Chapter Summaries

Li Weide defeated Grindelwald in their sparring match by countering his spells and exploiting a moment of distraction. Afterward, they agreed to negotiate over their shared opposition to the International Statute of Secrecy, despite Dumbledore’s likely objections.

• Grindelwald escalated his attack by casting spells from across his body, but Li Weide split his counterattacks into many spells and turned one to strike from behind.
• Grindelwald Apparated to dodge the attack, then Li Weide used deceptive magic to appear behind him and press his wand to Grindelwald’s lower back.
• Grindelwald admitted defeat, and Li Weide said he had won through luck and youth before asking to talk.
• Grindelwald agreed to negotiate, while Abernathy and Tom reacted with shock at his loss.
• Li Weide and Grindelwald identified the International Statute of Secrecy as an obstacle to their shared goals, and Grindelwald warned that Dumbledore would oppose them.

Li Weide and Grindelwald agreed that wizards needed to grow stronger and unify their world before abolishing the International Statute of Secrecy, while Grindelwald began proposing policies to increase the wizarding population. As the school year ended, Dumbledore told Li Weide that Nicolas Flamel wanted to meet him and revealed that Tom, Jerry, and Spike had been listed as next year’s newborn students.

• Li Weide refused to abolish the International Statute of Secrecy immediately, and he and Grindelwald agreed that wizards needed greater strength before revealing their world to Muggles.
• Li Weide told Tom that he and Grindelwald did not trust each other and were only using their overlapping interests, then explained that their first priority was unifying the Wizarding World.
• Grindelwald proposed childbirth incentives to Minister Fawley and urged the Ministries of Magic under his influence to adopt similar policies.
• Li Weide studied Alchemy and corresponded with Nicolas Flamel until Flamel invited him to visit during the holiday with Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore told Li Weide that Tom, Jerry, and Spike appeared on the Book of Admittance as next year’s newborn students.

After Dumbledore approved Tom Cat and the others attending Hogwarts, Li Weide used his growing influence to help graduates and spoke with Tom about dreams and their uncertain futures. At King's Cross, Miravia and Nagini welcomed Li Weide home, and he became interested in acquiring a Muggle car.

• Li Weide told Dumbledore that an experimental potion for curing Squibs had given Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike magic, and Dumbledore praised his research and offered support.
• At the end-of-term feast, Tom watched Li Weide encourage graduating Mutual Aid Club members and recognized how Li Weide's network of businesses and Ministry reforms could expand his influence.
• On the way to leave Hogwarts for summer, Li Weide asked Tom about his dreams, and Tom admitted that he no longer expected to defeat Li Weide but would not become his enemy.
• Li Weide and Tom speculated about Grindelwald's prophecies and the possibility that Li Weide's friends might eventually oppose his plans.
• At King's Cross Station, Miravia and Nagini welcomed Li Weide, while Tom left in a car sent by his father.
• After seeing Tom's car, Li Weide discussed buying one with Miravia and considered the possibility of a flying car.

Li Weide parked the Mobile Castle outside London and told Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike that they had been admitted to Hogwarts. He then tried to teach himself to drive a car, and the chapter ended with him speeding away before the three animals could get in.

• Li Weide settled the Mobile Castle outside London and prepared to refine its accumulated negative energy and make a gift for Nicolas Flamel.
• Li Weide told Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike that Professor Dumbledore had confirmed their names were in the Book of Admittance, and the three animals cheered at the prospect of attending Hogwarts.
• Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike brought a car out of a box, and Li Weide invited Miravia to ride with him while he practiced driving.
• Li Weide failed to start the car until he noticed it had no gasoline, and Tom Cat filled the tank.
• Li Weide drove across the garden, accelerated through the gate, and left Tom Cat, Jerry, and Spike behind before they could get in.

Li Weide modified a car as a gift for Nicolas Flamel, adding a consciousness named Draaman and an automatic driving function. When Miravia tried driving it, Draaman made suggestive comments, and Li Weide fled with the car after promising to fix it.

• Li Weide told Miravia he was modifying the car to impress Nicolas Flamel and explained that Ministry rules on magical alterations were poorly enforced.
• Miravia agreed to offer suggestions, and Li Weide brought the car to the laboratory to work on it with the research puppets.
• A week later, Li Weide showed Miravia the modified car, whose consciousness, Draaman, could open the door and drive automatically.
• Miravia chose to drive with Draaman's guidance, but its instructions about the gearstick and accelerator sounded suggestive and made Li Weide uneasy.
• Draaman took control to stop the car before it hit a tree, and Li Weide hurried away carrying the car after saying he would fix it.
• Miravia watched Li Weide leave and realized that something was wrong.

