Recaps

Grindelwald explained to Mo Fei how mystery affected wizards, Muggles, and magical creatures, and why Mo Fei’s experiment had succeeded. He offered to help save the child in exchange for Pure Water.

• Grindelwald transformed the orphanage into an illusory forest clearing to demonstrate his magic, and Mo Fei sensed he could challenge Grindelwald’s control of the building.
• Grindelwald explained that wizarding magic came from the soul, and described how mystery shaped the differences between wizards, Muggles, half-bloods, Squibs, and magical creatures.
• Grindelwald said Mo Fei’s experiment had involved Ancient Runes and Parseltongue, but that his understanding of Runes was shallow and his success had depended on luck.
• Mo Fei accepted Grindelwald’s explanation as a direction for his future research.
• Grindelwald offered to help save the child Mo Fei had planned to take to St. Mungo’s, asking for Pure Water as payment.

Mo Fei arranged for a St. Mungo's healer to treat Zane, but the healer's contempt for Muggles and refusal to discuss his plan led Mo Fei to attack him. Mo Fei held the healer at knifepoint-like close range, leaving him frightened and asking whether Mo Fei intended to kill him.

• Grindelwald's connections secured a visit from a St. Mungo's healer specializing in congenital diseases.
• Mo Fei insisted on hearing the healer's treatment plan for Zane, but the healer mocked him and refused to take his concerns seriously.
• The healer drew his wand to threaten Mo Fei, who disarmed him, dislocated his wrist, and sent him crashing into a wall.
• When the healer tried to Apparate away, Mo Fei grabbed his throat and pressed a hand over his heart, warning him not to run.
• The frightened healer asked Mo Fei whether he was going to kill him.

Mo Fei and Gideon Brook discussed how to treat Zane’s congenital heart defect, but Permanent Transfiguration raised serious questions about whether a newly created heart would be compatible with him. Gideon proposed stimulating Zane’s heart to heal itself, leaving Mo Fei uncertain whether it would repair the defect or return to its faulty original state.

• Mo Fei reset Gideon Brook’s dislocated wrist, and the two introduced themselves and discussed their healing abilities.
• Mo Fei explained that Zane had a congenital heart defect and asked whether Gideon could reshape his heart using Permanent Transfiguration.
• Gideon explained that Permanent Transfiguration destroyed the original object and created something entirely new, making Mo Fei worry that a transfigured heart might not suit Zane.
• Gideon suggested magically stimulating Zane’s heart to heal itself, claiming his soul would guide it toward perfection.
• Mo Fei questioned whether Zane’s body would treat its birth defect as its original state, and remained uneasy about Gideon’s answer.

Mo Fei and Gideon settled on a risky plan to use Gideon’s healing spell while Mo Fei reshaped Zane’s heart, and Zane chose to undergo the surgery. They prepared to begin the operation, with Mo Fei using a special decoction to lower Zane’s vital activity.

• Mo Fei realized that relying on Zane’s Muggle soul to guide the healing spell could cause the damaged tissue to swell and explode, so he proposed controlling the repair himself.
• Gideon agreed the plan was feasible but warned that exposing Zane’s heart would put the child at grave risk.
• Mo Fei explained the risks and uncertain odds to Zane, who immediately chose surgery because he feared his condition was worsening.
• Tom offered to help, and Mo Fei told him to watch and learn before preparing a vitality-rich feigned-death decoction.
• After the preparations were complete, Tom brought Zane downstairs.

Mo Fei and Gideon performed surgery on Zane, using magic to repair the severe defects in his heart. The operation succeeded, but after they reversed the measures that had placed him in suspended animation, Zane still would not wake up.

• Zane thanked Mo Fei for his happy life at the orphanage, drank the potion, and lay down for the operation.
• Gideon used sleeping and life-sustaining charms to slow Zane's vital functions while Mo Fei opened his chest.
• Mo Fei and Gideon worked together to repair the missing parts of Zane's heart with a careful cycle of cuts and healing magic.
• Gideon confirmed that Zane had no remaining problems, and Mo Fei restored the ribs and sutured his chest.
• Mo Fei used Qi to expel the remaining potion while Gideon slowly reversed his spells, but Zane did not wake up.

