Recaps

Lin Ze fought Tom, who possessed Gray Suit, until Bados arrived and subdued them with a lantern’s magic. Lin Ze woke tied up on Bados’s boat in the Pacific Ocean and asked why he had been taken and where the blond man was.

• Lin Ze discovered that Tom had possessed Gray Suit after the Killing Curse test and fought him in the parking garage.
• A ginger cat transformed into Bados, who used a lantern to freeze Lin Ze and Tom before stunning them.
• Lin Ze woke tied to a bed on Bados’s boat in the Pacific Ocean and learned that Bados was an Animagus.
• Lin Ze realized Bados had secretly watched the Britain Ministry of Magic and asked why he had brought him there and where Gray Suit was.

Lin Ze tried to delay Bados, who planned to test a dangerous potion on him, while his magic remained suppressed. Tom broke free and attacked Bados, but after the two fought, a potion mist left Tom dizzy.

• Lin Ze examined his cabin restraints and discovered that Bados's metal ring suppressed his magic.
• Bados told Lin Ze he planned to test an experimental potion on him and revealed that he had locked Tom in the lower hold with a dead rat stuffed in his mouth.
• Lin Ze tried to persuade Bados to fund his research in exchange for freedom, but Bados refused and prepared the Dragon King Potion.
• Tom blasted open the cabin door and attacked Bados, who used a table and then potions to defend himself.
• Tom shattered Bados's lantern and deflected the flying potion containers, but he inhaled the mist from the spilled potions and grew dizzy.

Tom overcame the potion’s suppression and killed Bados, then freed Lin Ze, but Bados injected Lin Ze with the Dragon King Potion before dying. Lin Ze began suffering a violent reaction while Tom weakened against the cabin wall.

• Bados prepared to inject Tom, but Lin Ze distracted him by insisting that he be the first test subject.
• Tom broke through the potion’s effects and pierced Bados with black threads, leaving him mortally wounded.
• Tom freed Lin Ze from the Devil’s Snare ropes using fire, and Lin Ze forced Bados to reveal that the black diary was in a suitcase.
• As Lin Ze reached for the diary, Bados stabbed him with a syringe containing the golden-red liquid.
• Bados identified the substance as the Dragon King Potion and died, while Lin Ze convulsed from its effects and Tom watched weakly.

After enduring a painful transformation, Lin Ze discovered that black scales and new abilities had spread across his body. He found Bellatrix and other captives in the ship’s hold, then realized the potion had left him with a troubling, uncontrollable reaction to her.

• Lin Ze woke from the transformation covered in black scales with gold markings, and his spells failed to remove them.
• When the suited man coughed behind him, Lin Ze’s instincts surged, and he tackled the man through the cabin wall into the sea before hauling him back aboard.
• Lin Ze found Tom Riddle inside the diary again and sensed several people trapped in the ship’s hold.
• Lin Ze kicked through the hold’s iron door and found seven captives, including Bellatrix, one of whom had died.
• Lin Ze felt an inexplicable heat and urge to approach Bellatrix, so he cast a Freezing Charm on himself.

Lin Ze freed the surviving wizards from Bados’s ship and tried to learn what was happening to his body. A painful transformation gave him enormous wings, and Bellatrix saw him return to the deck able to fly.

• Lin Ze questioned the prisoners, gave them water, and removed most of their restraints while keeping Bellatrix’s ankle bands on.
• Lin Ze contacted Tom through the diary about the potion’s side effects, but Tom knew nothing.
• Lin Ze shared food with the surviving wizards, learned Bados had used them as test subjects, and decided to gather supplies before returning to Britain.
• Lin Ze felt a tearing pain in his back, fell into the sea, and grew a pair of wings that lifted him into the air.
• Lin Ze flew back to Bados’s ship exhausted, and Bellatrix emerged from the cabin and remarked that the little mouse could fly.

Lin Ze struggled with the wings and scales from his mutation while searching Bados’s belongings aboard the malfunctioning boat. Rodna arrived through a rift to examine him, and Bellatrix mistook Rodna for someone coming to retrieve Lin Ze as a mount.

