Recaps

Rirym sent a nightingale to steal Ian’s hair so he could try making a wand, while Ian entered a new region of Misty Illusion and found a kingdom from the Sleeping Beauty story. Morgan appeared and hinted that Ian had taken something belonging to a god from Death, leaving him stunned.

• Rirym finished reading The Fallen Witch Fell in Love With Me and asked a nightingale to bring him ten strands of Ian’s hair.
• The nightingale returned with six hairs after Ian’s sleeping body’s reflex grabbed it, and Rirym soothed it with magic.
• Ian entered Misty Illusion, flew across an immense mountain range, and reached a bustling kingdom where guards took him to the palace.
• The king and Queen explained that a Dark Witch had cursed their daughter into a seven-year sleep, and Ian offered to find the Witches and wake her.
• Morgan arrived, froze the king and Queen, and led Ian away from the hall.
• Morgan pointed to the church and the sun, then asked how Ian had dared to take a god’s belonging from Death.

Morgan revealed that Ian’s contract was with Olwen, a Celtic Sun Goddess from the Fairy-Tale Civilization, and speculated that it required him to avenge her or her civilization. She took Ian from the frozen kingdom and taught him that echoes of the past replayed after their visitors left, while the tale continued with a Raven in his place.

• Morgan explained that Ian’s ten-thousand-year contract with the god likely carried a hidden price: avenging the god or its civilization, which may have been destroyed by something other than Death.
• Morgan suggested Merlin might know why the gods vanished and suspected he remained hidden in the Misty Illusion; Ian proposed investigating King Arthur’s tomb for clues.
• Morgan identified the Black-Robed Skeleton as Olwen, the Celtic Sun Goddess, and Ian learned that her legends associated her with immortality.
• Morgan opened a portal and pulled Ian away from the frozen kingdom, explaining that its past was fixed and that he could not change it or collect its bounty.
• Morgan taught Ian how to stop an echo of the past, then the kingdom’s story resumed with a Raven replacing Ian and telling the King and Queen that their daughter’s agreement would be The Last Fairy Tale and its speaker’s new beginning.

Ian returned to Morgan's Ancient Castle, gave Morgan and the Ancient Dragon gifts, and showed off his new area-effect Killing Curse, Avada Plague. Morgan recognized it as an inferior version of Fel Energy Burst, the spell that had killed her and been left behind by Medivh, the Supreme Mage.

• Ian gave the Ancient Dragon self-repairing Wizard Chess pieces, and Morgan beat it until it remembered its love of being struck.
• Ian gave Morgan desserts and entertainment books, then boasted that he had continued his magical studies.
• Ian demonstrated Avada Lightning Chain and then transformed the Killing Curse into a spreading, lethal area spell called Avada Plague.
• Morgan praised Ian's innovation but revealed she had seen a perfected spell called Fel Energy Burst in ruins.
• Morgan said Medivh, the Supreme Mage, had left Fel Energy Burst behind and that she had died to it, leaving Ian terrified.

Morgan showed Ian the memory of how she found a hidden cave and was killed by a trap keyed to Medivh’s name, then hinted that she had recognized the spell’s distinctive magical imprint. She left Ian unsettled by revealing that the first magic she taught him had been the Killing Curse, before asking to examine his recovered Mirror.

• Morgan explained that she had sought a canyon rumored to hold secrets about the gods, and led Ian through her memory to a hidden cave near Godric’s Hollow.
• At the cave entrance, Morgan answered the strange question posed by the cliff, and the door admitted them despite her saying she did not know the answer.
• Morgan opened a Bronze Door bearing Medivh’s name, and a green Killing Curse killed her before the memory returned them to the Ancient Castle.
• Morgan said the trap had hunted someone through their bloodline, not a Legend like her, and explained that spells carried distinctive imprints revealing their casters and origins.
• Morgan asked to examine Ian’s recovered Mirror, leaving him to wonder whether she had taught him the Killing Curse for more than practical reasons.

