Chapter Summaries

Lin Ze escaped a vampire’s grip through a tear in space, then collapsed with a severe shoulder wound and an unresponsive badge. After Rodna hinted that light-based positive spells could counter vampires, Lin Ze woke at night and discovered a new spell circuit in the black-bound book.

• A vampire grabbed Lin Ze, but Mario’s attempt to strike it with a broken oar failed, and Lin Ze escaped through a rift in space.
• Lin Ze treated his shoulder with a Blood-Staunching Charm, found that his silver badge could not contact Rodna, and passed out beside a river.
• In a dream, Rodna told Lin Ze that vampire bloodlines resisted his usual methods and suggested using positive spells of light.
• Lin Ze woke after dark, poured Essence of Dittany on his wound, and opened Rodna’s book.
• The book’s shifting text settled and revealed a brand-new spell circuit to Lin Ze.

Lin Ze struggled to cast Dawn until he summoned a huge phantom goddess of light, then barely stopped the spell before it drained away his magic. After recovering, he met Mario, whose unusually quiet, steady movements made Lin Ze suspicious.

• Lin Ze repeatedly failed to cast Dawn, even after trying to guide it with happy emotions.
• Lin Ze remembered Andros and focused on positive memories of defeating dark wizards and taking their gold, successfully casting Dawn.
• Dawn formed an enormous ball of light that became a phantom goddess, and Lin Ze begged her to stop before she drained his magic.
• Lin Ze drank restorative potion he had taken from Lucius and cursed Rodna for not explaining the spell.
• Mario emerged from the bushes and said he had followed the light, while Lin Ze noticed that Mario moved strangely quietly and steadily.

Lin Ze exposed and destroyed a vampire disguised as Mario, then met Newt Scamander on the riverbank. Exhausted after the fight, Lin Ze began asking Newt for help.

• Lin Ze realized the supposed Mario was a vampire and challenged it to show its true form.
• Lin Ze summoned the goddess of light, trapped the vampire, and used her power to shrivel it.
• Newt Scamander arrived and introduced himself after Lin Ze identified him and said he had come to find him.
• Newt sprinkled a powder made from silver, salt, and Thestral Beast feathers on the vampire, turning it to dust.

After Lin Ze and Newt dealt with the vampire, Newt treated Lin Ze’s wounds and agreed to help Aila with her Obscurial condition. Lin Ze returned to Britain while Newt stayed in the rainforest to protect the Cuypera and find their nesting grounds.

• Newt told Lin Ze that the vampire would eventually revive and could not be permanently killed, though it would remain weak for a long time.
• Newt led Lin Ze to a dry hollow in a tree and treated his wounds with painful ointment made from Swooping Evil venom and Ashwinder eggshells.
• Lin Ze explained how he had encountered the Cuypera and asked Newt to help Aila, an eight-year-old Obscurial; Newt agreed to visit Godric's Hollow after his work in the rainforest.
• The next morning, Newt fed a Cuypera small beige pellets and explained that the snakes were generally gentle.
• Newt gave Lin Ze Rimau serum before Lin Ze Apparated away, while Newt stayed behind to locate the Cuypera’s nesting grounds.

Lin Ze spotted Bellatrix Lestrange at Miami Airport and followed her into the underground garage, where she and an unknown gray-suited wizard attacked him. When the man’s Killing Curse struck Lin Ze’s black diary, it released a teenage boy’s phantom and triggered a powerful magical explosion.

• Lin Ze recognized Bellatrix Lestrange at Miami Airport and followed her through a staff corridor to the underground garage.
• Lin Ze discovered Bellatrix speaking with an unfamiliar blond man in a gray suit, but a loose drain cover exposed him.
• Lin Ze attacked the pair, and Bellatrix and the gray-suited man fought back with Dark Magic and a Killing Curse.
• Lin Ze threw his black diary at the gray-suited man, whose Killing Curse hit it and released a teenage boy’s phantom.
• The diary’s phantom struggled against the Killing Curse, and the collision of green and white light blasted all three wizards backward and cracked the garage pillars.

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.