Chapter Summaries

Yaxley and Selwyn explained how the werewolf attack and House of Rowle’s destruction had been manipulated to sow discord among the Death Eaters. Voldemort learned that House of Malfoy, House of Nott, and the Greengrass Family had taken House of Rowle’s assets, and concluded that Lucius and Nott had betrayed him.

• Yaxley told Voldemort that unknown conspirators had infiltrated the werewolves, triggered their split, and used the chaos to expose Black Sin Square and destroy House of Rowle.
• Voldemort accused the Death Eaters of helping destroy House of Rowle, and Selwyn and Avery denied involvement.
• Voldemort tortured Avery with the Cruciatus Curse while Harry trembled in fear, bound to the gravestone.
• Selwyn admitted that he and Yaxley had sought House of Rowle’s assets, but House of Malfoy, House of Nott, and the Greengrass Family had already divided them.
• Voldemort realized that Lucius and Nott had profited from the turmoil and accused them of betraying him.

Voldemort learned that Lucius Malfoy had likely betrayed him and listened as Selwyn recounted the escalating conflicts surrounding Lucius’s second son. Selwyn concluded that the boy was a monster, leaving Voldemort with a grave warning about the power they had provoked.

• Voldemort questioned Selwyn about Lucius Malfoy’s absence and the unusual abilities of Lucius’s second son.
• Selwyn described how the boy’s published account of defeating a Basilisk and his victory in a public duel raised his standing at Hogwarts.
• Selwyn recounted how several pure-blood families allied against House of Malfoy after an attack on the boy failed.
• Selwyn explained that attacks and upheavals followed, including the slaughter of House of Lestrange, Dolfin’s imprisonment, and the destruction of House of Rowle.
• Selwyn said the Moreau Family’s attacks at the Yule Ball and beneath the Black Lake failed, while Irina Selwyn and several other heirs disappeared.
• Selwyn told Voldemort that they had provoked a monster, not merely a fourth-year student or a Malfoy heir.

Voldemort considered bringing House of Malfoy back into the Death Eaters, but Fawley and Mr. Selwyn warned that the family had become too powerful and mysterious. Selwyn attributed its growing influence to Skylar Malfoy, whose reputation reminded them of Albus Dumbledore.

• Voldemort said he would forgive Lucius and restore his standing if Lucius brought his son into the Death Eaters.
• Fawley, secretly tasked by the Fawley Family with driving a wedge between Voldemort and House of Malfoy, suggested Lucius must have powerful backing.
• Mr. Selwyn described House of Malfoy's rapid rise and how several families had left their former alliances to join its camp.
• Selwyn revealed that Carrow and Nott had secretly contacted House of Malfoy despite being part of an alliance opposing it.
• Selwyn concluded that the families were drawn by Skylar Malfoy's reputation and said the boy reminded them of Albus Dumbledore.

Voldemort abandoned the idea of recruiting House of Malfoy after Selwyn’s allies persuaded him that the family was too formidable to win over, and he planned to destroy it instead. He rewarded several followers, revealed that a loyal servant at Hogwarts had helped bring Harry to the graveyard, then tortured Harry and prepared to duel him.

• Selwyn argued that House of Malfoy could only be won over by someone with Dumbledore’s ability to turn enemies into allies, and Voldemort struck him down.
• Selwyn, Fawley, and Yaxley realized their scheme to turn Voldemort against House of Malfoy had succeeded, and Voldemort decided the family was his enemy.
• Voldemort spoke of the Lestranges, the Dementors, the Giants, and the Fantastic Beasts who would join him, then healed Selwyn and increased his magic.
• Voldemort promised Macnair future work, gave Peter Pettigrew a silver false hand, and said a loyal servant at Hogwarts had helped bring Harry to the graveyard.
• Voldemort told the Death Eaters that Harry’s blood now protected him from Harry’s mother’s magic, tortured Harry with the Cruciatus Curse, and ordered Wormtail to untie him and return his wand.

Harry faced Voldemort at the graveyard until Skylar Malfoy arrived and challenged Voldemort over the Death Eaters’ hostility toward him. Voldemort realized Selwyn and Shadow of the Magic Dragon might have manipulated him, while Skylar suggested they might instead be using him.

• Voldemort forced Harry to bow and prepared to duel him in the graveyard.
• Skylar Malfoy appeared through a swirling vortex, and his overwhelming magical pressure drove the Death Eaters back.
• Skylar questioned why Voldemort and the Death Eaters treated him as an enemy despite his father Lucius Malfoy’s loyalty.
• Skylar accused Selwyn of first turning Voldemort against him, and Voldemort ordered Selwyn to explain himself.
• Voldemort realized Shadow of the Magic Dragon might have used him to kill Skylar, but Skylar suggested they could be using him instead.

