Chapter Summaries

Vizet brought his improved Wolfsbane Potion formula to Snape and confirmed that Fenrir Greyback’s unusual nature had guided his experiments. Snape reviewed Vizet’s notes and let him brew the potion in his office, where Vizet reached the final stage of the preparation.

• Snape asked whether Fenrir Greyback was in Vizet’s hands, and Vizet confirmed that he was being held for experiments.
• Vizet explained that Fenrir Greyback’s extreme acceptance of Lycanthropy Disease had helped him find a way to improve the Wolfsbane Potion.
• Snape asked whether Vizet knew that Fenrir Greyback remembered him, and Vizet confirmed that he did without asking further questions.
• Snape read Vizet’s notes, accepted his decision to imprison Fenrir Greyback, and told him to brew the potion using the office ingredients.
• Vizet brewed the first part of his formula, replacing Mandrake leaves and Death’s-head Hawkmoth Pupa with Mandrake root.
• When Vizet prepared to add blood for the second part, Snape asked whose blood it was, and Vizet said it came from an M employee, not Fenrir Greyback.

Vizet showed Snape a formula for a Werewolf Animagus, derived from his research into the Wolfsbane Potion. Snape identified the obstacles to the transformation, and Vizet said he would continue studying Fenrir Greyback as a possible real-world reference for a werewolf form.

• Vizet completed a cheaper, easier-to-brew Wolfsbane Potion, which Snape recognized as a correct deduction of Damocles Belby’s formula.
• Vizet asked Snape to cast a revealing charm on his notebook, exposing the hidden Werewolf Animagus formula.
• Snape read the formula and learned that it used a constructed werewolf form, Butrielle, and Extendable Ears to connect a wizard to that form.
• Snape questioned how the formula could work without a real werewolf as a reference and noted that wizards could not transform into magical creatures.
• Vizet said he would continue studying Fenrir Greyback and believed Greyback could become a true werewolf, providing a real-world mapping body.

Professor Snape discovered that Vizet’s notebook contained research into helping Squibs cast spells, alongside the Werewolf Animagus formula. Vizet explained his experimental ritual for Filch and a more dangerous theoretical approach, leaving Snape to examine the unfinished proposals.

• Professor Snape asked Vizet what else was hidden in the notebook, and Vizet revealed ideas for helping Squibs master magic.
• Vizet explained that he had given Filch a Ritual Magic method based on the Animagus Second Form, intended to grant him magical ability through his cat.
• Vizet told Professor Snape that the ritual used Filch’s ability to alter a Magical Artifact’s effects with his will, and estimated its theoretical success rate at sixty percent.
• Professor Snape judged the ritual’s success rate to be at least eighty percent and identified its design as making Filch’s cat into a living wand.
• Professor Snape read Vizet’s untested theory that Lycanthropy Disease could tear open a Squib’s soul and let their spirit gain the ability to cast spells.

Snape examined Vizet’s proposal to use the Lycanthropy Disease bloodline curse to awaken magic in Squibs and became alarmed by the possibility that many Muggle-born wizards had Squib ancestry. He sent Vizet to show the notebook to Dumbledore, who retrieved his old notes on magical history and the Ministry for Vizet to inspect.

• Snape read Vizet’s plans for adapting the Lycanthropy Disease bloodline curse and weighed its potential side effects and risks.
• Snape noticed Vizet’s conjecture that wizards called Muggle-born might actually be Squib-born and worried about the consequences if the idea could turn many Squib-descended Muggles into wizards.
• Vizet told Snape that he had reached the conjecture himself after reading Malo Fufang’s werewolf research notebook and studying Fenrir Greyback.
• After learning how Dumbledore had introduced Vizet to Malo Fufang, Snape told Vizet to take the notebook to Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore read Vizet’s notebook, retrieved his student notes on History of Magic and the Ministry of Magic, and asked Vizet to look through them.

Vizet read Dumbledore’s detailed history of the Ministers of Magic, from the Ministry’s founding through the rise of Gellert Grindelwald. The notes ended with Grindelwald’s forces growing stronger after his speech at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

• Dumbledore’s notebook described Ulick Gamp keeping the Leaky Cauldron open as a refuge and inspiring its owner to create Gamp’s Old Aged Draught.
• Damocles Rowle built Azkaban, and Perseus Parkinson pursued anti-Muggle policies before public opposition ended their tenures.
• Eldritch Diggory’s Auror Recruitment Program shifted practical power from the Wizengamot to the Ministry of Magic.
• Ottaline Gambol introduced the Hogwarts Express and founded a Muggle Research Committee, while later ministers developed Platform 9 3/4 and the Knight Bus.
• Archer Evermonde tried to keep wizards out of World War I, but many aided Muggles and witnessed their destructive power.
• Ministers failed to act against Gellert Grindelwald, whose forces grew after his speech at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Vizet read Dumbledore’s notebook chronicling the history of Magical World ministers and wars, then discussed what he had learned about the Statute of Secrecy and changing attitudes toward Muggles. He left the conversation still sorting through the contradictions he saw in the Wizarding World.

