Chapter Summaries

Ian returned to Hogwarts, prepared to teach Alchemy, and reunited with Hagrid before visiting his underground research facility with Snape. There, he examined clones of his parents and Lily Potter and resolved to find a way to synchronize a clone’s magical frequency with its soul.

• Ian gave his Alchemy textbook samples to McGonagall and learned that many students had signed up for the class.
• Ian reunited with Hagrid and spent the day catching up with him.
• Ian and Snape Apparated to Ian’s hidden research facility in the Forbidden Forest.
• A scientist reported that the clones of Edgar Bones, Joanna Bones, and Lily Potter developed fatal cellular self-destruction within twelve months.
• Ian proposed that mismatched magical frequencies might cause the clones’ failure and said he would seek a way to synchronize a clone with a soul.
• Snape asked whether Ian intended to bring Lily back; Ian said he wanted to test the boundaries of the soul and would continue if the experiment failed.

Ian asked Snape to develop potions to stabilize clones so their bodies could accept souls, while Ian used a new spell to read their Life Code and found their magical genes were blank. After studying an ancient book of magical plants, Ian suspected its recipes could help and planned to begin his first day as a professor the next morning.

• Ian explained that the clones’ instability came from their resistance to soul resonance, and Snape agreed to prepare materials for experiments using potions.
• Ian cast Resero Codexvita on a clone and read its Life Code, discovering that its structure was unstable and its magical genes were blank.
• Ian wondered whether a wizard’s soul could restart magic in a Muggle body and whether magic came from the compatibility between soul and matter.
• Back at Hogwarts, Ian noticed Helena was avoiding him and read Neville’s ancient Treatise on Magical Plants.
• Ian suspected the plants and Alchemy could provide a stable vessel for magic and wondered whether the Longbottom Family’s books pointed to secrets in Gringotts.

Ian taught his first third-year Alchemy lesson, introducing the creation of magical objects and guiding the students through enchanting metal disks with the Levitation Charm. He sent them away with their disks and pens to practice, and assigned the Shield Charm for their next practical lesson.

• Ian arrived on time for his first Alchemy class and distributed copies of his textbook to the students.
• Ian explained that the course would focus on creating magical objects and told the class he had achieved only temporary metal-to-gold transmutation.
• Ian recognized Fred and George Weasley, answered Roger Davies's question about a permanent transmutation expert, and returned the class to the lesson.
• Ian demonstrated how to engrave the Levitation Charm onto a metal disk so it would float, then guided the students as they tried it themselves.
• Many students successfully made their disks float a short distance, and Ian told them to take their equipment home to practice and study the Shield Charm.

Ian planned to use his knowledge of the timeline and Hogwarts’ major events to build the World Gate while avoiding changes to the main course of history. He left the Restricted Section resolved to keep fate’s key events on track, even if doing so required lies and death.

• Ian entered the Restricted Section to study its forbidden knowledge and considered how carefully he could interfere with the timeline.
• Ian recalled that Dumbledore had secretly given him alchemical research notes, then decided Dumbledore had to die to preserve the timeline and allow the world to move forward.
• Ian reflected that he had warned Snape not to touch or reveal the Resurrection Stone because it needed to reach Harry in the future.
• Ian planned to combine magic and technology to create the World Gate, using major Hogwarts events and their magical materials as opportunities for experiments.
• Ian identified his fifth year at Hogwarts as the core stage of his plan and left the Restricted Section determined to keep events on course.

Ian intervened when a troll entered Hogwarts, saving Hermione Granger in the girls' bathroom and introducing her to his ideas about analyzing Ancient Magic. The incident ended with Hermione reunited with Harry and Ron, while Ian privately considered her the first piece in his plans.

• Ian used his improved Marauder's Map to track Hermione in the girls' bathroom and the approaching troll, then left the Great Hall to intervene.
• The troll broke into the bathroom, but Ian's shield protected Hermione from its club.
• Ian explained to Hermione how Alchemy might analyze Ancient Magic in creatures such as trolls, and restrained the troll with silver chains before incapacitating it with a modified Sonic Wave Spell.
• Harry and Ron arrived and found Hermione safe; Ian told her that friends willing to risk themselves were worth cherishing.
• Hermione took responsibility for being in the bathroom when Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, and the other professors arrived, while Ian stayed silent.
• After students returned to their dormitories, Ian called Hermione the first chess piece in his plans.

