Chapter Summaries

Adam told the Hogwarts Founders that Tom Riddle had murdered Hepzibah Smith and taken Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup and Slytherin’s locket, then revealed that Slytherin’s future self had left a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. The Founders learned that the past could not simply be changed, though Adam warned that time’s self-correction had limits.

• Adam explained that Merope had pawned Slytherin’s locket and that Tom Riddle later murdered Hepzibah Smith to take the locket and Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup.
• Adam said Tom Riddle had awakened Slytherin’s basilisk to purge non-pure-blood wizards, shocking the Founders and prompting Slytherin to deny responsibility.
• Adam produced a basilisk, which recognized Slytherin as its Old Master, and Slytherin admitted that his future self might have created it.
• Ravenclaw questioned how the basilisk could exist if Slytherin swore not to create it, and Adam explained that time’s self-correcting ability meant changes to the past were already part of the future person’s history.
• Adam warned that time might fail to correct itself if someone’s influence on the past became too great, giving the example of killing one’s grandfather before he had children.

Adam explained the dangers of conflicting timelines and parallel worlds, then asked the four Founders to travel two thousand years into the future and help Hogwarts advance magical research and education. After they agreed, he began recounting Tom Riddle’s crimes, ending with Ravenclaw striking Slytherin over Riddle’s theft of her diadem.

• Adam explained how magical timelines could resist or override one another, then introduced the concept of parallel worlds and reassured the Founders that they would not affect the future.
• Adam asked the Founders to travel two thousand years ahead and help Hogwarts develop its teaching and research, and Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff agreed readily.
• Slytherin worried that future wizards would blame him for Voldemort, but Adam reassured him, and Slytherin agreed to go with the others.
• Slytherin realized Adam had read his unspoken thoughts, and Adam said mind-reading was a basic qualification for a Hogwarts headmaster.
• Adam described how Tom Riddle made Horcruxes from a diary, a Gaunt family ring, and Ravenclaw’s diadem, and Ravenclaw struck Slytherin when she heard how Riddle had deceived her daughter.

Adam explained how Tom Riddle turned Slytherin’s locket and Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup into Horcruxes, then sent the four founders into the future. He tried to find Merlin but received a message refusing to meet, and left resolved to advance his own power to unify his timeline.

• Ravenclaw kicked Slytherin after learning what Tom Riddle had done to her daughter, while Hufflepuff and Gryffindor calmed her down.
• Adam explained that Tom Riddle had targeted Hepzibah Smith to reclaim Slytherin’s locket and steal Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup, then made both treasures into Horcruxes.
• Slytherin condemned Tom Riddle’s use of Horcruxes, and Adam sent the four founders two thousand years into the future for Regulus to guide.
• Adam received a parchment from Merlin refusing to meet him and left without seeking him out.
• Adam decided he should work toward unifying his own timeline, while a young wizard wondered whether Merlin had been referring to him.

Black-haired Merlin questioned white-haired Merlin about Adam’s extraordinary magic and learned that Adam might alter fixed history, prompting him to ask for another favor. Adam then visited Regulus, who angrily confronted him after receiving a group of ancient arrivals from before the Common Era.

• Black-haired Merlin asked white-haired Merlin why Adam possessed such powerful magic and whether he had seen Adam in his future.
• White-haired Merlin said Adam’s status could rise further and thanked black-haired Merlin for helping him.
• Black-haired Merlin asked for another favor on Bu Bai’s behalf, and white-haired Merlin was caught off guard.
• Adam reviewed the people he had brought from the past and planned to place many of them in Hogwarts to advance British magical research.
• Adam visited Regulus half a month after sending the arrivals, and Regulus lunged at him, complaining that he was only an ordinary wizard and had received people from before the Common Era.

Adam returned to find that the ancient wizards had adapted to the modern world far more enthusiastically than Regulus could handle. He discovered Slytherin and Gryffindor partying at a club with Draco, who explained that the Malfoy Family was helping them claim their identities as the founders’ descendants.

• The Hanging Gardens wizards repeatedly cast memory-extraction spells on Regulus to overcome language barriers, while the visiting ancients bombarded him with questions he could not answer.
• Slytherin beat Regulus for slacking off, and Regulus told Adam that the old wizards were in Hogsmeade and that he should see their situation for himself.
• Adam arrived at Nightingale and found Slytherin and Gryffindor dancing on a table and spraying champagne, with Draco helping supply the drinks.
• Adam pulled Draco away and asked what was happening, and Draco explained that the two founders had visited his father and were establishing themselves as Slytherin and Gryffindor’s descendants.
• Adam accepted that the Malfoy Family and the founders were mutually benefiting from the arrangement and let them make their own lives in the future.

