Chapter Summaries

Bailey gave birth to Charlie, and Jerry’s family settled into life with the newborn while Hermione traveled with Jerry. When Bailey and Charlie suddenly transformed into stone, Jerry recognized an Inhuman transformation and suspected their formula contained Terrigen Crystal powder.

• Bailey gave birth to a healthy baby girl, and Hass named her Charlie Witt.
• Jerry told Bailey that Hermione had gone back to London, though he was secretly traveling with her around the world while a clone stayed at home.
• Bailey and Hass fed Charlie Divine Deer formula, which Jerry thought was no better than breast milk.
• Bailey and Charlie were suddenly covered in stone, and Jerry recognized the change as an Inhuman transformation.
• Jerry told Hass and Elsa not to touch them and suspected Terrigen Crystal powder had been mixed into the formula.

Hermione and Jerry visited S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Playground base, where Coulson briefed his team on a worldwide surge of people transforming into Inhumans. Coulson organized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s response as more than a thousand cases appeared across the globe.

• Hermione discussed the weaknesses of magical law with Jerry after a University of London lecture, and Jerry explained why Muggle governments had more legal specialists.
• Jerry took Hermione through a Portal to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to speak with Coulson, while reflecting that he was focused on developing a new ability he called Domain.
• Fitz reported that his Inhuman tracker had detected more than a thousand people transforming worldwide, despite Skye’s team stopping the sale of products mixed with Terrigen.
• Coulson assigned Skye’s team to bring transforming Inhumans to S.H.I.E.L.D., May’s team to find Stephanie, Mack, Barbara, and Hunter to coordinate with governments, and Fitz and Gemma to track the cases.

Jerry visited Coulson with Hermione and explained that Hydra's mass Terrigen exposure was likely part of a plan to restore Hive, the ancient Inhuman leader. Coulson realized he had ordered Skye to gather the newly transformed Inhumans at S.H.I.E.L.D., leaving them vulnerable if Hive came there.

• Jerry and Hermione appeared in Coulson's office, where Jerry said two members of his family had transformed into Inhumans.
• Coulson explained that Stephanie and the remaining Hydra branches had contaminated food and drinks with Terrigen Crystal powder, after Hydra agents infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and stole the crystals and the Black Stone Gate.
• Jerry told Coulson that Hydra began as a society devoted to Hive, the first Inhuman, and that the Black Stone Gate had been used to exile him.
• Jerry explained that Hive could control Inhumans through parasitism, leading Coulson to conclude that Stephanie had created many Inhumans to serve Hive.
• Coulson realized he had ordered Skye to bring the transformed Inhumans to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and feared Hive would target them there.

Jerry let Skye's team continue its mission and waited for Stephanie and Hive at S.H.I.E.L.D., while taking Hermione on a tour of the base. Meanwhile, Bailey and Little Charlie emerged from their stone shells at Jerry's home, and Jerry went to reassure Tony about what had happened.

• Coulson realized Stephanie planned to lure the Inhumans team and transformed Inhumans to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters so Hive could control them, but Jerry decided to wait for Stephanie and Hive instead of stopping Skye's mission.
• Coulson told Skye to continue the operation and said two transformed Inhumans in Queens did not need to be brought back; Jerry then took Hermione to tour S.H.I.E.L.D.'s technology.
• Coulson noticed Jerry and Hermione's closeness and asked Gemma to guide them around the base.
• Bailey and Little Charlie's stone shells fell away, and Elsa and Hass separately contacted Tony for help after they turned into stone statues.
• Jerry created a clone to explain the situation to Tony, who asked him what was happening at his house.

Bailey and Charlie completed their Inhuman transformations and awakened superpowers while Jerry, Hass, and Elsa kept them safe. Bailey recalled her duplicates after Hass and the others helped her calm down.

• Jerry told Tony that he and Coulson would handle Bailey and Charlie's situation, and Tony reassured Elsa and Hass that they should wait.
• Hass told Elsa and Jerry that Bailey and Charlie had Inhuman genes, were not in danger, and had to be kept secret.
• Bailey and Charlie emerged from their stone shells around eight in the evening, and Charlie's cries caused nearby metal to float.
• Jerry recognized that Charlie could control magnetic fields as the metal objects rose around her.
• Bailey panicked and created eight physical duplicates of herself, revealing a duplication power.
• Hass, Jerry, and Elsa calmed Bailey, and she used her power to recall her duplicates.

