Chapter Summaries

Murphy’s transformed Muggle soldiers ambushed Greyback’s pack and exacted revenge, while Murphy arranged for Lupin to receive emergency treatment. Greyback survived the attack, and Murphy questioned him about Albert Runcorn.

• Muggle soldiers surrounded Greyback’s gathering and shot him before revealing themselves.
• The soldiers injected Magic Power Potion, transformed into werewolves, and charged the pack under Radwan Perry’s command.
• Murphy watched the revenge attack as Lupin begged him to spare the werewolves, then sent Lupin to the Magic Research Institute for treatment.
• Murphy found Greyback alive and asked him where Albert Runcorn was.

Murphy confronted a gathering of wizards plotting against him and revealed his overwhelming power. He slaughtered many of them and left the survivors cowering as he commanded them to kneel and worship.

• The wizards argued over whether to flee, surrender, or wait for Greyback to kill Murphy.
• Murphy appeared in their hall, mocked them as stray dogs, and forced Albert Runcorn to kneel before him.
• Albert attacked Murphy with Reducto, but Murphy blocked the spell with his scaled hand and survived the wizards’ group assault.
• Murphy transformed, killed several wizards, and used lightning to disarm the rest and burn down the estate.
• Murphy summoned a storm that devastated the castle grounds and ordered the surviving wizards to kneel and worship.

Murphy consolidated his influence as Umbrella surged ahead in technology and Barty Crouch became Minister for Magic. Dumbledore learned that Kingsley Shacklebolt had fled to the United States, while the wizarding world faced an approaching long night.

• Ansetus told Murphy that their account of Peter Pettigrew’s attack had been published and that Barty Crouch had an eighty percent chance of becoming Minister.
• Umbrella sold two million Blue Queens, and American officials discovered that the company controlled its entire technology supply chain without relying on American technology.
• Rasim Selwyn became Head of the Auror Office, dismissed Kingsley Shacklebolt and other Aurors, and prompted an investigation that ended with Shacklebolt and three others escaping.
• Millicent Bagnold retired, Barty Crouch defeated Fudge to become Minister for Magic, and several other officials took new posts.
• Dumbledore learned that Shacklebolt had declined his protection and gone to the United States, then watched the sun sink as night approached.

At the Magic Research Institute’s first Magic Science Awards Ceremony, Murphy praised the researchers’ work and awarded the decade’s most important discoveries. He revealed that the Institute had found a dangerous method of turning Muggles into wizards, then gave the honored researchers wands and vowed to share magic with them.

• Laura helped Murphy manage his worsening symptoms backstage before he took morphine and went onstage.
• Murphy celebrated the Institute’s achievements and presented awards to researchers from several groups.
• Murphy named the ten most significant discoveries and gave their researchers money, company shares, contribution points, and gold medals.
• Murphy announced that the Institute had found a dangerous, imperfect way to transform Muggles into wizards.
• Murphy declared that he was willing to share magic, and he gave wands to the honored researchers.

Murphy visited the recovering Remus Lupin, offered him a role teaching the captured werewolves, and let him decide what should happen to Peter Pettigrew. After Lupin recovered, Murphy brought him to meet Sirius at his new home, where they reunited and met Harry.

• Murphy told Lupin that twelve werewolves had died and the rest had been saved, and explained that the survivors would be held and reformed before choosing their futures.
• Murphy asked Lupin to consider teaching the werewolves and showed him Peter Pettigrew, leaving his fate to Lupin; Lupin chose to let Murphy take him away.
• In mid-June, Murphy brought Lupin to Sirius's new home on Stoatshead Hill with wine to celebrate the move.
• Lupin and Sirius exchanged teasing remarks, embraced, and then met Harry, James and Lily's child.

Murphy learned that widespread cellular aging and genetic defects were causing tumors throughout his body, leaving him with an estimated one or two years to live. After using advanced treatments to suppress the cancer temporarily, he decided to seek the Philosopher’s Stone as a possible source of the Elixir of Life and resolved to retrieve it from Vault 713.

