Recaps

Ian showed Nick LeMay a collection of Philosopher's Stones and copied High Tower Magic Texts, prompting Nick to explain the stones’ life-for-life cost and ask Ian to continue his unfinished research. After Nick revealed that a mysterious wizard had created a Philosopher's Stone during World War II, Ian wished him a long life, then felt a hidden pattern in his mind draw on his magic and leave him exhausted.

• Ian showed Nick LeMay his Philosopher's Stones and claimed he had found them in an ancient wizard's tomb.
• Nick LeMay explained that a Philosopher's Stone needed hundreds of thousands of lives gathered in a short time, and its life-giving force ran out before its magic.
• Nick LeMay asked Ian to translate the High Tower Magic Texts and finish the research he could not complete.
• Nick LeMay said a mysterious wizard had created a Philosopher's Stone during World War II and suggested Grindelwald might know the truth.
• Ian promised to complete Nick LeMay's assignment and urged him to live for several more years.
• Ian suddenly felt an unseen pattern in his mind pulse, draw in his magic, and leave him exhausted.

Ian brought Nick LeMay ancient artifacts and a mysterious oath inscription from the tomb he had explored, prompting Nick to identify a damaged Great Clock as a device that trapped a stretch of time in an unending cycle. Nick agreed to study the artifacts and repair the clock, while his curiosity about Ian’s discoveries led him to summon his wife and contemplate a future beyond his own lifetime.

• Ian’s magic weakened when the Legendary Shadow stirred, but Nick LeMay’s Elixir of Life pill restored his energy and intensified his magic.
• Nick examined Ian’s ancient Magic Texts and oath inscription, then learned that Ian had brought a living, memoryless creature from the tomb back to Hogwarts.
• Nick used his Secret-Gazing Prism Box to identify the Great Clock as a damaged time-severing device that had joined the beginning and end of a period into a continuous cycle.
• Ian gave Nick black sand and a formula for making Uru, and Nick began crafting automated tomb-robbing tools after deciding to raid Arthur Pendragon’s grave.
• Nick kept Ian’s artifacts to study and repair, then sent his House-elf Prolo to summon his wife after realizing the discoveries might offer them a chance to see the world again in the distant future.

After learning that the Black-Robed Skeleton was tied to a civilization lost in the Misty Illusion, Ian received Nick LeMay’s note revealing King Arthur’s tomb and met Newt Scamander, Tina, and Queenie. Ian gave them Time Sand, learned Queenie wanted to revisit her deceased husband, and accepted Newt’s offer to build his Fantastic Beasts suitcase, leaving Ian unsure how to explain the creatures he planned to keep inside.

• Ian worried that the Black-Robed Skeleton’s vanished civilization might have been destroyed by a hidden will, then found Nick LeMay’s note with the location of King Arthur’s tomb and considered taking Pandora along to explore it.
• Ian met Newt Scamander, Tina, and Queenie in the castle corridor and comforted Queenie about her deceased husband while the group shared sunflower seeds.
• Newt returned Ian’s Bowtruckle and gave him materials for his suitcase, while Ian offered Newt a handful of Time Sand that the elders could not control with magic.
• Queenie revealed that she wanted the Time Sand to revisit her husband, and Ian gave her and Tina more of it while warning Queenie against trying to change the past.
• Ian told Queenie he knew spirit-summoning magic, then Newt offered to build Ian’s Fantastic Beasts suitcase and asked what creatures he planned to house in it.
• Ian struggled to answer because he wanted to keep creatures including Dementors, Bone Dragons, skeletons, and Black Phoenixes in the suitcase.

Ian met Newt Scamander and agreed to care for an injured Thunderbird chick, while Newt and his family learned about Ian’s unusual creatures and grave-robbing. Nick LeMay revealed that Ian had dug up Merlin’s grave and might target Arthur Pendragon’s burial site; back in the Room of Requirement, Ian’s card game with the Black-Robed Skeleton triggered an Absolute Magic Inhibition Field.

