Chapter Summaries

Ian searched his old room for a status symbol, found a keychain for his many shop keys, and gave Lupin a bottle of Wolfsbane Potion before asking him to take him to Diagon Alley. Their Floo trip led to Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley, where Borgin mistook Ian for a powerful political player and revealed that rumors had tied him to the names Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

• Ian found a golden keychain, hung his shop keys from it, and gave Lupin a ready-made bottle of Wolfsbane Potion.
• Ian persuaded Lupin to take him to Diagon Alley, and Lupin revealed the hidden Floo fireplace connected to Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley.
• Ian traveled through the Floo Network to Borgin and Burkes and examined the shop’s Dark Magic merchandise.
• Borgin first dismissed Ian as a pauper, then changed his manner after noticing the keys and gave Ian two cursed eyeballs for free.
• Borgin called Ian “Ian Grindelwald Dumbledore Ambrosius Prince,” leaving Lupin stunned at the shop’s doorway.

Ian and Lupin searched Knockturn Alley for werewolves, where Ian captured one who could transform outside the full moon and found evidence of a potion behind the change. Lupin read the werewolf’s memories and was horrified by what he discovered.

• Ian dismissed Lupin’s suspicions about his bloodline as they walked through Knockturn Alley and explained why the Ministry tolerated the district.
• Ian led Lupin to a hidden werewolf gathering place, using illusions to evade Lupin and a lurking attacker.
• Lupin dodged a spell and destroyed the attacker’s hiding place while Ian emerged with an unconscious werewolf.
• Ian read the werewolf’s memories, collected his blood, and told Lupin that a potion enabled voluntary transformation.
• Lupin used Legilimency on the werewolf and recoiled in disbelief at the name he found in the memories.

Ian and Lupin investigated the Awakening Potion, which a powerful blond man claiming to be Godric Gryffindor had sold to Knockturn Alley werewolves. The Elder gave Lupin a potion and demanded secrecy, while the werewolves turned their attention to Ian.

• Ian drew blood from an unconscious werewolf, and its memories revealed that a blond swordsman had defeated Knockturn Alley's werewolves and identified himself as Godric Gryffindor.
• Lupin struggled to believe the Founder might be alive, and Ian suggested taking the mystery to Dumbledore while studying the potion.
• Ian and Lupin found a group of werewolves, whose Elder gave Lupin a bottle of Awakening Potion and warned him to keep it secret.
• Ian examined the potion and found that he could not detect its ingredients, while the Elder described the werewolves' suffering and dismissed Lupin's worries about the potion's cost.
• After Lupin offered a few Knuts and promised to pay the rest later, the Elder insisted the potion matter remain secret and the werewolves turned their gazes toward Ian.

Lupin tried to protect Ian from Lucas and the werewolves after Ian learned about their Awakening Potion, but the confrontation erupted into a battle. Ian returned with his real body, overwhelmed the pack with powerful magic, and forced them to provide blood and Sickles, leaving Lupin baffled about who Ian really was.

• Lucas demanded proof of Lupin’s claim that Ian belonged to the Dumbledore family and insisted Ian be made to forget the werewolves’ secret.
• After Ian denied being related to the Dumbledores, Ryan attacked Lupin and Ian, and the werewolves erupted into a chaotic fight.
• Lupin fought to protect Ian, then Apparated away with a transformed decoy, leaving Ian behind among the werewolves.
• Ian returned with his real body and the Elder Wand, summoned Clay Golems, defeated the werewolves, and forced Lucas’s pack to show their value.
• Lupin returned to find Ian collecting Sickles and blood from the subdued werewolves, while Lucas wondered whether Ian’s potion could lead them to their Promised Land.

After gathering werewolf blood and advancing his potion research, Ian celebrated his twelfth birthday with his orphanage family. When Lupin realized Ian’s potion had awakened Catherine’s magic, Ian explained that he had done it for his friends and family and intended to change their destinies himself.

