Chapter Summaries

Zuo Si took control of Plantia Floating City, cleansed it of plague, and discovered that his mentor Astar had hidden memories in Valena as a possible means of rebirth. Meanwhile, Raymond prepared to establish a nation across his territories and went to meet a Succubus claiming to be Talona’s Chosen.

• Zuo Si claimed the Supreme Codex, admitted his Liches to the Mages' Council, and used the Wartime Protocol to take control of the city's towers and magical creations.
• Zuo Si and Vanessa disposed of the Undead, contained the survivors, eradicated the plague, and extinguished the fires below Plantia Floating City.
• A Mind Flayer found memories sealed in Valena's brain that Astar had apparently intended to pass to her unborn child, and Zuo Si ordered it to preserve them while erasing Valena's memory of the examination.
• Raymond told Eric and the administrators that he would unite Luskan and the surrounding islands into a nation, appoint Eric its first king, and issue a new currency.
• Yelinya reported that Drizzt had visited Luskan and that Ulrika, a Succubus claiming to be Talona's Chosen, was killing Devil spies, so Raymond went to meet her.

Raymond met Talona after she used Ulrika as cover to descend secretly, and agreed to help claim Bhaal’s Death Portfolio. After Talona vanished, Raymond returned to the Wizard’s Tower, where Isadora had awakened twelve living copies of herself.

• Ulrika provoked a deadly brawl at the Seven Sails Inn, where Yelinya found her and brought her to Raymond.
• Raymond warned Ulrika to stop causing trouble, then received Talona’s scroll, which let the goddess possess Ulrika and appear before him.
• Talona revealed that she had risen to Intermediate Divine Power and wanted Bhaal’s Death Portfolio; Raymond agreed to pursue it and displayed his control of Bhaal’s divine power.
• Ilmater detected Talona’s presence, forcing her to depart and leaving Ulrika unconscious; Raymond carried her back to the Wizard’s Tower.
• Isadora implanted personality fragments into twelve clones, awakening them, and the tower’s residents reacted with disbelief.

Raymond stopped Isadora from cultivating more clones after discovering her plan to fuse them and strengthen her Psionics, then negotiated with Amn’s Council of Six to use cheap grain to undermine Sembia. He later checked on the Elder Brain and learned Isadora already knew the techniques needed for brain fusion, before finding Vermees breeding Huendal to produce Red Dragon Dragonborn.

• Raymond returned to the mage tower and learned that Isadora had created twelve clones, with fifty-two more being cultivated, so they could devour and fuse with one another to increase their Psionics.
• Raymond ordered Isadora to stop cultivating clones after the current batch matured, and the Isadoras agreed to take turns appearing beside him.
• Raymond persuaded Amn’s Council of Six to accept his new currency by offering exclusive rights to distribute MSG, then agreed with them to attack Sembia economically by dumping grain.
• Raymond visited the Nautiloid, told the Mind Flayers to let the Elder Brain develop naturally, and learned that Isadora and her clones had already mastered Psionic techniques, including brain fusion.
• Raymond learned that Isadora’s clones’ attachment to him could shape which personalities survived their fusions, then found Vermees using an aphrodisiac-driven Huendal to produce more Red Dragon Dragonborn.

Raymond trained in his Blue Dragon form, dissected the captive Marilith Monahil to study Demons, and advanced his magical research while tracking the Bhaalspawn. Saranda Olam then asked him to join a party rescuing Waukeen from Graz'zt, and Raymond postponed his decision as the Church continued recruiting heroes.

• Huendal was dragged back to his cell after Vermees forced him to mate with beasts, while Raymond trained with her and tested a dangerous Silver Fire enhancement in his Blue Dragon form.
• Raymond dissected Monahil, examined her unusual anatomy and eye, and had the Wizard's Tower continue torturing her for information about the Abyss.
• Raymond reviewed the rising Bhaalspawn conflict, studied the archmage spell Air Hammer, and adapted it into Faerûnian spells and a spell for another magical world.
• Saranda Olam and the Church of Waukeen's five Highgold visited Raymond and explained that Graz'zt had imprisoned Waukeen in the Abyss.
• Saranda invited Raymond to join a rescue party that included Storm Silverhand; Raymond asked for time to decide, and Saranda left to recruit a powerful warrior favored by Tempus.

Raymond investigated the theft of the scroll sealing Atropal, suspecting a time traveler, and recruited allies to search for it while crafting a Philosopher's Stone. He arrived at the Weasley home to meet the family and the twins, leaving the scroll thief still at large.

