Chapter Summaries

Skylar visited Fleur at Miraculous Alchymia while Hermione organized a secret Defense Against the Dark Arts group in the Hog's Head Inn, where Harry began addressing the students. Willy Widdershins left to report the meeting to Umbridge, while Skylar watched him and Yusuf Kama on the Marauder's Map and reflected on Hermione's determination.

• Skylar visited Fleur at Miraculous Alchymia, and the two shared an intimate reunion in the workshop's back room.
• Hermione gathered students at the Hog's Head Inn and asked Harry to explain why they needed to learn practical Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Harry overcame his nervousness and spoke to the group, while Fred, George, and other students supported the proposed study group.
• Willy Widdershins overheard the students discussing their organization and left the inn intending to report them to Umbridge.
• Skylar tracked Willy Widdershins on the Marauder's Map, noticed Yusuf Kama watching the meeting, and decided not to pursue Willy.
• Skylar reflected on Hermione's feelings and resolve, then said he would wait to see what she would prove to him.

Skylar monitored the formation of Dumbledore’s Army and warned the Sleeping Dragon Society that the new group could become a political rival. After introducing Fleur and hearing Cho Chang’s report, he decided to let the competing student groups weaken each other so he could take control of Hogwarts if Dumbledore was driven out.

• Skylar marked Yusuf Kama as a threat and used the Marauder’s Map to identify the students gathered to form Dumbledore’s Army.
• Skylar introduced Fleur to the Sleeping Dragon Society and gave her a Hebridean Black Dragon to train for a future Magical Dragon Rider Corps.
• Skylar discovered and removed the contract curse Hermione had placed on Cho Chang’s membership parchment, then let her report on the gathering.
• Cho Chang reported that Hermione organized the group, Harry served as its nominal leader, and Harry seemed excited while describing Voldemort’s return.
• Skylar rejected Daphne’s concern about the rival groups and explained that their conflict could drive Dumbledore from Hogwarts, leaving him free to rule it.

Skylar enjoyed time with Fleur before returning to Hogwarts, where Umbridge’s Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four disbanded student organizations and Quidditch teams. Harry’s anger and distress grew after his injured owl arrived and he learned Hagrid had been put on probation, leaving Harry, Ron, and Hermione to return to the castle worried.

• Skylar stayed at Flower Dew Cottage with Fleur over the weekend, then returned to Hogwarts through the Secret Passage before Monday morning.
• Umbridge posted Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four, requiring her approval for all student organizations and disbanding the Quidditch teams.
• Angelina begged Harry not to provoke Umbridge, and Harry promised to be careful so Gryffindor could keep its Quidditch season.
• Harry found his owl badly injured, failed to find Hagrid, and bandaged the owl himself as his scar throbbed and his eyes changed into Snake Eyes.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione found Hagrid near the Forbidden Forest and learned he had been put on probation.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione helped Hagrid care for the Fire Salamanders before Hagrid re-bandaged Harry’s owl and the three returned to the castle.

After Umbridge delayed approval for Gryffindor Quidditch practice, McLaggen used his Ministry connections and money to recruit students and proclaim himself Gryffindor’s leader. Harry, Ron, and Hermione watched the Weasley Twins accept his Galleons and submit to his demands, as rumors showed his faction was growing beyond Gryffindor.

• Angelina told Harry and the others that Umbridge had not approved the request to reinstate Gryffindor’s Quidditch team, and Harry recognized the delay as a means of control.
• McLaggen claimed his uncle’s Ministry connections could help the team and announced that he should lead Gryffindor through Umbridge’s increasing interference.
• McLaggen offered Fred and George money and support for their joke shop, and the twins accepted his Galleons despite their humiliation.
• McLaggen ordered Fred to bring him a chair, and Fred obeyed while George stood by in anger.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ron reacted with dismay as Ron recalled his family’s hardship and struggled to judge the twins’ choice.
• Students reported that Marcus Belby and Eddie Carmichael had also joined McLaggen, leading Hermione to recognize that he was building a broader faction backed by money, influence, and Umbridge.

