Recaps

Mo Fei protected the orphanage from the Black Snake Gang, treated Earl Winter, and drew Grindelwald into teaching Tom magic. The story left Tom beginning to confront the influence of his Parseltongue bloodline while Jimmy and Lucy departed for a new life as Jeremy and Lucinda.

• Mo Fei protected the orphanage after the Black Snake Gang’s attack, then treated Earl Winter’s mystical snake poison with a medicinal antidote.
• Earl Winter and Military Intelligence stopped the gang’s attempted escape, while Dumbledore captured its witch doctor and other Acolytes before Grindelwald rescued his followers.
• Grindelwald visited the orphanage, recognized Mo Fei’s knowledge of him, and agreed to teach Tom magic while Mo Fei monitored their arrangement.
• Earl Winter recognized Jimmy and Lucy’s fine clothes as royal fabric and took them to be raised as Jeremy and Lucinda, likely children of a missing prince.
• Mo Fei prepared a magical deep-sea devil ray for Grindelwald, while Grindelwald began teaching Tom to recognize danger and prepare for magical threats.
• Grindelwald warned that Tom’s early-awakened Parseltongue was affecting his mind and explained how bloodline power could impose ancestral wills.
• Tom chose to reshape his inherited power rather than give up his Horned Serpent, and Grindelwald planned to begin with meditation.

Mo Fei and Tom studied magic while the orphanage faced family worries, a dangerous disappearance, and Mrs. Field’s death. Their experiments transformed a venomous snake into a new magical creature, leaving Grindelwald to investigate what they had created.

• Grindelwald taught Tom about meditation, fate, and the dangers of Dark Magic while Mo Fei helped Tom study and raise snakes.
• Dumbledore visited the orphanage, checked on Tom and asked Mo Fei about the snake attack, while Mo Fei strengthened himself through Combat and Medicine.
• Kyle returned and began teaching Tom, while Mo Fei searched for magical plants and planned to seek help for Zane’s heart.
• Grindelwald demonstrated Dark Magic to Tom, who killed and dissected a snake to study it before Kyle helped him learn about fantastic beasts.
• When Aiwen’s ship disappeared, Mo Fei sought Grindelwald, who traced Aiwen’s fate and revealed that Tom’s connection with Dumbledore had changed the future.
• Mrs. Field shared a magical fabric-making formula with Mo Fei, Aiwen returned safely from Germany, and Aisha and Aiwen married at the orphanage.
• Mrs. Field died, and Mo Fei advanced his Medicine while devising a way to transform snakes without destroying their spiritual awareness.
• Mo Fei and Tom used runes, deep-sea magic water, and Parseltongue to transform a snake, then showed the new magical creature to a shocked Grindelwald.

Mo Fei saved Zane through surgery, helped the children find their paths, and confronted dark wizards who threatened his orphanage. After months of hunting them in London, he challenged Dumbledore to a duel, while Tom watched and Grindelwald observed from hiding.

• Mo Fei and Gideon Brook repaired Zane’s heart, and Mo Fei entered Zane’s memories to wake him after the operation.
• Mo Fei agreed to teach Tom medicine, while Kyle left the orphanage to study magical materials and gave the children parting gifts.
• As Dark wizards terrorized London, Mo Fei defeated a Gypsy witch who tried to control him and gained some of her knowledge and Divination talent.
• A Dark wizard attacked the orphanage, but Tom killed him after the Horned Serpent detected him and the wizard set the room on fire.
• Mo Fei and Tom dissected the attacker, and Mo Fei began hunting Dark wizards across London until survivors spread rumors about the Wizard Hunter.
• Grindelwald taught Tom Finger Casting, while Mo Fei’s actions prompted the Ministry to send Dumbledore to question him.
• Mo Fei admitted he was the Wizard Hunter and challenged Dumbledore to fight him outside the city, then told Tom that Muggles were not helpless before wizard power.
• Dumbledore accepted the challenge, and Tom watched their duel as Grindelwald secretly observed and described Dumbledore’s Transfiguration mastery.

After Mo Fei’s duel with Dumbledore, Tom developed his magic, investigated his heritage, and prepared to attend Hogwarts. He was sorted into Slytherin, claimed the first-year chief position, and drew the attention of both Slytherin families and Dumbledore.

• Mo Fei fought Dumbledore with martial techniques and Horned Serpent blades, but conceded when Dumbledore transformed the space between them into an endless road.
• The Ministry credited Dumbledore with defeating the Wizard Hunter, while Tom’s interest in magic deepened and Mo Fei began experimenting with divination.
• Tom received his Hogwarts letter, and Dumbledore took him and Mo Fei to Diagon Alley, where Tom found a wand connected to Slytherin’s bloodline.
• Tom told Mo Fei he wanted to investigate Slytherin, the Gaunt family, and his mother, then began researching ways to improve the Levitation Charm.
• Tom boarded the Hogwarts Express with Owen Nott, discussed pure-blood families, and considered how their divisions might help him build alliances.
• At Hogwarts, Tom saw the Thestrals, was sorted into Slytherin, and felt his bond with the castle strengthen as the Sorting Hat welcomed him as the Heir of Slytherin.
• Tom defeated his Slytherin first-year opponents with physical skill and a blinding Lumos, becoming their chief, while a second-year Prefect warned him to choose his opportunities carefully.
• Tom fed his Horned Serpent and drafted a letter to Mo Fei as Slytherin families began investigating him, and Dumbledore feared he could become the next Dark Lord, but Dippet rejected that suspicion and blocked the inquiries.