Chapter Summaries

Roy and Aisling escaped their captors by hiding in a suitcase, then ambushed the wizards who transported them to America. After defeating them, they set off across the plains as evening fell.

• Aisling warned Roy that twenty-one pursuers had surrounded the cabin and told him to hide with her in the suitcase.
• The kidnappers carried the suitcase to America using a Portkey, while Roy and Aisling waited inside.
• When six transport wizards opened the suitcase, Roy and Aisling sprang out under concealment and attacked them.
• Roy and Aisling killed the remaining wizards, searched the bodies, and took the suitcase and a radio.
• Roy and Aisling walked into the American plains at sunset, following the radio’s music.

Roy and Aisling hid in the American wilderness after escaping her kidnappers, where they struggled with hunger and exhaustion while awaiting rescue. Aisling warned Roy that their pursuers had found them, then avoided explaining why the Americans were hunting her.

• Aisling collapsed from hunger and exhaustion, and Roy gave her his last water before admitting he could not Apparate them to safety.
• Roy left Aisling with her wand while he searched for food, and she fell asleep thinking about how they had become friends.
• Aisling dreamed of uniformed wizards investigating the battle site and ordering a search for her.
• Roy returned with roasted rabbits, and Aisling ate one before insisting that Roy eat the other.
• Aisling told Roy that the pursuers had found them and claimed she could predict the future.
• Roy made a tent and sleeping bag with Transfiguration, and Aisling went to rest without answering his questions about the Americans and Professor Thorn.

Roy and Aisling camped on the Kansas plains while American Aurors hunted them, but Roy defeated the pursuers and used their supplies and map to plan an escape east. After a quiet night and breakfast, the pair set off for Valentine to find transportation.

• Roy spotted shadows approaching their campsite and extinguished the campfire as American Aurors surrounded the tent.
• Roy ambushed the Aurors, knocked all eight unconscious, searched their memories, and planted false leads before moving them away from camp.
• Roy looted the Aurors for food, water, and a map, learned they were near Valentine, and decided to head east toward Britain.
• Roy kept watch through the night while Aisling slept, then shared compressed biscuits with her at breakfast.
• After Aisling washed and regained some strength, she and Roy packed up and set off toward Valentine.

Roy and Aisling reached Valentine after a grueling trek across the prairie and used magic to get a ride into town. They stopped near the police station after spotting Walter White, whose group was waiting for the missing Jesse.

• Roy and Aisling walked for hours through the heat toward Valentine, eventually reaching the town at sunset.
• Rancher Marston confronted Roy and Aisling with a shotgun, but Roy used a Confundus Charm to make him believe their cover story and drive them into town.
• Roy and Aisling stunned Marston, altered his memories, and took his truck and some cash before reaching the police station.
• Roy spotted Walter White waiting outside the station and told Aisling to keep watch while he rested in the truck.

Roy and Aisling spent the night at a motel in Valentine Town while trying to find a way to escape their pursuers. After Aisling feared Roy had left her, he returned with a repaired pickup, and they drove toward Kentucky, unaware that wizards had tracked them on camera.

• Roy and Aisling left their stakeout and checked into a motel, where Aisling reminded Roy to erase the proprietor’s memory before they departed.
• Aisling tried to study Elias’s radio for a way back to Hogwarts, but Roy asked to discuss their disagreement and she refused.
• Aisling woke to find Roy and his backpack gone, then erased the proprietor’s memory and prepared to leave alone.
• Roy returned in a repaired pickup, and he and Aisling set off toward Riverside Town, Kentucky.
• Wizards monitoring Valentine Town’s cameras spotted Roy and Aisling leaving and dispatched nearby personnel.

Roy and Aisling reached Riverside Town, where Walter White and his wizards ambushed them. Surrounded and fighting back, they unleashed Fiendfyre and Amaterasu as Roy prepared to get Aisling out.

• Roy drove Aisling to Riverside Town, where an SUV followed them and he used a spell to escape it.
• Aisling foresaw that their pursuers were ahead, and Roy and Aisling found themselves blocked by Walter White and groups of black-robed wizards.
• Walter demanded that Roy hand over Aisling, but Roy refused and fought off the attackers with her.
• Roy and Aisling used thick smoke to attack the wizards, while Walter and his men dispelled it; Walter's left arm was burned and several of his men fell.
• Surrounded and unable to Apparate, Roy and Aisling prepared Fiendfyre and Amaterasu, forming two enormous fire dragons against their attackers.

Roy and Aisling escaped Walter White’s attackers, but Roy was badly injured by Fiendfyre and the strain of Apparition. Aisling treated him and hid them aboard a freight train, which began carrying them away as she lost consciousness.