Ian returned the Mirror of Erised to Morgan, who gave him an alchemy assignment involving the mirror’s hidden function and missing piece. Morgan then discovered that Ian’s chess pieces contained a soul and suspected it was connected to Raven’s Authority, while Ian reached Ariana’s town and Pandora asked to join his planned treasure adventure.

• Ian returned the Mirror of Erised to Morgan, who explained that its name could be read backward as the Mirror of Desire and assigned him to investigate its Eraser function and craft its missing piece using Egyptian alchemy.
• Ian left the Ancient Castle to visit Ariana, and Morgan told the Ancient Dragon that Ian’s chess pieces contained a soul.
• Morgan recalled that Raven’s Authority was plunder as the Ancient Dragon wondered how Ian’s chess pieces could contain a soul.
• Ian arrived in Ariana’s town, showed Pandora and Ariana his Gatling gun, and revealed that he planned to search for a great treasure in the United Kingdom.
• Pandora eagerly asked Ian to take him along on the adventure.

Ian arranged an adventure with Pandora and Ariana in the Misty Illusion, then returned to Hogwarts and pondered what it meant to become a Legend. His nighttime wanderings ended when he and Rirym found a blood-red message claiming someone had returned from death.

• Ian persuaded Pandora and Ariana to join an adventure in the human world and gave Pandora a Patronus Ring, hoping the Black-Robed Skeleton's power would help bring him across.
• Ariana impressed Ian with her swordsmanship, while Pandora urged her to train harder so she could become a Valkyrie and bear the weight of being an angel.
• After leaving the Misty Illusion, Ian reflected on Legend and wondered whether attaining that rank required prestige and an epic reputation.
• Ian sneaked out of the Ravenclaw Common Room during the Night of Bewilderment and encountered Rirym in a Hogwarts corridor.
• Rirym showed Ian a blood-red message on the wall that read, "I... have returned from death!"

Ian and Rirym discussed the strange wall writing about returning from death, then turned to Ian’s reluctance to become the king wizards wanted. Ian said he would give them a king without becoming one himself, while Rirym suspected Ian’s resistance and ambitions were shaped by a deeper subconscious understanding.

• Ian and Rirym found a message on the wall claiming someone had returned from death, and Rirym said the feat would require a higher power and involve deceiving Death.
• Rirym advised Ian to leave the writing for the professors, and Ian photographed it before preparing to go.
• Rirym warned Ian that wizarding families expected him to become their king and might hate him if he rejected their hopes.
• Ian said he would provide the wizards with a king without taking the role himself, calling his plan a three-way win.
• After Ian left, Rirym discussed Ian’s reluctance and ambitions with the nightingale, concluding that Royal Wealth could not overcome the Divine Right of Kings.

Ian visited Nick LeMay’s office and accidentally triggered the ancient clock with his magic, transporting himself to a strange version of Hogwarts. The chapter ended when a younger Albus Dumbledore confronted him in the corridor.

• Ian arrived at Nick LeMay’s office and found Harry Potter waiting there after Nick had taken an interest in Harry’s scar.
• Ian and Harry examined the repaired clock, and Ian accidentally touched it, causing it to absorb a large amount of his magic.
• The clock’s runes lit up and surrounded Ian with a strange field of energy, separating him from Harry and transforming his surroundings.
• Ian found himself in an unfamiliar alchemy classroom inside Hogwarts and stepped into a corridor that seemed subtly changed.
• A younger Albus Dumbledore appeared behind Ian and asked why he was out of bed.

Ian challenged young Albus Dumbledore to a duel in the Room of Requirement, wagering that Dumbledore would reveal why Ian had entered Hogwarts if he lost. As their battle intensified, Dumbledore suspected Ian was an Obscurial who had escaped Destiny.

• Ian recognized the youthful Albus Dumbledore and accepted his challenge to duel for information about his visit to Hogwarts.
• Ian and Dumbledore raced to the Room of Requirement, where they transformed it into a dueling arena.
• Dumbledore and Ian exchanged Disarming Charms, and Dumbledore exposed Ian's disguised attack before redirecting it into the empty spectator stands.
• Dumbledore and Ian clashed with powerful flames, and Ian's magic overwhelmed Dumbledore's fire.
• Dumbledore asked whether Ian was an Obscurial who had escaped Destiny.

