Chapter Summaries

Nelson attended a staged Triwizard Tournament prize ceremony hosted by Minister Leach, where Penguin secretly approached him and revealed how he had used the protests to expose magic to Muggles. Nelson recognized that Penguin had become dangerously powerful and sent him to wait at a former pet shop in Diagon Alley.

• Leach welcomed Nelson and Tom into his office and staged a lavishly photographed prize ceremony for the Triwizard Tournament.
• Penguin secretly spoke to Nelson while the others could not perceive their conversation, explaining that his Antarctic research had made him powerful.
• Penguin said he had provoked a battle at the Leaky Cauldron during the protests, leaving more than a thousand Muggles in London aware of magic.
• Penguin revealed that he had used one of Nelson's hairs to help further his plan, and Nelson ordered him to wait at a former pet shop in Diagon Alley.

Nelson and Tom left the Ministry and went to Nelson’s hidden shop, where they confronted Penguin about his actions in London. Nelson explained that he had sent Penguin to Antarctica to protect him, and the chapter ended with Penguin recognizing that he had overstepped Nelson’s principles, while Nelson offered him another chance.

• Nelson and Tom left the Ministry of Magic and walked through Diagon Alley, where Nelson restrained the Flourish and Blotts shopkeeper’s attacking books.
• Nelson entered the abandoned pet shop, where sixteen Mayflies had trapped Penguin and were injuring him with red beams.
• Nelson questioned Penguin and learned that Penguin had returned from Antarctica because Grindelwald told him Nelson needed help.
• Penguin admitted that he had interfered with Nelson’s plans and made decisions for him, violating the right to choose that Nelson had taught.
• Nelson told Penguin that he could have done better but that it was not too late to make amends.

Nelson gave Penguin a Desire Camera and encouraged him to pursue his own ambitions, prompting him to plan a newspaper that would oppose the Ministry’s biased coverage. After Nelson and Tom discovered three long-imprisoned thieves in the shop’s basement and cleaned them up, Dumbledore arrived at the door.

• Nelson gave Penguin a camera that revealed his desire and told him to act on his own, so Penguin decided to found a newspaper.
• Tom brought the shop’s captured intruders upstairs, and Nelson accidentally struck one with an Impediment Jinx when the prisoners’ stench overwhelmed him.
• Nelson and Tom learned the three thieves had been held in the basement after the shop’s defenses caught them, and they checked that all three were alive.
• Nelson and Tom washed the thieves in the basement, where the youngest prisoner said he was an adventure novelist, not a thief.
• Dumbledore knocked at the front door and called out to Tom.

On Mid-Autumn Festival, Melgan, Nelson, Snape, Cedric, Cho, and others shared moonlit moments and reflected on home, family, and the moon. The chapter ended with Professor Williams talking with Tom about mooncakes before catching the Weasley twins admiring the moon and assigning them more detention.

• Melgan comforted Elizabeth as they watched the moon and talked about missing home, then he accidentally offended her by saying he liked the moon.
• Nelson and Tom discussed family and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Nelson promised to make Tom a mooncake with little tomato filling.
• Young Snape and Lily talked about Hogwarts and the moon, while Lily called to Petunia, who refused to join them.
• Cedric gave Cho a rabbit and a kiss, and Cho invited him to spend Mid-Autumn Festival with her family as the Golden Egg's shriek and Dumbledore's magic turned the Great Hall into a celebration.
• Professor Williams discussed the moon and mooncakes with Tom, then confronted George and Fred Weasley in the corridor and gave them another week of detention.

Tom and Nelson discovered that their Vanishing Cabinet had flooded part of Hogwarts, and Dumbledore arrived to stop them and assign detention. As they repaired the shop, Tom told Dumbledore about Nelson’s recorded prophecy, leaving Dumbledore to react to its significance.

• Dumbledore forced his way into Tom’s shop, where he found Tom and Nelson with three thieves and learned that sewage from the Vanishing Cabinet had flooded two floors of Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore showed Tom and Nelson the damage, including Peeves throwing confiscated contraband, and Tom agreed to pay for the destruction.
• Dumbledore assigned Tom and Nelson nightly detention in Minerva’s office for the rest of the term and took Mundungus with him, while another thief’s attempt to seize him failed.
• Nelson freed the thieves, and Tom, Nelson, and Dumbledore repaired and cleaned the shop as Dumbledore offered to teach Nelson the Fidelius Charm.
• Tom told Dumbledore that Nelson had made a prophecy recorded by a Prophecy Orb, and Dumbledore called it extraordinary before recommending Scourgify for cleaning the shelves.

