Chapter Summaries

Jon declined to investigate the Basilisk, though Seshatri suggested it might help with her Magic Net research. As the Muggle economy collapsed and Jon’s plans in the Americas grew riskier, he decided to move his company’s main operations back to Britain and consider revealing the Wizarding world to his subordinates.

• Jon refused to enter the Shadow of Hogwarts to check on the Basilisk and suggested asking Snape about what lay behind it.
• Seshatri proposed that the Basilisk might aid her Magic Net research, but Jon remained cautious and she agreed to investigate further herself.
• As the rainy season arrived, the Muggle economy collapsed while Jon’s company reported strong finances and moved wealth through international markets.
• Jon planned to shift assets toward Hong Kong and gradually move the fund company’s main operations from the Americas back to Britain.
• After Dark wizard organizations and Ilvermorny Magic School drew closer to the A.O. Fund, Jon planned to tell Anthony and his associates about the Wizarding world.
• Jon decided that relocating the company to Britain would protect his family and give them a chance to benefit from Britain’s recovery.

Jon considered whether to withdraw his people and capital from the increasingly dangerous Americas, where his company’s recent profits had drawn attention. After Seshatri challenged him to consider his employees’ opinions, he decided to wait and see how the situation developed.

• Jon worried that American dark wizards could use information his subordinates uncovered as grounds to target him.
• Seshatri asked what was troubling Jon, and he explained that tensions in the Americas were worsening after his company made enormous profits during Britain’s economic upheaval.
• Jon said he planned to let Dumbledore handle tearing down the wall between the Wizarding and Muggle worlds, with Voldemort as another possibility.
• Seshatri argued that Jon should ask his employees before risking the company’s capital and their livelihoods in the Americas.
• Jon agreed with Seshatri and decided to wait for events in the Americas to unfold before making a decision.

Jon explained that Hogwarts needed an independent economic system to withstand outside control and prepare for a future without Dumbledore and Grindelwald. He proposed tying his company’s fortunes to Hogwarts and questioned why the magical world relied on gold coins.

• Jon reasoned that capital could help Hogwarts broaden its support and resist the Board of Governors’ influence.
• He explained that Dumbledore wanted to secure Hogwarts’ future by educating more Muggle-born wizards and integrating them into the magical world.
• Jon noted that aging populations, low birth rates, and the scarcity of magical talent limited the growth of Britain’s wizarding population.
• He concluded that Hogwarts needed an independent economic system and saw his company as a way to help establish one.
• Jon asked Seshatri why the magical world had to use gold coins.

Jon and Seshatri discussed Wizarding currency, capital, and the future of Jon’s company as he prepared to leave Hogwarts and face a deadly crisis. Seshatri proposed moving the company’s main body back to Britain while preserving access to investment opportunities in the Americas.

• Jon argued that the Wizarding monetary system could not be changed and reflected on how both Wizarding and Muggle capital pursued profit.
• Jon considered revealing the existence of wizards to his Muggle employees but said he wanted to rely on his own strength rather than others’ support.
• Seshatri advised Jon to transfer the company’s main body to Britain, which needed overseas capital after a severe economic blow.
• Jon explained that he wanted to retain access to America’s future high-technology investments, and Seshatri suggested Britain could serve as a bridge for American capital.
• Seshatri connected Soros’s attack on Britain to American interests and suggested American capitalists would recognize the unusual economic situation.

Jon discussed writing to someone about an opportunity and learned that Peeves wanted him to help check on the awakened Basilisk beneath Hogwarts. Seshatri urged Jon to face the creature, but he doubted the danger was worth taking and worried it had gained intelligence after meeting Voldemort.

• Jon used magic to write and send a letter after agreeing that he should ask about an opportunity.
• Seshatri told Jon that Peeves had sent a note asking him to accompany him, likely to check on the Basilisk.
• Jon explained that the Basilisk had awakened and could not be put back to sleep, while Dumbledore and Grindelwald remained away.
• Seshatri encouraged Jon to face the Basilisk and use his intelligence to defeat it.
• Jon warned that the Basilisk might have developed unexpected intelligence over the years and that its contact with Voldemort made confronting it too risky.

