Chapter Summaries

After defeating Voldemort, Ian discussed alchemy with Nick LeMay, who agreed to teach him after seeing his research on the Room of Requirement. Ian took the Mirror of Erised and headed for the Headmaster’s Office, where he found another Albus Dumbledore waiting.

• Nick LeMay praised Ian’s magical talent and agreed to give him private alchemy lessons after seeing his research notes on the Room of Requirement.
• Nick LeMay and Albus Dumbledore discussed Ian’s Black Phoenix and the mystery of how Ian had obtained Proof of Legend.
• Ian packed the broken stone chess pieces into his Money Bag, then used the Black Phoenix to travel to the Headmaster’s Office.
• Ian arrived in the brightly lit office and found another Albus Dumbledore sitting behind the desk.

Ian spoke with a future Albus Dumbledore, who revealed his use of a Time-Turner and explained that he had tested whether Ian could break an established Destiny by defeating Voldemort. Dumbledore warned that Voldemort’s resurrection had cost him his soul, while an ominous cloaked figure appeared on a mysterious island and picked up a slug.

• Ian met a well-groomed Albus Dumbledore in the Headmaster’s Office and realized the Marauder’s Map had been tampered with to conceal him.
• Dumbledore admitted he was using a Time-Turner and had brought multiple versions of himself to Hogwarts while studying time travel.
• Dumbledore said he had let Ian face Voldemort to test whether Ian could shatter Destiny, and Ian asked to hunt down Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes.
• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort’s resurrection ritual had offered his soul to Death, and Ian left to tend to his potion.
• Ian asked who had reported Dumbledore to the Ministry, but Dumbledore only described the person as a former helper who now feared him.
• On a solitary island in the Misty Illusion, a black-cloaked figure crushed a Chocolate Frog, picked up a slug, and disappeared over the Black Sea.

During the Christmas holidays, Ian learned that Aurora had joined Slytherin’s Anti-Prince Alliance and eased tensions by selling them a book about his supposed weaknesses. He discovered the book was a Muggle parenting guide and reacted with outrage.

• Ian enjoyed a quiet holiday at Hogwarts while students handled their homework through House-specific schemes, and he continued experimenting with a Homework Quill.
• Ian learned that Daphne Greengrass led the Anti-Prince Alliance, while Aurora explained that Daphne was collecting membership fees and hinted that powerful families knew about Ian’s future significance.
• Aurora told Ian that Grindelwald believed Destiny would lead him toward becoming a king for wizards, but Ian rejected the idea of bearing that responsibility.
• Aurora admitted she had joined the Anti-Prince Alliance as a spy and had helped improve Slytherin students’ behavior by selling them a book.
• Ian opened the book, Human Weaknesses: Secrets of the Prince, and angrily realized it was a Muggle parenting guide written under Gilderoy Lockhart’s name.

Ian discovered that Grindelwald’s book about him was selling widely, then continued brewing potions and developing spells while preparing to meet Teacher Morgan. When Professor Flitwick showed him records about a legendary transfer student who had learned magic from a mysterious Raven, Ian suspected the bird might have been Lady Ravenclaw.

• Aurora told Ian that Grindelwald’s book was selling well and was being stocked in wizarding settlements as a Hogwarts survival guide.
• Ian reached Level Five in Potions Mastery, awakened the Extreme Fusion trait, and researched an All-Purpose Anti-Magic Draught using wizard hair samples.
• Ian demonstrated his Silent Blasting Curse and branching Multiple Disarming Charm to Professor Flitwick, who warned him against publishing techniques that could aid dark wizards.
• Professor Flitwick told Ian about a century-old transfer student who had learned powerful magic from a mysterious wizard called the System Teacher.
• Professor Flitwick showed Ian memoir fragments describing the transfer student’s injured, talking Raven teacher, whose image turned its head on the page.