• Ian collected dozens of pounds of werewolf blood in Knockturn Alley, then told Lupin he was researching the Werewolf Virus and its possible uses.
• Ian developed experimental Werewolf and Rapid Healing Potions, but neither was mature and the Rapid Healing Potion required enormous amounts of werewolf blood.
• Ms. Elena and the children celebrated Ian’s birthday, and Mia, Tom, Jack, Daniel, Catherine, Lupin, and others gave him gifts.
• Lupin visited Ian late that night and said Catherine’s magic had awakened after she drank the blue potion Ian had given her.
• Ian confirmed that the potion worked on Squibs, and Lupin warned him to keep the discovery secret and consult Dumbledore.
• Ian said he had changed Catherine’s fate for the sake of his friends and family, and declared that even God could not stop him from granting their wishes.

Lupin accompanied Ian to Greengrass Manor, where the Greengrass family hosted him for dinner and offered to align themselves with his supposed plans for a new wizarding order. The chapter ended with Lupin misinterpreting Ian’s werewolf research as political ambition, reinforcing Theodore Greengrass’s mistaken belief that Ian was building a movement.

• Lupin woke from a nightmare about wizard identities and feared that the Muggle Magic Recovery Potion could make wizards anxious about losing their magic.
• Ian invited Lupin to accompany him to Greengrass Manor, where Daphne’s family had invited him to dinner and promised dragon meat.
• Ian and Lupin rode the Knight Bus to Wiltshire, and Ian gave Lupin a bag of foods to feed the werewolves he had been studying.
• House-elf Panini initially mistook Lupin for a servant, while Theodore Greengrass welcomed Ian and explained that Daphne had fled to stay with relatives.
• At dinner, Daphne and Astoria acted frightened around Ian, and Theodore offered the family’s support because he believed Ian’s werewolf research signaled plans for a new wizarding order.
• Lupin claimed he understood Ian’s supposed intentions, prompting Theodore to take his reaction as confirmation while Ian struggled to explain the misunderstanding.

Ian left the Greengrass estate after Theodore explained why Pureblood families had supported past leaders and revealed his belief that Dumbledore was backing Ian as a future leader. The next morning, Ian brought the Granger family to Diagon Alley, where Ollivander introduced his grandson, a blond boy whose face seemed familiar to Ian.

• Ian denied wanting to lead or reshape wizarding society, while Lupin defended his dealings with werewolves as research for the Wolfsbane Potion.
• Theodore told Ian that many Pureblood families had supported the former Dark Lord because they hoped he would bring change, and said an earlier leader had abandoned their hopes.
• Ian accepted the Greengrasses' prepared food and five hundred Galleons, then left with Lupin aboard the Knight Bus.
• After Ian departed, Theodore told Mrs. Armand Greengrass that Dumbledore might be staking his reputation on Ian and serving as his follower; Daphne and Astoria overheard them.
• The next morning, Ian showed the Granger family around Diagon Alley and took Hermione into Ollivanders to choose a wand.
• Ollivander said his grandson would attend Hogwarts and pointed Ian toward a blond boy whose face seemed familiar.

Ian helped Hermione Granger buy her first wand and explore Diagon Alley, where she met Harry Potter and learned about his past. After selling a large stock of potions and explaining Voldemort’s history to the Grangers, Ian led them toward Gringotts.

• Rirym Ollivander chose a Vine Wood wand with an insane Raven tail feather core for Hermione, and it produced brilliant flowers when she waved it.
• Hagrid brought Harry Potter to Ollivanders, where Harry met Ian and Ollivander recalled the wands belonging to Harry’s parents and Hagrid.
• Ian took Hermione and the Grangers to Flourish and Blotts, where Hermione bought many books and Ian steered her away from a book about himself.
• Ian sold fifty kilograms of potions to Loann Lilyvy after discovering that he owned the potion shop’s premises.
• Ian led the Grangers toward Gringotts and explained Voldemort and the Potter Family, leaving Hermione amazed by Harry’s survival and Mrs. Granger saddened by his family’s tragedy.

At Gringotts, the goblins mistook Ian for the legendary Medivh and revealed that he had inherited a bloodline contract and access to a hidden vault. Ian opened the vault but found no money, only damaged relics, including a spear whose runes promised to end his enemies.

• The goblins panicked at Ian's resemblance to Medivh, and a branded goblin explained that Medivh's descendants were tied to an old contract with the goblins.
• A goblin showed Ian a Galleon whose portrait changed to reveal Medivh's face, while Hermione realized Ian might be Medivh's descendant.
• Ian's Granger companions exchanged Muggle money for Galleons, and the mustached goblin led Ian through the underground tunnels past the dragon guards.
• Ian's magic opened a heavily protected Bronze Door to Medivh's vault, which the goblin said only its owner or heir could enter.
• Ian found the vast vault empty of money and filled with damaged weapons and artifacts, then translated a spear's rune as, "Whisper to me, and I shall end your enemies."

