Chapter Summaries

Students learned that Professor Lupin had submitted his resignation and tried to persuade him to stay, while Harry, Hermione, and Ron learned his werewolf condition was one reason. Lupin confirmed to Vizet and Luna that Cornelius Fudge was also involved, but said he was resigning partly to spare Dumbledore trouble.

• News spread through Hogwarts that Professor Lupin had submitted his resignation, prompting students to confirm the rumor.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron visited Lupin, who confirmed he had resigned and explained that his werewolf condition could cause danger and misunderstandings.
• Sirius Black offered to help Lupin afford Wolfsbane Potion and invited him to stay with him after leaving Hogwarts.
• Vizet and Luna visited Lupin, and Luna guessed that Minister Fudge was behind his resignation.
• Lupin confirmed Fudge was involved but said he was also resigning because he did not want to bring Dumbledore unnecessary trouble.

Professor Lupin explained that he planned to resign because Ministry inquiries could expose his werewolf identity, and Vizet and Luna invited him to manage the M Magic Steam Club during the summer. Lupin remained hesitant, while Vizet revealed his goal of taking Coolick to the whole world.

• Lupin told Vizet that Ministry staff had questioned his parents, and he feared his secret would eventually become public if he stayed at Hogwarts.
• Lupin said he wanted to leave so Cornelius Fudge would have less leverage against Dumbledore, and he offered to join the fight if Voldemort returned.
• Sirius Black offered Lupin a place to live and promised they would fight together, but Lupin did not directly accept his help.
• Vizet and Luna invited Lupin to manage the M Magic Steam Club's products and customers over the summer, offering compensation and continued Wolfsbane Potion.
• Vizet explained that Lupin's experience in the Muggle World could help the club and said he hoped to take Coolick to the whole world.

Vizet persuaded Lupin to join M’s team, and Lupin agreed to help vet future members. At the end-of-year feast, Dumbledore announced the House points earned through Hogwarts Voice, with Ravenclaw retaining its lead.

• Vizet explained why Lupin’s experience and abilities would make him valuable to M, and Lupin agreed to do his best after Vizet, Luna, and Sirius urged him to accept.
• Students discussed the House standings before the feast, noting that Gryffindor had fallen to 299 points after Snape deducted three points from Harry and his friends.
• Dumbledore thanked the contributors to Hogwarts Voice and distributed Chocolate Frogs in recognition of their work.
• Dumbledore awarded 1,900 points to Ravenclaw, 1,500 to Hufflepuff, and 1,300 each to Gryffindor and Slytherin.
• Dumbledore invited everyone to enjoy the end-of-year feast.

Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts Voice’s selected papers had been compiled into House collections, and Gryffindor students discovered how many papers Vizet had published. Harry, Ron, and Hermione planned to thank him, while students from several Houses gathered to do the same.

• Dumbledore announced that House collections of accepted papers were available to borrow and that selected papers would later be published for the wider Magical World.
• Percy brought Gryffindor’s collection to the Common Room and arranged for copies to be made, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione counted the papers that had passed the second round of selection.
• Harry and Ron realized that Vizet’s papers filled about half of Ravenclaw’s collection and joked that he might win the House Cup if he counted as a House by himself.
• Hermione admitted she was anxious and planned to stop studying Divination, then agreed with Harry and Ron to thank Vizet for helping their papers get selected.
• The next morning, Harry, Ron, and Hermione found students from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin gathered in the corridor to thank Vizet, and Draco revealed that his paper had passed the second round.

Students gathered to thank Vizet for inspiring their papers, while Harry and his friends noticed how his influence extended across Hogwarts. Year Exam results showed broad improvement, and Fred and George celebrated their expected six O.W.L. certificates as Vizet advanced to the final four of the All-England Wizard Duelling Competition.

• Harry and Draco spoke amicably about their papers before students assembled to thank Vizet for his advice and inspiration.
• Filch charged toward the crowd, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione stopped him and explained that Vizet was safe.
• Draco said Vizet already had tickets to the Quidditch World Cup Top Box, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione moved closer to Vizet after the crowd thinned.
• Harry failed the Potions Class Exam with Snape's evaluation of P+++, while Ron earned an A and students' results in other subjects generally improved.
• Fred and George said they expected to receive six O.W.L. certificates and offered to find a warehouse and shopfront for Vizet during summer vacation.
• Vizet reached the final four of the All-England Wizard Duelling Competition after facing Dumbledore's retired Auror friends.

