Chapter Summaries

Shawn asked McGonagall why wizards could not become Animagi in Fantastic Beast forms and learned how dangerous attempts to transform into magical creatures could be. While McGonagall searched for books, Shawn confronted Neville and Ron about jealousy, encouraging Neville to accept his feelings and challenging Ron to admit his weaknesses.

• Shawn asked McGonagall why wizards could not take Fantastic Beast forms as Animagi, and she explained the dangers of replicating magical creatures' bodies and energy.
• McGonagall warned Shawn not to attempt the transformation and went to find him books.
• Shawn asked Neville whether he was jealous of him and Harry, and Neville admitted he envied Harry's talent and friendship with Shawn.
• Shawn reassured Neville that jealousy was human nature and praised his efforts to improve himself.
• Shawn accused Ron of being jealous and described his family circumstances, then ordered him to get up and face his weaknesses.

Shawn completed the second stage of his Hogwarts conquest and considered how to spend his Legendary Value before witnessing Snape confront Quirrell. Realizing Quirrell’s plot was advancing, Shawn upgraded Thunderlight Sword to level six.

• Shawn intimidated Ron until the system confirmed the second-stage quest was complete and issued the quest to become Hogwarts’ sole School Governor.
• Shawn encouraged Neville to learn from Harry, then reviewed his system status and weighed whether to spend his Legendary Value on Water Prison or Thunderlight Sword.
• Professor McGonagall gave Shawn two books about failed Animagus transformations and warned him to tell her before attempting one; afterward, she found Neville focused and Ron staring blankly.
• Shawn overheard Snape threaten Quirrell about getting past Hagrid’s dog, then saw Quirrell recover his composure and silently confer with Voldemort.
• Shawn concluded Quirrell was close to learning how to get past the Three-Headed Dog and spent his Legendary Value to raise Thunderlight Sword to level six.

After reaching level 6 in Thunderlight Sword, Shawn discovered that he could draw on nearby lightning elements and unleash a devastating strike, then considered the spell’s limits and his growing strength. Two weeks later, with Halloween approaching, he summoned the four subordinates of the Throne to a meeting in the Room of Requirement.

• Shawn used his level 6 Thunderlight Sword to cut through a stone wall and damage the Room of Requirement, then fled before anyone caught him.
• Shawn concluded that the spell’s power was limited by how quickly he could gather elements and how much magical energy he could control, but believed he could face almost any opponent below the legendary level.
• Draco trained Goyle and Crabbe in Petrificus Totalus while Shawn updated his plans in his notebook.
• Hogwarts students adopted more courteous manners and eagerly competed for Sea of Learning points, while McGonagall hoped to keep the Twins in line and win the House Cup.
• Two days before Halloween, Shawn had Alice summon the four subordinates of the Throne to the Throne’s Private Room that evening.

Hermione attended her first Throne meeting, where Shawn assigned the members tasks for the group’s first operation on Halloween. After the meeting, Shawn rested and went to the kitchens, still worrying about the cost of his plans in the Muggle World.

• Hermione took her seat at the Throne meeting as Shawn welcomed her and announced that the group would carry out its first operation on Halloween.
• Shawn ordered Alice to organize older students to turn animals from the Forbidden Forest into ornaments and distribute them to young wizards.
• Shawn told Hermione to contact Percy, Penelope, Cedric, and Montague so they could organize students and lead them to safety during the Halloween crisis.
• Shawn gave Theodore a dangerous Halloween assignment, while he told Draco to stay hidden because Draco could not cast a Shield Charm properly.
• Draco went to find Harry to complain, while Shawn rested and reviewed his plan in the Room of Requirement.
• Shawn discovered that his magic had burned a hole in the sofa, then went to the kitchens and worried that he was running out of nonmagical antiques to sell.

Shawn visited the Hufflepuff kitchen, where the House-elves treated him with unusual affection, then encouraged Draco to keep making friends and embrace his role as a diplomat. After two days of Halloween preparations and festivities, Hogwarts students gathered in the dimmed Great Hall to await the feast.

• Shawn entered the kitchen and ordered a late-night snack while the House-elves eagerly competed to prepare it for him.
• Cedric watched Shawn interact warmly with the House-elves and suspected that Shawn was hiding something.
• Shawn found Draco feeling useless because he could not keep up with Harry and the others, then praised Draco's efforts to make friends by sharing gifts.
• Draco resolved to ask his father for more gifts, and Shawn encouraged him to continue acting as a diplomat.
• Hogwarts students enjoyed Halloween decorations and an afternoon of mischief before gathering in the Great Hall for the feast.

