Chapter Summaries

Shawn uncovered India's Minister for Magic Howell's ties to the Double Serpent Society, but a Ministry clerk murdered Howell before he could reveal more. Shawn entered the Wizards' Conference hall with the bodies as the international delegates gathered according to their nations' influence.

• Shawn used Legilimency on Howell and learned that he was an Outer Circle member of the Double Serpent Society.
• Moss Kirk stabbed Howell to death, then died after an Obscurus detonated inside his heart.
• Kirk told Shawn that brute force would not defeat the Double Serpent Society and that he had to start with people's hearts.
• Shawn prepared stretchers for Howell and Kirk while Percy and Hermione kept Ministry employees away and guarded against further attacks.
• Shawn entered the conference hall, where delegates from countries of different strengths sat at three tables arranged by rank.

The International Confederation of Wizards began its session with the Russian-American dispute, but Shawn Black arrived carrying two covered stretchers as evidence for later agenda items. Alosha Yenosov demanded compensation from the United States, and Jarvis defied Candice Picquery by rejecting the demand.

• Babajide Akingbade opened the assembly and called on Russian Minister Alosha Yenosov to present her case against the United States.
• Shawn Black entered with Percy, Hermione, and two stretchers covered in white sheets, then said they were evidence for the second and third agenda items.
• Alosha accused the United States of conspiring against Russia's former Ministry of Magic and demanded compensation to help rebuild.
• Jarvis rose to reject Alosha's demand, and Candice Picquery ordered him to sit down.
• Jarvis refused to back down, declaring that Americans would never bow.

Jarvis disrupted the meeting before Shawn’s defensive enchantment subdued him, and Babajide Akingbade resumed the first agenda item: Russia’s demand for compensation from the United States. Candice refused to give up Ilvermorny’s snakewood when Alosha requested it, then realized Shawn and Alosha might be working together to obtain it.

• Candice signaled her Auror to subdue Jarvis, but Jarvis petrified the Auror and began attacking the other delegates.
• Shawn’s defensive enchantment struck Jarvis with lightning and dissolved his spell, after which the Purple-Robed Wizarding Police took him away.
• Babajide Akingbade briefly suspended the meeting, while Shawn instructed Barty to negotiate with Alosha and reassured Hermione that the corrupt people would soon be exposed.
• Candice offered Russia material aid worth one hundred thousand Galleons, but Alosha rejected the offer and demanded Ilvermorny’s snakewood for Koldovstoretz.
• Candice refused to give up the snakewood and realized Shawn might be working with Alosha to obtain it.

At the International Confederation of Wizards conference, England’s intervention eased the dispute between Russia and America, and the delegates turned to Herpo the Foul and the temple in Albania. After studying records linking Herpo to Pythia’s prophecies, Shawn became interested in the material on Patronuses and Dementors as a delegate opposed stationing troops at the temple.

• Candice said she needed to consult Ilvermorny’s Headmaster about returning the Snakewood Wand, and Alosha accepted while asking America to keep Russia informed.
• Alosha returned to her delegation to discuss cooperation with England and plans to recruit wandering werewolves.
• Babajide Akingbade announced that the conference would consider Herpo the Foul’s temple in Albania and the group behind the Imperius-controlled suicide attacks.
• Babajide privately worried to Dumbledore that the Double Serpent Society might have directed the American delegate, and Dumbledore said they would have to face the group soon.
• Shawn and the others read records describing Herpo’s origins, Pythia’s prophecies, and his Horcruxes, while Shawn focused on information about Patronuses and Dementors.
• A delegate from a small country stood and opposed stationing troops in Albania.

Japan, France, and representatives from smaller magical nations opposed deploying international Aurors against Herpo the Foul, arguing they could not spare their forces and that Dumbledore should handle the danger. After Babajide Akingbade defended the deployment, an Egyptian representative announced Egypt’s withdrawal from the second agenda item.

• Murakami Shio argued that Japan could not spare Aurors after losing thirty in the Confederation’s previous mobilization, and representatives from smaller countries backed his position.
• Morris Miles urged the Confederation to rely on Dumbledore rather than station Aurors at the Temple, drawing support from other delegates.
• Babajide Akingbade insisted that Herpo the Foul posed a danger to everyone and said Dumbledore had another threat to address under the third agenda item.
• An Egyptian representative declared that Egypt would withdraw from the second agenda item because Herpo’s disasters had never reached its soil.

At the International Confederation of Wizards conference, Barty argued against nations shirking their duty to send Aurors to Albania, then offered English troops and potions in exchange for alchemical materials. Many smaller Ministries eagerly accepted, opening markets for England and weakening the Confederation’s authority as Shawn and Dumbledore gathered information.

