Chapter Summaries

Draco and Hermione planned separate afternoon outings, with Hermione choosing the Ilvermorny Magic Library and Trillian searching the underworld for information about the new Werewolves. Draco gave Trillian a protective bracer, then took Hermione to the Forbidden Forest on Mount Greylock.

• Hermione and Draco woke from a nap and discussed their plans with Trillian.
• Hermione planned to visit the Ilvermorny Magic Library, while Trillian offered to search the underworld for information about the new Werewolves.
• Draco gave Trillian a bracer that could summon him or create a shield, and explained that it had three uses before recharging.
• Trillian tested the bracer's shield, and Draco replenished its energy while warning her not to waste its functions.
• Draco took Hermione's hand and teleported with her to the edge of the Forbidden Forest on Mount Greylock.

Draco proposed to Hermione on the forest path near Ilvermorny, and she accepted, exchanging rings with him. They left the scene married and teasing each other about what that would mean for their relationship.

• Hermione asked Draco what he and Trillian had discussed, then complained that Trillian had received a present while she had not.
• Draco presented Hermione with a ring and asked her to marry him.
• Hermione accepted, and Draco placed the ring on her finger, where it adjusted to fit.
• Hermione put an identical ring on Draco's finger and insisted that he should be pleased she had done it herself.
• Draco suggested they could be less restrained as a married couple, and Hermione objected that he had already done enough.

Draco and Hermione arrived at Ilvermorny, where Professor Luo welcomed them and showed them the school’s sorting plaza. They learned how the four house statues chose students and what each house specialized in before leaving the plaza.

• Draco and Hermione reached Ilvermorny and presented their temporary access badges to the gatekeeper, who summoned Professor Luo.
• Professor Luo welcomed the pair and agreed to give them a tour before taking them to the library.
• Professor Luo led Draco and Hermione to the sorting plaza and explained that four moving statues chose students for Ilvermorny’s houses.
• Professor Luo described each house’s strengths in combat, magical research, exploration, healing, and related subjects, then the three left the plaza.

Draco and Hermione toured Ilvermorny with Professor Luo, exchanging information about magical education and wizarding life in Britain and North America. Professor Luo then brought them to the library, where they registered to consult its general collection.

• Professor Luo showed Draco and Hermione Ilvermorny's classrooms and answered Hermione's questions about North American magic and education.
• Hermione described Lucius Malfoy's reforms as Minister for Magic, and Draco and Professor Luo discussed magical protections, creatures, and attitudes toward Muggle-born wizards.
• Draco said that old-established families like the Malfoys valued ability over bloodline and pointed to Hermione as an example.
• Professor Luo led Draco and Hermione to the Ilvermorny library and introduced them to librarian Mr. Franklin.
• Draco registered himself and Hermione to use the library's general collection, and Professor Luo took his leave.

Hermione researched North American magical history while Draco used the system to scan and archive Ilvermorny's general collection. They left the library planning to return the next day, and Draco asked Hermione how much she had learned.

• Mr. Franklin explained the library rules and warned Draco and Hermione that the Restricted Section required the headmaster's written permission.
• Hermione gathered five books on North American magic and copied excerpts, noting that a source on the Snakewood Banishing Charm was kept in the Restricted Section.
• Draco scanned the general collection with the system, which recorded and classified more than 3,700 volumes before closing time.
• Draco checked the Restricted Section barrier and abandoned the idea of approaching it after the system warned that it would trigger an alarm and Binding Charm.
• Hermione returned the books to Mr. Franklin, who agreed that she and Draco could continue their research the next day.
• Draco and Hermione left Ilvermorny and descended Mount Greylock, where Draco asked Hermione how her research had gone.

Hermione and Draco discussed their time in Ilvermorny's library, and Draco revealed that he could reproduce any book he had seen. Hermione tried to use his ability to collect free copies, and the chapter ended with her bargaining for two more books as Draco walked away.

