Recaps

In August 1991, Shawn’s performance as a young magician activates his system and reveals that his telekinesis is magic. The system teleports him from the Muggle world to the wizarding world, where his arrival is recorded as a new Black family descendant and draws Dumbledore’s attention.

• During his London Coliseum show, Shawn reached 10,000 admirers and activated his system.
• Shawn claimed the starter pack, gaining Occlumency and a Lightning Elemental Core before the system announced his imminent transfer to the wizarding world.
• Shawn told Albert he would be away, then vanished from the stage in a shower of playing cards.
• At Hogwarts, the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance wrote down Shawn Black, prompting Dumbledore to leave and trace the magical disturbance.
• McGonagall saw Shawn’s name in the book, while the prisoner in Nurmengard sensed the change and declared that hope had returned.

Shawn Black arrived at the cave where his father, Regulus Black, had died and met Albus Dumbledore, whom he deceived with a fabricated account of his past. Dumbledore agreed to take Shawn to the Black family home and promised to recover Regulus’s remains, while Shawn planned to use Dumbledore’s help and later give him the real locket.

• Shawn appeared on the pebble beach beside the hidden cave and recalled that he was Regulus Black’s son.
• Before Shawn could use his system’s draw, Albus Dumbledore arrived and asked why he was there and where his parents were.
• Shawn claimed that Regulus had betrayed his leader, hidden him in the Muggle world, and left him relics that revealed his past.
• Dumbledore sensed a powerful restriction on the cave and offered to take Shawn to his ancestral home, promising to retrieve Regulus’s remains.
• Dumbledore felt a lingering electrical current when Shawn took his arm, and Shawn played off his ability to discharge electricity as a unique talent.
• Dumbledore Apparated away with Shawn, while Shawn considered giving him the real locket later.

Shawn returned to the Black family home at 12 Grimmauld Place with Dumbledore and reunited with the house-elf Kreacher. He settled into the house, met his grandmother Walburga Black’s portrait, and ordered Kreacher to care for himself before preparing to use his system.

• Dumbledore brought Shawn to the hidden entrance of 12 Grimmauld Place and received a mission-completion reward from Shawn’s system.
• Kreacher recognized Shawn as the young master and welcomed him home, and Shawn ordered him to stop punishing himself.
• Dumbledore left Shawn with Kreacher after telling him to expect his Hogwarts acceptance letter the next day.
• Kreacher took Shawn inside, where Walburga Black’s portrait greeted him as her grandson.
• Kreacher prepared a bedroom for Shawn, who ordered him to bathe, change into clean clothes, and stop sleeping in a cupboard.
• Shawn lay down and summoned his system.

Shawn used his Faith to draw rewards from the lottery system, strengthened his Avis spell and Dark Magic talent, and discovered he could transform golden birds into electrified playing cards. The next morning, he received his Hogwarts acceptance letter and prepared to visit Diagon Alley and Gringotts.

• Shawn spent 10,000 Faith on a ten-pull and gained Skill Points, Talent Points, spells, and Magic Scale.
• Shawn used his points to raise Avis to Level 5 and Dark Magic to 8, then cast Avis wandlessly and silently, transforming golden birds into electrified cards.
• Shawn noticed that Level 2 Faith had risen by one point and suspected Kreacher had contributed it.
• Kreacher secretly cleaned the house through the night while punishing himself for disobeying Shawn.
• An owl delivered Shawn's Hogwarts acceptance letter, and he decided he would rather be sorted into Slytherin than Gryffindor.
• Kreacher served Shawn breakfast, and Shawn planned to buy clothes in Diagon Alley and check his inheritance at Gringotts.

Shawn discovered that the locket Regulus had left with Kreacher was a Horcrux, then used his system to absorb its evil soul and gain new magical abilities. After telling Kreacher to claim that Regulus destroyed it, Shawn headed to Diagon Alley to withdraw money and prepare to renovate the Black family home.

• Shawn praised Kreacher’s cleaning, then ordered him to eat and stop punishing himself.
• After questioning Kreacher, Shawn obtained Regulus’s locket and resisted the temptations of Voldemort’s Horcrux.
• Shawn’s system absorbed the Horcrux, increasing his magic and granting him water element affinity, Avada Kedavra, and Parseltongue.
• Shawn told Kreacher that the locket’s evil presence was destroyed and instructed him to say that Regulus had destroyed it.
• Shawn asked Kreacher to clean key rooms in the Black family home before they traveled by Apparition to the Leaky Cauldron.
• Old Tom recognized Kreacher accompanying Shawn and hinted to the pub’s patrons that the Black heir would soon cause trouble for those who had taken advantage of his family.

