Chapter Summaries

Tom and Li Weide intervened when Charlie Prince was being bullied by Slytherin Pure-bloods, and Li Weide declared Charlie his friend before explaining why blood status did not make wizards superior. Charlie joined their group, and Li Weide recognized the name Prince after learning Charlie had a younger sister named Eileen.

• Tom stopped Charlie from fighting by reminding him that they would be late for Charms Class, while Li Weide confronted Andre and intimidated him into reconsidering Li Weide's offer.
• Tom led Charlie out of the encirclement, and Li Weide declared that Charlie was his friend; Abraxas changed his objection to support after Li Weide fixed him with a terrifying gaze.
• Li Weide told Charlie that Muggles and wizards were equally human and that Pure-bloods had no reason to look down on others, prompting Tom to ponder his words and earning Li Weide more than five hundred Merit Points.
• At Charms Class, Alphard and Henry welcomed Charlie into their group, and Charlie told Li Weide that his eight-year-old sister was named Eileen Prince.

Li Weide and Tom urged Charlie to become strong enough to resist Slytherin bullies, explaining how their fight had cost the house 180 points but earned them fear and respect. In Charms class, Li Weide effortlessly cast a nonverbal Levitation Charm, leaving Tom to wonder whether he could ever catch up.

• Li Weide and Tom told Charlie that resisting bullies required fighting back, and they recounted how they had defeated the students who blocked them and lost 180 Slytherin points as a result.
• Annie, Henry, Alphard, and Charlie realized Li Weide and Tom had beaten the older students, including Andre Shafik, who had been afraid of Li Weide.
• Tom decided Li Weide’s strength came from the knowledge and resources of his supposed ancient pure-blood family, and he imagined surpassing him someday.
• Professor Eulalie Hicks taught the Levitation Charm, and Annie, MacLaggen, Tom, and Charlie successfully levitated feathers while Li Weide helped Alphard and Henry.
• Li Weide levitated his feather without speaking, and Hicks praised his nonverbal magic and awarded Slytherin twenty points.
• Tom watched the class marvel at Li Weide’s spell and doubted he could ever catch up to him.

After Li Weide intimidated his Slytherin classmates, he and his friends planned to find a secluded place to practice magic together. Myrtle Warren delivered detention notices, sending Li Weide and Tom to the Forbidden Forest that night, where Tom found Li Weide’s calmness unsettling.

• Li Weide and Tom encouraged Alphard and Henry to train, and Li Weide offered to find a secret place for the group to practice.
• Myrtle Elizabeth Warren nervously delivered detention slips from Professor McGonagall, and Li Weide learned that he and Tom had detention in the Forbidden Forest.
• Li Weide and Tom arrived at Mr. Ogg’s Wooden House with other Slytherin students before their month-long series of Forbidden Forest detentions.
• Tom asked why Li Weide was unafraid of the Forbidden Forest, and Li Weide joked that it felt like home despite Tom saying he had no home.

During detention in the Forbidden Forest, Li Weide and Tom ignored their patrol assignment and gathered valuable potion ingredients while Andre nervously followed. After collecting Venomous Tentacula, they found a unicorn and began harvesting its tail hair and blood, leaving Andre astonished at their supply-gathering expedition.

• Mr. Ogg split the students into two patrol groups and assigned Andre to lead Li Weide and Tom along a forest path with Bork.
• Li Weide reassured Andre with Nagini’s warning abilities, then led Tom off the path to collect Venomous Tentacula identified from Professor Slughorn’s notes.
• Andre followed Li Weide and Tom as they harvested the plants using Dragonhide Gloves and stored them in an expanded bag.
• Bork found fresh unicorn dung and a tail hair, so Li Weide and Tom followed him deeper into the forest while Andre reluctantly came along.
• Li Weide used Nightmare Magic to bewilder a unicorn, and he and Tom began collecting its tail hair and blood as Andre protested that they were supposed to be serving detention.

Li Weide gathered materials in the Forbidden Forest and encountered an armored giant controlled by three Goblins, then defeated them with powerful spells. He began interrogating the surviving Goblins, killing one before the others pleaded to talk.

• Li Weide warned Andre that reporting him would make Andre his enemy, while Andre decided he wanted to stay out of the conflict between Li Weide and Slytherin.
• Li Weide and the others left the unicorn after gathering materials, then Nagini and Bork alerted them to danger in the forest.
• Three Goblins appeared with an armored giant and ordered it to kill Li Weide, Tom, and Andre.
• Li Weide killed the giant with Sectumsempra and petrified the three Goblins with a spell that split into three.
• Li Weide frightened one Goblin into offering information, then killed him and asked the remaining two whether he had given them permission to speak.