• Vizet finished reading Dumbledore’s notebook and observed that its account of the twentieth century seemed to have been added later.
• Dumbledore explained that he had once studied the Ministry of Magic but later found the work meaningless, then continued the notebook simply to see how far it could go.
• Vizet told Dumbledore that the Statute of Secrecy was central to the Magical World and that ministers often prioritized concealment over convenience.
• Vizet explained how earlier ministers’ policies toward Muggles reflected a gradual adjustment to secrecy and a growing desire for peaceful coexistence.
• Vizet described the Wizarding World as contradictory, contrasting Ottaline Gambol’s introduction of the Hogwarts Express with Josefina Flint’s opposition to technology.

Vizet explained to Dumbledore how wizards’ fear of Muggle warfare had been turned into Grindelwald’s savior ideology and later merged with Pure-blood supremacy. He argued that Hector Fawley’s conduct as Minister helped Grindelwald gain power by misleading other Ministries.

• Dumbledore and Vizet discussed how successive Ministers of Magic had taken opposing positions on Muggle affairs and technology.
• Dumbledore recalled the wars and asked Vizet why wizards who had helped Muggles later supported the Wizards' Supreme Party and the end of the Statute of Secrecy.
• Vizet said wizards had feared Muggle weapons and that Grindelwald had packaged this fear as a mission to save Muggles from destroying themselves.
• Vizet argued that the Statute of Secrecy contained a contradiction because wizards had to hide from Muggles while responding to their growing power.
• Vizet linked Nobby Leach’s fall from office and the survival of Grindelwald’s savior ideology to the Pure-blood Families’ later support for Voldemort.
• Vizet cited Hector Fawley’s failure to act against Grindelwald and his misleading reassurances to other Ministries as reasons Grindelwald’s power had grown.

Vizet discussed the factions behind Gellert Grindelwald’s rise with Dumbledore and concluded that the Ministry’s moderate Stabilization Faction had represented the silent majority. Asked which side he would choose, Vizet said he might not have to choose, comparing his position to the way wizards combined different forms of magic with wandcasting.

• Dumbledore asked Vizet whether Muggle wars had offered the best chance for wizards to act, and Vizet answered with Ayo’s story of lions uniting against approaching hyenas.
• Dumbledore suggested that magic capable of granting Squibs the ability to cast spells could change the balance between opposing groups.
• Vizet explained how Pure-blood Families feared losing their status, while some Ministers pursued moderate reforms and others prioritized stability under the Statute of Secrecy.
• Vizet said Grindelwald’s speech appealed to different groups for different reasons, but the Stabilization Faction had been the Ministry’s mainstream and eventually resisted Grindelwald’s radical methods.
• When Dumbledore asked him to choose a position, Vizet said he might not have to, citing how wizards had combined potions, Ritual Magic, and Bloodline Magic with wandcasting.

Vizet and Dumbledore discussed how magic that could turn Squibs into wizards might win support from several factions and how it could be introduced gradually. Dumbledore gave Vizet notes on “Consensus” Magic compiled with Kamba Headmaster, leaving Vizet eager to study them.

• Vizet explained to Dumbledore how Grindelwald had challenged the Statute of Secrecy and how turning Squibs into wizards could change wizarding society.
• Vizet and Dumbledore considered how Pure-blood Families, Voldemort, and the Reform Faction might respond to the new magic.
• Vizet proposed first using a safer ritual to change a few Squibs, building support before promoting the more difficult magic.
• Dumbledore agreed and said Filch and other successful examples could become supporters who wanted to learn more spells.
• Dumbledore gave Vizet notebooks on “Consensus” Magic that he and Kamba Headmaster had organized, and Vizet began reading them eagerly.

Vizet explained two methods for helping Squibs gain the ability to cast magic and asked M to help make the Dependence Connection Ritual available to them. The meeting ended with Vizet seeking more people to share the work and costs of helping Squibs.

