Hello everyone! I'm back! Now, this is the book where everything goes to, well, hell. I'm sorry for the extended break. But, the good news is that i found myself a beta, i'd like to thank BlameThePlunnies for being such a wonderful help with this. I'm hoping for at least a chapter per month but you all know how inconsistent i am with updating - but, on another note, i've been trying to write 6k chapters so i can squeeze them out quicker :)

Within the walls of Grimmauld Place...

Luffy brushes his lip with the quill he was supposed to be writing with; who knew that being a wizard was so much work?

Who got homework during the holidays?

He was supposed to be writing an essay on how witch burnings were completely useless during the 14th century, but he doesn't understand. There were more than simply witches and wizards that could use wands - what about those who were able to use accidental magic? What happened to them?

He kicks his legs idly as he ponders for points he could write.

"They didn't stamp out the wizarding populace?"

"Hmm?" Marco asks, looking up from his book on the lounge. Luffy is lying on his stomach on the floor. The carpet smells like mildew, in Luffy's opinion. That probably didn't help when he was trying to write his essay out.

"I'm supposed to be writing an essay on why witch burnings were useless during the 14th century, and it's dumb. Wouldn't the non-magical people realize they weren't burnt to a crisp? Or what about those that were killed?"

Marco shrugs. "All I know is a bit about a woman named 'Wendelin the Weird', who apparently applied a flame-freezing spell that reduced the burning sensation to a mild tickle. She enjoyed it so much that she did it a total of forty times."

"Forty-seven times," Sabo says, walking into the room with a tray of food in his arms.

"What?" Marco asks, looking to the door.

"She allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times, but I agree with Luffy; it's a dumb question," Sabo elaborates.

Ace appears at the scent of food. "Is that food I smell?"

"No, it's the smell of carrion," Sabo says dryly.

Thatch follows, carrying another three platters of cheeses, salami, crackers, and various other kinds of foods.

"I'm taking a break then!" Luffy declares, despite not having written anything down.

Sabo sighs in exasperation but followed suit.

They finish off the trays and hear Thatch complain about 'bottomless pits'.

"So," Sabo begins, flopping onto their carpeted floor, "Wanna tell us a bit about the first eleven years of your life?"

Luffy sticks out his tongue in disgust. "Nah, the Dursleys were mean."

The two older brothers exchange a look over their younger brother's head.

"So, where did you say these 'Dursleys' live?" Ace asks, seemingly innocently.

"Ah, I don't know," Luffy replies, thinking long and hard about it.

"Well, I'm sure we could procure an address," Sabo whispers quietly to Ace, who nods vigorously.

Luffy stands up as they look at him in excitement. "How would you like to prank the Dursleys?"

Thatch pops his head in the room as soon as he hears 'prank'.

He smiles. He probably wouldn't do it if he was on his own, but here he was, with his two brothers, pineapple head, Thatch (Luffy mostly remembered his name 'cause if he didn't then he wouldn't get meat), and Koala.

"Sure," he agrees easily.

Thatch is already in action, and various buckets of glue and glitter had mysteriously appeared, as well as a goat for some reason.

"No," Sabo says to the prankster, "I have a better idea."

"Torching their house?" Ace asks excitedly.

"No, that's too destructive."

"Eating the house!" Luffy chimes in.

"Too gross."

"Why don't we flood it and trap the water inside," Koala suggests.

"Too much magic."

"What, then?" Ace asks.

"Why don't we scare them so much that they have to leave their house?"

"That sounds pretty terrifying, but how?" Thatch asks eagerly.

"Well, I guess we could use glitter…"

"Hell yes!"

A little more than two days later, they're prepped, equipped with the finest paint they have, tons of glitter, glue, about eight different billy goats, and endless amounts of enthusiasm.

"So, we're all clear on what the plan is?" Koala says, grinning widely.

"Yup."

"Luffy, have you found them?"

"Yup."

"Okay, let's go wreck some havoc."

"Oh, and Koala?"

"Yeah, Sabo-kun?"

"Did you make sure that the guy following us will go elsewhere?"

"Mm, he's currently on a false trail to the zoo."

"Shishishi!"

It was a normal day within the Dursley household. They were expecting company later when Vernon's gorgeous sister would be visiting them.

