Recaps

Ian left with Grindelwald after hinting that he knew Grindelwald had been a Hogwarts professor, while Dumbledore realized the implication. Dumbledore escorted forty-seven captured Death Eaters to Azkaban and then recounted the night’s events to Ministry officials, leaving Ian’s identity and Grindelwald’s secret undisclosed.

• Ian and Grindelwald exchanged hints about Grindelwald’s connection to Hogwarts before leaving together.
• Dumbledore told Scrimgeour he did not know who Ian was and said many things would need reconsideration.
• Scrimgeour’s Aurors transported forty-seven captured Death Eaters to Azkaban, where Dementors and Dumbledore’s reminder that Voldemort had abandoned them crushed their hopes.
• A deranged Death Eater predicted Voldemort would grow stronger and kill Ian, then was taken to a cell by a Dementor.
• Dumbledore returned to the Ministry and described Ian’s power and the night’s events to Fudge, Scrimgeour, Crouch, and other officials while withholding Grindelwald’s secret and Ian’s use of “Professor.”

Dumbledore faced Ministry officials who doubted his report that Voldemort and an unknown boy had reached legendary power. After the Order of Merlin examined Dumbledore’s memories, its members confirmed that his account was true, leaving the officials to confront the reality of the unprecedented power.

• Dumbledore told Ministry officials that Voldemort had reached legendary power, but Barty Crouch and others rejected the claim as impossible.
• Crouch demanded to inspect Dumbledore’s memories, then backed down after Dumbledore’s stare left him terrified.
• The Order of Merlin members debated whether legendary power could exist in the present age and where the boy’s power had come from.
• Alfred Windsor asked to see Dumbledore’s memories, and Dumbledore agreed and placed a memory in a Pensieve.
• Windsor, Margaret Ashworth, and Edmund Fawley examined the memory, and Windsor confirmed that Dumbledore’s account was true.

After the Ministry and Department of Mysteries investigated the East End ruins, they confirmed that Ian’s magic was beyond Legend level, leaving the wizarding world facing an unknown power alongside Voldemort. Dumbledore then silently confirmed to Fudge that Voldemort still existed and had not been defeated.

• Ashworth and Fawley concluded that Ian’s magic exceeded Voldemort’s, and Windsor ordered the International Wizarding Union and Department of Mysteries to be notified.
• Dumbledore and the Ministry team returned to the ruins, where Dumbledore modified the Muggle police officers’ memories and investigators found almost no evidence of a real battle.
• The Department of Mysteries tested the site with unusual devices and reported that one target had Legend-level magic while the other was above Legend, with its origin unknown.
• Dumbledore warned the Aurors that the wizarding world faced an unprecedented era and urged them to prepare for an unknown threat.
• Fudge asked whether Voldemort still existed, and Dumbledore’s silence confirmed that he had not defeated him.

After leaving the Ministry, Dumbledore sensed a connection to Grindelwald and Apparated toward him. Meanwhile, Voldemort learned that Dumbledore had planted something in his soul, then accepted the Echoes of Deep Space’s offer to transform him into one of them.

• Dumbledore told Fudge that Ian was not an enemy and warned that Voldemort would return, though they would be ready.
• Dumbledore followed his soul-deep connection to Grindelwald toward the West End of London and Apparated away.
• On a remote island, Voldemort discovered that Dumbledore had planted an undetectable seed in his soul during their mental confrontation.
• The Echoes of Deep Space urged Voldemort to abandon his human form and merge fully with their power, and he agreed.
• The sky and sea twisted as Voldemort’s skin, muscles, and bones began transforming.

Voldemort accepted an ancient being’s power and transformed into its vessel, gaining the ability to devour life force. After consuming the life in the surrounding sea, he turned his attention toward London, Dumbledore, and Raven.

• Voldemort encountered an ancient presence in a hall beyond space and agreed to become its vessel.
• The ancient being fused with Voldemort, reshaping his legendary trait into “Deep Space Vessel.”
• Voldemort’s magic corrupted the sea, killing nearby creatures and drawing their life force into him.
• As the sea’s life was exhausted, Voldemort realized he needed greater prey and thought of London, Dumbledore, and Raven.
• Voldemort’s body continued mutating as tendrils burst from his back, shoulders, arms, and cheeks.

