Chapter Summaries

Vizet brewed a fear-awakening potion that matched Professor Snape’s, then worked on reducing its cost by cutting back on ambergris and adjusting other ingredients. Dumbledore arrived to check on the cheaper substitute needed for the Selection Examination, and Vizet continued refining the formula as Snape listened.

• Professor Snape quizzed Vizet on the quantities of costly ingredients, then began brewing the potion while Vizet considered how to control its cost.
• Vizet brewed a potion and compared it with Snape’s, confirming they matched in color and fragrance.
• Vizet proposed reducing the ambergris by four portions and compensating with more Frog Brain Pulp and Ash Leaves.
• Dumbledore entered Snape’s office to ask about the cheaper substitute and reminded him that only two weeks remained before the Selection Examination.
• Vizet said Ash Leaves should be increased to three portions and cut only when they were needed, to preserve their magical property of solitude.

Vizet successfully improved and brewed Snape’s Fear potion using fewer ingredients, then learned that Dumbledore planned to offer it as an opportunity related to the Selection Examination. Dumbledore later told Snape about Vizet’s improvement, but Snape left without responding.

• Vizet adjusted Snape’s potion formula and brewed it, confirming its success when it turned deep blue after he added Ambergris and Frog Brain Pulp.
• Dumbledore explained that the potion would be used with a Magical Artifact to provide students an opportunity related to the Selection Examination, and that a notice would appear the following Monday.
• Snape brought the brewed Fear potion to Dumbledore’s office late at night.
• Dumbledore praised Vizet’s ingredient-saving improvement and suggested Snape should be pleased with his student’s progress.
• Snape gave no reply and left Dumbledore’s office.

The Hogwarts students discovered that the Selection Examination for the Five Champions Tournament would begin at noon, though the announcement gave no details about its tests. Vizet learned that applicants first had to answer questions about the Triwizard Tournament, and he explained to Anthony Goldstein why the Tournament’s tasks could be dangerous.

• Students found the Selection Examination announcement on the Bulletin Board and learned it would start at noon on September nineteenth in an empty classroom on the fifth floor.
• Students investigated the examination room but found no clues, then discussed the exam anxiously over breakfast and struggled to concentrate in class.
• Bathsheda Babbling taught her Ancient Runes students to arrange runes into a blessing, and she gave Vizet a Family Biography facsimile for his research into War Magic.
• Michael Corner finished translating the runes and hurried with Vizet to the examination site, where they met Anthony Goldstein returning after failing to answer the doorway’s question.
• Anthony told Vizet that applicants had to answer questions about the Triwizard Tournament before entering, and Vizet explained that its first task had often involved a dangerous creature such as a fire dragon.

Vizet inferred that Dumbledore’s Selection Examination recreated parts of the Triwizard Tournament, and Fred and George revealed its Devil’s Snare trial and asked Vizet for help with a household-magic challenge. The twins left with a book recommendation for practicing knitting magic.

• Vizet suggested that Dumbledore’s examination let students experience a safer version of the Triwizard Tournament by testing wisdom, magical ability, and courage.
• Fred and George returned after passing the question-answering doorknob but admitted they had failed to defeat Devil’s Snare with a long sword.
• Fred and George privately asked Vizet for books about household magic, revealing that they feared being tested on knitting sweaters.
• Vizet recommended Practical Home Magic and told the twins to practice the knitting spell as they had practiced the Levitation Charm.

Vizet and Neville discussed books on Muggle swordsmanship, while students faced fear tests inside an Empty Classroom. After entering the room, Vizet discovered a Ritual Magic Array that used a potion to channel fear through Voldemort's Bloodline Magic.

• Fred and George went to the library to find a book that could help them face Devil's Snare with a longsword.
• Vizet listed several Restricted Section books about Muggle swordsmanship, and Neville said Professor Moody's fighting style had inspired him to explore that approach.
• Michael answered the doorknob's question correctly, entered the classroom, and emerged terrified after encountering swarms of empty-headed frogs.
• Harry entered after answering a question about the Triwizard Tournament and emerged shaken by attacking Killing Curses and his mother's screams.
• Vizet answered a question about the 1792 Triwizard Tournament, examined the classroom, and identified a Ritual Magic Array connected to Voldemort's Bloodline Magic.

