Recaps

Isaac Waldore, a platinum-blond boy with different-colored eyes, ran a permitted fortune-telling stall in Barnet District. When Mrs. Granger and Hermione visited, Isaac predicted Hermione would achieve something remarkable and hinted that he knew they were awaiting a reply about her magic-school admission.

• Isaac showed two patrol officers his permit to perform divination and prophecy, but they left without paying for a session.
• Mrs. Granger arrived at Isaac's stall with her daughter, Hermione, and asked whether he could truly tell the future.
• Isaac explained that he revealed only the most likely future and that events could change it.
• Mrs. Granger paid for a fortune, and Isaac predicted Hermione would accomplish something remarkable in a niche field.
• Isaac told Mrs. Granger to be patient and noted that she had already sent a reply, startling her because the Grangers were awaiting a response to Hermione's magic-school letter.

After Isaac told Mrs. Granger to expect proof of his prophecy the next day, the Grangers received word that a Hogwarts professor would visit Hermione. Isaac discussed Hermione’s future with Grindelwald, then returned home and received his own Hogwarts acceptance letter by owl.

• Isaac packed up his stall after telling Mrs. Granger she would have an answer the next day, and Mrs. Granger took Hermione home.
• Mr. Granger told them an owl had delivered a letter saying a Hogwarts professor would visit the next morning, and Hermione worried she had no magical talents.
• Isaac told Grindelwald that Hermione would become Minister for Magic, while Grindelwald noted that Isaac’s future did not include the Ministry.
• Isaac reflected on his prophetic gift, his life as a transmigrator, and the help Grindelwald had given him.
• Isaac returned to Grindelwald’s home, where an owl arrived carrying his Hogwarts acceptance letter.

Isaac received his Hogwarts acceptance letter and foresaw an elderly visitor who liked sweets, while Professor McGonagall visited the Grangers to introduce Hermione to magic. Hermione asked whether wizarding children could have prophetic abilities, prompting McGonagall to suspect that another young wizard had misled her.

• Isaac received his Hogwarts letter, foresaw an important guest for the next afternoon, and asked Anthony to prepare for the visitor.
• Isaac sent his reply to Hogwarts with the owl, then waited in vain for Grindelwald to meet him.
• Professor McGonagall visited the Grangers and demonstrated Transfiguration, persuading Hermione’s parents to let her attend Hogwarts.
• Hermione asked Professor McGonagall whether wizarding children had special gifts such as prophecy.
• Professor McGonagall considered Hermione’s question and suspected an honest young wizard had predicted her acceptance letter as a prank.

Professor McGonagall reassured Hermione that magical talent depended on hard work, then learned that Isaac Waldore had given Hermione a prophecy. Isaac’s description alarmed McGonagall, who hurried back to Hogwarts to investigate, leaving Hermione wondering whether he truly was a Seer.

• Professor McGonagall told Hermione that wizarding family background did not grant special talent and urged her to work hard.
• Professor McGonagall asked Hermione who had made the prophecy, and Hermione named Isaac Waldore and described his platinum-blond hair and different-colored eyes.
• Professor McGonagall recognized that Isaac’s appearance resembled Grindelwald’s and rushed away to find his address at Hogwarts.
• Hermione asked her parents whether prophecy was a real magical talent and whether Isaac could be a Seer.

Professor McGonagall learned that Dumbledore had chosen Quirinus Quirrell to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and told him about Isaac Waldore, a young wizard who had given Hermione Granger a prophecy. The chapter left Dumbledore intrigued by Waldore’s prophetic ability and unusual appearance.

• Professor McGonagall asked Dumbledore whether he had found a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and he named Quirinus Quirrell as the candidate.
• Professor McGonagall recalled that Quirrell had taught Muggle Studies before traveling to Albania to gain practical experience.
• Professor McGonagall gave Dumbledore a parchment with Isaac Waldore’s name and address.
• Professor McGonagall told Dumbledore that Hermione Granger had met Waldore, received a prophecy from him, and described his platinum-blond hair and heterochromatic eyes.

