Chapter Summaries

Vizet was overwhelmed by the kaleidoscopic Marks and lost consciousness, while Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Grindelwald each considered the consequences of his rapid progress. The chapter ended with Voldemort still recovering and Grindelwald intrigued by Vizet’s apparent mastery of War Magic.

• Vizet saw the Marks reveal shifting landscapes and smiling people before their force overwhelmed him and he lost consciousness.
• Snape questioned Dumbledore about Voldemort and his own status, and Dumbledore advised him to adjust his memories of Vizet to prepare for scrutiny.
• Dumbledore sensed something unusual and wondered whether the feeling had been an illusion, while Fawkes gave no answer.
• Voldemort told Barty Crouch Jr. that he had not fully recovered and would deal with Igor Karkaroff before summoning Snape.
• Grindelwald studied a photograph of Vizet and speculated that he had developed mature War Magic, deciding that his progress served his aims.

Vizet woke in a private ward at St. Mungo's and found Luna asleep beside him. They embraced before the repeated knocks at the door interrupted them, and Vizet prepared to answer it.

• Vizet woke in a St. Mungo's ward and saw Luna asleep beside his bed.
• Vizet tried to wake Luna, but she opened her eyes and threw herself into his arms.
• Vizet and Luna remained wrapped in each other's embrace and initially ignored someone knocking at the door.
• Luna and Vizet heard the third knock, separated, and wondered if a healer had come to visit.
• Vizet noticed the packages filling the private ward, reassured Luna that he felt well, and said he would open the door.

After waking in the hospital, Vizet learned that he had been unconscious for several days and arranged for a healer to examine him again. He returned to Luna, reassured her that he felt well, and the two shared a tender reunion while waiting for the healer.

• Vizet left his ward and told Lucius Malfoy and Fudgehand that he felt well, though he agreed to a healer's examination in half an hour.
• Lucius Malfoy gave Vizet a gift box from Mr. Trelawps and said he had returned from North America after hearing about Vizet's condition.
• Fudgehand explained where Luna could find help and advised Vizet to rest before leaving.
• Vizet returned to Luna, who joked that he seemed like a Demiguise, and he embraced her.
• Vizet asked Luna whether she had slept well while he was unconscious, and he told her he would receive another examination soon.

Vizet underwent examinations by five St. Mungo’s department heads after his unusual condition and recent contribution. The healers found no clear problem, but recommended keeping him in the hospital for observation.

• Hecate Graves, Dioscorides Holly, Hathor Moen, Galen Claudius, and Daedalus Wellesley examined Vizet in the ward.
• Daedalus Wellesley watched Vizet cast a powerful Golden Eagle Patronus and nonverbally bind a toad, then recommended three more days of observation.
• Galen Claudius and Hathor Moen tested Vizet’s reaction to plant and creature tonics, but he felt no impulse to drink them.
• Galen Claudius presented Vizet with a Fafner Giant Elephant Beetle to check for possible Canaan Dodder parasitism, then advised further observation.

Robert Bonham offered Vizet an honorary consultant title at St. Mungo’s so he could study magical diseases and rare plants, and Vizet accepted Luna’s offer to show him around the hospital. As Luna introduced its departments, shops, and portraits, Vizet learned about the contrast between outdated magical remedies and modern treatment for SanHua Dou.

• Robert Bonham explained that he would seek board approval to make Vizet an Honorary Consultant of St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
• After Robert left to arrange the application, Luna offered to show Vizet around St. Mungo’s, and he went with her.
• Luna explained how St. Mungo’s was hidden behind a run-down department store and described the hospital’s treatment departments and floors.
• Luna and Vizet ate Eton Mess in the hospital shops, where the staff knew Luna.
• Luna and Vizet discussed a portrait’s bizarre medieval cure for SanHua Dou, which Vizet knew modern healers could treat with diluted Bubotuber pus and Fluxweed tincture.

Vizet learned that Neville’s parents were in the Janus Thickey Ward and shared a tender moment with Luna before Xenophilius arrived. After Vizet rejected a strange proposed cure, St. Mungo’s named him an Honorary Consultant, surprising Xenophilius.