• Raymond discovered that someone disguised as him had stolen the scroll from the Doomsday Bunker and suspected the thief had traveled back from the future using time magic.
• Raymond contacted Cornelius Fudge, enlisted Rita Skeeter to investigate Professor Croaker and time magic, and asked Lucius Malfoy to use his connections to locate the scroll.
• Lucius retrieved Voldemort's Diary from the Malfoy vault and planned to use it to retaliate against Arthur Weasley, while Dobby watched him unseen.
• Raymond made a Philosopher's Stone that could produce Magical Quicksilver and help resurrect the dead, intending to use its existence as bait for the thief.
• Raymond answered Hermione's and the twins' letters, then traveled by Floo Powder to the Weasley home, where George, Fred, Ron, Ginny, and Molly greeted him.

Raymond visited the Weasleys, where he charmed Molly into returning George and Fred’s money and learned that Harry had not answered his friends’ letters. He investigated Professor Croaker’s possible connection to Time Magic, agreed to teach Magic Scroll-making at Hogwarts, and met Hermione in Diagon Alley, giving her a Kneazle statue before buying Crookshanks.

• Raymond persuaded Molly that George and Fred had earned their money honestly, and she agreed to return it if they kept accounts of their spending.
• George and Fred recruited Ron as a paid tester for their prank inventions, while the family worried that Harry had stopped replying to letters.
• Arthur reported that Harry had used a Hover Charm, and the twins began planning to check on him without Molly’s knowledge.
• Raymond sent two Succubi to investigate Professor Croaker and his grandson Kerwin, then agreed to teach a weekly Magic Scroll-making class at Hogwarts.
• At the Leaky Cauldron, Raymond met Hermione and her parents, showed Hermione his Enhanced Philosopher’s Stone, and gave her a Kneazle statue to summon and name.
• Raymond and Hermione went to Diagon Alley, where Raymond bought Crookshanks for her.

Raymond attended the Diagon Alley book shopping and used a Philosopher’s Stone to revive a rat, proving it could bring the dead back to life. Dumbledore warned that the Stone would attract dangerous attention, while Snape’s interest in resurrection remained clear.

• Raymond introduced Hermione to his House-elf Noth and discussed the history of House-elf enslavement, prompting Hermione to reconsider her anger.
• Raymond advised Hermione to skip Gilderoy Lockhart’s books, then met Charm, who gave him stolen Department of Mysteries research on the Time-Reversal Spell.
• Arthur Weasley fought Lucius Malfoy outside Flourish and Blotts, and Raymond traded Ginny’s battered book for his own textbook, unknowingly taking Voldemort’s diary from her.
• Raymond advised Harry to use legal and public pressure against the Dursleys if they mistreated him again.
• Raymond met Ministry officials and Hogwarts professors at the Hog’s Head Inn and demonstrated that his Philosopher’s Stone could revive a rat killed by the Killing Curse.
• Dumbledore warned Raymond that the resurrection Stone would bring catastrophic consequences, while Nicolas Flamel recalled being hunted for decades over his own Philosopher’s Stone.

Raymond handed the Philosopher's Stone to the Ministry of Magic to gain access to the Department of Mysteries, then gave Snape and Aberforth portions of Magical Quicksilver to revive their loved ones. Snape resurrected Lily Evans, who awoke without most of her memories, while Raymond went to see how Aberforth's resurrection of Ariana Dumbledore had gone.

• Albus Dumbledore revealed Raymond's Dumbledore blood, and Aberforth joined him and Raymond in discussing the stone's dangers and the brothers' conflict over whether it should be destroyed.
• Raymond explained that Magical Quicksilver could revive the dead and replenish itself by absorbing magical creatures' life force, then proposed placing the stone in the Department of Mysteries.
• Raymond handed the Philosopher's Stone to Cornelius Fudge, and Snape and Aberforth each received a portion of Magical Quicksilver in exchange for owing Raymond a favor.
• Snape resurrected Lily Evans at her grave, but she woke with most of her memories missing, and Snape took her home determined to win her love.
• Raymond and the Diary watched the resurrection as an experiment, and Raymond left to check on Aberforth's attempt to revive Ariana Dumbledore.

Raymond studied Time Magic, created the Millennium Reversal card, and drew new cards while preparing for Hogwarts. After returning to school, he encountered missing students, joined the staff at the feast, and saw Snape struggling with his changed relationship with Harry Potter.