• Lin Ze tested his new wings, searched Bados’s cabin, and packed his belongings and waterlogged manuscripts into his wooden box.
• Lin Ze asked Bellatrix why she had been at Miami airport, then contacted Rodna through his badge to report that he had mutated.
• Bellatrix pointed out that the boat’s instruments were malfunctioning, leaving Lin Ze unable to sail back to Britain.
• Rodna arrived through a rift, laughed at Lin Ze’s appearance, and began examining his wings and scales.
• Bellatrix called Lin Ze Rodna’s mount and told him to be quiet while she addressed Rodna.

Rodna brought Lin Ze to Prisoners Castle to help him control the Fantastic Beasts bloodline that had taken over his body. During the ritual, Lin Ze’s magic and wings reacted uncontrollably, forcing Rodna to contain him with a ring of light.

• Rodna told Lin Ze that the bloodline fusion could not be reversed and took him through a space-time rift to Prisoners Castle.
• Bellatrix followed Rodna through the rift and repeatedly asked to stay at the castle, but he refused.
• Rodna led Lin Ze to a rune-covered chamber and told him to release his magic.
• Lin Ze’s wings spread and drew in the room’s magic, lifting him into the air as the runes flew about uncontrollably.
• Rodna summoned a silvery-white ring of light around Lin Ze to contain him.

Lin Ze mastered his transformed bloodline and learned to control a half-human, half-magical creature form, which Rodna identified as a kind of Animagus. After Rodna gave him a communication scroll for the Prisoners, Lin Ze confronted Bellatrix about returning to Britain, but she refused to leave him.

• Lin Ze calmed the rampaging golden threads in his blood by letting them consume and convert his magic, then regained control of his body and scales.
• Rodna explained that Lin Ze had developed a half-human, half-magical creature Animagus form, with reshaped magic circuits and increased strength.
• Rodna gave Lin Ze a communication scroll marking the Prisoners' three bases and offered to remove some of Bellatrix's memories if Lin Ze wanted to hand her over.
• Bellatrix appeared at the doorway, and Rodna left after telling Lin Ze to make himself at home.
• Lin Ze asked Bellatrix to return to Britain with him, but she refused, saying she did not want to part with him.

Lin Ze negotiated with Bellatrix, who offered to reveal that Frank and Alice Longbottom were alive in exchange for joining Rodna’s group. Rodna accepted her as a peripheral member after hearing about her dragon blood wine, then removed a phantom from her mind to help Lin Ze meet his performance targets.

• Bellatrix told Lin Ze that Frank and Alice Longbottom were still alive and offered to reveal their location if he helped her join Rodna’s group.
• Lin Ze contacted Rodna and argued that Bellatrix’s fighting ability and knowledge made her useful, but Rodna initially refused and suggested killing her.
• Bellatrix offered Rodna her twelve-year-old dragon blood wine, prompting him to appear and hear her terms.
• Rodna accepted Bellatrix as a peripheral member, barred her from kneeling, and ordered her to obey the core members, including Lin Ze.
• Lin Ze asked how he could meet his performance targets without sending Bellatrix to Azkaban, and Rodna placed a hand on her forehead and drew a phantom image from her mind.

Lin Ze accompanied Bellatrix to her hidden castle to retrieve a rare bottle of dragon blood wine for Rodna. After Bellatrix collected it, Lin Ze insisted she take him to the Longbottoms, and they headed toward a cellar entrance beside the castle.

• Rodna continued shaping the thumb puppet while Lin Ze and Bellatrix left to fetch the wine.
• Bellatrix revealed her concealed castle with the Fidelius Charm and warned Lin Ze not to touch its unusual belongings.
• Bellatrix opened a chained chest and took one of six bottles of dragon blood wine, saying she would give anything to Rodna.
• Lin Ze asked Bellatrix whether she had fallen for Rodna, but she teased him in return and carried the bottle out.
• Lin Ze insisted on visiting the Longbottoms immediately, so Bellatrix led him around the castle to a moss-covered cellar door.

Lin Ze rescued Frank and Alice Longbottom from Bellatrix’s cellar and arranged for Amelia to take them to St. Mungo’s. After the Longbottoms fell unconscious, Lin Ze prepared to leave with Bellatrix and return to Rodna’s.

