Chapter Summaries

Lynn helped Harry and Hermione get Norbert onto the rooftop, then watched them get caught by Filch. Later, he revealed the name of the plan he and Cedric and Ian were preparing: the Tom Capture Plan.

• Lynn helped Harry and Hermione lock Norbert in his crate and secretly followed them as they carried him to the rooftop.
• Filch caught Harry, Hermione, and Neville after they came down, costing Gryffindor 150 points and Slytherin 20 points.
• Lynn told Cedric and Ian that their improved Soul Sealing Curse was nearly mastered and promised to explain its purpose at noon.
• Hermione confronted Lynn about following her, and he teased her until she ran off in embarrassment.
• Lynn opened a package of disguising robes and voice changers, then announced that their plan was called the Tom Capture Plan.

Lynn revealed that their target was the fragmented soul of Tom Riddle, also known as Voldemort, attached to Professor Quirrell, and explained why he wanted to capture him with the improved Soul Sealing Curse. Cedric and Ian chose to join Lynn's dangerous plan, leaving the three of them committed to it.

• Lynn told Cedric and Ian that their target was Voldemort's spirit entity attached to Professor Quirrell.
• Lynn explained Quirrell's suspicious behavior and said Voldemort had once sought the Defense Against the Dark Arts position.
• Lynn said he could not simply tell the professors, that only he, Professor Foxx, Cedric, and Ian knew the improved curse, and that capturing Voldemort would help him win approval for a Hogwarts reform proposal.
• Lynn made clear that the plan could put them at risk, and Cedric agreed to proceed.
• Ian also agreed, and Lynn joked that all three were already aboard the same boat.

Lynn watched Quirrell try to capture a unicorn in the Forbidden Forest, where Centaurs interrupted him and forced him to flee. The unicorn died, and Lynn left convinced that Quirrell’s next visit would give him the chance he had been waiting for.

• Lynn followed Quirrell into the Forbidden Forest and watched him choose an adolescent unicorn as his target.
• Quirrell injured the unicorn with Explosion Curses, but Centaurs charged in before he could kill it.
• Quirrell fled as most of the Centaurs pursued him, while Firenze examined the unicorn and declared it could not be saved.
• Ronan urged the Centaurs to storm Hogwarts, but Firenze told them to inform Hagrid first.
• Lynn confirmed that Quirrell had not drunk the unicorn’s blood and decided to wait for his next visit to the forest.

Hermione, Harry, Neville, and Malfoy began their nighttime detention in the Forbidden Forest, where Hagrid explained that they were searching for an injured unicorn. Meanwhile, Lynn, Cedric, and Ian entered the forest in disguise to carry out the Tom Capture Plan.

• Hermione told Lynn she was worried about the late-night detention, and Lynn warned her to be careful wherever she went.
• Lynn, Cedric, and Ian confirmed that their plan would begin that night, and Lynn reassured them that nothing could happen to them yet.
• At eleven, Filch brought Hermione, Harry, Neville, and Malfoy to Hagrid at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
• Hagrid showed them unicorn blood and explained that they would split into groups to find the injured unicorn.
• Lynn, Cedric, and Ian slipped into the forest in black robes and confirmed their codenames: Jerry, Masol, and Taffy.

Jerry, Masol, and Taffy tracked Professor Quirrell into the Forbidden Forest, where Quirrell hunted an injured unicorn to sustain Voldemort. Jerry ambushed Quirrell before he could drink its blood, and Harry and Malfoy considered calling Hagrid for help as the duel continued.

• Jerry explained that Quirrell was hunting a unicorn because Voldemort was desperate to stay alive.
• Jerry, Masol, and Taffy found Quirrell pursuing a badly injured unicorn, while Harry and Malfoy watched nearby.
• Jerry cast an amplified Stunning Spell, knocking Quirrell away from the unicorn before he could drink its blood.
• Quirrell attacked Jerry with Killing Curses, but Jerry dodged them and countered with Explosion Curses.
• Harry suggested sending up sparks to summon Hagrid and the others, and Malfoy agreed.

