Chapter Summaries

Vizet and Luna reassured Dobby that his wages belonged to him, explaining that he could keep his possessions while still being part of their family. Dobby chose to stay with them and went to wake Mr. Lovegood, while Vizet and Luna used Healing magic to remove the wrinkles on their hands.

• Dobby offered Vizet his saved wages for the family, but Vizet and Luna told him the money was his to own and spend.
• Luna explained that family members could live together while keeping their own treasured possessions, and Vizet reminded Dobby of the freedom and wages he had once longed for.
• Luna told Dobby that the invisible treasure in his heart made those things feel less precious, and Vizet assured him he could stay unless he chose to leave.
• Dobby declared that he wanted to stay forever, then hurried upstairs to wake Mr. Lovegood.
• Vizet kissed Luna's wrinkled hand and healed it with magic, and Luna copied him on Vizet's arm.

Dobby grew more comfortable with the Lovegood family and shared his interest in clothing design as Vizet and Luna set out to shop for Christmas decorations. At the Leaky Cauldron, they met Neville and the Longbottom family, who discussed the growing alliance between Muggle criminal groups and Dark Wizards and asked about the planned treatment for Lycanthropy Disease.

• Dobby began approaching Vizet and Luna to offer help and asked them and Xenophilius for opinions on his clothing designs.
• Vizet and Luna left for Diagon Alley, while Dobby promised to prepare dinner and asked them to bring back sewing supplies.
• At the Leaky Cauldron, Old Tom told Vizet and Luna that the Longbottom family had arrived earlier.
• Neville, Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, and Augusta Longbottom met Vizet and Luna.
• Frank Longbottom described Muggle criminal groups working with Dark Wizards and using modified Flying Broomsticks with Magical Fireworks.
• Frank Longbottom asked about the planned treatment for Lycanthropy Disease, and Vizet confirmed it was to take place in New York after preparations were made.

Alice and Frank Longbottom explained the difficulties Aurors faced cooperating with Muggle law enforcement in England and North America. After Vizet and Luna left, Augusta encouraged Neville to be braver about his feelings for Hanna.

• Alice and Frank Longbottom described how Dark Wizards and Muggle criminal organizations in North America cooperated closely and modified Flying Broomsticks with sophisticated methods.
• Frank explained that Dark Wizards and Muggle criminals acted without submitting reports, while differing procedures and mutual suspicion hindered cooperation between Aurors and Muggle police.
• Frank said the Ministry of Magic and the Muggles had begun negotiations to improve their procedures, though Kingsley did not know how far the talks had progressed.
• Augusta Longbottom ended the discussion and sent Vizet and Luna on their way to buy decorations, Thread, and clothing accessories for Dobby.
• After Vizet and Luna left, Augusta and Frank urged Neville to be braver and write Hanna a letter, making him blush and ask to discuss it at home.

Vizet and Luna walked through snowy London and shared hot chocolate at a department-store stall. They ended the chapter enjoying how each other’s drinks tasted.

• Vizet and Luna left the Leaky Cauldron and walked through the heavy snow, keeping each other warm as they headed to a department store.
• Vizet brushed snow from Luna’s hair, and Luna straightened his scarf as they continued through the crowded store.
• Vizet ordered Luna hot chocolate with cream and chocolate shavings and chose a cup with a cinnamon stick for himself.
• Luna offered Vizet a spoonful and a sip of her drink, and they shared each other’s cups by drinking from the marked rims.
• Luna tried Vizet’s cinnamon hot chocolate and noticed that her own drink seemed to taste better afterward.

Vizet and Luna spent a snowy day shopping for Dobby and sharing Hot Chocolate before Christmas arrived. On Christmas morning, Dobby showed Vizet the gifts he had received and gave him a handmade coat.

