Chapter Summaries

After Voldemort’s defeat by Linley and Irina, he gathered the remaining Death Eaters at Avery Manor and confronted their growing doubts about his leadership. He killed a Death Eater he accused of planning to betray him.

• Voldemort led the remaining Death Eaters to Avery Manor because their other estates were no longer safe.
• The newly recruited Death Eaters questioned whether the wounded Voldemort could lead them to victory after Linley and Irina defeated him.
• Voldemort sensed their doubts and confronted the Death Eaters, declaring his power and achievements.
• Voldemort accused one Death Eater of intending to betray him and killed him with Avada Kedavra.

Voldemort punished Death Eaters whose loyalty had faltered, then planned to recruit more allies against Dumbledore, Rory, and Lowell. He assigned Luke Wood to approach werewolves and vampires and declared that Dementors should serve him as well.

• Voldemort's lightning killed nearly fifty disloyal Death Eaters, and he tortured Avery and many others for nearly half an hour.
• Voldemort warned the remaining Death Eaters that he would expose any doubts in their minds.
• Luke Wood proposed recruiting werewolves and vampires, and Voldemort restored his severed wrist with a silver hand.
• Voldemort tasked Luke Wood with recruiting werewolves and vampires, and Luke pledged to make them allies.
• McNair suggested Dementors as another possible ally, and Voldemort agreed that they should serve the Dark Lord.

Voldemort planned to seize Azkaban and subdue the Dementors, while Barty Crouch Sr. advanced Regulus’s exoneration and arranged an urgent meeting with Linley and Irina. Linley and Irina arrived at the rebuilt old house to meet him about the danger posed by Azkaban.

• Voldemort announced that he would lead the Death Eaters to seize Azkaban in a week and ordered Avery to arrange supplies.
• Barty Crouch Sr. submitted evidence to the Wizengamot to restore Regulus’s innocence and moved a planned reform meeting forward by two days.
• Barty Crouch Sr. contacted Linley and Irina to meet that evening, and Irina guessed he intended to address Azkaban.
• Linley and Irina spent the afternoon by the Black Lake before using an Apparition Key to travel to the rebuilt old house.
• Barty Crouch Sr. greeted Linley and Irina when they arrived.

Linley, Irina, and Barty Crouch Sr. discussed how to deal with the Dementors after abolishing Azkaban. Linley and Irina proposed creating a sealed pocket dimension called “Exile Land” to imprison them, which Irina named a Forbidden Item.

• Barty Crouch Sr. explained that Azkaban and its Dementors were a danger the Ministry needed to resolve, but cutting off their supply of criminals could provoke them to attack.
• Irina proposed exiling the Dementors instead of trying to kill or continually drive them away.
• Linley and Irina planned to create a stable pocket dimension inside Goblin Mithril and use it to seal the Dementors away from the wizarding world.
• Barty Crouch Sr. listened as Irina explained how the plan would work and praised it as an astonishing solution.
• Linley said he would use Goblin Mithril from the Lestrange Family vault, reinforce it with alchemy, and give it to Irina to make Exile Land.
• Irina declared that Exile Land would be known as a Forbidden Item.

Irina proposed creating a secretive Auror force to contain dangerous magical objects called Forbidden Items. After Barty Crouch Sr. raised concerns about the Aurors’ ability to protect them, Linley named the Philosopher’s Stone Forbidden Item No. 001 and himself its containment officer.

• Irina explained Forbidden Items and urged Barty Crouch Sr. to give Aurors responsibility for containing them.
• Linley backed Irina’s proposal, while the narration described how Barty Crouch Sr. had purged Death Eater infiltrators from the Ministry and the Department of Mysteries.
• Barty Crouch Sr. warned that ordinary Aurors lacked the power to protect Forbidden Items from powerful wizards such as Voldemort.
• Irina proposed assigning a secret containment officer to each Forbidden Item and using Memory Charms to conceal the officers’ identities.
• Linley declared the Philosopher’s Stone Forbidden Item No. 001 and named himself its containment officer.

Linley and Irina prepared Forbidden Item No. 006, Exile Land, to imprison the Dementors so the Ministry could abolish Azkaban. After Irina expanded the silver cube’s interior, she and Linley entered the finished silver space.