Ian developed a plan to use a stabilized magical rewriting virus to reshape his own body and pursue human self-evolution. He began Phase One by preparing his own purified blood and naming himself the experimental subject.

• Ian concluded that failed bloodline experiments resulted from conflicts between the foreign wills carried in magical creatures' blood and their hosts.
• Ian abandoned bloodline fusion and began using runes and Alchemy to recreate magical creatures' traits as algorithms within a human life system.
• Ian discovered that werewolf blood could rewrite a host's Life Code and experimented with modifying it to obey external commands.
• After dangerous trials, Ian produced stable silver-blue samples called the Magic Rewriting Seed.
• Ian titled his new project Self-Bloodline Modification Plan: Phase One and declared that he would be its first experimental subject.

Ian celebrated Christmas by maintaining his relationships and giving gifts, including a necklace that let Helena manifest a physical body. He later found Harry seeking the Mirror of Erised and accompanied him, leaving Harry with a warning about losing himself in desire.

• Ian prepared Christmas gifts for Hogwarts staff, Susan, Amelia, and Helena while keeping his research and interventions on track.
• Ian gave Helena a necklace that let her change forms and manifest a physical body, and they spent Christmas Eve together in the Astronomy Tower.
• On Christmas morning, Ian stayed away from the Great Hall feast and watched the snow fall from a window.
• Ian sensed Harry following him and swept the boy out from behind a corner with a current of air.
• Harry admitted he wanted to see the Mirror of Erised again, and Ian accompanied him to the abandoned classroom.
• Harry saw his parents in the mirror while Ian saw starlight and runes; Ian warned Harry that the mirror showed desire, then left.

Ian explained to Harry that the Mirror of Erised reflected desire and was connected to death, then recounted his encounter with Death during a soul experiment. After a strange shadow appeared in the mirror, Ian warned Harry not to return, leaving the mirror’s presence still watching him.

• Ian used his Alchemical Eye to examine the Mirror of Erised and explained that it reflected desire and could consume those who stared too long.
• Ian told Harry that the mirror was a resonant life-form tied to death and described the legend of the Peverell Brothers.
• Ian recounted meeting Death during a soul experiment and hearing that anyone seeking to control death must first coexist with it.
• A distorted third silhouette split from Ian’s reflection, and Ian recognized the face before the light vanished.
• Ian warned Harry not to return to the mirror and left as the shadow continued to watch him.

Three years ago, Ian entered the Afterlife using a potion and a soul-bound scarab, where he confronted Death and learned that it maintained the order of death. He returned to his laboratory resolved to understand and rewrite the law of death.

• Ian drank the False Death Potion and used an Alchemical Array to bind part of his soul to an Egyptian scarab as an anchor.
• Ian met Death in a vast white space and argued that Death could guide souls but could not freely interfere with the living.
• Death showed Ian his parents in a sea of flames and threatened to condemn them, but Ian accused Death of using the threat because it was not omnipotent.
• Death warned Ian that seeking to rewrite the law would bring him closer to Death, and the Afterlife shattered around him.
• Ian awakened in his laboratory after the House-elf administered the antidote, found the scarab reduced to ash, and recorded that he would use reason to strip away Death's mask.

Ian confronted Death over its interference with his attempts to reach the dead and forced it to let his parents remain undisturbed. Back at Hogwarts, he took Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak to study, gave him an improved cloak, and continued pursuing the World Gate while Death watched from the mirror.

• Ian threatened to publish his research on death and disrupt the order of souls unless Death stopped interfering and allowed him to obtain the Resurrection Stone.
• Death agreed to watch over Ian’s parents and warned him to remain silent before the vision shattered.
• Back in a Hogwarts classroom, Ian told Harry Potter that Death governed the Afterlife and that their parents were likely there.
• Harry lent Ian his Invisibility Cloak, and Ian gave Harry an improved cloak as an exchange.
• After Harry left, Ian noted that two Deathly Hallows had appeared and promised the Death in the mirror that the World Gate would create another shore beyond its reach.