Adam visited Dreamy Dessert Workshop and found Ravenclaw enjoying modern food and films. Ravenclaw praised the world two thousand years later and revealed her eclectic interest in movies, while Hufflepuff remained the only founder who matched Adam’s expectations.

• Adam left Regulus at the Nightingale and headed to Dreamy Dessert Workshop after learning where the others usually spent their time.
• Adam saw elderly wizards marveling at the five-floor dessert shop and reflected on his plan to use a dessert-themed amusement park to help Muggles accept wizards.
• Adam found Ravenclaw eating a cream puff, and she praised how wonderful the modern world had become.
• Ravenclaw told Adam that Helga had recommended the dessert shop and listed films she had enjoyed, including Titanic and The Intouchables.
• Ravenclaw mentioned Malèna, Bitter Moon, and several horror films, surprising Adam with her tastes and leaving him to conclude that Hufflepuff was the only founder who matched his expectations.

Adam and the others discussed turning the Hanging Gardens into the Human Alliance headquarters while they waited for permission to enter Hogwarts. They began planning new facilities around its main hall, leaving the renovations in progress.

• Adam found Gongshu Ban and the others enjoying Nightingale's club before calling them back to business.
• Gryffindor asked when they could enter Hogwarts, and Adam said they would first settle and renovate the Hanging Gardens.
• Adam showed the group a model of the Hanging Gardens and proposed removing the residential areas and adding headquarters facilities and flagpoles.
• A wizard from the Hanging Gardens explained that the main hall's special mineral could not be renovated, so Adam planned to keep it for living quarters and research.
• The wizards discussed building around the main hall while preserving the waterway network, and one proposed using the Undetectable Extension Charm to expand the convention hall.

Adam showed the wizards the Hanging Gardens in geosynchronous orbit and explained its defenses, weapons, and Portkey system. He used Ancient Magic to raise buildings there, then announced that the Human Alliance headquarters was provisionally complete and summoned Eugene and the others to discuss contingency plans.

• Adam brought the wizards to the Hanging Gardens in orbit and showed them Muggle satellites and a space station as he argued for ending the Statute of Secrecy.
• Adam explained that the Gardens could evade outside surveillance, maintain an Earth-like environment, and strike locations around the globe with Clay Tablets.
• Gongshu Ban urged everyone to start building, but Adam raised a cluster of buildings with Ancient Magic and left the finishing work to other wizards.
• Adam gave the wizards user-bound Portkey badges and demonstrated the Gardens' defenses by turning an old hen into steaming beggar's chicken with lightning.
• Adam invited those who wanted to visit Hogwarts to gather with him and messaged Eugene and the others that the Human Alliance headquarters was ready for a meeting.

Adam led The Founders and visitors from the Hanging Gardens on a tour of Hogwarts, showing them the entrance, Black Lake, boathouse, and Great Hall. The group learned about changes to student life and the Forbidden Forest, while Ravenclaw focused on reaching the castle where her daughter Helena was.

• Adam brought the visitors to Hogwarts’ main gate and explained how students’ route into the school had changed over the past century.
• The group crossed the Black Lake by boat, where Hufflepuff and Gryffindor reflected on Hogwarts’ past and Gryffindor expressed interest in Quidditch.
• Ravenclaw urged the group to focus on the castle because her daughter Helena Ravenclaw was there.
• Adam explained the Forbidden Forest’s history and promised to show the visitors the forest and greenhouses after the castle tour.
• Adam led everyone through a side gate to the Great Hall and explained the Sorting Ceremony, House-elves, and food supplied by the Storm Restaurant.
• Outside Hogwarts’ walls, Merlin found that he could not get in.

Adam guided a group of historical Hogwarts wizards through the castle, answering their questions and helping one wizard search for a door he had damaged as a student. The search led to the Room of Requirement, where the group discovered that summoning the old door panel brought a dangerous cascade of objects crashing toward them.

• Adam gave the tour group a history of Hogwarts and explained where its classrooms and offices were, while Peverell asked about the Potions classroom.
• Ravenclaw learned from Fat Friar that the Grey Lady had been seen on the second floor and went to look for her.
• A wizard told Adam that he had once blasted a hole in a classroom door and hoped the original door might still exist.
• Adam led the wizard to the Room of Requirement and explained how to summon its room for hiding objects.
• The wizard shouted, "Door panel, come!" and many objects crashed together, prompting the group to cast protective armor spells.

