Chapter Summaries

Luna told Vizet that the Sorting Hat had wanted to sing a Death Metal Sorting Song, then the students celebrated the start of the school year and met their new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Gilderoy Lockhart. After the feast, Luna and Vizet planned a magical three-dimensional drawing to send to Xenophilius, and Vizet began working out how to make it.

• Luna told Vizet that the Sorting Hat had chosen Ravenclaw quickly, discussed his unusual sorting, and planned to learn Death Metal for next year's song.
• Ginny Weasley was sorted into Gryffindor, and the last new student was sorted into Hufflepuff.
• Dumbledore welcomed the students, opened the feast, and introduced Gilderoy Lockhart as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
• Dumbledore led the students in singing the school song, and the feast ended without Lockhart giving a speech.
• Luna and Vizet agreed to send Xenophilius a drawing made three-dimensional with magic, while Vizet considered how to create it.

Vizet enchanted Luna’s painting with moving images and a recorded message, then followed Serena Pendragon’s directions to open a hidden passage at Hogwarts. He descended into the Guardian Chamber prepared for a possible trial.

• Vizet used Magic Powder and the Recording Charm to make Luna’s painting move and preserve her message for her father.
• After Luna returned to the dormitory, Vizet reviewed his plans and decided to visit the Guardian Chamber.
• Vizet left the Common Room at night and used Peeves’s fight with Filch as a distraction to cross the castle.
• Vizet used Obscurus State to bypass the Moving Staircase and reached a tall Mahogany Cabinet at the end of a corridor.
• Vizet opened the cabinet with a spoken phrase and descended into the passage, preparing for a possible test with Magic Eye and Devil’s Snare form.

Vizet discovered Serena Pendragon’s instructions for learning the Imperius Curse and found that the spell was startlingly simple to cast. After successfully controlling a spider, he considered how easily the curse could command a soul and body, leaving him with questions about its precise control.

• Vizet entered a storeroom filled with blank, magically enchanted books and found a snake-scale page bearing Serena Pendragon’s signature.
• Vizet read Serena Pendragon’s instructions, which said the caster needed resolve, the incantation “Imperio,” and a living target.
• Vizet cast the Imperius Curse on a spider and made it follow the movements of his Wand.
• Vizet released the spider and reflected on how simply the curse controlled a soul and allowed precise commands over the target’s body.

Vizet discovered that the mirror in the room led toward the Guardian Chamber, but stopped exploring after opening a Bronze Gate and planned to return on the weekend. The next morning, he spoke with Luna about the Thestrals near the Forbidden Forest and told her that her Dirigible Plum was growing in Professor Sprout's greenhouse.

• Vizet used the Imperius Curse to study the soul, then found an ancient mirror that revealed a hidden passage behind it.
• Vizet crossed the mirror, descended through a mountain cave, and opened a Bronze Gate with Ancient Magic Power before deciding to return later.
• Vizet met Luna in the Common Room as she watched Thestrals flying near the Forbidden Forest.
• Luna explained that Thestrals could only be seen by those who had witnessed and understood death, and Vizet suggested drawing one into motion.
• Vizet reminded Luna of the Dirigible Plum she had sent him and told her it was growing in Professor Sprout's greenhouse.

Vizet and Luna helped Professor Sprout care for the greenhouse plants, and she taught Vizet how the Water-Making Spell could combine with other magic while retaining its essence. Their morning in Greenhouse Two ended when Hannah Abbott arrived and found them there.

• Vizet and Luna went to Greenhouse Two, where they joined Professor Sprout in fertilizing and watering the plants.
• Professor Sprout praised Vizet's skill with the Water-Making Spell and asked whether he could produce pure water with it.
• Professor Sprout explained how the Water-Making Spell could combine with other spells, comparing its variations to the colors and patterns of a Magic Cube.
• Vizet considered how Professor Sprout's theory could apply to Transfiguration and other magical knowledge.
• Hannah Abbott arrived at Greenhouse Two and was surprised to see Vizet there.

Vizet, Luna, and Hanna helped Professor Sprout tend the Third Greenhouse, where Vizet learned about Mandrakes and examined several dangerous Magical Plants. Afterward, Vizet guided Luna toward her first Potions Class and made sure they both had breakfast before lessons.