Shawn and Kreacher visited Gringotts so Shawn could withdraw money from the Black family vault, where they discovered a vast fortune and a chest full of magical contracts. Shawn left with a few thousand Galleons packed away and learned that the Black family owned numerous businesses and held a Hogwarts School Governor seat.

• Shawn and Kreacher entered Diagon Alley and arrived at Gringotts, where Kreacher introduced Shawn as the Black family heir seeking access to Vault 666.
• An elderly goblin expressed regret that the Black family had another heir, and Griphook escorted Shawn and Kreacher through the underground passages by minecart.
• Griphook opened the vault, revealing a mountain of Galleons, magical goods, and an ebony chest; Kreacher estimated the vault held at least two to three hundred thousand Galleons.
• Shawn told Kreacher to pack a few thousand Galleons for pocket money, and Kreacher loaded them into an enchanted pouch.
• Shawn inspected the contracts in the chest and found records of Black family investments, business shares, covenants with Pure-blood families, and a Hogwarts School Governor seat.

Shawn recovered Black family wealth and confronted Draco Malfoy at Madam Malkin's, where he revealed his identity and demonstrated controlled wandless magic. A system quest then tasked him with stopping the Dark Lord from stealing the Philosopher's Stone, though Shawn planned to wait until he was stronger.

• Shawn sorted the Black family's contracts, took several protective heirlooms from the vault, and went shopping with Kreacher.
• At Madam Malkin's, Shawn ignored Draco Malfoy until Draco provoked him, and Shawn used controlled silent Wandless Magic to frighten him.
• Hagrid and Harry entered the shop, and Hagrid praised Shawn's spellcasting while Harry watched in awe.
• Shawn received a quest to prevent the Dark Lord possessing Quirrell from stealing the Philosopher's Stone, but decided to delay acting until he had grown stronger.
• Draco befriended Harry, then learned Shawn was his Black cousin and hurried away to tell his parents; Harry began doubting his own abilities.

Shawn bought a wand from Ollivander, renovated the Black house, and taught Kreacher to cook Chinese food. Aurors arrived to search for Regulus, but Dumbledore intervened and they withdrew, leaving Shawn aware of his vulnerability and indebted to Dumbledore.

• Shawn visited Ollivander, destroyed one wand while testing it, and found a match in a lightning-struck peach wood wand with a thunderbird tail-feather core.
• Shawn shopped with Kreacher, refurbished the Black house, and taught him to prepare Chinese dishes.
• Kreacher alerted Shawn that Aurors were probing the house’s protective enchantments, and Shawn refused to lower them without a search warrant.
• Scrimgeour ordered the Aurors to attack the barrier, but Dumbledore’s Phoenix Patronus told them Regulus was dead and promised an explanation at the Ministry.
• Scrimgeour withdrew the Aurors, and Shawn realized he needed to become stronger and now owed Dumbledore another favor.

Shawn struggled to learn standard spells but quickly mastered three dark spells, then refused Narcissa’s invitation to Malfoy Manor while he continued practicing magic. The Malfoys recognized his power and debated how to handle his claim to the family businesses and the Pure-blood Association.

• Shawn failed to cast Petrificus Totalus, accidentally killed a lab mouse with lightning magic, and searched the Black family library for better spell guidance.
• Shawn successfully learned Corrosive Mist, Transfiguration Torture, and Blade Throat-Seal, then practiced them on a dummy and confirmed they had reached level one.
• Shawn found no useful lightning spells in the library books and wondered whether he would eventually have to invent his own.
• Kreacher delivered Narcissa’s invitation to dinner at Malfoy Manor, but Shawn refused to visit and told Kreacher to reply that he was busy studying.
• Draco eagerly asked about Shawn, and Lucius urged him to work hard and build a good relationship with his cousin at Hogwarts.
• Lucius told Narcissa that Shawn’s business interests could threaten the Pure-blood Association, while Narcissa decided to write and advise Shawn to keep his head down.

Shawn ended his London performances, invested in the Muggle world, and continued preparing for school while struggling to control the lightning element in his magic. The chapter left him practicing spells when Kreacher reported that Dumbledore had arrived to visit.

