Chapter Summaries

Lynn helped Leon and the Aurors capture every Death Eater involved in the plan to resurrect Voldemort, then returned to Hogwarts and told Dumbledore how the operation went. The Ministry prepared to try the captured Death Eaters and prominent pure-blood suspects, while the Aurors investigated Peter Pettigrew’s return from the dead.

• Several Aurors stunned Bellatrix, and Lynn confirmed that no Death Eaters escaped before Fawkes carried him back to Hogwarts.
• Lynn revealed himself to Dumbledore after using Dumbledore’s appearance during the operation, and admitted that he had cast a Killing Curse without killing anyone.
• Lynn told Dumbledore that Leon had captured all the Death Eaters and that Sirius Black would be able to clear his name at trial.
• Leon publicly credited secret intelligence and Dumbledore’s help for the successful ambush, while the Daily Prophet prepared reports on the arrests.
• The Aurors announced that several dozen prominent pure-blood family heads had been caught participating in the resurrection plan and that Peter Pettigrew had appeared among the Death Eaters.

After Leon captured the Death Eaters, the wizarding world debated Dumbledore’s use of Dark magic and awaited the prisoners’ trials. Fudge revoked the Aurors’ temporary authorization to use Dark magic, while the trials sent Malfoy and others to life imprisonment and exposed Peter’s crimes.

• The Daily Prophet’s report made Leon a celebrated figure and sparked debate over Dumbledore’s use of Dark magic.
• Leon and several Saints spent the night altering the Death Eaters’ memories of Tom before Leon returned to the Ministry.
• Fudge summoned Leon and revoked the Aurors’ temporary authorization to use Dark magic because he feared Leon and Dumbledore might threaten his position.
• The escaped Death Eaters, including Bellatrix, were sent back to Azkaban, while Malfoy and the others admitted their activities and received life sentences.
• Peter confessed to being a Death Eater and framing Sirius Black, exposing the Ministry’s wrongful conviction of an innocent man.

Sirius Black learned that the Ministry had quietly withdrawn the charges against him and hurried home, where he found the Black family home ransacked. Old John brought the missing Barty Crouch Jr. to Barty Crouch Sr., whose reaction to his son’s strange behavior was left unresolved.

• Fudge refused to publicly apologize to Sirius Black, but the Ministry withdrew his arrest warrants after Peter was sentenced to the Dementor’s Kiss.
• Sirius Black confirmed with Dumbledore that he was no longer wanted, showed himself in Diagon Alley, and wrote to Harry Potter about living together that summer.
• Sirius Black returned to the Black family home and found it in disarray, with Kreacher motionless and his mother’s portrait blasted apart.
• Barty Crouch Sr. worried that his missing son would expose his secret after Barty Crouch Jr. escaped the Imperius Curse and failed to appear among the captured Death Eaters.
• Old John brought a black-robed figure to Barty Crouch Sr.’s home and revealed that the figure was Barty Crouch Jr., whose behavior seemed strange.

Old John restored Barty Crouch Jr. to a childlike state by erasing his memories and sought Barty Crouch Sr.'s friendship in exchange for help with the Ministry. After Harry learned that Lynn had helped clear Sirius's name and expose Pettigrew, he went to find Lynn and thank him.

• Old John revealed that he had erased Barty Crouch Jr.'s memories after age eight, and Barty Crouch Sr. sent his son upstairs with Winky.
• Old John explained that he had rescued Barty Crouch Jr. through his connection to Leon and asked Barty Crouch Sr. for his personal friendship, offering candidates to help with the Quidditch World Cup workload.
• News of the Death Eaters' capture and Peter Pettigrew's confession spread through Hogwarts, and Harry learned from Sirius that his wanted notice had been lifted.
• Harry visited Dumbledore to thank him, but Dumbledore told Harry, Ron, and Hermione to thank Lynn instead and keep the matter secret.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione left Dumbledore's office with sunflower seeds, and Hermione said Lynn was likely in the Student Council office.

Lynn destroyed two Horcruxes, reassured Tom about her future, and concealed his role in the Death Eaters’ arrests from Harry, Ron, and Hermione. After they left, an owl from Old John brought Lynn a stack of developed photographs.

