Chapter Summaries

Ian tested whether Resurrection Stone Law fragments and a Philosopher’s Stone could destroy an Obscurus, then asked Nicolas Flamel to help research a Philosopher’s Stone powered by emotion instead of the soul. As Hogwarts reopened, Flamel accepted Ian’s proposal with a one-word reply.

• Ian used Resurrection Stone Law fragments and a Philosopher’s Stone to destroy a tiny portion of the Obscurus, confirming that the experiment could work.
• Ian secured his research, Obscurus sample, and a spare Philosopher’s Stone after his encounter with Death.
• Ian visited Nicolas Flamel and offered to help him and his wife escape their dependence on the Philosopher’s Stone and retain their youth.
• Ian gave Nicolas a proposal to study a Philosopher’s Stone powered by emotion rather than the soul.
• On the first day of the new school year, Ian received Nicolas’s reply: “Good.”

At Hogwarts’ new-year feast, Ian discussed his knowledge system and his allies with Flitwick, then reassured Susan Bones and promised her a Christmas holiday together. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley arrived safely at Hogwarts, leaving Ian convinced that fate’s Corrective Force had not intervened.

• Ian told Flitwick he intended to build a system where magical knowledge could grow through accumulation rather than depend on bloodlines or power.
• Flitwick pledged his support, and Ian kept the secrets of the higher Library access levels to himself.
• Ian apologized to Susan Bones for neglecting her over the summer and promised to take her traveling for the entire Christmas holiday.
• Ian encouraged Susan to stay focused on winning the House Cup, which he said the Headmaster would not interfere with this year.
• After the Sorting Ceremony, Ian saw Harry Potter and Ron Weasley safely seated at the Gryffindor table and concluded that fate had not corrected the timeline.

Hermione Granger asked Ian Bones to let her attend his alchemy class early, and he agreed if Professor McGonagall approved. Later, Ian tested ways to resist the Basilisk’s gaze and studied its life-draining abilities, while Cornelius Fudge grew anxious about Amelia Bones’s rising influence and sought Dumbledore’s public support.

• Hermione thanked Ian for the alchemical device and asked to attend his alchemy class despite being a second-year student.
• Ian agreed to Hermione’s request if Professor McGonagall approved, and Hermione hurried to seek her permission.
• Ian entered the Chamber of Secrets, tested methods of resisting the Basilisk’s gaze, and found that lenses and a magical defense could weaken or block it.
• Ian tested the Basilisk on a tiger and concluded that it drained life energy, which might help explain its immortality.
• Cornelius Fudge suspected Amelia Bones was a threat to his position and decided to write to Dumbledore seeking his public support.

Ian gave Hermione an alchemical book that taught her magic through an immersive virtual classroom and learned she had received approval to take his classes a year early. He deliberately set Hermione up as Susan's rival, prompting Susan to leave for Professor McGonagall's office to seek the same opportunity.

• Ian sent Mr. and Mrs. Flamel a potion to gradually release the Magical Resentment caused by long-term use of the Philosopher's Stone.
• Hermione told Ian that Professor McGonagall had approved her application and arranged a timetable for her to take his classes.
• Ian gave Hermione an alchemical book that taught her several subjects through an immersive lesson, then warned her against overusing its time-expansion function.
• Susan confronted Ian after seeing Hermione with a similar book, and Ian challenged her to prove she could outperform Hermione despite their equal advantages.
• Ian told Susan that Hermione had approval to take his classes a year early, and Susan headed for Professor McGonagall's office.

Ian introduced his students to the term’s alchemy course, explaining why they would learn traditional metalworking before attempting advanced magical techniques. He showed them their new, fully equipped classroom and left them eager to begin.

• Ian told the class they would study metals and alloy-making before learning Amalgam Enchantment, then demonstrated how enchanting a poorly suited sword caused it to melt.
• Ian explained that crafting with magic alone demanded more control and mental strength than the students possessed, and that hands-on work helped alchemists understand materials as both mages and craftsmen.
• Ian demonstrated Transmutation, distinguishing its permanent, principle-based transformations from temporary Transfiguration, and said the Philosopher’s Stone was needed to reach alchemy’s highest realm.
• Ian revealed that Hogwarts’s renovated classroom contained alchemical equipment and warned students that repeated rule-breaking would get them removed from the course.
• Ian answered the students’ questions about his research, travels, and personal life as the enthusiastic class ended.

