Chapter Summaries

Martha entered the Leaky Cauldron and accepted the challenge to drink its notorious 250-year-old Uric Gamp Vintage Social Wine. She finished the glass, won a bottle filled with Galleons, and was celebrated by the pub as Nelson welcomed her to the real London.

• Martha entered the Leaky Cauldron and found its ordinary, rowdy pub atmosphere unlike the magical world she had imagined.
• Bartender Tom persuaded Martha to try the Uric Gamp Vintage Social Wine, while an old witch and the drinkers urged her on.
• Martha drank the entire glass and experienced its overwhelming, complex flavors as a taste of magic and history.
• Nelson and Tom came in to find the pub roaring with celebration, and Nelson recognized that Martha had finished the legendary wine.
• Bartender Tom presented Martha with a bottle full of Galleons, and a Daily Prophet reporter photographed the victory and said the old advertisement could come down.

After Martha won a hundred Galleons by drinking Gamp's Aged Social Wine, Nelson and Tom brought her through the Leaky Cauldron's hidden entrance into Diagon Alley. While Nelson helped her shop for clothes, Umbridge arrived and recognized him as a powerful figure.

• Martha reflected on how Muggles and wizards faced different opportunities, and Tom reassured her that she would soon earn Galleons from wizards.
• Nelson opened the hidden passage from the Leaky Cauldron, and Martha entered Diagon Alley for the first time.
• Tom explained that Gamp's Aged Social Wine stirred memories through magic, but Martha could drink it without experiencing that effect because she had no magic.
• Nelson stored Martha's Galleons in a Small Silver Ball and warned off suspicious onlookers as they headed to a clothing shop.
• Umbridge entered the shop, greeted Martha, and then recognized Nelson as Williams, a powerful Slytherin student.

Tom visited the imprisoned Fritz Harriman, whose isolation had nearly driven him mad, and let him mistake Tom for Alphard Black. Harriman’s attempt to curse Tom backfired, leaving him begging for death while Tom insisted he still wanted to live.

• Tom entered the magically sealed cell and revealed that Harriman’s apparent prison had been designed to make escape attempts fail.
• Harriman regained his composure and tried to bargain with Tom, then wrongly concluded that Tom was a Slytherin seeking dark magic.
• Harriman guessed that Tom was Alphard Black and offered to teach him dark magic, so Tom confirmed the false identity and tossed him his Wand.
• Harriman cast the Cruciatus Curse at Tom, but the spell rebounded and overwhelmed Harriman with pain.
• Tom mocked Harriman’s failed deductions and reminded him that his daily appetite showed he still wanted to live.

Tom interrogated Harriman with Legilimency, uncovering his history and plans before using ancient magic to alter him. The experience made Tom recognize how Dark Magic was changing his own mentality, and he ended by asking the Small Silver Ball where someone was.

• Tom read Harriman's memories, discovering that he was the Hanover Vampire and had been involved in murders, political schemes, and a plan connected to Nurmengard.
• Tom uncovered Harriman's childhood abuse and forced him to relive the humiliation that had shaped his life.
• Tom used a green snake of magic to enter Harriman's eye, then recoiled when he realized he had enjoyed breaking Harriman down.
• Tom recalled his vision of himself using the Obscurus to create the name Voldemort and recognized that Dark Magic was tempting him toward that path.
• Tom transformed Harriman and ordered him to reclaim what was his and destroy the people scheming under cover of Nal's dream.
• Tom ate a Chocolate Frog, reflected on Dark Magic's effect on his mind, and asked the Small Silver Ball, "Where are you?"

Nelson and Tom discussed Umbridge’s talent for building connections and Tom’s plan to use her to advance their interests in the Ministry. In Berlin, Harriman confronted the man calling himself Reborn and questioned which of them was who.

• Nelson stepped outside the boutique to call Tom, who arrived and identified Fritz Harriman as the murderer Jonas had once described.
• Tom explained how Umbridge had cultivated wealthy students, fabricated a connection to the Selwyn family, and advanced within the Ministry.
• Tom said he had placed a soul inside Fritz Harriman and intended to give Umbridge an opportunity to speak for their interests.
• Tom argued that people who pursued power valued power itself, while Nelson struggled with a rancid Chocolate Frog.
• In Berlin, Harriman faced the man calling himself Reborn and asked who he was if the other man was Reborn.

Dumbledore took Nelson to ruined Berlin and told him a looping fairy tale about a prophet named Nelson Williams who repeatedly sent letters to his past self to change history. He warned Nelson not to become trapped by regret and time, then revealed that the International Confederation of Wizards had let Prussia fall into ruin; the chapter ended with Dumbledore saying many people wanted to test whether Nelson’s promises were feasible.

