Chapter Summaries

At the Zhang Family’s gathering on Mount Longhu, Zhang Ye revealed that his chosen successor, Zhang Guozhong, had become vegetative after being buried in the 1987 Himalayan Great Avalanche. The family began investigating the avalanche, and Zhang Ye confronted Mundungus with a copy of With Slytherin in Eastern Tibet, leaving Mundungus under the hostile gaze of tens of thousands of Zhang Family members.

• Zhang Ye rang Mount Longhu’s great bell, summoning nearly twenty thousand Zhang Family members to gather.
• Mundungus climbed the mountain as a guest while the Zhang Family members criticized his thieving habits and his role as Dumbledore’s representative.
• Zhang Ye announced that Zhang Guozhong, his chosen successor, had become vegetative after the Himalayan Great Avalanche buried him in 1987.
• Zhang Ye said the Zhang Family would investigate the avalanche because its members suspected it might have been deliberately caused.
• Zhang Ye displayed With Slytherin in Eastern Tibet and asked Mundungus whether its account of the avalanche was a coincidence, prompting the crowd to turn on him.

Mundungus defended Moriarty against the Zhang Family’s suspicion about the Himalayan avalanche, while Zhang Ye arranged for eleven-year-old Zhang Qiu to be considered for Hogwarts. Moriarty’s group entered Mahoutokoro and reacted to its lavish interior, leaving them questioning whether it was suited to learning magic.

• Mundungus argued that an Undead Fire Raven, not Moriarty, had triggered the avalanche, and Zhang Ye said the Zhang Family would investigate.
• Zhang Ye identified Zhang Tingshan’s eleven-year-old daughter Zhang Qiu as a possible Hogwarts student and declared that the school would admit her because she belonged to the Zhang Family.
• Mundungus warned that Hogwarts only admitted children with magical ability and decided to report Zhang Ye’s plans to Dumbledore when he returned to Britain.
• Moriarty’s group entered Mahoutokoro with the Tokugawa Family’s Shikigami, prompting Jericho to plan to use the apparent family connection to pressure the Tsuchimikado family.
• Moriarty warned Jericho not to get too close to the Tokugawa Family, and the group criticized Mahoutokoro’s palace-like furnishings as unsuitable for a school.

Moriarty and his companions explored the Magic Palace and learned that Professor Genya had become powerful through Elemental Magic and was trying to replace Japan’s Shikigami system. They arrived at Genya’s lecture, where Moriarty recognized Patriarch Tokugawa’s granddaughter among the students.

• Moriarty, Lilith, Jericho, and their companions decided to attend Genya’s Elemental Magic lecture and asked Tsuchimikado to guide them to Tengu Hall.
• Tsuchimikado explained that Genya had transformed in September 1989, defeated professors and Aurors, gathered followers, and sought to replace Shikigami with Elemental Magic.
• Moriarty questioned why the Magic Palace allowed Genya to teach, but Tsuchimikado evaded the question after they reached the fourth floor.
• The group entered Room 404, where students demonstrated small water and fire spells while they waited for Genya.
• Moriarty identified a yellow twin-tailed student as Patriarch Tokugawa’s granddaughter, and she led a group of students toward him and his companions.

Twin-tails demanded that Moriarty’s group give up their sofa, and the dispute escalated into a fight between Jericho and Mahoutokoro students. Jericho defeated their Shikigami and bound several students before asking Moriarty to grade his performance.

• Twin-tails approached Moriarty’s group and demanded her former sofa seat, but Jericho refused to give it up.
• Twin-tails summoned Mahoutokoro students and ordered them to throw Moriarty’s group out of school.
• Moriarty gave Jericho ten minutes to deal with the students, while Lilith dismissed concerns about breaking British rules against underage magic.
• Jericho used spells to destroy the students’ Shikigami, then knocked down their enlarged creatures and bound several purple-robed students with ropes.
• Jericho declared the ten minutes were up and asked Moriarty to score his performance.

