Chapter Summaries

Ian Alvin Bones received notice that he had passed the preliminary review for a Hogwarts professor position and was invited to meet with the Headmaster. After reflecting on his life and achievements in the wizarding world, he headed toward Hogwarts to meet old friends.

• Ian received a letter from Professor McGonagall asking him to come to Hogwarts on July 7th for final confirmation of the professor position.
• Ian recalled transmigrating into the wizarding world in 1963 and using his scientific knowledge to advance alchemy, runes, and magic.
• Ian remembered creating Duel Monsters, which spread through the wizarding world, and inventing the Elixir of Immortality.
• Ian arrived in Diagon Alley, where an excited witch recognized him, praised his achievements, and took a photograph with him.
• Ian escaped the crowd and decided it was time to return to Hogwarts and see some old friends.

After five years away, Ian Alvin returned to Hogwarts and met with Dumbledore about taking a teaching position. Though Ian described his travels around the world, he concealed that he had become the feared academic thief known as the “Shadowless Thief,” and Dumbledore welcomed him as Professor Ian.

• Ian reviewed the profits from his potions shop, then used Floo Powder to travel to Hogwarts.
• Professor McGonagall reproached Ian for disappearing for five years and escorted him to Dumbledore's office.
• Ian greeted Fawkes and spoke with Dumbledore, who praised his Voice of Nature spell and asked where he had been.
• Ian told Dumbledore he had traveled around the world, while concealing that he had stolen knowledge and research as the Shadowless Thief.
• Dumbledore offered Ian the vacant teaching position at Hogwarts and welcomed him as Professor Ian.

Ian Alvin used his magical talent and knowledge from his past life to protect his family during the First Wizarding War, but his parents were killed after Voldemort’s fall. He later became a celebrated scholar, secretly plundered magical knowledge around the world, and emerged as a wizard whose expertise even Dumbledore had to respect.

• Ian Alvin, gifted with Perfect Memory and innate magical talent, learned that his family was caught in the First Wizarding War and persuaded his parents to hide their home with the Fidelius Charm, entrusting the secret to Momo.
• Ian modified Muggle weapons with magic, helping his family survive the war until Voldemort fell.
• At eleven, Ian went to Hogwarts without drawing attention, but after his second year he learned that Dark wizards had killed his parents during an operation.
• Ian’s Aunt Amelia adopted him, and he returned to Hogwarts, where his brilliance earned him fame and the Ministry’s label of “the next Dumbledore.”
• After Dumbledore refused to hire him as a Hogwarts professor, Ian traveled the world, infiltrating schools, ancient families, and the Vatican’s secret archives to steal magical books and research.
• Ian developed the Mind Circuit model and used enhanced Devil’s Breath to overcome powerful targets, gathering centuries of knowledge before reappearing as a scholar Dumbledore could not ignore.

Ian explained to Dumbledore that he pursued truth and knowledge rather than power, despite his history with Dark Magic. He revealed that his dream of leading wizards to the stars had faded as he recognized how unchecked power and human nature could destroy civilization, leaving the two men in quiet agreement about the need for understanding and restraint.

• Dumbledore questioned Ian about returning to Hogwarts and compared his rise and ambitions to Tom Riddle.
• Ian said he studied Dark Magic to understand it and argued that denying darkness would leave wizards ruled by it.
• Ian described his former dream of uniting wizards and exploring other worlds to advance magical civilization.
• Ian admitted that his research had shown him how arrogance and unrestrained power could turn progress into destruction.
• Dumbledore suggested that this realization was why Ian had returned, and Ian affirmed that magic's limit lay in understanding rather than power.

Ian Alvin explained to Dumbledore and the portraits that Muggle technological progress could eventually bring war with wizards, which wizards would lose. He said he had abandoned his ambition to create a Wizarding Civilization and hoped the old order’s destruction might lead wizardkind to renewal.

• Phineas Black criticized Ian Alvin’s vision of a Wizarding Civilization as a pure-blood fantasy.
• Ian said status should come from ability and contribution rather than bloodline, while Dumbledore warned that building such a society would bring bloodshed.
• Ian told Dumbledore he had given up trying to start a war because he believed Muggles would eventually initiate one.
• Ian pointed out that Muggles had landed on the moon and argued that their advancing technology and vast numbers would overwhelm wizards in a war.
• Ian argued that wizardkind’s defeat could force it to change and begin a new civilization, and Dumbledore compared him to Grindelwald before Ian said he knew when to stop.