• Tom offered Nelson a Chocolate Frog, but Nelson declined and stayed outside while Tom went into the clothing shop.
• Dumbledore found Nelson, discussed Martha drinking Gamp's Aged Social Wine, and invited him to Berlin with Mr. Kant.
• Dumbledore and Nelson walked through Berlin’s war-scarred streets, where Dumbledore questioned what kind of order the people needed.
• Dumbledore told Nelson a fairy tale about one prophet who repeatedly sent letters to his past self, and Nelson recognized the story’s connection to himself and the box.
• Dumbledore warned Nelson against being imprisoned by regret and revealed that the International Confederation of Wizards had chosen to let Prussia suffer; he said people wanted to assess Nelson’s promises.

Barry confronted Harriman in Berlin, then collapsed when Zweig treated his damaged body while Andre revealed they had been keeping Nelson away from him. Meanwhile, Tom charmed Umbridge at Martha’s fashion boutique, and Dumbledore and Nelson discussed new Chocolate Frog cards.

• Barry questioned Harriman, who insisted Barry was not Reborn and said their mission mattered more than who occupied the Scoundrel Gang leader’s role.
• Harriman recognized the arriving Andre and Zweig, abandoned his gang-leader identity, and left while claiming he was Fritz Harriman, their faithful Hyena.
• Zweig stunned Barry and examined his injuries as he and Andre discussed Barry’s poor fit with his borrowed body, his Obscurus, and the need to keep him away from Nelson.
• Barry realized Nelson had not been avoiding him by choice, but Zweig’s spell left him unable to ask what Andre and Zweig were hiding.
• Dumbledore told Nelson that he and Tom would appear on new Chocolate Frog cards, and Nelson agreed to sit for portraits.
• At Savina Fashion Boutique, Tom charmed Umbridge with talk of profit and power while Martha watched in surprise.

Tom posed for a magical portrait depicting his confrontation with MACUSA wizards, while Dumbledore explained to Wallace why details about the Second Salem remained sensitive. After the portrait was completed, Tom and Nelson joked about their Chocolate Frog cards and competed over how many copies should be printed.

• Tom posed in an elaborate black robe as a magical portrait formed a scene of MACUSA wizards surrounding him.
• Slughorn described the Second Salem to Wallace, but McGonagall and Flitwick interrupted him before he revealed too much.
• Dumbledore explained that the wizarding world planned to introduce itself to Muggles through Chocolate Frog products and cautioned against publicizing sensitive history.
• A painter provoked Tom, captured his defiant pose in a portrait, and packed the finished painting away.
• Nelson teased Tom about his Chocolate Frog card, and they asked Abbott's representative to print more cards of Tom than of Nelson.

A London couple discovered that the wizarding world was real when a Chocolate Frog escaped, while their young son befriended a blind, abandoned boy. Jack took the blind child to the police station after telling him that the wizard Nelson Wiltening Williams had once lived at Mrs. Cole’s orphanage.

• A woman persuaded her skeptical husband to visit the new wizard shop after work, and the couple collected their son before crossing the street.
• Jack found the blind boy hiding in an alley near King’s Cross and tried to convince him that his parents were not coming back and that he needed a new home.
• The couple’s son gave the blind boy a Chocolate Frog, which sprang away, and the boy shared the card bearing Nelson Wiltening Williams’s name.
• Jack confirmed that magic was real and told the blind boy that Williams had been raised by Mrs. Cole; the child then agreed to go with Jack.
• The family escorted the blind boy to the police station, where the two children parted as friends, and the chubby boy complained about getting another old wizard card.

Jack brought a blind, abandoned boy to West City Orphanage, where the boy heard about Nelson Williams and caused a flood of Chocolate Frogs to burst from his pocket. Meanwhile, Nelson accidentally swallowed an entire bottle of Tom’s spicy cold remedy and erupted into a coughing fit in the library.

• Mrs. Cole welcomed the blind boy to the orphanage, and Jack explained why he had brought him there and praised Nelson Williams’s past deeds.
• Jack and Mrs. Cole went to help three French-speaking visitors at the gate, leaving the blind boy with Mrs. Cole’s assistant.
• The blind boy asked about Nelson after overhearing Jack and Mrs. Cole, and the assistant found Nelson’s file while searching for his name.
• Chocolate Frogs poured from the blind boy’s pocket and filled the office, prompting the assistant to scream.
• Nelson sneezed in the library, drank Tom’s entire bottle of spicy remedy, and began coughing as heat blazed through him.

