Chapter Summaries

Anna Albus Grindelwald, a soul from another world in an alchemically created body, grew up in Nurmengard with Gellert Grindelwald as her father. At six, she left the prison for Britain, taking her first steps into the wizarding world beyond her home.

• Gellert Grindelwald named the newborn Anna Albus Grindelwald and raised her in Nurmengard.
• Anna learned that her body was alchemical and that Death had arranged her arrival in this world.
• Grindelwald reconnected with former subordinates, bought books and newspapers, and hired the house-elf Keke to help care for Anna.
• Anna's magic made her soul unstable from age two, and after her fifth birthday her golden hair gradually turned silvery-white.
• At six, Anna read reports of Voldemort's attacks and reflected that he had already made several Horcruxes.
• Grindelwald asked Anna if she wanted to visit London, and she Side-Along Apparated to Britain with his subordinate.

Anna learned that Grindelwald had assembled the Acolytes and built a network to support her future, then arrived at the manor prepared as her gift. After hearing the Acolytes’ reports and seeing the foundation her father had laid, she faced their expectation that she choose what she would do next.

• Anna reflected that Grindelwald had gathered his former subordinates to protect her and support whatever future she chose.
• Balk Nagel brought Anna to Grindelwald Manor, a new estate presented to her by the Acolytes.
• Anna saw the manor’s grounds, including a centuries-old cherry tree brought back by Daina Klar, and met the Acolytes waiting outside.
• Balk Nagel summoned documents and led the Acolytes in reporting on their duties and the organization’s activities.
• Anna learned that Grindelwald had built an international network of Acolyte branches, and the assembled members waited for her to declare her intentions.

Anna addressed the Acolytes about their future, urging them to unite magic with Muggle technology rather than repeat Grindelwald’s failed approach. The meeting ended with Anna arguing that wizards and Muggles were all human and that their conflicts stemmed from ignorance.

• Anna thanked the Acolytes for the manor and praised Daina Klar for helping prepare it.
• Anna told the Acolytes that the Wizarding World had stagnated while Muggle technology advanced, and urged them to change.
• Anna informed Roland Anderson that America was preparing for a manned moon landing and said the Acolytes should combine magic with technology.
• Roland Anderson questioned whether wizards and Muggles could ever coexist peacefully because humans rejected those who were different.
• Anna argued that wizards and Muggles were all human and that past violence had resulted from ignorance, which had led to the International Statute of Secrecy.

Anna presented the Acolytes with her vision for peaceful coexistence between wizards and Muggles, proposing economic influence, government connections, and a united wizarding haven. The Acolytes embraced her challenge, while Grindelwald reassured Anna that they would support her difficult path.

• Anna argued that wizards and Muggles could coexist peacefully and urged the Acolytes to use economic influence to advance that goal.
• Anna proposed integrating into wizarding and Muggle governments and creating a haven where wizards could unite and share magical products with the world.
• Anna asked the Acolytes to study Muggle universities and scientific research before deciding whether they supported her ideas.
• After Anna left, Balk Nagel, Roland Anderson, and the other Acolytes discussed visiting Muggle institutions and possible locations for a wizarding haven.
• Anna contacted Grindelwald through the Two-Way Mirror, and he praised her speech and encouraged her by saying the Acolytes would welcome the challenge.

Anna established a secret Butterfly Mark for her growing movement and continued planning a wizarding paradise with her allies. After Balk found a suitable archipelago, Anna sought a Potions expert and considered approaching the Prince family.

• Anna settled at Grindelwald Manor, coordinated with Grindelwald to create the Butterfly Mark, and had him place it on Balk Nagel and Daina Klar.
• Over the next two years, Balk and Daina traveled to mark the Acolytes, while North Nagel became Anna’s assistant and the first ordinary wizard to receive a mark.
• Balk wrote that he had found a remote Atlantic archipelago large enough for a wizarding paradise and was having it concealed from Muggles.
• Anna learned that rare potion ingredients on the islands needed to be harvested soon, but her group lacked a Potions Master.
• Anna suggested that the Prince family might provide a skilled Potions expert and asked whether their heir, who had run away from home, could be found.