• Hermione described the magical books she had studied, while Draco hinted that he had been doing more than browsing.
• Draco offered Hermione every book in Ilvermorny's library and showed her a catalog of its titles.
• Draco produced an exact copy of The Complete Book of Charms and Runes, then conjured three more books at Hermione's request.
• Hermione demanded ten obscure books, and Draco realized she was using the test to get free copies.
• Draco stopped proving his ability and walked ahead, so Hermione hurried after him and pleaded for two more books.

Draco negotiated with Hermione for rewards in exchange for producing books, persuading her to agree to a mixed-baths session and future intimacy-related conditions. They returned home from Mount Greylock, with Hermione planning to renegotiate before their eventual consummation.

• Draco teased Hermione about consummation, prompting her to chase him down Mount Greylock before demanding he name his reward.
• Draco asked Hermione for a mixed-baths session and offered access to scanned books from Ilvermorny's Restricted Section as DLC.
• Hermione agreed that future book releases would count as DLC and would not each require a separate reward.
• Draco added that Hermione would have to provide DLC content herself and obey his preferences after their consummation, and Hermione tentatively agreed while secretly planning to end the arrangement later.
• Draco and Hermione left Mount Greylock and appeared in the living room of their villa.

Draco visited Trillian while gathering information on the new Werewolves, and she reported a lead at the Supernatural Bar. Their flirtation continued as Draco explained that her silver bracer let him track her and teleport to her side, leaving Trillian boldly teasing him despite his warning about Hermione.

• Draco left Hermione studying runes and teleported to Trillian, who was watching the city from a high-rise room.
• Trillian told Draco that the Supernatural Bar was rumored to hold the underworld’s most secret intelligence.
• Trillian asked Draco for a physical reward, and he teased her before explaining the bracer’s two-way tracking and teleportation link.
• Trillian joked that Draco could appear while she bathed, and he admitted he could but said Hermione would make her disappear if he crossed a line.
• Trillian continued provoking Draco, declaring that she was not afraid of dying beneath his waist.

Draco and Trillian returned to the villa after gathering intel, and Draco later discussed magical innovation, monopolies, and political power with Hermione. As Hermione challenged his defense of laziness, she pressed him to consider whether people without wealth could afford to live rather than merely survive.

• Draco stopped Trillian’s flirtation and brought her back to the villa, where she asked about Hermione and went to rest.
• Draco found Hermione using the Bed Expansion spell to enlarge their bed and teased her about it.
• Hermione praised North America’s practical magical innovations, and Draco argued that openness and competition benefited ordinary people.
• Draco suggested Hermione could become Minister for Magic and warned her about the harms of monopolies and corruption.
• Draco defended his plan to loaf around because of his privilege, but Hermione challenged him to think about how the poor could live without having to focus on survival.

Draco and Hermione discussed finding work where people or resources were scarce, and Hermione appointed him her private adviser. After Hermione and Trillian changed for their outing, Trillian asked Draco to choose which of them was more beautiful.

• Draco explained to Hermione that people could find work by going where there was a shortage of workers or money.
• Hermione declared that Draco would be her private adviser, and Draco gave in when she invoked their promised bath together.
• Hermione sent Draco outside while she changed, and Trillian teased him about being kicked out for getting too handsy.
• Draco praised Hermione's casual outfit and criticized Trillian's action-ready clothes because they were going shopping.
• Hermione reassured Trillian that her outfit looked lovely, and Trillian asked Draco which of them was more beautiful.

Draco, Hermione, and Trillian wandered through New York as Draco joked about relationships and discussed the pressure surrounding his romance with Hermione. They headed toward the Supernatural Bar, but heavy rain began before they reached the subway, leaving their plans uncertain.

• Draco explained his idea of being a relationship’s “chief engineer” and teased Hermione and Trillian about how he had won them over.
• Draco described how pure-blood interests and hostile newspapers had fueled prejudice against his relationship with Hermione, and Hermione admitted she had once suspected his motives.
• Draco changed the subject and led Hermione and Trillian through Times Square, Fifth Avenue, and the Broadway Theater District.
• Draco suggested they take the subway to the Supernatural Bar, but rain began to fall as they walked toward the station.
• Draco opened a large umbrella that sheltered all three, and Trillian asked whether they were still going to the bar as the rain intensified.

