Chapter Summaries

Skylar defeated Armand and reassured Draco that he did not seek the family patriarchal position, then bound the brothers with a blood pact. He left Draco to find his own purpose and revealed that he intended to break the limits of wizards’ understanding.

• Skylar collected a bead of Draco’s blood after Armand was defeated, and Draco awoke and apologized to him.
• Draco offered Skylar the Family Head’s Ring, but Skylar refused the patriarchal position and promised to support Draco as family head.
• Skylar proposed a Brothers’ Blood Pact, and the brothers fused their blood into a magical contract that prevented them from using magic to harm each other.
• Draco explained that jealousy had fueled his conflict with Skylar, and Skylar assured him that he would cherish the woman Draco cared about.
• Skylar urged Draco to find his own purpose and questioned whether wizards’ accepted reality concealed greater powers and truths.
• Skylar declared that his path was to break the illusions wizards held about their world.

With the investigation into the missing students stalled, the wizarding world shifted around the rising influence of Skylar and the House of Malfoy. As families changed allegiances and Daphne managed new ties, Skylar prepared to advance the Sleeping Dragon Society’s plans after mastering one more spell.

• Dumbledore and two Aurors questioned students and Hogwarts residents about the disappearances, but made no progress, and the four families eventually stopped pressing the investigation.
• The Wankanda Family prospered through its alliance with the Malfoys, while Mr. Bletchley was sidelined at the Ministry and Miles Bletchley remained missing.
• Skylar’s conduct at Druella’s funeral and his dazzling performance in the Triwizard Tournament boosted his reputation, drawing families to join the Malfoy camp.
• After Draco wrote to him, Lucius abandoned his plan to keep upholding pure-blood supremacy and recognized that the new alliances centered on Skylar himself.
• Skylar’s House Elves gathered intelligence across Britain, while Daphne handled smaller families’ offers of allegiance and attachment.
• Skylar hid in his Suitcase Space laboratory and prepared to move the Sleeping Dragon Society into its second stage, but first needed to master one spell.

Skylar used the Human Restoration Charm research to develop a way to remove curse magic, then extracted the Gorgon’s Curse rune from Nagini’s soul and sealed it in the Book of Merlin. He restored Nagini to human form, and she awoke in his laboratory asking who she was and where she was.

• Skylar studied the Human Restoration Charm and used its principles to advance his research into curse magic and transformation.
• Skylar gave Nagini a potion designed to counter transformation curses, then cast the Curse-Banishing Charm on her.
• Skylar revealed a blood-red Thurisaz rune on Nagini’s soul and identified it as the Gorgon’s Curse, linked to Runespoor blood.
• Skylar used Soul-Rending Slash to cut the curse rune from Nagini’s soul, and Aquila helped seal it inside the Book of Merlin.
• Skylar poured Phoenix tears over Nagini’s damaged body, used Reverse Transfiguration to restore her human form, and reunited her soul with her body.
• Nagini awoke as an Eastern woman and asked who she was and where she was.

Skylar revived a woman whose memories were gone and bound her to him with a ten-year master-servant contract, naming her Sarf. The contract awakened her magic and let Skylar share her Snake Animagus and Parseltongue abilities, leaving him with new powers and access to her magical strength.

• Skylar explained that he had saved the woman from a soul-corrupting curse and offered her a ten-year master-servant contract.
• The woman agreed, and Skylar formed the contract and named her Sarf.
• Sarf's bloodline magic awakened, raising her power to quasi-Auror level.
• Sarf discovered that she could transform into a giant snake and speak Parseltongue.
• Skylar revealed that the contract let him share Sarf's magic and talents, gaining her Animagus and Parseltongue abilities.

Skylar arranged a wand and business ventures for Sarf, then consolidated his control over Slytherin by winning the allegiance of its prefects and binding them with the Sleeping Dragon Mark. He left the house under his leadership and began building a network of supporters beyond Hogwarts.

• Skylar sent Ali Bashir to North America to acquire old snakewood for Sarf’s wand and to Peru to secure exclusive European distribution of Instant Darkness Powder.
• Daphne reported that most Slytherin students now regarded Skylar as their leader, while rival factions had dwindled in influence.
• Skylar summoned all six Slytherin prefects, whose families represented influential Ministry positions and political connections, and accepted their sworn allegiance.
• Skylar branded the prefects with the Sleeping Dragon Mark, a curse that let him track and summon them, control their lives, and detect anyone who spoke its name outside his strongholds.
• Skylar enrolled the prefects in the Sleeping Dragon Society and ordered them to recruit older students as future allies in business and politics.

