Chapter Summaries

Jon watched Harry sit alone in the wasteland, then spent a quiet evening talking with Joanne about meditation, magic, and her writing. Joanne teased Jon about caring so much for her and asked whether he had improper thoughts about her.

• Jon watched Harry sit in the wasteland for three hours before Harry left.
• Jon sat on the swing and reflected on his life until Joanne arrived, concerned because he had been gone so long.
• Joanne told Jon that meditation methods were known among old wizarding families and described an MI0 report about meditation and magic.
• Jon recognized the report’s author as Lockhart and warned Joanne that attempts to create wizards artificially produced inferior beings such as vampires.
• Joanne took notes on Jon’s firsthand knowledge for her books, then ruffled his hair and teased him about having improper thoughts about her.

Joanne confronted Jon about hiding his emotions, and he told her a carefully detailed story about killing a dark wizard after nearly dying in the wizard’s attack. Joanne sympathized with him and promised to keep his secret, while Jon reflected on how easily he had won her trust before they returned to work.

• Joanne told Jon she had noticed he never seemed angry and asked whether something was bothering him.
• Jon asked Joanne whether she wanted to know about him, then recounted how a dark wizard had targeted him and nearly killed him.
• Jon said he had tracked down the injured wizard, strangled him, burned the body, and returned to Hogwarts as if nothing had happened.
• Joanne patted Jon’s shoulder and promised to keep his secret.
• Jon reflected that empathy made it easy to win someone’s trust, then told Joanne they had to return to work.

Jon and Joanne watched the Dursleys react to a growing flood of letters while Jon explained Lily Potter’s Sacrificial Curse and answered Joanne’s questions about Voldemort. As the Dursleys boarded up their house and tensions rose, Jon expected the situation to erupt soon and told Joanne they would likely leave in a few days.

• Jon used his magical glasses to show Joanne the protective spell surrounding the Dursleys’ home and explained how Lily Potter’s sacrifice had created it.
• Joanne pressed Jon to share everything he knew about Harry Potter, Voldemort, and the past, while Jon warned her to keep their information secret.
• Mr. Dursley burned the letters, boarded up the doors, and kept Harry under watch as Joanne and Jon observed from across the street.
• Jon predicted that the Dursleys’ growing tension would erupt within a few days.
• Jon told Joanne to pack her belongings because they probably would not stay much longer.

Jon and Joanne watched Hogwarts letters overwhelm the Dursleys and prepared to follow them as they fled. With Rank driving, Jon had them trail the Dursleys’ car while keeping their next move in reserve.

• Joanne and Jon discussed Mrs. Dursley’s bitterness and whether people were born good as they watched the Dursleys eat breakfast.
• Hogwarts letters blasted out of the fireplace and struck Vernon, and Jon explained that nearby wizards were summoning them because Harry had not opened one.
• Joanne reported that the remaining wizards were evacuating and that Mrs. Figg had likely told Dumbledore Jon was there.
• Jon told Joanne to pack so they could follow the Dursleys when they changed locations, and she gathered her things.
• Jon met Rank, the new attendant Mr. Smith had sent, and told him to call him Boss rather than young master.
• Jon and Joanne got into the car, and Jon told Rank to follow the car leaving the Dursleys’ house.

Jon followed the Dursleys to observe Harry, using Joanne’s radio receiver to track their journey and keeping watch near Harry’s motel room overnight. He then took Joanne and Rank by yacht toward a destination he had chosen, explaining that being The Savior was boring.

• Joanne used a modified radio receiver to listen to Mr. Dursley’s car as Jon, Joanne, and Rank followed the Dursleys for a day.
• Jon stayed awake listening to the receiver and sketching magical patterns while the others took turns driving and resting.
• The Dursleys stopped at a motel, where Rank and Joanne rented a room nearby and Jon secretly watched Harry’s window from another room.
• Rank took Jon and Joanne to a boat rental company, where they boarded a yacht booked by Mr. Smith and set off for Jon’s destination.
• Joanne asked why Jon had gone to such lengths to observe Harry, and Jon replied that being The Savior was boring.