After helping the Granger family shop in Diagon Alley, Ian spent the rest of the summer at the orphanage before traveling to Hogwarts with Lupin. At King's Cross, he met Neville, Hermione, and Harry Potter, and Harry eagerly offered Ian money for protection.

• Ian left Gringotts with the Granger family, then rescued Mrs. Granger from the cold drinks shop owner's bizarre quizzes, contracts, and insurance sales by threatening him with his wand.
• Ian parted from the Granger family at The Leaky Cauldron and showed Lupin a photograph of Harry Potter, but Lupin avoided going to meet the boy.
• Ian spent the following weeks caring for the orphanage children, and Lupin confronted him about giving them potions that seemed to awaken faint magic.
• Ms. Elena saw Ian off, and Lupin drove him to King's Cross in a reckless journey that included a security officer accepting Ian's claim of high bone density.
• Ian returned Neville's toad Trevor and met Mrs. Longbottom before Hermione arrived with Harry, whom she had invited to travel with them.
• When Hermione asked Ian to push her heavy trolley, Harry offered him a Money Bag as protection money, and Ian reached for it.

Ian, Harry Potter, and Hermione boarded the Hogwarts Express, where they met Rirym Ollivander and shared snacks before Draco Malfoy confronted Harry and insulted his friends. Ian pinned Draco and his companions to the compartment door and demanded that Draco explain who he had called the new Great Demon King.

• Ian led Harry Potter and Hermione onto the Hogwarts Express, where he stopped some Young Wizards from frightening Hermione with a modified Lumos Charm.
• Ian, Harry Potter, and Hermione met the twins selling Farting Candy, then found Rirym Ollivander in an empty compartment.
• Harry Potter bought snacks for the group, and several Chocolate Frogs unexpectedly yielded identical Merlin Ambrosius cards.
• Draco Malfoy entered the compartment seeking Harry Potter, but Harry rejected his offer of friendship, prompting Draco to insult Harry, Hermione, and Ian.
• Ian used his wand to pin Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle against the compartment door and demanded that Draco identify the new Great Demon King.

Ian helped Harry Potter and Hermione Granger reach Hogwarts, where the Sorting Hat placed Harry in Slytherin. Draco Malfoy was sorted there too, and Albus Dumbledore reacted to Harry’s unexpected placement while watching his scar.

• Ian intimidated Draco Malfoy into apologizing, then treated Neville Longbottom’s injured ankle with a potion after Scabbers bit him.
• Hermione alarmed Neville and Ron Weasley by listing diseases that rats could carry, before Hagrid led the students toward Hogwarts.
• Ian rode in a Thestral carriage with Harry and Hermione, then left them with Snape to join the older students.
• Snape warned Hermione to stay away from Ian, while a first-year said Hogwarts’s big sister would dislike her closeness to the Ravenclaw.
• The Sorting Hat assigned Hermione Granger to Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy to Slytherin, and Harry Potter to Slytherin.
• Albus Dumbledore leaned forward in surprise and watched the scar on Harry Potter’s forehead.

Harry Potter was sorted into Slytherin, while Ian returned to Ravenclaw after discussing dangerous plague magic with Aurora. At the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore introduced Newt Scamander as the new Care of Magical Creatures professor, and Ian later went to sleep only to experience the familiar crossing between life and death.

• The Sorting Hat placed Harry Potter in Slytherin, where he sat beside Ian until Snape urged Ian back to Ravenclaw.
• Ian and Aurora discussed the Plague Outbreak Curse and magical deterrence, while Harry Potter nervously suggested safer research subjects.
• Dumbledore warned students about the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's pets and introduced Newt Scamander as the substitute Care of Magical Creatures professor.
• Professor "Lockhart" pranked Newt with a meal he claimed was Niffler meat, and Dumbledore redirected Newt's attention to the custom suitcase he had made for Ian.
• Ian returned to Ravenclaw, visited William and Michael in their dormitory, and sent a letter and money to the orphanage with his Black Phoenix.
• After going to sleep, Ian felt the familiar sensation of crossing the boundary between life and death.

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.