Chapter Summaries

Shawn discussed joining a national Quidditch team with Professor McGonagall, who recommended Ireland after England’s coach rejected him. He reassured McGonagall that he would act carefully, then left intending to punish the coach and replace him.

• McGonagall told Shawn that England’s coach had rejected him and suggested he join Ireland instead.
• Shawn left the team decision to McGonagall but said he would find a way to replace England’s coach.
• McGonagall voiced support for Shawn’s efforts to reform wizarding society while warning him not to be ruthless.
• Shawn reassured McGonagall that she and Dumbledore could keep watch over him, and she said she would support him if his methods were reasonable.
• After leaving McGonagall, Shawn decided to punish the England coach for favoritism and embezzlement.

Diagon Alley grew safer and busier under the Patrol Team, while Mad-Eye failed to uncover evidence against it or enter Pentagram headquarters. The chapter ended with Lucius reviewing a substantial budget shortfall as the organization’s expenses exceeded Ministry subsidies.

• Diagon Alley’s Patrol Team, led by Daniel, patrolled Knockturn Alley and earned the trust of local wizards.
• Mad-Eye watched the patrol, frustrated that its members behaved professionally and that former Order of the Phoenix allies were wavering.
• Daniel received an urgent message and Apparated to Pentagram headquarters, with Mad-Eye following him.
• Pentagram guards stopped Mad-Eye from entering the restricted premises, and he Disapparated without a fight.
• Daniel entered the headquarters, where an assistant told Lucius that wages and allowances far exceeded the Ministry’s subsidies.

Lucius assigned Daniel to investigate the England National Team Head Coach as part of Shawn’s effort to prepare for taking control of the Ministry of Magic. Meanwhile, Shawn developed a Crescent Harp in the Room of Requirement, but its seventh string kept breaking apart.

• Lucius approved another loan from the pure-blood fund and reviewed a cooperative report from the Rowle Family, though he remained wary of their intentions.
• Lucius gave Daniel a dossier on the England National Team Head Coach and ordered him to gather evidence of the man’s crimes for a public trial.
• Lucius reflected on the changing balance of power, worried about the Malfoy family’s strained ties with Wenge, and hoped Shawn would hold another Loyalty Test Ceremony.
• After Potions Class, Shawn went to the Room of Requirement and spent two hours working through his spell designs.
• Shawn formed a Crescent Harp with six elaborate magical strings, but its seventh, orange string repeatedly snapped and vanished.

Shawn practiced his Thunder Harp charm, studied alchemy matrices with Old Percy’s help, and unlocked new pages in the Book of Abraham. The book’s changing illustrations appeared to be prophecies, and Shawn suspected its unopened final pages concerned events after 2000 and might involve him.

• Shawn practiced controlling six spells at once with his Thunder Harp, while the conflicting Finite Incantatem remained unfinished.
• Old Percy told Shawn that his previous Philosopher’s Stone method was wrong after testing the alchemical texts Shawn had given him.
• Shawn studied alchemy matrices overnight and found ideas for adding Finite Incantatem to his Thunder Harp charm.
• Shawn opened the Book of Abraham to its seventh page, where the illustration changed and an aged voice recited a commentary.
• Shawn found new illustrations depicting historical power struggles and concluded that they were prophecies.
• Shawn examined the second set of pages and wondered whether the inaccessible final set foretold events after 2000 involving him.

Shawn wrote to Grindelwald about prophecies and asked about an Ouroboros coiled around a cross. He erased Wormtail’s memories of his imprisonment and brought him to Dumbledore, who recognized the rat and reassured Shawn about Sirius.

• Shawn wrote Grindelwald about his doubts regarding prophecy, his electives, and the Ouroboros symbol.
• Shawn sent the letter to Austria with Purple Shadow after learning that Dumbledore was at school.
• Shawn used a Memory Charm to erase Wormtail’s memories of how long he had been imprisoned and how Shawn had taken him from Percy.
• Shawn brought Wormtail in the Fiendfyre birdcage to Dumbledore’s office, where Snape warned him that Dumbledore was looking for someone.
• Dumbledore recognized Wormtail and told Shawn that Sirius would change his attitude once he learned what Shawn had done.

Shawn negotiated with Dumbledore over teaching Harry and securing access to the Philosopher’s Stone, while Dumbledore urged him to help prepare Harry for Voldemort’s return. The conversation ended with Shawn raising Herpo the Foul, revealing that he knew more than Dumbledore wanted him involved in.