Ian learned more about Ravenclaw’s raven and discovered that his likely Animagus form was a raven, while a memoir’s strange reference to “System Dad” left him worried about the injured raven’s identity and timing. After failing to find Dumbledore and experimenting with a black feather in the Forbidden Forest, Ian entered the Misty Illusion at midnight and found himself beneath the blood moon.

• Professor Flitwick showed Ian a passage in Rowena Ravenclaw’s book linking a raven to a family contract and explained that Ravenclaw descendants often had raven Animagus forms.
• Ian told Professor Flitwick that his Animagus form was likely to be a raven, and Professor Flitwick advised him not to decide his form in advance and suggested safe Lumos research topics.
• Ian realized that the transfer student’s memoir mentioned “System Dad” and an injured raven, then asked Aurora to use her Seer abilities before searching unsuccessfully for Dumbledore.
• Ian startled Myrtle in a bathroom, then tested a fallen black feather from his Black Phoenix and found that its flames frightened a Dementor.
• Ian searched the Forbidden Forest for creatures to test the feather on, but at midnight the world froze and he was transported into the Misty Illusion beneath a blood-red moon.

Ian was drawn into a black-sand desert in the Misty Illusion, where his Patronus Charm revealed the past destruction of a kingdom and led him to a ruined tower filled with ancient wonders. After escaping the tower and returning to Hogwarts, Ian heard the Black-Robed Skeleton's words behind him again.

• Ian explored the black desert, collected its unusual sand, and flew across it using his unfinished Magic Cloak.
• Ian cast the Patronus Charm, which joined with the sand to recreate a lost city and reveal its destruction and fall into the World of the Departed.
• Ian followed the Black Phoenix to a ruined tower, took a Great Clock and an Emerald Seed, and found murals depicting ancient creatures and fairy-tale figures.
• Ian encountered a Black-Robed Skeleton that said those who were loved would grow flesh and blood, then fled when it seemed to approach him.
• Ian's time in the Misty Illusion ran out, and he returned to the Forbidden Forest, where a Bowtruckle revealed that the Black-Robed Skeleton had followed him.

Ian discovered that the Black-Robed Skeleton had followed him out of the Misty Illusion and bound itself to him through a contract, though its demand for flesh remained unclear. In the Forbidden Forest, the skeleton and the Black Phoenix killed attacking Centaurs, and a Unicorn then approached the skeleton with unexpected trust.

• Ian tried several spells against the Black-Robed Skeleton, but its chains or other strange power nullified his magic, and it said it needed to be loved and given flesh.
• The Black-Robed Skeleton revealed that a contract bound it to Ian for ten thousand years, with Ian to give it flesh and the skeleton to serve at his command.
• A group of Centaurs attacked Ian, and the Black Phoenix devoured one Centaur's soul before the Black-Robed Skeleton killed the rest with scarlet flames.
• Ian collected poisonous powder from the Black-Robed Skeleton after it triggered an exploding mushroom, then encountered a Unicorn in the forest.
• The Unicorn bypassed Ian and the Black Phoenix, bowed to the Black-Robed Skeleton, and let it stroke its head.

Ian returned to Hogwarts after a long Time Loop and reunited with Michael and William, then investigated the Black Phoenix and its contract. He brought Philosopher’s Stones to Nick LeMay for help, leaving the alchemist horrified by the pile and asking how many people Ian had killed.

• Ian reunited with Michael and William, and William accidentally drank an Ageing Potion before it wore off.
• William told Ian and Michael that Professor Quirrell had been made into a Horcrux, while his family’s Ministry spy network had learned secret details about the death.
• Ian learned from Aurora that Dumbledore wanted to attempt something forbidden to let someone he cared about live safely, and she believed Dumbledore supported making Ian king.
• Ian continued investigating the Black Phoenix and Black-Robed Skeleton, then went to Nick LeMay to ask for help with alchemy.
• Ian poured out a large pile of Philosopher’s Stones in Nick LeMay’s office, and Nick reacted in alarm, asking whether Ian had killed all of Europe.

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.