Jon and Joanne discussed Harry Potter’s role in their plans while Harry endured the Dursleys’ stormy trip to a shack on a reef. Jon then arranged for Rank to protect Joanne after using Memory Magic on him and asked whether living together would inconvenience her.

• Jon and Joanne agreed that Hogwarts was the right place to begin their work and discussed Harry’s connection to Voldemort.
• Mr. Dursley took Harry and the family by boat to a shack on a reef, where they waited out the storm with little food or warmth.
• Jon practiced Single Target Defense Magic Fortress on the ship’s deck and expanded its protection to include Joanne.
• Joanne told Jon that Rank was asleep and that she had placed the page Jon gave her beneath his pillow.
• Jon planned to use Memory Magic on Rank and have him protect Joanne in Britain, then asked whether she would mind living with him.

Jon and Joanne watched the hut where Harry was spending the night, expecting someone to arrive before his birthday. Hagrid appeared and broke into the hut, while Jon and Joanne listened in from their cabin.

• Jon explained that Harry's reply was due by July thirty-first and said Joanne could profile him after the visitors left.
• Harry shivered and struggled to sleep in the storm as his eleventh birthday approached.
• Jon spotted Hagrid near the hut and identified him to Joanne as Hogwarts' Keeper of Keys and Grounds.
• Joanne listened through a bug she had planted on Mrs Dursley's clothes as Hagrid began pounding on the hut's door.
• Hagrid smashed the door open, replaced it in its frame, and asked for a hot cup of tea.

Jon listened as Hagrid introduced Harry to Hogwarts and began explaining the wizarding world, then left before the confrontation with the Dursleys continued. He accepted that he could not escape the coming conflict and resolved to find a way to survive within it.

• Hagrid arrived at the hut, greeted Harry, bent Mr. Dursley's gun into a knot, and gave Harry a birthday cake.
• Hagrid conjured a fire, cooked sausages, and told Harry he was Keeper of Keys at Hogwarts.
• Hagrid discovered that Harry knew nothing about Hogwarts and angrily confronted the Dursleys.
• Jon left the cabin, deciding Joanne could use the upcoming events as writing material.
• Jon considered Voldemort's return, the spreading magical crisis, and his ties to Hogwarts and his family, and accepted that he had chosen to change.

Jon left the reef with Joanne, helped her move her belongings to Manchester, and confronted Rank about being sent by Dumbledore to protect and observe them. As Jon prepared to leave, Rank relayed Dumbledore’s warning against acting recklessly, but Jon said he would stay in the country and insisted that hatred could only be resolved with hatred.

• Joanne finished investigating the house on the reef, and she and Jon left after collecting their belongings and Rank.
• Jon told Joanne he would return to Privet Drive, visit her new home in Manchester, and then leave because he could no longer keep going.
• Jon revealed that he knew Rank’s background and suspected Dumbledore had sent him to assist Joanne, then ordered him not to report Jon’s whereabouts to his family.
• Rank helped Joanne move her belongings before driving Jon to the station.
• Rank relayed Dumbledore’s warning that Jon should not leave the country or act too radically, and Jon replied that he would stay and that hatred could only be resolved with hatred.

Jon traveled to Trossachs National Forest Park to search for herbs needed for a simplified Bloodline Purification Potion, while deciding to take a break from his exhausting plans and calculations. He rested at a vacation villa, still uncertain about his own past and future.

• Jon considered how his literary project could help wizards become more accepted by Muggles and planned to discuss the details with Dumbledore after returning to school.
• Jon took a train to Trossachs National Forest Park to seek herbs that Helga said could replace ingredients unavailable for the Bloodline Purification Potion.
• Jon reflected that the old wizards living in the forest were obstructing his search, admitting that his objections came from selfishness.
• Jon decided to stop overthinking and made himself a small vacation plan.
• Jon lay in a lounge chair at the villa at dusk and gazed at the sky, feeling tired and unable to understand his own past or future.

