Recaps

McGonagall gave Shawn her Transfiguration notes and cautioned him about the rules he had imposed on Slytherin. At Charms, Shawn mastered the Levitation Charm and nudged Draco into asking Hermione for help, then told him to teach Goyle and Crabbe.

• McGonagall gave Shawn her student Transfiguration notes and warned him not to use corporal punishment while guiding Slytherins.
• Shawn noticed Draco, Harry, and Hermione sitting together at the Ravenclaw table, then studied McGonagall's notes over lunch.
• In Flitwick's Charms lesson, Shawn asked questions that earned him points and cast the Levitation Charm without system assistance.
• Shawn switched seats with Draco and pushed him to ask Hermione for help with the Levitation Charm.
• Hermione taught Draco the correct incantation, and Draco successfully cast the spell after ten minutes.
• Shawn told Draco to thank Hermione and then teach Goyle and Crabbe, dampening Draco's excitement.

After advising Hermione and Draco, Shawn established a disciplined evening study system in Slytherin. Snape confronted Dumbledore over Shawn’s influence and the possibility that Voldemort had returned, while Dumbledore also learned of unusual activity among Grindelwald’s followers and prepared to go to Nurmengard.

• Shawn told Hermione that she relied too much on memorization and needed to think more deeply about what she studied.
• Shawn persuaded Draco that leading Goyle and Crabbe meant taking responsibility for making them stronger, and Hermione decided to return some books to the library.
• Harry chose to keep studying rather than play Wizard’s Chess, and Shawn oversaw an organized evening study session in the Slytherin common room.
• Snape accused Dumbledore of letting Shawn turn Slytherin into an army, but Dumbledore defended guiding him and asked Snape to protect Harry.
• Snape asked whether Voldemort was truly dead, and Dumbledore said he felt Tom had returned and revealed a letter reporting unusual activity among Grindelwald’s Army remnants.
• Dumbledore said he would watch Shawn and hoped he could find the Horcrux, then asked Fawkes to take him to Nurmengard.

Dumbledore visited Grindelwald in Nurmengard, where Grindelwald promised not to cause trouble after their blood pact broke. At Hogwarts, Shawn completed the first stage of his quest to conquer the school and received a new task to win over students from the other houses.

• Dumbledore passed the Acolytes and met Grindelwald in a room decorated like Hogwarts’s Headmaster’s Office.
• Dumbledore asked what Grindelwald intended to do, and Grindelwald promised the changed future meant he would cause no trouble.
• Dumbledore left the broken blood pact necklace with Grindelwald and promised to visit more often.
• Shawn used water and electricity on three Slytherin students until the quest to conquer Hogwarts’s first stage was completed.
• Shawn received a new quest to win the hearts of students from the other three houses and arranged for the injured students to be taken to their dormitories.
• Shawn encouraged Draco to teach Goyle and Crabbe, then showed Draco a specially made alchemical playing card.

Shawn continued strengthening his magic and enforcing strict study habits among the Slytherins, while Draco stayed up teaching Goyle and Crabbe practical spells. Harry learned from Fred and George that a beast guarded something in the third-floor forbidden area and went to find Hermione, while Ron grew jealous of Shawn and felt hurt by Harry.

• Shawn promised Draco an alchemical playing card if he taught Goyle and Crabbe ten practical spells, then spent two hours infusing a card with Water Prison.
• Draco taught Goyle and Crabbe the Levitation Charm until three in the morning and realized the lessons had improved his own spellwork.
• Shawn abandoned his plan to sneak to the Room of Requirement and spent the night reading Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration notes.
• After a shock woke Draco at six thirty, he led Goyle and Crabbe to the common-room study area and boasted about their spellwork to other students.
• Shawn led the Slytherins to breakfast, where they politely greeted Filch and drew attention for their orderly study routine.
• Fred and George told Harry that a beast guarded something in the third-floor forbidden area, prompting him to hurry off to find Hermione as Ron watched Shawn enviously.

Shawn faced growing resistance from Slytherin families but kept the students under his control, then discovered that Quirrell was pressuring him for private lessons. He left determined to use the threat to his advantage and visit the Room of Requirement that night.

• Alice told Shawn that many Slytherins were intimidated by him and were waiting for influential pure-bloods to retaliate, while Shawn insisted his methods would eventually win them over.
• More than a dozen Slytherins, including Draco, received Howlers from their families condemning their actions, but Shawn ordered the house to obey him and warned against plotting behind his back.
• Shawn checked his Conquer Hogwarts quest, then studied Transfiguration in Quirrell's class and recommended using the Reductor Curse against a Red Cap.
• After class, Quirrell asked Shawn to attend private lessons and insisted he come to his office before next Friday, citing Shawn's father as an old schoolmate.
• Shawn recognized Quirrell's request as a threat from Voldemort and decided to visit the Room of Requirement that night.