Vizet and Luna returned to Xenophilius Lovegood’s home for the summer, where they relaxed together by a stream near a grove. As they talked about Rainbow Ball Fish and Merpeople, Vizet began describing the Merpeople of Hogwarts’ Black Lake.

• Vizet and Luna reunited with Xenophilius Lovegood at the station, and he welcomed them home.
• Dobby greeted Vizet and Xenophilius, took their suitcases, and prepared dinner at the Lovegood home.
• Vizet and Luna visited a grove near a stream, where they cooled their feet in the water together.
• Luna startled a fish while playing in the stream and told Vizet she had wanted to catch a Rainbow Ball Fish.
• Vizet described how Merpeople twisted Rainbow Ball Fish’s legs into knots and let them drift, then spoke about Merpeople in Hogwarts’ Black Lake.

Vizet and Luna shared a tender moment beside a stream, admitted they were lucky to have found each other, and held hands. When Vizet’s invitation to the All-England Wizard Duelling Competition summoned him to his semifinal, Luna joined him, and they departed together.

• Vizet and Luna chatted about Merpeople and imagined a clever, beautiful mermaid living in their village’s temperate waters.
• Vizet covered Luna’s hand with his, and they each said they were lucky before clasping hands.
• Vizet realized the sun had set and used the Levitation Charm to open his invitation to the All-England Wizard Duelling Competition semifinal.
• Luna asked to accompany Vizet, and he agreed; she took his hand again and playfully moved his wrist.
• Vizet and Luna pressed their fingers to the invitation’s wax seal and vanished together.

Vizet arrived at the Bath arena for his semifinal against the fast, magic-resistant Silver Fang, determined to end the match quickly. After Vizet opened with Fiendfyre, Silver Fang used smoke as cover and rushed in to attack.

• Vizet reached the arena, where the reception witch confirmed the semifinal would begin in ten minutes and offered him refreshments.
• The commentator introduced Vizet and Silver Fang, describing Silver Fang’s speed, close-combat skill, and apparent Bloodline Magic.
• Vizet launched the first attack with Fiendfyre, sending Flame Arrows after Silver Fang.
• Silver Fang deflected some of the arrows and cast a Smokescreen Charm, concealing himself in the smoke.
• Vizet recognized the smoke as a feint and held back from dispelling it as Silver Fang charged out to attack.

Vizet defeated Silver Fang with a cocoon trap and two powerful Stunning Spells, then became the focus of a commentator’s exaggerated interpretation of his remark about not delaying dinner. He left the arena and reunited with Luna, and they headed back together.

• Silver Fang’s attack closed in on Vizet, but an unblocked Flame Arrow helped Vizet trap him inside a cocoon cage.
• Vizet hit Silver Fang with two Stunning Spells, overcame his resistance, and won the duel.
• Asked for a comment, Vizet said, “Can’t delay dinner,” and the commentator presented it as a statement about his decisive championship ambitions.
• Silver Fang woke, took Vizet’s remark as an insult, and feared the punishment his master would give him for losing.
• Vizet left the arena, met Luna, and they held hands as they went back for dinner.

Voldemort questioned Fenrir Greyback after his failed mission and discovered that the masked wizard who defeated him used sophisticated soul magic, though he could not identify the wizard. After punishing Fenrir, Voldemort learned that the werewolves had captured Bertha Jorkins.

• Fenrir Greyback, disguised as Silver Fang, reported his failure to Voldemort and apologized for losing to the masked wizard called Noth.
• Voldemort read Fenrir Greyback’s memories and saw the blue-masked wizard use skilled Fire-Making and Transfiguration magic that restrained Fenrir.
• Voldemort told Fenrir Greyback that overconfidence had caused his defeat, and Fenrir begged to be punished.
• Voldemort punished Fenrir Greyback with black-green magic, leaving him convulsing on the cave floor.
• A Werewolf Wizard brought Voldemort a Ministry of Magic proof coin and reported that they had captured Bertha Jorkins.

