Chapter Summaries

Raymond teamed up with Shaan VII to ambush Rune Lord Shanglar after Rain helped him locate Shanglar’s lair. Raymond killed Shanglar and seized his equipment, then followed Rain through a portal toward Gyranna’s lair to destroy Shanglar’s phylactery.

• Raymond raised his mystic theurge class to its maximum level, gained access to ninth-circle arcane spells, and obtained a new Book of Boccob’s Blessings from Aisha in exchange for a mobile lightning defense device.
• After Rain reported that Shanglar had gained the Creator class and lost his spellcasting abilities, Raymond persuaded Shaan VII to help prevent other Rune Lords from intervening.
• Shanglar’s lieutenant Vaxall advised him to make magic items to shed the Creator level, but Raymond and his allies arrived at the lair after a rabbit triggered its magical skull traps.
• Rain revealed her allegiance to Raymond, and his group overwhelmed Shanglar’s forces while Shanglar unsuccessfully called for aid from the other Rune Lords.
• Raymond shattered Shanglar’s skull and took his magical equipment, then learned from Rain that Shanglar’s phylactery was likely held at Gyranna’s lair.
• Raymond ordered Rain to lead the group through the portal so they could pursue Shanglar’s phylactery.

Raymond raided Gyranna’s lair, killed her, and destroyed her and Shanglar’s phylacteries before the assembled Twisted Rune, forcing the survivors to retreat and reconsider their power. Rain then used the chaos to secure Ragon’s approval to become a Rune Lord while concealing her role as Raymond’s mole.

• Raymond and Rain searched Gyranna’s lair and found her phylactery linked to Shanglar’s inside a doll.
• Shaan VII, disguised as Zeranora, held off the Twisted Rune while Raymond arrived, killed Gyranna, and smashed both phylacteries with Talona’s Caress.
• Raymond revealed his dragon transformation, threatened the Rune Lords, and teleported away with Shaan VII as Ragon ordered the survivors to investigate Zeranora cautiously.
• Rain returned covered in wounds, claimed she had escaped Shanglar’s base, and gave Ragon a notebook about becoming a Creator.
• Ragon accepted Rain’s account and ordered her to become a lich and stand before him as a Rune Lord within a month, unaware that she had aided Raymond’s raid.

Raymond opened a passage to the Harry Potter world, secured a way to travel between it and Faerûn, and began preparing to acquire wizard blood and enter Hogwarts. He returned to Faerûn and recruited the Arcane Mysteries Society’s Liches to test the new world’s magic by attacking Albus Dumbledore without killing him.

• Raymond rejected Shaan VII’s offer of alliance and left the Cowled Wizards Guild, while Shaan VII ordered the Winter Wight to investigate the Twisted Rune’s influence.
• Raymond promised the Wild Elf tribe grain and salt from Lake Castle, and Feiluoxier became the Wolf Pups’ Druid instructor.
• Raymond upgraded Rain into a Legendary Mage Lich and sent her to Calimshan to take over Shanglar’s affairs and infiltrate the Twisted Rune.
• Raymond opened a portal to the Harry Potter world, where his Dire Wolf killed a gang of drug dealers before Raymond traveled to London and arranged false papers, a house, and a stable portal.
• Raymond decided to obtain Dumbledore Family blood and summoned the Arcane Mysteries Society’s Liches to attack Albus Dumbledore without killing or seriously injuring him.

Raymond arranged for his Liches to duel Albus Dumbledore, then entered the Wizarding World under the name Soros and received his Hogwarts acceptance letter. After Snape helped him prepare for school, Raymond modified his wand and began investigating how emotion and will shaped magic.

• Dumbledore accepted the Liches' duel invitation, and Jeffrey fought him with Faerûnian spells before Vanessa ended the bout and declared Dumbledore the winner.
• Raymond collected Dumbledore's blood and used Mimicry to gain the Sorcerer (Dumbledore Family Bloodline) class, then kept the Liches hidden while they dueled Dumbledore for a week.
• Raymond received his Hogwarts acceptance letter and called a police officer whose memory had been altered to act as his guardian.
• Snape visited Raymond's home, demonstrated magic to the guardian, and arranged for Raymond to buy his school supplies in Diagon Alley.
• Raymond dismantled and enchanted his wand, studied Hogwarts spells, and concluded that strong emotions and willpower could amplify magic.