Voldemort completed his transformation into the monstrous Voldegod and sensed Dumbledore and Ian from across the world. In London, Dumbledore met Ian and Grindelwald, who explained how his family’s gift let him descend into his own past and future selves and encounter Ian on a possible future timeline.

• Voldemort became the Voldegod, a deep-space vessel fused with an ancient being, and spread black water and corruption around his island.
• Voldegod sensed Dumbledore and Ian in London, remained unable to perceive Ian’s full nature, and vowed to face them after mastering his new power.
• Dumbledore met Ian and Grindelwald at the Raven's Feather tavern and asked how Grindelwald had learned about Ian.
• Grindelwald explained that his family’s gift let their consciousness descend into themselves at different points in time, revealing possible realities rather than a certain future.
• Grindelwald said those descents had shown him beings from other eras, including Ian as his future student, and Ian agreed that calling him Professor had been appropriate.

Ian revealed that he was a twelve-year-old wizard from a future Hogwarts and had come to prepare Dumbledore and Grindelwald for a door to deep space that was about to open. He warned that Voldemort might have become the key needed to open it, leaving the three to face an approaching threat they did not fully understand.

• Dumbledore deduced that Ian was a Hogwarts student from a future timeline, and Ian praised his reasoning before revealing his true appearance as a twelve-year-old.
• Ian told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that Hogwarts was his home and explained that he had come because a door to deep space was about to open in their era.
• Ian identified the symbol from Grindelwald’s prophecies as the door’s mark and described the terrifying things waiting beyond the universe’s membrane.
• Grindelwald revealed that his visions showed him being erased from existence after the door opened, while Ian said the world survived, at least partly.
• Ian explained that the door’s opening could not be prevented, but the guardians could prepare for what followed.
• Ian said Voldemort had encountered something he should not have and might have become the willing soul needed as the door’s sacrifice.

Ian asked Dumbledore how he had defeated the legendary Voldemort in their mental duel, and Dumbledore explained that Voldemort’s narrow, power-focused thinking was his weakness. Dumbledore showed Ian and Grindelwald a Pensieve memory of the duel, where Dumbledore began forcing Voldemort to confront his past.

• Ian asked Dumbledore how he had overcome Voldemort’s superior power and mental strength.
• Dumbledore said Voldemort’s greatest weakness was the poverty of his thought, while Grindelwald agreed that Voldemort only wanted to rule without imagining what came next.
• Dumbledore offered to share his memory of the duel through a Pensieve, and Ian accepted as Grindelwald watched.
• Ian entered the memory and saw Dumbledore calmly face Voldemort in a gray mental void.
• Voldemort summoned beasts to attack Dumbledore, but Dumbledore dissolved them and said Voldemort could not prevent him from creating what he wished.
• Dumbledore shaped the void into a scene of young Tom Riddle alone at an orphanage window.

Dumbledore showed Voldemort scenes of Tom Riddle’s loneliness, growing fear, and the prophecy that foretold his defeat, then revealed a future in which Voldemort was erased and forgotten. He began exposing Voldemort’s buried past by showing Merope Gaunt, leaving Voldemort facing the origin he despised.

• Voldemort watched scenes of young Tom Riddle longing to join the children at Wu's Orphanage and later sitting isolated at Hogwarts.
• Voldemort saw Tom recoil from his transforming reflection, then witnessed the loneliness beneath his power during the First Wizarding War.
• Voldemort heard the prophecy about the boy destined to defeat him and reacted with fear at the idea of predestination.
• Dumbledore showed Voldemort a future where he was defeated, erased, and forgotten while the world continued without him.
• Voldemort attacked Dumbledore, but his magic was deflected, and Dumbledore revealed Merope Gaunt as Voldemort’s mother.

Dumbledore defeated Voldemort in a battle of consciousness by forcing him to confront the fears and loneliness beneath his pursuit of power, but could not destroy his soul because a legendary force protected it. Ian warned that Voldemort was transforming into a vessel for the God of Deep Space, leaving Dumbledore and Grindelwald facing a threat beyond their power.

• Dumbledore showed Voldemort the painful history of his mother and the madness of his Gaunt ancestors, undermining his pride in his pure-blood heritage.
• Dumbledore revealed that Voldemort had always wanted to be seen, accepted, and loved, and Voldemort's soul collapsed under the truth.
• Ian awoke in the tavern and told Dumbledore that his understanding and compassion made him terrifying.
• Dumbledore explained that he could only break Voldemort's will because a legendary trait protected his soul, and Ian said another Legend would be needed to kill him.
• Ian said Voldemort had become part of Deep Space and was being reshaped into a vessel for its god.
• Ian described the ancient beings of the Deep Space and said the universe might be a dream of Azathoth that would end if it awoke.

