Chapter Summaries

Linley, reborn as Lynn Roll into a pure-blood wizarding family in the Harry Potter world, received his Hogwarts acceptance letter at age eleven. With his House-elf Gael, he entered Diagon Alley for the first time to buy his school supplies.

• Linley remembered dying in a fire and waking as an infant, then grew up as Lynn Roll at Rohl Manor with his mother, Rowena Rowle.
• At eleven, Linley received his Hogwarts acceptance letter and read the list of required books and equipment.
• Linley told Rowena he planned to visit Diagon Alley, hugged her, and left with Gael.
• At The Leaky Cauldron, Old Tom showed Linley how to open the entrance to Diagon Alley.
• Linley crossed into Diagon Alley and joked with Old Tom about cleaning his cups with magic before the passage closed.

Linley Roll withdrew several thousand Galleons from the Roll Family vault and went to Ollivanders to buy his first Wand. After several failed matches, a Redwood Wand grafted with magical Parasol Tree Wood and containing Dragon Heartstring chose him, unleashing powerful flames that left him unharmed.

• Linley and Gael rode a cart through Gringotts, passed the Thief’s Downfall and a dragon driven back by a Jingle Chip, and withdrew several thousand Galleons from the Roll Family vault.
• Linley bought chocolate ice cream for himself and Gael before entering Ollivanders Wand Shop.
• Mr. Ollivander measured Linley and explained that the Wand chose the wizard as he tried several Wands with him.
• Linley’s first Wand blasted apart a shelf, while his second flew out of his hand.
• Linley found a perfect match in a Redwood Wand with Dragon Heartstring, which filled the shop with flames that scorched but did not harm him or Gael.
• Mr. Ollivander identified the Wand’s Redwood as grafted with magical Parasol Tree Wood from the Eastern magical world and predicted Linley would excel, especially in fire magic.

After buying his Hogwarts supplies, Linley practiced spells at Rohl Manor and discovered his wand and affinity gave him exceptional control over fire. Three days later, he successfully cast an O.W.L.-level Incendio without speaking the incantation.

• Linley bought his school supplies in Diagon Alley, returned to Rohl Manor, and sorted them while preparing to study spells ahead of school.
• Linley practiced Lumos and Wingardium Leviosa, then asked Gael to clear a space in the backyard so he could try Incendio.
• Linley cast a powerful Incendio and discovered he could control and extinguish its flames, then suspected his wand or his own fire affinity was responsible.
• Over three days, Linley practiced basic spells and learned to sense how his magic flowed when casting Incendio.
• Linley silently recited Incendio in his mind and successfully cast a spell with power he estimated was at O.W.L. level.

Linley discovered that flames could not truly harm him and learned from Rowena that the ability likely came from his unusual constitution. On the Hogwarts Express, he met Fred Weasley and George Weasley and began making friends with them.

• Linley found that his Incendio flames did not hurt him, and Rowena confirmed that her own fire had the same effect on him.
• Rowena suggested Linley's immunity might come from his bloodline or another magical power, and Linley accepted his strong affinity for fire.
• A month later, Linley traveled with Gael to King's Cross Station and boarded the Hogwarts Express for Hogwarts.
• Linley used Wingardium Leviosa to move Fred Weasley and George Weasley's trunks, then introduced himself and chatted with the twins about their Houses.
• Fred bought three Chocolate Frogs from the trolley witch so he could share them with Linley and George.

Linley learned about alchemy and the Mana Stone from the Weasley twins, then exchanged books on Ancient Runes for his mother's notes on Incendio. The twins were stunned when Linley demonstrated powerful Silent Spellcasting.

• Linley shared snacks with Fred and George and drew a Chocolate Frog card featuring the alchemist Valison Green and his Mana Stone.
• Fred explained that Mana Stones suppressed magic only slightly and were used to guard important places, while George described other magical products made through alchemy.
• Fred and George told Linley they planned to study Ancient Runes so they could learn alchemy and improve their Stink Pellets.
• Linley borrowed their Ancient Runes books and lent them his mother's notes on Incendio.
• Linley demonstrated a strong Incendio with Silent Spellcasting, leaving Fred and George astonished.

