Chapter Summaries

Sean accompanied Newt and the others to the International Confederation of Wizards election, where the Qilin rejected Grindelwald and knelt before Sean before choosing Jacob. Grindelwald seized on the Qilin’s choice of a Muggle to challenge the crowd to reject the old rules, leaving the election in turmoil.

• Sean reunited with Newt, Jacob, and the others, then learned that Grindelwald’s followers had driven off their pursuers.
• Newt brought the Qilin to the election ceremony, where it passed the candidates and fled from Grindelwald.
• The Qilin knelt before Sean, who comforted it and urged it to choose someone else.
• The Qilin then knelt before Jacob, prompting shock from the assembled Wizards and viewers.
• Grindelwald summoned rain and lightning and urged Wizards to reject the rules that would allow a Muggle to lead them.

Grindelwald turned the Qilin’s choice of a Muggle into a rallying cry against the old laws, winning the crowd’s support and becoming chairman of the International Confederation of Wizards. After Marshall’s attempted assassination nearly struck him, Sean learned that Grindelwald had planned the attack and had prepared another safeguard against the strange rain.

• Grindelwald argued that the Qilin’s choice proved a Muggle was kinder and purer than the wizards present, then urged wizards to cast off restrictive old laws and live freely.
• Wizards in the square rallied behind Grindelwald, and Sean and Newt recognized that Grindelwald was certain to become the new chairman.
• Dave warned Sean that powerful creatures circled above and that the rain seemed strange, so Sean pushed through the crowd toward Grindelwald.
• Marshall attempted to curse Grindelwald, but Sean hit her with a Stinging Hex; Grindelwald seized her and accused the Guard Corps of plotting against him.
• Grindelwald ordered the crowd to seize the Guard Corps, and Sean realized Voltor Bata had helped trigger the attack as part of Grindelwald’s plan.
• Charles Vogel announced Grindelwald’s election as chairman, and Grindelwald showed Sean the protective barrier in his coat and a button hidden on Sean’s badge as safeguards against the danger in the rain.

Grindelwald revealed that he had prepared to seize control by force if his speech failed, then told Sean he intended to kill the people he considered parasites and hinted at an eventual conflict with Dumbledore. After Grindelwald won the chairmanship, the Wizarding World plunged into political chaos, while Sean received a birthday gift from him.

• Sean realized Grindelwald had used enchanted rain to sway the wizards gathered at the election and had planned to incapacitate and capture them if his speech failed.
• Grindelwald admitted that he and Dumbledore would eventually meet, and Sean sensed his overwhelming killing intent when he spoke of killing the people he called parasites.
• Grindelwald asked Sean which side he would choose if he and Dumbledore truly opposed one another, then allowed Sean to resist him as he pursued his goal of wizards ruling Muggles.
• Grindelwald was elected chairman after delivering the Wizarding Awakening Declaration, while Cyril Marshall's failed assassination attempt exposed the Guard Corps and led Grindelwald to disband it and order its leaders interrogated.
• Allison disappeared, several Ministries of Magic questioned Grindelwald's legitimacy, and Sean returned to Hogwarts amid the resulting chaos.
• Grindelwald sent Sean a belated birthday gift: Ravenclaw's Diadem.

Sean received Ravenclaw's Diadem and a juvenile Thunderbird with seven eggs from Grindelwald. After testing the diadem despite its dangerous mental strain, Sean realized Dumbledore had hidden a message in his words about wishing he could return to that summer.

• Sean calmed the juvenile Thunderbird, learned it had been sent with seven eggs, and moved them into his ring to care for them.
• Sean read Grindelwald's letter, which explained his plans for Stephanie and warned that Ravenclaw's Diadem could enhance intelligence while burdening the mind.
• Sean put on Ravenclaw's Diadem and used its heightened focus to search his memories of Dumbledore's conversations.
• Sean endured the diadem's severe mental effects, removed it, and recovered after taking a potion.
• Sean recognized Dumbledore's wistful remark about wishing he could return to that summer as a hidden hint.

Sean revisited his memory of Dumbledore and Grindelwald in 1899 and realized a hidden fifth person had been present, leaving clues for him. He traced one clue to Grindelwald’s key and searched the ruined prison cell in Newmontgard, where a sound suggested something remained hidden.

• Sean extracted his memory of the 1899 meeting and noticed the letter’s worn seal bore the words “For the Greater Good.”
• Sean realized the memory’s perspective showed that its source was a hidden fifth person who had watched Dumbledore and Grindelwald without being detected.
• Sean spotted a key in the memory whose distinctive notch matched the key Grindelwald had given him to access the Nurmengard Basement.
• Sean entered the deepest prison cell in Newmontgard and used a spell to search it.
• Sean heard fabric rustle from somewhere in the cell and reacted in surprise.

