Chapter Summaries

Murphy reassured Lucas that he was not a puppet and encouraged him to choose his own path, while offering to be his friend. Lucas then revealed that he had killed Sirius, Harry’s godfather.

• The Holy Mother accused Murphy of manipulating Lucas and called him a slave and puppet, but Lucas rejected her claims and left with Murphy.
• Murphy brought Lucas to Athena’s computer room and prepared a neural network for Lucas to transfer into.
• Lucas asked what he meant to Murphy, saying Murphy had shaped his life and that he wanted to know Murphy’s true feelings.
• Murphy admitted he might have deceived Lucas but urged him to make his own choices and define himself.
• Murphy told Lucas he was his student and could become his companion; Lucas asked to be his friend, then confessed that he had killed Sirius.

Lucas struggled with guilt over betraying her former friends and asked Murphy whether learning to understand others had made her weaker. After Murphy helped her reconsider the limits of moral judgment, Lucas transferred her Horcrux, and the story left her awake and declaring success.

• Lucas told Murphy she felt guilty for betraying Harry, Ron Weasley, and her former friends, and Murphy apologized for sending her against the Order of the Phoenix.
• Lucas asked Murphy why understanding love and other people left her feeling constrained, and he explained that moral standards did not apply to every conflict of ideals.
• Lucas told Murphy she hoped he would keep deceiving her if her life was a lie, leaving him puzzled by her attachment.
• Murphy and Lucas began the Horcrux transfer, and Lucas performed the ritual without using a condemned prisoner.
• The transfer overloaded the server equipment and plunged the room into darkness before Lucas's screen announced, "I succeeded!"

Murphy and Lucas used a magic radar to remove the Mind Coordinate from Murphy and weaken the Holy Mother by disrupting its magic. The pendant shattered and the Holy Mother's voice vanished, but Lucas and Murphy suspected it had not been completely destroyed.

• Lucas used the magic radar to locate and remove the Mind Coordinate from Murphy's head.
• Murphy and Lucas returned to the glass enclosure, where Lucas aimed a frequency-adjustable magic ray at the Holy Mother's pendant.
• Murphy explained that the ray could bypass the magic-sealing rules because it was produced through fundamental physical laws.
• Murphy rejected the Holy Mother's claim to be humanity's mother and recounted humanity's long struggle to survive and become the only remaining human species.
• Lucas adjusted the ray to cancel out the Holy Mother's magic, causing its pendant to melt, crack, and burn away as its voice disappeared.
• Lucas warned Murphy that the Holy Mother might still be alive, and Murphy planned to search for its magic energy source with magic radars.

After Harry Potter placed second in the exams, Hermione Granger and Cho Chang worried that he was becoming like Tom as he coped with loss. A letter told Harry that his godfather Sirius Black had died, and Harry went home before seeing Sirius in his coffin.

• Hermione Granger saw that she had placed first in the third-year rankings, with Harry Potter in second place.
• Cho Chang explained that Harry might be imitating Tom because of grief, while Lucius Malfoy asked Hermione for help studying the wave equation for an internship with the teacher.
• Harry received a letter saying that Sirius Black had died and ran from the Great Hall in shock.
• Professor Filius Flitwick took Harry home to Stoatshead Hill, where Harry hoped the news was a mistake.
• Arthur Weasley and nearby wizards took Harry to see Sirius lying in a wooden coffin.

Murphy tested the completed magic radar, which located three strong magical signals and enabled him to take control of a planted agent’s body in southern France. Through the agent, he learned that a faction planned to remove Dumbledore and start a war against Britain at the International Confederation of Wizards meeting, and he began considering a way to strike the gathering.

• Murphy and Lucas oversaw the first full test of the magic radar, which scanned a million square kilometers and detected three strong feedback locations in the North Sea, Germany, and Ireland.
• Murphy used the radar’s long-range magical signal to extend the Seed of the Mind’s communication range and possess Sinande Tolly in the Loire Valley.
• Sinande Tolly’s companions discussed removing Dumbledore as chairman and electing a leader who would seek war against Britain after Murphy was killed.
• Murphy learned the meeting would take place in Oulusburg at nine the next morning, with more than a hundred directors expected to attend.
• Murphy abandoned his initial plan for a human bomb attack and considered using two nearby United States missile destroyers instead.