Ian met with Madam Rosmerta and Tonks at the Three Broomsticks, then discussed the growing Death Eater threat and a dangerous mission with Tonks. He left Hogsmeade resolved to face the coming conflict.

• Ian met Madam Rosmerta at the Three Broomsticks and exchanged teasing remarks with her.
• Tonks arrived late and told Ian that Auror missions were becoming more demanding.
• Tonks reported intelligence suggesting the Death Eaters were plotting a larger conspiracy involving dark magic.
• Ian asked Tonks to take on a mission, and she agreed while promising to give it everything she had.
• Ian and Tonks discussed the Death Eaters and countermeasures until night fell, then Ian left into the snow determined to face the challenges ahead.

Ian removed the Bloodline Curse from Astoria Greengrass and contained its manifested form for study. Jamison Greengrass sensed the change, while Ian returned home and used a spell to search for Quirinus Quirrell.

• Ian gave Astoria a unicorn-based potion and used magic to separate the curse from her Life Code.
• A goat-headed monster emerged from Astoria as the curse resisted Ian's efforts to expel it.
• Ian expelled the monster and sealed it in an alchemical container, then assured Solair that Astoria would recover.
• Jamison sensed that the Greengrass family curse had been removed, and Solair anticipated a serious conversation with him.
• Ian returned home, entered a room with a world map, and said, "Quirinus Quirrell."

Ian tracked Quirrell to the forests of Albania and confronted the Voldemort possessing him. After suppressing Voldemort with a Soul-Freeze Spell, Ian asked to learn the truth behind the Philosopher's Stone's power.

• Ian detected Quirrell leaving Hogwarts for Albania and followed him using his redesigned map.
• Ian revealed that he had sent Quirrell a secret letter and challenged the presence hiding at the back of Quirrell's head.
• Quirrell attacked Ian, but Ian overcame him with powerful spells and forced Voldemort to take control.
• Voldemort attacked Ian with the Killing Curse and Fiendfyre, but Ian sealed Apparition and froze Voldemort's soul-consciousness.
• Ian stopped applying pressure, and Voldemort asked what he wanted; Ian said he wanted to understand the truth behind the Philosopher's Stone's power.

Ian Bones confronted Voldemort and offered a magical contract: Ian would reveal the Philosopher’s Stone’s protections at Hogwarts, while Voldemort would give him all his magical knowledge and experience. Voldemort weighed the cost and danger of refusing, then began considering a way to get what he wanted without paying the full price.

• Quirrell removed his hat, revealing Voldemort, and asked Ian why he had brought them there.
• Ian presented Voldemort with a contract exchanging knowledge of the Philosopher’s Stone’s protections for all of Voldemort’s magical knowledge and experience.
• Voldemort objected, threatened to recruit Ian as a partner, and offered to teach him immortality.
• Ian rejected Voldemort’s offer and warned that he could destroy him or discover immortality through his own power.
• Voldemort considered the losses and dangers of refusing the contract, then formed a plan to obtain what he wanted without paying too much.

Ian and Voldemort signed a magical contract that transferred Voldemort’s knowledge and memories to Ian. Ian left Voldemort with the promised payment—a note naming the Mirror of Erised—and Apparated away.

• Voldemort added clauses intended to keep Ian from revealing that he was alive or where he was, and Ian recognized the loophole Voldemort had planted.
• Quirrell signed the contract, and Ian signed it in turn, activating its magic.
• The contract tore Voldemort’s magical knowledge, memories, and experiences from his soul despite his attempts to resist.
• Ian captured the glowing strands in an alchemical device, while Voldemort warned him that he was bound by the contract too.
• Ian sent Voldemort a parchment bearing the words “Mirror of Erised” and Apparated away.
• Voldemort roared in fury as Ian, thousands of miles away, reflected that Tom had been on his chessboard from the beginning.

