Chapter Summaries

Lin Ze accepted Rodna’s invitation to join the newly formed group Prisoners in exchange for learning magic, then glimpsed possible futures when they shook hands. Rodna sent him back to the ruined shop, leaving Lin Ze to consider what he could take from the basement.

• Rodna offered to teach Lin Ze magic in return for a favor and gave him a silver badge to contact him.
• Rodna handed Lin Ze a rune-filled book and explained that he had come to Britain after seeing a future in which Lin Ze was the key to a turning point.
• Rodna invited Lin Ze to join Prisoners, and Lin Ze accepted despite his misgivings.
• When Lin Ze and Rodna clasped hands, Lin Ze saw visions of branching futures, including Aila controlling her power and himself meeting Lucius Malfoy.
• Rodna told Lin Ze that Prisoners had only three members, then sent him through a rift back to the ruined shop.
• Lin Ze concluded that Fudge seemed safe and decided to retrieve the object in the shop’s basement.

Lin Ze learned Boundary Break from Rodna’s shifting book and used it to enter Lucius’s hidden vault, where he found Tom Riddle’s Diary. After concealing the diary, he was trapped inside when two people opened the vault door.

• Lin Ze repaired the wreckage in the shop and found a rune-covered iron door in the basement that resisted his spells.
• Lin Ze studied Rodna’s book, discovered its runes responded to Occlumency, and learned the Boundary-Breaking Spell.
• Lin Ze tore a rift into the vault, first opening it onto an abyss before successfully targeting the space behind the iron door.
• Lin Ze found Tom Riddle’s Diary, protected it, and stored it in his enchanted box.
• The vault door opened while Lin Ze was low on magic, and he fired a Stunning Spell at the two people outside as they raised Shield Charms.

Lin Ze broke into a goblin-metal vault and discovered Barty Crouch Jr. and Lucius Malfoy trying to retrieve Voldemort's diary. He escaped the burning shop, but Barty recognized that the diary had been stolen and set out to kill him.

• Lin Ze faced two silver-masked wizards in the vault, and their spells bounced off its goblin-metal walls.
• Lin Ze fled the vault, escaped the masked men’s spells with Apparition, and blocked a fire blast that engulfed the shop.
• Lin Ze filled the burning shop with fog, sent a snake at one pursuer, and ran into Diagon Alley.
• Lin Ze dodged a Killing Curse in an alley and recognized one masked wizard as Barty Crouch Jr.
• Lin Ze deduced that the other wizard was Lucius Malfoy and that they had come to retrieve Voldemort’s diary.
• Barty Crouch Jr. realized Lin Ze had taken the diary and vowed to kill him.

Lin Ze lured Barty Crouch Jr. and Lucius Malfoy into a narrow alley, blocked their escape, and turned to fight them after surviving their Killing Curses with Boundary Break. The battle continued as Lin Ze attacked Lucius, who dropped his disguise.

• Lin Ze led Barty Crouch Jr. and Lucius through Diagon Alley before trapping them in a narrow dead-end alley with an Anti-Apparition Jinx.
• Lin Ze identified Barty Crouch Jr. and Lucius, then used Boundary Break to swallow their simultaneous Killing Curses.
• Barty Crouch Jr. and Lucius attacked Lin Ze with curses, chains, and stone spikes, but he escaped the chains and blocked three more Killing Curses with a stone wall.
• Lin Ze counterattacked with Raven Rain Assault and used Boundary Break to appear behind Lucius.
• Lucius dodged Lin Ze's Cruciatus Curse, removed his mask, and revealed his face.

Lin Ze fought Barty Crouch Jr. and Lucius Malfoy in an alley, using Fiendfyre and spatial magic to defeat them. After the fight, he searched both men and took their money, potions, pass, seal, and vault key.

• Barty Crouch Jr. attacked Lin Ze with a flaming python, and Lin Ze countered with spells before Barty pierced his shoulder with a thread of fire.
• Lin Ze and Barty Crouch Jr. each cast Fiendfyre, while Lucius fled toward the alley entrance and Lin Ze blocked his escape.
• Lin Ze used spatial magic to appear behind Barty, disarmed him, and stunned him twice.
• Lin Ze sent Petrificus Totalus spells through a spatial rift to freeze Lucius, then dispelled his Fiendfyre.
• Lin Ze searched Barty and took his potions, Auror Office pass, and money, then took Lucius's snake-shaped seal and Gringotts vault key.