Harry Potter began his journey to Hogwarts, where he befriended Ron Weasley and met Soros Gemir, a remarkably skilled first-year who challenged the stories surrounding Harry’s fame. Soros stunned Draco Malfoy and his companions, was sorted into Slytherin, and deliberately provoked the house’s students, leaving a confrontation looming.

• Harry Potter found a compartment with Soros on the Hogwarts Express, and Ron Weasley joined them shortly afterward.
• Soros dismissed the claim that baby Harry had defeated Voldemort, repaired Harry’s glasses with Reparo, and impressed Harry and Ron with his spellcasting.
• Harry and Ron became friends while sharing stories, and Hermione Granger briefly entered the compartment to ask about Neville Longbottom’s missing toad.
• At Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy insulted Ron and Harry, so Soros warned him and then stunned Draco, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle.
• Professor McGonagall accepted Soros’s explanation and revived the three boys before the Sorting Ceremony began.
• The Sorting Hat placed Soros in Slytherin, where he provoked Draco and older students and prepared to establish a fearsome reputation.

Raymond Soros refused the Hogwarts feast, then defeated a large group of Slytherin students who attacked him and impressed Snape and Dumbledore with his magic and memory. After spending the night secretly studying in the library, he returned to breakfast and taunted the humbled Slytherins while meeting Ron and Harry.

• Raymond mocked Draco Malfoy and the pure-blood students at the feast, warning them that he would soon teach them a lesson.
• Raymond entered the Slytherin Common Room alone and used spells and concealment to defeat around forty students, leaving them trapped and injured.
• Snape tested Raymond's memory, confirmed that he could recite the Standard Book of Spells backward, and told Dumbledore that Hogwarts had gained a terrifying magical genius.
• Raymond rejected Gemma Farley's offer to join her faction, cleaned his dormitory, conjured a Heroes' Feast, and secretly explored the library's Restricted Section overnight.
• At breakfast, Raymond reassured Ron Weasley and Harry that the Slytherins had treated him well, then intimidated Draco and slapped the bald heads of the students he had defeated.

Raymond Soros impressed Hogwarts with his magical talent, dazzling McGonagall with an advanced Transfiguration and proving to Hermione that he could memorize books at extraordinary speed. As Dumbledore began investigating his mysterious background, Raymond encouraged Hermione to pursue deeper magical study, while Harry and Ron remained reluctant to do their homework.

• Raymond answered Professor Sprout’s Herbology questions with remarkable speed, then read extensively in the library.
• Fred and George told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Raymond had burned and defeated many Slytherin students, and Ron revealed that Raymond had mastered spells from a sixth-year textbook.
• Raymond transformed a matchstick into a needle made of silver, steel, brass, and ebony, astonishing McGonagall and earning ten points for Slytherin.
• McGonagall told Dumbledore about Raymond’s achievement, and Dumbledore decided to speak with him and investigate his origins.
• Raymond recited passages from books after briefly flipping through them, leaving Hermione upset, then explained how deeper knowledge could strengthen spells and urged her to study beyond her lessons.
• Hermione told Harry and Ron about Raymond’s photographic memory, then began reviewing her lessons while they returned to their dormitory.

Raymond debated the dangers and regulation of Dark Arts with Albus Dumbledore, demonstrated his extraordinary magical talent, and learned that Dumbledore believed he carried the Dumbledore Family bloodline. Dumbledore asked Aberforth to guide Raymond, while Raymond began developing Magic Scrolls and impressed his classmates at Flying Class.

• Raymond argued to Dumbledore that human nature, not Dark Arts themselves, caused wizarding society’s dangers, and he described how social divisions had fueled Grindelwald and Voldemort’s rises.
• Raymond explained his Magic Scroll research, demonstrated that he could cast a Patronus shaped like a small Dragon, and let Dumbledore test his blood; Dumbledore claimed the result showed a powerful wizard among Raymond’s recent ancestors.
• Dumbledore told Aberforth that Raymond carried Dumbledore Family blood and asked him to become Raymond’s friend and offer guidance; Aberforth agreed.
• Raymond continued researching Magic Scrolls, producing a flawed Levitation Charm scroll that could lift only something as light as a feather or pen.
• Before Flying Class, Raymond dismissed flying brooms’ speed and comfort, then impressed the first-years by making his broom rise and fly around him without saying the summoning command.

Neville’s flying lesson ends in an accident that Raymond prevents, and Raymond warns Hermione against letting House identity shape her choices. After Harry and Ron accept Malfoy’s challenge to a midnight duel, Raymond lends Harry experimental Magic Scrolls, while Hermione accompanies the boys to the Trophy Room but refuses to take part.