Petunia was sweating like a pig from the household chores she'd been performing, and Vernon couldn't help but wish that that goddamn boy was here to relieve his wife of such hard household duties.

Nothing he could've helped with, of course! He was the man of the household! The alpha of the pack! He was the one that made all of the money - if anyone should've been sweating, it was him!

With a self-righteous nod, he finished the rest of his bacon. He was watching the news about the boring monotony of children starving in the world – he didn't care! Why should he have when he was so comfortable with his own life?

It was their own fault that they were like that anyway. Why did hardworking taxpayers' money have to be rerouted to such poor children?

That was when the power went out. Now, usually he'd still be able to see within his house without lighting, but for some reason, he couldn't see at all. Most of the curtains were open too!

He slams down his cutlery. It was some goddamn teenager playing a prank on them! Well, he'd show them who was boss.

Pulling out his rifle, he approaches the only curtained window and swept it across-

"Arhh!" He'd deny it until the day he died, but the face pressed up against the window absolutely disturbed him.

Blood trickling down their face, they looked like somebody out of a B-grade slasher horror film.

He snarls and aims his rifle. "If you don't leave now, I'll smash your face!"

When the body didn't move, he rushes to the front door, warning Petunia and Dudley to stay in the kitchen.

As soon as he took one step outside, he was coated in… glue?

"Bombs away!" A second bucket coats him in glitter.

"What the bloody hell!" he roars furiously. He would find whoever did this, and he would skin them alive!

He could barely see because of the glitter, but then he hears the crunch of grass and quickly clears his vision. In his beautiful, pristine yard were eight billy goats, munching away at his grass and hedges.

"What the fuck?" he yells, and suddenly realized that the billy goats had been there for a while, because the entire lawn was screwed up where the goats ate in irregular patterns.

"Where are you, you coward?!" he bellows in fury. Suddenly, two loud thuds sound beside him, though he refrained from screaming if only because he was a man.

"Right here, you fat old bastard," one of them says, and suddenly his whole world was full of red; not from rage, but literally red.

"I think he needs some more blue," the other says, and he realized that they'd thrown paint over him.

"A touch of yellow too," says another voice, and Vernon swears he knew him but then one of the other voices shushed him.

"I think he looks quite putrid in the colours of our flag, don't you?"

"Yeah, I think his house would look better. Oh wait…"

"What the hell did you do to my house?" he demands through the paint, and he manages to clear it off his eye-lids.

His beautiful, normal house was now coated in those hideous colours.

"Who the hell are you and why us?" he asks, not feeling as brave as he was a few minutes ago.

Both men's gazes harden. "Just something you did to a dear friend of ours."

"What do you want? All of our savings are in-"

"We don't care about your money."

And he sinks to his knees because they were going to kill him.

But when no further blows came and Petunia and Dudley raced out of the house to find him alone in a red, blue, and yellow house and a destroyed yard, Petunia sinks to her knees beside him, wailing over her hedges.

"Who did this?" Dudley asks in a small voice, his pudgy hands grasping around their wireless phone, and Vernon thought, no, they couldn't call the police because they'd never catch men like that.

And he hated it because his rights had been violated, damn it!

"Call Marge and tell her we can't do our week with her anytime soon," he finally grunts out, and he waddles back into his destroyed house.

He thinks that it was time for a house-change anyway, especially given how that boy knew where he lived.

It was on their way back to Grimmauld Place that things went a little haywire.

They were wandering down the street a little because Luffy remembered an ice-cream shop he'd always wanted to go to before.

"Ish good!" Luffy exclaims around his ice-cream with scoops of pistachio, chocolate, and mint (they didn't sell meat…) "Not as good as Sanji's though…"

Ace grins, he'd only had 'Sanji's' food… once? But it was the most amazing thing he'd ever tasted, and that included Thatch's cooking.

"It is," Koala agrees, grinning around her bubblegum flavoured treat.

They were passing under one of the bridges, when the temperature drops significantly and it felt like they'd never be happy again. They all immediately froze, for they knew what it was.

But why the hell was a dementor in Little Whinging?

"Stay back Luffy," Sabo and Ace command. Everybody pulls out their wands, Suteki humming in displeasure at the feeling of the creature's presence.

And then, the creature's fingers clawed around the pass and Luffy just felt how cold it was. It should not have been so sad, but the creature…

Despite the absolute feeling of despair radiating from it, he thought that he could maybe feel somebody beneath the hood.

