Chapter Summaries

Jon reflected on Grindelwald’s life and discovered that Grindelwald could see and analyze the concealed divine gloves on his hands. Grindelwald’s influence unsettled Jon, who wondered whether the wizard had crossed the threshold of divinity.

• Grindelwald told Jon that he had begun reflecting on life because his past obsession had led to what happened.
• Grindelwald noticed Jon’s concealed gloves and asked whether Ancestor Helga had taught him the magic.
• Jon explained that the gloves were a divine relic from a friend and that he could neither remove nor see them.
• Grindelwald drew Jon closer, touched his hand, and made the glove appear as he examined its strange material and traces of laws.
• Jon realized he felt unnaturally willing to trust and obey Grindelwald, then wondered whether Grindelwald had stepped over the threshold of divinity.

Grindelwald examined Jon's gloves and explained that a binding curse made them impossible to remove, while their powers required practice to master. Jon agreed to train with them regularly, and Grindelwald offered to help while he stayed.

• Grindelwald examined Jon's gloves and found that a strange, nonlethal curse bound them to Jon and prevented anyone else from removing them.
• Jon and Grindelwald discussed how lost mythological civilizations left behind inheritances, and Grindelwald explained the Egyptian pantheon's influence and the origins of the Greek and Roman pantheons.
• Grindelwald advised Jon to practice magic with the gloves to strengthen their connection, suggesting he use them instead of his wand, even for everyday tasks.
• Jon recognized that mastering the gloves could help him claim their Dream-Making Method and defensive powers against the threat of the lost Mythological Civilization.
• Grindelwald told Jon he would stay for a while and help him become familiar with the gloves.

Grindelwald moved into Jon’s home and agreed to teach him magic, while Jon reflected on his privileges and dependence on Helga before falling asleep. Grindelwald then appeared in Jon’s bedroom, holding a ball of white flame.

• Jon asked why Grindelwald had time to stay and help him, and Grindelwald said he had nothing else to do and wanted to resume studying.
• Jon prepared an unused guest room for Grindelwald, who said the home was more comfortable than his tower.
• Jon considered how Helga’s existence had earned him special treatment and recognized that his fortunate life differed from Voldemort’s.
• Jon decided to become less dependent on Helga and went to sleep unusually quickly.
• Grindelwald appeared in Jon’s bedroom with a ball of white flame and wondered why Jon thought so much before sleeping.

Jon entered a magical vision of an ancient Egyptian temple and discovered a shrine beneath the temple of Osiris. Touching its stone platform showed him a woman playing “Blue Danube” beside a ghostly blue river.

• Jon realized Grindelwald had drawn him into a dreamlike scene with magic similar to Double Rewind.
• Jon explored the ruined temple and concluded that it had once housed worship of Osiris's hands.
• Jon descended into a burial chamber beneath the temple and found a stone platform holding part of Osiris's remains.
• Jon touched the platform and saw an illusory young woman playing “Blue Danube” by a river beneath a blue-glowing disc.

Jon learned that Grindelwald had sent him into a dream to search for traces of other gods connected to the returning civilization. Recalling a glowing disc behind a girl playing piano, Jon identified it as Thoth’s divine artifact, the Full Moon Disc, though Grindelwald said faded divine artifacts could not return to the world.

• Jon woke after one night of sleep and learned Grindelwald had deliberately guided him into a dream to search for other inheritances.
• Grindelwald explained that a returning pantheon would involve more than Osiris and that gods connected to the same matter could share an inexplicable bond.
• Jon asked whether the gods could find him, and Grindelwald said divine artifacts could not return because the deep sea’s rules forbade it.
• Grindelwald restored Jon’s fading memories of the dream, and Jon recalled piano music, a young girl, and a radiant disc.
• Grindelwald showed Jon an illustration, and Jon confirmed that the disc resembled the Full Moon Disc, Thoth’s divine artifact symbolizing wisdom.

Grindelwald took Reel to the Danube River and told him how the Greek Gods had absorbed the Roman Gods, abandoned Greece, and fought the Ancient Egyptian Gods. He revealed that an Ancient Egyptian contingency had recently appeared in the world again.

• Jon found no useful information about the Full Moon Disc in his book and left for work with Secretary Jin.
• Grindelwald summoned Reel and asked whether he had joined a bounty squad outside the Dark Forest.
• Grindelwald brought Reel to the Danube River and asked him about history and mythology.
• Grindelwald explained how the Greek Gods absorbed the Roman Gods and later defeated the Ancient Egyptian Gods.
• Grindelwald told Reel that an Ancient Egyptian contingency had recently appeared in the world again.

Grindelwald took Reel to Austria and explained that gods left power in their descendants’ bloodlines. He asked Reel about the captain of Jon’s team, saying the girl was special.

• Grindelwald led Reel through an isolated space and told him he had a question that only Reel could answer.
• Grindelwald and Reel walked for a day and emerged in Austria beside the Danube River.
• Grindelwald told Reel that gods passed down power through their bloodlines, not only through inherited abilities.
• Grindelwald asked Reel to tell him about the captain of Jon’s team, whom he considered special.