Grindelwald received a captured Violet Lightning Kite and ordered it tamed before Christmas, then prepared to spend Halloween with Dumbledore. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore left the feast, and Quirrell burst in claiming a troll had entered the school before pretending to faint.

• Abernathy told Grindelwald about the Violet Lightning Kite, which Grindelwald stroked and ordered him to tame before Christmas.
• Grindelwald contacted Dumbledore and dressed as an invalid for their Halloween meeting.
• At Hogwarts's Halloween feast, Cedric worried about Hermione's request, Harry noticed Ron's disturbed sleep and Neville's new confidence, and Shawn played with a coin while eating red pudding.
• Dumbledore received a food container, gave McGonagall instructions, exchanged a meaningful look with Snape, and hurried away from the Great Hall.
• Quirrell burst into the Great Hall, announced that a troll was loose, and pretended to faint.

Shawn organized the students in the Great Hall while blocking Quirrell from leaving, then attacked him after the students were protected. Quirrell revealed his combat skill and unleashed Fiendfyre, leaving the hall in danger as their fight continued.

• Shawn had Theodore lead the Troll away and, with Alice and the Prefects, organized the students into defensive formations after McGonagall, Flitwick, and Sprout left to find it.
• Shawn blocked Quirrell from heading upstairs and kept him talking until the students were ready.
• Shawn attacked Quirrell with the Thunderlight Sword, but Quirrell broke through the attack and tried to flee.
• Shawn summoned a Water Python and trapped Quirrell with nets of electricity, while Quirrell destroyed the python with Fiendfyre.
• Quirrell's Fiendfyre became a giant flaming serpent that overwhelmed Shawn's Water Python as frightened students watched the hall tremble.

Shawn used a lightning net to destroy Quirrell’s Fiendfyre serpent, but Quirrell yielded control to Voldemort, who broke the stalemate with a new attack. Shawn kept the net intact by drawing on stored magical energy as Voldemort’s black Fiendfyre serpent battered it.

• Shawn formed a contracting lightning net that suppressed and dissolved Quirrell’s Fiendfyre serpent.
• Voldemort took control of Quirrell’s body after Quirrell gave up his resistance.
• Voldemort revealed himself to Shawn and demanded that he kneel and submit.
• Shawn insulted Voldemort, prompting the students in the hall to realize who had appeared; Harry collapsed in pain and Hermione photographed the scene.
• Voldemort reignited the embers into a black Fiendfyre serpent, which battered Shawn’s lightning net while Shawn used his Playing Cards to repair it.

Shawn fought Voldemort while the Hogwarts students cheered him on, and the battle escalated into a contest of powerful magic and endurance. As Quirrell’s body neared exhaustion, Shawn closed in and shattered Voldemort’s Necromantic Shield.

• The young wizards recognized Voldemort inside the electricity net and cheered Shawn as he held his own against him.
• Voldemort split his Fiendfyre serpent, sent a flaming spear through the weakened net, and cast a powerful Killing Curse at Shawn.
• Shawn used five lightning arcs to destroy the spear and contest Voldemort’s Killing Curse, then charged at him with his sword and a purple shield.
• Snape arrived from the stairway, and Shawn sent three Water Pythons to hold him off while he continued toward Voldemort.
• Voldemort formed a Necromantic Shield with Wandless Magic, but Shawn struck it repeatedly with the Thunderlight Sword until it shattered.

Shawn defeated Voldemort in the battle, but Voldemort's Soul Fragment escaped and vowed to return. After receiving a new quest, Shawn left the celebrating students to check on Theodore.

• Voldemort enveloped himself in black mist and charged a powerful attack while Shawn transformed his Thunderlight Sword into a halberd and flew into the mist to fight him.
• Alice ordered the students to cast protective shields as the battle's shock waves battered the hall, while Harry, Draco, Snape, and the others watched anxiously.
• Shawn emerged victorious after beheading Quirrell's body, but Voldemort's Soul Fragment escaped toward the doors and vowed to return.
• Alice announced Voldemort's defeat, and students from multiple houses cheered Shawn as their Chief.
• Shawn received a reward and a new quest to open the Chamber of Secrets in his second year and prove he was an "upright" heir of Slytherin.
• Shawn told Alice to organize repairs before the Halloween Feast, then ran outside to check on Theodore.

