Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore and Grindelwald received a message from the Holy Mother predicting that Murphy would appear at Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck within two days. At the Magic Research Institute, Murphy considered Lucas’s proposed Horcrux-transfer experiment, discussed the magic radar’s technical obstacles, and decided to search Dorset for prima materia, where Lightning Raven’s messages suggested a surprise awaited him.

• The Holy Mother told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that Murphy would appear at Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck within two days, and they decided to go there.
• Lucas proposed creating a Horcrux to transfer her soul out of the diary, and Murphy told her to continue experimenting using people who deserved to die.
• Bernard Manning explained that the magic radar needed a magical computer to adjust its frequencies, so Murphy considered using himself or Lucas as a temporary solution.
• Murphy chose the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset as his next search area for prima materia.
• Lightning Raven sent Murphy several messages, and Murphy anticipated that his search would bring surprises.

Murphy confronted Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who had come prepared to kill him over his plans to break the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. He sealed the battlefield with the Wall of Saint Peter and summoned Great Shaman Maxim to weaken the magic there, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Murphy discovered Dumbledore and Grindelwald on the coast and asked Madame Yaga to tell Her Majesty that he needed to borrow the Wall of Saint Peter.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald Apparated beside Murphy, and Dumbledore cast Space Anchor to prevent spatial travel.
• Murphy challenged Dumbledore to explain the danger of breaking the Statute, but Dumbledore refused to reveal the reason.
• Grindelwald showed his intent to kill Murphy, and Murphy said they should settle the matter that day.
• Murphy raised the Wall of Saint Peter to enclose the battlefield, then called for Great Shaman Maxim to seal the magic in the area.

Murphy trapped Dumbledore at the White Cliffs with Maxim’s help, while a thorn-crowned priest revived a force of black-armored knights and sent them to kill the Prophet. At Arkaim, the Empress sensed fires and explosions as the city came under attack.

• Murphy transformed into his demon form and prepared to fight Dumbledore inside the Wall of Saint Peter, with Grand Shaman Maxim aiding him.
• A thorn-crowned priest oversaw a ritual that turned more than a hundred people into black-armored knights.
• The statue of the Virgin Mary commanded the knights to go to Arkaim and kill the Prophet.
• Madame Yaga tested the Empress on the ancestral ceremony while the Empress worried about Murphy’s fight against Dumbledore.
• The Empress noticed smoke rising from the Holy Grove, then heard alarms and explosions as she realized Arkaim had been invaded.

Murphy fought Dumbledore and Grindelwald on the Isle of Purbeck until Maxim warned that Arkaim was under attack and called off the battle. Dumbledore and Grindelwald survived and concluded that someone had used them as bait, though they did not know who the real target was.

• Murphy battled Dumbledore and Grindelwald with Maxim suppressing their magic, but his transformation began to harm his vitality.
• Murphy sensed a disrupted signal from ravens in Arkaim and realized he had lost contact with the ravens he left in the Soviet Union.
• Maxim announced that Arkaim was under attack and that the Isle of Purbeck battle was a trap, so Murphy and Maxim withdrew.
• Dumbledore gave Grindelwald Murphy's Cloud White Medicine to heal his shoulder wound.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald surveyed the ruined coast and agreed they had been used as bait, though they could not identify the intended target.

Madame Yaga and Sophia helped Arkaim repel a magical mist released from an oil painting, but the danger persisted. Sophia discovered a holy icon had remained in the palace just as a woman appeared behind her in a mirror and attacked.

• Madame Yaga found the Royal Guard unconscious from a Stunning Spell and woke them before flying to investigate the mist.
• Madame Yaga discovered an oil painting releasing the mist and destroyed it, then used Finite Incantatem to dispel the fog.
• Sophia and the Royal Guard joined Madame Yaga in casting spells, and their combined magic swept the mist away.
• Sophia returned to the palace, organized guards, and tried unsuccessfully to contact Murphy through the Lightning Ravens.
• Sophia asked Hannah whether she had burned the Holy Mother icon and realized it was still behind her.
• A woman appeared in the mirror, declared that the hour of judgment had come, and stabbed at Sophia with a pitch-black dagger.

Hannah assassinated Empress Sophia Petrovna with a dagger carrying the Holy Mother’s powerful magic, and Murphy petrified Sophia to slow the poison while seeking a cure. Snape found that the magic could infect both body and soul, leaving Murphy with little hope until Maxim suggested the Ancestral Coffin might save her.

