Chapter Summaries

After defeating Voldemort’s remnant soul, Linley focused on strengthening his magic while Hogwarts prepared for the end-of-year feast. Dumbledore awarded Slytherin the House Cup, then gave Gryffindor points for Ron’s actions as the student heroes received praise.

• Linley decided to focus on improving his magical abilities before choosing how to deal with Voldemort or the Order of the Phoenix, then returned to the Slytherin dormitory to work on alchemy.
• Irina and Ron took Harry and Hermione to the infirmary; Hermione recovered quickly, while Harry remained unconscious for three days after Voldemort’s remnant soul affected him.
• Linley spent the days before the feast refining Mana Suppression Flame and planning an alchemical device to channel the Philosopher’s Stone’s power.
• Dumbledore announced that Slytherin won the House Cup with 572 points, far ahead of Ravenclaw in second place.
• Dumbledore awarded Gryffindor fifty points for Ron seeking a professor’s help, while Linley and Irina silently questioned the timing of that help.
• Hogwarts students celebrated Linley, Irina, Hermione, and Harry as heroes, and Gryffindors gave Irina snacks and desserts.

Dumbledore awarded points for the students’ actions against Voldemort, and Slytherin still won the House Cup. After leaving Hogwarts, Linley decided to reveal that he and Irina were both transmigrators, then told Rowena the truth about Hendry’s work as Dumbledore’s spy.

• Dumbledore awarded points to Hermione, Harry, Linley, and Irina, but Slytherin remained the House Cup winner.
• Linley and Irina enjoyed the end-of-year feast before the students left Hogwarts for the summer.
• At King's Cross Station, Linley watched Irina leave with a young-looking couple, then returned to Rohl Manor with Gael.
• Linley resolved to confirm Irina’s true identity at the start of the next school year and considered preparing her a gift.
• Linley told Rowena that Hendry had been Dumbledore’s spy rather than a true Death Eater, and Rowena mourned the truth she had learned too late.

Linley spent his holiday crafting an alchemical bracer designed to channel the Philosopher’s Stone. After completing it and naming it Demon God's Authority, he discovered that it let him wield the Stone’s immense magic and believed he could now fight Professor Green on equal terms.

• Linley spent three days and nights refining magical materials into a flexible, gold-and-crimson bracer base blank with an invisibility rune.
• After resting and replenishing his magic, Linley spent four more days inscribing more than a hundred concealed Alchemy Formations into the bracer.
• Linley tapped the bracer with his wand, opened its hidden recess, and fitted the Philosopher’s Stone inside.
• Linley named the completed device Demon God's Authority and felt the Philosopher’s Stone’s power flow through him.
• Linley concluded that he could now fight Professor Green without falling behind.

During a family trip to the Scandinavian Mountains, Irina used magic to explore a hidden part of the forest and discovered an unusual magical tree inhabited by Bowtruckles. The chapter left her facing the tree and its tiny creatures.

• Linley finished forging the Demon God's Authority and planned to rest before visiting his teacher in France to learn how to Conjure Alchemy Formations.
• Irina travelled to the Scandinavian Mountains with her parents, Igor and Carolina, for a seven-day trip.
• Irina used magic to make her parents faster and less tired, then led them through the mountains and into a forest.
• Irina realized her parents had been unconsciously avoiding a wizarding area protected by Muggle Repelling Charms, and guided them inside.
• Irina found a chilly magical tree in a clearing and spotted dozens of Bowtruckles on its branches.

In the Scandinavian Mountains, Irina encountered Bowtruckles guarding a strange magical tree and received a branch that felt perfectly suited to her as Wand material. One Bowtruckle chose to leave with her, revealed it could create ice crystals, and Irina named it Qing Nü.