• Ian described the dark, cool habitat he wanted for his suitcase, and Newt offered to design several environments for it.
• Newt offered Ian an injured Thunderbird chick to raise until it recovered, and Ian eagerly accepted.
• Tina revealed that Newt had once been arrested for trying to smuggle Iron Eaters, while Ian decided to focus on the Thunderbird instead.
• Nick LeMay told Newt, Tina, and Queenie that Ian raised Dementors and other strange beings and had dug up Merlin’s grave; Queenie hurried off to move her husband’s grave after hearing Ian knew about its buried treasures.
• Nick LeMay said he had given Ian the location of Arthur Pendragon’s burial site because he suspected Ian could enter it, and explained that its threshold required the qualification to bear its weight.
• Ian played cards with the Dementor and Black-Robed Skeleton, whose impossible hands caused an explosion and then activated an Absolute Magic Inhibition Field throughout the Room of Requirement.

Ian continued his alchemical studies, expanded his Hogwarts business, and learned Nick LeMay’s theories about gods and the lost Legendary Path. When Ian tried to enter the Misty Illusion on his Night of Bewilderment, the Black-Robed Skeleton’s contract mark disrupted his passage, leaving Ian scrambling to recover his Passage Right.

• Ian failed to give the Black-Robed Skeleton flesh and blood, tended the mysterious seed, and let the skeleton chase the Dementor out of boredom.
• Newt Scamander, his wife, and his sister-in-law left Hogwarts, while Ian’s lifesaving hand warmer and custom alchemy business succeeded among the students.
• Ian questioned Nick LeMay about High Tower Magic Texts, Divine Grace, gods, and the role Golden Apples played in rituals connected to the Legendary Path.
• Nick LeMay successfully refined Ian’s black sand into Time Sand after Ian borrowed two Van Gogh paintings and hurried away from the dangerous experiment.
• Ian’s Night of Bewilderment brought a disturbing dream instead of passage into the Misty Illusion, and he blamed the flashing contract mark on the Black-Robed Skeleton for blocking his Passage Right.

Ian spent the latter half of the semester unable to enter the Misty Illusion because the Black-Robed Skeleton had been blacklisted, and he learned that its reset depended on forty-nine rises and falls of the red moon. As term ended, Ian returned to cultivating the mysterious seed, whose sprout began calling itself the World Tree while developing bone-like patterns.

• Ian threatened the Black-Robed Skeleton until it explained that its blacklist would reset after forty-nine rises of the red moon, then used the Patronus Charm to send Ariana to ask Teacher Morgan about the contract.
• Ian tried to enter the Misty Illusion by drinking Draught of Living Death, but he only experienced an absurd dream in which he fought a Black-Robed Skeleton.
• Ian spent Easter and the following months studying the contract, but the Black-Robed Skeleton admitted it did not know how long forty-nine rises and falls of the blood moon would take.
• Albus Dumbledore urged Ian to be patient and reminded him that the end-of-term event was approaching.
• Ian used broth made from the Black-Robed Skeleton to water the seed from the Mysterious High Tower, and the sprout began repeating “World Tree” as bone-like patterns appeared on it.

Ian watched Cedric lead Hufflepuff to victory over Slytherin in the Quidditch final, then returned to preparing for end-of-term exams. Grindelwald revealed that Ian would face a different test from the one prepared for the other students, leaving Ian anxious about what awaited him.

• Ian explained to William and Michael that his statistics showed the Golden Snitch decided nearly every Quidditch match, while his roommates continued to support Hufflepuff.
• Ian watched Slytherin and Hufflepuff play a rough final, and Professor McGonagall called a timeout to calm the players.
• Cedric caught the Golden Snitch, winning the final for Hufflepuff and sending the crowd into celebration.
• After the match, Ian saw Grindelwald modifying a Ukrainian Ironbelly and asked whether it was his end-of-term exam.
• Grindelwald told Ian the dragon test was for the other students and warned that Ian had a separate test, leaving him nervous on exam day.

Ian and his roommates sat their end-of-term exams, and Ian earned top marks while impressing his professors with his Patronus and Transfiguration. His Defence Against the Dark Arts exam turned into a psychological assessment from Albus Dumbledore, who suggested that Ian’s resistance to Dark Magic might make him uniquely capable of defending against it.

• Ian drew fake Chinese confidence runes on William and Michael’s foreheads, and Aurora recognized the characters as “Don’t eat cilantro.”
• Ian finished the written exam early, and Professor Flitwick punished students caught cheating while exposing Daphne Greengrass’s Polyjuice Potion scheme.
• Ian cast his intelligent, girl-shaped Patronus, Ariana, for Professor Flitwick and received an O.
• Ian transformed a button into a Flying Broomstick for Professor McGonagall, who gave him an O and notes for studying Animagus Transfiguration.
• Ian brewed an exceptionally high-quality potion for Professor Snape and received an O despite Snape’s angry praise.
• Albus Dumbledore replaced Grindelwald’s dangerous Defence Against the Dark Arts exam with a psychological assessment and told Ian that his ability to endure Dark Magic might be his best defence against it.