• Roy used the destruction caused by Fiendfyre to Apparate away with Aisling and their luggage while Walter White ordered his people to pursue them and delay Dumbledore.
• Roy arrived at a freight train transfer station with severe burns and bleeding ribs, then collapsed after directing Aisling toward their backpack and the train.
• Aisling used the Potions Roy carried to stop his bleeding, treated his burns, and moved him and their luggage into a freight car loaded with potatoes.
• Aisling made a bed for Roy and gave him water before the train began moving; exhausted, she lost consciousness beside him.

Roy dreamed of his former life as a GTI agent, then woke in a freight train beside Aisling after nearly two days unconscious. They emerged onto a deserted shore, where Roy resolved to fight on and make things turn out differently.

• In a dream, Roy rode a helicopter with Instructor Deep Blue and Kai Silva, who comforted him about missing his family and praised his courage in battle.
• Roy’s dream faded as his chest pain worsened, and he woke in a dark freight car with Aisling after being unconscious for almost two days.
• Roy used his healing magic on his Fiendfyre burns, healing more than half the injury before the train stopped.
• Aisling opened the carriage hatch, and she and Roy found themselves on a deserted beach beside the sea.
• Roy climbed down from the train and vowed to fight to the end and change what happened.

Aisling told Roy how American wizards murdered her family and vowed to destroy them, while Roy tried to comfort her. As they traveled north together, they shared stories about their childhoods, ending with Roy telling Aisling a bizarre tale about a badger.

• Aisling recounted how she foresaw herself by the sea as a child, then watched American wizards kill her parents and infant sister.
• Aisling said Wolf and the others rescued her, and she vowed to kill the Americans responsible and their families.
• Roy tried to calm Aisling’s rage with jokes, and the two collected their luggage and set off north along the coast.
• Aisling warned Roy to keep her past secret, then demanded that he tell her about his childhood.
• Roy described the orphanage and his collected junk, then told Aisling a strange story about a boy attacking a badger.

Roy and Aisling reached Van Horn, where they unexpectedly encountered Elias and escaped by Apparition. Stranded in the Pennsylvania plains with Roy injured, they watched a Thunderbird land nearby.

• Roy persuaded Aisling to rest in a seaside cottage and bought supplies in Van Horn.
• Roy and Aisling ran into the wounded Elias at the docks, and Roy attacked him with a fireball.
• Roy Apparated with Aisling to the plains, reopening his rib wounds, while Elias ordered his people to find them and spare Roy if possible.
• Aisling recognized the plains from her prophecy, and a Thunderbird flew through the storm and landed near them.

Roy received the Thunderbird’s approval and was healed and empowered by its lightning, gaining a powerful Electric Shock Arrow ability. After the Thunderbird departed, Aisling executed the fallen enforcers, and she and Roy left together.

• The Thunderbird struck the pursuing enforcers with lightning, then approached Roy and asked him to pet it.
• The Thunderbird’s magic healed Roy’s injuries, replenished his magic, and strengthened his Ancient Magic.
• Roy discovered he could cast a powerful Electric Shock Arrow without a wand or incantation.
• The Thunderbird indicated that it had helped Roy because of the Hufflepuff Pendant, then flew away.
• Aisling used the Killing Curse to execute the fallen enforcers and then told Roy to leave with her.

Roy and Aisling camped in the forest after the battle, where he worried about her reliance on the Killing Curse and sensed that she understood the danger he faced. By morning, Roy had been wounded protecting her, and when Aisling demanded he leave, he cast the Imperius Curse on her, saying it was the last time.

• Roy looted the fallen wizards, then traveled north with Aisling into a forest and made camp.
• Roy warned Aisling that overusing the Killing Curse could harm her mind, and she leaned against him and cried while urging him to leave.
• Roy sent Aisling to sleep under a Stunning Spell and kept watch through the night as harmful spells flew through the forest.
• Aisling woke, noticed Roy's thigh wound, and angrily demanded he stop risking himself for her.
• Roy pretended to agree, then cast the Imperius Curse on Aisling and apologized, calling it the last time.

Roy used Polyjuice Potion to take Aisling’s appearance and sent Aisling, disguised as him, southwest toward New York while he drew the enemy away. After Roy’s signal, Aisling began following his escape instructions, though tears fell from her face as she watched him leave.

• Roy explained that one of them had to draw the enemy away and instructed Aisling to head southwest for a highway and seek help in New York.
• Roy and Aisling drank Polyjuice Potions made with each other’s hair, swapping appearances.
• Roy disguised Aisling as himself, gave her a seized wand and his escape instructions, then left north with Elias’s radio and an expanded suitcase.
• Aisling watched Roy leave and shed tears, though Roy did not notice.
• More than half an hour later, Roy’s fireworks signal appeared in the northern sky, and Aisling headed southwest with her backpack.

Disguised as Aisling, Roy lured Walter White’s forces onto the plains and prepared an ambush. He left dozens of wizards dead, but Walter and the remaining enemies were still nearby.

