimbursement and a gift of his own.

• Tom studied Ancient Magic with Slytherin while Li Weide resumed managing the Mutual Aid Club.
• Li Weide arranged for Mr. Malfoy and the Shafiq Family to produce and sell the Youth Potion, using the business to create jobs for club graduates.
• Mr. Malfoy's shop sold out of the potion, and families sought Li Weide's favor to join his next business venture.
• Slytherin told Li Weide that six Basilisks had hatched, and Li Weide supplied Nutrient Potions before starting experiments to clone them.
• Li Weide returned to Hogwarts after forgetting Christmas and found gifts at his bed; Tom told him he had distributed gifts in Li Weide's name and asked to be repaid and given a gift.

Li Weide discovered that Tom had turned his Christmas gift deliveries into romantic confessions to more than a hundred girls, leaving him embarrassed and alarmed. Tom also gave Miravia a diamond ring and a heart-shaped letter in Li Weide’s name, and Li Weide feared the consequences.

• Li Weide promised Tom 500 Galleons in reimbursement, then reluctantly paid him in cash after Tom realized he had no separate Gringotts Vault.
• Li Weide gave Tom an enchanted Mithril wand handle, and Tom said his gift to Li Weide was handling the Christmas gift deliveries.
• Li Weide and Tom dressed in their new Christmas gifts and headed to the Great Hall, where Li Weide noticed people looking at him strangely.
• Grace MacLaggen told Li Weide she was grateful for his feelings but was not right for him, then ran away.
• Peeves revealed that Tom had delivered gifts and confessed to more than a hundred girls in Li Weide’s name.
• Tom admitted that he had sent Miravia a diamond ring and a heart-shaped letter on Li Weide’s behalf, and Li Weide feared Miravia’s reaction.

Li Weide discovered that Tom had turned the Christmas gifts he asked him to send into confession gifts for more than a hundred Hogwarts girls, making him the school's “Number One Casanova.” After Dumbledore spoke with him about experiencing love, Li Weide tried to avoid the subject by claiming his family forbade early dating.

• Li Weide learned that Tom had attached love letters to the Christmas gifts and prepared a list of the girls who received them.
• Peeves teased Li Weide about his new reputation, and Li Weide silenced him with a Dungbomb.
• At the Christmas feast, Annie accepted Li Weide's supposed confession, while Ilena and other girls confronted or approached him about their gifts.
• Dumbledore took Li Weide aside and asked him to explain the gifts; Li Weide blamed Tom for adding the love letters.
• Dumbledore encouraged Li Weide to experience love and work through his past, but Li Weide said his family strictly forbade him from dating early.

After Tom’s prank made Li Weide seem like Hogwarts’ biggest Casanova, Li Weide threatened him into fixing the damage. Tom devised a story to shift the blame to a mix-up, and began spreading it among the girls at breakfast.

• Dumbledore refused to let Li Weide use Nightmare Magic on his classmates, and Li Weide skipped dinner to eat in the kitchens.
• Li Weide decided he would not withdraw from the Mutual Aid Club and confronted Tom in a sealed classroom, giving him a week to undo the Casanova rumors.
• Tom claimed to Grace MacLaggen that Li Weide’s greeting and love letters had been mixed up by mistake, causing the confusion.
• Grace agreed to help Tom explain the story to the other girls, and Tom left believing the rumor would eventually change Li Weide’s reputation.

Li Weide discussed his plans to transform the world with Miravia, then returned to Hogwarts to discover Tom had replaced rumors about him being a casanova with rumors that he was a devoted lover. The rumors made Li Weide seem more approachable, and he reflected on how he could connect with other students as he accepted that Tom had completed his mission.

• Nagini warned Li Weide that Miravia had returned after receiving his gift and seemed furious.
• Miravia told Li Weide that the suffering she had seen during her travels convinced her the world needed transformation, and she offered to help him.
• Li Weide accidentally upset Miravia by calling her confession a misunderstanding, then reassured her that he did not consider her old.
• Tom told Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall that he had spread rumors portraying Li Weide as a devoted lover to undo his casanova reputation.
• Li Weide confronted Tom about the rumors, but learned that more students now approached him because he seemed more genuine.
• Li Weide reflected that he needed to take the initiative to connect with other students, then admitted Tom had completed his mission.

Li Weide planned to create diverse, intelligent consciousness entities to help with his research, and began collecting soul power from people he trusted. When he returned to the Mobile Castle, he found a blue-glowing metal sphere containing Miravia’s soul power.

