Recaps

Ian left the orphanage for Hogwarts, received costly supplies and an Elder Wood wand from Snape and Ollivanders, and began practicing magic in Hogsmeade. In the Misty Illusion, Teacher Mara offered to train him, taught him the Killing Curse, and assigned Ancient Runes, which Ian began to master before the arc ended.

• Dumbledore told Ian he was a wizard and invited him to Hogwarts, while Ian promised Ariana he would look for her family and received a mysterious gift from her.
• Ian discovered his Mind Perception could expose Catherine’s Confundus Charm, gained the Butcher's Instinct trait, and met the Witch, who offered to teach him magic in return for finding her Mirror.
• Snape collected Ian from the orphanage, brought him to Diagon Alley, and bought his school supplies before Ian bonded with an Elder Wood wand at Ollivanders.
• Snape left Ian in a Hogsmeade cabin with 150 Galleons, while Dumbledore made an Unbreakable Vow that Ian was not part of a plan.
• Ian practiced Lumos and Incendio, then met Teacher Mara in the Misty Illusion and learned that the illusion responded to true desires and obsessions.
• Teacher Mara taught Ian the Killing Curse, gave him a Gown Fragment as homework, and sent him back to reality holding it.
• Ian identified the fragment’s writing as Ancient Runes, bought three rune books from a Hogsmeade bookseller, and unlocked Rune Mastery after learning his first Rune.

Ian studied Dark Magic and Potions, formed a friendship with Aurora Grindelwald, and gained a surge of magical power from a Golden Apple. He arrived at Hogwarts with Aurora, where the Sorting began and her name stunned the Great Hall.

• Ian met Aurora Grindelwald, befriended her, and received Secrets of the Darkest Art, while Aurora told Kraft she had glimpsed Ian standing over a kneeling Dumbledore.
• Ian secretly studied the book and learned dark spells, then Snape confronted him over the Inferi and made him demonstrate Sectumsempra.
• Ian studied Potions and magic with Teacher Mara, while Pandora and Ariana found him in her castle and Pandora gave him a Golden Apple.
• The Golden Apple raised Ian’s Magic Power, and his experiment with Incendio unleashed a towering fire that Dumbledore stopped.
• Ian returned to Aurora’s bookstore as a scarred wizard threatened her, and Aurora killed him with Fiendfyre before Ian helped hide his ashes.
• Snape took Ian and Aurora toward Hogwarts, where they crossed the Black Lake with the first-years and Ian impressed them with a powerful Lumos.
• Professor McGonagall began the Sorting, and Aurora Grindelwald’s name silenced the Great Hall as Daphne Greengrass panicked.

Ian began his Hogwarts life in Ravenclaw, where his extraordinary experiments with Transfiguration and success in Potions drew attention. He found Ravenclaw’s Diadem in the Room of Requirement and learned that William’s family expected him to join the New Generation of Wizarding Acolytes.

• Aurora Grindelwald and Ian Prince were sorted into Slytherin and Ravenclaw respectively, and Ian met Cho Chang at the welcoming feast.
• The Sorting Hat told Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape that Ian could become Rowena Ravenclaw’s apprentice because of his talent for creating and improving magic.
• Ian learned that Transfiguration worked through a wizard’s magic and imagination, then transformed a match into an iron needle and experimented with dangerous transformations.
• Ian turned straw into a mouse and then into steel needles, leading Professor Ronnie Erich to deduce that Ian had killed the mouse through Transfiguration.
• Ian partnered with Aurora in Potions, completed two Boil-Cure Potions under Snape’s supervision, and gave Aurora a bottle of Felix Felicis.
• Ian found the Room of Requirement, discovered Ravenclaw’s Diadem with Tom Riddle’s nameplate, and left with it despite Silly Barnabas’s warning.
• Snape gave Ian Advanced Potion-Making and confirmed that no relatives remained in Ian’s family, while Ian wondered if Voldemort had destroyed them.
• William told Ian that his family expected him to join the New Generation of Wizarding Acolytes, and Ian offered to try writing him a recommendation letter.

Ian was framed for Ronnie Erich’s murder, uncovered threats to Hogwarts, and deepened his ties to Dumbledore, Aurora, and the founders’ legacies. He ended the stretch experimenting with powerful alchemy while Snape pursued a potion whose creation seemed to require the gods’ consent.

• Ian was accused of killing Ronnie Erich, but Prior Incantato failed to reveal anything from his wand, and Dumbledore declared him innocent.
• Ian entered Rowena Ravenclaw’s Misty Illusion, learned the origins of Transfiguration, and transformed Voldemort’s Remnant Soul into a slug.
• Ian defended Hogwarts from the Ashwinders by killing Avery Carrow with Fiendfyre, then kept his role in Carrow’s death secret.
• Dumbledore showed Ian the truth of Ariana’s death and asked Aurora to become his apprentice and help guide Ian.
• Ian and Rabbi rescued Aurora from a Swooping Evil in the Forbidden Forest, where she warned him of a vision involving a unicorn hunter and many corpses.
• Gilderoy Grindelwald taught Ian the Patronus Charm, while he and Dumbledore investigated forged letters, Ronnie Erich’s death, and a locket tied to Voldemort’s divided soul.
• Ian brewed a Vitality Potion under Snape’s supervision, and Snape’s test revealed that it could make a toad’s magic detectable.
• Ian made six batches of the Unlimited Firepower Potion for Snape, who learned from Morgan le Fay’s diary that the potion could not be replicated without the gods’ consent.