Chapter Summaries

As Hogwarts students grew fascinated by Voldemort’s past, their attention shifted to Harry and his legendary story, while Tierra discussed his confident plans to guide Voldemort toward godhood and arrange his downfall. Harry struggled with the attention and with Ron and Lavender’s constant affection, and Tierra and Hermione often left him to deal with it alone.

• Tierra told Dumbledore that he intended to lead Voldemort onto the Path to Godhood as part of a plan to kill him, and he said he was confident Voldemort would follow the path as required.
• Students who became obsessed with Voldemort’s past began treating Harry as a prophetic hero and gathering beneath mistletoe whenever he passed.
• Harry used secret passages to avoid crowds of girls, while Ron realized their detours also kept him from confronting his jealousy.
• Lavender repeatedly sought out Ron, and Harry and Hermione endured their excessive displays of affection.
• Tierra avoided Ron and Lavender by going to the laboratory to help Horace Slughorn refine the Philosopher’s Stone, and Hermione followed him, leaving Harry with the couple.

As Hermione buried herself in calculations, she warned Harry about girls planning to use Love Potions on him at Slughorn’s party and urged him to watch his drinks. After Pince chased them out of the library, Harry asked Hermione whether she had a partner for Slughorn’s Yule Ball, and Hermione realized he was asking her to go with him.

• Harry met Hermione in the library, where she focused on calculations and barely listened as he mentioned trouble at the Ministry of Magic.
• Hermione warned Harry that Romilda and other girls planned to use Love Potions to make him take them to Slughorn’s party, and told him to be careful with his drinks.
• Pince scolded Harry for writing in his copy of Advanced Potion-Making, and Hermione hurried him out of the library.
• Harry asked Hermione if she had a partner for Slughorn’s Yule Ball, and Hermione said she had already agreed to go with someone before realizing what he meant.

Harry tried to find a girl to invite to Horace Slughorn's Christmas dinner, but Romilda immediately offered him drinks and chocolates, so he escaped to bed. In his dream, Voldemort entered a cave leading to the Dreamlands and considered his growing influence within European governments.

• Harry and Hermione laughed together, and Hermione urged him to invite a girl to Horace Slughorn's Christmas dinner.
• Romilda offered Harry Molly Bubble Water and a box of chocolates filled with Firewhisky, and Harry retreated behind Hermione to escape her attention.
• Harry returned to his dormitory and fell asleep.
• In Harry's dream, Voldemort entered a cave in the Hindu Kush Mountains that led to the Dreamlands.
• Voldemort reflected that forging another Horcrux had eased his pressure and claimed he had infiltrated the European Ministries of Magic.

Voldemort speculated that Salazar Slytherin had concealed his theft of Tierra’s Godhood Notes and might be helping him pursue godhood. Tierra told Salazar that Voldemort was ready to seek help from his ancestor.

• Voldemort dismissed Tierra’s use of force and considered how his reforms had driven former magical magnates to seek his support.
• Koshchei Villalba and other family heads asked Voldemort to uphold justice for them, and Voldemort questioned whether his ancestor would support him.
• Voldemort reasoned that Salazar Slytherin had hidden evidence of his theft of Tierra’s Godhood Notes and wondered whether Salazar wanted him to attain godhood.
• Tierra appeared behind Salazar Slytherin on the Astronomy Tower and said Voldemort was ready to seek help from his old ancestor.

Voldemort prepared to enter the Dreamlands and trade for metals that could help him evade Tierra. At Hogwarts, Harry invited Luna Lovegood to Slughorn’s Yule Ball, and Peeves’s teasing was interrupted by a mysterious bone hand.

• Voldemort planned to trade with the Moon Beasts for Sky Gold, Flowing Silver, and Pillar Copper so he could hide from Tierra in the Dreamlands.
• Harry intercepted Luna Lovegood in a corridor and learned that she had made friends, including Rolf Scamander, but had no invitation to Slughorn’s ball.
• Harry invited Luna to the Yule Ball, and she happily agreed to go with him as a friend.
• Peeves mocked Harry and Luna by shouting that Harry was in love with her, then a bone hand pierced his body and seized him.

Harry took Luna to Professor Horace Slughorn's Yule Ball after her classmates’ resentment faded when more than fifty Tierras invited students. At the party, Slughorn tried to introduce Harry to a biographer, but Harry escaped with Luna and found Hermione.

