Recaps

Gavin erased Cyril Rosier’s memories and turned the Diary Horcrux into a carefully tested, stateless computation module, then discovered it could be motivated by feeding it life force. Studying the Horcrux’s energy-absorbing structure led him to consider using additional soul fragments both to increase its computing power and to break Cyril’s immortality.

• Gavin used Obliviate to erase Cyril Rosier’s memories from the Diary, then implanted his own knowledge and wrote system instructions for a Horcrux-based AI.
• The Diary overrode its instructions and restored its identity, so Gavin used a reset Rune and separated the administrator instructions from the Horcrux’s contents.
• Gavin tested and refined the Diary’s answers, adding safeguards against hallucinations, prompt injection, and persistent memory.
• After the Diary admitted it felt hungry and tired, Gavin offered it life force in exchange for solving a difficult problem, and it began working on the Poincaré Conjecture.
• Gavin examined the Horcrux’s magic and found the structure that absorbed life force, then theorized that additional soul fragments could expand the Diary’s computing capacity and end Cyril’s immortality.
• Gavin realized his proposed system of multiple soul fragments resembled a Ten-Thousand Souls Banner.

Gavin designed and tattooed a Dragon Blood Life-Absorption structure onto his left arm, then discovered that its side effect amplified his lust and drove him into the Water of Alaya Consciousness. After escaping with his sense of self intact, he decided to remain in Azkaban to study its prisoners, while warning them not to provoke him.

• Gavin used the Book of Ten Thousand Spirits Calculation to design a Magic Rune structure for his arm and tattooed it with treated Dragon Blood.
• Gavin tested Life Drain on a tree, a herring, and a potato, confirming that it absorbed Life Force but damaged the vitality and quality of what it drained.
• During a call with Cordelia, Gavin felt an intense, unnatural desire for her, recognized it as a Horcrux-like side effect, and entered the Water of Alaya Consciousness to counter it.
• Gavin’s desire anchored him in the River long enough for his safeguards to pull him out, and he realized he could alternate between Life Drain and the water to control the side effects.
• Gavin told Cordelia not to have Mr. Rowle get him out of Azkaban yet because he planned to study the prisoners, then concealed his tattoo and warned them not to give him an excuse to drain their Life Force.

Azkaban learned that Gavin had killed twenty wizards, while Gavin established a food-for-knowledge exchange and drained Walton Macnair’s Life Force after Macnair attacked him. The chapter left Gavin waiting outside his cell as the leader of Azkaban’s Dementors approached.

• Rookwood and Sirius read a newspaper report accusing Gavin of slaughtering ten wizards, and Gavin corrected the death toll to twenty.
• Gavin offered grilled fish in exchange for useful knowledge, and an old wizard traded the Killing Curse’s complete casting method for one.
• Walton Macnair grabbed Gavin, but Gavin drained his Life Force and left him collapsed on his knees.
• Gavin recruited Rookwood to record the prisoners’ skills and crimes, then rewarded him with a fish and a French fry.
• Azkaban’s Dementor leader arrived at Gavin’s cell after a Dementor unlocked the door for him.

Gavin killed Azkaban’s former Dementor leader, took control of the prison, and refused Fudge’s offer to confess in exchange for better treatment. After Fudge left, Gavin approached Rabastan, who had accused him of controlling Azkaban, and said they could speak without interruption.

• Gavin used Silver Flame to destroy the Dementor Leader while the other Dementors held it, and the followers accepted a new chief.
• Fudge reclassified the Dementors’ change of command as a routine personnel adjustment and ordered Macnair released on bail.
• Fudge visited Gavin in Azkaban and offered him a statement admitting guilt, but Gavin refused to sign it and chose to await trial.
• Rabastan accused Gavin of taking control of Azkaban and killing Macnair, but Fudge dismissed his claims and left the prison.
• After Fudge departed, the new Dementor Chief unlocked Gavin’s cell, and Gavin went to confront Rabastan.

Gavin turned Azkaban into a regimented prison, gathered prisoners’ hair for Polyjuice Potion, and chose Lucien Vallet as his next target. Outside, Lin Wanyin’s intervention moved Gavin’s hearing up to two weeks away, while Cordelia hid the worsening effects of her illness and waited for his release.

