Chapter Summaries

Voldemort tested the reality-warping and corruptive power he gained from reaching the legendary realm, then began preparing a ritual array to contact higher beings in deep space. As he worked, urgent knocking at the chamber door interrupted him.

• Voldemort entered his underground chamber and tested his new chaotic magic on obsidian targets and a gnome soul.
• Voldemort cast powerful Dark Magic, including Void Rending, and became convinced he could defeat Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Voldemort decided to pursue immortality by building an array that would attract the attention of higher beings in deep space.
• Voldemort began inscribing the array and carefully preparing its rare, dangerous materials.
• Someone knocked urgently but cautiously on the chamber door as Voldemort prepared to inscribe the next ring of runes.

Voldemort learned that Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Ian Prince were together at a London night market and mobilized elite Death Eaters to ambush them. Unaware of the danger, Ian questioned Grindelwald about a mysterious black-robed woman and began explaining his view of fate as a changing network of possibilities.

• Yaxley told Voldemort that Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the young wizard Ian Prince were at a night market near Blackfriars Bridge.
• Voldemort abandoned his unfinished magic circle and ordered Yaxley to assemble elite Death Eaters for an attack.
• Yaxley briefed the gathered Death Eaters, while Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, and Barty Crouch Jr. prepared for the confrontation.
• Ian asked Grindelwald whether he knew the identity of the black-robed woman who had guided Jorkins, and Grindelwald said he knew little beyond Jorkins's memories.
• Grindelwald asked Ian about the nature of prophecy, and Ian described fate as a changing network woven from possibilities, causes, choices, and chance.

Ian explained his probabilistic view of prophecy to Grindelwald, who hinted that Ian had a final exam approaching and questioned whether a mysterious figure had drawn him to Jorkins. Their discussion was interrupted when Voldemort and a force of Death Eaters surrounded the night market, and Ian recognized that Voldemort had attained legendary status.

• Ian described prophecy as an uncertain reading of probabilities that could be altered by choices and intervention.
• Grindelwald teased Ian about final exams, then speculated that the black-robed figure's scheme might have involved Ian as well as Jorkins.
• Ian accused Grindelwald of using his prophetic ability, but the night market's atmosphere abruptly changed as Death Eaters surrounded it.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald realized Voldemort was attacking them in a Muggle area, while Ian calmly anticipated that the conversation would be interrupted.
• Voldemort emerged in a strange, more powerful form and addressed Dumbledore, Ian, and Grindelwald as the market fell under darkness.
• Ian recognized that Voldemort had attained legendary status and understood the source of his confidence.

Voldemort confronted Dumbledore and Grindelwald in the night market, revealing that he had gained immense, unnatural power and challenging Dumbledore to a duel to the death. As Death Eaters moved to torment the helpless Muggles, Ian watched in silence, his attention fixed on them.

• Voldemort appeared before Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Ian, then displayed chaotic power that overwhelmed the night market and showed he had reached Legend status.
• Grindelwald attacked Voldemort with Fiendfyre, but Voldemort distorted space to deflect the flames without being harmed.
• Voldemort ordered Lucius Malfoy and the Death Eaters to deal with the helpless Muggles, and he blocked Dumbledore when he tried to stop them.
• Voldemort challenged Dumbledore to a one-on-one duel to the death and promised to deal with Grindelwald afterward.
• Ian remained silent and watched the Death Eaters advance on the Muggles.

Voldemort trapped Dumbledore in a duel while the Death Eaters slaughtered Muggles and overwhelmed the London police and army. Ian quietly released an unseen ripple, but the massacre continued and the Death Eaters stood victorious among the ruins.

• Voldemort challenged Dumbledore to duel and prevented him from rescuing the Muggles, while Grindelwald assessed the threat and Ian silently sent an undetectable ripple across the night market.
• The Death Eaters began killing and torturing the helpless Muggles, and Ian's unseen ripple produced no visible change.
• London police arrived and fired on the Death Eaters, but spells and protective barriers let the attackers kill the officers.
• The British army surrounded the night market and opened fire, but the Death Eaters tore open the ground and rained green meteors on the troops.
• The Death Eaters killed the remaining soldiers and celebrated among the corpses and burning ruins, despite suffering some casualties themselves.