• Girls ostracized Luna and called her “Loony” and a “scheming bitch” after word spread that Harry had invited her to the Yule Ball, and Harry apologized for involving her.
• More than fifty Tierras emerged from the Room of Requirement and sent out invitations, easing the girls’ fixation on Harry’s invitation to Luna.
• Ron’s popularity drew girls’ interest, but Lavender Brown drove them away, leaving Ron to spend Christmas Eve alone with her.
• Harry met Luna at the Ravenclaw dormitory entrance and escorted her to the Yule Ball in the Room of Requirement.
• Slughorn introduced Harry to Eldred and the vampire Sangyouni, and Eldred offered to write Harry’s biography; Harry declined and pulled Luna away.
• Harry spotted Hermione in the crowd, and Hermione greeted Harry and Luna.

At the Yule Ball, Hermione explained why she had gone with McLaren while Harry teased her, and the three encountered Professor Trelawney, whose class Luna had left for Tierra’s parallel Divination course. Tierra prompted Horace Slughorn to introduce a special guest, and the chapter ended as Slughorn announced Salazar Slytherin.

• Hermione told Harry she had chosen McLaren because he had asked her first and she had assumed Tierra would not attend the ball.
• Harry and Hermione joked about her not choosing him, then Hermione pulled him toward the edge of the crowd with Luna.
• Luna told Professor Trelawney she had transferred to Tierra’s parallel Divination class.
• Tierra quietly told Horace Slughorn it was time to bring their special guest onstage.
• Horace Slughorn welcomed the Yule Ball guests and announced Salazar Slytherin.

Salazar Slytherin addressed the Yule Ball, recalling Hogwarts’s founders and praising the school’s legacy. As the expelled Durmstrang students planned to approach him, Dumbledore and a Tierra secretly watched them and other students through a magical chessboard.

• Horace Slughorn introduced Salazar Slytherin, who toasted the guests and spoke about the founders’ ambitions for Hogwarts and its importance to the Wizarding World.
• Luna asked Harry whether Tierra had written Slytherin’s speech, while Professor Trelawney praised Slytherin and criticized Tierra.
• Avdey Grunya, Lomonosov Kuragin, and Sergei Ivanov discussed whether Tierra had discovered their past and decided to approach Slytherin cautiously.
• Sergei stopped Lomonosov from going straight to Slytherin and told the group to dance and drink first so they would seem natural.
• Dumbledore and a Tierra watched the Yule Ball through a magical chessboard that showed Sergei, Lomonosov, Avdey, Draco Malfoy, and other students.

Tierra explained to Dumbledore how his joint education program would weaken entrenched wizarding elites across Europe and the Americas while expanding British influence. He outlined how he had isolated and defeated foreign resistance, leaving France unable to stand alone.

• Tierra conceded their chess game after Dumbledore won ten matches in a row, and they discussed the students who imitated Gellert Grindelwald.
• Tierra described the oppressed students as potential revolutionaries and explained how joint education would draw them away from local interest groups.
• Tierra said the program would leave vacant positions at home, allowing oppressed wizards to rise and seek British support in struggles against old powers.
• Tierra explained that he had turned Germany against France, then crushed resistance from the Magical Union Army and the United States Ministry of Magic.
• Tierra said France had gambled rather than surrendered but could not stand alone, and argued that wizarding conflicts ultimately came down to individual power.

At the ball, Sergei Ivanov spoke with Salazar Slytherin about Tierra’s ambitions for his students and the pursuit of knowledge. After deciding their mission was complete, Sergei announced that he and his companions would prepare for the Magic University entrance examination instead of immediately returning home for revenge.

• Sergei Ivanov, Avdey Grunya, and Lomonosov Kuragin approached Salazar Slytherin during a break between dances and toasted him.
• Salazar told Sergei that Tierra knew of and appreciated his ambition, but cared little about anyone’s pursuit of power or money.
• Salazar explained that Tierra taught magic and established Magic University to help students pursue knowledge and ultimately glimpse the truth of the universe.
• Sergei thanked Salazar, then left with Avdey and Lomonosov and said they would report that Salazar would help conceal Voldemort’s progress toward godhood from Tierra.
• Sergei told Avdey and Lomonosov that they would prepare for the Magic University entrance examination rather than return home to take revenge.