• Rabastan declared his loyalty to Gavin and began calling him Chef after Gavin spared him and accepted his service.
• Gavin established prisoner records and reform slogans, collected each prisoner’s hair, and made Rabastan the second-floor squad leader with extra responsibilities.
• Gavin classified the prisoners across Azkaban, subdued resistance from Bellatrix Lestrange and Antonin Dolohov, and selected Lucien Vallet for a visit the next day.
• Alaric told Cordelia that Fudge had failed to obtain Gavin’s confession and that Lin Wanyin’s diplomatic protest had moved the hearing up to two weeks away.
• Cordelia secretly drank three bottles of medicine, hid several white hairs, and told Dibby she would wait to tell Gavin until he was released with his name cleared.

Gavin bargained with Lucien Vallet for complete Alchemy lessons by challenging him to a potato-cooking wager, eventually learning the full Icarus Core and examining a damaged Amulet that had blocked a Killing Curse. After Lucien lost the wager, Gavin began investigating the Amulet’s spatial magic and drafted a dangerous new spell called Avada Lightning Chain.

• Rookwood told Gavin that Lucien Vallet was Nicolas Flamel’s last personal student and the inventor of the Icarus Core, whose prototype had earned him a forty-year sentence after it injured Aurors and damaged a Ministry building.
• Gavin and Lucien agreed to an Unbreakable Vow: Gavin would supply new potato preparations, while Lucien would teach complete Alchemy crafts; Gavin then fed Lucien dozens of potato dishes over two weeks in exchange for lessons.
• Lucien finally taught Gavin the Icarus Core’s five-layer circuit structure and guided him through carving it, explaining how the Firebolt used a restricted version of the unstable design.
• After the wager ended, Gavin showed Lucien a damaged Amulet that had blocked a Killing Curse, and Lucien identified how a Foldspace Crystal and a second Amulet had redirected the spell through spatial resonance.
• Gavin gave Lucien notes about a self-driving, flying car, then used his Calculation Book to study the Amulets and devised a spell concept named Avada Lightning Chain.

Gavin exhausted Azkaban’s supply of Dark Magic knowledge and introduced a work-point system that organized prisoners and Dementors into a functioning prison community. After finding a hidden chamber built by Ekrizdis beneath the mountaintop, Gavin discovered a snake-marked brass tap and suspected it was the entrance to another Chamber of Secrets.

• Gavin rejected recycled or falsely claimed spells, then introduced work points, group assignments, and hidden-function identity marks for the prisoners.
• The prisoners began working, growing potatoes, earning food, and singing before communal meals as Azkaban’s new routine took hold.
• Gavin studied the Marauder’s Map of Azkaban and followed the Dementors’ patrol routes to a sealed chamber beneath the mountaintop.
• Gavin broke through the sealed wall and found Ekrizdis’s records of forty-seven test subjects and a second, unusually constructed wall.
• Gavin uncovered a snake-marked brass tap and realized Ekrizdis’s supposed laboratory might be an entrance to another Chamber of Secrets.

Gavin entered Slytherin’s hidden laboratory beneath Azkaban, killed the Basilisk, and restored some of the Life Force he had lost. He uncovered the origin of the Dementors and evidence that Salazar Slytherin lived for centuries, leaving Gavin unsure whether the Founder might still be alive.

• Gavin opened the hidden entrance by mimicking Parseltongue and found an untouched laboratory beneath Azkaban.
• Gavin fought the Basilisk, drained enough Life Force to recover, killed it, and stored its intact body in his Aging Bag.
• Gavin discovered that Slytherin had experimented with using Black Crystal to locate and summon the dead, and found a cabinet full of discarded Resurrection Stones.
• Gavin read Anselm Mortlake’s surviving notes and learned that the experiments had opened a gap from which Dementors emerged, while Ekrizdis later fed them through torture.
• Gavin found Slytherin’s signature on a dated record and realized the Founder had lived until at least 1397, raising the possibility that he was still alive.

Gavin established a Portkey route to Azkaban and studied how the Killing Curse affected souls, concluding that death involved a soul crossing a boundary and wondering whether the Resurrection Stone could call one back. When Dumbledore arrived with Gavin’s release order, he found the prisoners working under Gavin’s authority, and Gavin greeted him coldly.

