Chapter Summaries

Jon met Reel Gavin, a German dark wizard ranked seventh among the Twelve Sequences, and hired him for a difficult job that would take time to begin. Reel left to stay with Jon’s Muggle employees in London, while Jon explained his dealings to Stephen and defended keeping Reel in Britain.

• Jon met Reel Gavin on a dark hillside, learned his age and rank, and discussed the job from his letter.
• Reel agreed to tour Britain while waiting and accepted Jon’s letter arranging food and lodging with his Muggle employees in London.
• Reel switched to fluent English, denied hostility toward Muggles, and flew away after Jon warned him to conceal his wizard identity.
• Jon and Stephen returned through the secret passage, and Jon explained that Reel was a German dark wizard connected to Grindelwald.
• Stephen worried that Jon’s dealings could provoke Dumbledore and considered preparing to flee Hogwarts, but Jon suddenly stopped in the passage.

Jon and Stephen followed Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville through the castle as part of Jon’s plan, then entered the room guarded by Hagrid’s Three-headed Dog. Jon put the dog to sleep with a harp and offered to show Stephen what lay beneath the trapdoor, but Stephen declined, leaving Jon to explain how the mythical creature could exist in their era.

• Jon and Stephen secretly followed Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville after Neville’s fall sent a suit of armor crashing down and Filch chased them.
• Jon stopped Stephen and revealed that Filch had been led away as part of his plan.
• Jon and Peeves exchanged greetings, then Jon imitated Peeves and Filch to fool the Young Wizards into leaving the locked room.
• Jon opened the door and found Hagrid’s Three-headed Dog guarding a trapdoor.
• Jon used a small harp to lull the dog to sleep and asked Stephen whether he wanted to go below.
• Stephen refused, and Jon introduced Fluffy before beginning to explain how a mythical creature could exist in their era.

Jon realized Dumbledore had arranged the Philosopher’s Stone protections as a trap for Voldemort and a lesson for Harry, and he found Fluffy guarding the corridor before the other defenses were in place. He discussed his plans to leave school with Stephen, but the chapter left him unable to find a way around the Ministry’s Trace and Magic Net.

• Jon realized Dumbledore had designed the Stone’s protections to confront Voldemort and educate Harry, and he suspected the remaining defenses were not yet complete.
• Jon asked Stephen to handle their ongoing responsibilities and explained that he hoped to leave school before his fourth year.
• Stephen suggested Jon fake his death, but Jon explained that the Ministry’s Trace and Magic Net would detect it.
• Jon stayed in the castle overnight and resumed his routine the next day, seeing Harry and Ron excitedly discussing something.
• Jon recalled that much of the coming plot concerned Quidditch, but he judged it less important than his own plans.

As Halloween approached, Jon’s students gathered surveillance reports at his cottage while he prepared food and warned them that an incident might happen at the feast. He told them to stop monitoring Harry and let Peeves record events instead, then sent them off to attend the feast.

• Jon skipped Herbology with Professor Sprout’s permission, which Dumbledore had helped secure because Jon’s grades were excellent.
• Stephen collected the Club’s surveillance logs, then met Scaly and Fren, who carried Peeves’s and the House-elves’ records to Jon’s cottage.
• Jon shared grilled food with Stephen, Scaly, and Fren as they discussed the reports.
• Jon warned them to be careful at the Halloween feast because something might happen.
• Jon told the students to attend the feast rather than monitor Harry, and assigned Peeves to record any incident.

During the Halloween feast, Professor Quirrell announced that a troll had entered the dungeons, sending Hogwarts into chaos. Harry and Ron left the Gryffindors to find Hermione, while Jon stayed behind them and decided to follow Snape instead.

• Jon noticed that Professor Quirrell was absent and anticipated trouble as the Halloween feast began.
• Professor Quirrell burst into the Great Hall, announced that a troll was in the dungeons, and fainted.
• Dumbledore ordered the prefects to escort students to their dormitories, while Jon signaled Stephen to disperse their students and quietly told him to keep their people safe.
• Harry remembered that Hermione did not know about the troll, so he and Ron slipped away from the crowd to find her.
• Harry and Ron saw Snape hurry down a corridor and followed him, while Jon emerged behind them and chose to investigate Snape's route.