Dumbledore repaired Tom’s shop and hurried with Nelson and Tom to rescue McGonagall from masked Wizards attacking her and the Muggles she protected. The three joined the fight, and Dumbledore swiftly bound the remaining attackers.

• Dumbledore accidentally flooded Tom’s shop, then used magic to replace its wallpaper and brighten it with Fawkes.
• After learning that McGonagall was in trouble, Nelson used Side-Along Apparition to take himself, Tom, and Dumbledore to her location.
• They found McGonagall defending unconscious Muggles and three wounded Wizards from a group of masked attackers.
• Tom and Nelson joined the battle, while Dumbledore reinforced the barrier protecting the Muggles.
• McGonagall collapsed from exhaustion and was carried behind the barrier as Dumbledore confronted the attackers.
• Dumbledore used the heather to bind the eight remaining masked Wizards before they could cast spells.

Dumbledore confronted Obier and the other masked attackers, while Nelson and Tom discussed Nelson’s visions and his fear that Tom would become a Dark Lord. The two returned to Hogwarts, where they saw the bandaged Ludwig Kant preparing to leave.

• Dumbledore rejected Obier’s plea for another chance and condemned him and the other attackers for their actions against Nobby.
• Tom and Nelson walked back from Hogsmeade and Tom challenged Nelson to explain why he built his iron machine and what danger he feared.
• Nelson admitted that his visions showed Tom becoming a Dark Lord, and Tom said he might become one if fate condemned the people he cared about.
• Tom and Nelson agreed that their choices could change the future, and Tom said he would not become a Dark Lord without reason.
• Nelson and Tom saw the bandaged Ludwig Kant beside Sigmund, and Ludwig said he was leaving Hogwarts.

After the exams, Professor Binns told Nelson that Herpo the Foul’s remaining Horcruxes were stirring and asked him to help find them. Nelson and Tom planned to hunt down the two Horcruxes hidden in Limbo, while their holiday plans remained ahead.

• Nelson finished his History of Magic exam early and talked with Professor Binns, who advised him to focus on the present.
• Professor Binns revealed that twelve of Herpo the Foul’s Horcruxes were stirring worldwide and that two were hidden in Limbo, then promised to send Nelson their addresses.
• Nelson and Tom joked with Alphard after he predicted that the unmarried Mrs. Climance would receive a dress from her husband.
• Nelson showed Tom a deteriorated Horcrux and told him they could hunt down Herpo’s two remaining soul fragments during the holiday.
• Tom asked when their train was and said he was ready to leave, but Nelson reminded him that they still had an exam the next day.
• Professor Slughorn greeted Nelson and Tom after coming out of McGonagall’s office, and Nelson began to speak before Slughorn said he already knew.

Hogwarts celebrated Slytherin winning the House Cup after students from the other Houses helped them recover points, and Dumbledore appointed McGonagall as Gryffindor Head. As the students left for the holidays, Nelson planned to buy Christian a birthday present and Walburga offered her a place to practise magic.

• Dumbledore announced Slytherin as the House Cup winner, prompting a jubilant celebration and Alphard to boast about his record-breaking point losses.
• Tom thanked the students who had helped Slytherin, while Nelson celebrated with him and Dumbledore praised the unity among the Houses.
• Dumbledore defended the students’ cooperation to McGonagall and gave her an appointment letter naming her Head of Gryffindor.
• Slughorn asked about visiting students over the holidays, and Peeves delivered Nelson a message from Binns.
• On the Hogwarts Express, Nelson told Christian he would buy her a birthday present, and Walburga offered to let her practise magic at her home.

Tom and Nelson arrived in Boston and headed for a bar where someone was supposed to meet them, while discussing the Second Salemers and the Horcrux hidden in Salem. The chapter left them entering the deserted bar and calling for its owner.

• Tom and Nelson disembarked in Boston and discussed the Ministry’s scant intelligence about Salem and the Second Salemers.
• Nelson told Tom that the former alchemy shop owner was a Second Salemers cadre whose unusual ability might be connected to Herpo the Foul.
• Tom and Nelson discussed the threat posed by Daguerre and the possibility that Herpo the Foul’s Horcrux could empower him.
• Nelson revealed he might appear on a Chocolate Frog card, and Tom decided he wanted to gain fame by confronting the Horcrux.
• Tom and Nelson hired a carriage to the bar marked on Nelson’s map, vanished before the coachman opened the carriage, and entered the deserted bar.

Nelson and Tom met Troka, who gave them coins pointing toward Salem and revealed that Second Salem had captured him as a child. As they flew toward the settlement, Nelson and Tom suspected MACUSA was entangled with the group, then came under attack from five Wizards flying out of the clouds.