Jon and Seshatri discussed plans for building a Magic Net, hoping to create a network that could let them be resurrected if they died in a crisis. They rejected their simplest proposal because obtaining permission to use the Ministry of Magic’s transportation routes would be slow and expose their work to interference, but they considered retaining parts of it for a later plan.

• Jon reflected on Hogwarts’s secrets, Voldemort’s claim to the castle, and his own wish to protect the school as a stable sanctuary.
• Jon gave Seshatri several Magic Net proposals and explained why he preferred using the Ministry of Magic’s transportation routes to build a network.
• Seshatri rejected the first proposal because securing authorization would take too long and risk attracting interference and competition.
• Jon and Seshatri discussed the plans through lunchtime without finding a workable solution, though Seshatri suggested they could use parts of the first plan as a foundation later.
• Jon ate a roasted chicken leg prepared by Hogwarts’ House-elves, who took pride in serving Helga’s descendant.

Jon considered Kaledi’s failed attempt to join him at Hogwarts and discussed how House-elves could pass along information without exposing his sources. As Grindelwald and Dumbledore prepared to return, Jon remained caught between using his knowledge to protect everyone and hiding where it came from.

• Jon let Kaledi negotiate with the Hogwarts House-elves, but they refused to let him work at the school, leaving Kaledi to manage the manor and help with the children.
• Seshatri advised Jon to use House-elves to share information instead of repeatedly claiming he had foreseen events himself.
• Jon reflected that others mistook his knowledge of future plot points for a prophetic ability, while he tried to avoid influencing Harry Potter’s story and to make use of available resources.
• Jon told Seshatri that he would share certain information himself and urged preparations for the unknown dangers of the Pantheon Revival.
• Jon kept his secret from Seshatri while the oath between them remained incomplete, and noted that Grindelwald and Dumbledore would soon return from their travels.

Jon received an invitation from Mr. Lockhart to a ghost’s deathday party and weighed whether to attend while working on a new transportation network for Hogwarts. He planned to ask Peeves about the invitation before deciding, while Seshatri considered sneaking in to observe the party.

• Jon continued revising his plan for a new transportation network because he could not use the Ministry of Magic’s facilities.
• Seshatri read an invitation from Mr. Lockhart to a deathday party, and Jon asked her to reply by asking why he had been invited so early.
• Seshatri said she wanted to attend the ghost’s banquet, but Jon worried about its timing, his lack of ties to Gryffindor, and the possibility of an ulterior motive.
• Jon suggested that he and Seshatri could sneak into the party unseen, and Seshatri said she had mastered the Disillusionment Charm.
• Jon sent a signal to summon Peeves so they could ask him about the invitation.

Grindelwald returned to Hogwarts and learned that Dumbledore had arranged for him to meet Jon before entering the castle. Dumbledore prepared to explain Grindelwald’s presence to Abufus and hoped the prospect of their sister’s resurrection would prevent a conflict.

• Grindelwald noticed that Hogwarts Castle seemed alive but waited outside the grounds because the school rejected him.
• Peeves escorted Grindelwald toward Jon and his female friend, promising to use his authority to lessen the castle’s rejection.
• Jon understood that Helga’s growing power was reviving Hogwarts Castle because their creator-and-creation connection allowed her to draw strength from it.
• Dumbledore returned to his office to handle school matters and prepare for Halloween.
• Dumbledore planned to explain to Abufus that there was a way to resurrect their sister, hoping this would keep him from dueling Grindelwald.

Grindelwald waited in Jon’s office while Dumbledore and Abufus discussed whether he could stay at Hogwarts, trusting Dumbledore to persuade his brother. Seshatri tried to foretell Grindelwald’s future and connect it to her and Jon’s plans, while Grindelwald silently allowed her to try.

• The chapter explained that Albus Dumbledore had preserved Ariana Dumbledore’s lingering soul in a portrait, allowing Abufus to speak with his sister in the pub’s basement.
• Grindelwald waited in Jon’s office and said he trusted Dumbledore to resolve whether Abufus would let him stay.
• Jon told Grindelwald he had thought Abufus suspected him of killing Ariana, and Grindelwald showed no surprise that Jon knew about their history.
• Seshatri listened as Jon and Grindelwald discussed the Dumbledore family’s strained relationships and gradually pieced together their history.
• Seshatri peered into Grindelwald’s soul to seek a stable prophecy, and Grindelwald sensed her watching but chose not to stop her.