Jon avoided interfering in the aftermath of the troll incident and continued keeping records for Stephen. He later found Snape badly injured by Fluffy, but their conversation was interrupted when Harry Potter peeked into the staff lounge.

• Jon told Snape that Flitwick and Sprout were watching over the unconscious Quirrell and urged him to check on the troll.
• The next day, Jon asked Stephen to record the troll incident faithfully and decided not to tell McGonagall about Hermione's lie.
• As November brought cold weather and Quidditch season, Jon heard Gryffindor students discussing Harry Potter joining the team as Seeker.
• Stephen told Jon that Snape had returned from the Fourth floor limping, and Jon suspected Fluffy had bitten him.
• Jon followed Snape to the staff lounge, saw his mangled leg, and fetched bandages while recommending Hell Narcissus for the curse.
• When Harry Potter opened the lounge door, Jon transformed into Filch before Snape could finish speaking.

Jon treated Snape’s injured leg and learned that Snape had confiscated Harry’s book because Quirrell had placed a drowsiness curse on it. Jon left for his cottage, expecting trouble at the next day’s Quidditch match.

• Harry asked Snape to return his book, but Snape angrily sent him away.
• Jon bandaged Snape’s leg, and Snape said the Three-headed Dog had caused the painful wound.
• Snape explained that Quirrell had cursed Quidditch Origins to make readers drowsy, and that he had removed the magic.
• Jon noted that Harry had likely misunderstood Snape’s actions and that Snape’s reputation as a villain had worsened.
• Snape asked whether Jon would attend the Quidditch match, and Jon declined while warning that Snape would be busy the next day.
• Jon cast a Disillusionment Charm, left the castle, and headed to his cottage.

Jon shared grilled meat with Stephen, Fren, and Scaly while they discussed intelligence gathering and a possible job for Fren’s father. After they decided to watch the Quidditch match, Jon demonstrated broomless flight, prompting Stephen to ask if he would teach them Dark Magic.

• Jon used the ingredients Stephen and the others brought to grill meat while they reviewed intelligence reports about Hogwarts.
• Fren praised Paul McLaren’s ability to identify useful information, and Jon explained that Paul’s father worked for MI0, where Joanne still served.
• Jon encouraged Fren to persuade his father to become a legal consultant for Jon’s company, and Fren decided to push the idea despite his father’s reluctance.
• After eating, Jon and the others decided to go watch the Quidditch match, but Scaly complained that they had no brooms and did not want to walk.
• Jon floated into the air to show that wizards could fly without brooms, and Stephen recognized the magic as something used by one of Jon’s dark wizard employees and asked if Jon would teach them Dark Magic.

Jon taught Stephen, Fren, and Scaly the Flying Charm and discussed his views on magic and the Ministry of Magic. After the boys gained an initial grasp of the advanced spell, Jon prepared to take them to watch the competition.

• Jon scolded Stephen, Fren, and Scaly for being shocked by his knowledge of powerful magic and argued that magic itself was not good or evil.
• Jon criticized the Ministry of Magic’s restrictions and outdated rules, while Scaly observed that Jon seemed to dislike the institution itself.
• Jon taught the three boys the Flying Charm, an advanced spell built on the Levitation Charm.
• Stephen lifted himself into the air, while Fren and Scaly also practiced the spell and managed to float.
• Jon finished his last-minute work, extended a force field around the group, and led the boys off to watch the competition.

Jon and his friends secretly watched Hermione set Snape’s robes on fire during the Quidditch match, then Jon went to find Scaly after he disappeared under pressure. Jon comforted him on a mountain outside Hogwarts, and they wished each other a Merry Christmas.

