Chapter Summaries

Sean teased Colton about reserving a commemorative Firebolt that Sherlock had hoped to buy for her birthday, then watched the pair trade barbs at her birthday dinner. The celebration was interrupted when someone arrived carrying a long package addressed to Sherlock.

• Sean released Pudding and the Aero-Wing Bird during his morning run, then encountered Colton emerging from the Forbidden Forest.
• Sean found a flyer in Colton's pocket and learned that Colton had reserved a commemorative Firebolt, which Sherlock had been saving to buy for her birthday.
• Sean saw Sherlock angrily leave the broomstick shop after learning the Firebolt had already been reserved, then told Stephanie about Colton's scheme.
• Sean gave Sherlock a Magic Camera at her birthday dinner, while Colton gave her a broomstick maintenance kit and teased her about flying accidents.
• As Sherlock made a birthday wish, a person carrying a huge, long package entered and asked for her.

Sherlock received an anonymous commemorative Firebolt for her birthday and discovered that Colton had sent it, leading the two to bicker as usual. Later, Hermione told Sean how much his trust and honesty meant to her, and Sean reassured her that he had only shown that vulnerable side to her.

• A midnight delivery made Sherlock suspicious, but Sean and Colton persuaded her to open the package.
• Sherlock found an unsigned commemorative Firebolt and first mistook Sean for its sender before learning Colton had bought it for her.
• Sherlock accused Colton of sabotaging her past jobs and questioned his motives, while Colton teased her in response.
• Sean, Daisy, and Hermione left the pair arguing and headed toward the kitchens for snacks.
• Hermione told Sean she had been happy when he leaned on her and explained that she understood why he had kept dangerous matters from her.
• Sean took Hermione's hand and told her that he had only shown that vulnerable side of himself to her.

Sean and Hermione shared a shy, happy moment after the birthday party, while Colton returned from speaking with Sherlock looking strangely preoccupied. Later, Sean accidentally ended up hiding in the Prefect's Lavatory when Daisy and Hermione arrived, leaving him concealed behind Daisy as Hermione entered the bath.

• Sean and Hermione exchanged affectionate glances until Daisy returned with desserts, and the three set off for Ravenclaw Tower.
• Sean, Hermione, and Daisy encountered Colton, who greeted them distractedly after apparently speaking with Sherlock.
• The group learned that Sherlock had left her birthday party in a good mood after an apparent duel, and Daisy collected the cake she had left behind.
• Sean returned to the dormitory, then went to the Prefect's Lavatory to relax before his upcoming trial in the Forbidden Forest.
• Daisy and Hermione arrived while Sean was underwater; Daisy hid him behind her in the pool as Hermione entered, and neither Sean nor Daisy remembered he could use the Illusion Charm.

Sean hid underwater in the Prefects’ Lavatory while Daisy tried to keep Hermione from discovering him. Their attempt to get Hermione out failed, and Daisy fell onto Sean’s legs, leaving them exposed to discovery.

• Daisy covered for Sean by pretending she had put her feet in the statue’s groove to try a folk remedy, while Hermione questioned her skincare habits.
• Sean blew on Daisy’s nape, startling her, as Hermione wondered aloud whether she should start taking care of herself.
• Sean used an Illusion Charm and Quietus to tell Daisy to get Hermione out of the bath, but Hermione told Daisy to leave and Daisy awkwardly claimed she felt better.
• Daisy asked why Hermione had been acting strangely, and Hermione complained that Daisy’s figure made her jealous.
• Hermione lunged at Daisy, who slipped and landed on Sean’s legs.

Sean hid in the Prefect's Lavatory after Daisy accidentally landed on him and burned herself, while Hermione remained unaware of his presence. Hermione brought Daisy to Sean for burn ointment, and Sean successfully concealed what had happened, though Daisy stayed nervous that Hermione might discover the truth.

• Daisy fell onto Sean in the bath, then hurried Hermione away by pretending she had burned herself on a pipe.
• Hermione examined Daisy's injury and decided to get burn ointment from Sean in the Room of Requirement.
• Sean found that Dave had tidied his clothes, then received the Shadow Bug signal and feared Hermione and Daisy had discovered him.
• Hermione told Sean that she had been scalded by hot water and asked him for burn ointment, and Sean handed it over without revealing himself.
• Sean explained his wet hair by claiming he had showered in another lavatory, and Hermione accepted his excuse.
• Hermione insisted that Daisy use the ointment while Daisy worried that Sean might peek.