After the Room of Requirement research, Adam learned that Hogwarts had been surrounded by a magically created sea of flowers. He left Professor Dumbledore to guide the visiting founders and historical wizards, then questioned Kero and Suppi before heading to the gates to discover who was responsible.

• The wizards studied the Room of Requirement, and the group who had been knocked down earlier finished venting their frustrations.
• Adam received Regulus's message that Hogwarts had suddenly been surrounded by a sea of flowers, then checked his Adam Card and suspected Kero and Suppi.
• Adam brought Professor Dumbledore to meet Gryffindor and the other visitors, asking him to guide them around the school history exhibition hall.
• Professor Dumbledore learned that Godric Gryffindor and the other founders were at Hogwarts, then watched Adam leave to investigate the flowers.
• Kero and Suppi denied creating the sea of flowers, and Adam headed for Hogwarts's gates to rewind time and identify who had done it.

Adam encountered Cath Palug, who transformed into the white-haired Merlin, and attacked him with the Wand of Darkness before learning that Merlin claimed to have been sent to help. Adam suspected Merlin the Magician had dispatched his counterpart, but the visitor began spinning an elaborate story about guiding him.

• Adam recognized the talking Fou as the dangerous Cath Palug and struck with the Wand of Darkness.
• Merlin dodged Adam’s attack and discovered that the wand made his magical energy disappear.
• Merlin introduced himself as a familiar sent by Merlin the Magician to help Adam.
• Adam reasoned that Merlin the Magician had likely sent the white-haired Merlin from another world.
• Merlin claimed he had come to guide Adam because Adam’s actions benefited humanity, and Adam wondered if this was how he had guided Artoria.

Adam recruited Merlin to survey the world and report conflicts that could cause heavy casualties, then returned to Hogwarts as Professor Dumbledore showed historical visitors the school exhibition. The chapter left Dumbledore escorting the visitors to dinner after missing Ariana’s Quidditch match.

• Adam asked Merlin whether he could monitor the world for dangerous conflicts, and Merlin agreed to do so.
• Adam recorded Merlin’s enthusiastic promise to help, intending to show it to Daimao Wang later.
• Merlin left to prepare his surveillance, and Adam dispelled the magic around Hogwarts before returning inside.
• Adam joined Professor Dumbledore’s tour of the history exhibition, where Gryffindor asked about the Triwizard Tournament’s third-task rule.
• Professor Dumbledore finished escorting the visitors to the Great Hall, lamenting that he had missed Ariana’s match.

Adam prepared the Human Alliance for its upcoming Department of Higher Education and meeting, then used The Love and The Very Card to coax Merlin into revealing information. Merlin realized that Adam’s subtle magic might be influencing his thoughts but could not tell how deeply it had affected him.

• Adam handed the wizards recruited for the Department of Higher Education to Professor Dumbledore and persuaded him to take charge of getting them ready.
• Adam gave visiting representatives Human Alliance badge Portkeys and helped address the group’s language barriers before their meeting.
• Adam called Merlin with false information to make him hurry, and Merlin finished his task more than a month early.
• Adam praised Merlin’s hard work and asked whether he had signed a proper contract with Merlin.
• Merlin suspected Adam’s covert magic was influencing his thoughts, while Adam secretly turned The Love and The Very Card up to maximum power.

Adam tested Merlin, then assigned him to reinforce the Hanging Gardens. After Eugene finished a preliminary proposal, Adam nearly announced the abolition of the Statute of Secrecy before Eugene stopped him and summoned him to talk in person.

• Adam tested Merlin's abilities and asked him to reinforce the Hanging Gardens.
• Eugene told the work group that the preliminary proposal was complete, and Adam immediately sent out an announcement about abolishing the Statute of Secrecy.
• Eugene warned Adam to recall the announcement, so Adam used Time Stop to intercept the recipients before it could cause trouble.
• Eugene summoned Adam to the Hanging Gardens, where Adam showed him a globe that displayed armed conflicts around the world.
• Adam revealed that the globe's conflict display was so bright he had hidden it from everyone else, and its light blinded Eugene and then Bernard.

Klon ignored Adam’s warning and looked at the intensely bright Earth, joining Eugene and Bernard in needing heated eye masks. As the three rested, their hunger led to a quarrel over rice balls and hotpot, and Uther took them to their bedroom.