• Jon used concealment charms and telescopes to watch the Quidditch match with Scaly, Fren, and Stephen.
• Hermione shoved Quirrell aside and set fire to the hem of Snape’s robes, interrupting Quirrell’s spell on Harry’s broom.
• After the group returned to the training ground, Scaly disappeared, and Stephen told Jon that Scaly seemed overwhelmed by pressure.
• Jon found Scaly watching the sunset outside Hogwarts and reassured him that he could not satisfy everyone.
• Jon wished Scaly a Merry Christmas, and Scaly wished him one in return.

As Christmas approached, Jon prepared to return home and arranged for others to handle Hogwarts records while he was away. He visited The Le Meys, sent Joanne a letter and materials about the coming holiday, and moved back into the castle, where Stephen reminded him they were leaving the next day.

• Jon visited The Le Meys before leaving for Christmas and asked Mrs. Le Mey to continue working carefully on his unfinished pendant.
• Jon returned to Hogwarts, explained the holiday recording duties to Peeves, and sent Joanne a letter and materials with Kane.
• Jon packed up his cabin and moved back into the castle as Christmas decorations went up.
• Stephen told Jon that they were leaving the next day, and Jon asked whether Stephen would go home with him or visit his own home first.

Jon and Stephen prepared for the Christmas holidays while discussing Jon’s plans, his research, and Harry’s investigation into the Philosopher’s Stone. They left the matter to Dumbledore and went to the feast.

• Stephen said he would visit Jon on the twenty-sixth after spending the holidays with his family.
• Jon and Stephen discussed Jon’s eventual departure from Hogwarts and Stephen’s concerns about facing Dumbledore and Snape without him.
• Jon explained that Hogwarts’s research resources offered little he could not already access through Helga, and considered the limits on Helga’s power.
• Stephen told Jon that Harry and his friends were investigating Nicol Flamel, but Jon decided not to give them a hint and to trust Dumbledore.
• The bells rang, and Jon and Stephen went to the feast.

After returning home for the Christmas holiday, Jon checked on Kaledi’s work, received photographs from Anthony, and fell into a dream where he encountered Grindelwald. Grindelwald claimed Jon could not return and invited him to talk, leaving Jon wary but seated and ready to hear him out.

• Jon returned to his estate, checked on Kaledi’s progress, and learned that a letter from Anthony had arrived.
• Jon looked through photographs taken in the Dark Forest, recognized their eerie scenes, and went to sleep.
• Jon dreamed he was in a tower above the sea and met a golden-haired man who revealed himself as Grindelwald.
• Jon recognized Grindelwald from a previous dream and suspected the wizard could read his thoughts.
• Grindelwald said Jon could not return and proposed a conversation, and Jon agreed to sit with him.

Jon spoke with Grindelwald, who explained that Jon’s letter to the Dark Forest had drawn his attention and led him to mistake Jon for Dumbledore’s agent. Jon carefully described his complicated ties to Dumbledore and Reel, leaving Grindelwald with a hint that Jon’s work connected to him too.

• Jon asked Grindelwald why he had brought him to the tower, and Grindelwald said he had initially been interested because of Dumbledore’s judgment.
• Grindelwald explained that Jon’s letter to the Dark Forest had caught his attention, especially since Jon had also killed Theolesi, one of his former subordinates.
• Grindelwald revealed that he had mistaken Jon’s letter for a move directed by Dumbledore and had approached Jon rather than Dumbledore himself.
• Jon told Grindelwald that he sought Reel’s help for his own aims and that his relationship with Dumbledore was more complicated than Grindelwald assumed.
• Jon explained that he wanted to restore his family’s glory and mentioned other work that connected him to Dumbledore, then suggested those connections involved Grindelwald as well.

Jon spoke with Grindelwald, who sent him back before dawn with a Christmas gift: an ancient stone shard bearing runes and a World Tree pattern. Jon suspected it came from a Hufflepuff ancestor and began examining it, but Kaledi interrupted to announce Young Master Stanson.