After learning that Isaac had all three traits associated with Grindelwald, Dumbledore visited him at a house once tied to Grindelwald. Isaac greeted the emotional Dumbledore and said someone had asked him to deliver a message.

• Professor McGonagall told Dumbledore that Isaac had made a precise prophecy and matched the three traits, then gave him Isaac's name and address.
• Dumbledore left Hogwarts and Apparated to Isaac's home at 12 Medway Street, a property Grindelwald had owned.
• The butler Anthony welcomed Dumbledore and escorted him into a house prepared for a meal of familiar dishes associated with Grindelwald.
• Isaac came downstairs and greeted Dumbledore, who was overcome by memories of Grindelwald.
• Isaac glanced at the space beside him and told Dumbledore that someone had asked him to pass along a message.

Isaac hosted Dumbledore for dinner after Dumbledore inspected the house and learned that Grindelwald’s appearance had been an illusion only Isaac could see. Isaac explained his limits as a Seer and his work giving people reassuring predictions, leaving Dumbledore concerned about Grindelwald’s influence on him.

• Isaac explained that Grindelwald was still in Nurmengard and that the illusion had been visible only to Isaac as a by-product of developing his Prophecy talent.
• Dumbledore inspected the house with magic, then joined Isaac for dinner after the Muggle staff had been sent away.
• Isaac told Dumbledore about his Muggle upbringing, his Seer business, and the vague predictions he gave clients.
• Dumbledore reflected that Grindelwald might influence Isaac with his extreme ideas and resolved to guide the boy as he grew up.
• Isaac told Dumbledore that he could not see into Nurmengard or observe Grindelwald directly through Prophecy.

Dumbledore accompanied Isaac on his first visit to Diagon Alley, where Isaac endured Apparition easily and learned about exchanging money for Galleons. They headed for Flourish and Blotts as wizards recognized Dumbledore and noticed Isaac.

• After dinner, Dumbledore offered to accompany Isaac on his first trip to Diagon Alley and Apparated them directly there.
• Isaac endured his first Apparition without nausea, recalling how an earlier prophetic vision had overwhelmed him and left him bedridden for days.
• Isaac kept the money he had earned from performing in his wallet as a personal backup, but Dumbledore said Gringotts would not be their first stop.
• Dumbledore explained that Muggle-born students could exchange up to one hundred Galleons per year and led Isaac toward Flourish and Blotts.
• Wizards greeted Dumbledore on Diagon Alley and asked whether he had personally brought a young wizard that year.

Dumbledore took Isaac Waldore to Flourish and Blotts to buy his first-year school supplies, where Isaac accepted the bookstore manager’s contact information for finding rare books. The chapter ended with Dumbledore offering to pay every bill Isaac incurred at the shop until he graduated from Hogwarts.

• Dumbledore and Isaac arrived at Flourish and Blotts after Dumbledore greeted wizards along the way.
• Dumbledore asked the manager to prepare Isaac’s first-year textbooks and writing supplies.
• The manager gave Isaac contact information and explained that the shop could search for hard-to-find books for a small fee.
• Isaac declined Dumbledore’s offer to browse the shop, despite wanting to explore its books.
• Dumbledore told the manager he would cover every bill Isaac incurred at Flourish and Blotts until Isaac graduated from Hogwarts.

Dumbledore took Isaac through Diagon Alley to buy his school supplies, paying the bills himself and advising Isaac to follow his own heart. They reached Ollivanders so Isaac could get a wand, where Ollivander stopped short upon seeing him.

• The bookstore manager agreed to send Isaac's bills for the next seven years to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore led Isaac out of Flourish and Blotts.
• Isaac asked where his phoenix was and said he liked the name Isaac Dumbledore, prompting Dumbledore to tell him not to become the next Grindelwald or Dumbledore and to follow his own heart.
• Dumbledore took Isaac to several shops for his school supplies and promised to pay his bills for the next seven years.
• Isaac bought an owl and named it Cuckoo after the bird from Tom and Jerry.
• Dumbledore and Isaac arrived at Ollivanders, where Ollivander greeted them and then fell silent when he saw Isaac.