• Egypt withdrew from the proposal to station Aurors in Albania, prompting other Ministers to prepare excuses to do the same.
• Shawn suspected Egypt’s decision might relate to the Double Serpent Society and signaled Percy to investigate.
• At Shawn’s signal, Barty defended the Confederation’s authority while warning that nations’ refusals would undermine it.
• Barty offered to supply Aurors to understaffed Ministries in exchange for materials, promising to pay international prices and raise purchase prices by at least twenty percent for potions partners.
• Delegations from many smaller nations agreed to England’s offer, and Poland, Norway, Finland, and Austria voiced support for English merchants and potions.

Shawn and Barty secured support for England’s response to the garrison issue, allowing Babajide Akingbade to close the second agenda item and move the meeting on. The third agenda revealed that the Double Serpent Society had secretly shaped wizarding history for two thousand years, leaving the delegates to confront the possibility that even Grindelwald’s war had targeted the Society.

• Shawn’s intimidating gaze stopped Morris and Murakami Shio from challenging England’s claims, and Barty continued without further opposition.
• Babajide Akingbade ended the second agenda item and began the third, while Hermione prepared to present and Shawn told her he would support her.
• Babajide Akingbade described the Double Serpent Society’s use of the Imperius Curse against bounty hunters and its deep influence across wizarding history.
• The delegates read that the Society called itself the “World Controllers” and learned that Grindelwald may have waged war to destroy it.

At the International Confederation of Wizards conference, Babajide Akingbade revealed the Double Serpent Society’s hidden influence and its attacks, prompting delegates to fear infiltration and question whether they could defeat it. The chapter left the assembled ministers shaken by the claim that the Society might command at least three Legendary Wizards, while they looked to Dumbledore for reassurance.

• Elderly wizards read newly declassified documents about Grindelwald and grew suspicious that the Confederation intended to rehabilitate him.
• Alosha recognized the Double Serpent Society as an enemy of Russia, while Candice began to suspect the Society had influenced American policies and possibly sent Jarvis.
• Babajide Akingbade urged the delegates to unite against the Society, but his confirmation that it had disrupted the Five-Wizard Tournament and attacked Hogsmeade only increased their fear.
• Portugal's minister asked about the Society's agents, forces, and Legendary Wizards, and Babajide Akingbade said its elite forces were Obscurials and it might have at least three Legendary Wizards.
• The delegates erupted in alarm and turned toward Dumbledore, who calmly drank milk tea.

Hermione presented evidence that the Double Serpent Society abducted young wizards and cultivated Obscuruses in secret facilities, showing the delegates footage of its experiments and attacks. The audience was left shaken by the Society’s cruelty and the scale of its power.

• Dumbledore reassured the delegates that England had several legendary wizards and urged them to focus on containing the Double Serpent Society.
• Dumbledore introduced Hermione Granger and invited her to explain the Society’s crimes.
• Hermione presented records indicating that hundreds of young wizards disappeared each year and were abducted to develop Obscuruses.
• Hermione showed footage of the Society’s experiments in a facility beneath the Athens Ministry of Magic’s Department of Mysteries.
• Hermione presented footage of the Society’s attack on Hogsmeade and its Obscurus fighters intercepting a legendary spell with a mass self-detonation.

McGonagall and Hogwarts’ defenders prepared for an attack by Voldemort and the Double Serpent Society. The battle began with Hogwarts’ barrier holding against the attackers, while Voldemort demanded Harry Potter’s surrender.

• McGonagall and Flitwick discussed the secret defenses and worried about using Hogwarts as bait, while Snape warned that the enemy had arrived.
• Voldemort’s forces, including Obscuruses and Dark Wizards, swept across the Black Lake toward Hogwarts.
• McGonagall raised Hogwarts’ defensive barrier and animated the castle’s statues to defend its boundaries.
• McGonagall and Flitwick moved to calm the eager young wizards as defenders exchanged spells with the attacking forces.
• The barrier repelled the black masses, and Voldemort appeared at their head, claimed Dumbledore and Black were occupied, and demanded Harry Potter’s surrender.

Vinda Rosier and the Acolytes fought Voldemort’s forces at Hogwarts while Shawn and Hermione faced the Double Serpent Society at the international conference. The chapter ended as Soya claimed the Society had the right to attend, with Dumbledore standing to meet him.