• Solans Batman told Murphy that tumors and aging cells throughout his body, likely worsened by the Dittany Promoter and repeated Animagus transformations, were causing his body to collapse and might leave him only one or two years to live.
• Doctors recommended cancer treatment and further research into slowing Murphy’s aging, but warned that aggressive treatments and foreign genetic material could destabilize his fragile body.
• Murphy underwent more than a dozen surgeries, then worked with researchers to develop technologies including CRISPR-Cas9 and CAR-T therapy, which reduced his cancer to a level that did not disrupt daily life.
• Murphy concluded that the cancer would return unless he solved the underlying aging problem and recalled that Nicolas Flamel’s Elixir of Life might help.
• Murphy decided to retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone from Vault 713 before Dumbledore could destroy it.

Murphy discovered that the Philosopher’s Stone was no longer in Vault 713 and suspected Hagrid had already taken it to Hogwarts. After abandoning the idea of cooperating with Voldemort, Murphy summoned Lucius Malfoy to Stoatshead Hill, where a lightning crow warned Lucius to come or face execution.

• Murphy entered Gringotts with Gold Buckle and used lightning crows to locate Vault 713.
• Murphy stunned Gold Buckle, opened Vault 713 with the Goblin’s hand, and found the Philosopher’s Stone missing.
• Murphy reasoned that Hagrid might have taken the Stone to Hogwarts early because Harry lived with Sirius, then decided against cooperating with Voldemort.
• Murphy returned to Vault 891, used a Commanding Enchanting Voice to conceal what had happened from Gold Buckle, and sent a lightning crow to summon Lucius Malfoy.
• Lucius worried that Murphy would punish him for staying neutral while Murphy defeated Runcorn’s faction and gained control of the Ministry.
• A lightning crow appeared in Lucius’s study and ordered him to go to Stoatshead Hill, warning him of execution if he did not obey.

Murphy forced Lucius Malfoy to sign a blood contract pledging unconditional service, then turned to discuss business with him. The chapter ended with Murphy asking about Lucius and Albert Runcorn's positions as Hogwarts governors.

• Murphy watched George, Fred, Ron, and Ginny Weasley drive Gnomes from the fields at Stoatshead Hill.
• Lucius Malfoy followed a crow to Murphy's courtyard, where crows mocked and watched him along the way.
• Murphy asked Lucius whether he wanted to live or die, and Lucius begged for mercy.
• Murphy presented Lucius with a contract requiring him to serve Murphy unconditionally, and Lucius signed it in blood to avoid death.
• After the contract bound Lucius to Murphy, Murphy asked whether Lucius and Albert Runcorn were both Hogwarts governors.

Murphy Darkholme joined Hogwarts’ Board of Governors and proposed a review of the school’s staff after criticism of graduate employment rates prompted a Ministry hearing. The review left the governors demanding dismissals, while Murphy argued that the brief interviews were not enough to judge the professors.

• Murphy donated money to Hogwarts and was elected to the Board of Governors after Albert Runcorn was presumed unable to serve.
• After the Daily Prophet criticized Hogwarts graduates’ employment prospects, Murphy proposed a comprehensive review of the school’s faculty and staff.
• On August 19, the governors questioned Argus Filch about discipline and his torture implements, and Murphy intervened to let him go.
• Sybill Trelawney gave alarming predictions before dropping and shattering her crystal ball, while the governors also mocked the ghost Professor Binns, Goblin Professor Flitwick, giant Hagrid, and stammering Quirrell.
• The governors blamed Hogwarts’ declining teaching quality on its professors and demanded that Dumbledore dismiss them, including Snape.
• Murphy argued that the governors could not fairly judge the professors based on brief interviews.

Murphy persuaded the school governors to appoint him as a resident governor at Hogwarts, giving him a legitimate route into the school while he pursued the Philosopher's Stone. He began planning to add a teaching post and use an agent to steal the Stone without drawing Dumbledore’s attention.

• Murphy argued that the governors should focus on improving Hogwarts education and proposed stationing one of them at the school to supervise its teaching.
• The governors agreed to Murphy’s proposal and chose him to serve as the resident supervisor.
• Murphy returned to the Magic Research Institute and considered why stealing the Philosopher’s Stone was his only viable way to obtain it.
• Murphy decided that becoming a professor as well as a governor could help him gain the faculty’s trust and intervene in the Stone’s protections.
• Murphy concluded that he would need an agent to pursue the Philosopher’s Stone while keeping Dumbledore from focusing on him.