• Bellatrix led Lin Ze to the cellar where Frank and Alice Longbottom were imprisoned and left without food.
• Lin Ze removed the anti-magic runes and chains, identified himself as an Auror, and sent Bellatrix away from the Longbottoms.
• Lin Ze cast a Calming Charm on Alice, and Frank carried her out of the cellar.
• Frank and Alice collapsed outside, so Lin Ze contacted Amelia and arranged for her to collect them and bring them to St. Mungo’s.
• Lin Ze told Bellatrix they would drop off the Longbottoms and then head back to Rodna’s, and Bellatrix eagerly agreed.

Lin Ze returned to the Ministry with Rodna’s lifelike Bellatrix puppet and completed the handover, drawing admiration from the staff. Back at the Special Operations Team’s office, Kingsley told him that Amelia had arranged treatment for the Longbottoms at St. Mungo’s.

• Rodna brought the wooden puppet to life as a convincing Bellatrix and said it could fool even Veritaserum tests.
• Rodna offered Lin Ze a place in the Prisoners' castle so he could monitor Lin Ze’s unstable bloodline, but Lin Ze said he would think about it.
• Lin Ze took the fake Bellatrix to the Ministry of Magic, where staff mistook it for the real Bellatrix and praised his capture.
• Lin Ze returned to the office, stopped Ben’s runaway magical paper airplane, and heard that Malfoy was pushing for Wizengamot oversight of investigations involving pure-blood families.
• Kingsley visited Lin Ze and said Amelia had arranged for the Longbottoms to receive treatment at St. Mungo’s.

Lin Ze visited Frank and Alice Longbottom at St. Mungo’s and ran into Albus Dumbledore, who thanked him for rescuing the Longbottoms and Sirius. Dumbledore said he had something to discuss with Lin Ze, leaving Lin Ze poised to ask him a question of his own.

• Lin Ze visited the Longbottoms after Bellatrix was sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban.
• Lin Ze met Dumbledore outside the Longbottoms’ room, and Dumbledore recognized him from Hogwarts and invited him inside.
• Frank and Alice welcomed Dumbledore, while Alice showed signs of memory gaps as she recovered.
• Dumbledore told Frank that Neville was healthy and staying with Frank’s mother, and reassured him that he would see his son after discharge.
• As Lin Ze tried to leave, Dumbledore stopped him and said he wanted to discuss something with him.

Lin Ze discussed the Death Eaters’ strange behavior with Dumbledore, who then asked him to recommend a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for Hogwarts. Lin Ze reconsidered his first suggestion and thought Quinn might be a better candidate.

• Dumbledore took Lin Ze to tea at St. Mungo’s and asked about his work in Brazil and his meeting with Newt Scamander.
• Lin Ze told Dumbledore that some surviving Death Eaters seemed to be searching for something, and suggested they might believe Voldemort was not truly dead.
• Dumbledore compared Lin Ze’s apparent indifference to his brother Aberforth, who acted whenever danger threatened his own sheep.
• Dumbledore asked Lin Ze to recommend someone to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, explaining that the position’s curse remained a concern.
• Lin Ze suggested Benjy Fenwick, but Dumbledore said Fenwick was occupied with other matters.
• Lin Ze then thought Quinn might need a job and told Dumbledore he might have a more suitable candidate.

Lin Ze told Dumbledore about Quinn Travers, and Dumbledore asked him to connect Quinn with a Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching position at Hogwarts. Later, Lin Ze found Newt Scamander waiting outside Quinn’s house and introduced him to Quinn when the family returned.

• Dumbledore recalled Quinn Travers’s grandfather arguing against admitting Muggle-born students to Hogwarts and asked Lin Ze to put him in touch with Quinn about teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• Lin Ze warned Dumbledore that Quinn rode a modified Muggle bicycle and would need a spacious office, then left St. Mungo’s for Godric’s Hollow.
• Lin Ze found Newt Scamander waiting outside Quinn’s dark, locked house and let him inside, where they waited together by the fire.
• Quinn, Amy, and Aila returned from shopping, and Lin Ze introduced Newt to Quinn.
• Quinn recognized Newt as the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and hurriedly tried to tidy the sitting room.

