Chapter Summaries

Draco learned that he needed to recover the three paintings of a triptych to unlock San Bakar’s final trial, then joined Hermione and Professor Babbling to seek the remaining pieces. The trio raced toward the Overlook Mine, where Draco’s panel began to grow hot.

• San Bakar told Draco that the first painting was hidden in the Map Chamber, the second was in the Overlook Mine, and the third was in an ancient goblin cavern on the west coast.
• Draco brought the first triptych panel to Professor Babbling’s office and told Hermione and Professor Babbling that he had completed Rookwood’s and Fitzgerald’s trials alone.
• Draco explained what he had learned from the trials, and Hermione urged the group to find the remaining paintings and stop Ranrok and the others from repeating past mistakes.
• Professor Babbling joined Draco and Hermione as they set out for the Overlook Mine.
• Draco led the group up the mountain path, and the first panel grew hot in his hand.

Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling infiltrated a goblin factory built in Isidora’s ruins and discovered the goblins were constructing a drill to break into Morgana’s repository of pain. They recovered the second Triptych fragment and escaped the mine while goblins pursued them.

• Hermione recognized the smell of goblin smelting, and Professor Babbling warned the group to stay hidden.
• Draco cast a Disillusionment Charm on the three of them as they entered the mine and found goblins building a rune-covered drill to breach the repository.
• Draco led Hermione and Professor Babbling deeper into the mine, where they found and retrieved the second Triptych fragment.
• Goblin shouts revealed their presence, so Hermione and Professor Babbling delayed the pursuers with spells while Draco led the group through a secret passage.
• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling escaped the mine with both Triptych fragments, and Hermione complained about their dangerous mission.

Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling found the final piece of the Triptych in an ancient goblin cavern and learned that Ranrok's forces were preparing to attack Hogwarts' repository. They assembled the Triptych in the Map Chamber and entered the Pensieve to witness Morgana's complete memories.

• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling entered the hidden coastal cavern and found the last Triptych piece on a goblin altar.
• Draco assembled all three pieces, revealing Morgana's complete memory painting.
• Hermione and Professor Babbling put goblin guards to sleep after overhearing that Ranrok planned to attack the repository at Hogwarts.
• The three returned to Hogwarts and placed the completed Triptych in its frame in the Map Chamber.
• Draco entered the Pensieve, and Hermione and Professor Babbling followed into Morgana's memories.

Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling witnessed how Morgana's attempt to free her father from pain left him emotionless and led her to plan to seal away all pain. The Keepers then warned that Ranrok had discovered the repository and revealed that Draco's final trial would make him a seal for its dangerous emotional energies.

• Morgana removed her father's pain with Ancient Magic, leaving him unable to feel or recognize her.
• The Keepers confronted Morgana, who revealed her plan to build a goblin-silver container to seal away the world's pain.
• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling emerged from the memory and discussed Morgana's intentions.
• Draco told the Keepers that Ranrok's followers were building a giant drill to reach the repository beneath Hogwarts.
• Rackham and the other Keepers explained that Ranrok already knew the repository's location and urged them to finish the final trial quickly.
• Draco realized that the trial would make him a seal for the repository's negative emotional energies.

Draco and Hermione reached the final ancient-magic trial on the Cragcroftshire Coast, where Draco faced a charging Graphorn. Hermione realized the test required restraint and urged him to kneel just as the beast came within inches of him.

• San Bakar opened the path to the repository’s core, and Draco and Hermione left Hogwarts with Professor Babbling.
• Draco identified the final trial’s location on the Cragcroftshire Coast, where they found a vast skeleton and an enormous lair.
• The trial barrier kept Hermione and Professor Babbling outside, so Draco entered the lair alone.
• A Graphorn charged at Draco, and he prepared to cast a spell.
• Hermione recognized that the trial tested restraint and told Draco to kneel before the Graphorn reached him.