Ian Alvin told Dumbledore and the portraits that Muggle victory could lead to a new magical race and explained how Wizarding society had contributed to his parents’ deaths. He concealed his true goal of traveling between dimensions and seeking the Philosopher's Stone, while the portraits suspected his return to Hogwarts served a larger plan.

• Ian Alvin warned that Muggles might use science to reproduce magic and create a far more numerous race of New Humans.
• Ian told Dumbledore that Wizarding society, rather than Voldemort alone, had caused his parents’ deaths through its corruption and divisions.
• Ian privately revealed that he had found another path: traveling across dimensions, beginning with obtaining the Philosopher's Stone.
• Ian said he wanted to teach at Hogwarts because it held precious memories and gave him access to the Restricted Section.
• After Ian left, Phineas Black suspected he had returned to continue his plans, and Dumbledore watched the fire with worry.

Ian Alvin fought off Roberti’s ten wizards in a remote valley, then accepted Roberti’s offer of werewolf prisoners as materials. After secretly cursing Roberti and erasing the evidence, Ian declared that the first step toward the Philosopher’s Stone was complete.

• Ian Alvin Apparated to a remote valley, where ten wizards confronted him on Roberti’s behalf.
• Ian killed the attackers with his spells and trapped them inside an Anti-Apparition Barrier.
• Roberti emerged from hiding and offered Ian double the materials for free, and Ian accepted.
• Roberti delivered ten chained prisoners, whom Ian identified as werewolves guilty of heinous crimes.
• After Roberti Apparated away, Ian used Roberti’s hair to cast a curse and predicted that Roberti would be found dead with his heart missing.
• Ian dissolved the bodies and erased the valley’s traces, then said the first step toward the Philosopher’s Stone was complete.

Ian Alvin conducted bloodline experiments in his hidden laboratory, seeking the source of magic and a way past the limits of wizard power. After a werewolf bit a Muggle, he detected a new genetic chain that might mark the beginning of Wizard Bloodline and vowed to surpass Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Voldemort.

• Ian Alvin entered his suitcase laboratory, where he kept werewolves and magical-creature specimens for bloodline research.
• Ian recalled how he had investigated Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Voldemort and concluded that each had broken the usual limits on magical power.
• Ian exposed a werewolf to artificial moonlight and recorded the changes in its body, but the experiment produced no result.
• Ian had a Muggle bitten by the werewolf and observed a violent magical reaction in the Muggle's DNA.
• Ian detected a previously unknown energy-bearing chain, saved the data, sealed the laboratory, and vowed to reshape bloodlines and surpass the other powerful wizards.

Ian Alvin discovered that life was structured by a code made up of body, soul, and bloodline, and that magic came from the bloodline segment. He failed to alter that code safely with Transfiguration, but continued searching for a more precise method.

• Ian drank Felix Felicis and detected a subtle magical fluctuation in a wizard bitten by a werewolf.
• Ian used Spiritual Vision to see the fluctuation as Ancient Runes and deciphered them as the Life Code.
• Ian concluded that the Life Code comprised the body, soul, and bloodline, and that Muggles lacked a bloodline segment.
• Ian tried to alter a wizard’s bloodline code with Transfiguration, but the wizard died when his DNA and Life Code collapsed.
• Ian disposed of the body and resumed experiments, determined to find a less brutal way to change the Life Code.

After a week of failed Life Code experiments, Ian Alvin discovered that a wizard’s Magic Core was tied to both bloodline and soul, then paused his work when he realized its dark magic was affecting his mind. He created the Mind-Calming Art to restore his clarity and, after contacting someone through his communication mirror, Apparated away to meet them.

• Ian Alvin concluded that Magic Cores carried their owners’ Soul Imprints, explaining why transplanting them caused rejection, and stopped his experiments for lack of materials and inspiration.
• Ian considered observing a wizard’s development from embryo to birth, then recoiled from the thought and recognized that something was wrong with his mind.
• Ian Apparated to a London concert and used a silver eagle Patronus to gather positive energy from Muggles’ happy memories.
• Ian absorbed the energy, cleared his mind, and named his modified Patronus the Mind-Calming Art.
• Ian contacted someone through his communication mirror, accepted their invitation, and Apparated away.

Ian reunited with the Greengrass woman and discussed his research into controlling bloodline changes to cure Astoria’s curse. After returning home, he received notice that he had been appointed Hogwarts’ Alchemy professor and agreed to dine with Amelia Bones.

