Chapter Summaries

Horatio learned that the liminal realm was a branch of the underworld and confronted Merlin and Death about his potential authority over wizard souls. He obtained the soul of his beloved consort’s mother and a pass to the liminal realm, then left, while Death revealed he had willingly yielded his authority to prevent the world’s destruction.

• Merlin explained that the liminal realm was where wizards went after death and that gathering the Deathly Hallows could make Horatio the new Death.
• Horatio asked about the powers and duties of Death, then boasted that his Muggle Completion Project could put everyone’s life and death under his control.
• Merlin described why some souls remained in the living world, and Horatio demanded the soul of his beloved consort’s mother.
• Death gave Horatio a white orb containing the soul and an ancient coin that served as a pass to the liminal realm.
• Horatio used the coin to leave, and Death told Merlin that he had yielded his authority to Horatio to keep the world from being destroyed.

Horatio confronted William over Astoria’s devotion to him and revealed that he had revived Freya as a Christmas surprise for the Greengrass family. After the family reunited, Horatio returned to Hogwarts with Hermione, Astoria, and the others, leaving William to endure several more days with Freya.

• Astoria told William that Horatio was her salvation and that she wanted to become his salvation in return.
• At the Christmas banquet, Horatio argued with William over marrying Astoria, listed the benefits he could offer her, and presented him with five million Galleons.
• Horatio opened a Portal and reunited William, Daphne, and Astoria with Freya, while he led Hermione away to give the family privacy.
• Hermione praised Horatio for his kindness, and Astoria interrupted their tender moment before she and Hermione teamed up to beat him.
• Horatio found William exhausted after several days with Freya and left wolfberries and restorative Red Vials before Freya sent the students back to Hogwarts.

Horatio sold Merlin’s beard and underwear at a Hogwarts stall, then planned to pressure the founders into cracking down on student romances. Dumbledore’s attempt to send Pheobe into a love rivalry failed, and the chapter ended with Pheobe asking to stay at Hogwarts as an exchange student while Dumbledore recited classical texts as punishment.

• Horatio set up a stall selling Merlin’s beard and underwear, and Merlin appeared to prove the goods were genuine.
• Dumbledore told Horatio that Hogwarts’ four founders had been tormenting him in his dreams, and Horatio planned to ask them to separate boys and girls and crack down on puppy love.
• Dumbledore asked Grindelwald to have Pheobe visit Hogwarts, hoping to provoke a love rivalry, but Pheobe befriended Hermione and Astoria instead.
• Horatio confronted the founders and agreed not to pursue his school-rule plan if they made Dumbledore recite Li Sao backward, followed by other texts.
• Pheobe asked Dumbledore to stay at Hogwarts as an exchange student and heard him reciting aloud in his office.

Horatio recruited Dumbledore to help him reclaim Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's cup, using resurrected souls Regulus Black and Lita Lestrange to obtain them. After making them sign contracts to become his house-elves, he let Lita visit the Scamander brothers, leaving Dumbledore worried that Horatio had set up another disaster.

• Horatio told Dumbledore he would retrieve the Founders' relics and punish Voldemort for turning them into Horcruxes.
• Horatio resurrected Regulus Black and Lita Lestrange with two souls held in balls of light and tricked them into signing contracts that bound them to him.
• Dumbledore explained the situation to Regulus and Lita, and Lita asked to visit the Scamander brothers before returning to Horatio.
• Horatio let Lita Apparate to Newt's home, then warned Dumbledore that her visit might provoke the brothers.
• Regulus watched Horatio leave Dumbledore in despair and wondered how the young wizard had managed to unsettle the Headmaster so easily.

Horatio helped Lita claim the Lestrange family vault, where he found Hufflepuff's Cup and removed Voldemort's soul. He then launched an explosive Christmas raid on the Black Family Home, where Regulus greeted Sirius Black as his brother.

• Horatio rejected Theseus and Newt's request to treat Lita better, and Lita lamented that she had become an outsider to their families.
• Horatio took Lita to Gringotts and flooded its lobby with Galleons until Zola agreed to treat her as the Lestrange heir and grant them access to the family vault.
• Horatio found Hufflepuff's Cup in the vault, pulled Voldemort's soul from it, and tossed the soul into his lantern.
• Horatio brought Lita to Hogwarts, took No. 8, and opened a Portal to the Black Family Home.
• Horatio blasted open the Black Family Home's front door with an RPG and charged inside, leaving Harry, Sirius Black, and Zhan Mu stunned.
• Regulus hurried into the house and greeted Sirius Black, saying, "Long time no see, brother."