Newt examined Aila and explained that she could learn to control her Obscurus through magical training and a stable environment. Quinn considered Dumbledore’s offer of a Defense Against the Dark Arts post, and the group agreed Aila could live at Hogwarts, where Newt would discuss her situation with Dumbledore.

• Newt opened his suitcase and showed Aila his Niffler, Penny, while she played with the creature.
• Newt examined Aila and said her Obscurus was quiet, could not be cured completely, and might be controlled through training and emotional stability.
• Lin Ze told Quinn that Dumbledore had invited him to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Quinn said he needed the job despite the position’s reputation.
• Newt suggested that Aila live at Hogwarts, where Quinn could look after her and Dumbledore could respond if her condition worsened.
• Aila agreed to go to Hogwarts, and Newt promised to speak with Dumbledore before she asked to see inside his suitcase.

Lin Ze and the others explored the magical world inside Newt's suitcase until Aila was drawn toward Danlin, the Obscurus Newt had separated from an Obscurial. As Danlin guided Aila to communicate with her Obscurus, the suitcase world began transforming in response.

• Newt brought Aila, Lin Ze, Quinn, and Amy into the vast world inside his suitcase and showed them its creatures.
• Aila suddenly turned black-eyed and floated toward the woods, while Lin Ze's attempt to reach her with Apparition was blocked by the space's restrictions.
• Newt revealed that Danlin, the first Obscurus he had separated from an Obscurial, had called Aila and was guiding her to communicate with her Obscurus.
• Aila's Obscurus erupted into a black pillar of light as motes gathered around her and the sky and landscape turned monochrome.
• Black threads and living vines spread through the transforming surroundings, and Newt warned Lin Ze not to touch anything as the suitcase world resonated with Aila and Danlin.

Lin Ze and the others saw Aila’s Obscurus stabilized with help from Danlin, while Quinn decided to accept the Hogwarts teaching position after meeting Dumbledore. The next morning, Minister Bagnold offered Lin Ze command of one of three squads in the expanded Special Operations Team, and he hesitated at the appointment.

• Aila’s Obscurus unleashed a shock wave, and Danlin left part of herself in Aila to help stabilize it while she learned control.
• Aila woke, saw the mark on her wrist, and learned that she had transformed into the black entity again.
• Quinn told Lin Ze he would take the teaching position but first needed to discuss matters with Dumbledore.
• Lin Ze received a message summoning him to meet Minister Bagnold at nine the next morning.
• Bagnold offered Lin Ze leadership of one of three squads in the expanded Special Operations Team, and Lin Ze did not immediately respond.

Lin Ze was promoted to lead the Special Operations Team's Third Team and had three days to recruit its members. After choosing Weiqi Lasigehuoen, he visited the Logistics Office seeking a specialist in contraband and was pointed toward Elon Carl.

• Bagnold appointed Lin Ze leader of the Special Operations Team's Third Team, tasked with handling Dark Magic items and dangerous creatures, and gave him three days to submit a ten-person roster.
• Lin Ze told Ben about his promotion and began searching Ministry personnel files for suitable recruits.
• Ben suggested Weiqi Lasigehuoen, and Lin Ze accepted him despite his reputation for wearing numerous amulets.
• Lin Ze went to the Logistics Office to find someone knowledgeable about contraband, and Malcolm Crabbe suggested Elon Carl.

Lin Ze recruited four specialists for the Ministry’s Third Special Operations Team, which focused on Dark Magic items and dangerous creatures. With six of ten positions filled, he still needed to find four more members.

• Lin Ze learned that Elon Carl had worked in the Department of Mysteries before being transferred to the Logistics Office, then persuaded Carl to join the Third Team.
• Lin Ze recruited Weiqi Lasigehuoen, who eagerly accepted and agreed to submit an application to Scrimgeour.
• Lin Ze recruited Mona Keli after she asked whether joining the team would let her swear at people.
• Lin Ze persuaded veteran magical-creature worker Bert Keladuoke to join after buying him drinks and talking with him for four hours.
• Lin Ze counted six members, including Ben and Carl, and decided to keep looking for recruits to fill the remaining four positions.

