Chapter Summaries

James reported Horatio’s chaotic antics to Donald, who planned to send Horatio to Ilvermorny. Meanwhile, Bellatrix sought Horatio’s help after APTX4399 awakened her magical potential, and he recruited her to dig up secrets on his enemies.

• James told Donald that Horatio had made him steal lollipops and cover up a staged haunting, so Donald suggested steering Horatio toward Ilvermorny.
• Horatio staged a supernatural procession on Broadway, terrifying Bellatrix and compelling her to kneel before him.
• Bellatrix explained that she had taken Sherry’s APTX4399 potion, which eased her suffering and gave her the qualifications to enter the magical world.
• Horatio asked Bellatrix what she could offer and assigned her to become a paparazzo who uncovered other people’s secrets.
• Horatio gave Bellatrix photos of the two Old Dengs and Snape and ordered her to find dirt on them.

Horatio recruited Bellatrix as his loyal agent and sent her to investigate Dumbledore and Grindelwald in Godric’s Hollow. Armed with a wand and reassured that Horatio could resurrect her, Bellatrix began her dangerous assignment.

• Horatio questioned Bellatrix about her time in The Organization, then kept his own ambitions secret when she asked about his goal.
• Bellatrix signed a contract pledging eternal loyalty to Horatio, who named her house-elf Unit No. 9 and assigned her to investigate Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
• Horatio gave Bellatrix Galleons for expenses and told Lita to take her to Ollivander’s Wand Shop and teach her basic Wizarding-world knowledge.
• Lita brought Bellatrix to Diagon Alley, where Bellatrix obtained an ebony wand with a dragon heartstring core, then took her to Godric’s Hollow.
• Lita told Bellatrix to take out Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and reassured her that Horatio could bring her back if she died.

James manipulated Horatio into targeting Ilvermorny, prompting Dumbledore and Newt to persuade him to choose a magical companion for the school’s new sorting statue instead of Dementors or a Basilisk. Frigga volunteered, but Horatio proposed a statue combining her powers with deadly creature abilities, and she objected to its name.

• James’s claims about Ilvermorny’s houses made Horatio decide to travel to the school and replace its sorting creatures with Dementors or a Basilisk.
• Newt warned Dumbledore that Horatio’s plan could kill students, and they agreed to persuade him to use one of his magical companions instead.
• Horatio asked Hathor, Isis, Nephthys, Nut, and Sif to help Ilvermorny, but they declined.
• Frigga volunteered to observe Ilvermorny’s students and asked Horatio for a way to stay connected to him.
• Horatio proposed a sorting statue combining Dementor and Basilisk abilities with Frigga’s healing and rebirth powers, and Frigga objected to the name Demon Eye Nether Ghost Phoenix Academy.

Dumbledore persuaded Aegilbert Fontana to let Horatio establish Netherworld Ghost Phoenix Academy at Ilvermorny, but Horatio claimed the school as Slytherin’s heir and summoned a meteorite. The chapter ended with the meteorite hurtling toward Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

• Dumbledore told Aegilbert Fontana about Horatio’s exploits, and Fontana agreed to let Horatio establish his academy at Ilvermorny.
• Horatio arrived at Ilvermorny with the Hogwarts Battlecruiser and surrounded the school with Dementors and Biting Cabbages, but Fontana told him the students were on holiday.
• Horatio toured Ilvermorny with Fontana and summoned Merlin to speak with Isolde Searle about the snakewood tree and its buried wand.
• Isolde revealed that the wand had belonged to her aunt and that Slytherin had left it to his descendants.
• Horatio declared Ilvermorny his property as Slytherin’s sole designated heir, then summoned a meteorite to crash toward the school.

Horatio took control of Ilvermorny by creating a new consciousness within the school, leaving Isolde to return to the Mirage Realm without finding a way to see her Muggle husband. He toured Ilvermorny with Fontana and tested its house statues, which cowered in fear instead of sorting him.

• Isolde begged Horatio to spare Ilvermorny, and Horatio created a consciousness in the school that favored him.
• Horatio claimed ownership of Ilvermorny while leaving Isolde and Fontana with management rights, and Isolde asked unsuccessfully for help finding James Stewart in the afterlife.
• After Isolde returned to the Mirage Realm, Horatio toured Ilvermorny's circular hall with Fontana, who explained how its four house statues chose students.
• Horatio stood before the statues, which initially responded together but then cowered, wailed, and threw down their symbols in terror.
• Horatio complained about the statues' reaction while Fontana looked unsurprised.

