Chapter Summaries

Vaughan completed his study of dragon magic, gaining a hundred Magic Power Units and unlocking the Spell Development Module. Meanwhile, Michael Graves and several pure-blood ministers vanished through a Portkey, leaving Josiah Parker struggling to contain the crisis and uncover what happened.

• Vaughan warned Babajide Akingbade that the Muggle candidate’s knowledge of Scourers suggested a breach in the pure-bloods’ collaboration, and he chose not to recall Kingsley Shacklebolt, Lupin, and Tonks.
• Michael Graves learned that a presidential candidate in Boston knew about the Scourers and planned to show WAC documents about them, so he ordered Aurors to stop the document from being obtained.
• Tracy followed Graves and several pure-blood leaders to a hidden room, watched them depart through a Portkey, and later found that only the boot had returned.
• Josiah Parker discovered that seven ministers and eight Auror squads were missing, ordered the disappearance concealed, and sent officials to investigate and find them.
• Vaughan completed his dragon-magic experiment, finished Side Quest ③, and received 100 Magic Power Units, bringing his total to 694 while unlocking the Spell Development Module.

Vaughn used the Spell Development Module to refine his spatial spell into Dimensional Gate, then prepared for a possible conflict over the Scourers files in Boston. As Kingsley Shacklebolt and Lupin followed William with Tonks, Vaughn and Akinbade waited for the night’s events to unfold.

• Vaughn fed memories of developing his spatial spell into the Spell Development Module, which used fifteen Reputation Points to optimize it into a stable passage that could carry others without additional magical energy.
• Vaughn named the refined spell Dimensional Gate and left the suitcase space, telling Matthew to adapt to the full moon’s effects and that he would not hide from the Dreamcatcher.
• Vaughn told Akinbade that someone might be using William and the Scourers files to provoke a clash between their side and the Magical Congress of the United States, and Akinbade confirmed his people were ready outside Boston.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt and Lupin followed William through Boston while Tonks approached him at his home, and the two watched them enter together.

Donald Graves and Jacob investigated the leak of confidential documents and discovered that Vaughan Weasley had known about them, while Aurors seized the documents at William’s residence. A sudden explosion struck Lupin and Kingsley, who survived and concluded that a third party was trying to provoke a war.

• Donald visited his injured brother Jacob, learned the details of the suspected leak, and agreed to let him join the operation.
• In Boston, Jacob persuaded Donald to retrieve the documents without immediately using force, and Donald’s Aurors surrounded William’s residence.
• Donald’s Aurors found the confidential documents, and Tonks arrived with William, unaware that the Aurors were waiting inside.
• Tonks revealed that Vaughan Weasley had known about the documents and had urged her to wait, prompting Donald and Jacob to realize something was wrong.
• A fireball exploded near Lupin and Kingsley, devastating the street and the Aurors’ position; Lupin rescued the injured Kingsley from the rubble.
• Kingsley and Lupin concluded that a third party had attacked them to manipulate events, provoke conflict, and start a war.

Donald Graves tried to contain a battle sparked by Jack Graves’s betrayal, while Vaughan and Akinbade discovered that the city’s spatial lockdown had disrupted Apparition. As the Graves family’s Aurors fought one another, Donald came under attack and Tonks stayed with the injured Kingsley Shacklebolt and Lupin.

• A mortally wounded Auror told Donald Graves and Jacob Graves that Jack Graves had betrayed them and killed Gerard and Maria.
• Donald ordered Tom to conceal the Aurors in mist, then authorized the Dreamcatcher Spatial Lockdown Protocol to prohibit Apparition in Boston and warned Congress of the betrayal.
• Vaughn recognized the spatial lockdown, and he opened a strange passage despite the interference after reasoning that Apparition worked like a signal.
• Evelyn tried to turn the Graves Aurors against their family by recounting their mistreatment, but Donald attacked her and exposed himself to rally the survivors.
• Evelyn and two other traitors trapped Donald with coordinated attacks, while Jacob and the remaining Aurors were held off elsewhere.
• Tonks watched the fighting until Kingsley Shacklebolt asked her to set and immobilize his and Lupin’s broken bones.