• Dumbledore pointed out that Vizet had not named his two ideas for helping Squibs and advised him to decide what information to keep secret; Vizet said the methods should remain private for now.
• Aberforth led Fred and George and the other M members into the Hog's Head, where they saw Vizet's notes on the Dependence Connection Ritual and Magic Revival Agent.
• Vizet explained that the Dependence Connection Ritual linked a Squib to a pet to support spellcasting, and that Filch was testing it with Mrs. Norris.
• Vizet described the Magic Revival Agent as a method involving an attenuated Lycanthropy Bloodline Curse and the tearing apart of a Squib's soul to grant spellcasting ability.
• Vizet told M that Squibs, including people with Squib bloodlines in the Muggle world, could number in the hundreds of millions, and said the Ritual's materials would make helping even hundreds or thousands costly.
• Vizet asked M to join him in helping Squibs, saying he could not manage the effort alone.

Vizet explained how helping Squibs regain the ability to cast spells could improve their lives and provide support and recruits for their cause. The group pledged to help, then discussed keeping the rituals and agents unique and developing the materials they would need.

• Vizet described helping Squibs as both a way to give them new opportunities and a way to gain support for their cause.
• Professor Lupin shared how abandoned Squibs had supported him during his hardest times and offered to join Vizet's cause; Sirius Black and Neville joined as well.
• Fred and George pledged to help, while Luna offered to publicize the effort and Hanna volunteered to put up posters.
• After the celebration, Vizet told M.S.C. that uniqueness would preserve the value of the Dependence Connection Ritual and Magic Revival Agent, and he said he had called the meeting to discuss the plan openly.
• Neville suggested cultivating materials for the ritual and agent, and the group joked about Sirius Black and Filch returning to Hogwarts as students.

Vizet used Kamba Headmaster’s research into African “Consensus” Magic and Ritual Magic to refine plans for the Dependence Connection Ritual and the Magic Revival Agent. He explained that rituals could guide specific outcomes, and the group began considering how to cultivate Magical Plants by controlling their materials and environment.

• Vizet discovered that Kamba Headmaster’s notes connected African “Consensus” Magic, Muggle altars, and the Ritual Magic Uagadou used to send enrollment messages and tokens.
• Vizet proposed that collective beliefs and sacrifices could produce Dark Magic creatures and objects, and that “Dream Messenger” accessed a magical network formed by “Consensus” Magic.
• Vizet explained that Ritual Magic could be understood like Potions or Alchemy, since carefully chosen processes and materials produced intended results.
• Vizet suggested using Runes, spells, Magical Plants, magical animals, and environmental conditions to cultivate plants for specific purposes.
• Hanna connected moonlight to Animagus practice and Potion Ingredients, while Neville wondered whether growing Magical Plants under a full moon could be difficult.

Vizet explained how Ritual Magic could combine materials and magical creatures to imitate a full moon environment, boosting the effects of Dirigible Plums’ droppings and other plants. Sirius Black grasped that the created environment itself was the goal, and Vizet noted that the Harmonious Space Charm could help reproduce different environments.

• Vizet explained that Fairy eggs reflected in water resembled the full moon and led Dirigible Plums to dance, producing especially potent droppings near Moonpetal Flowers and Moonstones.
• Sirius Black teased Vizet and Luna about their Forbidden Forest dates, where they collected magical materials, and Fred and George joined in.
• Sirius Black reasoned that Ritual Magic created a full moon environment so magical plants could live under its effects, and Vizet confirmed his understanding.
• Vizet explained that different materials and magical creatures could create different environments, with the Harmonious Space Charm making the process easier.

Vizet organized a plan to study the Dependence Connection Ritual and Magic Revival Agent, while M.S.C. members gathered books and family knowledge to support the work. After Lupin offered his father’s research materials on Dark Magic creatures, Vizet revealed that he was preparing a ritual that might cure Lycanthropy Disease, leaving Lupin stunned and hopeful.

• Vizet explained the Dependence Connection Ritual and Magic Revival Agent to M.S.C., and the members agreed to continue their study the following weekend.
• Neville, Hanna, Sirius Black, Fred, and George contacted their families to gather books and information that could aid their research.
• After the meeting, Lupin told Vizet that his father’s unpublished research on Non-Human Spirit Phenomena could provide useful material.
• Vizet asked how soon M.S.C.’s Werewolf Wizard employees could return from North America and revealed that he was preparing a ritual that might cure Lycanthropy Disease.
• Lupin reacted with disbelief and hope, asking Vizet whether curing the disease was truly possible.

Vizet’s promise to research a possible cure for Lycanthropy Disease overwhelmed Lupin, who returned to Grimmauld Place and cried in private. Later, Vizet suggested that he and Luna visit Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, and she blushed at the invitation.

• Vizet told Lupin he would gather research on Dark Magic creatures and try to help Werewolf Wizards, though he could not promise a result or a timeline.
• Lupin became so emotional that he injured his palms, and Vizet healed them with Episkey.
• Lupin returned to Grimmauld Place, where Kreacher saw him crying and Regulus Black told Kreacher to keep it secret.
• While walking through Hogsmeade with Luna, Vizet noticed Cedric and Cho Chang entering Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop and realized he and Luna had never been there.
• Vizet invited Luna into the tea shop, and Luna blushed as she recalled hearing Amica and the others talk about it.