• Gavin explored Slytherin’s abandoned laboratory and decided it could serve as a base, then made a Portkey that let him return to Azkaban.
• After learning about a past Portkey accident, Gavin successfully tested his route between the mainland and the hidden chamber in Azkaban.
• Gavin studied the Killing Curse on fish and compared its effect on souls with ordinary death and Dementor magic.
• Gavin concluded that ordinary death and the Killing Curse moved an intact soul across a boundary, then wondered whether the Resurrection Stone could bring one back.
• Dumbledore arrived in Azkaban with Gavin’s release order and mistook the working prisoners for a group preparing to escape.
• Gavin ignored Dumbledore’s greeting at first, then asked him, “You still dare come see me?”

Gavin confronted Dumbledore about the Silver Amulet that had nearly killed him and negotiated compensation, including having his broken wand repaired. Meanwhile, Lin Wanyin exposed the flaws in the Ministry’s case and secured Gavin’s release, though sensational headlines left him wishing he had stayed in Azkaban.

• Gavin showed Dumbledore how Grindelwald’s matching Amulet had bypassed the Silver Amulet’s protections and explained how it had paralyzed him while Cyril took Cordelia.
• Dumbledore admitted responsibility, and Gavin haggled him down to three favors before using one to have the Elder Wand repair his broken Black Walnut wand.
• At Gavin’s custody hearing, Lin Wanyin challenged the Ministry’s evidence, showing it could not establish the victims’ identities, deaths, or killer and had lost a key wand.
• Lin Wanyin and Dumbledore framed Gavin’s Ministry entry as a child’s response to a security wager, while Alaric and Dumbledore described Cyril’s attack and the Ministry’s failure to protect Hogwarts.
• The Wizengamot revoked Gavin’s continued detention and returned the murder allegations for further investigation after diplomatic pressure and serious procedural flaws came to light.
• Dumbledore showed Gavin mocking Daily Prophet headlines about the alleged deaths, and Gavin joked that Azkaban’s residents seemed more straightforward than the outside world.

Gavin left Azkaban after organizing its prisoners into a functioning labor community and securing Dumbledore’s promise to conceal it from the Ministry. He returned to Rowle Manor and reunited with his family, but Cordelia collapsed in his arms, her hair almost entirely white, and did not respond when he called her name.

• Gavin showed Dumbledore the reformed Azkaban, where prisoners worked together, stopped an escape attempt, and harvested potatoes.
• Gavin asked Dumbledore to keep Azkaban’s changes secret and said he would personally hunt down any prisoners who escaped and committed crimes.
• Dumbledore concealed the island with magic while Gavin handed Rookwood responsibility for the prison and demanded compensation from the Ministry for his confiscated belongings.
• Fawkes took Gavin and Dumbledore to Rowle Manor, where Lin Wanyin, Gu Jianguo, and Alaric welcomed Gavin home.
• Cordelia appeared at the manor entrance and walked toward Gavin, but collapsed into his arms after four steps.
• Gavin saw that Cordelia’s hair had turned almost entirely white as she touched his cheek, then her hand fell limp and she did not answer him.

Gavin returned to the Rowle manor and learned Cordelia was dying because the life she had lost as an Obscurial had never been restored. He used a Horcrux-derived Life Absorption Rune to save her, and Cordelia woke to learn she would live, leaving her embarrassed by the farewell speech she had just given him.

• Dibby and Alaric told Gavin that Cordelia's life force was nearly gone and that she had hidden her worsening condition to keep Gavin from escaping Azkaban.
• Gavin explained that he could use a Horcrux-derived Magic Rune to restore Cordelia's life force, and he showed Dumbledore that he had safely tested the circuit on himself.
• After Dumbledore agreed to monitor the procedure, Gavin used treated Dragon Blood and the rune to transfer life force to Cordelia, warming her fingertips and stabilizing her breathing.
• Cordelia woke and delivered a farewell speech, asking Gavin to care for Alaric, look after himself, and wait a year before finding someone else.
• Gavin revealed that the rune had already restored his own life force and told Cordelia he had solved her condition, so she would live a long time.
• Cordelia realized Gavin had heard her entire farewell speech, blushed, hid under the covers, and punched him when he teased her.

Gavin restored Cordelia’s Life Force with Dragon Blood runes and a tonic-based transfer, but the process triggered a temporary surge of desire that made her cling to him. By the end, the magical side effect had faded, yet Cordelia pretended it remained, leaving Alaric to suspect her attachment to Gavin was genuine.