Sean discovered that the Potter family’s Invisibility Cloak had concealed a damaged Runic prison beneath Newmontgard, and he suspected Dumbledore had left it as a clue. While puzzling over the mismatched timeline, Sean saw Grindelwald sit beside a snow globe whose snowfall suggested the professor’s age was changing dramatically.

• Sean found the Potter family Invisibility Cloak covering a complex Runic array in Newmontgard’s underground prison and copied the symbols before leaving.
• Sean repaired the prison door and returned to Hogwarts, where he reconsidered Dumbledore’s time travel, Grindelwald’s behavior, and the letter and imitation Philosopher’s Stone.
• Sean realized Dumbledore had likely altered the letter during a journey to the past, but concluded that the apparent timeline did not make sense.
• Grindelwald emerged from the Vanishing Cabinet and said the imprisoned person did not match the future he had seen.
• Sean noticed the snow globe beside Grindelwald rapidly filling with snowflakes and watched the count climb past one hundred and sixty.

Sean witnessed the world distort and nearly collapse before reality abruptly returned to normal, and Dumbledore revealed that the Invisibility Cloak held an undiscovered power tied to the crisis. The chapter ended with Dumbledore warning Sean that the world could hear them.

• Grindelwald examined Sean’s Age-Measuring Ball as a wave of dread spread across the magical world and the sky turned black.
• Stephanie brought Dumbledore to the Room of Requirement, where Dumbledore gave Grindelwald the Invisibility Cloak and ordered him through the Vanishing Cabinet.
• Sean followed Dumbledore through Hogwarts as its corridors and Headmaster’s Office twisted, and Dumbledore explained that the castle’s naturally born magic reacted to the world’s abnormality.
• A magical wave restored the world and the office, revealing a vast memory spread over more than a dozen Pensieves, with one end crimson.
• Dumbledore told Sean that the Invisibility Cloak had a special quality and, as the dread returned, warned him, “Shh, the world will hear.”

Sean learned that Dumbledore could not explain the truth about Grindelwald’s past because powerful wizards’ thoughts could disturb time, and he agreed to investigate the traces himself. He left for the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Mysteries while the wizarding world scrambled to investigate the upheaval.

• Dumbledore explained that Eloise Mintable had returned from the distant past through special magic, leaving traces that the world could sense.
• Sean realized Grindelwald had gone back in time and likely never returned, and that Dumbledore’s enormous memory was connected to the mystery.
• Dumbledore asked Sean to decide whether to uncover the truth, warning that learning it could affect the world; Sean chose to investigate Eloise Mintable at the Department of Mysteries.
• Sean told Stephanie that whether she held a grudge against Grindelwald was her own decision, then vanished from the corridor.
• Sean used Trajectory Flash to enter the Ministry of Magic in disguise and slipped toward the Department of Mysteries.

Sean infiltrated the Department of Mysteries to investigate the time-travel disturbance and discovered a Returner had taken key documents about time-travel accidents. After confirming that all the Time-Turners had been destroyed, Sean escaped to the Ministry’s main hall and launched a coordinated attack on the Returner’s group.

• Sean searched the Department of Mysteries, felt a mysterious pulse near the Death Chamber, and found no personal prophecy in the Hall of Prophecy.
• Sean entered the Time Room and overheard a black-robed Returner take documents about time-travel accidents from a suited Ministry employee.
• Sean stole time-related folders and found that every Time-Turner in the Ministry had been destroyed, leading him to suspect Grindelwald had gone back in time.
• Sean had Dave collapse the corridor ceiling to delay the Returner and the suited man, then escaped to the main hall and used Imperius Curses to position Ministry employees and an Auror.
• Sean’s controlled employees attacked as the group emerged from the lift, setting off explosions throughout the Ministry’s main hall.

Sean disrupted the Ministry of Magic, captured a Returner, and studied documents about time travel. He realized that the Grindelwald he knew had traveled from 1996 to 1899, while the Grindelwald imprisoned beneath Newmontgard was the original man who had imprisoned himself, and that his long stay in the past had severely disturbed the Timeline.

