Chapter Summaries

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.

Shawn arrived at the Hall of Death and stopped Death from pulling Tom into the Realm of the Dead, but Tom still insisted on entering. Snape reminded Shawn of his promise to retrieve Lily’s soul and to resurrect Helena, leaving Shawn to consider what he owed them.

• Tom stepped into the Death Archway while McGonagall, Hermione, Flitwick, and Snape watched anxiously.
• Hermione used the last Miniature Card to restrain Tom, but skeletal hands emerged from the archway and overwhelmed the card’s magic.
• Shawn appeared, calmed the archway, and destroyed the withered hands, then tried to pull Tom back.
• Tom regained his senses but said he still wanted to explore the Realm of the Dead, citing information he had learned from the Snake God's memories.
• Snape reminded Shawn that he had promised to bring back Lily's soul and resurrect Helena.

After founding the Pan-Wizard Thunder God Empire, Shawn prepared to fulfill his promise and enter the Realm of the Dead with Tom, Snape, and Helena. He left Hermione and the others to lead the empire and departed through the veil, promising to return.

• Shawn promised Tom and Snape that he would take them to the Realm of the Dead after tying up loose ends.
• Hundreds of thousands of wizards gathered at Hogwarts as Dumbledore and Grindelwald crowned Shawn the first emperor of the Magic Empire.
• Hermione, Neville, Draco, and other core members persuaded Shawn to hold a grand coronation before his departure.
• At the Hall of Death, Shawn gave Hermione instructions to govern the empire and said goodbye to her, Neville, Draco, and Harry.
• Shawn enclosed Tom, Snape, and Helena in a bubble of magical energy and carried them through the veil of death, telling the others he would return.

As Dumbledore and Grindelwald learned of mysterious spatial folding in the Wizarding World, they realized they were near death and chose to spend their final moments together. Tina sealed them in their shared coffin, leaving her alone in the rose garden and longing for Shawn’s return.

• Tina brought Grindelwald to Dumbledore and relayed Grand Speaker Granger’s warning about untraceable spatial folding across the Wizarding World.
• Dumbledore connected the disturbances to Shawn, who had disappeared into the Realm of the Dead, while Grindelwald admitted he feared dying before seeing Dumbledore again.
• Dumbledore agreed to die alongside Grindelwald, and they walked together to their rose-covered graves.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald lay down in their marble coffin, clasped hands, and asked Tina to close the lid without telling Harry and Hermione.
• Tina sealed the coffin underground and mourned alone, calling for her absent master.