• Shawn ended his show in Trafalgar Square and Apparated away with Kreacher while Ministry officials decided not to charge him.
• Hermione collected Shawn’s playing cards as her father promised to complete a deck for her before school.
• Shawn gave Albert a million pounds and company information, instructing him to establish Card Throne and invest in the listed businesses.
• Shawn used Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself as Albert and went with Kreacher to Knockturn Alley to conduct an important secret transaction.
• Shawn studied and practiced for more than ten days but found that his lightning-infused spells damaged objects when he used nonoffensive charms.
• Kreacher told Shawn that Headmaster Dumbledore had arrived and was waiting in the square.

Shawn buried Regulus with Dumbledore and revealed that Regulus had destroyed one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. After Dumbledore helped clear Regulus’s name, Shawn focused on studying magic and growing stronger.

• Dumbledore brought Regulus’s coffin to Grimmauld Place, and Shawn asked him to preside over the burial.
• Shawn showed Dumbledore the remains of Slytherin’s Locket and revealed that he knew Voldemort had survived through Horcruxes.
• Shawn and Kreacher buried Regulus in the Black family cemetery, and Dumbledore gave Shawn the fake locket to keep as a memento.
• Dumbledore vouched for Regulus, leading the Ministry to withdraw his arrest warrant and the Daily Prophet to report his return as a hero.
• Shawn ignored inquiries from pure-blood families and trained magic in the underground room, checking his progress in the system.

Shawn prepared for his first day at Hogwarts while pursuing plans to build his influence and gain faith value. After receiving a letter from Grindelwald under the pseudonym Rudiger Peller, he accepted a mission to obtain Grindelwald's Army and began corresponding with him.

• Shawn reviewed his magical abilities, questioned why Dark Magic had not corrupted him, and outlined plans to gain influence and eventually control the Wizarding World.
• Kreacher delivered a letter from Rudiger Peller, whose praise and questions led Shawn to suspect the sender was Grindelwald.
• The system assigned Shawn a mission to hoodwink Grindelwald and obtain his army, and Shawn wrote a reply before asking Kreacher to buy a sturdy owl.
• On September 1, Shawn told Kreacher to manage his affairs and fund Albert, then agreed that Kreacher could join him at Hogwarts.
• Shawn packed his supplies, including enchanted playing cards and Felix Felicis, prepared a gift for a professor, and set off for King's Cross Station.

Shawn traveled to Hogwarts on the Express, where he reunited with his cousin Draco and met the Malfoys before sharing a compartment with Draco. As the train departed, Draco went to look for Harry, while Shawn stayed behind, anticipating their familiar rivalry.

• Shawn arrived at King's Cross with Kreacher, then passed through the barrier to platform nine and three-quarters.
• Draco introduced Shawn to Lucius and Narcissa, who gave him warm clothes and pastries for the journey.
• Shawn levitated Draco's trunk with an effortless nonverbal spell, impressing Narcissa and Lucius.
• On the train, Shawn settled into an empty compartment with Draco and silenced Draco's chatter by telling him to shut up.
• Goyle and Crabbe joined the compartment, and after the train departed Draco left with them to find Harry while Shawn stayed behind.

On the Hogwarts Express, Shawn defended Hermione from Slytherin students who insulted her and challenged him, then fought them off with powerful magic and alchemical defenses. The brawl was still underway as Harry, Draco, and Ron watched, with Harry asking whether they should help Shawn.

• Hermione recognized Shawn as her favorite illusionist, and he performed card tricks for her.
• Marcus and other Slytherin students mocked Shawn and Hermione, prompting Shawn to challenge them to a duel.
• Shawn struck the students with a flock of explosive, card-like golden birds, knocking Marcus unconscious and injuring the others.
• The Slytherin students counterattacked, but Shawn deflected their spells and fought back with his wand and defensive brooch.
• Draco and Harry watched Shawn battle the crowd while Ron argued with Draco, and Harry wondered if they should help.

Shawn defeated a group of Slytherin students with powerful Avis spells from alchemical cards, but Montague and other older students challenged him to a duel for Slytherin's honor. With his equipment ruined and outnumbered, Shawn drew rewards and gained a level 5 Water Prison spell, leaving him ready to face the challenge.

