Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting rejected the Aurors’ attempt to blame him for the Ministry hall’s destruction and fought back when they pointed their wands at him. The Aurors’ confrontation continued after he reflected Dawlish’s curse and left him spitting slugs.

• An Auror accused Ye Ting of causing the Ministry hall’s destruction, but Ye Ting argued that the Ministry had sent people who knew nothing about magical artifacts.
• When Ye Ting summoned Sun Wheel, the Aurors aimed their wands at him, so he blasted them aside and trapped many in cracks in the floor.
• The Aurors attacked with spells, but Ye Ting deflected them and disarmed or stunned two of them.
• Dawlish ordered the Aurors to attack Ye Ting and used a slur against him, so Ye Ting forced a shoe brush into Dawlish’s mouth until Proudfoot persuaded him to stop.
• Dawlish attacked Ye Ting again, and Ye Ting reflected the curse, causing Dawlish to belch slugs.

Ye Ting defeated the Aurors who attacked him in the Ministry of Magic and dealt with Dawlish after he led the assault. He left Proudfoot as the only conscious Auror, with the rest bound and unconscious.

• Ye Ting snapped Dawlish’s wand and warned the Aurors against attacking him.
• The Aurors surrounded Ye Ting and fired spells, but he deflected their attacks back at them.
• After an Auror called for curses, Ye Ting Apparated behind them and used an unfamiliar spell to make them float, then knocked them out one by one.
• Ye Ting gathered and broke the Aurors’ wands, bound the unconscious Aurors with transformed rope, and left Proudfoot’s wand intact.
• Ye Ting turned Dawlish into a toad, erased his memories, and flushed him into the Ministry washroom’s sewers.

After humiliating the Aurors, Ye Ting made his way to Wizengamot Courtroom Ten, where he dramatically announced his arrival before the assembled officials. He exposed the courtroom and its occupants with golden flames, leaving Minister Cornelius Fudge and the other members facing him.

• Ye Ting refused to let Proudfoot confiscate his belongings, restored the burned elevator, and told him that Dawlish had been flushed down a toilet.
• Ye Ting passed the Department of Mysteries and continued toward Wizengamot Courtroom Ten, intending to confront the people inside.
• Ye Ting used Partial Animagus to kick down the courtroom's iron door and entered with a taunting remark.
• Ye Ting replaced the courtroom's dim torchlight with golden flames, revealing Cornelius Fudge, the Wizengamot members, and Dolores Umbridge's empty seat.

At his Wizengamot trial, Ye Ting transformed the courtroom into a Christmas tea party, treating the proceedings with open defiance. Dumbledore and many members joined in, while Fudge’s effort to suppress Ye Ting faced a divided court.

• Cornelius Fudge angrily reminded Ye Ting that he was there to stand trial, and Ye Ting asked where his seat was.
• At Dumbledore’s direction, Ye Ting turned the chained iron chair into a luxurious executive chair and lounged in it.
• Ye Ting decorated the courtroom for Christmas and changed the Wizengamot members’ hats into Santa hats.
• Ye Ting conjured tea and pastries for everyone, and Dumbledore and many members began eating and chatting.
• The chapter revealed that Fudge and pure-blood families had conspired to suppress Ye Ting, though many Wizengamot members were grateful to him or viewed him favorably.

Ye Ting used his dragon's might to silence the Wizengamot's confidence and challenged Cornelius Fudge over the Ministry's failure to control the Dementors. Fudge then accused Ye Ting of burning down the Ministry's main hall, but Ye Ting silenced him and exposed the Ministry's mishandling of his confiscated alchemical items.

• Ye Ting unleashed his dragon's might, terrifying the assembled wizards and shaking even Dumbledore before withdrawing it.
• Ye Ting told Fudge he had come to hold the Ministry accountable for letting Dementors enter Hogwarts, and Fudge stammered that it had been an accident.
• An Auror arrived and informed Fudge that the Ministry's main hall had been destroyed by fire.
• Fudge blamed Ye Ting for the fire and the injuries to Aurors, then called for a new trial and accused him of plotting to overthrow the Ministry.
• Ye Ting magically prevented Fudge from speaking and accused the Ministry of causing the accident with his confiscated alchemical items before shifting the blame onto him.

Ye Ting defended himself before the Wizengamot by revealing a magical memory of Ministry officials confiscating his wand and obstructing him. The memory showed Umbridge’s actions and the fire caused by Ye Ting’s broomstick, leaving the court increasingly skeptical of Fudge and astonished by Ye Ting’s alchemy.

