Chapter Summaries

Nelson traveled with Pythia through a mirror-filled vision of alternate versions of himself, where she warned him that her mission was unfinished and that he must be careful. Tom arrived at the newly opened Hidden Place, became separated from Nelson in the crowds, and explored the Wizarding World Expo grounds before Nelson caught up with him.

• Nelson took Pythia's hand and was pulled through a darkness filled with mirrors showing alternate versions of his life.
• Pythia told Nelson that she could see his future because he had returned from it, warned him to be careful, and was interrupted by a voice telling her to get lost.
• Tom searched the crowded Hidden Place for Nelson, then flew toward the Expo Park after failing to find him.
• Tom received a silver badge from a Mayfly and explored the Expo Park, admiring the country pavilions and discovering that Britain's pavilion lay inside a Union Jack flag.
• Nelson appeared beside Tom, apologized for being delayed, and asked whether the Expo was impressive.

Credence wrote Nelson a letter about his past, his love for Nagini, and his hope that she could be saved, then set out with her to seek a gift from a Potter merchant. In the Hidden Place, Nelson showed Tom the Expo Park and opened a concealed passage into the Muggle pavilion, where a guard ran into the wall after the door vanished.

• Credence wrote that he had known the Obscurial’s identity, loved Nagini, and hoped Nelson’s magic could save her; he asked Nelson not to give up on her if he failed.
• Nagini found Credence writing in their Paris hotel, and they discussed his notes on Sakes’s magic and the gift he planned to find for her.
• Credence identified a Potter family merchant on a newspaper and took Nagini out to find the treasure he wanted to give her.
• Nelson toured Tom around the Hidden Place’s Expo Park and showed him how the Black Tower concealed the Muggle Expo Pavilion in Paris.
• Nelson used his Wand as a key to open a door between the pavilions, then shut it as a uniformed man charged through, leaving the man to crash into the wall.

Credence secretly sabotaged a speeding carriage and used the resulting chaos to confront the wizards following it while Nagini went to buy pastries. After disabling several pursuers and seizing a bag of gold, he reached the stranded carriage in severe pain, where two people remained inside.

• Credence counted the hidden pursuers and sent Nagini to buy eclairs before making the carriage crash by disrupting its horses and driver.
• A gold-filled bag fell from the carriage, and Credence took it back from a man who had tried to claim it.
• An Auror chased a conspicuous tourist while Credence attacked a witch carrying a silver communication ball and crushed the device.
• Credence spotted someone behind a window, then endured worsening pain as he faced the remaining pursuers.
• Credence let an Auror's Disarming Charm strike him, seized the Auror with a black hand, and knocked him unconscious.
• Credence counted the two people still inside the carriage and walked toward it with the money bag.

Credence robbed Mr. Potter for the Invisibility Cloak, though Mr. Potter recognized him from a previous robbery and insisted he take the hidden box. Credence escaped the arriving Aurors and reunited with Nagini, leaving the chaotic scene behind them.

• Credence climbed into the damaged carriage, admitted he was robbing Mr. Potter, and took the money pouch and wooden box containing the Invisibility Cloak.
• Mr. Potter recognized Credence as the robber from years earlier and angrily complained that Credence had returned the cloak before, then pushed the box into his arms.
• Credence left money for the coachman's medical expenses and carriage repairs, checked the injured coachman, and headed toward Nagini.
• Credence feigned concern to approach the Aurors, then knocked them unconscious with the Obscurus and fled.
• Nagini collided with Credence as she returned with cream puffs, and they left together after she saw the wreckage and asked what had happened.

As Nelson oversaw preparations for the Wizarding World Expo in Paris, Muggles and wizards gathered around a French excavator and came to embrace its peaceful uses. The Expo opened beneath dark clouds, and the French minister welcomed visitors to tomorrow.

• Nelson directed the Expo venue’s renovations while Tom watched him revel in his authority as a client.
• Nelson learned that the first British exhibitor had been robbed, then took Tom to investigate and secretly used magic to repair a Muggle excavator at the Expo entrance.
• The excavator transformed a ruined site into a park, changing public opinion; on Friday, Dorian Weasley and a former Allied tankman apologized and tried the machine.
• Wizards from around the world arrived in Paris, and the French Ministry improved traffic and security as Muggles and wizards mingled across the city.
• On Saturday, the Expo gates opened, Mayflies welcomed the visitors, and the French minister greeted the crowd with “Welcome to tomorrow.”

