Chapter Summaries

Linley kept Voldemort trapped in the Time Loop Formation while Irina, Irvin, and the others defeated the Death Eaters below. After arguing with Scrimgeour about killing the captured Death Eaters, Irina had Dumbledore release Rabastan Lestrange to prove they remained dangerous, then evaded his attack.

• Voldemort realized Linley had completed the Time Loop Formation and repeatedly failed to escape its bounds.
• Linley intercepted Voldemort whenever he tried to flee, while Irina and Irvin killed the Death Eaters and Aurors arrested four who surrendered.
• Irina asked Scrimgeour to withdraw the Aurors and argued that the captured Death Eaters should be killed rather than sent to Azkaban.
• Irina signaled Dumbledore to release Rabastan Lestrange, and Scrimgeour angrily protested.
• Rabastan attacked Irina with a Cruciatus Curse, but she dodged it and appeared behind him using the Power of Cold Ice.

Irina and Irvin killed Rabastan, Amicus, and Alecto as Voldemort’s remaining forces fell. With the battle turning against him, Voldemort transformed into black smoke and escaped Linley’s interception, diving toward the Death Eaters trapped below.

• Irina stabbed Rabastan through the heart from behind and blasted apart his heart and the left side of his body with the Power of Cold Ice.
• Dumbledore released Amicus Carrow from the Water Prison Curse, and Irina and Irvin eventually killed him after a prolonged battle.
• Irina and Irvin fought Alecto Carrow until Irina pinned her legs with ice spikes and stabbed her with the Ice Crystal Spear.
• After an hour of fighting, Voldemort turned into black smoke, evaded Linley, and dove toward the Death Eaters restrained by the Water Prison Curse.

After Voldemort escaped, Linley secured the aftermath of the graveyard battle and returned to Hogwarts Castle with Dumbledore, Irina, and Irvin. Fudge confronted Dumbledore upon their arrival, demanding to know where the champions had gone.

• Linley checked that Irina and Irvin were safe, then spoke with Scrimgeour, Barty Crouch Sr., and the Daily Prophet reporters about the battle and the news coverage.
• Scrimgeour and the Aurors left for the Ministry of Magic with captured Death Eaters, while Linley sent Barty Crouch Sr. after them to reclaim his former duties.
• Linley told Sirius Black to remove the Portkey magic from the Goblet of Fire and take the unconscious Harry to 12 Grimmauld Place.
• Dumbledore used Fawkes to transport Linley, Irina, and Irvin back to Hogwarts Castle.
• Fudge rushed to Dumbledore and accused him of taking the Hogwarts champion and two young wizards away.

Linley publicly revealed Voldemort’s return and exposed Minister Fudge’s attempts to deny it, using his Demon King-level power to silence Fudge. Afterward, Linley, Dumbledore, Irina, and Irvin headed to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office to free the real Alastor Moody.

• Linley used Sonorus to tell the stands that the Goblet of Fire had taken him to a graveyard, where Voldemort returned and Dumbledore helped drive off the Death Eaters.
• Fudge denied Linley’s account, but Linley said Scrimgeour, the Aurors, and Daily Prophet reporters had witnessed the events and secured evidence.
• Fudge considered dismissing Linley as insane, but Linley revealed his Demon King-level magical power and warned Fudge that his suspicions had made others oppose him.
• Linley left for Hogwarts Castle with Dumbledore, Irina, and Irvin to free the real Alastor Moody from the trunk.
• Dumbledore blasted open the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor’s office door with an Explosion Charm and went inside.

Linley and Dumbledore freed Moody, who learned of Voldemort’s return and praised Linley’s strength. When Fudge publicly denied Voldemort’s return and tried to discredit Linley, Linley seized him by the throat and condemned him.

• Linley opened Moody’s enchanted trunk and brought the imprisoned Auror out.
• Dumbledore revived Moody with potions and explained that Barty Crouch Jr. and Peter Pettigrew had held him captive for nearly a year.
• Moody learned that Sirius Black and Irina had killed Pettigrew and Crouch Jr., and that Voldemort had returned and Linley had driven him back.
• Moody praised Linley and told Dumbledore and the others to leave him while they dealt with the Triwizard Tournament.
• Fudge used Sonorus to tell the gathered wizards that Linley was mad and Voldemort was dead.
• Linley appeared before Fudge, seized him by the throat, and accused him of misleading the public and endangering the wizarding world.