Ian battled a young Albus Dumbledore, who used a magic-inhibiting ritual and Dark Magic in an attempt to turn him into an Obscurial for research. Ariana’s Guardian Spirit stopped the attack, and Ian was transported back to Nick LeMay’s office, where Harry Potter, Nick LeMay, and the elderly Albus Dumbledore awaited him.

• Young Albus Dumbledore bound Ian’s substitute with a fiery chain, then exposed Ian’s hidden body and activated a Magic Inhibition Field.
• Ian used a homemade Gatling gun loaded with syringes of Draught of Living Death to incapacitate young Albus Dumbledore, but Dumbledore revealed a second ritual and trapped Ian with Dark Magic.
• Young Albus Dumbledore drew runes on Ian, intending to make him an Obscurial and use him to pursue a cure for Ariana.
• Ian broke free with a potion and summoned Ariana’s Guardian Spirit, whose presence destroyed the Dark Magic and caused young Albus Dumbledore to collapse.
• Ian vanished from the past and returned to Nick LeMay’s office, where Harry Potter, Nick LeMay, and the elderly Albus Dumbledore were waiting.

Ian returned from a journey a century into the past, and Dumbledore explained how the Ancient Time-Turner had sent him there and what the trip revealed about changing history. After Ian went to meet Grindelwald, his professor confronted him about the Golden Apple and the secret he and Dumbledore had kept from him.

• Harry Potter said he had found Professor McGonagall, Nick LeMay, and Dumbledore, who had worked together to bring Ian back through the Great Clock.
• Nick LeMay took Harry Potter into another room, leaving Ian alone with Dumbledore, who apologized and promised to teach Ian how he had evaded Ian’s magic in the past.
• Dumbledore explained that the Ancient Time-Turner had taken Ian a hundred years back and revealed that Ian had changed history while returning to the present, suggesting that the future was already destined.
• After Ian left, Godric Gryffindor told Dumbledore that Ian was Destiny and that causality spread outward from him; Dumbledore hurried off to relocate his family’s resting place.
• Aurora waited for Ian outside the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, then left him to meet Grindelwald, who asked Ian to explain the secret behind the Golden Apple and the madwoman who had spared him.

Ian avoided Grindelwald’s questions about Morgan and fled after accidentally revealing that he had met a young Dumbledore in the past. The next morning, Ian investigated a strange message at Hogwarts and discovered Malfoy had secretly passed him a cloth bag while communicating with a mysterious diary.

• Grindelwald questioned Ian about the witch who had spared him, and Ian denied knowing much while hinting that he had traveled nearly a century into the past.
• Ian mentioned that young Dumbledore had fought him, prompting Grindelwald to realize Ian had helped spread a false story about him; Ian escaped to the Room of Requirement.
• Ian found Hagrid trying to disperse Young Wizards gathered around the message “I... have returned from death!” and heard that Ron’s rat, Scabbers, was missing.
• Malfoy apologized to Ian, secretly dropped a cloth bag at his feet, and fled after denying it was his.
• Malfoy wrote in an old diary that he feared Voldemort and wanted to stay alive, and the diary replied that it was not Voldemort.

Ian discovered that the Crystal Ball Draco Malfoy had given him was reacting strangely, then received a surprising Order of Merlin, First Class award. As Harry Potter began to reveal what he had overheard from Draco, the Crystal Ball turned blood-red and Harry’s scar began glowing in the same color.

• Ian showed Michael and William the Crystal Ball Malfoy had given him, and they suspected it was an unusual or dangerous object.
• Ian accidentally bit into a chili-filled fried egg as the House-elves served chaotic, unexpectedly dangerous breakfast dishes.
• A snowy owl delivered Ian a letter announcing that he would receive the Order of Merlin, First Class in seven days, and its serpent-shaped watermark warned him to accept with caution.
• Michael, William, Professor McGonagall, and other students congratulated Ian, while Rirym urged him to accept the honor.
• Harry Potter asked Ian to speak privately and began explaining that he had overheard Draco Malfoy in their dormitory.
• Ian’s Crystal Ball turned intensely blood-red, and Harry Potter’s lightning-shaped scar began glowing the same color.