Bailey learned that she and newborn Charlie had Inhuman genes, and Hass and Elsa vowed to protect them from interference. Meanwhile, Jerry arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep his family’s identities private, and Hermione used magic to solve the agency’s shortage of isolation pods.

• Bailey feared that being an Inhuman would disrupt her family’s ordinary life, so Hass and Elsa reassured her and promised to protect the family.
• Jerry asked Coulson to keep Bailey and Charlie out of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Inhuman database, and Coulson agreed.
• Coulson told Jerry that S.H.I.E.L.D. had gathered more than a thousand Inhumans but lacked enough isolation pods to hold them.
• Gemma reported that Hermione had expanded the underground level and copied isolation pods with magic.
• Hermione told Jerry she had helped S.H.I.E.L.D., and Jerry praised her improved magic.

Jerry toured S.H.I.E.L.D.'s containment facility with Hermione and discussed the Inhumans' transformations and the limits of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s security. When an attack began, he realized the assault at the entrance was a diversion and kept Coulson's team back as Stephanie and four men emerged inside the base.

• Jerry observed that most transformed Inhumans looked ordinary, while a few had developed visible mutations, and noted he could reverse transformations in the Ring World.
• Jerry warned Coulson that Hydra agents might still be infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D., though they did not know he and Hermione were present.
• Fitz reported that someone had breached the headquarters control system and opened the gates for more than a hundred armed attackers.
• Coulson ordered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s personnel to assemble and prepared to lead combat agents to the entrance, but Jerry told him to wait and send May's team instead.
• Stephanie and four men emerged through the metal floor, revealing that the attack at the entrance had been a diversion to reach the Inhumans and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s strongest Inhuman team.

Coulson confronted Hive, who had taken over Stephanie’s body and planned to seize S.H.I.E.L.D. Jerry revealed Hive’s nature and stopped his parasites with Fiendfyre, then let Hermione face Hive and his Inhumans to gain combat experience.

• Coulson realized Hive’s Inhuman army could have destroyed and taken over S.H.I.E.L.D. if Jerry had not intervened.
• Hive, inhabiting Stephanie, confronted Coulson and expressed hatred for Malick, prompting Jerry to explain that Hive had inherited some of his host’s emotions.
• Hive attacked Jerry with parasites, but Jerry’s Fiendfyre consumed them and severed Hive’s connection to them.
• Hive sent four controlled Inhumans to attack Jerry and directed more parasites toward Skye’s squad to take control of them.
• Hermione asked to fight Hive and his Inhumans, and Jerry agreed to let her gain combat experience.

Hermione fought Hive and his Inhuman allies while Jerry sealed off the area and watched her put his combat lessons into practice. Hive recognized her as the Wizard, though the battle was still unresolved.

• Jerry used Space Magic to isolate Hermione, Hive, and the five Inhumans, then decided that S.H.I.E.L.D. experience could help Hermione pursue her future goals.
• Hermione unleashed ten fire dragons, but Hive and three allies escaped underground while the ice-wielding Inhuman was knocked away.
• Hermione dodged their ambush, Apparated behind them, stunned the burrowing Inhuman, and disarmed and incapacitated the speed-type Inhuman.
• Hive sent parasites to engulf Hermione, but the apparent victim was her Ikonn Form duplicate while Hermione herself remained hidden under a Disillusionment Charm.
• Hermione petrified the parasites, and Hive recognized her as the Wizard after seeing her use familiar magic.

Hermione defeated Hive’s Inhuman forces with Jerry’s help and joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as a temporary agent. She was assigned to Skye’s Inhuman team, where Skye would guide her on missions.

• Hive recognized Hermione as a wizard and ordered Marcos to unleash his lightning while he fled toward a ventilation duct.
• Hermione opened a Portal beneath Marcos and sent him into the ocean, where his lightning discharged harmlessly away from the warehouse.
• Jerry’s spatial barrier stopped Hive’s escape, and he sealed Hive inside a thermos cup.
• Coulson agreed to have Hermione join S.H.I.E.L.D., and she became an agent that night.
• Hermione temporarily joined Skye’s Inhuman team, with Skye set to guide her through missions.

