Chapter Summaries

Sean found Rowena Ravenclaw’s hidden trial in the Room of Requirement and earned her recognition by refusing to choose among the offered rewards. He gained limited access to her authority but could not claim one quarter of Hogwarts’ authority until he improved his Ancient Runes.

• Sean entered the Room of Requirement’s original state, found Ravenclaw’s statue, and activated it by reciting her famous saying.
• Ravenclaw explained the origins of Hogwarts’ divided authority and offered Sean a choice of rewards, while starlight briefly cleared his mind.
• Sean refused to choose despite Ravenclaw’s repeated prompts, and she praised his greed as a Ravenclaw’s thirst for knowledge.
• Ravenclaw revealed the mark that could grant Sean one quarter of Hogwarts’ authority, but Sean failed to merge his magic with it using Ancient Runes.
• Ravenclaw told Sean to seek her Diadem for help, opened part of her authority to him, and sent a comet into him that let him freely access spaces and inspect things in the Room of Requirement.

Sean gained partial authority over the Room of Requirement, used it to retrieve rare books for Hermione and Daisy, and learned that Ravenclaw's Diadem was not stored there. He went to find Helena to ask about the Diadem, while Dumbledore and Stephanie Ollivander separately visited the Room of Requirement.

• Sean discovered that the Room of Requirement recognized him as an Agent and allowed him to retrieve stored items, enter from parts of the castle, and control the staircases.
• Sean emerged from a different doorway and gave Hermione One Hundred Spells and Their Origins and Daisy Healing the Body and Then Healing the Mind, along with Ravenclaw's Rune manuscripts for himself.
• Dumbledore entered the Room of Requirement carrying a Memory Bottle, while Stephanie Ollivander watched Sean and Dumbledore from behind a curtain with an exquisite Monocle in her hand.
• Sean searched the Room of Requirement for Ravenclaw's Diadem but did not find it, so he planned to seek Helena's help locating it.
• After class, Sean found Helena at the top of a tower and greeted her.

Sean discovered that Helena had already received her mother’s forgiveness and learned that someone else had taken Ravenclaw’s Diadem, though Helena hinted it might still come to him. After a strange worldwide sensation, Sean realized that October 27 had somehow passed without enough time.

• Sean showed Helena the Portrait of her and Ravenclaw, and Helena said someone else had already shown it to her and helped her move on.
• Helena told Sean that the diadem had probably been taken, but its new owner bore him no ill will and might give it to him; Sean offered to make Helena a copy of the Portrait.
• Sean and Helena sensed a strange worldwide phenomenon, and Helena recalled Ravenclaw saying that time would favor certain people and that a change and division might follow.
• At Hogwarts, students and professors could not explain the phenomenon, while Sean learned Percy had used Recording Crystals rather than Time-Turners to attend conflicting classes.
• The next morning, Sean saw that his watch showed October 28, and Dave sensed that October 27 had been squeezed between the other days without enough time.

Sean learned from Stephanie that Thursday, October 27, had lasted only four hours, an effect linked to a long journey through time and space. Stephanie began explaining her past connection to Sean and Grindelwald, leaving her confession unfinished as she tried to clarify what had happened in his first year.

• Sean greeted Stephanie in the Ravenclaw Common Room, and she asked to speak with him before he could find the professors.
• Stephanie opened a hidden Room of Requirement in the Common Room and told Sean that October 27 had lasted only four hours.
• Stephanie described Eloise Mintable’s fatal time-travel experiment, which had altered the past and caused descendants to vanish from the present.
• Stephanie told Sean that the Ministry of Magic had no Time-Turners left and said she suspected Professor Dumbledore was connected to the recent disturbance.
• Stephanie admitted she had known Sean entered the Ravenclaw Chamber and had hidden in the Room of Requirement, then confessed that her Monocle had monitored him for Grindelwald.
• Stephanie insisted her first-year encounter with Sean had been an accident and began explaining herself.

