Chapter Summaries

Ron led Hermione and Neville to investigate his suspicion that Harry had been replaced, claiming the fake Harry went to the Forbidden Forest at night. Ian overheard them and, after speaking with an unexpectedly talkative Gryffindor portrait, agreed to follow and protect them in exchange for help finding a hidden young portrait.

• Hermione urged Ron to seek help, but Ron refused because he feared Ian would warn Harry; Neville worried they could not handle Dark Magic themselves.
• Ron said he had seen the fake Harry heading toward the Forbidden Forest at night, and the trio decided to investigate despite Neville's fear and Hermione's reservations.
• Ian listened from nearby, puzzled because Riddle's memories contained no record of Harry visiting the Forbidden Forest.
• The trio ran past Ian without noticing him, then used Alohomora to leave the castle.
• A previously silent Gryffindor portrait encouraged Ian to follow them, and Ian agreed while asking it to find the hidden young portrait.

Ian made a deal with the elderly Gryffindor portrait to find the missing young Gryffindor portrait and promised to follow Ron, Hermione, and Neville into the Forbidden Forest. When he could not find the trio, he discovered a secret passage near the Quidditch Pitch that led into the forest and flew after them.

• Ian asked the elderly Gryffindor portrait to help him find its younger self in exchange for keeping Ron, Hermione, and Neville safe in the Forbidden Forest.
• Ian asked about Gryffindor's Treasure Vault, but the elderly portrait knew nothing about it and spoke instead of the wisdom gained through adventure.
• Ian transformed into white mist and flew out to intercept the trio, but found no sign of them at the Forbidden Forest entrance.
• Ian searched around Hagrid's hut, where Fang sensed the Ancient Dragon scent on him and cowered without barking.
• Ian activated his Marauder's Map and found a secret passage from the Quidditch Pitch to the Forbidden Forest.
• Ian flew into the Forbidden Forest to search for Ron, Hermione, and Neville.

Ian found Ron, Hermione, and Neville trapped by magical mushrooms in the Forbidden Forest and rescued them with Fiendfyre. As Ian questioned them about why they had come, a roaring creature approached through the woods.

• Ian searched the Forbidden Forest for the three students and followed Ron's scream to a patch of glowing mushrooms.
• The mushrooms' sticky mycelium trapped Ron, Hermione, and Neville, and Neville warned them not to struggle.
• Hermione failed to cast a fire spell, so Ian appeared and used Fiendfyre to burn the mushrooms without harming the trio.
• Neville recognized Ian as the wizard who had cast the flames, and Ian demanded to know why the Gryffindor students were in the forest.
• Hermione began to explain their reason, but a creature roared in the distance as branches snapped nearby.

Ian and the first-year trio heard a terrifying roar in the Forbidden Forest, which Ian identified as coming from a Dragon unlike any known breed. He sent Hermione, Ron, and Neville back to Hogwarts and continued into the forest to find out who had brought the Dragon there.

• A powerful roar terrified Hermione, Ron, and Neville, and Ian revived Neville with a potion after he fainted.
• Ron guessed that Harry was secretly raising Dragons in the Forbidden Forest, while Ian dismissed his theory and explained that skilled wizards could defeat Dragons.
• Ian decided to investigate the unknown Dragon alone, despite Hermione urging him to alert the Hogwarts staff.
• Ian transformed stones into blankets, wrapped the trio inside them, and sent them flying back toward the castle.
• Ian walked deeper into the Forbidden Forest to discover who had placed an unfamiliar Dragon there.

Ian found the Forbidden Forest unnaturally empty and traced the Dragon Roar to a ruined clearing, where he discovered pure dragon blood and a Bronze Door. Meanwhile, Ron, Hermione, and Neville returned to Hogwarts by flying carpet, and Ron grew alarmed that Ian might hold a grudge against him before Snape confronted them.

