Chapter Summaries

On the final morning of the International Confederation of Wizards Congress, Vizet invited his anxious, sleepless friends to watch the sunrise before the awards ceremony at Beauxbatons. As they watched, he reminded Harry and Neville that their achievements came from within them, not from the medals they would receive.

• Vizet woke before dawn and found Harry and Neville awake with anxiety about visiting Beauxbatons and receiving medals.
• Hermione and the others joined Vizet's sunrise walk, and they found Ron downstairs unable to sleep.
• Vizet led the group up a hill, where they watched the sun rise over the mountains and forest.
• Harry and Neville said the sunrise felt much like the one at Hogwarts, and Vizet agreed that the place and their reasons for being there made the moment different.
• Vizet told the group that their accomplishments came from within them, and they welcomed the sunrise together.

After the Paris Region Incident, Vizet and the others discussed why Muggles remembered it and whether the Statute of Secrecy would soon disappear. Mr. Weasley arrived and explained that the Ministry was busy preparing for Dark Wizards and arresting wizards who used magic openly.

• Mrs. Weasley woke Fred and George by clanging a frying pan and spatula, then prepared breakfast for everyone.
• Fred and George asked whether Vizet would meet his Muggle admirers, while Mrs. Weasley worried the Ministry might investigate him.
• Vizet and Mr. Granger suggested Muggles might interpret the Paris Region Incident as a miracle, and Frank Longbottom wondered why they remembered it despite the Murtlap-venom rain.
• Mr. Weasley, Lupin, Bill, and Fleur arrived, and Mr. Weasley told the group that the Ministry had been busy and the Aurors were patrolling for Dark Wizards from France.
• Mr. Weasley said wizards had been using magic openly, so Scrimgeour had led a team to arrest them, and he asked Mr. Granger to help him understand Muggle technology.

Vizet and his companions arrived at Beauxbatons, where Fleur Delacour showed them the castle and gardens. Barry, a Crumple-Horned Snorkack, led them to Hagrid, whose accidental mention of Olympe hinted at his connection with Madame Maxime.

• Fleur Delacour showed Harry and the others Beauxbatons Castle and explained that its gardens attracted Mountain Forest Fairies.
• Barry appeared in Vizet's arms, recognized the Baby Thunderbird, and pointed toward Hagrid.
• Hagrid greeted the group and, with Vizet's help, explained that Dumbledore had sent him to help with the recent incident.
• Hagrid said reporters had sought him out and accidentally called Madame Maxime "Olympe," prompting Fleur Delacour to ask about her.
• Hagrid explained that Barry had been sleeping in his coat and had clung to him, while Mrs. Granger asked whether the creature was a dodo.

Vizet met Rita Skeeter, who warned him that tensions between the magical and Muggle worlds could spill into the award ceremony, where he might have to answer questions from Muggle representatives. He joined Luna and the others for the security check, where the Crumple-Horned Snorkack and Baby Thunderbird hurried to greet him.

• Hagrid introduced Mrs. Granger and the others to the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, demonstrating how it vanished from danger and reappeared safely.
• Rita Skeeter pulled Vizet aside and explained that she had waited for him, hoping to make a wish to the so-called Fountain of Good Luck.
• Skeeter warned Vizet that magical and Muggle tensions were growing and that Muggle representatives might question him during the award ceremony.
• Vizet reached the venue's security queue, where the Crumple-Horned Snorkack popped into his arms and the Baby Thunderbird circled above him.

Vizet learned that Muggles might cause trouble during the awards segment of the International Confederation of Wizards Congress and arranged to use an olive branch as a response. At Beauxbatons’ Great Hall, Jacob Kowalski warned Vizet about the Muggles’ plans, and Vizet asked whether Dumbledore’s Magic Contracts bound one side or both.

• Hagrid asked Vizet whether Rita Skeeter had troubled him, and Vizet said she had warned him that someone might make trouble during the awards segment.
• Vizet asked Hagrid to find an olive branch and arranged for Barry to bring it to him if the trouble occurred.
• Fleur Delacour led Vizet and the others into Beauxbatons’ Great Hall, where magical and Muggle representatives sat and spoke separately.
• Jacob Kowalski asked how Vizet had avoided reporters, and Vizet explained that they had traveled without using magic.
• Percy told Vizet he had recorded contact details and messages from the Heads but had left the materials at the hotel.
• Jacob warned Vizet that the Muggles might cause trouble and said Dumbledore would handle it, prompting Vizet to ask whether the Magic Contracts bound both sides.