Sirius learned that Regulus had sacrificed himself to steal Voldemort’s Horcrux, and the brothers reconciled after Regulus was resurrected as a house-elf. Horatio retrieved the Slytherin locket, then gave Lita a magic wand with five output settings, prompting her furious reaction.

• Sirius and Regulus fought until Horatio separated them and gave them Magic Wands to settle their dispute as Wizards.
• Kreacher explained that Regulus had secretly replaced Voldemort’s Horcrux, changing Sirius’s view of his brother, and Sirius apologized to Regulus.
• Regulus told Kreacher how Horatio had resurrected him, and Kreacher led Horatio to the hidden Slytherin locket.
• Horatio encountered Tep and told him that Madam Freya had been resurrected, then collected the locket and returned to Hogwarts.
• Horatio gave Lita a magic wand with five magical-output settings and hid in his dormitory, while Lita broke the wand and angrily shouted at him.

Horatio claimed ownership of Hogwarts, assigned Dumbledore responsibility for toilet cleanliness, and spent Christmas under Pheobe’s influence until Merlin intervened. The chapter ended with Pheobe arriving at Hogwarts early for an exchange and Harry greeting her, while Horatio recovered by tapping a wooden fish.

• Horatio contracted with Hogwarts using the founders’ relics, took ownership of the castle, and brought Azkaban under its control.
• Horatio appointed Dumbledore Hogwarts Sanitation Commissioner, leaving Dumbledore worried about what Horatio might do next.
• Pheobe’s influence left Horatio exhausted after Christmas, and Merlin intervened to stop the three women from tormenting him further.
• Harry returned to Hogwarts and found Horatio in a monk’s robe, tapping a wooden fish and chanting.
• Pheobe told Harry that she had come to Hogwarts early after applying for an exchange, and Harry welcomed the news.
• Harry told Pheobe he was grateful to Horatio for reviving his birth mother and godmother and called Horatio his best friend.

After lifting Dumbledore’s curse, Horatio learned that Hogwarts’s new warning system exposed the Azkaban students’ plans to rebel. When Lily substituted for Lupin in Defence Against the Dark Arts, Horatio made her demonstrate the Patronus Charm against his unusually resistant Dementors, then showed her his own terrifying version.

• Horatio lifted Dumbledore’s eternal-youth curse, and Grindelwald celebrated by sending a magically bewitched fox to Azkaban Academy.
• The Azkaban students signed a blood letter planning to leave under Grindelwald’s leadership, unaware that Horatio’s ownership of Hogwarts let him monitor everything inside it.
• Snape poisoned Lupin with mercury, leaving Lily to substitute for his Defence Against the Dark Arts class.
• Horatio summoned Dementors outside the classroom and asked Lily to explain and demonstrate the Patronus Charm.
• Horatio’s Dementors tore apart Lily’s silver doe Patronus, and he summoned a monstrous dark Patronus of his own.

Lily challenged Horatio to a Yu-Gi-Oh! duel and was repeatedly crushed, while Harry explained how the students coped with Horatio’s unfairly strong decks. Horatio then received a challenge from the young wizards of Azkaban Academy and planned to retaliate against Grindelwald by turning Hogwarts into a spaceship for a trip to a primitive alien world.

• Lily agreed to duel Horatio, but he repeatedly opened with five Dark Magicians and then defeated her with other powerful decks.
• Harry comforted Lily and told her to surrender immediately next time, prompting Lily to realize he had also endured Horatio’s duels.
• Horatio received a blood-written challenge from the young wizards of Azkaban Academy, who opposed his leadership and wanted to follow Grindelwald.
• Horatio dismissed the rebellion but blamed Grindelwald and Old Deng, and he planned to turn Hogwarts into an interstellar warship for a trip to a planet inhabited by blue-skinned aliens.

Horatio fled after Grindelwald called for Shen He, then took Hogwarts and its occupants on an unexpected journey by launching the castle into the sky. Dumbledore and Grindelwald were left to use Nurmengard as a temporary school.

• Otto Apocalyps, Cassius, Jerónimo, and other Azkaban Academy students sided with Grindelwald, prompting Horatio to summon his forces for a battle.
• Grindelwald called for Shen He, and Horatio abruptly fled the Azkaban Academy Common Room with his subordinates.
• Horatio returned to his dormitory and proposed a vacation to Pheobe, Hermione, and Astoria before communicating with Hogwarts Castle.
• Horatio expelled Hogwarts' teachers, students, and belongings, then the castle launched itself into the sky and disappeared.
• Grindelwald explained what had happened to Dumbledore, who agreed to use Nurmengard as a temporary school.