Vizet and Luna rested together by a woodland stream until a letter from Sirius Black arrived, offering Grimmauld Place as a venue for Fred and the others. Sirius led them through London but struggled to find the way, leaving them beside a rubbish bin while he insisted the place was well protected.

• Vizet and Luna sat back to back on a rock by the stream, relaxed together, and nearly fell asleep.
• An Eagle Owl delivered a letter addressed to Vizet Lovegood, and Vizet found that Sirius had written to recommend Grimmauld Place as a venue.
• Vizet and Luna met Sirius, who explained that the Wanted Posters still made him cautious in public.
• Sirius led Vizet and Luna through a run-down area, but his Directional Spell brought them only to a rubbish bin.
• Sirius said Grimmauld Place had extensive Protective Magic, though he had forgotten exactly how to reach it.

Sirius Black led Vizet and Luna to Grimmauld Place and reflected on why Harry had returned to Little Whinging. Inside the neglected house, he began explaining the protection on Harry connected to Voldemort’s rebounding Killing Curse.

• Sirius Black told Vizet and Luna that Harry had returned to Little Whinging, though he wished he had taken him away from his aunt’s family.
• Sirius Black found Grimmauld Place and led Vizet and Luna to the decaying house.
• Sirius Black opened the house, and Vizet used a spell to clear the dust from the entrance.
• Sirius Black asked whether Vizet and Luna remembered Voldemort’s attack on Harry two years earlier.
• Vizet recalled that Voldemort’s Killing Curse had rebounded, and Sirius Black began explaining the protection on Harry.

Vizet analyzed the ancient magical protection that saved Harry, connecting it to Lily’s sacrifice, Harry’s scar, and his bloodline. He deduced that Dumbledore kept Harry at his aunt’s home to sustain the protection, which would end when Harry came of age, then asked Sirius whether that limit came from a promise or another cause.

• Vizet reasoned that Lily’s magic was an ancient, rigid form of protection powered by her desperate wish for Harry to survive, and Sirius Black confirmed it.
• Vizet asked whether Harry’s scar came from Voldemort, then compared it to a wound that could let magic enter the body, like Lycanthropy; Sirius said Dumbledore had explained that the protection entered Harry’s body.
• Vizet proposed that the magic moved through Harry’s blood and into his soul, and that his aunt’s blood relationship let it endure after Lily’s death.
• Sirius Black confirmed the protection could last only until Harry came of age, and Vizet asked whether that limit came from a promise made by Headmaster Dumbledore or another reason.

Vizet explained how Dumbledore preserved Lily's magical protection for Harry through a subtle contract with his aunt, and Sirius reflected on Lily and James's care for their son. At Grimmauld Place, Kreacher insulted Luna, and Vizet briefly attacked him with magic before Luna calmed him.

• Vizet explained that Harry's aunt had to regard her home as Harry's home for Dumbledore's contract to preserve Lily's magical protection.
• Sirius Black recalled Dumbledore calling the protection Lily's last gift, and Luna suggested it had also helped watch over Harry as he grew.
• Kreacher entered the hall, insulted Sirius and the Black family, and then directed a slur at Luna.
• Vizet cast Levicorpus on Kreacher, but stopped the spell when Luna touched his wrist.
• Kreacher curled up trembling in a corner, and Vizet apologized to Luna, who reassured him.

Vizet and Luna used Ancient Magic to remove a curse from Kreacher at Grimmauld Place, restoring his clearer mind and familiar manner toward Sirius Black. Sirius began showing them around the house, but a piercing scream interrupted him.

• Vizet apologized for using magic on Kreacher, and Luna helped the shaken House-elf stand.
• Luna spotted many Nargles on Kreacher, while Vizet used his Magic Eye and monocle to identify a black-red mist as a curse.
• Vizet and Luna cast the Ancient Magic Purifying Cleansing Soul Washing Spell, pulling the dark mist from Kreacher until his eyes cleared.
• Kreacher welcomed Vizet and Luna, then addressed Sirius Black with his old, respectful but mocking tone.
• Sirius told Kreacher to brighten Grimmauld Place, and Kreacher vanished to carry out the order.
• Sirius led Vizet and Luna through the entrance hall, but a piercing scream drowned out his words.