Horatio learned that Dumbledore had kept the Triwizard Tournament secret and ordered him to bring Ilvermorny and other schools into a global competition. He planned to visit Mahoutokoro and Koldovstoretz himself, while Dumbledore warned him to spare Mahoutokoro’s Dove Faction.

• Horatio told Fontana to bring Ilvermorny to England for the Triwizard Tournament, and Dumbledore asked how he had learned about it.
• Horatio criticized Dumbledore for hiding the tournament and threatened to replace him as headmaster.
• Horatio announced that Castelobruxo, Wagadu, Mahoutokoro, and Koldovstoretz would also join, and Dumbledore worried about the Ministry’s approval and Hogwarts’s capacity.
• Horatio said he would visit Mahoutokoro and Koldovstoretz himself and threatened to cause a spectacle if the tournament could not be expanded in time.
• Dumbledore warned Horatio that Mahoutokoro had Radical and Dove factions, and Horatio agreed not to kill the Dove Faction indiscriminately.

Horatio and his companions reached Arizona to find the Thunderbird and discovered it fighting a rare Horned Serpent. When the creatures refused to stop, Horatio transformed into a gigantic Great Longhorn Beetle and forced them to listen.

• Horatio sang nursery rhymes for his magical creatures, while Dumbledore and Newt watched and Dumbledore was moved to tears.
• Horatio arrived in Arizona with Newt and sent Shadow Soldiers and Dementors to search for the Thunderbird.
• A Shadow Soldier found the Thunderbird fighting a Horned Serpent beside a lake, and Newt explained that the creatures were legendary predators.
• Horatio opened a Portal to the lake and invited the Thunderbird and Horned Serpent to join him, but they resumed fighting instead.
• Horatio transformed into a three-hundred-meter-tall Great Longhorn Beetle, pinning the Thunderbird, the Horned Serpent, and Newt in place with fear.

Horatio recruited the Thunderbird Valkyrie and the Horned Serpent Fafnir with magical creature food and brought them to Hogwarts. There, Sif challenged Fafnir, and Horatio stopped Sif from unleashing the Golden Shovel’s devastating power before the fight could seriously hurt her.

• Horatio fed the Thunderbird and Horned Serpent his special cat food, won their allegiance, and named them Valkyrie and Fafnir.
• Valkyrie recognized Frigga as her aunt, and Frigga explained that phoenixes and Thunderbirds shared an ancestor.
• Sif mistook Fafnir for a dragon and challenged her with his Golden Shovel.
• Fafnir’s tail struck Sif’s protective barrier, and Sif prepared a powerful black-flame attack.
• Horatio banned Sif’s Golden Shovel, stopped the attack, and scolded him for using more than second gear against a companion.

Sif apologized to Fafnir, and Horatio promised Valkyrie and Fafnir custom alchemical weapons before taking them to Japan’s Mahoutokoro. After Horatio left America, Donald celebrated his departure until Fontana confronted him over leading Horatio to Ilvermorny.

• Sif apologized to Fafnir, and they reconciled by shaking paws with Fafnir’s tail.
• Valkyrie and Fafnir asked Horatio for divine artifacts, and he promised to make each of them an alchemical weapon.
• Horatio equipped Valkyrie and Fafnir, then took them to Paradise Lost to test their weapons and discuss their coming battle at Mahoutokoro.
• Horatio returned to New York, obtained Donald’s map of magical schools, and left for Hogwarts aboard the battlecruiser.
• Donald threw a party to celebrate Horatio’s departure, but Fontana arrived, blamed Donald for bringing Horatio to Ilvermorny, and challenged him to a duel.

Horatio led Hogwarts in a brutal assault on Mahoutokoro, destroying the palace and capturing its survivors. He killed the Kamishiro sisters and the Dove Faction, then planned to use the Dream Mirror of Reincarnation to turn their souls into fanatical followers.

• Kageyo Kamishiro warned Koromo Kamishiro that the Radical Faction was preparing to challenge the Heavenly Masters of the Dragon Nation again.
• Horatio brought Hogwarts to Mahoutokoro and fired the Annihilation Laser Cannon, destroying the palace and cutting the island in half.
• Valkyrie and Fafnir attacked with lightning and ice while Hogwarts sealed the island and prevented the Japanese Wizards from casting spells.
• Horatio demanded that the survivors identify Dove Faction members, and Inutarou named Yi and claimed he had only pretended to court her.
• Inutarou stabbed Yi to prove his loyalty, and Horatio killed Hui and the other identified Dove Faction members with the Killing Curse.
• Horatio ordered the Dementors to devour the remaining survivors' souls, then considered using the Dream Mirror of Reincarnation on the Dove Faction's souls.