Horatio spent a month on Pandora, where Eywa welcomed him and he spread Houttuynia cordata and taught magic to gifted Na’vi. After using his rewards and resources to recreate Pandora’s ecosystem in his Dark Dimension, he left with his family, while the Na’vi preserved his legacy as a god of magic.

• Eywa foresaw Horatio’s arrival and had the Na’vi welcome him, so he spent a month enjoying Pandora with his family and modifying its plants.
• With Eywa’s approval, Horatio transplanted Houttuynia cordata to Pandora and taught gifted Na’vi elemental magic, establishing the plant as a sacred trial for future shamans.
• Horatio earned early fourth-year rewards for spreading Houttuynia cordata on an alien planet and used his talent points to raise his magical abilities.
• Horatio transformed his Dark Dimension into a small world by recreating Pandora’s ecosystem and gathering resources for an artificial sun.
• Horatio declined the Pandora creatures’ requests to enter his small world and departed with his family, reassuring Nut that she remained one of his best companions.
• The Na’vi worshipped Horatio and his family as gods, built a replica of Hogwarts, and made it a sacred school for shamans.

Dumbledore and the Hogwarts staff struggled with the aftermath of Horatio taking the castle, including escaped Death Eaters and students left without a home. After sixty days, Horatio returned to Hogwarts, where Pheobe and Fudge immediately crowded around him.

• Dumbledore missed Horatio and faced furious parents after Hogwarts disappeared, while McGonagall urged everyone to wait for his return.
• Peter Pettigrew escaped with Bella and several loyal Death Eaters, and Grindelwald sent the remaining Saints to pursue them.
• Newt Scamander arrived to help Dumbledore house the students, befriended Hagrid, and encouraged his grandson Rolf to court Luna.
• Horatio returned Hogwarts to its original location and cried for Dumbledore to save him from Pheobe, who was holding and smelling him.
• Fudge rushed into the Gryffindor common room and affectionately pounced on Horatio.

Horatio met Newt, who had come to help research the Obscurus, and asked him to take him to a Thunderbird for Nut to learn from. After showing Newt his vast small world as a sanctuary for magical creatures, Horatio convinced him to help.

• Horatio returned to his dormitory, where Pheobe dragged him away while Hermione and Astoria peeked through their fingers.
• The next day, Dumbledore introduced Newt to Horatio in the headmaster's office.
• Horatio teased Newt about Lita, but Newt explained he had come at Aberforth's invitation to help research the Obscurus and asked Horatio to treat Lita well.
• Horatio asked Newt to take him to a Thunderbird so Nut could learn to cry like an eagle, and Newt refused because he would not help confine magical creatures.
• Horatio brought Newt into his small world and showed him its forests, sky, and ocean, convincing Newt that magical creatures could live there safely.

Horatio found a female Niffler, named her Sif, and gave her the Philosopher’s Stone and a protective Mithril Bracelet. He returned to his dormitory with Sif, where Hermione was studying Frigga, and learned that Pheobe, Astoria, and Nut were in his little world.

• Newt explained that Horatio should learn magical creatures’ habits and how to identify their sexes before searching for a Thunderbird.
• Horatio befriended a female, pink-tufted Niffler, named her Sif, and gave her the Philosopher’s Stone to turn stones into gold.
• Horatio fitted Sif with a Mithril Bracelet that provided protection and access to his little world, then brought her back to his dormitory.
• Hermione told Horatio that Pheobe, Astoria, and Nut had gone to play in Paradise Lost while she studied Frigga the Phoenix.

Horatio welcomed the Niffler Sif into his group of magical creatures, gave it a jeweled nest, and introduced it to the household hierarchy. Later, Sif and Frigga plotted to search Hogwarts for silky stockings to give Horatio, while he sensed that something was amiss during History of Magic.

• Hermione cuddled Sif, but Horatio caught it trying to steal her Galleons and returned them to her.
• Horatio gave Sif a bag of treasure and let it choose a home in his room or Paradise Lost; Sif settled beside Hathor’s cat bed.
• Hathor struck Sif when it tried to climb onto her cushion, and Horatio soothed them and warned Sif not to touch it.
• Sif joined Horatio’s family, and Newt was astonished that it had lost interest in shiny objects and updated his book about Nifflers.
• Sif and Frigga decided to search Hogwarts for silky stockings as a gift for Horatio, while Horatio woke from a doze with a strange chill and checked his radar.

