Chapter Summaries

Anduin planned an operation to capture the Phoenix, a powerful Silver Spear leader hiding in Berlin, before she could leave Germany. He assigned a small assault team and ordered preparations for the operation that night.

• Anduin, Andre, and Moody agreed to give two captured wizards a few more days to escape before pressuring them to act.
• Anduin revealed that the Phoenix had returned to Germany and that Hog had tracked her to a hideout in Berlin.
• Anduin warned Andre and Moody that the Phoenix was a powerful dark wizard who could summon Inferi and endanger nearby Muggles.
• Anduin assigned Andre to contact the Schmidt family and limited their participation to two people, while naming himself, Andre, and Moody as the assault team.
• Anduin ordered eight to ten Aurors to secure the area and said he would place Interference Devices around the hideout; the group agreed to launch the operation that night.

Anduin met with Andre, Moody, the Schmidt brothers, and the Aurors before leading a briefing for the operation against the Phoenix. Edmund agreed to cooperate against the Silver Spear but reserved judgment on a broader alliance, while Anduin outlined the hideout and began assigning teams.

• Andre introduced Anduin to Edmund and Allen Schmidt, explaining that Edmund was the head of the family and that the Phoenix's schemes had cost him his son.
• Edmund questioned Anduin's suitability to lead, but Andre and the Aurors praised Anduin's abilities and his role in uncovering the Silver Spear's plots.
• Anduin urged the Schmidt family to join Andre against the Silver Spear, and Edmund agreed to follow Anduin's arrangements for the operation while withholding any broader commitment.
• Anduin showed the team a three-dimensional map of the Phoenix's row house and warned that neighboring Muggles could be endangered during the fight.
• Anduin described the hideout's layout and likely location of the Phoenix, then began dividing the force into teams, assigning one outer-perimeter unit to clear the streets and protect Muggles.

Anduin led a covert raid on Phoenix’s hideout, coordinating the Aurors and equipping the strike team for a swift attack. The team breached her bedroom wall, and Anduin struck at Phoenix as she woke in terror.

• Anduin assigned the Aurors to attack the neighboring houses and evacuate the Muggles while his team assaulted Phoenix’s hideout.
• Anduin explained the raid plan, distributed equipment and protective amulets, and instructed the strike team to avoid spreading the fight through the neighborhood.
• The Aurors took concealed positions, synchronized their watches, and deployed the Interference Devices before the assault.
• At Anduin’s signal, he and the strike team flew toward the target house while the Aurors burst into the neighboring homes to evacuate the Muggles.
• Anduin blasted a hole through Phoenix’s bedroom wall, charged toward her bed, and swung his electrified longsword at her as she woke.

Anduin and the others cornered Phoenix in her bedroom, but she escaped their opening attack and unleashed a powerful spell that let her flee downstairs. Anduin destroyed the spell’s pursuing Ghost Shadows and continued after her, while the group split up to block her escape.

• Anduin attacked Phoenix, but she used a magical necklace to turn into black smoke and evade his strike.
• Phoenix failed to Apparate, and Anduin identified her and demanded that she surrender or die.
• Moody cast a Killing Curse, prompting Phoenix to unleash her Elegy of Souls and escape through the floor.
• The group fought the spell’s Ghost Shadows with Flame Spells, but the ghosts split into smaller forms.
• Anduin used Thunder Stomp to destroy the Ghost Shadows, then dropped through the floor and found Phoenix’s next escape hole.

Anduin cornered Phoenix in the basement and attacked, forcing her to evade his devastating Thunderous Piercing. Phoenix then wounded herself to draw a blood spiral and summoned a Nether Guard, leaving the fight poised to escalate.

• Anduin pursued Phoenix through holes in the floors and found her trapped in the basement after he had blocked the Floo Network and Shuttling Charm.
• Anduin deflected Phoenix’s Destructive Shadow spells with An Mie and Desolate Lightning.
• Anduin attacked Phoenix with Thunderous Piercing, but she dodged and the spell bored a smooth hole into the fireplace.
• Phoenix unleashed a barrage of Dark Magic spells to distract Anduin, then pierced her palm with her wand and used her blood to draw a spiral.
• Phoenix activated the blood pattern with the incantation “Nether Guard,” creating a bubbling red-and-black pit in the basement.