• Shawn dismissed Dumbledore’s attempt to reconcile him with Sirius and refused to teach Harry at first, suggesting Sirius take responsibility as Harry’s godfather.
• Dumbledore explained that he believed Harry was destined to defeat Voldemort and said Rodolphus Lestrange had returned to England intending to harm him.
• Shawn asked whether a prophecy concerned him and negotiated permission to study the Philosopher’s Stone or meet Nicolas Flamel.
• Dumbledore agreed to let Shawn study the Stone for a few days after he cooperated with Snape, while planning to destroy it afterward.
• Dumbledore asked Shawn to have Tom work with the International Confederation of Wizards’ Aurors against Voldemort, and Shawn responded by asking what Dumbledore knew about Herpo the Foul.

Shawn learned from Dumbledore that the Double Serpent Society had shaped both the Muggle and wizarding worlds for centuries and had appeared in Albania. Back in his Dormitory, Shawn read Grindelwald’s letter, which asked whether he would fight if Muggles experimented on wizards in the future.

• Shawn pressed Dumbledore to share what he knew about the hidden forces influencing the wizarding world.
• Dumbledore explained that the Double Serpent Society had infiltrated powerful groups and helped cause the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Dumbledore ended the conversation before explaining his own past conflict with the Society, and Shawn left Wormtail with him while asking him to clear Sirius’s name.
• Shawn returned to the Dormitory, where Purple Shadow and Grindelwald’s letter were waiting.
• Shawn opened the letter and read Grindelwald’s question about whether he would fight back if Muggles experimented on wizards.

Shawn read Grindelwald’s explanation of prophecy and concluded that his involvement had turned a hopeless future into an uncertain one. He returned to translating the Book of Abraham to find out whether he appeared in its final illustration, leaving other duties and classes unattended.

• Shawn worried that Muggle governments or the World Controllers might have secretly researched wizards and resolved to find someone to investigate their progress.
• Shawn read Pailier Rouge’s letter, which explained prophecy through time magic and fate traces and described precise prophecies as unavoidable but ambiguous ones as open to choice.
• Shawn concluded that Grindelwald had foreseen a hopeless outcome and that his own actions had made the future ambiguous, prompting the old wizards to support him.
• Shawn resisted acting on his curiosity, retrieved the Book of Abraham, and returned to the Room of Requirement to translate it and search for himself in its seventh-page illustration.
• Shawn skipped classes and postponed contacting Tom and visiting Snape, while his subordinates sent messages asking where he had gone.

Shawn coordinated with Snape on plans involving Harry, collected potions for the Fourth Floor, and continued his alchemy research while the Pentagram prepared a Wizarding World reform campaign. The Quidditch tournament reached its final, with Gryffindor advancing to face Slytherin after a peculiar chain of Seeker defeats.

• Shawn asked Copper Ladle about the house-elves’ hot pot experiments, discovered they could not tolerate chili, and decided Cho Chang and Cedric might help make it.
• Shawn visited Snape, received magic-melding, fire-protection, and advanced Polyjuice potions, and discussed the Fourth Floor and the progress of the Alchemy Machine Tool.
• Shawn pursued alchemy matrices and planned to use them to mass-produce Alchemy Cards and resolve a problem with his Thunder Harp Compound Charms.
• The Pentagram began open and covert investigations to prepare evidence for Shawn’s planned public trial and reform campaign after the school year.
• Harry, Cho Chang, and Cedric each lost a Golden Snitch race to one another, and Gryffindor advanced to face Slytherin for the Quidditch Cup on net scoring margin.

Slytherin won the Quidditch Cup after Harry caught the Golden Snitch and Draco caught him before he hit the ground. Shawn returned to Hogwarts and found Harry, Draco, and Hermione preparing to follow Snape toward the Philosopher’s Stone.

• Shawn led Slytherin’s attack as the team built a 150-to-10 lead over Gryffindor.
• Harry beat Draco to the Golden Snitch by kicking off his broom, and Draco caught him as he fell.
• Lee Jordan announced Slytherin as the Quidditch Cup winners, while the crowd cheered for Shawn.
• Shawn spotted Harry, Draco, and Hermione secretly following Snape and flew back to Hogwarts ahead of them.
• Harry told Draco and Hermione he would stop Snape from taking the Philosopher’s Stone and bringing Voldemort back to life.