Ian discovered that Malfoy's Crystal Ball was connected to Voldemort and triggered a violent reaction in Harry, so he took Harry to the infirmary. Later, Ian investigated the Chamber of Secrets and found its Basilisk dead, drained of its flesh and soul.

• Ian brought the glowing Crystal Ball near Harry, whose scar burned and whose eyes turned into snake-like slits as he suffered a painful episode.
• Ian gave Harry his Ancestor's Happy Soup, learned that Harry had glimpsed a chained, faceless prisoner, and carried him unconscious to Madam Pomfrey.
• Students spread rumors that Ian had attacked Harry, while Hermione advised a frightened Slytherin first-year to give Ian Dragon Blood Ink and Daphne angrily defended Hermione after the boy insulted her.
• Ian entered the Chamber of Secrets and found the Basilisk dead, its body wounded and withered as though its flesh, blood, and soul had been consumed.

Ian searched the Chamber of Secrets after finding the Basilisk dead, took a magical chess piece and several emeralds, then learned that Voldemort's soul fragment in Harry was unusually active. He secured Malfoy's help in finding a diary, but the chapter ended with young Tom Riddle revealing himself to Malfoy and threatening him from inside his mind.

• Ian opened Slytherin's hidden chamber, found a speaking stone king on a Wizard Chess board, and took it before prying emeralds from the entrance.
• Ian told Nick LeMay that Voldemort's remnant soul in Harry seemed active, and Nick agreed to check Harry in the school infirmary while Dumbledore was away through Time Travel.
• Neville lost control of his broom during Flying Class, Hermione rescued him with Wingardium Leviosa, and Malfoy later flew off with Neville's Remembrall before Ian brought him to a tower.
• Ian confronted Malfoy about the Crystal Ball and diary, and Malfoy admitted that the diary had told him to deliver the item to Ian.
• Ian accompanied Malfoy to his dormitory, but the diary was missing; he gave Malfoy a protective pendant and promised to find it.
• Young Tom Riddle appeared to Malfoy, said he had betrayed Voldemort and recruited Ian to oppose him, then threatened Malfoy by making him appear in the washroom with a knife at his throat.

Ian searched Hogwarts for Malfoy’s missing diary while attending Potions and Divination classes, but found no clues. The chapter ended when Professor Trelawney went into a prophetic trance and begged Ian to save them, addressing him as “My Lord.”

• Ian used Mind Perception in the Great Hall to search students for signs of the missing diary, while Ron accused Harry Potter of stealing Scabbers and practicing Dark Magic.
• Ian met Rirym in Snape’s Potions classroom, where Rirym excelled at brewing Weed Potion and proposed using it as a poison; Snape made Ian brew a conventional batch after rejecting his improvements.
• Aurora admitted that she had taken plants from Professor Sprout after paying for them, and Ian realized she had copied his methods.
• Ian and Aurora went to Trelawney’s Divination class, where Professor Trelawney warned students about dark shadows before convulsing at the sight of Ian.
• After her trance, Trelawney reached toward Ian and pleaded, “Please, save us. Save... My Lord.”

Professor Trelawney seized Ian and begged him to save her, triggering Aurora to witness a prophecy of gods falling in a volcanic apocalypse. After the vision ended, Trelawney tested the students’ divination talent, and Ian’s fabricated prophecy convinced her he could become a great seer.

• Professor Trelawney grabbed Ian and pleaded for help while Aurora saw a vision of gods dying in a catastrophic battle.
• Aurora witnessed a one-eyed man sacrifice himself and ask an arriving figure to devour the gods and bring them back.
• Ian kicked Trelawney to free himself, interrupting Aurora’s vision, and Trelawney woke confused before beginning her Divination lesson.
• Professor Trelawney screened the students with Crystal Balls and praised them for vague or imagined visions.
• Ian claimed he saw a world-ending disaster in 1999 that was bound by a secrecy agreement, and Professor Trelawney declared him a gifted seer.

