Recaps

Ian received a mysterious invitation addressed to Raven, asking him to meet where bridge shadows swayed after dark, and spent the afternoon exploring London before the appointment. Near the National Gallery, he sensed something unusual about two Muggle girls who had approached him.

• Ian untied a crow’s enchanted message, recognized that its sender knew his Raven identity, and agreed to attend the secret meeting.
• Ian left the secondhand market and relaxed over coffee and a scone at the Old Oak Café.
• Ian visited Trafalgar Square, helped an American couple take a photograph, and continued toward the National Gallery.
• Two local girls invited Ian to explore the gallery with them, but he politely declined and said he was meeting someone.
• Ian sensed an absurd and unexpected quality in the two girls’ existence, leaving him surprised.

Ian spent his last hours as an ordinary tourist in London before heading to a riverside bridge to meet the Dark Lord. Far away, the cloaked figure learned that Ian had accepted the invitation and discovered the magical crow had been transfigured from a steak pie.

• Ian recognized that the brown-haired girl was acting as a surrogate for a child unrelated to her or her blonde companion, then left the two girls and continued through London.
• Ian visited St James's Park, ate steak and kidney pie at The Iron Anchor and Oar, and wandered through the city toward the Thames.
• Ian reached a quiet stretch of riverfront and identified a dimly lit bridge as a possible match for the crow's meeting clue, “where bridge shadows sway.”
• The magical crow returned to the cloaked figure in a hidden tower, who confirmed that Ian had agreed to meet.
• The cloaked figure stroked the crow until it vanished and became a steaming steak pie, then remarked that Ian still had quite an appetite.

Gellert Grindelwald asked Albus Dumbledore to let him send a harmless duplicate outside Nurmengard so he could experience the world again. Dumbledore remained wary but was moved by Grindelwald’s apparent longing and age, leaving the request unresolved.

• A Ministry wizard told Grindelwald that Albus Dumbledore had arrived, and Grindelwald invited him into the tower.
• Grindelwald offered Dumbledore tea, and Dumbledore pressed him to explain why he had requested a meeting.
• Grindelwald asked to send a magicless duplicate outside to see the sky, streets, and ordinary life.
• Dumbledore refused to let Grindelwald leave the tower and questioned whether the duplicate proposal concealed a plot.
• Grindelwald said he wanted to experience the world before he died and stressed that he was respecting their agreement by asking Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore suspected Grindelwald could have secretly used the tower’s loyal attendants, but he remained silent as the request hung between them.

Grindelwald told Dumbledore that a prophecy foretold both their deaths and everyone else's if he did not leave the tower that night, and asked to visit a special Raven in London. Dumbledore was shaken by Grindelwald calling the Raven “him,” and the chapter ended with him torn between suspicion and longing to see the mysterious being.

• Dumbledore questioned Grindelwald’s motives for asking to use a magical double, and Grindelwald admitted he wanted to see London that night.
• Grindelwald warned that he had foreseen his own death, Dumbledore’s death, and everyone else’s if he stayed in the tower.
• Grindelwald asked Dumbledore to help him leave as a double so he could confirm and perhaps change what was coming.
• Grindelwald said he wanted to see a special Raven near a bridge on the Thames, and Dumbledore recalled obscure legends about the Raven as a mythical symbol.
• Grindelwald invited Dumbledore to accompany him and referred to the Raven as “him,” shocking Dumbledore with the possibility that it was a person.
• Dumbledore struggled with his suspicions and his growing desire to see the Raven.

Dumbledore weighed Grindelwald’s offer to investigate Raven, then learned Grindelwald’s secret and resolved to act despite the risks. He sought one-day permission to take Grindelwald to London, but the International Confederation of Wizards officials angrily challenged him.

• Dumbledore questioned Grindelwald about Raven, his sources, and his motives before agreeing to hear everything.
• Grindelwald revealed his greatest secret, leaving Dumbledore horrified and briefly unable to respond.
• Dumbledore decided he had to investigate Raven himself and told Grindelwald to wait while he left the tower.
• Dumbledore filed an application to take Grindelwald to London for a supervised, one-day observational outing.
• International Confederation of Wizards officials protested the application, and Dumbledore faced them with commanding authority.