Jacob Kowalski warned Vizet that Muggles might resist the magical world’s agreement and explained his fears about its exposure and North America’s power. Dumbledore arrived with five Muggles as the meeting was about to begin, leaving Vizet and his friends waiting to hear what the gathering would address.

• Jacob Kowalski told Vizet that Muggle leaders could use others to circumvent a Magic Contract, so the magical side should prepare countermeasures.
• Jacob Kowalski explained that North America’s military power made him fear the magical world could be exposed, and Vizet showed he understood his concern.
• Jacob Kowalski said President Bill wanted to interfere with Ilvermorny’s educational reform, but Old Barty Crouch interrupted him to announce the meeting was about to begin.
• Dumbledore entered with five Muggles, and Vizet returned to his seat, where Harry, Hermione, Fred, George, and Neville asked about his conversation.

At the International Confederation of Wizards Congress, Dumbledore urged wizards and Muggles to choose cooperation and announced plans to exchange Education Investigators. The candidate list named Arthur Weasley and Quirinus Quirrell, leaving Vizet to suspect that the French nominee was the former Hogwarts professor studying under Nicolas Flamel.

• Harry, Ginny, and Ron struggled to stay awake during the long proceedings, while Sirius Black covered Harry and Ginny with a flower basket and Percy woke Ron to warn him that his turn was approaching.
• Dumbledore called on the delegates to reject suspicion and fear in favor of understanding, tolerance, and cooperation, and credited Vizet and the other heroes with creating the opportunity.
• Dumbledore announced that wizards and Muggles would exchange Education Investigators to learn about each other's school systems.
• Dumbledore read Arthur Weasley’s name as a candidate, and Ron realized his father had been nominated.
• Dumbledore named Quirinus Quirrell as the French Ministry of Magic’s nominee, and Vizet recalled that Quirrell had studied under Nicolas Flamel to control the Philosopher’s Stone.

Vizet considered how Nicolas Flamel might be using the Paris Region Incident to advance reform in the French Magical World, while Dumbledore announced Education Investigator nominees and closed the congress. The gathering then turned its attention to Vizet and the other heroes of the incident.

• Vizet reasoned that Nicolas Flamel had likely helped nominate Quirinus Quirrell as an Education Investigator to encourage exchange and reform in France.
• Dumbledore announced Percy Weasley as an Education Investigator, surprising Percy and prompting his siblings to speculate that Mr. Crouch had selected him after praising his diligence.
• Dumbledore called for wizards to unite toward a better future, and the Beauxbatons Great Hall applauded before he concluded the congress.
• Dumbledore invited Vizet and the other heroes of the Paris Region Incident to speak, while Ron grew nervous and Fred and George joked about startling the audience with an Acromantula.

Vizet accepted the Medal of Valor and delivered a prepared speech at the International Confederation of Wizards Congress. As he was about to leave the podium, a Muggle World representative unexpectedly asked him to answer questions, leaving the hall waiting for his response.

• Vizet gestured toward the reporters, prompting Fred and George to suggest using a Nuclear Bomb to frighten troublemakers, while Percy objected.
• Harry, Ron, Percy, Fred, and George endured the reporters’ flashes as they received their Medals of Valor, which Percy confirmed were equivalent to the Order of Merlin, First Class.
• Ron celebrated receiving the medal and said he wanted to travel with Vizet again, while Percy warned everyone not to treat the dangerous incident lightly.
• Vizet read his prepared thank-you speech, praising courage and dedication and calling for understanding and orderly communication.
• As Vizet was about to leave the podium, a Muggle World representative interrupted the proceedings and asked him to answer questions.

Vizet challenged William Walker’s claim that Muggle global communication was universally superior by questioning its limits and broadening the discussion beyond speed. Walker admitted that communication could fail in the mountains, while Vizet left him considering other qualities communication should provide.

• Fred and George joked that Harry should teach Divination after his remark seemed to predict trouble, while Charlotte Bonacourt chose to watch Vizet handle the exchange.
• William Walker argued that Muggle global communication was faster and more reliable than messages delivered by owls and asked whether it offered a better solution for the future.
• Vizet asked Walker for his name, then confirmed that Walker had claimed Muggles could communicate rapidly across the globe.
• Vizet asked whether global communication would still work from a Pyrenees mountain peak, and Walker admitted that it would not.
• Vizet acknowledged that Muggle telephones worked quickly in prosperous cities, then argued that accuracy, safety, and what could be sent also mattered alongside speed.

