Chapter Summaries

Su Ming visited Hermione in her Ministry office and warned her to be cautious about food left unattended. After learning that Sirius had reported mysterious Ancient Magic possibly connected to Hogwarts, Su Ming decided that he and Hermione would investigate it themselves.

• Arthur saw Su Ming lying on Hermione's bed, misunderstood the situation, and went outside to stand guard.
• Hermione confronted Su Ming about stealing her candy, and he explained that he had been testing her caution against poisoned food.
• Hermione told Su Ming that Sirius had written about Ancient Magic that might be connected to Hogwarts.
• Su Ming read Sirius's letter and dismissed his request for a meeting because neither he nor Hermione knew enough to help.
• Su Ming and Hermione decided to investigate Ancient Magic themselves instead of visiting Sirius.

Hermione and Su Ming returned to Hogwarts to investigate the legend of Ancient Magic, where Professor McGonagall warned them that the goblins’ information might be a trap. McGonagall welcomed Su Ming back as a professor and allowed them to move freely around the school as their investigation began.

• Hermione and Su Ming used Floo Powder to travel from the Ministry to Hogwarts, leaving Arthur anxiously guarding the office door.
• They arrived in the principal’s office and found McGonagall buried in grading students’ essays.
• McGonagall reprimanded Su Ming for never submitting a resignation, and he promised Stark Industries would greatly increase Hogwarts’ sponsorship.
• Hermione explained that she and Su Ming had come to investigate Ancient Magic, and McGonagall cautioned that the goblins’ story might be a trap.
• Hermione said she had already read every book in the Restricted Section, while Su Ming asked for freedom to investigate and visit his former colleagues.
• McGonagall said Su Ming was still Hogwarts’ physical education professor and welcomed him back, allowing him and Hermione to go wherever they wished.

Hermione and Su Ming toured Hogwarts, and Hermione revisited Ravenclaw Tower while reminiscing about her school years. She entered the old common room after answering the Eagle Knocker’s question with her own name.

• Hermione and Su Ming left McGonagall’s office and agreed that she was a good choice for principal.
• Hermione recognized Harry teaching flying lessons and asked Su Ming whether Severus was Harry’s biological father; Su Ming told her not to concern herself with it.
• Hermione complained that she had to handle Ministry work herself, and Su Ming joked that he would kill useless subordinates.
• Hermione and Su Ming reached Ravenclaw Tower, where the Eagle Knocker asked who the greatest witch of the twentieth century was.
• Hermione answered with her own name, and the Eagle Knocker welcomed her back to Ravenclaw.

Hermione returned to Ravenclaw with Su Ming, greeted the students, and revisited her old common room and dormitory. They planned to visit Neville and join Professor Flitwick and the others for drinks at The Three Broomsticks.

• Hermione visited Ravenclaw’s common room, where the students crowded around her and showed their admiration.
• Su Ming sent the students to class and ordered them to write self-criticism essays for Professor Flitwick.
• Hermione told Su Ming that Neville Longbottom had become Hogwarts’ physical education substitute professor.
• Hermione and Su Ming planned to visit Neville and meet Professor Flitwick and the others for drinks that evening.
• Hermione opened her old dormitory with Alohomora and found that its furniture remained as it had been, though her personal traces were gone.

Su Ming reunited with Hermione in her old Hogwarts dormitory and urged her to make time for friends by bringing trusted companions into the Ministry, offering her Voldemort’s inheritance to fund it. After Hermione left to act on his advice, Su Ming found Snape and learned that he was doing well.

• Hermione and Su Ming visited her old dormitory, where they recalled Crookshanks and discussed making more room for friends and life outside work.
• Su Ming advised Hermione to replace useless Ministry employees with trusted friends and Order of the Phoenix members, and gave her a Gringotts key to Voldemort’s inheritance.
• Hermione agreed, imagined working with Susan, Hannah, Luna, Fleur, Ginny, Cho Chang, and Penelope, and Apparated away to handle the Ministry changes.
• Su Ming walked through Hogwarts, and Peeves screamed and fled when he saw him.
• Su Ming met Snape outside the Potions classroom, and Snape said he was doing extremely well.