• Hannah struck Sophia Petrovna with a poisoned dagger, but Murphy arrived in time to interrupt the attack and catch the wounded Empress.
• Murphy petrified Sophia to slow the poison, sent Maxim to deploy the Holy Wall, and summoned Snape to examine the dagger.
• Murphy discovered that the dagger and Hannah’s body carried ultraviolet magical residue, then arranged guards and Lightning Ravens to protect Sophia.
• Maxim told Murphy that the Holy Wall was operational, Madame Yaga was in the Ancestral Mausoleum, and the enemy was targeting the Ancestral Coffin.
• Snape determined that the poison was high-level magical power that could infect the soul and had no known cure.
• Maxim suggested that the Ancestral Coffin might help save Sophia.

Murphy entered the Ancestral Mausoleum to seek Lady Miriam’s power while Madame Yaga faced the thorn-crowned priest underground. Murphy interrupted the priest’s attack and prepared a magical-metal sniper rifle to test whether his protection could withstand a physical assault.

• Murphy told Maxim that Lady Miriam might still be alive and sleeping, and that she had awakened to guide Arkaim in the past.
• Murphy used a machine gun to kill the dragonhide-armored knights in the Holy Grove, then followed Maxim into the mausoleum.
• Madame Yaga fought the thorn-crowned priest and learned that he claimed Sofia Petrovna had been killed.
• Murphy arrived in time to stop the priest’s attack on Madame Yaga, then struck him with spells that failed to penetrate his protective shield.
• Murphy summoned his prototype magical-metal heavy sniper rifle and aimed it at the priest, asking whether a god could bleed.

Murphy killed the black-robed priest and reached the Door of Rebirth to seek Ancestor Miriam’s help for the cursed Empress Sophia. Following Madame Yaga’s instructions, he crossed a series of strange realms and found Miriam in a crystal coffin, where he discovered she looked exactly like Sophia.

• Murphy shot the black-robed priest, took and crushed his pendant, and saw the remaining priests collapse and die.
• Madame Yaga explained that Ancestor Miriam’s magic could neutralize the curse on Sophia and warned Murphy to follow a precise path through the Door of Rebirth.
• Murphy entered with his eyes closed, but opened them when the ground gave way and glimpsed a vast desert and an immense fortress.
• Murphy passed through several bizarre landscapes, including a deep well, a field of floating slabs, a strange fleet, skull statues, and a pillar-lined abyss.
• After seven steps, Murphy stepped backward and arrived before a crystal coffin containing a silver-haired girl.
• Murphy saw that Ancestor Miriam’s face was identical to Empress Sophia’s.

Murphy received a powerful bead of vampire True Blood from Ancestor Miriam and used it to neutralize the Holy Mother's magic poisoning Sophia. Sophia survived, though the True Blood began transforming her into a vampire, and she asked Murphy to stay beside her as she slept.

• Murphy entered the inner mausoleum, where Ancestor Miriam awakened, gave him a bead of True Blood, and vanished from sight.
• Murphy told Madame Yaga what he had seen, and Snape confirmed the bead could neutralize the Holy Mother's magic but might turn Sophia into a vampire.
• Murphy approved using the True Blood, and Snape applied it to Sophia after removing the petrification spell.
• The True Blood destroyed the Holy Mother's magic, merged into Sophia, and began changing her body as her wounds healed.
• Sophia awoke with a faint crimson tint in her eyes, thanked Murphy for saving her, and asked him to stay while she slept.

Murphy investigated how to generate high-frequency magic power to counter the Holy Mother, while Hordan explained that current methods could not produce it reliably. After Lucas demonstrated her completed Horcrux Transfer Technique, Murphy invited her to inhabit the supercomputer Athena and help calculate the magic radar’s frequency modulation.

• Murphy left Arkaim after confirming Sophia was safe and went to the Magic Research Institute to ask Hordan about high-frequency magic power.
• Hordan explained that high-frequency magic power was difficult to create or detect and suggested the magic radar might reveal a source.
• By May 1994, the Goblins had finished casting enough magical metal for the radar, and Lucas told Murphy she had completed her Horcrux Transfer Technique.
• Lucas showed Murphy how she had moved her soul fragment and spells from one notebook into another, then agreed to try transferring into a computer.
• Murphy led Lucas to the computer room and presented the supercomputer Athena as her new body.