Kingsley and Lupin recovered from their injuries and joined the fight against the traitorous Aurors, while Kingsley explained how a hidden mastermind was trying to provoke a war between WAC, the International Confederation of Wizards, and the Magical Congress. Donald survived Evelyn's ambush, rallied the Aurors, and dispatched teams to rescue their scattered allies as the battle continued.

• Tonks treated Lupin and Kingsley, and Kingsley used one of the Phoenix Tears Vaughn had given him to heal his broken ribs.
• Kingsley explained to Tonks that a hidden mastermind had sent William and the classified document to provoke conflict and turn the factions against one another.
• Kingsley and Lupin went outside to help Donald and the Magical Congress Aurors, and they rescued Donald from Evelyn's attack.
• Donald gave Tonks notes about the Graves family's triangular tactics, then joined Jacob's group and helped drive back the traitors.
• After a red emergency signal appeared, Donald sent Jacob and three Aurors to support Kingsley and Lupin, then organized other teams to rescue their allies across the battlefield.

Donald led Aurors into a Dark Curtain Charm to rescue Graves Family survivors, destroying its node with a massive Vanishing Spell. Jack Graves then confronted him beside a time-frozen nuclear blast, revealing that he intended to use its electromagnetic pulse against Dreamcatcher’s magic field.

• Donald and six Aurors entered the Dark Curtain Charm and fought through attacks while he used Transfiguration to locate the barrier’s node.
• Donald cast a powerful Vanishing Spell that destroyed the node and dispelled the darkness, then sent Mavi to investigate a survivor’s marker.
• A nuclear explosion erupted inside the villa, but Jack Graves used a Time Stopper to freeze the fireball; Mavi was caught in the blast.
• Jack confronted Donald, defended the Graves Family rebellion, and asked him to join their cause, but Donald condemned the traitors for killing their own relatives.
• Jack revealed that the nuclear bomb’s electromagnetic pulse would detonate inside Dreamcatcher’s magic field, potentially interfering with it.

Vaughan Weasley arrived as Jack Graves’s betrayal was revealed and the frozen nuclear blast disrupted the Dreamcatcher, then sent his allies to fight the Scourers while he studied the bomb’s effects. After examining the gamma-ray technology, Vaughan stopped Donald from pursuing Jack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Jack Graves revealed that he had recruited the Scourers and that his nuclear-bomb experiment had breached the Dreamcatcher, leaving Donald Graves and the Aurors facing annihilation.
• Vaughan Weasley emerged through a magical sphere with wizards who attacked the Scourers, then introduced himself to Donald.
• Vaughan left the battle to study the frozen nuclear blast and used the Multispectral Vision Charm to observe how gamma rays eroded the magical field.
• Oliver Greenwell and Zach Baird attacked Jack, while Donald recognized them as merchants connected to WAC and prepared to capture Jack.
• Vaughan trapped Donald in the ground and took his wand before Donald could join the fight.

Vaughan defeated Jack Graves and took control of him with Legilimency, then entered Jack’s Mindscape to learn about the alchemical artifact. After reaching Jack’s Dream Boundary, Vaughan encountered memories of Jack’s rebellion against his family, but Jack began questioning why Vaughan had entered his dream.

• Vaughan restrained Donald, crossed into the frozen space beneath the mushroom cloud, and blasted Jack Graves away with a powerful Disarming Charm that shattered the Scourers’ formation.
• Vaughan tried to summon Jack’s alchemical artifact, but the spell failed; Jack threatened to trigger a nuclear explosion, then found himself frozen under Vaughan’s Legilimency.
• Vaughan used Personality Armament to invade Jack’s Mindscape and explored its layers until he reached the Dream Boundary.
• Vaughan encountered a child version of Jack at Ilvermorny, where Jack said his family expected him to join Thunderbird House instead of Horned Serpent House.
• The dream shifted to Jack confronting his family and killing those who stood in his way; Vaughan encouraged him by saying he was free and that they were best friends.
• Jack asked Vaughan why he had come into his dream as the corpses behind him opened their eyes and glared at Vaughan.

