Chapter Summaries

Roger told Professor McGonagall that his magical progress had slowed since he attained immortality, leaving him frustrated by the limits of the world and the dangers of advancing recklessly. Professor McGonagall reminded him that he was human and asked whether the war had changed him as much as Voldemort had changed.

• Roger explained that his Ministry appointment mattered less to him than the progress of his magical path.
• Roger described how earlier wizards had provided guidance toward immortality, but he now had to forge a path toward agelessness without reliable precedents.
• Roger told Professor McGonagall that the world felt too small for his growing power and that advancing carelessly could endanger others.
• Professor McGonagall said that magical progress commonly slowed with age and urged Roger to accept pauses and setbacks.
• Professor McGonagall observed that Roger had held himself to an inhuman standard since the Gulf War and asked him to remember who he had been before it.

Professor McGonagall warned Roger that his increasingly hardened, super-ego-driven self conflicted with the Path of Immortality he had chosen. Roger accepted her advice to take a long vacation and reflect on who he had become, as the rain cleared over Hogwarts.

• Professor McGonagall told Roger he was becoming more like Voldemort and questioned whether his current self was truly his own.
• Professor McGonagall warned Roger that his methods conflicted with his Path of Immortality and urged him to rest before he lost his way.
• Roger reflected on how much he had changed since before the Gulf War and after his transmigration.
• Roger thanked Professor McGonagall and decided to take a long vacation to sort himself out.
• Roger dispelled the rain-clearing magic around them, and he and Professor McGonagall joined the students in the courtyard.

After completing his first-year exams, Roger considered how to spend the summer and invited Harry to travel with him. He went to ask Dumbledore about his plans and asked who would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts next year.

• Roger finished his exams while pondering Transfiguration, his magical research, and how to resolve the dangers within himself.
• Harry caught up with Roger after the exams and asked about his summer plans.
• Roger told Harry he might travel to space, the deep sea, and foreign countries, then invited him to come along instead of returning to his relatives.
• Roger went to Dumbledore's office to discuss the summer holiday and asked who would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts next year.

Dumbledore explained that Gilderoy Lockhart had fled after learning Roger was a genuine Ministry official, so he planned to ask Nicolas Flamel to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Roger then asked Dumbledore about the international situation and whether traveling abroad would cause problems.

• Dumbledore said the Defense Against the Dark Arts curse had made it difficult to find a teacher, and explained that Lockhart had agreed to the post before Roger’s appointment frightened him into fleeing.
• Dumbledore told Roger he intended to ask Nicolas Flamel to teach for a year, since he wanted Flamel to remain alive and prepare for the world’s possible shift to the Three-Dimensional Law.
• Roger welcomed the prospect of meeting Nicolas Flamel and learning from his experience with immortality.
• Roger asked Dumbledore about international conditions and whether traveling abroad would affect other matters.

After Dumbledore awarded Roger Virgil enough points to give Gryffindor the House Cup, Roger invited Harry to travel with him over the summer, including a possible trip to the Moon. The train left Hogwarts, and Harry had not yet answered Roger's invitation.

• The final exam results showed Roger and Hermione tied for first, Harry second, and Ron, Hannah, and Neville passing with varied results.
• At the farewell feast, Dumbledore awarded Roger ten points for his Virtual Reality library and campus recruitment, putting Gryffindor ahead of Slytherin and making it House Cup champion.
• Dumbledore's pointed award warned Severus Snape against continuing to favor Slytherin, and Snape led his House in applauding Roger.
• On the train home, Roger explained to Harry that the Ministry of Magic tracked underage spellcasting and that Harry had to avoid revealing magic to Muggles.
• Roger invited Harry to travel through Europe and possibly toward the Moon over the summer, and Harry asked where Roger planned to go.

After returning from Hogwarts, Roger received Felix Felicis from Snape, whose observation that people around Roger were becoming more like him sparked Roger’s dangerous insight into his Path of Immortality. Days later, Harry sensed that something was wrong with Roger when he arrived to take him away.