Severus Snape awoke in his childhood body after following a silver-white butterfly through the darkness after death. When Anna and North Nagel arrived seeking Eileen Prince, Anna’s contract mark stirred, and they found Eileen sobbing upstairs.

• After wandering through darkness, Severus Snape followed a silver-white butterfly and awoke in the cramped cupboard of his childhood home.
• Snape realized he had returned to a body around seven or eight years old and answered a knock at the door.
• North Nagel introduced himself and Anna, who noticed that the contract mark left by Death was turning in her palm.
• Anna and North entered after Snape let them in, and North used cleaning spells to tidy the living room.
• When they heard sobbing and objects knocking upstairs, Anna and North went up and found Eileen Prince crying on her bed.

Anna and North persuaded Eileen to leave Spinner's End and visit her dying grandfather, Regt Prince, at St Mungo's. After Anna gave Eileen a Soul Stabilizing Potion, she and Snape were taken to Grindelwald Manor, where Eileen could recover.

• Snape warned Anna and North that Eileen refused to let anyone near her, and Eileen panicked when North called her Eileen Prince.
• Anna offered Eileen a Soul Stabilizing Potion and explained that Regt Prince was gravely ill and wanted to see her.
• Eileen began to reach for Anna's hand, but a disturbance downstairs frightened her; Anna held on to her and sent North to deal with the intruder.
• Eileen pleaded with Anna not to hurt her husband, and Anna promised he would only be hit with a Stunning Spell.
• Eileen drank the potion and fell asleep, and Anna told Snape they would take her to her manor to recover before visiting Regt Prince.
• North carried Eileen as Anna and Snape traveled with them to Grindelwald Manor.

Anna took Keke into her household, brought Snape to Grindelwald Manor, and left to visit her father while North tried to recruit Snape. The next morning, Snape found Anna back at the manor, grumbling about Grindelwald’s stubbornness and loneliness.

• Keke arrived at the manor gates after Grindelwald sent him away, and Anna agreed to employ him.
• Anna arranged for Snape to stay near Eileen and instructed North to care for her while Anna visited Grindelwald.
• North explained the secrecy and aims of Anna’s organization, then invited Snape to join; Snape declined.
• Snape returned to his guest room and resolved to prevent Lily’s death in this changed timeline.
• Anna visited Grindelwald, who questioned her studies through the night before sending her back before dawn.
• The next morning, Snape found Anna complaining that Grindelwald hid how much he missed her and insisted on being alone.

Anna visited St Mungo’s with Snape and North, where Eileen reunited with her grandfather and agreed to take charge of the Prince family. When Regt Prince recognized Anna as the daughter of a notorious former Durmstrang student, Anna had North secure the ward with protective charms.

• Anna treated Eileen’s injuries with top-grade potions before the group traveled to St Mungo’s to visit Regt Prince.
• Eileen and Regt reunited emotionally, and Regt told her to take charge of the Prince family.
• Anna asked Eileen to cooperate in gathering rare herbs, and Eileen agreed.
• Regt recognized Anna’s resemblance to a gifted child he had met at Durmstrang and began to ask whether her surname was Gr- before Anna interrupted him.
• Anna told North that Regt had guessed her father’s identity, and North brought Snape into the ward and cast protective charms around it.

Anna revealed that she was Grindelwald’s daughter and persuaded Regt Prince to trust her rather than her father. She agreed to shelter Eileen and Snape at her manor and help Regt’s family, while urging Eileen to rest and speak with her son.

• Regt recognized Anna as Grindelwald’s daughter, and she explained that her goals differed from her father’s and that some Acolytes were loyal to her.
• Regt asked Anna to protect Eileen and Snape from the Death Eaters, and Anna agreed while asking him for help with herbs.
• Anna brought Eileen and Snape back to the manor and told Eileen to rest before traveling to gather herbs.
• Anna encouraged Eileen to talk with Snape, who struggled to face his mother because his memories of her were distant.

