Chapter Summaries

Vizet explained to Dumbledore that Voldemort’s magical path was built on solipsism and that he had reshaped Riddle House into “Voldemort Manor” to support his belief in his noble origins. They arrived at the mansion, where Dumbledore intended to investigate the hidden Horcrux and have Vizet identify its protections.

• Dumbledore took Vizet to Little Hangleton with Phoenix Fawkes to investigate the Horcrux’s hiding place.
• Dumbledore showed Vizet the ruined House of Gaunt and explained that Morfin Gaunt had been imprisoned while the house collapsed.
• Vizet identified Riddle House as the Horcrux’s likely hiding place and described Voldemort’s Path of Magic as solipsism.
• Vizet reasoned that Voldemort had destroyed the Gaunt home to erase his humiliating past and strengthen his belief in his own noble origins.
• Vizet and Dumbledore agreed that Voldemort had treated Riddle House as Voldemort Manor and used destruction and reconstruction to impose his view of the world.

Vizet and Dumbledore discussed how Voldemort erased Tom Riddle’s past and how his Solipsism-based Path of Magic conflicted with Harry’s protection by Lily’s love. Dumbledore then warned Vizet that he faced a similar challenge, and Vizet concluded that he would need to use what his opponents could not understand.

• Vizet and Dumbledore reasoned that Voldemort had deliberately obscured Tom Riddle’s name and past to strengthen his fearsome reputation.
• Vizet concluded that Voldemort had begun following his Solipsism Path of Magic at the orphanage, treating others as tools to satisfy himself and resist death.
• Vizet explained that Harry’s existence and Lily’s Love’s Protection opposed Voldemort’s Path of Magic, making Harry his natural enemy.
• Dumbledore reminded Vizet that Voldemort had used Harry’s blood to resurrect himself, bringing the love he rejected into his own magic and weakening his advantage.
• Dumbledore told Vizet that his own challenge was similar to Voldemort’s, and Vizet resolved to use things his opponents could not understand.

Vizet and Dumbledore visited Riddle House and learned from Andrew that Frank Bryce, the manor’s limping former gardener, was suspected of murdering the Riddle family. Andrew let them into the decaying house, where Dumbledore began questioning how often he came to inspect it.

• Vizet and Dumbledore met children near Riddle House, who warned them about a supposed murderer called “that limper.”
• Dumbledore offered the children sweets, and they told him that the limper worked at the manor and was dangerous.
• Andrew arrived, identified the limper as Frank Bryce, and explained that Bryce had been questioned over the Riddle family deaths but released without charge.
• Andrew said people suspected Bryce because of his temper and wartime service, then opened the manor’s gate and door for Vizet and Dumbledore.
• Andrew recoiled from the foul smell inside, and Dumbledore asked whether he usually came in to look around.

Vizet and Dumbledore investigated the abandoned Riddle House and discovered that a blank oil painting concealed Voldemort’s magical traps. Vizet used Parseltongue to restore the study and open a hidden passage through the manor, then continued probing for more traps.

• Andrew told Vizet and Dumbledore that the house was rumored to be haunted and led them to the study’s blank oil painting.
• Dumbledore dismissed Andrew and gave him sweets before Vizet identified the painting as the likely key to entering Voldemort Manor.
• Vizet released magical fluctuations and spoke Parseltongue, causing the dilapidated study to regain its original appearance and reveal Voldemort’s Dark Mark in the painting.
• Vizet concluded that Parseltongue could bypass Voldemort’s three magical traps through hidden doors he had designed for himself.
• Vizet spoke Parseltongue to the double doors, opened them, and continued searching the restored manor with his Wand.

Vizet and Dumbledore explored Riddle House, discussing Voldemort’s defenses and the possibility that he and Herpo might arrive. They opened a cursed box and found the Horcrux Ring, leaving Dumbledore shaken by what he saw.

• Vizet and Dumbledore examined the mansion’s magical traps and compared them with the trials Voldemort had built in the cave.
• Dumbledore explained that he had brought Vizet because Voldemort might come to Riddle House with Herpo.
• Vizet and Dumbledore found an exquisitely crafted box protected by a powerful curse and beguiling Mental Magic.
• Vizet used Parseltongue to open the box, revealing the Horcrux Ring.
• As Vizet began inspecting the ring, Dumbledore reacted with urgent, unfamiliar distress.