Sean tried to talk to Daisy after she began avoiding him, then discovered that the burn ointment he had given her had caused an embarrassing reaction. He offered to help remove it, but the only way to assess the problem would require seeing where she had applied it.

• Sean noticed Daisy avoiding him throughout the day and felt disappointed by the distance between them.
• Sean ran into Harry, Ron, and Neville, and Harry mentioned seeing Daisy leave the Hospital Wing.
• Sean overheard Daisy tell Madam Pomfrey that someone else needed treatment for a magical reaction, then realized his ointment was responsible.
• Sean brought Daisy to the Room of Requirement, where she explained that she had faked a burn to cover for him and had used a Scourging Charm to create a red mark.
• Daisy revealed that Sean's ointment had left a pale pink layer on her skin that she could not remove.
• Sean offered to inspect the affected area so he could figure out how to help her.

Sean examined Daisy’s burn after she refused to let Stephanie or Hermione see it, then went to prepare medicine. Daisy was left to apply the ointment herself, embarrassed and overwhelmed by the situation.

• Sean suggested asking Stephanie to examine Daisy, but Daisy refused and insisted that Sean look instead.
• Daisy lay among the cushions while Sean hesitated, then undid her belt so he could examine the area covered by the Burn Ointment.
• Sean found that the ointment had dried without reaching the burned skin, then covered Daisy and went to prepare a potion.
• Daisy rolled around in embarrassment while Sean was away, and he returned with medicine.
• Daisy realized she would have to apply the medicine herself, then resigned herself to raising her skirt again.

Sean and Daisy grew closer after he applied ointment to her, and Daisy left the Room of Requirement happy but still teasing him instead of directly answering whether she was his girlfriend. That evening, Sean discovered that a feather inside his ring was giving off intense heat, and he suspected it was a Phoenix Tail Feather.

• Sean applied ointment to Daisy, and the two kissed before she asked whether she was his girlfriend.
• Sean answered Daisy affectionately without directly answering her question, and she gagged him with her sock before leaving the Room of Requirement.
• Daisy returned to tease Sean about keeping her sock, then joined Hermione and Sean for dinner as usual.
• Sean and the people near him felt unusually hot in the Great Hall, and Dave reported that a feather inside Sean's ring was heating up.
• Sean recognized the feather as a possible Phoenix Tail Feather.

Sean, Hermione, and Daisy investigated the overheating Phoenix Tail Feather, which they suspected carried a message from Dumbledore, Fawkes, or Ariana. Grindelwald identified a way to draw out its message, and Dumbledore appeared before Sean, leaving his condition and message unknown.

• Sean and Hermione failed to decipher the Phoenix Tail Feather’s magical signal, while Sean avoided involving Ariana because of the risks tied to Wrath.
• Sean summoned Grindelwald for help, and Grindelwald said the feather might trigger problems in Ariana until her other half-soul returned.
• Grindelwald used the phoenix’s magic to reach the Room of Requirement and took the Phoenix Tail Feather from Sean.
• The feather blazed in Grindelwald’s hand, and he plucked several strands of down from it.
• Dumbledore’s battered figure emerged from the feather and greeted Sean, while Grindelwald reacted with a disdainful “Tch.”

Dumbledore’s message revealed that the collapsed Realm of Illusion had stopped excess magic from returning to the world, destabilizing spells and threatening future generations of wizards. He warned Sean that Herpo sought godhood and urged him to seize it.

• Dumbledore’s recorded image explained that the Realm of Illusion was the true beginning of the world, not merely a passage between life and the underworld.
• Dumbledore guided Sean, Hermione, Daisy, and Grindelwald through spells that showed magic had become stronger and less stable.
• Dumbledore revealed that surplus magic had accumulated since the Realm of Illusion collapsed, turning the world into a potential magical bomb.
• Dumbledore warned that unstable magic could corrupt newborn wizards’ magic and cause them to become Obscuruses or other monsters.
• Grindelwald connected Dumbledore’s warning to rising reports of magical outbursts and renewed signs of Obscuruses.
• Dumbledore told Sean that Herpo wanted to become a god and ordered Sean to seize Herpo’s godhood.

Dumbledore sent Sean a warning from the Realm of Illusion and revealed that he must obtain a divine throne before Herpo can. Sean prepared to enter Gryffindor’s Trial, seeking the Hogwarts authority needed to pursue godhood.

