Chapter Summaries

Voldemort told the Death Eaters that he would learn to harness the power of the stars and overcome Rory’s Mana Suppression Power. As Hogwarts emptied for the holiday, Linley and Irina remembered their dream of settling down together and planned a private dance beneath the stars.

• Voldemort claimed that Rory and Lowell had mastered the power of the stars and declared that he would use it to defeat Rory’s Mana Suppression Power.
• The Hogwarts students left for the holiday, leaving Linley and Irina alone at the castle.
• Irina wondered whether their efforts had strayed from their original intention, and Linley reminded her of their promise to find a quiet place together when the wizarding world’s troubles were over.
• Linley and Irina kissed beside the Black Lake and recalled the Christmas Ball where they had confirmed their relationship.
• Linley invited Irina to dance with him in the middle of the Black Lake that night, and she eagerly agreed.

Linley and Irina met on Black Lake for a moonlit dance, using golden threads and ice to create a stage beneath the stars. They danced together in silence, their gazes expressing a vow to remain bound for life.

• Linley arrived at Black Lake in formalwear woven with golden threads and Ziwei Heavenly Fire.
• Linley crossed the lake on a golden-thread bridge as Irina walked across the water on ice.
• Linley and Irina met at the lake’s center and shaped a raised stage of ice reinforced with golden threads.
• Linley and Irina revealed their star-lit formal attire and embraced.
• Linley and Irina danced beneath the stars, silently expressing their love and commitment.

Linley visited Green and met Fred and George, who had advanced rapidly in alchemy, and accepted Green’s offer of a spar under restrictions. The duel began with both sides forming five Alchemy Formations, and Linley blocked the twins’ opening barrage with a golden shield.

• After leaving Hogwarts, Linley traveled to Green’s home in France and found Fred and George studying alchemy there.
• Green praised the twins’ progress and suggested that they spar with Linley.
• Green barred Linley from using Demon King level power or abilities outside alchemy, and forbade all three from using Alchemy Formations involving Mana Suppression Power.
• Fred and George combined their skills to create five Alchemy Formations, while Linley formed five of his own.
• Both sides unleashed streams of golden beams, and Linley stopped the twins’ attack with a defensive Alchemy Formation.

Linley sparred with Fred and George, whose alchemy had improved enough to match his techniques and withstand his attacks. The twins exhausted their magic before Green ended the fight, and Linley praised their progress.

• Fred and George used golden Alchemy Formations to block Linley's beams, while an azure formation attacked him from behind.
• Linley defended against the water blades and launched silent Sectumsempra attacks from a concealed dark crimson formation.
• Fred and George copied Linley's rear-facing shield technique, narrowly stopping the ambush, then fought back-to-back.
• Linley and the twins battled for more than three hours until Fred and George's magical reserves ran out and Green called a stop.
• Fred and George celebrated how much they had learned from Green, and Linley told Green their combat alchemy nearly matched his.

Green began Linley’s lessons in Bloodline Fusion Magic by explaining competing theories about the origins of wizards and how bloodline fusion could grant magical creature talents. Linley was amazed by the possibilities and wondered why alchemists did not all acquire goblins’ Alchemy Talent.

• Green told Linley that he would study Bloodline Fusion Magic and its connection to alchemy, while Fred and George pursued Pure Alchemy.
• Linley arrived at Green’s room at seven the next morning and saw that Green had prepared equipment and materials for his lessons.
• Green explained the Divine Gift Theory, Magical Creature Theory, and Wizard Ancestor Theory of wizard origins.
• Green described bloodline fusion as a way for wizards to gain magical creature abilities, such as a fire dragon’s fire control, a Veela’s enchantment, or a goblin’s Alchemy Talent.
• Linley grew excited about bloodline fusion and wondered why every alchemist did not obtain a goblin’s Alchemy Talent.

Green explained Bloodline Fusion Magic to Linley, describing its requirements, risks, and limits. He then led Linley to a table to begin teaching him the potion-making step.

