Chapter Summaries

Newt Scamander confronted Silver Spear Club members who had taken his grandson Rov hostage and demanded the case he carried. As Anduin watched from hiding, Newt’s wife arrived and found the smugglers holding Rov.

• Night introduced himself as the Silver Spear Club’s leader and explained that his group had come to borrow Newt’s case.
• Newt said he had returned the case to Dumbledore, but Night claimed his people had seen Newt with it in Brazil the previous year.
• Night pressed his wand to Rov’s throat to threaten Newt, while Anduin watched from hiding and considered intervening.
• Newt’s wife came outside, recognized the Silver Spear, and demanded to know why they had taken Rov hostage.

Newt and Tina faced smugglers who demanded the case and held Rov hostage, but a cloaked stranger suddenly rescued the boy by killing the Thestral. The fight continued as Newt and Tina attacked the remaining masked men, who turned their attention to the stranger.

• The Thestral surrounded Newt and Tina with three masked men, demanded the case, and used Interference Devices to block outside help.
• Newt and Tina realized someone was behind the Thestral as he threatened Rov and began counting down to kill him.
• Newt shouted for the Thestral to put Rov down and promised to hand over the case.
• A middle-aged man in an ink-black cloak appeared behind the Thestral, beheaded him, and rescued Rov.
• Newt and Tina attacked the remaining masked men, who focused on the cloaked stranger to try to recover Rov.

Anduin fought two masked wizards after rescuing Rov, while Newt and Tina faced a third attacker. He sent Rov to safety with the Flying Cloak and launched a counterattack, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Anduin used his Disguise Mask to ambush the Thestral and rescue Rov, working with Newt's awareness of his presence.
• Three masked wizards divided their attack, sending one after Newt and Tina and two after Anduin.
• Anduin wrapped Rov in the Flying Cloak and sent him into the sky before blocking the attackers' spells and breaking the snow tendrils restraining him.
• Anduin attacked the invisible wizard with silver projectiles and fired lightning at the other, who blocked it and threw five talismans at him.

Anduin fought two masked wizards, using his spells and alchemical tools to counter their attacks. After saving the Lincoln Orb from a corrosive curse, he dodged a sudden attack and faced another incantation from the masked man.

• Anduin destroyed the thrown amulets and battered one masked wizard’s Shield Charm with Cluster Lightning.
• The second masked wizard’s whirlwind was dispelled by Anduin’s amulets and Silver Net, so he attacked with a tracking corrosive curse.
• Anduin maneuvered the Lincoln Orb into the curse’s path, where its shields absorbed the spell as it ate through them.
• Anduin used Water-Making Spell to weaken the curse and recalled the Lincoln Orb.
• Anduin dodged stone spikes that erupted beneath him, and the masked wizard began another incantation.

Anduin defeated two masked attackers while Newt and Tina emerged from the fog with Rov safe. Newt then turned to face the last masked man.

• Anduin electrocuted a masked man who tried to escape underground, and the remaining attacker fired the Killing Curse at him, which the Lincoln Orb blocked.
• Tina cleared the fog, revealing Newt and herself unharmed and their grandson Rov safe.
• Tina asked Anduin to put Rov down, and he returned the boy to her.
• Rov excitedly told Tina that he had flown and praised Anduin for defeating the attackers, while Tina covered his eyes.
• Newt turned with a serious expression toward the last masked man.

Anduin stunned and abducted the last surviving Silver Spear wizard before Newt and Tina could react. He escaped to Qiqi’s hiding place with the captive, planning to leave before the Ministry of Magic could track them down.

• Newt urged the injured Silver Spear wizard to surrender, then thanked Anduin for helping the Scamanders and asked his name.
• Anduin attacked the masked wizard with spells and Sonic Boom Amulets, stunned him, collected the fallen amulets, and flew away with him.
• Newt and Tina wondered whether Anduin was a foreign Bounty Wizard and waited for the Ministry of Magic after taking Rov home.
• Anduin used a potion and evasive maneuvers to shake off pursuit, then returned to Qiqi with the unconscious captive.
• Anduin revealed his face, restrained and unmasked the captive, and told Qiqi to help carry him before the Ministry arrived.