Moriarty uncovered the source of Professor Minamoto's Elemental Magic while examining his memories during a private lecture. He left Professor Minamoto unconscious and told Jericho that Minamoto had been classmates with Tsukamura Kogoro.

• Jericho demonstrated his air-restraint magic, and Lilith asked Moriarty how it could be countered before Professor Minamoto interrupted their confrontation with Tokugawa Yua.
• Tokugawa Yua challenged Jericho to fight, but Professor Minamoto forbade a duel and she demanded that his lecture be postponed.
• Moriarty led his companions toward the exit, prompting Professor Minamoto to offer them a free lecture on Elemental Magic in exchange for promoting it abroad.
• During the lecture, Moriarty questioned Minamoto's claims about awakening elements and used Legilimency to examine his memories.
• Moriarty saw that Minamoto had swallowed black mist before gaining Fire, Wind, and Water Elemental Magic, then discovered that Minamoto and Tsukamura Kogoro had been classmates.

Moriarty told Jericho and Lilith how Genya survived Tsukamura Kogoro’s attack, formed the Edo Alliance, and later pursued Elemental Magic, then planned to visit Kashizumi Temple to investigate the Fire Crow. Lilith returned to her room and began experimenting on the Slit-Mouthed Woman.

• Moriarty revealed that Tsukamura Kogoro and Tsukamura Kureno had lured students into a temple, where a Fire Crow Shikigami devoured many of them, and Genya was saved by Yakei Go.
• Genya returned to Mahoutokoro School of Magic as a professor, opposed the Ravenous Crow Society as Edo Death God, and helped form the Edo Alliance with six other survivors.
• Genya awakened fire, wind, and water Elemental Magic, taught it to selected students, and then abandoned his Edo Death God identity while challenging Japan’s magical system.
• Lilith and Jericho agreed that Genya lacked political sense, and Moriarty decided they would visit Kashizumi Temple the next morning to see the Fire Crow.
• Lilith locked herself in a room with the Slit-Mouthed Woman and approached her with a large syringe.

On the third day, Moriarty’s group discovered that the Fire Raven Temple’s Divine Fire Raven was being fed humans while Japan’s leading magical families ignored the killings. They arrived at the temple, where a long line of people waited to enter.

• Moriarty realized Simon’s wife, Natalie, and daughter, Ilan, had returned to normal after Joyful Magic lasted exactly two days, and he exposed that Human Transfiguration had impaired Lilith’s intelligence.
• The group left Mahoutokoro School of Magic on a Giant Storm Petrel and headed for the Fire Raven Temple after Moriarty learned it was the site of a murder.
• The man in white explained that the Tsukamura Family offered human sacrifices to its Divine Fire Raven, which grew stronger by devouring people, while the Tsuchimikado and Tokugawa families did nothing to stop it.
• Lilith spotted a long queue of people at the temple, and the man in white said he would not get off because the Tsuchimikado family would not challenge the Ravenous Crow Society.
• Moriarty, Jericho, and Lilith landed at the temple and walked toward it, understanding that the great families tolerated the killings because they received tribute from groups like the Ravenous Crow Society.

Moriarty entered the Shikigami Shrine, received Kaguya as a check-in reward, and helped Jericho and Lilith defeat the Fire God Flying Crow. The crow vanished after someone seemed to possess it, leaving Moriarty unsettled by its final, familiar gaze.

• Moriarty petrified the Ravenous Crow Society wizards outside the temple and entered the shrine with Jericho and Lilith.
• Moriarty checked in at the shrine and received the sleeping shikigami Kaguya.
• Jericho shattered the crow statue, releasing the Fire God Flying Crow, whose magical cries incapacitated everyone outside the temple.
• Moriarty shielded Jericho and Lilith from the crow's cries, and they waited for it to take solid form.
• Lilith petrified the Fire Crow for a moment, allowing Jericho to destroy its left eye with a Breaking Spell.
• Moriarty struck the Fire Crow with Gale Roar, and it exploded into black blood mist after showing an unnervingly human, familiar gaze.