Ignoring everybody's calls, he walks closer to it. The person had clearly faced the worst kind of treatment, but it most definitely was a person.

And then another floated into the overpass and light spews forth from their wands, shaped like their past bodies, protecting with a vengeance against the creature.

But overall, he felt cold hooks seep into his heart, and nobody would ever be happy again because-

Will-power surges forth from him, and the creatures let out inhuman screeches at the feeling, reaching spindly hands up to where their faces would've been and press down hard and desperately.

The group behind him stand with open mouths as the dementors pulled back their hoods, and instead of revealing the ugly maw they had seen once, their entire bodies turned to pure light.

"What…?" Thatch asks, astounded as the creatures, once the sole takers of any happiness left in the world, were taking despair away.

They all felt themselves become a little lighter, the pits of sadness and built up anxiety melting away in the midst of the new creatures.

Luffy looked at them both.

Thank you sir, you have freed us from what we once were, they seemed to say.

"Shishi, no problem!" He smiles, because he knew that whatever these people once were, they weren't that anymore.

What would you care for us to do? We are indebted to you permanently. We have nobody left anymore; probably no descendants either…

He frowns. "Whatever you want! You're free."

The two dementors (except, they weren't really dementors anymore…) bow deeply, swathed in their light, and they float away as abruptly as they had appeared.

He turns back to his nakama, only to find them all staring at him with open mouths. "What did you just… what did you do?" Sabo finally asks.

"What do you mean?" Luffy thinks that it was obvious enough.

"Those were dementors - what did you do?" Ace asks, white as a sheet.

"There were people underneath the hood, so I made them come out," he says simply, and that was all it really was.

Koala frowns thoughtfully. "The dementors are recorded to exist due to the extreme torture of Ekrizdis. He lured muggle sailors within his little place in the North Sea, and then he would brutally torture them. The dementors were what was left behind by him, and for some reason, the minister in the 1700's thought that it would be a fantastic idea to have them guard Azkaban. I guess that the muggles were truly in there after all this time?"

"They've probably been feeding partially off of memories as well, if we consider the dementor's kiss…" Sabo says, shuddering.

"Why are you all so gloomy? They're still people, just really sad people," Luffy declares.

"Okay, I concede, he does have a point," Thatch says, tugging on Ace's arm.

"I can't believe…" Ace chokes a little hysterically. He could have avoided that hell with haoshoku haki.

"I don't think anyone else could do that," Sabo mutters, glancing at his other brother in worry.

"I suppose," Ace says, and finally Luffy hugs him.

"They won't hurt you Ace," he mutters into his brother's chest. He knew that being in that prison screwed his older brother up a bit… Luffy knew that it wasn't vocally said, but the dementors had really messed with his brother's mental health. He didn't want to think about what would happen if he was trapped with those, especially with a strong enough reaction that he would pass out.

So, Ace was really, really strong to have survived that mostly unscathed.

"I know little brother, I know…" Ace pets Luffy's head absentmindedly.

Thatch sighs, "I can't believe they ruined our moment…"

Sabo sighs as well, "Do you still want to go out for dinner, then? Celebrate elsewhere, maybe?"

Thatch pretends to be offended. "What, my cooking not good enough for you?"

"There's a really cool place that I always wanted to go to! It has pizza the size of me!" Luffy says excitedly. Without a second thought, he shoves his straw hat onto Ace's unruly hair.

It was usually reserved for his crew - his brothers both knew how much he loved them. But, sometimes Ace needed a little bit more than what he usually gave everyone else.

Sabo grins at him, but he looked away innocently when Ace casts his gaze onto him.

There was only a little bit of celebration when they arrived back at Grimmauld Place.

"I wonder how long it'll be before they realise that their water supply isn't really water," Thatch says with a laugh.

The prank was probably a bit excessive, Luffy thinks, but at least they didn't beat the family up. That would've resulted in a man-hunt for them.

"I still think we should've just burnt down the entire place," Ace comments. He was a lot better now that they had eaten and thoroughly enjoyed their evening.

(Eventually, while Luffy was sitting down, trying to do some homework, Ace shoved his hat his head and hugged him from behind.

It eventually devolved into a mock tackle competition, but his point was clear, and Luffy grins as brightly as the sun because of it.)

