Chapter Summaries

Anduin and the Aurors attacked the smugglers at the Flying Carpet pickup point, but the Bird Snake unleashed a pouch full of ghouls to turn the battle into a siege. Anduin confronted the Thunderbird, whose powerful curses he deflected, leaving the two fighters poised to duel.

• The Thunderbird raised a mist to hide the smugglers as the Aurors struck and knocked down ten guards.
• The Bird Snake opened Lord "Phoenix"'s pouch with the Ghoul Resurrection spell, releasing a growing horde of ghouls against the Aurors.
• Meiweis warned the Aurors about the ghouls' corpse poison, then led her team to secure the Flying Carpet while the squads fought to hold their formation.
• The Thunderbird tried to attack the Aurors, but Anduin's Sectumsempra spells interrupted him and lightning from Anduin's Thunder Cloud struck several of his associates.
• The Thunderbird recognized Anduin and attacked him with two powerful curses, which Anduin deflected into a reef and a smuggler.

Anduin and Thunderbird fought with lightning and Fiendfyre, their powerful spells destroying Bird Snake’s ghouls and threatening the operation. Thunderbird lured Anduin toward the forest by the cliff, and Anduin followed him.

• Thunderbird and Anduin unleashed Fiendfyre blossoms and silver-blue electrons, which clashed in midair and repeatedly grew stronger as they destroyed each other.
• Bird Snake warned Thunderbird that their wide-ranging spells were destroying his ghouls and could ruin the operation.
• Thunderbird realized the fight had to end quickly before Ministry reinforcements arrived or the cargo was damaged.
• Thunderbird charged toward the forest by the cliff and challenged Anduin to follow him.
• Anduin dispelled the Fiendfyre in front of him and chased after Thunderbird.

Moody attacked the Bird Snake while the uncontrolled ghouls turned on the smugglers, forcing some to surrender. As Meiweis’s team held the ghouls back, they discovered a shackled girl inside a covered cage.

• Moody attacked the Bird Snake with a relentless barrage of spells and narrowly missed him with a Killing Curse.
• Without the Bird Snake directing them, the ghouls went berserk and attacked smugglers and others nearby.
• Several smugglers surrendered to Meiweis, who gathered the teams together to hold off the ghouls.
• Meiweis heard a girl ask to be let out and uncovered a cage containing a chained girl with pale golden hair.

Meiweis freed Shalltear Bloodfallen from her cage despite the danger, believing her to be a young student who had been captured by smugglers. Shalltear revealed herself as a vampire and escaped as a bat, but lightning from a Storm Eye struck her down as she flew toward the forest.

• Meiweis found Shalltear Bloodfallen locked in a cage and heard her claim that smugglers had captured her after she witnessed their crimes.
• Meiweis refused to release Shalltear at first, but eventually opened the cage, removed her enchanted shackles, and gave her a wand.
• Shalltear blasted a smuggler into the horde of Inferi, then thanked Meiweis and transformed into a giant bat.
• Shalltear flew toward the nearby forest, but lightning from a Storm Eye struck her and sent her crashing into the grass.

Anduin faced Thunderbird and assessed the danger of fighting him with magic alone, then stalled for time by provoking him into revealing details about the Silver Spear. Thunderbird tried to recruit Anduin, but Anduin had not answered him by the end of the chapter.

• Anduin concluded that Thunderbird surpassed him in magical sensitivity and control, making a prolonged magical duel dangerous.
• Anduin surveyed the snowy, open surroundings and considered how to use the snow against Thunderbird.
• Thunderbird claimed he had spared Anduin to protect the cargo and because he saw potential in him, then offered to sponsor him into the Silver Spear.
• Anduin pretended to consider the offer while challenging the club's reputation and asking what it could provide.
• Thunderbird described the Silver Spear's treasury, secret arts, alchemy materials, and rewards for members who proved their worth.

Anduin rejected Thunderbird’s offer to join the Silver Spear and fought him with a swarm of Thunder Ravens and hidden amulets. Thunderbird countered Anduin’s spells and ended the chapter bringing a huge Fiendfyre blade down toward him.