Jerry learned that ghosts from a mission involving Hermione and Skye might be linked to the Darkhold, a dangerous book connected to Chthon. He volunteered to handle the investigation in Los Angeles and set out to secure the book before anyone else could open it.

• Hermione told Jerry that she and Skye's team had driven hostile ghosts away using her Patronus Charm and an improved Fiendfyre Curse.
• Jerry suspected that the scientists who became ghosts had found the Darkhold and considered the risks of its connection to Chthon.
• Skye reported that Fitz had traced the ghosts to a hospital in Los Angeles and asked Hermione to join the mission.
• Jerry warned Hermione and Skye that the threat was dangerous and offered to handle it himself.
• Skye gave Jerry the hospital's address, and Jerry vanished to investigate while Skye and Hermione planned to practice Combat Magic.

Jerry reached Joseph in a Los Angeles hospital, learned where the Darkhold was hidden, and found Robbie Reyes already there with the book. Jerry struck Robbie to separate the Ghost Rider from his human host, leaving the Darkhold within reach while warning himself against provoking Mephisto and the other Ghost Riders.

• Jerry used his mental powers to calm Joseph, heal him, and learn the Darkhold's hiding place.
• Jerry Apparated to a derelict house and overheard Robbie Reyes interrogating a female ghost about the deaths of Robbie and his brother.
• The female ghost explained that she and Joseph had found the Darkhold, built a Quantum-State Energy Machine, and accidentally caused Eli to transform those involved and attack Joseph.
• Robbie burned the female ghost to ashes, then warned Jerry not to interfere as he headed for his Dodge with the Darkhold.
• Jerry demanded the Darkhold, identified Mephisto's influence, and struck Robbie to knock the Spirit of Vengeance out of his body.

Jerry traded with Robbie for the Darkhold by offering a potion that could restore Gabe’s legs, while refusing to break Robbie’s contract with Mephisto. In Hell, Mephisto wondered who Jerry was and why the Sorcerer Supreme and Vishanti allowed him to remain on Earth.

• Jerry temporarily expelled the Spirit of Vengeance from Robbie and offered him a potion for Gabe’s legs in exchange for the Darkhold.
• Robbie accepted the trade, handing Jerry the Darkhold and taking the potion after Jerry revealed himself as the Wizard.
• Jerry vanished with Apparition, and the Spirit of Vengeance returned to Robbie and objected to him giving Mephisto’s Darkhold away.
• Robbie said his contract only required him to kill the guilty and deliver their souls, and that Mephisto had refused to help Gabe.
• Mephisto withdrew his projected mind from Earth and wondered about Jerry, recalling that he had first noticed the Wizard after Jerry transformed into a powerful Demon.

Mephisto considered making contact with Jerry after Jerry took the Darkhold, while Jerry kept the book sealed and returned to family life in Queens. Hass gave Jerry a bag of condoms before he went back to school, and Elsa secretly discovered them, assuming Jerry and Hermione had become intimate.

• Mephisto recalled Jerry's unusual demonic form and decided he might seek an opportunity to approach him.
• Jerry sealed the Darkhold in his Ring World, then told Hermione and Skye that S.H.I.E.L.D. only needed to destroy the Quantum Laboratory.
• Elsa watched Bailey use eight duplicates at once and envied her ability.
• Jerry noticed Hass's weakness, gave him pills to boost his kidneys, and accepted a handbag Hass had filled with condoms.
• Elsa sneaked into Jerry's room, found the condoms, and assumed Jerry and Hermione had already become intimate.

Jerry and Hermione returned to the Christmas Ball after spending a month together in Jerry’s world, then danced as Snape recalled losing Lily and rejected Dumbledore’s advice to move on. Hearing them, Jerry decided to use his mastery of time to give Snape another chance, though he could not change Lily’s death.