• Vizet and Luna tasted different Hot Chocolates, then chose thread, accessories, Christmas decorations, and design books for Dobby at the department store.
• Luna read Guess How Much I Love You and told Vizet that he could measure love by how he always found her; Vizet said he might never be able to win.
• Vizet and Luna left the store hand in hand as Luna called the falling snow sweet like Hot Chocolate.
• On Christmas morning, Dobby showed Vizet the hats he had received from Vizet and Luna and revealed a large pile of presents.
• Dobby gave Vizet a handmade dark-blue coat, and Vizet thanked him and said he liked it.

Vizet opened a gift from the Longbottom family and found a magical contract offering him their lasting friendship and support. After reading Augusta Longbottom’s letter, he accepted the contract, which left him able to preserve or dissolve it at will.

• Vizet opened the Longbottom family’s envelope and sensed that it contained a one-way magical contract resembling a life debt.
• Augusta Longbottom’s message urged Vizet to accept the gift as a simple ceremony that would let the family treat him as a friend rather than a distant benefactor.
• Vizet read Augusta’s letter, which promised that the Longbottom family would always welcome and support him as one of their own.
• The Longbottom family crest melted away after Vizet read Neville Longbottom’s name, sealing the contract.
• Vizet recognized that the contract gave him control over whether it remained in force, and that Augusta had deliberately weakened its obligations toward him.

Vizet opened Christmas gifts from Agnes, Meriem Strout, and Malcolm Sharma, then experienced a memory of rescuing a Red Fox cub through Luna’s poem. The chapter ended with Vizet reflecting that he liked everything about Luna.

• Agnes sent Vizet a Christmas gift to thank him for the Treatment Plan that helped her recover from a failed Animagus practice.
• Meriem Strout also thanked Vizet and reminded him of her question about thunder and lightning, which he had recorded in his notebook.
• Malcolm Sharma sent Vizet a comprehensive stack of North American research materials as a Christmas gift, signaling goodwill and confidence in his department’s capabilities.
• Vizet read Luna’s poem about their rainy encounter with a Red Fox cub and opened the card to experience the memory again.
• Vizet smiled at Luna’s poem and realized that he liked everything about her.

Vizet connected Luna’s poem about a fox’s fur with his research into Animagus practice and worked out how thunder and lightning awakened an animal instinct in the soul, prompting transformation. He recorded the explanation that answered Meriem Strout’s question and ended by smiling at Luna’s greeting card.

• Vizet opened Luna’s greeting card and recalled touching a red fox cub, realizing the poem’s image of thunder hiding autumn’s desolation in its fur held a clue to Animagus practice.
• Vizet reviewed his notebook and wrote that thunder and lightning conveyed nature’s magic to an Animagus practitioner, completing the “as above, so below” process through instinct.
• Vizet concluded that the soul’s instinctive “hackles rising” embodied “as within, so without,” awakening Animal Instinct and causing the body to transform through Bloodline Magic.
• Vizet copied and organized his answer to Meriem Strout’s question, then looked at Luna’s greeting card and smiled.

Vizet felt Luna call through the Phoenix mark and Apparated to her bedroom, where they exchanged Christmas gifts and shared an intimate moment. The chapter ended with Luna close to him and Vizet keeping his eyes shut as she asked.

• Vizet sensed Luna calling through the flame-feather mark he had given her and Apparated to her bedroom.
• Luna showed Vizet the sunflower-decorated Wizard hat Dobby had given her and asked whether their gifts were light as air.
• Vizet told Luna he loved her all the way to the moon and back, and hoped to make the journey faster.
• Luna asked Vizet to close his eyes and keep them closed, then moved close enough to cup his cheeks.

Vizet and Luna shared a brief kiss on Christmas morning, leaving Vizet stunned and convinced he had found his own “crystal shoe.” He stayed cheerful and distracted afterward while Luna woke with a flushed face and gave her father an excuse for it.

• Luna kissed Vizet outside her bedroom, then hurried inside and shut the door.
• Vizet picked up Luna’s decorated wizard hat and decided to keep it as his “crystal shoe” until he could return it to her.
• Xenophilius Lovegood found Vizet by Luna’s door and invited him downstairs for breakfast while Luna slept.
• Vizet held his wand to his temple and maintained a smile, then explained his magical research to Xenophilius.
• Luna opened her door with a flushed face and told Xenophilius she had caught an overly enthusiastic Niffler’s enthusiasm.
• Xenophilius brought Luna her breakfast and noticed Vizet was still sitting in the living room with his wand against his temple.

