Chapter Summaries

After the Soviet Union collapsed, Scott Lake met with four others in a magically concealed conference room and rejected the idea that Lord Grindelwald’s prophecy referred to the Soviet Union. Hasty Hard, Durmstrang’s most gifted living Seer, revealed a new, vague prophecy involving a Golden Cup, a Red Star, and the Sickle and Hammer.

• On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev’s resignation speech announced the end of the Soviet Union.
• Scott Lake entered a concealed room in a Moscow library and passed through a magical door into a conference room.
• Scott told the assembled group that Grindelwald’s prophecy about the Sickle and Hammer did not refer to the Soviet Union.
• The elderly woman announced that Hasty Hard had made another prophecy.
• Hasty recited a prophecy about a burning Golden Cup, fate’s deviation, someone doomed to die who evaded death, the Red Star, and the Sickle and Hammer.

Tierra Wu returned to Beijing from Britain, revisited places tied to his childhood memories, and then Disapparated back to Hogwarts. From the Astronomy Tower, he declared his return to confront the corrupt forces in the Magical World.

• Tierra Wu arrived at Beijing Capital Airport from London and passed through customs with his Chinese passport.
• Tierra took a taxi to Qianmen Street, recognized places from his childhood, and wandered through the shops.
• Tierra entered the Memorial Hall before its morning visiting hours ended, then left and Disapparated from the street.
• Tierra appeared atop Hogwarts' Astronomy Tower and vowed to challenge the Magical World's capitalists, bureaucrats, and rural terrorists.

During summer vacation, Tierra used the Room of Requirement to brew and drink the Hydra Potion, surviving a painful transformation and shedding his skin. He learned the potion would make him stronger with each shedding, though the process grew more dangerous over time and could not grant immortality.

• Tierra used the Room of Requirement to create a hidden potion laboratory and prepared the Hydra Potion ingredients.
• After three hours of brewing, Tierra drank the Hydra Potion and endured a painful transformation until he swallowed the Scorpion Serpent Gall.
• Tierra shed skin covered in scales, then cleaned up the laboratory and returned to the Gryffindor Common Room.
• Tierra discovered that the Hydra Potion had slightly increased his height, muscles, Spiritual Power, and magic.
• Tierra learned that each shedding would increase his strength, magic, and Spiritual Power, while growing more painful and dangerous as he aged.

Tierra studied occult laws surrounding first-use materials and considered how to use the skin from his first shedding. He found a method called Life Reconstruction that could create a backup body, and began considering it as protection against the dangers ahead.

• Tierra preserved his first shed skin instead of feeding it to The Inheritor because it could be valuable under occult laws.
• Tierra recalled that Merlin had turned his first shed skin into a Talisman of Blessing, but he remained unsure how to use his own.
• Tierra went to the library and read about Life Reconstruction in the Fragments of Celaeno.
• Tierra learned that Life Reconstruction used a part of one’s body to create an Artificial Life Form that could serve as a backup body and receive the wizard’s consciousness after death.
• Tierra considered creating a backup in case the Outer Gods killed him or Voldemort broke through his mental defenses.

Tierra used the Life Reconstruction spell to turn his shed hand skin and Curse Worms into a semi-living glove that he could control. The glove restored the appearance and function of his damaged left hand and could extend obedient tentacles to handle objects.

• Tierra retrieved his Curse Worms and prepared to use the Life Reconstruction spell he had copied onto The Inheritor.
• Tierra formed a mouth on his right hand and recited the spell, causing his palm skin to peel away as the Curse Worms fused with it.
• Tierra finished the spell and watched the worm aggregate become a glove that moved in response to his thoughts.
• Tierra put the glove on his left hand and strengthened his connection to it until it matched his skin tone.
• Tierra tested the glove's tentacles by having them retrieve potion supplies, put away the worm box, comb his hair, and open Tom Riddle's diary.

Tierra kept pretending to be an inexperienced, devoted student while Tom Riddle taught him Dark Magic and revealed plans to use him as a servant and Horcrux. As Tierra studied Fiendfyre, he considered using Curse Worms to build a powerful artificial life form as a backup means of survival.