Eileen apologized to Severus and promised to divorce Tobias, while Anna learned more about Severus’s unusual soul. Elisa arrived with news that North’s careless visit to Hogwarts had risked exposing them and reported growing divisions among the students, leaving Anna to decide how to protect the Acolytes’ children.

• Eileen apologized to Severus for neglecting him, and he agreed to give her another chance after she promised to divorce Tobias and live with him at Prince Manor.
• Elisa appeared at the manor and rebuked North for discussing the Prince family at Hogwarts without preventing others from overhearing.
• Anna sent North and Eileen ahead, then asked Severus to stay while she spoke with Elisa, saying she wanted to earn his trust by trusting him.
• Elisa gave Anna evidence that several Hogwarts students’ parents had joined You-Know-Who and described growing hostility between Slytherin and the other houses.
• Elisa asked Anna whether the Acolytes should demonstrate their strength to protect their children at Hogwarts.

Anna condemned Voldemort’s influence at Hogwarts and planned to use the Acolytes’ wealth to challenge it while expanding their work overseas. At lunch, she confronted Snape with her suspicion that he had been reborn.

• Anna scorned Voldemort and the Death Eaters for dividing students and asked Elisa whether her available funds could secure a seat on the Hogwarts Board of Governors.
• Elisa reported that European funds had reached Gringotts, while American funds were still being processed, and said Anna could afford a Governors’ seat already.
• Anna instructed Elisa to send funds to Asia, support Balk’s science and magic laboratory, and begin talks with local cultivation families.
• Anna planned to back a student’s parent for a Governors’ seat and told Elisa that the students should focus on their studies while resisting interference openly.
• At lunch, Snape teased Anna about staring at him, and Anna asked when Professor Snape had been reborn.

Anna revealed to the reborn eight-year-old Snape that she came from the future and described the outcome of the Second Wizarding War. She asked him to join her in preparing for future upheaval, and he agreed to consider the proposal if she could guarantee the Prince family’s safety, including Lily’s.

• Anna told Snape that she had died in the future before adulthood and could not disclose more because of a binding contract.
• Snape confirmed that he had been reborn after Voldemort killed him in the Shrieking Shack, and Anna described Harry Potter’s victory and the peaceful years that followed.
• Anna said the world faced major future changes and offered to protect the Prince family and Lily in exchange for Snape’s strength.
• Snape said he would consider Anna’s proposal if she could protect those he cared about, and Anna asked him to sign a contract.

Anna received acceptance letters from Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, then went with Snape to Diagon Alley to prepare for school. They had already arranged most of her supplies and headed to Madam Malkin’s to buy uniforms.

• Anna and Snape received acceptance letters from Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, and Anna agreed to attend Hogwarts while declining the other schools.
• Anna treasured her Hogwarts letter and stored it in the ring she had received from Chinese cultivation families.
• Anna and Snape sent their replies by owl and traveled to the Leaky Cauldron.
• Tom showed Anna and Snape how to open the passage into Diagon Alley.
• Anna and Snape discussed whether she should bring a pet and arrived at Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions.

Anna visited Ollivander's Wand Shop and found a wand that matched her unusual magic, while Ollivander learned her surname as she left. The chapter ended with her carrying her new wand out of the shop.

• Anna and Snape chose their robes, then Snape bought his wand while Anna waited outside.
• Anna entered Ollivander's Wand Shop and refused to explain the source of her unusual silvery-white hair.
• Ollivander offered Anna more than twenty wands, but none suited her.
• Anna tried an elder wood wand with phoenix feather and a water-attribute gemstone, which produced a fiery phoenix and matched her magic.
• Anna paid thirty-six Galleons for the wand and left after telling Ollivander her name; he called her Miss Grindelwald.