Sergei Ivanov persuaded Lomonosov Kuragin and Avdey Grunya to reject the Romanov order and join Tierra’s plan to transform Russia. Tierra and Dumbledore watched their conversation, with Dumbledore concluding that the boys could become capable assistants.

• Sergei Ivanov argued that taking power for themselves would not end the oppression of illegitimate heirs and their descendants.
• Sergei Ivanov urged Lomonosov Kuragin and Avdey Grunya to overthrow the Romanov Dynasty and build a society where people could live freely.
• Sergei Ivanov argued that their talent, rather than their families, made them shine, and cited Tierra’s rise as proof that they could succeed.
• Sergei Ivanov proposed staying in the United Kingdom, earning Tierra’s trust, and helping him transform the Russian Ministry of Magic when he turned his attention to Russia.
• Tierra revealed that he and Dumbledore had watched the conversation, and Dumbledore said the boys could become capable assistants.

Tierra told Dumbledore that lasting change required overturning the rules that made conflict cyclical, then flipped the chessboard and turned its pieces white. At Slughorn’s Yule Ball, Harry struggled to escape a conversation that grew increasingly uncomfortable when Slughorn revealed that Tierra was dancing with Luna and drew Snape into a discussion of Harry’s talent.

• Tierra explained to Dumbledore that revolutions would repeat the same cycles of oppression and conflict unless the rules of the game changed.
• Tierra flipped Dumbledore’s chessboard, and Langiersu turned the scattered chess pieces pure white.
• Slughorn caught Harry as he tried to leave the Yule Ball and talked to him about Luna’s father and Tierra’s plans for a wizard television station.
• Slughorn told Harry that Luna was dancing with Tierra, then pulled Harry toward a group of successful former students.
• Slughorn called out to Snape and praised Harry’s potion-making, while Snape questioned whether Harry had learned anything from him and blocked Harry’s path out.

At Slughorn’s ball, Harry escaped an awkward toast and spoke with Luna before returning to his dormitory. In the Dreamlands, Voldemort found the entrance after exploring dangerous caves, while Tierra used the search to keep him occupied and prepared to start a television station with Xenophilius Lovegood.

• Slughorn praised Harry’s talent and ambitions, then led the guests in a toast to Harry as a future Auror.
• Harry slipped away from Slughorn and found Luna, who told him she had spent the ball with Tierra and Hermione.
• Harry left the ball for his dormitory after Luna warned him that Startle Bugs on his clothes could cause nightmares.
• Voldemort explored caves in the Hindu Kush, killed and collected Cold Spiders and Cold Wasteland Residents, and followed footprints to the Dreamlands entrance.
• Tierra had deliberately made the entrance’s location vague to slow Voldemort’s search for Sky Gold, Flowing Silver, and Pillar Copper.
• Tierra prepared to establish a television station with Xenophilius Lovegood to help Voldemort use an anchor point to return from the Divine Dimension.

Tierra had Xenophilius prepare a television station while he handled the financial and regulatory requirements. He planned to use the station to repeatedly broadcast Voldemort’s biography and memories as a stable anchor for Voldemort’s ascension to godhood.

• Tierra assigned Xenophilius the television station’s preparations, and Xenophilius quickly submitted a rough program schedule.
• Tierra rejected most of the schedule, kept the late-night show "Strange Tales," and sent Xenophilius back to revise the plans.
• Tierra considered the equipment and transmission channels needed to reach viewers and concluded that money could overcome the main obstacles.
• Tierra noted that he could create enough gold to fund the station and could even use himself as a magical satellite to relay signals.
• Tierra decided that the station would repeatedly broadcast Voldemort’s biography and memories to anchor Voldemort’s ascension to godhood.

Voldemort crossed into the Cold Wasteland and flew toward its coast, hoping to find the merchant ships that traded with the Moon Beasts. Meanwhile, Harry dreamed of the same frozen wasteland and began to feel its cold as if it were real.

• Voldemort crossed the cave and entered the vast, wind-blasted Cold Wasteland.
• Voldemort used the sun and the salty wind to choose his direction, then flew toward the coast to search for merchant ships at Benner Bay.
• Voldemort left the cave entrance without noticing a translucent figure in pajamas appear behind him.
• Harry returned to the Gryffindor dormitory after the Yule Ball, read Advanced Potion-Making, and went to sleep.
• Harry dreamed that he walked through a glowing cave and emerged into the boundless Snowy Plains.
• Harry questioned whether he was dreaming and shivered as the snow and wind seemed to chill his pajamas.

