Chapter Summaries

Vizet and Luna shared a tender moment over the red marks on their necks and agreed to hide them next time. Ginny, Hermione, and Hanna speculated about what Vizet had whispered, then kept their guesses from Fred and George.

• Ginny, Hermione, and Hanna discovered Vizet and Luna together and watched as they noticed the red marks on each other's necks.
• Vizet told Luna that Healing magic could remove the marks, but suggested using a Confundus Charm to hide them next time; Luna smiled and agreed.
• Fred and George hurried downstairs while looking for bugs, interrupting Ginny, Hermione, and Hanna's eavesdropping before they could hear Vizet's final words.
• Luna told the girls that Healing magic could remove the marks, and Ginny guessed Vizet had asked her to wait until morning before healing them.
• Ginny, Hermione, and Hanna agreed not to tell Fred and George what had happened, then Vizet and Luna fell asleep with their fingers on the marks.

Harry worried that Ginny had been bitten by the same mysterious bug as Vizet, and Ginny took his concern as a sign that he cared for her. Meanwhile, the group discussed the unusually sunny weather in France before Vizet and Luna went to watch a stage play.

• Harry checked Ginny's neck for a bite mark, and Ginny blushed as she realized he was worried about her.
• Harry offered to stay home with Ginny, and she suggested they take a boat ride at the amusement park.
• Fred, George, Ron, Harry, and Hermione discussed France's clear skies and recalled that the French Ministry of Magic had blamed the rain on escaped Dementors.
• Sirius Black urged everyone to enjoy the good weather while it lasted.
• Vizet and Luna sat down to watch a stage play while people behind them criticized the Mine Rollercoaster.

Vizet and Luna ran into Oliver Wood at a French amusement park, where he introduced them to his girlfriend Claire Bernard and her Squib cousin Gabriel. Wood enthusiastically explained how rollercoasters could improve Quidditch training, then hoped to share his ideas with Harry, Fred, and George back in England.

• Vizet recognized Oliver Wood in the theater and greeted him with Luna, and Wood excitedly reunited with them and teased Vizet about dating Luna.
• Wood introduced his girlfriend Claire Bernard and her cousin Gabriel, who declined to join them and returned to watching the stage.
• Claire explained that Gabriel had known he was a Squib since childhood but had recently become unusually withdrawn, and Wood tried to reassure her.
• Wood showed Vizet his notes on using the Mine Rollercoaster for Quidditch training and proposed steeper slopes, weather effects, and more loops.
• As the play was about to begin, Wood regretted that Harry, Fred, and George were not there to hear his ideas and planned to discuss them when he returned to England.
• Back at the amusement park, Fred and George sneezed together, while Harry felt a sudden chill after finishing his chocolate sundae.

Vizet joined Oliver Wood and Claire Bernard at the amusement park, where Wood invited him to watch a friendly Quidditch match against the Chiberon Quafflepunchers. During a theater performance, Luna sensed something strange about Gabriel Bernard, and Vizet saw a living, growing tangle around him as Gabriel began to suffer.

• Wood told Vizet that his team had lost the professional league final to the Fitchburg Finches and was in France to play a friendly match against the Chiberon Quafflepunchers.
• Wood invited Vizet to watch the match, scheduled for three days after the International Confederation of Wizards Congress opened.
• As a stage play began, Luna sensed a strange feeling coming from Gabriel Bernard.
• Vizet used his Magic Eye and Soul Stone Monocle to observe a living tangle growing around Gabriel Bernard.
• Gabriel's face twisted in pain, and Wood drew his Wand and asked Vizet what was wrong with El.

Vizet restrained Gabriel Bernard after a Dark Magic creature inside him made him attack Claire, then arranged to investigate and separate the creature from Gabriel. Wood and Claire took Gabriel to Claire's Home while Vizet prepared to retrieve Jupiter and join them.

• As Gabriel Bernard's birth scene ended, the Dark Magic creature inside him made him lunge at Claire.
• Vizet used the Spiritual Resonance Symphony to trap Gabriel in a miniature glass statue and told Claire that a Dark Magic creature had parasitized him.
• Wood and Claire took Gabriel to Claire's Home so they could prepare a Ritual Magic Array and find a way to separate the creature.
• Claire gave Vizet her address, and he planned to use the glass statue's magical mark to locate her home after retrieving Jupiter.
• Luna told Vizet that Gabriel had seemed strongly hostile toward Claire, and Vizet agreed he had noticed it too.

Vizet recognized that the artifact Serena Pendragon’s group used to preserve separated Dark Magic creatures was originally a Horcrux, then sent her an optimization plan. With Serena’s help confirming the method and offering magical materials, Vizet and Luna prepared to investigate the creatures’ origins and leave Paris with the Baby Thunderbird.