Mo Fei and Gideon tried to awaken Zane after his operation, using qi and Gideon’s Dream Connection spell to enter Zane’s subconscious. Mo Fei reached Zane in a room of memories and called him home, and Zane opened his eyes.

• Mo Fei fed qi into Zane’s brain while Gideon cast Dream Connection to reach him.
• Mo Fei entered Zane’s subconscious and followed a connection through a dark passage to a room filled with Zane’s memories.
• Mo Fei entered the final memory, where Zane lay on the operating table, and gently patted his hand.
• Mo Fei told Zane that his director had come to take him home, and Zane opened his eyes in delighted surprise.

Mo Fei and Gideon completed the operation that cured Zane, and Zane woke to begin his recovery. After seeing Mo Fei lead the surgery, Tom became convinced that strength mattered more than whether someone was a wizard or a Muggle, while Mo Fei reflected that the children were all settled and that Tom was the last one he needed to guide.

• Mo Fei woke Zane after the operation, and Tom helped the weak, sore boy sit up.
• Tom recalled watching Mo Fei lead the surgery and developed an interest in dissection and a belief that strength mattered more than bloodline or magical status.
• Gideon confirmed that Zane was healthy, gave Mo Fei recovery potions, and invited him to discuss medicine at St. Mungo's before leaving.
• Mo Fei reviewed how the children had found their own paths and concluded that Tom was the only one left for him to focus on.

After Zane recovered from surgery, Tom asked Mo Fei to teach him medicine, and Mo Fei agreed, hoping that studying medicine would teach Tom to value life. Their decision marked a turning point in fate, which Grindelwald sensed and then concealed.

• Mo Fei gave Zane diluted potion and a meal of restorative dishes, and Zane felt recovered after dinner.
• Boer nearly fainted when Tom tricked him with a bloodstained cloth, then joked that Tom could have become a famous doctor.
• Tom asked Mo Fei to teach him medicine because he found the work meaningful, and Mo Fei agreed.
• Mo Fei hoped that medicine would help Tom understand the value of life and change his future.
• Grindelwald sensed fate turning and concealed its fluctuations from the other wizards.

Mo Fei taught Tom medicinal herbology while Grindelwald instructed him in post-battle recovery, and Tom established his foundation over two years. After graduating from Hogwarts, Kyle chose to travel and study magical clothing, but postponed visiting France because tensions between Grindelwald’s supporters and Dumbledore’s opposing ideals were growing.

• Mo Fei taught Tom the medicinal uses of Muggle and wizarding herbs, while Grindelwald taught him how wizards could maintain their condition after battles.
• By the time Tom was nine, his studies had continued for two years, and Kyle graduated from Hogwarts with strong results.
• Kyle told Mo Fei he planned to travel the world to study magical fabrics and clothing, and Mo Fei warned him to stay away from Germany and France.
• Dumbledore argued that wizards should not rule through force because doing so could undermine the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Kyle decided to postpone visiting a reclusive master alchemist in France and began making final preparations at the orphanage.

Kyle showed Mo Fei and Tom the first outfit he had made from Deep-Sea Devil Ray skin, explaining its protective charms and his plans to learn more about magical materials. Tom tried it on and found it exceptionally comfortable, while Kyle assured Mo Fei that it could expand as Tom grew and that he would make him more clothes in the future.

• Kyle presented Tom with a lake-blue outfit made from Deep-Sea Devil Ray skin and described its protective charms and underwater Bubble-Head Charm.
• Kyle told Mo Fei that he wanted to make clothes from magical plants and creatures and was leaving to learn how to treat their materials.
• Mo Fei joked that Kyle had found the Good Luck Bird from his childhood, and Kyle happily agreed.
• Tom tried on the outfit, which fit him perfectly, and found that it felt comfortable and made movement easier.
• Kyle explained that the outfit could expand as Tom grew and said he would make him more clothes later.

Kyle gave gifts to everyone at the orphanage before saying goodbye, while they recalled the presents they had given him the day before. After Mo Fei embraced him and everyone offered their blessings, Kyle Disapparated, leaving the others to feel his absence despite knowing he would return.

