Chapter Summaries

Vizet demonstrated the Disarming Charm at the Duelling Club, knocking Lockhart unconscious and drawing Snape’s ridicule. As the students practiced, Harry defeated Draco, while Lockhart accidentally set his blond hair on fire and lost it.

• Vizet disarmed Lockhart, who panicked, struck the wall, and fainted; Snape mocked him as the students laughed.
• Harry revived Lockhart, and Lockhart pretended his defeat had been a demonstration before directing the students to practice the Disarming Charm.
• Snape paired Slytherins with Gryffindors, and Harry and Draco began dueling.
• Harry dodged Draco’s spell and disarmed him in their second round, while Snape looked displeased.
• Lockhart accidentally made his hair burn more fiercely while trying to put out the flames, and Snape extinguished them after they had turned his blond hair to ashes.
• Fred and George pocketed Lockhart’s ashes for research, and Snape took five points from Gryffindor.

Snape stopped the chaotic duels and summoned Vizet to demonstrate his skill against him. Vizet erased Snape’s sword-like attack with a precise spell, leaving the students wondering how he had done it.

• Snape separated the students, criticized their brawling, and deducted points from several students, including Gryffindors who had broken Lockhart’s rules.
• Snape made Harry and Neville duel, and their simultaneous spells hit each other, with Neville’s Full Body-Bind Curse striking Harry.
• Snape called Vizet onto the stage and challenged him to show the students what he could do.
• Vizet cast Fiendfyre, and Snape split the flames with a streak of sword light.
• Vizet lifted his wand and precisely erased Snape’s sword light, prompting Anthony to explain that Vizet had countered the Cutting Curse with little effort.

Vizet and Snape continued their demonstration duel, revealing Vizet’s control of layered charms, Transfiguration, and weather magic. Snape ended the exchange with a Disarming Charm and resolved to regain his old combat experience as he considered how much Vizet might still be hiding.

• Anthony explained that Vizet had broken Snape’s spell because he had absolute confidence in his magic.
• Vizet blocked Snape’s Cutting Curse with a Shield Charm that concealed a Wand-Lighting Charm, then sent the glowing shield toward him.
• Vizet turned a torrent drawn from the Black Lake into a water serpent, and Snape countered it with a Flame Serpent made from the Great Hall’s candles.
• Vizet transformed the steam from their clash into a hailstorm aimed at Snape, who protected himself with a Magical Energy Field.
• Vizet dispelled the storm and cleaned the stage, while Snape cast a Disarming Charm and decided to recover his former combat experience.

After his duel with Snape, Vizet became the focus of Hogwarts students, who studied his magic and followed his advice to work harder before the Christmas holiday. Meanwhile, Lockhart remained in the Hospital Wing, frightened that his hair would never grow back.

• Snape disarmed Vizet during their duel and used the match to instruct students to keep a firm grip on their wands.
• Students analyzed the spells Snape and Vizet had used, while Flitwick and McGonagall praised Vizet's performance.
• Vizet shared a Booklist and study methods with his admirers, inspiring students to study more and ask professors questions.
• Lockhart asked Madam Pomfrey whether his hair would grow back, and she explained that hair-growth potions had failed because his condition resulted from wand backfire.

Luna described Vizet as a calm person who sometimes guided others and sometimes needed guidance himself. During Ravenclaw’s Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, Vizet’s speed and scoring gave Ravenclaw a commanding lead, and the chapter ended with Roger Davies planning a strategy to locate the Golden Snitch.

• Luna and Amica walked to the Quidditch Pitch, where Luna compared Vizet to a Unicorn and said he sometimes guided people who were lost.
• Lee Jordan introduced Vizet as Ravenclaw’s aggressive, fast Chaser, and the crowd cheered as both teams entered the pitch.
• Vizet used his Sweep Seven Stars to score repeatedly, helping Ravenclaw race ahead of Hufflepuff.
• During a timeout at eighty to zero, Cho Chang said she might have seen the Golden Snitch near Hufflepuff’s stand, and Roger Davies devised a plan to confirm its location.
• Vizet used Magic Eye to spot the Golden Snitch’s Magic Circuit and agreed to Roger Davies’s plan.

