Recaps

Vizet and Dumbledore explored the Misty Illusory Realm, while Voldemort’s allies watched them and searched for a Horcrux hidden in a seaside cave. The search failed, and Barty Crouch Jr. emerged from the ordeal with his hatred of his father and devotion to Voldemort shaken.

• Vizet helped Dumbledore recognize The Master’s influence over Ariana, reunite with his family, and find the peaceful lake at the heart of the Misty Illusory Realm.
• Dumbledore and Vizet returned to Hogwarts, where they discussed imprisoned souls, the Deathly Hallows, and a mysterious mirror clue connected to Grindelwald’s gift.
• Voldemort had Herpo use Carcas’s Heavenly Eye to spy on Hogwarts and learned that Vizet and Dumbledore had returned from the realm with the Deathly Hallows.
• Carcas’s account revealed that the Resurrection Stone Ring was broken, leading Voldemort to suspect that Vizet and Dumbledore had destroyed his Horcrux.
• Voldemort took Barty Crouch Jr. to the seaside cave and forced him to drink the potion guarding the basin, but found no Horcrux there.
• As the potion brought back memories of his father, Barty Crouch Jr. understood that Old Barty Crouch had loved him and had wept while carrying him home from Azkaban.
• Barty Crouch Jr. watched the recovered memory in a Pensieve and realized his hatred had collapsed and his devotion to Voldemort had lost its meaning.
• Carcas woke from Voldemort’s torture and wondered whether killing Serena Pendragon could have prevented the crisis, but Herpo said another Guardian would have emerged.

Vizet and Dumbledore used the Misty Illusory Realm to reunite Aberforth and Xenophilius with their departed families while learning that Voldemort had discovered the Horcrux hunt. As Dumbledore moved to secure Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup and Vizet devised a plan involving goblin forging, Voldemort shifted his surveillance toward Vizet and then back to Dumbledore.

• Herpo told Carcas that Voldemort’s servant at Hogwarts could disrupt the Department of Mysteries during Vizet’s future Ministry visit, while Grindelwald received Vizet’s Phoenix Tears and recognized himself in the letter’s description.
• Dumbledore revealed to Aberforth that the Deathly Hallows allowed entry to the Misty Illusory Realm, where Aberforth reunited with Ariana and their parents and Xenophilius found his parents but not Pandora.
• Dumbledore and Vizet explained that Carcas was using the Heavenly Eye to watch them, and Dumbledore said Voldemort had learned that his Horcruxes were being hunted after the Inferi guarding one were found missing.
• Dumbledore revealed that he had obtained Hufflepuff’s Golden Cup and destroyed its soul fragment, while Vizet proposed offering Muggles a magical forging technique under contract to counter their interest in goblin techniques.
• Vizet and Dumbledore agreed to use Voldemort’s likely attempt to recover the Golden Cup to pressure Gringotts, and Dumbledore planned visits to the goblins while Vizet asked to invite Snape into the Misty Illusory Realm.
• Voldemort killed Carcas for reporting Dumbledore’s interest in the Golden Cup, then had Herpo prepare a student as Carcas’s new vessel and ordered surveillance of Vizet at Snape’s potions tutoring.
• Fred and George’s advice business fed the Hogwarts challenge to face Snape, while Snape rejected the Misty Illusory Realm as a false projection and privately resisted reaching toward a remembered face.
• Carcas failed to find Dumbledore at first but located him in Amelia Bones’s office, while Voldemort considered replacing Barty Crouch Jr. and Herpo asked about Snape’s performance at Hogwarts.

Vizet restored Filch and Arabella Figg’s ability to use magic, then demonstrated a Fake Wand to Muggle officials debating who should control access to it. He transformed the officials’ negative emotions into a magical awakening, and John Major began testing his new magic with a wand.

• Voldemort accepted Herpo’s plan to use Circe to imitate Severus’s lost love as a reward, while Vizet’s parchment contracts anchored signers to the Misty Illusory Realm.
• Anthony and his friends discussed Rita Skeeter’s report that goblins had robbed Gringotts, and Vizet said the scandal could accelerate plans for a trusted new currency.
• Vizet gave Filch a Fake Wand and a potion that let him cast the Directional Spell through Mrs. Norris, then Filch went to St. Mungo’s for Vizet’s Squib ritual.
• With Dumbledore and international observers watching, Vizet used the Emotion Collectors and a Ritual Magic Array to give Filch and Arabella Figg magical outbursts, and both successfully cast the Wand-Lighting Charm.
• Vizet demonstrated a Fake Wand to Toivo Koskinen, while Karl Gustafsson proposed a joint committee to control who could use Fake Wands and Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd challenged him.
• Vizet revealed that his ritual array drew on magic from the Paris Region Incident, then gathered the Muggle officials’ negative emotions into gray-black mist creatures and sent them through the crowd.
• After several officials began transforming, Vizet’s Golden Eagle Patronus sent Silver-Blue Light through them, and their mutations vanished as magic awakened in them.
• John Major struggled to control the light in his body until Dumbledore guided him, then tried a wand Vizet provided and produced sparks.

Vizet’s Ritual Magic gave some Muggle officials access to magic while exposing the limits and tensions of the experiment. Back at Hogwarts, he considered how to make magic more accessible, support people with hereditary curses, and pursue overlooked magical phenomena.

• Vizet and Dumbledore oversaw Muggle officials practicing magic, but Karl Gustafsson accused Vizet of deception and lost his ability to cast spells when Vizet dismissed the Golden Eagle Patronus.
• John Major, President Jacques, Schmidt, and other officials defended Vizet, while Toivo Koskinen apologized and Vizet promised that those who had lost magic would not be abandoned.
• Vizet’s experiment drew international attention, and Madam Morel recognized his wand-making skill before deciding to travel to England to meet him and Ollivander.
• Voldemort and Herpo discussed using a goblin-made artifact to bind and banish Guardian, while Barty Crouch Jr. resolved to wait for a chance to act against Vizet.
• Vizet told his dormmates that the ritual had awakened magic in some Muggle officials who were Squibs, and they connected the experiment to a broader change in Muggle-wizard relations.
• Vizet asked Draco to help establish a mutual aid society for people with hereditary curses, offering to contribute his treatment research and Ritual Magic Arrays.
• During career counseling, Vizet told Professor Flitwick that he wanted to investigate overlooked magical phenomena and help people who perceived unusual things feel less alone.
• Vizet demonstrated how he combined Muggle science with magic by freezing tea with the Full Body-Bind Curse and restoring it with the Dance Step Charm.