Harry, Draco, and Hermione entered the Fourth-Floor Restricted Area to investigate their suspicions about Snape and swiftly passed its first challenges. They fought their way across the Wizard's Chess board, where the battle grew more dangerous as dust obscured their vision.

• Harry used a Music Box to put Fluffy to sleep, and the trio moved the dog’s paw aside to reveal the Trapdoor.
• Harry, Draco, and Hermione passed the Devil's Snare and flying-key challenges, then found the third chamber empty.
• At the Wizard's Chess board, Hermione tested a Black Pawn and saw it destroy a White Pawn, while the trio chose to fight the pieces rather than play chess.
• Harry attacked with powerful Disarming Charms as Draco shielded the trio and Hermione slowed their pursuers with Impediment Jinxes.
• Harry and Draco struck at mounted pieces, and as dust filled the chamber, Draco heard another rush of air from the left and looked alarmed.

Harry, Draco, and Hermione defeated the enchanted chess pieces and reached Snape’s fiery challenge, where Harry went ahead alone to confront him. Draco told Hermione that Sirius was alive and that Harry’s suspicion of Snape might stem from Sirius’s feud with him.

• Draco used an Alchemy Card to destroy the chessboard’s king and queen, and the three friends finished off the remaining pieces.
• Hermione criticized Harry for charging into the chess pieces’ encirclement before leading the group to Snape’s challenge.
• Hermione solved Snape’s potion riddle and identified the only Fireproof Potion, which could protect just one person.
• Harry drank the potion and entered the flames alone after Hermione gave him an Alchemy Card for protection.
• Hermione asked Draco why Harry suspected Snape, and Draco explained that Sirius was alive and had been in contact with Harry.

Harry discovered that Lockhart was trying to take the Philosopher’s Stone and fought him, while Dumbledore, Snape, and Shawn watched from concealment. Harry used Hermione’s enchanted playing card to freeze Lockhart, whose unusual spell left Dumbledore and Snape questioning Shawn.

• Harry reached the mirror room and found Lockhart, who admitted he wanted the Philosopher’s Stone and tempted Harry with the promise of restoring his parents.
• Harry rejected Lockhart’s offer and accused him of trying to bring Voldemort back, then fought him with spells.
• Dumbledore, Snape, and Shawn watched in hiding as Lockhart overpowered Harry, and Snape prepared to intervene in case Harry was hurt.
• Harry activated Hermione’s enchanted playing card, and its gray-white radiance overcame Lockhart’s shields and left him frozen.
• Dumbledore and Snape questioned Shawn about the card’s strange spell, and Shawn called it a variant of Petrificus Totalus.

Shawn explained that his modified Petrification Charm might anesthetize a soul and help treat the Longbottoms and Astoria, prompting Dumbledore and Snape to consider the idea. After Snape warned him that he would choose Harry over Shawn if forced, Shawn visited Vita and helped her prepare to leave Hogwarts, inviting her to stay at his home; Dumbledore watched them depart for Hogsmeade.

• Dumbledore recognized that Shawn's modified Petrification Charm could petrify a soul's outer layer and warned him to use it cautiously.
• Shawn proposed using the spell as an anesthetic to treat the Longbottoms and Astoria, and Snape felt hopeful about his research.
• Harry recovered from the fight, pocketed the playing card, and examined himself in the Mirror of Erised.
• Snape told Shawn that Sirius could not be trusted and that he would put Harry's life before Shawn's if forced to choose.
• Shawn found Vita packing to leave Hogwarts because the curse would target her if she stayed, and he invited her to live at his house.
• Shawn helped Vita pack and shared a meal with her before they left Hogwarts together for Hogsmeade, watched by Dumbledore.

Shawn finally called Vita “Mother” before she returned to Austria, while Hogwarts dealt with Lockhart’s arrest and Snape taking over Defense Against the Dark Arts. At the end-of-term feast, Dumbledore announced that Slytherin had won the House Cup.

• At the entrance to Hogsmeade, Shawn caught Vita’s hand and called her “Mother,” then asked her to stay; she embraced him but returned to Austria after promising to visit.
• After Lockhart was arrested, Snape became the substitute Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and he repeatedly deducted points from Harry until Harry’s 150-point award was gone.
• Draco spread the story of the trio exposing Lockhart, while Shawn helped Snape keep Slytherin students in line during the final month of school.
• Shawn’s Throne organization continued expanding publicly, and many graduating members of its Outer Circle prepared to join the Pentagram or the Ministry of Magic.
• At the end-of-term feast, Dumbledore announced that Slytherin had won the House Cup.

