Chapter Summaries

Sirius Black exposed Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew, who transformed back into human form after Sirius and Lupin captured him. As Dementors surrounded the group, Lupin began transforming under the full moon, and Sirius realized another man who knew Lupin’s secret had also become a Werewolf.

• A burly middle-aged man revealed Lupin was a Werewolf, and Sirius Black stunned him before he vanished into the shadows.
• Lupin used the Marauder’s Map to show that neither Scabbers nor Peter Pettigrew appeared on it, suggesting Peter had contacted Voldemort.
• Sirius Black squeezed Scabbers until he transformed into Peter Pettigrew, and Lupin tried to stun him.
• Peter Pettigrew knocked Lupin unconscious, but Harry disarmed Peter and Sirius stunned him.
• Hermione warned that the full moon was making Lupin transform, while Harry recognized the approaching Dementors.
• Hermione drove back the darkness with Lumos Solem, and Sirius realized the burly man had also transformed into a Werewolf.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Sirius Black were surrounded by Dementors while Lupin lay unconscious after transforming. Harry summoned a glowing stag Patronus to drive them back, determined to save his godfather.

• Hermione explained that Lupin was a werewolf and suggested the Wolfsbane Potion had made him safe at Hogwarts.
• Dementors ignored unconscious Lupin and surrounded Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Sirius Black, while Harry suffered painful memories of his parents’ deaths.
• Sirius used the Marauder’s Map and saw David Smith, Daniel Johnson, and Michael Rodriguez approaching, then offered to hold them off as more Dementors appeared.
• Hermione urged Harry to use the Patronus Charm, and Harry cast it twice but produced only silver mist and a shield-like form.
• Harry focused on his love for Sirius Black and his wish to take back his godfather, then conjured a glowing stag Patronus that lit the forest.

Harry produced a fully formed Stag Patronus and helped drive back the Dementors while Sirius, Ron, and Hermione fought off attacking Werewolves. Dumbledore arrived and reunited with Sirius, but the explanation of Sirius’s role in James and Lily’s deaths was postponed until they returned to Hogwarts.

• Harry cast a Stag Patronus that drove the Dementors away, and Sirius recognized it as James’s Animagus form, Prongs.
• A Werewolf attacked Harry, but Hermione and Ron helped defend him as more Werewolves joined the fight.
• A Big Black Dog intercepted one Werewolf, and two Fire-red Birds burned two others before they could attack Ron and Harry.
• Dumbledore arrived with a Phoenix Patronus and drove off the remaining Dementors, while Sirius said the last Werewolf had fled toward the castle.
• Sirius reunited with Dumbledore and blamed himself for James and Lily’s deaths, but Dumbledore proposed explaining everything to Minister Fudge at Hogwarts.

Vizet told Snape that Sirius Black had escaped Azkaban as an Animagus and was hunting Peter Pettigrew, who might still be alive. Snape realized Pettigrew had been the Potters’ Secret-Keeper and asked whether Sirius’s possible return had caused the trouble in the Forbidden Forest.

• Dumbledore gave Harry, Sirius, and the others sweets to restore their strength before they spoke with Cornelius Fudge, then left with Lupin and two injured Werewolves.
• Vizet asked Fudge whether Dementors needed to return to their breeding site, and Fudge said they did not have a home to return to.
• Snape used Legilimency on Fudge, then told Vizet that the Dementors’ breeding site was on the edge of the Scottish Highlands.
• Vizet passed the location and his suspicion that Voldemort was hiding there to Dumbledore.
• Snape asked Vizet about Sirius, and Vizet explained that Sirius had likely escaped as an Animagus and was pursuing Peter Pettigrew.
• Vizet suggested Pettigrew was alive and had been the Potters’ Secret-Keeper, prompting Snape to ask whether Sirius’s possible return had caused the Forbidden Forest trouble.

Vizet and the professors learned that Peter Pettigrew was alive and being brought to Hogwarts, where Harry and his friends tried to expose him as the real traitor. Cornelius Fudge instead suspected Harry was under the Imperius Curse, while Vizet silenced Sirius after Sirius began to identify Snape.

• Vizet told Snape and Kamba Headmaster that Peter Pettigrew was alive and under Harry and his friends’ control.
• Vizet answered the professors’ questions about the Animagus Second Form potion while Snape watched Sirius and Peter approach Hogwarts.
• Harry and his friends brought Peter Pettigrew to the lawn, and Sirius returned to human form and mocked Fudge for helping him find Peter.
• Snape hoisted Sirius upside down, and Vizet cast a Silencing Charm when Sirius began to say Snape’s name.
• Harry told Fudge that Peter was alive and Sirius had been framed, but Fudge suspected Harry and the others were under the Imperius Curse.
• Fudge asked Snape to help control the group, and Vizet warned Sirius to choose his words carefully.