• Jerry and Hermione returned to the Hogwarts Christmas Ball, and Hermione realized that Jerry’s travels through Small Worlds had made him older than her.
• Hermione pulled Jerry onto the dance floor, where they waltzed together while Snape watched and remembered his lost relationship with Lily.
• Dumbledore urged Snape to let go of the past and consider a new relationship, but Snape refused.
• Jerry overheard Snape and Dumbledore, and resolved to find a way to help Snape.
• After the ball ended, Jerry used the Time-Turner and his knowledge of the Time Law to reverse time by years, hoping to give Snape a chance to begin again.

Jerry traveled back to 1971 and took a strand of young Lily Evans’s hair to create a clone, hoping to give Severus Snape a new beginning. He implanted the clone with memories and hidden suggestions, awakened her soul, and took her unconscious body to Queens, New York.

• Jerry reversed time to July 1, 1971, and found young Lily Evans with young Severus Snape at Spinner's End.
• Jerry transformed into an owl and pulled a strand of Lily’s hair, upsetting her and leaving Snape to reassure her.
• Jerry used Lily’s hair and an upgraded Regeneration Cradle to create a clone with a new soul and no memories of the original Lily’s life.
• Jerry implanted the clone with designed memories, common knowledge, Potions knowledge, and two hidden suggestions before awakening her soul.
• Jerry took the unconscious clone from the Ring World and Apparated with her to Queens, New York.

John Foster and Mary adopted the amnesiac Lily, who received an invitation to Ilvermorny. Jerry watched from above and prepared to adjust the Laws of Time to keep Lily’s arrival from disrupting the world’s original course.

• Sheriff John Foster found an amnesiac girl named Lily outside the Queens police station and took her in.
• After failing to find Lily’s family, John and Mary adopted her as their daughter.
• An owl delivered Lily an Ilvermorny acceptance letter, and Lily excitedly told her mother about it.
• Jerry revealed that he had created Lily Foster so she could grow into a complete person before meeting Snape, while placing two psychological suggestions in her mind.
• Jerry considered the consequences of adding Lily to the past and planned to alter the Laws of Time to correct the resulting changes.

After correcting the butterfly effects caused by Lily Foster, Jerry returned to his original timeline, where Lily had grown up and become a witch. Lily recounted her magical education and travels, while her future with Professor Snape remained undecided.

• Jerry used the Sand of Time to restore his timeline and returned to Hogwarts on December 26, 1994.
• Lily Foster recalled being adopted, receiving an Ilvermorny acceptance letter, and beginning her magical education.
• At the Sorting Ceremony, all four House statues chose Lily, and she selected Thunderbird House.
• Lily excelled at potions, rejected suitors, graduated top of her school, and declined a job offer from the American Ministry of Magic.
• Lily traveled the world to collect herbs and brew potions, avoiding the United Kingdom because of its ongoing war.

After selling her successful potions shop, Lily Foster traveled to Hogwarts to interview for the Potions professor position. When she arrived, Headmaster Snape recognized her face and tearfully pulled her into his arms, leaving her bewildered.

• At thirty-four, Lily Foster decided to leave her potions shop and apply for the Hogwarts Potions professor position after reading Snape's job posting.
• Snape worried that the applicants he had interviewed were unsuitable and considered asking Horace Slughorn to return if he found no better candidate.
• After reviewing Lily's résumé and her reputation as a successful American potion-maker, Snape invited her to Hogwarts for an interview.
• Lily sold Foster's Potions Shop, traveled from New York to London, and arrived at Hogwarts through the Floo Network the next morning.
• When Lily revealed her face, Snape cried out her name, embraced her tightly, and left her wondering what was happening.

Lily Foster met Headmaster Snape, who mistook her for Lily Evans and tearfully embraced her before apologizing. After learning that Foster had brought her luggage, Snape hired her as Hogwarts’ Potions professor and led her to the faculty dormitories while Jerry watched unseen.

• Snape mistook Foster for Lily Evans, embraced her, and apologized after realizing his mistake.
• Foster reassured Snape and reflected on how deeply he had loved his deceased friend.
• Snape offered Foster the Potions professor position without testing her knowledge, relying on her résumé.
• Foster accepted the job and asked Snape to show her to the faculty dormitories.
• Snape led Foster out of the office as Jerry emerged from hiding and judged their first meeting to have gone well.