Li Weide interrogated goblins searching the Forbidden Forest for magic that could greatly increase their power, then killed them and learned that their device might lead to the trapped senior female student. As Li Weide, Tom, and Andre discussed what to do, they decided to seek the magic for themselves, and Li Weide proposed killing the goblins at their gathering place.

• Li Weide questioned the goblins and learned they were using an unfinished device to search for Ranrok's magic, which could make goblins much stronger.
• Li Weide realized the device might be detecting remnants where the senior female student was trapped, and took the goblins' device and Forbidden Forest map.
• Li Weide verified the goblins' answers with Legilimency, killed them, and hid their bodies underground.
• Tom and Andre agreed the goblins could not be allowed to obtain the magic, while Li Weide rejected Andre's suggestion to report the conspiracy to the headmaster.
• Tom proposed that they take the magic themselves, and Li Weide suggested killing the goblins at their gathering place, prompting Tom to call him too extreme.

Li Weide planned to use the goblins’ magical remnants to recruit and empower followers, then returned safely to Hogwarts with Tom and Andre. Andre accepted Li Weide’s offer to follow him and proposed an Unbreakable Vow, leaving Li Weide with his first follower and Tom aware that he was no longer hiding his ambitions.

• Li Weide and Tom agreed that the goblins posed too great a risk to leave alive, while Li Weide secretly planned to use their magical remnants to build a force of followers.
• Mr. Ogg led Li Weide, Tom, and Andre safely out of the Forbidden Forest and back to Hogwarts.
• Li Weide told his roommates about the forest’s plants and unicorn traces, then sent Toby to sell the materials they had collected.
• Andre visited Li Weide and declared that he wanted to follow him because he hoped to gain access to the power that could make him stronger.
• Andre offered to make an Unbreakable Vow, and Li Weide accepted with Tom as witness.
• Li Weide told Tom that they had taken the first step, and Tom asked whether he had finally stopped hiding his ambitions.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore struggled to understand the Wizarding Supremacists’ sudden disappearance, while Dumbledore learned that Li Weide’s group had resisted pure-blood hostility at Hogwarts. Li Weide prepared to raid a goblin camp that night and led his friends to find a place where they could grow stronger.

• Grindelwald considered approaching Li Weide and the other children to recruit them, while Dumbledore and Headmaster Dippet discussed Grindelwald’s retreat and the vanished Nurmengard Castle.
• Headmaster Dippet told Dumbledore that Li Weide and his friends had fought off several Slytherin students and formed a group to resist pure-blood hostility.
• Li Weide told the senior female student he planned to use the Residue to cultivate his allies, and she advised him to share it carefully and helped him prepare to scout a goblin camp.
• Li Weide told Tom that he planned to raid the goblin camp that night and teased Tom for seeming concerned about his safety.
• Li Weide slept through Professor Binns’s class while Tom stayed awake and took notes, impressing their friends.
• Li Weide led Tom, Annie, Alphard, and Henry away from the classroom to find a place where the group could train.

Li Weide brought his friends to the Room of Requirement, where they established a place to study, practice spells, and eat. During Dumbledore’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, Tom easily disarmed MacLaggen, then Dumbledore asked him to duel Li Weide.

• Li Weide revealed the Room of Requirement to Annie, Tom, Alphard, Henry, and Charlie and showed them how to summon it.
• Li Weide asked the room for a dining area, and it produced a table covered with enough food for the group.
• Dumbledore taught the students the Disarming Charm and had them practice it against a target.
• MacLaggen chose Tom as her dueling opponent, but Tom quickly disarmed her and earned ten points for Slytherin.
• Dumbledore invited Tom to duel Li Weide, and Li Weide stepped forward while Tom hesitated.

Dumbledore arranged an exhibition duel between Li Weide and Tom to see what they had learned from the books he sent them. After they traded powerful spells and damaged the classroom, Li Weide overwhelmed Tom with a transfigured net and petrified him.

• Dumbledore invited Li Weide and Tom to spar with all the spells they had learned, and both agreed to fight seriously.
• Tom attacked with a gale, mist, and a barrage of Disarming Charms, while Li Weide blocked them with a transfigured shield and secretly controlled the duel’s pace.
• The two exchanged increasingly destructive spells, astonishing the students and Dumbledore while cracking the classroom’s ancient stone floor.
• Tom turned shattered floor fragments into a barrage, but Li Weide transformed them into birds and sent them at Tom, who blocked them with a desk.
• Li Weide transfigured the desk’s remains into a net that trapped Tom, then petrified him.