• Linley, Irina, and Barty Crouch Sr. agreed on six Forbidden Items and planned to present the idea of exiling the Dementors at a Ministry meeting in five days.
• Linley said he would sink Azkaban Island after the Dementors were exiled to prevent new Dementors from being born there.
• Linley selected a fine piece of Goblin Mithril and used the Ziwei Heavenly Fire and Alchemy Formations to shape it into a reinforced silver cube.
• Irina cast the Undetectable Extension Charm on the cube for two hours, creating a vast, stable interior space.
• Linley and Irina entered the cube and found a silver realm without sunlight, weather, or day and night: the Dementors’ Exile Land.

Linley and Irina completed the Silver Cube, an enchanted prison designed to contain the Dementors, while Linley put the D.A. Army through intensive Illusion Formation training. Harry trained with particular desperation, still consumed by guilt over the battle at the Department of Mysteries.

• Linley reinforced the Exile Land with defensive spells and Alchemy Formations, then tested its defenses with a black-flame spear and confirmed it could withstand a Demon King-level strike if it held no more than ten thousand Dementors.
• Linley set the Silver Cube’s activation conditions so that its passage could only be reopened by restoring the scrambled cube to its original form, and Irina took possession of it.
• Over five days, Irina nursed the fire dragon’s injuries and named it Scarlett; her Magical Creature Affinity made it obedient to her.
• With Dumbledore’s permission, Linley brought the D.A. Army to the Quidditch pitch and gave its members access to sixty Illusion Formations for intensive training.
• Most D.A. Army members left after their daily three hours of training, but Harry kept enduring high-difficulty trials, barely taking time to sleep or eat because of his guilt over the Department of Mysteries battle.

Linley and Dumbledore debated the purpose of training D.A. Army as a defensive force, while the Ministry of Magic approved plans to abolish Azkaban and exile the Dementors. Linley and Irina arrived at Azkaban with Ministry officials, where Irina opened Forbidden Item No. 006 as the operation began.

• Harry and other students trained in high-difficulty Illusion Trials for ten hours a day, and Harry raised his Disarming Charm to quasi Demon King level.
• Linley told Dumbledore that D.A. Army should become a defensive force for the British wizarding world and argued that it could counter the growing power of the American Magical Congress.
• Dumbledore agreed not to interfere if the army protected Britain, but promised to stop it if it were used for invasion.
• Scrimgeour told Linley that the Ministry had approved the concepts of Forbidden Items and their custodians, along with abolishing Azkaban and exiling the Dementors.
• Linley summoned Irina and traveled with Scrimgeour and Kingsley to Azkaban, where elite Aurors were preventing the Dementors from escaping.
• Irina opened the silver door of Forbidden Item No. 006, Exile Land, as Scrimgeour watched in amazement.

Irina and Linley led the Aurors in using their Patronuses and the Exile Land to remove every Dementor from Azkaban. After the Ministry team evacuated, Linley began destroying the prison island with Ziwei Heavenly Fire, leaving Azkaban in the midst of catastrophic ruin.

• Irina, Linley, Scrimgeour, and the Aurors drove the Dementors through the silver gate and into the Exile Land.
• Irina closed the gate, declared the operation complete, and handed Forbidden Item No. 006 to Scrimgeour for Ministry containment.
• Linley told Scrimgeour to evacuate the Aurors before he destroyed Azkaban Island, and Scrimgeour led them away by Portkey.
• Irina left with the Apparition Key while Linley rose above the island and unleashed Ziwei Heavenly Fire.
• Linley's flames vaporized the surrounding seawater and shattered the island and its fortress as mountains collapsed and magma spread.

After destroying Azkaban, Linley returned to Hogwarts and was summoned to the Quidditch pitch, where Astoria's Blood Curse had erupted. He proposed that learning the Ancient Magic Blood Curse Kill was the only way to save her, but Irvin doubted she could master it in time.

• Linley erased Azkaban with the Ziwei Heavenly Fire and returned to Hogwarts Castle.
• Irvin sent Linley an urgent Two-way Mirror message that Astoria's Blood Curse had erupted, and Linley Apparated to the Quidditch pitch.
• Linley found Astoria's magic draining away as blood-red patterns spread across her skin, and his attempt to transfer magic into her had little effect.
• Linley explained that Astoria's intense spellcasting at the Department of Mysteries had triggered the curse, while Harry blamed himself for leading the group into the trap.
• Linley told Irvin that Astoria needed to learn the Ancient Magic Blood Curse Kill to transform the curse into her own power and survive.
• Irvin questioned how Astoria could master the magic when her condition might not let her survive even one day.