Phoenix summoned Nether Guards through a blood-fueled portal, forcing Anduin to find a way to stop the ritual before the creatures overwhelmed him. He decided to use a prototype space-blocking talisman, but first had to fight through the guards to reach the portal.

• Phoenix completed her ritual, and a Mud Fountain erupted as Nether Guards climbed out of it.
• Anduin's Sectumsempra Sword Qis cut down several guards, but more poured through the portal until over twenty crowded the basement.
• Anduin realized the fountain was a one-way portal sustained by Phoenix's magic and blood, and that its continued summoning could endanger the city and let her escape.
• Anduin ruled out attacking the portal directly and chose to use his prototype space-blocking talisman to cut off its Space Channel.
• As the Nether Guards charged him, Anduin prepared to fight through them so he could throw the talisman into the fountain.

Anduin entered Overload and fought through the Phoenix’s growing army of fire-resistant Nether Guards, trying to reach her and close the Mud Fountain portal. Andre and the Schmidt brothers arrived, and Andre began preparing to carve a path through the undead.

• Anduin activated Overload, enhanced Eye of the Storm, and charged toward the Mud Fountain with Overload—Swift Sword.
• The Phoenix increased the portal’s output, flooding Anduin’s path with Nether Guards and forcing him back.
• Andre and the Schmidt brothers arrived, and Andre’s Flame Spells proved ineffective against the fire-resistant undead.
• Andre tested the Nether Guards’ defenses with wind blades, then promised to carve Anduin a path in ten seconds.
• Andre pulled a handful of curved blades from his Space Bag.

Andre unleashed a Blade Storm that tore through the Nether Guards and exposed the Mud Fountain, allowing Anduin to use a Space Interruption Amulet to stop the summoning. Anduin then attacked the Phoenix and pinned her to a wall, though she remained alive.

• Andre formed a Blade Storm and drove it through the Nether Guards while Anduin cleared its path.
• The storm wiped out the undead around the portal, revealing the Mud Fountain.
• Anduin charged to the portal, cut down two emerging undead, and threw a Space Interruption Amulet into the Mud Fountain.
• The Mud Fountain stopped and then exploded, revealing the exhausted Phoenix inside.
• Anduin kicked the Phoenix and pinned her to the wall with his sword before she could finish cursing him.

Anduin and Andre killed the phoenix after she rapidly aged and died from her wounds. After collecting her belongings, Anduin prepared to search her rooms, while Edmund offered the Schmidt family's support to him and Andre.

• An Mie pinned the phoenix to the wall and drained her magic until she aged into an old woman and died.
• Anduin and Andre discussed the fight, and Anduin recovered An Mie, the phoenix's body, her wand, and the remains of her pendant.
• Anduin asked Andre to notify the Aurors while he went to the Third floor to search the phoenix's belongings for clues about the club.
• Edmund thanked Anduin and Andre for killing the phoenix and pledged the Schmidt family's support to them.
• Edmund decided to approach Anduin early because he valued his strength, decisiveness, and potential.

After Phoenix’s defeat, Anduin searched her Space Bag and uncovered a huge cache of money, supplies, dangerous Alchemical Tools, records, rare magical books, and her personal research. He left with valuable new resources and information, while documents about the Silver Spear could help Andre target the organization.

• Edmund and Andre left the ruined house, and Andre directed the Aurors to restore it and erase the Muggles’ memories.
• Anduin searched Phoenix’s bedroom, cracked the Magic Lock on her Space Bag, and discovered that it held nearly a thousand cubic meters of space.
• Anduin inventoried Phoenix’s Galleons, supplies, magical materials, Potions, and dangerous Alchemical Tools, narrowly avoiding the corrosive vanity mirror.
• Anduin sorted Phoenix’s documents and found Silver Spear records that could aid Andre, along with rare books on magic and Phoenix’s research notes.
• Anduin recognized Elegy of Souls and Destructive Shadow among the spells Phoenix had developed.