Skylar dismissed McLaggen’s growing faction as no threat, while Angelina announced that Dumbledore had helped her secure permission to reform Gryffindor’s Quidditch team. Xueluo then reported that McLaggen had allied with Umbridge and named his newly legitimized faction the Justice Inquisitorial Squad.

• At breakfast, Draco, Pansy, Cassius, Astoria, and Daphne discussed the Weasley twins joining McLaggen and his recruitment of students from other Houses.
• Skylar told the Slytherins not to provoke McLaggen’s followers, predicting that their greed and shallow loyalty would make them enemies, and called himself Hogwarts’ hero.
• Angelina told Harry and Ron that Dumbledore had intervened to secure approval for reforming the Quidditch team, and scheduled practice that evening.
• Xueluo told Skylar that McLaggen had approached Umbridge while Harry’s team practiced, offering to spy on Hogwarts in exchange for greater freedom and influence.
• Umbridge accepted McLaggen’s allegiance, and his faction received the official name Justice Inquisitorial Squad.

Skylar ensured Harry's Dumbledore's Army began training while Voldemort punished Ludo Bagman for a failed attempt to infiltrate the Department of Mysteries. As October ended, the Sleeping Dragon Society grew stronger, and Skylar welcomed Sazerus and Akabane Sakura into his expanding circle of allies and research plans.

• Skylar secretly implanted memories of the Room of Requirement in Ron, and Harry's group held its first meeting there as Dumbledore's Army, with Harry as leader and Hermione and Ron as deputies.
• Dumbledore's Army held four training meetings, where members improved their spells and Harry grew increasingly eager for power after directing the group.
• Voldemort tortured Ludo Bagman after Bagman's attempt to use Broderick Bode to infiltrate the Department of Mysteries failed and exposed the plan to Ministry scrutiny.
• The Sleeping Dragon Society advanced its combat training, intelligence work, potion reserves, research, and dragon-riding skills throughout October.
• Sazerus told Skylar that a rebellion had devastated the Vongola Family and left its heir in a coma; after sparring with Skylar, he acknowledged Skylar's superior strength.
• Skylar reunited with Akabane Sakura, discussed her research into Fantastic Beasts, and promised to help her investigate ways to awaken their inherited potential.

Harry lost Gryffindor’s Quidditch match against Slytherin after Draco Malfoy caught the Snitch, then attacked Draco under the influence of a sinister voice in his mind. Umbridge used Educational Decree Number Twenty-Five to ban Harry from Quidditch for life and confiscate his Broomstick.

• Slytherin defeated Gryffindor after Draco Malfoy caught the Golden Snitch, while Ron’s poor play let Slytherin build a commanding lead.
• Draco and Pansy mocked Harry after the match, and a chilling voice in Harry’s mind urged him to retaliate.
• Harry cast Ginny’s improved Bat-Bogey Hex at Draco, and Madam Hooch sent him to Professor McGonagall’s office.
• Umbridge arrived with Educational Decree Number Twenty-Five and overruled McGonagall’s authority over student punishments.
• Umbridge banned Harry from playing Quidditch for life and ordered his Broomstick confiscated, leaving Harry furious as he stormed out.

November passed quietly as Skylar balanced study, school responsibilities, and the growth of the Sleeping Dragon Society. His collaborative research with Akabane Sakura advanced rapidly, and Sakura’s growing admiration for him left her looking forward to their time together.

• After Harry was banned from playing Quidditch, Ginny took his place as Seeker, while Harry devoted himself to Dumbledore's Army training.
• Skylar became a valued mentor in the Charms Club and helped Diggory and Montgomery with their Head Boy duties.
• Skylar worked with Daphne and Astoria to train and guide members of the Sleeping Dragon Society, while Sazes Vongola remained his personal ally and exchanged knowledge with him.
• Skylar secured a private laboratory and extensive research materials for Akabane Sakura, and the two worked together on magical creature bloodline refinement and restoration.
• As their research sessions continued, Sakura's admiration for Skylar deepened, and she began anticipating their weekly meetings.