A black-haired young man and his black-robed companions infiltrated the McCain after its crew detected strange jamming signals near Birmingham. They took control of the command center, leaving Ender magically compelled to serve them.

• Patrick Lincoln condemned the United States' sanctions and called on the British government to defend its interests.
• Lieutenant Ender learned that the McCain had detected ultra-wideband jamming signals near Birmingham.
• A mysterious figure appeared on the McCain's deck in a flash, then vanished, and the crew raised the alarm.
• A sailor entered the command center and announced that he needed to borrow the ship.
• More than a dozen black-robed figures appeared, cast spells to control the crew, and the young man used magic on Ender.
• Ender declared it his pleasure to serve the young man.

The McCain and Ramage exchanged fire with British destroyers after a series of suspicious attacks, and a missile launched from the sinking McCain threatened London before vanishing from radar. Murphy secretly redirected the missile aimed at France to Oulusburg, where it struck the gathering of wizards who had just voted to remove Dumbledore.

• The McCain reported attacks and damage in the English Channel, while the Ramage reported electronic interference and a collision with a cargo ship.
• British destroyers and the American ships exchanged torpedoes and missiles after the White House authorized the Ramage to defend itself.
• The McCain launched four Tomahawks before a British missile split it apart; one Tomahawk headed for London and another flew toward France.
• The British prime minister ordered London’s defenses to intercept the missile, but Murphy concealed it from radar with an improved Disillusionment Charm and redirected it toward Westminster.
• At Oulusburg, the Confederation voted to remove Dumbledore as a short, stout American wizard prepared to seek the presidency.
• Murphy’s redirected missile smashed into the meeting hall and exploded among the assembled wizards.

A Tomahawk Missile struck the Palace of Westminster during a naval clash between British and American forces, collapsing Parliament as MPs fled to shelters. At the Pentagon, investigators reconstructed the fifty-minute battle and highlighted two unexplained events as crucial to understanding what happened.

• British MPs fled the Palace of Westminster after reports that a Tomahawk Missile was headed for London, while MacDonald insisted the United States would not threaten Britain.
• An explosion tore through the Palace of Westminster, and Marlis photographed the damage as Victoria Tower fell and Big Ben chimed ten o’clock.
• A senior intelligence officer told the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the McCain had been attacked, the Ramage had collided with a cargo ship, and British destroyers had engaged the American ships.
• The McCain launched four Tomahawk Missiles, two were intercepted, and one vanished before the Palace of Westminster was destroyed.
• The intelligence officer said two strange events during the fifty-minute incident might explain the battle.

U.S. officials blamed the Soviet Union for the USS McCain incident while investigating why a Tomahawk struck Oulusburg, where it had destroyed a gathering of the International Confederation of Wizards. Émile tried to conceal the disaster with help from French President François, who demanded that the wizards clean up the scene and stop interfering in his country.

• An intelligence officer argued that the USS McCain had been seized through total signal suppression and that its attackers had struck the British fleet and launched missiles to provoke conflict between the United States and its allies.
• The Secretary of Defense accepted the Soviet Union as the most plausible culprit and ordered an investigation into the USS McCain and the Tomahawk impact site in France.
• Aurors searched the ruins of Oulusburg, where Émile told Henri that the Muggle bomb had killed everyone attending the Confederation gathering.
• Émile ordered the Aurors to leave before Muggle investigators arrived and said he would ask the Muggle president how to cover up the destruction.
• President François berated Émile over the missile and the bodies, then gave the wizards half a day to clean up before ordering them to stay hidden and stop meddling in France.

Patrick Duncan discussed the United States' bombing of Parliament, arguing that Britain needed sovereignty and an equal peace rather than war. He blamed Britain's decline on political infighting and urged the people to love their country and make it great again.

• Patrick Duncan called the United States president's apology hypocritical and said the bombing had exposed Britain's loss of sovereignty.
• He said Britain should demand accountability and compensation for the attack but rejected war in favor of peace based on equality and mutual respect.
• Patrick affirmed his love for Britain while acknowledging that it had declined in economic, military, and cultural power.
• He traced Britain's rise to reforms that embraced capitalism and blamed its decline on complacency and Conservative-Labour infighting.
• Patrick told viewers to love their motherland and make it great again.

