Chapter Summaries

Shawn asked Cho Chang whether her family could help him obtain authentic Sichuan chilies, then dealt with the Little Badgers’ eagerness for spider meat. After Snape tried to make him practice Quidditch, Lockhart invited Shawn to help with a Defense Against the Dark Arts project, giving Shawn a chance to investigate the professor himself.

• Shawn asked Cho Chang about obtaining Sichuan chilies, and she offered to ask her father for help.
• After Shawn left Ravenclaw Tower, he saw students crying with onions and delivered spider meat to the kitchen for the Little Badgers.
• Shawn headed to the Library, then spent the next few days busy while the Little Badgers enjoyed the spider meat at dinner.
• After Potions, Snape challenged Shawn’s claim that he practiced Quidditch secretly and tried to take him to the pitch.
• Lockhart whispered something to Snape, who left in a hurry, then invited Shawn to assist with a Defense Against the Dark Arts project.
• Shawn accepted Lockhart’s invitation, intending to investigate him personally.

Grindelwald read Shawn’s letter about the Pure-blood Association and ordered Vita to begin guiding him ahead of schedule. Disguised as Lockhart, Vita met Shawn and began probing his family history, leaving her purpose unclear.

• Grindelwald decided Shawn was investigating the Pure-blood Association too impatiently and wrote to Vita, telling her to act ahead of schedule.
• Grindelwald sent the letter with Purple Shadow and warned the bird not to reveal his identity to Shawn.
• Vita, disguised as Lockhart, brought Shawn to her office at Hogwarts.
• Shawn noticed a wooden chest in the office and questioned Lockhart about her work, testing whether she was another transmigrator.
• Lockhart asked Shawn about his Black and Rosier family ties, then asked whether he knew the name Fei Ao Qin.

Shawn confronted the person posing as Lockhart and learned that the visitor was Vinda Rosier, who claimed to be his godmother and to have known his mother. Though Shawn suspected her story was tied to Grindelwald, he chose to play along and ended by asking how she had tracked him and the Acromantulas.

• Shawn drew his wand and demanded that Lockhart explain who he was and why he was investigating Shawn’s mother.
• Vinda Rosier emerged from the bedroom, and Lockhart climbed into a trunk, revealing that he had not been replaced by an impostor.
• Vinda introduced herself as the new head of the Rosier family and claimed she had promised Shawn’s mother to become his godmother.
• Vinda explained that Shawn’s mother had met Regulus at Durmstrang, given birth with Vinda’s help, and returned to Northern Europe after a house-elf stole Shawn.
• Shawn suspected Vinda’s account was a carefully arranged cover story connected to Grindelwald, but decided to keep acting as though he believed her.
• Shawn accepted Vinda’s invitation to call her Professor and asked how she had tracked his movements, especially his encounters with the Acromantulas.

Vita explained how she had tracked Shawn and warned him to guard his hair and other personal traces from magical misuse. After reviewing her investigation and criticism of his growing arrogance and impatience, Shawn reconsidered his conduct and realized he might have pushed Dumbledore too far.

• Vita invited Shawn to tea and told him the drink had no hidden meaning, though he remained wary of her.
• Vita showed Shawn an alchemical Tracking Device and explained that she had used a sample of his hair or blood to locate him.
• Vita warned Shawn about magical threats involving bodily traces and said she would teach him both to wield power and to understand the wizarding world.
• Vita presented her investigation into Shawn’s actions and criticized his poor control, arrogance, impatience, and disregard for life.
• Shawn reflected on his conflicts and past behavior, then grew frightened that he had already crossed Dumbledore’s limits.

Shawn agreed to study under Vita, who explained how she planned to evade Voldemort’s curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position. She assigned him music lessons as well as magical training, and Shawn left carrying a seven-string harp while imagining how to turn it into a lightning weapon.

• Shawn thanked Vita for correcting his arrogance, and she scheduled concealed lessons for Tuesdays, Thursdays, and weekends.
• Vita explained that she would evade Voldemort’s curse by monitoring a daily potion and arranging for Lockhart to confess to his crimes when she left Hogwarts.
• Vita suggested that Dumbledore could avoid the curse by assigning an intelligent Fantastic Beast to the Defense Against the Dark Arts post and creating a separate class.
• Vita told Shawn that learning an instrument and music theory would cultivate his refinement and improve his control of charms.
• Shawn chose a Purple Crescent Seven-String Harp and imagined creating a Thunder Harp with Lightning Charms as its strings.