Sirius Black showed Vizet and Luna around Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, where they silenced the portraits and discovered the Black Family’s old rooms and artifacts. Vizet found the house’s books and magical objects worth exploring, while Sirius planned to invite more friends to visit.

• A screaming portrait of Sirius Black’s mother woke the portraits throughout the entrance hall, and Vizet protected the group with earmuffs and a Magical Energy Field.
• Vizet animated two suits of armor to pull the curtains over the mother’s portrait while Sirius Black silenced the other portraits with Stunning Spells.
• Sirius Black asked Kreacher to tidy the first floor and led Vizet and Luna through the dusty dining room and upstairs past the House-elf plaques.
• Sirius Black showed them the Black Family Tree Tapestry, which displayed the family motto, The Most Ancient and Noble Black Family, Toujours Pur.
• Vizet explored books on Ritual Magic, Alchemy, and Dark Magic in the study, and Luna noticed how much he liked the house.

Vizet and Luna met Neville and his grandmother before their M.S.C. club visit to Grimmauld Place. Neville’s grandmother thanked Vizet for helping Neville become his own person and praised his progress with a new wand.

• Vizet and Luna arrived early at the meeting place and found Neville already waiting.
• Neville’s grandmother came out of a bakery and shared bread with Neville and his friends.
• Neville’s grandmother told Vizet and Luna that Neville had often talked about them over the summer.
• Neville’s grandmother thanked Vizet for helping Neville choose a new wand and develop his own way of casting spells.

Fred and George recounted their strange house-hunting mishaps while Sirius Black and Lupin described their own search for suitable properties. The group reached Grimmauld Place, where Neville bumped into something in the crowded entrance hall and a deafening noise erupted beside him.

• Fred and George told the group that Mundungus Fletcher had shown them an Invisible House that revealed its occupants to people outside, along with several other unsuitable houses.
• Fred and George described finding Bandimang-infested rooms and a Doxy nest, whose eggs they planned to use while researching Puking Pastilles.
• Sirius Black asked what had happened to Mundungus Fletcher, and Fred and George said he had vomited, sobered up, and hurried off to meet an old mate.
• Lupin explained that he had rejected houses that lacked proper protections or still bore traces of Dark Magic because he needed a base for an entire club.
• Sirius Black opened the cleaned entrance to Grimmauld Place, where the nine visitors crowded together and examined the Black Family decor.
• Neville stumbled into something, and Vizet's magic kept him from falling before a deafening sound erupted beside his ear.

Augusta Longbottom confronted Walburga Black’s portrait at Grimmauld Place, challenging her pure-blood prejudice until Walburga shut herself behind the curtains. The others watched in amazement as Augusta explained that she had made Walburga quiet for a while.

• Walburga Black’s portrait cursed at the group, and Augusta Longbottom stepped forward to face her while Sirius Black gave Augusta permission to handle the confrontation.
• Augusta and Walburga argued about blood purity as Sirius, Lupin, Fred, and George watched from a distance.
• Augusta accused Walburga of hiding from reality and brought up her child’s chosen path, leaving Walburga panicked and speechless.
• Walburga screamed and closed the portrait curtains, and Fred and George failed to pull them open again.
• Augusta told the group that Walburga would probably not change, but that she could be made to stay quiet for a while.

Vizet noticed that Kreacher had been affected by a small amount of dark-red mist, and Sirius suspected the house’s Dark Magic Items were responsible. After everyone agreed to return with protective gear to clean Grimmauld Place, Vizet asked Sirius about the rent.

• Vizet learned from Augusta Longbottom’s argument with Walburga Black that staying calm helped expose an opponent’s weaknesses, while Walburga shut herself behind the curtains in anger.
• Kreacher appeared in the dining room and welcomed the group to Grimmauld Place, and Luna told Vizet that Nargles had appeared around him again.
• Vizet used his Monocle to detect a faint layer of black-red mist on Kreacher, and Sirius questioned Kreacher, who said he had not left Grimmauld Place.
• Sirius offered Grimmauld Place as a place for the group to stay, and the visitors agreed to return with Dragonhide Gloves and tools to clean the house.
• Sirius suggested that Kreacher’s condition came from nearby Dark Magic Items and said he would collect them in one room, while Vizet asked about the rent.