Ian gave Cedric Diggory and Fred and George Weasley permission to share their alchemy books and magical items with their family, then gave the three students more advanced books. Later, he told Dumbledore that Harry was an accidental Horcrux and offered to remove Voldemort’s soul fragment, while demanding that Hogwarts replace Lockhart within a month.

• Cedric Diggory and Fred and George Weasley told Ian that they had learned to sense and control their Magic Cores, and asked whether their family could use his alchemy books and items.
• Ian granted the Weasleys permission to share the materials and gave Cedric Diggory and the twins two more advanced books.
• Harry told Ron and Hermione that Snape had treated him unusually well, while Hermione explained that she was taking Alchemy as an elective.
• Ron, Harry, and Hermione complained about Lockhart’s incompetence after his class.
• Ian refused Dumbledore’s request to return the genuine Invisibility Cloak, explaining that he needed the Deathly Hallows to evade Death’s gaze.
• Ian revealed that Harry was an accidental Horcrux and offered to remove Voldemort’s soul fragment, then formally demanded that Dumbledore replace Lockhart within a month.

Dumbledore asked McGonagall to invite Remus Lupin back to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and suspected Ian planned to win the loyalty of marginalized magical beings. Ian demonstrated a potion that awakened Argus Filch’s magic, leaving the Wizarding World facing major political and social changes.

• Dumbledore told McGonagall that Ian controlled most seats on the Hogwarts Board of Governors and asked her to invite Remus Lupin to return as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Dumbledore asked McGonagall to send Harry Potter to his office, where Harry spoke Parseltongue to a snake and Dumbledore suspected the ability came from Voldemort.
• Ian led Argus Filch to a demonstration and gave him a silver potion that awakened his magic, allowing Filch to transform objects with a wand.
• Cornelius Fudge promised to oversee an award for Ian and make the potion available to Squibs, while Amelia Bones proposed government subsidies for wizarding families with children.
• After the press conference, Fudge complained to Dumbledore that he had become a supporting act and wondered whether the Ministry would still need him.

Ian removed Voldemort’s soul fragment from Harry and lifted the curse on Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts position. He offered London’s werewolves a choice between potions, then left Dumbledore to respond to his growing ambitions.

• Ian entered Harry’s Soul Space, bound Voldemort’s soul fragment, and sealed it in a diamond after Harry collapsed from the pain.
• Ian used the fragment to take control of Hogwarts’ connection and removed Voldemort’s curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position.
• Ian offered werewolves blue potions that restored control over their transformations or red potions that granted power in exchange for their souls and obedience.
• Fenrir Greyback attacked Ian, but magical runes bound him and Ian absorbed his soul.
• Most of the werewolves chose the red potion, while the others chose the blue potion and received Ministry certificates to collect it.
• Dumbledore read Ian’s letter and began writing to the Order of the Phoenix.

The Order of the Phoenix debated whether Ian’s growing influence threatened the Wizarding World, while Dumbledore urged them to prepare in case Ian lost his way. Ian used the Resurrection Stone to reunite Helena Ravenclaw with her mother, Rowena, who revealed that Death had once been a wizard before they both departed.

• Flitwick defended Ian’s reforms, while Moody warned that Ian’s followers and power could become dangerous.
• Dumbledore said the Order should be ready to stop Ian if he lost his way, and Flitwick kept his concerns about Ian’s pursuit of forbidden knowledge to himself.
• Ian entered the Room of Requirement and gave Helena Ravenclaw the Resurrection Stone so she could summon her mother.
• Rowena Ravenclaw recognized Ian as a True Magician, said Death had once been an exceptionally talented wizard, and hinted that they would meet again.
• Helena and Rowena faded into golden light, and Ian drank Firewhisky as he mourned their final farewell.

Ian advised Amelia Bones on whether to accept Dolores Umbridge and told Remus Lupin that removing his werewolf bloodline might be possible in the future. Amelia arrested Peter Pettigrew at Hogwarts, clearing Sirius Black and paving the way for her to become Minister of Magic, while Ian’s quiet takeover of wizarding Britain was complete.

• Ian told Amelia that Umbridge could serve as a useful villain, but Amelia decided to accept her despite her personal dislike.
• Lupin asked Ian whether he could become an ordinary wizard again, and Ian said it might be possible with complicated research in the future.
• Amelia arrived at Hogwarts with Aurors and arrested Peter Pettigrew after he transformed from Ron Weasley’s rat, Scabbers.
• Amelia announced that Pettigrew was the true Secret-Keeper, that Sirius Black was innocent, and that evidence implicated Pettigrew in the Potters’ deaths and the murder of twelve Muggles.
• Pettigrew was taken to Azkaban, Sirius was released, and Cornelius Fudge resigned as Amelia succeeded him as Minister of Magic.