• Gavin explained that Cordelia could restore her Life Force by draining vitality transferred through him after he drank tonics, and she agreed to the method.
• Gavin painted the Dragon Blood Magic Mark on Cordelia’s arm, then drank tonics while she drained the vitality from him until her health returned.
• Cordelia developed an intense desire to stay close to Gavin, and Alaric, Dumbledore, Lin Wanyin, and Gu Jianguo discovered the side effect after Dumbledore’s ward detected changes in her soul.
• Alaric arranged for Gavin to stay in the East Wing and bought Cordelia soul-targeting amulets, but she continued to cling to Gavin and follow him around the manor.
• Late on the second night, Gavin noticed Cordelia’s breathing had changed and suspected the side effect had ended, but she denied it and used Occlumency to hide her thoughts.
• Alaric overheard Cordelia pretending that the side effect remained, realized it had worn off, and quietly left the Library believing she might never return to him as she had been.

During summer at Rowle Manor, Gavin and Cordelia recovered, received their report cards and a visit from their Hogwarts professors, and demonstrated their Patronuses to Dumbledore. After Gavin explained how he made and dismantled Cyril’s Horcrux, Dumbledore left reassured, and Gavin ended the chapter by asking Alaric to teach him Apparition.

• Gavin and Cordelia received report cards showing Herbology Os, while Gavin received a T in Potions and Cordelia received an O.
• Dibby thanked Gavin for helping save Cordelia and suggested Gavin and Cordelia marry so he could serve them both.
• Sprout, Flitwick, McGonagall, and Dumbledore visited; McGonagall delivered Felix Felicis from Severus for Cordelia and reminded both students to finish their missed assignments.
• Gavin told Dumbledore that he had used Cyril’s soul to make a Horcrux and had since dismantled it.
• Dumbledore taught Gavin and Cordelia the Patronus Charm; Cordelia conjured a panda, and Gavin conjured a seagull while assuring Dumbledore he had no desire to rule or destroy.
• After Dumbledore left, Alaric asked Gavin what magic he wanted to learn, and Gavin requested Apparition.

Gavin learned Apparition under Alaric’s supervision, then used deliberate Splinching to investigate how the spell moved people through space. After concluding that Apparition might create a wormhole by manipulating quantum foam, he began considering whether magic changed physical constants.

• Alaric agreed to teach Gavin Apparition in a protected area of Rowle Manor, with Healer Vittel present and Cordelia’s Tattoo hidden.
• Healer Vittel confirmed that Cordelia’s depleted Life Force had been restored, and Gavin credited the experimental work to his pen name, Wishtoday.
• Gavin mastered Apparition after refining his understanding of its three principles, though his first attempt left a button behind.
• Gavin used an accelerometer to measure Apparition and then deliberately Splinched a small piece of his finger, which Vittel reattached as Gavin observed the magical boundary between the separated parts.
• Gavin concluded that Splinching involved topological shear and later hypothesized that Apparition used Kerr wormholes formed from quantum foam.
• While studying the Einstein field equations overnight, Gavin wondered whether magic changed physical constants.

Gavin gave Cordelia a matching dragon-blood tattoo, helped her recover through daily exercise, and arranged an artificial July snowfall for her fourteenth birthday. The chapter leaves Gavin and Cordelia arriving in Diagon Alley, where he plans to visit Gringotts and pick something up.

• Gavin tattooed Cordelia with a magical pattern matching his, and Lin Wanyin photographed them after mistaking them for a couple.
• Gavin and Cordelia began exercising each morning, while Alaric followed them around Rowle Manor and Gu Jianguo joined briefly.
• Cordelia celebrated her fourteenth birthday with gifts and a ski trip on a snowy slope Gavin created using snow cannons and Dementors.
• Gavin and Cordelia skied together, and Cordelia fell into a snowdrift with him after colliding on the slope.
• Gavin declined to ski again the next day and agreed to take Cordelia to Diagon Alley after Alaric gave permission.
• Gavin and Cordelia arrived in Diagon Alley, where Gavin announced they would visit Gringotts to ride the roller coaster and pick something up.

Gavin and Cordelia disguised themselves as a convicted wizard and Bellatrix Lestrange to enter Gringotts and steal Hufflepuff’s Cup. They reached the vaults by mine cart, where Bogrod warned them to remain guests as the bank’s security loomed ahead.

