Chapter Summaries

Li Weide pretended that the Repair System had stopped progressing so he could explain why he had not repaired it, while hiding his fear that repairing it would let him absorb his first-playthrough self’s power and provoke an early war. The Fake Death God accepted his excuse and suggested smaller historical changes, then fled when he made another lewd request.

• Li Weide worried that his Ancient Magic Power was growing, but his equally powerful opponent had a head start of centuries, and he feared the Fake Death God’s increasing suspicion.
• Li Weide told the Fake Death God that repeating earlier missions in Parallel Worlds had failed to increase his Repair System progress, and she wondered whether only changes to major historical events counted.
• The Fake Death God urged Li Weide to choose a historical event, but he proposed helping goblins, house-elves, and wizards during the Witch Hunt in increasingly violent ways.
• Li Weide claimed that pressure had made him anxious and that he was losing hair, then asked to look at the Fake Death God’s legs.
• The Fake Death God advised him to make smaller changes across more Parallel Worlds and quickly disappeared, while Li Weide calmly reflected that playing dumb had worked well.

Li Weide used a staged test to investigate Raven’s surveillance and then invited Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Tom, and other allies to a cinema to share the truth. The screening began with footage from a future parallel timeline, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald recognized the people on screen and realized Li Weide had access to parallel worlds.

• Li Weide sent a mixture of real and false orders through Toby, and the fake Death God passed copied documents to a man in Great Hell, who identified the orders as a test and warned Raven to act as though nothing had happened.
• After discovering that all his letters had been copied, Li Weide discussed the situation with Tom and Miravia and decided to tell more people the truth by inviting them to watch a movie.
• Li Weide invited Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and other allies to a Floating City cinema to watch Harry Potter, while Tom objected to being mocked by the film’s title and premise.
• A week later, the guests gathered at the cinema, and Li Weide told Dumbledore that the movie showed what might have happened to Tom if Li Weide had never existed.
• As the film showed future versions of Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore, Dumbledore recognized them and concluded that the footage came from a parallel timeline; Grindelwald realized Li Weide could travel between parallel worlds.

Li Weide’s screening showed how Tom Riddle became Voldemort in a parallel world without Li Weide, while Dumbledore faced criticism for his failures as a teacher and the film’s events. As the story reached Dumbledore’s death, Grindelwald recognized that his old friend had planned even his own sacrifice.

• Li Weide explained that the parallel world had no influence from him, and Dumbledore realized Tom had become Voldemort without his guidance.
• Dumbledore watched his past choices and the events of the Philosopher’s Stone and Secret Chamber, while Grindelwald criticized his treatment of Tom and the Hogwarts students.
• When the film revealed Voldemort’s diary was a Horcrux, Dumbledore and Grindelwald realized Voldemort had made multiple Horcruxes; Tom thanked Li Weide for helping him become someone different.
• Tom recovered from his shame with Grace’s comfort and watched the film continue through Sirius’s escape, Cedric’s death, and Voldemort’s resurrection.
• Grindelwald watched Snape kill Dumbledore in the film and angrily accused Dumbledore of planning his own death.

As the film showed Grindelwald refusing to reveal the Elder Wand’s location and dying at Voldemort’s hands, Li Weide and Tom discussed how their interference had changed the future and whether Li Weide might become a darker version of himself. Grindelwald admitted his past wrongdoing to Dumbledore, who offered him a chance to atone without imprisonment.

• Tom realized Li Weide had known the original future from the start, and Li Weide explained that he was a variable who feared his influence had pushed the world toward darkness.
• Tom argued that Li Weide was not the same as the madman he might have become, and Li Weide accepted that both of them had been kept from their worst selves by others.
• The film showed the captured Harry Trio being taken to Malfoy Manor, then shifted to Voldemort confronting Grindelwald in Nurmengard about the Elder Wand.
• Grindelwald denied ever possessing the Elder Wand and endured Voldemort’s torture rather than reveal its connection to Dumbledore; Voldemort killed him when he refused to speak.
• Li Weide explained that Grindelwald had protected Dumbledore’s grave by hiding the Elder Wand’s history, and Dumbledore recognized Grindelwald’s words as a sign that he understood the power of love and sacrifice.
• After Li Weide urged him to stop being stubborn, Grindelwald apologized to Dumbledore and offered to return to Nurmengard, but Dumbledore said he could atone through his abilities instead of being imprisoned.

After the film, Li Weide revealed that a powerful, ruthless version of himself from a Parallel World threatened their world and that he planned to leave and fight the madman alone. Miravia and Tom refused to let him face the danger by himself, while the others prepared to help with his plan.

• After the screening, Li Weide arranged a banquet and Tom agreed to duel Grindelwald, who challenged him over the film's depiction of his death.
• Tom defeated Grindelwald with a single spell, shocking the guests and demonstrating the power he had absorbed from a Parallel World Voldemort.
• Li Weide explained that another version of himself had absorbed the power of his Parallel World selves and was now unimaginably powerful, then recounted his encounters with the Fake Death God and the real Death.
• Li Weide said he intended to leave the world and fight the madman alone, asking everyone to help cast magic to sever the world's connection to him.
• Dumbledore urged Li Weide not to sacrifice himself, but Li Weide argued that his death could serve the greater good.
• Miravia and Tom both volunteered to go with Li Weide despite his objections.