Linley froze Astoria and the Blood Curse in time while preparing to test whether Blood Curse Kill could save her. Irvin agreed to maintain the formation, and Linley set out to obtain the genuine Ancient Magic book from the Fli family.

• Linley explained that Astoria would need a healthy illusion body to learn Blood Curse Kill while her real body was protected from the curse.
• Linley built the Time Stop Formation and used a grain of Sand of Time to freeze Astoria, her soul, and the erupting Blood Curse.
• Irvin returned with a Time-Turner that Dumbledore had provided, giving Linley enough Sand of Time to sustain the formation.
• Linley taught Irvin how to recharge the formation, and Irvin promised to stay with Astoria and replenish it every hour.
• Irvin gave Linley a Fli Family badge and told him to take it to Fli Manor to obtain the genuine Blood Curse Kill book.

Linley obtained the Ancient Magic book needed to attempt to cure Astoria’s Blood Curse and began studying blood-based curses at Roer Castle. Meanwhile, Dumbledore arrived to examine Astoria, and Mr. Fli wondered about her relationship with Irvin.

• Dumbledore arrived at the Quidditch pitch and saw Astoria held within the Time Stop Formation as the Blood Curse continued to affect her.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione asked Dumbledore whether he could remove Astoria’s curse, while Irvin watched over her in silence.
• Linley visited Mr. Fli, explained Astoria’s condition, and showed him the Fli Family badge Irvin had entrusted to him.
• Mr. Fli gave Linley an Ancient Magic book titled “Blood Curse Kill” and asked about Astoria’s relationship with Irvin; Linley told him to ask Irvin directly.
• Linley returned to Roer Castle and began studying the blood-based curse Crimson Blood Moon as preparation for learning Blood Curse Kill.

Linley mastered the Crimson Blood Moon curse and tested it on summoned black snakes, then prepared to learn Blood Curse Kill. After meeting the Ancient Magic’s prerequisites, he began practicing its basic Blood Blade form.

• Linley learned the Crimson Blood Moon curse in less than an hour and tested it on a black snake using its blood as the medium.
• The curse drove the snake mad, causing it to attack itself until it died, and Linley practiced on more than a hundred summoned snakes.
• Linley concluded that his silent, Wandless Diffindo and mastery of a blood-based curse fulfilled the prerequisites for Blood Curse Kill.
• Linley studied Blood Curse Kill’s principles and considered how his fire affinity might manifest through the Ancient Magic.
• Linley followed the book’s instructions, flicked out a drop of his blood, and transformed it into a sharp, blood-red Blood Blade.

Linley needed to test Blood Curse Kill so the Alchemy Detector could analyze it and help Astoria awaken her bloodline power, but he could not find a suitable sparring partner in Britain. He went to Nicolas Flamel, who agreed to take him somewhere built to withstand a battle between Demon King level wizards.

• Linley unleashed a Blood Blade that shattered the heavily protected training ground, then repaired it and judged that a full-strength attack could destroy much of Rohl Manor.
• Linley ruled out Irina and Dumbledore as sparring partners and could not locate Voldemort through the Death Eaters whose vision he could access.
• Linley realized that Nicolas Flamel could withstand Blood Curse Kill and decided to ask his grandmaster for help despite worrying that he was betraying his master and ancestors.
• Linley used a Cross-border Apparition Key to reach Flamel Manor and explained that he needed data for the Alchemy Detector to help Astoria.
• Nicolas teased Linley for making him a target, then invited him to follow to a place capable of withstanding a battle between Demon King level wizards.

Nicholas brought Linley to a concealed Demon King Barrier and prepared to test Linley’s Blood Curse Kill against thousands of defensive Alchemy Formations. Linley launched the attack, and a flicker of fire appeared within the blood blade as it approached the defenses.

• Nicholas activated a hidden Alchemy Formation on the hill, expanding the space into a sealed Demon King Barrier.
• Nicholas explained that the barrier could contain battles between Demon King level wizards or temporarily imprison one.
• Nicholas revealed his full power and forged thousands of defensive Alchemy Formations for the test.
• Linley placed the Alchemy Detector in the barrier to record the test as reserve data.
• Linley unleashed Blood Curse Kill, and a flicker of fire ignited within the blood blade as it flew toward the formations.

Linley tested his Blood Curse Kill against Nicolas's thousands of Alchemy Formations, but the formations shattered his attack. Nicolas revealed that legendary wizards such as Merlin were gods beyond the Demon King level, then warned Linley never to cross the Domain of Gods.

