Chapter Summaries

Professor Green and Cassirachi fought in Hogsmeade, where their duel escalated from spells to Fiendfyre and powerful alchemy. Linley watched from nearby as five of Professor Green’s Alchemy Formations held Cassirachi’s flames at bay, leaving the battle in a stalemate.

• Professor Green confronted Cassirachi, a former Acolyte who had pursued him for more than forty years and blamed him for Grindelwald expelling him.
• Professor Green and Cassirachi exchanged spells, with Professor Green countering Cassirachi’s barrage of Cutting Charms using stone fragments.
• Cassirachi unleashed Fiendfyre creatures, forcing Professor Green to create an Alchemy Formation in midair and bombard the flames with golden beams.
• Professor Green completed five Alchemy Formations while Cassirachi continually summoned more Fiendfyre, bringing the duel to a stalemate.
• Linley watched anxiously but stayed out of the fight, knowing the combatants’ magic could kill him.

As Professor Green’s magic ran low against Cassirachi’s Fiendfyre, Linley used the Mana Suppression Scepter to disable magic within range. Cassirachi nearly strangled Linley, but Professor Green killed him with a Muggle firearm, and the two survived the battle.

• Professor Green’s Alchemy Formations weakened as Cassirachi’s Fiendfyre hounds broke through his defenses.
• Linley activated the Mana Suppression Scepter, suppressing magic in the area and dispelling both the Fiendfyre and the remaining Alchemy Formations.
• Linley stabbed Cassirachi three times, but missed his vital points, and Cassirachi knocked away the dagger and pinned him by the throat.
• Professor Green shot Cassirachi with a Muggle firearm, riddling his head with holes and saving Linley.
• Professor Green apologized to Linley for failing to protect him, while Linley thanked his professor for saving his life.

Linley returned to Hogwarts after surviving a fight with a dark wizard and continued to excel in most of his classes. At Christmas, he received a silver one-handed sword from his mother and gifts from several professors, giving him a new item for carving Alchemy Formations.

• Linley asked Professor Green to teach him how to draw Alchemy Formations in the air, but Professor Green said he needed to strengthen his magical power first.
• Linley returned to the castle through the passage beneath the One-Eyed Witch statue and told Fred and George he had defeated a dark wizard with Professor Green's alchemical item.
• Linley kept his secret about the Mana Suppression Scepter and resumed his studies, making steady progress in most subjects and befriending Irvin Fleury in Potions class.
• Hogwarts reached Christmas beneath deep snow, and Linley found seven presents beside his bed when he woke.
• Linley opened a silver one-handed sword sent by Rowena, along with gifts from Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and Professor Snape.

Linley opened his Christmas gifts and forged a powerful mithril engraving knife under Professor Green’s supervision. Professor Green then planned to teach Linley combat techniques during their Saturday lessons, and Linley welcomed the chance to improve his fighting skills.

• Linley opened gifts from his professors, Irvin, and the Weasley twins, then received a replacement Mana Suppression Scepter from Professor Green.
• Linley thanked Fred and George for their gift and went to Professor Green’s office.
• Professor Green supervised Linley as he engraved Alchemy Formations onto a mithril knife blank and completed a high-quality engraving knife.
• Professor Green gave Linley an Alchemy Formation box designed to store and maintain the knife.
• Professor Green told Linley to focus on Alchemy Runes for the rest of the school year and proposed teaching him combat techniques on Saturdays, which Linley eagerly accepted.

Linley began practical combat training with Professor Green in a clearing near an Acromantula nest. Professor Green repeatedly defeated him with combat Transfiguration, and the chapter ended with Linley learning to use branches and stones in his own attacks.

• Linley asked Professor Green to start practical combat lessons early, and Professor Green led him to a clearing in the Forbidden Forest.
• Linley and Professor Green fought with their magic suppressed to the same level, and Linley used fire and spells to corner Professor Green.
• Professor Green transformed stones into pythons that restrained Linley, explaining how Transfiguration could create surprises in combat.
• Linley tried again, but Professor Green used Transfiguration to attack with snakes made from branches and defeated him.
• Under Professor Green's repeated pressure, Linley began imitating his Transfiguration techniques and improved his combat skills.