Vizet redirected William Walker’s argument about communication toward how magical and Muggle methods could complement each other, illustrating the idea with rescue scenarios and magical tools. Walker accepted Vizet’s olive branch on behalf of the Muggle representatives, leaving both sides willing to give cooperation time to grow.

• Jacob Kowalski and Old Barty Crouch agreed that Vizet had reframed the debate instead of defending Owls against criticism.
• Vizet explained to William Walker that Owls could deliver more than letters and asked him to consider the cost of comparable Muggle methods.
• Vizet proposed combining Muggle communication systems with Owls to notify disaster services quickly and search for survivors.
• Vizet described the Floo Network and Two-Way Mirrors, then offered Walker an olive branch as a symbol of giving cooperation time to develop.
• The representatives and reporters reacted to Vizet’s proposal, while Rita Skeeter left the Great Hall with a camera and her draft.
• William Walker accepted the olive branch and declared that the Muggle side was willing to wait for the fruit to ripen.

At Beauxbatons, students searched for Vizet after reading glowing coverage of his debate with William Walker, while Vizet and Luna quietly spent their mornings in the library. Madame Maxime interrupted them to ask for help with the French Muggle president’s eldest daughter, who had been showing strange symptoms after being affected by magic.

• Beauxbatons students admired Alchemist's Paper’s photo of Vizet and William Walker accepting an olive branch, while others tried to find Vizet at school.
• Vizet and Luna left breakfast for the library, where students mistook them for someone else and muttered, “Hey! It's not him!”
• Vizet and Luna read in the library until Madame Maxime arrived and asked them for help.
• Madame Maxime explained that President Jacques believed magic had affected his eldest daughter and caused strange, possibly evil symptoms.
• Madame Maxime said President Jacques had sent his daughter to Saint-Landry, the French hospital for magical injuries and diseases, because she seemed to be absorbing life force.

Vizet learned that Laurence, the Muggle daughter of President Jacques, had developed a condition involving passive Life Force absorption and physical transformation after the Paris Region Incident. At Saint-Landry Hospital, he recognized her symptoms as a possible Family Hereditary Curse and suspected she might actually be a Squib.

• Madame Maxime told Vizet and Luna that Laurence had developed Anorexia at fifteen and had been wheelchair-bound after a failed suicide attempt.
• After Laurence's pet died in her arms following the Paris Region Incident, President Jacques sent her to Saint-Landry, where Healers found that she absorbed Life Force and grew larger and hairier.
• Madame Maxime brought Vizet and Luna through a hidden entrance in a Paris opera house to Saint-Landry Hospital.
• Healer Antoine François Luc Martin told Vizet that the Patronus Charm had slowed Laurence's symptoms, but her condition resembled the Family Hereditary Curse despite her family's Muggle background.
• Vizet considered his research on Fenrir Greyback and concluded that Laurence might be a Squib who had been mistaken for a Muggle.

Vizet examined Laurence’s medical record and confirmed that her anorexia might be a hereditary curse linked to her unusual Magic Circuits and magical hair. Luna identified the hair as resembling Pegasus hair, and Vizet began testing a theory involving River Lethe water and alfalfa.

• Vizet read Laurence’s medical record and concluded that her survival after falling from a sixth-floor building supported his belief that she was a Squib.
• Vizet used Magic Eye to find unusual Magic Circuits in Laurence and learned that her hair had been identified as belonging to an unknown magical creature.
• Luna touched Laurence’s arm and said her hair felt like an Abraxan horse’s; Vizet proposed that it came from a Pegasus, which Madame Maxime said was extinct.
• Vizet asked Antoine Martin to bring River Lethe water and alfalfa for an initial test, and Antoine left to fetch them.
• Vizet explained that Pegasus might have gone extinct when the River Lethe ran dry, while Madame Maxime suggested Pegasus may have depended on drinking its water.

Vizet confirmed that Laurence’s hereditary curse came from a Pegasus bloodline and used River Lethe water and alfalfa to make a potion that briefly woke her. He proposed a treatment involving a Voodoo Doll, but Madame Maxime questioned whether it could be made quickly enough to help Laurence.