Jon learned from Grindelwald that Ariana Dumbledore died during a fight between Albus, Abufus, and Grindelwald, and that Albus had accidentally killed her. Grindelwald explained why Ariana’s soul had not been resurrected, leaving Jon with a clearer understanding of the Dumbledore brothers’ guilt and failed efforts.

• Jon asked Grindelwald about the Dumbledore family, and Grindelwald described how Ariana was caught in a fight and killed.
• Grindelwald admitted that he panicked after Ariana’s death, fled Britain, and later stole the Elder Wand from Gregorovitch.
• Jon told Grindelwald that Albus had accidentally killed Ariana and that his guilt had shaped his actions.
• Grindelwald explained that Albus had hoped to restore Ariana through the Resurrection Stone and research into rebuilding her body.
• Grindelwald said Ariana’s fragile soul could not withstand being made into a Horcrux, and she could not create one herself.

Jon learned from Seshatri that his presence had changed the fates of Dumbledore and Grindelwald and could make Ariana’s resurrection possible. He agreed to consider intervening, and Seshatri promised to support him whatever he chose.

• Jon asked Seshatri what she had seen in her prophecy about Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Ariana.
• Seshatri explained that Jon was entangled with fate and fit the Falling Moon Phenomenon, making him a major variable.
• Seshatri said that without Jon, Dumbledore would not resurrect Ariana and would die, but Jon’s intervention could change that future.
• Jon reflected that his responsibilities had grown and decided he could not remain uninvolved.
• Seshatri told Jon she would help him see through whatever he chose to do.

Jon, Seshatri, and Grindelwald debated using Hogwarts as a foundation for the Magic Net, but Grindelwald resisted because the plan could endanger Dumbledore. Harry then experienced a vivid nightmare of blood and death that left him disturbed by his apparent familiarity with it.

• Jon said he wanted to discuss their next steps with Seshatri and Grindelwald.
• Seshatri urged Grindelwald to support the plan to resurrect Dumbledore's sister and build a barrier to safeguard life.
• Grindelwald refused to risk using Hogwarts as a foundation and offered to help find another location.
• Harry dreamed of a blood-soaked hall filled with shattered stone animals, fleeing people, and strange forces outside its doors.
• Harry felt an unsettling familiarity and pleasure in the nightmare's scent of decay before bells and clinking cups ended the vision.

Sybill Trelawney reflected on her powerful prophetic gift and how its accuracy had brought her disbelief and hardship, though Dumbledore had given her a safe place at Hogwarts. After retracing the traces of a prophecy she made during an unconscious vision, she discovered it foretold Dumbledore’s death and decided not to hide it.

• Sybill Trelawney considered how the Trelawney bloodline’s potent prophecies brought their seers a curse and made others reject their warnings.
• Sybill recalled how Dumbledore had hired her at Hogwarts and given her a secure home in the tower.
• Sybill explained that her soul was connected to starlight, which let her use astrology to perceive the future.
• Sybill retraced the traces of a prophetic state she had entered near midnight and found that her vision concerned Dumbledore.
• Sybill discovered that the prophecy foretold Dumbledore’s death, considered covering it up, and chose not to.

Dumbledore learned that Trelawney’s latest prophecy foretold his death, but he accepted it and focused on whether his sister Ariana could be resurrected. Trelawney said she could seek an answer only if Dumbledore remained neutral, so he asked whether another Legendary Wizard could help her enter the prophetic state.

• Dumbledore arrived at the Astronomy Tower and read Trelawney’s prophecy, which predicted his death and another person’s rebirth.
• Dumbledore calmly accepted the prophecy and said his death might allow someone else to live.
• Trelawney reflected on Jon’s involvement in their plans and her inability to see his fate clearly.
• Dumbledore asked Trelawney to determine whether Ariana could return to life, after hearing of a possible divine relic from the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon.
• Trelawney explained that Dumbledore’s emotional state could prevent an exact prophecy, so he asked whether another Legendary Wizard could assist her instead.