"But this way the goats will ensure that it's impossible for them to grow grass naturally, and the glitter will eventually run out, leaving them without anything," Thatch says in amusement.

Koala grins at them all and disappears for her work.

Otherwise, their holidays are rather tame - the brothers found time to go to the zoo and aquariums whenever possible.

And eventually the brothers cave and took him to the fabled 'Rockledge' that Luffy had yet to see. Marco had snorted and said that wizards tried to claim that they were the ones who created it.

They went to amusement parks and ate fairy floss and all of the food they shouldn't have been eating, and they rode Ferris Wheels and watched movies, with Luffy catching them up on the ones they hadn't seen.

After a lot more of begging, the two older brothers eventually gave in and took him to a clearing, and after setting up enough wards to hide a small army, Luffy stretched his arm back and snapped it forward, quick as ever.

Ace lithely dodges it, trying to wrap it around him, but Luffy brings it back before his brother can complete his counter-attack.

"Gear… Second!" he says, deciding, screw it, he was going all out, and it disappeared from view. It was only because of Ace's incredible amount of training that he manages to dodge the Jet-Pistol…

"Higan!" he shoots at his brother, who - just as quickly as he did - dodges the well-aimed shots from his fingers.

Luffy's arms blacken, and quicker than Ace can see, slam into him. "Gomu Gomu no… Hawk Bazooka!"

"Is that all you got Luffy?" Ace asks, panting and struggling to get up, and damn, his brother must have been training every day with his crew to get this strong this quickly.

Luffy grins. "Nah, I've got a cooler move to show you."

His arm stretched back, and hardens with armament, it begins to steam. It comes forward, igniting. "Gomu Gomu no… Red Hawk!"

"Whoa." Ace grins, barely managing to dodge the attack, which scorches the earth and manages to leave a small crater.

He doesn't, however, manage to dodge the twin pistols.

As he lays down, staring up at the sky, he hears Thatch hit the bell, signalling the K.O.

"Wow, you actually won for once little brother," he teases, ruffling Luffy's hair. "What was-"

"I learnt it with Rayleigh!" Luffy says, proudly holding his arm.

"Rayleigh?" he asks, eyes darkening. He'd already heard the story with Sabo last year, but it never really sunk in that The Dark King was the guy who had trained his brother to become so strong.

"Yup," Luffy says happily, "He's a great guy - he's the one who taught me Haki."

He just grunts in response, and Sabo sighs, "Alright, let me have a go at Luffy."

The two trade places within the field, and Sabo grins, pulling out his staff. They had planned to have a magic duel as well – not a particularly the formal one, but a fight with magic included.

Unleashing a barrage of punches on Sabo, Luffy attempts the first move by brute force.

Sabo just grins and swayed between the Gatling Gun, deflecting the ones that came close to him with his blackened staff.

"Damn," Luffy huffs.

Regardless of the struggle, Luffy ends up victorious.

"Damn," Sabo says, lying flat on his back.

And now, they were the weaker ones.

But, what had they expected from the second Pirate King?

Another week passes, and Luffy attempts to make progress on the stacks of homework he had, to no avail.

It wasn't his fault; it was just so boring.

Although, the magic part was fun.

"Aceeeee," Luffy whines, flopping over the lounge in Grimmauld Place. "We need to go."

Thatch looks over in amusement at the whining teen (man?). "He has a point - we should leave now if we don't want to be late.

The aforementioned fire-hazard is snoring into his food, blissfully ignorant of the food on his face. "Is Ace asleep again?" Sabo asks, grinning as he pulls his cravat on.

"Yeah," Luffy moans. And he even packed his trunk!

"We really will be late if he doesn't wake up."

Koala suddenly appears in the middle of the living room, startling most of the occupants.

"I'm going to go get Jinbe. He hasn't been able to pull away from Fishman Island affairs, but he wants to now," she reports.

"Jinbe's coming?"

She smiles indulgently. "Yeah, I'll take him straight to the Burrow."

"It's only been a week, but I really want to see them…" He misses his crew. He did love spending time here with his brothers and Thatch, Marco, and Koala, but he loves his crew and nothing would truly ever make that love disappear. And Jinbe!

Sabo sighs and leans down next to his older (?) brother, and he whispers in his ear, "Luffy's in trou-"

Immediately the black-haired man leaps up, flames already licking his shoulders. "Luffy's in danger?"