• Vizet and Luna discussed how Claire Bernard’s concern for her cousin echoed the family attachment they had seen at an earlier restaurant.
• Vizet asked Serena Pendragon about her research, and she described separating fragile Dark Magic creatures and preserving them in a Magical Artifact.
• Vizet recognized the artifact’s creation process as that of a Horcrux and asked Serena whether his deduction was correct.
• Serena Pendragon admitted the artifact was a Horcrux, offered Vizet magical materials, and was startled when he sent her an optimization plan.
• Vizet told Luna that Serena’s confirmation would help them investigate why the Dark Magic creatures had appeared.
• Vizet and Luna found the Baby Thunderbird, invited it to leave with them, and it eagerly prepared to go.

Vizet and Luna visited Claire Bernard’s home to free Gabriel from the glass statue using ritual magic. As the ritual reached its final stage, Vizet drew the dark marks from Gabriel’s body into the suspended magic array.

• Vizet and Luna arrived at Claire Bernard’s apartment, where Oliver Wood welcomed them and worried about them casting spells outside school.
• Vizet moved the glass statue into the ritual array and prepared the magical materials while Claire watched.
• Vizet asked Luna to speak with Claire while he and Wood searched for clues, and Wood struggled to answer Claire’s questions about magic.
• The ritual array absorbed the materials, changed color, and released Gabriel from the glass statue, leaving him unconscious on the array.
• Dark tadpole-like marks spread across Gabriel’s skin, and Vizet lifted them into the air with the ritual array.

Vizet captured the dark magic creature that had been parasitizing Gabriel Bernard, then diagnosed Gabriel and treated him with a Soul Soothing Potion. After Gabriel was left to rest, Vizet and Oliver Wood searched his room for clues about the creature’s appearance.

• Vizet used the Dark Magic Creature Container to capture the dark magic creature, and Claire Bernard helped Oliver Wood move the unconscious Gabriel to a sofa.
• Vizet examined Gabriel with his Golden Eagle Patronus, found that his Life Force was intact and his soul only slightly damaged, and confirmed Serena Pendragon’s findings through her Notebook.
• Vizet explained that removing the dark magic creature was like peeling the outer skin of an onion, gave Gabriel a Soul Soothing Potion, and said he should recover after resting.
• Claire led Vizet and Wood to Gabriel’s room, where they noticed an X-Files poster and various electronic devices.
• Wood used Revelio to check for magical traces, but the spell revealed none; Vizet concluded the creature had been parasitizing Gabriel for at least several weeks.

Morgan le Fay explained to Herpo that she had hidden her plans by using Muggle victims as sacrifices, and revealed that she intended to draw Hogwarts and other wizards together before attacking them. With the International Confederation of Wizards Congress opening the next day, she prepared to carry out the final step, confident that the newborn Guardian would not find her hiding place in time.

• Herpo told Morgan le Fay that the newborn Guardian had contacted the others, and she asked whether the place he had been watching had been breached.
• Morgan le Fay showed Herpo a corpse she had prepared as a specimen, and he found no sign that it had lost life force.
• Morgan le Fay explained that Dark Magic creatures had parasitized the sacrifices without killing them, making the incidents seem unremarkable to the Ministry of Magic.
• Morgan le Fay revealed that the strange figures in the mirrors were the key to her plan and said she had transferred them to a place where the Guardian could not find them.
• Morgan le Fay said she would exploit Muggle victims to force her opponents to gather, then wipe them out in one attack.
• Morgan le Fay described how modern Muggle ideas could be used against wizards, while Herpo compared them to rebellious children from his era.

Morgan le Fay and Herpo discussed their plan to provoke a war between Muggles and wizards, including Voldemort’s role and the expected Muggle weapon attack. In Gabriel Bernard’s room, Vizet found a possible lead in a magazine about Ritual Magic and considered how the Squib El might be involved.

• Morgan le Fay demanded that Herpo gather the materials for her operation and warned him against overlooking anything.
• Herpo told Morgan le Fay that Voldemort had appeared in the Muggle black market of Kievan Rus' seeking a destructive weapon, and that Dumbledore was tracking him in Paris.
• Morgan le Fay said Voldemort was part of her plan to ignite a war between Muggles and wizards and declared that victory would belong to The Master.
• In Gabriel Bernard’s room, Wood recognized a poster for The X-Files and recalled an episode about Muggles using Ritual Magic to awaken a demon.
• Vizet read a magazine on mysticism and said Ritual Magic could let a Squib participate in magic, suggesting it might provide a lead about El.