Jon and Seshatri finished the first stage of their plan and prepared for Halloween, when Dumbledore planned to stage a professor’s disappearance. As they chose between the feast and Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party, Jon learned that Hogwarts’s protective magic was weakening because Helga’s power was draining magic from the Azure Deep Sea.

• Dumbledore suggested using Halloween to make a professor’s disappearance go unnoticed, and Jon and Seshatri agreed.
• Grindelwald built a treehouse while Jon and Seshatri refined their proposal, and later witnessed their stricter contract.
• Jon and Seshatri completed the first stage of their plan and prepared to lay the Magic Net throughout Hogwarts after Halloween.
• Jon asked Seshatri whether she wanted to attend the Deathday Party or the Halloween feast, while he considered the planned disappearance and the skeleton dance troupe.
• Peeves told Jon that Hogwarts’s suppression seal over the Basilisk was weakening as magic drained from the castle’s Defense Magic array.
• Jon realized Helga’s absorption of power from the Azure Deep Sea was causing the drain as she stabilized her world.

Jon and Seshatri secretly visited Hogwarts’ Deathday Party while the Basilisk moved through the castle. Seshatri sensed it heading upward, and Jon realized Peeves had made the wrong choice by not watching it.

• Jon reasoned that Helga’s advancement had weakened Hogwarts’ magic array and allowed Ginny to release the Basilisk.
• Jon and Seshatri concealed themselves with Disillusionment Charms and walked through the corridors toward the ghost feast.
• Jon and Seshatri entered the Deathday Party and spotted Moaning Myrtle and Peeves among the ghosts.
• Seshatri sensed the Basilisk moving upward and wondered why Peeves was at the party instead of watching it.
• Jon explained that the awakened Spirit of Hogwarts made constant monitoring seem unnecessary, but recognized that ignoring the Basilisk tonight had been the wrong choice.

Jon and Seshatri secretly followed Harry and his companions through Hogwarts, listening for the Basilisk as it moved through the castle. They reached a wall bearing a familiar message, and Jon realized Halloween would bring further trouble.

• Jon and Seshatri moved quietly through Hogwarts while Seshatri used her heightened perception to listen for sounds around them.
• Jon suggested they wait for Harry and his companions to lead them toward whatever was happening, and Seshatri stopped to listen.
• Harry and his companions ran down the stairs, and Jon and Seshatri heard the Basilisk speaking in Parseltongue.
• Seshatri discouraged Jon from analyzing the Basilisk's words, so they followed Harry instead.
• Jon and Seshatri reached the wall bearing the Basilisk's message, and Jon remarked that Halloween would not be peaceful.

Jon and Seshatri found Mrs. Norris petrified beneath a warning about the Chamber of Secrets, then left as Dumbledore arrived to manage the crowd. They returned to Lockhart’s office, where Jon urged Lockhart to stop complaining and work with Snape to brew the Mandrake restorative potion.

• Jon and Seshatri read the warning on the wall and saw Mrs. Norris hanging there, petrified by the Basilisk.
• Students gathered, and Filch accused Harry of killing his cat before Dumbledore arrived with the teachers.
• Jon and Seshatri left for Lockhart’s office instead of going to the Astronomy Tower, where they expected Trelawney’s prophecy.
• Lockhart told Jon that his act had failed, Snape had refused to let him brew the potion, and the Basilisk’s appearance had caught him unprepared.
• Jon reminded Lockhart that he had come to Hogwarts to leave his old image behind and urged him to go brew the potion with Snape.

Jon asked Peeves to approach Filch and continue their plan to help him gain magical abilities after Filch’s Squib identity was exposed. He explained to Seshatri that his research was also driven by his wish to fulfill his father’s longing for magic before Jon might die in two years.

• Jon said Snape would knowingly go along with the plan involving Lockhart, then called Peeves over.
• Jon told Peeves to contact Filch and proceed with their original plan to help him gain magical abilities.
• Seshatri questioned whether Jon’s idea was realistic and warned that people would resist it if he made it public.
• Jon explained that his parents were expecting another child and that he wanted to fulfill his father’s wish to enter the magical world before he might die.
• Jon told Seshatri that Squibs retained some affinity for magic, unlike Muggles, and that helping them would not threaten anyone’s interests.