Lin Ze abducted Barty Crouch Jr. and forced Lucius Malfoy to agree to discreetly use his influence for Lin Ze’s people in the Ministry of Magic. He left Barty buried on a remote Scottish hill as leverage against Crouch Sr., while Lucius walked away marked by Lin Ze’s magical insurance.

• Lin Ze returned from the rift, took Lucius’s wand, and introduced himself as a low-ranking member of an organization called the Prisoners.
• Lin Ze used Lucius’s weakened position and fear for Malfoy Manor to make him agree to support Lin Ze’s people in the Ministry of Magic when needed.
• Lin Ze marked the back of Lucius’s hand with a faint silver star as a guarantee, then released him from Petrificus Totalus.
• Lucius left the alley, and Lin Ze watched him go before noticing his wound still had not healed.
• Lin Ze left Barty Crouch Jr. buried up to the neck on a remote hill in Inverness, intending to use him as leverage against Crouch Sr.

Lin Ze sought treatment for a Dark Magic wound that resisted ordinary healing, but Petrov could not remove the spell’s lingering power. Rodna began a painful attempt to extract it, leaving Lin Ze enduring the silvery-white flames pressed into his shoulder.

• Lin Ze discovered that Essence of Dittany briefly shrank his wound before it reopened, then slept fitfully and overslept.
• Lin Ze told Moody he was injured and taking the day off, then visited Petrov Apothecary in Knockturn Alley.
• Petrov explained that only someone more powerful than the spell’s caster could forcibly remove the power clinging to the wound, and he could not help.
• Lin Ze contacted Rodna, who brought him to her study after he asked her to avoid opening a rift in busy Knockturn Alley.
• Rodna pressed a ball of silvery-white flames into Lin Ze’s wound and held him still as he endured the pain.

After Rodna healed Lin Ze’s shoulder, Lin Ze tested his new Boundary Break spell and contacted the soul fragment in Tom Riddle’s diary. He revealed that he knew Riddle’s future, but the diary fell silent, leaving Lin Ze unable to provoke a response.

• Rodna healed Lin Ze’s shoulder with silvery-white flames and ointment, and Lin Ze told him he had learned Boundary Break.
• Lin Ze used Boundary Break to reach an abandoned factory and opened the box containing the diary.
• Lin Ze wrote to Tom Riddle while protecting his thoughts with Occlumency, and the diary asked who he was.
• Lin Ze identified Tom Riddle and mocked him when he asked who Lin Ze was.
• Lin Ze explained that Riddle’s future self had split his soul, lost his nose and hair, and been killed by a baby, then claimed he planned to help Riddle return.
• When the diary stopped responding, Lin Ze poked it with his wand, producing sparks, but could not damage it.

Lin Ze learned that Karkaroff had been found hiding in a Knockturn Alley hotel and went to confront him. With Aurors surrounding the hotel and Apparition blocked, Lin Ze discovered Karkaroff had returned to Britain because he was broke, leaving them trapped in his room.

• Ben told Lin Ze that Karkaroff had been found at the Erotica hotel in Knockturn Alley.
• Lin Ze reached the hotel and learned from Kingsley that Crouch had authorized an Auror operation to surround it and block Apparition.
• Lin Ze entered the hotel and went to the second-floor room where Karkaroff was hiding under the false name Novikov.
• Karkaroff told Lin Ze he had returned from Norway because he had run out of money and had tried to hide in the hotel as a blind spot.
• Lin Ze scolded Karkaroff and asked how they would escape the Aurors, while Karkaroff began to cry.

Lin Ze helped Karkaroff escape the Aurors by staging a fight and sending him through a spatial rift to a remote cliff near Dover. There, Lin Ze forced Karkaroff to admit he had come from Norway to recover something belonging to the Dark Lord.

• Lin Ze told Karkaroff to trade spells with him and helped him wreck the inn room to make it look like he had escaped during a fight.
• Lin Ze sent Karkaroff through a spatial rift, then added more damage to the room and pretended to be injured when he faced the Aurors.
• Lin Ze told Kingsley and Ben that Karkaroff had escaped using an alchemical device, and Kingsley ordered the Aurors to search the inn.
• Lin Ze slipped away from the Aurors and used Boundary Break to reach a secluded cliff near Dover, where Karkaroff had waited as instructed.
• Lin Ze slapped Karkaroff until he admitted he had come to Britain to find a chance to recover something belonging to the Dark Lord.