Shawn discovered Goyle’s strong talent for fire spells and began planning to assess and develop the students’ magical abilities. Back in the dormitory, he worried about recruiting Snape to help build the Alchemy Machine Tool, then heard Draco boast that he had beaten Harry in a Golden Snitch contest.

• Shawn found Goyle and Crabbe waiting outside the office and asked them about their spell progress as they walked back to Slytherin.
• Goyle demonstrated a powerful Incendio that engulfed the corridor, and Shawn extinguished it with Finite Incantatem before repairing the damage.
• Shawn coached Goyle on controlling Incendio and asked Alice to gather information about students’ spell skills so he could organize balanced squads.
• Shawn considered how to persuade Snape to help build the Alchemy Machine Tool, then studied the music theory material and public-speaking book Vita had given him.
• Draco returned to the dormitory with a new-model broomstick and told Shawn that he had beaten Harry in a contest to catch the Golden Snitch.

Shawn boosted his flying talent and raced around Hogwarts on Draco’s Nimbus 2001 with Purple Shadow. Suspecting Snape had summoned him for a reason, he flew to the professor’s office after curfew.

• Draco told Shawn that Snape planned to watch his Quidditch practice the next day, prompting Shawn to spend his remaining points raising his flying talent to level 5.
• Shawn borrowed Draco’s Nimbus 2001 and showed off his speed and aerial control in the dormitory, flying alongside Purple Shadow while Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe watched.
• Shawn wondered whether Snape had a private message for him and sped out of the Slytherin common room with Purple Shadow, startling the students there.
• Shawn’s passage knocked Filch down in a corridor, and Filch set off after the unseen flyer with Mrs. Norris.
• Shawn reached Snape’s office and sent Purple Shadow back to sleep after promising to take it to the Quidditch Pitch the next afternoon.

Shawn visited Snape after seeing him leave the previous evening and learned he was brewing an incomplete ancient Resurrection Potion. Shawn persuaded Snape to work with the Pure-blood Association by revealing its search for the Resurrection Stone, then fled after disrupting Snape’s office with broom tricks; the next morning, he resumed supervising Slytherin study.

• Shawn asked Snape about the golden potion, and Snape identified it as an incomplete ancient Resurrection Potion.
• Snape warned Shawn to avoid Lockhart and his territory, then refused Shawn’s offer of work until Shawn mentioned the Pure-blood Association’s search for the Resurrection Stone.
• Snape agreed to contact Lucius and assist the Pure-blood Association, while Shawn implied he might gain access to the Resurrection Stone.
• Shawn demonstrated his broom flying inside Snape’s office, scattered potion ingredients, and escaped before Snape could catch him.
• Snape cleaned the office, burned a vial containing potion residue, and returned to researching the Resurrection Potion.
• The next morning, Shawn appeared on the platform in the Slytherin Common Room to supervise morning study.

Shawn reviewed students’ spell progress and instructed Alice to arrange future team duels, then went to Vita for special tutoring. After playing a piano piece that stirred Shawn’s imagination, Vita gave him a Magic-Limiting Bracelet and said she would teach him Imperial Arts.

• Shawn reviewed the students’ spell results, noted Astoria’s and Ginny’s talents, and asked Alice to organize groups for future team duels.
• Alice told Shawn that Ravenclaw students wanted to buy science equipment, and Shawn said the Board of Governors would fund the school’s purchase while students continued focusing on magic.
• Shawn went to Vita’s office after breakfast and listened as she played an emotionally stirring piano piece.
• Vita gave Shawn a Magic-Limiting Bracelet to help him train his control over magic and spells.
• Vita told Shawn that she would teach him Imperial Arts during the term.

Vita began teaching Shawn the arts of leadership and political control, then advised him on how to make Headmaster Dumbledore less wary of him. The chapter left Shawn with a practical strategy: appear to be the kind of subordinate Dumbledore preferred in public while keeping his private self separate.

• Vita outlined a yearlong curriculum on leadership, power, and political scheming, using the takeover of the Austria Ministry of Magic as a case study.
• Vita taught Shawn to project calm authority, use rhythm and emotion in speeches, and anticipate events as though everyone were pieces on a chessboard.
• Vita gave Shawn a magical picture book to train his gaze and prepared him lunch, which Shawn accepted after noticing her sincere care.
• While reviewing his notes, Shawn recognized that he had relied on instinct to lead and that Vita’s instruction clarified what he still needed to learn.
• Shawn asked how to make Headmaster Dumbledore less wary of him, and Vita advised him to act publicly like the sort of subordinate Dumbledore liked.