Linley and the Weasley twins arrived at Hogwarts, where Linley used Incendio to light the first-years’ path to the castle. Professor McGonagall welcomed the students and brought them to the Great Hall, where the Sorting Ceremony began.

• Linley, Fred, and George left the train and joined Hagrid with the first-years.
• Linley cast Incendio without a spoken incantation to light the dark path, impressing Hagrid.
• Linley crossed the lake in a boat with Hagrid and reached Hogwarts with the other first-years.
• Professor McGonagall explained the four Houses and led the students into the Great Hall.
• The Sorting Hat began its song as the Sorting Ceremony started.

During the Sorting Ceremony, Lynn Roll reflected on the many traits the Sorting Hat saw in him and chose Slytherin for his enduring ambition. After joining the Slytherin table, he noticed that Mr. Valison Green was this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

• Professor McGonagall called Lynn Roll, and the Sorting Hat considered his courage, loyalty, wisdom, and ambition.
• Lynn Roll asked to be sorted into Slytherin, and the Sorting Hat agreed.
• Lynn Roll met Irvin Fleury at the Slytherin table, then looked toward the High Table.
• Lynn Roll recognized Mr. Valison Green as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and noticed the Weasley twins reacting with excitement.

Linley watched the Hogwarts feast and considered studying alchemy under Professor Green, then listened as Dumbledore made announcements and started the school song. The chapter ended with the students singing.

• Linley wondered whether Professor Green could teach him alchemy, and Professor Green nodded and smiled at him.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students and began the feast, while Linley tried the food despite the Bloody Baron standing beside the Slytherin table.
• After dessert, Dumbledore warned students away from the Forbidden Forest, banned magic in the corridors between classes, and announced Quidditch trials for the second week of term.
• Dumbledore asked everyone to sing the Hogwarts school song, and the young wizards joined in.

Linley began classes at Hogwarts, learned the dangers of Transfiguration, and earned four points for Slytherin by turning a match into a silver needle. Fred and George invited him to meet them in the Prizes Display Room after dinner, leaving Linley with a mysterious evening plan.

• Linley discovered that he had a Slytherin dormitory to himself and made his way through the moving staircases to Professor McGonagall's first Transfiguration class.
• Professor McGonagall explained Gamp's Law and warned the class about the dangers of Transfiguration.
• Linley asked Professor McGonagall about sustaining Transfiguration, then transformed a match into a silver needle and earned four points for Slytherin.
• Linley met Fred and George, who invited him to the Prizes Display Room after dinner to show him something.

Linley attended Potions with Professor Snape and earned five House points with Irvin Fleury by brewing a boil-treating potion quickly and without mistakes. In Defense Against the Dark Arts, Professor Green demonstrated the Full Body Bind on a juvenile Acromantula and set the students a challenge to cast it successfully for ten House points.

• Linley went to Potions, where Professor Snape introduced the art of potion-making to the class.
• Linley and Irvin Fleury brewed a boil-treating potion, becoming the first pair to finish without mistakes and earning Slytherin five points.
• After lunch, Linley attended Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Green, who said the students would learn practical defenses against Dark creatures.
• Professor Green released a juvenile Acromantula from its petrification and demonstrated the Full Body Bind, Petrificus Totalus.
• Professor Green gave each student a cage with a lively juvenile Acromantula and offered ten House points to the first student who successfully cast the spell.

Linley impressed Professor Green by casting a powerful Full Body Bind and asked to study alchemy under him. Green agreed to guide him, then privately wondered whether Linley might grow strong enough to fulfill a matter important to him.