After intensive Christmas-break training, Linley impressed Professor McGonagall with his Transfiguration and joined her club. As Hogwarts final exams arrived, he found the practical tests easy compared with Professor Green’s combat lessons.

• Professor Green trained Linley through Christmas break until Linley’s spellwork and Transfiguration reached an ordinary Auror’s level.
• Linley transformed a cockroach into a patterned quill, earning ten points for Slytherin and Professor McGonagall’s praise.
• Linley demonstrated that he could silently transform tables into lions and chairs into venomous snakes, then control them in a mock attack.
• Professor McGonagall invited Linley to join her Transfiguration Club and gave him notes that included Animagus theory.
• Linley continued improving through combat training and club discussions as final exams approached.
• Linley found the practical exams easy after his weekly training with Professor Green.

Linley finished his exams and endured a final week of combat training with Professor Green, who invited him to meet Nicolas Flamel in France. At the year-end feast, Slytherin won the House Cup, and Linley received top marks in his main subjects.

• Linley completed his exams, including producing a perfect-quality Forgetfulness Potion for Snape.
• After seven days of practical combat training, Professor Green praised Linley’s improvement and released him from a Full Body Bind.
• Professor Green invited Linley to visit Nicolas Flamel in France in August, and Linley gave him the protected address of Rohl Manor.
• At the year-end feast, Dumbledore announced that Slytherin had won the House Cup with 542 points, while Gryffindor placed last.
• Linley earned Outstanding marks in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, charms, and Potions, and Exceeds Expectations in his other subjects.

Linley returned from Hogwarts to Roer Castle and reunited with his mother, Rowena, telling her about his first year and demonstrating his wandless magic. He also showed her the alchemical formations he had added to his sword.

• Linley left Hogwarts with the other students and met the Weasley family at King's Cross Station.
• Linley bid farewell to the Weasleys, then used Gael's house-elf Apparition to return to Roer Castle.
• Linley reunited with Rowena and recounted his year at Hogwarts, including his Halloween danger and Professor Green's combat lessons.
• Linley demonstrated wandless Incendio, the Levitation Charm, and Lumos to Rowena.
• Linley showed Rowena his sword, which held formations for Sharpness, Penetration, Poisoning, Strength, Dexterity, and Reinforcement.

Linley forged Rowena a dagger and a Mana Suppression Scepter so she could defend herself, then spent the remainder of July relaxing with her and tending Rohl Manor. He left the story preparing for his August trip to France with Professor Green to meet Nicolas Flamel.

• Linley asked Rowena for permission to travel to France with Professor Green in August, and she agreed after he promised to stay safe.
• Linley urged Rowena to learn to defend herself and spent a week forging her a purple-black dagger with several Alchemy Formations.
• Linley forged a weakened Mana Suppression Scepter for Rowena, capable of sealing a dark wizard's magic.
• Linley relaxed with Rowena by watching television and watering flowers, and he helped Gael tend Rohl Manor's garden.

Professor Green took Linley from Rohl Manor to France using a Cross-border Portkey and showed him the French wizarding world’s Magi-Gold Street. They ended their tour at a vast alchemical trading platform, where Linley saw how wizards bought, sold, and bartered magical goods.

• Professor Green arrived at Rohl Manor, and Linley said goodbye to Rowena before leaving with him.
• Professor Green took Linley by Side-Along Apparition to a hill, then they used an approved Cross-border Portkey to travel to France.
• Professor Green introduced Linley to Magi-Gold Street, where French wizards traded in alchemy and spellcraft alongside modern-style magical products.
• Professor Green toured Magi-Gold Street with Linley and bought him several interesting alchemical products.
• Professor Green brought Linley to a crowded shop whose interior had been expanded with an Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Professor Green explained how the trading platform let alchemists sell products for Galleons or barter with one another.