• Lynn told Tom that the Death Eater threat had been handled and encouraged her to make friends and find her own direction.
• Lynn destroyed Slytherin’s locket and Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup with the Sword of Gryffindor, leaving the Resurrection Stone ring and Harry as the remaining Horcruxes.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione confronted Lynn about the Death Eaters’ arrests, and Hermione recognized his habit of blinking when he made excuses.
• Lynn indirectly admitted his involvement, asked the three to keep it secret, and told Harry that Tom had helped in ways he could not explain.
• An owl Lynn used to contact Old John arrived with a thick stack of envelopes containing developed photographs treated with magical potion.

Lynn showed Snape photographs of Harry beating Sirius, then spent the end of term wrestling with whether to meet his great-uncle Gellert Grindelwald. Hogwarts’s exams concluded, and Dumbledore’s blessing sent Lynn into his fourth-year summer holiday.

• Lynn brought Snape photographs of Harry confronting and beating Sirius, and Snape secretly kept them, lingering over a picture of Harry grieving for his parents.
• Lynn recalled that Dumbledore had brought word from Nurmengard: Gellert Grindelwald wanted to meet him that summer, leaving Lynn conflicted about agreeing.
• As final exams approached, Harry and Ron studied diligently and asked Hermione for help, while students preparing for major examinations worked hard in the library.
• The Ministry’s Educational Examinations Authority set, supervised, and marked Hogwarts’s exams, with results postponed until after the summer holiday.
• Dumbledore gave Lynn his blessing at the leaving feast, and Lynn began his summer holiday.

Hermione enjoyed a busy day at the Ministry while thinking affectionately of her husband and their three children. When she returned home, Umr told her that her father had come back with a pretty aunt.

• Hermione worked through Ministry documents while Parvati teased her about her husband and their marriage.
• Seamus told Hermione he had seen the Minister walking arm in arm with a beautiful witch, but Hermione dismissed his suspicions.
• Hermione went home early and found Harry and Ron arguing over a game while Umr waited to eat the cake.
• Umr told Hermione that her father had returned that afternoon and brought a pretty aunt with him.

Hermione dreamed that she caught Lynn with another woman, only to discover the woman was his aunt helping prepare an anniversary surprise. The dream ended when Hermione woke on a rain-soaked Quidditch pitch and realized none of it had happened.

• Umr told Hermione that Lynn had brought a beautiful woman home and gone with her to the upstairs bedroom.
• Hermione overheard Lynn and the woman discussing his wife, believed he had betrayed her, and prepared to confront them and seek a divorce.
• Hermione unlocked the bedroom and found Lynn and Yelena holding decorations for her and Lynn’s tenth wedding anniversary.
• Lynn explained that Yelena was his aunt and had helped prepare a surprise, and Hermione joined them for dinner.
• Hermione later asked Lynn for another child, but the scene dissolved into cold rain on the Quidditch pitch as she woke from the dream.

In Massachusetts, Tina Piquery visited a blindfolded wizard at Ilvermorny to ask whether the Enforcement Department’s plan would succeed. He warned that the future he foresaw was unfavorable for the Congress, but Piquery left determined to make his prophecy come to nothing.

• Tina Piquery met with a blindfolded wizard in his cramped office at Ilvermorny and asked whether he could see the outcome of the Enforcement Department’s plan.
• The wizard explained that prophecies were like sweaters whose strands could be changed, especially when a prophecy was revealed to those who might act on it.
• He recalled how Voldemort’s knowledge of the prophecy about his death may have helped shape its fulfillment, and said he could not know whether his own prophecies would come true.
• Piquery asked whether the Congress would fare well if it acted after hearing his prophecy, and the wizard said the future he saw was not ideal for it.
• Piquery declared that the Congress would turn his prophecy into scrap and left, while the wizard wondered why she sought his advice if she did not believe in fate.

Lynn took Umr and Hermione on a riverside summer outing, where they fished, grilled lunch, and enjoyed a magical dessert. After returning home, Lynn prepared for the next day’s meeting with Dumbledore’s great-uncle.