Ravenclaw defeated Hufflepuff after Cho Chang caught the Golden Snitch, and Roger Davies began preparing the team for its remaining matches. After spending time with Luna at the pitch, Vizet received a message from Dumbledore asking him to visit his office.

• Roger Davies directed Ravenclaw's players to harass Cedric Diggory while Vizet kept scoring against Hufflepuff.
• Cho Chang caught the Golden Snitch, securing Ravenclaw's victory over Hufflepuff.
• Roger Davies reviewed the team's upcoming matches against Slytherin and Gryffindor and identified Harry Potter as a threat.
• Vizet borrowed Flying Broomsticks from Roger Davies and joined Luna in watching the snowy Quidditch Pitch.
• Vizet received a Phoenix Patronus carrying Dumbledore's request to visit his office that afternoon.

Vizet entered the corridor to the Headmaster’s Office and experienced a vision of Fawkes rising from darkness in flames, awakening his understanding of fire magic. He tested his new control over flames and was interrupted by Professor Snape, who asked why he was there.

• Vizet gave the Gargoyle Statue the password and entered the corridor, where a strange weakness and heat led him into a vision of fire and Fawkes.
• Fawkes carried Vizet through the darkness in a blaze, and Vizet returned to the corridor with a Phoenix Mark on his palm.
• The Wizard Combat Guide revealed the page “Ancient Magic: Flame Mastery,” and Vizet absorbed its fire-related Magical Understanding.
• Vizet used wandless magic to create, shape, and control flames, then spread them over his body to drive away the cold.
• Vizet formed a miniature fire snake and used Expecto Patronum to make it move, prompting Professor Snape to ask why he was there.

Vizet discussed using the Patronus Charm to give his Flame Serpent spirituality, and Snape explained how the method could help create potion ingredients but could not truly reproduce living creatures. Snape sent Vizet to deliver Baruffio's Brain Elixir to Dumbledore, whose office contained a new pile of ashes where Fawkes had been.

• Vizet explained to Snape that he had used the Patronus Charm to make his Flame Serpent more lifelike.
• Snape told Vizet to study creatures closely and said that Potions Masters could use the Charm to grant ingredients’ properties when needed.
• Vizet asked whether he could create an Ashwinder and its eggs, and Snape said the process could imitate properties but not create real life.
• Snape rebuked Vizet for thinking he could transform a memory into a living Ashwinder, then abruptly gave him Baruffio's Brain Elixir to deliver to Dumbledore.
• Vizet entered the open Headmaster's Office and saw that Fawkes was gone, with a pile of ashes on the floor.

Vizet witnessed Fawkes’s rebirth and met Professor Malo Fufang and Altom Avakian when Dumbledore returned to the Headmaster’s Office. After Malo gave Altom Baruffio’s Brain Elixir, he recognized Vizet as the student potion-maker Damocles Belby had mentioned.

• Vizet watched Fawkes emerge from the ashes after completing his nirvana.
• Dumbledore entered with Professor Malo Fufang and Altom Avakian, who mistook the office portraits and Sorting Hat for enemies and cast spells at them.
• Malo gave Altom Baruffio’s Brain Elixir, and Altom quieted down as it took effect.
• Vizet introduced himself to Malo, who recognized him as the English Beginner Potioneer Damocles Belby had described.
• Malo told Dumbledore that Damocles had visited to thank him after receiving the Order of Merlin.

Vizet tried to restore Altom Avakian’s memories, but found none altered by the Obliviation Charm and concluded they were with Lockhart. Avakian explained that his disreputable past made it difficult to find anyone willing to testify against Lockhart.

• Vizet deduced that Altom Avakian was the protagonist of Wanderings with Werewolves from clues about chips and werewolves.
• Dumbledore asked Vizet to try restoring Avakian’s memories, and Vizet used the Counter-Curse to the Obliviation Charm.
• Vizet found no affected memories in Avakian’s mind and told Dumbledore that they were likely with Lockhart.
• Vizet asked why Malo Fufang could not seek help from Belby to bring charges against Lockhart.
• Avakian explained that his gambling hobby and questionable reputation had left few people willing to testify on his behalf.

Vizet and Dumbledore planned to use Altom Avakian’s confused memories to make Lockhart suspect his stolen memories had been compromised and reveal where he hid them. Dumbledore gave Vizet a Silver Thread to help him create false memories for Avakian.