Vizet uncovered how Dumbledore’s unstable Alchemical test used students’ fears and memories, then entered the Selection Examination. After defeating a Forest Giant, he met Dumbledore in a memory and faced the young Albus Dumbledore as the next challenge began.

• Vizet deduced that the classroom’s Alchemy Magic Array used students’ fear and Dumbledore’s memories to create personalized tests.
• Vizet put on the helmet and found that the potion did not break through his protection of the soul.
• The examination sent Vizet into a test where he killed a Forest Giant with Sectumsempra.
• Dumbledore explained that Vizet had to complete a second test and take himself out of the memory.
• Young Albus Dumbledore appeared and cast Expecto Patronum.

Young Dumbledore tested how different Corporeal Patronuses attacked a trapped Dementor while Vizet searched for the magic behind their behavior. Vizet understood the principle of Dumbledore’s Patronus War Magic, but was left considering how Animagus magic might explain why Patronuses used their animal forms’ natural attacks.

• Young Dumbledore trapped a Dementor in a Magical Energy Field and attacked it with a Phoenix Patronus.
• Young Dumbledore used Mental Magic to change his Patronus’s form, then sent reindeer, bear, cat, horse, dolphin, and wolf Patronuses to attack the Dementor.
• Vizet observed that each Patronus attacked like the animal it resembled and reasoned that the spell directed the Patronus’s protective will against the Dementor.
• Vizet realized Dumbledore’s Patronus War Magic worked by making a Patronus carry out other spells, allowing it to deliver messages or objects.
• Vizet began pacing and considered rethinking why Patronuses used their forms’ natural attacks from the perspective of Animagus magic.

Vizet realized that magic could capture the marks left by things and used that insight to guide his Phoenix Patronus into absorbing him. He vanished from the memory after using the phoenix’s Innate Magic, but the trial appeared to be changing scenes rather than ending.

• Vizet noticed that Young Dumbledore, a Dementor, and the trembling branches left different marks within the memory.
• Vizet reasoned that a wizard’s emotions, memories, and will were marks that magic could capture to shape a Patronus.
• Vizet used Move Spirit Remove Memory to draw out his Phoenix Patronus from his soul.
• Vizet drew out another Silver Thread and deliberately let the Phoenix Patronus absorb him.
• Vizet used the phoenix’s Innate Magic to complete the trial and disappeared in a flash of fire as the scene began to change.

Vizet completed Dumbledore’s Selection Examination after facing a Forest Giant and received a card bearing a magical age mark that would let him register for the Five Champions Tournament. He left the classroom and explained the trials to the gathered students, including how they could survive the Forest Giant until the hourglass ran out.

• Vizet gained the Ancient Magic: Mark Extraction Charm, then discovered the examination was still underway until Dumbledore’s Phoenix Patronus adjusted the trial and stopped the fear potion.
• Dumbledore’s card appeared, confirming that Vizet had passed and granting him permission to register for the Five Champions Tournament.
• Vizet examined the card, found Dumbledore’s magical age mark on it, and inferred that the mark would let him pass the registration restriction.
• Vizet showed the card to the students waiting outside and described how the examination tested wisdom, courage, and magical ability.
• Vizet explained that he had faced a Forest Giant and could have completed the trial by dodging its attacks until the hourglass ran out, using terrain and magic to hinder it.

Students tried to pass the Selection Examination and learned about Forest Giants while Harry and Ron questioned Hagrid for advice. Meanwhile, Vizet and Luna prepared to summon a thunderstorm at the centaurs’ altar to help their Thunderbird hatch, and Cornelia and her mother joined them on the way.

• Students crowded the examination corridor, sought Vizet’s Booklist, and filled the library looking for ways to defeat a Forest Giant.
• Harry and Ron asked Hagrid how to deal with Forest Giants while feeding Blast-Ended Skrewts, and Draco listened in.
• Hagrid advised the students to target a giant’s belly, use the terrain, and remember that its head was fragile.
• Vizet and Luna decided to take the Thunderbird Egg to the altar behind the Centaur Tribe and use Ancient Magic with the Weather Charm to call a thunderstorm.
• Firenze stopped Vizet and Luna from offering snacks to the young centaurs, and Cornelia and her mother accompanied them along part of the road.

