Chapter Summaries

Vizet consulted Healers and used Horace Slughorn's advice to draft Ritual Magic treatment plans for reaching into Frank and Alice Longbottom's souls. Luna spotted a missing clue in the plans: the candy jar Alice had held, which connected to the wrappers she gave Neville.

• Luna visited Vizet in St. Mungo's, and he shared his memories of the morning with her through a Magical Connection.
• Vizet read the Creature-Induced Injuries Department Healers' recommendations for using Ritual Magic to create a pathway into Frank and Alice Longbottom's souls.
• Vizet combined the Healers' advice with knowledge from Horace Slughorn's letter and wrote three drafts, but found their reach too limited.
• Luna understood that Vizet wanted Neville to prepare before confronting the Death Eaters inside his parents' souls.
• Luna reminded Vizet of the candy jar Alice had held, and Vizet connected it to the candy wrappers Neville said his mother gave him.

Vizet used Luna’s reminder about Neville’s candy wrappers to complete a fourth Treatment Plan based on Ritual Magic and Anchor Points. After returning from the Otherworld, he and Luna shared what they had seen and reflected on the loving deceptions they had once used to comfort their families.

• Vizet used an ancient Runes rubbing, Ollivander Family lore, and Neville’s candy wrappers to draft a fourth Treatment Plan built around an Anchor Point.
• Vizet entered the Otherworld and developed his treatment by adapting ideas about Ritual Magic, destruction, and creation.
• Luna experienced the Otherworld through her Magical Connection with Vizet and described seeing a vast garden and Vizet before a dead tree sprouting new branches.
• Vizet returned from the Otherworld and thanked Luna for helping him recognize the importance of the candy wrapper.
• Luna told Vizet how she and her father had each pretended not to see the other’s attempt to comfort them, then connected that love to Neville’s mother giving him a candy wrapper.

Vizet and Luna learned that Frank and Alice Longbottom’s wrinkles were scars from the Cruciatus Curse, giving the healers a new direction for treatment. As Vizet revised his Treatment Plan, Hildegard returned from vacation to study it with Hippolyta.

• Hecate Graves, Galen Claudius, and Daedalus Wellesley confirmed that Frank and Alice’s marks were Cruciatus Curse wounds and discussed finding a suitable Treatment Plan.
• Vizet encouraged the healers to rest, then told Luna he planned to refine the Treatment Plan before consulting them again.
• Hildegard abandoned her vacation to study Vizet’s Treatment Plan and praised his approach to the Ritual Magic.
• Hildegard and a colleague went to Hecate Graves’s office, where Hippolyta teased Hildegard for returning instead of sleeping.

Vizet gathered the healers to review his second treatment plan for the Longbottoms and explained how he combined ritual magic, Potions, and Arithmancy. The healers began examining the plan after hearing that three earlier drafts had shaped it.

• Hippolyta teased Hildegard about secretly preparing to become Head Healer, and Hildegard denied having written four suggestions.
• Vizet entered Hecate Graves's office with Galen Claudius and explained that the Longbottoms had improved and were now coexisting with the Cruciatus Curse.
• Hildegard and Galen asked Vizet to explain how he had developed the treatment plan, and the other healers agreed.
• Vizet described the similarities between Potions and ritual magic and said healers' suggestions had guided his choice of materials, including Narcissus Infusion.
• Vizet explained that he had used Arithmancy and consulted several books, then revealed that he had drafted three earlier treatment plans.

Vizet refined the Longbottoms’ treatment plan with St. Mungo’s Healers, incorporating frankincense, Palo Santo, and Balsam wood into its Ritual Magic. The exchange ended ahead of schedule, with the Healers impressed by Vizet’s knowledge and the plan’s progress.

• Galen Claudius suggested burning ground frankincense with Palo Santo and Balsam wood instead of relying on candles to guide Frank and Alice Longbottom back to reality.
• Vizet used Arithmancy to assess the woods’ magical properties, and Galen confirmed their purification, emotional, protective, and amplifying effects.
• Vizet proposed further changes to the plan, including replacing Mandrake and Wormwood with Willow Branches and Rosemary.
• Hildegard suggested Scottish Thistle to maintain the passage because its courage and resistance suited treatment opposing the Cruciatus Curse.
• The Healers finished the treatment-plan exchange with more than twenty minutes of their noon break remaining and praised Vizet’s work.