Dumbledore forced the International Wizarding Union to approve Gellert Grindelwald’s temporary parole by invoking top-secret concerns and accepting full responsibility. He completed the handover at the tower, and Grindelwald was released into his custody for just under twenty-four hours.

• Dumbledore silenced the protesting officials and insisted that his parole application was a notification, not a discussion.
• Dumbledore completed the required paperwork, secured three senior officials’ endorsements, and signed a declaration accepting full responsibility for Grindelwald’s actions during parole.
• The International Wizarding Union approved Grindelwald’s parole for twenty-three hours and fifty-seven minutes and assigned two Aurors to accompany Dumbledore to the detention tower.
• Dumbledore and the Aurors arrived at the tower, where Grindelwald waited at the entrance in formal robes.
• A tower supervisor verified the documents, completed the handover, and released Grindelwald into Dumbledore’s custody.

Dumbledore took Grindelwald to London, where they planned to locate Raven through Jorkins. Meanwhile, Rowle returned to a Death Eater stronghold and warned that Ian was a powerful, ancient-seeming wizard who had threatened to visit Voldemort.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald Apparated from the prison, while the international Aurors received an emergency report of a Death Eater attack in northern Yorkshire and went to assist.
• In London, Grindelwald proposed tracking Jorkins to find Raven, and Dumbledore agreed to follow his lead.
• Rowle returned to a London Death Eater stronghold in terror and demanded to warn Voldemort about Ian.
• Rowle described how Ian had stopped him from attacking Muggles, sealed off his escape, and left a mark in his soul.
• The senior Death Eater began taking Rowle's warning seriously because Voldemort was pursuing the prophecy and an unknown wizard could disrupt the operation.

Rowle reported to Voldemort that an unknown young wizard had rescued Jorkins and marked his soul. Voldemort ordered Yaxley to investigate the stranger and kept Rowle alive as a specimen, punishing his failure with the Cruciatus Curse.

• A Death Eater escorted Rowle through the hideout to Voldemort, who had just completed a failed attempt to extract prophecies from two Muggles.
• Rowle told Voldemort that an unknown, powerful black-haired wizard had rescued Jorkins and placed a strange mark on Rowle’s soul.
• Voldemort probed the mark with his wand, sensed its unfamiliar nature, and ordered Yaxley to identify the mysterious wizard.
• Voldemort decided to keep Rowle alive to study the mark, then tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse as punishment and a warning to the other Death Eaters.

After terrifying the Death Eaters and ordering them to investigate a mysterious powerful figure, Voldemort descended into his hidden laboratory to attempt a ritual contacting entities from deep space. The ritual began consuming the pain and fear of two abducted Muggles, leaving Voldemort on the verge of contact with the unknown.

• Voldemort tortured Rowle, ordered that he be kept alive, and told the Death Eaters to investigate unusual magic and the unknown powerful figure.
• Yaxley assigned investigative tasks, while Lucius Malfoy and Barty Crouch left to pursue the search in their own ways.
• Voldemort entered his secret underground laboratory, where he prepared a ritual to contact the entities he called deep space.
• Voldemort placed two abducted Muggles on the altar and invoked a dark force, drawing an immense, malicious gaze toward the cavern.
• The ritual woke the Muggles and subjected them to overwhelming agony as Voldemort called on deep space to grant him knowledge and power.

Voldemort sacrificed two Muggles in a ritual that connected him to the Cthulhu Pantheon, giving him forbidden knowledge while contaminating his soul and making him a vessel for chaos. Convinced he could become the world’s first Legend, he traveled to his hidden island in the North Atlantic to pursue a breakthrough.

• Voldemort used the ritual altar to drain two Muggles and establish contact with deep space.
• Voldemort greedily absorbed the incoming power and knowledge as chaotic whispers began corrupting his soul and a new mark took root within him.
• When the ritual ended, Voldemort turned the Muggles’ bodies to ash and declared that he would ascend to Legend.
• Voldemort decided to use a treasure he had collected to fuse the new power with his magic and traveled by Apparition to his concealed North Atlantic island.
• Voldemort arrived on the island’s basalt platform, looked up at the stars, and vowed to become the world’s only Legend.