• Shawn used five alchemical cards to unleash a stronger swarm of Avis spells, driving off most of the Slytherin students and injuring several others.
• Hermione and Draco congratulated Shawn, but Hermione warned that the older students would return after noticing his tools were ruined.
• Montague led a group of older Slytherins in challenging Shawn to a duel, claiming his earlier victory relied on alchemical tools.
• Shawn accepted the challenge and secretly used his accumulated faith value for four level 1 draws, gaining two talent points, level 3 Incendio, and a level 3 Disillusionment Charm.
• Shawn made a level 2 draw and received level 5 Water Prison, then raised his gaze with renewed confidence.

Shawn defeated Montague and the Slytherin students with a water-and-lightning attack, then accepted Alice Fawley’s apology and friendship. Alice invited him to Slytherin, while Shawn agreed to rely on her help.

• Shawn summoned a water python from the lake, broke through the Slytherins’ shared shield with an electric shock, and trapped them in water prisons.
• Shawn released the defeated students, called for the prefects to clean up, and drank a restorative potion after exhausting his magic.
• Students crowded Shawn’s compartment to recruit him for their Houses, but he drove them away with a golden bird conjured through silent Wandless Magic.
• Penelope renewed her invitation for Shawn to join Ravenclaw before leaving, while Alice Fawley stayed to apologize for her family’s role in taking the Black family’s assets.
• Shawn accepted Alice’s apology and friendship, and Alice invited him to join Slytherin so he could help restore its ethos.

Shawn stopped Draco from insulting Hermione, advised Hermione to join Ravenclaw, and forced Ron out of their compartment after criticizing his advice to Harry. As the students arrived at Hogwarts, a stern witch appeared and ordered Shawn to come with her because of the fight on the train.

• Shawn cut Draco’s cheek with a playing card and warned him not to call Hermione a Mudblood again.
• Shawn suggested Hermione join Ravenclaw, lent her annotated charm books, and told Harry that students chose what kind of people they became.
• Shawn criticized Ron’s ignorance and used magic to float him out of the compartment, then told Harry to decide his house during the Sorting Ceremony.
• Shawn and Draco changed into their uniforms, left the train, and gathered with the first years at Hogwarts.
• A stern witch appeared before Shawn and ordered him to come with her because of his fighting on the train.

After Shawn Black fought older students on the Hogwarts train, McGonagall took him to Dumbledore and the school governors debated whether to expel him. Shawn gave Dumbledore a note that secured an end to the debate, then left with him for the Sorting Ceremony, where students wondered whether he would be expelled.

• McGonagall took Shawn to the Headmaster's Office while Hermione and Draco went to Hogwarts by boat.
• The governors argued over Shawn's punishment, with some opposing his admission and others supporting detention.
• Shawn handed Dumbledore a note, and Dumbledore ended the governors' debate by leaving any punishment to Shawn's future head of house.
• The governors departed, and Shawn told Dumbledore he wanted to join Slytherin before promising to share definite information from the note later.
• Dumbledore took Shawn to the Great Hall with Fawkes, while students discussed whether Shawn would be expelled.

Harry worried about Shawn’s absence until Shawn arrived with Dumbledore and was sorted into Slytherin after threatening the Sorting Hat with a magical water orb. At the feast, Shawn shared Chinese food with Draco, and Alice approached to ask about it.

• Harry was sorted into Gryffindor and reflected that Shawn was his role model, while Ron dismissed Shawn as someone who might have been expelled.
• Dumbledore and Shawn appeared in a burst of flames, and the Great Hall cheered as Shawn went to be sorted.
• Shawn refused to open his mind to the Sorting Hat, summoned a water orb, and threatened to shock and wash it until it sorted him into Slytherin.
• Draco celebrated Shawn’s arrival, and Dumbledore welcomed the students before beginning the feast.
• Shawn ate Chinese food made by his house-elf, shared a plate with Draco, and then Alice asked to sit with him and wanted to know what he was eating.

Shawn told Alice he had studied magic for only a month, prompting her to rush off and tell her grandfather. After the feast, the first-years arrived in the Slytherin Common Room, where Snape ordered them to choose an unofficial prefect by fighting.

• Alice explained that the Pure-blood Association was controlled by families that supported pure-blood supremacy and warned Shawn that he should avoid provoking them for now.
• Shawn revealed his brief magical training, stunning Alice with his talent and leading her to hurry away to inform her grandfather.
• Voldemort told Quirrell that Regulus had never betrayed him and asked for a chance to meet Shawn.
• Dumbledore led the students in singing the school song, and Alice escorted the Slytherin first-years to their common room.
• Snape announced that the first-years would choose an unofficial prefect by fighting, and older students gathered to watch.