Murphy discussed his son’s magical training and Britain’s confrontation with the United States before capturing a spy while surveying a radar site. Meanwhile, wizards in the International Confederation of Wizards argued over how to respond to Murphy, and Dumbledore was asked about his earlier fight with him.

• Murphy told Patrick that Ares’s magical training could make him a wandless caster, then urged Patrick to keep the People’s Livelihood Party broad and avoid stirring up hatred.
• Patrick described U.S. sanctions and warships near Britain, and Murphy said a war might break out.
• Murphy chose a mountaintop in the Lake District for a radar installation and caught a spy who had been following him.
• At a meeting in France, Gaston and other wizards accused Murphy of threatening the wizarding world, while others debated whether to declare war or help British wizards oppose him.
• A wizard on the dais asked Dumbledore whether he had fought Murphy and failed to defeat him.

Dumbledore admitted that Murphy was one of the world’s most powerful wizards and urged the International Confederation of Wizards to punish only his chief offenders, but the conference ended without an effective plan. Afterward, powerful officials gathered secretly to discuss Murphy’s wealth and Umbrella Corporation, raising the prospect of trying to take over the company.

• Dumbledore acknowledged Murphy’s power and proposed narrowing the scope of punishment rather than wiping out all his followers.
• The conference convicted Murphy of fifty-six crimes and made him the world’s most wanted fugitive, with a bounty of thirty thousand Galleons, but reached no substantive decision.
• After the conference, officials excluded Dumbledore and the moderates and convened a secret meeting in another castle.
• A bald American wizard pointed out that Murphy’s wealth came from Umbrella Corporation and argued that Murphy had to be eliminated.
• A wizard scoffed at the idea of swallowing Umbrella Corporation whole and warned that the attempt could be disastrous.

Dumbledore and the international wizards considered how to stop Murphy, while Grindelwald argued that resistance could be futile. A black-robed priest warned that Murphy’s antenna would let him find materials for the Philosopher’s Stone and trigger the collapse of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.

• An American wizard urged the gathered wizards to unite against Murphy and exploit his businesses while distracting him with pressure from Britain’s resistance groups and foreign Ministries.
• Dumbledore visited Grindelwald, who criticized his reluctance to make sacrifices and praised Murphy’s legal influence across the Muggle and wizarding worlds.
• Dumbledore said that killing Murphy still seemed like the least harmful way to stop him, despite their previous failure.
• A black-robed priest arrived and warned Dumbledore and Grindelwald that Murphy was building an antenna to locate materials for the Philosopher’s Stone.
• The priest said completing the antenna would make the collapse of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy inevitable and urged them to stop Murphy immediately.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald learned that a mysterious priest wanted them to destroy Murphy Darkholme’s antenna to protect the wizarding oath, and Dumbledore prepared to confront Murphy while the Order of the Phoenix handled the antenna. At Stoatshead Hill, Sirius received an emergency battle summons but hesitated to go because he wanted to be there when Harry returned home.

• The black-robed priest identified Miriam, Riddle, and Murphy Darkholme as threats to the oath and urged Dumbledore and Grindelwald to destroy the antenna.
• Dumbledore told Grindelwald that church agents with powerful abilities had once devastated wizarding society during the witch hunts, helping force the Statute of Secrecy into existence.
• Dumbledore planned to keep Murphy occupied while members of the Order of the Phoenix destroyed the antenna, and Grindelwald chose to stay with him.
• Sirius prepared Stoatshead Hill for Harry’s return and worried that Harry had grown withdrawn and interested in Dark magic since Lucas’s death.
• Sirius received an emergency Order of the Phoenix Portkey summons warning of an extremely dangerous battle at dusk, but hesitated to leave Harry without him.

Murphy confronted Dumbledore and Grindelwald at a Goblin factory while the Order of the Phoenix prepared to attack a magical-metal construction site. The chapter ended as Murphy's guards learned that intruders were nearby.

• Murphy received reports that Dumbledore had attacked Goblin factories and went to Kent, where hundreds of Goblins were escaping through Portkeys.
• Murphy found Dumbledore and Grindelwald waiting for him, then proposed a game of Every Flavour Beans in exchange for answering questions.
• Moody joined Kingsley and the remaining Order of the Phoenix members in the Lake District to destroy Murphy's magical-metal construction site.
• Kingsley warned the group that Aurors guarded the site, and the Order prepared to attack while Murphy was occupied.
• An Auror captain received word from Murphy's raven scouts that intruders were nearby and ordered the guards to prepare for battle.