• Green told Linley that a wizard needed far greater magical power than the creature whose bloodline they wanted to fuse with.
• Green explained that compatibility affected which traits a wizard inherited, and that random inheritance could also pass on negative traits.
• Green said the wizard had to personally make the spell, potion, and Alchemy Formation used for the fusion, much like practicing Animagus magic.
• Green warned that a wizard could fuse with only one magical creature’s bloodline in their lifetime because multiple bloodlines would scatter their talents.
• Green led Linley to a table with a cauldron, an alcohol lamp, and potion ingredients to teach him the three steps separately.

Linley completed his study of Bloodline Fusion Magic and brewed a potion using the essence blood of the Black Dragon of the Hechydian Islands. Green revealed that only quasi Demon King level or Demon King level wizards were generally strong enough to consume it.

• Green taught Linley how to brew the Bloodline Fusion Potion and gave him five days to study a thick book on Bloodline Fusion Magic.
• Linley studied the magic and tended the potion while Green trained Fred and George in combat alchemy.
• Linley chose the Black Dragon of the Hechydian Islands' essence blood and added three drops to the completed base potion.
• Linley followed Green's instructions to heat and stir the potion, then merged the Bloodline Fusion Formation into it.
• Linley bottled the finished potion, and Green explained that its power meant only exceptionally strong wizards could safely consume it.

Linley mastered the Bloodline Fusion Spell and learned about the Pact of Mindscape, while Irina returned home to warn her parents about the danger facing the British wizarding world. The chapter ended with Carolina asking Irina to explain why dark wizards might target their family.

• Linley mastered the Bloodline Fusion Spell, and Green began teaching him the Pact of Mindscape so he could form a Telepathic Connection with another wizard.
• Green told Linley to master the Pact of Mindscape within three days before they visited their grandmaster with Fred and George.
• Irina returned to the Lowell home using an Apparition Key and told Igor Lowell and Carolina Lowell that the British wizarding world was about to fall into chaos.
• Irina urged her parents to give up their jobs and avoid contact with the outside world until the danger passed.
• Carolina asked Irina what had happened and why dark wizards would target their family.

Irina persuaded Igor and Carolina to leave their home for Roer Castle so they would be safe from Voldemort's followers. After hiding the house with the Fidelius Charm, she went to Newt Scamander to study the Power of Space and strengthen herself.

• Irina explained her role in fighting Voldemort and why her parents needed protection.
• Igor and Carolina agreed to stay at Roer Castle with Rowena, and Irina brought them there with an Apparition Key.
• Irina used the Fidelius Charm to hide her childhood home, which she would no longer be able to enter while the spell remained in effect.
• Irina traveled to Newt Scamander's villa to learn more about the Power of Space and improve her strength.

Irina visited Newt to learn whether the Power of Space could be used offensively, but Newt explained that its destructive effects came from backlash and were difficult to wield directly. He brought her to a new research institute in his Pocket Dimension to begin studying Space Anchors, leaving them with the challenge of making anchored coordinates move with their carriers.

• Irina asked Newt how to use the Power of Space in combat, and he said it was too stable to turn easily into direct destructive force.
• Newt took Irina into his Pocket Dimension and showed her a research institute he had built for studying the Power of Space.
• Newt introduced his new project to anchor multiple spatial coordinates and let wizards teleport between them using portable objects.
• Irina suggested the names “Teleportation Anchors” and “Pocket Anchors,” and Newt adopted Pocket Anchors for the planned devices.
• Newt explained that making carriers and establishing connections would be straightforward, while anchoring coordinates that moved with their objects remained the main research problem.

Irina and Newt developed a plan to create a Space Anchor by compressing space until it gained substance. Newt taught Irina the Undetectable Shrinking Charm and asked her to use her greater magical power to continue the experiment on an island Nicolas had given him.

• Irina reasoned that reversing the Undetectable Extension Charm might compress space enough to create a movable spatial coordinate, and Newt agreed.
• Newt taught Irina the incantation and techniques for the Undetectable Shrinking Charm, which she successfully cast to compress about three cubic meters of space into one.
• Newt explained that he lacked the power to compress space until it gained substance and believed the task required at least Demon King level power.
• Irina reassured Newt that his theories and research were essential, and he entrusted her with compressing a suitable spatial coordinate.
• Newt told Irina they would conduct the experiment on an island Nicolas had given him and handed her his research notes.