Vizet explained to Oliver Wood how someone could become part of Ritual Magic by participating in it, then found a clue linking the magic to the Bloody Countess. The group returned to the living room with a black candle they believed was the source, where Gabriel Bernard woke and learned he had been parasitized.

• Vizet compared Ritual Magic to a prank, explaining that even someone unable to make Canary Creams could become a participant by helping deliver one.
• Vizet and Wood concluded that someone else was controlling the Ritual Magic and searched the magazines for clues.
• Vizet found a reference to the Bloody Countess, and Wood connected it to the Muggle game Bloody Mary and suggested asking Claire about it.
• Vizet summoned a dusty black candle stub from El's room, which he believed was the source of the magic.
• Vizet and Wood returned to the living room, where Claire anxiously asked about El and Gabriel Bernard woke up.
• Claire told Gabriel he had been parasitized by a Dark Magic creature, and Vizet showed him the black candle and asked whether he remembered it.

Vizet investigated Gabriel’s missing memories and confirmed that the Isaiah Society’s ritual had erased his recollection of playing “The Bloody Countess.” He left with Luna to examine the dark magic creature further, while Claire agreed to send him information about the “Adolescent Crisis.”

• Vizet questioned Gabriel about a black candle and the party game “The Bloody Countess,” and Gabriel recalled planning to play it but could not remember whether he had.
• Gabriel called his classmates and learned that Aaron also did not remember the game, while Claire suspected El’s memory loss might be connected to the dark magic creature.
• Vizet identified Aaron as the restaurant owner’s son near Fustenberg Square and agreed to examine Gabriel’s memories using the candle and game as reference points.
• Vizet found that Gabriel’s memories of “The Bloody Countess” had disappeared, and he reassured Claire that the loss should heal without lasting effects.
• Vizet left with Luna to investigate the creature further, and he gave Claire an address so she could send him her information about the “Adolescent Crisis.”

Vizet and Luna discussed Gabriel Bernard’s adolescent crisis, and Luna’s Niffler analogy helped Vizet reinterpret the Dark Magic creature’s behavior. Vizet learned from Serena Pendragon that the Isaiah Society’s creatures were attracted to Life Force, and he shared his discovery that the “Bloody Countess” party game could spread them.

• Luna told Vizet that Claire Bernard had worried about Gabriel’s low spirits after he was rejected, and that his family had tried to help him through his adolescent crisis.
• Luna compared Gabriel and his family to a Niffler adjusting to a new mine, giving Vizet a new way to understand the creature’s fear of exposure and attack on Gabriel’s cousin.
• Vizet wrote to Serena Pendragon, who said the separated creature reacted to Life Force but did not absorb it, a method she associated with the Isaiah Society.
• Vizet told Serena that the “Bloody Countess” party game might be a Ritual Magic that parasitized its players, including the restaurant owner’s son.
• Serena said the Isaiah Society would investigate Vizet’s discovery and asked him to contact them if he needed help.

Vizet realized the Isaiah Society might use parasitized Muggles to provoke a worldwide war between wizards and Muggles, and he considered whether Consensus Magic could prevent the crisis. Luna, the Baby Thunderbird, and Vizet’s friends joined him, and he decided they could begin by solving part of the problem.

• Vizet inferred that the Isaiah Society might awaken parasitic Dark Magic creatures at the International Confederation of Wizards Congress and expose the Magical World to Muggles.
• Vizet realized that finding and gathering the many students parasitized through the Bloody Mary ritual would overwhelm the French Ministry of Magic and could spark conflict with Muggle governments.
• Vizet feared a global Witch War could lead to catastrophic casualties, then wondered if Consensus Magic could turn the situation around.
• Luna comforted Vizet and offered to help him solve half the trouble first, and the Baby Thunderbird joined her offer.
• Fred, George, Neville, Hanna, Harry, and Ron arrived and told Vizet not to leave them out.

Vizet told his companions about the danger developing in Paris, and their trust and willingness to help rekindled his resolve. He planned to contact the others and inform Dumbledore, then sent the group to rest with Soul Soothing Potion, which immediately put Fred and George to sleep.

• Fred, George, Neville, Hanna, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Frank Longbottom, Sirius Black, and Luna offered to help Vizet with the trouble in Paris.
• Vizet described the events of the past three days, and his companions listened without showing fear.
• Frank Longbottom urged Vizet to inform Dumbledore, and Vizet agreed that this was his next step.
• Vizet told the group to rest while he contacted the others, but Fred and George said they would be too excited to sleep.
• Fred sniffed Vizet's Soul Soothing Potion and fell asleep on a bed of magically grown vines, and George did the same after sniffing it.