• Luna told Vizet that Neville’s parents lived in the Janus Thickey Ward and that Neville had visited while Vizet was a Demiguise.
• Vizet and Luna shared an intimate moment when he wiped cream from the corner of her mouth and tasted it.
• Xenophilius arrived to pick up Luna, and Vizet explained why a suggested Haitian cure involving Inferi would not work for him.
• Vizet asked Xenophilius to bring him the Lalo’s Leaves so he could examine them during his three-day stay.
• Robert Bonham told Vizet that the board had approved his appointment as an Honorary Consultant of St. Mungo’s, and Xenophilius marveled at how quickly it had happened.

Vizet and Luna sorted the gifts sent to the hospital before Hecate Graves invited them to meet Frank and Alice Longbottom ahead of their planned treatment. At the Janus Thickey Ward, they met healer Meriem Strout and Agnes, an Animagus practice failure who was waiting for her son.

• Xenophilius celebrated Vizet’s new title as Honorary Consultant by taking Vizet and Luna to dinner.
• Vizet and Luna sorted the gifts in the ward, including food, care items, books, plants, blankets, and Fred and George’s prank puzzle.
• Hecate Graves told Vizet and Luna that treatment for Frank and Alice Longbottom would begin the day after tomorrow, then invited them to meet the patients.
• Meriem Strout led Vizet and Luna into the Janus Thickey Ward, where Vizet recognized Agnes as a failed Animagus.
• Agnes withdrew behind her curtain when the visitors were not the people she had hoped to see, and Meriem showed her a letter from her son.

Vizet and his companions visited Frank and Alice Longbottom in St. Mungo’s, where Meriem Strout described their condition and care. Hecate Graves explained that she had experimented on herself with the Cruciatus Curse to develop treatments, and accepted that Vizet’s Soul Healing Art also used its techniques.

• Meriem Strout gave Agnes a letter from her son and led Vizet and the others to Frank and Alice Longbottom.
• Meriem Strout explained that Alice still followed a routine and remembered Neville, while Frank was frail, often asleep, and soothed with a potion when he appeared to suffer.
• Hecate Graves told Vizet that Death Eaters had tortured Frank especially brutally while he protected Alice, leaving him in worse condition.
• Vizet guessed that Hecate Graves had used the Cruciatus Curse on herself to find a treatment for the Longbottoms, and she confirmed it.
• Hecate Graves observed that Vizet’s Soul Healing Art incorporated Cruciatus Curse techniques and said she valued healing patients over the kind of magic used.

Vizet discussed the hidden Cruciatus Curse techniques in the Soul Healing Art with Hecate Graves, who explained the Ministry’s delays in approving it and advised him to report any problems. He then studied St. Mungo’s old records and learned about the Liver Detoxification Method and Dragon Meat Analgesic Method.

• Vizet asked Hecate Graves how to make the Cruciatus Curse techniques in the Soul Healing Art harder to detect, and she confirmed that she was its patent examiner.
• Hecate Graves explained that Pure-blood Families had obstructed the Soul Healing Art’s approval because it threatened their control of soul-related potions.
• Hecate Graves told Vizet to report any trouble promptly, and Vizet praised her as a great healer.
• Vizet reviewed St. Mungo’s records and studied an outdated treatment for SanHua Dou that used a toad’s liver to purify toxicity and eel eyes to guide moonlight magic.
• Vizet learned that dragon meat could ease pain and help injuries recover, and that Magizoologists still used the method on large magical creatures with strong Magic Resistance.

Vizet observed Daedalus Wellesley treat several patients in St. Mungo's Artifact Accidents Department and learned how healers handled dangerous magical injuries. After Vizet identified the wood of an exploded wand as Cherry Wood, Daedalus invited him to consider becoming a healer.

• Vizet received an Honorary Consultant uniform and learned he could observe treatment in St. Mungo's Treatment Rooms.
• Daedalus Wellesley broke a cursed ring to free a witch, explaining that treating the patient came before preserving a dangerous magical item.
• Daedalus treated a witch whose wand backfired and a wizard whose alarm clock had clamped onto his ear, explaining how counter-curses could safely undo accumulated magic.
• Daedalus treated an unconscious wizard with an exploded wand, and Vizet recognized its grain as Cherry Wood.
• Daedalus praised Vizet's ability and urged him to consider becoming a healer after graduation.

Vizet observed Galen Claudius treat a patient with a Peruvian Vipertooth bite and helped identify the cause of the wound. He reunited with Cedric at St. Mungo’s, where Cedric was accompanying his father on an informal internship, and watched them leave together.