• Li Weide told Tom that Miravia had returned because the war had erased the beauty she hoped to find, and she wanted to help restore it.
• Li Weide allowed Tom into his real laboratory, leaving Tom worried that the offer was a test of his loyalty.
• Li Weide and Ravenclaw's Coronet devised a plan to create research assistants from copied soul consciousnesses rather than clones.
• Miravia refused Li Weide’s request to copy her soul power and drove him from her room, while Nagini agreed and warned him not to copy the snake soul.
• Li Weide copied the soul power of the Mutual Aid Club’s core members, then found a blue metal sphere containing Miravia’s soul power on his desk.

Li Weide organized his laboratory with twelve consciousness-animated puppets and, now free from managing it, asked Miravia about making a Philosopher’s Stone. Miravia offered to obtain the method from Nicolas Flamel, while Li Weide explained that he wanted the Stone to improve Residue filtering and explore its other powers.

• Miravia initially refused to visit Li Weide’s laboratory, but agreed to take a look after he waited behind the door.
• Tom toured the laboratory, understood none of its experiments, and afterward turned to Slytherin for guidance on subjects beyond magic.
• The Goblin Workshop delivered twelve puppets, and Li Weide assigned two consciousnesses modeled on his soul power to manage the other ten and the laboratory.
• Li Weide installed a broadcasting system for the Diadem, then relaxed on Miravia’s balcony instead of overseeing the laboratory.
• Li Weide asked Miravia how to make a Philosopher’s Stone, and she offered to obtain the method from Nicolas Flamel using Nightmare Magic if his direct approach failed.
• Li Weide admitted he wanted the Stone’s power to accelerate Residue filtering, while Miravia argued that he was too young to understand why people sought the Elixir of Life.

Li Weide asked Ravenclaw's Coronet about creating a Philosopher's Stone and learned that his Alchemy skills were far too inexperienced to make one soon. The coronet suggested he seek Nicolas Flamel's mentorship, and Li Weide decided that earning Flamel's trust could let him borrow the stone or receive help making his own.

• Li Weide returned to his laboratory and asked Ravenclaw's Coronet whether it knew how to create a Philosopher's Stone.
• The coronet explained that Ravenclaw had investigated the stone but abandoned the idea because the Alchemy of her era seemed insufficient, and it knew no proof of ancient successful makers.
• Li Weide asked whether Hufflepuff's long life was connected to the Philosopher's Stone, but the coronet said it did not know how she had lived so long.
• The coronet warned Li Weide that his Alchemy foundation and experience were too limited to match Nicolas Flamel's, estimating that he would need decades of study before he was ready.
• The coronet suggested Li Weide use his talent and correspondence with Flamel to become his student, while Li Weide resolved to earn Flamel's trust and seek access to the stone or help creating one.

Li Weide built a closer relationship with Nicolas Flamel through alchemical correspondence while his consciousness puppets developed a potion that let Magical Animals cast spells. After Tom Cat and Jerry accidentally drank a potion intended for trolls, Li Weide found them dueling with wands in the Mobile Castle’s Training Ground.

• Li Weide learned that Nicolas Flamel valued academic exchange and sent him alchemical designs and questions, prompting increasingly earnest replies and a new set of challenging manuscripts.
• With Ravenclaw’s Diadem guiding him, Li Weide rapidly studied the manuscripts Nicolas Flamel sent.
• Weide One’s research team developed a potion that temporarily enabled Magical Animals to cast spells.
• Li Weide hurried to the Mobile Castle after learning that Tom Cat had drunk the experimental potion intended for trolls.
• Li Weide and Tom found Tom Cat and Jerry dueling with wands after Jerry had drunk half a bottle of the potion too.

Li Weide learned that Pure Magic Power’s Ancient Magic factors had transformed Spike into an intelligent, muscular dog, revealing a replicable path toward creating Magical Animals. After Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike signed a peace treaty, Li Weide continued preparing his research projects for the future.

• Spike knocked out Tom Cat during his fight with Jerry, and Li Weide discovered how much the bulldog had changed.
• Weide Two gave Li Weide reports showing that Pure Magic Power had caused Spike’s transformation, while Nightmare Magic had influenced Jerry and Tom Cat.
• Examinations confirmed that Tom Cat and Jerry were healthy after drinking the potion and had gained spellcasting abilities whose duration remained uncertain.
• Spike wrote a peace treaty, and Tom Cat and Jerry signed it so the three would stop fighting.
• Li Weide ordered more potion experiments and continued waiting for research into armor that could withstand lethal spells, bullets, and physical attacks.