• Ian found the Forbidden Forest devoid of creatures and followed the Dragon Roar to a clearing wrecked by an Ancient Dragon.
• Ian discovered scorched traces and pure dragon blood, then spotted what appeared to be a Bronze Door in the crushed valley.
• Hermione worried about Ian facing the dragon, while Ron speculated that he was conspiring with Harry and hiding a secret.
• Hermione and Neville challenged Ron's theory, and the three arrived at Hogwarts on flying carpets, where Ron fell and blamed his bad luck on his remarks about Ian.
• Ron regretted provoking Ian and imagined being punished before Snape appeared and demanded to know what they were doing.

Professor Snape caught Hermione, Neville, and Ron wandering outside Hogwarts at night and restrained them with an unfamiliar spell. After intimidating them and hearing Ron’s excuse that they were searching for Neville’s toad, Snape focused on Ron’s terror, leaving the three unsure what punishment awaited them.

• Snape found Hermione, Neville, and Ron outside the castle and demanded to know what they were doing.
• Ron urged the others to flee, but Snape immobilized all three with a spell they could not identify.
• Snape released them, warned them not to run again, and scolded them for breaking the School Rules.
• Ron claimed they had been helping Neville search for his lost toad, but Snape mocked the excuse and circled the frightened children.
• Snape noticed Ron was much more terrified of him than Hermione or Neville and fixed his gaze on Ron.

Snape caught Ron, Hermione, and Neville out at night and threatened them with severe punishments after learning they had entered the Forbidden Forest. When Hermione revealed Ian was there to challenge one or more Dragons, Snape rushed off with her to find him, leaving Ron and Neville to discover a Dementor fleeing nearby.

• Snape caught Ron, Hermione, and Neville outside at night, found Trevor in Neville's pocket, and accused Ron of lying about breaking the rules.
• Snape threatened to expel the three students and assigned Ron a week of late-night cauldron cleaning after Ron accused him of personal revenge.
• Hermione confessed that they had entered the Forbidden Forest and told Snape that Ian was there too.
• Hermione warned Snape that Ian seemed intent on challenging one or more Dragons, so Snape grabbed her and hurried toward the Forbidden Forest.
• Ron and Neville remained behind and saw a Dementor apparently fleeing from something terrifying.

Ron and Neville encountered a Dementor outside Hogwarts and fled in terror, unable to fight or outrun it. The Dementor caught Neville by the ankle, leaving him overwhelmed by fear and painful memories.

• Snape carried Hermione toward the Forbidden Forest while Ron and Neville watched from outside Hogwarts.
• A Dementor appeared, and Ron and Neville fled toward the castle as it pursued them.
• Ron realized his wand had fallen behind but chose to keep running, while Neville struggled to keep up.
• Neville tried to cast Incendio but could not finish the spell before the Dementor caught his ankle.
• The Dementor’s touch filled Neville’s mind with painful memories, and he cried out in fear.

Neville and Ron were captured by an unusually fearful Dementor in the Forbidden Forest, which searched them for toys to offer in its place. The Black-Robed Skeleton arrived, and Ron fainted in terror after the Dementor presented them to her.

• The Dementor slapped and shook Neville while searching him for something it wanted, and Ron mistook its actions for torment.
• Ron charged the Dementor with stones to rescue Neville, but one stone hit Neville and the Dementor seized Ron as well.
• The Dementor shook both boys and begged for toys to replace it, while Ron and Neville imagined that everyone at Hogwarts had been killed.
• The Dementor sensed someone approaching and held Ron and Neville out toward the Black-Robed Skeleton.
• The Black-Robed Skeleton leaned toward the boys, and Ron fainted in terror, wetting his pants.

Snape and Hermione searched the Forbidden Forest for Ian, encountering dangerous creatures and discovering the scorched traces of his Fiendfyre. When a terrifying roar shook the forest, Snape realized the creature was not a dragon and rushed toward it with Hermione, leaving Ian’s fate uncertain.

• Snape took Hermione into the Forbidden Forest, where he defended her from giant spiders and a viper while correcting her potion-plant knowledge.
• Hermione led Snape to the scorched clearing where Ian had used Fiendfyre, and Snape was astonished by the lingering magical power.
• Hermione pointed out the direction Ian had gone after recalling where the earlier roar had come from.
• A deafening roar shook the forest, and Snape recognized that the creature was not a dragon before hurrying toward it with Hermione.