Horatio sent Hui and Yi with his Iron Blood legion to clean up the Radical Faction remnants, then returned to Hogwarts and created a multiplayer immersive game. Yi later questioned him about betrayal and responsibility, and Horatio ended up spending the night as her body pillow.

• Horatio asked Hui and Yi to follow him back to Hogwarts and assigned them the Iron Blood legion to handle the handover and eliminate the remaining Radical Faction remnants.
• Horatio returned to Hogwarts and finished creating a massive multiplayer immersive RPG dungeon game.
• Yi visited Horatio and asked why lovers betrayed each other and why her lover had killed her.
• Horatio explained that people often abandoned their partners for self-interest and said love required responsibility and duty.
• Yi asked whether Horatio had a sense of responsibility, then pinned him down and made him serve as her body pillow for the night.

Horatio learned about Dumbledore and Grindelwald from Bellatrix, then went to capture Sherry for his mission. He stunned Miyano Shiho and had the Iron Blood Warriors carry her away.

• Hui and Yi competed for Horatio's attention while Lita and Frigga watched.
• Horatio called Bellatrix, who reported that Albus Dumbledore had been the dominant partner in his relationship with Grindelwald.
• Horatio told Bellatrix to give her intelligence to Rita and send him Sherry's address.
• Horatio attacked Miyano Shiho in her apartment, but she fought back with a wand and a handgun.
• Horatio froze and stunned Miyano Shiho, then ordered the Iron Blood Warriors to take her away.

Horatio recruited Miyano Shiho into the Quebull Collective and brought her sister, Miyano Akemi, to the castle through a reckless magical stunt. At Shiho’s laboratory, Horatio discovered how her drug could create either magic seeds or kagune, then began testing the latter on an imprisoned man.

• Horatio revealed his interest in Shiho’s research and recruited her into the Quebull Collective; Shiho agreed and asked him to bring her sister along.
• Horatio used a series of Portals to bring Miyano Akemi to the castle, repeatedly dropping her through the air before finally delivering her safely.
• Shiho explained that her failed drug could turn its target into a kagune-producing ghoul, and Horatio identified drug changes that would reliably produce either a magic seed or a kagune.
• An imprisoned man attacked Horatio, who used spells to subdue him and sever his growing kagune.
• Horatio began questioning the man about what 1000 minus 7 equaled while casting the Cruciatus Curse.

A ghoul named Tsukiyama Shuu transformed Kamishiro Rize after attacking a gang in Tokyo, while Horatio tormented Hui and Yi and Lita released the resurrected Miyano Shiho. The chapter left Lita warning Horatio that he would have to explain his expanded circle to Pheobe, Hermione, and Astoria.

• Ito Makoto and his gang cornered a briefcase-carrying man, who transformed and killed them, leaving Kamishiro Rize alive.
• A white-robed wizard revealed that the man served the Lord of Gods and ordered him to turn Japan into a hunting ground.
• Tsukiyama Shuu told the awakened Kamishiro Rize that she had become one of his kind and urged her to eat.
• Horatio threatened Hui and Yi with Fiendfyre cupping while Lita released the resurrected Miyano Shiho from her coffin.
• Miyano Shiho asked Lita to help her find Dementors for experiments, and Horatio praised her willingness to take risks.
• Lita warned Horatio that he would need to explain to Pheobe, Hermione, and Astoria why so many people had joined him over the holiday.

Horatio reconciled with Pheobe, who secured his commitment after confronting him about his feelings. The Hogwarts battlecruiser then reached Koldovstorez, where Horatio declared an “exchange and learning” visit while putting his forces on combat readiness.

• Pheobe confronted Horatio about his failure to return her feelings, and he apologized and told her he loved her.
• Horatio kissed Pheobe, and she explained that Veela stayed faithful to the person they loved.
• Pheobe told Hermione and Astoria that she had made Horatio define their relationship, while Miyano Akemi urged Miyano Shiho to act before she became one of his later conquests.
• The Hogwarts battlecruiser arrived near Koldovstorez, and Horatio teased Astoria about missing their travels.
• Horatio ordered everyone to combat readiness, deploying a giant cannon and assembling the castle’s magical creatures and Dementors despite Hermione questioning his claim that they had come to exchange and learn.

Horatio arrived at Koldovstorez, whose headmaster surrendered after learning of the destruction at Mahoutokoro. After discovering that Durmstrang excluded Muggle-born students, Horatio sent Lita, Hui, and Yi ahead with the Emperor’s Sail to confront the school.