Nelson opened the World's Fair with a magical display that cleared the storm clouds, while visitors explored the exhibits and the minister celebrated a flood of orders. Gioconda sent Jin into the Muggle fair with a ticket, hoping Nelson would see his daughter, and was approached by a smiling stranger as sunlight reached the tower.

• Nelson used his Wand to gather his stars and open a vast vortex in the clouds above the crowd.
• Tina and Newt entered the China Pavilion and explored its Spirit Wall exhibition among the Heavenly Palace buildings.
• The minister learned that orders had topped a thousand in the park's first thirty minutes and celebrated the fair's success.
• Gioconda gave Jin a movie ticket and told him to watch the film, hoping Nelson would see his daughter.
• A smiling stranger approached Gioconda and invited her to watch the movie with him as the clouds parted and the tower's rainbow halo began to shine.

Dumbledore confronted Grindelwald at the Paris Expo, while Nelson summoned a storm that brought rain to the city and stirred an elderly woman’s memories of a similar downpour years earlier. As the rain fell, a film began introducing Auschwitz in 1939.

• Dumbledore found Grindelwald in the Hungarian pavilion and questioned him about the gathering Nelson Wiltning had organized.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore shared memories as sunlight fell through the pavilion’s skylight, while the mint-like scent grew stronger.
• Nelson raised his wand and summoned a Silver Falcon into the sky, declaring that it was time for rain in Paris.
• A thunderstorm broke over Expo Park, and an elderly woman recognized the rain as like the downpour she remembered from years before.
• Newt and Tina explored the China Pavilion, where Newt identified a mint-like scent and Tina took away his snowman picture book.
• A film projector started, and a narrator began a story set in 1939 near Kraków, introducing Auschwitz.

A film showed Lieutenant Colonel Franz overseeing the brutal treatment of prisoners, while Nelson’s rain brought buried wartime memories back to Parisians in Expo Park. Tom chose to help Nelson continue, and the chapter ended with a blond-haired figure mocking the unfolding events as the screen went dark.

• The film depicted Lieutenant Colonel Franz welcoming new prisoners and watching soldiers bayonet people trapped beneath truck tarpaulins.
• Rain at Expo Park triggered memories of a devastating fire in Parisians, including an old woman and her grandson-in-law.
• Tom questioned Nelson’s decision to restore the memories, but Nelson insisted people deserved the right to choose and accepted that they might hate him.
• Tom and Nelson raised their Wands in the storm as the memories resurfaced and unrest spread through Expo Park.
• A figure atop The Hub watched Auschwitz on the screen, then mocked the game before the image plunged into darkness.

Nelson challenged Dumbledore’s insistence on waiting and fought alongside Tom to prove his resolve, while Grindelwald agreed to test their strength. The chapter left Nelson and Dumbledore facing off as Tom battled Grindelwald, then shifted to Franz overseeing the brutal killing of prisoners at a camp.

• Nelson confronted Dumbledore over his caution and his past choices, arguing that he could no longer wait to act.
• Tom attacked Dumbledore’s rain barrier while Nelson struck its weak points, but Grindelwald arrived and repaired it.
• Grindelwald accepted a test of strength, and Tom fought him as Nelson prepared to face Dumbledore.
• Nelson and Dumbledore began a transfiguration duel while Tom and Grindelwald continued fighting; Nelson used water and a transformed wand to resist Grindelwald.
• Franz watched soldiers stab prisoners beneath truck tarpaulins and dismissed their usefulness as they were bound for a camp near Kraków.

Dorian Weasley discovered that Paris had been infiltrated by demons again after using Legilimency to witness the engineer’s memories of the catastrophe seventeen years earlier. As a black creature broke through the sky, Nelson outmaneuvered Grindelwald with a trap and stabbed him, but their duel continued with Nelson exhausted and the Silver Falcon battling the Lethifold.

• Dorian found the injured engineer among the panicked tourists at the World's Fair, and the engineer warned him that demons had infiltrated Paris.
• Dorian used Legilimency on the engineer and saw his memories of the black monster that had devastated Paris seventeen years earlier.
• The sky shattered behind the colorful tower, and black gauze pushed through the cracks before a silver claw cut it apart and bloody rain erupted.
• Grindelwald trapped Nelson in a net of spells, but Nelson escaped in the form of a white cat and used fragments of his shattered warrior to prevent Grindelwald from Apparating.
• Nelson stabbed Grindelwald in the lower back with a transformed Pointer Sword as the Silver Falcon continued fighting the Lethifold.
• Nelson poured the last of his magic into the sword and forced its blade to rotate through Grindelwald's defenses.