Draco, Hermione, and Trillian were caught in a subway shooting, where they subdued several attackers and took them back to the villa. The chapter ended with Draco binding the four captives and separating the first gunman from the others.

• Draco shielded Hermione and Trillian from the downpour as they walked to the subway.
• A Black man shouted about a vampire and opened fire on the platform, but Draco incapacitated him with magic.
• Two more armed figures attacked, and Draco and Hermione disarmed and stunned them, while Draco erased the witnesses’ memories.
• A woman in a leather jacket tried to escape and shoot Draco, but he transfigured the bullet, stunned her, and brought her back with the others.
• Draco returned to the villa with the six attackers and bound four of them, separating the Black gunman from the other three.

Trillian joked about becoming a vampire to preserve her beauty before Draco and Hermione questioned their captives. The black man transformed into a werewolf, escaped their attacks, and was carried away by another werewolf alongside the vampires, leaving the group to repair the ruined villa.

• Trillian admired the vampire woman's beauty and discussed immortality with Draco and Hermione.
• Draco woke the vampire woman, and the other captives regained consciousness.
• The black man broke his magical bonds, transformed into a werewolf, and attacked Draco, Hermione, and Trillian.
• Draco teleported the group outside the villa, where Hermione restrained the werewolf and Draco knocked him unconscious.
• A smaller werewolf carried off the unconscious man as the vampire woman and her companion fled after him.
• Draco repaired the villa's damaged entrance with Reparo.

After a fight with werewolves, Draco used a Tracking Charm to find their trail but decided not to pursue them to their lair. Before they set out later, he transferred Apparition to Hermione so she could take Trillian to safety.

• Hermione, Trillian, and Draco discussed the werewolves' resistance and realized the creatures had vanished after the fight.
• Draco cast a Tracking Charm, revealing footprints that showed where the werewolves and their companions had fled.
• Draco warned that chasing the group to their lair could expose them to a pack of werewolves, and the three returned to the villa.
• Draco agreed to bring Hermione and Trillian along later and transferred Apparition to Hermione.
• Hermione felt she had mastered Apparition, and Draco told Trillian to stay close to her when they moved out.

Draco, Hermione, and Trillian followed golden footprints into the werewolves’ underground hideout and secretly observed their gathering. Raze reported that three wizards had stopped his attempt to capture Michael, leaving the werewolf leader uncertain about their motives.

• Draco teleported Hermione and Trillian into the underground passages and identified them as the werewolves’ hideout.
• Draco cast a Disillusionment Charm on the three of them as they approached a crowd watching two werewolves fight.
• Raze and his partner returned and told the crowd that vampires and three people had interfered with their attempt to capture Michael.
• Raze’s partner described the strangers’ wands and magic, but the gathered werewolves doubted the account until their leader silenced them.
• The leader questioned Raze and learned the three wizards had subdued both werewolves and vampires, then let the werewolves escape without discovering their identities.

Draco, Hermione, and Trillian revealed themselves to Lucian’s werewolves and asked for their help finding a way to control Draco’s subordinate’s full-moon transformations. After Draco explained why he had come to North America, Raze questioned why they had captured the vampires.

• Lucian sensed Draco, Hermione, and Trillian hiding nearby, and Draco revealed them by lifting the Disillusionment Charm.
• The werewolves doubted the newcomers’ power, but Draco said he had come seeking their help, prompting Lucian to invite them inside.
• In a clean office inside the sewer base, Lucian introduced himself and Draco apologized to Raze for their earlier offense.
• Draco explained that his werewolf subordinate lost his reason during full moons and that he had come seeking a solution from North America’s new breed of werewolves.
• Raze asked why Draco had captured the vampires if his reason for coming was to address a werewolf bloodline problem.