Ian told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that Voldemort was becoming a vessel for an ancient god and could open a passage for the beings of Deep Space. They planned to lure Voldemort out by making Dumbledore appear gravely wounded, while Ian waited in the Misty Illusion for Dumbledore’s call; Ian also gave Dumbledore hope that he would see Ariana again.

• Ian explained that Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones were undying beings beyond the material world, and revealed that he had fought Cthulhu in another timeline.
• Ian warned Dumbledore and Grindelwald that Voldemort was becoming a god’s vessel, but could not be tracked because he was hiding and knew Ian was present.
• Grindelwald proposed using Dumbledore as bait, and Ian explained that he could hide in the Misty Illusion until Dumbledore called to him through the soul, guided by the Phoenix.
• Dumbledore asked whether the Misty Illusion could let him reach Ariana, and Ian promised that they would be reunited someday.
• Grindelwald agreed to stage a betrayal and wound Dumbledore convincingly so Voldemort would believe he had an opportunity to attack.

Ian explained that he could send Dumbledore and Grindelwald to another era to become Legends without altering history, because both had already achieved that power in his future. He revealed himself as the incarnation of destiny, and Dumbledore connected his words to ancient accounts of Raven.

• Grindelwald agreed to help Dumbledore face the coming threat, accepting that the wizarding world might blame him again.
• Ian joked that he had vanished into the Misty Illusion, then explained he would wait there for their signal and wanted to give them a safeguard.
• Ian said Dumbledore and Grindelwald could become Legends by traveling to an era with a higher limit and returning, since they were already Legends in his future.
• Ian produced a Time Machine and explained that it followed the Law of Destiny rather than ordinary causality.
• Ian declared that he was the incarnation of destiny, and Dumbledore recognized the connection to ancient accounts of Raven.

Ian told Dumbledore and Grindelwald that his arrival was part of history and asked them to travel to the future to break through to Legend, but his Time Machine still needed rare materials. After they gathered some supplies from Dumbledore’s vault, they searched Grindelwald’s vault for what remained, where Ian found more phoenix feathers and dragon tears.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald agreed to go to the future, and Ian revealed that his Time Machine was broken and required rare materials.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald failed to obtain the materials at Gringotts, so Ian reminded them to check their own vaults.
• Ian found phoenix feathers, Hungarian Horntail tears, basilisk fangs, Philosopher’s Stone fragments, and a small amount of sands of time in Dumbledore’s vault, but the supplies were insufficient.
• Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Ian entered Grindelwald’s vault in Switzerland to continue searching for materials.
• Ian found larger phoenix feathers and an enormous vat of dragon tears in Grindelwald’s vault.

Ian, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald gathered rare materials for repairing Ian’s time machine and sought Nicolas Flamel’s help. Flamel recognized Ian as the embodiment of destiny, supplied the remaining materials, and identified Titan technology inside the machine before agreeing to help repair it.

• Grindelwald showed Ian and Dumbledore his vault’s Phoenix feathers, dragon tears, basilisk fangs, Philosopher’s Stone fragments, and sands of time, but Ian said they still lacked some materials.
• Dumbledore led Ian and Grindelwald to Nicolas Flamel’s home, where Flamel recognized Ian’s magic as the embodiment of destiny.
• Flamel gave Dumbledore a complete Philosopher’s Stone and enough sands of time, then asked Ian to invite him to see the time machine after it was repaired.
• Ian showed Flamel the time machine and asked him to help fix its damaged components.
• Flamel recognized the machine’s gears as Titan technology and showed Ian a similar diagram from an ancient ruin.
• After Ian explained that the machine involved forces beyond ordinary alchemy, Flamel eagerly agreed to begin repairing it.

Ian, Nicolas Flamel, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald repaired the Time Machine, and Nicolas realized that he had taught Ian alchemy in a future timeline. Ian then took Dumbledore and Grindelwald ten thousand years into the past, where they prepared to hunt ancient dragons and pursue becoming Legends.