Marco raises an eyebrow and Thatch snorts. "Ace! We have to go!"

Ace for the most part just looked disgruntled that he'd been awoken like that, again.

"Alrightio. We're going to have to apparate to the outskirts of the Burrow since as there's the highest amount of protection in there for all of us," Thatch says, moving and collecting their trunks. He checks his watch and mutters something about not having enough time for the Knight Bus. "Have you apparated before?"

"Yup. Twice," Luffy says, holding out two fingers.

"Twice? With who?" Ace asks.

"Zoro's mum and the old-guy," Luffy says.

"Dumbledore?" Sabo arches an eyebrow.

"Yup."

He shrugs. "We ready everyone? Link arms," Thatch instructs.

Staring at the picture of the Burrow, Luffy thinks really hard about it, and suddenly, they were being sucked into a tube and spat out onto fields of wheat.

On the outskirts, near where they had apparated, a gaggle of teenagers stand, waiting for them.

"Luffy!" they call, and suddenly he was engulfed by his nakama – including Hermione.

"Shishishi! Yo, everyone!"

They were a dog-pile, and Mrs. Weasley looks on in amusement, arms folded. "Let's get the rest of you inside," she says, and she begins ushering the remainder of their group inside the Burrow.

And with another loud crack, a large fish-looking man wearing a kimono appears, accompanied by Koala.

The woman left them to their reunion and travelled into the Burrow, where she informs Mrs. Weasley that they will be plus another person.

"Jinbe!"

The rest of the crew eye him in appreciation and tackle him. "Luffy-kun, everyone, it has been a while."

"I'm so glad you're here!" Luffy says, squeezing the fishman tightly.

"Where have you been?" Nami asks curiously, rocking back into a cross-legged position.

Everyone else follows suit. "Well, as you might have already heard, Fishman Island is above the water, has been for centuries, in fact, and it was only 50 years after your own demise that Fishman Island was officially raised to the surface. The World Government was completely different from the one which operated within the Great Pirate Era.

"They were rid of most of the corrupt marines, and even the Gorosei were removed from their pedestal. The Tenryūbito followed and soon the world was starting anew, the Revolutionaries true dream was realized, and a new Government took over. They soon took to freeing many of the slaves that were left over from the old government, and the pirates slowly started to dissipate. After the second war - now known as the 'War for Freedom' - there weren't many pirates left anyway," Jinbe says gravely. "I only know so much because it is passed down through the generations on Fishman Island. The history is not obscured. But anyway, the new government rectified the mistakes of the past and soon the world began to shift. Nobody truly knows how, but perhaps it was the amount of blood and magic bleeding into the land that made the world painstakingly change from the five seas into the world as we now know it."

"So, the world shifted once more?" Robin asks curiously. "That is most peculiar - I would have expected that, judging by the stage of the world when the Grand Line and the four seas were created, it would have been the end of our world moving due to plate tectonics."

"Well, it was not. From the new land, the new government imploded on itself after a while, and the world started to pick itself back up, and new colonies began to reappear from before the pirating era. I believe that the Ministry of Magic was created in the 1700's and that they immediately tried to take Fishman Island. However, in doing so they went to war with a larger country."

"Another country?"

"Mm, apparently, it was a war of giants and wizards." Jinbe nods. "Nobody knows where the country is anymore, except that there are some officials within the Ministry that want to go to war with it."

"Well, I'm glad that Fishman Island is above ground," Luffy says with a large grin.

"As am I," Jinbe says with an easy grin on his face.

"Now, how were your holidays?" Chopper asks in excitement.

Luffy smiles widely and began to recount his tales with about as much finesse as a baby duckling, tripping over his words and sentences.

"But we went to the zoo! Properly, this time. The last time I went, I accidentally locked my cousin into a snake display," he says.

Usopp snorts. "Of course you did."

"Oh! And we conducted the biggest prank on the Dursleys." Luffy goes into detail about the prank they had laid onto the family. By the end, everybody was laughing hard because they deserved it, and they were glad that Ace and Sabo gave that family retribution for the hell they gave Luffy.

"Oh dear, that sounds like quite the fright," Robin says, smiling widely.

"Yeah."

"Ginny! Ron! Come help with dinner!" Mrs. Weasley calls.