Lin Ze struggled to recruit members for Team Three until he learned Amelia had rejected Barty Crouch Jr. and offered him a place. After Barty accepted, Scrimgeour approved his transfer while warning Lin Ze that he would be responsible if anything went wrong.

• Lin Ze complained that Amelia and Moody were recruiting faster, while Ben joked about the few members on Team Three.
• Ben told Lin Ze that Amelia had rejected Barty Crouch Jr. for lacking experience, and Lin Ze decided to recruit him.
• Lin Ze offered Barty a place on Team Three, and Barty accepted.
• Amelia warned Lin Ze to make sure he could control Barty, but Lin Ze insisted he would make him work.
• Scrimgeour questioned Lin Ze about whether he had consulted Director Crouch, then signed Barty's application after warning Lin Ze to take responsibility for any problems.

Lin Ze recruited Arthur Weasley and Amos Diggory for the Ministry’s new Special Operations Team Third Subgroup and considered approaching Mia Aikelas for its final place. He suspected Mia had secretly served as a Death Eater, but had not yet met with her.

• Lin Ze showed Ben his candidates and went to invite Arthur Weasley to join the subgroup.
• Arthur hesitated and said he needed to discuss the offer with Molly.
• Lin Ze invited Amos Diggory, who accepted after Lin promised him autonomy from paperwork.
• Lin Ze told Ben he planned to approach Mia Aikelas, whom he recognized from Karkaroff’s memories as a Death Eater.
• Ben questioned whether Mia was suited to the team, and Lin said he would need to meet her first.

Lin Ze confronted Mia Aikelas about her past as a Death Eater and offered her a place on his Third Team in exchange for keeping watch on Barty Crouch Jr. Mia accepted the offer subject to two conditions, leaving Lin Ze with a new informant whose loyalty he did not expect.

• Lin Ze found Mia Aikelas at her desk in the Department of International Magical Cooperation and asked her to speak with him privately.
• Lin Ze revealed that Karkaroff had given him a list of former Death Eaters and implied that Mia was among those who had remained at the Ministry.
• Lin Ze offered Mia a choice between joining his Third Team and being exposed to Crouch and sent to Azkaban.
• Lin Ze asked Mia to monitor Barty Crouch Jr. and argued that working for him would be safer than staying among the Death Eaters.
• Mia agreed on the conditions that Lin Ze never involve underage witches or wizards and that she could abandon him if he got in over his head.

Lin Ze assembled the Third Team, laid down its rules, and began organizing their new office before Minister Bagnold summoned him. She assigned the team a case involving seven disappearances near Diagon Alley, with the latest victim found drained of all magic.

• Lin Ze welcomed the Third Team to its new office and explained its remit and rules for fieldwork and secrecy.
• Amos Diggory suggested adding a kitchenette, and Lin Ze built a curtained workspace at his desk.
• Scrimgeour urgently summoned Lin Ze to Minister Bagnold's office.
• Bagnold assigned the Third Team a case about seven people who had vanished near Diagon Alley over five days.
• Bagnold reported that the latest victim had been found dead near Knockturn Alley with all magic drained from the body, and Crouch warned that a dark creature might be responsible.

Lin Ze organized his new team to investigate a string of disappearances and drained bodies near Diagon and Knockturn Alleys, suspecting a vampire or another dark creature. The next morning, Weiqi brought in strange glowing residue from a crime scene, and Carl identified it as likely secretion or excrement from a dark creature.

• Lin Ze briefed the team on seven disappearances and assigned pairs to interview witnesses, examine the scene, and investigate the victims’ movements.
• Lin Ze reviewed the case files, considered whether a vampire or a resurrected Soul-Devouring Vine could be responsible, and asked Riddle’s Diary for advice.
• The team returned early the next morning, and Weiqi showed Lin Ze gray-black glowing particles he had scraped from a wall near the dead Gringotts guard.
• Carl examined and tasted the particles, then said they were likely a dark creature’s secretion or excrement.