• Raymond explained that Ariana Dumbledore's memories had regressed to infancy, then helped Aberforth arrange for Calvi to care for her in a Muggle home.
• Raymond tested the Time-Reversal Spell on Occamies, developed the Millennium Reversal card, and drew ten cards that included an Earthshaker Elephant and a Stitched Corpse-Embedded Beast.
• Noth told Raymond that the Ministry had announced his Second Philosopher's Stone while hiding its resurrection power, and Raymond burned letters from pure-blood families seeking resurrection favors.
• Raymond boarded the Hogwarts Express, where Hermione joined him and George Weasley, Fred Weasley, and Ginny Weasley searched for Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
• Raymond spotted Harry Potter and Ron Weasley flying Arthur Weasley's car, then learned at the feast that he would serve as both a student and a professor.
• Raymond agreed to collaborate with Gilderoy Lockhart and quietly warned Snape that his new appearance might draw attention; Snape said he had hidden Lily Evans and was worried about his relationship with Harry Potter.

Raymond discussed resurrection and Magical Quicksilver with Snape, then watched Snape handle Harry and Ron after their flying-car crash and Molly’s Howler. Dumbledore tried to caution Raymond against pursuing resurrection, but Raymond refused to change course; later, Raymond visited Snape and Lily Potter at their secluded home.

• Snape told Raymond that McGonagall might eventually seek Magical Quicksilver to resurrect her brother, and Raymond revealed he could make more Philosopher’s Stones.
• Snape led Harry and Ron away after their flying car violated the Statute of Secrecy and damaged the Whomping Willow, warning them they would be punished but not expelled.
• Molly Weasley’s Howler publicly berated Ron at breakfast, while Harry felt guilty about the trouble caused to the Weasley family.
• Raymond told Hermione he would reveal truths about the world and universe when she was older, then met Dumbledore in the headmaster’s office.
• Raymond rejected Dumbledore’s attempt to persuade him through a memory of his past mistakes, insisting he would continue exploring time and death.
• Raymond accompanied Snape to his home, where Lily Potter greeted Snape affectionately, and teased them about marrying and having more children.

Raymond helped Snape plan how to win Harry’s acceptance, then advised Hermione on advanced Transfiguration before Snape unexpectedly awarded Harry points and separated him from Ron. At the Ministry, Fudge’s researchers successfully resurrected Augustus Rookwood with Magical Quicksilver, while Umbridge maneuvered to make Raymond her ally in a bid for power.

• Raymond told Snape to treat Harry fairly in Potions, praise Lily’s skill, and separate Harry from Ron, and Snape thanked him with advanced potions and a large notebook of formulas.
• Raymond taught Hermione to understand a target’s components when performing Transfiguration, and she nearly transformed a boulder into a moving human shape before Raymond stopped it from crushing her.
• Snape awarded Harry ten points for answering a Potions question, berated Ron, and moved Raymond beside Harry while Ron sat with Hermione.
• Raymond told Harry that Lily and Snape had been childhood sweethearts and suggested he might one day accept Snape as a stepfather, leaving Harry shaken.
• Fudge’s Department of Mysteries team killed and resurrected Augustus Rookwood using Magical Quicksilver, and Fudge ordered the experiment kept secret until Raymond visited.
• Umbridge persuaded Fudge to cultivate Raymond as a political ally, then secretly sent him a list of valuable Ministry knowledge and artifacts to prompt a private deal.

Raymond used a dangerous Magic Scroll demonstration to humiliate Gilderoy Lockhart and manipulate him into stealing Voldemort’s Diary. The chapter ended with Raymond and the Diary anticipating that Lockhart would become a test subject for observing a Horcrux’s operation and rebirth.

• Raymond discussed Grindelwald, wizard rule, and the wider world with Hermione before teasing her about drinking milk and making her choke.
• Snape took Ron away to prune and restore the Whomping Willow, leaving Harry to attend Raymond’s class and urging him to meet Lily’s expectations.
• Lockhart claimed he had mastered Magic Scrolls, but Raymond made him demonstrate with runes that caused a magical explosion and left him burned and naked before the students.
• Raymond kept Lockhart under his control for the lesson, while Gemma Farley praised Raymond and considered approaching him.
• Lockhart stole Raymond’s black Diary to get revenge, and Raymond revealed that he had set the theft up so the Diary could study how a Horcrux worked and returned to life.