Jon prepared to collect rare ingredients for a Bloodline Purification Potion and mapped a plan to steal Flame Fruit from an elderly wizard’s guarded store. He left the wizard’s identity and his own next move unresolved.

• Jon reviewed Helga’s simplified Bloodline Purification Potion formula, which required Flame Fruit, Serpent Vine Tendril, and Bai Di Flower.
• Jon planned to search the forest for the ingredients and later travel to Iceland to find Bai Di Flower.
• Jon mapped the routes to the herbs and concluded that Serpent Vine Tendril would be easy to obtain, but all the nearby Flame Fruit had been harvested.
• Jon considered confronting the elderly wizard who held the Flame Fruit, but decided he only needed to steal three fruits and did not want to kill him.
• Jon confirmed that the wizard had stored the Flame Fruit behind Guardian Spells and magic arrays, and began considering how to bypass the defenses.

Theolesi, an elderly dark wizard living in seclusion, discovered too late that Jon had drugged his wine and entered his cabin. Jon took the Flame Fruits and began questioning the weakened wizard, who remained conscious but struggled to resist.

• Theolesi reflected on his secluded life and prepared to brew another Longevity Potion with the Flame Fruits stored in his cabin.
• Jon entered the cabin after secretly drugging Theolesi's wine with a purified Sleeping Potion.
• Theolesi tried to resist the drug and open the door with his wand, but Jon told him to sit, and he collapsed into his chair.
• Jon avoided triggering the defenses on Theolesi's clothes, collected the Flame Fruits, and warned him against getting angry while the drug was taking effect.
• Jon turned toward the still-conscious Theolesi and proposed that they play a game.

Jon dealt with the dark wizard’s death by reporting it to the Ministry of Magic and arranging for Lockhart to alert MI0 if the Ministry failed to respond. After taking selected potions and valuables from the cabin, Jon attempted to Apparate to the vacation villa.

• Jon realized the old wizard had died after being drugged and decided to notify the Ministry of Magic rather than destroy the cabin.
• Jon used Ravenclaw's glasses to analyze the cabin’s defensive Magic arrays and took precautions in case the old wizard was pretending to be dead.
• Jon sent a report to the Ministry of Magic by owl and prepared a letter and the old wizard’s notebook for Lockhart to pass on to MI0 if needed.
• Jon packed selected potions, magical items, and antiques, leaving most of the cabin’s contents untouched.
• Jon gripped his bundle, focused on the vacation villa, and cast Apparition.

Jon used Transfiguration to travel through space and collapsed from its physical strain. After recovering, he disposed of the potions he had carried and went to sleep.

• Jon explained how Transfiguration differed from Apparition and why it required a high concentration of magic and protection from spatial pressure.
• Jon arrived in his bedroom and collapsed, unable to move as the spell’s aftereffects overwhelmed his body.
• Jon reflected on Transfiguration’s protective magic, Apparition’s limitations, and how many modern spells derived from older magic.
• After half an hour, Jon regained control of his body, diluted the potions he had brought, and sorted his new potions and herbs into his case.
• Jon returned to bed and went to sleep.

After recovering from the magical depletion caused by Apparition, Jon traveled to London and entered Diagon Alley. He arrived at Gringotts with his suitcase, while the recent break-in and the missing Professor Quirrell left the purpose of his visit unresolved.

• Jon woke at noon, realized Apparition had left him magically depleted, and packed his suitcase.
• Jon traveled by train to London, ate at McDonald's, and entered the Leaky Cauldron after nightfall.
• Jon overheard patrons discussing Harry Potter, the Dark Lord, and the recent Gringotts break-in, but did not see Professor Quirrell.
• Jon opened the entrance to Diagon Alley and greeted Mrs. Smith's friend before continuing down the street.
• Jon reached Gringotts and was greeted by a Goblin at the entrance.