Stephanie’s guilt over giving Sean the Monocle erupted into an emotional breakdown, and her Veela enchantment briefly made him nearly kiss her. Sean recognized her as the Sin of Lust and stopped her magic from transferring to him, leaving Stephanie alive but unsure what had happened.

• Stephanie broke down, confessed that Grindelwald had made her monitor Sean, and begged him to forgive her.
• Sean tried to calm Stephanie and reassure her, but her emotions suddenly shifted into an intense enchantment that drew him toward her.
• Sean realized he was enchanted and saw Stephanie’s magic draining from her as it poured into him.
• Sean identified Stephanie as Lust, a Sin whose magic he could absorb without resistance, and chose to stop the transfer rather than gain her power.
• Sean gave Stephanie two doses of Mind Purifier and restrained her with Petrificus Totalus until her magic stopped spilling out.
• Stephanie regained some composure, thanked Sean, and said she did not know why her emotions had been magnified.

Sean examined Stephanie’s memories and discovered that a powerful, unknown person had tampered with them, amplifying her feelings until Lust awakened and connected with his Pride. Stephanie then revealed that Dumbledore had taken more than a dozen Pensieves from Hogwarts’ Pensieve Room, and Sean recognized that the manuscript she showed him described a use for multiple Pensieves.

• Stephanie asked Sean about the magic transfer, and he explained the prophecy and the Sin awakening within him.
• Stephanie recalled meeting someone strange in Albania while searching for Ravenclaw’s Diadem, so Sean examined her memories with her permission.
• Sean found that Stephanie had been subjected to a powerful Obliviation Charm and that a hidden suggestion had magnified her guilt and sorrow until Lust awakened.
• Sean told Stephanie what he had discovered, and she confirmed that she had genuinely wanted to apologize to him.
• Stephanie said Dumbledore had entered Hogwarts’ Pensieve Room after the time-travel accident and taken more than a dozen intact Pensieves.
• Stephanie gave Sean a manuscript about using multiple Pensieves, and Sean realized that only one described scenario fit.

Sean and Stephanie learned that Dumbledore may have been examining a memory containing an entire life, possibly connected to a journey through time. Stephanie offered Sean Ravenclaw’s Chamber of Secrets authority, and after he accepted, she secretly activated a black mirror.

• Sean read that a Pensieve maker had developed a spell allowing multiple Pensieves to view a memory of an entire life, which could erase the owner’s own memories of himself.
• Stephanie said Dumbledore had carried an unusually large memory and might be connected to someone’s long-distance journey through time.
• Stephanie withheld her suspicion that Dumbledore had deliberately meant her to relay information to Grindelwald.
• Stephanie told Sean she had declined Ravenclaw’s authority and urged him to take it; Sean accepted and agreed to owe her a favor.
• Sean left after Stephanie offered to find him Rune materials, and Stephanie smiled to herself before taking out a mirror that showed only blackness.

After October 27th vanished, Sean investigated a suspicious Slytherin student and finally confronted Dumbledore, who refused to explain his secret work but asked Sean to trust him. Dumbledore warned Sean not to pursue the student, and the chapter ended with Harry reporting that the Invisibility Cloak was broken.

• Stephanie tried to contact Grindelwald with the mirror but received no answer, while Sean confirmed that October 27th had vanished and that the professors knew little about Time-Turners.
• Sean followed a secretive Slytherin student to the Headmaster's Office and saw him deliver a message to Dumbledore.
• Sean confronted Dumbledore, who said he could not reveal what he was doing and asked Sean to believe him; Sean said his choice not to use the Imperius Curse on the student showed his trust.
• Dumbledore stopped Sean from pursuing the Slytherin student, then left Sean with a sorrowful remark about wishing he could return to that summer.
• Sean found Hermione, Daisy, Harry, and the others, and Harry urgently told him that the Invisibility Cloak was broken.