• Vizet, Luna, and Hanna finished caring for the Third Greenhouse while Vizet asked Professor Sprout questions about the Water-Making Spell.
• Professor Sprout showed them the planting area and explained that Vizet's dragon dung had helped her raise Mandrakes for the teaching plan.
• Vizet recognized Venomous Tentacula, Biting Cabbage, Belladonna, and Wolf's Bane Monkshood among the greenhouse plants.
• Vizet used Scourgify to clean Luna and Hanna after they left the greenhouse, and the three went to the Great Hall before Hanna parted from them.
• Vizet gave Luna a map and directions to Potions Class, then he and Luna shared bread and reminded each other to eat before their lessons.

Vizet explained how to use an object’s original form as a guide for Transfiguration, then experimented by combining a Transfiguration with a Scouring Charm. Professor McGonagall discovered the hidden spell in his Dark Eye Button during their first class of the year.

• Vizet reassured his dormmates that their first Transfiguration lesson would be manageable and explained how he had shaped his Snuffbox from a mouse, inspiring Draco to consider the method.
• Vizet and Luna parted ways outside the Great Hall to attend their respective classes.
• In Transfiguration, Vizet changed a ladybug into a Dark Eye Button and then experimented with adding a Scouring Charm to the transformation.
• Professor McGonagall noticed Goyle and Draco making progress and found that Vizet had hidden a Scouring Charm inside his button, activated by pressing it.

Vizet impressed Professor McGonagall with a transfigured ladybug button that cast the Scouring Charm, earning Ravenclaw twenty points. McGonagall agreed to begin teaching him the Animagus process on Saturday, while Hanna revealed that Vizet’s advice had guided Hufflepuff’s approach to the class exercise.

• Professor McGonagall tested Vizet’s button, praised his blend of Transfiguration and charm work, and awarded Ravenclaw twenty points.
• The Slytherin students passed the button around and marveled that it cast Scourgify despite being a transfigured ladybug.
• After class, Vizet agreed to meet Professor McGonagall on Saturday to begin studying the dangerous Animagus process and promised to keep it secret.
• In Gryffindor’s Transfiguration class, Harry struggled with his ladybug, Seamus blasted his beetle, and Hermione successfully transformed hers while helping Ron and Harry.
• Hanna Abbott told Professor McGonagall that Vizet’s advice had inspired Hufflepuff’s button-making method, then failed to complete her own transformation under pressure.

During Potions class, Luna Lovegood brewed an unusually effective Pimple Healing Potion with Amica Miller, using a method that caught Professor Snape’s attention. Snape suspected Luna had added Ritual Magic and asked whether Vizet had taught her the technique.

• Professor McGonagall awarded Hanna five points for Hufflepuff and urged her to be more patient.
• Professor Snape questioned Luna about the Pimple Healing Potion, and she explained that Vizet had given her a bottle that treated plant diseases.
• Snape ordered the students to brew the potion in pairs while he criticized their work around the classroom.
• Luna and Amica finished a potion that surpassed their classmates’ brews, and Snape allowed them to submit it.
• Snape questioned Luna about her departure from the written instructions and asked if she had used Ritual Magic as Vizet’s remedy.

Snape recognized Luna’s intuitive spellwork as reminiscent of Lily and hurt himself before healing and cleaning the wounds. Vizet improved his Scouring Charm Button notes and discussed secret bases with the Weasley twins, who headed off to confront Filch after Mrs. Norris appeared.

• Luna explained that she had blended Ritual Magic for the Water-Making Spell into her work by following her feelings, and Snape recognized a resemblance to a red-haired girl from his student days.
• Snape struck his chest until his hand bled, healed the wound, cleaned his robe, and picked up the potion labeled with Luna and Amica’s names.
• Vizet learned Magic Cube Theory from Sprout, arranged to begin studying Animagus with Professor McGonagall on Saturday, and noted ways to improve his Scouring Charm Button.
• Fred and George questioned Vizet about how he had vanished the previous night and explained that they were searching for a larger secret base.
• Mrs. Norris appeared as Fred, George, and Vizet talked, and the twins went to confront Filch after hearing him accuse someone of possessing contraband.