Vaughan Weasley bewitched Jack Graves within his dream and learned how the Graves family and the Twelve Pure-Bloods funded No-Maj experiments to create artificial wizards. Jack led him through a hidden laboratory filled with failed human and magical-creature hybrids, while his account exposed the pure-bloods’ role in the horrific project.

• Vaughan used the Personality Armament to make Jack believe they were close friends, then questioned him while Donald watched helplessly in reality.
• Jack led Vaughan through his dream to an abandoned factory and revealed that the Graves family had helped fund a secret No-Maj research facility beneath it since the 1960s.
• Jack explained that the Twelve Pure-Bloods had supported the experiments from 1963 to 1968, when researchers tried to discover how magic and talent could be reproduced.
• Jack showed Vaughan a vast morgue and rows of jars containing failed experiments, including humans altered with magical-creature traits.
• Jack described the researchers’ attempts to use dragon and unicorn traits in human subjects, then said the experiments had all failed.

Vaughan investigated Jack Graves’s memories and discovered that a foreigner had helped the No-Majs create the first artificial wizard, only to encounter DeSantis in Jack’s mind. As Donald chose to protect Vaughan from Evelyn’s attack, DeSantis explained why he thought Vaughan’s reforms would fail and began describing his own past.

• Jack Graves showed Vaughan grotesque failed experiments and said that an elegant foreigner had arrived three years earlier before the No-Majs announced the birth of the first artificial wizard.
• Jack’s mindscape shifted into a frozen twilight courtyard, where DeSantis trapped Vaughan and revealed that he had recognized Vaughan’s Personality Armament.
• Donald rescued Clint McLean, accepted Clint’s spare wand, and decided to defend Vaughan instead of letting Evelyn attack him.
• Donald raised a shield against Evelyn as Vaughan identified DeSantis and spoke with him inside Jack’s mind.
• DeSantis analyzed Vaughan’s aims and argued that the WAC and Wolfsbane Potion trade system would fail once the old order adapted or the potion was replaced.
• DeSantis invited Vaughan to tea and said that he had once believed reforming the old order could bring positive results.

Vaughn confronted DeSantis, exposed him as Grindelwald, and revealed his own ideal of making magic accessible to all Muggles. Back in reality, Vaughn contained the mind-born lifeform in Jack Graves and sent Akinbade to deal with it, while Donald awoke to learn that only thirty-two of his people survived and went looking for Vaughn.

• Vaughn challenged DeSantis’s willingness to start a war and identified him as Grindelwald through clues about his tea, his strength, and Dumbledore’s reaction.
• Vaughn explained that he wanted to popularize magic by enabling Muggles to use it, and said the Scourers might be products of genetic engineering that could help his research.
• Vaughn’s memories returned to reality as Evelyn and other Graves traitors attacked Donald, and Vaughn killed them before containing the lifeform emerging from Jack Graves.
• Vaughn sent Jack Graves and Akinbade through a spatial passage, then captured a Scourer and flew off to collect research materials.
• Donald woke in a No-Maj hotel and learned that the battlefield had been restored, the nuclear bomb had been dealt with, and thirty-two of his people remained alive.
• Donald asked whether Jack Graves had been captured, then went to find Vaughn and heard an argument coming from the suite.

After Jack Graves escaped, Vaughan Weasley explained that a psychic lifeform controlled him and warned Donald Graves to investigate the pure-blood families. Vaughan sent Dumbledore a letter about DeSantis and its possible connection to Grindelwald, leaving Dumbledore and Snape uncertain whether the dying legendary wizard was involved.

• Donald Graves confronted Vaughan Weasley and Babajide Akingbade over Jack Graves's escape, then learned that a psychic lifeform had taken control of Jack.
• Vaughan urged Donald to investigate the twelve pure-blood families and return to Woolworth to report the battle and its casualties.
• Vaughan wrote Dumbledore about DeSantis, questioned whether its beliefs reflected its creator, and sent the letter with a phoenix tail feather.
• At Hogwarts, Snape asked Dumbledore whether potions or spells could prolong a wizard's life, and Dumbledore revealed that Grindelwald was dying.
• Dumbledore and Snape considered whether DeSantis was connected to Grindelwald, but they had no proof and found no potion capable of restoring his life or magic.