• Dumbledore explained that becoming a true god required divine authority, a divine realm, and the world's acknowledgment, and said Hogwarts and Hufflepuff's Golden Cup held key parts of the path.
• Dumbledore's message was interrupted as Herpo's presence closed in, and the Phoenix Feather burned away with Dumbledore's image.
• Grindelwald urged Sean to gather his information and left to prepare for Herpo's incoming forces.
• Sean told Hermione to work with Lupin investigating Magical Grounds, Obscuruses, and abnormal entrances, then entered the Forbidden Forest to face Gryffindor's Trial.
• Sean recalled that the Deathly Hallows might provide divine authority and followed the Unicorn's directions toward the center of the forest.

Sean reached Gryffindor’s hidden trial site beneath the Forbidden Forest, where a giant Infernal Cave Worm carried him underground to a sea-like arena. There, the Giant Squid revealed Godric Gryffindor’s image in the mirrored floor, and the chapter ended as the squid spat out ink that formed a standing black figure.

• Sean found a giant Infernal Cave Worm at the trial site and used the Unicorn Skull to communicate with it.
• Sean removed a tree wedged between the worm’s teeth, and the worm opened its body so he could enter and descend underground.
• Sean passed through a magical barrier into a vast, blue arena surrounded by darkness and filled with strange soul-like creatures.
• A Giant Squid fell into the arena, while the mirrored floor showed it changing into Godric Gryffindor.
• The Giant Squid approached Sean, stopped, and spat out ink that rose into a black figure.

Sean faced an ink-made Godric Gryffindor in a punishing duel and rapidly learned advanced techniques for combining minor spells. After Sean finally defended himself, Gryffindor revealed that he was alive inside the mirror world and had returned from the dead through a strange adventure.

• The ink Gryffindor challenged Sean to a duel and overwhelmed him with fast, coordinated minor spells, leaving him only able to dodge.
• Sean realized the duel was teaching him and studied Gryffindor’s spell combinations, casting methods, and ways to exploit lingering effects.
• Sean used mud on his hands to foil a Paralysis Spell and cast his first Defensive Spell, prompting Gryffindor to end the lesson.
• The ink returned to the Giant Squid, which turned the world over and brought Sean into the mirror-floor world.
• Gryffindor appeared as a living man, confirmed Sean’s suspicions, and said he had returned to life through an adventure that opened the gates of the underworld.

Sean met Godric Gryffindor in a soul passage beneath the Black Lake and learned how Gryffindor had hidden Hogwarts’ authority and become trapped as the Giant Squid. After recognizing Sean as Rix Wallop’s descendant and the host of Pride, Gryffindor suspected Sean had split his soul and demanded proof.

• Gryffindor explained that he had connected his soul to the passage between the underworld and the mortal world, then returned from death trapped in his Giant Squid Animagus form.
• Gryffindor revealed that he had hidden Hogwarts’ authority in the passage and described the clues and magical protections he had arranged to guard it.
• Sean told Gryffindor that he was a Ravenclaw and had found the clues through the Unicorn queen, who had disclosed them because Gryffindor had not paid the storage fee.
• Gryffindor recognized Sean’s name and asked about his ancestor Rix Wallop and Pride, but he could not see Pride in the passage.
• Gryffindor concluded that Sean’s soul might have been shattered by creating Horcruxes, raised his wand, and demanded that Sean prove he had never split his soul.

Sean passed Gryffindor’s test with the Underworld Mirror, which showed his soul intact but revealed no sign of Pride. Gryffindor discovered that another Sean Wallerup from a different Timeline had awakened in Sean’s body while the original Sean was trapped in the mirror world, leaving both to face an uncertain situation.

• Sean told Gryffindor that he had made two Horcruxes from other people’s Soul Fragments, then looked into the Underworld Mirror to prove he had not split his own soul.
• The mirror showed Sean whole and revealed the shattered forms of Lust and Wrath, but Pride did not appear, puzzling Gryffindor.
• Gryffindor realized that the Sean standing with him was a separate soul from another Timeline, while the Sean in the mortal world was moving independently.
• The other Sean examined the strange underwater chamber, Apparated away, and left the original Sean trapped in the mirror world.
• Gryffindor explained that the other Sean’s Timeline may have ended after Pride left him, and worried that Pride could awaken in the other Sean’s body.
• The other Sean found himself in a dark little house and realized that the body he occupied was not his own.