• Tierra used Occlumency to fake affectionate excitement while writing to Tom Riddle in the diary.
• Tierra continued feigning ignorance of Dark Magic so Tom Riddle would patiently reveal more spells and knowledge.
• Tierra learned that Tom Riddle planned to fuse him with the Basilisk as a loyal servant and final Horcrux, or turn him into an Inferius if he died.
• Tierra opened a book on Ancient Dark Magic Ritual Studies and read about Fiendfyre's casting and control.
• Tierra considered building an artificial life form from Curse Worms derived from Dark Magic, dangerous creatures, or Fiendfyre.

Tierra studied Fiendfyre and Spiritual Fire, learning how demons and the Martyr ritual could be used to fuse magical power. He ruled out that risky method and continued searching for a way to become indestructible enough to cross the Gate of a Thousand Doors and return home.

• Tierra compared the destructive power of the Unforgivable Curses with Fiendfyre and studied how Fiendfyre burned the Spiritual Dimension.
• Tierra learned that mental spells such as Finite Incantatem and Protego Diabolica could interrupt Fiendfyre.
• Tierra studied Spiritual Fire and the Martyr ritual, which used a contract with a demon to fuse their spiritual existence and increase a wizard's magical power.
• Tierra concluded that the Martyr ritual was too risky because demons were difficult to deceive and control.
• Tierra considered alchemy and power from the Outer Gods as possible ways to become indestructible enough to cross the Gate of a Thousand Doors and return home.

Tierra studied how to use three kinds of fire and Curse Worms to create an immortal body, while pretending to Tom Riddle that he resented Harry Potter and believed only power mattered. After Raven returned with its usual appetite, Tierra continued recording its feeding experiments in The Inheritor.

• Tierra considered using Life Reconstruction to merge Curse Worms containing the fires of matter, spirituality, and spirit with his first molt to create an immortal body.
• Tierra wrote to Tom Riddle that he wanted to destroy everything and resented Harry Potter, prompting Tom to believe Tierra had embraced his belief in power.
• A large raven named Raven flew into Tierra's dormitory, ate a strip of beef, and settled by the fireplace.
• Tierra continued communicating with Tom Riddle while recording Raven's weight and reactions to its latest feedings in The Inheritor.

Tierra visited Hagrid’s menagerie with Raven, who had learned to speak after being fed intelligence-enhancing potions. When Raven spotted a hidden magical presence, Tierra attacked and discovered Dobby, who disarmed him while declaring he would protect Harry Potter.

• Tierra regularly visited Hagrid to learn about magical creatures, and Hagrid showed him Buckbeak, a young Hippogriff cared for by the Demiguise Myrtle.
• Tierra noticed his voice improving after drinking the Hydra Potion for seven days.
• Raven spoke for the first time after receiving six doses of Huris Potion, and Tierra took the talkative raven with him to Hagrid’s hut.
• Raven detected magic behind a boulder, and Tierra blasted the rock apart with Diffindo.
• Tierra found Dobby hiding behind the boulder, and Dobby declared that he would not let anyone harm Harry Potter before magically pulling Tierra’s wand from his hand.

Tierra captured Dobby after he attacked him, then learned that Lucius Malfoy had sent him Tom Riddle’s diary to use Tierra as a scapegoat. Dobby escaped before Tierra could speak with him, leaving Tierra aware that the diary threatened Harry and Hogwarts students.

• Dobby tried to steal Tierra’s wand and escape, but Tierra restrained him with tentacles and a paralysis curse.
• Tierra freed Dobby from the curse and asked him to stay and talk, but Dobby snapped his fingers and vanished.
• Tierra learned that Draco Malfoy had asked Lucius to punish Tierra and that Lucius had sent him Tom Riddle’s diary through intermediaries.
• Tierra discovered that Lucius had intended the diary to harm Harry and other Hogwarts students, while blaming Tierra if anything went wrong.
• Tierra learned that Dobby had overheard Lucius boast about sending the cursed item to Hogwarts and understood it was dangerous.

Tierra visited Hagrid and asked whether Raven could learn magic, disguising his altered voice as the result of prank candy. Hagrid explained that magical creatures generally could not use human magic, leaving Tierra to consider teaching Raven through nonhuman magical systems.

