Chapter Summaries

Roy outlined the two-route operation to rob Gringotts, assigning Aisling to create a distraction while he infiltrated the security center and Vault 901. The plan ended with Aisling praising Roy’s robbery expertise.

• Aisling begged Roy to teach her the Phasing Charm again, but he refused until she slammed her hand into the conference table and threatened him.
• Roy promised to write Aisling a cultivation manual and redirected the meeting to the Gringotts operation.
• Roy revealed an incomplete floor plan of Gringotts and assigned Aisling and her butler Wolf to seek a large business loan as a cover.
• Roy explained that he would use Phasing to plant fireworks in a second-floor meeting room, where Aisling would knock out a goblin representative and draw security toward the ground floor.
• Roy planned to enter the 900th-floor security control center, disable security clearance, and search Vault 901 before creating chaos to let Aisling search Tiago's president's office for documents.

Roy and Aisling planned the operation’s exterior, focusing on keeping Tiago Brando away from London and limiting his ability to interfere. Roy left Aisling impressed and wary of his schemes, while he quietly wondered whether there was any food left in the Great Hall.

• Roy warned that Tiago Brando felt dangerously powerful, and Aisling said his clean Egyptian Ministry of Magic record seemed suspicious.
• Roy proposed that Dumbledore invite Tiago to Hogwarts for Christmas while Professor Jobana received false information through a covert line.
• Roy showed Aisling a voice recording that he believed would persuade Dumbledore to cooperate, and her attempt to duplicate the electronic device failed.
• Roy added Dia Jobana to his suspicions and planned to falsely claim that he had gathered mementos to lift Voldemort’s curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position.
• Roy explained that drawing Tiago away from London on the operation’s day would secure a key advantage, leaving Aisling to wonder how much of his planning she herself understood.
• Roy silently wondered whether there was any leftover food in the Great Hall.

Roy brought Dumbledore a recording of Fudge and Tiago conspiring, then asked him to keep Tiago in check so Aisling could shift her efforts toward Gringotts. The chapter ended with Roy revealing that he genuinely planned to rob a bank.

• Roy persuaded Aisling to leave the political response to him, then went to Dumbledore's office with a basket of apples and a voice recorder.
• Dumbledore listened to the recording exposing Fudge and Tiago's collusion and worried that Aisling might use it against Fudge.
• Roy told Dumbledore that Aisling had heard the recording but had not received a copy, and Dumbledore took the recorder for himself.
• Roy asked Dumbledore to hold Tiago back so Aisling could focus on placing her influence inside Gringotts.
• Dumbledore asked whether Roy planned to rob a bank, and Roy said he was serious.

Roy convinced Dumbledore to support his plan to rob a Gringotts vault after the goblins refused to let them investigate it. He left Dumbledore resolved to help, though Roy privately thought he had manipulated him into agreeing.

• Roy told Dumbledore that Gringotts had refused to let him investigate the vault opened by the Key, and Dumbledore went to test it himself.
• Dumbledore returned with Gringotts' compensation after the vault door failed to open, and Roy asked him to give the gold to Lupin as payment for joining their effort.
• Dumbledore said he had other plans for Lupin and asked Roy to explain his two-pronged plan.
• Dumbledore warned Roy that a failed bank robbery could lead to expulsion, a broken wand, or Azkaban, but Roy insisted he had to act to prevent disaster and protect Mia.
• Roy's words made Dumbledore reconsider his past choices, and Dumbledore finally agreed to support Roy's plan.

Roy and Dumbledore discussed recruiting help for their operation and settled on asking Tonks to join them. Dumbledore agreed to approach her, while Roy left to continue preparing.

• Roy asked Dumbledore to find a capable accomplice, but Dumbledore ruled out his Order of the Phoenix members because their positions made them unsuitable.
• Roy threatened to recruit from Aisling’s Wizard Purist Party or take Fred and George to rob Gringotts, prompting Dumbledore to ask which students might support him against Voldemort.
• Roy named Cedric, Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Percy, and Tonks as likely allies, and Dumbledore focused on recruiting Tonks.
• Dumbledore agreed to talk to Tonks, and Roy returned to preparing for the operation.
• Roy tried to take Dumbledore’s apples, so Dumbledore hit him with a Knockback Jinx and shut the office door.