• Fudge denied Ye Ting’s accusations, but Ye Ting pointed out that the unharmed Auror Proudfoot could testify.
• Dumbledore supported Ye Ting’s account and cited the Ministry’s prior failures to control its employees.
• Ye Ting extracted a memory from his mind and used a spell to show the Wizengamot what had happened at the Ministry.
• The memory showed security taking Ye Ting’s wand and Umbridge using her authorization to obstruct him.
• Umbridge mishandled the Silencing Bell and tried to seize Ye Ting’s broomstick, which resisted and caused a large fire.
• Dumbledore confirmed the broomstick was Ye Ting’s alchemical creation, astonishing the Wizengamot with its power.

Ye Ting used the Wizengamot’s viewing of his memory to expose the Ministry’s mistreatment of him and accuse Cornelius Fudge of ordering it. The Wizengamot upheld Ye Ting’s charges against the Ministry, leaving Fudge isolated and facing further accusations.

• After the memory ended, the Wizengamot praised Ye Ting’s skills and condemned the Aurors and Ministry employees who had attacked him.
• Ye Ting challenged Fudge, who dismissed the memory as fantasy and blamed Umbridge’s actions on her alone.
• Ye Ting accused Fudge of directing Umbridge to obstruct him and of using the case to advance his authority and pure-blood ideology.
• Ye Ting demanded an explanation for the Dementors’ invasion of Hogwarts and the Ministry’s treatment of him, and Ms. Bones put his first charge to a vote.
• Most of the Wizengamot supported finding the Ministry negligent, and Fudge conceded that the charge stood.
• Ms. Bones announced Ye Ting’s second charge, which received broad support and almost no opposition.

After Ye Ting forced the Ministry to accept responsibility for the Hogwarts Dementor invasion and the abuse of visitors, the Ministry issued a public apology and punished those responsible. Ye Ting intended to use his influence over the Wizengamot to help replace Fudge and gain access to the Department of Mysteries’ secrets.

• Madam Bones announced the Wizengamot’s ruling that the Ministry had to punish those responsible for both incidents and compensate the victims, and Fudge agreed to comply.
• Ye Ting told Fudge he would await the Ministry’s measures, thanked the Wizengamot, summoned his wand, and left for Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore described Ye Ting as a knowledge-driven wizard who remained peaceful unless someone provoked him, and said Voldemort had made that mistake.
• Three days later, the Ministry apologized for the Dementor invasion, promised compensation, awarded the Order of Merlin to four Hogwarts students, and announced punishments for Dolores Umbridge, Warren Dawlish, and other staff.
• Ye Ting was satisfied with the Ministry’s response but planned to use his influence with the Wizengamot to help someone become Minister and gain access to Department of Mysteries research.

Ye Ting planned to ally with Amelia Susan Bones to oppose Voldemort, help her become Minister for Magic, and gain influence over the Ministry. After returning to Hogwarts, he received a hero’s welcome, while the trial’s aftermath brought public honors and changes to the lives of Penelope, Cho Chang, and Hermione.

• Ye Ting decided to support Amelia Susan Bones against Cornelius Fudge and use Voldemort’s expected return to build public support for himself and Bones.
• Ye Ting returned to Hogwarts, where teachers and students welcomed him and learned he would not be held responsible.
• The Ministry announced that Ye Ting had cleared his name, made it accept responsibility, and won compensation for the students.
• Penelope received invitations from Ministry departments, Cho Chang was promised the Ravenclaw female prefect position, and Hermione gained admirers among younger girls.
• Hermione stopped using the Time-Turner and dropped Muggle Studies and Divination because the attention she received left her no safe opportunity to use it.

Ravenclaw defeated Hufflepuff after Cho Chang caught the Snitch in ten minutes, and Gryffindor learned that Harry Potter had received a Firebolt. The professors confiscated the broom to inspect it for Dark curses, leaving Ravenclaw worried about whether Harry would have it for their match.

• Ravenclaw defeated Hufflepuff when Cho Chang caught the Golden Snitch after ten minutes.
• Roger told the Ravenclaw team that Harry Potter had received a Firebolt for Christmas.
• Ye Ting explained that the Invisibility Cloak had been Harry's father's relic, while Cho Chang said she was confident in her flying and broom.
• Professor McGonagall confiscated Harry's Firebolt so the professors could inspect it for Dark curses.
• Roger worried that Harry might get the Firebolt back before Gryffindor played Ravenclaw, while Draco Malfoy hoped the broom would be ruined.

The chapter explained how pure-blood families were losing wealth as their traditional income sources dried up and magical abundance made most industries unprofitable. It ended with Ye Ting judging Voldemort’s plan to dominate both Muggles and other wizards more feasible than Grindelwald’s, because the wizarding world needed Muggles less than people assumed.