• Tom showed off the fine clothes Kyle had made for him, and Boer teased Kyle about his gifts before Kyle brought out presents for everyone.
• Aiwen returned to the orphanage and admired Tom's outfit as Kyle handed out gifts, including a helpful plant for Aiwen and a fireproof baking glove for Lina.
• Kyle gave Boer a message-delivering owl, Zane Focus Potion, Mia protective flower tea, and Jimmy and Lucy pills that could each shield them from harm once.
• Kyle gave Mo Fei a volume of Herbology notes, and Mo Fei embraced him and told him his home would always be Kyle's home.
• After everyone shared their farewells, Kyle Disapparated in front of them for the first time, leaving the orphanage feeling bereft.

Mo Fei taught Tom human anatomy, emphasizing the value of life, while Tom’s questions about wizard biology slowed their lessons. As Grindelwald’s growing organization lost control of Dark wizards causing chaos in Britain, he asked Mo Fei whether such wizards represented the future, and Mo Fei argued that Tom might someday help bring Muggles and wizards together; trouble then came to Mo Fei’s door.

• After two years of groundwork, Mo Fei began teaching Tom human anatomy, and the lessons took a year as Tom raised questions about wizard biology.
• Grindelwald’s expanding organization lost control of some Dark wizards, who claimed his name while oppressing Muggles in Britain.
• The Ministry of Magic sent Aurors to purge the Dark wizards, but the turmoil damaged Grindelwald’s reputation and spread fear in London.
• Grindelwald asked Mo Fei whether the reckless Dark wizards were the future of the Wizarding World.
• Mo Fei said such wizards served no purpose and suggested that a capable person like Tom might eventually unite Muggles and wizards.
• Grindelwald smiled without giving his opinion, and trouble came knocking at Mo Fei’s door.

A group of dark wizards in Britain plotted to win the Acolytes’ attention by targeting an East End orphanage. They agreed to capture and kill Muggles there, and whoever killed one first would lead the group.

• The dark wizards argued over how to gain the Acolytes’ acceptance, while the woman explained that a Hogwarts professor had defeated the lord’s subordinates in London.
• The woman proposed targeting the Muggles at an East End orphanage after an earlier attack there had failed and drawn in the Hogwarts professor.
• She offered leadership of the group to whoever killed a Muggle first and would contact the Acolytes on their behalf.
• The dark wizards agreed and began preparing schemes against Mo Fei and the others.

Mo Fei realized that hostile wizards were watching him and let a fortune-telling witch approach him so he could learn their intentions. He resisted her weak spell and pretended to be affected, but the witch moved ahead with her plan to ensnare him.

• Mo Fei noticed malicious gazes following him and remembered Grindelwald's warning about unscrupulous wandering wizards.
• After two days of hesitation, a Gypsy witch approached Mo Fei at a fortune-telling table and offered to divine his future.
• Mo Fei recognized her as one of his watchers, sat down, and challenged her to prove she was a real witch.
• The witch used a chilling wind spell, but Mo Fei's protective Qi blocked it, so he faked a reaction to avoid suspicion.
• Mo Fei asked whether the last child at his orphanage would have a successful future, and the witch decided to use Divination and magic to control him.

Mo Fei went to a fortune-teller to learn about Tom’s future, but the woman’s attempt to hypnotize and control him backfired. They both became trapped in a mental space, where Mo Fei explained that their clashing minds had created the void.

• Mo Fei paid the woman ten pounds and chose her worn tarot cards to divine Tom’s future.
• The woman shuffled the cards and told Mo Fei that Tom might become an important figure who influenced the world.
• Hoofbeats shook the alley, breaking the table and scattering the cards, and Mo Fei caught one that the woman identified as Death.
• The woman decided Tom might bring death and resolved to eliminate him, then tried to hypnotize Mo Fei with her crystal ball.
• Mo Fei resisted the woman’s control, but their minds collided and pulled her consciousness into a void with him.
• Mo Fei told the furious woman that they were in their mental space, which their clashing minds had temporarily turned into a void.