Theodore killed a Troll after enduring a brutal chase, then Shawn allowed him to recharge his Sequence Card himself with the Killing Curse. Shawn told Theodore that he had defeated Voldemort and sent the professors back to the hall, where they found the destroyed Great Hall and Quirrell’s dismembered body.

• Theodore lured a Troll through the basement passages to delay it, then killed it with a lightning spell from the Nine of Spades.
• Shawn found Theodore, cleaned and treated his wounds, and agreed to let him recharge the card with the Killing Curse.
• Shawn told Theodore that Quirrell had transformed into Voldemort and that Voldemort’s soul fragment had escaped after Shawn defeated him.
• Shawn gave Theodore a healing potion, and the two boys left the basement for the hall.
• The professors arrived in the devastated hall and saw Quirrell’s dismembered body.

After Shawn defeated Voldemort at Hogwarts, the students and British wizarding society reacted with shock, and pure-blood families began debating their stance toward Shawn. Injured in the fight, Shawn planned to confront them later as Voldemort before Dumbledore summoned him.

• McGonagall and Flitwick examined Quirrell's corpse, while Sprout confirmed that the students were unharmed and McGonagall sent them back to their Common Rooms.
• With Alice leading them, the students restarted the Halloween Feast and excitedly praised Shawn, while several pure-blood students hurried off to report the news to their families.
• Dumbledore received an urgent message at Nurmengard and left for Hogwarts, while Grindelwald ordered someone to investigate what had happened.
• Fudge learned that Voldemort had appeared at Hogwarts and was defeated, then summoned Aurors and rushed to the school.
• Lucius learned that Voldemort had been defeated and went to a Pure-blood Association meeting, while Narcissa wrote to Hogwarts to check on Draco.
• In the Hospital Wing, Shawn planned to deal with the frightened pure-bloods as Voldemort, then an older student told him that the Headmaster wanted to see him.

In Dumbledore’s office, Fudge denied Voldemort’s return and tried to force Shawn to retract his account of the battle. Shawn gave Dumbledore a convenient explanation, then Pomfrey took him to the hospital wing while Fudge left in a rage.

• Dumbledore showed the gathered officials photographs of Shawn fighting Voldemort, but Fudge called them forgeries and tore them up.
• Madam Pomfrey brought the badly injured Shawn into the office, where Fudge questioned and threatened him.
• Shawn told Dumbledore that Quirrell’s strange behavior had made him suspect someone else was present, and claimed the animals he had prepared were Halloween gifts.
• Dumbledore allowed Pomfrey to take Shawn back to the hospital wing and insisted the Ministry prepare for Voldemort’s return.
• Fudge accused Dumbledore of plotting to remove him as Minister for Magic and stormed out.

After the Ministry and pure-bloods suppressed reports of Shawn’s battle with Voldemort, Hogwarts students argued over the false coverage while Shawn recovered and considered his next plans. The chapter ended with Shawn anticipating Christmas and the gifts he had prepared.

• Hogwarts students condemned the Daily Prophet’s claim that the battle was a prank, while The Quibbler also alleged that Shawn and Voldemort had staged it together.
• Alice told Hermione and Harry that Shawn’s organization would not accept Harry unless he could follow the Chief’s orders unconditionally, and Harry admitted he could not promise that.
• Draco reluctantly recommended Harry but remained troubled by his parents’ request that he spy on Shawn.
• Shawn recalled Snape leaving him valuable potions and Dumbledore exchanging veiled warnings with him during a visit.
• Shawn sensed that the Dark Mark spell remained incomplete and hoped Christmas would arrive soon so he could give out his prepared gifts.

After leaving the Hospital Wing, Shawn stopped students from bullying Pansy and continued expanding the Throne’s influence at Hogwarts. As the Christmas holidays began, Draco asked if he could spend Christmas at Shawn’s house.

• Shawn used Levicorpus to suspend five students who had cornered Pansy, then ordered that bullying be forbidden.
• A month later, Shawn addressed more than twenty screened outer members of the Throne and urged them to keep working over Christmas.
• Alice questioned Shawn about accepting Susan Bones, and Shawn said she could be useful through her aunt; Draco understood his point.
• The students left Hogwarts for the Christmas holidays, and Draco asked Shawn if he could spend Christmas at his house.