After Li Weide and Tom’s spectacular duel, Dumbledore encouraged Li Weide to establish a student club that would unite students and help them improve. Li Weide’s companions began training in the Room of Requirement, while Tom confronted him about an attack that had nearly killed him.

• Dumbledore praised Li Weide and Tom’s duel, and the students’ practice afterward showed how far the pair surpassed their classmates.
• Grace MacLaggen admitted Tom was stronger than her, and Li Weide invited her to set aside House rivalry and join a student club.
• Dumbledore encouraged Li Weide to start a club, so Li Weide and Tom decided to form one where students could help one another.
• Li Weide’s group returned to the Room of Requirement, where Charlie and Annie helped Henry and Alphard practice the Levitation Charm.
• Tom asked Li Weide whether he had tried to kill him with Flock of Birds, and Li Weide apologized while comparing the challenge of holding back to stepping on an ant without hurting it.

Li Weide left Tom behind and secretly entered a goblin camp in the Forbidden Forest, where he killed its guards and most of its inhabitants. He defeated the goblin captain, who remained alive long enough to hear Li Weide call his excessive life force a flaw.

• Li Weide left Tom in charge of the Student Mutual Aid Club and rejected Tom's offer to join his nighttime mission because Tom was too weak.
• Li Weide received Andre's warning that Charlie Prince and Annie Rosier would be targeted on Saturday night and decided their enemies needed to feel real pain.
• After resting, Li Weide slipped through a hidden mirror passage on Hogwarts' fourth floor, Apparated to the Forbidden Forest, and found the goblin camp.
• Li Weide used Nightmare Magic to kill the goblins guarding the camp, then entered the enchanted tent and learned from two goblins that their captain feared Kari had found powerful magic.
• Li Weide killed the goblins inside the tent until only the captain remained, then broke the captain's wand and dealt him a savage wound.
• Li Weide approached the dying captain and remarked that a life force mismatched with one's strength was also a flaw.

Li Weide defeated a group of Wizarding Supremacists in the Forbidden Forest, while Tom killed one of the fleeing wizards and discovered how much he enjoyed it. They returned toward Hogwarts believing they had hidden their involvement, but the Supremacists’ alliance with the Goblins meant their search for the power was becoming more dangerous.

• Li Weide burned the Goblins’ tent and was confronted by six Wizarding Supremacists, who attacked him with Cruciatus Curses.
• Li Weide Apparated behind the Supremacists and killed three with a split Killing Curse, then pursued the others as they fled.
• Li Weide killed two more fleeing Supremacists with Sectumsempra and a curving Killing Curse, while Tom killed the last one with a Killing Curse.
• Li Weide asked Tom how killing had affected him, and Tom admitted that the experience brought him intoxicating pleasure.
• Li Weide told Tom that the Supremacists had allied with the Goblins to search for the power, and they agreed to conceal their involvement after disposing of the bodies.

After killing a wizard, Li Weide and Tom discussed their talent for Dark Magic and Li Weide’s ambition to guide the world rather than rule it. They returned to the dormitory, where Li Weide received a list of pure-blood wizards he intended to teach a lesson.

• Li Weide learned that Tom had taught himself the Killing Curse and praised his talent, while Tom assumed Li Weide had benefited from family training.
• Li Weide suggested that he and Tom might someday do something like Grindelwald, but said they should guide the world instead of seeking domination.
• Nagini warned them against abusing Dark Magic and becoming like Grindelwald; Li Weide and Tom promised not to use it first, though they would retaliate if attacked.
• Li Weide asked Tom to let his strength serve him, and Tom agreed while insisting that he would challenge Li Weide if he could someday defeat him.
• Back in the dormitory, Li Weide found a parchment listing pure-blood wizards and told Tom they needed to be taught a lesson.

Li Weide’s group attacked Abraxas Malfoy and his friends before they could target Charlie and Annie, using healing potions to erase the evidence and prepare to beat them again. The chapter ended with the second beating underway and Annie realizing Li Weide’s plan.

• Li Weide bought the Complete Book of Elementary Potions Recipes and discovered that it included recipes such as Wolfsbane Potion, Elixir of Life, and Felix Felicis.
• Li Weide’s group agreed to strike first on Saturday, and Professor Slughorn’s favor gave Li Weide confidence that the consequences would be minor.
• Li Weide, Tom, Annie, Charlie, Henry, and Alphard went to the Quidditch Pitch and cornered Abraxas Malfoy and his friends beneath the stands.
• Alphard and Henry disarmed Abraxas, while Annie and Charlie disarmed his friends, and the group bound and beat them.
• Li Weide healed Abraxas and his friends with an improved healing potion, removing visible evidence of the beating.
• Li Weide announced that they could beat them again now that they were healed, and Henry, Alphard, and the others attacked while Annie watched in shock.