• Neville loses control of his broom and falls, but Raymond stops him with Wingardium Leviosa; Madam Hooch takes Neville to Madam Pomfrey.
• Raymond tells Hermione that House loyalties manipulate students and urges her to preserve her independence; later, McGonagall takes Harry away after his aerial showdown with Malfoy.
• Harry accepts Malfoy’s challenge to a midnight wizard’s duel, and Raymond gives him five experimental Magic Scrolls in exchange for ten Galleons.
• Raymond confronts Malfoy in the Slytherin Common Room, insults his cowardice, and demonstrates his power by blasting a crater into the floor before repairing it.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione sneak to the Trophy Room, where Malfoy objects to Hermione’s presence and Hermione says she will not participate in the duel.

Harry defeated Malfoy in a wizarding duel using Raymond’s spell scrolls, while Raymond revealed his scroll research to Snape and Dumbledore. Dumbledore endorsed the invention and granted Raymond access to the Restricted Section, then decided to test whether Raymond would be tempted by the Philosopher’s Stone.

• Malfoy challenged Harry to a duel, and Harry blocked Malfoy’s curse before knocking him through display cases with Expelliarmus from a scroll.
• Hermione realized Harry had activated scrolls during the duel but chose not to expose him, while she warned Harry and Ron that Malfoy could buy scrolls to retaliate.
• Filch and Mrs Norris chased Harry, Ron, and Hermione from the Trophy Room, while Raymond avoided detection and returned to studying in the Restricted Section.
• Snape reprimanded Harry and deducted Gryffindor points, then examined Raymond’s spell scroll and brought him to Dumbledore after learning about the invention.
• Raymond showed Dumbledore his scroll-making notes and accepted a pass to the Restricted Section, while Dumbledore agreed to arrange publication.
• Dumbledore warned Snape not to try manipulating Raymond and decided to test whether the Philosopher’s Stone could tempt him.

Raymond, writing under the name Soros, attracted worldwide attention for his Magic Scroll invention while discussing magical research and the Philosopher’s Stone with Nicolas Flamel. After Rita Skeeter tried to provoke him during an interview, Soros tortured her with the Cruciatus Curse, branded her, and forced her to promise obedience and silence.

• McGonagall told Raymond that reporters wanted to interview him about his Magic Scroll book, and his wandless Patronus experiment exploded in the Great Hall before Neville Longbottom caused a potion accident that injured students.
• Hermione congratulated Raymond and told him that Harry Potter and their friends had found a three-headed dog guarding something Hagrid had taken from Gringotts; Raymond advised her to ask Hagrid directly.
• Penelope Clearwater asked Hermione about Raymond, then clashed with Gemma Farley over whether Ravenclaw could recruit the Slytherin genius, until Percy Weasley and Gryffindor students helped tip the confrontation against Slytherin.
• Soros explained his Magic Scroll technique and ideas for improving magical research to Nicolas Flamel, who praised his insight before leaving the headmaster’s office.
• Rita Skeeter tried to bait Soros with questions about his classmates and Hermione, so Soros destroyed her notes, tortured her with the Cruciatus Curse, branded her, and made her swear to obey him and keep silent.

Raymond silenced Rita Skeeter, discussed Voldemort and Hogwarts’s unfairness with Dumbledore, and became the subject of admiring news coverage. He rejected attempts to recruit him at school, warned the Bloody Baron about Muggle technology, and developed Veritaserum and a reusable spell-storing wand band with Snape, recognizing its commercial potential.

• Rita Skeeter left Hogwarts subdued after Raymond’s warning, and he told Dumbledore that he knew Professor Quirinus Quirrell was possessed by Voldemort’s soul fragment.
• Raymond criticized Horcruxes and Dumbledore’s unfair treatment of students, then Nicolas Flamel praised Raymond’s talent and gave him his alchemical notes.
• Two days later, the Daily Prophet and Wizarding Weekly praised Raymond’s work, while Harry Potter and Ron Weasley discussed his honors and Hermione Granger left them to study.
• Raymond rejected Percy and Penelope Clearwater’s request to teach older students, then told the Bloody Baron that Muggle technology could threaten the wizarding world and criticized Hogwarts for perpetuating House rivalries.
• Raymond brewed Strong Veritaserum under Snape’s guidance and demonstrated a reusable silver wand band that stored a spell, prompting Snape to recommend selling the custom-made devices at a high price.