• Lynn, Hermione, Umr, and Kira went to a riverside near a rural town for a summer outing.
• Umr abandoned fishing to catch frogs and tease the fish while Lynn and Kira caught fish and Hermione prepared the grill.
• Lynn used wandless magic to light the charcoal and warned Hermione and Umr not to use magic outside school.
• Lynn enchanted a lettuce leaf to taste like strawberry pudding, delighting Umr, who tried to learn how he did it.
• Lynn returned home and considered which robes to wear for his meeting with Dumbledore’s great-uncle the next day.

Lynn shared breakfast with Professor Dumbledore and Umr before traveling with Dumbledore to Nurmengard in Austria. There, Lynn entered Grindelwald’s cell alone and heard him say, “You came.”

• Professor Dumbledore arrived at Lynn’s home and joined Lynn and Umr for breakfast, costing Umr one basket of soup dumplings.
• After breakfast, Lynn left Kira and Umr to watch the house and traveled with Professor Dumbledore to a forest in Austria.
• Lynn and Professor Dumbledore walked through the forest to Nurmengard, where Dumbledore explained its history and promised to put Lynn on the Apparition training list.
• Professor Dumbledore stopped outside Grindelwald’s room and told Lynn that Grindelwald wanted to speak with him alone.
• Lynn entered Grindelwald’s cell, and the old prisoner greeted him with, “You came.”

Lynn met Grindelwald, who revealed that he knew about Lynn’s previous life and challenged his belief that he had taken over another boy’s body. The chapter left Lynn facing the possibility that he had instead awakened memories from a previous life as Lynn Belloc.

• Lynn greeted Grindelwald as his great-granduncle and learned that Grindelwald had chosen the surname Belloc because he despised the family’s former name, Lunjade.
• Grindelwald pointed out that Lynn Belloc sounded like Lin Beiluo, the name Lynn had used in his previous life, startling Lynn with proof that he knew his secret.
• Grindelwald assured Lynn that he could not read his mind and said he would explain how he knew about Lin Beiluo.
• Grindelwald recalled that Lynn had assumed his parents were Muggles and believed his soul had taken over Lynn Belloc’s body after gaining past-life memories at age three.
• Grindelwald asked Lynn to consider that he might instead have awakened memories of a previous life.

Lynn learned that Grindelwald’s prophecy had revealed Lynn’s previous life and helped him understand that he had been reincarnated into his own family line. Grindelwald explained that he had sought to guide Lynn because he recognized his abilities and wanted to see how far his future could go.

• Lynn questioned why Grindelwald knew so much about him and asked whether his soul had crossed over or been reincarnated.
• Grindelwald said his prophetic gift had awakened when Kira brought Lynn to him, letting him glimpse Lynn’s previous life and part of his current one.
• Lynn realized his parents had been his biological parents and that Grindelwald was genuinely related to him by blood.
• Lynn asked whether Grindelwald was truly his great-granduncle, and Grindelwald confirmed their connection while saying he valued recognition more than blood ties.
• Grindelwald explained that he had asked Albus to bring Lynn to him so he could guide Lynn and see how far his future could go.

Grindelwald warned Lynn that Professor Foxx’s belongings in Iceland would be immensely useful, and urged him to retrieve them soon. Lynn traveled to Iceland and found Foxx’s hidden laboratory, leaving the story just as he prepared to enter it.

• Grindelwald reminded Lynn that Professor Foxx had left him a magical laboratory in Iceland and warned that its contents would be useful.
• Grindelwald told Lynn he would remain in Nurmengard because of a promise to Albus, while welcoming Lynn to visit him again.
• Dumbledore agreed that Lynn could visit Grindelwald whenever he wished and recommended that he do so.
• Lynn arranged with Leon to travel to Iceland through the International Floo Network because Kira could not take him there directly.
• Lynn followed Professor Foxx’s address to a laboratory disguised as an ordinary Muggle home.

Lynn entered Professor Foxx's abandoned laboratory in Eyrarbakki and followed the recorded instructions to reach its hidden room. He awakened a talking teapot, teacup, and spoon, which offered to share everything they knew.

• Lynn opened Professor Foxx's house and cleaned away years of dust before paying his respects to a photograph of Foxx and his five research companions.
• Lynn turned on the kitchen faucet and read five names to a portrait of an old witch, then answered her question with the required phrase.
• A hidden door appeared, and Lynn entered a vast room filled with books and parchment, where a teapot, teacup, and spoon sat on a table.
• Lynn asked the objects to sing, and they performed a birthday song before asking what year it was.
• Lynn told the objects it was 1995, and the teapot offered to share everything they knew, either orally or in writing.