Grindelwald learned that Reel’s bounty-hunting squad was led by a mysterious girl called Zero, whose family descended from the God of Wisdom. As he considered the dangers and choices facing divine bloodlines, he looked toward a fourteen-year-old girl and asked Reel whether his captain had any unusual distinguishing features.

• Grindelwald recalled an Austrian family famed for its wisdom and realized it might be connected to the girl Jon had met.
• Reel explained that he knew little about his captain, whose codename had changed from Dove to Zero.
• Reel described how Zero made decisions that brought the squad safely back from their expeditions.
• Grindelwald reflected on the power, curses, and dangers inherited by descendants of the gods.
• Grindelwald watched a fourteen-year-old girl having dinner and asked Reel whether Zero had any unusual distinguishing features.

Grindelwald recognized the jade necklace worn by the girl Reel had described as likely being the God of Wisdom's divine artifact, the Full Moon Disc. While waiting for Jon, he reflected on his past conflict with Dumbledore and how years in the tower had changed him and led him to become a Legendary Wizard, then asked Jon why that had happened.

• Grindelwald sensed the gentle power in the jade necklace and identified it as likely the Full Moon Disc.
• Grindelwald returned Reel to Privet Drive and went back to Jon's residence, where Jon was absent.
• Grindelwald reflected on his disagreement with Dumbledore over how to change wizarding society and acknowledged that his own methods had been too violent.
• Grindelwald considered how years in the tower had softened him and brought him to the threshold of becoming a Legendary Wizard.
• Jon came home, and Grindelwald asked him why he had become a Legendary Wizard after his state of mind changed.

Jon advised Grindelwald to treat his past mistakes as part of growing up, then asked him about the Deathly Hallows. Meanwhile, Dumbledore met Perenall on a mountain while searching for the Hallows, and she said she planned to visit the Arctic before her approaching death.

• Jon told Grindelwald that his past could be seen as mistakes made while growing up, and Grindelwald appreciated his frankness.
• Jon asked Grindelwald whether he was Dumbledore’s age and whether he had heard of the Deathly Hallows.
• Dumbledore appeared on a mountain after opening an ancient book in the Hogwarts library, where he met Perenall.
• Perenall asked whether Dumbledore was still searching for the Deathly Hallows, and he said he had to keep looking despite the slim hope of finding them.
• Perenall told Dumbledore that she might travel to the Arctic because her death was approaching.

Perenall recalled helping Dumbledore search for the Deathly Hallows and doubted the Resurrection Stone was real. Grindelwald began explaining how his pursuit of the Hallows led him to the Dumbledore family, leaving Jon listening as the story turned to the family’s history.

• Perenall reflected on her travels, her search with Dumbledore for the Deathly Hallows, and her suspicion that the Resurrection Stone was only a lie.
• Grindelwald told Jon that nothing could control death, while Jon noted that Helga believed the Hallows existed and that Dumbledore’s wand resembled the Elder Wand.
• Grindelwald said the Elder Wand had once been his, then asked Jon what he knew about the Dumbledore family.
• Jon described the family’s history, Dumbledore’s lost sister and missing brother, and his past relationship with Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald explained that he had sought Dumbledore because he wanted the Hallows and had learned the Elder Wand was linked to the once-prominent Dumbledore family.

Grindelwald told Jon how he stole the Elder Wand from Gregorovitch without realizing its true master was Madam Candara Dumbledore. He recounted how Ariana’s death drove a wedge between him and Albus, leaving the question of the wand’s master unresolved.

• Grindelwald said he sought the Elder Wand after finding clues about the Dumbledore family and became close to Albus.
• Grindelwald stole the Elder Wand from Gregorovitch, unaware that Gregorovitch had never won its allegiance in a duel.
• Grindelwald explained that Madam Candara Dumbledore had lent the wand to Gregorovitch, and Dumbledore recognized its connection to his family.
• Grindelwald said he and Albus clashed with Albus’s brother while trying to leave together, and Ariana was killed amid the chaos.
• Grindelwald left to search for the Elder Wand, and Jon began questioning who its true master had become.

Jon learned that Dumbledore had killed Ariana and had hoped the Resurrection Stone could bring her back, though the Hallows could not revive another person. Grindelwald explained that Ariana’s soul had been bound to a portrait, but the irreversible spell meant even the Resurrection Stone could not free her.

• Grindelwald told Jon that Dumbledore knew he had killed Ariana and had avoided facing the truth.
• Jon returned to Grindelwald to ask about his claim that the Deathly Hallows were a lie.
• Grindelwald explained that the Hallows could protect their owner and allow one resurrection, but could not bring another person back to life.
• Jon realized Grindelwald had returned to seek Dumbledore’s redemption by offering an alternative to reviving Ariana.
• Jon asked whether Ariana’s portrait could help, and Grindelwald revealed that her soul had been bound inside it by an irreversible spell.