Linley humiliated Fudge and forced him to leave Hogwarts, while Dumbledore openly rejected the Minister’s authority. The Triwizard Tournament concluded, and the Daily Prophet published vivid reports confirming Voldemort’s return to the wizarding world.

• Linley released Fudge after choking him, then publicly defended his strength and planted his foot on the Minister’s face.
• Dumbledore ordered Fudge to leave Hogwarts, and Fudge escaped using a teacup Portkey after threatening them.
• Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and the other professors restored order, and Hogwarts was declared the tournament’s winner while Beauxbatons took second place.
• The next day, the Daily Prophet printed reports about Voldemort’s return and Fudge’s confrontation with Linley.
• Linley gave the Daily Prophet Magical Photo Sound Technology, allowing readers to hear the recorded battle at Little Hangleton.

The Daily Prophet published footage of Linley defeating Voldemort with the Time Loop Formation, making Linley the British wizarding world’s new hope. Its report on Fudge’s claims outside the maze enraged readers, and protests against the Minister swelled as the chapter ended.

• Wizards reading the Daily Prophet watched Linley insult Voldemort, reveal his Muggle parentage, and overpower him before Voldemort’s forbidden enhancement turned the fight against Linley.
• Linley used the Time Loop Formation to defeat Voldemort and drive him away while Irina and the others killed most of the Death Eaters.
• Wizards across Britain celebrated Linley’s victory and saw him as a powerful new protector for the wizarding world.
• Readers saw the report of Fudge making claims outside the maze and responded with protests and Howlers condemning him.
• A Ministry employee told Fudge that protests had reached at least thirty percent of the registered wizarding population.

Fudge ordered Aurors and Hit Wizards to arrest the protesters, but Scrimgeour leaked the order to the Daily Prophet, intensifying public outrage and prompting Dumbledore to impeach Fudge. Umbridge advised Fudge to stall the proceedings and target Hogwarts, and he eagerly accepted her plan.

• Fudge ordered the Aurors and Hit Wizards to arrest the wizards marching against the Ministry, and a Ministry employee passed the order to Scrimgeour.
• Scrimgeour refused to obey Fudge and leaked the order to the Daily Prophet, where Michel Anderson and Rita Skeeter published attacks on Fudge.
• The Daily Prophet's articles fueled protests against Fudge, and Dumbledore convened the Wizengamot to begin impeachment proceedings.
• Umbridge urged Fudge to delay the impeachment and use his authority to trouble Dumbledore.
• Umbridge proposed interfering with Hogwarts, and Fudge laughed as he embraced the plan.

Fudge chose Dolores Umbridge to go to Hogwarts and undermine Dumbledore, while Linley, Irina, and Dumbledore prepared edited memories exposing Voldemort’s schemes for publication. Linley planned to send the edited memory to the Daily Prophet to influence the wizarding world’s political future.

• Fudge agreed to send Dolores Umbridge to Hogwarts Castle to disrupt Dumbledore’s plans.
• At Hogwarts, Linley explained that the Daily Prophet’s reports were intended to weaken Fudge and help Barty Crouch Sr. gain power.
• Linley, Irina, and Dumbledore entered Barty Crouch Jr.’s memories in the Pensieve, and Linley removed Barty Crouch Jr. and identifying details from the memory of Voldemort’s plans.
• Linley preserved the altered fragment about Voldemort’s schemes, Peter Pettigrew, and Bertha Jorkins while destroying the other fragments on the silver ribbon.
• Linley put the edited fragment in an ordinary glass bottle and said he would send it to the Daily Prophet for publication.

After the Daily Prophet’s reports strengthened support for Linley and Hogwarts, Linley completed his postponed O.W.L. examinations with outstanding results. Dumbledore then told Linley and Irina that the Ministry of Magic planned to appoint Hogwarts’ next Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

• Dumbledore gave Linley the schedule for his specially arranged O.W.L. examinations, which would begin the following week.
• Linley earned full marks in his Charms practical by destroying more than a hundred wooden targets with Diffindo.
• Linley swept through his examinations, receiving full marks in several subjects and expecting Outstanding grades in Herbology and Astronomy.
• After Linley finished his final examination, Fawkes carried him to Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore and Irina were waiting.
• Dumbledore told Linley and Irina that the Ministry of Magic demanded the right to appoint a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for the next school year, and Irina objected to the interference.