Shawn planned to use his efforts to clear Sirius’s name to demonstrate love, while Dumbledore agreed to support Barty Crouch Sr.’s proposal to revive the Fivewizard Tournament ahead of schedule. After encountering Crouch outside the Headmaster’s Office, Shawn went in to speak with Dumbledore.

• Shawn decided to pursue clearing Sirius’s name as a way to show Dumbledore that he cared for his family.
• Barty Crouch Sr. proposed holding the Fivewizard Tournament next year, and Dumbledore agreed to support it.
• Shawn imprisoned Peter Pettigrew in a Fiendfyre birdcage in his private chamber and left him food and water.
• Barty Crouch Sr. told Shawn he had discussed reviving an international tournament with Dumbledore before leaving.
• Shawn inferred that the tournament was being brought forward and climbed the stairs to knock on Dumbledore’s office door.

Shawn explained to Dumbledore that advancing Muggle communications technology would eventually expose the wizarding world, and argued that students needed to learn Muggle science. Dumbledore then pressed him on how he would protect wizardkind and whether his methods were too radical, leaving Shawn poised to answer.

• Dumbledore offered Shawn milk tea secretly laced with a truth serum that bypassed Occlumency, but Shawn’s magical energy neutralized its effects.
• Dumbledore questioned Shawn about making Ravenclaw students study Muggle mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
• Shawn warned that phones, cameras, and connected networks would make the International Statute of Secrecy impossible to maintain, and said students needed to understand Muggle technology.
• Dumbledore recognized the danger Shawn described but remained concerned that Shawn’s upheaval could harm wizardkind before the threat arrived.
• Dumbledore asked how Shawn would respond if the future of wizardkind were his responsibility and whether his approach to the four houses was too radical, and Shawn began an impassioned reply.

Shawn argued that the wizarding world needed reform to survive Muggle technological progress, and Dumbledore agreed to consider his ideas while warning him not to deliberately break the International Statute of Secrecy. Shawn then asked Dumbledore to help clear Sirius’s name and arrange a visit to Azkaban.

• Shawn urged Dumbledore to lead the wizarding world through reforms and develop both magic and technology before Muggles’ communications networks spread.
• Dumbledore asked when Muggle communication devices would become widespread, and Shawn estimated that smartphones would be common within ten to fifteen years.
• Shawn explained that his Muggle magic performances could gradually prepare Muggles to accept extraordinary phenomena, but Dumbledore said he still opposed deliberately using magic in their world.
• Shawn asked Dumbledore to reopen the investigation into Sirius’s imprisonment, arguing that his uncle was not a traitor.
• Phineas objected to Shawn defending Sirius, but Dumbledore silenced him and explained that Sirius had refused his earlier attempt to help.
• Shawn asked Dumbledore to arrange a visit to Azkaban so he could speak to Sirius in person.

Shawn arranged with Dumbledore to visit Sirius at Christmas and revealed what he knew about Voldemort, while Dumbledore privately wrestled with the choice of how to deal with him. Back in his dormitory, Shawn tested his resistance to potions and began to suspect that his system was alive.

• Dumbledore promised to arrange a Christmas visit for Shawn to see Sirius in Azkaban.
• Shawn told Dumbledore that Voldemort had tried to recruit him, that he hoped to find Horcruxes, and that the returned Dark Lord was a Horcrux; Dumbledore apologized for using a potion to question him, and Shawn accepted his apology.
• After Shawn left, Dumbledore reflected on his burden and went to Nurmengard with Fawkes to seek more of the new prophecy.
• Shawn tested Veritaserum and a Hallucinogenic Potion, finding that his Occlumency countered the first while an unexplained purple-black shimmer appeared as the second's effects vanished.
• Shawn wondered whether his system was alive, then changed into Quidditch robes and headed for the pitch.

Harry watched Draco’s Quidditch training while Shawn joined the Slytherin team and began testing the Beaters. Shawn left Draco with a chance to keep the Seeker position and ended by sending a Bludger toward teammate Aymock during practice.

• Harry ate the lunch Draco had brought while watching him train, and Shawn invited Harry to spend Christmas at his house.
• Draco told Shawn that Purple Shadow had flown off to the Forbidden Forest, and Shawn said Draco would keep his Seeker spot if he performed well in two inter-house matches.
• Shawn gathered the Slytherin players, explained his focus on teamwork and tactics, and ordered Marcus and Terra to hit Bludgers toward him.
• Shawn used his heightened senses and flying skill to strike Marcus’s Bludger toward Aymock as Aymock carried the Quaffle.