• Klon insisted on looking at the bright Earth and joined Eugene and Bernard in wearing heated eye masks after it hurt his eyes.
• Uther described reading a large red book about testing truth through practice, and Adam realized it was propaganda material.
• Adam teased Klon by claiming the iron railings in the northeast were sweet, and Klon asked whether he could try them.
• Bernard asked when dinner would be, and Eugene, Bernard, and Klon requested different fillings for rice balls.
• Adam let Uther take the three masked men to their bedroom while he and Uther planned to eat nine-compartment hotpot.
• Eugene, Bernard, and Klon protested when Uther said the hotpot was poisonous and led them away.

Adam and the leaders of the Human Alliance reviewed their preparations for abolishing the Statute of Secrecy, while Eugene worried about the risks of their unprecedented undertaking. Adam claimed he alone would bear the consequences, but his friends rejected his attempt to exclude them, and he warned that rules could never prevent human evil.

• Adam memorized the contingency plan while the others completed the Human Alliance’s regulations and procedures.
• Eugene expressed pressure over the possibility that mistakes in their major undertaking could cause devastating consequences.
• Bernard reminded Eugene that his past decisions as Minister for Magic had also affected many people, and described the weight of his work as Chief Justice.
• Adam said he had once promised to handle the consequences for Eugene and claimed responsibility for abolishing the Statute of Secrecy belonged to him alone.
• Eugene, Uther, Bernard, and Klon objected to being excluded from responsibility, while Adam explained that rules had loopholes and could not stop human evil.

Adam defended his plan to enforce the Human Alliance’s rules by taking personal responsibility for punishing anyone who exploited them, and assured Uther and the others that he was strong enough to withstand any opposition. When his friends worried about the burden and his mortality, he revealed that the Elixirs of Life he had given them were genuine, leaving them alarmed about what else they had eaten.

• Adam told Uther that he stood outside the Human Alliance and would personally punish anyone who maliciously exploited its rules.
• Uther warned that people would eventually unite against Adam, but Adam insisted that even everyone together could not defeat him.
• Adam explained that he could destroy Earth in several ways, shocking Bernard and the others.
• Uther, Eugene, and Klon urged Adam not to take on such a burden, while Bernard argued that Adam could leave if things went badly.
• Adam revealed that he possessed an Elixir of Life and a Sorcerer's Stone, then told the others that the Elixirs of Life he had given them were real.
• The others recalled Adam's regular gifts and wondered whether the husband-and-wife lung slices they had eaten were also something unexpected.

Adam explained the improved Elixir of Life to Bernard, Klon, Eugene, and Uther, then revealed that he planned to visit other worlds and would eventually return. He also described how the Human Alliance would guarantee basic survival while reserving a specially created hell for those guilty of grave crimes.

• Adam told Bernard, Klon, Eugene, and Uther how he had obtained the Sorcerer's Stone and learned that Nicolas Flamel and his wife had truly died.
• Adam explained that his improved Elixir of Life extended life and prevented the body from aging further, though one bottle lasted only a little over a month.
• Bernard worried that the others would reveal the Elixir's existence if they stopped aging, and Adam told them to decide how to handle that themselves.
• Adam said he intended to travel to other worlds, promised to bring back souvenirs, and clarified that he would return.
• Adam explained that he would openly declare his immortality to discourage people from targeting him while he was away.
• Adam said the Human Alliance would guarantee its members basic survival and that he would create a hell for people convicted of especially heinous crimes.

Adam announced that the Statute of Secrecy had been repealed, prompting governments around the world to reveal the existence of wizards. Japan’s leaders, who received no advance warning, debated how to respond, while the chapter ended with South Korea’s Kimchi questioning his aides about the news.

• Adam told the four newly discovered immortals to take time to process the revelation while he arranged for the Statute of Secrecy to be repealed.
• Leaders and official media in many countries announced the existence of wizards, and public guides helped people in both worlds accept the news.
• Japan’s Prime Minister confronted Minister Sugawara and Headmaster Abe about Japan receiving no warning and feared the country had been sidelined.
• Headmaster Abe advised Japan to limit foreign information and wait for events abroad to settle, and the Prime Minister approved the plan.
• Minister Sugawara and Headmaster Abe privately showed concern about Japan’s position before teleporting to the Magic Institute.
• In South Korea’s Blue House, Kimchi asked his aides whether the reports about wizards were true.