Dumbledore took Isaac Waldore to Ollivander’s shop, where Ollivander recognized Isaac’s resemblance to Grindelwald and wondered about his connection to Dumbledore. Isaac found a wand that seemed perfectly suited to him, and Ollivander watched them leave with suspicions about the wand’s pointed similarities to Grindelwald’s.

• Ollivander saw Isaac following Dumbledore and recognized traits that reminded him of Grindelwald, whose history and relationship with Dumbledore he had long wondered about.
• Ollivander measured Isaac and learned that he favored his left hand and was named Isaac Waldore.
• Ollivander offered Isaac a thirteen-inch Black Locust Wood wand with a phoenix feather core from Fawkes.
• Isaac waved the wand, magically swept the dust from the shop, and found the wand felt like part of him.
• Dumbledore paid seven Galleons for the wand, and Ollivander realized its length and wood matched Grindelwald’s former wand while its core came from Dumbledore’s phoenix.

After returning from Diagon Alley, Isaac spoke with Grindelwald about Dumbledore’s reputation and Grindelwald’s possible return from Nurmengard. Isaac used prophecy to audit Hogwarts’s first-year lessons in less than a month, then chose to focus his studies on Transfiguration.

• Dumbledore sent Isaac home, and Grindelwald appeared soon after; Isaac accused him of spying on their day together.
• Grindelwald voiced his resentment that Dumbledore was treated worse than Harry Potter, and Isaac asked whether he planned to leave Nurmengard.
• Grindelwald warned Isaac not to rely too much on prophecy before vanishing.
• Isaac used prophecy to watch Hogwarts professors teach and completed a rough review of the first-year curriculum in less than a month.
• Isaac decided to devote his talent to Transfiguration.

Isaac discovered that his Transfiguration talent was exceptional after learning the first-year curriculum in three days and progressing through second-year material without slowing down. He visited Diagon Alley to buy more Transfiguration books, where someone reacted with surprise when he said he had already mastered Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.

• Isaac concluded that his Transfiguration ability was far more extraordinary than his talent in other subjects after studying with Professor McGonagall.
• Isaac went to Diagon Alley with the old butler and exchanged his yearly allowance of one hundred Galleons at Gringotts.
• Isaac visited Flourish and Blotts and asked for Intermediate Transfiguration, Advanced Guide to Transfiguration, and other books on the subject.
• The manager asked whether Isaac had already learned everything in Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, and Isaac confirmed that he had.
• Someone behind Isaac cried out in surprise at his answer.

Hermione overheard Isaac say he had finished Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration and struggled to accept how far ahead he was. The bookshop manager recommended advanced reading for Isaac, while Hermione's question about other exceptionally gifted wizards went unanswered.

• Hermione overheard Isaac tell the bookshop manager that he had finished Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration and confronted him about it.
• Isaac confirmed he had completed the book, and the manager backed up his claim.
• Hermione asked whether other wizards were as gifted as Isaac, but the manager avoided answering and turned the conversation to Isaac's studies.
• The manager recommended Transfiguration journals and a collected edition to help Isaac advance beyond the school textbooks.
• Isaac reflected that advanced magical learning after Hogwarts was expensive and that the Wizarding World had no magic university.

Hermione cried after learning Isaac had already completed a month of Transfiguration study, fearing she was falling behind before Hogwarts. Mr. Granger spoke with Isaac over Butterbeer, learned he was an orphan living with a butler at a sponsor’s house, and offered support if he ever needed it.

• Hermione burst into tears after hearing Isaac had finished the Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, and Mrs. Granger learned what had upset her.
• Isaac greeted Mr. and Mrs. Granger, and Mr. Granger invited him to share a Butterbeer while the women comforted Hermione.
• Mr. Granger asked about Isaac’s family, and Isaac calmly explained that he was an orphan.
• Isaac told Mr. Granger that a Wizard sponsored him and that he lived with Mr. Anthony at Number 12 Medway Street.
• Mr. Granger offered to help Isaac explain wizarding life to his sponsor and invited him to stay with the Grangers if he ever needed a room.
• Reassured by Isaac’s situation, Mr. Granger raised his mug and continued seeking to learn about the Wizarding World.