Shawn found and absorbed Ravenclaw's Diadem in the Room of Requirement, gaining magical energy and an incomplete Dark Mark. After checking that the Slytherins had followed Alice's orders, he returned to his dormitory and found a phoenix feather and a letter from Pailier Rouge on his desk.

• Shawn searched the Room of Requirement and used Felix Felicis to sense Ravenclaw's Diadem among the junk.
• Shawn absorbed the Diadem's soul fragment, increasing his Killing Curse proficiency, magical energy, and other abilities while gaining an incomplete Dark Mark.
• Shawn returned to the Common Room, revealed himself at eight o'clock, and praised the Slytherins for following Alice's supervision.
• Shawn summoned Kreacher for a late-night meal and found a phoenix feather and a note, along with a letter signed by Pailier Rouge.

Shawn discovered that his wand could filter lightning from ordinary spells and began playing along with Grindelwald’s letter while plotting his next moves. After teasing Draco and his companions, he tested Ravenclaw’s Diadem and drafted a new plan to defeat Quirrell and expose Voldemort.

• Shawn read Pailier Rouge’s letter, which explained his affinity for lightning and offered advice about meditation, Lightning Charms, and finding a suitable wand.
• Shawn tested his Lightning-Struck Peach Wood wand, confirmed it could filter lightning from a Scourgify spell, and named it Kunikuzushi.
• Shawn read Dumbledore’s note and stored Fawkes’s phoenix feather, then wrote Grindelwald a scathing critique of the First Wizarding War and sent it by owl.
• Shawn ate Kreacher’s midnight snack while teasing Draco and the other two students, who had been practicing Petrificus Totalus.
• Shawn tried Ravenclaw’s Diadem without sensing any increase in wisdom and decided to seek out the Grey Lady later.
• Shawn began drafting a plan to defeat Quirrell publicly, expose Voldemort, and pursue the objectives involving Voldemort’s escaping soul fragment and the incomplete dark mark.

Shawn searched Ravenclaw Tower for the Grey Lady, meditated, and then attended Potions with the first-year Slytherins. Snape singled out Harry and Shawn during class, and Shawn decided he needed to fulfill his promise to provide Snape with embarrassing photos of Harry.

• Shawn failed to find the Grey Lady and asked Hermione to keep an eye out before returning to meditate.
• Draco called Shawn to lunch and said he and Pansy had stopped spending time together.
• Harry caught up with Shawn and the Slytherins on their way to Potions, while Ron complained that Harry was befriending Shawn.
• Snape quizzed Harry on potion ingredients, then questioned Shawn and took a point from Slytherin after Shawn gave an extra explanation.
• Shawn resolved to provide Snape with the promised embarrassing photos of Harry so Snape would stop targeting him.

Shawn found Snape’s annotated Potions textbook and learned two of Snape’s spells, then arranged for Harry to rescue Neville during flying class. After the rescue, Professor McGonagall called both Harry and Shawn away.

• After Potions class, Shawn searched the storage cupboards and found the Half-Blood Prince’s textbook, which he put into the Ring.
• Shawn learned Sectumsempra and Levicorpus, then taught Draco Levicorpus.
• During flying class, Neville’s broomstick shot out of control and left him hanging from the Castle’s eaves.
• At Shawn’s urging, Harry flew up and caught Neville as he fell, then brought him safely back to the Lawn.
• Professor McGonagall summoned Harry and Shawn, catching Shawn off guard.

Shawn persuaded Professor McGonagall to consider using his punishments and question-based discipline with Gryffindor, then manipulated Draco into challenging Harry and the Weasley brothers to a midnight duel. Draco accepted Shawn’s enchanted card for protection, while Shawn set his preparations in motion.

• McGonagall introduced Harry to Oliver Wood as Gryffindor’s new Seeker, then asked Shawn whether his Slytherin discipline methods could work for Gryffindor.
• Shawn demonstrated electrotherapy on McGonagall and proposed the Question-Sea Tactic as a milder alternative, leaving her to consider the methods.
• Shawn told Draco that Harry had become Hogwarts’s youngest Seeker and coaxed him into preparing to challenge Harry and his friends.
• Draco learned Levicorpus and practiced it on Goyle while Shawn prepared a camera, a note for McGonagall, and an enchanted Special Card.
• After Draco challenged Harry and the Weasley brothers to a midnight duel in the Trophy Room, Shawn lent him the card and sent Kreacher away with a note and instructions.

