Chapter Summaries

Skylar sorted the Yaxley and Selwyn treasures and discovered House Yaxley’s Undying Avatar spell, then recovered the complete Lestrange family magic. He questioned why House Selwyn’s hereditary spells seemed so ordinary.

• Skylar summoned Latifa, Dobby, and Winky to sort the books, treasures, and Dark Arts items with the House Yaxley and House Selwyn elves.
• Skylar found House Yaxley’s Undying Avatar spell, an immortal duplicate that required the magical power of a Grand Sorcerer, and stored its scroll.
• Skylar reunited the two portions of the Lestrange family inheritance and acquired its complete magic focused on twisting the senses and breaking minds.
• Skylar examined House Selwyn’s hereditary spells and wondered why the powerful family possessed only ordinary inheritances.

Skylar investigated the Selwyn family’s history and discovered its ancestor had helped finance the Knights Templar before cutting ties with them. Memories suggested a hidden faction had taken the Holy Grail and orchestrated the Templars’ destruction, and Skylar concluded the Death God Sect was the likely culprit.

• Skylar reasoned that the Selwyn family’s lasting influence likely came from exclusive knowledge that let it dominate a core industry.
• Skylar found a reference to Royston Cave in the Selwyn family documents and recalled that it had once been a Knights Templar gathering place.
• Skylar reviewed Travers Selwyn’s memories and learned that a Selwyn ancestor had financed the Knights Templar before severing ties and paying Philip IV to avoid being implicated.
• Skylar discovered from the memories that a hidden force had stirred up the Knights Templar’s destruction and taken possession of the Holy Grail.
• Skylar ruled out the Shadow of the Magic Dragon and Walpurgis, then identified the Death God Sect as the likely hidden force.

Skylar discovered House of Selwyn’s secret inheritance, then secured its valuables and arranged for House Elves to spy on their former masters. He left the Chamber of Secrets with Sarf and Winky, carrying the family’s books, documents, and inherited magic.

• Sarf used a charm on Skylar, but he broke free and told her he would not pursue romance until Meredith was rescued and Astoria’s Blood Curse was broken.
• Skylar read House of Selwyn’s secret inheritance and began organizing the family’s magical items.
• Skylar sent Dobby and the packed boxes to Ella Cottage, then ordered Winky to take him elsewhere.
• Skylar used the Imperius Curse to make two House Elves forget the night and secretly monitor their former masters.
• Skylar collected House of Selwyn and House of Yaxley’s books, documents, and inherited magic, then departed with Sarf and Winky.

Skylar and his companions searched an abandoned Selwyn manor for the family’s lost inheritance and found a strange Muggle telephone that seemed to conceal a password mechanism. Hoping to uncover the password, Skylar asked Aquila and Aslan about using a Time-Turner without suffering its backlash, then questioned the Heart of Valor’s purpose.

• Skylar, Sha'erfu, and Winky searched the abandoned manor but found no sign of Selwyn’s inheritance.
• Skylar noticed alchemical engravings on a receiverless rotary telephone and deduced that its password used the numbers 0, 1, 2, and 3.
• Skylar concluded that the inheritance had been lost and that the password clue was probably hidden somewhere in the ruined manor.
• Skylar summoned Aquila and Aslan and asked whether they could help him use a Time-Turner while avoiding time’s backlash.
• Aquila and Aslan explained that Skylar’s unusual mental strength and vitality might help him withstand time magic, and discussed the powers of Pure Blood and the Heart of Valor.
• Skylar asked whether the Heart of Valor existed only as a prerequisite for Soaring Battle Intent.

Skylar learned that Gryffindor’s Heart of Valor strengthened a wizard’s character and used a Time-Turner technique to observe the history of the Selwyn inheritance. He arrived at a hidden Selwyn laboratory with Winky and Sha’erfu.

• Aslan explained that Gryffindor’s exceptional strength in duels came from a fiery strength of character, which the Heart of Valor could pass on.
• Aquila described a way for Skylar to travel through time by separating and attaching a wisp of spiritual consciousness, and Skylar chose Aslan as its vessel.
• Skylar witnessed how a Selwyn wizard killed himself to keep the key’s power from falling into Voldemort’s hands.
• Skylar used a rotary phone Portkey to reach an underground alchemy laboratory and concluded it was where House of Selwyn secretly conducted dissection experiments.
• Winky and Sha’erfu Apparated into the laboratory with Skylar; Winky was frightened, while Sha’erfu examined the room with interest.

Skylar and Sha'erfu discovered a Selwyn laboratory filled with living house-elf organs preserved in an unknown liquid. After taking Felix Felicis, Skylar suspected the House of Selwyn might be producing house-elves through its experiments, leaving him to question where the elves assigned to wizarding families came from.