Anduin interrogated Solvei Morrison after stopping Silver Spear members from attacking the Scamander home, learning about the club’s structure and their plan to steal Dumbledore’s living-creature suitcase. Solvei began explaining the club’s membership symbols, while Anduin continued probing for information about Silver Spear and its British contact, Thunderbird.

• Anduin warned Qiqi and Hog to keep the operation secret and explained why he had concealed his identity.
• Anduin questioned the Veritaserum-dazed captive, who identified himself as Solvei Morrison, codenamed Yiseron, a Short Spear in Silver Spear’s Sphinx Infiltration Squad.
• Solvei explained that Silver Spear had Silver Spear and Silver Gun branches, two ranks, and codenames based on magical creatures; Sphinx commanded the infiltration team.
• Solvei said Thunderbird had sent the team Scamander’s address and directed them to collect equipment in Godric’s Hollow.
• Solvei revealed that the team had been ordered to steal a suitcase that could hold living creatures and deliver it to Thunderbird.
• Solvei said Silver Spear members received Aspen wands and masks after passing the club’s test, which included a duel.

Anduin interrogated Yiseron about the Silver Spear Club, but the club’s memory protections destroyed Yiseron’s important memories when Anduin tried to use Occlumency. Anduin planned to investigate the club through its mask and seek a senior member, but Ministry of Magic employees arrived before he could study it.

• Yiseron revealed that the Silver Spear Club taught secret spells and collected rare magical knowledge, but its protections stopped him from discussing its mask and specialized techniques.
• Anduin learned that Yiseron’s squad had mainly conducted missions on the European Continent and that low-ranking members knew little about the club’s wider operations.
• Anduin used Occlumency to enter Yiseron’s memories, triggering a violent protective spell that destroyed his important memories and left him a fool.
• Anduin decided to keep Yiseron alive as a test subject for memory magic and planned to investigate the mask and find a senior Silver Spear member, possibly Thunderbird.
• The next day, Ministry of Magic employees arrived at Anduin’s door before he could examine the mask.

Ministry of Magic Aurors questioned Anduin after finding his interference devices with a suspect, but his ledger showed no sales beyond the Ministry. They discovered his stock safe had been Transfigured and opened, leaving its theft exposed.

• Meiweis and several Ministry of Magic employees arrived at the Silver Flash Merchant to question Anduin about interference devices found at a crime scene.
• Anduin said he had only supplied the devices to the Ministry and showed Meiweis his ledger, which contained no suspicious sales.
• Anduin revealed that he kept five of each device in a safe and led the Aurors to inspect it.
• The safe failed to respond to Anduin's magic, and Meiweis had an Auror examine it instead of letting Anduin cast a counter-curse.
• The Auror found that the safe had been Transfigured, and a Restoration Spell revealed a deep hole in its door.

Meiweis investigated the break-in at Anduin's Silver Flash Merchant and brought the damaged safe to Auror Headquarters, where the Ministry officials concluded that the Silver Spears had stolen an Interference Device. Her report raised suspicions of an insider in the Ministry, while the group also discussed the attack on the Scamander Family and the lack of clues.

• Meiweis examined the empty safe at Anduin's shop, identified the damage as Dark Magic, and Anduin offered to help catch the thieves.
• Meiweis returned to Auror Headquarters with the safe and reported that only four of Anduin's five pairs of Interference Devices had been recovered.
• Amelia identified the Corrosion Charm, and Meiweis suggested that someone with access to the product demonstration had tipped off the Silver Spears.
• Minister Bardeno urged the group not to suspect one another, while Moody said the Silver Spears relied on a small number of elite agents.
• Amelia called the attack on Mr. Scamander a provocation, and Moody reported that Aurors were protecting the Scamander Family but had found few clues.

Minister Bagnold sent Meiweis to Anduin with a Silver Spear mask for him to study, while warning him that the Silver Spear had taken notice of him. Anduin uncovered hidden patterns on the mask and spotted something intriguing as he examined them.