Skylar confronted Voldemort and explained how he had uncovered the Goblet of Fire plot and killed Barty Crouch Jr. He concluded that Shadow of the Magic Dragon had sent him to fight Voldemort so it could expose his abilities and weaken both sides.

• Voldemort questioned whether Skylar believed he could fight him, and Skylar challenged Voldemort’s plan to bring Harry to him through the Goblet of Fire.
• Skylar explained that he had deduced the Goblet’s Portkey had been altered with a Confundus Charm, and suggested Dumbledore might have allowed the scheme to proceed.
• Voldemort grew furious at the suggestion that Dumbledore had anticipated his plan, while Skylar revealed that he had killed Barty Crouch Jr.
• Skylar said Shadow of the Magic Dragon had threatened him through Barty Jr., forcing him to come, and reasoned that the group had also arranged for Harry to appear there.
• Skylar privately concluded that Shadow of the Magic Dragon intended to use Voldemort to reveal Skylar’s hidden abilities and weaken both Voldemort’s Death Eaters and Skylar.

Skylar taunted Voldemort and sent Harry away from the graveyard before Voldemort could kill him. Voldemort then attacked Skylar with the Killing Curse, only for Skylar to block it and shatter his belief that the curse could not be resisted.

• Skylar mocked Voldemort for threatening Harry and offered to deal with him instead.
• Skylar secretly warned Harry to value his life, then knocked him into the Goblet of Fire, which vanished with him.
• Voldemort accused Skylar of ruining his plans and cast the Killing Curse at him.
• Skylar drew a hidden wand and blocked Voldemort's Killing Curse, leaving Voldemort stunned.

Skylar confronted Voldemort in the graveyard, redirecting Voldemort’s Killing Curse to kill Avery and countering his Fiendfyre with black flames. Voldemort summoned a group of enchanted Inferi as a trap, leaving Skylar facing the dangerous corpses.

• Skylar revealed that his spatial magic, Moon Shifts, Stars Move, had redirected Voldemort’s attack onto Avery.
• Skylar hinted that he knew Voldemort’s secrets and that the Killing Curse could not kill him, making Voldemort suspect Skylar had discovered his Horcruxes.
• Voldemort ordered the Death Eaters to kill Skylar, but they hesitated, so Voldemort attacked with Fiendfyre.
• Skylar split Voldemort’s blue Fiendfyre and turned half of it black, gradually overpowering Voldemort’s flames.
• Voldemort released a shriek that caused more than twenty Inferi to burst from the graves, then surrounded them with black mist serpents.
• Voldemort prepared to use the Inferi as explosive traps, having secretly dosed them with dangerous potions.

Skylar suspected Voldemort had summoned the Inferi to trigger a hidden effect, so he avoided burning them and used wind and flight to keep them at a distance. He then revealed his Hypergravity Domain, pinning Voldemort, the Inferi, and the Death Eaters to the ground.

• Skylar extinguished his Fiendfyre and used Hurricane Repel Foes to block the charging Inferi.
• Voldemort cast a Parseltongue spell that infused the Inferi with power, allowing them to push through Skylar’s wind barrier.
• Skylar flew above the Inferi on wind wheels, prompting Voldemort to leap after him and try to intercept him.
• Skylar activated Hypergravity Domain, forcing Voldemort, more than twenty Inferi, and nine Death Eaters onto the ground.
• Skylar explained that the spell built on the gravity principles behind the Levitation Charm and revealed its name to Voldemort.

Skylar explained how Fate’s gift let him develop Ultimate Spells that could assign targets and areas to basic charms, then faced Voldemort for a decisive duel. As their spells charged, both suddenly stopped.

• Skylar recalled that Fate’s gift had transformed his understanding of Charms and allowed him to create Ultimate Spells.
• Skylar described Hypergravity Domain, which crushed the Death Eaters while Voldemort resisted its tenfold gravity.
• Harry learned that Rita Skeeter had exposed Hagrid’s Half-Giant heritage, leaving Hagrid absent from Care of Magical Creatures class.
• Skylar and Voldemort raised their wands and prepared their decisive attacks.
• Skylar and Voldemort both suddenly stopped as their spells were about to erupt.