Murphy used a fabricated future apocalypse to make Tom Riddle believe he was a desperate young wizard seeking help. Tom accepted the apparent chance to travel back and claim the Philosopher’s Stone, setting Murphy’s plan in motion.

• Murphy decided to avoid using Harry and chose the diary’s Tom Riddle as a proxy for obtaining the Philosopher’s Stone.
• In the Chamber of Secrets, Murphy used a false identity and invented records about a future war to persuade Tom that wizards faced extinction.
• Murphy’s fabricated journal described survivors fleeing the Arasaka Corporation’s machines and dying as they traveled toward the Scottish Highlands.
• The false account claimed the last survivor had a shattered Time-Turner and needed Tom to return to the past, claim the Philosopher’s Stone, and save the wizards.
• Tom sensed that the writer had opened his mind to the diary, and Murphy ended the account by urging him to become the Chosen One.

Murphy erased Albert Runcorn’s memories, transformed him into a young Muggle boy, and implanted a sequence of memories about Lucas’s past. The visions ended with a Muggle war machine warning wizards to surrender, while a wizard revealed that the system was not controlled by humans.

• Murphy questioned Albert Runcorn, erased his memories with Obliviate, and gave him Polyjuice Potion to transform him into a Muggle boy.
• Murphy implanted a memory of missiles destroying the boy’s home and a faceless man entrusting Lucas with the Wizard King’s final Horcrux.
• Murphy showed Runcorn memories of Lucas helping a bullied East Asian girl and later hearing her explain why she cherished the world and chose the name Lucas Light.
• In another memory, Lucas discovered a mechanical worker bee near a hive and warned the camp that it had been found.
• A silver, spider-like war machine emerged from the forest and ordered the wizards to surrender.
• A wizard reported that the Imperius Curse had failed on a Muggle engineer and that no humans commanded the war system.

Lucas led children fleeing the Crimson Network’s drone swarm after Angel Bolton told them of a prophecy promising a savior’s resurrection. Entrusted with a Time-Turner and the Philosopher’s Stone, Lucas traveled a hundred years into the past, where a diary addressed to Tom revealed that he had expected to be consumed.

• Angel Bolton urged the survivors to head to the Scottish Highlands in search of hope and told them of a prophecy about a resurrected savior.
• Lucas and the girl he hoped to see the sea with separated from the other refugees as they fled the drone swarm.
• The swarm attacked the gathered wizards, and Heavenfire struck after the girl was hit by lasers.
• Angel Bolton gave Lucas a Wolf Transformation Potion, then later entrusted him with a Time-Turner and instructed him to find Hogwarts’s ruins and use the Philosopher’s Stone to resurrect the King of Wizards.
• With mechanical forces surrounding him, Lucas wrote in a diary and turned the Time-Turner, arriving in a wizarding village in 1990 in a child’s body.
• A diary in the basement recorded Lucas telling Tom that he had expected Tom to consume him.

Murphy planted fabricated memories in Tom Riddle’s diary, setting up Tom to possess a child’s body and seek the Philosopher’s Stone, then placed a magical control spell on the child. Tom believed the memories, began draining the transformed Runcorn, and was caught off guard when strange magic from the passage started binding him to the diary.

• Murphy completed the false memories explaining that Lucas Brightson had arranged Tom’s resurrection and would give him his body.
• Murphy cast “Notam servitutis!” on Runcorn, who had been transformed into a child.
• Tom read Lucas Brightson’s memories of a future war with Muggles and became convinced that their technology made the conflict terrifying.
• Tom decided to pursue resurrection first, then master magic and Muggle technology so he could dominate both worlds and become a savior.
• As Tom drained Runcorn’s magic and life force, strange magic surged through the passage and began chaining him to the diary.

Murphy used the Seed of the Mind to seize control of Tom Riddle’s diary and studied Tom’s memories and the diary’s creation. He joined Tom’s consciousness to Lucas Brightson’s body and left him at the orphanage, where Lucas awoke with a fabricated identity and memories.