Professor McGonagall took Skylar, Cedric Diggory, and Elsie Montgomery to the International Animagus Seminar in Brazil, where Ilvermorny students impressed the audience with their animal transformations. Skylar stunned the gathering with Amphimagus, a technique that let him gain beastlike abilities while remaining able to speak and cast spells.

• Professor McGonagall chose Skylar and Cedric Diggory to accompany her to the seminar, while Elsie Montgomery attended with her mother.
• Professor McGonagall led Skylar, Cedric, and Elsie through a hidden entrance in Lage Park to the Brazilian Ministry of Magic.
• At the seminar, Professor McGonagall and Egilbert Fontana delivered speeches, and Ilvermorny's students transformed into cougars and jaguars for their demonstration.
• Skylar demonstrated Amphimagus, shifting into a beastman form with enhanced speed, senses, and strength while retaining his human appearance.
• Skylar spoke and cast fire and water spells in his transformed state, astounding the audience and eclipsing Ilvermorny's display.

Prince Elizabeth Bathory entrusted Natalia, a half-Vampire with the rare Blood Eyes talent, to Skylar because the clan feared her powers. Skylar accepted her as his treasury keeper and made her his demon servant, giving her a place to call home.

• Prince Bathory visited Skylar in the Chamber of Secrets and asked him to take in Natalia, an orphaned half-Vampire with shadow-concealment abilities and the Blood Eyes talent.
• Prince Bathory explained that Blood Eyes could track any target and that its bearer was said to become a Hunter of Vampires who absorbed her own kind’s blood.
• Skylar asked Natalia whether she would follow him, and she agreed to leave with him.
• Skylar offered Natalia the role of treasury keeper and promised her a home, but required her to accept a Demon Servant Mark.
• Natalia agreed to the master-servant contract, and Skylar established the mark; she accepted him as her master.

Skylar organized Ella Cottage’s residents and empowered Katarina before returning to Hogwarts, where Rolf Scamander and Anthony Goldstein discussed the student factions and identified the Sleeping Dragon Society as their families’ greatest concern.

• Skylar entrusted Natalia to Sarf to learn the treasury’s duties and eventually become its administrator.
• Skylar learned that Sarf had made no progress refining Inferi, Savannah continued improving their equipment, and Katarina had established authority over his vassal families.
• Skylar used the Vengeful Blood Will curse mark to accelerate Katarina’s soul-power growth through her desire for revenge.
• Rolf Scamander and Anthony Goldstein discussed McLaggen’s Ministry-backed influence and Harry Potter’s Dumbledore’s Army, which had twenty-six members.
• Scamander and Goldstein worried that Skylar Malfoy’s secretive Sleeping Dragon Society was the greatest threat to their families’ interests.

The Sleeping Dragon Society completed its Growth Potion and began planning dangerous magical-plant training for the Dragon Wing Team. At Hogwarts, McLaggen’s growing power and harassment intensified tensions, while unexplained accidents left him paranoid and the school’s undercurrents stirring.

• Morrie used the completed Growth Potion to rapidly grow a Devil's Snare, and Skylar praised Morrie and Cho for their work.
• Skylar told Luna to divide the Dragon Wing Team between cultivating magical plants and training to use them in combat, with Sarf assisting her.
• As December brought heavier workloads, Ron and Hermione struggled to enforce their prefect duties, while Harry felt increasingly miserable and worried about Hagrid.
• McLaggen expanded his Justice Inquisitorial Squad with Umbridge’s support and targeted Harry, his friends, and students close to Skylar.
• Skylar ordered the Sleeping Dragon Society to avoid direct conflict with McLaggen’s faction and report harassment to him or the other Slytherin prefects.
• A series of accidents injured McLaggen’s followers, leaving McLaggen suspicious, short-tempered, and increasingly domineering.