• Tierra hid the mouth on his hand and pretended his hoarse voice came from Weasley prank candy.
• Hagrid examined Raven, who shared a strip of fish with Tierra.
• Tierra asked Hagrid whether Raven could learn spells, and Hagrid explained that magical creatures generally used their own forms of magic.
• Tierra realized that his forbidden books contained magical systems created for nonhuman races.

Tierra sent letters to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, using the letters for Harry to secretly place trackers on Dobby. As Tom Riddle taught him about the Living Dead Potion, Tierra grasped the danger behind Voldemort’s scheme and asked Tom about the Dark Mark.

• Tierra gathered Hippogriff feathers and Demiguise hair while helping Hagrid, then wrote letters to Harry, Ron, and Hermione and took Hagrid’s letter to Harry.
• Tierra wrapped the two letters for Harry in magically animated strips of his own skin so they would track Dobby if he intercepted them.
• Tierra sent all four letters with three owls, and two days later sensed that the skin strips had attached themselves to Dobby.
• Tierra read Tom Riddle’s explanation of the Living Dead Potion while listening for his concealed thoughts, and recognized that the potion could turn a dead wizard into an Inferius under the right conditions.
• Tierra resolved to protect himself from the diary’s influence and wrote to Tom, asking whether he knew about the Dark Mark.

Tierra asked Tom Riddle to help him investigate Lucius Malfoy by finding a way to expose Draco Malfoy's Dark Mark, while Tom secretly considered branding Tierra himself. By understanding Tom's thoughts, Tierra learned how the Dark Mark worked, but he had no intention of becoming a Death Eater.

• Tierra asked Tom whether Lucius Malfoy could be a Death Eater and explained that he wanted Draco arrested by exposing his Dark Mark.
• Tom realized Tierra did not suspect him and offered to help study or recreate the Dark Mark, while privately considering branding Tierra.
• Tierra used his Knowledge blessing to learn Tom's understanding of the Dark Mark's creation and its role as a limited Dark Magic vessel.
• Tierra reflected that he could not cast Fiendfyre despite understanding its principles and lacking the destructive desire to fuel it.

Tierra received letters from Ron and Hermione, then continued studying Dark Magic with Tom Riddle while keeping his secrets from his friends. He completed his own Dark Mark after learning the special incantation that could free it from Voldemort’s control.

• Tierra received Ron’s cheerful letter and Hermione’s extensive study notes and questions, and he worried that accepting her feelings could expose his Dark Magic studies.
• Tierra recalled Harry’s birthday gift of fifty Galleons and decided that Hermione’s closeness risked revealing secrets to McGonagall or Dumbledore.
• Tom Riddle taught Tierra about the Dark Mark while secretly revealing pieces of his research into Dark Magic Anchor, Dark Magic Evolution, and the Three-Dimensional Theory of Magic.
• Tierra learned that a special incantation let him control the Dark Mark and make it independent of Voldemort.
• Tierra endured the pain of inscribing the Dark Mark on his arm and lamented that the powerful red country he remembered had not survived the previous winter.

After Tom Riddle completed his analysis of the Dark Lord’s Mark, he convinced Tierra to impersonate Voldemort and inherit his Death Eaters. When Harry and Hermione invited Tierra to Diagon Alley, Tierra arranged to go with Hagrid, anticipating that Dobby would target him outside Hogwarts.

• Tom Riddle persuaded Tierra to abandon exposing Lucius and instead impersonate Voldemort, while Tierra used The Inheritor to conceal their Dark Mark connection within an illusion outside his Spiritual Walls.
• Tierra sent Ron and Hermione similar letters, deliberately switched their delivery, and received no further letters from Hermione for over a month.
• Harry wrote to Tierra about Dobby, the Weasleys, and a planned trip to Diagon Alley, while Hermione separately invited Tierra to shop with her.
• Tierra obtained Filch’s permission to leave Hogwarts and asked Hagrid to accompany him to Diagon Alley.
• Tierra suspected Dobby would try to prevent him from returning to Hogwarts, so he planned to travel with Hagrid and return the same day.