Anduin studied the Phoenix's notes and tools, learning how Lightless Dust worked with Destructive Shadow and how the Phoenix's undead forces were connected to a Corpse Farm. Her journals also revealed that she had pursued true immortality for decades and feared the Elixir of Immortality was making her mind deteriorate.

• Anduin learned that Lightless Dust obscured vision and perception, making it an effective partner for the silent, invisible Destructive Shadow.
• Anduin discovered that Elegy of Souls required stored souls and realized the Phoenix's earlier casting had been weakened because she had lacked enough prepared souls.
• Anduin examined Magic Metal urns that could store souls and decided he would not learn Elegy of Souls, though he valued the insight it gave him into souls.
• Anduin learned that the Phoenix had built her undead army from corpses collected over roughly a century and stored them in a remote Corpse Farm.
• Anduin read that the Phoenix sought true immortality, distrusted the Elixir of Immortality, and had searched unsuccessfully for Nicolas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone.
• The Phoenix's journals revealed that she feared the Elixir was making her stupid and rejected creating a Horcrux as a flawed path to immortality.

After finding Phoenix's notes about her search for eternal life and the Runic Snake, Anduin used the club's files to advise Andre on how to take control of the German Ministry of Magic without causing chaos. Andre asked Anduin to join the Ministry, and Anduin agreed to stay in Germany temporarily as an instructor in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

• Anduin decided to pressure the club further so the Runic Snake would eventually have to respond, while postponing contact with him until the crisis eased.
• Anduin gave Andre and Moody Phoenix's files, which listed the club's recruited officials, prominent figures, and civilian-group members.
• Anduin told Andre to gather information on the listed people and use the files to force them to cooperate rather than purge them all at once.
• Moody encouraged Andre to lead the German magical world and seek advice, and Andre asked Anduin to join the Ministry of Magic.
• Anduin declined a permanent political role but offered to remain in Germany for six months to a year and train Aurors as a temporary instructor.

Nathans and the other prisoners endured miserable conditions and learned that the Silver Spear had manipulated Germany’s grassroots organizations and wizarding divisions. As Nathans and Bob weighed their escape, Xiko stole Old Willy’s apple, and a guard summoned everyone’s attention.

• The prisoners pieced together that the Silver Spear owned the Breeding Parks and had used grassroots organizations to deepen divisions in Germany.
• Nathans remained determined to escape, and he and Bob made progress on wandless magic but hesitated over how to reach the fireplace unnoticed.
• The guards distributed the prisoners’ weekly apples, and Jimmy brought Nathans one of the biggest.
• Nathans learned that Xiko had stolen Old Willy’s apple and restrained Jimmy from confronting him.
• A Silver Spear guard appeared in the passageway and called for everyone to listen.

Moody announced that the prisoners would be moved to a new Breeding Park, then revealed that the loyalty test meant using Obliviate to brainwash collaborators into obedient puppets. He turned ten volunteers into numbered servants and left the other prisoners fearing they would be next.

• Moody told the prisoners they would soon be transferred and that only those who passed a loyalty test could go to the new Breeding Park.
• Club collaborators eagerly volunteered, and Moody selected ten, including Nathans's cellmate Xiko.
• Moody used Obliviate to erase Xiko's will and make him obey as Number One, then did the same to another wizard as Number Two.
• The remaining selected collaborators panicked, pleaded, cursed, and tried to flee, but the Silver Spears captured them.
• Moody brainwashed all ten into Numbers One through Ten, then ended the session and glanced at Bob, leaving Bob and the other prisoners terrified.

After Moody’s display terrifies the prisoners, Nathans and Bob decide to escape that night, with Jimmy offering to distract the guards. Jimmy’s fire causes chaos, letting Nathans and Bob reach the fireplace unnoticed as they begin their escape.

• Nathans and Bob decide they must escape before the silver spear guards can brainwash them.
• Jimmy reveals he has known about their plans and offers to create a diversion.
• Nathans promises to seek help from Director Andre if he and Bob get out.
• Jimmy starts a fire in his and Nathans’s cell, prompting the guards and prisoners to erupt into chaos.
• Nathans and Bob use the distraction to slip out of their cells and approach the fireplace.

Nathans and Bob escaped the prison and reached the German Ministry of Magic, where they sought help from Director Andre. The Aurors agreed to ask Andre to see them, leaving the pair waiting outside his office.