Vizet and Luna used the ancient altar to summon a storm and help Jupiter hatch from its egg. After bathing in lightning and consuming its shell, the Baby Thunderbird flew into their hands, where it nuzzled them both.

• Vizet and Luna activated the ancient altar with prepared crystals and cast protective spells as the Thunderbird Egg began to stir.
• Vizet infused the altar with Ancient Magic Power, and he and Luna summoned storm clouds and lightning.
• Vizet and Luna felt connected to Jupiter as it tapped at its shell, cracked it open, and poked out its beak.
• Jupiter called to the storm, and a bolt of lightning shattered the remaining eggshell and revealed the Baby Thunderbird.
• The Baby Thunderbird ate the powdered shell, grew brighter as lightning struck it, then flew into Vizet and Luna's hands and nuzzled them both.

Vizet and Luna discovered that the baby thunderbird, Jupiter, had given them both a mark and Vizet worked out the requirements for a magical creature Animagus transformation. They brewed the Animagus “Second Form” potion and prepared to begin Luna’s Thunderbird Animagus transformation.

• Jupiter brushed Vizet and Luna’s palms with its tail feathers, leaving each of them with a thunderbird mark.
• Vizet reasoned that magical creature Animagus transformations required an Animagus Potion, a creature’s mark, and Ancient Magic Power brewed through time.
• Vizet summoned potion ingredients and, with Luna’s help, brewed the Animagus “Second Form” potion.
• Vizet and Luna added their hair and Jupiter’s mark to their portions of the potion.
• Vizet told Luna to drink the potion after he cast the spell, then raised his wand toward the altar and chanted, “A—Ansuz!”

Vizet and Luna completed their Thunderbird Animagus transformations during a storm, while Dumbledore and Fawkes watched the lightning from the Headmaster’s Office. Afterward, Vizet used his new weather-controlling magic to clear the skies, and he and Luna flew with the Baby Thunderbird through the Forbidden Forest.

• Vizet cast the thunder spell as he and Luna drank the Animagus Second Form potion, and silver-blue lightning struck them while the Baby Thunderbird eagerly watched.
• Dumbledore considered visiting the Forbidden Forest, but Fawkes stopped him from leaving his desk.
• Vizet and Luna completed their Thunderbird Animagus transformations, and the Baby Thunderbird grew larger after absorbing Ancient Magic Power.
• The Baby Thunderbird led Vizet and Luna into the sky, and Vizet used his innate magic to calm the storm and bring sunlight back to the Forbidden Forest.
• The tired Baby Thunderbird rested on Vizet’s back, then flew ahead again to lead them onward.

Vizet and Luna returned to the Ravenclaw Common Room, where the Baby Thunderbird greeted them and showed off its flying. Terry Boot then celebrated passing the Selection Examination and explained how Vizet's advice and the comic Wizard Vede and the Magical World had helped him succeed.

• Vizet answered the Bronze Ring's riddle with “tests,” while Luna suggested “time” as another answer, and the Eagle Statue opened the gate.
• The Baby Thunderbird greeted Vizet and Luna, then flew around the Common Room and settled by them.
• Terry Boot rushed in with his card and announced that he had passed the Selection Examination.
• Terry explained that he had used Vizet's advice to get past the Banshee and Forest Giant, including a maneuver inspired by Wizard Vede and the Magical World.
• Luna summoned the newest issue of Wizard Vede and the Magical World and invited Vizet to read it with her.

Students found varied ways to pass the Selection Examination, while teachers adjusted their lessons to help them face its challenges. Hermione passed by burning her exam papers to overcome her fear and using a Flying Broomstick to evade the Forest Giant.

• Harry passed the fear trial by dodging the Killing Curse and defeated the Forest Giant with Disarming and Stunning Charms.
• Neville used a Confundus Charm to endure Snape’s potion trial and muddled through the rest of the examination.
• Draco blinded the Forest Giant with the Wand-Lighting Charm, while Luna found Vizet and Xenophilius Lovegood after they disappeared in her fear trial.
• Students began training with Blast-Ended Skrewts, and Filius Flitwick moved Summoning Charm lessons earlier to help them prepare.
• Moody increased practical combat exercises, randomly testing students and giving feedback after their simulated encounters.
• Hermione burned her exam papers to pass the fear trial, then summoned a Flying Broomstick to evade the Forest Giant.

