Chapter Summaries

Shawn fought Awen’s enormous Human Beast War Soldier army at Ilvermorny while the Thunderbirds battered the Hurricane Barrier overhead. As Shawn’s battle shook Mount Greylock and threatened the school and nearby town, Awen held back and waited for him to reveal his remaining plans.

• Awen revealed that he had surrounded Shawn with Human Beast War Soldiers and suicide attackers, making magical teleportation too dangerous, while a water-type Legendary Wizard remained hidden nearby.
• After healing the Thunderbird, Shawn changed into his Hunting Attire, summoned Kunikuzushi as the Seven-String Thunder Harp, and faced Awen.
• Awen retreated as his varied Human Beast War Soldiers charged, and Shawn and his Playing Card formation unleashed a storm of spells against them.
• Shawn’s silver Yinglong Patronus and the battle’s shock waves shook Mount Greylock and collapsed part of Ilvermorny’s rear mountain wall, forcing Fontana and the professors to defend the school.
• Awen strengthened the Hurricane Barrier against the Thunderbirds’ lightning and watched Shawn fight, while Bose Yidong searched for reinforcements and found none.
• Residents in the town below watched the summit erupt in purple light, heard Shawn’s melody, and feared that the world was ending.

Alice prepared to sacrifice herself to aid Shawn, but his voice reassured her that he was safe. As Shawn battled the Double Serpent Society at Mount Greylock, Awen prepared to unleash the Coiled Serpent Cross while Soya struggled against Dumbledore in England.

• Alice knelt inside a magic array and prepared to stab herself with a dagger to help Shawn if he fell into danger.
• Shawn contacted Alice in her mind, told her he was safe, and she cleared the array and Apparated away.
• Shawn transformed into a white Yinglong and tore through the waves and Human Beast War Soldiers, while Poseidon pursued him and Awen realized Shawn was using the battle to exhaust their forces.
• Awen tried to summon reinforcements, but Edward did not respond and Soya was occupied fighting Dumbledore and a Wizard Legion at Hogsmeade.
• Awen ordered Poseidon to keep Shawn trapped for half a minute while he activated the Coiled Serpent Cross.

Awen and Poseidon unleashed the Double Serpent Cross’s devastating attack on Shawn, seemingly destroying him and much of Ilvermorny. The chapter ended with Awen and Poseidon searching the crater and asking whether Shawn was dead.

• Poseidon used a blue Wish-Power Collector to trap Shawn in seawater and lock down space.
• Awen sacrificed his surviving soldiers and poured his own magic and life force into the Double Serpent Cross pendant, summoning a monstrous two-headed serpent.
• Shawn tried to escape the seawater cage and raised several defenses, but the Twin Serpents’ energy attack engulfed him and blasted a huge pit into Mount Greylock.
• The attack badly damaged Ilvermorny, and Fontana realized that the four House Sorting Statues had shattered.
• Awen and Poseidon searched for Shawn, uncertain whether he had survived.

After surviving Awen’s attack at Ilvermorny by escaping through a Vanishing Cabinet, Shawn led the victorious forces back to England and honored the fallen. As the Double Serpent Society held back rather than counterattack, Shawn realized they still intended to stake everything on the Life-and-Death Arena.

• Awen reassured Poseidon that the Life-and-Death Arena might still give them a way to kill Shawn.
• Shawn’s allies won the battle overall, destroying the Scourers’ source of Obscurus troops and striking Double Serpent Society supporters in France, while England’s forces retreated as enemy reinforcements arrived.
• Shawn escaped Awen’s Serpent Coiling Cross through a Vanishing Cabinet that he had prepared in advance, though the attack destroyed one of the pair.
• Shawn built a cemetery for the fallen wizards, oversaw their burial, compensated their families, and spent three days and nights paying his respects.
• Percy told Shawn the Double Serpent Society had not counterattacked and seemed to be restraining its forces, leading Shawn to conclude they still wanted the Life-and-Death Arena.

Edward prepared to confront Soya while weighing his need to keep the Double Serpent Society’s factions in check. In England, a jubilant celebration filled Hogsmeade, where Harry, Draco, Neville, and Gais toured the city before crowds gathered at the Throne Palace to see Shawn Black.