Vizet shared his Transfiguration insights with Hermione, Harry, and Ron, then met Luna and Amica in the Great Hall as Luna described her unusual jewelry. The conversation ended with Vizet explaining that oak could be used to make wand shafts.

• Vizet explained his approach to Transfiguration, and Hermione, Harry, and Ron learned from his advice.
• Harry questioned whether Vizet’s study habits counted as balancing work and rest, while Ron and Hermione defended the idea.
• Luna told Amica that Nargles worried the fifth-year students and suggested a Nargles Siphon.
• Luna explained that her Dirigible Plum earrings could help her father replicate Rowena Ravenclaw’s lost diadem, and that her cork necklace kept her mind clear.
• Vizet joined Luna and Amica and explained that oak was Magical Wood used to make wand shafts.

Vizet and Luna discussed Snape’s unusual voice, his Potions teaching, and Luna’s idea that he might make a good radio host. Luna described seeing Nargles flicker around Snape and swarm around students when he took points.

• Vizet explained to Amica Miller how Ollivander chose wands through mutual selection, and Amica introduced herself to him.
• Vizet and Luna discussed Snape’s voice and the frightening story The Warlock’s Hairy Heart, which Luna had secretly read.
• Luna recalled WWN and suggested Snape could become a radio host, while Vizet doubted he would leave Hogwarts.
• Vizet told Luna that Snape had refused to write a new Potions textbook despite improving on its brewing steps.
• Luna said Nargles appeared when Snape lectured, vanished when he patrolled, and gathered around students when he took points.

Vizet attended Gilderoy Lockhart’s Defence Against the Dark Arts class, where a celebrity quiz earned him and Hermione full marks. Lockhart then introduced a mysterious creature in a covered cage, leaving the class poised to face their first practical challenge.

• Vizet’s classmates waited for Harry, Ron, and Hermione while noticing Lockhart had filled the classroom with animated portraits of himself.
• Lockhart arrived with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, introduced his many awards, and gave the class a quiz about his books and personal preferences.
• Lockhart awarded ten house points each to Hermione Granger and Vizet Lovegood for getting full marks, surprising Vizet’s dormmates.
• Vizet explained that Lockhart’s books contained useful material when checked against academic references, and his classmates asked him for a booklist.
• Lockhart brought out a cloth-covered iron cage and told the class they would face dangerous Dark Magic creatures.

During Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, Vizet and the students struggled to contain the escaped Cornish pixies. Vizet discovered and used an Ancient Magic that let him command living creatures, and the class ended just as the room was restored.

• Lockhart released a swarm of Cornish pixies, which attacked the students and wrecked the classroom.
• Vizet turned flying ink bottles into small iron cages and used them to capture pixies, while Hermione, Harry, Ron, Seamus, and Dean fought back in their own ways.
• After Lockhart’s spell failed and two pixies lifted Neville toward the Fire Dragon skeleton, Vizet discovered the Ancient Magic: Soul Commanding Curse and ordered them to stop.
• Vizet caught Neville with transformed cushions, captured the two pixies, and led the students in trapping the rest inside the large iron cage.
• Vizet used Reparo to repair the classroom damage, and the bell rang as the students finished putting the desks back.

After the students dealt with the Pixies in Lockhart’s class, Lockhart tried to explain their trouble by claiming the creatures grew stronger when mocked. He also planned to use Vizet’s connections and curiosity to advance his own ambitions.

• The students left class excitedly after using spells and books to handle the Pixies.
• Lockhart stopped Vizet and asked to speak with him alone, but Michael and the other Ravenclaws insisted on asking questions too.
• Lockhart claimed the Pixies fed on mockery and cited Difna Furmage, whom Vizet identified as a witch kidnapped by Pixies in Cornwall.
• Lockhart reflected on his plan to use Vizet’s ties to Baschat and the Ollivander Family to expand his influence and advance his ambitions.
• Terry concluded that the students’ mockery had made the Pixies harder to deal with.

Lockhart defended his handling of the Pixies and demonstrated how repeated Obliviation Charms could change one into different creatures. Vizet observed that the spell reshaped the Pixie’s Magic Circuits and asked whether Lockhart could restore it to its original form.