Harry woke from a dream of crossing a freezing snowfield, where Tierra appeared and jolted him awake. Tierra said the dream had been real, and Harry discovered that his body was covered in signs of cold injury.

• Harry wandered through a frigid snowfield in his dream and began to lose consciousness from the cold.
• Tierra appeared in the dream and jabbed Harry between the brows with his flaming skeletal hand, causing him to fall and wake in bed.
• Ron told Harry that he had found him shivering and ice-cold, then fetched Tierra while Seamus and Neville tried to wake him.
• Harry described the snowfield dream to Tierra and asked if he had been transported there.
• Tierra said the dream had been real and pulled back Harry's quilt, revealing swollen red patches and frostbite sores on Harry's body.

Tierra healed Harry and explained that his dream of the Cold Plateau had been a real visit to the Dreamlands, a parallel realm entered through dreams. He revealed that gateways linked the Dreamlands to reality and that objects, including a complete copy of The Book of Raziel, could be brought back.

• Tierra used his flaming skeletal hand to heal Harry, then gave him mushroom cream soup.
• Tierra explained that Harry had visited the Cold Plateau in the Dreamlands and invited Ron, Neville, and Seamus to listen.
• Tierra described the Dreamlands as a parallel space shaped by living beings’ subconsciousness, dreams, and imagination, where experienced Dreamers could become powerful residents.
• Tierra explained that the Cold Plateau was a bleak region of the Dreamlands and that he had found a gateway to it in the Hindu Kush Mountains using Merlin’s notes.
• Tierra confirmed that objects could pass between the Dreamlands and reality, citing the complete version of The Book of Raziel in the Restricted Section as something he had brought back.

Tierra explained the Dreamlands’ dangers and inhabitants to Harry and the others, then protected Harry from accidentally returning there. Afterward, Tierra retrieved a warm bowl of soup through a mysterious hand from the past, while a Galleon appeared for the House-elf who prepared it.

• Tierra explained that Muggle Dreamers entered the Dreamlands without a Spiritual Dimension, but could gain one through contact with ancient Divine Beings.
• Tierra described the Cold Wasteland’s Moon Beasts and the enslaved Cold Wasteland Residents, frightening and upsetting Harry’s friends.
• Tierra told Harry to finish his drink and sleep, then placed a spell on the dormitory to prevent another accidental trip to the Dreamlands.
• Tierra asked Debi to prepare cream of mushroom soup, and later an unseen hand from the past took the warm mug as a Galleon appeared before Debi.

Harry told Hermione about his visit to the Dreamlands and the Cold Wasteland, while Voldemort continued searching for Bennar Harbor. After learning that Dreamlands time passed faster than real-world time, Voldemort realized he had more time to find Sky Gold, Flowing Silver, and Pillar Copper.

• Harry woke late and found Hermione waiting in the Gryffindor Common Room while Ron and Lavender Brown kissed on the sofa.
• Hermione showed Harry a Seal of Nodens coin and explained that she already knew about the Dreamlands from Tierra.
• Harry described the Cold Wasteland to Hermione as she took notes, and Hermione said Ron had been interrupted by Lavender before he could explain more.
• Voldemort followed the snowy coastline after losing the Cold Wasteland Residents’ tracks, and he finally spotted the ocean while searching for Bennar Harbor.
• Voldemort learned through his Horcruxes that at least a full day had passed in the Dreamlands while only one night had passed in the real world, giving him more time to find the metals he needed.

On the Hogwarts Express, Hermione pressed Harry for details about the Dreamlands and explained why she wanted to enter them despite Tierra’s warnings. She accidentally revealed that she was helping Professor Horace Slughorn refine the Philosopher’s Stone, leaving the compartment stunned.

• Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, and Luna shared a compartment on the Hogwarts Express.
• Neville explained that the Dreamlands were a parallel space shaped by subconsciousness, dreams, and imagination.
• Hermione questioned Harry about his time in the Cold Wasteland and described Tierra’s warning that learning too much about a place could make someone more likely to enter it in their dreams.
• Hermione argued that visiting the Dreamlands would give her more time to study, but Harry reminded her that Tierra considered it too dangerous for her.
• Hermione blurted out that she was helping Professor Horace Slughorn refine the Philosopher’s Stone, and Ginny reacted with shock.