Recaps

Tom uncovered his Parseltongue and deepened his friendships at Hogwarts while Murphy advanced his wand research and survived a brutal confrontation with Severus Snape. Murphy then led Umbrella’s operation in the Soviet Union, capturing political targets before battling the shaman Alexei Romanov in the forest.

• Tom defeated Derian’s group, discovered he could speak Parseltongue, and asked Lucius Malfoy about the language and Slytherin’s descendants.
• Murphy developed wand research with his students, gave Tom an Occamy-feather wand, and helped Tom, Harry, Ron, and Hermione survive a troll attack.
• Tom and his friends made Goblin Coins to communicate, while Murphy protected them from Snape and accepted Snape’s potion wager.
• Murphy defeated Snape in the wager, endured the Potion of Despair’s illusions, and developed his theory of the Mind Pathway.
• Murphy joined Barty Crouch Jr. in an operation to capture Chobagov and Qin Yeli, arranging for allies to impersonate the leaders.
• Murphy’s team captured Chobagov and attacked Qin Yeli’s train, but Alexei Romanov derailed it with shamanic magic and refused to help Murphy erase Vitaly Pizhegud’s memories.
• Murphy fought Alexei and the elemental spirits, overcame Alexei’s blood curse with a lightning decoy, and decapitated him before learning that an earth double had disguised his escape.
• Murphy used thousands of lightning ravens as antenna arrays to break Alexei’s magical prohibition, locate his signature, and fire an immense Avada Kedavra into the forest.

Murphy pursued the Philosopher’s Stone and a cure for his worsening illness while Tom uncovered the Book of Guidance’s connection to Voldemort and wrestled with his identity. As Harry and his friends tried to stop the Stone from reaching the wrong hands, Murphy confronted Empress Sophia in Priozersk.

• Azir discovered the warped Bryansk Forest with a youth who warned him about the Killing Curse, then learned that the youth was Empress Sophia and that she intended to use Murphy against Ivan.
• Murphy sought Nicolas Flamel’s methods from Dumbledore, who refused to help with the Philosopher’s Stone, while Tom’s quest for Flamel led him to recover memories linking him to Tom Riddle and Voldemort.
• Murphy developed a Seed-guided adenovirus experiment that slowed aging in Gnomes, then organized a mental network to train biological agents to identify cancer cells as his illness worsened.
• Tom learned that the Book of Guidance contained a piece of Voldemort and sought the Philosopher’s Stone, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigated Snape and the Stone’s protections.
• After Harry was transformed by a modified Polyjuice Potion, Murphy bound Snape and questioned him under Veritaserum, learning about Snape’s love for Lily and his knowledge of the Elixir of Life.
• Trelawney gave Tom and Murphy a prophecy about the Chosen One, the Chamber of Secrets, and a return from death, while Tom realized Harry suspected him of pursuing the Stone to revive Voldemort.
• Valery and Qin Yeli consolidated power in the Soviet Union with Murphy’s support, but Soviet wizards targeted his agents and an old woman summoned Murphy to Priozersk.
• Murphy met Empress Sophia by Lake Ladoga, rejected her demand that he kneel, and faced her accusations before inviting her to walk beside the lake.

Murphy secured Arkaim’s support for his work, while Tom faced Voldemort and chose a new identity. After Murphy stopped Voldemort’s resurrection and restored Tom, he arranged to inherit Nicolas Flamel’s alchemical knowledge and possessions.

• Murphy killed Ivan Frederick, Sophie Christian, Felipe Carlos, and Azir, then secured Sophia’s approval for diplomatic relations and scientific work in the Soviet Union.
• Murphy praised his students’ research and promised he would not abandon them, while Harry discovered Tom’s notebook ordered him to seize the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Tom met Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, accepted his offer in exchange for freedom from the diary, and let Voldemort break his bones to hide their meeting.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione entered the hidden chambers beneath Hogwarts, and Tom followed them to the final room, where Harry gave him the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Quirrell took Tom and Harry to Voldemort, who used the diary to return Tom Riddle’s memories, but Tom rejected Riddle’s identity and chose to become the Savior.
• Tom escaped with Harry to Murphy, who discovered the Stone was fake, tracked Voldemort to Little Hangleton, and killed him before resurrecting Tom as Lucas.
• Murphy asked Nicolas Flamel for his alchemical knowledge, and Flamel made Murphy his heir to the Philosopher’s Stone, Elixir of Life, and possessions before Murphy left to wake Lucius Malfoy for the School Governors’ hearing.

After Tom’s death, Murphy consolidated power in Britain and pursued magical research while his conflict with Dumbledore remained unresolved. He crushed a goblin rebellion, confronted Ragnuk’s will, and turned to the challenge of combining magic with technology.

• Harry learned that Tom had died, while Quirrell’s testimony revealed Voldemort’s failed resurrection plan and Lucas’s resistance to being controlled.
• At the hearing, Kariman challenged Dumbledore over Hogwarts’s failure to protect the students, and the governors removed him as headmaster.
• Murphy took the Elixir of Life, told Dumbledore he wanted to pursue a new future beyond the wizarding world’s isolation, and accepted that they would ultimately decide matters by force.
• Murphy built influence in the Ministry and the Soviet Union, recruited allies into the Raven Pavilion network, and asked Sophia for one thousand Arkaim wizards for a magical research project.
• Dumbledore warned Sirius that Murphy might expose magic to Muggles, while Hogwarts began a restructured school year under Snape as headmaster.
• After Guleous Brin demanded the Sword of Gryffindor, Murphy killed him and Padelo, seized Gringotts, and sent the Watchmen against the Brin Family’s strongholds.
• Murphy used the Seed of the Mind network to defeat Ragnuk’s will and kill him, then recognized half a battle flag as Ragnuk’s Horcrux and sought help investigating a possible mental coordinate.
• After the Ministry took control of Gringotts, Murphy gave goblin metal-smelting techniques to the Magic Research Institute and decided to visit Severus Snape about the Philosopher’s Stone.