Ian completed his Defence Against the Dark Arts exam, sold the Weasley twins Skiving Snackboxes, and helped Ravenclaw win the House Cup after Dumbledore praised him for defeating the dark wizard who had infiltrated Hogwarts. As the Hogwarts Express carried Ian home, the Daily Prophet publicized his feat and the twins told him Harry Potter would begin school next term, leaving Ian to wonder how his actions had changed the future.

• Albus Dumbledore gave Ian a psychological test, then explained that Ian’s earlier defeat of Professor Quirrell had already earned him the highest Defence Against the Dark Arts grade.
• Ian sold George and Fred Skiving Snackboxes, including Pustule Eruption chocolates, in exchange for their help with his alchemy work.
• Aurora took her exam, and Albus Dumbledore asked her to mark the answers on Ian’s psychological test that she thought differed from reality.
• George and Fred developed severe symptoms from Ian’s Pustule Eruption sweets and were quarantined, while Ian sold out his gas masks to worried students.
• At the end-of-term feast, Dumbledore awarded Ian one hundred points for stopping the dark wizard, and Ravenclaw won the House Cup.
• On the Hogwarts Express, Ian read a Daily Prophet article praising him and heard that Harry Potter would enroll the following term before the Black Phoenix delivered Dumbledore’s suitcase.

Ian returned to Wu's Orphanage, reunited with its children, and met Remus Lupin, whom Dumbledore had sent to watch over him. The next morning, Ian encountered Hermione Granger again and revealed magic to her, leaving her stunned and reminding her of a promise to eat a table.

• Ian returned to Wu's Orphanage, gave the children snacks, and secretly left money for the staff through Marilyn.
• Ian met Remus Lupin, discovered Dumbledore had sent him to keep watch, and tried to recruit him as a test subject for Wolfsbane Potion research.
• Ian urged Lupin to consider the hope of a cure, but Lupin withdrew into his room rather than join him for dinner.
• The next morning, Ian found Hermione Granger visiting the Orphanage with her father, who had donated twenty thousand pounds while seeking help for the strange events surrounding Hermione.
• Ian teased Hermione about her magical outbursts, then caught her with Wingardium Leviosa after she fell from a wall and reminded her of her promise to eat a table.

Ian used a magical memory illusion to show Hermione their earlier conversation and frighten her with the threat of a Baldness Curse, then gave her a book to stop her crying. Before Hermione left the Orphanage with her father, Ian promised to help her get into Hogwarts and asked Mr. Granger to help find adoptive families for the other children.

• Ian replayed Hermione's promise to eat his table, embarrassed her with a voice loop, and claimed she had cursed herself to go bald if she broke her promise.
• Ian tried to sell Hermione a Transfiguration lesson to turn the thorn-covered table into cakes, but Hermione refused and ran into the boundary of the illusion.
• Ian ended the illusion, gave Hermione a copy of Me, Who Can Do Magic, and got her to promise not to tell her father what had happened.
• Mr. Granger asked Ian to recommend Hermione to Hogwarts, and Ian agreed while asking him to help the Orphanage children find adoptive families.
• Mr. Granger left with Hermione, who still vowed to find a way to remove the Baldness Curse.

Ian spent the holiday at the Orphanage training his dissection skill, entertaining the children, and trying to sell Lupin on his inventions and experimental ideas. A letter arrived bearing dozens of keys and property deeds, revealing that Ian had received much of Diagon Alley as a gesture of goodwill.

• Ian resumed training Biology Dissection by slaughtering poultry and explained his interest in Bio-Alchemy to Lupin.
• Ian threatened to transform Lupin into a mutated werewolf, then tried to cook chicken and duck before Aunt Marilyn chased him out of the kitchen.
• Ian entertained the Orphanage children with a Resident Evil story and assigned them to shell sunflower seeds for the next installment.
• Ian struggled to enter the Misty Illusion and assembled a magical instant camera that could add a beauty filter to photographs.
• Ian told Lupin that his Wolfsbane Potion had been made mostly from water, and Lupin rushed off to confront the seller.
• Lupin delivered Ian an ornate letter, and Ian found keys and property deeds granting him Diagon Alley as a gesture of goodwill.