• Minister Bagnold discussed the mysterious wizard, the Silver Spear’s losses, and the danger of retaliation with Moody and Meiweis.
• Minister Bagnold ordered Meiweis to warn Anduin to stop producing Interference Devices and to bring him one of the seized masks for study.
• Meiweis delivered the mask to Anduin and stayed at the Silver Flash Merchant to help protect him.
• Anduin tested the mask, used the Uninjured Hammer’s Analysis function to reveal fine Magic Patterns, and photographed them before they faded.
• Anduin studied the patterns under an observation device and suddenly noticed something that caught his attention.

Anduin analyzed a Silver Spear mask and discovered that its bloodline-linked runes enabled identification and long-distance communication. Although he could not use the mask to track its original wearer, he decided to try binding Yiseron’s mask to himself through Bloodline Refinement.

• Anduin recognized that the mask contained two bloodline-linked Rune Arrays and spent hours copying and analyzing their patterns.
• Anduin told Meiweis that the mask likely handled communication and identification, and that its long-range communication rune might help locate other mask wearers.
• Meiweis returned to the Ministry of Magic and reported Anduin’s progress, prompting Minister Bagnold to offer another order for Alchemical Tools if he cracked the masks.
• Anduin studied a second mask for several days and determined that its runes let wearers identify one another, see through mist and darkness, and send secure messages over long distances.
• Anduin realized bloodline binding prevented him from using the mask to track the enemy, so he decided to attempt Bloodline Refinement on Yiseron’s mask and bind it to himself.

Anduin completed preparations to use the Faceless Mask to trace its communications, then recognized a contemptuous visitor as the Silver Spear after the man left his leather case behind. Anduin warned Meiweis not to approach it.

• Anduin finished a Communication Locator that could track messages through the Floo Network and planned to use it after the Bloodline Refinement Ritual.
• Anduin told Meiweis he had made progress and might be able to locate the target the next day.
• A rude wizard entered the Silver Flash Merchant, dismissed its wares as junk, and mocked Anduin's reputation as a Battle Hero of Britain.
• The wizard left his leather case in the shop, then Apparated away with an Aspen Wand; Anduin recognized him as the Silver Spear.
• Meiweis pointed out the abandoned case and started toward it, and Anduin shouted for her to stop.

Anduin extinguished a Fiendfyre attack on his shop and identified the Silver Spear as the culprit. After Moody arrived with Aurors, Anduin revealed his connection to the organization and prepared to pursue the attacker, Thunderbird.

• Anduin pulled Meiweis away from an exploding Leather Case and used Finite Incantatem to extinguish the Fiendfyre before it could spread.
• Anduin told Qiqi to restore the shop and asked Meiweis to notify the Ministry of Magic, then Apparated away.
• Meiweis returned with Moody and more than a dozen Aurors, while Qiqi restored the shop and the damaged Civilian Products were cleared out.
• Anduin told Moody he suspected Thunderbird of attacking the shop because the assailant had used an Aspen Wand.
• Anduin admitted that he had supported the Scamander family and taken out two Silver Spears, but kept Acelia's identity as a spy secret.

Anduin and Moody linked a Silver Spear attack on Anduin to a possible smuggling operation on Ireland Island and prepared a secret raid. They left for a Floo transfer point, where Anduin tracked Thunderbird near the coast, and planned to Apparate closer before pursuing him.

• Anduin used the Silver Spear masks’ communication function to identify Thunderbird as the only remaining mask that could receive a signal in Britain.
• Anduin told Moody that Thunderbird had come from the west and might be on Ireland Island, possibly helping cover a large smuggling operation.
• Moody declared a Level One Alert and ordered the Aurors to keep the operation secret, then sent Emmeline Vance to inform Minister Bagnold and Director Bones.
• Moody and Anduin traveled through the Floo Network to Ballicase Figo's Pub in eastern Northern Ireland.
• Anduin tracked Thunderbird more than 150 kilometers to the east, and Moody proposed Apparating to a remembered location in western Ireland Island.

After Moody prepared the Aurors to raid the smugglers, Anduin objected to charging in without reconnaissance and explained the risks they had failed to consider. He proposed a meeting point based on his maps, leaving the group preparing to approach the target more carefully.