Lynn brought an awakened teapot, teacup, and spoon home, where they produced books containing Professor Foxx and his colleagues’ research into black magic that could be cast without emotion. He began studying the demanding spells and arranged to meet Professor Foxx at the upcoming Quidditch World Cup.

• Lynn invited the teapot, teacup, and spoon to come home with him, and they agreed after he promised tea, cups, and a tray.
• Lynn searched the laboratory, took several books and parchments written in Ancient Runes, and returned home with the tea set.
• Lynn fulfilled the tea set’s requests, and the three pieces used ink to produce books documenting Professor Foxx and his colleagues’ emotionless black magic research.
• Lynn realized he lacked the Ancient Runes knowledge needed to learn the modified spells, so he planned to study them over the summer and correspond with Professor Foxx.
• Lynn arranged to meet Professor Foxx at the Quidditch World Cup and distributed tickets he had received through Leon; Umr eagerly looked forward to the tournament.

Lynn, Umr, and Hermione set out for the Quidditch World Cup with the help of Auror Jack Williamson. They reached a Portkey site outside London and prepared to travel to the venue.

• Umr got up early, excited for the Quidditch World Cup, while Lynn teased her about her sleep schedule.
• Hermione arrived and chose to travel with Lynn and Umr rather than the Weasley family.
• Jack Williamson arrived late and explained that Leon had asked him to escort them to the World Cup venue.
• Jack took Lynn, Hermione, and Umr by Apparition to a hill outside London, where they met two wizards and found a glass bottle Portkey.
• Jack counted down, and the group prepared to touch the bottle together.

Lynn, Hermione, and Umr arrived by Portkey at the campsite for the Quidditch match and learned that the Muggle caretaker had been badly affected by repeated memory charms. The chapter left Lynn questioning why the Ministry had placed a Muggle in such an important role.

• Umr and Hermione experienced their first Portkey trip with Lynn and landed in a misty swamp.
• Jack brought Lynn, Hermione, and Umr to the campsite entrance, where Balz directed them to Campsite Three near the Weasley family.
• Jack left after telling Lynn to ask the Muggle caretaker Roberts for their tent.
• Lynn approached Roberts, but the caretaker seemed dazed, and a wizard said Roberts needed to be taken to St. Mungo's for examination.
• The wizard explained that Mr. Balman had hired Roberts after promising him a large sum of Muggle money.

Lynn, Hermione, and Umr arrived at the campsite for the Quidditch final and found their tent beside the Weasley family’s. After settling in and meeting Harry and Ron, Umr proposed dyeing their tent green to support Ireland.

• A Ministry wizard took Roberts to St. Mungo’s, while Mrs. Roberts argued that his injury should count as a workplace accident.
• Lynn warned Hermione to avoid the wizards secretly using magic, and the group passed several mishaps involving young children and magic.
• Lynn, Hermione, and Umr met Harry and Ron, who led them to the Weasley family’s campsite.
• The Weasleys welcomed Lynn’s group, and George and Fred helped them set up their unusually spacious tent.
• Hermione went to teach Mr. Weasley how to use matches, while Umr bonded with Harry and Ron over Quidditch.
• Umr suggested dyeing their tent green to support the Irish team.

Lynn advised Fred and George to bet that Ireland would win while Bulgaria caught the Golden Snitch, then encountered Adrian Foxx at the campsite. Foxx handed Lynn a black suitcase and told him to open it if he had not made contact by the night the match ended.

• Lynn told Fred and George to bet on Ireland winning and Bulgaria catching the Golden Snitch, and gave them five hundred Galleons for his wager.
• Lynn stopped Umr from turning the tent green before leaving to stroll around the campsite.
• Lynn saw a Ministry wizard arguing with an elderly wizard named Archie about wearing trousers instead of a floral nightgown.
• Lynn met Adrian Foxx, who said unexpected trouble would keep him from watching the World Cup and that he hoped to return safely after the match.
• Foxx gave Lynn a black suitcase and told him to open it if Foxx had not contacted him by the night the match ended.