• Vinda Rosier directed fifty Acolytes in coordinated spells that pierced Voldemort’s defenses and blasted him backward.
• The Acolytes charged Voldemort’s forces, while intense fighting also erupted in Hogsmeade and at the Ministry of Magic.
• Hermione urged the conference delegates to unite against the Double Serpent Society, but they remained too overwhelmed to respond.
• Tuka Tiwari rushed into the hall seeking Shawn’s help and landed beside his father Howell’s corpse after Shawn sent him flying away.
• Soya and the cloaked members of the Double Serpent Society entered the hall, and Dumbledore confronted Soya as he claimed the Society had a right to attend.

Soya and the Double Serpent Society disrupted the assembly by exposing their agents among the Ministry delegations, undermining the effort to unite the wizarding world against them. Soya then tried to recruit Shawn, leaving him wondering what hidden quality in himself had drawn their attention.

• Shawn recognized Soya as a powerful Legendary and stayed on guard as the Double Serpent Society entered the assembly.
• Soya claimed he could represent any Ministry and ordered infiltrators among the delegates to kneel, revealing the Society’s deep reach and sowing distrust.
• Dumbledore realized Soya’s display had sabotaged the assembly’s plan to coordinate against the Society without starting a battle.
• Soya claimed he had been friends with Shawn’s great-grandfather Sirius and implied that Shawn was destined to join him.
• Shawn rejected Soya’s claims and insulted the Society, but Soya offered him power and promised to fulfill his ambitions if he joined.
• Shawn concluded that the Society had targeted him from the start and wondered what was hidden within him.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald trapped Soya and the conference attendees with Fiendfyre and Purple Cages, but Soya revealed a hostage scheme involving girls who resembled Ariana Dumbledore. Soya then asked Shawn Black to meet privately, leaving Shawn considering his offer.

• Dumbledore warned Shawn not to trust the Double Serpent Society, then used Fiendfyre while Grindelwald helped contain the hall with Purple Cages.
• Grindelwald confronted Soya and identified the cloaked figures accompanying him as his trump card.
• Soya revealed young witches with obscurus marks who held daggers to their own hearts, and their resemblance to Ariana left Dumbledore devastated.
• Grindelwald tried to attack the false Arianas, but Dumbledore stopped him and pleaded with him not to act.
• Soya claimed he had arranged the meeting to speak with Shawn and offered to spare everyone else if Shawn would talk with him privately.

Shawn weighed Soya’s offer to reveal the Double Serpent Society’s secrets and help him become a god, but Old Fawley and Hermione urged him to reject it. After Hermione reminded him of the Society’s cruelty, Shawn steadied himself and summoned a powerful Yinglong Patronus, leaving his choice marked by renewed resolve.

• Shawn agreed to speak privately with Soya, but Old Fawley burst into the Administration Building and warned him against going with the Double Serpent Society.
• Soya identified Old Fawley as Quinoffi Fawley, a member of the Pure Land Society, and Fawley revealed that he belonged to Shawn’s maternal line and that his family held his mother’s legacy.
• Soya and Fawley argued over whether Shawn should join the Double Serpent Society or inherit the Pure Land Society’s magical legacy.
• Soya offered to answer Shawn’s questions, provide immense resources, and help him become a god, while Shawn struggled with the temptation.
• Hermione asked Shawn not to forget the Society’s cruelty, and Shawn took the playing card she held out and summoned a radiant Yinglong Patronus.

Shawn began advancing to the legendary realm during the battle, prompting Soya to abandon recruiting him and attack his cocoon. As Grindelwald and Dumbledore fought to protect Shawn and the others, Soya sent the young witches with Obscuruses into Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre.

• Shawn’s magical radiance surged, and Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Soya realized he was advancing to the legendary realm.
• Grindelwald warned Soya not to interfere, but Soya attacked Shawn’s cocoon with a torrent of earth and stone.
• Grindelwald countered Soya’s spell with a fiery beast while Dumbledore raised a waterspout barrier to shield the people behind him.
• The spells’ shock wave destroyed the meeting hall, and England Wizards Army forces surrounded the ruins as Carrow-er sent forty or fifty Werewolf Wizards to support the Ministry of Magic.
• Soya sent the young witches with Obscuruses into Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre, where they were killed as Grindelwald continued his attack.

Dumbledore rejuvenated and attacked Soya while two Human Beast War Soldiers engaged the defenders. Shawn’s Poker Arrays emerged from his cocoon and destroyed one soldier, but Soya remained determined to kill him; then Soya learned Voldemort had failed to capture the British Ministry of Magic.