• Galen Claudius treated a patient’s infected, swollen wound with leeches after the patient refused to have it opened.
• Vizet identified the leeches as suitable for Peruvian Vipertooth bite wounds, and Galen praised his knowledge of Potions.
• Galen and Vizet set out to report the patient’s condition to the Beasts Office and met Amos Diggory and Cedric.
• Cedric happily greeted Vizet, thanked him for appreciating the tea and shortbread, and said Cho had helped choose them.
• Cedric explained that he was accompanying Amos to learn before graduating, then left with his father.

Vizet and Luna shared shortbread with Nymphadora Tonks, who asked them what gift to give Lupin. Vizet told her Lupin liked muffins and Gobstones, leaving Tonks surprised that Sirius had told her the truth.

• Vizet and Luna playfully called each other Mr. and Mrs. Lovegood while sharing shortbread.
• Nymphadora Tonks visited Vizet to collect evidence and explained that her Auror partner Deloris was delayed by stomach trouble.
• Tonks tried the shortbread and learned Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang had given it to Vizet and Luna.
• Tonks asked Vizet and Luna what gift Lupin would like and shared how her feelings for him had grown after their past experiences together.
• Vizet said Lupin liked muffins and occasionally played Gobstones, and Tonks wondered aloud whether Sirius had really been telling the truth.

Nymphadora Tonks asked Vizet and Luna whether Sirius had been telling the truth about Remus Lupin liking muffins and Gobstones, then confirmed to Sirius that she was serious about pursuing Lupin despite his being a Werewolf Wizard. Sirius recognized her resolve and accepted that she understood the risks.

• Tonks told Vizet and Luna that Sirius had laughed when she first asked about Lupin, then said he liked muffins and Gobstones.
• Sirius arrived with Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny, and Ron gave Vizet a parcel of Mrs. Weasley's Butter biscuits.
• The group joked about Goblin saliva inspiring Fred and George's inventions, while Hermione warned Ron against using it to cheat on his O.W.L. Exams.
• Sirius told Tonks that his answer about Lupin had been a test of her sincerity and asked if she understood Lupin's identity as a Werewolf Wizard.
• Tonks declared she would not regret pursuing Lupin, said she could afford Wolfsbane Potion, and explained that she regretted not trying more than the possibility of being bitten.

Nymphadora Tonks questioned Sirius Black about his friendship with Remus Lupin and learned that Sirius had once suspected Remus of betraying James and Lily. Sirius explained his guilt and concern for Remus, then accepted Tonks and offered to help her pursue him.

• Sirius Black told Nymphadora Tonks he was happy Remus had someone who accepted him without reservation.
• Tonks realized Sirius had kept Remus in the dark about changing the secret-keeper and asked if Sirius had suspected him of being the traitor.
• Sirius admitted he had suspected Remus, and described how both of them suffered after James and Lily were killed.
• Sirius explained that Remus treasured his friends and shared how Dumbledore’s visit had shaped Remus’s love of muffins and Gobstones.
• Sirius said Tonks had passed his test and offered to help her, while warning that Remus might be difficult to win over.
• Tonks said she would try anyway.

Harry learned that Neville’s parents had been tortured into madness by Death Eaters, and that Soul Healing Art might help them recover. Neville told Augusta he wanted to succeed without relying on pity, and they arrived at Hecate Graves’s office to discuss his parents’ treatment plan.

• Harry and his friends met Neville and Augusta Longbottom at St. Mungo’s, where Augusta revealed that Death Eaters had tortured Neville’s parents into madness.
• Sirius Black explained that the Lestrange Family had captured Frank and Alice Longbottom and used the Cruciatus Curse on them.
• Harry and his friends learned that Soul Healing Art could treat injuries caused by Dark Magic and hoped it would help Neville’s parents recover.
• Neville told Augusta he had kept his parents’ condition from his friends because he wanted to improve without their pity and make his parents proud.
• Augusta praised Neville and said they had come to bring Frank and Alice home.
• Hecate Graves introduced Vizet to Augusta and Neville as one of the inventors of Soul Healing Art, then began discussing the treatment plan.

Hecate Graves and the St. Mungo’s healers began treating Alice Longbottom with the Soul Healing Art, carefully mending cracks in her soul. As Alice showed signs of responding and called for Frank, a sudden change interrupted the procedure.