Shawn used a photograph to make Snape appoint him Slytherin’s Chief, then asserted control by punishing students who challenged him. In the dormitory, he challenged Draco’s pure-blood beliefs and left him questioning his family’s identity and the Dark Lord’s heritage.

• Shawn demanded the right to challenge Slytherin’s older prefects, but Snape tried to give him detention instead.
• Shawn showed Snape a photograph, and Snape appointed him Slytherin’s Chief while canceling the confrontation with the prefects.
• Shawn announced a mandatory morning assembly and used magic to hang Marcus Flint and several other students from the common-room lamps.
• Shawn explained to Draco that wizarding families claiming pure-blood status had mixed ancestry, and that Voldemort was a half-blood.
• Shawn told Draco that pure-blood supremacy had no future and that strength would always rule.

Grindelwald admired Shawn’s letter and began preparing to support him and revive his followers. At Hogwarts, Shawn gathered Slytherin students early and announced that his magic had recovered, leaving them braced for what he would do next.

• Abernathy reported that former allies and their descendants were willing to join Grindelwald, while Vita stayed away to prepare a surprise.
• Grindelwald read Shawn’s letter, praised his insight and leadership, and wrote him a reply.
• Grindelwald ordered Abernathy to deliver the letter, find Shawn a phoenix before Christmas, and gather information on lightning magic, Muggle society, and Britain’s wizarding world.
• Shawn woke Draco and the other boys by dousing them with electrically charged water, then brewed tea while waiting for the Slytherins to assemble.
• Alice worried that not everyone would attend, but Shawn said his magic had recovered, silencing the gathered students.

Shawn imposed strict rules on Slytherin, using magic to force students to attend and suppressing those who resisted. Most students rallied behind him, including Draco, while the chapter ended with Shawn ordering three dissenting prefects to follow him or risk losing their positions.

• Shawn used water snakes and Water Prison to drive absent students from their dormitories and stop them from attacking him.
• Shawn announced rules requiring elegant conduct, daily study sessions, weekend spell lessons, and an end to blood-based discrimination.
• Alice and Draco publicly supported Shawn, prompting many younger students to join them while Pansy tried to stop Draco.
• Shawn saw that his [Conquer Hogwarts (Stage One)] quest had reached 95% and warned dissenters that he would punish anyone who broke his rules.
• Shawn led the prefects away, then confronted Gloria Nott, Montague, and a fourth-year Shadow Prefect for refusing to follow.

Shawn’s new discipline at Slytherin drew attention, while he brushed off political threats and handled Snape’s summons on his own terms. He left Snape’s office with a potion and headed to a Transfiguration lesson shared with Gryffindor.

• The Slytherins followed Shawn’s new routines at breakfast, while Harry and Hermione discussed Shawn’s influence and Hermione lent Harry a book from Shawn’s family collection.
• Alice told Shawn that her grandfather had persuaded eight governors to hold back, and Shawn said he would soon be beyond the pure-blood families’ reach.
• Shawn magically sealed and burned dozens of Howlers sent to him before Marcus announced that Snape wanted to see him.
• Shawn entered Snape’s office, proposed trading unflattering photos of Harry for Felix Felicis, and defended his leadership while Snape threatened him with expulsion.
• Shawn took a bottle of invigorating potion from Snape’s shelves and left; Draco and the others joined him on the way to Transfiguration.

Shawn attended Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration lesson, where he transformed a matchstick into a replica of the Sword of Gryffindor and impressed her with his talent. After class, he followed McGonagall to her office, hoping to ask questions and perhaps gain something useful.

• Shawn shoved Draco and two other boys off a moving staircase, then used a Levitation Charm to land them safely on the third floor.
• Shawn joined Harry in the Transfiguration classroom, where Draco excitedly described their adventures and Ron and Seamus arrived late and lost Gryffindor points.
• Professor McGonagall demonstrated Transfiguration, explained its principles, and asked the students to change matchsticks into silver needles.
• After Ron mocked Shawn, Shawn transformed his matchstick into a dazzling replica of the Sword of Gryffindor, earning ten points for Slytherin and McGonagall’s praise.
• Shawn coached Harry and Draco in Transfiguration, then followed McGonagall to her office after class.