• Irina recognized that the Bowtruckles guarded a magical tree whose branches might make Wand material, and fed them woodlice.
• A Bowtruckle offered Irina a branch, whose faint chill made her feel it was the Wand material best suited to her.
• As Irina prepared to leave, the Bowtruckle followed her, climbed onto her shoulder, and showed her that it could summon ice crystals.
• Irina suspected the Bowtruckle had developed an affinity for ice and named it Qing Nü.

After resting at Roer Castle, Linley flew alone to France to find Green, but discovered that armed hijackers had seized control of the plane. He disguised himself with magic and prepared to attack them.

• Irina’s family set off for home with Qing Nü, who ate five woodlice each day.
• Linley spent half a month resting with Rowena at Rohl Manor before deciding to travel to France by plane.
• Gael took Linley to London Airport, and Linley boarded the flight with his enchanted backpack.
• Linley spotted masked passengers carrying guns and hid in the restroom, where he transformed his appearance and made a mask and cloak.
• Six armed hijackers threatened the passengers and demanded that the cockpit crew change the plane’s route.
• Linley emerged in disguise and raised a Desert Eagle toward the hijacker by the cockpit door.

Linley killed the six bandits who hijacked his plane, concealed his identity, and reached Paris safely. After catching his Portkey just in time, he arrived at Green’s residence and greeted Teacher Green.

• Linley shot all six bandits, destroyed the cabin’s surveillance cameras, and returned to the restroom to remove his disguise.
• The passengers and crew discovered the dead bandits, and the pilots continued to Paris, where French police escorted everyone off the plane.
• Linley pretended to be a frightened young passenger and passed the police screening without suspicion.
• Linley hurried through Paris and grabbed the Portkey, a small plastic trash bin, just before it activated and transported him to Green’s residence.
• Linley knocked on Green’s door and greeted him as Teacher Green.

Linley showed Green the Demon God's Authority and declined to publish it, wary that its power could expose his use of the Philosopher's Stone and make him a target. Green approved of his caution and took him to a reinforced secret chamber to teach him how to conjure Alchemy Formations out of thin air.

• Linley visited Green and asked to learn how to conjure Alchemy Formations out of thin air.
• Linley showed Green the Demon God's Authority, and Green praised its combination of Spell Alchemy and Formation Alchemy.
• Green suggested Linley could publish a cheaper, weakened version of the device, but Linley refused to reveal its power for now.
• Green approved of Linley's caution and led him through a bedroom door into a reinforced secret chamber built with alchemy and the Undetectable Extension Charm.

Green taught Linley to create Alchemy Formations with a wand, without tools, and finally from thin air. After resting, Linley formed three floating Alchemy Formations and tested their firepower against Green, realizing his teacher was still far beyond him.

• Green taught Linley to draw Alchemy Formations on metal with magic from his wand, then guided him in creating them without any external tool.
• Linley learned to compress magic into solid threads and formed an Alchemy Rune in the air before exhaustion forced him to stop.
• After resting for two and a half days, Linley created Alchemy Formations from thin air with his bare hands and formed three that floated beside him.
• Green asked Linley to attack, and Linley's three formations fired volleys of golden beams toward him.
• Green instantly formed three matching Alchemy Formations that countered Linley's attack, leaving Linley aware of the gap between their abilities.

After returning to England, Linley met Irina and went with her to buy their Hogwarts supplies. At Flourish and Blotts, they refused to buy Gilderoy Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts books and heard him announce that he would teach at Hogwarts.

• Linley practiced conjuring Alchemy Formations with Green, then used Green’s Cross-border Portkey to return to England.
• Linley met Irina outside The Leaky Cauldron, and she invited him to shop with her and thanked him for shielding her Trace.
• Old Tom recognized Irina as the witch who had kicked his rubbish bin, and she apologized before he let the matter go.
• Linley and Irina reached Flourish and Blotts and decided not to buy Lockhart’s books.
• Lockhart used Harry to promote his autobiography and announced that he would become Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Irina helped end the fight between Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley in Flourish and Blotts, then showed Hagrid and the Weasleys her Bowtruckle, Qing Nü. At Ollivanders, she showed Mr. Ollivander a frost-giving magical branch and named the newly discovered tree species Ice Crystal Wood.