Harry read a report claiming that Vaughan Weasley and the International Confederation of Wizards had been placed under house arrest in Boston, while tensions between England’s progressives and conservatives erupted into a street confrontation. Snape brought the report to Dumbledore, who teased him for worrying about Vaughan.

• Dumbledore discussed research into restoring magical power with Snape, then gave him a letter from Vaughn that appeared blank and prompted an argument with Fawkes over Felix Felicis.
• Harry and Ron entered Diagon Alley, where Andy Fletcher persuaded them to buy newspapers reporting on the Boston incident and Vaughan’s alleged house arrest.
• Harry watched progressive and conservative wizards fight in Diagon Alley as their political conflict over WAC and Vaughan’s trade system intensified.
• Harry defended Vaughan and criticized the conservatives, while Ron privately doubted that Vaughan had really been placed under house arrest.
• Snape brought the newspaper to Dumbledore, who teased him for caring about Vaughan and praised the changes in Snape since Vaughan founded WAC.

Snape learned that Vaughn was cooperating with the Magical Congress’s house arrest to pressure it into negotiations, while Vaughn treated Akinbade’s injuries and continued studying philosophy in Boston. Vaughn visited a black market to hire an information broker, who agreed to investigate a Thunderbird’s habitat in Arizona after learning that Vaughn wanted to visit one rescued by Newt Scamander.

• Dumbledore explained to Snape that Vaughn was using public opinion to push the Magical Congress toward negotiations, and Snape complained that he had not been told.
• Akinbade questioned whether Vaughn’s plan would work, received treatment for his burns, and asked about Michael Graves’s disappearance.
• Vaughn left the monitored hotel, entered a Boston black market through a hidden puddle, and met an information broker called John Doe.
• Vaughn asked John Doe to investigate a Thunderbird’s habitat in Arizona so he could visit one that Newt Scamander had rescued.

Vaughan hired John’s black market organization to find Frank the Thunderbird and Jacob and Queenie Kowalski, then learned that rival factions in the Magical Congress wanted his help restoring a destroyed Portkey. In Boston Public Garden, he realized the missing leaders had weakened the Twelve Pure-Bloods’ control and that their opponents might use the Graves family’s collaboration with Muggles on an artificial wizard project against them.

• Vaughan commissioned John to find Frank the Thunderbird without disturbing its habitat and to locate Jacob and Queenie Kowalski, paying a two-hundred-Galleon deposit and imposing a one-month deadline.
• Joker told Vaughan that Michael Graves and congressmen from the Fisher, Fontana, Lopez, Macduff, O’Brien, and Wilkinson families had disappeared after Donald led Aurors to Boston, and that the Twelve Pure-Bloods had destroyed a Portkey found at Woolworth.
• Joker asked Vaughan to restore the Portkey’s destination in exchange for the friendship and political support of factions seeking to establish North American WAC, but Vaughan said he needed time to consider.
• Vaughan left the black market and, while thinking in Boston Public Garden, calculated that seven missing committee members had left the Twelve Pure-Bloods temporarily without their former majority.
• Vaughan concluded that the opposing families intended to weaken the Twelve Pure-Bloods before they replaced their missing representatives, and recognized the Graves family’s artificial wizard project as a potential weapon.

Vaughn rejected the minor pure-blood families’ offer and refused Akinbade’s attempt to secure his cooperation, while two Federal Aurors began considering Vaughn as a possible ally. At Woolworth, Jacob brought Donald a report alleging that several Aurors had been brainwashed with memory magic.

• Vaughn reasoned that the minor families’ plan to draw in the International Confederation of Wizards could undermine WAC, and he told Akinbade he had declined their commission.
• Vaughn told Akinbade that he resented being treated condescendingly, leaving Akinbade uneasy about what Vaughn might do next.
• Lupin and Tonks encountered Federal Aurors Liam and Joaquin, who later discussed the Graves Family’s troubles and considered joining Vaughn Weasley instead.
• Jacob visited Donald at Woolworth and handed him Liam’s report about Aurors suspected of being brainwashed by memory magic.