• Vizet asked why Lockhart had come to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore explained that Lockhart wanted the prestige of teaching the Chosen One.
• Vizet proposed using Avakian to startle Lockhart into checking the memories he had stored.
• Dumbledore explained that Avakian’s confusion suggested his memories had been hidden rather than erased, and Vizet outlined how that could make Lockhart suspicious.
• Vizet proposed creating a temporary compartment of false memories based on Avakian’s experiences in Wanderings with Werewolves.
• Dumbledore gave Vizet a Silver Thread so he could use Fulcrum Theory to move Avakian’s memories and insert the false ones.

Vizet tested Snape’s method of constructing potion ingredients with the Patronus Charm and successfully brewed a Pimple Healing Potion, though the effort left him exhausted. Meanwhile, Lockhart prepared to leave the Hospital Wing after recovering some spellcasting ability, still hiding his bald head beneath his hat.

• Dumbledore’s false memories took hold of Altom Avakian, who agreed to stay at Hogwarts and help lure their target into a trap.
• Vizet used the Patronus Charm, his Magic Circuit, and Ancient Magic Power to construct Horned Slug and dried nettle extracts.
• Vizet brewed a Pimple Healing Potion successfully and wondered whether potion-making and spellcasting were fundamentally similar.
• Snape told Vizet to strengthen his foundation in potion properties and sent him away to rest after noticing his exhaustion.
• Lockhart examined his bald head, accepted that potions could not restore his hair, and left the Hospital Wing wearing his wizard hat.

Gilderoy Lockhart discovered that Altom Avakian was recovering the memories Lockhart had damaged, and realized Dumbledore might expose him. He contacted the diary marked “T.M. Riddle” and asked for a way to drive Dumbledore away.

• Lockhart learned from Ami Te Dina that Altom Avakian was covering Defence Against the Dark Arts classes at Hogwarts.
• Lockhart confronted Altom Avakian, who did not recognize him and explained that his memory was damaged and Dumbledore was helping restore it.
• Altom Avakian told Lockhart that only a small section of memories from a few years earlier remained unrecovered and that he expected to recover them within a year.
• Lockhart returned to his office, took out the notebook marked “T.M. Riddle,” and asked how to drive Dumbledore away.

Vizet advanced his Animagus transformation and completed the first draft of his thesis before leaving Hogwarts for the Christmas Holiday. On the Hogwarts Express, he and Luna shared snacks and traced pictures on the snowy window before reuniting with Xenophilius at Platform 9 3/4.

• Vizet felt a second heartbeat and saw phoenix-like flames taking the shape of an egg as he recited the Animagus incantations, and he planned to delay the final step until after Christmas.
• Vizet completed the first draft of his thesis on improving the success rate and safety of Animagus transformation, and Professor McGonagall offered to revise its phrasing and arguments.
• Fred and George overheard Professor McGonagall telling Vizet to relax and stopped worrying when they saw it was him.
• On the snow-covered Hogwarts Express, Vizet and Luna drew on the window and shared snacks during the journey.
• At Platform 9 3/4, Luna ran to embrace Xenophilius, and Vizet joined them with the luggage before Xenophilius led them home.

Xenophilius reunited with Luna and learned that she and Vizet were doing well at Hogwarts. During the Christmas holiday, he took them to Gringotts to open a vault for Vizet, where they prepared to explore an unfamiliar section of the bank.

• Xenophilius collected Luna at King's Cross and asked about her life at Hogwarts, hearing how Vizet had helped her.
• Luna greeted Frigga, and the Eight-Legged Steed carried her back to the garden at home.
• Xenophilius welcomed Luna back to the garden and went inside to prepare dinner while Luna showed Vizet the plants.
• Xenophilius took Luna and Vizet shopping during the holiday, then brought them to Gringotts and gave Vizet a vault key.
• Vizet followed a goblin to a mine cart, noticing that the unfamiliar passage was still covered by fog on his map.

Vizet learned about magical forging during a goblin-guided trip to Xenophilius's Gringotts vault, where Xenophilius insisted on an honest account. Back home on Christmas Eve, Vizet created snow with his new spell and joined Luna in building a snowman.