• Sha'erfu examined jars of organs, and Skylar identified them as house-elf organs, frightening Winky into collapsing.
• Skylar put Winky to sleep and showed Sha'erfu that the organs were still alive and being preserved by the liquid in the jars.
• Sha'erfu proposed taking the jars, but Skylar wondered why the Selwyns had dissected so many house-elves despite how difficult they were to obtain.
• Skylar drank Felix Felicis and realized the Selwyns' experiments might be the source of their wealth, with house-elves serving as their product.
• Skylar recalled that house-elves could not leave their masters' homes without permission and wondered how they reproduced and where the Ministry's assigned elves came from.

Skylar discovered that the Selwyns had used a living house-elf mother body and magical incubation technology to produce house-elves for the slave trade. He claimed the hidden chamber and its contents, then prepared to leave with Sarf and Winky.

• Skylar examined the alchemical tools and had Sarf pack them for the Dragon Soul Team.
• Skylar lay on the execution table and discovered it was a delayed Portkey that transported wizards to a hidden chamber.
• Skylar found a house-elf test subject suspended in a tank and recognized it as the source of modern house-elves.
• Skylar deduced that the Selwyns had used the mother body to mass-produce house-elves and sell them through the Ministry of Magic.
• Skylar used spatial magic to return to the first chamber and decided to take the execution table, mother body, and incubation tank with him.

Harry visited Hagrid with Ron and Hermione, but Hagrid’s reassurance did little to ease Harry’s worries about Voldemort’s return and Skylar Malfoy’s unexplained actions. Hermione suspected Hagrid’s secret summer mission and Fleur’s interest in Harry were connected to a major change involving the French wizarding world.

• Hermione persuaded the gloomy Harry to visit Hagrid with her and Ron.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione met Madame Maxime and Fleur leaving Hagrid’s hut, and Fleur praised Harry and said they would meet again.
• Hagrid reassured Harry that Voldemort could be opposed and revealed that Dumbledore had given him a secret summer assignment that might involve Madame Maxime.
• Harry left Hagrid’s hut still troubled by unanswered questions about Voldemort, Skylar Malfoy, and Hermione’s kidnapping.
• Hermione wondered whether Hagrid’s mission and Fleur’s words signaled that French wizarding forces would join a major upheaval.

With Defense Against the Dark Arts cancelled, Skylar considered Quidditch training plans for Slytherin and introduced the Night Charm Witch Robes he had created for the Sleeping Dragon Society’s female leaders. The chapter ended with the society’s eleven core members receiving level-up notifications.

• Draco trained Pansy at the Quidditch pitch, while Skylar considered arranging summer training with Puddlemere United and the Holyhead Harpies.
• Blaise Zabini’s social club reached fifty members, though it had far more male than female members, which Blaise blamed on Skylar.
• Skylar presented the Night Charm Witch Robes to Daphne, Astoria, Sarf, and Morrie in the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.
• Skylar explained that the robes offered storage, defensive enchantments, magical absorption, evasion, and concealment.
• The system announced that Daphne, Sarf, Luna, Morrie, Cho Chang, Susan, Astoria, Flora, Hestia, Joanna Derwent, and Melinda Burbage had leveled up.

Skylar heard Corban Yaxley report on the victory over House of Avery and the treasures recovered from its estates. Corban presented the family’s final treasure, the Evil Spirit Battle Chess, leaving Skylar to learn what made it famous.

• Skylar praised Corban Yaxley, Claude Fawley, and Squall Slughorn for defeating House of Avery and dividing its businesses.
• Corban reported recovering magical books, three Dark Arts books, and two chests of alchemical items from the Avery properties and vault.
• Skylar took the Dark Arts books and said Latifa and the House Elves would sort the remaining treasures.
• Corban explained that House of Avery’s Dark Arts items had mostly been used up during the battle, and Skylar praised Claude for killing Avery’s youngest son before he could activate the family’s greatest treasure.
• Corban presented the Avery family’s final treasure, a wizard chess set called Evil Spirit Battle Chess.

Skylar discovered and claimed the dangerous Evil Spirit Battle Chess and House of Avery’s archives. He made Claude Fawley and Squire Slughorn his servants and sent them to infiltrate their families for the Sleeping Dragon Society.