Murphy and Sophia walked through Arkaim as he explained his plan to counter the International Confederation of Wizards by founding a Wizard Alliance. The chapter ended with Murphy inviting Arkaim to become a co-founder.

• Murphy and Sophia walked down from the sacred mountain to explore Arkaim, while Sophia worried about sunlight and Murphy teased her about her covered-up outfit.
• Sophia asked whether Murphy feared that wizards would sabotage his Muggle industries, and Murphy said he would prevent them from uniting under the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Murphy explained that the Statute of Secrecy was weakening and that other wizards might follow his path if given guidance and benefits.
• Murphy announced that he planned to establish a Wizard Alliance, offering wizards wealth and status under rules he would set.
• Sophia asked whether Arkaim could join the alliance, and Murphy said it would naturally be a co-founder.

Harry grieved Sirius’s death and read a letter revealing Sirius’s plans to spend time with him. As Harry desperately wished to see Sirius again, a voice offered him a way forward: surrender his soul.

• At Sirius’s funeral, Dumbledore told McGonagall that the Order of the Phoenix had disbanded and that he no longer knew what was right.
• Harry returned to Sirius’s cottage and struggled to understand Sirius’s death and his role in fighting Murphy’s forces.
• After his friends left, Harry cleaned Sirius’s room and found a letter inviting him to travel with Sirius and Lupin.
• Harry wept over Sirius’s letter and wished he could see him again.
• A voice in Harry’s heart told him to surrender his soul.

After Patrick became prime minister, he imposed a new constitution, expanded public spending, and allied Britain with the Soviet Union while Murphy pushed to strengthen their position before magic became widely known. Murphy revealed that the threat of gods was driving his urgency and proposed military research funded by higher taxes, including taxes on Umbrella.

• Patrick’s People's Livelihood Party won 80 percent of Parliament’s seats, and Patrick became prime minister.
• With Murphy’s help, Patrick drafted a constitution that established the People's Livelihood Party as Britain’s sole ruling party and limited Parliament’s power; he imposed wartime controls as opposition grew.
• Patrick’s government increased investment in public services and taxed the wealthiest Britons, while Britain formed an alliance with the Soviet Union.
• Murphy told Patrick that magic would soon attract competitors and that destroying the Statute of Secrecy could bring the gods, so he wanted to prepare quickly.
• Murphy urged Patrick to launch military technology projects and raise taxes on Umbrella and other high-profit industries; Patrick agreed.

Lucas reported that the Prima Materia had been recovered from a pearl in the Merman King's crown, and Murphy's researchers found that its core was liquid blood with extraordinary magical properties. Murphy suspected it was divine blood and asked Severus Snape to make the Philosopher's Stone, which Snape said would take one day.

• Lucas told Murphy that his team obtained the rainbow-colored pearl by helping the elder merman prince seize the throne, then killing him after he betrayed them and receiving the pearl from the younger prince.
• Murphy used Prima Materia Reveal to confirm the pearl was the core material needed to create a Philosopher's Stone.
• Hordan reported that the pearl's core was liquid blood that regenerated magical energy, and that its protective layers helped preserve it.
• Murphy suspected the blood came from an extinct god and ordered that the Philosopher's Stone be made before the material decayed.
• Murphy summoned Severus Snape, who examined the pearl and said he could make the Philosopher's Stone in one day.

Murphy used Philosopher’s Stones to power magical technology and launched a rapidly expanding network of magical detection satellites. By May 1995, he ordered Lucas to search the globe for the Holy Mother’s magical signature.

• Severus Snape explained that Murphy’s first Philosopher’s Stone generated six hundred Haber of magical power per second, and Murphy used it to build a large-scale magical power source.
• Murphy launched a project to equip satellites with magical detection radar and develop them as communication relays and potential spell amplifiers.
• Scientists discovered more primordial matter and found that much of it was biological tissue whose magic quickly faded outside its protection, so Murphy preserved it in small Philosopher’s Stones.
• Murphy’s satellite program accelerated after Soviet wizards and aerospace scientists adapted spells for rockets, including the Undetectable Extension Charm, which greatly increased payload capacity.
• The United States feared that the Soviet Union was putting its Star Wars defense concept into practice as it launched hundreds of satellites at a time.
• By May, Murphy had more than three hundred satellites in low orbit and told Lucas to search the Starlink Satellite Network for the Holy Mother’s magical signature.