• Vizet absorbed Ancient Magic Power in the mine cart and studied the Wizard Combat Guide's knowledge of magical forging.
• The goblin led Vizet, Xenophilius, and Luna to the vault, where Xenophilius presented his account book and told Vizet to check the money himself.
• Xenophilius reminded the goblin that Gringotts charged storage fees, leaving the goblin's smile awkwardly frozen.
• On December 24, Vizet cast Fine Snow Crushed Jade and made snow fall over Ottery St Catchpole.
• Luna ran out to join Vizet, and the two pushed snowballs together to build a snowman.

Luna, Vizet, and Xenophilius decorated the Lovegood home for Christmas and inflated balloons together. As Luna and Vizet learned to tie them, their hands touched and they shared a shy moment, while Xenophilius went to prepare dinner.

• Luna finished building two snowmen with Vizet, and Vizet made a parasol to shelter them.
• Xenophilius, Luna, and Vizet decorated the house with lights, ribbons, bells, and other holiday decorations.
• Vizet explained how to use the Water-Making Spell to fill balloons with air, and Xenophilius impressed them by grasping the principle quickly.
• Xenophilius accidentally let an untied balloon fly away, and Vizet showed him and Luna how to tie balloon mouths.
• Vizet guided Luna's hands as they tied a balloon, and they shyly looked at each other before focusing on the task.
• After Xenophilius burst several balloons and left to prepare dinner, Luna and Vizet continued inflating and tying them as the room grew warm and festive.

Vizet and Luna exchanged magical Christmas gifts before discovering that Lucius Malfoy had sent Dobby to Vizet as a house-elf. Vizet stopped Dobby from hurting himself and ordered him to treat his wound, while wondering why Malfoy had sent him.

• Vizet and Luna secretly exchanged a picture book and a magical picture frame on Christmas Eve, then placed gifts in Xenophilius's stocking.
• On Christmas morning, Vizet found Dobby repeatedly injuring himself in the Lovegood home.
• Xenophilius explained that Dobby claimed to belong to Mr. Lovegood but would not obey him, and Luna brought herbs to treat Dobby's bleeding wound.
• Vizet read Lucius Malfoy's letter and the Ministry certificate transferring ownership of Dobby to him.
• Vizet ordered Dobby to stop hurting himself and apply Dittany to his wound, and Dobby obeyed.

Over Christmas, Vizet questioned Dobby about Lucius Malfoy’s plans and learned that a misunderstanding had led Dobby to believe Vizet was Voldemort. After checking Dobby’s memories, Vizet found Phoenix Tears among Dumbledore’s gifts and read a cryptic note about guiding lost ships to shore.

• Vizet ordered Dobby to clean himself, stay nearby, and answer his questions while Xenophilius asked him to put away the Christmas gifts.
• Vizet discovered that some chocolates had potions mixed into them and separated them for examination.
• Vizet made Dobby explain that Lucius Malfoy had intended to use something Vizet left behind to open the Chamber of Secrets.
• Dobby revealed that he and Lucius had concluded Vizet was Voldemort after Vizet had disguised himself as Voldemort while extracting Dobby’s memories.
• Vizet found Phoenix Tears and Dobby’s silver Memory Thread among Dumbledore’s gifts, confirmed Dobby’s account, and read a note about a lighthouse guiding lost ships back to shore.

Vizet questioned Dobby about Lucius Malfoy’s past and learned that Malfoy had been Voldemort’s loyal follower and a key Death Eater. After asking what Dobby wanted, Vizet offered him paid work, clothes, and holidays, while setting rules for trust and honesty.

• Vizet ordered Dobby to explain Lucius Malfoy’s role, and Dobby said Malfoy had been Voldemort’s loyal follower and hosted Death Eater meetings at Malfoy Manor.
• Vizet considered Dobby’s independence and asked him what he liked and needed.
• Dobby said he liked working but wanted clothes and freedom, and he told Vizet about the cruelty he had faced with the Malfoy Family.
• Vizet told Dobby to use his name and offered him paid work, clothes, and holidays while requiring him to share information and discuss plans first.
• Dobby rejected Vizet’s offer of clothing and freedom, choosing to stay and prove himself, and Vizet welcomed him and began discussing wages.