Ian visited Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle in France to examine their emotion-based Lesser Philosopher’s Stone, which could extend life and serve as a renewable source of magical energy. With the stone’s potential established, he began the Magic User Plan to give Muggles the ability to use magic.

• Amelia Bones took full control of the Ministry of Magic and began gradually reshaping its laws and institutions.
• Ian spent the term studying genetics and magical heredity, created a Basilisk in his laboratory, and left werewolf potion work to Severus Snape and Damocles Belby.
• Ian traveled to France, where Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel showed him their emotion-based Lesser Philosopher’s Stone and its experimental results.
• Ian declared that the stone could help transform civilization, and Perenelle reported that extracting emotions in safe amounts had almost no side effects.
• Ian proposed the Magic User Plan to create artificial Magic Cores for Muggles, and the Flamels agreed to assist him.
• Ian apologized to little Susan for breaking his holiday promise, then began the new experiment in his underground laboratory.

Ian used genetic research, accelerated generations, and a bloodline fusion ritual to create Kogratil, a True Dragon who called himself the Thunder Dragon King. Kogratil offered Ian a wish, but Ian revealed he had bound the dragon to him and shrank him to a tiny size.

• Ian used the Crown of Reason to study the link between dragon bloodlines, bodies, and Magic Genes, then modified more than a hundred dragon eggs.
• Ian accelerated the surviving dragons’ growth and breeding through the Gate of Time, producing a pureblood dragon that was mad and infertile.
• Ian fused generations of dragon blood with a Philosopher’s Stone and placed the resulting essence inside the pureblood dragon, creating a giant egg.
• Kogratil hatched as the Thunder Dragon King, and his declaration spread across the planet and the Void, drawing Death’s attention to the Moon.
• Kogratil offered Ian a wish, but Ian forced him to kneel, revealed the restrictions in his soul and bloodline, and shrank him to the size of a Hungarian tree bumblebee.

Ian suppressed Kogratil, studied the Thunder Dragon King's bloodline, and used a Bloodline Contract to learn Dragon Tongue Magic before fusing with him. After confirming the fusion removed his second restriction and revealed a blueprint for dragonlike Magic Circuits, Ian named the bound dragon Albion and began planning a new path to advancement.

• Kogratil attacked Ian with concentrated lightning breath, then explained that dragons' status depended on the purity of their bloodlines.
• Ian scanned Kogratil and learned that the dragon had vastly greater Mana and more complete Mana-circulating structures than the Basilisk and Phoenix.
• Ian used the Wisdom Crown and a Bloodline Contract to acquire Dragon Tongue Magic, then found its spells more powerful and efficient than ordinary wizard spells.
• Ian fused with Kogratil, transformed into a half-dragon, and confirmed that his second restriction had been removed while he imprisoned Kogratil's Dragon Soul.
• Ian memorized the dragon's Magic Circuit blueprint, planned to adapt it for human wizards, and named the bound Thunder Dragon King Albion.

Ian resurrected Lily Potter and discovered that her return had awakened Love Magic, while Susan was reunited with her resurrected parents. Ian left Lily under instructions to stay hidden and continued his efforts to restore two more people.

• Ian concluded that compressing Mana alone would not lead to his next breakthrough and considered new ways to increase his power.
• Ian used the Resurrection Stone to restore Lily Potter’s soul to her clone’s body, and Lily awoke to find that twelve years had passed.
• Ian discovered that Lily’s soul was repairing her Magic Core and bloodline, and that she could use Love Magic to enhance someone’s abilities and create an Absolute Shield.
• Ian asked Lily to help with his research but warned her not to reveal herself or meet Harry, and he left to resurrect two more people.
• Ian arrived at his aunt’s home with Susan’s resurrected parents, and Susan recognized them and rushed into their arms.

Ian tested his improved magic by traveling from Earth to the moon, then introduced a teaching Golem to his students before explaining Magic Circuits to Hermione. Her questions about Muggles using magic gave Ian a glimpse of a possible new direction as an unseen listener left the classroom.

• Ian used his studies with Albion to Apparate from Earth to the moon and back, while considering future upgrades to the World Gate.
• Ian showed his students a metal Golem powered by a Mana Crystal and activated it as the Iron Professor to teach in his place.
• Hermione asked Ian why House-elves could use wandless magic, and he explained how Magic Circuits differed between House-elves and human wizards.
• Ian told Hermione that, in theory, Muggles could use magic if they acquired a Magic Core and Magic Circuits, though the soul and mind posed further obstacles.
• After Hermione left, Ian compared her drive to innovate with someone else’s, and heard that person’s footsteps fading away.