• Roger reunited with Hannah, the Weasleys, Hermione, and Harry at King's Cross before they went home with their families.
• Snape gave Roger Felix Felicis as thanks and explained that he had stopped seeing Harry as a substitute for James or Lily.
• Snape observed that Harry, Hermione, McGonagall, and Dumbledore were becoming more like Roger, calling him a source of infection.
• Roger connected Snape's observation to Alaya-vijnana and realized he might have found a dangerous way to pursue his Path of Immortality.
• Several days later, Harry sensed something strange about Roger when he arrived, and Roger asked whether Harry had ever tried communicating with himself.

Roger explained his experimental Time Plague, a network linking his past selves as mental anchors, and described his ambition to extend it through history. Vernon arrived and found himself instinctively terrified by Roger’s immense difference in power and existence.

• Roger explained that his Time-Turner let him connect independent versions of himself across the past.
• Roger described the Time Plague’s potential to spread his presence through history and outlined its role in his Path of Immortality.
• Harry recognized the danger and scale of Roger’s temporal experiments.
• Vernon came to the door to hurry Harry back and froze when he saw Roger.
• Roger realized his presence was suppressing Vernon and considered how to address it.

Roger persuaded Petunia to let Harry travel with him, then took Harry to Knockturn Alley to obtain money for their trip. Harry left Privet Drive with complicated feelings and entered the alley with Roger, finding it creepy.

• Roger explained his powerful magic to Petunia, who agreed to let Harry leave with him.
• Harry said goodbye to the Dursleys at Number Four, Privet Drive, and followed Roger.
• Roger told Harry that Knockturn Alley was an underground marketplace where restricted goods were sold.
• Roger explained that they would visit the alley to obtain money for their travels and described how wizards sometimes exchanged their currency for Muggle money.
• Roger and Harry entered Knockturn Alley, where Harry remarked that it was creepy.

Roger took Harry through Knockturn Alley to exchange Galleons for Muggle currency, showing him how people reacted to Roger’s reputation and warning him that the changing world would bring admiration and fear. They set out for Germany, where Roger hoped to study the effects of social change and Grindelwald’s lingering influence, and he offered to teach Harry a new Time Magic spell.

• Roger and Harry entered Knockturn Alley, where Taylor recognized Roger and reluctantly guided them to a currency exchanger.
• Roger exchanged enough Galleons for two chests of money, while the black-market crowd fled from his presence.
• Roger told Harry that growing stronger would bring admiration, fear, and hatred, and that wizarding and Muggle societies would grow closer.
• Roger decided that he and Harry would travel to Germany to explore its social changes and the lingering influence of Grindelwald.
• Roger offered to teach Harry the Time Phantom Shuttle so they could experience the past while traveling.

Roger and Harry visited Germany with Charlotte Krause, where Roger had Harry use Time Phantom Shuttle to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall. Charlotte realized the magic could reveal the past and feared the consequences of its appearance in Germany.

• Harry received Roger’s Data Memory Unit and used it to understand the languages spoken around him.
• Charlotte Krause met Roger and Harry at the airport and guided them through a West German shopping district while Roger surveyed local commerce.
• Roger, Harry, and Charlotte visited a ruined section of the Berlin Wall, where Roger cast an Area Concealment Charm.
• Harry cast Time Phantom Shuttle and conjured a vivid scene of East and West Germans breaking down the wall.
• Roger said they would next view the wall’s construction and history, while Charlotte grew alarmed at the magic’s ability to expose secrets.

Roger and Harry’s planned visit to former Grindelwald battle sites and the German Ministry of Magic alarmed officials still anxious about the Ministry’s reunification and its old ties to Grindelwald. Roger dismissed their efforts to stop him and told Charlotte he would visit the Ministry as planned, where its officials could object in person.