• Augusta Longbottom voiced her trust in Hecate Graves and the Soul Healing Art as the healers prepared to treat Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom.
• Meriem Strout brought Alice Longbottom’s bed to the Treatment Room, where Vizet, Hecate Graves, Galen Claudius, Daedalus Wellesley, and other staff assembled.
• Daedalus Wellesley activated silver instruments that filled the room with medicinal mist, easing Alice Longbottom’s pained expression.
• Hecate Graves began the Soul Healing Art while Daedalus Wellesley shaped and maintained a human outline of gray smoke to represent Alice’s soul.
• Hecate Graves used potion-enhanced silver light to mend cracks in the smoke’s right wrist, and Alice Longbottom relaxed as the cracks faded.
• As Hecate Graves worked on the smoke’s head, Alice Longbottom weakly called for Frank, and a sudden change occurred.

Vizet and Hecate Graves treated Alice Longbottom, but she resisted the Soul Healing Art and remained in pain. After Meriem Strout reported that Frank had called Alice’s name, the healers recognized a possible breakthrough and arranged to monitor the couple while asking Augusta and Neville Longbottom to share their history.

• Alice Longbottom resisted Hecate Graves’s treatment, so Vizet switched to a conservative Soul Healing Art that delivered potion to her.
• Hecate Graves told Neville and Augusta Longbottom that Alice had resisted treatment and might never wake up.
• Meriem Strout reported that Frank Longbottom had called Alice’s name while speaking in his sleep.
• Vizet said Alice had also called Frank’s name during treatment, and Hecate Graves called for another meeting to study the connection.
• Hecate Graves sent Meriem Strout to watch Alice and Frank, while Vizet asked Augusta and Neville Longbottom to recount their past in detail.

Augusta Longbottom recounted how Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom resisted their torturers and revealed the memories behind Frank’s robe and Alice’s Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum. Neville grieved as he listened, then said he seemed to have felt part of what his grandmother described.

• Vizet asked Augusta Longbottom to recall what Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom did while they were tortured.
• Augusta Longbottom said Frank and Alice refused to use Unforgivable Curses, and Frank tried to shield Alice after she fell and his Wand was knocked away.
• Augusta Longbottom explained that Alice’s robe helped Frank sleep again after he returned from St. Mungo’s.
• Augusta Longbottom said Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum was part of Alice’s last game with Neville before she left home.
• Neville cried, then healed the wounds he had caused by clenching his fists and told the others he seemed to have felt part of his grandmother’s account.

Vizet explained that Frank and Alice Longbottom may have unknowingly performed Bloodline Ritual Magic that bound their lives together and shared the damage from the Cruciatus Curse. He proposed comparing their wrinkles to test the theory and told Neville that he would be key to the treatment.

• Vizet explained that Frank and Alice could speak a little after treatment, but their apparent adaptation to the Cruciatus Curse might make recovery less likely.
• Augusta Longbottom said Frank and Alice both had Scottish sheepdog Patronuses, and that Frank's Patronus had changed from a gray wolf after he fell in love with Alice.
• Vizet used past St. Mungo's cases and details about the Longbottoms to infer that they had performed a chance Ritual Magic that created a symbiotic bond.
• Vizet said the bond may have shared the Cruciatus damage between Frank and Alice, turning their scars into wrinkles as they aged.
• Vizet asked Hecate Graves to compare the distribution of their wrinkles and told Neville he would be key to their treatment.

Vizet advised Neville on how to enter his parents’ memories and prepare to confront the Death Eaters tormenting their souls. Augusta and Neville left with Vizet’s detailed suggestions for gaining an advantage, while Neville remained determined to save his parents.

• Vizet explained that the Longbottoms’ souls coexisted with the Cruciatus Curse, so Neville would need to awaken them from within rather than rely on outside treatment.
• Neville identified Barty Crouch, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, and Rodolphus Lestrange as the Death Eaters he expected to face, and vowed not to back down.
• Vizet suggested Neville could use memories of Magical Plants from Algie’s garden and asked Augusta to recall the Magical Artifacts kept in the family home.
• Vizet wrote Augusta and Neville a detailed plan for navigating the memories, finding useful artifacts, and assessing their limits.
• After leaving Hecate Graves's office, Augusta praised Vizet’s advice, and Neville agreed that Vizet was a friend worthy of trust.