Skylar read Rita Skeeter’s article portraying Harry Potter as a serial lover whose true partner was Ron Weasley, and Snape publicly mocked Harry over it in Potions class. Professor Karkaroff interrupted the lesson to insist on speaking privately with Snape, who refused to talk until class ended.

• Pansy showed Skylar and Daphne the latest Witch Weekly, where Rita Skeeter’s article claimed Harry had dated Hermione and Parvati before secretly falling in love with Ron.
• Snape caught Harry, Ron, and Hermione reading the magazine, took points from Gryffindor, and read the article aloud to the class.
• Snape separated Harry, Ron, and Hermione, while Skylar helped Daphne finish brewing the Wit-Sharpening Potion.
• Karkaroff entered the classroom and demanded to speak with Snape, but Snape told him to wait until after class.

Skylar explained to Snape and Karkaroff that the Mysterious Man was preparing to return to life and revealed how he believed the resurrection ritual would work. Karkaroff realized Harry Potter was the intended source of the enemy’s blood.

• Harry stayed behind after class to overhear Karkaroff’s urgent conversation with Snape, but Skylar sent him away.
• Karkaroff showed Snape and Skylar his Dark Mark, which had become unusually distinct, and Skylar said the Mysterious Man was about to return.
• Skylar cited Bryce’s disappearance from Riddle House and Peter Pettigrew’s contact with missing Ministry employee Bertha Jorkins as clues to the resurrection plan.
• Skylar reasoned that Pettigrew would provide the servant’s flesh, while Bryce’s death had helped provide the father’s bone, leaving the enemy’s blood as the final ingredient.
• Karkaroff recognized that Harry Potter was the intended source of the blood needed for the Flesh-and-Blood Sacrifice Ritual.

Skylar explained how Voldemort’s agent could use the Triwizard Tournament’s Portkey to abduct Harry, then offered Karkaroff protection in exchange for serving him. Karkaroff, fearing Dumbledore would suspect him of entering Harry’s name, accepted that he had few other options.

• Skylar deduced that Voldemort’s agent had used a Confundus Charm to enter Harry in the tournament and could alter the Goblet of Fire’s Portkey destination during the final task.
• Karkaroff and Snape were impressed by Skylar’s explanation, and Skylar warned Karkaroff that Dumbledore and Moody would suspect him.
• Snape told Karkaroff he could not prove his innocence and advised him to prepare for the worst.
• Skylar offered to guarantee Karkaroff’s safety if he served him, and Karkaroff recognized he had little choice but to consider the offer.

Skylar secured Karkaroff as a subordinate through an Unbreakable Vow and planned how to use him before Voldemort returned. After empowering the Sleeping Dragon Society to manage itself, Skylar went to the Black Lake to meet Eleanor, hoping to build an alliance against a hidden organization.

• With Snape witnessing, Skylar and Karkaroff made an Unbreakable Vow: Skylar would provide a safe house, and Karkaroff would give him access to all of Durmstrang, including its Restricted Section.
• Skylar decided Karkaroff could stay at Hogwarts as headmaster and help him handle affairs outside the school.
• Skylar gave the Sleeping Dragon Society one thousand Galleons and left its management to its prefects and other leaders while its members visited Hogsmeade.
• Skylar considered the Gaunt family's history and rejected the idea of founding a separate household, citing his promise to Draco and his affection for his family, especially Narcissa.
• Skylar went to the Black Lake to meet Eleanor and strengthen their alliance against the secret organization that had manipulated two Dark Lords.

Skylar visited Durmstrang’s Ghost Ship to speak with Eleanor Hohenheim and found her feverish and apparently weak in her room. Suspecting a trap but unable to understand why Eleanor would target him, he stayed at the open doorway and questioned her.

• Poliakov welcomed Skylar aboard the Ghost Ship and explained that Karkaroff had declared him a distinguished guest of Durmstrang.
• Poliakov led Skylar below deck, described the ship, and told him that Eleanor had been staying in her room and seemed unwell.
• Poliakov brought Skylar to Eleanor’s room, then left after teasing him about his chances with her.
• Skylar entered the doorway and found Eleanor lying beneath a quilt, flushed and sweating in her nightgown.
• Eleanor said she felt hot and thirsty, while Skylar suspected the scene was a trap and wondered why she would want to harm him.