Ian searched his old room for a status symbol, found a keychain for his many shop keys, and gave Lupin a bottle of Wolfsbane Potion before asking him to take him to Diagon Alley. Their Floo trip led to Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley, where Borgin mistook Ian for a powerful political player and revealed that rumors had tied him to the names Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

• Ian found a golden keychain, hung his shop keys from it, and gave Lupin a ready-made bottle of Wolfsbane Potion.
• Ian persuaded Lupin to take him to Diagon Alley, and Lupin revealed the hidden Floo fireplace connected to Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley.
• Ian traveled through the Floo Network to Borgin and Burkes and examined the shop’s Dark Magic merchandise.
• Borgin first dismissed Ian as a pauper, then changed his manner after noticing the keys and gave Ian two cursed eyeballs for free.
• Borgin called Ian “Ian Grindelwald Dumbledore Ambrosius Prince,” leaving Lupin stunned at the shop’s doorway.

Ian and Lupin searched Knockturn Alley for werewolves, where Ian captured one who could transform outside the full moon and found evidence of a potion behind the change. Lupin read the werewolf’s memories and was horrified by what he discovered.

• Ian dismissed Lupin’s suspicions about his bloodline as they walked through Knockturn Alley and explained why the Ministry tolerated the district.
• Ian led Lupin to a hidden werewolf gathering place, using illusions to evade Lupin and a lurking attacker.
• Lupin dodged a spell and destroyed the attacker’s hiding place while Ian emerged with an unconscious werewolf.
• Ian read the werewolf’s memories, collected his blood, and told Lupin that a potion enabled voluntary transformation.
• Lupin used Legilimency on the werewolf and recoiled in disbelief at the name he found in the memories.

Ian and Lupin investigated the Awakening Potion, which a powerful blond man claiming to be Godric Gryffindor had sold to Knockturn Alley werewolves. The Elder gave Lupin a potion and demanded secrecy, while the werewolves turned their attention to Ian.

• Ian drew blood from an unconscious werewolf, and its memories revealed that a blond swordsman had defeated Knockturn Alley's werewolves and identified himself as Godric Gryffindor.
• Lupin struggled to believe the Founder might be alive, and Ian suggested taking the mystery to Dumbledore while studying the potion.
• Ian and Lupin found a group of werewolves, whose Elder gave Lupin a bottle of Awakening Potion and warned him to keep it secret.
• Ian examined the potion and found that he could not detect its ingredients, while the Elder described the werewolves' suffering and dismissed Lupin's worries about the potion's cost.
• After Lupin offered a few Knuts and promised to pay the rest later, the Elder insisted the potion matter remain secret and the werewolves turned their gazes toward Ian.

Lupin tried to protect Ian from Lucas and the werewolves after Ian learned about their Awakening Potion, but the confrontation erupted into a battle. Ian returned with his real body, overwhelmed the pack with powerful magic, and forced them to provide blood and Sickles, leaving Lupin baffled about who Ian really was.

• Lucas demanded proof of Lupin’s claim that Ian belonged to the Dumbledore family and insisted Ian be made to forget the werewolves’ secret.
• After Ian denied being related to the Dumbledores, Ryan attacked Lupin and Ian, and the werewolves erupted into a chaotic fight.
• Lupin fought to protect Ian, then Apparated away with a transformed decoy, leaving Ian behind among the werewolves.
• Ian returned with his real body and the Elder Wand, summoned Clay Golems, defeated the werewolves, and forced Lucas’s pack to show their value.
• Lupin returned to find Ian collecting Sickles and blood from the subdued werewolves, while Lucas wondered whether Ian’s potion could lead them to their Promised Land.

After gathering werewolf blood and advancing his potion research, Ian celebrated his twelfth birthday with his orphanage family. When Lupin realized Ian’s potion had awakened Catherine’s magic, Ian explained that he had done it for his friends and family and intended to change their destinies himself.