Linley sold several alchemical items and traded a failed Mana Suppression Scepter for a small amount of Felix Felicis before traveling with Professor Green to Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. Fleur Delacour guided them through the school, where Linley challenged her to compare their alchemical knowledge.

• Linley sold more than a dozen defensive cloaks and traded his failed Mana Suppression Scepter for a spoonful of Felix Felicis.
• Linley and Professor Green stayed overnight on Magi-Gold Street, then Apparated to Beauxbatons Academy of Magic the next day.
• Madame Maxime welcomed Professor Green and Linley, then asked Fleur Delacour to guide them around the school.
• Fleur introduced Beauxbatons and its students' strong grounding in alchemy as she led the tour.
• Linley asked Fleur about her alchemy and proposed that they compete in their knowledge.

Linley and Fleur competed to enchant swords, and Linley's unusual combination of Airwave and Replication runes won the duel. Fleur accepted the loss, shared her defensive strategy, and offered her friendship as they prepared to continue the tour of Beauxbatons.

• Fleur agreed to compete with Linley by enchanting swords within one hour, with Professor Green judging which weapon broke first.
• Linley inscribed Airwave, Replication, and Reinforcement runes on his sword, while Fleur created a defensive Alchemy Formation.
• Professor Green activated both swords, and Linley's sword released multiple streams of sword energy that shattered Fleur's enchanted weapon before the swords collided.
• Fleur explained that she had focused on defense because the goal was to keep her sword intact, and admitted Linley's ranged attack had surprised her.
• Linley and Fleur praised each other's approaches, and Fleur invited Linley to call her by her first name.

Linley finished touring Beauxbatons with Fleur and then visited Professor Green’s teacher, Nicolas Flamel, at his estate. Nicolas assessed Linley’s magical reserves, offered to teach him Spell Alchemy for half a month, and later demonstrated his ability to conjure Alchemy Formations.

• Fleur guided Linley around Beauxbatons, and they parted with Linley suggesting they might meet again in three years.
• Professor Green took Linley to Nicolas Flamel’s secluded estate, where Linley met Nicolas and Madame Perenelle Flamel.
• Nicolas warmly welcomed Linley, checked his magical power, and judged that he was ready to begin learning Spell Alchemy.
• Nicolas offered to teach Linley for half a month, and Linley and Professor Green settled into a villa on the estate.
• Nicolas conjured dozens of Alchemy Formations that became a shower of golden, meteor-like lights across the night sky.

Linley mastered the basics of Spell Alchemy and learned to craft Mana Stones before Nicholas revealed a secret art combining alchemy and magic. Nicholas demonstrated how to fuse Spell Alchemy into a spell, leaving Linley ready to learn the technique.

• Linley studied Spell Alchemy with Nicholas for a week, using his strong affinity for fire to advance quickly.
• Professor Green confirmed Linley's theoretical knowledge and taught him how to craft Mana Stones, and Linley made one into a Mana Suppression Bracelet.
• Nicholas took Linley to a training ground through a modified Portkey and asked whether magic or alchemy was stronger.
• Nicholas offered to teach Linley a secret art combining alchemy and magic, explaining that Linley's silent, wandless spellcasting made him suited to learn it.
• Nicholas used Spell Alchemy to infuse magical power into Aguamenti, then added Alchemy Runes to turn the water into a reusable current that could harden into a blade.

Linley combined alchemy and magic to create a new mana-suppressing flame that could distinguish enemies from allies. He named it the Mana Suppression Flame and began testing its ability to suppress nearby magic and potentially seal a wizard’s powers across an area.

• Nicholas taught Linley the techniques needed to combine alchemy and magic, then brought him to the training ground to try them.
• Linley transformed a half-finished Mana Stone construct into a special magical force that suppressed enemies’ magic without affecting allies.
• Linley fused the force with a magical flame and engraved alchemy runes into it, creating a flame that could suppress mana.
• Linley absorbed the flame into his body, where he could summon it later, and Nicholas explained that he could increase its power by repeating the process.
• Linley named his creation the Mana Suppression Flame and tested how it suppressed nearby magic, considering whether it could form a barrier that sealed a wizard’s magic.

