Arc 8Boston’s Hidden War
Vaughan’s investigation of the Boston conflict exposed a conspiracy involving the Graves family, the Scourers, and a secret artificial-wizard project, while Grindelwald’s connection to DeSantis emerged. As factions maneuvered over the missing Congress members and WAC, Vaughan sent Kingsley and Umbridge on a new mission and Congress descended into renewed infighting.
- Michael Graves and Josiah Parker weighed a plan to use Third Salem as bait while Lupin and Kingsley investigated the group, and Akinbade told Vaughan about the Wilkinson Prophecy.
- Oliver Greenwell delivered five dragons to Vaughan, who developed Dimensional Gate and continued his experiments on dragon magic.
- Lupin, Kingsley, and Tonks traced a planned handoff of Scourers documents to William Clinton, but an explosion devastated the Auror operation and the three recognized an attempt to provoke war.
- Donald and Jacob Graves fought Jack Graves and the family traitors as Jack’s nuclear bomb threatened the Dreamcatcher, until Vaughan arrived and entered Jack’s mind.
- Vaughan uncovered the secret No-Maj laboratory and its failed artificial-wizard experiments, then confronted Grindelwald, who appeared as DeSantis in Jack’s mindscape.
- Vaughan contained the lifeform controlling Jack and left Donald to report the battle, while Dumbledore and Snape considered Grindelwald’s declining power and the possibility that DeSantis was connected to him.
- Vaughan refused a commission from the minor families, while Donald warned him about suspected memory magic and Vaughan urged Donald to consider a new path for himself and the Graves family.
- Vaughan questioned Essex about DeSantis as Kingsley and Umbridge set out with Williamson and Dawlish, while Congress’s private meeting over WAC and its missing members broke into renewed argument.