Vizet confronted Dumbledore over the cursed Horcrux Ring after Dumbledore lunged for it, and Dumbledore unleashed a Soul Power field that began assimilating Vizet. Vizet studied the field and searched for a way through it, turning to the idea of similarity in Sympathetic Magic.

• Dumbledore lunged for the Horcrux Ring, but Vizet knocked its box away and warned him about its curse.
• Dumbledore tried to summon the box, so Vizet used Ancient Magic to bring it to himself and shielded it with flames.
• Dumbledore attacked with fire, but Vizet redirected the flames and then struck him with lightning and red magical projectiles.
• A click silenced and dimmed Voldemort Manor as Dumbledore’s Soul Power formed a field of scorching heat and cutting snow that tried to assimilate Vizet.
• Vizet spread his own Soul Power against the field and considered how Sympathetic Magic’s principle of similarity might help him break through.

Vizet used his magical knowledge and phoenix talent to absorb Dumbledore’s heat waves, disrupting the balance in the Magical Energy Field and freeing them from its effects. Dumbledore recovered, horrified by how close he had come to an irreversible mistake, and revealed that the Horcrux Ring was connected to the Resurrection Stone.

• Vizet relied on an Anchor Point and his phoenix Animagus talent to absorb the heat waves in Dumbledore’s Magical Energy Field.
• After seven surges, Vizet broke the balance between the heat waves and ice crystals, causing the field to collapse.
• Color and sound returned, revealing a blackened, lightning-shaped mark, a cracked object, and an exhausted Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore lamented that he had lost control and thanked Vizet for preventing him from making an irreversible mistake.
• Dumbledore explained that the ring drew him toward an ancient legend and asked Vizet whether he knew of the Resurrection Stone.

Vizet helped Dumbledore resist the Resurrection Stone’s pull, and Dumbledore recognized it as one of the magical artifacts from The Tale of the Three Brothers. Dumbledore agreed to study the artifact further, while Vizet handed him another unusual magical device.

• Dumbledore saw the Resurrection Stone and was overwhelmed by memories and a desire to use it until Vizet’s intervention brought him back to reason.
• Dumbledore thanked Vizet for helping him and acknowledged Aberforth’s sober opinion that he had changed.
• Dumbledore looked at the Resurrection Stone again, recognized it, and moved his gaze away without being overcome by desire.
• Vizet said he believed the three magical artifacts were real and described what Mr. Ollivander had told him about the Elder Wand.
• Dumbledore said records of all three artifacts existed, though accounts of the Resurrection Stone and Invisibility Cloak were fragmentary, and promised to share more after studying them.
• Vizet handed Dumbledore a lighter-like magical artifact that he had identified as capable of enhancing Soul Power and creating a Magical Energy Field.

Dumbledore explained that his Deluminator had helped him act on instinct during the battle, and discovered that Vizet had repaired it. Vizet also revealed that studying Voldemort’s Path of Magic had filled in the crucial details of the Flying Charm, and he and Dumbledore prepared to return for dinner.

• Dumbledore explained that he had used the Deluminator to pursue a solution while acting on instinct, and said Vizet had helped him regain clarity.
• Dumbledore noticed that Vizet had repaired the Deluminator, and Vizet explained how he had studied its structure and used Ancient Magic Power.
• Dumbledore praised Vizet’s growth and thanked him for his efforts during the day.
• Vizet said studying Voldemort’s Path of Magic had revealed the missing principles behind the Flying Charm.
• Dumbledore suggested they return because it was dinnertime, and Vizet agreed.

Vizet combined his understanding of Voldemort’s Solipsism Path of Magic with the Flying Charm practice method and explained to Dumbledore how Voldemort’s will let him reshape materials’ magical properties. He left Dumbledore with a completed method whose ingredients could be gathered cheaply, while detailing why Voldemort had chosen them.

• Vizet realized that Voldemort’s Solipsism let him deconstruct and reconstruct materials according to his will, giving them the properties needed for his Flying Charm.
• Vizet completed the Flying Charm practice method and brought it to Dumbledore, who copied the notebook and examined its ingredients.
• Vizet told Dumbledore that the ingredients could be gathered from the Forbidden Forest, the Black Lake, or the seaside at little cost.
• Vizet explained that Voldemort saw Irish Phoenix feathers and fairy wings as having magical properties beyond their conventional uses.
• Vizet suggested Voldemort had substituted Fire Salamander blood for Phoenix Tears and used a mixture of venoms instead of Basilisk venom because the stronger ingredients were unavailable or unsuitable.