After the House Cup celebration, Shawn returned home and recruited former Head Auror John Carrow-er to train the Pentagram forces. He then went to Malfoy Manor to address the Ministry’s public trial and plans to distribute goods in the United States.

• The Slytherins celebrated winning the House Cup as Dumbledore announced the result.
• At Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, parents praised the patrol team, while Shawn watched them pass before returning home with Purple Shadow.
• Shawn visited the underground passage beneath the Forbidden Forest through his basilisk and Purple Shadow’s ongoing search, then Apparated to Hogsmeade.
• Shawn met John Carrow-er at a secluded cottage and persuaded the former elite Auror to train the Pentagram forces.
• Shawn returned by Apparition and went to Malfoy Manor to handle the Ministry’s public trial and plans for distributing goods in the United States.

Shawn reviewed the Public Trial Assembly list and the Rowle Family’s transfer of its Hogwarts board seat, while ordering a deeper investigation into the American wizarding world. After returning home, he examined the Philosopher’s Stone that Dumbledore had lent him, which he was expected to return to Nicolas Flamel.

• Shawn asked Lucius why Umbridge was under investigation, and Lucius explained her connections to Fudge, Barty Crouch, and foreign forces.
• Shawn ordered Lucius to proceed with Umbridge’s trial using fewer charges because he intended to keep her useful.
• Shawn read the Rowle Family’s report on the United States, noted its strict secrecy laws and political tensions, and ordered a deeper investigation into the Wandering People.
• Shawn signed the contract transferring the Rowle Family’s seat on the Hogwarts board of governors and told Lucius to watch the family closely.
• Shawn returned home, took out the Philosopher’s Stone, and began examining the stone Dumbledore had lent him on Nicolas Flamel’s behalf.

Shawn’s preparations culminated in the Ministry announcing a public trial to expose corrupt officials, stirring reactions in England and abroad. In Albania, Theodore considered using the trials to redeem his father, but Tom stopped him and warned that someone else was watching the temple expedition.

• Shawn assigned Alice to take over part of Lucius’s authority and put Hermione in charge of investigating missing children.
• The Daily Prophet announced that the Ministry would hold its first Public Trial Assembly on July 20, drawing public excitement and panic among officials.
• Wizards in the Albanian Forest excavated a Greek-style temple while the International Aurors, Fawley’s team, Tom, and Theodore maintained separate camps.
• After learning the public trial’s purpose from Shawn, Theodore tried to go capture Old Nott, but Tom stopped him and promised to keep his father alive.
• Tom sensed an unseen observer near the excavation and vowed not to let them claim the expedition’s rewards.

Wizards gathered in London for a public trial that Fudge presented as a way to clean up the Ministry, while Bones challenged his motives. Shawn Black arrived to a roaring crowd, leaving Dumbledore watching with both concern and relief as Bones questioned whether he was comfortable with Shawn’s growing influence.

• Wizards from England and abroad filled the expanded trial venue, where Wizengamot members and Ministry officials prepared to hear the cases.
• Dumbledore and Fudge arrived together, exchanged polite greetings, and took seats on either side of the vacant middle seat.
• Bones challenged Fudge over the selective trials and asked when the Ministry would pursue Dark Wizards with records in the New Pentagram.
• Fudge said the trial was meant to put the Ministry in order, while Dumbledore asked where the Patrol Team was and approved of its security arrangements.
• Shawn Black arrived in a white-and-purple outfit to the cheers of the crowd, escorted by purple-clad wizards who held back his admirers.
• Fudge and Pierce went to greet Shawn while Dumbledore watched from his seat, and Bones asked whether he was comfortable letting Shawn grow so powerful.

Shawn rallied the crowd at the public trial with promises of a fairer Ministry, earning overwhelming support as Dumbledore and Bones watched. The trial resumed with Peter Pettigrew named as the first accused, shocking the audience and Snape.

• Dumbledore told Bones he believed the wizarding world needed upheaval, and Bones agreed to support him.
• Shawn calmed the crowd and promised transparent governance, blood-status equality, more jobs, and action against misconduct.
• Shawn fired a spell into the clouds, and the crowd joined him before returning to their seats.
• Shawn declined the central seat and sat beside Fudge as Bones opened the public trial.
• Bones announced Peter Pettigrew as the first accused, and members of the Order of the Phoenix and Snape reacted in shock.