Vizet investigated Ron’s report that an Acromantula had emerged from his wand during the Selection Examination. After recreating Ron’s fear, Vizet confirmed that the wand produced a real Acromantula, leaving him to investigate the strange magic further.

• Vizet explained how emotions and will could influence the use of Dark Magic as he developed his research.
• Ron told Vizet that an Acromantula had crawled out of his wand during the fear test, and Hermione said the Flashback Curse had not reproduced it.
• Vizet brought Ron, Harry, and Hermione to an Empty Classroom and conjured an Acromantula to recreate the frightening scene.
• Ron’s fear caused an Acromantula to emerge from his wand, and Harry used the Revival Charm to keep Ron from fainting.
• Vizet stopped the Acromantulae and returned the transformed bookcase to its place, while Hermione recognized his Wandless Nonverbal Spellcasting.

Vizet explained that Ron’s fear had caused the ancient magic Manifestitch Timoris to make Acromantulas emerge from his Wand. He linked the spell to a historical incident involving the Dark Wizard Lachydian and left Hermione and the others with a book reference for learning more.

• Vizet told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that songs could serve as incantations and explained how spells developed into their modern forms.
• Hermione used Arithmancy to interpret Ron’s words as a command to manifest something, and Vizet explained that Ron had made his fear of spiders manifest.
• Vizet named the magic Manifestitch Timoris and directed Hermione to page 125 of the Restricted Section book Untold History of Magic.
• Hermione recounted how Lachydian’s failed Patronus Charm produced maggots that devoured him after he attacked a village with Dementors.
• Vizet suggested that Lachydian’s maggots may have inspired Manifestitch Timoris.

Vizet explained how Manifestitch Timoris worked, revealing that it could summon and control a manifestation of a caster’s fear when they faced it with courage. He outlined the spell’s requirements and left Hermione concerned about the danger of using it.

• Vizet told Ron that Manifestitch Timoris could let him control the Acromantula if he had faced his fear with courage, and described the spell as a form of Transfiguration.
• Vizet used Arithmancy to explain how the spell combined Manifestare, Switch, and Stitch, while Hermione worked out how a wand movement incorporated the sound of the letter W.
• Ron said he had feared spiders since Fred turned his teddy bear into one when he was three, and Vizet explained that the spell required a long-lasting fear with a clear physical form.
• Harry said his fear always appeared as the Killing Curse, and Hermione asked whether facing fear with courage could make the spell dangerous.
• Vizet agreed that Hermione’s concern made sense and warned that gazing into the abyss meant the abyss also gazed back.

Vizet explained that Manifestitch Timoris drew on fear and could torment its caster for life, but Ron believed the magic might suit him and wanted to learn it. Vizet advised Ron to master the Patronus Charm first, and the Baby Thunderbird arrived, prompting Ron to let Vizet go.

• Ron asked whether Manifestitch Timoris counted as Dark Magic, and Vizet said the ancient spell had traits of it.
• Vizet compared the spell's recurring fear to facing a Fire Dragon and warned that its effects would persist even when it was not being cast.
• Ron said he wanted to learn Manifestitch Timoris because it could summon Acromantulas and help him overcome his fear of spiders.
• Vizet suggested Ron use the Patronus Charm to build strength before learning Manifestitch Timoris and warned him to prepare to face fear for life.
• The Baby Thunderbird flew into the Empty Classroom and tugged at Vizet's collar, so Ron thanked Vizet and told him to go.

After Ron demonstrated the ancient magic Manifestitch Timoris, Hermione admitted to Vizet that she felt she had made little progress. Vizet reassured her that growth took many forms and that she did not need to excel at everything, leaving Hermione to consider what progress meant for her.

• Vizet thanked Ron for showing him Manifestitch Timoris and urged him to consult Professor McGonagall before attempting to learn it.
• Hermione worried that Vizet had outpaced her and that Harry and Ron were progressing in their own areas while she remained stuck.
• Hermione told Vizet that it seemed like she had not made much progress lately.
• Vizet explained that learning magic, applying it, and exploring its possibilities were all kinds of progress.
• Vizet said he focused on Arithmancy and Ancient Runes because they interested him, rather than forcing himself to study Divination.