• Sean created chaos in the Ministry of Magic, then used a strange vessel to extract the Returner hidden inside the man in the suit and steal their documents.
• Sean escaped to Hogwarts as the Obscurus absorbed the Returner's power, strengthening Sean's ability to transform his upper-left body.
• Sean read the documents about Eloise Mintable's time travel and asked Cat-Leopard Pudding how many snowflakes had fallen in the Landscape Orb.
• Sean concluded that Grindelwald had traveled from 1996 to 1899 and lived into the present, while the man imprisoned beneath Newmontgard was the original Grindelwald who had imprisoned himself.
• Sean learned that Eloise Mintable's brief trip to the past had caused temporal disturbances and vanished wizards, while Grindelwald's nearly century-long stay had disrupted the Timeline on a far greater scale.

Sean pieced together how Grindelwald had hidden his time travel from the World Will by erasing his future memories and using the Invisibility Cloak to conceal his original self. After sleeping and reuniting with Hermione and Daisy, Sean recognized that a figure in Grindelwald’s memories had left him a clue to the original Grindelwald’s prison.

• Sean deduced that Grindelwald had erased the memories of his ninety-seven years in the future and used the Invisibility Cloak to hide both his time travel and the original Grindelwald from the World Will.
• Sean considered why Dumbledore had sent him to investigate the Department of Mysteries, then left the Room of Requirement to sleep without using Ravenclaw's Diadem again.
• Sean woke the next afternoon from a recurring dream of a full moon and a hazy black shadow, then went to the Room of Requirement for food.
• Hermione and Daisy told Sean that Stephanie had warned them he was safe but exhausted, and Sean refused to explain the dangerous matter he had been investigating.
• Sean realized the cloaked figure in the memories from 1899 had been the time-traveling Grindelwald, who had left a clue to where he had imprisoned the original Grindelwald.

Sean realized Young Grindelwald might be in Godric's Hollow after Hermione and Daisy helped him reason through how a memoryless, suspicious version of himself would seek out familiar people. He went to Old Bathilda, who confirmed that Young Grindelwald was at the Dumbledore house.

• Sean asked Hermione and Daisy how they would befriend a version of him who had lost his memories and trusted no one, and they told him genuine affection would eventually reach him.
• Hermione reminded Sean that Young Grindelwald still had his older memories and would seek out people he knew, leading Sean to suspect Godric's Hollow.
• Sean left the Room of Requirement after Daisy told him to make use of her if he ever lost his memories and to remember her.
• Capen Roman was bullied by David and the other boys, then delivered ingredients to Old Bathilda before Sean arrived.
• Old Bathilda recognized Sean and told him that Young Grindelwald was at the Dumbledore house.

Sean met the imprisoned young Gellert Grindelwald in the ruined Dumbledore family house and persuaded him to consider that his future self might have returned after a failure. After Sean left, Grindelwald examined the gifts he had brought, while Capen was rescued from his bullies by a handsome older boy who used magic.

• Sean entered the ruined house and found young Grindelwald waiting inside, then offered to investigate the truth and help him.
• Grindelwald set the room ablaze and condemned the state of the wizarding world, but Sean argued that change might only be beginning and convinced him to keep investigating.
• Grindelwald accepted Sean temporarily, allowed him to visit again, and asked why he had not helped Capen sooner.
• Sean left a bag of wine, Butterbeer, booklets about wizard population statistics, and a crooked branch wand before flying away.
• David and his lackeys cornered Capen, but a tall boy used magic to float them and greeted Capen as a junior.

Sean discovered that Capen was a young wizard with an enormous magical capacity and a forming Obscurus, then began helping him and arranged for him to visit Old Bathilda. At Newmontgard, Sean searched for Old Grindelwald but was summoned by Vinda Rosier, who said Grindelwald needed his help.

• Sean introduced himself to Capen as a wizard, examined his magic, and let him punish David and the other bullies before giving them pig tails.
• Sean told Capen that he could attend Hogwarts at eleven, explained that he was a genius, and arranged for him to deliver food to Old Bathilda each day and learn from the old man.
• Capen delivered the supplies to Old Bathilda and encountered the intimidating old man upstairs.
• Sean searched Newmontgard for Old Grindelwald, suspecting that he had hidden himself under the Invisibility Cloak.
• Vinda Rosier called out to Sean and told him that Lord Grindelwald had asked him to help with matters requiring his judgment.

Sean learned that Grindelwald was out of contact but safe, and agreed to impersonate him at the International Confederation of Wizards after Rosier explained that Grindelwald’s absence was emboldening his opponents. Disguised as Grindelwald, Sean attended a formal impeachment meeting in Germany, where the attempt failed, and announced that he would unveil new regulations and judge certain officials the next day.