Isaac answered Mr. Granger’s questions about wizarding gifts and the Wizarding World while the two grew friendly over food and drinks at the Leaky Cauldron. When Hermione arrived, Isaac praised her future and revealed that Dumbledore would pay his bookstore bill, leaving her stunned.

• Isaac explained to Mr. Granger that his supposed prophecy about Hermione had been a guess, then described a Hogwarts professor whose prophetic gift was unpredictable.
• Isaac told Mr. Granger about controllable wizarding gifts, including Parseltongue, Metamorphmagus abilities, and the Dumbledore family’s connection to phoenixes.
• Mr. Granger and Isaac bonded over their meal at the Leaky Cauldron, and Mr. Granger welcomed Hermione and Mrs. Granger when they arrived.
• Isaac praised Hermione’s prospects in the Wizarding World, prompting her to ask about his unpaid bookstore bill.
• Isaac said Flourish and Blotts would send his bill to Hogwarts for Dumbledore to pay, leaving Hermione stunned.

Isaac reassured Hermione after she mistook his observations for Legilimency, then saw the Granger family home and sent an urgent letter to Dumbledore. He ended the day exploring Diagon Alley, leaving the reason for his message unstated.

• Isaac told Hermione that Dumbledore was kind and explained that he had not used Legilimency to discern her thoughts.
• Mrs. Granger thanked Isaac, gave him the family’s address, and drove home with Hermione and her drunk husband.
• Isaac sent his waiting driver home, went to the Owl Emporium, and borrowed an owl to deliver an urgent letter to Dumbledore.
• Isaac bought treats for Cuckoo and browsed Diagon Alley, spending time comparing broom models before deciding broom-riding did not interest him.

After sensing an attempted abduction, Isaac summoned Dumbledore and told him a Death Eater serving Voldemort had targeted him. Dumbledore agreed to act and asked Isaac whether he wanted to become stronger, leaving Isaac suspicious of what the offer would entail.

• Isaac entered the candy shop beside Ollivanders and found Dumbledore waiting for him.
• Isaac told Dumbledore he had sensed danger, avoided a controlled driver, and believed a Death Eater had tried to attack him.
• Isaac urged Dumbledore to capture and interrogate the attacker, suggesting Legilimency or Veritaserum.
• Dumbledore asked Isaac to help identify the Death Eater, but Isaac could only point him out, not name him.
• Dumbledore asked Isaac whether he wanted to become stronger, and Isaac wondered what kind of pitch he was making.

Dumbledore told Isaac that he would reveal an unusual way to become stronger, then pointed out how he, Grindelwald, and Tom had all distinguished themselves as prodigies from a young age. Isaac recognized the pattern as resembling the invincible paths of cultivation novels, but Dumbledore had not yet explained what it meant for his training.

• Isaac worried that Dumbledore’s offer to make him stronger would cost money, and Dumbledore assured him it would be free.
• Dumbledore said he would skip ordinary study methods and asked Isaac what he, Grindelwald, and Tom had in common.
• Isaac concluded that all three wizards had made names for themselves while young.
• Dumbledore confirmed that their early excellence had put them far ahead of their peers from the start.
• Isaac connected their rise to fame with the invincible paths found in cultivation novels.

Isaac accepted Dumbledore’s plan to face a Dark Wizard as a way to develop extraordinary magical ability. He went to 12 Medway Street and waited for his pursuer, who arrived and began opening the house’s gate.

• Isaac questioned why Percy Weasley’s perfect Hogwarts record did not make him an outstanding young wizard, and Dumbledore explained that Grindelwald and Tom had exceptional magical talents beyond academic achievement.
• Dumbledore proposed that Isaac try subduing a Dark Wizard while he secretly watched over him, and Isaac agreed.
• Isaac left the Magic Candy Shop, asked Dumbledore to protect Anthony, and summoned the Knight Bus to 12 Medway Street.
• Isaac waited at home, confident the Dark Wizard following him would find the address.
• The Dark Wizard Apparated outside Isaac’s house, cast Alohomora on the front door, and opened the garden gate.