Sirius Black arrived at Hogwarts, where Kamba Headmaster and Dumbledore challenged Minister Fudge’s attempt to restrain him and proposed a safer inquiry. Harry then presented evidence that Peter Pettigrew had been hiding as Ron’s rat and had framed Sirius.

• Vizet freed Sirius from Levicorpus, and Sirius assessed the gathered wizards while recalling what Harry and the others had told him.
• Kamba Headmaster offered to speak for Vizet, then proposed precautions to guard against the Imperius Curse and inspect Sirius’s wand before hearing the children’s accounts.
• Dumbledore created a Magical Energy Field, while Sirius identified Remus’s and Peter Pettigrew’s wands and Snape hung him upside down again to search him.
• Harry declared Sirius innocent and showed the Daily Prophet photograph of Pettigrew as a rat, then pointed out that Pettigrew was missing the finger once used to frame Sirius.

Harry presented evidence that Peter Pettigrew was alive and had lost the finger Cornelius Fudge once used to declare him dead, forcing Fudge to confront his role in Sirius Black’s wrongful conviction. After Peter woke, Sirius demanded the truth about James Potter’s secret, and Peter admitted he had betrayed his friends out of fear and to protect his mother.

• Harry showed Fudge the Magical Photo and pointed out that Peter Pettigrew was missing the same finger Fudge had found at the scene of the old attack.
• Fudge remembered how he had blamed Sirius for Peter’s supposed death, a decision that helped him become Minister of Magic.
• Snape mocked Harry and Sirius, then Fudge acknowledged that their account seemed fantastical.
• Harry cast Rennervate on Peter, and Sirius demanded that he explain why he had revealed James Potter’s secret to Voldemort.
• Peter claimed he had been tortured and had betrayed James because he wanted to survive and protect his mother.
• Snape and Vizet cited the Daily Prophet article praising Peter and his mother, challenging Peter’s excuse.

Snape and Vizet exposed Peter Pettigrew’s story as an attempt to gain sympathy, and Fudge ordered Aurors to interrogate him about Sirius Black and the Dementors. Fudge and Umbridge then plotted to let Peter escape so they could suppress the evidence and regain control before the academic exchange.

• Vizet connected Fudge to a sympathetic article about Peter, and Fudge admitted that he had written it.
• Snape and Vizet questioned Ron about when Peter had gone missing, revealing that Peter had disappeared only recently and undermining his account.
• Ron recoiled at having cared for Peter, while Harry and Hermione comforted him; Dumbledore asked Fudge to let Aurors interrogate Peter.
• Fudge ordered the Aurors to investigate Sirius’s supposed slaughter of Dementors, but Sirius denied the accusation and Harry suggested Voldemort might be involved.
• After Umbridge arrived with Aurors, she and Fudge discussed letting Peter escape to remove crucial evidence and buy time before the academic exchange.

Vizet investigated why Peter Pettigrew did not appear on the Marauder’s Map and used Soul Healing Art to place parts of his soul in the map and Ron. After Ron began identifying himself as Vizet, the map displayed Vizet’s name twice.

• Vizet confirmed that Peter Pettigrew never appeared on the Marauder’s Map, while Sirius Black did.
• Vizet used Soul Blade Healing to split parts of his soul and put one into the map and the other into Ron.
• Vizet asked Ron about the Confusion Draught, and Ron recited its effects and ingredients accurately.
• When Vizet asked Ron his name, Ron clutched his head and said he was Vizet Lovegood.
• Harry saw that the Marauder’s Map displayed Vizet’s name twice.

Vizet explained the Homonculous Charm with a torch metaphor and helped Ron recover from the Confusion Draught by frightening him with a spider. At the Headmaster’s Office, the Marauder’s Map revealed Voldemort in the tower, while Vizet discovered Peter Pettigrew had escaped.

• Vizet used Unplottable to make both of his names disappear from the Marauder’s Map and explained that Ron was still Ron despite the Confusion Draught.
• Hermione transformed a sweet into a spider and put it on Ron’s nose, startling him back to normal.
• Vizet compared the Homonculous Charm to torches casting shadows and explained that he had covered Ron’s torch rather than extinguishing it.
• Madam Pomfrey examined Harry, Hermione, and Ron, then sent them to drink potions and rest.
• Vizet showed Dumbledore the Marauder’s Map and used Revelio to reveal Voldemort’s name in the tower, then noticed Peter Pettigrew was no longer there.
• Dolores Umbridge entered Dumbledore’s office and announced that Peter Pettigrew had escaped.