Lin Ze interrogated Karkaroff about a rumor that the Dark Lord had hidden an object connected to immortality in Knockturn Alley, then sheltered him in an abandoned London factory. The next morning, Lin Ze arrived at Quinn’s house in Godric’s Hollow and found Aila running barefoot in the frosty yard.

• Karkaroff told Lin Ze that the Carrow siblings had spread a rumor about the Dark Lord leaving an object linked to immortality in Knockturn Alley.
• Lin Ze used the Cruciatus Curse to make Karkaroff explain that the Aurors were watching Knockturn Alley and the object was supposedly cursed.
• Lin Ze threatened Karkaroff with a fake explosive curse, then took him to an abandoned factory and ordered him to stay hidden.
• Lin Ze traveled to Godric’s Hollow at dawn and headed to Quinn’s house.
• Amy chased Aila around the yard, trying to make her put on shoes, and Aila ran toward Lin Ze before slipping in the mud.

Lin Ze visited Aila in Godric's Hollow, where her health and energy had improved, and warned Quinn that Knockturn Alley might become dangerous. After leaving, Lin Ze asked Harper to find files on Newt Scamander so he could learn more about the Obscurus.

• Lin Ze joined Aila, Amy, and Quinn for breakfast and learned that Aila had become unusually energetic, while Quinn worked on adjusting the magic-suppressing ring to target only the Obscurus.
• Lin Ze warned Quinn that the Dark Lord had hidden something related to immortality in Knockturn Alley and advised him to stay away from the area.
• Lin Ze spent the morning with Aila, picking wild fruit and explaining Hogwarts, its Houses, the Sorting Hat, and Dumbledore.
• When Lin Ze left, Aila asked him to stay alive so she could marry him when she grew up, and Quinn laughed as Lin Ze departed through the Floo Network.
• Lin Ze returned to the Ministry of Magic and asked Harper to find as much information as possible about Newt Scamander.

Lin Ze confronted Kage Greengrass with evidence of his connection to Igor Karkaroff and pressured him into cooperating. After returning to the Special Operations Team, Lin Ze learned Moody wanted to warn him about Cornelius Fudge.

• Lin Ze found Kage in a secret room with suspicious bottles and jars, then showed him Karkaroff's memory and revealed he knew about Kage's promised werewolf troops.
• Lin Ze offered to protect Kage in exchange for information about Ministry officials still in contact with Death Eater remnants, and Kage agreed.
• Ben told Lin Ze that Moody had been looking for him, so Lin Ze went to Interrogation Room Four.
• Moody asked whether Lin Ze had grown close to Fudge and warned him that Fudge was not as simple as he seemed.

Lin Ze confronted Fudge about meeting Lucius Malfoy, then investigated Newt Scamander’s whereabouts through a file and Mr. K. At the Poison Dragon Bar, Barty Crouch Jr. arrived and sat near Lin Ze.

• Moody warned Lin Ze that Fudge had privately met Lucius Malfoy, and Lin Ze denied telling Fudge anything.
• Lin Ze confronted Fudge, who admitted he had drinks with Malfoy but claimed he learned nothing.
• Lin Ze read Harper’s file on Newt Scamander and found that his latest recorded appearance was in Brazil.
• Lin Ze asked Mr. K about Scamander, paid him fifty Galleons for information, and was interrupted by Barty Crouch Jr.’s arrival.
• Barty Crouch Jr. ordered a Firewhisky and sat one seat away from Lin Ze.

Lin Ze learned that Newt Scamander had been seen in Brazil and that Barty Crouch Jr. was seeking information about a spell that could tear open a glowing rift. Sirius then asked Lin Ze to help find Remus Lupin, who might be hiding or in danger because the wizarding world had rejected werewolves.