• Ian visited the Greengrass woman, and they resumed their affair while her husband was away with the children.
• Ian considered using the werewolf transformation mechanism to rewrite the Life Code and said he needed test subjects, possibly Death Eaters.
• Ian told the woman that he had a preliminary solution for removing the Bloodline Curse from the Greengrass Lineage if he could obtain enough samples.
• The woman confessed that she loved Ian and would leave her husband if he asked, but Ian declined to define their relationship and departed.
• Ian learned from Momo that Hogwarts had appointed him Alchemy professor for the new term and agreed to attend dinner with Amelia Bones.

Ian continued developing World Gate, a portal that could travel through space but had not yet achieved interdimensional travel. At dinner with Amelia Bones, he warned that Voldemort would return and urged her to build a Ministry faction, then left determined to complete the portal after returning to Hogwarts.

• Ian finished answering letters from influential figures in the Wizarding World and went to inspect World Gate in his manor’s heavily guarded chamber.
• Ian tested World Gate and concluded that space was under control but time remained unstable; its brief three-hour rewind function could not yet be combined with spatial travel.
• Ian met Amelia Bones for dinner, where she confronted him about disappearing for five years and receiving only weekly letters.
• Ian predicted that Voldemort would return in four or five years and advised Amelia to build a reliable faction within the Ministry while keeping the Order of the Phoenix outside her inner circle.
• Amelia asked Ian to watch over Susan when she started at Hogwarts, and Ian agreed before leaving by flame.
• Ian resolved that World Gate would eventually unite time and space and truly open when he returned to Hogwarts.

Ian moved his laboratory to the moon and established the Moon Base, where his research into magical bloodlines continued. After learning that Hagrid and Harry Potter had retrieved a valuable item from Gringotts, Ian returned to Earth but decided to wait for the Philosopher’s Stone to reach Hogwarts.

• Ian relocated his laboratory through the World Gate and built a concealed, magically protected facility on the moon called the Moon Base.
• Ian resumed research into the Life Code and Werewolf Conversion Factor and developed the Moon Silver Factor, which could trigger magical changes in bloodlines.
• Momo told Ian that Hagrid had entered Gringotts with Harry Potter and taken out a valuable item, which Ian identified as the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Ian traveled to Diagon Alley and watched Hagrid leave Gringotts, but judged the guards and risks too great to seize the Stone.
• Ian left Diagon Alley and resolved to wait for the Philosopher’s Stone to be brought to Hogwarts.

Ian Alvin returned to Hogwarts after five years and reunited with Professor Flitwick before attending the opening feast. As Harry Potter was sorted into Gryffindor, Ian questioned whether prophecy could limit the Wizarding World’s future and thought of Moon Base and the still-unopened World Gate.

• Ian Alvin arrived in the Dark Forest by teleportation and demonstrated that he could fly through a spell controlled by will alone.
• Ian reunited with Professor Flitwick, and they recalled their past research into dark magic and the rules they had followed.
• Flitwick brought Ian to the Great Hall, where Ian greeted the Hogwarts professors and watched the Sorting Ceremony begin.
• The Sorting Hat placed Susan Bones in Hufflepuff, and Ian reflected that events were following the original story.
• Harry Potter was sorted into Gryffindor, and Ian told Professor Babbling that prophecy was only an unproven hypothesis.
• Ian looked at the moon and thought of Moon Base, the World Gate, and his continuing pursuit of Truth.

At the feast, Ian challenged the Wizarding World’s celebration of Harry Potter as the Savior, arguing that Lily Potter’s sacrifice had truly saved the world and that bloodline prejudice shaped whose heroism was remembered. After leaving the Great Hall, Ian reflected on rebuilding the rules and received a signal that new Moon Base research data was being transmitted.

• Professor Babbling asked Ian why he seemed uninterested in Harry Potter, and Ian questioned the story of a one-year-old defeating Voldemort.
• Ian argued that Lily Potter, whose sacrifice awakened Ancient Magic, deserved to be called the true Savior.
• Ian claimed that Harry was celebrated partly because Lily was Muggle-born while Harry bore the Potter name, prompting McGonagall to defend the prophecy and Dumbledore to explain the need for a living symbol of hope.
• Ian criticized prejudice embedded in tradition and institutions, admitted that the Bones family and he had benefited from the corrupt system, then left the high table.
• In the corridor, Ian resolved to rebuild the rules and received a signal from the Moon Base carrying new research data.