• Charlotte reported Roger’s itinerary to her superiors, who feared his visits could expose old supporters of Grindelwald within the newly reunified German Ministry of Magic.
• The Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation ordered Charlotte to keep Roger and Harry from wandering and said he would rally other department heads.
• Charlotte came out to find Roger and Harry eating breakfast, uncertain how to tell them about her orders.
• Roger revealed that he knew Charlotte was monitoring them and told her to ignore her superiors’ instructions.
• Roger told Charlotte to proceed with the itinerary and inform the Ministry that he would visit soon and hear any objections face to face.

Roger and Harry traveled through East Germany, where an argument between East and West Germans showed the divisions that persisted after reunification. Harry vowed to help the weak grow stronger, and Roger decided to visit the German Ministry of Magic next.

• Roger interviewed an unemployed East German man, whose complaints about reunification sparked an argument with a West German youth.
• As more Germans joined the argument, Roger explained to Harry how unequal interests and economic hardship fueled resentment between East and West Germans.
• Harry said the strong should help the weak become stronger, and Roger urged him to remember that conviction.
• After patrol officers dispersed the crowd, Roger told Charlotte that they would go to the German Ministry of Magic.

Germany’s Ministry of Magic debated banning the Time Phantom Shuttle Spell amid factional conflict, then Minister Jason Vogel met Roger to assess his intentions. Roger insisted he needed no intelligence to harm Germany and showed Vogel a terrifying vision, leaving the Minister stunned.

• Jason Vogel’s meeting grew tense as East German department heads opposed the proposed ban and accused the West German faction of exploiting the issue.
• The head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement urged the officials to contain their disputes and protect Germany’s interests from foreign scrutiny.
• When Roger arrived, Jason Vogel personally left the meeting to question him, suspecting his research trip might conceal a British mission.
• Roger told Vogel he and Harry had come only to research and travel, and asked the Ministry not to interfere with their itinerary.
• After Vogel warned that gathering sensitive information could harm Germany, Roger said he would need no intelligence to harm them and showed Vogel a vision that left him stunned.

Roger revealed a fraction of his true power to Jason Vogel, demonstrating that he had become a lifeform beyond ordinary wizards. Vogel offered him Germany’s leadership, but Roger’s silence left his intentions unclear.

• Roger released some of his hidden energy and showed Vogel a vision of overwhelming radiance contained within the reception room.
• Vogel asked whether Roger had crossed the line separating wizards from gods, and Roger said he had only taken the first step.
• Roger explained that ancient wizards had pursued magical omnipotence while overlooking other paths of progress.
• Vogel offered Roger his position in Germany, but Roger answered only with a smile and silence.
• Vogel recognized his offer had been presumptuous and apologized.

After securing legal authorization to research the Time Phantom Shuttle, Roger explained to Harry how power could deter others from making an enemy of him. He suggested Harry explore a different path to survival by hiding his true body in the past and using a manifestation in the present.

• Roger secured two permanent authorization documents after Germany enacted restrictions on magic that revisited images of the past.
• Roger and Harry used the Time Phantom Shuttle to witness the rise and fall of a German leader, including his death by suicide.
• Harry told Roger that seeing lives and regimes end had made him fear dying before finishing what he needed to do.
• Roger explained that being invincible meant making oneself too powerful or troublesome for others to oppose, and used Voldemort as an example.
• Roger proposed that Harry research hiding his true body in the past while projecting a manifestation into the present.

Roger told Charlotte that he and Harry would soon leave Germany for Greece, while Harry struggled to develop a spell involving his past self. After their attempt to observe Grindelwald failed, Roger decided not to pursue him to Austria.

• Roger told Charlotte they would leave soon and said Greece was likely their next destination.
• Harry emerged looking exhausted after trying to develop a spell that connected his past and future selves.
• Roger advised Harry to stop rushing his magical research and let it develop naturally.
• Roger and Harry tried to observe Grindelwald, but he repeatedly Apparated away from the fixed area traced by the Time Phantom Shuttle Spell.
• Roger declined to follow Grindelwald to Austria, reasoning that he could ask him about anything later.