Isaac discussed the effects of Dark Magic with Grindelwald while an intruding dark wizard approached his home. After Grindelwald refused to teach him Protego Fiendfyre and vanished, Isaac’s prophetic vision led into a real confrontation with the intruder.

• Isaac spotted a dark wizard entering his garden and calmly discussed Dark Magic with Grindelwald as the intruder approached.
• Grindelwald explained that abusing Dark Magic eroded a wizard’s will and criticized Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
• Isaac asked Grindelwald to teach him Protego Fiendfyre, but Grindelwald refused and disappeared.
• Isaac unlocked a prophetic vision related to Grindelwald, then faced the intruding dark wizard in the drawing room.
• Isaac dodged the dark wizard’s Stupefy and knocked his wand away with Wingardium Leviosa, but the wizard enlarged it and swung at him.

Isaac fought off a dark wizard with the Disarming Charm and a youth-edition Fire Shield, but the flames nearly destroyed the villa before Dumbledore stopped them. After restoring the villa and binding the wizard, Dumbledore recognized how much Isaac’s magic resembled Grindelwald’s.

• The dark wizard attacked Isaac with three Cruciatus Curses and then tried to cast the Killing Curse, but Isaac dodged and disarmed him.
• Isaac cast Incendio and Protego Ignita, engulfing the dark wizard and the villa in crimson flames while protecting himself at the center.
• Isaac called for help, and Dumbledore arrived and extinguished the fire with Finite, leaving the dark wizard badly burned.
• Dumbledore restored the ruined villa, bound the dark wizard, and noticed that Isaac’s figure and magic resembled Grindelwald’s.

Dumbledore recognized that Isaac had controlled his duel with the dark wizard and suspected Grindelwald had taught him Protego Fiendfyre. After Aurors arrived, Isaac explained the fight and let them examine his wand, while Kingsley discovered something on the dark wizard’s left forearm.

• Dumbledore concluded that the dark wizard’s spells had failed against Isaac and recognized Protego Fiendfyre as one of Grindelwald’s signature techniques.
• Gawain Robards, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and John Dawlish Apparated to Isaac’s home after an alert about Unforgivable Curses.
• Dumbledore told the Aurors that Isaac had subdued the dark wizard, and Isaac recounted how he had been followed from Diagon Alley and fought his attacker.
• Isaac handed his wand to Robards, who used Prior Incantato to record the spells it had cast.
• Kingsley examined the dark wizard and called Robards over to look at the wizard’s left forearm.

After Isaac defeated a Death Eater who had attacked him, Dumbledore took him to Hogwarts to stay until term began. Isaac wondered why the Death Eaters had targeted him and resolved to wait for answers from Dumbledore.

• Gladwin recognized the attacker’s Dark Mark as proof that Isaac had captured a Death Eater, then took the man to the Auror Office.
• Dumbledore told Isaac to pack so he could begin life at Hogwarts early, and promised to ward Isaac’s home to protect Anthony.
• Dumbledore Apparated with Isaac to Hogwarts, where Krik showed Isaac to a suite in Professor Tower.
• Isaac settled into the suite and wondered why the Death Eaters had targeted him, adding another grievance against Tom.

Isaac learned that a Death Eater had attacked him after mistaking him for Dumbledore’s son, while Dumbledore privately acknowledged the Ministry was concealing the truth. Isaac then revealed that he knew Voldemort’s hiding place and proposed bringing him to Dumbledore, leaving the Headmaster stunned by the accuracy of Isaac’s knowledge.

• Isaac visited Dumbledore’s office, where Gawain Robards explained that a Death Eater had attacked him after rumors led the man to believe Isaac was Dumbledore’s son.
• Robards said the Ministry would publicize Isaac’s capture of the Death Eater and might invite him to meet Minister Fudge.
• After Robards left, Isaac told Dumbledore he doubted the Ministry’s account, and Dumbledore admitted Fudge would bury the truth even if he discovered it.
• Isaac asked whether Voldemort had sent the Death Eater and proposed teaming up with Dumbledore to bring Tom in for questioning.
• Dumbledore realized Isaac knew where Voldemort had been hiding and wondered whether Isaac’s prophecies were more reliable than Grindelwald’s.