• Jon and Grindelwald talked until Grindelwald offered to help him with future problems and sent him back before dawn.
• Grindelwald gave Jon a stone shard as a Christmas gift, and Jon woke with it in his hand.
• Jon examined the shard's ancient runes and felt their lingering laws stir the mark in his soul.
• Jon recognized a World Tree pattern on the shard and suspected it came from a Hufflepuff ancestor.
• As Jon tried to project his consciousness into the shard, Kaledi announced that Young Master Stanson had arrived.

Jon completed the first half of his Bloodline Purification treatment and awoke after two days of sleep. He asked Kaledi about the Hufflepuff family investigation, and Kaledi presented the materials he had gathered.

• Jon wrapped the alluring stone shard in a silk handkerchief and stored it in his ring before entering the sealed cellar to take the potion.
• Stephen waited anxiously as Jon underwent the treatment, then learned that half of the eight-month cycle had passed.
• Stephen left through the fireplace, while Jon stayed behind to eat with Kaledi.
• Jon asked Kaledi about the task of searching for evidence of the Hufflepuff family’s history.
• Kaledi placed the collected materials on the table for Jon.

Jon reviewed Kaledi’s records of the Hufflepuff family and searched for the causes of its decline, hoping to uncover ancient relics he could use. He left the question of lost legends with a resolve to become one himself.

• Jon considered how Helga’s gift had raised Kaledi’s status among House-elves and how the Bloodline Purification Potion had changed his appearance.
• Jon read Kaledi’s compiled biographies of the Hufflepuff family and praised his work.
• Jon asked Kaledi to copy the passages he had marked, preserve the rest as a family tree, and add stories about his grandfather and father.
• Jon reflected that he had commissioned the research to discover why the legendary family had declined and find relics that might still be useful to him.
• Jon resolved that if he could not trace the legends of the past, he could try to become a legend himself.

Jon reflected on his pursuit of power and accepted Helga’s plan to help him grow stronger. He chose a sentence from Walden Pond as the family precept for the family tree.

• Jon reasoned that purifying his bloodline would help him receive more power from the [Azure Deep Sea].
• He accepted Helga’s ascension plan and embraced growing up sooner.
• Jon reviewed records of family relics and considered the key Mrs. Perenall was making for Helga’s Magic Fairy Castle.
• Kaledi asked Jon to provide a family precept for the family tree.
• Jon chose a sentence from Walden Pond as the family precept.

Jon prepared to return to Hogwarts after the Christmas Holiday, giving Kaledi a relic and instructions to retrieve and distribute several items. He suspected Dumbledore was trying to keep him at school and resolved to resist being forced into the headmaster’s plans.

• Jon gave Kaledi an ancient elven relic, hoping the house-elf might recognize it, and asked why wizards kept their history hidden.
• Jon instructed Kaledi to retrieve specified items and a harp from Gringotts, then send another item in three batches.
• Jon learned that Dumbledore had returned Peeves to the headmaster’s office and interpreted the move as an attempt to undermine him.
• After arriving at the Floo Network with Bella, Jon decided he would take action if Dumbledore tried to stop him from leaving Hogwarts.
• Jon recognized that Dumbledore wanted him to remain and eventually take responsibility for Hogwarts, but resolved not to be controlled.

Jon discussed recruiting his friends for his company’s work integrating the Wizarding and Muggle worlds, then received an urgent message from Dumbledore. Peeves led him toward the hills west of Hogsmeade, where Perenall was waiting, leaving Jon uneasy about what he would find.

• Jon met with Stephen, Fren, and Scaly and asked whether they planned to join the Ministry of Magic; all three said they did not.
• Jon explained that his company’s British branch would focus on integrating the Wizarding world into Muggle society and that he wanted to use their own people for the work.
• Stephen suspected Jon’s warning that Dumbledore could not interfere meant Dumbledore might die, but Jon interrupted his thoughts and reassured him.
• Peeves arrived with Dumbledore’s request for Jon to come over, adding that Perenall was waiting there.
• Jon put on his cloak and followed Peeves toward the hills west of Hogsmeade, uneasy about the meeting.