• Edward ordered Joseph to take a priest’s post in Lotte Town, then decided he could not break with Soya because of Awen and the others.
• England celebrated its victory with purple decorations, free food and drinks, and crowds honoring the Wizarding Army and Wizarding Police.
• Draco led Harry through Hogsmeade while Narcissa and Sirius worried about the boys’ closeness.
• Neville showed his recovered parents around Hogsmeade, while Gais Fontana toured the city with her grandfather.
• Crowds passed the Throne Palace, where Shawn Black stood on a dais as soldiers, officials, war heroes, and bereaved families gathered for the ceremony.

Shawn addressed the celebrants, reminding them that England’s prosperity had been hard-won, then withdrew from public life after the three-day Celebration. He inspected the restored Underground City and discovered a rippling gateway that the familiar unicorn emerged from.

• Shawn watched the Celebration and France’s surrender ceremony proceed courteously, as England had already achieved its strategic goals.
• Shawn gave a brief speech urging the wizards to remember the war and work together to make wizards great again.
• The Celebration lasted three days, and Shawn disappeared afterward, leaving Harry unable to ask the Chief for help treating his godfather.
• Shawn explored the restored Underground City, where repaired magical arrays had revived its infrastructure and illuminated its tunnels.
• Shawn entered the cavern at the city’s heart and saw a rippling archway, from which the familiar Spiral Horn unicorn poked its head.

Shawn entered Helga Hufflepuff’s hidden realm and found her tomb, where a message preserved in her bones recounted the Founders’ later fates and directed him to the Chamber of Secrets. The message ended with Hufflepuff’s wish that he treat all life with kindness.

• Shawn followed a unicorn through an ocher archway into a lush realm filled with wildlife and a herd of unicorns.
• The unicorn led Shawn to a cabin marked with Hufflepuff’s crest, where he found Helga Hufflepuff’s Crystal Coffin and a portrait of her.
• Shawn searched the cabin and found no clues, then took out Slytherin’s Snakewood Wand beside the coffin.
• Ocher light formed a badger, and Helga’s recorded message addressed Shawn as a successor and told him not to speak.
• Helga recalled that Salazar had sought godhood, Rowena had died after plotting against her daughter, and Godric had been killed by his own antics.
• Helga told Shawn to open the Chamber of Secrets and asked him to treat all life with kindness.

Shawn listened to Helga's final message and learned how her efforts to protect Hogwarts and pursue power led her into the war against the Double Serpent Society. After leaving the Secret Realm, he Apparated to the Chamber of Secrets to investigate the key Helga had hidden there.

• Helga stored Salazar Slytherin's records and wand in the Chamber of Secrets, then studied his research to develop her own methods of gathering faith and advancing toward the divine realm.
• As the war worsened, Helga built the Underground City and brought fantastic beasts, including unicorns, to the Forbidden Forest.
• Loki betrayed Odin and his allies, and Odin died; Salazar asked Helga for help against the Double Serpent Society.
• Helga joined the final battle, drove back the Double Serpent Society, and died after sealing Asgard and hiding its key in Slytherin's stone statue.
• Shawn reflected on Helga, Salazar, and Loki, then left the Secret Realm and Apparated to the Chamber of Secrets.

Barty Crouch Sr. inspected the immense arena being built for the coming Legendary Life-and-Death match, while Voldemort secretly assessed whether it could trap a Legendary Wizard. Barty Crouch Jr. returned to Hogwarts in disguise after visiting the site with Voldemort.

• Barty Crouch Sr. inspected the construction of the Quidditch stadium and the arena on the Hebrides, where England and the Double Serpent Society were combining resources.
• Barty Crouch Sr. sensed a resentful gaze, while Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr. watched the construction site from beyond the Anti-Apparition Jinx.
• Voldemort assessed the arena's strength and ordered Barty Crouch Jr. to return to Hogwarts without compromising the next stage of their plan.
• Barty Crouch Jr. Disapparated to the Forbidden Forest, drank Polyjuice Potion, and changed into a freckled young wizard in Gryffindor uniform.
• Barty Crouch Jr. slipped into the returning Hogwarts crowd and heard students discussing the competition and Shawn's projection screen.

Shawn discovered Slytherin's hidden chamber and claimed the weapons and books left there, then stocked the chamber with a legacy for future generations. By February, Harry and Draco were practicing underwater for the Five-Wizard Tournament's second task, hoping the Chief would attend.