As Roger, Harry, and Charlotte prepared to part ways, Charlotte asked whether Germany’s future would improve, and Roger explained that a Seer could only observe possibilities. Before leaving, Roger created a magical measure of Germany’s unity and gave it to Charlotte, who watched Roger and Harry depart for Greece.

• Charlotte asked Roger whether Germany’s future would get better, and Roger explained that prophecies showed possibilities that could change.
• Roger returned with Harry and Charlotte to the Berlin Wall ruins and argued that a nation’s strength depended on how many people it could truly unite and mobilize.
• Roger used Dimensional Magic to create Bias Lens Monsters from prejudice between Germans and stored them in a half-black, half-white burner enchanted with Virtual Reality.
• Roger gave the burner to Charlotte as a measure of national unity, explaining that its colors would reflect whether prejudice was growing or diminishing.
• After Roger and Harry’s plane departed, Charlotte kept the burner and returned to the Ministry of Magic to write her report.

Roger and Harry visited the Greek Ministry of Magic, where Director Nicolaos explained Greece’s diminished wizarding population and registered them as foreign visitors. After Roger revealed his Time Phantom Shuttle Spell, Nicolaos eagerly begged to accompany him on his historical explorations.

• Roger and Harry entered the shabby Greek Ministry of Magic in the Tower of the Winds with Director Nicolaos.
• Nicolaos described how Greece’s ancient wizarding population had dwindled as powerful wizards fled foreign conquests.
• The Greek Ministry of Magic registered Roger and Harry, explained local laws, and attached Traces to their wands.
• Roger told Nicolaos about his Time Phantom Shuttle Spell, which let him view images from the past.
• Nicolaos called Roger an honored Seer and insisted on accompanying him to Greece’s historical sites.

Roger visited Greece with Harry and Nicolaos, using magic to observe ancient Greek thinkers and realizing that minds immersed in philosophy could become dangerous if they gained access to magic. He began planning safeguards against Voldemort and the eventual wizardization of humanity, ending with an idea to confine harmful thought-born magical beings in a protective layer he called Subspace.

• Roger asked Nicolaos to begin their Greek visit by exploring the Muggle past rather than visiting ancient wizards.
• Roger, Harry, and Nicolaos used magic to watch Plato and Aristotle debate, and Roger considered the danger of philosophers encountering magic.
• Roger explained to Harry that he feared magic combined with the study of the mind could create destructive beings like the Fear Demon.
• Roger realized that Voldemort might pursue his earlier plan to turn humanity into wizards and that future practitioners of the Second Magic would also seek true magical power.
• Roger proposed using a protective layer over humanity's collective unconscious to imprison harmful thought-born magical lifeforms, and wondered whether an ageless, muscular man had once been born in Asia Minor.

As Harry and Roger traveled through Greece, Harry reflected on war and discovered that a shared, unwavering desire to save his parents could let him trust his other selves across time. Nicolaos secured permission to visit the ancient wizards’ residences, and the group prepared to explore them.

• Harry asked Roger why humans kept going to war, and Roger explained how desperation, power, and convenience drove conflicts.
• Harry wondered whether a teacher could prevent wars, but Roger said authority could show favoritism and urged him to study magic and find like-minded companions.
• Harry realized that every version of himself would share his determination to save his parents, giving him a basis for trusting his past selves.
• On their tenth day in Greece, Nicolaos arranged permission for Roger and Harry to visit ancient wizards’ residences, many of which were restricted and dangerous.
• Roger reflected on Harry’s new direction in time magic and lamented that Greece had no magical order like the Twelve Temples of the Zodiac.
• Nicolaos returned with the approved permit and led the group toward the ancient wizards’ residences.