Linley persuaded Dumbledore and Irina to let Fudge’s appointed professor enter Hogwarts so Fudge would believe he had gained ground while the school’s leaders controlled any damage. Irina realized the plan could also expose Fudge’s remaining supporters and clear obstacles to Barty Crouch Sr.’s rise to power.

• Dumbledore hesitated to defy the Ministry’s lawful demands, but Irina convinced him that Fudge was targeting Hogwarts to distract him.
• Dumbledore resolved to reject the Ministry’s authority to appoint a professor without his approval and prepared a letter.
• Linley stopped Dumbledore and proposed allowing Fudge’s professor into Hogwarts, arguing that he and Dumbledore could prevent serious harm while winning parents’ support.
• Linley explained that letting Fudge think he had won would keep him from desperate retaliation and make his eventual defeat more complete.
• Irina deduced that the plan would expose Fudge’s remaining allies and provide grounds to remove them, clearing the way for Barty Crouch Sr.

After choosing Linley’s plan to let Fudge’s appointees come to Hogwarts, Dumbledore celebrated the end of a school year in which Cedric had survived and Slytherin won the House Cup. On the Hogwarts Express, Linley, Irina, and Irvin discussed their summer plans, and Linley and Irina arranged to meet on August 20.

• Dumbledore chose Linley’s plan to admit Fudge’s appointed professors for one more school year before settling accounts with Fudge’s faction.
• At the end-of-year feast, Linley and Irina saw Cedric alive and celebrating, and Dumbledore awarded points to Linley, Irina, Irvin, and Harry as Slytherin won the House Cup.
• On the Hogwarts Express, Irvin said he planned to learn the Fidelius Charm and strengthen his Lightning Strike over the summer.
• Linley planned to study with his teacher in July and seek guidance from Nicholas Flamel in August, while Irina planned to study spatial magic and magical creatures and plants.
• Irina asked Linley to meet on August 20, and Linley agreed.

Linley returned to Roer Castle and gave Rowena five Magic Sealing Barriers to protect her from Voldemort. He then traveled to France to visit Green and used a Time Loop Formation to learn about Green’s concealed Glock and enchanted bullets.

• Linley returned to Roer Castle with Gael and reunited with Rowena.
• Linley gave Rowena five Magic Sealing Barriers that could suppress even a Demon King level wizard’s magic within their range.
• Linley spent two days with Rowena, then used Irina’s illegal Cross-border Portkey to travel to Green’s home in France.
• Green welcomed Linley and began to consider how to test his student’s progress.
• Linley revealed that he knew about Green’s hidden Glock and its enchanted bullets, explaining that he had learned the details in a previous Time Loop Formation.
• Linley restored the memory of that earlier conversation in Green’s mind.

Linley explained how he had hidden the materials for his Time Loop Formation from Green, then began a new course under his teacher in contract magic. Green assigned Linley a thick book of ordinary contracts and set him to learn the Fidelius Charm before August.

• Linley told Green that he had concealed the alchemical materials and Sand of Time with a Demon King level Disillusionment Charm.
• Green praised Linley's Time Loop Formation and confirmed that Linley would study with him in July before meeting his grandteacher in August.
• Green took Linley to the training grounds and introduced contract magic, explaining how it could combine with Alchemy Formations.
• Green gave Linley a thick book of ordinary contract spells and told him to master them before August.
• Green planned to teach Linley four profound forms of contract magic and assigned him to set up a Fidelius Charm around the house within three days.

Green taught Linley how the Fidelius Charm concealed a secret in a Secret Keeper’s heart, explaining its limits and rules. Linley cast the charm on Green’s cabin and became its Secret Keeper, then revealed the coordinates to Green so he could see his home again.

• Green explained the Fidelius Charm and took Linley to his house to practice casting it.
• Linley asked whether a Secret Keeper could erase the secret by extracting his memories, and Green explained that the charm stored the secret in the heart, not the brain.
• Green told Linley that a Secret Keeper’s death would transfer the role to anyone else who knew the secret, or lift the charm if no one else did.
• Linley proposed using the Fidelius Charm to restore extracted memories, but Green explained that the heart could not hold a person’s complete memories.
• Linley cast the Fidelius Charm on Green’s cabin, becoming its Secret Keeper, and then told Green the coordinates so Green could see the house again.