• Thunderbird offered Anduin access to the Silver Spear’s records and materials in exchange for secrecy and assigned tasks, but Anduin mocked the group and refused.
• Thunderbird attacked Anduin with a Fiendfyre arrow, and Anduin answered with Thunder Ravens that extinguished it and scattered snow across the battlefield.
• Thunderbird’s Multi-Bolt Spell targeted the ravens, but hidden Glimmer Amulets and Dark Amulets exploded among them and appeared to leave him motionless.
• Anduin fired two Sectumsempra spells and a Cluster Lightning at Thunderbird, who cut through them with a Fiendfyre blade and removed his mask in anger.
• Thunderbird raised the enormous Fiendfyre blade and swung it down toward Anduin, scorching the snow and earth in its path.

Anduin used a Lightning Whip to counter Thunderbird’s massive Fiendfyre Hellblade after his attempts to dodge failed. He gained the advantage in close combat and left Thunderbird struggling to defend against his relentless attacks.

• Anduin dodged Thunderbird’s sweeping Hellblade with his Phase Boots, but Thunderbird drove him toward a spreading sea of Fiendfyre and taunted him for being unable to Apparate.
• Anduin stopped fleeing and used Electronic Vortex to form a Lightning Whip, which caught the Hellblade and held it back as Thunderbird pressed forward.
• Anduin wrenched the Hellblade upward, charged Thunderbird, and attacked with the Lightning Whip when Thunderbird shrank his blade for close combat.
• Anduin evaded Thunderbird’s sword strikes, then feinted toward his legs and redirected the Lightning Whip toward his cheek.
• Thunderbird rolled aside to escape the whip, but Anduin seized the initiative and unleashed a relentless series of attacks that forced him to dodge and defend.

Anduin used hidden Spider Mines to blast Thunderbird, then bound him with a Lightning Whip and Spirit Binding Lock. Thunderbird survived but was badly injured, and he transformed his Magic Shield into a spreading sea of fire as Bird Snake noticed the power from outside the forest.

• Anduin drove Thunderbird backward until he stepped on the concealed Spider Mines, triggering a series of explosions.
• Anduin caught Thunderbird with his Lightning Whip and Spirit Binding Lock as the dust cleared.
• Thunderbird survived behind a Magic Shield but was left seriously injured and furious.
• Thunderbird expanded the shield and transformed it into a sea of fire that spread through the forest.
• Bird Snake glanced toward the forest while Moody continued to suppress him.

Moody killed Bird Snake while Anduin fought Thunderbird in the forest, where Thunderbird unleashed a colossal blue Fiendfyre that blocked Apparition and pursued Anduin. Anduin fled through the air as Shalltear watched, leaving him racing to escape the encircling flames.

• Moody killed Bird Snake with the Killing Curse, then noticed a terrifying aura coming from the forest.
• Moody recognized the towering blue-and-white blaze as Fiendfyre and chose to help the Aurors fight the Inferi before joining Anduin.
• Shalltear woke weak and hungry, then saw Anduin had wounded Thunderbird and mocked the injured smuggler.
• Thunderbird unleashed blue Fiendfyre, and Anduin found that the flames prevented him from Apparating.
• Anduin put on his Flying Cloak and fled as the Fiendfyre spread into walls around him, while Shalltear saw him flying toward her with the flames close behind.

Shalltear fled the Fiendfyre by grabbing onto Anduin, mistaking him for a Blood Clan prince and begging him to save her. Anduin carried her onward as Thunderbird’s flames closed in around them, leaving their escape in danger.

• Shalltear tried to fly away from the approaching Fiendfyre but fell and called to Anduin for help.
• Shalltear grabbed Anduin’s leg, then climbed up and clung to him as he flew.
• Anduin caught Shalltear, learned she was a vampire, and ordered her to hold on.
• Anduin flew faster as Thunderbird’s Fiendfyre advanced from behind and began closing in from both sides.
• Thunderbird taunted Anduin and Shalltear while they continued fleeing.

Anduin and Shalltear fled the Thunderbird’s Fiendfyre as Shalltear’s insults provoked him into pushing his magic to the limit. Ministry reinforcements arrived and extinguished the flames, leaving the exhausted Thunderbird exposed.