Voldemort used a fragment of R’lyeh to fuse deep-space chaos into his magic and force his way into the realm of Legend. Newly empowered and convinced he could defeat Dumbledore, he planned to conquer the wizarding world while his enemies remained unaware of his transformation.

• Voldemort opened a hidden chamber on a North Atlantic island and retrieved a dark-blue crystal he had taken from smugglers years earlier.
• Voldemort swallowed the crystal, and its chaotic energy violently remade his body, magic, and soul.
• Voldemort’s power surged as the crystal’s energy broke through his bottleneck, elevating him to Legend.
• Voldemort tested his new chaotic magic, distorting the air and transforming a patch of rock before it returned to normal.
• Voldemort looked toward Britain and imagined defeating Dumbledore, crushing the Order of the Phoenix, and ruling the wizarding world.
• Voldemort’s enemies remained unaware of his breakthrough as Dumbledore prepared to set out with Grindelwald to find Raven.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald left a London restaurant to stage a chance meeting with Ministry employee Jorkins and learn about Raven. At Blackfriars Bridge, Dumbledore approached Jorkins, who recognized him and relaxed, while Grindelwald watched from the shadows.

• Grindelwald insisted on enjoying a full meal with Dumbledore before they pursued leads, saying he needed to readjust to feeling alive.
• Grindelwald sensed that Jorkins was walking toward the riverside and proposed a plausible chance encounter near Blackfriars Bridge.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald left the restaurant and waited in the shadows beside the riverside path.
• Grindelwald spotted Jorkins approaching, and Dumbledore stepped into the lamplight to greet him as though by chance.
• Jorkins recognized Dumbledore and felt relieved by his presence.

Cedric Jorkins told Dumbledore how a mysterious young wizard called Raven rescued him from Death Eaters, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald considered the danger Raven’s intervention posed. The two resolved to find Raven, only to spot him emerging onto a bridge across the river and looking directly at them.

• Cedric Jorkins encountered Dumbledore and recounted how a powerful young wizard rescued him from Death Eaters, examined his memories, and left him a cobblestone token.
• Dumbledore examined the token, asked Jorkins to describe the wizard, and instructed him to keep the rescue and Raven’s identity secret.
• Dumbledore quietly reinforced Jorkins’s resolve to keep the secret, and Jorkins left feeling calmer.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald discussed Raven’s warning to Voldemort’s forces and agreed they needed to find and communicate with him.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore spotted a young black-haired man emerging from a bridge across the river, and he turned to look directly at them.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald followed the mysterious Raven to a Muggle night market, where they met Ian and learned he had expected someone to seek him out. The chapter ended with Dumbledore asking Ian how he should be addressed, while concealing that he already knew his identity.

• Dumbledore recognized the retreating figure as the Raven described by Jorkins, and Grindelwald concluded that the man was leading them somewhere.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald followed the Raven across Blackfriars Bridge and through a crowded Muggle night market.
• The Raven, revealed as Ian, waited at a food stall and invited Dumbledore and Grindelwald to sit with him.
• Ian greeted Dumbledore and recognized Grindelwald, saying he was surprised that Grindelwald had come to find him.
• Grindelwald teased Ian about being a prisoner out for fresh air, and Ian hinted that Dumbledore had secured his parole.
• Dumbledore asked Ian how he should address him, choosing not to reveal that he already knew Ian was the Raven.

Ian introduced himself as Ian Prince and pressed Grindelwald about why he had sought him out, while Dumbledore wondered whether Ian was related to Severus Snape. Meanwhile, Voldemort returned to his lair with newly elevated power and unsettling good cheer, leaving his Death Eaters confused about what he had experienced.

• Ian gave Dumbledore and Grindelwald the name Ian Prince, prompting Dumbledore to consider his possible connection to Severus Snape and the Prince family.
• Ian asked Grindelwald why he had gone to such lengths to meet him, bringing their conversation back to Grindelwald’s intentions.
• Voldemort returned to the Death Eaters’ lair with more concentrated, unstable magic and questioned Yaxley, Lucius, Barty Crouch Jr., and Bellatrix about their work.
• Voldemort praised their progress and told them that he had seen a clearer future and was approaching power that would usher in a new order.
• After Voldemort dismissed them, Lucius, Yaxley, Barty Crouch Jr., and Bellatrix discussed his strange friendliness and unsettling promises before going their separate ways.