• Lockhart explained that the students’ laughter had empowered the Pixies, then awarded Vizet fifty points for his performance.
• Lockhart demonstrated Obliviation on a Pixie, making it go limp, act like a dog, and then imitate a raven.
• Vizet recognized Lockhart’s account of a werewolf and Trolls as an example of using the Obliviation Charm, and Lockhart emphasized the importance of applying magic creatively.
• Vizet watched Lockhart cast with Magic Eye and saw silver light destroy and then reshape the Pixie’s Magic Circuits.
• Vizet asked whether Lockhart could turn the transformed Pixie back into its proper form.

Vizet and his friends left Lockhart’s Defence Against the Dark Arts class, while Lockhart prepared to repeat his Pixie demonstration for another group of students. In the afternoon, Dumbledore worked through Hogwarts and wizarding-government documents as Fawkes weakened and the Sorting Hat shared new lyrics with him.

• Lockhart invited Vizet to visit his office for another demonstration of his Obliviation Charm, and Vizet and his friends hurried to Charms class.
• Anthony, Michael, Chris, and Terry discussed Vizet’s unusual eagerness to leave class on time and said Lockhart had seemed better than expected.
• Lockhart decided that one Pixie and a demonstration of his Obliviation Charm would be enough for the next class.
• Dumbledore fed the tired Fawkes, then began reviewing Hogwarts, International Confederation of Wizards, and Wizengamot documents.
• The Sorting Hat sang new lines about crossing the Black Lake, and Dumbledore praised the lyrics while singing them in a country style.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed Lockhart’s teaching, the strange dangers surrounding the Defence Against the Dark Arts post, and the possibility that Voldemort would return. Dumbledore also explained that Lockhart’s book contained real knowledge about a rare spell that could temporarily weaken werewolves.

• The Sorting Hat considered its term-opening song and Dumbledore said he planned to invite The Weird Sisters to perform.
• Professor McGonagall delivered a letter and reviewed the Hogwarts partnership documents, then warned that Lockhart’s books required more funding.
• McGonagall described how Fred and George’s pixies escaped and injured Lockhart, and said the incident would soon spread through Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore told McGonagall that he believed Voldemort would return and explained why he had kept Quirinus under observation.
• Dumbledore showed McGonagall evidence in Lockhart’s book about the Human-Shaped Restoration Spell, which could temporarily weaken werewolves.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed Lockhart's stolen stories, Vizet's lessons, and the obstacles facing Hogwarts and Dumbledore's reforms. Dumbledore said he hoped to guide someone else to carry the work forward, but that person could not be him.

• McGonagall learned that people whose experiences Lockhart had claimed in his books had lost their memories, and Dumbledore said he had not yet found a way to restore them.
• Dumbledore explained that he had allowed Lockhart to remain at Hogwarts so students could learn to distinguish truth from falsehood and challenge authority.
• McGonagall reported that Gryffindors were enthusiastically practicing the iron-cage Transfiguration Vizet had demonstrated, while Dumbledore recalled how Vizet had united students against the Pixies.
• Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed Thunderbirds and the difficulty of finding a new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, as Fudge did not trust Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore explained that Fudge and the Pure-blood Families opposed his Muggle Protection Act, then said he wanted to give someone else time and guidance to continue his work.

Ravenclaw and Slytherin students repotted Mandrakes in Herbology while learning about their restorative properties, dangerous cries, and uses in Ritual Magic. Vizet used Ancient Magic to calm his Mandrake and, after finishing the repotting, examined it with Magic Eye.

• Mandy Brocklehurst explained Mandrakes' properties, and Pansy added that they were used in Ritual Magic before Sprout awarded points to both houses.
• Sprout taught the students how to protect themselves from Mandrake cries and demonstrated pulling up and repotting a seedling.
• Draco tried to control a Mandrake and was bitten, so Sprout cast a spell to make it release his finger.
• Vizet used Elementary Plant Cultivation to soothe his Mandrake, then used Elementary Composting to calm it after repotting it.
• Vizet cast Magic Eye on the Mandrake to study it, and a different scene appeared before his eyes.