• Nathans and Bob used Disillusionment Charms and Transfiguration to escape their cell during the riot.
• Jimmy distracted the Silver Spears while Nathans and Bob used Floo Powder to travel to the Ministry of Magic.
• Nathans and Bob emerged in the Ministry hall, where two Aurors questioned them and Nathans claimed they had been kidnapped.
• Bob stopped Nathans from naming the Silver Spears, and Nathans insisted on speaking with Director Andre in person.
• An Auror led Nathans and Bob to the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and went inside to ask Andre to see them.

Nathans and Bob reported the Silver Spear’s crimes and its alleged ties to Ministry officials to Director Andre, who believed their account and organized a rescue operation. Anduin offered to trace the Floo Network, while Nathans chose to join the rescue team and Bob stayed behind as a protected witness.

• Nathans and Bob told Andre, Lord Wilson, and Edmund about the Silver Spear’s prison, its captives, and its dealings with allied wizards and civilian groups.
• Edmund said their account matched intelligence about a German Breeding Base, and Andre apologized for the operation that had exposed them to danger.
• Anduin offered to trace the Floo Network from the fireplace the pair had used to enter the Ministry.
• Andre summoned Auror Squads 1 through 4, and Edmund arranged a secure estate to shelter the rescued captives and the witnesses.
• Nathans asked to join the prison rescue, and Andre allowed him to go while Bob remained under Auror protection.

Andre and the Aurors freed the prisoners from the Warehouse Prison and moved them to the Schmidt family manor while investigating the Silver Spear and its collaborators. Clement offered to testify against the Club, and Andre and Anduin found him eagerly eating in the manor’s cafeteria.

• Andre, Edmund, Anduin, and Nathans staged a battle at the Warehouse Prison, driving off Moody and freeing the captives.
• Nathans explained why the prisoners needed temporary shelter at the Schmidt family manor, and Edmund promised they could contact the outside world.
• Clement offered Andre information about the Silver Spear in exchange for a chance to make up for his crimes, prompting other collaborators to volunteer as witnesses.
• Andre and Edmund arranged for the prisoners to be transported to the manor, where they received food, medical care, clean clothes, and accommodation.
• Edmund summoned Schmidt family members and allies to help staff and guard the crowded manor.
• Andre and Anduin found Clement in the manor’s cafeteria, where he eagerly grabbed food.

Andre forced Clement to cooperate with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, using the club’s recovered memories to make him an informant against the Silver Spear. As Andre prepared a media campaign, Pitt slept through the brewing crisis until Michel arrived with alarming news about the club.

• Andre showed Clement the box of memories he had given Golden Flyer, and Clement realized he had been manipulated into exposing the Silver Spear.
• Clement agreed to pose as a Department of Magical Law Enforcement informant and testify before the Wizengamot in exchange for a new identity and a peaceful retirement.
• Andre warned Clement that the club and Pitt might not survive, and Clement revealed that a powerful woman in the club posed a threat.
• Andre gave Clement instructions and confined him to a sealed room, then prepared to meet reporters from the Goblin Vanguard and other outlets.
• The next morning, Michel arrived at Pitt’s home with a newspaper and warned him that something terrible had happened to the club.

Pitt investigated a newspaper report accusing the Silver Spear Duelling Club of imprisoning Civilian Wizards, while suspecting a conspiracy within the club. He confronted Andre at the Ministry of Magic but left with more questions about the rescued wizards and their alleged captors.

• Michel showed Pitt a newspaper praising Andre for rescuing over a thousand wizards and accusing the Silver Spear Duelling Club of imprisoning them.
• Pitt suspected the Schmidt family or someone inside the Silver Spear might be behind the attacks and ordered Michel to investigate at the Ministry of Magic.
• Pitt told his younger-looking counterpart to summon the Spear Council members and investigate the missing Northern European transport team.
• Pitt went to the Ministry of Magic and questioned Andre about the rescue and why the Civilian Wizards were being sheltered at the Schmidt family manor.
• Andre claimed the rescued wizards had identified the Silver Spear as their captors and said they would remain at the manor until they recovered and passed questioning.