• Shalltear insulted the Thunderbird, distracting him and slowing the Fiendfyre closing in from the sides.
• Anduin urged Shalltear to keep provoking the Thunderbird while he flew ahead of the flames.
• The Thunderbird increased his Magic Power Output, and Anduin countered by boosting his speed and parting the air with [Control] Ancient Runes.
• Amelia, Bianca, and Mr. and Mrs. Scamander Apparated to Anduin and cast Finite Incantatem to extinguish the Blue Fierce Fire.
• Anduin landed beside the reinforcements and drank a potion as the battered Thunderbird struggled to stand.

Anduin defeated the Thunderbird but was too exhausted to stop him from escaping with a Portkey. After Amelia and Bianca confirmed that Moody’s group was safe, they went to contain the Fiendfyre while Anduin rested.

• Shalltear taunted the defeated Thunderbird until Anduin tapped her on the head to quiet her.
• Amelia, Bianca, Newt, and Tina surrounded the Thunderbird and demanded that he surrender.
• The Thunderbird acknowledged his defeat to Anduin, vowed revenge, and escaped using a teacup Portkey.
• Amelia and Bianca checked on Anduin, who urged them to help Moody’s group and told them a Silver Spear member was with the smugglers.
• Amelia told Anduin that Scrimgeour’s Auror squad had already supported Moody and that the group was safe, while Bianca went to help extinguish the Fiendfyre.

Newt used an enchanted kettle to extinguish the Fiendfyre spreading through the forest while the Aurors secured the smuggling operation. Anduin survived the fight, but the Thunderbird escaped with a Portkey, raising concerns that the smugglers might know how to make them.

• Amelia asked Newt for help containing the Fiendfyre, and he used enchanted water from his kettle to extinguish it.
• Newt, Anduin, Amelia, and Bianca swept through the forest and put out the scattered fires.
• Moody met the group and told Anduin that the Aurors had defeated the Inferi, captured the cargo, and killed the Silver Spear.
• Moody asked about the Thunderbird, and Anduin said he had escaped.
• Amelia explained that the Thunderbird had used a Portkey to bypass the Anti-Apparition Jammer, and Moody worried the smugglers might be making Portkeys.

Anduin, Moody, and Amelia discussed the Silver Spear’s possible possession of the forbidden Portkey-making technique and the threat it posed. After the group regrouped and headed toward the main battlefield, Anduin revealed his identity to Newt and asked whether Rov was all right.

• Amelia and Moody explained that making or possessing Portkeys was illegal for outside organizations and could prompt a Europe-wide crackdown on the Silver Spear.
• Anduin told Moody he could not locate the escaped Thunderbird outside Britain but could build a detector to alert them if it returned.
• Anduin asked Moody and Amelia to keep his tracking ability secret because of a Ministry spy, and Moody agreed to warn the Aurors.
• Anduin noticed Acelia among the regrouped forces and decided he would act against the spy when an opportunity arose.
• The reinforcements joined Anduin’s group and set off for the main battlefield, where Newt praised Anduin for holding off the Silver Spear’s fighter.
• Anduin told Newt that he had been the visitor at the Scamander family home and asked whether Rov was all right.

Anduin questioned Shalltear, a vampire he had picked up, and learned that she belonged to the Toredor Clan and had escaped after being sold to the Silver Spear. Newt recognized her clan and its feud with the Lestrange Clan, while Shalltear begged them to keep the Ministry from sending her back to America.

• Newt thanked Anduin for saving the Scamander family and agreed to keep his identity secret.
• Newt recognized Shalltear as a vampire, and Anduin demanded to know why she was in the forest.
• Shalltear claimed she was a forty-six-year-old Toredor countess from New Orleans who had been captured by the Lestrange Clan and sold to the Silver Spear.
• Anduin used Occlumency to check Shalltear's account, and Newt said she did not seem to be lying.
• Newt explained that the Toredor Clan belonged to the Secret Faction and was fighting the Lestrange Clan's Magic Faction in America.
• Shalltear begged Anduin and Newt to prevent the Ministry from sending her back to America.

Newt explained vampire society and the Ministry’s rules to Anduin as they considered what would happen to Shalltear. Anduin decided he might take her in because she had helped him, while Shalltear promised to behave.