Jon visited the Smith Family vault at Gringotts to store items and examined its neglected antiques. He prepared a harp and magical instruments to test how sound could carry magic, ending with a note ringing through the underground vault.

• Jon entered Gringotts and asked to visit his family vault, showing the Goblin his key.
• A Goblin escorted Jon by cart through the underground passages to vault 527.
• Jon entered the vault and recalled his plan to retrieve the Golden Goblet from the Lestrange vault before Voldemort could use it as a Horcrux.
• Jon set out a crystal slab, a crystal ball, and a harp to experiment with the Dark Musician's magic.
• Jon plucked the harp's strings, sending a note rippling through the silent cavern.

Jon played the harp in his Gringotts vault to imprint a model of the underground vaults below the sixth level into a crystal ball. After leaving with the imprinted object, he learned that Gringotts had strengthened its defenses following a recent robbery.

• Jon played the harp and used magic to map Gringotts' lower vaults into the crystal ball.
• Jon controlled the crystal ball's transmission rate until the imprinting was complete, then packed it away.
• Jon replaced the antiques in the case, left the vault, and paid the Goblin guard.
• Jon asked about the recent Gringotts robbery, and the Goblin said the thief had entered an unused empty vault and that stronger defenses were being activated.

Jon returned home after buying his textbooks and called Anthony to arrange a safe place and laboratory for his possible trip to the Americas. In Albania’s Dark Forest, preparations continued for the Full Moon Pilgrimage as an old witch dismissed news that Theolesi had died.

• Jon cautiously left Diagon Alley, bought his textbooks, and traveled by fireplace to his home in Greenwich.
• Jon called Anthony at the A.O. Foundation and asked him to arrange a quiet, safe place to stay and an ordinary laboratory in the Americas.
• Jon rested at home after his long day of travel and magical exertion.
• In the Dark Forest, a young dark wizard told an aged witch that Theolesi was dead.
• The old witch crossed out Theolesi’s name and dismissed his death because he had been useless.

Christie learned that Theolesi’s Longevity Potion formula had been recovered and ordered it taken to Rocas before the Full Moon Pilgrimage. Meanwhile, Jon traveled by plane and considered how growing complications and Helga’s absence would force him to speak with Dumbledore directly.

• Christie dismissed the idea of avenging Theolesi and learned that his real Longevity Potion formula had been recovered from beneath the floorboards.
• Christie told the young dark wizard to take the formula to Rocas so he could brew potions before the Full Moon Pilgrimage, whose date was approaching.
• Jon worried that unexpected people and events, including Helga, J.K. Rowling, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald, were making his plans harder to control.
• Jon boarded a plane and used the flight to organize his thoughts about his neglected research and the matters he would need to explain to Dumbledore.
• Jon reflected that with Helga asleep and Joanne’s situation unresolved, he could no longer avoid meeting Dumbledore directly; the plane then arrived.

Jon collected Bai Di Flowers in Iceland for the Bloodline Purification Potion, then met Anthony in the Americas to discuss rising trouble in Eastern Europe. Jon insisted they continue securing resources there, leaving Anthony with a plan to hire local desperadoes rather than expose their own people to unnecessary danger.

• Jon confirmed that the Bai Di Flower would stabilize the Bloodline Purification Potion and bought a box of the flowers in Iceland.
• Jon stayed overnight, flew to the Americas, and met Anthony at the arrivals gate.
• Anthony told Jon that their operations in Eastern Europe faced growing chaos and that Lenna Gallo and several others had been injured.
• Anthony asked whether they should withdraw their people and abandon their original plan, but Jon said they should keep pursuing resources.
• Jon proposed paying locals to seize resources and promised that the region's turmoil would provide plenty of willing recruits.