Vizet began the first stage of the Longbottoms’ treatment by guiding Neville through a Ritual Magic based on the Kabbalah Tree of Life. Neville successfully passed the Moon and Death paths and reached Beauty, moving closer to rescuing his parents.

• Hecate Graves stayed outside the treatment room while Augusta Longbottom and Neville joined Vizet beside the Longbottoms’ hospital beds.
• Vizet explained the ritual and asked Neville to prepare his star-shaped Candy Wrappers and blood alongside the blood of his parents.
• Neville stood in the Kingdom Sephirot as Vizet invoked the blessing of Connection, using roots, smoke, and the Tree Cocoon to begin the ritual.
• Neville traversed the Nineteenth Path, Moon, and reached the Victory Sephirot by focusing on his parents and his goal.
• Neville passed through the Fourteenth Path, Death, reached the Beauty Sephirot, and saw a black sphere sweep past him.

Vizet guided Neville through the Ritual Magic while reassuring Augusta Longbottom that the treatment was progressing well. Neville reached a memory of his family home more than ten years earlier and began searching for an Invisibility Cloak.

• Vizet directed the Tree Cocoon through the Ritual Magic’s Paths and told Augusta Longbottom that Neville was progressing smoothly.
• Vizet comforted Augusta by describing Neville’s hard work and gratitude toward her, and she thanked him for his friendship.
• Neville passed through the Twelfth Path and arrived in his family’s courtyard from more than ten years earlier.
• Neville checked the date, entered the house, and decided to find the spare Invisibility Cloak in his parents’ room.
• Neville saw a baby carriage in the room and became overwhelmed with emotion.

Neville prepared to reach his parents and help awaken them, gathering supplies and choosing harmless Magical Plants for their treatment. He flew toward the Death Eaters holding them, focused on making the rescue succeed.

• Neville broke down after seeing the unfinished baby carriage his parents had started making for him before their capture.
• Neville retrieved the Invisibility Cloak, Comet 260, magical artifacts, and two longswords from Augusta Longbottom's house.
• Neville flew to Uncle Algie's house, where he mixed potions and gathered Magical Plants to treat his parents without injuring them.
• Neville checked his preparations, put on Dragonhide Gloves, and flew onward while steadying himself for the treatment.

Neville infiltrated Lestrange Castle to rescue his parents, using his understanding of how their memories shaped the place to enter despite the missing side door. He heard Frank and Alice being tortured and prepared poisoned goblets while the Death Eaters continued their interrogation.

• Neville used Magical Artifacts and an Invisibility Cloak to test the castle's defenses and search for its side door.
• Neville realized that parts of the castle his parents did not know about, including the side door and its Protective Magic, disappeared from the memory-formed world.
• Neville entered Lestrange Castle through the main entrance and heard Bellatrix Lestrange and the other Death Eaters torturing Frank and Alice.
• Neville poisoned the gold goblets with venom from a sleeping Venomous Geranium as Rodolphus prepared to leave the room for a drink.

Neville used the Venomous Geranium’s poison and a sword pommel to knock out Rodolphus Lestrange and Rabastan Lestrange while Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. tortured Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom. Bellatrix and Barty emerged alert to an intruder, and Bellatrix tried to summon Neville’s Invisibility Cloak.

• Neville waited for the Venomous Geranium’s venom to weaken Rodolphus Lestrange, then struck him unconscious with the pommel of his sword.
• Rabastan Lestrange left the Interrogation Room to check on Rodolphus, and Neville knocked him unconscious as well.
• Neville realized Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. were the remaining threats and prepared to ambush them.
• Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange came out of the Interrogation Room with their Wands raised, having realized something was wrong.
• Bellatrix Lestrange searched for Neville and cast a spell to summon the Invisibility Cloak.