Lucian explained how Victor enslaved the werewolves, rewrote vampire history, and maintained a centuries-long purge that left most young vampires ignorant of the truth. He said he sought justice for his people rather than revenge on ordinary vampires, but Raze challenged that position.

• Lucian told Hermione and Draco that Victor and Marcus had enslaved the werewolves and that Victor later burned Sonja and her unborn child after discovering their relationship.
• Lucian described leading a werewolf rebellion and enduring six centuries of persecution fueled by Victor’s false account of werewolves as savage beasts.
• Lucian revealed that Victor destroyed the historical records, indoctrinated younger vampires, and silenced those who questioned the official history, including Erik, who was executed.
• Lucian explained that Selene had hunted werewolves for centuries without knowing the truth, and Trillian suggested she might turn against Victor if she learned it.
• Hermione asked whether Lucian would retaliate against vampires if the werewolves gained power, and Lucian said he would target Victor and the leaders responsible, not ordinary vampires.
• Raze disagreed with Lucian’s distinction between the leaders and ordinary vampires.

Draco, Hermione, and Trillian negotiated with Lucian and Raze over sending a Werewolf to Britain, but they disagreed over whether the arrangement should include revenge against the vampires. Draco rejected the idea that the mission was a favor the Werewolves could leverage, and Raze angrily challenged his view of their offer to help.

• Raze demanded the deaths or punishment of vampire hunters and their supporters, while Hermione and Trillian warned that targeting ordinary vampires could unite the vampire race against the Werewolves.
• Raze revealed that the Werewolves had developed weapons exploiting vampires’ fear of sunlight.
• Draco asked Lucian to send a Werewolf to Britain, and Lucian agreed only if Draco’s group helped destroy Victor’s Death Dealers and secure safe territory for the Werewolves.
• Hermione agreed to help on the condition that the Werewolves restrict their revenge to Victor and the vampire leadership, but Raze and Lucian argued that Death Dealer hunters were not innocent.
• Draco said they had come to help solve the Werewolves’ problems, not accept a list of revenge missions in exchange for sending someone to Britain.
• Raze accused Draco of being overbearing and asked whether his offer of help was merely a one-sided handout.

Draco proposed eliminating the vampires’ pro-war leaders and using his strength to guarantee a reconciliation between vampires and werewolves. Lucian considered the plan but remained wary, and Draco began probing the secret purpose of the werewolves’ journey.

• Draco proposed a strike against the vampires’ pro-war leadership and a new regime, while Hermione rejected exterminating the vampire race.
• Draco offered to personally guarantee reconciliation, but Raze and Lucian questioned whether outside deterrence could overcome centuries of hatred.
• Trillian argued that the proposal would give the werewolves respite, while Raze claimed his people could eventually defeat the vampires themselves.
• Draco guessed that the werewolves had ventured out to find someone, and Raze reacted with surprise.
• Lucian asked Draco why he had brought up the werewolves’ private purpose.

Draco, Hermione, and Trillian followed the werewolves through the sewers to discover why they were hunting someone, while Lucian refused to reveal the clan’s secrets. They emerged into a dark neighborhood and found a car fleeing gunfire, careening toward them after avoiding an exploding manhole cover.

• Raze abandoned the negotiations after Draco questioned why the werewolves were tracking someone, and Lucian refused to disclose the clan’s reason or the person’s address.
• Hermione used a Footprint-Revealing Charm to follow Lucian and Raze, while Draco and Trillian concealed themselves and tracked her through the sewers.
• Hermione spotted Lucian in werewolf form, and Draco and Hermione teleported past him before following Raze’s group from a distance.
• Werewolf howls signaled Raze’s group to exit through a manhole, and Draco, Hermione, and Trillian followed them to the surface.
• A man in a fleeing car fired a handgun at the werewolves, and the car veered toward Draco, Hermione, and Trillian after its driver dodged an exploding manhole cover.