Draco and Harry’s after-curfew duel ended with both boys hanging upside down and Professor McGonagall catching the group. Draco returned to the dormitory thrilled that he had won, while Shawn urged him to be more composed.

• Draco waited in the Trophy Room for Harry and his friends, then mocked Ron until Ron charged at him and Draco suspended him with Levicorpus.
• Harry challenged Draco to a duel and cast Expelliarmus, while Draco answered with Levicorpus; Shawn secretly interfered so Harry was suspended too.
• Draco realized he did not know the countercurse, leaving Harry and Ron hanging until Professor McGonagall arrived with the twins.
• McGonagall took points from Gryffindor and Slytherin and assigned the boys a month of detention for roaming after curfew and dueling.
• Draco returned to the dormitory boasting about his victory, and Shawn told him to stop celebrating a minor win.

Shawn recruited Percy to help bring Gryffindor into order and struck an unspoken bargain with Snape for potions without discussing Draco’s punishment. Alice proposed turning Shawn’s alchemical cards and Magic Throne into the symbols of a new organization.

• Draco boasted to Slytherin students that he had defeated Harry and used a card Shawn gave him to overwhelm Gryffindors.
• McGonagall introduced Percy to Shawn as his assistant for organizing Gryffindor, and they agreed to work together.
• Shawn visited Snape, traded embarrassing photographs of Harry for potions, and left with healing supplies and Perception Potions.
• Snape quietly gazed at a photograph of Lily after Shawn left his office.
• Alice suggested founding an organization with Shawn as its king and Sequence Playing Cards as symbols of members’ strength and status.

Shawn established the secret Magic Throne organization and appointed Alice Fawley as its Earl of Spades after she pledged fanatical loyalty to him. He then went to Herbology and planned to seek the Grey Lady and turn down Quirrell’s invitation.

• Shawn named his organization the Magic Throne and asked Alice what ideals she held and whether she understood his.
• Alice explained that she would follow Shawn’s wishes, then rallied Slytherin students to declare their loyalty to him.
• Shawn gave Alice the Earl of Spades card and ordered her to keep the organization secret while discreetly finding candidates.
• At Herbology, Shawn observed Professor Sprout and the Hufflepuffs, whose lack of ambition left him unsure how to win their support.
• Shawn spent the afternoon wandering Hogwarts, hoping to find the Grey Lady and Quirrell, whom he intended to refuse.

Shawn confronted Quirrell near the Owlery, but Voldemort stopped Quirrell from attacking and planned to lure Shawn with notes on Fiendfyre. Shawn then advised Hermione to focus on mastering a few spells and announced that Slytherin students would accompany him to improve Gryffindor’s discipline.

• Shawn found Quirrell near the Owlery and provoked him into drawing his wand.
• Voldemort warned Quirrell not to attract Dumbledore and Snape, then told him to offer Shawn notes on Fiendfyre.
• Hermione told Shawn she had mastered the charms in his spellbook, and Shawn urged her to specialize in a smaller set of spells.
• Snape took a point from Slytherin after Shawn’s Golden Birds struck the wall, and Hermione asked to attend Shawn’s tutoring session.
• Shawn gathered Slytherin students and announced he would choose ten of them to accompany him to Gryffindor to improve its discipline.

Shawn selected ten presentable, capable Slytherins to accompany him to Gryffindor and entrusted Montague with supervising evening study. At the Gryffindor Common Room, he faced a rowdy crowd plotting pranks and prepared to bring the students under control.

• Shawn defined true Slytherins as noble, disciplined, and ambitious, then chose ten students skilled in defensive and offensive magic while rejecting others for their appearance.
• Shawn left Montague in charge of evening study, and Theodore Nott resolved to become strong enough to earn a place at Shawn’s side, asking Draco to teach him spells.
• Shawn noticed that Theodore had become a level-three faith-value zealot and decided to speak with him later.
• Percy let Shawn and the ten Slytherins into the Gryffindor Common Room, where the students mocked Shawn and plotted pranks.
• Harry and Neville tried to support Shawn, but Shawn sent them aside and faced the unruly Gryffindors.

Shawn used his water magic and alchemical playing cards to defeat the Gryffindors who opposed his authority. After overpowering them, he prepared to announce Gryffindor’s new rules and asked whether anyone still objected.