After Shawn’s brutal Quidditch practice left the Slytherin team convinced they would win the Cup, Harry warned Wood and the Gryffindor team, prompting the Twins to scheme against Shawn. Shawn continued his studies and eye-training, then visited Vita’s office for another lesson.

• Shawn’s Quidditch training battered the Slytherin players, while Snape watched Harry’s miserable reaction and left healing potions for the team.
• Harry told Wood about Shawn’s skills, and Wood gathered the Gryffindor team before Angelina urged them to rely on teamwork and Harry catching the Snitch.
• Fred and George privately plotted to build a reflective gadget to use against Shawn, then Fred told Wood to leave Shawn to them.
• Shawn supervised evening study, worked on his own lessons, and played Purple Shadow a muffled lullaby until the bird went to sleep.
• Shawn practiced staring into a goshawk’s eyes, briefly frightened Draco with a ferocious look, and continued his morning routine before heading to Vita’s office.
• Shawn entered Vita’s office and found her arranging flowers instead of playing piano.

Vita taught Shawn that power and desire must be restrained, especially by leaders, using a ruined flower arrangement to show how good intentions can fail when ability and ambition are unbalanced. Shawn considered how to apply the lesson to his followers and his relationship with Dumbledore.

• Vita ruined an orchid arrangement while trimming it, then explained that desire and power without the ability to use them properly could spoil even good intentions.
• Shawn said people could be destroyed by the things they loved, and Vita urged him to master his ambition, establish limits, and avoid appearing excessively violent as a leader.
• Shawn asked whether the same principle applied to promoting subordinates, and Vita warned him not to grant young wizards advanced abilities too quickly or too broadly.
• Vita asked whether Shawn had shown Dumbledore his vulnerable side, and Shawn said he had wanted the headmaster to see his caring side.
• Vita said Dumbledore would try to teach and redeem Shawn as long as he showed a good side and did not openly commit evil.

Shawn reflected on being used by powerful figures, then focused on strengthening his magical foundations rather than rushing through tasks. When Tom summoned him to lead a Death Eater meeting at Malfoy Manor, Shawn appeared as the Dark Lord and confronted the gathered group over a suspected leak.

• Vita told Shawn that everyone was a tool and that a tool's value depended on who used it.
• Dumbledore arranged a Christmas visit to Nurmengard and worked to launch the five-school tournament while preparing to address problems in Britain.
• Shawn paused his tasks to study magical theory and advanced knowledge, using Vita's Magic-Limiting Bracelet to build his foundations.
• Tom told Shawn to attend a meeting at Malfoy Manor because Death Eaters had grown restless during his absence.
• Shawn disguised himself as Tom, arrived at the meeting, and accused the Death Eaters of trying to bring a wolf into their midst.

Shawn used Selwyn’s suspected betrayal to establish rules for the Death Eaters and appointed Yaxley to lead an internal disciplinary squad. The meeting then turned to Fudge and possible replacements for Minister, with Lucius reporting that Scrimgeour still would not cooperate.

• Shawn prompted Yaxley to punish Selwyn, who screamed and denied betraying the Death Eaters.
• Shawn stopped Yaxley from continuing without evidence and appointed him to establish an internal disciplinary squad.
• Shawn warned Yaxley that he would be held responsible if he abused his new authority.
• Lucius told Shawn that the Death Eaters had discussed Fudge’s interference in the Chamber of Commerce and had reached no conclusion.
• Shawn asked whether Pierce or Scrimgeour could replace Fudge, and Lucius said Scrimgeour still would not budge.

Shawn planned to replace Fudge and dismissed the Death Eaters’ complaints about their Chamber of Commerce shares. He secured Snape’s promise to improve the Alchemy Machine Tool by offering him the Resurrection Stone, which Shawn revealed was one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes.

• Shawn told the Death Eaters to placate Fudge while gathering evidence against him, and hinted that he had a ministerial candidate in mind.
• Shawn ended the meeting and warned the Death Eaters not to raise their settled shares again.
• Shawn privately confronted Snape, who denied recognizing him as his master and refused to trust his promise to kill Voldemort.
• Shawn revealed that the Resurrection Stone was a Horcrux hidden by Voldemort and offered to give it to Snape once the Alchemy Machine Tool could brew fifth-year-level potions.
• Snape agreed to continue the research and entered the laboratory, while Shawn wondered whether his conscience troubled him.