• Skylar examined the Evil Spirit Battle Chess and learned that its pieces held resentful spirits bound by necromancy, making the weapon powerful but potentially uncontrollable.
• Skylar deduced that House of Avery had feared the chess set might turn on its users after being unleashed, and he decided to keep it as a means of creating chaos.
• Corban gave Skylar House of Avery’s secret archives, including family magic and historical records about famous European dark wizards.
• Skylar formed master-servant contracts with Claude Fawley and Squire Slughorn, then ordered them to build influence in their families and gather intelligence for the Sleeping Dragon Society.
• Skylar told Claude Fawley and Squire Slughorn that they might eventually seize their families’ leadership, and both pledged themselves eagerly to him.

Skylar explained to Morrie and the others why he believed former Death Eaters and pure-blood families could be brought into the Sleeping Dragon Society, arguing that he could offer them wealth and power while advancing reform. The conversation turned to whether the Society should also win over Muggle-born wizards, and the girls questioned whether Skylar’s interest was motivated by Hermione Granger.

• Morrie worried that Skylar could not trust the dangerous former Death Eaters, and Skylar said he would lead them by offering greater rewards than Voldemort or Dumbledore.
• Astoria asked how pure-blood supremacists could fit the Society’s aims, and Skylar argued that they cared chiefly about benefits and could profit by taking wealth from other pure-blood families.
• Daphne concluded that pure-blood families had supported Voldemort because they lacked a better option, and Skylar contrasted his approach with Dumbledore’s idealistic alliance with the Pure-Blood Traitor Faction.
• Skylar said the Rowle and Avery families had been made examples, while Selwyn and Yaxley’s declarations had left other pure-blood factions with little ability to resist him.
• Morrie asked whether the Society needed to recruit Muggle-born wizards, and Daphne and Sarf teased Skylar about his interest in Granger.
• Skylar reflected that his girlfriends had been uncomfortable after he revealed his private pledge to Eleanor, though Eleanor’s family and her life in Germany made her easier for them to accept.

Skylar explained to Daphne, Astoria, and Morrie how Dumbledore used his influence at Hogwarts to marginalize Slytherin and shape the Savior Trio’s beliefs. He argued that Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix served a broader political purpose than defeating Voldemort.

• Skylar told Daphne that he and Hermione were only friends and that he had rejected her interest in him.
• Daphne asked why Dumbledore chose Hermione for the Order of the Phoenix, and Skylar described Dumbledore’s influence over Hogwarts and Slytherin’s exclusion.
• Skylar argued that Dumbledore had favored James Potter and Gryffindor while Slytherins such as Snape were judged more harshly for similar behavior.
• Skylar explained how Ron, Harry, and Hermione had been selected and shaped to carry Dumbledore’s ideals into the wizarding world.
• Skylar concluded that Dumbledore had founded the Order of the Phoenix for more than simply defeating Voldemort.

Skylar explained why the Sleeping Dragon Society recruited Muggle-born wizards, arguing that broader participation and reduced class barriers could drive innovation in the magical world. The Society reported new intelligence, alliances, recruits, and research teams, while Skylar prioritized studying the Black Bowtruckle.

• Skylar told Daphne and Morrie that monopolized wealth and knowledge stifled innovation, and that Muggle-born wizards could contribute new ideas and talents.
• Daphne reported that Peter Pettigrew had joined the Bounty Hunters Guild and would train in war-torn Middle Eastern countries.
• Daphne said the heads of House of Bletchley, House of Quigley, and House of Cadwaladr had sworn loyalty to Skylar through magical contracts.
• Eurig Cadwallader and his friend Summerby joined the Sleeping Dragon Society and were assigned to Susan's Dragon Eye Group to gather intelligence and recruit Hufflepuffs.
• Morrie reported that two project teams had begun researching the Black Bowtruckle and active storage fluid, and Skylar ordered the Black Bowtruckle research given higher priority.

Skylar ordered the Avery family’s bodies turned into Inferi and learned that Bahaza Bole had been secretly revived. After discovering that Fleur had joined Hagrid and Maxime’s journey to find giants, he decided to use her trail to plan an ambush against Voldemort’s forces, then prepared to study the magical treasures he had acquired.

• Skylar told Sha'erfu to turn the forty-three Avery corpses into Inferi and store them for emergencies.
• Sha'erfu reported that Bahaza Bole had been secretly dug out of his grave and was gathering intelligence beneath Miraculous Alchymia.
• Daphne told Skylar that Hagrid had persuaded Maxime to travel to the Ural Mountains to recruit giants, and that Fleur would accompany them and send intelligence.
• Skylar changed his mind about staying out of the mission and planned to follow Fleur’s trail to ambush whoever Voldemort sent to recruit the giants.
• After the Sleeping Dragon Society meeting ended, Skylar reviewed his allies’ assignments and prepared for secluded training, though he still needed to visit someone first.