After Broderick Bode was murdered at St. Mungo's, Skylar learned that Ludo Bagman had used the Imperius Curse to make him infiltrate the Department of Mysteries. Skylar warned Dumbledore that Voldemort would soon send someone more dangerous, potentially costing the Order of the Phoenix its first casualty.

• Skylar read that Broderick Bode had died after Devil's Snare strangled him at St. Mungo's and recognized the killing as deliberate.
• Snape told Skylar that Ludo Bagman, now a Death Eater, had controlled Bode with the Imperius Curse and sent him into the Department of Mysteries.
• Snape explained that Saul Croaker had fought Bode, leaving him mentally incapacitated, before someone arranged his death at St. Mungo's.
• Skylar concluded that Voldemort remained determined to obtain something in the Department of Mysteries and predicted another, more dangerous attempt.
• Skylar asked Snape to warn Dumbledore that the Order of the Phoenix could soon suffer its first casualty.

Harry learned that Mad-Eye Moody had been killed by the Killing Curse, throwing the Order of the Phoenix into turmoil. As Christmas break began, Skylar gathered intelligence through Kreacher, arranged a commission with Sazerus, and prepared to travel to Egypt for the International Alchemy Conference.

• Harry woke from a vision of Voldemort and identified Moody as the person who had died.
• Kreacher told Skylar that Moody had been killed, reported on the Order’s members, and described Sirius’s heavy drinking and sale of Black family possessions.
• The Ministry and the Order kept Moody’s death out of the Daily Prophet, while Fudge suspected Moody had been involved in illegal activity.
• Students left Hogwarts for Christmas, while Daphne, Astoria, Luna, Morrie, Cho Chang, and Susan stayed to support the Sleeping Dragon Society and Miraculous Alchymia.
• Sazerus agreed to have the Vongola Family make an item from Skylar’s alchemical blueprint before returning to Sicily with his guards.
• Skylar planned to travel to Egypt with Akabane Sakura for the International Alchemy Conference, where Eleanor would also appear.

Before departing for Egypt, Skylar recruited four captured pirates to protect Amelia Bones, then attended the International Alchemy Convention with Akabane Sakura. Sakura impressed the alchemists with her Demon-Suppressing Bell, and Skylar left the convention stunned by unveiling his research, The Other Shore.

• Skylar accepted four elite pirate Aurors’ loyalty, planted the Sleeping Dragon Mark on them, and ordered Sarf to train them before assigning them as Amelia Bones’s guards.
• Skylar and Akabane Sakura traveled by Thestral carriage to the Cairo Alchemy Research Center, where Eleanor Hohenheim welcomed them.
• Sakura demonstrated her Demon-Suppressing Bell, which suppressed dark creatures’ aggression and drew praise from the convention’s alchemists.
• Felix Vander mocked Skylar for taking the stage without a visible creation, but Skylar revealed a shifting spectrum and named it The Other Shore.
• The alchemists recognized that Skylar’s research touched alchemy’s ultimate mysteries, and the audience erupted in applause.

Skylar received the Gold Award for Pioneering Contribution for his research on The Other Shore, but the ceremony was interrupted by Anubi and his dark wizards attacking the conference. After Felix betrayed Skylar and Eleanor to save himself, Skylar and Sakura countered the attackers, and Skylar challenged Anubi to a duel.

• The conference awarded Skylar the Gold Award for Pioneering Contribution after alchemy masters confirmed his research on The Other Shore.
• Anubi and around forty dark wizards stormed the conference hall, killed its guards, and demanded the alchemists surrender their research.
• Anubi summoned desiccated corpses that suppressed wand magic, allowing his subordinates to attack the helpless alchemists.
• Felix Vander offered Skylar and Eleanor to Anubi, identifying Skylar's research and Eleanor's status as the Hohenheim Family heir.
• Sakura rang the Demon-Suppressing Bell while Skylar raised his power and used Hypergravity Domain to pin down the attackers and most people in the hall.
• Skylar challenged Anubi to a one-on-one duel.