Vizet took Luna to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, where they shared ice cream and discovered why the shop's prices were higher. The date left Luna blushing as she recognized the intimacy of sharing a spoon.

• Vizet and Luna entered Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop and sat together beneath its pink mist and floating blond angels.
• Vizet ordered Butterfly Pea Vanilla Ice Cream and Lemon Soda Ice Cream for them.
• Vizet noticed that the shop served desserts with only one spoon, a custom for couples, and fed Luna a bite of ice cream.
• Vizet found the ice cream sweeter and more satisfying than the treats at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.
• Luna realized Vizet had shared the spoon with her, blushed, and accepted another bite from him.

Vizet and Luna shared ice cream at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop and watched the sunset together near the Forbidden Forest. As exam workloads increased, Vizet learned that the champions would be told the Third Task at the Quidditch Pitch that night, and he went there with Harry and the others.

• Vizet and Luna finished their ice cream at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, then returned to Hogwarts and watched the sunset together near the Forbidden Forest.
• Vizet's dormmates noticed that homework had increased, and Vizet estimated it was about twenty percent heavier than in previous years.
• Professor McGonagall told Vizet to meet at the Quidditch Pitch at nine that night to learn the contents of the Third Task.
• Vizet arranged to meet Harry and the others in the entrance hall at eight-thirty and head to the pitch together.
• Cedric worried that the Quidditch Pitch might host the Third Task, while Harry said it would be better than the Black Lake.
• Vizet sensed Hagrid nearby as the group arrived at the Quidditch Pitch.

Hagrid accidentally revealed details of the Third Task to Vizet, Harry, and Draco, then warned them to keep the information confidential. As the Champions gathered at the Quidditch Pitch, Vizet and Cedric discussed how to handle the Fantastic Beasts expected in the task.

• Hagrid greeted Vizet, Harry, and Draco and revealed that the Third Task would include Riem Cattle, Tebo Warthogs, Runespoors, a Sphinx, Buckbeak, and Blast-Ended Skrewts.
• Hagrid realized he had disclosed confidential information and warned Harry to be wary of Karkaroff and not reveal what he had heard.
• Vizet advised Cedric and Harry to use the Tracking Spell or conjured debris to detect an invisible Tebo Warthog, and Cedric suggested provoking a Runespoor's heads to fight one another.
• Draco and Cedric discussed avoiding Riem Cattle and following a Sphinx's rules rather than forcing their way past it.
• Ludo Bagman greeted Vizet and the others at the Quidditch Pitch and kept talking until all the Champions arrived.

Ludo Bagman explained the rules and design of the Five Champions Tournament’s Third Task: Beauxbatons’ Alchemy Magic Array would become a maze, and Champions could not damage it or fly. The task would allow attacks between Champions, and after obtaining the Trophy they would have to hold it for five minutes before its Portkey effect took them to the podium.

• Harry noticed strange markings across the Quidditch Pitch, and Vizet identified them as Beauxbatons’ Alchemy Magic Array for creating a temporary building.
• Ludo Bagman announced that the Third Task would take place in a giant maze built from the array, with the Trophy at its highest level.
• Ludo Bagman warned the Champions not to damage the maze or use flying methods, and the other Champions looked toward Vizet because of his feat of splitting the Black Lake.
• Ludo Bagman explained that Hogwarts, Uagadou, and Ilvermorny would provide the maze’s traps and creatures, while referees would inspect and adjust them.
• Ludo Bagman said Champions could attack one another, and that Durmstrang and the Ministry of Magic would provide and inspect protective measures.
• Ludo Bagman explained that Champions who obtained the Trophy had to hold it for five minutes before its Portkey effect took them to the podium.

Ludo Bagman explained the Maze rules, including the use of some Dark Magic and the penalties for breaking the rules. Back at Hogwarts, Mr. Filch joyfully told Vizet that he could cast spells.

• Adele Lefevre and the other Champions questioned Ludo Bagman about Dark Magic, and Vizet explained that contestants had to provide a Counter-Curse or risk disqualification.
• Ludo Bagman explained the Maze entry order, the thirty-minute penalty for rule violations, and the requirement for Mr. Lovegood to find two others before lifting the Trophy.
• The Champions learned they could take their Wands into the Maze and would enter through separate entrances.
• Harry and Cedric discussed the Maze’s dangers as the group returned to Hogwarts Castle.
• Mr. Filch rushed to Vizet with Mrs. Norris and tearfully announced that he could cast spells, and Vizet congratulated him.