Dumbledore attacked Voldemort’s mind while Grindelwald struck the Death Eaters, but a second Tom Riddle emerged and effortlessly neutralized Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre. Grindelwald realized Voldemort’s Legendary Trait may have awakened his Horcruxes into independent avatars, leaving him to face Tom as Dumbledore and Voldemort remained locked in a mental duel.

• As Death Eaters celebrated the slaughter of Muggles, Dumbledore used Legilimency to invade Voldemort’s consciousness, leaving both wizards motionless.
• Grindelwald seized a Death Eater’s wand and unleashed Fiendfyre, killing several Death Eaters as the others fled.
• A young man with scarlet eyes stepped forward and effortlessly stopped and dispersed Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre.
• The young man identified himself as Tom Riddle, also known as Voldemort, and the surviving Death Eaters knelt before him.
• Grindelwald suspected that Voldemort’s Legendary Trait had turned his Horcruxes into independent avatars, while Tom prepared to fight him.

Young Tom revealed that Voldemort’s Legendary Trait awakened his Horcruxes as independent incarnations, then fought Grindelwald with the power of the Void Domain. Elsewhere, Death Eaters slaughtered Muggles and defeated a military response, while Britain’s prime minister watched the catastrophe unfold.

• Young Tom told Grindelwald that Voldemort’s Horcruxes had awakened as independent incarnations after Voldemort reached Legend, and said Voldemort could sense their conversation.
• Grindelwald challenged young Tom, who attacked with a dark vortex as Dumbledore remained locked in a mental duel with Voldemort.
• Young Tom used the Void Domain to devour Grindelwald’s magic and attacks, forcing Grindelwald to keep fleeing.
• Death Eaters continued killing Muggles and used Transfiguration and a Falling Spell to destroy three British fighter jets.
• The prime minister watched footage of the attack at an emergency National Security Council meeting and realized how powerful wizards were.

Ian Prince revealed that the battle in London had been an illusion, undoing the apparent slaughter and leaving Grindelwald and the Death Eaters unharmed. The Horcrux avatars realized Ian had deceived them and attacked him together.

• Muggle leaders and Minister Fudge ordered emergency responses as the apparent Death Eater assault devastated London.
• Scrimgeour and the Aurors were overwhelmed by the Death Eaters and their Horcrux avatars, and Scrimgeour was killed.
• As young Tom’s Void Domain closed in, Grindelwald called on Ian Prince to act and correct history.
• Ian revealed himself, and the battlefield, casualties, and magic vanished as the illusion dissolved.
• The Horcrux avatars surrounded Ian and unleashed five powerful attacks at him.

Ian effortlessly defeated the five Horcrux incarnations and addressed Grindelwald as his professor, revealing that he knew the old man's secret. Meanwhile, the Black Robed Woman and her allies manipulated world leaders into preparing nuclear weapons for a global catastrophe, declaring that deep space was watching.

• Ian redirected the five Horcrux incarnations' attacks and buried them beneath rubble, leaving the Death Eaters terrified.
• Ian called Grindelwald his professor, and Grindelwald reacted with genuine horror.
• The United States government ordered a major military deployment to the United Kingdom after learning of the Wizard conflict.
• The Black Robed Woman used the Imperius Curse to control members of a secret organization and guide political decisions.
• Over the following days, agents controlled leaders and officials in thirty-seven nuclear-armed countries, prompting a worldwide nuclear alert.
• The Black Robed Woman said deep space was watching and that the world's despair would be the desired sacrifice.

Ian defeated Voldemort’s five Horcrux avatars and stopped the Death Eaters, while Dumbledore and Voldemort concluded their mental duel. Ian left with Grindelwald to continue seeking answers, leaving Dumbledore to handle the aftermath.

• Ian erased all five Horcrux avatars, and the Death Eaters surrendered in fear.
• Scrimgeour arrived with the Aurors, and Grindelwald revealed that Ian had defeated the Death Eaters and Voldemort’s avatars alone.
• Ian allowed Scrimgeour to take the Death Eaters into custody and said Dumbledore and Voldemort were nearly finished.
• Dumbledore and Voldemort ended their contest, and Voldemort fled into the night.
• Dumbledore thanked Ian, who said he needed to continue his conversation with Grindelwald and asked to take him along.

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.