đș Roadmap: Durmstrang Year Two (Age 11â12, 1990â1991)
Chapter 1 â Lessons in Power
Ivar returns for his second year stronger, his reputation already established.
Professors push him into advanced classes normally reserved for upper years.
Begins experimenting with blending languages into spellwork more deliberately.
Chapter 2 â The Duel of Wills
Challenged by a Durmstrang champion (an older student chosen to represent the school in dueling exhibitions).
The duel is brutal and public â Ivar wins by cunning, using layered rituals mid-combat, shocking both peers and professors.
Gains a reputation not just as a prodigy, but as dangerous even to seasoned fighters.
Chapter 3 â The Black Heir's Burden
Receives correspondence from Lucius and Narcissa about his formal recognition as Heir Black spreading through wizarding Europe.
Old marriage contracts resurface (Greengrass, Bones, Delacour).
Ivar begins writing to each girl's family â charming, diplomatic, and setting future bonds.
Chapter 4 â Serpent Tongue
A serpent is unleashed in a ritual lesson; Ivar uses Parseltongue publicly for the first time this year, bending it easily to his will.
Classmates whisper "dark," but others begin to follow him out of fascination and awe.
His control over serpents becomes a signature that cements his link to Slytherin's legacy.
Chapter 5 â The Circle of Death
Ivar attempts another Peverell ritual, more dangerous than the last.
Brushes death again â this time seeing visions of a black hall and pale watchers â but survives, emerging with an even stronger aura of inevitability.
His charisma sharpens: people find it harder to refuse him, even when they want to.
Chapter 6 â Alliances in Fire and Ice
Klara and Jannik stand with him openly, cementing themselves as his closest allies.
Together, they win a brutal joint challenge during winter training against upperclassmen, showing Ivar's extroverted charisma as a leader.
Professors begin quietly using him as an example to other students.
Chapter 7 â Britain Watches Again
Word of his feats returns to Britain. Some pureblood families court his favor, others mutter that he's too dangerous.
Dumbledore begins to hear whispers and wonders why a Malfoy heir is excelling at Durmstrang rather than Hogwarts.
Lucius begins maneuvering politically, balancing pride in Ivar's power with fear of what it might draw.
Chapter 8 â The Ritual Duel
A secret duel in the ritual chambers against an older student dabbling in dark magic.
Ivar defeats him by fusing Helheim hellfire with Peverell death-aura â his first glimpse of what true hybrid magic can do.
This duel is not spoken of publicly, but rumors spread anyway: Malfoy is untouchable.
Chapter 9 â The Black Crown
Instructors formally acknowledge Ivar has "graduated out" of Charms, Runes, Dark Arts, and Battle Transfiguration â no more lessons, only private research.
Students begin deferring to him as though he were a prefect, even though Durmstrang has none.
Jannik jokes about him wearing a crown of ice; Klara calls him inevitable.
Chapter 10 â The Winter Forge (Year-End Finale)
Final year trials. Ivar completes them effortlessly, more spectacle than struggle.
Instead of being measured, the staff uses him as the standard others are tested against.
Alone, in ritual, he sees not just Durmstrang but Hogwarts in his visions â a castle with secrets waiting for him.
Ends the year with the certainty that Durmstrang is no longer enough.
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âš Theme of Year Two:
Year One was about establishing inevitability.
Year Two is about consolidation and sharpening: his reputation now carries political weight, his aura grows heavier with ritual, and his charisma cements allies. Britain begins to pay attention, and Hogwarts looms in the distance as his next stage.
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