Neville fought Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. after they exposed him in the corridor, using smoke and Magical Plants to escape their curses. By the end, the plants had wounded Bellatrix, but Barty had destroyed them as the pair continued searching for the Dark Lord.

• Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange noticed a loud footstep and realized someone was nearby.
• Neville fled under the Invisibility Cloak as Bellatrix and Barty blasted the wall and sent a shockwave after him.
• Neville shattered a Glass Ball to fill the corridor with smoke, then released Biting Cabbages, a Mimbulus mimbletonia, and a Venomous Geranium toward the Death Eaters.
• The blast tore Neville's Invisibility Cloak, while the Mimbulus mimbletonia's Stink Sap and the other plants attacked Bellatrix.
• Barty Crouch Jr. crushed the Magical Plants as Bellatrix said they needed to find the Dark Lord.

Neville found Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom in the Interrogation Room and woke them, learning that Frank needed his wand. Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. caught Neville as he retrieved it, and Neville smashed the last glass ball from the Burlap Bag while immobilized.

• Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange realized Neville had entered the Interrogation Room during the chaos and went after him.
• Neville found Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom barely conscious amid the torture instruments and bloodstains.
• Neville identified himself to his parents, who recognized him after he lit his face with Lumos Solem.
• Frank Longbottom told Neville where his wand was, and Neville hurried to retrieve it.
• Bellatrix Lestrange attacked Neville with Bombarda, and Barty Crouch Jr. immobilized his legs with the Leg-Locker Curse.
• Neville smashed the last glass ball from the Burlap Bag against the ground.

Neville charged out of the smoke wearing an Anti-Curse Cloak and attacked Bellatrix Lestrange with a longsword, catching her off guard and badly injuring her hand. As he prepared to turn the weapon on Barty Crouch Jr., the sword transformed into a python.

• Barty Crouch Jr. raised a magical energy shield while Bellatrix Lestrange attacked the smoke with spells.
• Neville charged from the smoke, and Barty Crouch Jr.'s Full Body-Bind Curse struck his Anti-Curse Cloak.
• Barty Crouch Jr. transformed the torture-room chains into pythons, but Neville deflected one with his longsword and kept charging at Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Neville used the Repelling Charm to hurl his longsword through Bellatrix Lestrange's wand, cutting off three of her fingers and wounding her arm.
• Neville summoned the longsword back and prepared to attack Barty Crouch Jr., but Barty transformed it into a python.

Neville fought Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange inside the Twelfth Path while Vizet explained that the battle represented Neville confronting the lingering effects of the Cruciatus Curses. As Neville came under greater pressure, Vizet prepared to advance the treatment and draw on Frank and Alice Longbottom’s help.

• Neville threw a python at Barty Crouch Jr., then used a Confundus Charm and Summoning Charm to wound him with a longsword.
• Barty Crouch Jr. Transfigured the sword back into a python, trapped Neville among suits of armor, and repeatedly cast the Disarming Charm to wear down his Anti-Curse Cloak.
• Bellatrix Lestrange appeared behind Barty Crouch Jr. with a Wand and began casting the Killing Curse at Neville.
• Vizet told Augusta Longbottom that Neville was fighting the malice and lingering effects of the Cruciatus Curses in the Twelfth Path, known as Justice.
• Vizet said Frank and Alice Longbottom could help Neville and asked Augusta to tell Ms. Graves that they should begin the next stage of treatment.

Neville’s parents intervened as Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. attacked him in the Interrogation Room. Alice protected Neville while he fought back, and the battle continued with Neville targeting Bellatrix.

• Alice Longbottom stunned Bellatrix while Frank Longbottom freed Neville from the armor, but Barty Crouch Jr. turned the torture implements into vines that were cut apart by a sword-wielding ally.
• Alice blocked Bellatrix’s Blasting Curse and stood between her and Neville, who was overcome with emotion at his mother’s protection.
• Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange attacked Alice and Neville, and Alice suffered a glancing hit from Rodolphus’s Festering Curse before countering its effects.
• Neville dodged Bellatrix’s Quicksand Ground spell, then approached Rodolphus before turning to attack Bellatrix with a thrown longsword and the Repelling Charm.