• Ian collected dozens of pounds of werewolf blood in Knockturn Alley, then told Lupin he was researching the Werewolf Virus and its possible uses.
• Ian developed experimental Werewolf and Rapid Healing Potions, but neither was mature and the Rapid Healing Potion required enormous amounts of werewolf blood.
• Ms. Elena and the children celebrated Ian’s birthday, and Mia, Tom, Jack, Daniel, Catherine, Lupin, and others gave him gifts.
• Lupin visited Ian late that night and said Catherine’s magic had awakened after she drank the blue potion Ian had given her.
• Ian confirmed that the potion worked on Squibs, and Lupin warned him to keep the discovery secret and consult Dumbledore.
• Ian said he had changed Catherine’s fate for the sake of his friends and family, and declared that even God could not stop him from granting their wishes.

Lupin accompanied Ian to Greengrass Manor, where the Greengrass family hosted him for dinner and offered to align themselves with his supposed plans for a new wizarding order. The chapter ended with Lupin misinterpreting Ian’s werewolf research as political ambition, reinforcing Theodore Greengrass’s mistaken belief that Ian was building a movement.

• Lupin woke from a nightmare about wizard identities and feared that the Muggle Magic Recovery Potion could make wizards anxious about losing their magic.
• Ian invited Lupin to accompany him to Greengrass Manor, where Daphne’s family had invited him to dinner and promised dragon meat.
• Ian and Lupin rode the Knight Bus to Wiltshire, and Ian gave Lupin a bag of foods to feed the werewolves he had been studying.
• House-elf Panini initially mistook Lupin for a servant, while Theodore Greengrass welcomed Ian and explained that Daphne had fled to stay with relatives.
• At dinner, Daphne and Astoria acted frightened around Ian, and Theodore offered the family’s support because he believed Ian’s werewolf research signaled plans for a new wizarding order.
• Lupin claimed he understood Ian’s supposed intentions, prompting Theodore to take his reaction as confirmation while Ian struggled to explain the misunderstanding.

Ian left the Greengrass estate after Theodore explained why Pureblood families had supported past leaders and revealed his belief that Dumbledore was backing Ian as a future leader. The next morning, Ian brought the Granger family to Diagon Alley, where Ollivander introduced his grandson, a blond boy whose face seemed familiar to Ian.

• Ian denied wanting to lead or reshape wizarding society, while Lupin defended his dealings with werewolves as research for the Wolfsbane Potion.
• Theodore told Ian that many Pureblood families had supported the former Dark Lord because they hoped he would bring change, and said an earlier leader had abandoned their hopes.
• Ian accepted the Greengrasses' prepared food and five hundred Galleons, then left with Lupin aboard the Knight Bus.
• After Ian departed, Theodore told Mrs. Armand Greengrass that Dumbledore might be staking his reputation on Ian and serving as his follower; Daphne and Astoria overheard them.
• The next morning, Ian showed the Granger family around Diagon Alley and took Hermione into Ollivanders to choose a wand.
• Ollivander said his grandson would attend Hogwarts and pointed Ian toward a blond boy whose face seemed familiar.

Ian helped Hermione Granger buy her first wand and explore Diagon Alley, where she met Harry Potter and learned about his past. After selling a large stock of potions and explaining Voldemort’s history to the Grangers, Ian led them toward Gringotts.

• Rirym Ollivander chose a Vine Wood wand with an insane Raven tail feather core for Hermione, and it produced brilliant flowers when she waved it.
• Hagrid brought Harry Potter to Ollivanders, where Harry met Ian and Ollivander recalled the wands belonging to Harry’s parents and Hagrid.
• Ian took Hermione and the Grangers to Flourish and Blotts, where Hermione bought many books and Ian steered her away from a book about himself.
• Ian sold fifty kilograms of potions to Loann Lilyvy after discovering that he owned the potion shop’s premises.
• Ian led the Grangers toward Gringotts and explained Voldemort and the Potter Family, leaving Hermione amazed by Harry’s survival and Mrs. Granger saddened by his family’s tragedy.

At Gringotts, the goblins mistook Ian for the legendary Medivh and revealed that he had inherited a bloodline contract and access to a hidden vault. Ian opened the vault but found no money, only damaged relics, including a spear whose runes promised to end his enemies.

• The goblins panicked at Ian's resemblance to Medivh, and a branded goblin explained that Medivh's descendants were tied to an old contract with the goblins.
• A goblin showed Ian a Galleon whose portrait changed to reveal Medivh's face, while Hermione realized Ian might be Medivh's descendant.
• Ian's Granger companions exchanged Muggle money for Galleons, and the mustached goblin led Ian through the underground tunnels past the dragon guards.
• Ian's magic opened a heavily protected Bronze Door to Medivh's vault, which the goblin said only its owner or heir could enter.
• Ian found the vast vault empty of money and filled with damaged weapons and artifacts, then translated a spear's rune as, "Whisper to me, and I shall end your enemies."