• Victor asked Shawn for permission to fight, but Alice reprimanded him for speaking without the Chief’s approval.
• Shawn rose above the Gryffindors on a water throne and challenged them to submit to his authority.
• Kenneth Toller and more than a dozen Gryffindors refused, prompting Shawn to attack with three water pythons summoned from his playing cards.
• Alice led the Slytherins in a volley of spells, while Gryffindors joined the fight and two Slytherins were hit by surprise spells.
• Shawn transformed his throne and water magic into a giant lightning-charged python that shattered Kenneth’s shield and swept up the fighting Gryffindors.
• Shawn stood before the defeated students and asked who still refused to submit as he prepared to announce Gryffindor’s new rules.

Shawn forced the Gryffindors into a new study and discipline regime after dragging Ron and Seamus from hiding and punishing the students who had resisted. As Harry approved of Ron’s punishment, Shawn detected an evil soul and tested whether he could absorb Voldemort’s fragment from Harry’s scar.

• Ron and Seamus’s secret spell practice ended in an explosion, and Shawn ordered the Gryffindor prefects to report attendance, exposing the two boys as absentees.
• Shawn’s enchanted water dragged Ron and Seamus from their dormitory, and he had them hung from wall lamps while injured Gryffindors received potions and Ron’s brothers suffered electrotherapy in a Water Prison.
• Shawn announced mandatory study sessions, etiquette lessons, practice-question detentions, special punishment for serious offenses, and monthly duels between Gryffindor and Slytherin, with the losing house washing the winner’s socks and underpants.
• Alice petrified Trelawney for laughing during the announcement, while Shawn assigned Percy to supervise Gryffindor and keep records.
• Harry asked what Shawn would do with Ron and the others; Shawn said he would leave them hanging in disgrace overnight, then tested Harry’s scar and received a notification that an evil soul was present.
• In the mini theater, Draco reported that Slytherin had lost 170 points and rallied the Throne Members to earn back Five-Star Glory.

McGonagall learned from Dumbledore that Voldemort had returned and might be at Hogwarts, so she supported Shawn strengthening the students. In the Gryffindor Common Room, Shawn stopped Harry from investigating the forbidden corridor, then considered how to choose students for his sequence cards.

• McGonagall questioned Dumbledore about his absences, and he told her that Tom had returned and might be at Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore agreed in principle to Shawn improving the students’ ability to protect themselves, and McGonagall left prepared to give Shawn more authority.
• Shawn detected an evil soul entangled with Harry’s soul but stopped touching him after learning that absorbing it would harm Harry.
• Harry told Shawn about the Three-Headed Dog and a suspected Snape near the forbidden area, but Shawn warned him not to investigate.
• Shawn watched Slytherin students teach Gryffindors basic etiquette, then asked Alice to identify promising students for his sequence cards.

Shawn ended the Gryffindor students’ study session, but McGonagall appointed him Deputy Head of House to keep supervising their behavior. Back in Slytherin, Draco confessed he had refused to teach Theodore spells, while Shawn discovered Voldemort’s notebook contained a way to control Fiendfyre without first mastering Finite Incantatem.

• Alice assessed promising students from the other houses for Shawn, who urged her to consider younger students as well as older ones.
• After the Gryffindors celebrated their dismissal by returning to their unruly behavior, McGonagall rebuked them and granted Shawn authority as Gryffindor’s Deputy Head of House.
• Quirrell handed Shawn a notebook, and Shawn warned the young Slytherins not to underestimate him when Victor speculated about Shawn becoming Defense Against Dark Magic professor.
• Draco admitted he had refused to teach Theodore spells because he considered Theodore’s ideas dangerous, so Shawn sent him to fetch Theodore.
• Shawn read Voldemort’s notebook and found instructions for controlling Fiendfyre at its source; Draco then returned with Theodore Nott.

Shawn accepted Theodore's loyalty, gave him a copied Potions textbook, and reflected on the ruthlessness he believed greatness required. At Hogwarts, Gryffindor students continued their unusual training, while George and Fred plotted to counter Shawn's lightning magic before Harry headed to spell training with Draco and Theodore.

• Theodore declared his loyalty to Shawn, admitted he could not kill his father, and listed the potions he could brew.
• Shawn accepted Theodore's loyalty and gave him a duplicated textbook containing a Potions Master's annotations and dark magic.
• Shawn checked his faith points, reassured Draco, and read Voldemort's notebook until its unfinished revelations angered him.
• On Saturday, Gryffindor students studied and trained under Angelina's monitors while George and Fred arranged to buy materials to counter Shawn's lightning.
• Draco brought Theodore to Harry and invited him to Shawn's spell training, where Harry wondered why Hermione was absent.