• Murphy’s Seed of the Mind bypassed the diary’s defenses, took control of Tom, and let Murphy explore the Horcrux’s memories.
• Murphy discovered that Tom had first created the diary as a self-aware magical portrait before turning it into a Horcrux.
• Murphy made sixteen-year-old Tom appear as a younger boy resembling Lucas Brightson, then bound Tom to Lucas’s body with the Seed of the Mind.
• Tom, now inhabiting Lucas’s body, returned to Reed Children’s Welfare Home and placed the diary in Lucas’s room.
• Lucas awoke the next morning and read in the diary that he was Lucas Tom Brightson and that a couple wanted to adopt him.

Tom woke up in 1991 with a diary that described his future death and realized that it could predict events. He refused the Bells, who were actually impostors, and the diary updated to say he would receive a Hogwarts admission letter.

• Tom read the diary’s prediction that he would be adopted by the Bells, attend Wharton Public School, and die in a truck accident.
• When Mary and Donald Bell arrived to adopt him, Tom recognized details from the diary and refused to go with them, drawn instead to the name Hogwarts.
• After leaving the orphanage, Donald transformed into Radwan Perry, and Mary reverted to her appearance as a female mercenary.
• Tom wrote “Who are you?” in the diary, and its old text disappeared as new entries predicted an owl would bring him a Hogwarts admission letter.

Murphy Darkholme became Hogwarts’s Practical Studies professor and educational inspector, while Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed his character and a newly discovered orphaned wizard. Murphy agreed to collect Lucas Tom Brightson and Hermione Granger on September 1, leaving Lucas’s notebook to record that he would meet the person who changed his fate.

• The Wizengamot approved the Board of Governors’ decision to appoint Murphy Darkholme as Hogwarts’s resident educational inspector and Practical Studies professor.
• McGonagall questioned Dumbledore about letting Murphy oversee Hogwarts, and Dumbledore said he supported proper oversight and wanted to understand Murphy better.
• McGonagall found Lucas Tom Brightson’s recently added name in the Book of Admittance after the Ministry reported discovering him.
• Dumbledore was called back to the Ministry, so McGonagall asked Murphy to collect Lucas and Hermione Granger before term began.
• Murphy agreed to meet them on September 1, and Lucas’s notebook recorded that he would meet the person who changed his fate.

Murphy picked up Hermione Granger and took her to an orphanage to collect Tom Brightson, whose diary predicted that Murphy would change his fate. Tom learned from the diary that he could avoid a disastrous first meeting by politely thanking Murphy, just as Murphy arrived to fetch him.

• Murphy asked Laura to watch over the lab while he searched for a cure and gave her two Lightning Ravens to contact him.
• Murphy collected Hermione from her parents, demonstrated his storage ring, and Apparated with her to an orphanage.
• Tom read his Hogwarts letter and wondered why he trusted its claims about magic and Murphy Darkholme.
• Tom's diary repeatedly predicted that Murphy would abandon him and that he would die as a hookah, regardless of how he acted.
• The diary showed that Tom survived in the revised account after politely thanking Murphy, and someone announced that Professor Murphy had arrived to pick him up.

Murphy took Tom and Hermione Granger from the orphanage, where Tom discovered that the children and Mrs. Cornan cared about him. As they left, Murphy taught Tom that love could bring sorrow and tears as well as warmth and joy.

• Tom panicked when Hermione Granger arrived at his door and vomited after Murphy Apparated her to the orphanage.
• Murphy told Tom they would go to Diagon Alley and asked him to say goodbye to the people at the orphanage.
• Mrs. Cornan and the other children embraced Tom and wished him well, revealing that he had friends who cared about him.
• Tom said goodbye to the children and began crying, while Hermione Granger cried beside him.
• Murphy held Tom and Hermione Granger and explained that their tears reflected love, giving Tom his first lesson about love.

Murphy took Hermione and Tom to Diagon Alley, where he helped Tom stretch his limited funds and prepare for school. At Ollivanders, Tom met Harry, whose presence seemed familiar to them both.

• Murphy brought Hermione and Tom to Diagon Alley, helped Tom arrange a student loan, and negotiated for secondhand school supplies.
• Murphy repaired Tom’s books, gloves, and cauldron, then advised him to have a properly fitted set of robes made.
• Tom read in his diary that he would meet the dearest friend of his life at Ollivanders, and went to the wand shop despite doubting its predictions.
• Murphy arrived at Ollivanders with Hermione and Tom, where he encountered Sirius and Harry.
• Harry’s scar tingled as he noticed Tom, and both boys wondered why the other seemed familiar.