• Nicolas Flamel asked Ian to repair a worn rune, and Ian used the alchemical technique Nicolas had created.
• Ian told Nicolas that an old man who had lived for over six hundred years had taught him, and Nicolas recognized himself as Ian’s future teacher.
• Nicolas, Ian, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald finished repairing the Time Machine, and Ian kept their plan concerning Voldemort secret.
• Ian used the Time Machine to take Dumbledore and Grindelwald to a primeval grassland ten thousand years in the past.
• Ian explained that defeating an ancient dragon could help them become Legends, and the three headed toward the forest.

Ian led Dumbledore and Grindelwald through a dangerous ancient forest to confront a sleeping Ancient Dragon, whose Peak Legend aura excited the two wizards. The dragon awakened and battled them, and Grindelwald unleashed his perfected Fiendfyre as the fight continued.

• Ian caught a venomous Forest Toad Snake and guided Dumbledore and Grindelwald past the forest's dangerous creatures.
• Ian brought Dumbledore and Grindelwald to a scorched clearing where a colossal Ancient Dragon lay sleeping, and urged them to use its power to forge their legends.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald charged the dragon, defending themselves from its roar and scorching breath.
• Grindelwald wounded the dragon with a dragon lance while Dumbledore distracted it and helped Grindelwald reach its head.
• Grindelwald summoned his perfected Fiendfyre above the dragon's head.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald nearly overwhelmed the Ancient Dragon with Fiendfyre and rune magic, but it regenerated and evolved resistance to their attacks. As the exhausted wizards prepared to fight again, Ian revealed the Dragon’s adaptive defenses and began recording them with his Time Machine’s Spacetime Camera, just as the Dragon unleashed an even more powerful blast.

• Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre devoured the Ancient Dragon’s breath and magic, while Dumbledore used the spear in its head to inflict a mental attack with rune magic.
• The Dragon recovered its destroyed eyes and wounds, and Ian warned Dumbledore and Grindelwald that it could regenerate and evolve resistance to magic.
• Ian explained that the Dragon’s adaptations consumed life force and source magic power, so they had to inflict damage faster than it could recover.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald gathered their remaining strength to attack again, while Ian pulled out his Time Machine’s Spacetime Camera to record them.
• The Dragon interrupted them by unleashing a deep-blue blast of dragon breath hot enough to burn through space.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald killed the evolved Ancient Dragon, then Ian explained that bathing in its blood was the final step toward becoming Legends. Dumbledore emerged from the dragon-blood shell transformed, while Grindelwald remained encased.

• Grindelwald blocked the Dragon's charge with Fiendfyre, and Dumbledore attacked its exposed eyes and other vulnerable points.
• Grindelwald sent Fiendfyre into the Dragon's nostril, burning it from within until it died.
• Ian gave Dumbledore and Grindelwald phoenix tears to heal them and revealed that he had photographed their battle.
• Ian explained that they needed to bathe in the Ancient Dragon's blood to cross the threshold to Legend, then suspended its corpse and opened its abdomen.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald endured the molten-gold blood as it transformed them, and Dumbledore was the first to break free of his hardened shell.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald ascended to Legend after Ian used ancient dragon blood to help them, then joined him for a meal in a primeval forest ten thousand years in the past. Ian explained that an imminent volcanic eruption would erase their traces, and Grindelwald hunted creatures for a feast as the volcano rumbled closer.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald emerged transformed as Legends and recognized the change in each other.
• Ian served them maoxuewang made with ancient dragon blood, and both tasted it and enjoyed the dish.
• Dumbledore worried their actions might alter history, so Ian showed him an instrument predicting a catastrophic eruption in three hours that would erase their traces.
• Dumbledore accepted Ian's explanation, and Grindelwald went hunting for ancient prey to accompany the meal.
• Grindelwald returned with a heap of unfamiliar creatures, Ian lit a fire with Fiendfyre, and Dumbledore joined them in eating roasted meat.
• Ian photographed Dumbledore and Grindelwald sharing the feast as the volcano rumbled in the distance.

As the volcano rumbled toward eruption, Ian teased Dumbledore and Grindelwald until they challenged him to a fight, only for him to reveal overwhelming power. He easily dispersed Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre, and Dumbledore began a counterattack with the Elder Wand.

• Grindelwald proposed using the doomed ancient creatures as sparring targets, but Dumbledore refused to kill them.
• Ian photographed Dumbledore and Grindelwald arguing and egged them on to fight, so they decided to use him as their opponent.
• Ian dropped his act of fear, revealed his powerful aura, and set his device to record the duel.
• Grindelwald attacked with Fiendfyre, but Ian stopped the flames, sent them back, and explained that he knew the spell from learning it from Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore attacked with the Elder Wand, conjuring golden light and intricate rotating runes.