After destroying the Fire God Flying Crow, Moriarty chose to return to Mahoutokoro School of Magic rather than flee, intending to face the Tsukamura Family. He suspected Yakei Go was secretly controlling the family and the Ravenous Crow Society, while Lilith warned that the enemy might be preparing a large attack on the school.

• The man in white robes warned Moriarty that the Tsukamura Family might retaliate, but Moriarty decided to return to Mahoutokoro School of Magic instead of going home.
• Moriarty, Lilith, and Jericho flew back to the school with the sleeping Simon family and the Slit-Mouthed Woman on Haiyan.
• Moriarty recalled Genya's memories and concluded that Yakei Go had controlled the Fire God Flying Crow and was likely the BOSS behind Tsukamura Kogoro and the Ravenous Crow Society.
• The group saw no sign of the Tsukamura Family through the night, and Lilith suggested they might be gathering a large force to invade the school.
• Jericho announced that he had thought of a way to investigate the Tsukamura Family's movements.

Moriarty learned that the Tsukamura Family and Tokugawa Family had joined forces, then prepared to use their attack as an opportunity to destroy the Tsukamura Family. When the Tsukamura Dark Wizards attacked Tengu Hall, Moriarty froze and killed 46 of them, as the battle began.

• Jericho coaxed information from Tokugawa Yua and revealed that the Tsukamura Family had sent at least 300 Dark Wizards to kill them, while a Tokugawa team was searching for something at the school.
• Moriarty deduced that the Tokugawa Family was seeking someone who had recently arrived at Mahoutokoro and learned that the attackers could come between August 27th and 29th.
• Moriarty proposed using the attack to destroy the Tsukamura Family and went with Lilith and Jericho to speak with Genya.
• On August 29th, the Tsukamura Patriarch and his Dark Wizards arrived at Tengu Hall, believing the Tokugawa Family had cleared the students out.
• Moriarty protected Simon Wick, his family, and the Slit-Mouthed Woman behind a barrier, then froze and shattered 46 Tsukamura Dark Wizards.

Moriarty and his allies defeated the Tsukamura Family and the Ravenous Crow Society, then captured the Tsukamura Family Head so Moriarty could search his memories. He learned that Japan’s BOSS had united the country’s Dark Wizard groups through a mysterious European called That Man, and the chapter ended when a protective spell on Simon was triggered.

• Moriarty shielded himself, Lilith, and Jericho from the Ravenous Crow Society’s undead creatures, then destroyed their attackers with twelve giant snakes.
• The Edo Alliance confronted the Tsukamura Family Head while Moriarty’s magic killed hundreds of Dark Wizards near Tengu Hall.
• Moriarty captured the fleeing Tsukamura Family Head and used Legilimency to confirm that Japan’s BOSS had subdued wizarding groups across Japan through That Man.
• Moriarty learned that That Man had ordered the Ravenous Crow Society to release Black Smoke at several Tokyo addresses nine days earlier, then sensed that someone had triggered the protective magic he had placed on Simon.

Moriarty confronted Patriarch Tokugawa, who demanded Simon and attacked with four powerful Shikigami. Moriarty destroyed the Shikigami and set Patriarch Tokugawa ablaze, then used Legilimency to search for the secret behind Simon.

• Moriarty returned to Tengu Hall with Jericho and Lilith, leaving the Edo Alliance to take revenge on the Tsukamura Family Head.
• Moriarty found Patriarch Tokugawa waiting in Simon's family's room, bandaged and accompanied by the Demon Panther, Mottled Bird, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Ancient Tengu.
• Patriarch Tokugawa demanded that Moriarty hand over Simon, but Moriarty refused and fought off his spells and Shikigami.
• Moriarty killed the Demon Panther and Mottled Bird, then used Shining Glory and Divine Might to burn Tamamo-no-Mae and Ancient Tengu to ash.
• Moriarty ignited Patriarch Tokugawa and used Legilimency to search his mind for Simon's secret.