• Linley successfully cast Petrificus Totalus on an Acromantula, earning Slytherin ten points, and Irvin Fleury later earned Slytherin two more points with his own successful cast.
• Linley asked Professor Green to teach him alchemy, and Green invited him to his office on Saturday to offer a reading list and guidance.
• Green advised Linley to practice fire-controlling spells, and Linley demonstrated silent spellcasting by shaping a flame in the air.
• Green told Linley to memorize every word in A Beginner's Guide to Ancient Runes before their meeting, and Linley agreed.
• After Linley left, Green reflected that the talented student might be able to complete an important matter for him if he grew strong enough.
• Linley returned to his dormitory and began studying A Beginner's Guide to Ancient Runes.

Linley met Fred and George in the Prizes Display Room, where they showed him the Marauder's Map and its secret passages. He declined their Saturday trip to Hogsmeade because he had an appointment with Professor Green, but agreed to go with them on Sunday.

• Fred and George showed Linley the Marauder's Map and demonstrated how to reveal and erase it.
• Linley saw Hogwarts staff and students moving on the map and learned about the passages leading to Hogsmeade.
• Fred invited Linley to sneak to Zonko's Joke Shop on Saturday, but Linley said he would be meeting Professor Green for alchemy guidance.
• Linley offered to share what he learned about alchemy, and Fred suggested they visit Hogsmeade together on Sunday instead.
• Linley asked about the alchemy books, and George explained that a Ravenclaw upperclassman had given them to the twins.

Linley met with Professor Green to begin studying alchemy, learning its fundamental law of Equivalent Exchange and its two great taboos. Professor Green gave Linley a reading list and a bracelet that could suppress most of his magical power, leaving Linley to wonder whether the professor had concealed the full capabilities of his Mana Stones.

• Linley proved to Professor Green that he had memorized A Beginner's Guide to Ancient Runes, and received a list of alchemy books and a signed note for borrowing Restricted Section texts.
• Professor Green revealed that a crystal inside his flame-producing device supplied its power and taught Linley the law of Equivalent Exchange.
• Professor Green explained that alchemy's two taboos were overstepping the Domain of Gods and Human Alchemy, distinguishing them from magic's taboos involving time and the soul.
• Professor Green taught Linley methods for studying Ancient Runes and foundational alchemy knowledge.
• Professor Green gave Linley a Mana Stone bracelet that could reduce his magical power to one-tenth, prompting Linley to suspect that the professor's publicly known Mana Stones were weakened versions.

Professor Green tested Linley's fire magic with a Mana Suppression Bracelet and a Magic Power Evaluator, then began teaching him Wandless Magic. Linley mapped the route his magic power followed but could not yet redirect it from his wand to his palm.

• Professor Green gave Linley a Mana Suppression Bracelet and asked him to unleash the maximum power of his Incendio.
• Linley cast Incendio under suppression while Professor Green collected data with the Magic Power Evaluator.
• Professor Green assessed Linley's Incendio as Auror-level and said his fire affinity made him ready to attempt Wandless Magic.
• Professor Green instructed Linley to trace his magic power's path and redirect its endpoint from his wand to his body.
• Linley spent the afternoon mapping the path, but his magic power stagnated when he tried to send it to his palm instead of his wand.

Linley studied alchemy under Professor Green and joined Fred and George in using the secret passage from Hogwarts to Honeydukes. After reaching Hogsmeade, Linley offered to buy the twins treats and went back into the crowded shop alone.

• Professor Green praised Linley's progress and told him to memorize Ancient Runes from the first three books before beginning alchemy early.
• Linley lent Fred and George his alchemy notes and agreed to visit Hogsmeade with them through a secret passage.
• Linley borrowed five books from the library and finished a third of the first book in one day.
• George used the Marauder's Map to check that Filch was away, and the twins led Linley through the One-Eyed Witch passage.
• Linley conjured a floating fire to light the dark tunnel as the three traveled to Honeydukes' cellar and climbed into the shop.
• Linley offered to treat Fred and George, then returned alone to browse the sweets after the twins refused to go back inside.

Linley took Fred and George shopping in Hogsmeade and treated them to Butterbeer, where they unexpectedly saw Professor Green drinking in sorrow. The group returned to Hogwarts without learning the cause of his distress and agreed to keep what they had witnessed private.