• Dumbledore used the Elder Wand to rejuvenate himself and unleashed fire phoenixes at Soya.
• Soya ordered two Human Beast War Soldiers to hold off Dumbledore and attack Shawn, and the creatures broke through Grindelwald’s Fiendfyre.
• Shawn’s Poker Arrays appeared before his cocoon and blasted one Human Beast War Soldier into lifeless stone.
• Grindelwald mocked Soya and declared the Double Serpent Society doomed, while Soya insisted Shawn must die and his society would endure.
• Soya received a message that Voldemort had failed to capture the British Ministry of Magic, despite Soya’s plans to draw England’s forces away.

The Double Serpent Society’s plan to recruit Shawn and seize the Veil of Death had failed, and Soya unleashed a powerful Magic-Breaking Martial Art to try to kill him. While Dumbledore fought Stone Giants, Soya’s sword cut through Grindelwald’s defenses, leaving the duel unresolved.

• The Double Serpent Society’s failed plans to turn Shawn and seize the Veil of Death enraged Soya, who transformed after sacrificing the Human Beast War Soldier.
• Dumbledore protected the purple cocoon with an Anti-Apparition Jinx, while Grindelwald and the watching troops realized Shawn was inside it.
• Soya revealed that the Double Serpent Society had developed Magic-Breaking Martial Arts and vowed to kill Shawn, then sent Stone Giants after Dumbledore and charged Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald conjured a dark shield and sent Fiendfyre beasts at Soya, but Soya’s energy wings swallowed the flames and began to turn red.
• Soya’s snake-hilted sword sliced through Grindelwald’s dark shield and earthen barrier, startling Grindelwald with its power.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore tried to stop Soya from reaching Shawn’s cocoon, but Soya struck it with his sword before they could intervene. Shawn emerged after advancing to Legendary, repelled Soya’s blade, and declared that his schemes had failed, leaving Soya fearful of Shawn’s future strength.

• Dumbledore advised Grindelwald to use a Patronus-powered stone shield, but Grindelwald could not conjure a Patronus and raised irregular stone barriers instead.
• Soya leapt over the barriers and hurled his Snake-Handled Sword at Shawn’s Purple Light Cocoon as Dumbledore and Grindelwald prepared to save him.
• The Wizarding Army charged toward the battlefield, but the sword struck the cocoon before anyone could reach Shawn.
• Shawn emerged from the cocoon at Legendary and used his Lightning Long Halberd to knock Soya’s sword away.
• Shawn told Soya that his schemes had failed and said he would advance further to keep his promise to retrieve a subordinate’s lost love.
• Soya rejected Shawn’s claim and feared that Shawn’s solid foundation would make him a lasting threat to the Double Serpent Society.

Shawn survived Soya’s life-for-life attack and forced him to negotiate instead of continuing the battle. Soya proposed a six-month truce followed by a public fight to the death between three Legendaries from each side, and challenged Shawn to accept.

• Soya sacrificed his vitality to launch a deadly sword strike at Shawn, who met it with his halberd empowered by lightning and faith.
• The clash created a devastating blast that Dumbledore and Grindelwald shielded the surrounding army and delegates from.
• Shawn and Soya emerged battered in the sky, with Soya badly aged and his sword arm charred, while Shawn appeared more composed.
• Shawn taunted Soya and offered him the choice to leave or face them all, prompting Soya to argue that the Wizarding Association Conference had lost its purpose.
• Soya proposed that the Double Serpent Society withdraw at least five hundred senior Ministry spies and avoid obstructing Shawn for six months, then stage a three-on-three Legendary death match at the Quidditch World Cup in England.
• Soya challenged Shawn to accept the wager that would decide the future balance of power.

Shawn accepted Soya’s proposal for a duel to the death in six months, confident in his own strength and hidden plans. After the battle, he arranged a worldwide magic-show tour, directed Fudge to manage the Muggle response in London, and descended into the Ministry of Magic to speak with Tom.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald warned Shawn that Soya’s offer was a trap, but Shawn accepted the duel and Soya promised to send him a list of five hundred spies.
• Shawn told Dumbledore that he was confident after surviving Soya’s powerful final attack, then asked that the International Confederation of Wizards not block his twenty-show tour in early June.
• Grindelwald guessed that Shawn’s plan involved faith, but Shawn withheld details and sent the others to resume the Wizards’ Conference and reassure the gathered forces.
• Shawn took Fudge to the ruined Ministry building in central London and ordered him to explain the battle to the Muggle Prime Minister as a counterterrorism drill and invite him to the Wizarding World at Christmas.
• Shawn dismissed Fudge and descended into the Ministry of Magic to check on it and speak with Tom.