• Shawn used the Snakewood Wand to open the passage inside Slytherin's statue and found a chamber containing two books, a note, a metal wand, and a spear.
• Shawn identified the spear as Odin's Gungnir and the transforming metal wand as Thor's Mjolnir, then took both weapons.
• Shawn learned that Helga Hufflepuff had written the books on gathering faith and reaching the Divine Realm, while the note warned readers to beware Loki's descendants.
• Shawn left copies of his magical research, charms, alchemy instructions, and Galleons in the chamber alongside the original books as a legacy for future generations.
• In February, Harry and Draco surfaced from underwater training in the Black Lake, and Draco reminded Harry that the Chief had promised to attend the second task.
• Harry cast a Warming Charm on Draco, while Draco privately doubted Harry's hopes for the Chief's plans.

Harry and Draco discussed the next task before Hermione sent them to the Headmaster, while Shawn gathered Grindelwald's Army and the Northern European Pure Land Society in Asgard to reopen its Divine Kingdom. After Shawn activated the altar, the basin began collapsing in a catastrophic upheaval, leaving the gathered wizards in danger.

• Krum passed Harry and Draco with a hostile look, and Draco warned Harry that Krum resented them over Hermione.
• Hermione told Harry and Draco that the Headmaster wanted to question them about the next task, so they hurried to his office.
• Shawn gathered Grindelwald's Army and the Northern European Pure Land Society at Asgard to reactivate the Divine Kingdom and consolidate his authority.
• Shawn placed the Spear of Eternity and Helga Hufflepuff's Crystal Skull in the altar, and Purple Shadow set its claw on the final recess.
• The altar's activation shook the frozen basin, opening fissures and unleashing avalanches and flying ice shards while the wizards struggled to escape in the Anti-Magic Zone.

Shawn and the wizards escaped the avalanche as Asgard rose into the sky, revealing the ruined Divine Kingdom and its intact golden palace. The island vanished behind a protective barrier, and Shawn summoned everyone up to explore the newly revealed realm.

• Shawn ordered the wizards onto the Rainbow Bridge as the ice plain rose and Grindelwald carried members of his Army to safety in his animagus form.
• Asgard emerged as a floating island, revealing its ruined settlements, damaged statues, and intact golden palace.
• Grindelwald claimed a ruined palace for himself and Albus, while Purple Shadow patrolled the island.
• A protective barrier enveloped Asgard, and the island vanished from the view of the wizards below.
• Shawn called everyone up the Rainbow Bridge, and Vita led the Acolytes and Pure Land Society members toward the island.
• The rising island exposed ruined homes and paths on the surrounding peaks, while seawater poured into the sinkhole below.

Shawn explored the floating island’s Golden Temple and discovered a powerful energy orb whose origins traced back to an alchemical treasure found at Mount Kailash. After searching Odin and Slytherin’s hidden laboratory, he emerged to find a crowd of wizards gathered below the palace.

• Shawn entered the Golden Temple, but Purple Shadow teleported him to the chamber housing the island’s enormous energy orb.
• Shawn failed to examine the orb with his Detection Charms and suspected it came from an ancient ruin coveted by the Double Serpent Society.
• Shawn climbed the palace’s winding stairs and found a concealed laboratory that still smelled of blood.
• Shawn read the book Northern Europe Divine Kingdom and learned that Búri had obtained an alchemical treasure at Mount Kailash that might be the orb’s source.
• Shawn left the palace and saw a dense crowd of wizards gathered in the square below.

Grindelwald publicly acknowledged his failures and named Shawn Black as his worthy successor, then relinquished leadership of Grindelwald's Army. He left for the Second Great Peak in high spirits while Shawn stood ready to lead the Acolytes.

• The Pure Land Society hailed Shawn as God King as Grindelwald arrived before the gathered Acolytes.
• Vinda Rosier and Abernathy asked Grindelwald to give his followers his final instructions.
• Grindelwald recalled the movement's defeat and admitted that his narrow-mindedness, arrogance, and cruelty had made him an unworthy leader.
• Grindelwald declared Shawn his rightful successor and praised him as the leader who could usher in a new era.
• Grindelwald reassured the Acolytes that he would keep fighting beside them, then walked toward the Second Great Peak to inspect his future home.

Shawn ordered the Acolytes to rebuild the Floating Island as their headquarters, while the Second Task of the Five-Wizard Tournament began at Hogwarts. He appeared before the cheering crowd to officially open the task, leaving Helena still waiting for a chance to confront him about Ilvermorny.

• Shawn named the Floating Island the Acolytes’ headquarters and ordered them to establish camps beneath the Giant Peaks and rebuild it.
• By mid-February, crowds gathered at the Black Lake for the Second Task of the Five-Wizard Tournament.
• Percy gave Harry a single-use Magical Energy Storage Card containing a powerful Healing Spell as a reward from the Chief.
• Helena pressed Percy for a meeting with Shawn, hoping to address the destruction of Ilvermorny, while Fontana urged her to stay cautious.
• Shawn arrived atop a Water Python, and the crowd cheered as he officially began the Second Task.