Anna tried more than twenty wands before finding a fifteen-inch wand, then learned that Abraxas Malfoy and the Death Eaters had frightened the people of Diagon Alley. She and Snape visited Lily at the Evans home, where the family welcomed them for lunch.

• Anna noticed that the crowd in Diagon Alley had thinned and asked Snape what had happened.
• Snape told Anna that Abraxas Malfoy and a group of Death Eaters had visited Gringotts, and Malfoy noticed Anna’s indifferent gaze before leaving.
• Anna and Snape discussed Malfoy, finished their shopping, and returned to the Leaky Cauldron.
• Anna persuaded Snape to take the Underground with her to visit Lily, who greeted them happily at her home.
• Mrs Evans welcomed Anna and Snape inside for lunch, and Petunia came downstairs to greet Anna.

Anna visited Lily’s family and gave them gifts, including a powerful protective necklace for Lily, while Snape reflected on Anna honoring their contract and becoming Lily’s friend. As they walked home in the rain, Snape thanked Anna, who teased him about saying it.

• Anna gave Mrs Evans a skin-care serum, Mr Evans an owl, and Petunia photographs of Earth taken from the moon.
• Anna gave Lily an alchemical necklace that could protect her from powerful attacks, and Lily accepted it after Anna fastened it around her neck.
• Snape recognized the necklace’s exceptional protective power and felt moved that Anna had taken her promise to protect Lily seriously.
• Anna told Snape that she had commissioned the necklace after their contract but also wanted Lily, her friend, to live safely.
• Snape thanked Anna as they walked home, and Anna teased him by asking him to repeat his thanks.

North accompanied Anna and Severus to King's Cross Station before their first Hogwarts term, then warned Severus that Anna could suffer dangerous symptoms if she overused magic or became emotionally overwhelmed. On the train, Anna reunited with Lily and challenged her belief that Slytherin produced only bad wizards.

• Eileen was summoned back to the Dawn Archipelago after a breakthrough in the experimental potion, so North took Anna and Severus to King's Cross Station alone.
• North told Anna about the Acolytes' support and urged her to contact him if she needed help at school.
• After Anna boarded the train, North warned Severus about the risks of Anna overusing magic or experiencing intense emotions, and gave him herbs and soul stabilizers.
• Anna found Lily in a train compartment, and the two chatted while waiting for Severus.
• When Lily worried that Slytherin produced only bad wizards, Anna argued that a person's choices determined whether they were good or bad.

On the train to Hogwarts, Anna, Lily, and Severus Snape shared ice cream and discussed their friendship before James Potter and Sirius Black entered their compartment. Anna warned James that the upcoming Sorting Ceremony would not be easy, leaving the new students alarmed.

• Anna reassured Lily that she would remain her best friend even if she was sorted into Slytherin, and Snape joined them in the compartment.
• After the train departed, Anna served Lily and Snape several flavors of ice cream she had kept cold with a Frost Charm.
• James Potter and Sirius Black noticed the ice cream and entered the compartment, where James introduced himself and spoke with Lily, Snape, and Anna.
• Anna told James he was happy too soon because the upcoming Sorting Ceremony would not be easy, alarming the young wizards.

Anna tricked the first-years into believing the Sorting Ceremony was a difficult exam, prompting them to cram on the train. After arriving at Hogwarts, the students gathered with Professor McGonagall, who prepared to sort them into houses.

• Anna told James Potter and Sirius Black that the Sorting Ceremony required a difficult written test, and they hurried off to study.
• Snape cast a Notice-Me-Not Charm after James and Sirius left, and Anna admitted to Lily that she had made up the test to keep strangers out of their compartment.
• The rumor spread across the train, and many first-years spent the afternoon anxiously reviewing their textbooks.
• Hagrid led the first-years across Black Lake in boats to Hogwarts, where Anna, Lily, and Snape arrived alongside the other students.
• Professor McGonagall welcomed the first-years and began explaining that they would be assigned to houses before the feast.