Sean Wallop awoke in a different body in another timeline, but the body carried his familiar magical possessions and his Swooping Evil, Dave. After Dave rejected him as an impostor and fled, Sean intervened when Lillian was attacked and discovered that she was a witch.

• Lillian delivered food to Sean at Park Villa, where he examined his unfamiliar body and recognized his magical belongings.
• Sean revealed the Thorn Sheath as Dave, but Dave sensed that the consciousness inside Sean’s body was not the Sean it knew and attacked before flying away.
• Sean erased the witnesses’ memories, repaired the room, and realized he was in another timeline as that place’s Sean Wallop.
• Kroser attacked Lillian in an alley, and Sean killed him with Avada Kedavra before healing her injuries.
• Sean tried to use the Imperius Curse on Lillian, but it failed, revealing to him that she was an untrained witch.

Trapped in the mirror, Sean agreed to enter the underworld and explore another timeline for information, hoping to act on two fronts. He arrived in that timeline imprisoned as a feared Dark Lord, and was taken from the Hogwarts dungeon by Stephanie and the Wizarding United Guard.

• Sean rejected Gryffindor’s suggestion to contact his friends, then agreed to enter the underworld and experience another timeline.
• Sean emerged in a dungeon, chained and unable to use magic or speak because his tongue had been removed.
• Stephanie and Barty Jr. Crouch discussed Sean’s influence over interrogators and ordered him transferred into the custody of the Wizarding United Guard.
• The Guard removed Sean from the Hogwarts dungeon, where imprisoned students including Capen called out to him.
• Professor McGonagall gave Stephanie Sean’s wand and a pendant, and Stephanie ordered inspections for the Imperius Curse and Polyjuice Potion.

Sean was transported from Hogwarts under guard, but Hermione’s rescuers attacked the convoy and helped him escape with a Portkey as Dumbledore pursued him. He arrived at an inn with Grindelwald’s wand, his magic altered by Pride’s disappearance, and the iron muzzle still locked in place.

• Stephanie inspected the guards and Hogwarts personnel, then accompanied the bound Sean in a Thestral carriage while secretly revealing that she planned to help him escape.
• Sean sensed Hogwarts’s expanding magic, and Stephanie told him Dumbledore’s spell still restrained him before the convoy came under attack by Hermione’s rescuers.
• A Golden Dawn mark blinded Stephanie and the guards, and the rescuers destroyed Sean’s carriage as both sides fought in the storm.
• Sean summoned Grindelwald’s wand, deflected the spells, and unleashed lightning, but Dumbledore’s magic shielded the combatants as Hermione urged him to flee.
• Hermione sent Sean a bundle that proved to be a Portkey, transporting him to an inn where he discovered his scarred face, altered magic, and unremovable iron muzzle.

Sean removed his iron mask in the Park Villa Inn, then investigated a hostile wizarding world where Dumbledore and Hogwarts seemed to rule through fear. He discovered an underground resistance cell just as Barty Crouch Jr. attacked it, and the cell’s boss, Daisy, appeared.

• Sean waited at the Park Villa Inn for Hermione, then disguised himself and traveled to the Leaky Cauldron when she did not arrive.
• Sean saw a wanted poster declaring him extremely dangerous and offering two hundred thousand Galleons and Magic Power Cleansing for a valid clue.
• Sean followed Kreacher to a hidden resistance base, where Niya and the others spoke of Hogwarts recruiting and brainwashing young wizards.
• Barty Crouch Jr. and his forces stormed the base, disarmed its members, and trapped Niya in a cage while demanding to know where their boss was.
• Barty Crouch Jr. began to threaten Niya, but an attacker intervened and Daisy stepped out of the shadows.

Sean rescued Daisy Potter and her companions from Barty Jr. and took the unconscious attacker to Daisy’s hidden base in Godric's Hollow. While Daisy recovered, Niya described the oppressive policies imposed by Albus Dumbledore’s Ministry and Hogwarts.

• Daisy fought Barty Jr.’s Ministry wizards while trying to help the children escape, but her injuries left her close to defeat.
• Sean intervened, incapacitated Barty Jr. and the other wizards, and helped Daisy free Niya before taking them to Daisy’s secret base.
• Niya told Sean that the Ministry required all magical people to register, monitored them closely, and could send unregistered wizards to Azkaban.
• Niya explained that Hogwarts erased Muggle-born students from their parents’ memories and punished students who resisted its harsh rules.