Raymond received the Order of Merlin, Second Class, and a lucrative Ministry of Magic contract for his Wand Rings and Magic Scroll lessons. He expanded his workshop with Hermione, George, and Fred, then paid the exhausted assistants for completing their first large batch of rings.

• Dumbledore gave Raymond the Order of Merlin, Second Class, a Special Award for Services to the School, and a sample of his newly published book, while Cornelius Fudge offered a reward and a contract worth one hundred thousand Galleons.
• Raymond told Dumbledore he wanted to study magic broadly, including magical creatures, and asked to have Hagrid help him acquire some.
• Raymond dismissed the medal’s importance to Hermione as they prepared Wand Rings, then gave her the sample book and signed it with a newly converted spell.
• Hermione recruited George and Fred to help make Wand Rings, and Raymond agreed to hire the twins.
• George and Fred joined Raymond and Hermione in the workshop, where the three assistants helped complete fifteen Wand Rings.
• Raymond gave the workers a bonus of more than three hundred Galleons, and George and Fred celebrated wildly.

After Ron Weasley disappeared following a painful comparison with his brothers and classmates, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger searched for him with Raymond and found him facing a troll. Raymond destroyed the troll with a powerful compound spell, and while the professors investigated, Voldemort ordered Quirinus Quirrell to bring Raymond to him.

• Ron Weasley left the Gryffindor table after Hermione Granger pointed out how little he could contribute compared with his brothers and classmates, then missed the rest of the day's lessons.
• Harry Potter and Hermione Granger told Raymond that Ron was missing, and Raymond promised to help find him after the Halloween feast.
• When Quirinus Quirrell announced that a troll was in the dungeon, Raymond secretly led Harry Potter and Hermione Granger to Ron, who was hiding in a storage room near the troll.
• Harry Potter slowed the troll with an Impedimenta scroll, and Raymond trapped it with Grease before destroying it with a compound spell combining the Engorgement Charm and Reductor Curse.
• Dumbledore recognized Raymond's spell as a composite, awarded Slytherin House thirty points, and McGonagall rewarded Harry Potter and Hermione Granger while deducting five points from Ron.
• Voldemort learned about Raymond from Quirinus Quirrell and ordered him to bring Raymond in without Dumbledore or Snape discovering it.

As Hogwarts prepared for the first Quidditch match, Raymond rejected the sport, provoked Slytherin’s team, and received a recruitment offer from Quirrell, which he dismissed. After Harry’s Gryffindor team won and Marcus Flint was badly injured, Raymond promised the Weasley twins experimental brooms and warned them about the Dark Arts notebook Quirrell had left behind.

• Raymond refused to watch Quidditch, mocked its dangers, and urged George and Fred Weasley to target Marcus Flint during the match.
• Raymond insulted the Slytherin team in the Great Hall, and the students backed down when he threatened them with his wand.
• Quirrell visited Raymond in his experiment room and tried to recruit him to serve a great wizard, leaving him a notebook of forbidden spells.
• Raymond built a gigantic spiked, bladed iron weapon modeled on a Bludger, enchanted it to spin and fly, and shrank it for storage.
• George and Fred told Raymond that Harry had caught the Golden Snitch and Gryffindor had won, while Marcus Flint had suffered severe injuries.
• Raymond promised George and Fred improved flying brooms for Christmas, accepted their Swelling Solution, and let them take Quirrell’s notebook after warning them not to use or share its spells.

Raymond explained to Hermione that Harry’s role as the Savior was tied to a prophecy, while denying that Snape had tried to harm him. He built the Weasley twins supersonic Black Lightning brooms, which dominated a Quidditch match before the school banned them, and the chapter ended with Malfoy confronting Raymond and Hermione on the Christmas train.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione told Hagrid they suspected Snape was trying to steal what Fluffy guarded, and Hagrid accidentally revealed the name Nicolas Flamel.
• Raymond explained the Philosopher’s Stone and challenged the children’s assumptions about Snape; he later told Hermione that Harry’s Savior title was connected to a prophecy but refused to reveal more.
• Raymond tested Swelling Solution on a rat, then built George Weasley and Fred Weasley two advanced brooms they named Black Lightning.
• George Weasley and Fred Weasley used Black Lightning to overwhelm Ravenclaw during the Quidditch match, and Dumbledore banned the brooms from future matches in exchange for two Nimbus 2000s.
• At Christmas, Raymond and Hermione rode the Hogwarts Express home, where Malfoy and his two lackeys appeared at their compartment door.