• Horatio and Lita found Avonsky waiting outside Koldovstorez with a white flag, and he explained that he had chosen to surrender after seeing what happened to Mahoutokoro.
• Avonsky introduced Princess Elsa, a student representative with exceptional ice magic who had been brought to Koldovstorez because Durmstrang rejected Muggle-born students.
• Horatio condemned Durmstrang’s discrimination and sent Lita, Hui, and Yi to the school with the Emperor’s Sail while he stayed to inspect Koldovstorez.
• Elsa’s legs gave way after Horatio frightened her with the flag, and Pheobe and Astoria helped her up as Hermione apologized for Horatio’s behavior.
• Horatio teased Hermione and pulled her into his arms, but she punched him in the stomach and walked away.

Horatio transformed Princess Elsa's Flying Broomstick into the F2222 Divine Eagle, a combat armor system, and demanded payment for it. Princess Elsa offered a Dragon Egg instead, which Horatio accepted as partial payment and then asked her for the smuggler's contact information.

• Horatio mistook Princess Elsa's Quidditch tradition for a display of brute strength and decided to upgrade her birch Flying Broomstick.
• Horatio modified the broom into the F2222 Divine Eagle, which transformed into Battlefield Rose armor for Princess Elsa.
• Princess Elsa tested the armor and thanked Horatio, but Horatio demanded one million Galleons and threatened to make her his maid if she could not pay.
• Princess Elsa offered a Dragon Egg instead, and Avonsky explained how to care for it after Horatio questioned its value.
• Horatio accepted the Dragon Egg toward the broom's cost and asked Princess Elsa for the smuggler's contact information.

Horatio hatched a dragon from the Dragon Egg and named her Hestia, then found caretakers for her by using Frigga and Miyano Akemi’s love of soap operas to persuade them. Frigga and Miyano Akemi agreed to raise Hestia so they could keep watching their shows without Horatio interrupting them with advertisements.

• Horatio roasted chicken wings while the Dragon Egg hatched, and he recognized the newborn Australian White Egg as the Blue White Dragon in a new form.
• The hatchling bit Astoria, but Horatio ordered her to apologize, and Astoria forgave her.
• Horatio named the female dragon Hestia and decided that Miyano Akemi and Frigga should raise her.
• Frigga and Miyano Akemi initially refused, so Horatio left with Hestia and began interrupting their soap operas with advertisements.
• Frigga and Miyano Akemi begged to take Hestia after Horatio threatened their viewing routine, and he left them responsible for her care.

Grindelwald captured Antonin Dolohov, who refused to reveal where Bella and Peter Pettigrew were hiding, and Sirius chose to send him back to Azkaban. At Hogwarts, Horatio used an intelligent cooking robot to pressure the house-elves into following his rules, while keeping them employed in the kitchens.

• Grindelwald questioned Antonin Dolohov, but Legilimency confirmed Antonin did not know where Bella and Peter Pettigrew had gone.
• Grindelwald asked Sirius Black how to deal with Antonin, and Sirius chose to return him to Azkaban despite Antonin begging for death.
• Horatio built the intelligent cooking robot Liu Maoxing, whose cooking convinced him the Hogwarts house-elves’ kitchen work could be replaced.
• Horatio made the house-elves pay to work, ordered them to change their meals and desserts, and threatened them with Liu Maoxing if they refused.
• Horatio told the house-elves to use industrial chili extract in Dumbledore’s desserts, then sent them back to the kitchen.

Barty Crouch Jr. pressured Igor Karkaroff to help him infiltrate Hogwarts, where Voldemort planned to obtain Harry Potter for his resurrection. Before they could escape Durmstrang, an immense force lifted the school into the sky, and Thresh ordered them to surrender.

• Barty Crouch Jr. demanded that Karkaroff help him enter Hogwarts as a Durmstrang student, and threatened him with Voldemort’s wrath when he hesitated.
• Barty Crouch Jr. explained that Voldemort had sent his followers on separate assignments to prepare for his return and obtain Harry Potter.
• Karkaroff learned that Grindelwald had escaped Nurmengard and that Voldemort feared confronting Horatio directly.
• A Bald Professor burst into Karkaroff’s office to report that Hogwarts was attacking Durmstrang, and Barty Crouch Jr. found that he could not Apparate.
• Durmstrang was lifted into the sky, and Thresh found Karkaroff, Barty Crouch Jr., and the Bald Professor hiding in the office.
• Karkaroff agreed to go to the square and surrender to Thresh.