Voldemort tested the reality-warping and corruptive power he gained from reaching the legendary realm, then began preparing a ritual array to contact higher beings in deep space. As he worked, urgent knocking at the chamber door interrupted him.

• Voldemort entered his underground chamber and tested his new chaotic magic on obsidian targets and a gnome soul.
• Voldemort cast powerful Dark Magic, including Void Rending, and became convinced he could defeat Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Voldemort decided to pursue immortality by building an array that would attract the attention of higher beings in deep space.
• Voldemort began inscribing the array and carefully preparing its rare, dangerous materials.
• Someone knocked urgently but cautiously on the chamber door as Voldemort prepared to inscribe the next ring of runes.

Voldemort learned that Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Ian Prince were together at a London night market and mobilized elite Death Eaters to ambush them. Unaware of the danger, Ian questioned Grindelwald about a mysterious black-robed woman and began explaining his view of fate as a changing network of possibilities.

• Yaxley told Voldemort that Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the young wizard Ian Prince were at a night market near Blackfriars Bridge.
• Voldemort abandoned his unfinished magic circle and ordered Yaxley to assemble elite Death Eaters for an attack.
• Yaxley briefed the gathered Death Eaters, while Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, and Barty Crouch Jr. prepared for the confrontation.
• Ian asked Grindelwald whether he knew the identity of the black-robed woman who had guided Jorkins, and Grindelwald said he knew little beyond Jorkins's memories.
• Grindelwald asked Ian about the nature of prophecy, and Ian described fate as a changing network woven from possibilities, causes, choices, and chance.

Ian explained his probabilistic view of prophecy to Grindelwald, who hinted that Ian had a final exam approaching and questioned whether a mysterious figure had drawn him to Jorkins. Their discussion was interrupted when Voldemort and a force of Death Eaters surrounded the night market, and Ian recognized that Voldemort had attained legendary status.

• Ian described prophecy as an uncertain reading of probabilities that could be altered by choices and intervention.
• Grindelwald teased Ian about final exams, then speculated that the black-robed figure's scheme might have involved Ian as well as Jorkins.
• Ian accused Grindelwald of using his prophetic ability, but the night market's atmosphere abruptly changed as Death Eaters surrounded it.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald realized Voldemort was attacking them in a Muggle area, while Ian calmly anticipated that the conversation would be interrupted.
• Voldemort emerged in a strange, more powerful form and addressed Dumbledore, Ian, and Grindelwald as the market fell under darkness.
• Ian recognized that Voldemort had attained legendary status and understood the source of his confidence.

Voldemort confronted Dumbledore and Grindelwald in the night market, revealing that he had gained immense, unnatural power and challenging Dumbledore to a duel to the death. As Death Eaters moved to torment the helpless Muggles, Ian watched in silence, his attention fixed on them.

• Voldemort appeared before Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Ian, then displayed chaotic power that overwhelmed the night market and showed he had reached Legend status.
• Grindelwald attacked Voldemort with Fiendfyre, but Voldemort distorted space to deflect the flames without being harmed.
• Voldemort ordered Lucius Malfoy and the Death Eaters to deal with the helpless Muggles, and he blocked Dumbledore when he tried to stop them.
• Voldemort challenged Dumbledore to a one-on-one duel to the death and promised to deal with Grindelwald afterward.
• Ian remained silent and watched the Death Eaters advance on the Muggles.

Voldemort trapped Dumbledore in a duel while the Death Eaters slaughtered Muggles and overwhelmed the London police and army. Ian quietly released an unseen ripple, but the massacre continued and the Death Eaters stood victorious among the ruins.

• Voldemort challenged Dumbledore to duel and prevented him from rescuing the Muggles, while Grindelwald assessed the threat and Ian silently sent an undetectable ripple across the night market.
• The Death Eaters began killing and torturing the helpless Muggles, and Ian's unseen ripple produced no visible change.
• London police arrived and fired on the Death Eaters, but spells and protective barriers let the attackers kill the officers.
• The British army surrounded the night market and opened fire, but the Death Eaters tore open the ground and rained green meteors on the troops.
• The Death Eaters killed the remaining soldiers and celebrated among the corpses and burning ruins, despite suffering some casualties themselves.