Voldemort recounted his rise and planned his escape after realizing he could not defeat Lucius's second son, who had overwhelmed his Inferi and Death Eaters. He prepared to challenge the young wizard to a wand beam struggle while keeping Apparition ready as a fallback.

• Voldemort recalled how he had become Tom Riddle, discovered his heritage as Salazar Slytherin's heir, and transformed himself into the Dark Lord through Dark Arts and Horcruxes.
• After returning from death, Voldemort faced a young wizard who had escaped unharmed and opposed him, while many of his followers were absent.
• Voldemort worried that the young wizard had discovered his Horcruxes and resolved to retrieve them, especially the Diary, the cup, the Diadem, the Ring, and the Locket.
• Voldemort summoned self-destructing Inferi to drive the young wizard away, but the wizard flattened the Inferi and Death Eaters with a powerful application of the Levitation Charm.
• Voldemort decided to challenge the young wizard to a beam struggle with the Killing Curse, intending to Apparate away if the clash went against him.

A large-scale anti-Apparition spell disrupted Skylar and Voldemort's duel, and an unknown force broke Skylar's Hypergravity Domain. Morgan le Fay and Barbarossa emerged with nearly a hundred members of the Shadow of the Magic Dragon, and Morgan revealed that she had arranged the trap to witness Skylar's true strength.

• Skylar recognized the suppressed magical fluctuation as spatial magic, while Voldemort realized that someone else had caused it.
• Voldemort failed to Apparate and learned from Skylar that a large-scale anti-Apparition spell covered the area.
• A burst of white light scorched Skylar's palm and broke his Hypergravity Domain, freeing the Death Eaters and Inferi.
• The monster statue at the graveyard entrance split apart, revealing a pit from which Barbarossa and Morgan le Fay rose.
• Morgan mocked Barbarossa for losing to Skylar and said she had arranged the trap to see Skylar's true strength.
• Morgan summoned nearly a hundred robed members of the Shadow of the Magic Dragon from pits in the ground.

Voldemort recognized the Shadow of the Magic Dragon’s arrival as a force of one hundred elite Auror-level Dark Soulers and considered joining forces with Skylar. Skylar was overwhelmed by the sight of the woman who resembled Meredith, and the chapter ended with him struggling to regain his composure.

• Voldemort identified the Shadow of the Magic Dragon and recognized the power of its two leaders and its Dark Soulers.
• One hundred Dark Soulers descended and formed ranks behind the leaders, alarming Voldemort with their strength.
• Voldemort asked Skylar to join forces, but Skylar stood motionless and unresponsive.
• Skylar recognized Meredith’s former features in the tall woman and recalled their past together.
• Skylar felt deep regret and lost his will to fight, then bit his tongue to recover some composure.

Selwyn fled Voldemort’s side, and Morgan used a deadly spell and an attack on Skylar’s memories to turn the confrontation in her group’s favor. She then revealed that she had brought Skylar and Voldemort together because she wanted to recruit them, and exposed Skylar’s Thestral Wand as evidence of his dark magic.

• Lady Selwyn urged her husband Selwyn to join Morgan, and he ran toward Morgan and Barbarossa’s camp.
• Voldemort cast a Killing Curse at Selwyn, but a black vortex swallowed it before it could strike him.
• Morgan used Meredith’s voice and mannerisms to assault Skylar’s mind, leaving him injured until he broke her enchantment and sealed his thoughts.
• Voldemort attacked Morgan, but a water man turned to ice and blocked his Killing Curse; Barbarossa then spoke up.
• Morgan said she and her followers were not enemies of Skylar and Voldemort, since they all sought to change the world and were regarded as dark wizards.
• Morgan identified Skylar’s wand as the Thestral Wand, and Skylar restrained himself from attacking her.

Morgan explained the Death School and claimed Skylar’s wand was connected to the legendary Death Wand, its Thestral core having evolved into the primordial dragon Draco Mortem. She declared Skylar destined to become a Dark Lord and join her, but he rejected her and insisted he would choose his own future.

• Morgan described how ancient magical schools differed from modern magical subjects and explained that the Death School pursued death and raising the dead.
• Morgan traced the Death Wand to the Peverell family and said Skylar’s wand felt closely connected to the legendary weapon, also known as the Elder Wand.
• Morgan claimed Skylar’s Thestral tail-hair core had evolved into Draco Mortem after he used powerful Dark Arts and formed the intent to kill Barty Crouch Jr.
• Skylar challenged Morgan’s assumption that wand evolution meant he would become a dark wizard, and Morgan insisted that his compatibility with the wand marked him as destined to become a Dark Lord.
• Skylar refused Morgan’s proposal, declaring that he would not join her and would decide his own future.