Roy recruited Fred and George to make a firework powerful enough to destroy Gringotts, offering them a hundred Galleons and a deadline before the Christmas holidays. The twins accepted the job and received Roy’s blueprint and instructions to keep their identities out of the design.

• Fred and George lost a card game to Lee Jordan, who won their new smoke-producing firework.
• Roy appeared in the Gryffindor common room, summoned the twins to the Special Operations Office, and demonstrated his dimension-hopping device.
• Roy told Fred and George he was planning to rob Gringotts and asked them to build a firework capable of blowing it sky-high.
• Roy gave the twins a hundred Galleons and a blueprint, set a deadline before the Christmas holidays, and warned them not to leave identifying details.
• Fred and George eagerly accepted the job and saluted Roy.

Roy prepared a Dark Magic-soaked notebook and planned a Gringotts vault heist with Aisling. Dumbledore sent Tonks to join the operation, and she enthusiastically signed on after learning it was a bank robbery.

• Roy saturated Voldemort's notebook with raw Dark Magic to make it appear cursed.
• Dumbledore recruited Tonks as a prospective member of the Order of the Phoenix and assigned her to Roy's operation.
• Tonks used Dumbledore's access card to enter Roy's Forbidden Forest base, where Roy and Aisling were planning how to reach Gringotts Vault 901.
• Roy explained that Operation Wallbreaker involved robbing a Gringotts vault and targeting its newly appointed director.
• Tonks eagerly agreed to join the heist, leaving Roy and Aisling surprised by how readily she accepted.

Roy assigned Tonks to take the stolen item from the Gringotts raid and recruited Cedric to disrupt the Ministry of Magic’s response. Cedric agreed to help Roy uncover the person who attacked Mia, and Roy began explaining his part in the operation.

• Tonks demonstrated her Metamorphmagus abilities, and Roy explained her role as the getaway carrier and gave her a written operation manual to study.
• Roy left the Special Operations Office still searching for someone to disrupt the Ministry of Magic’s response.
• Roy asked Cedric to send a harmless letter bomb to the Ministry through Mr. Diggory’s mail channel, and Cedric questioned why Roy wanted to rob Gringotts.
• Roy told Cedric the raid was meant to draw out the person who attacked Mia, and Cedric agreed to join the operation.
• Roy gave Cedric an Invisibility Cloak and began outlining how he should send a parcel through the Fantastic Beasts Department and retrieve explosives from his father’s office.

Roy made Voldemort’s old notebook appear to carry a powerful Dark Magic aura and brought it with Dumbledore to Professor Jobana for inspection. Jobana believed the notebook was a dangerous relic and began examining it, while Roy and Dumbledore left her convinced by their ruse.

• Roy removed Voldemort’s notebook from his Dark Magic array, then wrapped it and hid it in his trousers, where its black mist trailed behind him.
• Roy showed the notebook to Dumbledore, who confirmed its aura would fool almost anyone despite the notebook containing no Dark Magic.
• Dumbledore placed the notebook in an antique box and accompanied Roy to Professor Jobana’s office.
• Professor Jobana examined the notebook and believed its powerful aura came from Voldemort’s Dark Magic.
• Roy and Dumbledore exchanged mischievous grins as Professor Jobana continued inspecting the forged relic.

Roy and Dumbledore tricked Professor Jobana into studying Voldemort’s Notebook, keeping their plans concerning Gringotts hidden. Afterward, Dumbledore advised Roy that leadership meant accepting the risks and sacrifices faced by his team, and Roy left to prepare a voice changer for Tonks.

• Professor Jobana examined Voldemort’s Notebook and believed its undetectable magic was beyond her curse-breaking skills.
• Dumbledore persuaded Professor Jobana to study the Notebook and postpone discussing how to handle it until before Christmas.
• Roy and Dumbledore left Jobana’s office and discussed their upcoming operation, including Roy’s worries about involving Cedric and Tonks.
• Dumbledore told Roy that changing the Wizarding World required building a team and shouldering the risks and sacrifices its members faced.
• Roy acknowledged that he was used to acting alone and left to prepare a voice changer for Tonks.

As Christmas break approached, Roy and his team prepared for Operation Wallbreaker, collecting the Weasley twins’ fireworks and securing their base. On December 19, the team gathered at the Forbidden Forest Special Operations Office and set out with Aisling toward her family’s castle, ready to begin the next stage of the bank heist plan.