Raymond visited the Department of Mysteries to discuss resurrection experiments and the Ministry’s plans to revive Gideon Prewett, warning that the long-dead wizard might suffer memory loss. Dolores Umbridge then brought Raymond to the Time Room, where he recognized its unusual properties and invited her to speak freely.

• Raymond watched Ron arrive exhausted and injured after Snape made him dig around the Whomping Willow, while Snape said he was trying to make Harry Potter resemble Lily rather than James.
• Raymond left Hogwarts with a Portkey, leaving Hermione to care for his magical creatures, and met Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge at the Ministry of Magic.
• In the Department of Mysteries, Raymond discussed Magical Quicksilver and resurrection research with Professor Herman, then asked how the Ministry planned to regulate the resurrection of the dead.
• Raymond approved Gideon Prewett as the Ministry’s first public resurrection candidate but warned that Gideon might have lost memories, prompting Fudge to visit the Prewett Family.
• After Fudge left, Umbridge led Raymond to the Time Room, where he admired the room and told her it was difficult to eavesdrop there.

Raymond acquired and transformed a Time Turner into the Hourglass of Time, then defended the Ministry’s plan to resurrect the dead despite Dumbledore’s objections. After returning to Hogwarts, he found Ron Weasley working in isolation and met him with a feast, asking whether Ron felt wronged and resentful.

• Umbridge gave Raymond a Time Turner and sought his advice on building political support; Raymond urged her to cultivate ordinary wizards and pursue the Minister’s office.
• Raymond altered the Time Turner into the Hourglass of Time, gaining powers over acceleration, deceleration, foresight, and time magic while destabilizing the Department of Mysteries’ temporal barrier.
• Raymond told the Hogwarts professors that the Ministry planned a semi-public resurrection of Gideon Prewett; McGonagall supported the plan, and Dumbledore left after failing to persuade them against it.
• Snape revealed that Lily Potter had been resurrected but had lost many memories, and he told McGonagall that he would take responsibility as Harry Potter’s stepfather.
• Harry Potter learned that Ron Weasley had been working alone in the castle garden and avoided visiting him after hearing that Ron had become hostile toward anyone who offered help.
• Raymond waited up with a table of food for the exhausted Ron Weasley, then asked whether Ron believed he was innocent, unfairly targeted, and full of resentment.

Raymond confronted Ron about his resentment toward Harry and pushed him to become independent, then began researching Spark Resonance. His first experiment devastated part of the Forbidden Forest but proved the resonance could restore a fading Spark, while Isadora’s clones completed a brutal round of fusion in Faerûn.

• Raymond described Harry’s abusive childhood to Ron, prompting Ron to recognize his misplaced resentment and feel ashamed.
• Raymond gave Ron a new wand and urged him to develop his own identity and magic apart from Harry; Hermione later admitted she had asked Raymond to help him.
• Raymond and Hermione kissed and spent the night together, while Raymond continued studying magic and added the destructive Starfall spell to his Magic Card collection.
• Raymond tested Spark Resonance in the Forbidden Forest, unleashing an explosion that vaporized everything within five kilometers and left a vast crater.
• Dumbledore, McGonagall, and the other professors investigated the crater, mistook the summoned Black Dragon for evidence of an outsider, and ordered stronger patrols.
• Raymond confirmed that resonance had reignited the fading Spark and began considering taking Sparks from other Planeswalkers, while Isadora’s clones fused until four distinct personalities remained.

Ron saw Soros, Snape, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and the Weasleys leave Hogwarts, while Hermione hinted that the Daily Prophet would reveal why. At the Ministry, Soros’s Philosopher’s Stone resurrected Gideon Prewett, and the chapter ended with the Ministry arranging a public resurrection process and Aberforth preparing to bring his resurrected sister Ariana back into the Dumbledores’ lives.

• Ron questioned Hermione about Soros’s activities, and she told him to watch the next day’s Daily Prophet.
• Lockhart, controlled by Tom Riddle’s Horcrux, entered the Chamber of Secrets, summoned the Basilisk, and began searching the castle for a victim.
• Cornelius Fudge introduced Soros’s resurrection ceremony at the Ministry, where Professor Herman used Magical Quicksilver to restore Gideon Prewett.
• As families argued over the remaining Magical Quicksilver, Soros warned that he could destroy the Philosopher’s Stone, and Umbridge proposed deciding future resurrections by a public vote.
• Raymond told Dumbledore that he had enough Magical Quicksilver for five more resurrections and confirmed that Snape had resurrected Lily.
• Aberforth told Raymond that he and Snape had donated money to secure legal identities for Ariana and Lily, and he vowed to protect his resurrected sister.