Jerry and his companions trapped Voldemort with an improved Soul Sealing Curse after Jerry incapacitated Quirrell in the Forbidden Forest. Voldemort struggled against the shrinking barrier, and the chapter left his capture unresolved.

• Jerry blasted away Quirrell’s Shield Charm, severed his arm, and knocked him unconscious with a Stunning Spell.
• Hagrid arrived with Neville, Harry, and Hermione, ordered Neville and Malfoy to fetch the professors, and mistook Jerry for the unicorn’s killer.
• Harry told Hermione that Quirrell had killed the unicorn, while Hagrid demanded that Jerry reveal his identity.
• Black mist emerged from Quirrell and formed Voldemort, who cursed Jerry after Jerry addressed him as Tom.
• Jerry, Masol, and Taffy cast an improved Soul Sealing Curse that trapped Voldemort inside a shrinking barrier as he tried to escape.

Jerry captured Tom’s escaping black mist with an amplified Killing Curse, though he could not destroy him while the Horcruxes remained. The chapter ended with a frightened, childlike voice asking where the headmaster was, while the author’s closing note discussed readers’ complaints about pacing.

• Jerry told Hagrid that the black mist was Tom Riddle, and Hagrid recognized the name.
• Tom forced some of his mist out of the Soul Sealing Curse, leaving Masol and Taffy unsure how to stop him.
• Jerry used an amplified Killing Curse on the escaping mist, causing it to vanish while Tom’s trapped portion remained.
• Jerry drew the remaining sphere into his hand and heard a frightened, childish voice ask for the headmaster.

Lynn and his allies captured Voldemort, though the Soul Sealing Curse left them with an eight-year-old Tom Riddle instead. Dumbledore took Tom into his custody, and the group returned to Hogwarts after agreeing to keep the night’s events secret.

• Jerry realized the voice trapped inside the sphere belonged to the young Tom Riddle, while Hagrid, Harry, and Hermione learned that the group had captured Voldemort.
• Dumbledore appeared, explained that Voldemort was dead and Tom Riddle remained, then asked Lynn to hand Tom over.
• Dumbledore told everyone to keep the night’s events secret and invited Lynn to visit his office the next morning.
• Hermione confronted Lynn for hiding the dangerous plan, and Harry asked whether Quirrell had tried to steal the Philosopher’s Stone and whether Snape was involved.
• Lynn told Harry to ask Dumbledore about Snape, then celebrated the successful capture with Cedric and Ian as they entered Hogwarts.

Lynn revised a proposal for reforming Hogwarts and met Dumbledore to discuss the previous night’s events and his plans for the school. Their conversation ended with Lynn asking whether Dumbledore had once disguised himself as Professor Foxx to help Lynn recover his magic.

• Lynn revised his Hogwarts reform proposal, put it away, and went to bed.
• Professor McGonagall announced that Professor Quirrell had been sent to Azkaban and that the remaining Defense Against the Dark Arts classes were canceled.
• Lynn told Cedric and Ian that he had a more important matter to discuss with Dumbledore, but kept the details from them.
• Lynn met Dumbledore in his office and explained that he had expanded his spell research after discovering Quirrell’s secret and overhearing him speak with his master.
• Lynn asked Dumbledore whether he had been the Professor Foxx who accompanied him to Abros and helped him recover his magic.

Lynn confronted Dumbledore about his disguise as Professor Foxx and why he had concealed Lynn’s origins and the Saints’ beliefs. After explaining his reasons, Lynn presented his proposals for Hogwarts reforms, including ideological education for young wizards.

• Lynn explained how he had deduced that Dumbledore had disguised himself as Professor Foxx and asked why he had concealed the truth.
• Dumbledore said he had hoped Lynn would choose a safe life outside the wizarding world, then withheld information about the Saints to keep their beliefs from influencing him prematurely.
• Lynn said he wanted their conversation to establish mutual trust and presented Dumbledore with his proposals for Hogwarts reforms.
• Dumbledore read the proposals and asked Lynn to explain ideological education for underage wizards.
• Lynn described teaching students why actions such as using the slur “Mudblood” were wrong, rather than relying on punishment alone.