Moriarty learned that Japan's BOSS was seeking Simon's Hebrew Treasure Map, cured the Slit-Mouthed Woman, and set the Tokugawa Family against the BOSS before leaving Japan. Japan's BOSS then planned to move his banquet to Nagoya and use the Ventrue heir's pursuit of Moriarty to obtain the map.

• Simon told Moriarty that his family had inherited a Hebrew Treasure Map listing 6,843 treasures, and Moriarty explained that both the Tokugawa Family and Japan's BOSS wanted it.
• Moriarty borrowed the map from Simon and led the group to the Slit-Mouthed Woman's home to find the bottle that had spread the black mist.
• Moriarty destroyed the black mist with a Freezing Charm, restoring the Slit-Mouthed Woman to normal and earning a Fire Elemental Magic level increase.
• Moriarty marked the black mist's locations on a Tokyo map and mailed it to Patriarch Tokugawa before boarding the cruise ship back to London.
• Japan's BOSS learned that Moriarty had disrupted his Tokyo arrangements and ordered That Man to move the banquet to Nagoya.
• Japan's BOSS predicted that Simon would send the Hebrew Treasure Map to Hogwarts and planned for the Ventrue heir to take it from Moriarty.

Moriarty returned to London with Lilith and a seasick Jericho, where he learned that Hogwarts had delayed the start of school. He discovered that a vampire named Duwayne Ventrue was set to enter Hogwarts, raising questions about the reason for his enrollment.

• Moriarty used Apparition to take Lilith and Jericho from the harbor to Diagon Alley after their ship was delayed by a storm.
• Moriarty found Tonks, Penelope, Gemma, and other Hogwarts students gathered in Diagon Alley, where Tonks told him school was not starting that day.
• In a crowded room at the Leaky Cauldron, Tonks explained that Bagnold had retired, Fudge had become Minister of Magic, and Dumbledore had visited Moriarty's castle.
• Tonks told Moriarty that the Daily Prophet had announced Hogwarts would admit an extraordinary student.
• Moriarty read that Duwayne Ventrue was an eleven-year-old vampire and recalled the Ventrue Blood Clan's connection to the attack on Hydrose.

Moriarty learned that Ventrue belonged to a powerful Vampire Blood Clan that even Voldemort had feared, and considered allowing Ventrue to enroll. Dumbledore arrived in Diagon Alley and took Moriarty away to discuss the matter privately.

• Tonks told Moriarty that wizards had sent Hogwarts a flood of protests over Ventrue's planned enrollment.
• Charlie delivered Arthur Weasley's letter, which warned that Ventrue's Blood Clan had once been feared even by Voldemort.
• Moriarty connected the Blood Clans to Dracula and the Immortality Organization, then said he wanted to hear Dumbledore's opinion before deciding about Ventrue.
• Dumbledore arrived in Diagon Alley with Zhang Qiu, while Mundungus led her toward a shop; Penelope went after her with Gemma.
• Dumbledore asked the others to give them space, and Moriarty grabbed his sleeve before they Apparated away together.

Dumbledore showed Moriarty that the Book of Admittance had recorded the mysterious Ventrue as Violet Ventrue, and explained why he wanted the student admitted to Hogwarts under their watch. Moriarty agreed to the enrollment subject to strict conditions, while Dumbledore revealed that Duwayne Ventrue had orchestrated the attack on Hydrose and hated Gilderoy Lockhart.

• Moriarty used a Slytherin family spell to turn the Book of Admittance to its newest entry, which named Violet Ventrue.
• Dumbledore and Moriarty agreed that the recorded Ventrue met Hogwarts' admission requirements, and Dumbledore wanted to monitor him at the school.
• Dumbledore told Moriarty that Duwayne Ventrue had hired the Saints to attack Hydrose and was the son of Rosebro and Bertha Ventrue.
• Dumbledore revealed that Duwayne hated Gilderoy Lockhart because of With Vampires at the Eiffel Tower, and Moriarty suggested Lockhart could teach him a lesson.
• Moriarty agreed to Ventrue's enrollment on the conditions that outsiders' concerns were handled, Duwayne drank no one's blood, and they informed each other before taking action against Ventrue or the Blood Clan.