Skylar identified the intruder aboard the Durmstrang ship as Barbarossa, the Pirate King, and learned that he had been sent by Walpurgis. The two prepared to fight in the ship’s cramped cabin, with Barbarossa revealing power just short of a Grand Sorcerer.

• Skylar ruled out the people aboard the ship and concluded that only the captain of another ghost ship could have bypassed its defenses.
• Skylar confronted the intruder and named him as Barbarossa, the Pirate King and ruler of the Pirate Family alliance.
• Barbarossa admitted his identity and inferred that someone had exposed his connection to Walpurgis.
• Skylar taunted Barbarossa about Walpurgis and wondered whether its leader would enter the fight after he defeated him.
• Barbarossa said Skylar would not escape the cramped cabin alive and unleashed magic at the level of a quasi-Grand Sorcerer.
• Skylar recognized that Barbarossa would be a tougher opponent than Armand II, but noted that his recent bond with Sarf had made him stronger.

Skylar confronted Armand to uncover the real reason behind the conflict with Draco, and discovered that the Family Head's Ring was a Horcrux feeding on Draco's life force. As Armand activated the ring, Skylar realized Lucius might not know what it truly was and glimpsed a possible key to stopping him.

• Skylar explained that he had risked confronting Armand to learn the deeper motive behind the conflict between him and Draco.
• Armand revealed the Family Head's Ring, and Skylar recognized it as the ring Lucius had worn.
• Skylar deduced that Draco had been chosen as the next family head and that the ring could explain the black mist he had seen around Lucius.
• Armand activated the ring, drawing on Draco's life force to strengthen his Horcrux.
• Skylar reasoned that Lucius might have believed the ring was only a family heirloom, and spotted a possible way to turn the situation in his favor.

Skylar confronted Armand about the Malfoy family’s lost inheritance, and Armand admitted that he had destroyed his family while pursuing immortality and greater power. Armand’s confession left him reveling in the magic and freedom he felt as he killed his relatives.

• Skylar concluded that Armand had caused the Malfoy family’s dwindling numbers and the loss of its bloodline gifts.
• Armand admitted that he had awakened the family’s Magic Eye and excelled at its secret spells before becoming bored with power and wealth.
• Armand explained that he created a Horcrux and began experimenting on Muggles, servants, and members of collateral branches to gain more power.
• Armand said his sister Agatha discovered his secret chamber, and he killed her, learning that powerful emotions could strengthen soul magic.
• Armand confessed that he killed his father, mother, uncles, and the rest of the family, feeling liberated and exhilarated with each death.

Armand revealed how he slaughtered most of House Malfoy, was brought down by a relative’s sacrificial spell, and later survived through a Horcrux hidden in the Family Head’s Ring. Skylar realized Armand had awakened to target him, and the chapter ended with Skylar wondering why so many powerful enemies had singled him out.

• Armand explained that he had killed nearly all of House Malfoy, while Nicholas and two other relatives survived.
• Armand said Agatha’s younger cousin sacrificed himself with an ancient spell that destroyed Armand’s body and carried a terrible price for House Malfoy.
• Armand connected the family’s curse to giant blood and demanded to know who Skylar was and how he could open the Magic Eye.
• Skylar realized Armand had survived as a Horcrux in the Family Head’s Ring and concluded that Armand’s true target was him.
• Skylar reflected on the many powerful groups and dark figures who had targeted him and wondered why they were all pursuing him.

Skylar deduced that Armand planned to use Bloodline Fusion to resurrect himself in a blood relative, and Armand revealed why he had chosen Skylar as his intended host. Armand prepared to seize Skylar’s unusually powerful body, believing its gifts would let him challenge even Dumbledore.

• Skylar explained that Armand had spared the Malfoy family because he needed blood descendants for Bloodline Fusion to restore his soul in a host body.
• Armand confirmed Skylar’s deductions and recounted how he had planned to possess Draco after Draco put on the Family Head's Ring.
• Armand described hiding his resurrection from powerful wizards and from Skylar, whose mental defenses and abilities made him difficult to deceive.
• Armand revealed that he coveted Skylar’s awakened bloodline, spiritual power, life force, magic, and Magic Eye, and regretted that Lucius II had not given him the ring.
• Armand declared that Skylar had always been his true target and said that taking Skylar’s body would make him strong enough to face Dumbledore.