Sean discovered that Harry's Invisibility Cloak had aged and suspected the genuine Deathly Hallow had been taken during a past break-in, possibly by the time traveler. While Sean investigated the mystery, Grindelwald rallied a crowd to oppose laws restricting wizards and build support for his cause.

• Sean examined Harry's torn Invisibility Cloak, found signs of aging, and repaired the tear without restoring its invisibility.
• Sean suspected Harry's cloak was not the genuine Deathly Hallow and wondered whether a time traveler had changed the past or taken the original.
• Sean contacted Lupin, who relayed James's account of a thief breaking into the Potter home years earlier without taking anything.
• Sean questioned how James could remember the break-in without sensing that the memory had changed.
• Grindelwald addressed a fervent crowd, denounced laws restricting wizards, and urged them to fight for freedom and wizarding power.

Grindelwald and his allies advanced plans to obstruct the Guard and influence the International Confederation of Wizards, while Sean investigated the Returners and the mystery of Salazar Slytherin. The chapter ended with Stephanie suggesting she could provide beginner-level Ancient Runes materials explained by Ravenclaw.

• Grindelwald told Anton Vogel to recruit more allies, keep pressure on the Guard Corps, and prevent the Qilin from falling into their hands.
• Diane Allison decided the Guard would continue its operation and ensure the International Confederation of Wizards presidential election proceeded as scheduled; a Returner arranged for Barty Jr. to be taken from prison.
• Sean studied Ravenclaw's manuscripts and theorized that the Returners used Merlin's lost spell to preserve and transfer the magic of dead wizards.
• Sean wondered whether Salazar Slytherin had awakened in the Chamber of Secrets, but he could not observe its entrance from the Room of Requirement.
• Stephanie asked Sean about his Ancient Runes skills and said Ravenclaw had beginner-level Runes materials with explanations.

On his birthday, Sean learned that Newt Scamander had been attacked while the Guard Corps pursued him east, apparently to find a Qilin, and suspected Grindelwald was preparing to act during the International Confederation of Wizards election. After celebrating with friends, Sean shared a quiet birthday moment with Stephanie, whose birthday was the same day.

• Sean received Lupin’s report that the Guard Corps had attacked Newt Scamander, and a newspaper accused them of trying to silence him and frame Grindelwald.
• Lupin told Sean that Newt was being pursued toward the East by the Guard Corps and another force, leading Sean to suspect they were searching for a Qilin.
• Sean connected the upcoming Confederation election to a possible move by Grindelwald and asked Lupin to keep watch on events.
• Lupin gave Sean birthday gifts from friends and family, and Sean celebrated with cake and his Hogwarts friends.
• Sean met Stephanie afterward, accepted her carefully prepared manuscript, and gave her a gift and a small birthday cake because they shared a birthday.

Sean and Stephanie fought intruders after Dark Wizards attacked Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. As the professors subdued the attackers, Sean realized the assault had been a diversion targeting Aurelius.

• Sean spotted Hogsmeade burning and saw Aurelius’s Obscurus attack the Black-Robed Wizards there.
• Stephanie told Sean that intruders had triggered explosions inside Hogwarts, and they ran toward the first floor despite the order for students to return to their Common Rooms.
• An invisible Swooping Evil ambushed them, but Dave killed it; Stephanie then shattered one Black-Robed Wizard with a spell while Professor McGonagall killed another through Transfiguration.
• Professor McGonagall led Sean and Stephanie to the first floor, where she and the other professors subdued the remaining attackers.
• Sean helped Professor Sprout defeat an attacker, then realized the assault inside Hogwarts was a diversion and that Aurelius was the real target.

Sean and Professor McGonagall rushed to Hogsmeade after Sean realized a Silent Mouth was absorbing Aurelius’s Obscurus. They attacked the Black-Robed Wizards, and Sean confronted the Silent Mouth while Aurelius remained in danger.