• Irina used a Separation Jinx to break up Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley's fight, sending Lucius crashing into a bookshelf.
• Lucius gave Ginny a shabby notebook, then left the shop with Draco while Hagrid led the others outside.
• Irina introduced Qing Nü, her mutated Bowtruckle, and explained that she would not discuss the creature's abilities in the street.
• Linley gave Irina her textbooks, and she declined Mrs. Weasley's invitation to visit The Burrow before heading to Ollivanders.
• Irina showed Mr. Ollivander the frost-giving branch Qing Nü had given her, and she named its previously unknown tree species Ice Crystal Wood.

Irina Lowell chose a dragon heartstring core for a wand made from Ice Crystal Wood, and its first burst of magic transformed Ollivanders Wand Shop into an ice palace. She bought the wand at a discounted price and left with a powerful new weapon.

• Irina chose dragon heartstring for her Ice Crystal Wood wand because she wanted its full power.
• Mr. Ollivander spent over five hours crafting the wand and completed a thirteen-and-a-quarter-inch, pliant wand.
• Irina tested the wand, unleashing enough cold magic to freeze Ollivanders Wand Shop and nearly turn Mr. Ollivander into an ice sculpture.
• Irina withdrew the ice with a thought, and Mr. Ollivander praised the wand as a perfect match for her.
• Mr. Ollivander offered the wand for 68 Galleons instead of 198, and Irina paid with money saved from Lockhart's textbook fees.

Linley and Irina returned to Hogwarts aboard the Express, where Irina remembered that Harry and Ron were missing and saw them flying alongside the train in the Flying Car. She used a Levitation Charm to pull Harry back into the car, leaving Hermione worried that the boys would be expelled.

• Linley spent the days before term practicing magic and alchemy, then made a magically protected wooden box with two combination locks.
• Linley boarded the Hogwarts Express and met Irina, Hermione, and the Weasley twins in the last compartment.
• Irina and Linley shared sweets and quietly joked about Lockhart while Hermione ate.
• Irina spotted Harry and Ron in the Flying Car and remembered she had forgotten to help them reach the train normally.
• Irina cast a Levitation Charm that pulled Harry back into the car, and she told Harry and Ron to fasten their seat belts.
• Hermione worried Harry and Ron would be expelled, but Irina reassured her that Professor Dumbledore would protect them.

Harry and Ron crashed the Flying Car into the Whomping Willow after Hogwarts’s protective magic disrupted it, then were thrown out when the car escaped. Snape caught them outside the Great Hall, while the Sorting Ceremony and feast began without them.

• Harry and Ron’s Flying Car lost control inside Hogwarts’s protective magic and crashed into the Whomping Willow, where the tree attacked it and broke Ron’s Wand.
• Linley watched the Whomping Willow batter the car as the young wizards entered Hogwarts.
• The Flying Car started, escaped the Whomping Willow, threw Harry, Ron, and their luggage out, and drove away.
• Harry and Ron watched the Sorting Ceremony through the Great Hall windows and noticed Snape’s seat was empty.
• Snape appeared behind Harry and Ron and took them away.
• The Sorting Ceremony ended and Dumbledore started the feast, while Irina made a worried Hermione eat.

After Ron received a Howler from his mother, Irina attended Herbology and discovered that Mandrakes became calm when she held them. She suspected she had an affinity for plants and magical creatures, while Qing Nü’s reaction supported her guess.

• Errol dropped into Hermione’s jug of milk with Ron’s Howler, and Mrs. Weasley’s furious message scolded Ron for stealing the car and endangering himself and Harry.
• Irina avoided Lockhart by entering the Third Greenhouse early, while he pulled Harry aside to lecture him.
• Professor Sprout taught the class to repot Mandrakes and warned that their cries could be dangerous.
• Irina noticed her Mandrake stayed quiet in her arms and that Hermione’s Mandrake also calmed when Irina held it.
• Qing Nü climbed out of Irina’s backpack, prompting Irina to suspect she had an affinity for flora and fauna.