• Linley unleashed Blood Curse Kill, and its crimson flames became a blade that broke through more than a hundred of Nicolas's Alchemy Formations before a damage-reflecting formation shattered it.
• Nicolas judged Linley's attack equivalent to a hundred Demon King-level strikes, and Linley asked whether Nicolas had surpassed the Demon King level.
• Nicolas explained that Merlin had been a legendary wizard, a God of Wizards, or a Demon God beyond the Demon King level, and said that such beings had reached the realm of gods.
• Linley asked when Nicolas would reach that realm, and Nicolas rebuked him for forgetting alchemy's two taboos: never crossing the Domain of Gods and never practicing Human Alchemy.

Nicholas explained to Linley why Human Alchemy was taboo, describing how replacing a person’s body with machinery and copying their mind into data would not preserve their soul or identity. He revealed that alchemists in the American wizarding world, possibly backed by the American Magical Congress, had achieved full-body mechanization, leaving Linley to suspect they were building a Mechanical Army for war and domination.

• Linley asked Nicholas why alchemy forbade overstepping the Domain of Gods and practicing Human Alchemy.
• Nicholas explained that Merlin had foreseen Human Alchemy leading people to replace their bodies with machines and mistake copied data for immortality.
• Linley argued that a digitized copy of someone’s thoughts and memories was not the person’s soul or true self.
• Nicholas said he had seen Human Alchemy research in the American wizarding world and suspected the American Magical Congress was involved.
• Nicholas revealed that the experiments had achieved full-body mechanization, though consciousness could not yet be uploaded as data.
• Linley suspected the American Magical Congress was creating an indestructible Mechanical Army to wage war and rule the wizarding world.

Linley learned that Human Alchemy could lead to an immortal, intelligent mechanical civilization, but Nicholas explained that alchemy could never reach godhood because the world's rules rejected it. Linley realized that advancing through flame magic gave him a chance at a higher realm than alchemy ever could.

• Linley feared that American alchemists might use Muggle chip technology to complete Human Alchemy and create a Mechanical Army, but he set the concern aside while Voldemort remained a threat.
• Linley asked Nicholas about alchemy's taboo against entering the Domain of Gods, and Nicholas asked him what he believed a god was.
• Linley said a god could create and destroy all things, and Nicholas warned that intelligent alchemical creations could develop into a civilization capable of threatening humanity.
• Nicholas explained that alchemy could make its practitioners nearly invincible among wizards of the same realm but could not lead them to godhood because the world's rules rejected it.
• Nicholas told Linley he was relieved that Linley had advanced through flame magic, and Linley recognized that this path might allow him to reach the Legendary Wizard realm.

Linley learned that Astoria had an 85% chance of surviving the Ancient Magic Blood Curse Kill, but he left the decision to her. Irina arrived with a possible way to protect Astoria by freezing the Blood Curse’s power without freezing her soul or thoughts.

• Linley used the Alchemy Detector to calculate that Blood Curse Kill had an 85% chance of turning the Blood Curse into a controllable power and a 15% chance of killing the caster.
• Nicholas told Linley to let Astoria choose, and Linley accepted that he had done all he could.
• Linley returned to Hogwarts and told Irvin and the others the results, prompting Irvin to worry about Astoria’s body collapsing during the spell.
• Irina arrived at the Quidditch pitch and explained that her Demon King-level Ice Magic could freeze the Blood Curse’s power, though she needed to avoid freezing Astoria’s soul and thoughts.

Irina froze Astoria and the Blood Curse in suspended animation while keeping her soul stable, allowing Linley’s Illusion Formation to guide Astoria through learning Blood Curse Kill. Astoria entered the illusion to study the magic books, while Irvin and the others stayed outside to watch over her.

• Linley deactivated the Time Stop Formation and explained Astoria’s situation and her eighty-five percent chance of success.
• Astoria thanked Irvin and asked Irina to begin, saying she would not give up while everyone waited for her.
• Irina froze Astoria and the Blood Curse, and the Alchemy Detector confirmed that Astoria’s soul remained stable.
• Linley displayed the illusion, where Astoria found books containing his memories and insights about the Crimson Blood Moon Curse and Blood Curse Kill.
• Astoria reached toward the book about the Crimson Blood Moon Curse while Irvin and the others watched outside the formation.
• Linley summoned magical flames to keep Irvin and the other companions warm in the freezing Quidditch pitch.