Dumbledore attacked Voldemort’s mind while Grindelwald struck the Death Eaters, but a second Tom Riddle emerged and effortlessly neutralized Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre. Grindelwald realized Voldemort’s Legendary Trait may have awakened his Horcruxes into independent avatars, leaving him to face Tom as Dumbledore and Voldemort remained locked in a mental duel.

• As Death Eaters celebrated the slaughter of Muggles, Dumbledore used Legilimency to invade Voldemort’s consciousness, leaving both wizards motionless.
• Grindelwald seized a Death Eater’s wand and unleashed Fiendfyre, killing several Death Eaters as the others fled.
• A young man with scarlet eyes stepped forward and effortlessly stopped and dispersed Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre.
• The young man identified himself as Tom Riddle, also known as Voldemort, and the surviving Death Eaters knelt before him.
• Grindelwald suspected that Voldemort’s Legendary Trait had turned his Horcruxes into independent avatars, while Tom prepared to fight him.

Young Tom revealed that Voldemort’s Legendary Trait awakened his Horcruxes as independent incarnations, then fought Grindelwald with the power of the Void Domain. Elsewhere, Death Eaters slaughtered Muggles and defeated a military response, while Britain’s prime minister watched the catastrophe unfold.

• Young Tom told Grindelwald that Voldemort’s Horcruxes had awakened as independent incarnations after Voldemort reached Legend, and said Voldemort could sense their conversation.
• Grindelwald challenged young Tom, who attacked with a dark vortex as Dumbledore remained locked in a mental duel with Voldemort.
• Young Tom used the Void Domain to devour Grindelwald’s magic and attacks, forcing Grindelwald to keep fleeing.
• Death Eaters continued killing Muggles and used Transfiguration and a Falling Spell to destroy three British fighter jets.
• The prime minister watched footage of the attack at an emergency National Security Council meeting and realized how powerful wizards were.

Ian Prince revealed that the battle in London had been an illusion, undoing the apparent slaughter and leaving Grindelwald and the Death Eaters unharmed. The Horcrux avatars realized Ian had deceived them and attacked him together.

• Muggle leaders and Minister Fudge ordered emergency responses as the apparent Death Eater assault devastated London.
• Scrimgeour and the Aurors were overwhelmed by the Death Eaters and their Horcrux avatars, and Scrimgeour was killed.
• As young Tom’s Void Domain closed in, Grindelwald called on Ian Prince to act and correct history.
• Ian revealed himself, and the battlefield, casualties, and magic vanished as the illusion dissolved.
• The Horcrux avatars surrounded Ian and unleashed five powerful attacks at him.

Ian effortlessly defeated the five Horcrux incarnations and addressed Grindelwald as his professor, revealing that he knew the old man's secret. Meanwhile, the Black Robed Woman and her allies manipulated world leaders into preparing nuclear weapons for a global catastrophe, declaring that deep space was watching.

• Ian redirected the five Horcrux incarnations' attacks and buried them beneath rubble, leaving the Death Eaters terrified.
• Ian called Grindelwald his professor, and Grindelwald reacted with genuine horror.
• The United States government ordered a major military deployment to the United Kingdom after learning of the Wizard conflict.
• The Black Robed Woman used the Imperius Curse to control members of a secret organization and guide political decisions.
• Over the following days, agents controlled leaders and officials in thirty-seven nuclear-armed countries, prompting a worldwide nuclear alert.
• The Black Robed Woman said deep space was watching and that the world's despair would be the desired sacrifice.

Ian defeated Voldemort’s five Horcrux avatars and stopped the Death Eaters, while Dumbledore and Voldemort concluded their mental duel. Ian left with Grindelwald to continue seeking answers, leaving Dumbledore to handle the aftermath.

• Ian erased all five Horcrux avatars, and the Death Eaters surrendered in fear.
• Scrimgeour arrived with the Aurors, and Grindelwald revealed that Ian had defeated the Death Eaters and Voldemort’s avatars alone.
• Ian allowed Scrimgeour to take the Death Eaters into custody and said Dumbledore and Voldemort were nearly finished.
• Dumbledore and Voldemort ended their contest, and Voldemort fled into the night.
• Dumbledore thanked Ian, who said he needed to continue his conversation with Grindelwald and asked to take him along.