Nelson recovered from the strange bubble-spitting effects of Miss Joy’s treatment as the school year neared its end. He and Tom discussed their uncertain futures and Nelson’s plans to act on his beliefs, then joined Professor Rahman to see the nearly completed first edition of his encyclopedia.

• Miss Joy treated Nelson for his lingering symptoms, while Hagrid helped restrain him and a large bubble emerged from his mouth.
• Nelson and Tom discussed their upcoming N.E.W.T.s, Tom’s hopes of teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Nelson’s agreement to work with the Department of Mysteries on the Veil.
• Nelson told Tom he was ready to put his ideas into practice, beginning in Germany, after watching the world change during his year of restraint.
• Nelson sent a final rainbow bubble to a now-confident Ravenclaw girl and remembered how Moaning Myrtle had survived and flourished.
• Nelson, Tom, and Alphard visited Professor Rahman, who showed them the organized classroom and the nearly finished first edition of his encyclopedia.

Nelson and his friends saw a newspaper report about the rarity and high price of his Chocolate Frog card as Wizarding and Muggle life increasingly intertwined. At West City Orphanage, Martha and Moaning Myrtle shared a meal with a Butterbeer deliveryman, who explained how Muggle workers had expanded his family’s business and planned to create a trademark.

• Professor Rahman showed Nelson a report claiming collectors struggled to obtain his Chocolate Frog card, while one buyer offered 1,350 pounds for it.
• Nelson, Tom, Alphard, and Professor Rahman joked about the card’s scarcity and Alphard’s childhood theft of money for ice cream.
• At the West City Orphanage, Martha and Moaning Myrtle ate hamburgers and discussed Myrtle’s London internship, her studies, and her plans to return the next day.
• A Butterbeer deliveryman brought the women drinks, and he recognized Martha as the woman who had once drunk a glass of Gamp's Aged Social Wine.
• The deliveryman explained that Muggle workers had lowered his family’s production costs, increased Butterbeer output, and helped the business grow.
• The deliveryman said he planned to create a trademark for his family’s Butterbeer to help it expand further.

John managed the Black Family’s Flying Carpet factory, where Muggle workers and the Spinning Jenny had transformed production. As John and Bernard prepared to visit Bernard’s home for pie after work, Bernard discovered a dragon scale mixed into the materials and asked to keep it.

• John inspected the Flying Carpets rolling off the factory’s Spinning Jenny and reflected on how Walburga Black had taken over the workshop and changed its production.
• John spoke with Bernard, who invited him for drinks and a pie at home and asked whether his son might have the potential to become a Wizard.
• Bernard described a London bar whose owner was rumored to be a Vampire and whose patrons had once included a man found dead under suspicious circumstances.
• Bernard found a polished dragon scale among the Dragon tendon hide, and John told him he could take it as scrap.

Two disgruntled former workers plotted to burn down Walburga Black’s Flying Carpet factory, but Bob Ogden arrested them before they could act. John and Bernard walked away with Ogden escorting the prisoners, while John avoided explaining how well he knew the men.

• Two former Malfoy workshop employees resented the Muggle workers at the Flying Carpet factory and planned to burn it down for money from an unnamed sponsor.
• The men discussed fleeing to Prussia after destroying the factory, and one admitted he would leave his wife and mother behind.
• Bob Ogden revealed he had overheard their plot while wearing an Invisibility Cloak, then disarmed and bound the two men.
• Ogden escorted the prisoners across the street, where one man accused him of being the Black family’s lapdog and then blamed his companion for the plan.
• Bernard asked John about the prisoners, and John said they looked like two dogs before asking how much farther it was to the bar.

Professor Rahman told Nelson how wizard-Muggle relations were changing and revealed the scale of efforts already underway to bring the communities closer. He gave Nelson a worldwide record of those changes and urged him to carry the work forward beyond Hogwarts.

• Professor Rahman explained that the joint textbook was complete, praised Nelson’s work, and discussed the need for wizards and Muggles to understand one another.
• Professor Rahman described Moaning Myrtle’s work in London and shared evidence of wider efforts to improve relations between Muggles and wizards.
• Nelson admitted that he had founded The Quibbler, and Professor Rahman said its continued work showed that Nelson had given it a lasting direction.
• Professor Rahman told Nelson that people had tried to influence the encyclopedia, but he had refused their requests.
• Professor Rahman gave Nelson a collection documenting worldwide changes in wizard-Muggle relations and encouraged him to open a new chapter after graduation.