By March 1942, Li Weide expanded his research operation and built a growing student following while keeping his most dangerous research secret. Grindelwald returned to Hogwarts, saw how much influence Li Weide had gained, and wondered why Dumbledore had not stopped him.

• Li Weide expanded his laboratory’s research teams and used diverse soul imprints to create research puppets, while sealing away research into giving Muggles magic so he could control it himself.
• Tom, Jerry, and Spike gained permanent magical abilities, and Li Weide and Miravia collected more Magical Animals for further experiments.
• Li Weide expanded his Mutual Aid Club and core circle, while Tom trained new members and helped recruit struggling students.
• Grindelwald returned to Hogwarts and discovered that the club’s students had grown strong enough to overcome his practical combat assessment challenges.
• After Li Weide discussed the students’ training with Tom, Grindelwald confronted him about secretly building influence, and Li Weide claimed he was only fulfilling his club duties and suggested Grindelwald ask Dumbledore.

Grindelwald invited Li Weide to the Forbidden Forest, prompting Li Weide to recognize that he was being tested and Tom to insist on accompanying him. At the tent’s training ground, Grindelwald had Abernathy face Tom instead, leaving Tom worried that Li Weide had set him up for a dangerous spar.

• Grindelwald invited Li Weide to the Challenge Office, and Li Weide accepted after concluding that Grindelwald wanted to test his strength.
• Li Weide asked Tom whether he would accompany him, and Tom agreed despite fearing the consequences of refusing.
• Li Weide and Tom went to the Forbidden Forest that afternoon and followed Abernathy into a tent containing a training ground.
• Grindelwald told Abernathy to spar with Li Weide and Tom, then Li Weide sent Tom to face Abernathy.
• Tom drew his wand and suspected Li Weide had provoked Abernathy by telling him to watch his strength.

Li Weide arranged for Tom to duel Abernathy so he could overcome his fear of powerful opponents. After calming himself and drawing on his Pensieve experiences, Tom shifted from defense to a furious offensive, leaving Abernathy as his whetstone while Li Weide and Grindelwald watched.

• Li Weide judged that Tom’s fear was weakening his magic and arranged for him to face Abernathy, who would not kill him.
• Tom warmed up to settle his nerves, then told Grindelwald he was ready to begin.
• Abernathy’s rapid spells shattered Tom’s incomplete Shield Charm and pressed him with a relentless attack.
• Remembering the despair he had endured in Li Weide’s Pensieve, Tom regained his composure and met Abernathy’s next spell with an attack of his own.
• Tom unleashed increasingly powerful spells, while Abernathy held back from using lethal magic and Li Weide and Grindelwald watched him transform.

Tom fought Abernathy and ultimately lost after using the Hydra Ring to see through feints and learn his opponent’s combat techniques. Li Weide then agreed to spar with Grindelwald, who was angered when Li Weide chose an old wand instead of the Elder Wand.

• Abernathy adapted his fighting style, used feints to suppress Tom, and drove him into increasingly frantic dodges.
• Tom activated the Hydra Ring’s combat prompts, countered Abernathy more effectively, and began copying his varied techniques.
• Abernathy increased his attack speed, broke through Tom’s defenses, and disarmed him, but Grindelwald praised both fighters and returned Tom’s wand.
• Li Weide encouraged Tom to focus on what he had learned, and Tom reconsidered the battle while Grindelwald recognized Li Weide’s growing influence and independence.
• Grindelwald challenged Li Weide to spar, and Li Weide accepted with an old wand rather than the Elder Wand.

Li Weide and Grindelwald fought a high-speed duel while Tom and Abernathy watched from cover. Li Weide gained a temporary psychological advantage with his varied magic, but Grindelwald countered his Soul Magic and began pressing him with faster attacks.

• Tom and Abernathy took cover as Li Weide and Grindelwald began dueling with rapid Apparition and spells.
• Grindelwald and Li Weide tested each other's Transfiguration and discovered that both could resist it.
• Li Weide cleared Grindelwald's black mist with Fiendfyre, then pierced Grindelwald's weakened flame shield with an Ancient Magic-enhanced Weather Charm.
• Li Weide used the threat of Nightmare Magic to unsettle Grindelwald, then summoned spectral wolves that attacked the soul.
• Grindelwald pinned Li Weide's spectral wolves with Soul Magic and launched faster attacks to reclaim the initiative.