After Peter Pettigrew escaped custody, Vizet tracked him to the Shrieking Shack, while Dumbledore and the others hurried to the tower to investigate the Ministry’s failed interrogation. Their pursuit left Umbridge badly injured by a splinching accident, and Dumbledore ordered the Aurors to expand the Anti-Apparition Jinx.

• Nymphadora Tonks reported that Peter Pettigrew had knocked John unconscious and escaped from the interrogation room.
• Vizet used the Marauder's Map to locate Peter inside the Shrieking Shack, and refused Umbridge’s request to hand the map to the Ministry.
• Dumbledore suspected the Ministry had planned to let Peter escape and blame Tonks, then lifted the local Anti-Apparition Jinx so they could Apparate to the tower.
• Tonks arrived at the tower and treated Umbridge, whose right hand had been splinched; Dumbledore reattached it.
• Dumbledore told Williamson and Prout to coordinate with Vizet and continue expanding the Anti-Apparition Jinx.

Vizet helped the Aurors pursue Peter Pettigrew while Cornelius Fudge argued that Sirius Black’s innocence should be kept quiet until stronger evidence was found. Vizet used the Soul Stone to disrupt Pettigrew’s Animagus form, and the chapter ended with the Aurors closing in on him.

• Vizet showed Williamson and Prout where to expand the Anti-Apparition Jinx so they could intercept Peter Pettigrew.
• Fudge argued that the statements proving Sirius Black’s innocence were not enough to convince the public and that revealing the truth might harm Hogwarts and the Ministry.
• Umbridge told Fudge that Vizet’s map could track Pettigrew, and Vizet said the Aurors had already met up with him nearby.
• Vizet summoned the Soul Stone and used it to disrupt Pettigrew’s Animagus transformation, causing Pettigrew’s name to vanish from the map.

Vizet realized that Peter Pettigrew had been stripped of his Animagus form, and Williamson and Prout returned with him soulless after a Dementor's Kiss. Prout revealed that Peter had cried out about the Dark Lord abandoning him, and Dumbledore confronted Cornelius Fudge about Voldemort's survival before Fudge panicked at Dumbledore's threat.

• Vizet explained that he had used Ancient Magic to remove the Soul Stone and force Peter Pettigrew back into human form.
• Williamson and Prout returned with Peter, whose lifeless eyes led Vizet to suspect that a Dementor had taken his soul.
• Williamson and Prout described how Peter had run into the Dementors and been kissed after Thomas helped them search for him.
• Prout told Dumbledore that Peter had cried out about the Dark Lord abandoning him before expressing remorse toward James Potter and Lily Potter.
• Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge rejected Prout's account, but Dumbledore insisted Voldemort was not dead and revealed his role in the previous year's attack on Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore told Fudge he would soon no longer need to worry about these matters, leaving Fudge panicked and asking what Dumbledore intended to do.

Dumbledore dismissed Cornelius Fudge after Fudge angrily accused him of overstepping and blamed Hogwarts for Peter Pettigrew’s fate. Later, Snape arrived at the Headmaster’s Office and revealed that he had gained control of his Dark Mark.

• Cornelius Fudge shouted at Dumbledore, then left the room with Dolores Umbridge and the other Ministry officials, splinching himself as he Apparated.
• Vizet pointed out the piece of flesh Fudge had left behind, and Nymphadora Tonks collected it before leaving.
• Dumbledore restored the Anti-Apparition Jinx restrictions and discussed with Vizet how Voldemort’s soul fragment had been attached to Peter Pettigrew.
• Dumbledore considered preparing for possible Ministry obstruction if Voldemort returned, while Vizet said they still had to find a way to defeat him.
• Snape entered Dumbledore’s office, learned that a Dementor had sucked out Peter Pettigrew’s soul, and showed Dumbledore his Dark Mark.
• Dumbledore realized that Snape had already gained control of his Dark Mark.

Dumbledore explained why Vizet had been the one to reveal Peter Pettigrew’s betrayal to Snape, then withheld Voldemort’s dangerous secret from him. After Snape left, Dumbledore confided to Fawkes that Vizet had actually told him the secret first and turned to the visiting schools’ invitations.

• Dumbledore told Snape that Vizet’s explanation had helped him accept that Peter Pettigrew, not Sirius Black, had betrayed the Potters.
• Snape inferred that Voldemort had left Pettigrew, likely after the Dementors attacked, and asked whether Voldemort had regained a body; Dumbledore believed he had not.
• Dumbledore refused to reveal Voldemort’s fatal weakness, saying that knowing it could endanger Snape and allow Voldemort to hide it again.
• Snape said he would rather be trapped in a sheep pen than learn the secret, and Dumbledore hoped that would remain the case.
• After Snape left, Dumbledore told Fawkes that Vizet had been the one to tell him the secret and considered the invitations from the two schools.