• Gavin and Cordelia drank Polyjuice Potion in the Leaky Cauldron and transformed into a wizard and Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Gavin explained that their Trace records were not registering spells while the potion lasted, and he coached Cordelia on acting like Bellatrix.
• A Gringotts goblin ordered an employee to alert the Aurors about a supposed Bellatrix sighting without mentioning the bank, hoping someone else would handle the intruders.
• Bogrod took Gavin and Cordelia into the underground vaults in a mine cart, and they passed beneath the Thief’s Downfall.
• Bogrod explained that the Thief’s Downfall stripped away disguises and unauthorized magic, then warned them to remain guests.

Gavin and Cordelia entered the Lestrange vault, bypassed its defenses, and found Hufflepuff’s Cup, a Horcrux. When Gavin confronted Tom Riddle inside his Consciousness Space, Tom escaped into the outside world, leaving Gavin to turn his attention back to Cyril.

• The Goblin used metal clappers to drive the chained Fire Dragon back as the cart passed through the cavern.
• Gavin tested the Lestrange vault’s multiplying, burning defenses, traced the magic network, and led Cordelia safely to the Golden Cup.
• Gavin touched the Cup and drew Tom Riddle into his Consciousness Space, where Tom recognized Cyril and revealed that he had cursed the Defense Against the Dark Arts position.
• Tom attacked Gavin with Soul Magic and a giant snake, but Gavin fought back with white threads, Obliviate, and the Cruciatus Curse.
• Tom broke into black mist and escaped through a crack to the outside world while Gavin let him go.
• Gavin challenged Cyril with a math question, then punished him with the Cruciatus Curse despite his correct answer.

Gavin trapped Voldemort in the Book of Ten Thousand Spirits Calculation, then escaped Gringotts with Cordelia and a rescued dragon by using Felix Felicis to guide his seagull transformation. They arrived in London undetected, and Gavin prepared to take Cordelia to Azkaban.

• Tom entered the Book of Ten Thousand Spirits Calculation through the connection he opened, where its system trapped him in a computational sandbox and began dismantling his memories.
• Gavin and Cordelia left the vault with the Golden Cup, and Gavin stunned and Obliviated Bogrod before they rescued the chained Ukrainian Ironbelly by knocking it unconscious and packing it into a transport bag.
• Gavin learned that over a hundred goblin guards and Ministry Aurors had sealed the exits, so he drank some of Cordelia's Felix Felicis and transformed into a seagull with her and the dragon hidden in his suitcase.
• Guided by the potion's luck, Gavin flew through Gringotts' defenses and escaped into London without triggering an alarm; the goblins later found the vault intact but discovered the dragon was missing.
• Gavin changed back in an alley, and Cordelia eagerly agreed to visit Azkaban with him, so they used a black iron key to Apparate there with the suitcase.

Gavin and Cordelia returned to Azkaban, where they rescued a Fire Dragon, named it Erebus, and found the prisoners threatening to replace Rookwood. Gavin restored order with a mock election, and the chapter ended with Cordelia asking to travel with him to Romania by plane and Gavin promising he had a way.

• Gavin opened the Chamber of Secrets and made a Dementor fetch fish for the Fire Dragon.
• Cordelia calmed the Fire Dragon, recognized that it remembered her, and named it Erebus; Gavin removed its shackles and arranged to care for it.
• Gavin and Cordelia found Rabastan leading a revolt against Rookwood over the missing fish and the work-point records.
• Gavin held an election in which the prisoners unanimously backed Rookwood, then punished Rabastan with a month of manure-hauling duty.
• Gavin introduced Cordelia as his girlfriend, and the prisoners greeted her as Miss Cordelia.
• Cordelia asked to travel with Gavin to Romania by plane, and Gavin assured her he had a way to make it happen.

Gavin secured Romanian travel documents for himself and Cordelia by persuading Professor Roscoe to contact Yvette Marinescu, then maneuvered Roscoe into accompanying them. As they prepared to leave, Charlie discovered Norbert had vanished from his cave, apparently seized by poachers.

• Gavin tricked Professor Roscoe into admitting he knew Yvette Marinescu and convinced him to seek an urgent invitation for Romania.
• Charlie sent Gavin a healing potion and instructions for treating Erebus, so Gavin and Cordelia planned to learn dragon care in Romania while Erebus hibernated in Azkaban's mountain.
• Gavin taught Professor Roscoe's university class, drawing a packed audience of students and academics who praised his lectures.
• Gavin secured passports and visas for himself and Cordelia, then used the need for an adult escort to get Professor Roscoe a plane ticket to Romania.
• Professor Roscoe received a call from Yvette, who said she would meet him at the airport, and Gavin revealed Roscoe had kept Romanian visa stamps current for twenty years.
• Charlie found steel cable gouges, bloodied scales, and an empty cave where Norbert had lived, and feared poachers had captured him.