Su Ming visited Severus at Hogwarts to discuss Harry and investigate Ancient Magic, but Snape knew nothing about it and suggested asking the castle ghosts. The chapter ended when Harry walked in on Su Ming demonstrating lingerie to Severus.

• Su Ming praised Severus's changed appearance and learned that Harry was teaching flying at Hogwarts.
• Su Ming warned Severus to destroy James Potter's remains to prevent anyone from resurrecting him.
• Su Ming asked Severus about Ancient Magic, but Severus had never heard of it and suggested asking Helena Ravenclaw.
• Su Ming gave Severus gifts from Marvel and began explaining the uses of the lingerie and stockings.
• Harry entered the office and asked Su Ming and Severus what they were doing.

Harry found Su Ming and Severus handling women’s clothes in an office, then discussed family life and a way to travel home from Hogwarts more easily. The chapter left Harry and Severus planning to ask Hermione to arrange a Floo connection while Severus warned Harry against using Shapeshifting at school.

• Harry entered Su Ming and Severus’s office and discovered them handling women’s clothes.
• Su Ming gave Harry snacks, cigarettes, alcohol, and clothes and socks for Fleur.
• Harry asked whether he and Severus would go home for the weekend, and Severus confirmed they would.
• Su Ming suggested connecting the Potions office fireplace to the Floo Network at their home, and Severus agreed to ask Hermione about it.
• Severus reprimanded Harry for using Shapeshifting at Hogwarts and ordered him not to do it again.

Harry told Su Ming about a vanished Hogwarts transfer student who had wielded Ancient Magic and suggested that the student's wand might reveal it through Prior Incantato. The conversation turned to Ron's difficult circumstances, with Severus and Su Ming trading remarks about his abilities.

• Harry recounted Ollivander's story of a fifth-year transfer student who had used Ancient Magic, disappeared, and was erased from Hogwarts records.
• Harry suggested finding the student's wand and using Prior Incantato to recreate spells it had witnessed.
• Su Ming praised Harry's idea and asked how Ron was doing; Harry said Ron had failed his Auror exams, quit a Ministry cleaning job, and now worked at the twins' shop and took funeral jobs.
• Harry explained that Ron wanted to save money to move out of the crowded Burrow but refused to accept Harry's offer of a loan.
• Severus criticized Ron's lack of virtues, and Su Ming joked that Ron was good at Slugulus Eructo.

Su Ming watched Harry and Ron’s loyal friendship with Severus, then accompanied Harry to his new flying-class office, where they discussed his appointment and how he should address Hermione. The conversation left Harry ready to treat Hermione as an old friend rather than as Minister Granger.

• Su Ming decided Ron’s loyalty made him valuable and considered him a future Hogwarts security guard and a suitable Secret Keeper.
• Severus and Harry spoke naturally as father and son, and Su Ming was reassured by how well they got along.
• Harry showed Su Ming his flying-class office and explained that Madam Hooch had resigned and Professor McGonagall had chosen him for the post.
• Su Ming explained that Harry’s appointment paperwork would be handled administratively and told him to call Hermione by her name.
• Harry said Sirius had told him to address Hermione as Minister Granger, but agreed to use her name after Su Ming emphasized the importance of their friendship.
• Su Ming criticized taking rules and status too seriously, and Harry reacted with disbelief to his example of people dressing as Batman.

Harry, Hermione, and Neville talked with Su Ming at Hogwarts, where Neville revealed that his grandmother had told him a story about Ancient Magic. Neville began recounting the tale of Isidora Morganach and Professor Percival Rackham, whose power came from the origin of the world.

• Harry told Su Ming how fresh Hogwarts felt now that he was a professor.
• Hermione returned with Neville, and Neville thanked Su Ming for helping him train and overcome his childhood amnesia.
• Neville said his grandmother had linked the magic behind Horcruxes to Ancient Magic after hearing about Tom Riddle's diary from him.
• Neville began telling the legend of Isidora Morganach, whose family home burned down during a drought and whose brother died in the fire.
• Neville explained that Percival Rackham saved Isidora's village with Ancient Magic and later took her as his apprentice.