• Madame Maxime praised Vizet’s deduction, and Vizet credited Luna for helping him find a direction.
• Antoine Martin brought Vizet River Lethe water and alfalfa, which Vizet inspected before brewing an animal-feed potion with effortless precision.
• Laurence woke and drank the potion like a horse, prompting Antoine Martin to recognize that Vizet’s theory had been correct.
• Vizet explained that Laurence’s Pegasus bloodline was too vigorous and began writing a treatment plan using River Lethe water, alfalfa, and other materials.
• Antoine Martin took the plan to prepare for treatment, while Vizet confirmed to Madame Maxime that it called for making a Voodoo Doll.
• Madame Maxime warned that making a Voodoo Doll capable of easing the hereditary curse could take too long for Laurence’s urgent condition.

Vizet prepared a temporary Voodoo Doll and an Alchemy Magic Array to weaken Laurence’s bloodline power, while Madame Maxime learned that he had obtained an Emerald Tablet maxim. The treatment began successfully, but as Laurence shrank and the doll swelled, the hospital bed also seemed to grow larger.

• Vizet explained that he would make a temporary Voodoo Doll to weaken Laurence’s bloodline power.
• Vizet confirmed to Madame Maxime that he had obtained an Emerald Tablet maxim, and she marveled at his early achievement.
• Antoine Martin brought the materials Vizet needed for the treatment.
• Vizet and the others used Laurence’s hair to prepare the doll, then Vizet cut her wrist and Luna placed the doll over the wound.
• Laurence’s body shrank as the doll swelled, and Antoine Martin noticed that the hospital bed seemed to grow larger too.

Vizet’s treatment of Laurence triggered a Magical Outburst, revealing that the nearly thirty-year-old Muggle could use magic. Madame Maxime realized Laurence was a newly born wizard as President Jacques arrived to visit her.

• Antoine Martin blamed the ward’s strange changes on flaws in Vizet’s Voodoo Doll, then suspected Laurence’s abnormalities were a Magical Outburst.
• Vizet repeated the treatment with the Voodoo Doll, and Luna cast Protego to protect the hospital bed as objects in the ward swelled and shrank.
• Antoine Martin realized Laurence was a nearly thirty-year-old wizard experiencing a Magical Outburst and fainted.
• Madame Maxime caught Antoine Martin and struggled to accept that Laurence was a wizard.
• Luna said Laurence should still be able to learn magic, and someone announced that President Jacques had come to visit her.

Vizet explained to President Jacques that Laurence had recovered and that her condition came from an ancient hereditary curse tied to Pegasus blood, which had awakened her magic. The chapter left President Jacques trying to understand that his daughter was a wizard and that her family’s curse came from their bloodline rather than a Dark Wizard.

• Madame Maxime agreed that Vizet should tell President Jacques the truth about Laurence and let him explain what came next.
• Vizet told President Jacques that Laurence had recovered and had become a wizard who could cast magic.
• Vizet explained that Laurence’s anorexia came from a hereditary curse connected to Pegasus blood and the extinct creatures’ dependence on River Lethe water.
• President Jacques asked whether a Dark Wizard had cursed his family, and Vizet clarified that the curse came from the bloodline itself.

Vizet explained that Bloody Mary had altered Laurence’s hereditary curse, causing her to absorb Life Force, and told President Jacques that Laurence had become a Wizard. After Laurence awoke and discovered she could walk again, Vizet asked President Jacques to keep everything about her confidential.

• Vizet explained that Bloody Mary had amplified Laurence’s hereditary curse and caused her to absorb Life Force.
• Laurence awoke and feared she would hurt President Jacques, but realized she had recovered when he held her without being harmed.
• Vizet told Laurence she was a Wizard, and she stood, walked, and spun around without assistance.
• President Jacques thanked Vizet and worried that Laurence’s recovery and new magical abilities might come at a price.
• Vizet told President Jacques that Laurence would need to study magic and asked him to keep her situation confidential.

Vizet persuaded President Jacques to keep Laurence’s new status as a wizard secret while he pursued a plan to turn more Muggles into wizards. President Jacques realized the plan might let him become a wizard too, leaving Madame Maxime alarmed by the scale of what Vizet intended.

• Vizet explained that France’s fragile political situation and the gap between wizards and Muggles made it too risky to reveal Laurence’s wizard status yet.
• President Jacques worried that the secret could leak, but recognized that revealing it might destroy his agreement with President Boris.
• Vizet said he was confident he could complete his plan before Laurence’s status was exposed.
• President Jacques inferred that Vizet planned to use the Family Hereditary Curse to create more wizards.
• Vizet confirmed that Laurence would gain more wizard companions, and President Jacques asked whether he could become a wizard himself.
• Madame Maxime realized Vizet intended to turn more Muggles into wizards and nearly fainted.