"Do not fret, Nami-swan, I will help Mrs. Weasley with dinner. She won't be able to keep up with the three bottomless pits now," Sanji says, leaping up and glancing at Luffy.

"Shishishi, do you wanna spar later, Zoro?"

"Sure."

They had only sparred a few times in the fields, and the Earth had much to show for it. Much of the grass had been burned away, and in some cases, caved inwards.

So, they had all decided to try and teach him as many spells as they knew. It had astounded them that he could simply think of a spell and it would happen – if his wand was feeling like it.

"Come on, I'll give you two a tour of the Burrow," Nami says, standing.

"It's so cool!" Chopper cries in delight.

Brook yohos, "Yes, our house is quite quaint is it not?"

"Yeah! So cool!"

Inside, Sanji and Thatch were talking amicably about cooking while helping a harried-looking Mrs. Weasley formulate enough food for all of them.

"Hello, Harry." The twins almost appear from upstairs. They both are carrying little tablets of something, and he thinks that they were about to do a really cool trick.

"Hey!" Luffy waved.

"Who are you?" they ask Jinbe, who was right behind Luffy.

"Pardon the intrusion. I am Jinbe, one of the ambassadors of Fishman Island." He bows to where Mr. Weasley was jumping up, dusting his clothes off.

"Arthur Weasley; I work for the Ministry of Magic." They shake hands.

"Pleasure to meet you. I'm sorry for not making you aware of my arrival prior to now," he says, ever the perfect gentleman, and Koala winces.

"Sorry, that was kind of my fault too - it was kind of a last-minute decision to pick him up," she says apologetically.

"No, no, no, not a problem at all," Mr. Weasley assures. "Ron, can you show Mr. Jinbe to his room?"

"Of course, otou-san." Brook smiles. "Come along Jinbe, Luffy."

As they walked up the winding stair-case, Luffy admiring the moving pictures, the self-working chores, hell, even the awesome clock on the wall that showed where everybody was.

"Ahh! Your house is so cool! Not mundane like the Dursley's, but awesome!" he says with a laugh.

"You can stay with your brothers, Marco, and Thatch in this room." Nami gestures to one of the rooms to her right. "Jinbe, you can go with everybody else.

"That will be a tight fit…" Jinbe comments, sliding into the room.

"I believe so…"

Dinner was a relatively jovial affair ("No, Lu, don't eat that! It's mine!" and "So, how long have you-" thunk) that manages to bring a tear to Mrs. Weasley's eyes. She places her hands against her heart. "I… thank you all for coming to our house."

Mr. Weasley takes her hand and smiles. "It's quite the joy to have you all here, gathered around us."

Luffy grins around his mouthful of meat and Sanji 'lightly' kicks their captain under the table.

"Thank you for having us!" Sabo and Ace simultaneously stand and bowed deeply, causing the two to become mysteriously watery eyed.

The entire crew watch in awe, because, how polite were they?

The entire office is swathed in pink, moving pictures of kittens of all matter mewling within the plates adorning the walls.

Roses, eternally frozen in one moment in time, stand stiffly in a white porcelain vase.

The owner of the office sits down carefully at her mahogany desk. She had a mission - one that her father bestowed upon her when he was still alive – to destroy the vermin of the world; any who oppose the Ministry would have to perish.

Her father was killed a long time ago within the war. He is hailed as a war hero to that extent. She didn't care if she was to be a hero, just as long as the earth was free of those who deigned it their right to destroy what others had worked for.

The other chair was occupied by a portly man who twirls his emerald bowler hat idly in his hand. "So, you will take it?"

"Of course." She smiles, saccharinely sweet, and she glances at the newspaper again. "I understand what must be done. Especially given… recent events, I feel it prudent to crack down and show them the authority we still possess."

"They cannot gain too much power. If they do, you have my full authority to change the school as you see fit."

She doesn't frown like she wanted to. This man was a fool if he thinks that she doesn't know what needs to be done.

In light of recent events… it has become clear who Harry Potter was to the woman, and she would destroy him.

It was her mission.

God, we're going into uncharted territory here, i have a general plan out for the years but like, who knows? i have something very special planned for the fourth book lmao ;) I'm warning y'all now that this is certainly NOT CANON COMPLIANT
And, you can probably guess who that is at the end of the chapter.