Ian defeated Dumbledore and Grindelwald in their duel before the volcano erupted and devastated the prehistoric world. He used the Time Machine to return with them to their own era, arriving at the Raven's Feather in London.

• Ian stopped Dumbledore's combined spell and sent it back through seven defensive barriers, then repelled the pair's strongest joint attack without moving.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald admitted defeat, and Ian teased Grindelwald about tickling him.
• The volcano erupted, unleashing lava, ash, and burning rocks that drove ancient creatures to flee and die.
• Ian comforted Dumbledore and explained that the creatures' deaths were inevitable, then urged him and Grindelwald to leave.
• Ian activated the Time Machine, and the three returned to the twentieth-century West End of London.

Ian, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald returned from ten thousand years in the past with legendary power and planned to lure Voldemort into a trap by faking their defeat near Azkaban. They reached the prison reef, ready to begin their staged fight.

• Ian, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald returned to the tavern and reflected on how the apocalypse had erased every trace of their time in the ancient forest.
• Ian proposed that Grindelwald fake betraying and gravely injuring Dumbledore while Ian staged his own death and vanished into the Misty Illusion, drawing Voldemort into an attack.
• Dumbledore used a Two-Way Mirror to tell Nicolas Flamel that they had returned safely, and Nicolas asked Ian to visit his wife for a meal.
• Ian fastened magical shackles on Grindelwald, and the three Apparated to a reef outside Azkaban where Ministry Aurors were patrolling.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald confirmed they were ready as Ian prepared to begin the staged fight.

Dumbledore brought Grindelwald to Azkaban under the pretense of withdrawing his bail guarantee after a supposed violation, while the two secretly staged the handover. They entered the prison together, where Grindelwald surveyed the imprisoned dark wizards with contempt.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald stood outside Azkaban wearing magical shackles that they knew were only props.
• Two Aurors spotted them, and the older Auror recognized Dumbledore and Grindelwald before sending his partner to notify Jeffrey Gleeson.
• Dumbledore told the older Auror that Grindelwald had violated his bail agreement and that he was handing him over to serve the rest of his sentence.
• After the Auror left, Grindelwald questioned whether Gleeson would believe the story, and Dumbledore said Gleeson would protect his position by going along with it.
• Ten minutes later, the older Auror led Dumbledore and Grindelwald through Azkaban, where Grindelwald looked over the prisoners without sympathy.

Dumbledore brought Grindelwald to Azkaban after withdrawing his bail guarantee, despite Jeffrey Gleeson's fears that the prison could not contain him. Grindelwald accused Dumbledore of betraying their trust, then shattered his magical shackles in front of Gleeson.

• Dumbledore told Jeffrey Gleeson that the Wizengamot had ordered Grindelwald returned to Azkaban to serve the rest of his sentence.
• Gleeson warned Dumbledore that Azkaban's defenses and Aurors could not hold Grindelwald, but Dumbledore refused to reconsider.
• Grindelwald mocked Gleeson's fear and accused Dumbledore of breaking their agreement and using him.
• Dumbledore said Grindelwald had violated the agreement and harmed innocent people, so Azkaban was where he belonged.
• Grindelwald turned on Gleeson and snapped his supposedly indestructible magical shackles, leaving Gleeson terrified.

Grindelwald staged a violent escape and challenged Dumbledore to fight him for real, while Dumbledore defended himself and evacuated the Aurors from the reception room. Their duel tore through Azkaban, triggering its highest alarm as the magical storm destroyed the Dementors that converged on it.

• Grindelwald seized an Auror's wand, conjured black Fiendfyre, and mocked Dumbledore and Azkaban's guards.
• Grindelwald engulfed the reception room in Fiendfyre, and Dumbledore stopped the flames with a golden barrier.
• Grindelwald declared that he wanted to fight Dumbledore without restraint and sent fire serpents against him; Dumbledore countered with blades of golden light.
• Dumbledore ordered Gleeson and the Aurors to flee as the duel's magic battered the reception room and corridor.
• Gleeson called for the highest alert, and Azkaban's alarm sounded as prisoners and Aurors panicked.
• Dementors swarmed toward the battle, but the magical storm tore them apart.