When the story begins, you are a ten-year-old wizard living at home with your father and mother, your seven-year-old brother Aberforth and your six-year-old sister Ariana, and looking forward to beginning your studies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in one year’s time.

  Suddenly your blissful life is shattered by a family tragedy.  A gang of three Muggle boys, frightened by Ariana's magical abilities, attack her, driving her insane.  Your father, in a fit of rage, attacks them with the Cruciatus Curse.  To protect their daughter from spending her life in St. Mungo’s Hospital, which would surely be her fate were her condition to become known, your father declines to state his reason for attacking them - so he is sentenced to Azkaban, where he dies - and your mother moves the family to a place where nobody knows them and cares for Ariana herself.

  Eight years pass.  You graduate from Hogwarts as the best student the school has ever seen, having obtained a grade of Outstanding in all your subjects every year, and plan to take a trip around the world with a friend, but then another tragedy strikes: Ariana, in a fit of madness, accidentally causes an explosion that kills her mother.  Aberforth offers to drop out of school to care for Ariana, but you insist upon undertaking that responsibility yourself so that he can complete his education.  Your life has become exceedingly dull, with no company except your insane sister and, occasionally, your brother, whose intelligence is far inferior to yours.

  Into your life pops a most interesting young man, Gellert Grindelwald, who is extremely intelligent, energetic, handsome and hot.  You are immediately smitten with him, and the two of you become best friends.  He is obsessed with the idea of dominating the Muggles for the benefit of the wizarding world and he asks you to accompany him to help him collect the necessary tools and followers.  Grindelwald’s ideas appeal to your lust for power, and besides, you fear that if you reject them out of hand, you will lose him and be forced to resume the dull life that seems even duller than it did before, now that you have experienced the joy of his companionship.  On the other hand, you still feel responsible for your younger brother and sister.  Grindelwald suggests that the two of you take Ariana with you on your travels.

  If you choose to go off with Grindelwald and leave Ariana with Aberforth, turn to Chapter 3.

  If you choose to go off with Grindelwald and take Ariana with you, turn to Chapter 8.

  If you choose to prevail upon Grindelwald to stay with you and your family until Aberforth has completed his education, turn to Chapter 4.