During Divination class, Ian and Aurora unsettled Professor Trelawney with improvised prophecies, while a genuine vision appeared in Trelawney’s Crystal Ball after class. Later, Ian learned that Voldemort’s soul was trying to fuse with Harry, then chased a mysterious figure into the Chamber of Secrets and interrupted a resurrection ritual, where he discovered the culprit looked like Harry.

• Professor Trelawney gave Ian Unfogging the Future and tried to make him drink moldy tea, but Ian threatened to share it with Dumbledore and received fresh tea instead.
• Daphne invented a frightening prophecy that pleased Professor Trelawney, while Aurora predicted that Trelawney would leave Hogwarts; Ian improvised a prophecy of his own, and Trelawney’s Crystal Ball later showed a figure of Destiny.
• In the school infirmary, Nick LeMay told Ian that Voldemort’s Remnant Soul was trying to fuse with Harry and erode his consciousness, and Ian revealed that the missing diary was another Horcrux.
• After leaving the infirmary, Ian followed a Slytherin-robed figure through the Abandoned Lavatory and into the Chamber of Secrets, where he found Pansy Parkinson unconscious beside a ritual in progress.
• Ian destroyed the ritual with Forbidden Curse Finale and accused the figure of using Pansy to resurrect; the boy denied killing the Basilisk and turned to reveal Harry’s face and scar.

Ian defeated the Voldemort Remnant Soul possessing Harry, then discovered the Diary Remnant Soul had used the conflict to reach the Great Clock and travel through time. Ian pursued it but was pulled into an unknown era, where a frightened girl saw him awaken on an altar.

• Ian used Fiendfyre to overwhelm Voldemort in Harry's body, while pretending not to care about Harry or Pansy to make the Remnant Soul lower its guard.
• Ian's Black Phoenix devoured Voldemort's Remnant Soul as it fled, and Ian revived Harry while Pansy survived the Fiendfyre unharmed.
• Harry recovered memories showing that the Diary Remnant Soul had possessed Draco Malfoy and was in Nicolas Flamel's office; Ian rushed there and found it activating the Great Clock.
• The Diary Remnant Soul admitted it planned to return to the past and stepped into the time passage, so Ian followed it into the machine.
• A mysterious song dragged Ian out of the passage into an unfamiliar ancient chamber, where a girl saw him awaken on an altar and ran to alert others.

Ian arrived in an ancient temple, destroyed the alchemical creature the priests worshipped as a god, and learned from the Dream-Guarding Queen that he was in Pompeii Cornelia. The mention of an increasingly active volcano left him fearing what Tom was planning.

• Ian examined the temple and watched priests bring back the Dream-Guarding Queen, who had fled after speaking to him.
• Ian uncovered a decayed alchemical creature in a bronze chamber and dismissed the priests’ belief that it was a god.
• When the creature awoke, Ian destroyed it with Sectumsempra and Fiendfyre, then apologized to the Dream-Guarding Queen.
• The Dream-Guarding Queen said her daily hymns had shown her visions of Ian saving her people, and Ian urged her not to fear or worship others.
• The Dream-Guarding Queen identified the city as Pompeii Cornelia and said its nearby volcano had become more active that year.
• Ian recognized the danger of the volcano and wondered what Tom was planning.

Ian learned that Tom Riddle may be exploiting Pompeii’s fated destruction, then followed Cassandra to investigate a hidden plague ward where patients were turning into cursed creatures. He recognized the transformation as a product of Bio-Alchemy and learned that an image of an angel spread the curse to anyone who saw it.