Voldemort received the Soul Fragment carrying Peter Pettigrew’s failed mission and examined what had happened at Hogwarts. He realized Harry Potter had survived the Dementors and wondered whether Snape remained loyal, while concluding that blood might be needed to overcome Harry’s protection.

• Voldemort’s body deteriorated after the Soul Fragment returned, so he became Black Mist and possessed a snake in the cave.
• Voldemort learned from the fragment that Peter Pettigrew’s plan had failed, Harry Potter had cast a Corporeal Patronus, and Dumbledore had appeared at Hogwarts.
• Voldemort realized that Remus Lupin, Harry Potter, and others knew Sirius Black had been wrongfully accused, and that Harry’s survival made his prophecy-driven threat more serious.
• Voldemort considered using blood as a medium to remove Harry Potter’s magical protection, but Peter Pettigrew’s death left him without a suitable servant to obtain it.
• Voldemort questioned whether Severus Snape was still loyal and suspected Dumbledore had kept him at Hogwarts to watch him.

Voldemort decided that Vizet Lovegood might be as important to the prophecy as Harry Potter and considered obtaining blood from both of them. At The Quibbler’s office, Rita Skeeter arrived in disarray and received a letter from Luna Lovegood.

• Voldemort dismissed his doubts about Snape for the moment, deciding that Snape would be more useful remaining at Hogwarts.
• Voldemort blamed Vizet Lovegood for helping expose Peter Pettigrew and clear Sirius Black, and suspected Vizet might fit the prophecy.
• Voldemort considered taking Harry Potter’s and Vizet Lovegood’s blood to gain their protections or magic, then decided the Werewolf Wizards should focus on obtaining the egg from the All-England Wizard Duelling Competition.
• Xenophilius Lovegood found Rita Skeeter waiting outside The Quibbler’s office in an unusually disheveled state.
• Rita Skeeter opened a letter delivered by an owl and told Xenophilius it was from his daughter, Luna Lovegood.

Xenophilius and Rita Skeeter read Sirius Black’s testimony, which revealed that Peter Pettigrew had betrayed the Potters, while Rita chose to reject Cornelius Fudge’s conflicting request. Rita sensed the revelations could bring down Fudge, and Klothar Bashat arrived at the publisher’s door.

• Xenophilius read Luna’s hidden letter and discovered Sirius Black’s signed testimony about Peter Pettigrew betraying the Potters.
• Rita Skeeter received Cornelius Fudge’s request to write a conflicting report and burned his letter.
• Rita decided to support Vizet’s side, believing the testimony could overturn public understanding and threaten Fudge’s position.
• Xenophilius claimed he had known Fudge would act against them and lamented that Pettigrew’s betrayal had ruined Harry’s childhood.
• Klothar Bashat knocked on the publisher’s door, and Rita remarked that she had made the right choice.

Vizet reassured Luna that he trusted her judgment about Cornelius Fudge, then joined Harry and the others after hearing a duel in the corridor. They found Snape confronting Lupin and Sirius Black, and the chapter ended as Snape sent Sirius flying backward.

• Vizet and Luna discussed her view of Cornelius Fudge, and Vizet told her he trusted her judgment without doubt.
• Vizet heard what sounded like a duel after morning classes and met Harry, Ron, and Hermione as they followed the noise.
• Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Vizet found Snape facing Lupin and Sirius Black in the corridor.
• Snape taunted Sirius and Lupin, and Sirius transformed into a Big Black Dog and charged at him.
• Lupin fired a spell at Snape, who struck the Big Black Dog with two wand movements and sent Sirius flying backward.

Snape and Sirius Black exchanged spells until Vizet intervened and Lupin stopped the fight. Sirius and Lupin then headed for the Hospital Wing, while Harry and Ron asked about Snape’s history with them.

• Snape deflected Lupin’s spell, knocked him and Sirius down with magic, and taunted Sirius about his past.
• Sirius cast a powerful Blasting Curse at Snape, but Vizet disarmed Sirius and stopped the spell before it could break through Snape’s shield.
• Lupin transformed Sirius back into human form and persuaded him to stop fighting because the children were watching.
• Lupin and Sirius agreed to go to the Hospital Wing, and Snape moved aside to let them pass.
• Harry and Ron asked Sirius and Lupin about their feud with Snape, and Lupin pointed out that Sirius’s Blasting Curse had been reckless.