Ian took charge of the Department of Mysteries’ research, dividing its members between studies of time and space and research into love and death magic. He began reviewing the department’s hidden findings as the second school year came to an end.

• Harry Potter invited Ian to dinner with Sirius, but Ian declined because he was too busy and promised to visit later.
• Snape asked Ian to find someone to oversee the werewolf and Vampire training program, and Ian approved Lucius Malfoy for the role.
• Amelia told Ian that plans to introduce Muggle technology into Britain’s Wizarding World were progressing and described her training in Mana control.
• Amelia introduced Ian and Lily to the Department of Mysteries as its new research leaders, and Ian distributed intelligence-enhancing diadems to the researchers.
• Ian asked Lily about her resurrection and her hopes of seeing Harry, then promised points toward resurrecting her husband if she uncovered secrets of love and death magic.
• Ian studied the Department of Mysteries’ research, discovered that its most valuable findings had been concealed, and the second school year ended.

Ian rebuilt the World Gate and traveled to 2093, where his future self gave him technological knowledge and warned him against meddling with time or resurrecting too many people. Back in the present, Ian shared the data with his research team and tested a dimensional traversal, emerging beneath an unfamiliar sky.

• Ian said goodbye to Susan at King's Cross and Apparated to his lunar experimental base.
• Ian spent two weeks redesigning the World Gate and traveled through it to the year 2093.
• Ian watched a recording from his future self, received a tablet of future technological knowledge, and heard warnings about time travel and resurrection.
• The World Gate forcibly returned Ian to the present when he considered pursuing further contact with his future self.
• Ian copied the tablet's data for his research team and instructed Morgana to begin a dimensional traversal experiment.
• Ian stepped through the gate after the test and froze at the sight of a strange, unfamiliar sky.

Ian entered a parallel Earth in the late tenth century, discovered that its magic behaved differently, and began planning to restore the world’s magical ecology with a Magic Tree. After detecting a mysterious woman’s fading spacetime trace, he realized the world held dangers of its own.

• Ian tested spells in the new world and found that ambient magic strengthened them, especially Dragon Tongue Magic.
• Ian hid the World Gate on the moon, then learned that he could travel between parallel universes and that this world’s founders and history differed from his own.
• Ian examined Leyline Nodes and discovered that they absorbed magic instead of releasing it, while nearby plants thrived on the abundant magic.
• Ian conceived a Magic Tree that could absorb magic from Leylines and release it into the air, and planned to develop one through Herbology or genetic engineering.
• Ian detected a fading spacetime trace and saw the afterimage of a pale, black-haired woman coughing blood.

Ian traveled to a parallel world and met Rowena Ravenclaw, exchanging magical and scientific knowledge with her. Their discoveries led Rowena to reveal an underground complex of mysterious chambers and explain that her declining health began after an incident in the Bermuda Triangle.

• Ian visited Rowena Ravenclaw at her castle and proved his origins by showing her a Ravenclaw's Diadem from his world.
• Ian and Rowena discussed their histories and spent three days exchanging ideas before using Mind Link to share their knowledge.
• Rowena examined Ian's technological knowledge and sensed that he was concealing information about the Brain Chamber and her weakening soul.
• Rowena led Ian to an underground hall containing chambers resembling those in his world's Department of Mysteries.
• Rowena told Ian that she had begun to decline after something went wrong while she reclaimed the Chamber of Time and Space in the Bermuda Triangle.

Ian connected Herpo’s failed ritual in the Death Chamber to the ancient laws governing the universe and warned that the death-related relics must never be gathered together. Rowena revealed that her illness came from the Bermuda Triangle, where the Chamber of Time and Space had been discovered.

• Rowena told Ian that Herpo had used the Death Chamber in an attempt to become a god, but she altered his ritual and caused it to fail.
• Ian identified the wizard as Herpo the Foul and theorized that the chambers were connected to remnants of gods and fundamental laws such as time, space, life, and death.
• Ian said he would one day scatter all relics related to death, including the Deathly Hallows, and studied Rowena’s memory of Herpo’s ritual.
• Ian gave Rowena a rune-covered silver disc that granted temporary Level Four access to his knowledge base, and they flirted about her joining his family.
• When Ian offered to investigate Rowena’s illness, she revealed that its source was where the Chamber of Time and Space had been found: the Bermuda Triangle.