Morgan revealed that she had taken almost complete control of Meredith and offered Voldemort and the remaining Death Eaters a place in the Shadow of the Magic Dragon. After the Death Eaters defected, Skylar warned Voldemort that Morgan had secretly cursed them with an Anti-Flight Jinx, leaving Voldemort cornered as Morgan pressed him to choose.

• Morgan asked the remaining Death Eaters to join her organization, and Selwyn urged his former companions to accept.
• Yaxley defected first, and the other seven Death Eaters followed, leaving Voldemort alone beside Avery’s corpse.
• Morgan invited Voldemort to join the Shadow of the Magic Dragon and warned that he could not escape the Anti-Apparition Array.
• Skylar revealed that Morgan had silently cast an Anti-Flight Jinx on him and Voldemort during their duel.
• Voldemort confirmed he could no longer use Unsupported Flight and faced poor odds of escaping as Morgan demanded his answer.

Morgan persuaded Voldemort to join her organization by offering protection for his Horcruxes and support for his ambitions. Voldemort agreed to cooperate while demanding some autonomy, and Morgan positioned him as the organization’s public representative.

• Morgan told Voldemort that Dumbledore and Skylar had discovered his Horcruxes and that some might already have been found or destroyed.
• Morgan offered to retrieve and protect Voldemort’s Horcruxes if he joined her organization.
• Voldemort realized Morgan likely knew about his Horcruxes and agreed to join, while insisting on a degree of autonomy.
• Morgan explained that the organization would support Voldemort’s ambitions and use him as its public spokesperson.
• Voldemort accepted the proposed cooperation and said he believed it would benefit them both.

Skylar revealed that his wand's apparent evolution had been concealed by an outer layer of grapevine wood, and its true power disrupted Voldemort and Barbarossa's connection to their wands. He deduced that Morgan's bloodline came from the Hell Dragon Emperor, and Morgan confirmed his suspicions as the confrontation continued.

• Skylar accused Morgan of trying to recruit him so she could soothe Meredith's soul within her, and explained his knowledge of Bloodline Fusion.
• Skylar peeled away the alchemical grapevine coating on his wand, revealing a silver wand whose magic made Voldemort and Barbarossa lose their natural connection to their own wands.
• Skylar reasoned that the wand's resonance with Morgan came from something linked to Draco Mortem, ruled out the Death Wand, and identified Morgan's Hell Dragon Emperor bloodline.
• Morgan confirmed Skylar's deductions and said she had arranged to bring him there alone and let Voldemort force him to reveal his abilities.

Morgan tried to persuade Skylar to join her by claiming she and Meredith were one person, but Skylar refused to betray the real Mei. He activated the Nether Night Wand’s hidden power, and his magic surged to nearly the level of Dumbledore wielding the Elder Wand as Morgan, Barbarossa, and Voldemort watched in shock.

• Morgan offered to take Meredith’s name and become Skylar’s wife, arguing that Bloodline Fusion had united their souls and personalities.
• Skylar acknowledged Morgan’s formidable qualities but refused her offer, saying he could not compromise himself or face Mei’s forgiveness.
• Skylar pressed his left thumb against the Nether Night Wand and unleashed its concealed golden lightning.
• The wand’s power restored Skylar’s magic and raised it to the pinnacle of a Magus, nearly matching Dumbledore with the Elder Wand.
• Morgan, Barbarossa, and Voldemort gasped at Skylar’s revealed power.

The chapter explains how Morgan le Fay’s damaged primordial spirit and Barbarossa’s cursed power left them at the quasi-Archmage level, while Voldemort was a powerful but one-dimensional Archmage. Skylar’s revealed peak Archmage strength meant none of the three could defeat her alone, though their numerical advantage remained.

• Morgan le Fay’s near-sealing by Merlin damaged her primordial spirit, forcing her to sleep for millennia and later seek rebirth in Meredith, her last blood descendant.
• Meredith’s lingering consciousness and Pure Love prevented Morgan from fully taking over her body or reaching Archmage strength.
• Barbarossa rose from a poor Beauxbatons graduate to Pirate King after Jafar’s Horcrux empowered him, but Herpo’s curse capped his magic at the quasi-Archmage level.
• Voldemort was identified as a genuine Archmage whose reliance on raw power and Dark Arts had made his methods too one-dimensional to overcome Skylar.
• Morgan le Fay, Barbarossa, and Voldemort realized that none could beat Skylar one-on-one, though they still had the advantage of numbers.