• Linley bought special-effect candies for Fred and George, then joined them in buying Stink Pellets at Zonko's Joke Shop.
• Linley, Fred, and George drank Butterbeer at The Three Broomsticks and met Madam Rosmerta.
• George spotted Professor Green drinking Firewhiskies alone, and Madam Rosmerta said he was letting out worries he usually buried.
• Linley and the Weasley twins waited for Professor Green to leave before returning to Hogwarts through the One-Eyed Witch statue.
• Linley told Fred and George not to tell anyone what they had seen, and they promised to keep it secret.

Linley proved to Professor Green that he had mastered the assigned introductory material and learned about the two schools of alchemy. After choosing to study both through Dual Cultivation of Formations, Linley was asked to become Professor Green’s direct disciple.

• Linley met Professor Green after mastering the first three books on Ancient Runes and reading most of the fourth.
• Professor Green tested Linley on Alchemy Runes, and Linley explained their effects and inferred how two runes could create delayed explosions.
• Professor Green described Elemental Alchemy and Rune Alchemy, using Nicolas Flamel’s Philosopher’s Stone and Hogwarts Castle as examples.
• Professor Green revealed that he practiced Dual Cultivation of Formations and explained that it combined both alchemical schools.
• Linley chose to practice Dual Cultivation of Formations, and Professor Green offered to take him as his direct disciple.

Linley accepted Professor Green as his Alchemy apprentice and learned why perfecting the Mana Suppression Scepter was his mentor’s lifelong obsession. Professor Green began teaching Linley Formation Alchemy, and Linley surprised him by recognizing the circuit diagram used to explain it.

• Professor Green gave Linley a Mana Suppression Bracelet, a single-use Mana Suppression Scepter, and a sharpness-enchanted dagger as apprentice gifts.
• Professor Green revealed that his flawed Mana Suppression Scepter had failed to stop Gellert Grindelwald, and his wife had sacrificed her life to save him.
• Professor Green asked Linley to perfect the Mana Suppression Scepter, and Linley promised to do everything in his power.
• Professor Green began teaching Linley Formation Alchemy and compared Alchemy Formations to Muggle circuit diagrams.
• Linley identified the blackboard drawing as a schematic diagram and described its basic components and series and parallel connections.

Linley learned to engrave Alchemy Formations from Professor Green and created an Improved Stink Pellet by enhancing its power and range. He gave it to Fred and George, and the next morning heard that Mr. Filch had been hit by one.

• Professor Green taught Linley how to understand Alchemy Formations as circuit diagrams and engrave them with a special carving knife.
• Linley engraved strengthening and diffusion runes onto a Stink Pellet, completing his first alchemical creation, an Improved Stink Pellet.
• Professor Green praised Linley's engraving but told him not to test the Stink Pellet in his office and to return every Saturday for practice.
• Linley gave the Improved Stink Pellets to Fred and George after leaving Professor Green's office.
• The next morning, Irvin Fleury told Linley that Mr. Filch had been hit in the face by a Stink Pellet and still reeked of it.

Linley spent several weeks improving his alchemy and preparing for danger before Halloween. After noticing Professor Green leave Hogwarts with killing intent, Linley secretly went to Hogsmeade and found a suspicious black-robed wizard near the village entrance.

• Linley created alchemical robes and accessories with defensive formations that could withstand powerful spells.
• Linley stopped Fred and George from throwing their Improved Stink Pellets into the Great Hall and joined them at the Halloween feast.
• Linley noticed Professor Green leave Hogwarts for Hogsmeade with killing intent and warned Fred and George to alert Dumbledore or McGonagall if he did not return within an hour.
• Linley used the secret passage beneath the One-Eyed Witch statue to reach Honeydukes, then concealed himself with a Disillusionment Charm.
• Linley reached the entrance to Hogsmeade and froze when he spotted a black-robed wizard whose presence alarmed him.