Tom exploited Dumbledore’s concern for Grindelwald to force him to unleash and then contain an enormous water prison, while Nelson faced Grindelwald’s relentless attack. Nelson used the prison’s water to form a Tower Ship and ram, but the ship was pointed at the damaged barrier between Paris and the Hidden Place.

• Tom used Dumbledore’s distraction over Grindelwald to slip a curse onto Dumbledore, then provoked him into expanding a water prison beyond control.
• Dumbledore suppressed the curse with his Patronus and worked to contain the water prison while Tom argued that Dumbledore would not risk harming others.
• Nelson’s sword broke against Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre, and Grindelwald sent its remade tip after Nelson through Apparition.
• Nelson used a stream from Dumbledore’s water prison to transform the water into a Tower Ship and rammed Grindelwald’s pursuing blade.
• Dumbledore noticed that the Tower Ship’s ram was aimed at the battered barrier separating Paris from the Hidden Place.

Nelson used the Silver Falcon’s sacrificial charge to break open the barrier between the battlefield and the Hidden Place, pushing himself to the brink of death. As Dumbledore and Grindelwald confronted the breach, Alexander emerged through the Lost Mist and Tom caught Nelson, while Grindelwald chose to help widen the gap.

• A blond officer released exhausted prisoners to follow his falcon toward an armored regiment, while gunfire drove them onward.
• Nelson unleashed the Tower Ship and sent the Silver Falcon into the barrier, sacrificing his magic and badly injuring himself as the runes began to fail.
• Dumbledore attacked the Tower Ship and tried to protect Nelson, but Alexander emerged through the Lost Mist and tore open Dumbledore’s waterspout.
• Tom used the Amber necklace to reach Nelson and slow his fall, then supported him as they watched the falcon remain locked against the widening breach.
• Grindelwald appeared beside the Silver Falcon and tapped the gap with his Wand, overturning the stalemate as he called Nelson the maddest person he had ever met.

Ali led a group of prisoners across occupied Europe to safety, while the screening audience later learned that the blond officer had secretly enabled their escape. The Silver Falcon then broke through the barrier into another world, bringing the victims and the truth about the fire from seventeen years earlier to Paris.

• Ali and John argued over whether to trust the Silver Falcon, then Ali persuaded the bird to lead the prisoners west.
• The Silver Falcon guided Ali and the prisoners through enemy territory and across the Maginot Line to an Allied camp, where everyone reached safety.
• The film revealed that Ali served the blond officer, who had arranged for the prisoners to escape and said he was sharing magic’s favor.
• The Silver Falcon broke through the barrier as Grindelwald faced Dumbledore and the approaching Aurors, carrying the victims and the truth of the erased fire toward another world.
• The people of Paris remembered the great fire from seventeen years earlier, and a little boy stood up as the door on the screen opened.

After the film stirred painful memories and exposed the wizards’ hidden world to the audience, Jin discovered that his emotions could activate the silver device on his arm. As a magical flood broke through the barriers around Paris, Jin stopped it and stepped toward the world beyond the screening hall.

• Jin cried to Gioconda about his brother Ferdinand, his grandfather, and how others had called him a burden and a Muggle.
• Ivy recognized that Jin’s silver device used his emotions to trigger magic, while a Muggle official’s recovered memories confirmed that the wizards were real.
• Little Jack warned Martha not to calm the audience and prepared for danger as the screening hall grew tense.
• Aberforth and Dorian discovered that rain had undone the memory-erasing effects of the old Paris fire, then watched the barrier around the Hidden Place shatter beneath a flood carried by a Silver Falcon.
• Parisians remembered the disaster from seventeen years earlier, and the Muggle official recognized Nelson as the man who had stopped the demon.
• Gioconda encouraged Jin to use his silver device; Jin froze the flood and walked through the collapsed wall toward the people in the other world.

As Grindelwald faced the Aurors after breaking the Hidden Place’s barrier, Tom carried the gravely wounded Nelson toward the exit, refusing to let them stop him. Nelson’s allies gathered to protect them and confronted the Aurors, while Barry and Zweig watched before deciding it was their turn to appear.

• Grindelwald challenged the Aurors to arrest him, Dumbledore, Tom, and Nelson as the French Minister learned that the Hidden Place’s barrier had fallen.
• Tom tried to carry the unconscious Nelson out, but when an Auror blocked his way, Tom used magic to leave the Auror dazed and walked past the surrounding officers.
• Scarlett, Johnny, and Joseph intervened to protect Tom and Nelson, and Joseph snapped an Auror’s Wand, turning the standoff into open conflict.
• Ordinary-looking residents of the Hidden Place stepped out of the crowd to defend Nelson, and Penguin joined them after securing the film reels.
• Barry and Zweig watched the growing battle from the China Pavilion and recognized some of Nelson’s supporters as workers and outsiders; Zweig said it was time for them to join in.