• Ian concluded that Riddle could use Pompeii’s doomed population to conceal his plans and resolved to stop him.
• Cassandra told Ian she had foreseen frightening events and led him into Pompeii, where she showed him the hospital’s hidden patients.
• Priest Ryan brought Ian and Cassandra to an underground isolation ward and warned them not to look into the patients’ eyes.
• Ian recognized the patients’ late-stage transformations as identical to a monster he had destroyed at another temple.
• Priest Ryan explained that seeing an angel’s image infected people with a curse that transformed them into angels, and Ian connected it to legendary-level Bio-Alchemy.

Ian investigated a curse that was transforming patients into mummified forms and followed the Priestess to examine Patient Zero. The Priestess revealed herself as a divine being who had borrowed another woman's body, then found Ian's mysterious fertilizer potion in his robe and asked why she could smell something of hers on him.

• Ian identified the patients' affliction as an ancient, powerful curse and told Priest Ryan that a powerful being had targeted the city.
• The Priestess proposed taking Ian to Patient Zero, and Ian agreed despite Priest Ryan's concerns; Cassandra declared that Ian was her god.
• The Priestess led Ian and Priest Ryan into an old dungeon, where Ian examined Patient Zero and found that the corpse matched the other infected patients.
• Ian noticed that the Priestess's face and personality had changed, though Priest Ryan had not realized it until she revealed her new appearance.
• The Priestess explained that she had distorted reality and borrowed the Priestess's body, then confronted Ian and pulled his bottle of mysterious fertilizer from his robe.

Ian encountered the Goddess inhabiting the Priestess and discovered that the contract compelled her to obey him, while Priest Ryan recognized Ian as the feared incarnation of End of All Things. Elsewhere, Riddle was taken by the Night Watch and transported to a dark temple, where Helpo declared herself his teacher.

• The Priestess's Goddess confronted Ian about boiling her bones, then stopped him from revealing time-travel spoilers.
• Ian tested the contract by ordering the Goddess to fetch warm water, and she reluctantly obeyed while Priest Ryan trembled in fear.
• Riddle worked as a clerk in an alchemy shop in Pompeii until the Night Watch brought him to their leader, who tried to use Legilimency and exposed the room's magic-inhibition field.
• Riddle tried to control the Night Watch leader with the Imperius Curse, but the spell failed, and a distortion pulled him into a dark temple.
• Riddle cast the Killing Curse at the Black Robed Woman, but it had no effect because she was already dead.
• The Black Robed Woman identified herself as Helpo, the angel who conquered death, and claimed Riddle as her apprentice and student.

Riddle accepted Helpo’s offer to pursue godhood, but Helpo marked him with a curse that left him terrified. In Pompeii, Riddle sought Ian’s help, while Ian’s attempt to divine the curse’s origin failed.

• Helpo revived Riddle in his own young body, demonstrated his power over death and possible futures, and offered him a place in his quest for godhood.
• Riddle accepted Helpo’s offer and joined hands with him, though he remained inwardly uneasy.
• Ian repeatedly tried to use divination on Patient Zero’s corpse tissue but gained no experience, and the Goddess explained that she could not trace the answer through time.
• Priest Ryan brought a black-robed visitor to Ian, who revealed himself as Riddle and begged to be taken back to Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic.
• Riddle asked Ian to save him, showing Helpo’s mark in his eyes and identifying it as the curse Ian had been seeking.

Ian confronted the sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle and learned from his memories that Helpo had returned from the World of the Departed and was trying to use Riddle as an angel. The Priestess warned that Ian’s arrival had changed the past, leaving him to face the threat of Helpo and decide what to do with Riddle.

• Ian accused Riddle of harming Malfoy and spreading a curse, but Riddle insisted Malfoy was alive and revealed that Helpo had resurrected him.
• Ian asked the Priestess to inspect Riddle’s memories, and she confirmed he had encountered Helpo, who called himself an angel and controlled power beyond magic.
• The Priestess explained that Helpo had returned through a portion of Death’s power and intended to make people like Riddle his angels.
• The Priestess warned Ian that bringing Riddle to this era had created a new future in which Helpo might achieve his divine throne.
• Riddle learned the Priestess was a god and begged Ian to take him back to the future, even saying he looked forward to Azkaban.