Skylar used his transformed tentacles to cast combined runes and trap Armand’s black-mist form inside a blood sphere. The chapter ended with Skylar aiming his wand at the sphere and casting Soul-Sealing Spirit-Binding.

• Armand blocked Skylar’s Fourfold Elemental Strike, then bound Skylar’s hands and feet with black aura.
• Skylar revealed that he could cast spells with transformed tentacles, using them to inscribe Ancient Runic Magic Symbols.
• Skylar unleashed Ice and Fire Nine Heavens, sending ice dragons and Fire Salamanders at Armand.
• Armand raised the Shield of Light and Shadow, then turned into black mist and seized Skylar by the shoulders.
• Skylar transformed a blood arrow into a shield that liquefied around the black mist, trapping Armand and freeing Skylar.
• Skylar aimed his wand at the blood sphere and cast Soul-Sealing Spirit-Binding.

Skylar nearly sealed Armand’s soul, but a black beam from the mirror stand freed him, forcing Skylar to sacrifice his life force to regain his strength. Skylar struck Armand with lightning and then turned his attacks on six masked figures, leaving two bound as the fight continued.

• Skylar used black strands to encase Armand’s blood sphere, but the mirror stand fired a black beam that shattered it and freed Armand.
• Skylar realized he was running low on magic, then used life-sacrifice magic to restore his power despite the cost to his vitality and lifespan.
• Armand attacked with Soul-Rending Slash, while Skylar hit him with Grindelwald’s Lightning Curse and used Aquila to deflect the scythe’s strike.
• Skylar revealed a red lotus marking on his forehead and attacked six masked figures with Aquila’s duplicates, vines, and a lightning spear.
• Skylar’s vines stripped the wands from two masked figures and bound them in place.

After defeating Armand’s possession of Draco, Skylar reconciled with his brother and bound them with a Brothers' Blood Pact. He revealed that he wanted to break beyond the limits of what wizards believed to be reality.

• Skylar collected a drop of Draco’s blood, and Draco woke with his gray eyes restored after Armand’s defeat.
• Draco offered Skylar the Family Head’s Ring, but Skylar refused the patriarchal role and promised to support Draco if their family did not become his enemy.
• Skylar proposed a Brothers' Blood Pact, and he and Draco merged their blood into a magical container that prevented them from harming each other with magic.
• Draco admitted that jealousy had fueled his feelings, but Skylar guessed that his deeper reason involved a woman and promised to cherish her.
• Skylar urged Draco to find his own purpose, then explained that his own goal was to break the illusions and limits of wizarding understanding.

After the missing-student investigation stalled, political factions shifted as families responded to the House of Malfoy’s growing influence and Skylar’s rising reputation. Skylar managed the new alliances from his laboratory and prepared to advance the Sleeping Dragon Society’s plans, though he first needed to master a spell.

• Dumbledore’s investigation into the missing students produced no answers, and the four affected families had to let the matter rest.
• The Wankanda Family benefited from its alliance with the House of Malfoy, while the House of Bletchley lost influence after Mr. Bletchley was sidelined and Miles Bletchley vanished.
• Skylar’s reputation grew after Druella’s funeral and the Triwizard Tournament’s second task, prompting families including the Carrows, McLaggens, and Runcorns to align with the House of Malfoy.
• Lucius abandoned his plan to keep supporting pure-blood supremacy after recognizing that the new alliances followed Skylar personally.
• Skylar received intelligence from across Britain while Daphne handled smaller families’ pledges of allegiance.
• Skylar decided the Sleeping Dragon Society should enter its second phase, but he first needed to master a spell.

Skylar researched the Human Restoration Charm and used what he learned to remove the Gorgon’s Curse from Nagini, restoring her to human form. Nagini awoke in Skylar’s laboratory, confused and asking who she was and where she was.

• Skylar successfully used the Human Restoration Charm on a transformed Werewolf and continued researching curse-driven transformations.
• Skylar gave Nagini an improved anti-curse potion, then cast the Curse-Banishing Charm and found a Thurisaz rune attached to her soul.
• Skylar used Soul-Rending Slash to cut the rune from Nagini’s soul and, with Aquila’s help, sealed it inside the Book of Merlin.
• Skylar used Phoenix tears to restore Nagini’s damaged body and soul, then cast Reverse Transfiguration and reunited her human form with her soul.
• Nagini awakened as a young Eastern woman and asked who she was and where she was.