Irina studied Newt’s research journal and used the Undetectable Shrinking Charm to compress the airspace above an island into a Spatial Cube. She stabilized its volatile Power of Space with Linley’s Universal Energy Stabilizer and continued compressing it, hoping it would condense a special mass tied to the spatial coordinate.

• Irina studied Newt’s research journal for three hours and deepened her understanding of the Undetectable Shrinking Charm.
• Newt took Irina to a desolate island, where she rose above its center and anchored the spatial coordinate.
• Irina compressed the space above the island into a roughly one-cubic-meter Spatial Cube while Newt used the Undetectable Extension Charm to fill the resulting gaps.
• Irina realized the Spatial Cube’s chaotic Power of Space could erupt with enough force to severely injure her.
• Irina activated Linley’s Universal Energy Stabilizer, whose Alchemy Formations calmed the Power of Space inside the Spatial Cube.
• Irina continued compressing the stabilized Spatial Cube and suspected it would soon condense a special mass belonging to the spatial coordinate.

Irina compressed the Spatial Cube into a mass-bearing Pure white cube, creating an independent spatial coordinate system that needed a stable container. Newt and Irina began planning the Pocket Anchor research, which Linley agreed to join in August.

• Irina pushed the Spatial Cube past its compression limit with her Undetectable Shrinking Charm, turning it into a visible Pure white cube with mass.
• Irina told Newt the cube would expand again unless a suitable carrier sealed its Power of Space, and said she could maintain it by reinforcing it daily.
• Newt proposed asking Linley to forge a container for the Space Anchor, and Irina invited him to join the Pocket Anchor research through the Two-way Mirror.
• Linley accepted but said he would join them in August after studying Bloodline Fusion Magic with his teacher and meeting his grandmaster.
• Newt and Irina planned to study anchoring space and linking anchored spaces, identifying the cube's coordinates as an independent system that used the cube as its origin.

Newt and Irina struggled to connect the Pure white cube’s spatial coordinates to Earth’s until Irina proposed using alchemy to convert coordinates instead of inventing a new spell. Linley responded with an Alchemy Formation design that could be applied directly to the Pocket Anchor.

• Newt explained that anchoring coordinates inside the Pure white cube alone would teleport a wizard into its compressed Spatial aggregate and crush them.
• Newt and Irina spent half a month testing syllable combinations for a new spatial spell but found no promising results.
• After Newt urged her to look at the problem from another angle, Irina proposed using alchemy to convert the cube’s coordinates into Earth’s coordinate system and set the destination one meter away.
• Irina contacted Linley through the Two-way Mirror and explained her coordinate-conversion idea and what she needed.
• Linley sent Irina an Alchemy Formation design, explaining that they could enchant the Pocket Anchor directly instead of making a separate alchemical creation.

Irina completed and tested the first Pocket Anchor prototype, then spent fifteen days helping Newt create fifteen prototypes by extracting space around the island. Meanwhile, Linley mastered Pact of Mindscape and brought Fred and George to meet Nicolas Flamel, who welcomed the twins and was touched by how they and Linley had helped one another succeed in alchemy.

• Irina crafted the coordinate-conversion Alchemy Formations on the Pure white cube and activated the Apparition Key herself, successfully testing the first Pocket Anchor.
• Newt and Irina made fifteen Pocket Anchor prototypes over the next half month by extracting space above the island and nearby sea.
• By July 20, Linley had mastered Pact of Mindscape after three days of practice.
• Green took Linley, Fred, and George by timed Portkey to Nicol Manor to meet Nicolas Flamel.
• Nicolas questioned Fred and George about alchemy, praised their instincts and ideas, and learned Linley had recommended them as Green's apprentices.
• Linley described how he and the Weasley twins had helped each other succeed in alchemy, moving Nicolas to tears.

Nicholas began teaching Linley three space-related Alchemy Formations, explaining their uses in defense, transportation, and warfare. He expected Linley to master all three within fifteen days before moving on to guide Fred and George.