Lynn argued that Hogwarts’s unchanged system had fostered discrimination and conflict, making reform necessary to prevent another Dark Lord. Dumbledore agreed to support the reforms if Lynn met three conditions, the last of which was to visit the Soviet Union that summer.

• Lynn explained to Dumbledore how Hogwarts’s outdated system and the wizarding world’s social problems could produce future Dark Lords.
• Dumbledore read Lynn’s Hogwarts Reform Table and agreed to try his plans, offering support against the Board of Governors and the Ministry of Magic.
• Dumbledore required Lynn to proceed gradually and avoid pushing reforms before he had enough prestige.
• Lynn promised to ensure that no students died during the reforms.
• Dumbledore’s third condition was that Lynn go to the Soviet Union that summer.

Dumbledore asked Lynn to travel to Scotland, where his biological parents’ vault and their friend Yelena Shayk were, so he could witness the country’s dangerous reform crisis. Lynn agreed to visit, but insisted he would return as soon as he felt unsafe.

• Dumbledore told Lynn that Yelena Shayk had been his mother’s close friend and was safeguarding belongings left by his parents, including their Scottish Gringotts vault.
• Lynn learned that he had three vaults to inherit: the Foxx family vault, the Grindelwald family vault, and his biological parents’ vault in Scotland.
• Dumbledore explained that Scotland’s Ministry of Magic was undergoing dangerous reforms over racial discrimination, and war might break out.
• Dumbledore offered Lynn a Foxx feather so Foxx could retrieve him if he encountered danger in Scotland.
• Lynn questioned whether Dumbledore’s request was tied to his Hogwarts reform plans, then agreed to visit Scotland while reserving the right to return if he felt unsafe.

After Dumbledore confirmed that Tom retained only the memories and soul of his life before age eight, he decided Lynn should take responsibility for educating him. Lynn reluctantly accepted Tom’s sealed spirit and had to keep the weakening Soul Sealing Curse reinforced each day.

• Dumbledore told Lynn that Tom had lost all memories from after age eight and that his remaining soul contained only his childhood memories.
• Lynn reasoned that his Killing Curse had destroyed the portion of Tom containing Voldemort’s later memories, leaving little Tom alive inside the Soul Sealing Curse.
• Dumbledore asked Lynn to educate Tom, believing Lynn’s plans for Hogwarts made him the right person to give the child another chance.
• Lynn refused at first, but Dumbledore explained that only the spell’s original caster could reinforce the weakening Soul Sealing Curse.
• Lynn left the Headmaster’s office with Tom’s sealed spirit in his pocket and accepted the duty of guarding him.

After capturing Tom, Lynn kept him sealed and explained to Hermione why Dumbledore had prevented Harry from revealing the capture. Lynn finished his second year with top marks and a new permanent title, then arrived at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters to find Umr and Kira waiting for him.

• Lynn carried the sealed Tom through the corridor and told him to accept the truth about magic and wizards.
• In the library, Lynn warned Hermione that revealing Voldemort’s capture could put them in danger, and she understood Dumbledore’s protection.
• Lynn earned Outstanding in every final exam and received the permanent title Demon King Terminator.
• Lynn boarded the Hogwarts Express with Cedric, while Dumbledore sent Ian home to face his inheritance and promised he could continue at Hogwarts.
• At Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Hermione planned to leave with Lynn, but he spotted Umr and Kira waiting to greet him.

Five-year-old Sophia sneaked outside to play on a sunny day despite Kira locking her in, but the neighborhood children called her a monster and ran away. She returned home alone, planning to try explaining herself to them another time.

• Sophia tried to take steak from the refrigerator, but Kira's magic stopped her because she had already eaten her daily portion of meat.
• Sophia decided that going outside would count as exercise, turned into a hamster, and slipped through a crack in the window.
• Sophia found the children's lost ball and offered it to them, but they recognized her as the monster who had frightened Jack and fled.
• Sophia reassured herself that she was not a monster and resolved to return the ball and explain herself next time.
• Sophia went back through the window, hid the ball under her bed, and watched television alone.

