Chapter Summaries

After Aiwen and his companions disappeared while traveling through Germany, Mo Fei helped calm Aisha and Mrs. Field and sought information through the chamber of commerce and his contacts. He decided to ask Grindelwald for help, but Grindelwald spoke first and said he knew where Aiwen was.

• Kyle left the orphanage, and Tom continued studying on his own while Boer made progress seeking rare plant specimens.
• Lina told Mo Fei that the ship carrying Aiwen and the others had lost contact, and Aisha fainted from the news.
• Mo Fei helped calm Aisha and Mrs. Field, then asked Boer, Jimmy, and his contacts to investigate Aiwen’s disappearance.
• Mo Fei learned that Aiwen’s party had stopped in Germany, where local people had tried to seize their goods, and the chamber of commerce later lost contact with them.
• Mo Fei decided to seek Grindelwald’s help and went to meet him, but Grindelwald stopped him and said he knew Aiwen’s whereabouts.

Grindelwald explained to Mo Fei how Seers used spiritual intuition and magic to glimpse possible pasts and futures, and how prophecy could affect fate. Mo Fei realized that divination could bind a Seer to the subject’s fate and wondered what future Grindelwald was trying to preserve.

• Grindelwald asked Mo Fei how Divination produced prophecies, and Mo Fei described methods such as crystal balls, tea leaves, and tarot cards.
• Grindelwald explained that Seers used spiritual intuition, magical power, and a connection to their subject to focus random fragments of fate.
• Grindelwald said that a prophecy could alter fate, especially when the diviner spoke a judgment aloud and narrowed the future to one path.
• Grindelwald explained that modern diviners let their fate briefly intersect with their subject’s, which reduced the impact but exposed them to the subject’s fate.
• Mo Fei connected Grindelwald’s explanation to Trelawney’s prophecy about Voldemort and suspected that Voldemort’s fate had affected her ability to divine.
• Mo Fei wondered whether Grindelwald was trying to avoid being bound to a fixed future and concluded that events in the original story were changing in unexpected ways.

Mo Fei learned that Aiwen was safe, while Grindelwald explained how ritual magic let him perform a divination into Tom Riddle’s fate. The vision revealed a new connection among Tom, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald, leaving Grindelwald intrigued by the possibility of a different future.

• Grindelwald told Mo Fei that the child at the orphanage was safe and would ultimately be fine.
• Mo Fei questioned how Grindelwald knew what he knew, and Grindelwald said he had only discovered it after meeting Tom.
• Grindelwald recalled using ritual magic to divine Mo Fei’s fate, but he could not find Mo Fei’s river of fate and instead traced Tom’s.
• Grindelwald found that Tom’s fate connected with Dumbledore’s and that a new branch had brought their fates into contact earlier than expected.
• Grindelwald considered how the change might alter the ending he had foreseen for himself and Dumbledore.

Grindelwald investigated Tom’s past, recognized Mo Fei as a visitor from another world, and refused to reveal where Aiwen was, saying he had to endure hardship before returning. Mo Fei reassured Aisha and Mrs. Field that Aiwen was safe, then learned that Mrs. Field had encountered wizards before.

• Grindelwald traced Tom’s past to the moment Mo Fei took him in and concluded Mo Fei was a visitor from another world.
• Grindelwald told Mo Fei that Aiwen was safe but had to face hardships before he could return, then left the orphanage.
• Mo Fei told Tom that Grindelwald had left and hurried to reassure Aisha and Mrs. Field.
• Mo Fei told Aisha and Mrs. Field that Aiwen’s merchant ship had been detained in Germany but that the prince would intervene and Aiwen was safe.
• Mrs. Field questioned Mo Fei’s account, and he admitted that a diviner had told him Aiwen was all right.
• Mrs. Field revealed that she knew about wizards and had personally met one.

Mrs. Field told Mo Fei how she had rescued an injured witch, received a fabric-making formula, and kept it secret for years; she gave the parchment to him for Kyle to study. Meanwhile, Aiwen and the others were caught in a Dark wizard attack in Germany, and the authorities erased their memories and silenced them before sending them back to Britain.