Raymond’s fame surged after the Philosopher’s Stone resurrected Gideon Prewett, and Snape revealed to Harry that Lily had returned and would become his mother again. When a student was petrified at Hogwarts, Raymond restored him, then exposed and defeated the young Voldemort possessing Lockhart, leaving the diary Horcrux free to continue stirring trouble.

• Newspapers reported Raymond’s rise to fame, the resurrection of Gideon Prewett, and international efforts to obtain access to the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Percy told Ron that Gideon was their uncle, while Snape summoned Harry and explained that Lily had been resurrected, was pregnant, and would marry him; Harry signed a guardianship transfer agreement.
• A student was found fully petrified, and Snape defended Harry against Draco’s accusations before Raymond used a new spell to restore the victim.
• Justin said he had seen a pair of enormous pale-yellow eyes, and Dumbledore organized a search of Hogwarts.
• Raymond paired with Lockhart, exposed him as the young Voldemort, and defeated him in a wandless duel before allowing him to flee with the diary.
• Raymond discussed the Horcrux’s unstable emotions and proposed finding Voldemort sacrifices, then planned to travel to mainland Europe to investigate its prisons.

Raymond helped Snape reunite with Lily and shaped her understanding of her past, while Harry learned that Dumbledore had planned his fate around Voldemort. The chapter left Snape and Raymond openly at odds with Dumbledore, and Raymond confident he could find another way to destroy Voldemort’s Horcruxes.

• Dumbledore’s search of Hogwarts found no intruder, while the younger Voldemort hid his diary and planned to join forces with the Voldemort hiding in Albania.
• Raymond told Lily a selective account of her relationship with Snape and James Potter, and Lily embraced Snape and reunited with Harry.
• Lily learned Harry had been mistreated by the Dursleys, and Snape promised that Harry could live with them after her identity was approved.
• Harry agreed to accept Snape as Lily’s partner, while Snape promised to support him and help him at school.
• Dumbledore admitted that he had planned for Harry to confront Voldemort and revealed that Harry carried a fragment of Voldemort’s soul; Raymond and Snape challenged him, and Harry lost trust in the headmaster.
• Hermione overheard the confrontation, and Raymond explained Harry’s Horcrux and promised to seek a way to defeat Voldemort as he and Hermione became intimate.

Raymond visited Beauxbatons, then secretly reached Nurmengard and began killing and resurrecting Grindelwald to study the afterlife. Meanwhile, two versions of Voldemort agreed to cooperate to seize the Second Philosopher’s Stone, though they planned to settle which one would survive later.

• Harry became frightened after learning the scar on his forehead contained a Horcrux, and he devoted himself to studying magic instead of playing Quidditch.
• Grindelwald warned Dumbledore that his desire for control was isolating him, then told him Raymond had arrived in France and would visit Nurmengard.
• Raymond toured Beauxbatons with Madame Maxime and Nicolas Flamel, where he learned that French authorities were hunting him after the prison break and that ancient families had targeted him.
• Raymond secretly entered Nurmengard, asked Grindelwald to help investigate death, and killed and resurrected him repeatedly to record what he experienced in the afterlife.
• The younger Voldemort met the adult Voldemort in Albania, and they agreed to work together to seize the Second Philosopher’s Stone before fighting over which Voldemort would remain.

Raymond investigated the Afterlife by repeatedly killing and resurrecting Grindelwald, then erased and replaced Grindelwald’s memories. In Germany, Raymond baited and slaughtered the Dark wizards who came for him, while the fallout left the Ministry distracted and the two Voldemorts plotting a prison break and attack; Umbridge also secured the Time Turners after the Time Room began collapsing.

• Raymond concluded that souls passed through a Veil into chaos and eventually fell into an Abyss, then used a Memory Charm and Memory Weaving to hide his experiments from Grindelwald.
• Raymond drew rival groups of Dark wizards to a Berlin restaurant with a bottle of Magical Quicksilver, turned them against one another, and killed those who remained after they joined forces against him.
• The German Ministry found Raymond’s grotesque corpse sculpture, while newspapers blamed Dark wizards and the United Kingdom Ministry sent Aurors to protect him.
• The adult Voldemort and the younger Voldemort planned to free followers from Azkaban with help from a Basilisk and then attack the Ministry of Magic for the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Professor Croaker reported that the Time Room’s nodes and temporal barrier were disappearing, and Umbridge secretly took the remaining Time Turners into her care.