Mo Fei listened as the woman revealed her brutal past, then used the Mo Orphanage in their mental space to strip away her magic and destroy her. He collected the black light of spirituality she left behind, learning it could enhance lethal skills, and went toward the study.

• The woman recounted how she killed the witch who raised her, escaped the Ministry of Magic, and later lost her luck and ability to learn magic.
• The woman attacked Mo Fei with zombie-like figures, but he summoned the Mo Orphanage and its open doorway.
• The orphanage drew the woman inside, where she lost her magic and could no longer fight or escape.
• The woman dissolved as points of light and a black bead emerged from her, and Mo Fei picked up the bead.
• Mo Fei learned the black light of spirituality could enhance skills into lethal arts, then walked toward the study.

Mo Fei explored the orphanage study and discovered the witch’s stolen knowledge, learning the truth of her past and gaining access to her Divination talent. He returned to the alley, where the woman remained alive but vacant after her consciousness had vanished.

• Mo Fei found three books in the orphanage study and realized the mental space had turned the witch’s skills into tangible books.
• Mo Fei read the books and learned that the woman had fled the Gypsy witch, mastered dark magic, and later killed her while she was injured.
• Mo Fei discovered that he could learn some of the woman’s Herbology knowledge, though the magical parts of her dark-magic books were illegible.
• Mo Fei found that he had inherited the woman’s spiritual talent for Divination and could use her mystical tools, though their effects weakened with each use.
• Mo Fei’s awareness blurred and he returned to the alley, where the woman lay breathing with no light in her eyes.

Mo Fei collected the remains of the witch’s ritual tools and left her to die after her magic stripped away her will. Meanwhile, a dark wizard broke into the orphanage to seize Tom, but Tom and his Horned Serpent were ready for him.

• Mo Fei found that the witch had lost all will and would eventually die, and he gathered the broken ritual objects she had left behind.
• Mo Fei compared the witch’s mind-affecting methods to Gilderoy’s magic, then left the alley as a homeless man later discovered her frozen corpse.
• A dark wizard planned to take Tom hostage at the orphanage, but the Horned Serpent detected the intruder as soon as he entered.
• Tom told the Horned Serpent to let him handle the intruder and silently went downstairs to confront him.
• The dark wizard cast Tarantallegra at Tom, expecting to make him dance, but the spell struck the Horned Serpent instead.

Tom easily dodged a wizard’s spells, drawing on the combat training Mo Fei and Grindelwald had given him. When the furious wizard set the room ablaze, Tom’s smile vanished and he faced the spreading fire with anger.

• Tom sidestepped the wizard’s spell and dodged a second attack as he came down the stairs.
• Mo Fei had trained Tom to dodge concealed sandbag attacks, teaching him to use all his senses and react to attacks from any direction.
• After Tom adapted to Mo Fei’s training, Grindelwald taught him to read spellcasters’ movements and anticipate where their spells would land.
• The wizard grew furious at Tom’s apparent distraction and cast Ground Fire Spreads, igniting a corner of the room.
• Tom watched the fire spread and cursed as his expression turned icy.

Tom defeated the Dark wizard threatening the orphanage by poisoning him and unleashing venomous snakes. The Horned Serpent extinguished the magical fire with Pure Water, but Mo Fei returned to find the room flooded.

• Tom attacked the wizard with a kick and a flying dagger, but the man's tattoos hardened his body and let him deflect both attacks.
• Tom recognized that his toxin had begun spreading through the wizard, then stalled him while stamping out the flames.
• Tom opened the back door and revealed venomous snakes in the yard, which bit the wizard when he tried to shut the door.
• The wizard's antidote herbs failed to stop Tom's toxin and the snake venom, and he died beneath the snakes.
• The Horned Serpent used Pure Water to extinguish the magical flames, but flooded the floor with its uncontrolled water magic.
• Mo Fei opened the door and saw the soaked room.

After a wizard attacked the orphanage, Mo Fei and Tom examined the dead man's body, and Tom began to think seriously about overcoming death. Mo Fei then confronted a gathering of dark wizards in London, prompting survivors to spread rumors of a wizard hunter.