Neville told Su Ming, Hermione, and Sirius how Isidora’s attempt to ease her father’s grief led her to become a murderous witch and how her spell eventually inspired Voldemort’s Horcruxes. He suggested that investigating Isidora could reveal clues about Ancient Magic, leaving Su Ming to realize that Sirius had overlooked an obvious source of information.

• Neville explained that Isidora used Ancient Magic to remove her father’s grief, then absorbed the emotions herself and became dependent on them.
• Isidora began draining people’s emotions and eventually killed Hogwarts professors, including Headmistress Fitzgerald and Professor Rackham, before the Charms Teacher killed her.
• Neville said that Isidora’s emotion-stripping spell survived in a book at Hogwarts and later helped Voldemort develop Horcruxes.
• Neville advised Su Ming to investigate Isidora for clues about Ancient Magic.
• Su Ming silently pointed out to Hermione that Sirius had not asked the students for information, while Su Ming had quickly gathered useful clues from them.

Su Ming suspected that Neville’s unusually vivid memory of an ancient magic story had been tampered with, though he concealed his concerns while Hermione recognized that something was wrong. The group left the possible threat unresolved and spent lunch reminiscing about their friends, including Draco’s upcoming marriage to Astoria Greengrass.

• Su Ming questioned how Neville could remember a childhood story about Ancient Magic so vividly and suspected someone had tampered with his memories.
• Hermione also grew suspicious of Neville’s account, while Harry wondered whether Isidora might have been resurrected.
• Su Ming dismissed their concerns and sent Harry and Neville back to their afternoon teaching plans.
• Hermione steered the conversation toward old school friends, and Harry said Draco worked for Stark Industries and was preparing to marry Astoria Greengrass.
• Harry praised Astoria, while the chapter described how Draco’s marriage connected the Malfoy family more closely to Hermione’s powerful faction.

Su Ming and Hermione devised a way to bypass the traps surrounding the Ancient Magic mystery and locate whoever was manipulating events. They went to the Room of Requirement to confront the hidden enemy, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Su Ming sent Harry and Neville away and asked Harry to notify the professors about their gathering at The Three Broomsticks.
• Su Ming secretly explained his suspicions and plan to Hermione through Strangle's neural network.
• Su Ming and Hermione concluded that their enemy was using Reality Warping and decided to search for a place where its presence felt concealed.
• Su Ming led Hermione to the eighth-floor tapestry and prepared to enter the Room of Requirement, asking her to imagine the space according to his plan.

Hermione and Su Ming ambushed and killed a Strange Hand hiding in the Room of Requirement. After the room returned to normal, they searched it and prepared to investigate a room for a fifth-year transfer student.

• Hermione opened the Room of Requirement and silently cast Avada Kedavra inside while Su Ming charged in.
• Su Ming killed the Strange Hand with his Golden Light greatsword as Hermione fired anti-magic rounds.
• The Room of Requirement returned to a wizard-and-Muggle-style bedroom, and Su Ming gave Hermione a Strange Hand ring as a trophy.
• Su Ming had Strangle consume the Strange Hand's flesh to learn about its body and abilities.
• Hermione confirmed the room was only a starting point for changing one's life, and Su Ming proposed searching for a room for a fifth-year transfer student.

Su Ming concluded that the Strange Hands followed rules that kept them from attacking characters native to each world, and he took precautions to protect his allies. He then led Hermione into the Room of Requirement to investigate a fifth-year transfer student and pursue Ancient Magic before it could fall into enemy hands.

• Su Ming noticed that the Strange Hands had avoided attacking native characters and sent Howard and his family to 40K Earth for safety.
• Deathstroke reasoned that the Strange Hands obeyed a rigid set of rules that could limit their actions.
• Hermione opened the Room of Requirement to the fifth-year transfer student's room and asked Su Ming why he had changed his mind about Ancient Magic.
• Su Ming explained that the trap had lost its Hunter and said he would help Hermione obtain Ancient Magic or destroy it, while Cloak could absorb it if needed.
• Hermione agreed to do her best, and Deathstroke led her inside to investigate the transfer student's room.