• Roy drew the black-clad wizards north, then ambushed and knocked them unconscious with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Roy used Legilimency to learn that the nearby search parties were converging, then set off Fred and George’s firework to draw them in.
• Walter White arrived with over a hundred wizards and sent a squad to inspect the bodies and retrieve the unconscious Aisling.
• Roy secretly placed the inspecting wizard under Imperio, and the controlled wizard falsely reported that Aisling was unconscious.
• Roy sprang up, crushed the Golden Rose, and used a chain-spreading Killing Curse that killed dozens of wizards.

Roy fled north after killing dozens of wizards, using smoke, speed, and chained Killing Curses to break through the encirclement. His Ancient Magic grew stronger from the deaths, but his ultimate expired at a coastal bay, where the pursuers cut off his retreat.

• Roy spread smoke across the plain and ran north as the remaining wizards pursued him.
• Roy charged through six interceptors, dodged their Killing Curses, and killed them with a chained Avada Kedavra.
• Roy’s Ancient Magic surged after the mass killing, and he realized that taking risks could create openings in battle.
• Roy outran the Apparating pursuers but discovered that he had reached a U-shaped bay with no escape route.
• Roy’s ultimate expired as the pursuers blocked his way back, and he revealed his face and told them they had fallen for it.

Under Imperio, Aisling rode a bus toward New York, believing Roy was likely dead or captured, but the song on the radio changed her mind. She got off and headed back toward the forest, where she encountered Walter White alone.

• Aisling waited for a bus in the storm and boarded it for New York while still under Roy's Imperio.
• As the bus departed, painful memories returned to Aisling, but she decided to keep going rather than risk turning back for Roy.
• After hearing Bella ciao, Aisling got off the bus, gave the driver her money, and headed toward the forest.
• Aisling spotted Walter White alone on the plains, put down her backpack, gripped her wand, and prepared to face him.

Roy bought Aisling time to escape, then fought Walter White’s wizards alone. As he faced their next attack alongside a Thunderbird, Roy resonated with the storm and prepared to end the battle with Kirin.

• Roy revealed that Aisling had escaped and drew Walter White’s attention while waiting for his exoskeleton to recharge.
• Roy crushed a Golden Rose, armed himself with two wands, and attacked the wizards as Walter Apparated away to pursue Aisling.
• Roy’s lightning stopped the remaining wizards from escaping, but their crossfire eventually blasted him to the ground.
• A Thunderbird shielded Roy from incoming spells, giving him time to heal and rise again.
• Roy and the Thunderbird’s lightning resonated with his Ancient Magic, and Roy called down lightning before announcing his Kirin spell.

Roy unleashed the Thunder Beast across the battlefield, leaving him badly injured but alive, while Aisling defeated Walter and headed toward the storm. As Roy tried to leave the scorched plains, Elias arrived by motorboat and spoke to him.

• Roy's Thunder Beast attack devastated the plains, killing or incapacitating hundreds and leaving Roy with a scorched left hand and no strength to fight.
• Aisling used illusory Fiendfyre fireballs to distract Walter, then stabbed him in the back with Roy's Black Eagle Dagger and burned him to ash.
• Aisling recovered Roy's dagger and set off toward the thunderstorm after declaring, "I never lose."
• Roy drank a Potion, gathered his luggage, and started toward the nearest road across the white wasteland.
• Elias arrived by motorboat, recognized Roy, and greeted him while noting that Roy still had the radio.

Roy faced Elias after a deadly battle, refusing to betray Aisling or kill Cedric in exchange for his life. Elias raised his wand again, and Roy challenged him to take his life.

• Elias questioned Roy about fighting for Aisling and lamented the lives Roy had taken, while Roy said he had fought for justice and would do so for Elias too.
• Elias drew his wand, but Roy stalled by pretending to surrender and falsely claiming Aisling had gone to Palm Beach.
• Elias exposed Roy's lie and offered to spare him and Aisling if Roy killed Cedric and made an Unbreakable Vow.
• Roy refused to kill Cedric, and Elias told him to pay for the dead with his own life.
• Roy told Elias to come and take it.

Roy and Elias fought to the death in the mass grave after Elias confessed that he had caused Connor’s attack. Their final duel left both men mortally wounded, and Roy died as “Baby Blue” played from Elias’s radio.

• Elias admitted he had arranged Connor’s attack and said he intended to kill Roy.
• Roy and Elias exchanged spells and fought across the mass grave, with Roy’s injuries leaving him at a disadvantage.
• Roy invoked Ancient Magic Resonance and trapped them both in a Duel Cage, forcing a final contest without magic or escape.
• When the cage’s suppression lifted, Roy and Elias struck each other in the chest at the same time and fell.
• Roy heard “Baby Blue” playing from Elias’s radio and died while watching the sky.