After helping the Granger family shop in Diagon Alley, Ian spent the rest of the summer at the orphanage before traveling to Hogwarts with Lupin. At King's Cross, he met Neville, Hermione, and Harry Potter, and Harry eagerly offered Ian money for protection.

• Ian left Gringotts with the Granger family, then rescued Mrs. Granger from the cold drinks shop owner's bizarre quizzes, contracts, and insurance sales by threatening him with his wand.
• Ian parted from the Granger family at The Leaky Cauldron and showed Lupin a photograph of Harry Potter, but Lupin avoided going to meet the boy.
• Ian spent the following weeks caring for the orphanage children, and Lupin confronted him about giving them potions that seemed to awaken faint magic.
• Ms. Elena saw Ian off, and Lupin drove him to King's Cross in a reckless journey that included a security officer accepting Ian's claim of high bone density.
• Ian returned Neville's toad Trevor and met Mrs. Longbottom before Hermione arrived with Harry, whom she had invited to travel with them.
• When Hermione asked Ian to push her heavy trolley, Harry offered him a Money Bag as protection money, and Ian reached for it.

Ian, Harry Potter, and Hermione boarded the Hogwarts Express, where they met Rirym Ollivander and shared snacks before Draco Malfoy confronted Harry and insulted his friends. Ian pinned Draco and his companions to the compartment door and demanded that Draco explain who he had called the new Great Demon King.

• Ian led Harry Potter and Hermione onto the Hogwarts Express, where he stopped some Young Wizards from frightening Hermione with a modified Lumos Charm.
• Ian, Harry Potter, and Hermione met the twins selling Farting Candy, then found Rirym Ollivander in an empty compartment.
• Harry Potter bought snacks for the group, and several Chocolate Frogs unexpectedly yielded identical Merlin Ambrosius cards.
• Draco Malfoy entered the compartment seeking Harry Potter, but Harry rejected his offer of friendship, prompting Draco to insult Harry, Hermione, and Ian.
• Ian used his wand to pin Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle against the compartment door and demanded that Draco identify the new Great Demon King.

Ian helped Harry Potter and Hermione Granger reach Hogwarts, where the Sorting Hat placed Harry in Slytherin. Draco Malfoy was sorted there too, and Albus Dumbledore reacted to Harry’s unexpected placement while watching his scar.

• Ian intimidated Draco Malfoy into apologizing, then treated Neville Longbottom’s injured ankle with a potion after Scabbers bit him.
• Hermione alarmed Neville and Ron Weasley by listing diseases that rats could carry, before Hagrid led the students toward Hogwarts.
• Ian rode in a Thestral carriage with Harry and Hermione, then left them with Snape to join the older students.
• Snape warned Hermione to stay away from Ian, while a first-year said Hogwarts’s big sister would dislike her closeness to the Ravenclaw.
• The Sorting Hat assigned Hermione Granger to Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy to Slytherin, and Harry Potter to Slytherin.
• Albus Dumbledore leaned forward in surprise and watched the scar on Harry Potter’s forehead.

Harry Potter was sorted into Slytherin, while Ian returned to Ravenclaw after discussing dangerous plague magic with Aurora. At the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore introduced Newt Scamander as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor, and Ian later went to sleep only to experience the familiar crossing between life and death.

• The Sorting Hat placed Harry Potter in Slytherin, where he sat beside Ian until Snape urged Ian back to Ravenclaw.
• Ian and Aurora discussed the Plague Outbreak Curse and magical deterrence, while Harry Potter nervously suggested safer research subjects.
• Dumbledore warned students about the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's pets and introduced Newt Scamander as the substitute Care of Magical Creatures professor.
• Professor "Lockhart" pranked Newt with a meal he claimed was Niffler meat, and Dumbledore redirected Newt's attention to the custom suitcase he had made for Ian.
• Ian returned to Ravenclaw, visited William and Michael in their dormitory, and sent a letter and money to the orphanage with his Black Phoenix.
• After going to sleep, Ian felt the familiar sensation of crossing the boundary between life and death.