Linley demonstrated his improved Mana Suppression Flame to Professor Green, prompting Green to revisit his painful past and Nicholas Flamel to reconsider the Philosopher’s Stone’s future. Before returning to England, Linley asked Professor Green for a Muggle handgun to protect himself during the coming school year.

• Linley showed Professor Green that his Mana Suppression Flame could suppress hostile wizards while sparing allies.
• Professor Green visited Nicholas Flamel, and they discussed why Green had never learned the secret technique and whether the Philosopher’s Stone should be destroyed after Dumbledore used it.
• Nicholas Flamel decided to tell Dumbledore that the Philosopher’s Stone might be needed by Linley after next year’s events.
• Linley returned to England with Professor Green using Nicholas Flamel’s Cross-border Portkey.
• Linley asked Professor Green to give him a handgun from the Muggle world as protection.

Linley prepared for the new school year, received a Desert Eagle from Professor Green, and reunited with the Weasley twins at Platform 9¾. As he was about to board the Hogwarts Express, he noticed a silver-haired girl and wondered whether she was a Half-Veela.

• Professor Green agreed to send Linley a Desert Eagle and Apparated away from The Leaky Cauldron.
• Linley bought his textbooks and alchemy materials in Diagon Alley, then returned to Roer Castle with Gael.
• Linley prepared supplies for the new term and received the Desert Eagle, replacement parts, bullets, and a letter from Professor Green.
• Gael helped Linley Apparate to King's Cross Station, where he met Fred and George and discussed the electrical knowledge he had sent them.
• Ron Weasley and Harry Potter arrived on Platform 9¾, and Linley then noticed a beautiful silver-haired girl coming through the barrier.

Linley returned to Hogwarts with Fred and George and noticed a mysterious silver-haired witch with a strong affinity for Ice magic. At the Sorting Ceremony, he learned her name was Irina Lowell and watched her join Gryffindor.

• Linley sensed unusual Ice elemental magic around the silver-haired girl and suspected her appearance came from her bloodline.
• Fred and George pulled Linley aboard the Hogwarts Express, then shared snacks they had bought with their earnings from Improved Stink Pellets.
• Linley saw Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the silver-haired girl on the train, then rode to Hogwarts in a Thestral-drawn carriage while pretending not to see the Thestrals.
• Professor McGonagall led the new students through the Sorting Ceremony, where Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom were sorted into Gryffindor.
• The Sorting Hat took two and a half minutes to sort Irina Lowell into Gryffindor, and Linley memorized her name.

Linley met his new roommates, Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, then began enchanting his Desert Eagle with alchemy. In Gryffindor, Irina reflected on her previous life and her ice-magic talent before Hermione asked about the spell she had been practicing.

• Draco Malfoy introduced himself and Crabbe and Goyle as Linley's new roommates.
• Linley demonstrated Silent Spellcasting, then chose alchemy formations for his Desert Eagle and prepared to enchant it.
• Irina recalled freezing to death after freeing captured penguins and being reborn in 1980 as a Muggle-born in the Harry Potter world.
• Irina remembered discovering her talent for ice spells and mastering Silent Spellcasting for the Glacier Spell before starting Hogwarts.
• Hermione asked Irina what spell she had been practicing, eager to compare their summer spellwork.

Irina helped Hermione learn to reverse the Glacier Spell before they went to sleep. The next morning, Irina fed catnip to Professor McGonagall in her Animagus form, then pretended the encounter was an accident.

• Hermione demonstrated the Glacier Spell, and Irina showed her how to restore the frozen vase.
• Irina guided Hermione through casting the Glacier Spell and its reversal until Hermione mastered the technique.
• Linley went to Professor Quirrell's Defense Against the Dark Arts class after working on the Desert Eagle's alchemical design.
• Hermione woke Irina early for Transfiguration, where Irina spotted Professor McGonagall in her tabby cat form.
• Irina gave the tabby cat catnip, and Professor McGonagall transformed back and scolded her.
• Irina apologized to Professor McGonagall and returned to her seat, then secretly gave Hermione a V-sign.