Tierra disguised himself as a snake-like figure resembling Voldemort and went from the Leaky Cauldron into Diagon Alley, where he reconsidered the Dark Lord’s past experiments and motives. He left suspecting Voldemort had used his uncle in Hydra Potion research, while distinguishing Voldemort’s self-serving ambition from Grindelwald’s cause.

• Tierra traveled through the Floo Network to the Leaky Cauldron, entered Diagon Alley, and headed toward Knockturn Alley.
• Tierra used Flesh Magic and the effects of the Hydra Potion to transform his appearance into a tall, snake-like figure resembling Voldemort.
• Tierra inferred that Voldemort had learned about the Hydra Potion from a Hyborian Tablet and had experimented to discover its formula.
• Tierra suspected Voldemort had framed his uncle, sent him to Azkaban, then secretly imprisoned him for early Hydra Potion experiments.
• Tierra concluded that Voldemort pursued immortality and power for himself, unlike Grindelwald, whose actions followed his creed of “For Greater Good.”

Tierra entered Knockturn Alley disguised as a Dark wizard and tracked nearby Death Eaters using a magical mark. He confronted Lucius Malfoy, cursed Draco, and left Lucius kneeling and declaring his loyalty.

• Tierra used the Dark Mark on his transformed diary to locate Death Eaters in Knockturn Alley.
• Tierra sent Raven to guide him through the alleys toward Lucius Malfoy and Draco Malfoy.
• Raven stole Lucius Malfoy's wand while Lucius clutched his burning Dark Mark.
• Tierra revealed himself to Lucius and used the Cruciatus Curse on Draco.
• Lucius knelt before Tierra, calling him his Master and claiming he had always been utterly loyal.

Tierra threatened Lucius Malfoy into procuring ninety-two rare materials and marked Draco as a Death Eater. After the Malfoys left, Tierra reunited with The Inheritor and examined the biographies of wizards it had devoured.

• Tierra accused Lucius Malfoy of betrayal, then rewarded his role in Tierra’s resurrection by branding Draco with the Dark Mark.
• Tierra ordered Lucius to obtain ninety-two potions and materials within a month and have Draco bring them to Hogwarts.
• Tierra frightened Lucius into promising that nothing on the list would be missing, and Lucius left carrying the unconscious Draco.
• Tierra retrieved his suitcase and Raven, then met The Inheritor, which had devoured two wizards and a witch in Knockturn Alley.
• Tierra used The Inheritor’s Fate Sharing ability to reveal biographies and secrets of the three people it had eaten.

Tierra read the biographies of three Dark wizards consumed by The Inheritor and understood why the Ministry had created the Muggle Protection Act. The Weasleys arrived at the Leaky Cauldron looking for Harry, and Ron, George, and Fred greeted Tierra.

• Tierra read about Ailiya Daosite, Cohen Bornte, and Claude Cliss, whose exploitation of Muggles had ended when The Inheritor devoured them.
• Tierra realized the Muggle Protection Act helped the Ministry respond to threats against Muggles and to uncertainty about whether suspected offenders were Dark wizards.
• Tierra checked the time and waited for Hagrid, who planned to visit Knockturn Alley before meeting him.
• A red-haired boy arrived through the Floo Network, but Molly Weasley followed and called out for Harry.
• George Weasley and Fred Weasley greeted Tierra, while Ron Weasley hurried over to ask whether he had seen Harry.

Tierra helped the Weasleys search Diagon Alley for Harry and reunited with him and Hermione after Hagrid brought them back from Knockturn Alley. He tried to stop Hagrid from leaving, but Hagrid escaped, and Molly decided Tierra would stay with the Weasleys.

• Arthur Weasley enthusiastically questioned Tierra about Muggle inventions until Molly interrupted them and asked Tierra to help find Harry.
• Tierra sent Raven toward Knockturn Alley and learned that Harry had encountered Hagrid after being delayed at Borgin and Burkes.
• Hagrid brought Harry and Hermione to Diagon Alley, where Tierra greeted them but kept his distance from Hermione.
• Tierra sensed Dobby nearby and tried to keep Hagrid from leaving for Magus Insects.
• Hagrid hurried away, and Molly Weasley decided Tierra would stay at the Weasley home.