After absorbing Voldemort’s memories, Ian mastered his magical techniques and battle experience, then considered how to surpass the limits of his own magic. He planned to pursue knowledge from Grindelwald and Dumbledore while researching a safe way to expand his magical capacity.

• Ian spent several weeks absorbing Voldemort’s memories and used the Patronus Charm to manage their violent effects.
• Ian mastered nearly all of Voldemort’s techniques and gained the battle experience he had acquired fighting Dumbledore.
• Ian learned that Voldemort had expanded his magical capacity by creating Horcruxes, but rejected splitting his own soul and sought a safer method.
• Ian decided he still needed the knowledge of Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald to complete his magical system.
• Ian considered meeting Grindelwald after obtaining the Philosopher’s Stone next summer and seeking an opportunity during the Chamber of Secrets incident to approach Dumbledore.

Ian discovered that the Deathly Hallows drew their power from the Law of Death and used the Invisibility Cloak and Resurrection Stone to summon Death. He offered to restore Voldemort’s fractured soul in exchange for knowledge, and Death offered him a chance to glimpse the Law.

• Ian used the Alchemical Eye on the Invisibility Cloak and Resurrection Stone, finding that their power came from the Law rather than their materials.
• Ian recovered the Resurrection Stone from Voldemort’s ring in an abandoned Albanian cottage and reasoned that all three Hallows drew power from the Law of Death.
• Ian activated Law Resonance with the Cloak and Stone, and the resulting force carried him into the Void before Death.
• Ian asked Death for knowledge of souls, death, time, and space, offering to collect Voldemort’s Horcrux fragments and deliver his soul intact.
• Death refused to provide all its knowledge but offered Ian the chance to glimpse the Law.

Ian negotiated with the Grim Reaper for knowledge about space, time, and dimensions to help complete the World Gate, then obtained a duplicate Resurrection Stone. After returning to reality, Ian reviewed what he had learned and updated his analysis of death.

• The Grim Reaper offered Ian knowledge of space, time, and dimensions, but refused to explain how Merlin and Morgan le Fay controlled the Law Force.
• Ian agreed to the Grim Reaper’s terms and signed a binding magical contract, though the Grim Reaper erased his tricks.
• Ian asked the Grim Reaper to duplicate the Resurrection Stone, and the Grim Reaper created an identical-looking stone without its powers.
• The Grim Reaper guessed that Ian planned to use the duplicate to plot Dumbledore’s death, and Ian left the white room with the stone.
• Back in reality, Ian concealed his earlier emotions, considered the Grim Reaper’s abilities and personality, and updated his book Analysis of Death in his Mind Palace.

Ian secretly made a convincing counterfeit Invisibility Cloak to guard against Death and Dumbledore, then returned to Hogwarts and resumed teaching after the Christmas holiday. He left the students with a Yu-Gi-Oh! challenge while continuing to calculate the true cost of Death's contract.

• Ian planned to conceal his rise from Death and considered using the Invisibility Cloak to evade its perception.
• Ian spent the Christmas holiday experimenting and made a convincing counterfeit cloak using Thestral mane, disguise fabric, and soul runes.
• Ian returned to Hogwarts and began teaching his students Double Enchantment.
• Fred Weasley asked whether Ian was as good as Yugi Muto, and Ian said he was stronger because he had created the game.
• Ian challenged students to defeat his cousin Susan Bones for a card from his collection.

Ian taught his Hogwarts students how to apply multiple enchantments to one object, demonstrating stronger same-type enchantments, different-type combinations, and an advanced fusion called Amalgam Enchantment. He left the students practicing Homogeneous Dual Enchantment and looking forward to studying more advanced alchemy.

• Ian demonstrated that applying two Protego runes to a metal plate created a stronger shield than a single rune.
• Ian showed how combining Lumos and Incendio enchantments made a plate emit light and flame through a resonance effect.
• After a student asked about creating new magic, Ian used the Ehwaz rune to fuse light and fire into gentle white flames, explaining that the technique was called Amalgam Enchantment.
• Ian told the students that Ancient Runes was not required to become an alchemist but was essential for studying alchemy in depth.
• Ian began the students' practice with Homogeneous Dual Enchantment.