Recaps

Vizet and Harry uncover Ravenclaw’s Crown as Voldemort’s Horcrux, bringing Helena back to Rowena and learning more about the Isaiah Society. Meanwhile, Voldemort manipulates Snape with an impostor posing as Lily and orders him to lure Vizet to the Time Hall, while Snape secretly recognizes the deception and considers how to use Vizet.

• Professor Flitwick mastered Vizet’s new magic, and Vizet described how Muggles’ observations and beliefs guided wizards in recording magical phenomena.
• Harry and Vizet found the Room of Requirement, where Harry sensed Voldemort’s Horcrux and Vizet summoned Ravenclaw’s Crown, awakening Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.
• Vizet told the Founders how he and others had thwarted the Isaiah Society’s plots, and Rowena gave him a Silver Thread to help gather the guardians’ wills.
• Harry retrieved the Crown without touching it, and Vizet revealed its dark curse to the Grey Lady, who reunited with her mother, Rowena, as Helena.
• Vizet cleansed and repaired the Crown, while Rowena’s reunion with Helena restored the Grey Lady’s living appearance and changed the Round Hall.
• At Durmstrang, Barty Crouch Jr. showed Snape an apparent Lily Evans, and Voldemort ordered Snape to lure Vizet to the Time Hall on the O.W.L. Exam day.
• Circe revealed that she had impersonated Lily by recreating Snape’s altered memories, while Voldemort sent Carcas to watch Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. prepared to interfere with the plan.
• Snape realized the woman was an impostor, pretended to be deceived, and concluded that Vizet could be a variable in his isolated position.

As Hogwarts students prepared for their O.W.L. Exams, Vizet helped his friends with potion worries while Fred and George tested their magical armor against Neville. The arc ended as the fifth-years began their exams amid new Ministry arrangements and strict anti-cheating measures.

• Vizet identified the ingredients in Michael’s Calming Draught and explained the old Soul Soothing Potion he shared with Michael, Terry, Anthony, and Chris.
• Vizet learned that Fred and George had arranged to get an airplane from Mr. Sharma, then watched them test their enchanted armor against Neville in the Mystic Corridor.
• Neville fought skillfully but lost after George used the Invisibility Smoke Bomb to exploit Neville’s unfamiliarity with fighting in the fog.
• Fred and George asked Vizet for advice on their armor, and he recommended that they leave it as it was while Neville offered them books on swordsmanship.
• Michael and his friends discussed counterfeit exam aids, and Vizet planned to get potion samples from Snape so students could learn to identify frauds.
• Voldemort questioned Carcas about Hogwarts, Herpo, and Circe, then ordered him to report any unusual developments at the school.
• Professor Flitwick reviewed exam material and announced the O.W.L. schedule, including practical exams at Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic’s interrogation chamber.
• The fifth-years entered the Great Hall to begin their exams, and examiners confiscated Vincent Crabbe’s prohibited Magical Artifacts before handing out the papers.

As the students faced their O.W.L. exams, Vizet impressed Muggle examiners with demonstrations that bridged magic and science. The practical tests culminated in Vizet facing Magic-Powered Armor after the officials recalled how it had defeated an accomplished Auror.

• Neville told Hermione about the Bubotuber Pus potion he and Hanna had developed, and the students praised their work and magical papers.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione prepared for their exams, and Snape assigned Harry and Ron detention after they said the Potions exam had been easy.
• Percy Weasley guided the O.W.L. students to the Ministry, where Vizet completed a Transfiguration exam by creating a healing Phoenix and an ice sphere for David Morris to study.
• Voldemort and Herpo discussed the Muggle observers and the need to reshape the Magical World while Carcas checked on Severus near the Department of Mysteries.
• Michael completed a dangerous practical exam involving a Grindylow, a Fire Crab, and Cornish Pixies, while Vizet astonished the examiners by changing the weather with a wand wave.
• Vizet restrained the exam creatures, crossed a fortified site by enlarging rubber bullets inside the guns, and left Griselda Marchbanks unable to explain how he bypassed its defenses.
• Muggle officials recalled that Magic-Powered Armor had subdued Auror John Deloris, and Vizet entered its trial, choosing not to dismantle the armor because Fred and George sold modified sets.
• Smoke swallowed Vizet as the armored soldiers attacked, and the observers watched anxiously as the smoke began to disperse.

Vizet vanished in an explosion in the Department of Mysteries, and the wizarding world believed him dead while Voldemort celebrated his apparent victory. As Snape returned to Voldemort’s side, the conflict widened into plans to exploit Vizet’s disappearance and start a war.

• Vizet exposed Barty Crouch Jr. as an impostor at the Ministry, then followed Snape into the Department of Mysteries.
• Snape led Vizet through the shifting rooms and left the route to the Time Hall open, where an explosion erased the room and Vizet vanished.
• Snape found no trace of Vizet, but his spells on Barty Crouch Jr. remained effective, and Kingsley Shacklebolt and Old Barty Crouch began investigating.
• Old Barty Crouch told Dumbledore that Vizet had died, while Snape suspected Dumbledore and Fawkes knew Vizet’s true situation.
• Voldemort learned that Dumbledore intended to conceal Vizet’s apparent death, and he and Herpo planned to spread the news and stir conflict between Muggles and wizards.
• Barty Crouch Jr. exposed Voldemort’s plan and named Herpo and Carcas, while Voldemort disowned him and welcomed the prospect of Aurors arriving at Durmstrang.
• Voldemort praised Snape for the Time Hall plan, ordered him to kill Dumbledore during the coming chaos, and Snape agreed before returning to Hogwarts.
• After Snape left, Voldemort tortured Herpo for breaking his promise, and Circe agreed that Herpo deserved punishment.