Skylar asked Trelawney to prophesy the future of the world after she revealed that her Inner Eye could not perceive his fate. Meanwhile, Voldemort, Morgan le Fay, Barbarossa, and Jafar Yahya entered the hidden chamber of Herpo, the true leader of the Knights of Walpurgis.

• Trelawney told Skylar that her visions foretold a fierce enemy threatening Hogwarts and that he was somehow involved.
• Trelawney said she could not see any trace of fate around Skylar and asked whether he had severed fate's shackles, but Skylar denied knowing what she meant.
• Skylar asked Trelawney to use one of their remaining prophecy agreements to foretell the future of the world.
• Voldemort, Morgan le Fay, Barbarossa, and Jafar Yahya arrived at a hidden shop in Knockturn Alley, where Jafar opened the way to Herpo's underground chamber.

Herpo gathered Voldemort and Morgan le Fay to learn what each hoped to gain from overthrowing the wizarding world. The meeting ended in rising hostility after Herpo dismissed their ambitions as impractical fantasies.

• Jafar told Herpo that everyone had arrived, and Herpo introduced himself as Vile Herpo, an ancient Parseltongue who had survived since antiquity.
• Herpo asked the group to explain their goals, and Voldemort said he wanted to seize control of the Ministry, establish pure-blood rule, and become remembered as a great wizard.
• Herpo revealed that Salazar Slytherin had created the technique sealing him and that only a fragment of Slytherin’s soul remained.
• Morgan said she wanted to rebuild the Avalon School, reclaim what she had lost, and wipe out King Arthur’s descendants.
• Herpo called Voldemort’s and Morgan’s ambitions impractical fantasies, provoking them as Jafar and Barbarossa released their magic in response.

Herpo challenged Voldemort and Morgan’s plans to impose their ideals by force, arguing that the modern wizarding world would resist them. He gathered reports on Walpurgis’s forces in preparation for an operation in Great Britain, while warning that Dumbledore and the International Confederation of Wizards remained threats.

• Herpo argued that Voldemort’s rule by violence would face new challengers, and Voldemort blamed his earlier defeat on underestimating a fifteen-year-old boy.
• Herpo told Morgan that restoring the Avalon School would be difficult because modern magical education had made its old teachings less appealing.
• Morgan said the Shadow of the Magic Dragon had more than thirty members and could train them into Dark Soulers within a year.
• Barbarossa reported that the Flying Dutchman’s crew and Ge Lang’s men were gathering in the North Sea, while Jafar said Cobra’s forces would infiltrate Great Britain with about forty Auror-level fighters.
• Jafar revealed that he had brought the Magic Lamp, which Herpo expected to contain at least ten Genies.
• Herpo said Walpurgis had gathered 170 people and no longer needed to fear the Ministry of Magic’s numbers, but cautioned that the International Confederation of Wizards and Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix remained dangerous.

Morgan, Jafar, and Herpo assessed the forces opposing them and discussed how to strengthen their alliance. Herpo directed Morgan to obtain the key to Avalon from the Calderon-Boot family and told Voldemort that one of his Horcruxes was already in their custody.

• Morgan reported that Dumbledore had recruited at least twenty members into the Order of the Phoenix and might call on international allies.
• Jafar described the forces recruited from Transylvania, including Yan Feng's corpse-controlling wizards and Anubi's elite stewards and Underworld Warriors.
• Herpo warned that the Necromancer Underground Guild had its own agenda and that the House of Malfoy and several Ministries of Magic also threatened them.
• Herpo told Morgan that the key to Avalon was held by the Calderon-Boot family, and Morgan revealed that she had planted a hidden branch in North America.
• Herpo told Voldemort that one of his Horcruxes was in their custody and was safe from Dumbledore and Malfoy.

Voldemort planned to rebuild his forces by recruiting the werewolves and giants while avoiding an attack on Azkaban. Herpo arranged for Morgan to approach the giants on Voldemort’s behalf, using treasures supplied by Walpurgis.

• Herpo urged Voldemort to gather followers and warned him that the werewolves in Knockturn Alley were at risk of splitting again.
• Voldemort agreed to bring the werewolves under his control, while Herpo warned that Dumbledore’s people were seeking the giants in the Ural Mountains.
• Voldemort put aside his plans to raid Azkaban and recruit its Dementors, then said he would go to the Valley of Giants after dealing with the werewolves.
• Herpo offered to send people to recruit the giants in Voldemort’s name, and Voldemort accepted the offer.
• Herpo asked Morgan to handle the mission, and Walpurgis agreed to provide her with treasures for the giants.