Vizet connected Voldemort’s Flying Charm and Bloodline Magic to Paracelsus’s Homunculus, proposing that Voldemort used an Ashwinder to gestate himself anew. Dumbledore recognized the idea from his own past attempt and realized the Ashwinder was meant to gestate Voldemort.

• Dumbledore and Vizet discussed how Voldemort’s search into his origins had led him to ancient Bloodline Magic and shaped his outlook.
• Vizet reconsidered the Flying Charm as a form of gestating life and linked that idea to Voldemort’s use of Bloodline Magic to devour the Tom Riddle Soul Fragment.
• Vizet brought up Paracelsus’s Homunculus, explaining how it could become hostile and try to devour its creator.
• Dumbledore recalled that he had once cultivated a Homunculus that tried to devour him and become the new Albus Dumbledore.
• Vizet listed the materials Voldemort combined with parts of his own body and proposed that he used an Ashwinder to gestate himself again.
• Dumbledore understood Vizet’s theory and asked whether Voldemort had hoped to use the Ashwinder to gestate himself anew.

Vizet explained how Voldemort used an Ashwinder and a mirror-lined container in the first two steps of the Flying Charm to create and strengthen a Homunculus version of himself. The third step involved combining the heart born from the Ashwinder egg with the Living Death Potion.

• Vizet explained that Voldemort used the Ashwinder as a living cauldron, then ended its life and removed the egg to complete the first stage of the Flying Charm.
• Vizet and Dumbledore concluded that the life developing in the egg was a Homunculus version of Voldemort, connected to Horcrux principles and possession.
• Vizet explained that Voldemort placed the Ashwinder in a mirror-lined container and repeated its gestation six times to strengthen the Homunculus and erase the Ashwinder's identity.
• Vizet said the seventh gestation produced a heart with the Homunculus version of Voldemort's soul from the perspective of Bloodline Magic.
• Dumbledore and Vizet examined the final stage of the Flying Charm, which required combining the heart with the Living Death Potion.

Vizet explained how Voldemort used Living Death Potion to risk being devoured by his Homunculus self and advance his Solipsism, while his Flying Charm imposed his will on the world. He and Dumbledore discussed the charm’s dangers, and Dumbledore realized Vizet might already know how to improve it.

• Vizet explained that Voldemort nurtured his Homunculus self through seven cycles of possession and devouring before planning to swallow it while under Living Death Potion.
• Vizet compared Voldemort’s Flying Charm to geocentrism, explaining that Voldemort treated himself as the fixed center and declared where he ought to appear.
• Vizet suggested Voldemort’s Horcrux gave him confidence and protection during his dangerous attempt to devour his Homunculus self.
• Dumbledore warned that learning Voldemort’s Flying Charm was dangerous and required a similar magical path or an unforgettable Anchor Point.
• Vizet told Dumbledore he had not shared the Flying Charm and wanted to analyze and improve it, prompting Dumbledore to ask whether he already had an idea.

Vizet explained a new approach to the Flying Charm based on openness and resonance with an object that matched a wizard’s soul and Path of Magic. He proposed that defining what flight meant could let them move through the world’s flow, and offered to demonstrate the idea to Dumbledore.

• Vizet contrasted Voldemort’s self-centered Flying Charm with an approach based on openness and connection to the outside world.
• Vizet proposed using a compatible object to influence a wizard through resonance, while Dumbledore recalled how the Philosopher’s Stone could transform someone who could not control it.
• Vizet described flight as merging into a flow through resonance, drawing a parallel to the movement method he had used against the Fire Dragon.
• Dumbledore asked whether a stone could resonate with him and help him fly, and Vizet said the object could be a stone.
• Vizet argued that a wizard needed to define what flying meant, using a thrown stone or a meteorite as examples, and offered to demonstrate the idea to Dumbledore.

Vizet explained his theory of creating resonance with an object to learn flight, then used a shortsword to practice and discovered new ways to move through the air. He left Dumbledore with a question about the effects of Dirigible Plum earrings.