• The chapter described how pure-blood families’ manors, antiques, and inherited vaults concealed dwindling fortunes and few reliable sources of income.
• The Statute of Secrecy and the rise of public magical education weakened pure-blood families’ ability to profit from Muggles, alchemy, and potions.
• Magic made basic necessities cheap to produce, leaving wizarding families such as the Weasleys materially comfortable despite their limited money.
• The chapter explained that declining pure-blood families were drawn to Voldemort’s and Grindelwald’s promises to seize Muggle wealth and restore their status.
• Ye Ting considered Grindelwald’s idea laughable but judged Voldemort’s strategy more feasible, since the wizarding world did not depend heavily on Muggles.

Ye Ting reflected on wizards’ dependence on Muggles before Cho Chang led Ravenclaw to victory over Slytherin. He promised to help her train with the England national team for the Quidditch World Cup, and she threw herself into training, hoping to impress him.

• Ye Ting reasoned that wizards still depended on Muggles for population and some potion ingredients, making the proposed control of Muggles economically pointless.
• After Christmas break, Ravenclaw faced Slytherin in a match refereed unfairly by Professor Snape.
• Cho Chang dodged Slytherin’s fouls, broke through Parkin’s Pincer with an overclocked directional feint, and caught the Golden Snitch after fifteen minutes.
• Ye Ting praised Cho Chang’s flying and promised to intensify her training, modify her broomstick, and introduce her to the England national team for World Cup training.
• Cho Chang trained harder, determined to earn a place in the World Cup because she hoped becoming its brightest star would make Ye Ting like her more.

After Sirius Black broke into Gryffindor Tower and escaped, Dumbledore questioned why he had approached Ron instead of Harry and sought help investigating Black’s innocence. Ye Ting agreed to consider the case in exchange for access to the Black family’s collections, and Phineas urged him to find proof.

• Ron told the Gryffindor boys that Sirius Black had slashed his bed curtains, and the students alerted Professor McGonagall.
• The castle searched for Black through the night, but Professor McGonagall announced at dawn that he had escaped again.
• Hogwarts increased its security, and the Fat Lady returned to her portrait under the protection of a group of dwarfs.
• Dumbledore wondered why Black had appeared beside Ron rather than Harry and why he had fled without attacking anyone.
• Phineas Nigellus Black urged Dumbledore to investigate his great-great-grandson’s innocence and suggested asking Ye Ting for help.
• Dumbledore invited Ye Ting to his office, where Phineas offered him access to the Black family’s collections if he found proof of Sirius’s innocence.

Ye Ting used Dumbledore’s memories to argue that Peter Pettigrew had betrayed James Potter and faked his death, framing Sirius Black. He suggested investigating why Black had sought Ron and what news might have prompted his escape from Azkaban.

• Phineas begged Ye Ting to help Sirius Black, and Ye Ting agreed before asking Dumbledore for clues.
• Ye Ting watched Dumbledore’s memories of Black’s arrest in the Pensieve.
• Ye Ting pointed out that Black repeatedly muttered Peter Pettigrew’s name and that only one of Pettigrew’s fingers had been found.
• Ye Ting theorized that Pettigrew had been James Potter’s Secret-Keeper, faked his death, and framed Black, earning Dumbledore’s praise.
• Ye Ting asked why Black had sought Ron rather than Harry and suggested that a Daily Prophet mentioning Ron might have prompted Black to escape Azkaban.
• Dumbledore agreed that Fudge should be asked what news Black had received during the prison inspection.

Ye Ting connected Sirius Black’s escape to the newspaper photograph of Ron’s rat, Scabbers, and suggested Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew in Animagus form. Dumbledore investigated the clues, while Lupin began revealing how his friends had helped him at Hogwarts.

• Ye Ting pointed out that Scabbers was missing a toe and proposed that Peter Pettigrew had used Animagus transformation to fake his death, while Sirius Black had escaped as an animal.
• Phineas concluded that Black had recognized Pettigrew in the newspaper photograph and escaped to seek revenge for James Potter, though Dumbledore cautioned that the theory still needed proof.
• Dumbledore learned from Ron that Scabbers had vanished, leaving bloodstains and cat hairs behind, and discovered that the rat had lived with the Weasley family for twelve years.
• Lupin told Ye Ting and Dumbledore that he had become a werewolf as a child and that Dumbledore had arranged the Whomping Willow and a passage to the Shrieking Shack for his transformations.
• Lupin recalled that Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter had been his close friends during his happiest years at Hogwarts.