Li Weide discovered that Draaman’s vulgar consciousness had been created from his own soul imprint, then met with Dumbledore, who reassured him about visiting Nicolas Flamel. The chapter ended with Li Weide learning that Flamel would welcome the alchemically modified car as a gift and a chance to discuss his work.

• Li Weide realized that Draaman’s consciousness came from his own soul imprint and asked Weide Two to make Draaman behave more appropriately.
• Toby told Li Weide that Dumbledore had arrived, and Li Weide joined him in the sitting room after Nagini left for training.
• Li Weide told Dumbledore that he considered his friends and Hogwarts his family, while Dumbledore reflected on his loneliness.
• Li Weide asked when they could visit Nicolas Flamel, and Dumbledore said Flamel was vacationing in France and they could go when Li Weide was ready.
• Li Weide explained that his gift for Flamel was a car modified with alchemy, and Dumbledore said Flamel would be pleased to see it and discuss Li Weide’s skill.

Li Weide showed Dumbledore his magically modified car, then traveled with him to France to meet Nicolas Flamel. The chapter ended with Li Weide greeting the fragile, elderly alchemist at his hidden estate and making a good first impression.

• Li Weide demonstrated Draaman’s flying car to Dumbledore, who praised its features but warned him to use its lethal battle mode carefully.
• Dumbledore took Li Weide to France in the improved car, while Miravia and the others returned to their duties at the Mobile Castle.
• Draaman drove them through a concealed entrance to Nicolas Flamel’s secluded estate, where they saw a metal puppet that intrigued Li Weide.
• Dumbledore introduced Li Weide to Nicolas Flamel, and Li Weide gently shook the frail alchemist’s hand.

Miravia left the Mobile Castle for the Department of Mysteries while Nagini took Tom Cat, Spike, and Jerry to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies and clothes. After Nagini’s scent led Spike out of Diagon Alley and vanished in a secluded alley, he realized she had disappeared.

• Miravia decided to visit the Department of Mysteries because she was bored, while Nagini stayed behind to take the three little fellows shopping.
• Dumbledore discussed death and long life with Perenelle Flamel as Li Weide and Nicolas Flamel talked about their inventions.
• Nagini Apparated to Diagon Alley with Tom Cat, Spike, and Jerry, then took them shopping for school supplies and clothes.
• Mr. Malkin measured the trio and made their Hogwarts uniforms, while Nagini left to buy more items.
• When Nagini did not return, Spike followed her scent through the Leaky Cauldron and into the Muggle world, where it vanished in a secluded alley.

Nagini was captured by a woman who wanted to study how she had broken the Bloodline Curse, and the woman revealed that her group controlled the Pure-blood families behind the Purifier attacks. After Toby warned Li Weide that Nagini had been taken, he hurried to leave Nicolas Flamel's Estate, where Nicolas offered to use Divination to find her.

• Nagini woke immobilized in darkness, failed to transform or Apparate, and tried to use the Hydra Ring to escape.
• A woman appeared and told Nagini that she had been captured so her group could learn how she broke the Bloodline Curse.
• The woman admitted that her group controlled the Pure-blood families who incited the Purifiers and had intended to target Li Weide before settling for Nagini.
• Toby sent Li Weide a message through the Hydra Ring, and Li Weide told Dumbledore and The Flamels that Nagini had likely been captured.
• Nicolas Flamel returned with a Crystal Ball and offered to use Divination to point Li Weide toward Nagini.

Li Weide and Dumbledore investigated Nagini’s disappearance, learning that a High Vampire had taken her under the Imperius Curse. Miravia arrived with a captured werewolf who could lead them to the vampires’ lair, leaving the group poised to pursue Nagini.

• Nicolas Flamel’s crystal ball briefly showed Nagini held in a Culture Dish before an unknown force disrupted his Divination.
• Li Weide learned that Toby had sent news of Nagini’s capture days earlier, but time had passed differently at Nicolas Flamel’s estate.
• Li Weide and Dumbledore used Trace Revelation in the alley and saw a robed woman under whose control Nagini entered before both Apparated away.
• Li Weide identified the woman’s scarlet eyes, and Miravia said she was a High Vampire.
• Miravia arrived with a subdued werewolf and explained that his settlement knew where the vampires lived.

Li Weide questioned a werewolf about vampires and learned that true vampires were powerful, long-lived, and scarce, while werewolves secretly turned human children into members of their pack. He realized both groups were interested in him and Nagini, and the werewolf’s revelations left him angered by the werewolves’ methods.