• Nelson and Tom met Troka, a legless vampire who said Second Salem had captured him as a child and asked them to help him take revenge.
• Troka gave Nelson and Tom two copper coins that joined together to point toward Salem.
• Nelson and Tom suspected MACUSA had knowingly allowed Second Salem to operate, and the joined coin led them northeast from Boston.
• Nelson and Tom flew toward Salem using a silver skateboard and a broom, while Nelson concealed them from behind with a modified Disillusionment Charm.
• A Wizard attacked Nelson and Tom from the clouds, and Nelson used his Mayflies to summon lightning and rain.
• Five drenched Wizards on brooms emerged from the clouds and surrounded Nelson and Tom.

Nelson and Tom confronted a MACUSA Auror squad that tried to block their route to the Second Salemers, defeating most of the team and letting Guy escape under surveillance. They planned to follow Guy toward Salem to uncover the Aurors’ connection to the Second Salemers.

• Guy demanded that Nelson and Tom surrender their wands, but they challenged the Aurors’ identities and refused.
• Tom cut a Auror’s broom in half, sending him into the clouds, while Nelson questioned Guy about the Second Salemers and MACUSA’s involvement.
• Nelson and Tom outmaneuvered the Aurors’ aerial tactics, captured three of them with Mayflies, and restrained Guy.
• Guy escaped toward Salem, unaware that Nelson had placed him under a Slow-motion Curse and sent Mayflies to follow him.
• Nelson and Tom discussed the captured Aurors’ intelligence and decided to follow Guy to learn more about the Second Salemers.

Nelson and Tom pursued Guy to a concealed Second Salem base, where they exposed his rat form and entered the hidden settlement. Inside, they discovered MACUSA-linked researchers were experimenting on people to create Dementors, leaving them facing a dangerous cleanup.

• Nelson and Tom followed Guy through a storm after using a Dementor to weaken him and keep him fleeing toward the base.
• Nelson uncovered a newly updated magical barrier and confirmed the hidden base was connected to MACUSA and established after Herpo the Foul's Horcrux magic leaked into reality.
• Guy crashed outside the concealed entrance and transformed into a rat, while Nelson captured him and Tom subdued the witch who came out to meet him.
• Nelson disabled the witch's communication device and entered the hidden settlement with Tom, where they found wizards chaining people whose bodies radiated dark energy.
• Tom asked what the researchers were doing, and Nelson identified the scene as an attempt to create Dementors and warned that dealing with it would take effort.

Nelson and Tom attacked the Second Salemers’ base to stop the researchers from exploiting Herpo the Foul’s magic and free the contaminated captives. Tom fought the Aurors while Nelson began moving the victims, and Daguerre set out to confront the Second Salemers’ past.

• Tom remembered Slytherin’s warning that using Peeves’s accumulated magic could affect Nelson’s personality and soul, then grabbed Nelson’s hand and forced some of the magic back into its cracked container.
• Tom used a Disarming Charm to take down the researchers near the entrance and asked Nelson to bind the enemies he defeated.
• Nelson sent Mayflies to destroy the barrier’s key nodes, bringing down the magical dome above the Second Salemers’ base.
• Old Troka watched the warning firework from Boston as Daguerre thanked him for passing on the gift and disappeared, intending to settle the Second Salemers’ sins.
• Tom swiftly incapacitated every researcher in the base while Nelson scattered the Aurors’ formation with a pillar of lightning.
• Nelson went to move the contaminated people and asked Tom to hold off the Aurors, while Tom faced the gathered wizards and joked about becoming a Chocolate Frog card figure.

Nelson and Tom defeated the Aurors at the Second Salemers’ base while Nelson tried to save the Muggles and young Wizards being turned into Dementors. After Nelson returned exhausted, Tina and reinforcements confronted them, but Tom and Nelson escaped to a rooftop beneath a conjured Deathly Hallows symbol.

• Nelson’s lightning scattered the Aurors, while Tom used the Lost Mist to ambush them and learned through Legilimency that MACUSA knowingly used the Second Salemers for its schemes.
• Tom turned increasingly violent as he fought the Aurors, while Nelson destroyed a newborn Dementor that emerged from a dead man.
• Nelson entered the liminal environment, rescued Adele from becoming a Dementor, and worked to save the other victims while Tom fought outside.
• Tom defeated the Aurors but counted only forty-five survivors among the people brought to the little house; Nelson returned from the mist and said five people had been lost there forever.
• Tina arrived with more Aurors, but Tom blocked their first volley and apparated with Nelson to a nearby roof, where a giant Deathly Hallows symbol appeared in the sky.