After the Champions began the Second Task, Shawn created a giant Lake Mirror that showed the underwater competition to the spectators. The Champions explored the Black Lake, with Harry and Draco advancing together and Krum searching the depths in shark form for something other than his hostage.

• Krum transformed his upper body into a shark, while the other Champions cast Bubble-Head Charms before entering the Black Lake.
• The spectators complained that they could not see the underwater task, and Bagman asked Dumbledore to address the problem.
• Shawn raised an enormous ring-shaped Lake Mirror with six live views of the Champions beneath the lake.
• Gais swam freely without her Bubble-Head Charm, Pheobe explored cautiously, and Boris swam comfortably through the cold water.
• Krum charged through the depths as Grindylows followed him, while Harry and Draco continued together, with Draco leading by wandlight.

Harry and Draco searched the Black Lake, fought off its creatures, and followed Moaning Myrtle’s directions to the merpeople’s village. They found the Champions’ hostages bound to a statue, and Harry and Draco realized the person each loved most was among them.

• Draco and Harry hid as Krum fought grindylows near the unconscious Pheobe, whom a Water Python carried away.
• Harry and Draco fought off grindylows and lake fish, then declined to use gillyweed.
• Moaning Myrtle directed the boys toward the merpeople’s village.
• Harry and Draco followed the merpeople’s song past their homes and into the village square.
• The boys saw six people bound to the Mermaid Statue and realized they were the Champions’ loved ones.

Shawn used a ring of Lake Mirrors to broadcast the underwater task as Harry, Draco, and Krum reached the merpeople’s village and found their hostages. Harry and Draco freed Cho Chang and Astoria, and Harry chose to risk staying behind to rescue Gabrielle as well.

• Shawn used faith and Projection Orb principles to create a ring of Lake Mirrors, while considering how to free himself from the system’s limits on faith.
• Krum ambushed Pheobe and knocked her unconscious, then Shawn’s water python carried her ashore as Maxime and Karkaroff argued over Krum’s tactics.
• Harry and Draco reached the merpeople’s village first and found six hostages, including Cho Chang, Astoria, Hermione, and Gabrielle.
• Krum burst out in his shark transformation, knocked Harry and Draco into the mud, then freed Hermione and carried her toward the surface.
• Harry and Draco used Severing Charms to free Cho Chang and Astoria, but Harry headed toward Gabrielle, and Draco tried to hurry him away.

Harry and Draco fought through the merpeople and grindylows to rescue their hostages, with Hermione and Krum returning to help them. After everyone surfaced, the judges began deliberating over the task’s scores while Shawn remained suspicious that nothing had gone wrong.

• Draco and Harry freed Gabrielle and carried her, Cho Chang, and Astoria through the attacking merpeople, suffering injuries as grindylows joined the struggle.
• After Krum surfaced with Hermione, Hermione jumped back into the lake to help Harry and Draco, and Krum followed her.
• Harry and Draco emerged with all three hostages after Krum and Hermione helped them, drawing cheers from the spectators.
• Pheobe thanked Draco for saving Gabrielle and kissed him, then kissed Harry after Draco credited him; Madam Pomfrey gave Harry a foul Cold Potion.
• Gais and Boris surfaced with their hostages, and Dumbledore spoke with the Merpeople Leader before the judges withdrew to debate their scores.
• Shawn dismissed the Lake Mirror and vanished from above the Black Lake, leaving Helena stamping her feet on the Floating Platform.

Barty Crouch Jr. continued impersonating Ron Weasley while gathering information, and Shawn strengthened the defenses around the Veil of Death. Death spoke to Shawn about his past-life memories and promised not to aid the Double Serpent Society, leaving Shawn uncertain about Death’s motives.

• Barty Crouch Jr. rejected the Twins’ invitation to Hogsmeade and overheard Fudge arguing with Ilvermorny’s head about meeting Shawn over compensation.
• Shawn went to the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Mysteries to reinforce the Hall of Death against the Double Serpent Society.
• Shawn created a stronger magic array around the Veil of Death, adding first-tier faith to its defenses.
• Death questioned Shawn about his fear of death and revealed an interest in how Shawn had retained memories from his previous life.
• Death promised not to cooperate with the Double Serpent Society or interfere with Shawn, and Shawn left the Hall of Death wary of trusting him.