Recaps

Lin Ze survived a Death Eater attack, navigated Ministry politics and a failed frame-up, then transferred to the Records Management Office and began gathering secrets. As Voldemort’s violence escalated, Lin Ze connected with Kingsley and saw a wanted poster placing a masked suspect near his home.

• Lin Ze regained memories of his former life, confronted three Death Eaters in Knockturn Alley, and arrested them after rescuing George Harper.
• Lin Ze drew attention at the Ministry, found Barty Crouch’s missing briefcase, and collected information on officials aiding suspected Death Eaters.
• Lin Ze and Olivia Delatour faced her father’s demand that Lin Ze leave the Auror Office or end their relationship, and Lin Ze refused to abandon his principles.
• Lin Ze uncovered Bodo and Malcolm Crabbe’s plan to frame him with a Dark Mark badge and exposed the false accusation in front of witnesses.
• After Dorcas Meadowes was killed, Lin Ze declined international Auror training and transferred to the Records Management Office, where he began compiling compromising records.
• Lin Ze found evidence of a deliberate Knockturn Alley fire and a classified-information leak, then prepared an unsigned letter to draw Amelia Bones toward a suppressed report.
• Lin Ze met Kingsley Shacklebolt during a defensive-magic lesson, received a letter from Olivia, and noticed a wanted poster placing a masked suspect near Claire Street.

Lin Ze joined the Ministry’s new Special Operations Team and pursued Death Eaters and their Ministry connections. Sent to France to investigate magical contraband, he traced a shipment to Hugo Bados and entered a suspected hideout alone.

• Lin Ze escaped Death Eaters in Diagon Alley with help from Quinn Travers, then learned of Voldemort’s fall and joined Scrimgeour’s Special Operations Team.
• Lin Ze named Bodo Crabbe, Seymour Parkinson, and Lucius Malfoy as targets, and the team arrested Crabbe before investigating a leak that had helped Parkinson flee.
• At a Ministry meeting, Lin Ze refused to reveal the team’s outside suspects to Malfoy, while Amelia Bones challenged Malfoy over leaked investigation details.
• Lin Ze and the team arrested Augustus Rookwood, who confessed to passing Ministry secrets to Death Eaters and revealed their search for a Slytherin relic that might grant immortality.
• Bagnold assigned Lin Ze to France, where he helped the French Aurors pressure smuggler Antoine Dupont into naming Hugo Bados and a possible hideout near Marseille’s Old Port.
• After hearing that Bados had worked on a dangerous Shadow Potion, Lin Ze went alone to an abandoned cannery and followed fresh footprints toward a half-open iron door.

Lin Ze uncovered Bados’s transformation experiments in France, then returned to Britain and pursued the truth about Sirius Black’s conviction. He found Peter Pettigrew hiding as Scabbers, and Pettigrew confessed to betraying the Potters as Sirius’s retrial began.

• Lin Ze exposed Richard’s betrayal at the cannery, rescued Benjy Fenwick from his Animagus form, and traced Bados’s operation to a cruise ship laboratory that exploded during the raid.
• Back in Britain, Lin Ze investigated the Malfoys while following Sirius Black’s trial and urging Sirius to reveal that Peter Pettigrew might still be alive.
• Lin Ze met Barty Crouch Jr. and agreed to help Sirius find Pettigrew in exchange for information about the Order of the Phoenix.
• Lin Ze visited the Burrow with Old Prewett, identified Percy’s rat Scabbers as Pettigrew, and secretly explained the truth to Molly Weasley.
• Lin Ze brought Pettigrew to Barty Crouch, where he admitted betraying the Potters, and Crouch arrested him while preparing to retry Sirius’s case.
• Lin Ze told Sirius that Pettigrew had been caught and promised to learn his transfer route, while warning his guards to keep Pettigrew alive.
• Lin Ze learned from Mr. K that Igor Karkaroff was hiding in a warehouse basement in Tromsø, Norway.
• At Sirius’s hearing, Pettigrew drank Veritaserum and confessed that he betrayed the Potters to Voldemort, caused the Muggle street explosion, and escaped as a rat.

Lin Ze rescued Aila from her Obscurus, secured her a place with Quinn and Amy, and uncovered new leads through Karkaroff’s memories and the Ministry’s investigations. His search for an object tied to Lucius Malfoy led him into a confrontation with Rodna Grindelwald, who brought him to his study to question his unusual magic.

• After Peter Pettigrew confessed under Veritaserum, Crouch cleared Sirius and sentenced Peter to Azkaban, while Lin Ze arranged to learn Peter’s transfer route.
• Lin Ze followed Peter’s escort in Yorkshire and watched Death Eaters attack it before a huge black dog killed Peter and fled.
• In Tromsø, Lin Ze met Aila, whose Obscurus erupted when armed Muggles threatened them, and helped her regain control by reassuring her that her abuse was not her fault.
• Lin Ze took Aila to the magical world, secured her legal identity through the Ministry, and arranged for Quinn and Amy to care for her.
• Lin Ze questioned Karkaroff, extracted memories and information about other Death Eaters, then examined memories showing Barty Crouch Jr.’s initiation and Lucius Malfoy among the Death Eaters.
• After hearing Weiqi and Barty Crouch Jr. describe the ambush, Lin Ze received Crouch’s request to investigate Ministry moles and learned from Fudge that Lucius had hidden an object sought by the Dark Lord.
• Lin Ze and Fudge entered a concealed room beneath a Diagon Alley shop, where a hooded attacker ambushed them and pursued Lin Ze into a London square.
• The attacker revealed himself as Rodna Grindelwald, son of Gellert Grindelwald, and brought Lin Ze through a spacetime rift to his study to question him about his unusual magic.