Professor Babbling broadcast the professors’ debate about Harry and the Wizarding World’s prejudice to the Great Hall, prompting students to reconsider their assumptions. Dumbledore introduced Ian Alvin Bones as the new Alchemy professor, and Ian welcomed the students back to Hogwarts as Harry watched him.

• Professor Babbling’s Sonorus spell made the students hear the teachers debate Harry, Lily Potter, and prejudice in the Wizarding World.
• Fred and George joked about Arthur Weasley, Draco dismissed Harry’s importance, and Harry realized his mother had died protecting him.
• Hermione and the Muggle-born students reflected on the prejudice they would face, and Dumbledore urged the students to help make the world better.
• Dumbledore reminded the students of Hogwarts’ safety rules and introduced Ian Alvin Bones as the new Alchemy professor.
• Hermione praised Ian’s achievements, while Ron questioned the Bones family’s study of dark magic and Neville defended them.
• Ian welcomed the students back to Hogwarts, and his gaze briefly met Harry Potter’s.

Susan Bones described the rigorous magical training and enchanted spellbook her cousin Ian Alvin Bones had given her before Ian introduced himself as Hogwarts’s new Alchemy professor. Ian demonstrated his skill by enchanting Penelope Clearwater’s badge to make her fly, then returned to his seat aware that his abilities still had a long way to go.

• Susan Bones told her Hufflepuff classmates that Ian Alvin Bones had trained her from childhood in magic control using a Magic Riot Room.
• Susan explained that Ian had sent her an alchemical spellbook and wand that let her experience his memories while learning spells.
• Ian introduced himself to the Great Hall as the new Alchemy professor and described Alchemy as an art capable of changing students’ fates.
• Ian borrowed Penelope Clearwater’s badge and used Alchemy to make her float and fly for five minutes.
• Ian ended the demonstration by saying that Alchemy relied on repeatable laws, while Dumbledore watched in astonishment and McGonagall called him dangerous.

Ian Bones introduced his Alchemy class as a way to turn ideas into magical inventions, inspiring Muggle-born students and drawing polite applause from the Slytherins. After the feast, Ian found a note from Severus Snape demanding an explanation in the Black Forest that night.

• Ian told the students that his Alchemy class would teach them to create magical versions of Muggle entertainment and other inventions.
• Muggle-born students applauded Ian's speech, while Slytherin students applauded stiffly because their families wanted them to win him over.
• Ian noticed Professor Quirrell watching him with resentment and suspicion, and recognized Voldemort behind the disguise.
• Hermione, Harry, and Ron discussed Muggle devices before Nearly Headless Nick revealed that Ian had helped him become completely headless through a spirit experiment.
• After the feast, Professor Flitwick escorted Ian to his quarters, where Ian read Severus Snape's note asking to meet in the Black Forest that night.

Ian showed Snape the Resurrection Stone and explained how his research into resurrection had led Snape to sign a contract granting Ian access to his magical work. After Ian and Snape retrieved the ring from Gaunt Shack and swore to keep it secret, an unfamiliar presence emerged from the shadows near the school gates.

• Ian met Snape in the Forbidden Forest and transported them to the past, where he explained his resurrection research and proposed the contract.
• Snape visited Ian's Muggle technology company, confirmed the cloning research, and signed the contract the following morning.
• Ian and Snape dispelled Voldemort's traps at Gaunt Shack, and Ian removed the ring containing the Resurrection Stone.
• Ian warned Snape not to reveal the ring's existence, and the two sealed an oath of secrecy.
• Ian reached the school gates, sensed someone in the shadows, and ordered the unfamiliar presence to come out.

Ian reunited with Helena Ravenclaw at Hogwarts and used magic to make her corporeal, while Neville thanked him for helping his parents recover. After learning that his Muggle biological cloning company was in trouble, Ian decided to advance his plan.

• Ian reunited with Helena, made her corporeal with magic, and took her to the Professor's Quarters.
• Neville gave Ian gifts and thanked him for helping his parents recover from the damage caused by Bellatrix Lestrange's Imperius Curse.
• Neville told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Ian's Soul Magic had helped his parents regain their memories and recognize him.
• Ian recalled how his research and work at St. Mungo's had led him to develop methods for healing damaged souls.
• Snape warned Ian that his Muggle biological cloning company was having problems, and Ian decided to visit it that afternoon.