Grindelwald reread Shawn Black’s letter criticizing his failures and outlining a strategy for bringing wizards into the Muggle world, then prepared a reply. When Dumbledore visited Nurmengard, he asked Grindelwald to promise he would stay imprisoned, and Grindelwald agreed on the condition that Dumbledore put his socks on him.

• Grindelwald read Shawn Black’s letter repeatedly, fuming at its insults while conceding that Shawn’s criticisms made sense.
• Grindelwald asked Abernathy about the search for phoenixes, and Abernathy admitted the Acolytes had struggled to catch them.
• Dumbledore arrived, and Grindelwald sent Abernathy away with a letter and charms for Shawn.
• Grindelwald offered Dumbledore sweets, and Dumbledore gave him a pair of warm woolen socks.
• Dumbledore asked Grindelwald to promise he would stay in Nurmengard, and Grindelwald agreed if Dumbledore put the socks on him.
• Dumbledore removed Grindelwald’s shoes and socks, then trembled and teared up at the sight of his wasted feet.

Grindelwald asked Dumbledore about adopting a son, and Dumbledore promised to stay with him through old age and death. Meanwhile, Shawn gained powerful magic and began teaching Hogwarts students, ending with them astonished by his level-five Disarming Charm.

• Grindelwald told Dumbledore a story about an elderly general who adopted a son and asked whether he should adopt one himself.
• Dumbledore promised to stay with Grindelwald through old age, sickness, and death, then left and sent notes to Babajide and Shawn.
• Shawn used three system draws to gain a skill point, raise his Disarming Charm to level five, and obtain the level-five Spirit-Absorbing Art.
• Shawn began his first spell lesson, explaining the roles of incantation, gesture, and emotion before choosing to teach the Disarming Charm.
• Shawn blasted a dummy with a red Disarming Charm, stunning the students, and Hermione asked why it was so powerful.

Shawn explained his five levels of spell proficiency by demonstrating increasingly powerful Disarming Charms, then left to meet Dumbledore after promising to show a level-six spell if ten students reached level four. He assigned Alice, Montague, Percy, and Hermione to help teach while the students began practicing.

• Shawn described levels one through three of the Disarming Charm and had Harry and Montague demonstrate their skill.
• Shawn demonstrated level-four and level-five Disarming Charms, blasting apart a dummy and punching a hole through the classroom wall.
• Ron declared that Shawn must have a weakness, angering the students around him until Shawn ordered everyone to form year-based groups.
• Hermione asked whether level-six spells existed, and Shawn promised a demonstration and mystery gifts if ten students reached level four.
• A Phoenix delivered Dumbledore's invitation to tea, and Shawn appointed Alice, Montague, Percy, and Hermione as helpers before leaving to meet him.

Shawn met with Dumbledore and countered the Headmaster’s attempts to probe and assert authority with a tea ceremony and sharp arguments. He defended his efforts to reform student behavior, leaving Dumbledore intrigued and comparing Shawn to people from his past.

• Shawn arrived at Dumbledore’s office, where Dumbledore offered him sweets and tested his character with pointed remarks.
• Shawn stopped Dumbledore from pouring too much drink, criticized the sweets, and prepared bitter tea for them both.
• Shawn used the tea ceremony to share his views on hardship and success, impressing Dumbledore with his composure and insight.
• Dumbledore asked why Shawn demanded propriety from Gryffindors, and Shawn argued that he was helping Hogwarts teach knowledge and build character.
• Shawn told Dumbledore that teaching restraint to Gryffindors was the Headmaster’s responsibility, while Dumbledore privately compared Shawn to Voldemort, Gellert, and his younger self.

Shawn kept the Ravenclaw's Diadem and planned to reveal at Christmas that Harry was a Horcrux, while studying Voldemort’s Fiendfyre notes. After learning Draco felt ashamed of wavering under pressure from his father, Shawn reassured him and decided to accelerate his plans to grow stronger.

• Shawn left Dumbledore’s office after promising a Christmas surprise, intending to tell him that Harry was a Horcrux rather than surrender the Diadem.
• Shawn studied Voldemort’s notes on Fiendfyre and Dread Serpent, then chased the Grey Lady but lost her when she passed through a wall.
• Shawn returned to the Slytherin Common Room and found Draco sitting distracted in their dormitory.
• Draco told Shawn that Lucius and other pure-blood parents were pressuring their children to distance themselves from Shawn, and he felt ashamed that Theodore had resisted more decisively.
• Shawn comforted Draco and said things would improve after Christmas, then left to speed up his plans and build his strength in the Forbidden Forest.