Irina discovered her affinity for magical plants and then attended Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class with Hermione. When Lockhart graded Irina’s quiz about his life, her absurd answers enraged him.

• Irina planted a Mandrake while Hermione soothed the young Mandrake that struggled to get into its pot.
• After Herbology, Hermione hurried Irina back to the castle to clean up before Transfiguration, where Irina earned Gryffindor five points.
• Hermione dragged Irina to the front row for Lockhart’s class, where Irina admitted she had forgotten her textbook.
• Lockhart gave the class a quiz filled with questions about himself and singled out Irina’s paper while grading it.
• Lockhart read Irina’s bizarre answers aloud and grew furious when nearly all of them were wrong.

During Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, Irina and the other students faced a swarm of Cornish Pixies after Lockhart released them from their cage. Irina stopped the chaos with her newly developed Ice Domain spell, freezing the pixies and leaving the classroom bitterly cold.

• Lockhart mistakenly believed Irina was upset about losing his books and gave her a complete set after reading her answers aloud.
• Lockhart revealed a cage of Cornish Pixies and released them to demonstrate how students should defend themselves.
• The pixies wreaked havoc in the classroom, while Irina and Hermione repelled those that attacked them.
• A pixie snatched Lockhart’s wand before he could control the swarm, and Irina cast Ice Domain to freeze the pixies across the classroom.

Irina left Lockhart frozen in class, and his pride kept him trapped until Professor McGonagall freed him two hours later. The next day, Linley challenged Lockhart’s choice of textbooks in front of the class and exposed his plan to teach through staged performances.

• Irina cast Ice Domain without restricting its effect on Lockhart, then left with Hermione while Lockhart remained frozen in the classroom.
• Lockhart stayed frozen for two hours until Professor McGonagall used Finite Incantatem to free him, leaving him with a severe cold.
• Linley ignored Lockhart’s test and continued reading his alchemy book during class, explaining that he had not bought Lockhart’s novels.
• Linley questioned why Lockhart’s novels were used as Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks and suggested Lockhart was promoting his own books.
• Lockhart defended his teaching plan, but Linley asked whether his promised firsthand lessons meant performing stage plays, leaving Lockhart speechless.

Linley sent Irina an alchemical box as a final test of whether she was also a transmigrator. When Irina saw the Chinese characters “BJ Olympics” on it, she was visibly shocked.

• Lockhart avoided Linley after Linley exposed his plan to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts through performances based on his books.
• Linley returned to the Slytherin dormitory and prepared an alchemical box with two locks for Irina.
• Linley asked a Gryffindor girl to deliver the box to Irina, then went back to studying alchemy.
• Linley chose Ancient Runes as his only elective for his third year at Hogwarts, leaving himself more time to study alchemy.
• A Gryffindor girl gave the box to Irina in the common room, where Hermione, Harry, and Ron were present.
• Irina saw the five Chinese characters “BJ Olympics” on the box and turned pale with shock.

Irina realized Linley had revealed that he was a transmigrator and hesitantly opened the box he had given her. Reassured by his letter and the Felix Felicis pendant, she went to meet him in the abandoned classroom where the Mirror of Erised had been kept.

• Irina recognized the Chinese characters on Linley's box as proof that he, like her, came from the ancient East, and went to the dormitory to consider whether to open it.
• Irina solved the combination locks with the numbers 2008 and 2022, then found a Felix Felicis pendant and Linley's letter inviting her to meet after dinner.
• Irina put on the pendant and told Hermione that a friend had given it to her.
• Irina earned Gryffindor more than twenty points in afternoon classes, then finished dinner after discovering Linley had already left the Great Hall.
• Irina left Hermione, Harry, and Ron and arrived at the abandoned classroom, where the door stood open.