• Moody ordered Meiweis and four Aurors to deploy the Anti-Apparition Jammer while he led Anduin and the others toward the smugglers.
• Anduin challenged Moody's plan to attack without knowing the enemy's numbers, terrain, equipment, or possible hostages.
• Moody explained that time was short and that the Aurors had to rely on their experience from the previous encounter.
• Anduin listed the dangers posed by poor visibility, unknown terrain and enemy numbers, hidden weapons or creatures, and possible hostages.
• Anduin produced detailed maps, identified their position and the target near Cape Eris, and chose high ground three kilometers away as the group's meeting point.

Anduin led the Aurors to the suspected smuggling site and demonstrated his new Echo Terrain Map, which revealed two Silver Spear Club members waiting on a coastal cliff. He and Moody decided to wait for the smugglers to arrive so they could capture everyone together.

• Anduin led the Aurors to the target area and set up a Jamming Interferer to protect their position.
• Anduin demonstrated his Echo Terrain Map, which displayed the surrounding terrain and the Aurors’ locations.
• Anduin scanned toward the sea and found two masked Silver Spear Club members standing on a cliff.
• Anduin learned the smugglers had appeared around 10:30 on their previous operation and noted that it was only 9:30 now.
• Moody agreed with Anduin’s suggestion to wait for the smugglers and try to capture them all at once.

Anduin and the Aurors watched smugglers unload magical creatures from an underwater vessel and discovered that one cage held a person. After counting twenty-four wizards, two Silver Spears, and three hounds, Anduin prepared to plan an assault despite the enemy’s numerical advantage.

• Anduin surveyed the coastal terrain on his Tactical Map and began planning an encirclement.
• Two Silver Spears summoned a vessel from the sea, and Kelpies hauled it toward the shore.
• The smugglers unloaded nine cages containing magical creatures, including a Thestral, a Gryphon, and Rune Horses.
• Meiweis realized that one cage held a person and condemned the smugglers for trafficking people.
• Anduin counted twenty-four wizards, two Silver Spears, and three hounds, then dismissed waiting for reinforcements as he considered the attack.

Anduin organized the Aurors into teams and laid out a surprise attack on the smugglers, with Meiweis assigned to protect the captured creatures. As the Aurors moved toward the shore, Thunderbird and Bird Snake waited by the smugglers’ cargo and questioned the silence from the Sphinx’s Infiltration Squad.

• Anduin assessed the Aurors’ advantages and weaknesses, then divided them into teams and assigned their attack positions and roles.
• Anduin tasked Meiweis and a fourth Auror with securing the cages, while Moody urged the Aurors to show the smugglers no mercy.
• Anduin cast a Protection Charm on the group and set thunder as the signal to attack.
• The Aurors activated the Jamming Interferers and headed toward the shore, while smugglers loaded iron cages onto a Flying Carpet.
• Bird Snake asked Thunderbird why the Sphinx’s Infiltration Squad had not reported in, and Thunderbird rebuked him for overstepping his rank.

Thunderbird and Bird Snake argued over the disappearance of Sphinx's Stealth Squad and the risks of a major shipment, while Thunderbird insisted he had secured the operation. As the smugglers prepared to move their goods, a coordinated attack erupted, leaving Thunderbird scrambling to defend them.

• Bird Snake questioned Thunderbird about the missing Sphinx's Stealth Squad and the club's failed operation, and Thunderbird suspected the Scamander Family was involved.
• Bird Snake mentioned the rumor that Newt had captured Grindelwald, and Thunderbird angrily ordered him not to say Grindelwald's name.
• A collaborator told Thunderbird and Bird Snake that the smugglers had loaded their entire yearly stock, and Thunderbird promised to escort the shipment himself.
• Thunderbird dismissed Bird Snake's concerns about provoking the Ministry of Magic and claimed the club had approved using all its resources for the operation.
• A silver thundercloud appeared as attackers surrounded the smugglers, striking them with spells and amulets.
• Thunderbird shouted at the smugglers to organize a defense and cast Misty Veil.