Su Ming and Hermione searched a dusty private dormitory in the Room of Requirement for clues about the vanished transfer student. Hermione summoned a bloodstained nail fragment, and Su Ming used it to locate another hidden chamber in Hogwarts.

• Hermione and Su Ming entered a vast, dust-filled dormitory with growing beds, experimental equipment, and signs that its former occupant had cultivated enormous plants.
• Su Ming and Hermione discussed Hermione’s plans to build a Shadow Council and travel, and he invited her to join his next trip to Azeroth.
• Su Ming told Hermione to search for something connected to the transfer student, and she summoned a bloodstained nail fragment.
• Su Ming used black particles to trace the fragment and found the transfer student, then led Hermione toward another hidden chamber in Hogwarts.

Su Ming explained to Hermione that Isidora had gathered and sealed away the powerful emotions of countless people, which were later hidden beneath Hogwarts. He demonstrated how emotions could be converted into power with a Yellow Lantern Ring, leaving Hermione convinced that emotions had to remain under control.

• Su Ming told Hermione that Dark Quantum let him trace the history of the transfer student's fingernail and witness her past.
• Su Ming explained that Isidora died after sealing away countless emotions, which Hogwarts professors later buried deep beneath the school.
• Hermione reasoned that emotions could function as energy, and Su Ming showed her his Power Rings, including the fear-powered Yellow Lantern Ring.
• Su Ming materialized a tiny fighter jet with the Yellow Lantern Ring and used its missiles to destroy a blade of grass.
• Hermione recognized the danger of emotional power and said people needed to keep their emotions in their own hands.

Su Ming and Hermione descended into the Black Lake to reach the ruins above the Chamber of Secrets, bringing a gift for the Murlocs. As they explored the lakebed, Hermione spotted what might be Murlocs ahead.

• Su Ming chose to bore down from the Black Lake ruins to reach the Chamber of Secrets.
• Hermione cast a Bubble-Head Charm, and Su Ming revealed he had prepared food for the Murlocs with extra ingredients added.
• Su Ming wondered whether the Black Lake's cold water was affected by Negative Energy sealed beneath it.
• Su Ming and Hermione passed through a dense underwater forest and saw a huge, sharp-toothed fish.
• Hermione suggested building a Hogwarts aquarium and writing a textbook about aquatic magical creatures.
• Hermione pointed out what appeared to be Murlocs ahead.

Su Ming lured the Black Lake merpeople, whom he called Murlocs, into eating a specially prepared laxative. After the Murlocs were blasted out of the lake by their own gas, Su Ming and Hermione detoured around the polluted water and continued toward the underwater buildings.

• Su Ming spotted Murlocs hunting near a red algae forest and sent them a gift box with The Force.
• The Murlocs opened the box and ate its foul-smelling contents, which contained a powerful laxative.
• The Murlocs suffered severe diarrhea, and Hermione realized Su Ming had deliberately trapped them.
• The laxative generated high-pressure gas that launched the Murlocs out of the lake like missiles.
• Su Ming grabbed Hermione and led her around the polluted water toward the underwater buildings.

Su Ming and Hermione used a prank to draw the Black Lake Murlocs away from their village, then found an underwater elevator leading to a hall far below the lake. As they descended, Hermione asked Su Ming to teach her his new ability, but he put the request aside so they could investigate Ancient Magic and her Negative Emotion Reserve.

• Su Ming explained that he had given the Murloc hunting party laxatives to distract the tribe, and Hermione realized the prank had cleared the village.
• Su Ming and Hermione slipped through the ruins while the Murlocs investigated the airborne members of the hunting party.
• Su Ming created an underwater elevator beneath a ruined cottage, leading to a hall seventeen hundred meters underground.
• Hermione praised Su Ming's new ability and asked him to teach it to her, but he postponed the discussion.
• Su Ming and Hermione prepared to explore whether she could obtain Ancient Magic or use her Negative Emotion Reserve.