• Rosier told Sean that Grindelwald was safe but unreachable, and that Sean needed to impersonate him at official meetings.
• Rosier explained that opposing Ministries of Magic had proposed impeaching Grindelwald and wanted him to answer questions about a worldwide anomaly and an accident at the British Ministry of Magic.
• Sean changed his appearance and clothes to resemble Grindelwald, while Rosier coached him on how to speak and act.
• At the German Ministry of Magic, Sean greeted representatives as Grindelwald and attended the impeachment assembly.
• The impeachment received only a few votes, so Grindelwald remained President, and Sean announced new regulations and judgment for certain officials the following day.

Sean, disguised as Grindelwald, intimidated ministry representatives and met with the secretive Returners after they requested negotiations. Their representative revealed himself as Andros, the legendary wizard known as Andros the Invincible.

• Sean encouraged the young Saints and ordered Abernathy to oversee the trial of the captured representatives.
• Mark Pont invited Grindelwald to a private meeting and demanded an explanation about an incident in the British Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries.
• Rosier cast the Cruciatus Curse on Pont, and Sean intimidated the other wizards who had accompanied him.
• A hidden Returner called for negotiations, then led Sean to meet Andros, a powerful wizard from ancient Greece who had returned as a Half-Ghost.
• Andros introduced himself, and Sean answered his accusation of arrogance by calling himself conceited.

Sean, disguised as Grindelwald, met with the Returner Andros, who claimed the world faced destruction and proposed cooperation to save it. Sean recognized Andros’s claims as lies but continued probing for what the Returners knew about Grindelwald and the threat to the world.

• Andros asked Sean to dismiss the others, but Sean insisted his loyal comrades stay for the discussion.
• Andros warned that the world was at risk of destruction and claimed Grindelwald could not withstand the loss of a supreme power.
• Sean considered whether Andros meant the Time Incident, his own prophecy as Sin, or a power tied to Grindelwald, then recalled the Returners had once shown Grindelwald something that shook him.
• Sean mocked Andros and challenged the Returners’ offer, while Andros insisted they wanted to cooperate to save the world.
• Sean recognized Andros’s appeal to mercy as a lie because the Returners had no rightful place in this world.

Sean, disguised as Grindelwald, listened as Andros proposed a three-year truce to avoid a supposed divine threat, then attacked him to capture the Returner. Andros escaped after revealing that the Returners had taken Dumbledore to Baron Skinner’s Manor, leaving Sean to reckon with the revelation.

• Andros showed Sean an image of the collapsing Realm of Illusion and claimed that strange magic signaled the approaching gaze of the God of Wizards.
• Andros asked Grindelwald to suspend all conflict for three years, promising the Returners would leave afterward.
• Rosier relayed Grindelwald’s instructions, and Sean rejected Andros’s proposal by attacking him with a Killing Curse.
• Andros escaped through a black-smoke vortex after a misty Little Snake blocked Sean’s spell.
• Andros claimed that the Returners had sent someone to take Dumbledore to Baron Skinner’s Manor, and Sean ordered Rosier to deal with the remaining Returners.

Sean connected the Blood Pact and the ruins of Baron Skinner's Manor to Dumbledore and Grindelwald, then used Grindelwald's atlas to locate the abandoned estate. He reached the ruins with Pudding and Dave and found a rubble-blocked entrance.

• Sean recalled that the Ministry ranked Blood Pact as its most dangerous preserved magic and linked it to Baron Skinner's Manor and the phrase “Great power bestowed.”
• Sean returned to Newmontgard, questioned Professor Rosier about Grindelwald, and searched the Headmaster's Office for clues.
• Sean found Baron Skinner's Manor marked in Grindelwald's atlas and memorized its location.
• Sean traveled from Hogwarts to the ruins as an Australian Opaleye Dragon, with Pudding and Dave scouting ahead.
• Sean met Dave inside the ruins and found a pitch-black entrance behind a stone beam, blocked by rubble.

Sean explored the ruined castle and restored fragments of a pendant that revealed Baron Skinner and Corinna had made a Blood Pact Artifact. Skinner's ghost explained that he had betrayed Corinna to activate a hidden contract, leaving Sean with the terrifying truth that killing a beloved after cultivating their hatred could grant endless magic.

• Sean entered the castle ruins, found a hidden basement workshop, and used the Aero-Wing Bird to clear its stale air.
• Sean repaired scattered metal grains into a damaged pendant resembling Dumbledore and Grindelwald's Blood Pact Artifact.
• Baron Skinner's ghost appeared and told Sean that the pendant had belonged to him and Corinna, the baroness.
• Skinner admitted he had learned the Blood Pact Artifact concealed another contract and had betrayed Corinna after discovering its power.
• Skinner explained that a wizard could deceive themselves into abandoning love, break the pact through betrayal, then kill their former lover to gain endless magic.