Neville and Alice Longbottom fought the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr. alongside Frank, while their enemies vanished when struck by Alice’s Reductor Curse. With the battle over, Neville reunited with his parents and broke down in his mother’s arms.

• Bellatrix Lestrange shattered Neville’s thrown longsword, but Alice Longbottom knocked her off balance while Neville and Alice defeated Rodolphus Lestrange.
• Neville stunned Bellatrix Lestrange, and Alice’s Reductor Curse made Bellatrix vanish into grains.
• Alice Longbottom helped Neville and used the Obstacle Curse to give Frank Longbottom an opening against Barty Crouch Jr.
• Frank Longbottom stunned Barty Crouch Jr., and Alice’s Reductor Curse made him vanish as well.
• Alice Longbottom destroyed the still-unconscious Rabastan Lestrange, ending the battle.
• Neville embraced Alice Longbottom and sobbed as Frank Longbottom pulled his wife and son into his arms.

Neville convinced Alice and Frank Longbottom that they were alive and told them about his life and the treatment Vizet had devised. The three held the chrysalises to return to reality, and lights entered the Longbottoms’ chests as they began to rise.

• Neville told his parents that they had survived the Death Eaters’ attack and had been receiving care at St. Mungo’s.
• Neville reassured Alice and Frank by recalling memories from his childhood and describing his friends, Hogwarts, and Vizet’s achievements.
• Alice worried that entering their memories might harm Neville, and he explained that Vizet had designed the treatment plan.
• Neville gave Alice and Frank chrysalises and told them the objects would take them back to reality.
• Alice and Frank touched the chrysalises, and lights entered their chests as a force lifted them upward.

As Neville traveled through the Kabbalah Tree of Life with his parents, he encountered a blurred figure and witnessed scenes from his childhood in which he repeatedly called himself useless. The chapter left Neville questioning whether those memories reflected his own thoughts or something else.

• Neville showed Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom the Kabbalah Tree of Life and searched for the dark sphere he had seen before.
• At the Beauty Sephirot, Neville saw a blurred figure learning the Levitation Charm from Enid, who criticized him, while Augusta defended and encouraged him.
• Neville watched Augusta confront Algie over his doubts about Neville's magic and recalled that Algie later tested him, leading to Neville's apparent Magical Outburst.
• Neville saw the figure fail at brewing a potion while Snape scolded him, and he recognized that he had never wanted to drop out during his first Potions Class.

Neville confronted a shadowy figure that embodied his fear, self-doubt, and loneliness. He recognized it as one part of himself and rejected its claim to be his whole true self, resolving to keep trying and rely on his friends.

• A figure relived Neville’s humiliating memories, from his flying lesson accident to being blamed for losing Gryffindor points.
• The figure grew to resemble Neville and insisted that it was his true self, voicing the doubts he had tried to suppress.
• Neville denied being alone and named Vizet, Hanna, Fred, George, and the members of M as his friends.
• Neville admitted that he was afraid but argued that fear would not stop him from trying again or asking his friends for help.
• Neville told the figure it was only one part of him, not all of him, and the figure shrank as its shadow receded.

Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom’s souls continued healing while Neville remained on the Ritual Magic pathway, and Vizet reassured Augusta Longbottom that the precautions were holding. A Magical Outburst then began near the Beauty Sephirot, making objects float through the Treatment Room, and its source remained unknown.

• Galen Claudius observed Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom’s souls absorbing the potions and healing their Cruciatus Curse damage.
• Augusta Longbottom worried that Neville might have encountered trouble, and Vizet explained the Fourteenth Path’s risks and the precautions prepared for Neville.
• Magical fluctuations caused the silverware, potions, and other objects in the Treatment Room to float, while the Ritual Magic remained stable.
• Vizet used Magic Eye to trace the fluctuations to the Beauty Sephirot and recognized the phenomenon as a Magical Outburst.
• Augusta Longbottom wondered aloud whether it was a Magical Outburst, while Daedalus Wellesley held his Wand ready and waited to see whose it was.