After they became friends, William the Pukwudgie introduced Isolt to all sorts of magical creatures he knew. Together, they went through many adventures and watched newborn Wampus cat cubs playing in the morning. Later, Isolt encountered a Horned Serpent and was quickly captivated by it. The serpent liked her too, and eventually offered part of its horn as material for Isolt to make a new wand.
Many members of the Gaunt family were born with Parseltongue, but she had never told William that she shared a certain sense of kinship with the Horned Serpent. In Pukwudgie tradition, however, snakes were not considered symbols of evil.
She had once dreamed that she went to the stream where the Horned Serpent lived. It raised its neck from the river and lowered its head, and Isolt scraped scales from its horn. When she woke, she followed the directions from her dream to the stream, where the serpent was waiting for her, exactly as it had been in the dream.
Until I am part of your family, your family is doomed.
The Horned Serpent had always said this to Isolt. At first, Isolt did not understand what it meant, until one day, she and William the Pukwudgie discovered four humans attacked by a Hidebehind. Two adults were already dead, while two boys were badly injured. So Isolt and William the Pukwudgie drove the Hidebehind away together.
"When Newt found Jacob the No-Maj after he'd been bitten by a Murtlap, his reaction was much the same as William the Pukwudgie's. But William the Pukwudgie kept gathering BlackBerrys, while Newt wanted to erase Jacob's memory." Supported by Pomona, Tina walked along the lakeshore as she spoke. "He even told me, 'Sorry. We walked across half of New York, and you kept shouting at me. I should