• Sean warned Professor McGonagall that the attackers were targeting Aurelius and that a Silent Mouth could absorb his Obscurus; Stephanie joined them as they hurried toward Hogsmeade.
• Dave reported that Aurelius was bound near the Hog’s Head Inn and that numerous Dark Wizards guarded the Silent Mouth, while Aberforth and Nagini fought to reach him.
• Sean, Professor McGonagall, and Stephanie launched a surprise attack, then combined Transfiguration, a blinding flash, and their creatures’ assaults to bring down many Dark Wizards.
• Sean ordered the others to hold off reinforcements and approached the Silent Mouth, which continued draining Aurelius despite the barrier from Sean’s Gemstone Necklace.
• A hidden attacker aimed a Killing Curse at Sean, but Sean’s Sneakoscope warned him and a six-clawed Wampus Cat killed the ambusher.

Sean destroyed Silent Mouth before it could devour Aurelius’s Obscurus, then left the battle near Hogwarts to help the Flumes in Hogsmeade. He rescued Mr. and Mrs. Flume from two Dark Wizards, though the wider fight continued.

• Sean discovered that Silent Mouth resisted magic and physical attacks, but bullets and grenades could damage it when it was distracted by a spell.
• Sean and Pudding struck Silent Mouth with grenades, severing its connection to Aurelius’s Obscurus; Sean then destroyed it with repeated spells and a Basilisk-venom bolt.
• Sean healed Aurelius and asked Aberforth to look after him before leaving to help the Ambrose Flumes.
• Professor McGonagall continued fighting Dark Wizards as reinforcements approached Hogwarts.
• At Honeydukes, Pudding killed the two Dark Wizards threatening Mrs. Flume, and Sean asked Mr. Flume if he was all right.

Sean Wallerup rescued the Flumes and hunted Dark Wizards in Hogsmeade, where he captured Pablo Calchas and learned the attackers were connected to the Returners. Pablo died by a lethal Contract Spell after claiming Dumbledore was working with his family, leaving Sean with a grave new suspicion.

• Sean saved Mr. Flume and Mrs. Flume, gave them a Healing Potion, and followed Dave’s message to continue hunting Dark Wizards.
• Sean found a skilled ambusher using two Obscuruses, defended himself until poison weakened the attacker, and had Pudding subdue the creatures.
• Sean stripped the attacker’s belongings and discovered that his tie was a Portkey capable of breaching Hogwarts’s Portkey network.
• Sean interrogated the attacker with potions and the Cruciatus Curse, learning that he was Pablo Calchas, a Greek descendant of an ancient Seer, and that the Returners wanted Sean captured alive.
• Pablo revealed that his group had targeted an old man carrying an Obscurus, supported the Guard Corps, and sought to create chaos, but a lethal Contract Spell killed him after he said Dumbledore was working with his family.

Sean rescued Hogsmeade and Hogwarts during a Dark Wizard attack, confronted the Guard Corps’ Hyuse, and reaffirmed his suspicions that Dumbledore was working with the Returners. Professor McGonagall supported Sean’s actions and awarded Ravenclaw one hundred points as they returned to the castle.

• Sean kept the two injured Obscuruses alive for questioning and stored them in his ring under the Basilisk’s watch.
• Hyuse arrived with the Guard Corps and Dementors, but Sean confronted him and accused the Corps of helping the attackers and targeting Aurelius and Sean.
• Sean displayed a pile of dead Dark Wizards to intimidate Hyuse, and Hyuse received orders to suspend the capture operation, return Hogwarts guard duty to the Aurors, and assign two people to take the blame.
• Professor McGonagall questioned Sean about killing, then told him Hogwarts would stand behind him because he had protected innocent people.
• Professor McGonagall awarded Ravenclaw one hundred points.

After the attack on Hogsmeade, Sean and Stephanie received public recognition at Hogwarts while Dumbledore destroyed part of the Returners’ hidden temple and the conspirators continued their plans. Sean then tried to free two controlled Obscuruses from their handlers’ influence so he could learn what they knew.