A wizard attacked the Muggle audience, but Jin, Gioconda, Little Jack, and Nelson intervened before he could strike. The wizard fell through the ruined doorway and died, leaving both sides staring at his body.

• A Parisian shouted that the city belonged to its people, and a young wizard mocked him before firing a Disarming Charm into the ruins.
• Jin lost control of the rainwater above the crowd, but Gioconda redirected it and urged him to master his anger as the wizard turned on him.
• Little Jack fired his pistol, interrupting the wizard’s attack, while Martha restrained Little Jack’s wife from rushing forward.
• Nelson took Little Jack’s pistol and used simple magic to hold the wizard at bay, then shot the Black Wooden Door until it collapsed.
• The wizard staggered through the doorway, fell onto the muddy ground, and stopped breathing.

Little Jack and the Muggle spectators resisted French Aurors trying to erase their memories, while Gioconda and readers of The Quibbler rallied help. As Jin’s alchemical device awakened the Hidden Place’s towering walls, Nelson arrived at the Expo Park.

• A veteran rescued Little Jack from the aftermath of a wizard’s death and urged him to evacuate the spectators, while other resistance members shielded their escape.
• The Aurors confronted the Muggles, transformed Little Jack’s pistol, and demanded that Gioconda surrender Jin and his Wand.
• Gioconda defied the Aurors, escaped on her repaired broomstick, and carried spectators away as Martha used The Quibbler to call for help.
• Readers responded to Martha’s appeal, and masked wizards began leaving the Expo to intervene against the French Ministry.
• Jin’s alchemical device activated as the Hidden Place’s walls rose into enormous humanlike forms, and Nelson arrived on Tom’s back.

Nelson and his allies broke the Hidden Place’s barrier and revealed the magical city beneath Paris, while Wizards rescued Muggles and fought the French Aurors. Nelson, exhausted after extinguishing the great fire, stood above the city and declared that they would begin again from seventeen years ago.

• The Silver Falcon landed at Expo Park and shielded the Muggles as Mayflies marked the French Ministry Wizards with red targeting lights, forcing them to stop interfering with the evacuation.
• Johnny, Joseph, Penguin, and their allies fought the Aurors; Penguin used a photograph to identify their weaknesses, then joined Johnny in defeating them.
• Mayflies disarmed the Aurors pursuing Gioconda, allowing her to look back as two silver giants approached the Hidden Place’s barrier.
• The silver giants smashed through the barrier, and magical Paris appeared above the city as its people recovered from their terror.
• Nelson stood atop the highest building with his blond friend over his shoulder, looked over Paris, and said, “We start again from seventeen years ago, Paris.”

Grindelwald used the Lethifold to address the people of Paris and urged them to accept wizard rule, while Tom interrupted his speech with a spell. Tom then challenged Grindelwald’s claim that the Muggles needed a Patronus, as Nelson lay unconscious nearby.

• The French Minister for Magic panicked over the collapsed barrier, while Grindelwald and Dumbledore assessed the situation and Zweig’s Acolytes surrounded the Ministry wizards.
• Dumbledore walked toward Jin and left the Ministry to its futile response as the Lethifold began spreading across Paris.
• Grindelwald addressed the Muggles, stoking their fear and denouncing them before calling on them to kneel for the Greater Good.
• Tom tried to protect Nelson’s efforts, stepped out through the black passage, and fired a spell that interrupted Grindelwald.
• Tom set the unconscious Nelson on a chair and told Grindelwald that he was wrong to think the Muggles needed a Patronus.

Jin challenged Grindelwald with magic, but Zweig destroyed the device that let him use it. Tom arrived and used Nelson’s magic to save Jin, leaving the crowd to rally behind the idea that ordinary people could protect themselves.

• Jin cast a spell at Grindelwald, prompting the crowd and Acolytes to question how a Muggle could wield magic.
• Zweig apologized to Jin and fired a Disarming Charm at the device on his arm, shattering its silver shell as Dumbledore tried to intervene.
• Jin remained standing despite the attack, and the device’s magic triggered Missionary, slowing time around him.
• Tom emerged from the mist, steadied Jin, and used Nelson’s Black walnut wood Wand and a giant iron fist to destroy the frozen spell.
• Tom told Jin to believe in himself and said Nelson had chosen him because he was one of the common people; more people gathered behind Tom and declared, “We are the same.”