• Li Weide brought Miravia, Dumbledore, the werewolf, and the others into his magically expanded car, which Draaman flew somewhere private.
• The werewolf explained that the vampires sold in Knockturn Alley were blood thralls, then described the ranks of vampires and their hidden society.
• Li Weide learned that vampires had few members because they reproduced with difficulty, and suspected their interest in him and Nagini concerned the survival of their race.
• When Li Weide questioned how werewolves grew their numbers, the werewolf admitted that they took human children and transformed them.
• The werewolf explained that children were taught to accept their werewolf identity, while those who resisted became frail and transformed involuntarily during the full moon.

Li Weide questioned a captured werewolf about the Wolf King and the High Vampires while searching for clues to Nagini’s disappearance. He concluded that the vampires’ secrecy might be tied to their difficulty expanding their numbers and suspected their experiments could explain the Purifiers.

• Li Weide learned that the werewolves served a single Wolf King and that the captured werewolf was one of his sons.
• The werewolf named Camilla, Nosferatu, and Leoncourt as the three active High Vampires and said Camilla favored young women, making her a possible suspect in Nagini’s disappearance.
• The werewolf revealed that his kind knew the uncertain location of a High Vampire base, and Li Weide decided they should act despite not knowing whether Camilla was responsible.
• The werewolf described vampires’ magic, physical abilities, and numbers, explaining that more than fifty lesser vampires had resisted an attack on Earl Leoncourt’s base fifty years earlier.
• Li Weide reasoned that vampires were hiding because they struggled to reproduce and transform others, and he suspected they might be using werewolves to train their forces.
• Li Weide wondered whether the Purifiers had been flawed experiments created while vampires tried to alter the bloodline curse, possibly by transforming Muggles.

Li Weide prepared a direct assault on the vampires who had abducted Nagini, recruiting Grindelwald and using Puppet Worms to control Lucien and his werewolf squad. After the team ambushed the squad, Tom insisted on joining the dangerous operation rather than being treated as a burden.

• Li Weide learned how werewolves tracked vampires, recruited Lucien for the operation, and asked Dumbledore to seek Grindelwald's help.
• Li Weide secretly controlled Lucien with Puppet Worms, then sent the vampire-magic detection method to his laboratory and ordered allies in Knockturn Alley to prepare.
• Dumbledore convinced Grindelwald that the threat was real, and Grindelwald ordered Vita Rosier to gather fighters for an attack.
• Lucien led his elite squad to a remote hilltop to collect children from a dark wizard, but Li Weide's concealed forces ambushed them and incapacitated the werewolves.
• Li Weide ordered Lucien to use Puppet Worms on his subordinates, and Tom challenged Li Weide's doubts about bringing him along.

Li Weide, Tom, and their allies joined Grindelwald and Dumbledore to assault a hidden vampire stronghold, where an illusion concealed a castle in a mountain hollow. After the group fought through waves of blood thralls, the true vampires attacked from behind as Grindelwald prepared his forces to respond.

• Li Weide gathered Tom, Miravia, Lucien, and an armed force of Dark Wizards and werewolves, then led them to meet Grindelwald and Dumbledore.
• Slytherin and Hufflepuff joined the group, and Lucien's werewolves equipped themselves with silver gauntlets before transforming.
• The werewolves' transformation disturbed the illusion hiding the town, and Grindelwald ordered the wizards to attack the revealed castle.
• Blood thralls charged the group, but Grindelwald's blue fire and the wizards' spells killed many as Li Weide and Lucien pressed the assault.
• True vampires fired scarlet bolts into the wizards' formation from the rear, and Grindelwald signaled the Wizarding Supremacists to change formation.

Li Weide’s group and Grindelwald’s Wizarding Supremacists fought off an ambush by lesser vampires, using silver-plated armor, protective magic, and coordinated spells. The vampires retreated after Slytherin and Li Weide killed two, but Li Weide warned that a High Vampire could command at least fifty lesser vampires.

• The lesser vampires abandoned their attacks on the Wizarding Supremacists and ambushed Li Weide’s Hydra wizards instead.
• A vampire’s bite burned against a Hydra wizard’s silver-plated combat suit, and the Hydra wizards drove the attackers off while one vampire lost and regrew a hand.
• Li Weide sent Tom to help Grindelwald’s people clear out the blood thralls, while the Wizarding Supremacists and Hydra wizards fought in separate groups.
• Dumbledore attacked the vampires with powerful nonlethal spells, and Hufflepuff shielded the wizards with her protective barrier.
• Slytherin drew a silver longsword and joined Li Weide, who froze a vampire before Slytherin killed it and another with his sword and a Killing Curse.
• The surviving vampires retreated, and Li Weide warned the Hydra wizards that a High Vampire commanded at least fifty lesser vampires.