Jacob urged Donald to investigate Vaughan Weasley for allegedly brainwashing Aurors, hoping to divert Congress’s scrutiny from the Graves family, but Donald instead contacted Vaughan. Vaughan explained the Pure-blood Alliance’s plans and pressed Donald to consider joining him; the chapter ended with Vaughan visiting the imprisoned wizards in his suitcase, where Matthew approached him.

• Jacob told Donald that Liam suspected Vaughan had influenced at least sixteen Aurors and urged an investigation that could shift Congress’s attention from the Graves family.
• Donald refused to commit to Jacob’s plan, then contacted Vaughan through the fireplace and warned him that an Auror had reported suspicions of brainwashing.
• Vaughan told Donald that the Pure-blood Alliance wanted his spatial magic to investigate a Portkey and expose the artificial wizard laboratory to the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Donald described Congress’s efforts to detect DeSantis and admitted that he had little power over his own future or the Graves family’s fate; Vaughan urged him to consider a new path.
• After Donald ended the call without deciding, Vaughan entered the suitcase and found rows of cages holding agitated wizards, where Matthew came to meet him.

Vaughn studied the captured Scourers and used his rapidly improving Multispectral Vision Charm to master the Silence Charm, while Matthew struggled with the approach of his first full moon. Vaughn sent Matthew to rest and ordered Kingsley to bring Essex, who had been isolated in darkness and silence, but Essex's desperate plea received no answer before the chapter ended.

• Matthew reported that two Scourers had escaped and that he had badly injured them while containing them.
• Vaughn silenced the cages, used the Multispectral Vision Charm to study sound, and examined the two injured Scourers in the cultivation area.
• A Scourer broke out of his cage, and Matthew summoned a giant serpent to restrain him before Vaughn intervened.
• Vaughn warned Matthew to take Wolfsbane Potion and avoid Dark magic, then told him to summon Kingsley and bring Essex.
• Essex, imprisoned in a dark, soundproof room, begged his unseen visitor to make a sound after the usual meal tray failed to arrive, and the noise outside stopped.

Kingsley delivered Essex and Umbridge to Vaughn, who sent the pair on a mission to deliver a letter to Pandora Lovegood. Vaughn then confronted Essex about DeSantis and questioned whether DeSantis truly supported Essex’s plan to kill every pure-blood, leaving Essex firmly defending his trust in him.

• Kingsley escorted Umbridge and the terrified Essex to Vaughn, where Vaughn assigned Kingsley and Umbridge to deliver a letter addressed to Pandora Lovegood.
• Umbridge eagerly accepted the mission, and Kingsley agreed to leave with her immediately.
• Essex recovered some of his composure and challenged Vaughn, who explained that DeSantis had contacted him from within Essex’s mind.
• Vaughn asked Essex what he thought of DeSantis and whether DeSantis would support killing every pure-blood.
• Essex insisted that DeSantis shared his hatred of pure-bloods and warned Vaughn not to drive a wedge between them.

Vaughn tried to persuade Essex by showing him another version of DeSantis, while Kingsley and Umbridge set out on Mr. Weasley’s mission. In New York, Congress remained deadlocked over WAC and control of its future, leaving Speaker Josiah Parker struggling to contain the feud.

• Vaughn spread fog around Essex and urged him to judge whether the DeSantis in another mindscape matched his assumptions.
• Umbridge recruited Williamson and John Dawlish for Kingsley’s mission, privately revealing that she meant to use them as expendable protection if danger arose.
• Kingsley, Umbridge, Williamson, and Dawlish followed the arrow made from Vaughn’s letter toward their destination as the full moon rose and a werewolf howled from the hotel.
• At the Woolworth Building, Congress suspended its chaotic plenary session while Josiah Parker convened a private meeting of the Committee of the Whole and family representatives.
• Marian Rappaport and Abernathy Roche traded accusations over WAC, the missing members, and alleged dealings with Vaughan Weasley as Donald watched for signs of the factions’ true intentions.
• Josiah Parker repeatedly struck his gavel and urged the feuding representatives to calm down, but the dispute flared up again.