Snape rushed Hermione toward the source of a terrifying roar, fearing Ian had encountered an unknown creature in the Forbidden Forest. As they entered an eerily lifeless area, Snape discovered that the trees and the entire environment around them were not real.

• Snape explained that the roar was unlike any dragon call he knew and feared an ancient, unrecorded creature had made it.
• Hermione asked Snape about dragons and Muggles as he hurried her through the forest.
• A second, enraged roar shook the forest, and Snape feared Ian had already encountered the creature.
• Snape transformed into Black Mist and flew Hermione toward the sound, carrying her through the silent forest.
• Snape landed near motionless trees and concluded that the trees and the surrounding environment were not real.

Snape and Hermione discovered that the Forbidden Forest had become an Ancient Magic maze that they could not escape, and they found Dumbledore trapped there too. The three faced the puzzle together, while Ian’s fate remained uncertain.

• Snape realized that he and Hermione were inside a vast magical space and tried to flee with her, despite Hermione’s worry for Ian.
• Snape and Hermione repeatedly returned to the clearing scorched by Fiendfyre, and Snape identified their surroundings as a maze shaped by Ancient Magic.
• Snape blasted and burned the trees to make an escape route, but the forest restored itself and blocked their efforts.
• Snape and Hermione hoped Dumbledore would notice the danger, but Dumbledore appeared and revealed that he had been trapped even earlier.
• Dumbledore proposed that they work together to solve the Ancient Puzzle.

Dumbledore joined Snape and Hermione inside a crude, mysterious realm in the Forbidden Forest and began investigating why it had trapped them. Meanwhile, Ian fought Ancient Dragons emerging from a Bronze Door, then realized the dragons he killed vanished and might be the same creature returning.

• Dumbledore arrived beside Snape and Hermione, proved his identity through their secret agreement, and explained that an unknown force had created their surroundings.
• Dumbledore used a magical pocket watch to investigate the realm while assuring Snape that Ian could survive on his own.
• Ian stood before a Bronze Door beside a dead Ancient Dragon and prepared to collect its materials when another Ancient Dragon emerged.
• Ian redirected the dragonfire and combined it with Shadowless Storm to kill the second Ancient Dragon.
• Ian noticed the first dragon had vanished, then saw another dragon emerge and realized the creature he had been fighting might be the same dragon returning.

Ian repeatedly fought an Ancient Dragon emerging from the Bronze Door, but its resurrection and the door’s resistance to his magic defied his understanding. After the dragon fled, an unseen boundary aged it to dust and the door began bringing it back again, leading Ian to suspect the phenomenon involved Destiny and Death.

• Ian killed the Ancient Dragon again with Fiendfyre and Shadowless Storm, and its body vanished as before.
• Ian tried to destroy the Bronze Door with Shadowless Storm, fel energy, and Fiendfyre, but it remained unharmed and dissolved the flames.
• When the dragon emerged again and charged him, Ian controlled gravity to pin it down and used Fel Energy Burst and Soul Annihilation to kill it.
• The dragon reappeared with its soul restored, then fled from Ian in fear, but an invisible boundary rapidly aged it into dust.
• Ian saw the Bronze Door begin to release the dragon again and noticed runes representing Death, suspecting the cycle was connected to Destiny.

Ian investigated the enormous Bronze Door exposed in a shattered valley in the Forbidden Forest, discovering that the valley had been built as a complex magical containment system. After the Dragon repeatedly emerged and died beyond the Door’s protective boundary, Ian accidentally triggered the Door’s suction and was pulled inside.

• Ian tested the Bronze Door with Dark Magic and Transfiguration, but his spells had no effect on it.
• Ian explored the split valley and found extensive magical inscriptions that formed a sealing or preservation system around the Door.
• The Ancient Dragon emerged repeatedly and turned to ashes whenever it crossed the boundary around the Bronze Door.
• Ian copied the valley’s runes and noticed several connected to Death, leading him to wonder whether Death had made the Door.
• When Ian blasted the Dragon back into the vortex, the Bronze Door activated a powerful suction that shattered his spells and dragged him inside.