• Tom told Mo Fei that he had killed the wizard who set fire to the orphanage, and Mo Fei reassured him that it had been self-defense.
• Mo Fei and Tom dissected the wizard and found that his organs and bones differed from a Muggle's; Tom resolved to seek a way to transcend death.
• Mo Fei and Tom cremated the remains and scattered the ashes in the backyard as fertilizer.
• Mo Fei tracked down a gathering of dark wizards, defeated them, snapped their wands, and killed those he sensed had murderous intent.
• The surviving dark wizards spread a rumor that a wizard hunter was operating in London, warning others to stay away.

After six months of hunting Dark wizards in London, Mo Fei had made the city safer while Tom trained under Grindelwald. Grindelwald taught Tom why wands mattered and introduced Finger Casting, but Tom’s first attempt at the Levitation Charm caused severe pain in his index finger.

• Mo Fei spent six months wiping out groups of Dark wizards in London, driving many others away and reducing their appearances before Muggles.
• Grindelwald criticized Tom’s fighting performance and asked him why wizards needed wands.
• Grindelwald explained that wands helped regulate magic, carried a unique mark, and could prevent young wizards from developing their own magic if they used one too early.
• Grindelwald introduced Finger Casting as a wandless-magic exercise and taught Tom to try the Levitation Charm with his index finger.
• Tom began casting Wingardium Leviosa, but Grindelwald stopped the spell when Tom’s index finger developed intense pain.

Tom continued learning Wandless Magic from Grindelwald, injuring his fingers before adjusting his practice to preserve some ability to defend himself. Meanwhile, Mo Fei’s campaign against violent wandering wizards drew the Ministry of Magic’s attention, and it sent Dumbledore to deal with the matter.

• Tom kept attempting Wandless Magic despite Grindelwald’s warning, injuring all ten fingers and learning that he needed to avoid leaving himself defenseless.
• Mo Fei ignored Tom’s struggles at dinner, allowing him to experience the consequences of overexerting himself.
• When Tom resumed practice, he used only his right hand so he could keep learning while retaining some fighting ability.
• Mo Fei eliminated London wizards who used magic to commit murder and arson, prompting objections within the Ministry of Magic.
• The Ministry debated how to handle Mo Fei, a Muggle known as the Wizard Hunter with connections to Hogwarts, the royal family, and Kyle.
• The Ministry passed the decision back to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore was sent to meet Mo Fei again.

Grindelwald left as Dumbledore arrived, and Dumbledore confronted Mo Fei about being the Wizard Hunter. Mo Fei proposed that the Wizard Hunter disappear only after he fought Dumbledore in a week, despite Dumbledore and Tom’s objections.

• Grindelwald sensed Dumbledore’s arrival, but Mo Fei challenged him about avoiding the professor, and Grindelwald promised to return before Apparating away.
• Dumbledore visited Mo Fei and asked whether Kyle was still traveling; Mo Fei said Kyle had gone to East Africa.
• Dumbledore asked whether Mo Fei was the Wizard Hunter, and Mo Fei admitted it while criticizing wizards for letting dark wizards terrorize London and violate the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Dumbledore suggested declaring the Wizard Hunter dead to end the controversy, but Mo Fei challenged the idea and questioned who would claim credit for his supposed death.
• Mo Fei offered to let the Wizard Hunter disappear if Dumbledore fought him outside the city in one week, and both Dumbledore and Tom refused out of concern for his safety.

Mo Fei prepared to duel Dumbledore and used the coming fight to make Tom consider the divide between wizards and Muggles. Grindelwald explained Dumbledore’s formidable Transfiguration and controlling style, leaving Mo Fei to face the duel with a clearer sense of the danger.

• Dumbledore accepted Mo Fei’s challenge and warned him not to let Tom teach himself magic before leaving the orphanage.
• Mo Fei told Tom that he was a Muggle and that wizards’ power did not make Muggles helpless, prompting Tom to wonder whether growing powerful might separate him from the director.
• At the duel, Tom watched openly while Grindelwald observed from hiding.
• Grindelwald described Dumbledore’s mastery of Transfiguration, his insistence on controlling every part of his magic, and his ability to make transfigured creatures retain their original properties.