• The Weasley twins delivered the fireworks Roy had requested, and Roy tested them in the Forbidden Forest before paying them fifty Galleons.
• Roy tightened security at the Forbidden Forest Special Operations Office, restricting access to the operation’s participants.
• On December 19, Tonks, Aisling, and Cedric brought their luggage to the office instead of boarding the Hogwarts Express.
• Roy arrived after visiting Mia at St. Mungo’s and told the team that they had argued, leaving the others more uneasy.
• Roy used his theory that desperate people could only win to ease the team’s nerves, then followed Aisling toward her family’s castle.

Aisling, Roy, Tonks, and Cedric left Hogwarts in Aisling’s luxurious Thestral Carriage, bound for Austria. At the Grindelwald Ancestral Home, Dumbledore confronted memories of the family’s past, while the imprisoned Grindelwald warned that Aisling was powerful, clever, and dark.

• Aisling led Roy, Tonks, and Cedric to her Thestral Carriage, where her servants loaded their luggage.
• Aisling poured wine for the others, drank her glass, and fell asleep as Roy explained the flight to Austria would take about an hour.
• Roy, Tonks, and Cedric discussed Aisling’s wealth and Dumbledore’s valuable possessions while the carriage traveled.
• Dumbledore walked through the Grindelwald Ancestral Home, paused at the empty space where a portrait had hung, and murmured that Aisling was kinder than her granduncle.
• In a prison in northern Austria, Grindelwald raised his head and told Dumbledore that Aisling was more powerful than Ariana, smarter than Dumbledore expected, and darker.

Roy and his allies finalized a Christmas Day operation to break into Gringotts, retrieve evidence against Tiago, and steal the contents of Vault 901. The plan left each member with a role in distracting the bank, searching its offices, and getting the evidence safely to Dumbledore.

• Dumbledore met Aisling, Roy, Cedric, and Tonks at the castle and joined them in a secret meeting room.
• Roy assigned Tonks to help them escape, Aisling and Wolf to search the bank manager’s office, Cedric to distract the Aurors, and himself to enter Gringotts alone.
• Roy used an alchemical device to show the group Gringotts’s layout and set the operation for Christmas morning, when the bank would be open but lightly staffed.
• Aisling directed the Wizard Purist Party members to cause chaos in Knockturn Alley after a blast opened a hole in Gringotts’s wall.
• Roy planned to enter Vault 901, trigger a second explosion, and use the resulting confusion to recover evidence against Tiago and steal tracked valuables.
• Tonks disguised herself as Mrs. Demulan, and Roy instructed her to deliver the evidence to Dumbledore while he lured the Goblins away.

Roy and Aislin spent Christmas Eve fishing and celebrating with their companions before preparing for the operation. The chapter ended with Roy arriving in Diagon Alley, ready to target Gringotts.

• After Dumbledore left Grindelwald Castle, Roy and the others remained there and prepared for Operation Day.
• Roy spent Christmas Eve fishing with Aislin, who admitted she was nervous about the operation.
• Roy and Aislin returned to the castle and shared a festive dinner with Cedric and Tonks.
• As snow fell, Roy said goodbye to his companions and used Dumbledore's Portkey to leave.
• Roy appeared in Diagon Alley carrying explosives and turned toward the closed doors of Gringotts.

Roy’s team began its coordinated operation at Gringotts and the Ministry of Magic, but a crowded charity fundraiser delayed the Ministry part of the plan. Aisling entered Gringotts and asked to inspect her vault while stalling for time.

• Roy gave Aisling the detonator and reviewed the operation’s key steps the night before the heist.
• Roy briefed the team and transported them to London by Portkey, where Aisling and Wolf took position near Gringotts.
• At Roy’s command, Aisling entered Gringotts as its first customer on December 25, 1990.
• Cedric used the Invisibility Cloak to enter the Ministry of Magic, then discovered the lobby was crowded with visitors.
• Roy told Aisling that a St Mungo’s charity fundraiser had delayed access to the Department for the Regulation and Control of Fantastic Beasts.
• Aisling asked the Goblin manager to lead her to her vault so she could stall for time.