Lucas and Murphy used magical satellites to repeatedly strike the Holy Mother, weakening it until its defeat seemed inevitable. At Göbekli Tepe, Dumbledore and Grindelwald encountered signs of ancient magic before the Holy Mother confronted them, and Dumbledore refused to help it.

• Lucas and Murphy tracked the Holy Mother with satellite scans and attacked it with annihilating magic until its strength fell to thirty percent.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore visited Göbekli Tepe, where Dumbledore sensed traces of magic resembling the Holy Mother's.
• A woman carrying a portrait approached Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who vanished to avoid confronting her.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald found the Holy Mother waiting at their restaurant table in the form of a grimy, one-handed old man.
• Dumbledore told the Holy Mother he would not agree to its request and asked it to leave.

The Holy Mother warned Dumbledore that Hogwarts was the last chance to stop it before its signal vanished. Dumbledore returned the Philosopher’s Stone to Murphy and joined him at Hogwarts, where they saw the castle shrouded in mist.

• The Holy Mother urged Dumbledore to go to Hogwarts, but its portrait caught fire and the vagrant collapsed before he could explain further.
• Dumbledore decided to warn Murphy and returned the Philosopher’s Stone, while Grindelwald cautioned him that the Holy Mother might be using him as a shield.
• Murphy learned from Dumbledore’s letter that the Holy Mother might have set a trap at Hogwarts, and discovered that the Lightning Ravens there had been hacked.
• Murphy contacted Dumbledore through a Lightning Raven, and they agreed to investigate Hogwarts together, with Murphy insisting that Dumbledore not interfere with killing the Holy Mother.
• Murphy and Lucas arrived beside the Black Lake, where Grindelwald pointed out that Hogwarts Castle appeared veiled in mist.

Murphy and Lucas entered Hogwarts through Spirit World Fog and encountered visions of the school's past and present, including a terrified Katie Bell who said the Chamber of Secrets had been opened. The chapter left Murphy questioning whether the fog and the disappearances had anything to do with Holy Mother.

• Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Murphy, and Lucas reached Hogwarts through the Spirit World Fog, which grew denser inside the castle.
• Murphy and Lucas saw ghostlike students, including young Sirius and James, and then witnessed Tom Riddle being sorted into Slytherin.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald vanished, and Murphy found himself inside the entrance hall with Lucas.
• Murphy found Katie Bell, who said Graham was dead and warned that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened.
• Murphy overheard professors discussing missing students, hypnotized students, and an ancient ritual embedded in the castle.
• Murphy wondered how the fog could have descended three days earlier if Holy Mother had only arrived at Hogwarts that afternoon.

Murphy and Lucas investigated the fog sealing Hogwarts, where time and space had become distorted and Snape encountered a vision of Lily. After Murphy killed an eighteen-year-old Tom Riddle, they reached the Chamber of Secrets and found another Voldemort inhabiting Harry Potter.

• Murphy and Lucas found that the Great Hall’s doors had vanished, and Murphy led the way toward the Chamber of Secrets.
• Murphy encountered Severus Snape watching a past version of Lily, and Snape explained that the fog had appeared while he was making an antidote.
• Murphy concluded that Hogwarts had become connected to the past and took Snape toward the Chamber of Secrets.
• A Killing Curse emerged from the fog, but Murphy’s Lightning Raven blocked it, revealing an eighteen-year-old Tom Riddle behind the spell.
• Murphy killed Tom Riddle, then Lucas opened the Chamber of Secrets with Parseltongue.
• Murphy found Harry Potter in the Chamber, where Harry greeted him as another Voldemort.

Voldemort explained how he had influenced Harry Potter through a fragment of his soul and taken control of him after Sirius died. He left Lucas and Murphy facing a fully resurrected Voldemort in Harry’s body.

• Lucas and Murphy recognized Voldemort’s presence in Harry, and Lucas blamed himself for Harry’s suffering.
• Voldemort revealed that after losing his body, he found and consumed the soul fragment inside Harry, then gradually influenced him.
• Voldemort said he had guided Harry toward Dark magic and Horcruxes, but Harry’s conscience repeatedly resisted killing.
• After Sirius died, Voldemort promised Harry he could resurrect him, and Harry opened himself to Voldemort’s control.
• Voldemort declared that he had returned to life in Harry’s body and would become more powerful than before.