• Barty Crouch Jr. asked Mr. K for information about someone who could cast a spell that tore a glowing rift in midair, and paid him to investigate.
• Mr. K told Lin Ze that Newt Scamander had been seen near São Gabriel in Brazil while tracking a winged snake.
• Lin Ze left Knockturn Alley and received a message from Kingsley saying Sirius wanted to see him.
• Sirius told Lin Ze that he wanted to find Remus Lupin and bring him back, though he did not know where Remus was.
• Sirius explained that Remus would never join the Dark Lord’s werewolves, but might have gone into hiding or met a worse fate because no one would accept him.

Lin Ze arranged a covert trip to Manaus, Brazil, using a report about Bellatrix Lestrange as his reason for getting approval. He boarded a flight after consulting Tom about a winged serpent in the Amazon, but felt as if someone was watching him on the way to the airport.

• Lin Ze told Sirius he would keep watch for information, then left him in the square.
• Lin Ze claimed he had received a tip about Bellatrix Lestrange near Manaus, and Moody approved his operations request.
• Lin Ze obtained travel clearance, withdrew supplies from Gringotts vault 618, and packed potions, clothes, and two magical books.
• Lin Ze spoke with Tom through Riddle's Diary, who identified the Amazonian Cuypera as a venomous winged serpent.
• Lin Ze felt watched as he walked to the airport and prepared to board his flight to Manaus via São Paulo.

Lin Ze traveled from São Paulo to Manaus, where he found inexpensive lodging and began settling in. He planned to track down Newt, while an encounter with local guide Carlos Pereira left him uneasy.

• Lin Ze endured a cramped flight to São Paulo and passed his layover sampling chocolates before falling asleep and dreaming of a child who asked whether he had come to steal snakes.
• Lin Ze met Carlos Pereira at the airport, declined to hire him as a guide, and felt something was off after Carlos left.
• Lin Ze flew to Manaus and, after arriving in the heat, arranged for a local boy to take him to a guesthouse.
• Lin Ze paid for a room, rested until evening, and ate grilled fish with rice and cassava soup at a nearby eatery.

Lin Ze tracked Newt Scamander to the Negro River and pursued a flying snake that wrecked his boat. He and Ze Mario followed it to a vine-choked river bend, where Mario warned that a water ghost called Libodu lived there.

• Lin Ze learned from an old drink seller that a white-haired old man with a battered suitcase had traveled upriver while asking about a flying snake.
• Lin Ze hired Ze Mario to take him toward São Gabriel, and they spotted a black snake gliding over the river.
• Lin Ze paid Mario extra to chase the snake, which struck the boat and threw them into the water.
• Lin Ze's spellbook opened and its runes flickered as the snake watched them from the river before gliding to the opposite bank.
• Lin Ze used a Drying Charm and persuaded Mario to follow the snake, and they tracked it to a dense tangle of vines.
• Mario stopped Lin Ze and warned him that Libodu, the water ghost of the river, lived at the bend.

Lin Ze and Mario explored the vine-covered pool where Mario’s Libodu was said to lurk, but a pale hand and a swarm of giant bats forced them to flee. Lin Ze suspected the creature was a vampire and Apparated them away before it emerged.

• Lin Ze used his wand to open a path through the vines, and Mario realized he was a wizard and begged him not to eat him.
• Lin Ze found giant bats, bones, and a dark opening beside the pool, then Mario followed him into the vines.
• A pale hand rose from the pool, and the giant bats opened their scarlet eyes and attacked.
• Lin Ze cast spells to drive back the bats as he dragged Mario out of the vines; the swarm stopped at the edge.
• Lin Ze told Mario the Libodu might be a vampire, recalled an old Ministry file about an immortal vampire, and Apparated them away.

Lin Ze and Mario encountered a vampire that resisted their attacks and pursued Lin Ze along the riverbank. After the vampire wounded Lin Ze and even Fiendfyre failed to stop it, it grabbed his shoulder while Boundary Break was still opening.

• Lin Ze spotted a grotesque vampire on the riverbank after Mario vomited, and Mario recognized it as Libodu.
• Lin Ze hit the vampire with Reducto and Incendio, but it survived both spells without injury.
• Lin Ze fled as the vampire chased him, and his Cruciatus Curse and Killing Curse had no effect.
• The vampire’s sonic attack disoriented Lin Ze, and it slashed his back as he dodged.
• Lin Ze struck the vampire with Fiendfyre, but it whipped the fire apart with its tongue and charged again.
• Lin Ze opened Boundary Break, but the vampire caught his left shoulder before it finished opening.