Kingsley Shacklebolt led the Order of the Phoenix in an assault on the Holy Mother’s forces while Murphy questioned Dumbledore over Every Flavour Beans. Dumbledore revealed that the Holy Mother considered Murphy, Miriam the Oathbreaker, and Tom Riddle its enemies, leaving Murphy wondering which Tom it meant.

• Kingsley waited for a signal, then led the Order of the Phoenix in an Apparition attack on the hill where black-robed priests and armored knights fought the Aurors.
• A priest’s portrait disrupted the mind network, and a black-armored knight blocked the Auror captain’s Stunning Spell.
• Gunshots wounded the knight and the praying priest, restoring the mind network and allowing Lightning Ravens to bring Auror reinforcements.
• Murphy admitted to Dumbledore that he wanted immortality and sought knowledge and power, and Dumbledore asked who he was.
• Murphy asked Dumbledore about the Holy Mother, and Dumbledore said it was ancient, difficult to kill, guarded a secret, and saw Murphy, Miriam the Oathbreaker, and Tom Riddle as enemies.

Sirius answered the Order of the Phoenix’s call for help and fought beside Remus Lupin, while Murphy told Dumbledore that he had come from the future. Sirius left his plans to ask Harry about traveling together for later as the Order’s battle began.

• Sirius considered leaving with Harry after his return from school and wrote him a letter, but put it away to discuss in person during summer break.
• The phoenix feather signaled that the Order of the Phoenix was surrounded and needed support.
• Murphy told Dumbledore that he had come from about thirty years in the future, and Dumbledore connected this to Murphy’s knowledge and unusual development.
• Sirius answered the call and arrived in the battle, where he and Remus Lupin fought back-to-back against Aurors and Watchmen.
• Sirius and Lupin exchanged jokes about their years apart, then agreed to raise hell together.

Murphy deduced that the hidden force making Muggles overlook magic was a world-class Fidelius Charm, with all wizards serving as Secret-Keepers. The chapter left him wondering who cast it and why, while an infiltrator was trapped inside the Magic Research Institute.

• A disguised researcher named Jackson incapacitated the guards at the Magic Research Institute and entered its underground computer room.
• The Institute’s poison mist, magic shielding, and laser grid trapped Jackson inside his body and prevented him from escaping through his mindscape.
• Murphy argued that Dumbledore and Grindelwald opposed him for reasons beyond preserving the Statute of Secrecy.
• Murphy connected the Observer Effect of Magic to a world-class Fidelius Charm that concealed magic from Muggles.
• Murphy asked who had cast the charm and why.

Lucas trapped the Holy Mother pendant while the Order of the Phoenix attacked the unfinished antenna. Sirius destroyed the antenna with Fiendfyre, but a floating girl struck him with a green beam and anchored the space around the battlefield.

• Lucas explained that he had anticipated the Holy Mother’s attempt to sabotage Athena and trapped its pendant for testing.
• Lucas agreed with the Lightning Raven that the Order of the Phoenix needed to be eliminated before it could threaten the antenna.
• Moody held off the Aurors while Kingsley gave Sirius two Fiendfyre canisters supplied by Dumbledore.
• Sirius flew to the antenna and hurled both canisters, setting the structure ablaze before returning to Lupin.
• A short-haired girl struck Sirius in the back with a green beam, and Lupin caught him as the girl cast Space Anchor.

Murphy revealed that the antenna was bait and questioned Dumbledore and Grindelwald about the worldwide Fidelius Charm and the consequences of spreading magic to Muggles. After they left, Murphy learned that the Holy Mother was escaping and ordered Lucas to activate the unfinished antenna, but the Holy Mother addressed Lucas as Tom Riddle and challenged his trust in Murphy.

• Murphy told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that the antenna was bait and that the Order of the Phoenix was being attacked.
• Murphy asked why the worldwide Fidelius Charm had been cast and what would happen if magic spread to Muggles, and Grindelwald warned that mass access to magic could have vast consequences.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald left, and Murphy contacted Lucas through his Horcrux notebook.
• Lucas told Murphy that the Holy Mother was escaping from the Magic Research Institute through a connection to its mindscape.
• Murphy learned that the antenna was only about eighty percent complete and ordered Lucas to activate it anyway.
• The Holy Mother called Lucas Tom Riddle and asked whether he really trusted Murphy.