Linley learned the theory behind the Blood Pact from Green and discovered how Dumbledore and Grindelwald had broken theirs. Green left him with the knowledge that a Blood Pact could shatter when its actions contradicted its intent so completely that it lost its meaning.

• Linley spent two days practicing the Fidelius Charm and studying contract magic before meeting Green in the training grounds.
• Green began teaching Linley the Blood Pact, explaining that he only needed to master its theory, incantation, and casting techniques.
• Linley asked whether a Blood Pact could be broken, and Green confirmed that Dumbledore and Grindelwald had broken theirs.
• Green explained that the Blood Pact punished the intention to oppose another, but could be broken when people acted in opposition without intending to oppose one another.
• Green said Grindelwald had tried to kill a Dumbledore descendant while Dumbledore protected them, causing their Blood Pact to shatter from the contradiction.

After studying Blood Pacts with Green, Linley continued learning advanced contract magic while Irina returned home for a short visit before going to study with Newt. The chapter leaves Irina preparing to expand a suitcase’s interior and considering Newt’s suggestion that she and Linley work together to replicate his special suitcase.

• Linley learned the principles and techniques of Blood Pacts from Green, then studied two other advanced forms of contract magic during July.
• Irina reunited with Igor Lowell and Carolina Lowell, concealed the dangers she had faced, and told them she would train in the magical world over the summer.
• Irina spent three days with her parents before using a Portkey to travel to Newt’s villa.
• Newt told Irina to expand a suitcase’s interior to match the Pocket Dimension in his special suitcase before July fifteenth.
• Newt suggested that Irina and Linley combine her Undetectable Extension Charm with Linley’s alchemy to replicate his suitcase.

Irina tested the limits of her Undetectable Extension Charm under Newt’s guidance, expanding a wooden box’s interior by twelve and a half billion times. Newt promised to teach her everything he knew so she could reach a trillion-fold expansion, but the expanded space began to destabilize.

• Irina told Newt that she and Linley had started dating before the Christmas Ball, and Newt wished them well before testing her spell.
• Irina cast the Undetectable Extension Charm on a wooden box for half an hour, then entered its expanded interior with Newt through a doorway of light.
• Newt measured the interior’s side length at one thousand meters and its expansion multiplier at twelve and a half billion, up from one billion the previous summer.
• Irina said her magical power had reached its limit, so Newt promised to teach her everything he knew about the charm over the next two weeks.
• Newt sensed that the wooden box’s interior was becoming unstable and urged Irina to return through the doorway before the space collapsed.

After escaping a collapsing expanded space, Irina learned from Newt how the Undetectable Extension Charm worked and considered using spatial magic in combat. Newt agreed to train her, and over the following week her mastery of the charm improved rapidly.

• Irina grabbed Newt and hurried back through the portal as the expanded space shattered.
• Newt explained how space expanded by the Undetectable Extension Charm could become unstable and shared his understanding of the magic with Irina.
• Irina suggested using spatial power in battle, and Newt encouraged her to explore the idea.
• Irina promised to help Newt reach the Demon King level so he could witness the wizarding world's future golden age, and Newt agreed to train her.
• Newt spent the next week teaching Irina the Undetectable Extension Charm, and her mastery improved quickly.

Irina reached a trillion-fold spatial expansion multiplier with the Undetectable Extension Charm, then began learning to make Portkeys from Newt. She completed a trigger Apparition Key, with two teacups still left for the other types.

• Irina cast the Undetectable Extension Charm on a wooden box and reached a trillion-fold spatial expansion multiplier, which Newt confirmed by inspecting the unstable space.
• Irina realized that shattered space might be used to tear apart an enemy from afar, and Newt ended her training in the charm.
• Irina rested by feeding and playing with her magical creatures in her suitcase before Newt began teaching her about Portkeys.
• Irina made trigger, charging, and timed normal and Cross-border Portkeys using six emerald-green teacups.
• Irina spent more than half an hour making a trigger Apparition Key, leaving two teacups for the remaining Apparition Key types.