The Second Dream

Ron Weasley ultimately missed his sister Ginny's entrance ceremony and Sorting.

Li Wei watched the castle caretaker Filch go over to Professor Snape and whisper something in his ear.

Snape's expression immediately darkened.

He had known it—Harry and Ron had finally driven the Flying Car to Hogwarts!

Sure enough, after saying something to Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor Snape promptly left the staff table with Filch to deal with Harry and Ron.

Soon afterward, once the Sorting was over, Headmaster Dumbledore presided over the opening feast. After letting everyone eat their fill, he too left with Professor McGonagall and headed for the headmaster's office.

"Dobby, Horcrux, Scabbers..."

Li Wei silently repeated those words to himself. In his second year, he had plenty to keep himself busy with again!

After the opening feast, Li Wei returned to the Ravenclaw common room he had been away from for two months and drifted off to sleep.

Meanwhile, across the ocean at Stanford University in the United States, it was still daytime.

Wearing the face of his younger self, Grindelwald moved through the campus like an ordinary, carefree college student.

After escaping from prison, he had come to the United States, used magic to establish a new identity, and enrolled in a Muggle university.

No one would have imagined that Grindelwald, who had been utterly arrogant toward Muggles and wanted to turn them into second-class citizens under his rule, would humble himself into becoming a student at a Muggle university!

The Aurors of the wizarding world could never have imagined it!

Nor could Headmaster Dumbledore of Hogwarts!

Even Grindelwald himself had never imagined that the divination he received after escaping prison would lead him to do this!

Yet he had done exactly that!

And during his year at Stanford University in the United States, he had