Aisling and Wolf used a sham loan negotiation to distract the Gringotts manager while their allies carried out a mission elsewhere. After securing a 20,000-Galleon bearer Promissory Note, Aisling detonated a bomb, shaking Gringotts.

• Aisling pretended she had forgotten the key to Grindelwald's vault, then baited the goblin manager with the prospect of a large loan.
• Aisling and Wolf stole the manager's cart remote and office key while he was unconscious, replacing them with a stone replica.
• Aisling contacted Cedric, received Roy's assurance that Cedric's mission was proceeding normally, and returned to the VIP room.
• Aisling presented loan documents, negotiated the terms, and received a 20,000-Galleon bearer Promissory Note.
• Aisling mocked the manager about not repaying the loan and detonated a bomb, causing Gringotts to shake violently.

Cedric got separated from Roy and Aisling, but Kingsley helped him reach the Department for the Regulation and Control of Fantastic Beasts. As alarms sounded at Gringotts and his teammates reported they were ready, Roy jumped from a cliff into a mine cart headed for the upper levels.

• Cedric failed to push through the Ministry atrium crowd, climbed into a cargo container, and lost contact with Roy and Aisling.
• The container carried Cedric to the Department of Mysteries, where he could not summon a lift and his attempts to contact his teammates went unanswered.
• Kingsley arrived by lift, hid Cedric beneath the Invisibility Cloak, and directed him to collect his package before meeting him on the fourth floor.
• Roy climbed along the cliff beside the Gringotts vaults as Cedric and Aisling reported they were ready and alarms rang through the vault complex.
• Roy leaped from the cliff into a staff mine cart, knocked out three Goblin Guards, and headed toward the top level.

Roy used an Imperius-controlled goblin to disable the alarm for Gringotts' upper levels and learned that Vault One held anti-theft spells and secret plans. Aisling and Wolf escaped the second-floor corridor into Manager Lock's office, where Aisling waited for Brando to draw the goblins underground and searched the manager's files.

• Roy subdued the remaining guards in the upper-level security passage and used the Imperius Curse to make a goblin disable the Level 900 alarm.
• The controlled goblin warned Roy that the alarm would resume within thirty minutes unless more than half of the connected terminals were shut down, and revealed that Vault One held anti-theft spells and Gringotts' underground plans.
• Roy cast Obliviate on the goblin and left through a vortex in his mask.
• Aisling released Roy's smoke device in the second-floor corridor, then she and Wolf used Manager Lock's key to enter his office.
• Aisling searched Manager Lock's files while waiting for Brando to draw the goblins underground, and urged Haki Bee not to lose his nerve.

Roy found evidence in Eli’s vault linking Tiago Brando to Mia’s attempted murder, took Eli’s ill-gotten wealth, and then parachuted into Gringotts’s lowest level. He left the goblins there shouting an alarm after stunning their captain.

• Roy found Tiago Brando and Mia’s names in Eli’s contract book and packed the evidence for Tonks in an anti-tracking case.
• Roy emptied Eli’s vault of its wealth and transferred the treasure to his own Vault 1145.
• Roy jumped into the abyss beneath Gringotts and used modified parachutes and a Levitation Charm to reach the bottom safely.
• Goblin Guards and Fire Dragons surrounded Roy and demanded to know who he was.
• Roy set his parachutes alight, stunned the head guard, and calmly told the goblins to call the authorities.
• The goblins shouted that Gringotts was under attack.

Cedric’s fireworks attack at the Ministry drew the Aurors away from Gringotts while Aisling and Wolf broke into Tiago’s office. A blind Hungarian Horntail escaped the vaults and brought part of the bank crashing down as it fled.

• Cedric used Roy’s smoke device and fireworks to cause chaos at the Ministry, then escaped through the Floo Network as Lucius Malfoy caught sight of him.
• Kingsley sealed the Ministry atrium, cut off Gringotts’ communications with the Auror Office, and arrested Lucius Malfoy.
• Aisling and Roy reported that their parts of the operation were complete, and Roy confirmed that Gringotts’ lowest floor was on high alert.
• Aisling and Wolf slipped into Tiago’s office by picking its lock with her hair clip and kicking open the door.
• Aisling tackled Wolf as Gringotts shook, and a blinded Hungarian Horntail broke out of the vaults and fled through the damaged building.