Dumbledore, Snape, and Hermione reached the Bronze Door and encountered a version of Dumbledore from within it, who attacked them. After defeating him, Dumbledore concluded that the figure was one of his possible selves and admitted he could not be certain whether he had emerged from the door himself.

• Dumbledore led Snape and Hermione through the devastated Forbidden Forest to the Bronze Door, where he sensed Ian’s lingering magical traces.
• Dumbledore explained that the Forbidden Forest’s distortions involved altered reality and said the forest predated Hogwarts and the Four Founders.
• The Bronze Door’s vortex revealed a second Albus Dumbledore, who emerged and attacked the group with powerful spells.
• The real Dumbledore fought the intruder while protecting Snape and Hermione, then turned the intruder’s Avada Kedavra back on him and destroyed him.
• Dumbledore told Snape and Hermione that the intruder was a version of him annihilated by Destiny, but admitted he could not be sure he had not come from the door himself.

Hermione and Snape watched the real Dumbledore confront another version of himself emerging from the Bronze Door, who explained that the door caused convergence and collection. After invading Hermione and Snape’s minds to learn how they became Legends, the other Dumbledore returned through the door and warned that the real Dumbledore could be discarded too.

• Another Dumbledore emerged from the Bronze Door, but he and the real Dumbledore agreed not to fight.
• The two Dumbledores exchanged questions, and the newcomer described the door’s process as “convergence” and “collection.”
• The newcomer asked how the real Dumbledore had become a Legend, and the real Dumbledore attributed it to people and events diverting Destiny.
• The newcomer invaded Hermione and Snape’s minds to learn why they became Legends, prompting Snape to angrily accuse him of intrusion.
• The real Dumbledore warned the newcomer that his invasion had gone too far, and the newcomer apologized before warning that the real Dumbledore could be discarded and absorbed into their group.
• The newcomer walked back through the Bronze Door, which fell silent, and the real Dumbledore thanked him for reducing future trouble.

After Dumbledore explained that the Bronze Door gathered rejected possibilities into alternate selves, Snape worried that Ian had entered it. Ian found himself in a prehistoric world where black-robed wizards hunted a dragon, and he realized the so-called gods might once have been wizards.

• Dumbledore explained that the Bronze Door manifested possibilities that he and other living beings had rejected, while Snape asked whether Ian had gone inside.
• Ian woke in a prehistoric landscape filled with enormous plants, insects, and dinosaurs, then watched an Ancient Dragon kill a Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Rune meteors and chains attacked the Ancient Dragon, and a giant magical hand hurled it into a ravine.
• More than a dozen black-robed figures killed the Dragon and vanished with it before Ian could identify them.
• Ian recalled that Medivh would travel to the Age of Gods and suspected the black-robed Dragon hunters were gods who had originally been wizards.

Ian explored the ancient world after being swept through time, concluding that the Black Robe Wizards might be the origin of the gods. He found a floating steel city where the wizards gathered, but an alarm sounded and someone called out about a Raven.

• Ian watched magical rain restore the burned landscape and create life, strengthening his suspicion that the Black Robe Wizards would become gods.
• Ian flew through a prehistoric wilderness, killed a pterosaur and an attacking striped python, and cooked their meat while observing unfamiliar Fantastic Beasts.
• Ian spotted a mysterious steel city floating above the ancient world and identified it as the wizards' gathering place.
• A pale blue barrier rose around the city as an alarm sounded, and a voice shouted that Raven had arrived.

Ian approached the Steel City, whose Black Robe Wizards mistook him for a terrifying Raven and unleashed metal beasts against him. After his spells failed against their runic defenses, Ian transformed into a giant Raven and charged at the city’s protective barrier, prompting the wizards to panic over what they called its second phase.

• Ian approached the Steel City and found its Black Robe Wizards reacting to him with fear and hostility.
• Ian tried to communicate and probe the city’s protective barrier, but it repelled his Mental Power.
• The Black Robe Wizards deployed metal beasts against Ian, whose spells were absorbed or deflected by their runes.
• Ian recognized that the beasts were made of the same metal as the Bronze Door and was injured while dodging their attacks.
• Ian transformed into a giant Raven and flew toward the city’s barrier as the Black Robe Wizards shouted that its second phase had begun.