Li Weide and his friends beat the pure-blood students who had been plotting against them, forcing Abraxas to reveal the names of other conspirators. Professor Slughorn praised Li Weide’s resolve, promised to address Slytherin’s bullying, and approved his Student Mutual Aid Club.

• Li Weide and Tom intimidated Abraxas into promising not to retaliate and making a list of students plotting against them.
• Li Weide compared Abraxas’s list with Andre’s, found additional names, and led his group to confront students across Hogwarts.
• Students heard that Li Weide’s group had beaten the pure-blood bullies, who made no complaints or threats afterward.
• Professor Slughorn questioned Li Weide about the attacks, then praised his actions and promised to investigate future bullying.
• Li Weide asked Professor Slughorn to approve notices for his Student Mutual Aid Club, and Slughorn agreed.

Li Weide and Professor Slughorn agreed to use the Student Mutual Aid Club to support Slytherin students and reform the House, while Dumbledore warned Slughorn that Grindelwald was watching Li Weide and his companions. Li Weide launched the club at Hogwarts, attracting members from several Houses, and left Tom considering his belief in the power of the people.

• Li Weide agreed to protect students who joined the Student Mutual Aid Club, and Slughorn became its faculty advisor to help reform Slytherin House.
• Slughorn visited Dumbledore, who revealed that Grindelwald was watching Li Weide and his companions and that their home was protected by a Fidelius Charm with Dumbledore as Secret-Keeper.
• Li Weide and his group distributed club flyers and posted notices naming Slughorn as advisor, drawing a growing crowd of interested students.
• A timid non-pure-blood Slytherin student joined after Li Weide promised club members would support one another, and Gryffindor Grace MacLaggen also signed up.
• As more students joined, Li Weide told Tom that the club should rely on the majority and urged him to believe in the power of the people.

After the Mutual Aid Club attracted more than 170 students, Li Weide put Tom in charge while planning research into expanding wizarding abilities. The next day, Li Weide and the other core members met Professor Slughorn to draft the club’s principles and discuss funding it with an improved skin-care potion recipe.

• More than 170 students joined the Mutual Aid Club on its first day, and Li Weide told Tom to manage the club and let members come and go freely.
• Li Weide explained that he did not need to trust Tom, prompting Tom to abandon thoughts of taking over the club and agree to lead it properly.
• Li Weide and Tom divided their plans: Li Weide would seek ways to make them stronger, while Tom would expand their influence without intimidating club members.
• Li Weide and the core members visited Professor Slughorn, where Li Weide demonstrated advanced Transfiguration and proposed a points-and-prizes system for rewarding members who helped one another.
• Li Weide refused Slughorn’s offer to fund the club and presented him with an improved skin-care potion recipe; Slughorn’s serious reaction suggested the recipe was viable.

Li Weide and Professor Slughorn tested Li Weide’s improved Beautifying Potion, which worked and promised to fund the Mutual Aid Club. As Li Weide and Tom went to set up the club’s classroom, Abraxas Malfoy asked to join.

• Li Weide explained that he had improved a potion formula, and Professor Slughorn praised his memory and promised to help sell the potion if it proved effective.
• Professor Slughorn and Li Weide brewed the Beautifying Potion, and Grace tested it, finding that it removed her freckles without apparent side effects.
• Annie tried the potion, and Li Weide offered club members free access so the Beautifying Potion could help attract more girls to the club.
• Li Weide told Tom that they needed outside allies, including influential Pure-blood families, and pointed out that Abraxas Malfoy had been isolated after revealing the informants’ list.
• Abraxas approached Li Weide and Tom and asked to join the Mutual Aid Club.

Li Weide set conditions for Abraxas to join the Mutual Aid Club, then welcomed him after he won forgiveness from the students he had bullied. At the club’s first gathering, Li Weide delivered a speech about equality and mutual progress, and Grindelwald recognized its familiar sound while reading Vinda’s report.

• Li Weide told Abraxas to list everyone he had bullied and apologize to them within three days before he could join the club.
• Li Weide and Tom prepared the enlarged activity room, and Tom guessed Abraxas might pay people to accept his apologies.
• Abraxas obtained forgiveness from the students he had bullied, and Li Weide selected core members as the club grew.
• At the first group gathering, Li Weide praised Abraxas’s change and urged club members to reject bloodline distinctions and support one another.
• Professor Slughorn praised Li Weide’s speech, and Li Weide said change had already begun at Hogwarts.
• Vinda told Grindelwald that an investigation team in the Forbidden Forest and a Goblin exploration team had vanished; Grindelwald read Annie’s account of Li Weide’s speech and found it familiar.