Nelson Wiltening Williams took his Transfiguration N.E.W.T. with an elderly examiner who challenged him with a chaotic silver cube designed to thwart prediction. Nelson transformed the spell itself, revealed the cube’s true nature, and warned the examiner to tell Mr. Grindelwald that he had not graduated yet; Dumbledore then entered as the examiner asked Nelson’s name.

• Nelson entered the examination room and met an elderly Transfiguration examiner who criticized his paper and said Albus had praised him.
• The examiner gave Nelson a silver cube made of unstable, constantly changing materials and invited him to demonstrate his creativity and precision.
• Nelson examined the cube and found that neither he nor Alexander could predict its chaotic changes, while the examiner watched to see how he would respond.
• Nelson copied the cube with Transfiguration, then revealed that he had transformed the spell itself and could make the cube become water before restoring its shape.
• Nelson told the examiner to inform Mr. Grindelwald that he had not graduated yet and that there was no need to hurry; Dumbledore entered, and the examiner asked whether Nelson was Williams.

Joseph and Johnny returned to the growing refuge in Lorraine, where rescued people prepared for the conflict ahead, while Penguin gathered allies in the polar wilderness. Ivy Darwin then visited the recovering Credence and Nagini, proposing that they might fight side by side.

• Joseph and Johnny discussed gathering their people in Lorraine and Prussia, and Joseph paid for an orange Johnny had taken from a stall.
• Joseph and Johnny returned to the Lorraine refuge, where children welcomed them and the rescued residents lived in a thriving town built around factories.
• Joseph told Johnny that the latest rescue operation had injuries but no deaths, while both acknowledged that a larger conflict was beginning.
• Penguin said farewell to an Emperor Penguin, groomed himself, and appeared before a gathering of allies as The Quibbler Magazine building collapsed behind him.
• Ivy Darwin visited Credence and Nagini, explained that Williams had sent her, and said she had come to examine Credence before they might fight together.

Nelson Wiltening Williams completed an extraordinary Transfiguration N.E.W.T. assessment and received a key from Minister Leach for his upcoming Ministry work. A parcel delivery to Pollux Black ended with Penguin falling through a manhole, while Pollux asked for Walburga to be called back.

• Dumbledore interrupted Nelson’s exam and caught Carl, a former student, dozing beside examiner Mr. Green.
• Mr. Green tested Nelson’s transfiguration from nothing, and Nelson impressed him with numerous precise transformations before receiving the highest mark.
• Carl gave Nelson a Small Silver Ball containing a unique key from Minister Leach and reminded him to report to work after his holiday.
• Tom examined the key, called it gold-plated copper, and said he had finished packing.
• Penguin delivered a parcel to Pollux Black, who accidentally struck the bird with his outward-opening window and watched it escape down a manhole.
• Pollux put the parcel on his bed and asked Kreacher to have Walburga called back because her friend would soon report to the Department of Mysteries.

In a farewell letter, Dumbledore reflected on the graduates’ years at Hogwarts and urged them to choose who they wished to become. Nelson, Tom, and their friends left Hogwarts, with Tom planning to apply for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post and Nelson and Tom playfully settling a score with Alphard on the train.

• Dumbledore’s farewell letter recalled the students’ growth and said the Sorting Hat did not decide what kind of people they would become; he revealed Hufflepuff had won the House Cup.
• Nelson and Tom discussed the letter, then Nelson sat beneath the Sorting Hat to ask which house suited him; Alphard snatched it and was sorted into Gryffindor.
• On the Hogwarts Express, Tom revealed he planned to apply for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor position after Professor Merrythought retired.
• Tom blamed Alphard for the points lost while Alphard skipped classes in Diagon Alley, and Nelson left the compartment as Tom prepared to confront him.

Nelson, Tom, and Alphard fought attackers after the Hogwarts Express derailed and caught fire. Alphard escaped with an injured student to get help, while Nelson and Tom went after the attackers.

• Nelson sensed danger before the Hogwarts Express derailed, then used a Mayfly to survey the burning wreckage and saw that the crash had become an attack.
• Tom and Alphard joined Nelson as spells began flying into their carriage, and Tom struck back at an attacker in the field.
• Nelson summoned silver-armored warriors and asked Alphard to reach Hogwarts for help while he and Tom defended the train.
• When two girls emerged and one was injured, Alphard interrupted his Apparition, shielded them from curses, and escaped with the injured girl to Hogsmeade.
• After sending the other girl to seek help, Nelson and Tom charged into the field, with Tom disappearing in white light and Nelson moving through the attackers' rear under cover of smoke.