Raymond received Lucius Malfoy’s letter, teased Draco and Hermione with invented romantic gossip, and returned to his Wizard’s Tower, where he learned about political turmoil in Baldur’s Gate and the scandal surrounding an expedition to Maztica. He went to Bernard and Sir Kelvin with a plan to distance their venture from Cordell’s crimes, punish the Golden Company, and secure the expedition’s profits and future trade.

• Draco Malfoy delivered Lucius Malfoy’s letter to Raymond, who read it and sent Draco away after teasing him about Harry Potter.
• Raymond told Hermione Granger fabricated stories about Draco Malfoy and revealed secrets about Dumbledore, then showed her Nicolas Flamel’s alchemy notes.
• Hermione Granger reunited with her parents and told them about Raymond’s Spell Storage Technology business and the thousands of Galleons she had earned as his assistant.
• Raymond returned to his Wizard’s Tower, gave the Liches translated notes to study, and heard Vanessa’s report on Baldur’s Gate and the accusations that Cordell’s expedition had slaughtered and plundered people in Maztica.
• Raymond went to Bernard’s family mansion and proposed seeking divine judgment against Cordell, prosecuting the Golden Company, and bargaining with the Council of Six over the expedition’s profits and settlement plans.

Raymond helped secure Cordell and the Golden Company’s conviction, then worked with Amn’s rulers to organize a controlled settlement and trade route to Maztica. The chapter ended with Bernard learning that Edith was pregnant as Amn’s merchant families prepared to profit from the New World.

• Commander Wesslan condemned Cordell and the Golden Company’s massacres, and Raymond arrived to disavow the sponsors’ involvement and demand their execution.
• Watcher General Ousig expelled Cordell and the Golden Company from the Church of Helm, and the court sentenced them to be burned alive in three days.
• Raymond urged the Knights of the Radiant Heart to send Paladins to Maztica, then advised Bernard and Sir Kelvin to build a secure island settlement and regulate the first voyage.
• Raymond, Bernard, and Sir Kelvin met with the Council of Six, which recognized the sponsors’ rights, provided ships and supplies, recruited pioneers, and claimed control of travel to Maztica.
• At a banquet, Raymond shared a chocolate recipe as Amn’s leading families divided trade territories and planned to profit from cacao.
• Raymond examined Edith and confirmed that she was pregnant, delighting Bernard and prompting him to donate to Ilmater’s temple.

Raymond tested his Physics Holy Orbs on a massive Orc camp, killing tens of thousands and drawing the attention of Silverymoon, Mystra, and Oghma. Mystra and Oghma arrived together at the Wizard's Tower to speak with Soros about the knowledge he had brought from another world.

• Raymond discussed Amn's trade agreement with Vermees, ordered her to guard the Dragonborn creatures, and gave her Earth diamonds to study.
• Jeffrey reported progress adapting another world's spells and Potions, and Raymond asked him to find targets for testing a new Magic Weapon.
• Jeffrey teleported Raymond to the Northland, where Raymond unleashed his Physics Holy Orbs on an Orc camp and killed tens of thousands of Orcs.
• Rangers reported the attack to Alustriel, who learned through Mystra that Soros was responsible and considered inviting him to Silverymoon.
• Midnight and Oghma independently went to the Wizard's Tower to meet Soros, recognized each other at its entrance, and knocked together.

Raymond discussed Faerun’s history and the prospects for spreading practical magic with Mystra and Oghma, then accepted Mystra’s silver fire and became her Chosen. After the gods departed, Raymond took Isadora to London to prepare Christmas gifts and show her the modern world.

• Raymond argued to Mystra and Oghma that Faerun’s divine conflicts and repeated attempts to remake the world had caused turmoil, and he recommended Halruaa as a place to spread everyday magic.
• Oghma revealed that Zeranora was Shaan VII, who planned to restore the Shaan Empire, while Raymond declared that he intended to destroy the Twisted Rune and oppose Cyric.
• Mystra offered Raymond silver fire, and he accepted it, gaining its powers and choosing spells and immunities before demonstrating that he could already control the silver flame.
• Oghma gave Raymond a book about creating legendary magic items and artifacts, and Mystra and Oghma returned to their divine realms after their three-day visit.
• After receiving intelligence from Rain, Raymond took Isadora through a portal to London, explained modern technology, and brought her shopping before taking her to dinner in Diagon Alley.