Horatio covered up the theft of silk stockings by spreading a ghost rumor, while Dumbledore announced that Azkaban Academy had won the House Cup. The school year ended with the teachers, students, and Dementors dancing together in the Great Hall.

• Horatio blamed a red-clad ghost for the missing silk stockings and secretly burned the stolen items, while Sif and Frigga faced punishment for their part in the theft.
• Dumbledore announced the House scores, and Azkaban Academy won the House Cup with infinite points.
• The Dementors transformed the Great Hall’s decorations and joined the celebration, while Horatio boasted that his project had helped secure the win.
• Karthus and the other Great Commanders started a dance performance, and the teachers and students joined in.
• Horatio let Sif and Frigga go dance, then joined Pheobe, Hermione, and Astoria with Hathor on his head as the third school year ended.

Horatio decided to take Hogwarts around the world, with America as his first stop to tame a Thunderbird, while Dumbledore and Newt agreed to accompany him. After leaving the headmaster’s office, Horatio returned to Paradise Lost and learned what his companions had been doing.

• Horatio confronted Dumbledore about staying at Hogwarts and announced that he would take the school around the world, prompting Dumbledore to persuade him to install an anti-Muggle invisibility system.
• Newt and Dumbledore objected to Horatio’s plans to confront other Ministries of Magic, and Dumbledore persuaded Horatio to let him come along.
• Horatio chose America as the first stop on the trip to tame a Thunderbird and told Dumbledore and Newt they would leave in two days.
• Dumbledore asked Newt about his Obscurus research, and Newt said Horatio had promised to focus on it after helping him become a Fantastic Beast training master.
• Horatio returned to Paradise Lost, where Lita told him that Pheobe and the others had gone home and that Sif had taken Nut to challenge Ke Bei the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Horatio prepared the Hogwarts forces to invade America while Dumbledore warned Magical Congress president Donald that Horatio was dangerous. The chapter ended as Horatio summoned meteors over New York, leaving the American Aurors terrified.

• Lita reported that the Hogwarts forces would reach America in an hour, and Horatio ordered her to gather the troops for a pre-battle speech.
• Horatio rallied the Dementors, Iron Blood Warriors, Shadow Soldiers, and magical creatures as Hogwarts transformed into a war fortress.
• Dumbledore warned Donald that Horatio could start a war, but Donald dismissed him and insisted Horatio register his wand and surrender the Thunderbird.
• A magical exposure alert sounded, and Donald led the Aurors into New York as a powerful Muggle-repelling spell emptied the streets.
• Horatio announced a meteor shower over New York, and enormous meteors fell from the clouds as the Aurors dropped their wands and prayed.

Horatio destroyed New York with a meteor after Dumbledore tried to stop his spectacle, but secretly saved everyone by banishing the city's people and animals into the Time-Space Pocket. As Donald and the others faced rebuilding the city and concealing the disaster, Merlin and the four Hogwarts founders arrived to clean up the mess.

• Dumbledore confronted Horatio, but Horatio sent one meteor crashing into New York and flattened the city.
• Horatio revealed that he had moved everyone in New York into the Time-Space Pocket at the moment of impact, leaving them unharmed.
• Donald had the Magical Congress clerks entertain Horatio while he and the others began restoring New York and casting Memory Charms on the Muggles.
• Newt suggested using Forgetfulness Potion made from Niffler venom, but Dumbledore said he could not make it rain across the city.
• Merlin arrived with the four founders of Hogwarts and ordered Gryffindor and Slytherin to stop fighting and help clean up.

Merlin and the four Hogwarts founders restored New York after a magical disaster, while Horatio dealt with the Magical Congress and prepared to meet Bellatrix. Dumbledore assigned Auror chief James to guide Horatio, who took him to a Manhattan children’s playground.

• Merlin and the four founders cast a citywide restoration spell that repaired New York and caused Muggles to forget the disaster.
• Bellatrix watched the restoration and swore she would earn Lord Butterbeer’s recognition so she could enter the magical world.
• Merlin warned Donald to accommodate Horatio and threatened the Magical Congress if another world-ending crisis occurred.
• Donald ordered James to serve as Horatio’s guide in America and let him act first against anyone who provoked Horatio.
• Horatio agreed to take James along, then went to a Manhattan playground and fought a nine-year-old over a coin-operated ride.