Remus Lupin confessed why he had concealed Sirius Black’s Animagus form and explained how the Marauders created their map. The investigation team used the map to track Sirius near the Forbidden Forest and Peter Pettigrew at the Whomping Willow.

• Lupin told Ye Ting how James, Sirius, and Peter became Animagi to keep him company during his transformations.
• Lupin admitted to Dumbledore that he had withheld Sirius’s Animagus secret out of fear and asked for forgiveness, and Dumbledore forgave him.
• Lupin showed Ye Ting the Marauder’s Map and explained how the Marauders made it to chart Hogwarts and identify everyone on its grounds.
• Lupin activated the map, and the investigation team began monitoring it for Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew.
• The investigation team found Sirius’s name near the Forbidden Forest and Peter’s name appearing briefly by the Whomping Willow.

Dumbledore and the professors exposed Peter Pettigrew as the traitor who framed Sirius Black, and Harry chose to send him to Azkaban rather than kill him. Amelia Bones arrived to revoke Sirius’s warrant and arrange compensation, leaving Sirius free to reunite with Harry.

• Ye Ting and Snape captured Sirius while Dumbledore, Flitwick, and McGonagall apprehended Peter in the Whomping Willow passage.
• Dumbledore used the Revealing Charm to transform Ron’s rat, Scabbers, into Peter Pettigrew, and Ye Ting restrained Sirius when he attacked Peter.
• Sirius explained how Peter became Secret-Keeper and betrayed James and Lily, while Snape used Veritaserum to make Peter confess.
• Harry decided that Peter should be sent to Azkaban rather than killed, despite Sirius’s desire for revenge.
• Ye Ting contacted Amelia Bones, who arrived with Rufus Scrimgeour and Aurors, received the evidence, and promised to revoke Sirius’s warrant and compensate him.

Ye Ting completed a stable time gate in the Chamber of Secrets, allowing him to travel through the Sea of Chaos to another world. After setting cautious search conditions for a world where Dragon Raja existed, he stepped through the gate to begin his first journey.

• The Ministry cleared Sirius Black and exposed Peter Pettigrew as the Potters’ betrayer, while Amelia Bones gained public favor and Cornelius Fudge faced ridicule.
• Black returned to 12 Grimmauld Place, welcomed Harry and Lupin, and thanked Ye Ting by offering him access to the Black family vault.
• Fudge revealed Lupin was a werewolf, forcing him to resign, while Harry and Ron became famous and Ron enjoyed telling an invented story about Peter’s capture.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch against Slytherin, but Gryffindor still fell short of the Quidditch Cup, leaving Oliver Wood in tears.
• Ye Ting helped Hagrid save Buckbeak from execution by substituting a pumpkin, then took the real Hippogriff to Newt Scamander for safekeeping.
• Ye Ting stabilized the time gate, configured a search for a world where Dragon Raja existed, and stepped through it.

At Daenerys Targaryen’s wedding to Khal Drogo, a dragon appeared over the Dothraki feast and burned Daenerys, Viserys, Drogo, Illyrio, Jorah, and the three dragon eggs. The chapter left the Dothraki watching their leaders perish in the flames.

• Daenerys sat fearfully through her wedding feast, while Viserys planned to use Drogo’s khalasar to reclaim Westeros.
• Viserys presented Daenerys with three handmaids, and Illyrio gave her three dragon eggs.
• A strange wind and loud beating wings interrupted the gift ceremony as a huge dragon appeared above the crowd.
• Viserys claimed the dragon’s arrival proved he was destined to rule the Seven Kingdoms.
• The dragon roared and engulfed Daenerys, Viserys, Drogo, Illyrio, Jorah, the bloodriders, and the dragon eggs in flames.

After the Dothraki khalasar knelt before him, Ye Ting promised Daenerys Stormborn that she would rule men and dragons, then used magic to restore and adorn her as the Queen of Dragons. He prepared to present her to her first subjects.

• The Dothraki warriors remained kneeling while Ye Ting focused on Daenerys, who realized she had survived the flames that killed Viserys, Drogo, and Illyrio.
• Ye Ting denied being a god’s envoy and told Daenerys that her fate was tied to the world and that she would sit on the Iron Throne.
• Daenerys reclaimed her identity as a descendant of Aegon the Conqueror, and Ye Ting praised her potential.
• Ye Ting used magic to clean Daenerys, restore her hair, dress her in a gown, and place the Dragon Blood Crown on her head.
• Ye Ting declared Daenerys the Queen of Dragons and said it was time for her first subjects to see their future ruler.