Jon questioned Grindelwald about changing fate, then reflected on whether he should interfere with the future he knew. Meanwhile, Abufus visited Albus Dumbledore with news from Professor Sprout that offered a chance to revive Ariana, though Albus asked whether it came with an impossible condition.

• Jon asked Grindelwald whether he would try to change a future he knew could not be changed, and Grindelwald said he would still strive for the outcome he wanted.
• Jon returned to his room and considered the hidden truths and possible changes behind the future he remembered.
• Albus Dumbledore found Abufus waiting in his office, smiling despite their strained relationship.
• Abufus told Albus that Professor Sprout was forty percent certain about something strange involving Ariana.
• Albus asked whether the possibility depended on an unspeakable condition, and Abufus shook his head.

Dumbledore agreed to hear Abufus’s plan to bring their sister back, which involved Jon Smith, while Jon remained unaware of the request and struggled with the burden of Dumbledore’s approaching death. Dumbledore discussed his age and Voldemort with Snape, who told him that Professor Trelawney had made a new prophecy.

• Dumbledore softened toward Abufus and asked him to explain his plan, so Abufus said they needed Jon Smith’s help.
• Jon continued managing company work and asked Secretary Jin to find out whether Laura could come help him.
• Dumbledore told Snape that he was old and had limited time left, while Snape questioned whether Harry was ready to face Voldemort.
• Dumbledore said Harry would face Voldemort but that he expected others to help defeat the Dark Lord, and he ruled out relying on Jon.
• Snape told Dumbledore that Professor Trelawney had made a new prophecy and urged him to examine it.

Professor Trelawney warned Dumbledore of a major upheaval at Hogwarts and gave him a strange prophecy about someone who was alive but neither here nor in the future. Meanwhile, Helga established a newborn world by recording its laws and fixing it in place.

• Professor Trelawney told Dumbledore that a major upheaval would occur at Hogwarts next year and agreed to calculate the chances of another matter succeeding.
• Deler threw the verdant gemstone into the darkness, and a sun rose over the newborn world as its land transformed.
• Deler waited for Helga to awaken and witness the world she had created.
• Helga used the divine scroll Genesis to draw forth the recorded past, establish the world's cycle, and fix the world in place.
• Professor Trelawney told Dumbledore that her prophecy concerned someone who was not here or in the future, yet was undeniably alive.

Trelawney believed the girl could be resurrected if Jon helped, though not in this world, and Jon dreamed of a silent red-haired girl across a stream. Grindelwald woke him from a soul-summoning spell, and Jon recalled that the girl seemed to call him a thief.

• Trelawney reflected that the girl's soul was recovering in a portrait and that Jon might help her find a way to be resurrected.
• Jon dreamed of a red-haired girl in a kimono standing across a stream, but he could not hear her words or reach her.
• The girl turned away, and Jon was dragged out of the dream when Grindelwald struck him with his wand.
• Grindelwald told Jon that a soul-summoning spell had taken him away and that he had used magic to bring him back.
• At breakfast, Jon told Grindelwald that the girl in the dream seemed to have called him a thief.

Jon learned that the girl who scolded him in his dream was a descendant of the God of Wisdom and the former captain of Reel’s adventure party. Grindelwald warned him that her apparent bounty-hunting adventures might conceal other intentions.

• Grindelwald told Jon that the girl from his dream was likely the one they had seen in the temple and that she considered him a thief.
• Grindelwald explained that she was a descendant of the God of Wisdom, whose bloodline did not necessarily provoke the world’s curse.
• Jon learned that the girl had been the captain of Reel’s adventure party and had almost been someone he hired.
• Grindelwald said her adventures were meant to train her and warned Jon that she might have hidden intentions.

Jon remained in a foul mood after Grindelwald's remarks and considered seeking help from a psychologist. When Reel and Joanne visited his office, their conversation turned to Joanne's stalled writing and Jon's plans involving Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

• Jon thought about arranging to see a psychologist, but Laura could not come to Britain yet because of strict entry scrutiny.
• Reel and Joanne visited Jon's office, where Jon asked Joanne whether she had written her next update.
• Joanne said she was stuck, while Reel insisted he had followed Jon's instructions and defended giving Joanne time off.
• Jon blamed Reel for encouraging Joanne to slack off and reminded him that he still expected her to write books.
• Reel told Jon that his original plan might no longer work and that he should not be so wary of Dumbledore, but Jon dismissed his advice.

Jon asked Reel about his captain, the girl codenamed Zero, and learned that she was a dangerous, powerful deity’s descendant who pursued anyone who angered her. Worried she might disrupt his plans, Jon asked Reel to introduce them, but Reel urged him to wait until later.

• Jon asked Reel what his captain was like, and Reel warned that she was decisive, skilled, and relentless when personally provoked.
• Jon reflected on his past lack of direction and realized he did not want a life where someone kept hounding him.
• Reel explained that his captain’s abilities and divine descent could make a confrontation with Jon difficult and dangerous.
• Jon proposed that Reel introduce him to his captain so they could address the trouble before it arose.
• Reel advised Jon to handle the immediate problems first and promised that the team could help mend their relationship later.