Shawn let Draco stay at the Black family home for one night, where Draco grew anxious about losing his place as Shawn’s closest follower. After Draco left, Shawn reviewed Theodore’s list of opposing pure-blood families and went to prepare his plan involving the real and fake Dark Lords.

• Shawn agreed to let Draco stay at his home for one night, and Theodore handed him the information he had gathered on pure-blood families opposing him.
• After the Hogwarts Express reached King’s Cross, Shawn took Draco to the Black family home with Kreacher.
• Kreacher began replacing the old furniture, and Draco took the discarded bookshelf as a sign that Shawn’s trust and affection for him had faded.
• Shawn asked Draco to think over what qualities a follower needed besides absolute loyalty, then sent him back to Malfoy Manor with Dobby.
• Shawn checked Theodore’s list of names and addresses, then headed to the basement to prepare his real and fake Dark Lords plan and arrange the prize draw.

The Pure-blood Association argued over whether to support Voldemort or approach Shawn, while Lucius returned home to find Draco distressed about his loyalties. The chapter ended with Draco asking Lucius what qualities a follower should have.

• Old Nott, Flint, and Travers mocked Lucius at the Pure-blood Association meeting, prompting the Goyle and Crabbe elders to draw their wands.
• Yaxley stopped the confrontation, and the attendees debated the Dark Lord’s whereabouts and whether to bring Shawn into the Association.
• Lucius left the deadlocked meeting and found Draco sitting sadly at Malfoy Manor.
• Lucius urged Draco to put the Malfoy family’s survival first, while Narcissa comforted Draco and argued that Shawn’s ties to their family mattered.
• Lucius explained the dangers posed by Voldemort, Grindelwald’s Army, Dumbledore, the Ministry, and Shawn, and Draco asked what qualities a follower should have.

Lucius taught Draco that a follower needed to become indispensable, leaving Draco to consider what role he could serve for Shawn. At the Fawley household, Old Fawley explained his motives to Alice and asked whether she liked Shawn.

• Lucius explained that he kept the Goyle and Crabbe families close because their loyalty made them dependable in a crisis.
• Lucius told Draco that a follower should be self-sacrificing, discreet, efficient, and irreplaceable, then left him to reflect on how to serve Shawn.
• Alice challenged Old Fawley about his ambiguous attitude toward loyalty, and he recalled his sacrifices while following Grindelwald.
• Old Fawley told Alice that he supported her choice to follow Shawn and had wanted to understand his character and guide him toward Grindelwald's approval.
• Alice shared details about Shawn, the Throne, his talent selection, interests, and the battle at Hogwarts, and Old Fawley asked if she liked him.

Shawn learned from Phineas that Dumbledore was investigating his mother’s ancestry, which might connect him to Norse mythology and the legendary wizard Odin. Before preparing a midnight strike against the pure-bloods, Shawn used his accumulated faith value to draw new abilities.

• Shawn gathered a cloak, a dark-magic wand, Polyjuice Potion, and a lock of hair resembling young Voldemort, then went to meet Phineas’s portrait.
• Shawn learned that Dumbledore suspected his mother had Northern European or Roman ancestry and discovered a purple sheen in his own eyes.
• Phineas connected Shawn’s name and eye color to Fei Ao Qin, also known as Jord, the mother of Thor in Odin’s legendary pantheon.
• Shawn heard Phineas discuss Norse and Greek mythology, then considered his planned midnight strike against the pure-bloods.
• Shawn spent faith value on draws and received Level Three Apparition, skill and talent points, magic-scale points, Puppet Art, and the Necromantic Shield.

Shawn used his new knowledge of Puppet Art to revise his plan and prepared to impersonate Tom Riddle while summoning Lucius Malfoy. Lucius retrieved the diary entrusted to him and went out to meet the supposed Dark Lord.

• Shawn spent his remaining points to improve his Apparition, Killing Curse, alchemy, and white magic abilities.
• Shawn had Kreacher take him near Malfoy Manor, then disguised himself as Tom Riddle and used the Dark Mark to summon Lucius.
• Lucius felt the Dark Mark react during dinner and ordered Draco back to his room.
• Lucius told Narcissa that the Dark Lord was outside the manor and reassured her that he would be safe.
• Lucius retrieved the hidden diary from the manor treasury and went outside to meet his master.