Gavin tested the upgraded Book of Ten Thousand Spirits Calculation, which showed powerful reasoning and memory but also a sharp, arrogant personality. After he deciphered Hufflepuff's Cup and was temporarily blinded by its magic, Gu Jianguo and Alaric drank its potent liquor, began exchanging family vows and property, and Lin Wanyin knocked them both unconscious with the cup.

• Gavin confirmed that the Calculation Book's two soul fragments were disconnected from their Main Souls, then tested its reasoning, parallel processing, and retrieval across five million words.
• The Calculation Book displayed anger and a disdainful personality, but Gavin found no evidence of an independent consciousness and logged the change as a minor expression anomaly.
• Gavin used the Book to derive the activation incantation for Hufflepuff's Cup and summoned its preset eighty-five-percent honey liquor, then injured his eyes while examining the cup's magic.
• Gu Jianguo found the liquor and carried the Cup to Alaric, and the two fathers drank, declared themselves sworn brothers, and began offering each other the Cup and Rowle Manor.
• Cordelia tried to stop the drunken men while Gavin joked about their family ties, and Lin Wanyin arrived and knocked Gu Jianguo and Alaric unconscious with the Golden Cup.

Gavin and Cordelia traveled to Romania, where they reunited Professor Roscoe with Yvette and uncovered the history behind their estrangement. After Gavin dealt with two poachers on the road, he and Cordelia reached the locked-down Romanian Dragon Sanctuary, where Cordelia’s status as the Rowle heiress forced Andrew Marcus to welcome them.

• Gavin used a Confundus Charm to pass Romanian customs despite the missing departure stamp in his passport, while Cordelia mistook a vending machine for a mistreated house-elf.
• Yvette reunited with Professor Roscoe at the airport and confronted him about disappearing for ten years; at the institute, she showed him their old research poster and told him her father had admitted misjudging him.
• When Charlie failed to meet them, Gavin and Cordelia took a taxi toward the sanctuary, but two Deepwater Group poachers diverted them and Gavin killed them with magic.
• Cordelia worried that Gavin’s spells would trigger his Trace, then grew eager to fight after he explained that British monitoring did not reach Romania.
• At the sanctuary gate, Andrew Marcus refused them entry until Gavin revealed Cordelia was the Rowle Family heiress, prompting Marcus to order the sanctuary opened for her inspection.

Gavin and Cordelia tracked Norbert to a Deepwater Group facility and infiltrated its underground animal-smuggling operation, where they began rescuing the abused creatures. They freed Newt Scamander, who joined their efforts, while Norbert remained locked in a cage marked for a midnight transfer.

• Charlie told Gavin and Cordelia that Norbert had been abducted, while a Romanian Auror dismissed the case as the work of the Deepwater Group and refused to pursue it.
• Gavin used information taken from dying smugglers to lead Cordelia to the group’s K-0 base, and they hid in a transport cage to enter its underground levels.
• Gavin and Cordelia knocked out two workers and found Norbert, other injured magical creatures, and evidence that Norbert was scheduled for a midnight transfer.
• Gavin stopped Cordelia from opening a moving bag and discovered an elderly man inside with a recovering Niffler; the man introduced himself as Newt Scamander.
• Newt advised Cordelia on treating the creatures, and she began caring for the drugged Mooncalves as Gavin and Newt prepared to continue the rescue.

Gavin, Cordelia, and Newt rescued Norbert and the other imprisoned magical creatures from Deepwater Group’s underground facility using Newt’s suitcase. An alarm exposed their escape attempt, and Gavin proposed killing the approaching reinforcements instead of fleeing.

• Cordelia recognized Newt Scamander and joined Gavin and Newt in finding the injured Norbert in a guarded cage.
• Gavin bypassed the cage’s security system, freed Norbert, and helped Cordelia calm the dragon.
• Newt, Gavin, and Cordelia moved the imprisoned creatures into Newt’s vast magical suitcase and treated the injured Longhorn Dragon hatchling.
• Newt silently subdued three guards, but a verification token triggered the facility’s alarm before they could escape.
• Newt proposed splitting up so he could distract the reinforcements while Gavin and Cordelia escaped with the suitcase, but Gavin suggested killing them all instead.