Moriarty warned Dumbledore about the Immortality Organization and the Blood Clan, then returned to Diagon Alley while Dumbledore went to confront Fudge. At the Leaky Cauldron, Moriarty and the pure-bloods traded gossip about Fudge’s new confidant, Dolores Umbridge, before Penelope, Zhang Qiu, and Gemma arrived.

• Moriarty told Dumbledore his suspicions about the Immortality Organization and the Blood Clan, and Dumbledore agreed to investigate historical records in Godric's Hollow.
• Dumbledore sent Moriarty back to Diagon Alley and went to the Ministry of Magic to deliver his final ultimatum to Fudge.
• Fudge answered letters from parents opposing Ventrue’s enrollment, then greeted Dumbledore when his assistant announced his arrival.
• Moriarty and the pure-bloods discussed Fudge’s promotion of Dolores Umbridge, while Soldaya explained her family background and Lilith identified her father’s low-ranking Ministry job.
• Jericho retched after Cedric described Umbridge, and the group laughed at the rumors about her and Fudge.
• Penelope entered the Leaky Cauldron with Zhang Qiu and Gemma, carrying several things.

Zhang Qiu joined Moriarty and the others, where Penelope introduced her as a Chinese Hogwarts student from the enormous Zhang Family. As Penelope revealed details about Qiu’s family and Mount Longhu, Moriarty grew suspicious of Dumbledore’s connection to the Zhang Family.

• Penelope brought Zhang Qiu and Gemma to Moriarty’s group, and Moriarty used a Levitation Charm to carry their bags.
• Gemma showed off her new Slytherin prefect badge, then playfully tussled with Tonks as Zhang Qiu watched.
• Penelope introduced Zhang Qiu as her Chinese pen pal and the person who had taught her the card game, prompting teasing and embarrassing misunderstandings.
• When the group asked how Zhang Qiu knew about Hogwarts’s Houses, Penelope explained that Qiu’s mother worked at the Ministry of Magic.
• Penelope revealed that Qiu’s father came from the Zhang Family, which had more than ten thousand members, and mentioned Qiu’s trip to Mount Longhu to acknowledge her ancestry.
• Moriarty connected Zhang Qiu’s arrival with Dumbledore and Mundungus, concluding that Dumbledore had befriended a Chinese wizarding family, while Zhang Qiu silently regretted Penelope’s oversharing.

Moriarty and his companions boarded the Hogwarts Express, where the new student Duwayne Ventrue complained about the wizards and their school. Duwayne noticed something unusual about Zhang Qiu as she passed him, and he resolved to remember her.

• Moriarty agreed to let Marcus raise the Chimera egg, and Marcus received it with delight.
• Moriarty and his companions boarded the Hogwarts Express, while Duwayne Ventrue traveled with his white cat, Princess Sophie.
• Duwayne mocked Hogwarts for admitting students and staff from different magical groups, then grew angry when Moriarty and the Hogwarts Pure-Blood Army entered the School Governors' compartment.
• Duwayne smelled virgin blood from the compartment and went into the corridor, where he encountered Zhang Qiu.
• Duwayne sensed something unusual about Zhang Qiu, and Princess Sophie agreed that she disliked it.

Jericho entertained the school governors with tales from Japan until Duwayne Ventrue burst into their compartment and attacked Cedric. Duwayne revealed himself as the controversial Vampire, while Moriarty remained calm and the older Slytherins confronted him.

• Jericho bragged about Japan and his exploits as Lilith teased him about Helena and the information he had gathered from Twin-tails.
• A stranger pounded on the compartment door, and Cedric and the other second-years went to open it.
• The newcomer struck Cedric and gave him a black eye, but Moriarty used magic to catch him and inspect the damage.
• Soldaya attacked the newcomer with the Cruciatus Curse and Dragon's Breath, but the boy's cloak deflected the curse and his talking white cat swallowed the snake.
• The black-haired boy revealed himself as Duwayne Ventrue, and older Slytherins moved to confront him while Moriarty stayed seated.