Draco passed San Bakar’s Graphorn trial and entered the final Pensieve memory, where he learned that Morgana had corrupted her father and targeted students to pursue her ideal world. The four guardians confronted Morgana at the repository as she prepared to fight them.

• Draco trusted Hermione’s advice, won the Graphorn’s submission, and rode it to the hidden entrance of the final trial.
• San Bakar praised Draco’s character, warned him against Morgana’s obsession with power, and sent him to view the final memory.
• Draco watched Bakar discover Morgana’s father emptied of emotion and report that Morgana had secretly been targeting students.
• The four guardians reached the repository, ensured a dazed student left safely, and entered under Disillusionment Charms.
• Morgana emerged beside the repository’s emotion-sealing core with gray-white pupils and defended her plan to remove all pain.
• Rackham and the other guardians drew their wands to subdue Morgana as a battle loomed.

Draco completed the final trial and learned how Morgana’s attack ended, with Professor Bakar killing her to stop the disaster. The Keepers told Draco to craft a new wand from their relics before reinforcing the Emotion Repository’s seal, and he arrived at Ollivander’s shop late in the day.

• Bakar killed Morgana with Avada Kedavra, and Rackham shut down the Emotion Repository while Bakar and Rookwood found Fitzgerald badly injured but alive.
• Draco emerged from the Pensieve, reflected on Morgana’s downfall, and completed all the trials.
• Draco reunited with Hermione and Professor Babbling, recounted the final memory, and urged them to focus on the remaining problem.
• The Keepers gave Draco four Ancient Magic relics and instructed him to craft a new wand before reinforcing the seal.
• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling traveled to Diagon Alley, where Ollivander’s shop was closing for the night.

Draco brought four ancient guardian materials to Ollivander, who crafted them into a powerful wand named Watcher. Draco tested it in the shop, and its swift, effortless magic astonished Hermione and Professor Babbling.

• Draco presented four ancient guardian materials to Ollivander and asked him to make a wand.
• Ollivander spent three hours crafting a wand from the materials while Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling waited.
• Ollivander revealed the finished wand, and Draco named it Watcher.
• Draco tested Watcher with Accio and summoned a wand box with extraordinary speed and power.
• Hermione and Professor Babbling remarked on the wand’s strength, while Ollivander recognized that the materials were ancient.

After Draco received his new wand, he and Hermione and Professor Babbling returned to Hogwarts, where Young Rookwood warned that Ranrok was drilling into the secret repository. Draco dismissed Rookwood and insisted they eat before going to the Map Chamber, leaving Hermione racing through dinner despite her worry about Ranrok.

• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling said goodbye to Ollivander and Apparated back to a secluded path near Hogwarts.
• Young Rookwood confronted the trio and revealed that Ranrok had begun drilling into the secret repository beneath Hogwarts after abandoning him.
• Draco refused Young Rookwood’s offer to cooperate and threatened to send him to Azkaban, so Rookwood fled into the trees.
• Hermione warned Draco and Professor Babbling that the Ashwinders and Ranrok could still pose a threat, but Draco said they should eat before heading to the Map Chamber.
• Hermione’s stomach growled as she argued against stopping for food, and Professor Babbling agreed that they needed to eat.
• The trio went to the kitchens near the Great Hall, where Hermione hurried through dinner in fear that Ranrok would reach the Ancient Magic first.

Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling entered the final passage to the Repository and found Ranrok’s goblins drilling through the cavern. Draco used the Watcher to disable the guards and destroy the Earthcore Ripper, then led the others deeper into the tunnel.

• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling entered the hidden basement passage beneath the Map Chamber.
• The three discovered Ranrok’s goblins operating the Earthcore Ripper in a cavern.
• Draco and Hermione flew at the goblin guards while Professor Babbling followed, and Draco knocked out the guards and the drill’s operator within seconds.
• Draco destroyed the Earthcore Ripper with an Ancient Magic-enhanced Reducto while Hermione and Professor Babbling protected them with Shield Charms.
• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling flew through the wrecked drill tunnel into a larger cavern.

Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling fought through a Goblin ambush and discovered the route to the vault’s energy source was blocked by a rock wall. Draco blasted open a hole in it under a protective shield, leaving the way into the hidden space open.

• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling fought off red-armored Trolls and Goblin warriors as a lava Troll approached.
• Draco destroyed the lava Troll with Fire Dragon Attack, but the spell’s aftershock damaged a supporting pillar and sent it crashing toward them.
• Professor Babbling used a Levitation Charm to slow and redirect the falling pillar while Draco transfigured it into stones and struck the remaining Goblins.
• The three searched a dead end until Hermione spotted a narrow crack that concealed a space with an active energy source.
• Draco shielded the group and blasted a hole through the rock wall, with rubble bouncing off the barrier.

Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling fought their way through the goblins and reached an ancient sealed chamber, where Hermione recognized that its rune guardians were opening the door rather than attacking. They found the vessel inside, but Ranrok arrived behind them and thanked them for opening the way.

• Draco cleared a path through the goblins, and the three flew on their brooms toward the passage's deepest chamber.
• Two enormous runic warriors approached the group, but Hermione stopped Draco from attacking them.
• Draco's ancient wand resonated with the warriors, who activated the runes and opened the sealed door.
• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling entered the forgotten chamber and found the vessel on a raised platform.
• Ranrok fired a red shock wave at the group, but Draco blocked it with Protego Maxima.
• Ranrok emerged and mocked the group for opening the door for him.

Draco overwhelmed Ranrok, but Ranrok escaped to the emotional energy vessel and shattered it, unleashing the sealed ancient magic. Ranrok merged with the energy and became a gigantic dragon that attacked Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling.

• Draco pierced Ranrok’s mithril gauntlet and blasted him backward with a spell.
• Ranrok vanished despite Hogwarts’ Anti-Apparition Jinx and reappeared beside the energy vessel.
• Ranrok destroyed the vessel, releasing Morgana’s sealed emotional energy and causing the Repository to shake.
• Ranrok merged with the ancient magic and transformed into a huge dragon of mithril and pain energy.
• Draco protected Hermione and Professor Babbling with Protego Maxima as the dragon unleashed a torrent of energy breath at them.

Draco protected Hermione and Professor Babbling from Ranrok’s attacks, then summoned Fiendfyre and badly wounded the demon dragon. Ranrok fled toward the Repository’s core, hoping to absorb more Ancient Magic and complete its evolution.

• Draco shielded Hermione and Professor Babbling from Ranrok’s breath, then used a burst of flame to propel them away from its claw strike.
• Hermione and Professor Babbling retreated beyond the doors while Draco stood firm against Ranrok’s storm of rubble and dark red energy.
• Draco announced he would slay the dragon and summoned Fiendfyre, which burned through Ranrok’s skeletal wing and ignited the Repository.
• Ranrok released a powerful shock wave to push back the flames, while Draco escaped on his broomstick.
• Ranrok broke apart into black and red energy and fled toward the Repository’s core, hoping to absorb more Ancient Magic and evolve.

Draco overwhelmed Ranrok by summoning rune warriors, shaping Fiendfyre into a dragon, and merging with the dragon-riding super rune warrior. He pursued the fleeing Ranrok through the Repository while Hermione and Professor Babbling watched in disbelief.

• Draco summoned two rune warriors and shaped the Repository's Fiendfyre into a Chinese dragon.
• Draco fused the rune warriors into a super rune warrior and merged with the Fiendfyre dragon and its armor.
• Draco charged Ranrok's energy core, terrifying him and disrupting his absorption of Ancient Magic.
• Ranrok fled, and Draco chased him on the Fiendfyre dragon while mocking his retreat.
• Ranrok demanded a fair fight, and Draco laughed at his shameless plea.

Draco stopped Ranrok from taking Hermione and Professor Babbling hostage, then defeated and trapped him. As Ranrok pleaded for his life and defended his rebellion, Draco prepared to end the fight.