• Newt explained that foreign vampires were usually detained and deported unless someone vouched for them.
• Shalltear claimed she was a vegetarian who had never harmed a living creature since becoming a vampire.
• Newt described the different vampire diets and factions, including feral vampires who preyed on humans and their own kind.
• Shalltear said the Magic Faction’s vampires had attacked her clan and sold her to the Silver Spear’s black market.
• Newt told Anduin that he could vouch for Shalltear with Director Bianca if he wanted to keep her.
• Anduin said he might take Shalltear in because she had helped him, and she eagerly promised to behave.

Anduin agreed to take Shalltear in under his supervision and placed a tracking bracelet on her. After Mavis confronted Shalltear at the coastal crime scene, Anduin persuaded her to let the vampire go and revealed his role in the secret operation at the Scamander family home.

• Anduin agreed to help Shalltear and warned her to obey his rules while she stayed with him.
• When Shalltear lacked the magic to transform, Anduin gave her a Vitality Nourishing Agent, and she returned to human form near the crime scene.
• Anduin gave Shalltear a bracelet that let him track her, and she reluctantly put it on.
• Mavis confronted Shalltear and moved to arrest her, but Anduin claimed responsibility for supervising the vampire and promised she would cause no harm.
• Mavis said the Aurors were keeping the operation and Anduin's Lightning Magic secret, and Anduin revealed he had led the operation at the Scamander family's home.

Anduin watched the Ministry secure the smugglers, investigate the seized equipment, and prepare to inspect the recovered magical creatures. When the tarp came off, he and the others saw a startling assortment of trafficked creatures, including several endangered and dangerous species.

• Mavis informed the rest of the team about Anduin's concern regarding the spy.
• The Ministry dealt with the aftermath of the battle, capturing ten smugglers and seizing a Faceless Mask, an Aspen Wand, an Inferi-summoning tool, and the smugglers' submersible.
• Anduin and the Ministry personnel turned their attention to the caged magical creatures aboard the Flying Carpet.
• Bianca positioned the wizards to guard against escapes and traps, then ordered employees to remove the tarp.
• The uncovered cages revealed Thestrals, Rune Horses, Poison Sac Leopards, a Three-Headed Dog, Long-Horned Water Snakes, and a battered adult Gryphon.

Anduin and the others discovered a badly wounded adult Thunderbird among the smuggled magical creatures, and Moody revealed that the Ministry had previously failed to intercept a Thunderbird smuggling operation. The Thunderbird reacted intensely to Anduin, who approached it after Newt explained that it was calling for a companion.

• Anduin saw the wounded Thunderbird in a cage beside the Gryphon and Antipodean Opaleye.
• Moody told Anduin that the Ministry had tracked a smuggling operation carrying a Thunderbird more than half a year earlier but had failed to catch the smugglers.
• The Thunderbird recognized something about Anduin and violently struggled in its cage, worsening its wounds.
• Newt stopped the Aurors from restraining the Thunderbird and said it was calling for a companion and seemed to be calling for Anduin.
• Anduin approached the Thunderbird and realized their connection might come from his Thunderbird-feather wand core or his [Wild Thunder] Original Magic Script.

Anduin used his wand and the Thought Rune to calm the Thunderbird, then learned that his wand’s Thunderbird Feather connected it to Newt Scamander. As Newt agreed to take most of the rescued creatures home, Anduin considered upgrading his wand and strengthening himself to face the Silver Spear’s Thunderbird.

• Anduin used the Thought Rune to tell the Thunderbird to quiet down, and it obeyed him.
• Bianca directed the Ministry staff to separate the cages while Anduin stayed beside the calm Thunderbird.
• Anduin and Newt realized that Anduin’s wand, Dark Brush, contained a Thunderbird Feather that Newt had given to Mr. Ollivander.
• Anduin considered upgrading Dark Brush but decided he needed to study alchemy further before he could do so.
• Newt explained how rare rescued creatures were cared for, and Bianca asked him to take in all the creatures except the Rune Horses and Thestrals.
• Newt agreed to bring the creatures to his home, with Bianca accompanying them during the journey.