• Nicholas arranged a villa for Fred and George and planned to teach Linley first, then guide the twins in August and September.
• Fred and George trained against powerful alchemical dummies at Nicol Manor while Nicholas taught Linley.
• Nicholas explained that the Space Expansion Formation reinforced and enlarged spaces more securely than the Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Nicholas described the Space Teleportation Formation as uninterruptible point-to-point travel between two coordinates and the Space Lockdown Formation as a powerful way to block spatial transportation.
• Nicholas said the contest between teleportation and lockdown formations depended on their creators' alchemical skill, and he expected Linley to master all three formations in fifteen days.

Linley studied the principles of three space-related Alchemy Formations and demonstrated his mastery by expanding the square training grounds to twice their size. Nicholas detected flaws in the formation and asked Linley to create it again so he could correct them.

• Linley spent ten days learning the Alchemy Runes and methods behind the Space Expansion, Space Teleportation, and Space Lockdown Formations.
• Nicholas took Linley to the training grounds, where Fred and George demonstrated their skill fighting dozens of alchemical dummies.
• Nicholas praised Fred and George, then asked Linley to expand the square training grounds to twice their original size.
• Linley created a Space Expansion Formation that doubled the grounds' area, impressing Fred and George with how seamless it appeared.
• Nicholas identified flaws in Linley's formation, erased it, and instructed Linley to create it again for corrections.

Linley practiced the Space Teleportation Formation and Space Lockdown Formation under Nicholas's exacting guidance, then went to Newt's villa, where Newt said he had arrived at just the right time. Newt brought out sixteen Pure white cubes containing Linley's Universal Energy Stabilizers.

• Nicholas had Linley craft the Space Expansion Formation forty-three times before approving it and assigning him to practice two more formations over five days.
• Linley perfected the Space Teleportation Formation and demonstrated it to Nicholas, who said only a Demon King-level alchemist could craft a Space Lockdown Formation capable of intercepting it.
• Linley practiced the Space Lockdown Formation for three days; although he could not make it flawless, Nicholas approved his progress because it could intercept teleportation and Apparition.
• Linley said goodbye to Nicholas and Green, used the Cross-border Apparition Key to reach Newt's villa, and greeted Irina and Newt.
• Newt brought out sixteen Pure white cubes, and Linley sensed that each contained one of his Universal Energy Stabilizers.

Linley, Newt, and Irina completed the Pocket Anchor’s prototype and Linley crafted its shell from alchemical materials. The sixteen finished chess-piece anchors now contained the Pure white cubes and bore golden activation switches.

• Irina told Linley that the Pocket Anchor prototype was ready and that the fifteen Pure white cubes had been linked; Linley used one cube to teleport beside another.
• Linley chose Goblin Mithril, Niffler feathers, and Unicorn horn powder to make the Pocket Anchor shells.
• Linley melted and fused the materials, added Alchemy Runes, and shaped the resulting substance into sixteen chess pieces.
• Irina tested a pawn and found that it absorbed the Power of Space.
• Linley refined the chess pieces with Alchemy Formations and merged the sixteen Pure white cubes into them.
• Linley added golden activation switches to the chess pieces, completing the Pocket Anchors.

Linley, Irina, and Newt completed sixteen Pocket Anchors and began distributing them to trusted allies. Linley gave pieces to Fred and George, Green, and Barty Crouch Sr., leaving the final gift poised for Barty to accept.

• Newt gave Linley the sixteen completed Pocket Anchors to safeguard and distribute, and Irina returned one to him as recognition of his work.
• Irina gave Newt a Pocket Anchor, while Linley and Irina exchanged the pieces representing the King and Queen.
• Linley gave Fred and George a Pocket Anchor represented by the Chariot after explaining how the devices worked.
• Linley gave Green a Pocket Anchor represented by the Bishop, and Green agreed to shelter Linley's companions if they needed help.
• Linley visited Barty Crouch Sr. at the Ministry of Magic and offered him a Pocket Anchor in recognition of his courage, loyalty, and ability.