• Ranrok abruptly charged toward Hermione and Professor Babbling, but Draco trapped him inside a magical cube.
• Ranrok transformed into a skeletal dragon and broke free, but Draco severed one wing, hurled him into a pillar, and pinned him there with his sword.
• Ranrok tried to escape as black-and-red energy, but Draco sealed him inside another cube and suppressed his power.
• Ranrok begged for a chance to live and claimed he had fought to change the fate of oppressed goblins, while Draco accused him of hiding greed and ambition behind talk of fairness.
• Draco gathered destructive azure light in his palm as Ranrok made a final plea for his life.

Draco defeated Ranrok and transformed the Fiendfyre dragon into water, then helped Hermione and Professor Babbling seal the remaining emotional energy. As they worked, Ranrok tried to escape, and Young Rookwood arrived with a group of dark wizards to surround them.

• Ranrok surrendered, and Draco destroyed the ancient armor before carrying him out of the runic colossus.
• The Fiendfyre dragon absorbed emotional energy, but Draco transformed it into water and extinguished the flames.
• Draco, Hermione, and Professor Babbling worked together to stabilize and seal the remaining emotional energy after Draco ran out of magic.
• Ranrok tried to slip away, but Draco bound him with Incarcerous.
• Young Rookwood arrived with a dozen dark wizards and surrounded Draco, Hermione, Professor Babbling, and Ranrok.

Young Rookwood and his Dark wizards attacked Draco while Hermione and Professor Babbling tried to seal the negative emotional energy. Draco raised a Fire Domain Barrier that absorbed their barrage, and the chapter ended as he stopped the attackers from retreating.

• Young Rookwood surrounded Draco and the others, claiming that Draco’s wand held the true legacy of Ancient Magic.
• Draco drank a blue potion as Young Rookwood ordered the Dark wizards to attack.
• Hermione and Professor Babbling turned from the seal to try to protect Draco as the attackers unleashed Killing Curses and other Dark Magic.
• Draco cast Fire Domain Barrier, which enclosed the group and the sealed area and made the incoming spells evaporate.
• Young Rookwood ordered his followers to retreat, but Draco stopped them by asking whether he had given them permission to leave.

Draco subdued the dark wizards who had attacked him, forcing them to maim themselves and then ordering them to capture the remaining goblins for the Ministry. He left Young Rookwood disarmed and threatened to take his remaining arm as well.

• A dark wizard tried to flee, and Draco killed him with an invisible shock wave before warning everyone else not to move.
• Draco told the dark wizards that they could not activate the ancient wand and ordered the attackers to break their wands and mutilate themselves according to their crimes.
• The dark wizards broke their wands and cut off their thumbs or arms, with Young Rookwood severing his left arm last.
• Draco ordered the surviving dark wizards to capture the remaining goblins and deliver them to the Ministry of Magic.
• After the others left, Draco mocked Young Rookwood and threatened to take his remaining arm when he praised Draco and mentioned his father.

Draco returned to seal the remaining negative emotional energy, then explained to the Keepers that a small amount remained and they would still need a successor to inherit their duty. The Keepers accepted the imperfect outcome, leaving Hermione and Professor Babbling reassured that their vigil had not been in vain.

• Young Rookwood took Ranrok away at Draco’s permission, promising to keep him alive and make him suffer.
• Draco returned with Hermione and Professor Babbling to seal the remaining negative emotional energy in a container.
• Draco teased Hermione and Professor Babbling as they headed back to the Map Chamber, and Hermione blushed and pinched him.
• Hermione told the Keepers how Draco had used Fiendfyre to purify the energy, astonishing them with his magic and control.
• Draco told the Keepers that a small amount of energy remained and that they still had to wait for the next Keeper.
• Hermione and Professor Babbling apologized for urging Draco to stop the Fiendfyre early, but Rackham, Professor Fitzgerald, Professor Bakar, and Rookwood accepted the incomplete result and reaffirmed their duty.