Skylar and his companions defeated Anubi’s undead beasts, though Anubi escaped, and the attack ended the alchemy conference. While touring the Pyramid of Khufu, Skylar discovered a hidden passage and led Akabane Sakura and Eleanor inside.

• Anubi used the Ankh to summon a Phoenix Mummy and a Three-headed Dog Mummy, forcing Skylar to fight defensively until Akabane Sakura and Eleanor joined him.
• Skylar destroyed the Three-headed Dog Mummy, and Eleanor sealed the Phoenix Mummy, but Anubi escaped through a cloud of poisonous gas.
• The Egyptian Ministry of Magic subdued Anubi’s surrendered followers, and Skylar received an International Wizarding Award of Merit alongside his Gold Award for Pioneering Contribution.
• After the conference ended, Skylar, Akabane Sakura, and Eleanor toured Egypt and entered the Pyramid of Khufu.
• Skylar’s Magic Eye revealed a hidden mechanism in a wall, opening a Secret Passage that the three companions entered.

Skylar, Sakura, and Eleanor explored an Egyptian pyramid, where Skylar activated a mysterious rune and acquired the Scorpion King Statue. After visiting the Egyptian Wizard Museum, they settled into a Cairo hotel, where Skylar ended the night watching the city with a cold gaze.

• Eleanor opened a rune-sealed chamber in the pyramid, and Skylar recognized a symbol from the snowy mountains of his previous life.
• Skylar touched the rune, awakening the statue; it shrank into a figurine and chose him, which he acquired as the Scorpion King Statue.
• Skylar, Sakura, and Eleanor visited the Egyptian Wizard Museum and learned about the Emerald Tablet and the devastation of the Twelve Tomb-Keeper Families by Anubi.
• The three examined a mural of Moses casting Split River and Sea, and Skylar reflected that he had already achieved ultimate magic himself.
• At the Sun Hotel, Eleanor hinted that Skylar need not sleep alone, but he declined and went to his room.
• Skylar stood at his hotel window, gazing at Cairo's night sky with a cold expression.

Skylar ambushed Yusuf Kama, who had been spying on him as a vulture, and trapped him as a stone statue in a cursed pyramid room. Back at the Sun Hotel, Eleanor confronted Skylar about Fleur and demanded compensation, ending the chapter in his arms.

• Skylar followed the black vulture from the Sun Hotel and wounded it with a spell, forcing it to transform into Yusuf Kama.
• Yusuf accused Skylar of manipulating Fudge’s actions and Harry Potter’s trial, and warned that Skylar’s research and powers could bring disaster.
• Skylar used spatial magic to strike Yusuf from behind, then caught him in vulture form and turned him into a stone statue.
• Skylar left Yusuf’s statue in a cursed room inside the pyramid and returned to the Sun Hotel.
• Eleanor asked Skylar about Fleur Delacour, and Skylar admitted Fleur was his lover.
• Eleanor complained that she was left alone in Germany while Skylar’s other women were in Britain, then kissed him after asking for compensation.

Skylar brought Eleanor Hohenheim and Akabane Sakura to Malfoy Manor for Christmas, where his family welcomed them and teased him about his female companions. The gathering also praised Skylar for defeating the dark wizard Anubi in Egypt, leaving his family astonished at the extent of his strength.

• Skylar decided to spend Christmas at Malfoy Manor with Eleanor and Akabane Sakura, and they arrived by Thestral carriage in the evening.
• Narcissa welcomed Skylar, while he greeted Andromeda Tonks and Ted Tonks in the drawing room.
• Skylar introduced Eleanor as his fiancée and Sakura as his longtime pen pal and a Mahoutokoro exchange student, prompting Ted to tease him about his romantic connections.
• Pansy questioned Skylar about bringing female companions, but Draco stopped her and congratulated Skylar on his achievements in Egypt.
• Skylar modestly described defeating Anubi as luck, leaving the family astonished by the feat and wondering how powerful he had become.