Vizet arranged with Serena Pendragon to separate the Dark Magic creatures during the morning rush hour and prepare two large-scale Ritual Magic Arrays in case the Isaiah Society acted. As he turned to write to Dumbledore, Luna joined him in the Common Room and chose to stay by his side.

• Vizet told Serena Pendragon to bring his companions over around eight or nine in the morning, when Muggles were leaving for the day.
• Vizet explained that the Isaiah Society might act during the evening rush hour and asked Serena to find wizards skilled in Weather Charms so they could bring rain to Paris.
• Vizet described a second large-scale Ritual Magic Array to guard against the Isaiah Society, and Serena agreed to prepare both arrays and seek help from the Ministry of Magic.
• Vizet put Serena Pendragon's notebook away and took out Dumbledore's bookmark, but Luna came to sit with him and asked whether she was disturbing him.
• Vizet reassured Luna that she was welcome to stay, and she settled beside him while the Baby Thunderbird watched them.

Vizet told Dumbledore that the Isaiah Society was preparing a radical operation in Paris involving tens of thousands of Muggles, and Dumbledore approved Vizet’s plan while promising to handle its consequences. Vizet fell asleep beside Luna as Dumbledore briefed Moody and the retired Aurors, leaving them grimly aware of the threat.

• Vizet and Luna contacted Dumbledore, who said he would not reach Paris until the following morning and was dealing with another matter.
• Vizet explained the Isaiah Society’s plans, his concerns, and his proposal to Serena Pendragon; Dumbledore endorsed his plan and said he would manage the resulting effects.
• Vizet confirmed that Serena would arrange a meeting the next morning about finding wizards skilled in Weather Charms, then went to sleep beside Luna.
• At the underground base, retired Aurors found dead Muggles in research and combat uniforms and recognized Voldemort’s practice of leaving no survivors.
• Dumbledore told Moody and the retired Aurors about the Isaiah Society’s planned Paris operation involving at least tens of thousands of Muggles, and the group reacted with alarm.

Dumbledore decided to involve the Muggle governments of France and the Far East, believing evidence and the Far East president could help France understand Voldemort’s threat. Meanwhile, Vizet, Luna, and their companions woke from a shared sleep and Vizet used magic to ease their aches.

• Moody supported Vizet’s plan to focus on one problem and questioned whether the Muggle government could be trusted to act quickly.
• Dumbledore assured the Aurors that Vizet’s companions in Paris were reliable and decided to take the Muggle researchers as evidence to the Muggle government.
• Dumbledore planned to contact Minister Bonaparte and Minister Sergeievich so the French and Far East Muggle governments could be brought into the effort against Voldemort.
• Dumbledore reflected that he and the others should confront the source of the future Vizet feared.
• Vizet and Luna woke with sore necks and aching bodies as Fred, George, and the others gathered around them.
• Vizet cast a spell that brought comfort to the group, prompting Fred and George to praise magic.

Vizet explained his plan to expose Dark Magic creatures across Paris during the Muggle morning commute and asked his friends to support him against the expected counterattack. Charlotte Bonacourt and Venda Rosier arrived, and Charlotte offered up to twenty Ministry wizards, with Magical Artifacts needed to make up the numbers.

• Vizet told Harry, Hermione, Fred, George, Sirius Black, and the others that they would use a Weather Charm between eight and nine in the morning to activate and expose Dark Magic creatures across the Paris Region.
• Vizet warned that their enemies would counterattack and asked everyone to fight together as crucial support.
• Bask hurried to open the door for Charlotte Bonacourt, who apologized for not discovering the plot and said Vizet should have informed him sooner.
• Venda Rosier arrived and revealed that Serena Pendragon had sent her to help.
• Charlotte said Dumbledore had briefed him and that he could transfer at most twenty Ministry wizards, so Magical Artifacts would be needed to supplement them.

Vizet explained his plan to draw rainclouds over the Paris Region with three Thunderbirds, creating bright flashes and thunder to lure out parasitic Dark Magic creatures. Charlotte Bonacourt left to bring others, while Vizet prepared Harry and the others for the next step.

• Venda Rosier gave Charlotte Bonacourt evidence of Muggles and Squibs affected across the Paris Region, and he agreed to use it to seek Auror assistance.
• Vizet demonstrated how three Thunderbirds could gather rainclouds over the Paris Region, and Charlotte Bonacourt agreed the plan could quickly bring rain and lightning.
• Venda Rosier hinted that Vizet's Thunderbirds were not from the North American Ministry of Magic, and Charlotte Bonacourt left to bring others.
• Vizet told Harry, Hermione, Fred, and George that bright flashes and thunder would stimulate the parasitic Dark Magic creatures.
• Vizet introduced Venda Rosier to Harry and the others as they prepared to begin the next step.