• Mrs. Field recounted how she and her husband sheltered an injured witch, who rewarded them with a fabric-making formula and warned them to keep wizards secret.
• Mrs. Field gave the parchment to Mo Fei for Kyle, hoping he would master the methods and pass on what he learned to Aisha.
• Mo Fei reassured Mrs. Field that Kyle was a young wizard studying to become a magical tailor, then left after Aisha returned.
• In Germany, fringe members of the Nurmengard Acolytes attacked the town and experimented with Dark Magic on its residents while Aiwen and the others were held in a cellar.
• Aiwen and the others treated the injured townspeople after the wizards left, but German authorities sent them to Britain, imposed a gag order, and had Ministry of Magic Aurors erase their memories.

Aiwen returned to the orphanage after six months away, reuniting with Mo Fei and Aisha and explaining the hardships of his journey. As Mo Fei continued his magical research and Tom studied Runes, Aiwen and Aisha decided to hold their wedding.

• Aiwen returned to the orphanage, and Mo Fei welcomed him home before urging him to see Aisha.
• Aiwen reflected on the costly, difficult journey back to London and the money he had saved in a bank.
• Mo Fei observed Tom's Rune studies and concluded that wizards could not make pure water, prompting questions about the history of relations between wizards and Muggles.
• Mo Fei continued collecting magical herbs and improving his formula for turning ordinary venomous snakes into magical creatures with Grindelwald's help.
• Aiwen worried he could not give Aisha a grand ceremony, but Aisha insisted they marry because she no longer wanted to live in fear.

Aisha and Aiwen prepared for their wedding with help from their friends and family, then married in a small ceremony at the orphanage where they had first met. The celebration ended with Mia singing and Kyle binding their wrists with a ribbon, while Mo Fei gained another point of Light of Spirituality.

• Aisha chose the orphanage entrance as the wedding venue, and Mrs. Field reassured Mo Fei that it was a fitting place for the ceremony.
• Aiwen asked Lina to make the wedding cake and Mia to sing, while Boer, Kyle, Jimmy, Lucy, Zane, and Tom helped prepare for the wedding.
• Mo Fei officiated as Aisha and Aiwen exchanged vows, kissed, and celebrated with the orphanage children and their close friends.
• Tom presented the couple with flowers, and Kyle tied their wrists together with a white ribbon as Mia began her aria.

After Mrs. Field died, Mo Fei gained a new understanding of death and advanced Medicine to Transcendent level. He then reconsidered how to transform ordinary snakes into magical creatures without destroying their spiritual awareness, settling on transforming their scales instead of their venom glands.

• Mrs. Field died after asking Mo Fei to look after Aisha and Aiwen, and he promised to help them.
• Aisha grieved at Mrs. Field's funeral, where Mo Fei gained a point of Light of Spirituality and used it to advance Medicine to Transcendent level.
• Mo Fei learned that Transcendent-level Medicine could help the dying pass peacefully, maximize the chances of recovery, and lessen some damage caused by Dark Magic.
• Mo Fei examined the Black Snake Gang's method and concluded that it transformed snakes through unstable magic produced by accumulated negative emotions, ultimately killing them.
• Mo Fei decided to preserve a snake's spiritual awareness by transforming its scales rather than its venom glands.

Mo Fei tested whether magic and emotional pressure could trigger Magical Organs in snakes, then combined Deep-Sea Magic Water, Ancient Runes, and Tom’s Parseltongue to make a venomous snake fear death. The snake began drawing power from the engraved runes, and Mo Fei’s experiment reached its first apparent breakthrough.

• Mo Fei’s tests showed that magical creature body parts reacted differently to magic, and Deep-Sea Magic Water extracted magic from a Deep-Sea Devil Ray’s fin without changing a snake.
• Mo Fei engraved runes symbolizing the deep sea and revival onto a venomous snake with a needle dipped in Deep-Sea Magic Water.
• Tom used Parseltongue to make the snake feel an approaching fear of death while Mo Fei restrained it.
• The snake resisted the terror, then began drawing power from its engraved scales to stay alive, and a miracle occurred.

Mo Fei and Tom's experiments produced one snake that developed a magical organ, and Grindelwald confirmed it was a new magical creature. After learning how they made it, Grindelwald saw the possibility that creatures—and perhaps humans—could be transformed, and agreed to help investigate the snake.

• Mo Fei and Tom repeated their experiment with deep-sea magic water, but none of the other snakes developed as fully as their first success.
• Mo Fei decided to tell Grindelwald about the snake and seek more materials for their research.
• Tom explained their experiment to Grindelwald, who recognized the snake as a new magical creature and was deeply shocked by what it might mean for the future of wizards.
• Mo Fei admitted they did not know why the first attempt had succeeded or how to repay Grindelwald, who offered to help and cast detection spells on the snake.

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.