• Dumbledore confronted the ceremonial wizard, then collapsed the hidden temple after warning that he expected care from his collaborators.
• The temple’s ancient voices decided to pursue their plan to control the Ministry and secure the new Confederation Chairman, while keeping the Qilin from Grindelwald.
• Professor McGonagall told Hogwarts that Sean Wallop and Stephanie Ollivander had helped repel the attackers, awarded them points and Special Contribution Awards, and praised their bravery.
• Sean told Hermione and Daisy that the attackers had included many escaped fugitives and explained that he had tested Hyuse’s connection to the Returners without uncovering their full plan.
• Sean used diluted Swooping Evil venom and Healing Potions on two controlled Obscuruses, and one awoke dazed as Sean tried to communicate with it.

Sean learned from an Obscurus that Dumbledore had visited an abandoned castle and two other secret locations with the Returners, then heard that Grindelwald’s charges had been dropped and he would enter the International Confederation of Wizards election. The Confederation revived the Qilin Election, scheduled to begin in ten days.

• Sean pieced together the Obscurus’s memories of Dumbledore visiting an abandoned castle, a swamp-shrouded lake, and a ruined village with a Calchas family wizard, and suspected Dumbledore had made a binding agreement with the Returners.
• Lupin told Sean that Charles Vogel had dropped all charges against Grindelwald and was expected to announce Grindelwald’s candidacy.
• At a candidates’ gathering, Isianne Archer and Wahag Da Silva questioned Vogel about clearing Grindelwald and letting him run, while Vogel argued that the election could prevent a Wizarding civil conflict.
• Vogel’s private secretary announced that the Confederation would use the Qilin Election, and Vogel privately smiled as the candidates reacted.
• Hogwarts received notice that Grindelwald had been cleared and would run, and students learned that the Qilin Election would begin in ten days.

As the International Confederation of Wizards election approached, Sean learned that a Qilin would choose the chairman and that Newt Scamander had found the only newborn Qilin. Dumbledore sent Sean to Bhutan with Newt, where they were headed into a contest involving Grindelwald, the Guard Corps, and the Saints.

• Professor Binns explained that the Qilin Election chose the chairman by having a Qilin kneel before the wizard with the purest heart, a method Sean and Hermione questioned.
• Newt Scamander, Jacob Kowalski, and Queenie Kowalski searched the East for the Qilin while evading two rival groups of pursuers.
• At the Guard Corps' base, Allison ordered her forces to keep the Qilin from Grindelwald and prepare an alternate election plan if it failed to arrive.
• On election day, Dumbledore told Sean to welcome Newt and travel with him to Bhutan, changing his appearance along the way.
• Newt showed Sean the Qilin in his suitcase and explained that Dumbledore likely expected interference from the Saints, so Sean agreed to go with them.

Sean traveled with Newt to Bhutan, where he learned that a time incident had occurred in 1899, the year Dumbledore and Grindelwald met. After meeting Grindelwald, Sean learned that Dumbledore had traveled into the distant past, while Grindelwald prepared to pursue his own plan for the Qilin election.

• Newt told Sean that the Saints and the Guard Corps had both pursued him while seeking the newborn Qilin, and that he had first become involved after the Saints threatened Jacob's family.
• Newt recalled a time incident in October 1899, when the sky darkened and about ten hours vanished, prompting Sean to suspect someone had traveled far back in time.
• Sean and Newt used the prayer wheel to reach Bhutan, where Sean disguised himself and spotted Saints and Guard Corps members watching the crowds.
• Grindelwald confronted Sean in an alley and said the Qilin was only one possible means to his goal, while insisting that his plans were his own.
• Grindelwald confirmed that Dumbledore had traveled into the distant past, gave Sean a seal, and urged him to think carefully about Dumbledore's words before disappearing.