Nelson and Tom held out against MACUSA’s Aurors until Abernathy, Andre, the Obscurus, and a growing host of Acolytes arrived in response to the Deathly Hallows mark. The battle erupted at the Second Salemers’ encampment, where the Aurors’ ranks fractured and black rain began falling beneath the mark.

• A young Auror knocked the Black Mask from Nelson’s face and triggered attacks, but Aurors who had secretly sided with Nelson stopped the first spells.
• Abernathy arrived, shielded Nelson and Tom, and summoned Acolytes while Tina ordered the Aurors to attack.
• Andre joined the defense, and the Obscurus appeared briefly to devour incoming spells and scatter the Aurors.
• Acolytes arrived in growing numbers, surrounded the Aurors, and launched into battle after a spell sparked the first exchange.
• Some Aurors Disapparated while Tina and a small group continued fighting, and black rain fell as the Deathly Hallows mark began to descend.

Grindelwald arrived to stop the Aurors from attacking Nelson and let Nelson confront them over MACUSA’s abuse of the Second Salemers. Tina discovered the tortured victims and disappeared to act, while Grindelwald’s followers tended the wounded and prepared for MACUSA’s arrival.

• Grindelwald froze and erased the Aurors’ spells, then confronted them and told Tina that Nelson deserved a chance to speak.
• Grindelwald let Nelson take the lead, and Nelson directed Tina to the house where MACUSA had been creating Dementors through torture.
• Tina saw the injured victims, thanked Nelson, and vanished; Grindelwald stopped the Acolytes from pursuing her.
• Zweig arrived and Grindelwald ordered him to treat the people Nelson had rescued before they died.
• Grindelwald told Abernathy that Nelson had earned the respect and support of the wizards who fought for him.

In 1991, Harry Potter visited Kraków with his parents and their friends, where they encountered relics of the War of the Relics and learned hints of Nelson’s attempt to share magic with Muggles. Tom Riddle remained in exile beside a Steam Giant, while a buried gift left by Nelson began to awaken and a mysterious broadcast announced his return.

• Sirius, James, Lily, Lupin, and Peter took young Harry to Kraków and discussed the Dark Lord and the strange Steam Giants there.
• Tom Riddle watched Harry from a giant’s shoulder and reflected on Nelson, the forgotten history, and the people who had betrayed him.
• The group saw a silver mountain made from melted objects and heard Lupin’s account of a device that let Muggles use magic.
• Tom rejected Christian’s plea to return home, split a mountaintop with his cane, and sent her by Apparition to the Ministry of Magic.
• Christian recalled how Nelson’s Missionary had spread magic to Muggles, how they failed to join his cause, and how Nelson vanished during the war.
• Tom left with the giant as metal clanged beneath Kraków, and the radio broadcast warned that Nelson was returning.

Nelson and the Acolytes treated survivors of MACUSA’s violence while Nelson struggled with the deaths, including an elderly Muggle. When Seraphina Picquery arrived to negotiate, Nelson confronted her over MACUSA’s responsibility, and Penguin captured a photograph that could expose the gathering.

• Zweig treated the injured girl and reassured Nelson that he had done all he could.
• Tom and the Acolytes helped establish a temporary hospital, while Grindelwald told Nelson to keep the Elder Wand.
• Nelson learned that an elderly Muggle named Leonard had died after suffering under Herpo the Foul’s influence.
• Seraphina Picquery arrived with MACUSA wizards, and Nelson accused Grant Pierce of injuring Leonard and condemned MACUSA’s delay.
• Picquery offered to take responsibility and negotiate terms, but Nelson rejected her response as Penguin photographed the assembled wizards.

A Quibbler exposé revealed MACUSA’s horrific experiments in Salem, prompting an international confrontation with President Jackson. At the ruined base, Nelson demanded that MACUSA pay for the 1,360 people who died, while offering to accept responsibility for the injured Aurors in return.

• The Quibbler reported that MACUSA had captured Muggles and underage wizards for experiments involving Herpo the Foul’s artifact, and identified Nelson Wiltning and Tom Riddle as the students who exposed the operation.
• President Jackson confronted the senators over the newspaper’s rapid arrival and learned that Nurmengard’s technology had delivered it worldwide.
• International Confederation representatives and Dumbledore arrived to challenge Jackson, while McGonagall reported that only thirty-two of the forty-five people Nelson saved remained alive.
• Jackson blamed Grindelwald and considered destroying evidence, but an Auror reported that Tina and a wanted criminal had raided the Department of Confidentiality.
• Nelson told Picquery that 1,360 people had died because of MACUSA’s greed and offered to accept responsibility for the injured Aurors if MACUSA paid an equal price for the dead.