Li Weide and his allies attacked a Vampire castle to find Nagini, but discovered they had targeted Count Nosferatu rather than Camilla. As Nosferatu reshaped the castle into a maze to delay them, Li Weide unleashed Ancient Magic to tear it apart, revealing a group of black-robed figures.

• Miravia returned with a live Vampire captive, and Li Weide learned the attackers were Count Nosferatu’s forces rather than Camilla’s.
• Miravia sealed the castle in white mist while Li Weide, Dumbledore, Slytherin, and Grindelwald led the assault inside.
• Li Weide fought through Vampires and Blood Thralls with Killing Curses and Fiendfyre, while Helga strengthened Miravia’s Nightmare Magic.
• Count Nosferatu transformed the castle into a maze, blocking the attackers’ paths and trying to buy time to escape.
• Li Weide used his Vampire-detecting pocket watch and spent all his reserve of Ancient Magic to break apart the maze, exposing a group of black-robed figures.

Li Weide and the wizards attacked Count Nosferatu’s vampires, using ultraviolet lights to weaken them and capturing the count alive while killing the others. Meanwhile, Nagini’s transformation was interrupted by a burst of Ancient Magic, which delighted the woman experimenting on her.

• Li Weide’s allies surrounded the vampires and activated ultraviolet lights that suppressed their abilities.
• Li Weide refused Count Nosferatu’s offer to negotiate and ordered the wizards to attack.
• Li Weide and the strongest wizards captured Count Nosferatu, while the remaining vampires were killed.
• Li Weide sealed Nosferatu’s mouth and said they would question him later.
• A ghostly blue glow erupted from Nagini and dispersed the scarlet light around her.
• The woman recognized the glow as Ancient Magic and reacted with delight.

Camilla nearly extracted Nagini’s soul to study her Beast Soul before Li Weide and Miravia rescued her. Li Weide pursued Camilla into the woods, where Miravia confronted her and attacked with the Killing Curse.

• Camilla began pulling Nagini’s soul from her body, but Li Weide tore open the room’s roof and interrupted her with a duel.
• Li Weide drove Camilla away with powerful spells while Miravia freed Nagini and put her into a healing sleep with Nightmare Magic.
• Li Weide pursued Camilla through the air and sliced off one of her bat wings before she escaped into the woods.
• Camilla wondered how the wizards had found her and discovered her vampires’ weakness, then encountered Miravia waiting ahead.
• Camilla tried to dodge Miravia’s Blast Curse but was somehow returned to its path and struck; Miravia followed with Avada Kedavra.

Miravia defeated Camilla in battle but failed to capture her, while Li Weide used Camilla’s severed hand as experimental material. The Ministry’s campaign against vampires gathered momentum, and after Nagini recovered, Li Weide upgraded the Hydra Rings and tested a video call with Tom Riddle, who said that the times were about to change.

• Camilla dodged Miravia’s Killing Curses and attacked with vampire bats and a close-range strike, but Miravia repelled her with Fiendfyre and disrupted her with mental magic.
• Camilla summoned a tornado, fire, and lightning to escape, but Miravia cut through the fire tornado and severed Camilla’s left hand as she Apparated away.
• Li Weide reassured Miravia, confirmed Nagini had recovered, and collected Camilla’s severed hand as experimental material.
• The Daily Prophet publicized vampires, the Ministry issued safety advice and offered rewards for vampire heads, and werewolves became key vampire hunters while hiding their own secret.
• More than half a month later, Nagini recovered, and Li Weide upgraded the Hydra Rings with independent danger-detection and emergency escape functions.
• Li Weide tested a video call through his ring with Tom Riddle, who said that the times were about to change.

Camilla prepared to awaken the Blood Ancestor of her Vampire line, while Li Weide and Tom discussed the Vampires’ weaknesses and their plans to deal with them. After seeing Nagini push herself through punishing training, Tom tried to guide her toward finding a deeper purpose for her fighting.

• Camilla entered a hidden chamber and began pumping blood into the dried corpse in a stone coffin, preparing to awaken her Blood Ancestor.
• Li Weide explained to Tom that Blood Ancestors slept to advance, and that Camilla was likely the only remaining descendant who could awaken one.
• Tom realized Li Weide had gained access to Nosferatu and the Vampires’ experimental research, then asked about Nagini’s recovery.
• Tom found Nagini being overwhelmed by five Battle Puppets, but she insisted on continuing her training so she would not hold anyone back again.
• Tom stopped Nagini from returning to the fight and asked her what she was fighting for, then introduced the Magic of Love.