• Dumbledore mistook Vizet's shortsword for goblin-forged, and Vizet explained that he had made it using magic.
• Vizet described how an object could teach the soul to fly through resonance, and Dumbledore clarified that the soul itself made flight possible.
• Vizet resonated with the shortsword's tip and appeared in midair before Dumbledore brought him back.
• Vizet resonated with the blade and moved to the window, then traced a looping path back to his original position.
• Vizet proposed practicing resonance with one part of an object at a time and asked Dumbledore what Dirigible Plum earrings would do.

Vizet explained to Dumbledore how resonance with an Anchor Point could help a wizard explore the soul without losing their sense of self. After Vizet left, Dumbledore tested the improved Flying Charm and accidentally drove the Sword of Gryffindor into the wall.

• Vizet told Dumbledore that Luna’s influence had inspired him to define the connection between a wizard and an Anchor Point as resonance rather than dependence.
• Vizet explained that exploring the soul inwardly also required seeking outward connections, which ultimately helped a wizard shape and understand their own soul.
• Dumbledore praised Vizet’s ideas and felt pride and expectation about the potential of his magical path and soul research.
• Professor McGonagall and Quirinus Quirrell brought documents to Dumbledore, then asked about a noise from his office.
• Dumbledore said a spell test had caused a small accident, and after they left he looked at the Sword of Gryffindor sunk into the wall.

Vizet shared his improved Flying Charm practice method with Hogwarts professors and the members of M, while Moody warned him not to spread it widely. In the Mystic Corridor, Fred and George abandoned their fruitless attempt to find resonance in a sofa, and Vizet drew Luna into his arms.

• Vizet shared his improved Flying Charm practice method with Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Sprout, and the members of M.
• Moody warned Vizet to stay vigilant and keep the practice method from spreading widely until their enemies were eliminated.
• Fred and George tried to find resonance by lounging upside down on a sofa, then realized their floaty sensation came from blood rushing to their heads.
• Fred and George decided to search Hogwarts and its grounds for something that could produce resonance.
• Vizet sprawled on the sofa in the Mystic Corridor, offered Luna his hand, and guided her into his arms.

Vizet and Luna cuddled on the sofa and discussed Fred and George’s Sofa Theory about finding the conditions for resonance. Luna guessed that the key was each other, then held Vizet from behind before they settled down to sleep.

• Vizet pulled a blanket over himself and Luna, and they cuddled together on the sofa.
• Luna said the sofa seemed to be making her sleepy, supporting Fred and George’s theory that relaxing on a sofa encouraged sleep and inspiring dreams.
• Luna asked whether Fred and George would discover what triggered resonance, and Vizet suggested that each other might be the answer.
• Luna asked to hold Vizet as she had during summer vacation, so he turned onto his side and let her embrace him from behind.
• Luna compared hugging Vizet to hugging a teddy bear, then declared him Vizet-level Special for her and closed her eyes.

Vizet and Luna shared a cozy nap, teased each other by telling the story of “Sleeping Beauty,” and celebrated Luna learning the Flying Charm. The chapter left them hovering together in the air, nestled close as they swayed like dancers.

• Vizet woke beside Luna and teased her while she pretended to sleep, then told her the story of “Sleeping Beauty.”
• Luna woke, finished listening to Vizet’s tale, and told him the same story while he pretended to fall asleep.
• After their nap, Luna told Vizet she had learned the Flying Charm, and they recalled their earlier flight together in Sweden.
• Luna and Vizet rose into the air, with Vizet holding her from behind, and they swayed together like they were dancing.

Vizet explained to Mr. Filch why his Emotion Collector was filling more slowly than Arabella's and connected the difference to Filch avoiding Fred and George. The scale began to rise when Filch remembered the twins, leaving Vizet to tell him that Fred and George had noticed his change in behavior.

• Vizet met Mr. Filch, who showed him the Emotion Collector and said its scale had reached only one while Arabella's had passed two.
• Vizet explained that the artifact gathered negative emotions and that filling its scale would create a Dark Magic creature needed for Filch's transformation into a Wizard.
• Vizet suggested that Filch's improved ability to use magic had reduced his negative emotions, and Filch recalled becoming upset by Fred and George's mischief.
• Mr. Filch noticed the Emotion Collector's scale rise as he thought about the twins and admitted he had been avoiding them to protect the artifact.
• Vizet told Mr. Filch that Fred and George had also noticed his changed behavior and thought he was not as interesting anymore.