Lynn prepared to travel to the Soviet Union, meeting Dumbledore at The Leaky Cauldron to receive a Ministry identity, contacts, and a way to escape danger. He planned to leave in three days, while Umr stayed behind to study and Tom slept through the private meeting.

• Lynn tested Umr on multiplication, then ordered her to copy the multiplication table while he went out.
• Lynn took Tom to a meeting at The Leaky Cauldron and asked Dumbledore to put him to sleep so he could not eavesdrop.
• Dumbledore gave Lynn an official identity under the name Hubert Anderson, an address for Ms. Yelena Shayk, and an introduction letter to a Soviet magical official.
• Dumbledore gave Lynn a feather from Fawkes that would summon the phoenix to rescue him from danger.
• Dumbledore explained Lynn’s route to the Soviet Union by Floo Powder, Portkey, and broomstick, and proposed that Lynn leave in three days.

Lynn traveled from Britain to a town near Moscow to contact his mother's friend, Yelena Shayk, using a false appearance and the name Hubert. He left the cabin near his destination as a raven and flew toward Moscow.

• Lynn learned details about his biological parents from Kira and told Hermione he would be away on a long journey.
• Lynn disguised himself as a haggard middle-aged man, used identification under the name Hubert, and traveled by Floo Powder from The Leaky Cauldron to John's Inn.
• Lynn gave the innkeeper the Order of the Phoenix password and requested a Portkey to a location near Moscow.
• The innkeeper warned Lynn that the Soviet wizarding world was in a bad state and gave him a Portkey that landed in an empty wooden cabin near Moscow.
• Lynn ignored the magical brooms in the cabin, transformed into a black raven, and flew toward Moscow.

Lynn arrived in Moscow and found Clyne Street tense and nearly deserted as Soviet Aurors searched for rebels. At a bar, he learned that Chur tribe wizards had recently attacked the Magical Committee headquarters, while he still had not found the inn listed on his note.

• Lynn entered Clyne Street by tapping the thirteenth birch tree on a Moscow street with his wand.
• Abram Ivanov and two other Soviet Aurors questioned Lynn and checked his British Ministry identification before warning him to avoid suspicious people.
• Lynn searched Clyne Street for the inn on his note but could not find it, so he went into a bar for ice water.
• Lynn paid the bearded bar owner for information and asked what had happened in the Soviet magical world.
• The bar owner told Lynn that Chur tribe wizards had tried to attack the Magical Committee headquarters two days earlier and that the Aurors were hunting the rebels still at large.

Lynn learned that Scotland’s magical world was in turmoil over long-standing ethnic oppression and a failed reform, with Aurors violently hunting insurgents. After finding the Iron Axe Inn sealed, he set aside his vault-transfer plans to seek Dumbledore’s contact, then spotted Yelena Shayk on Clyne Street.

• Lynn learned that Slovene wizards had historically enslaved minority groups and that nominal equality had failed to end discrimination.
• Minority wizards rebelled after the Scottish Ministry of Magic’s reform favored a small faction, and an insurgent assassination attempt had failed.
• The proprietor told Lynn that Aurors had been granted permission to use the Unforgivable Curses and had killed at least five insurgents.
• Lynn learned that the Iron Axe Inn was sealed after Aurors found an insurgent there, leaving his intended contact’s location uncertain.
• Lynn decided to seek the Magical Committee contact Dumbledore had given him instead of handling the vault transfer, then spotted Yelena Shayk.

Lynn followed Yelena Shayk and discovered her secretly helping children whose wizard parents had been arrested. Aurors surrounded Yelena under an arrest warrant issued by the Committee, and her accusation against Leonid Ivanov revealed a connection to Anna Lungard, Lynn’s biological mother.

• Lynn watched Yelena distribute bread and money to children whose parents had been arrested, while she urged them to hold on to hope.
• Lynn spotted Aurors disguised as passersby following Yelena and realized dozens of them were watching her.
• The Aurors surrounded Yelena, and Leonid Ivanov presented a Committee arrest warrant.
• Yelena accused Ivanov of killing Anna Lungard and her husband in Switzerland twelve years earlier, and Lynn recognized Anna as his biological mother.