Xenophilius Lovegood mistook Vizet’s distracted behavior and vague answer about Luna’s Christmas gift for signs that Gringotts had ruined him financially. He offered to help Vizet pay his debts and expose the Goblins, leaving Vizet trying to explain the misunderstanding.

• Xenophilius Lovegood watched Vizet and Luna after lunch and suspected that something had happened between them.
• Xenophilius found Luna absent from the living room and asked Vizet whether he had forgotten to prepare a Christmas gift for her.
• Vizet distractedly answered that he had prepared a feather, prompting Xenophilius to suspect that Vizet had no money.
• Xenophilius concluded that Gringotts had cheated Vizet into debt and offered him savings and newspaper support.
• Vizet realized what Xenophilius believed and began to explain.

Vizet explained to Xenophilius Lovegood that the phoenix feather he gave Luna let her call to him, revealing that they had been hiding their connection. After recalling how Pandora’s parents had once scrutinized him, Xenophilius softened and left Vizet without rejecting him.

• Xenophilius Lovegood cursed Gringotts and asked Vizet how many Gold Galleons he owed.
• Vizet explained that the phoenix feather he gave Luna let her call to him, and Xenophilius realized they had kept their connection from him.
• Vizet admitted that even Dumbledore would struggle to detect the feather’s magic unless he searched for it.
• Xenophilius reflected on how Pandora’s parents had once scrutinized him and understood their past reactions.
• Xenophilius considered acting harshly toward Vizet but held back because he remembered how painful it was not to be accepted.

Xenophilius Lovegood tried to keep Vizet anxious by telling him to figure things out, but Vizet interpreted the advice as a prompt to take action. By dusk, Xenophilius asked whether he had thought it through, and Vizet confidently said he had.

• Xenophilius Lovegood noticed Vizet's nervousness and decided to maintain a serious, mysterious attitude.
• Xenophilius told Vizet to figure things out, then went upstairs and secretly watched to see whether Vizet remained unsettled.
• Vizet used the time to decide he should regain the initiative and return Luna's Wizard hat.
• Xenophilius called Vizet to the living room at dusk and asked if he had thought things through.
• Vizet smiled confidently and told Xenophilius that he had.

Xenophilius Lovegood was thrown into confusion when Vizet said he had already figured things out, and he could not stop dwelling on it. Meanwhile, Luna remembered what had happened that morning and received Vizet’s letter, which gave her the courage to go to him.

• Vizet told Xenophilius Lovegood he had already figured things out, disrupting the response Xenophilius had rehearsed.
• Dobby interrupted Xenophilius before he could reply, and Xenophilius spent the night wondering how Vizet had understood so quickly.
• Luna recalled that Vizet’s firm words that morning had prompted her to take off her pointed hat.
• Thor delivered Vizet’s letter to Luna, saying that Beautiful Luna had left behind her pointed hat.
• Luna understood the letter as an invitation to retrieve her crystal shoe and stood up, heart racing, to open the door.

Vizet and Luna shared a kiss after he returned her Wizard hat, and they discovered that kissing brought both pain and sweetness. The chapter ended with Vizet carrying a dizzy, breathless Luna in his arms.

• Vizet returned the Wizard hat to Luna and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.
• Luna and Vizet leaned toward each other and kissed, lightly bumping their front teeth and tasting blood.
• Vizet wiped away the tear at the corner of Luna's eye and teased her with the secret of its salty taste.
• Luna took Vizet's hand, and he drew her close and kissed her again.
• Vizet and Luna separated to catch their breath, and Vizet lifted the dizzy Luna into a bridal carry.

Vizet and Luna shared a series of tentative kisses, discovering how quickly they grew breathless and how their lips became swollen. After they parted for the night, Vizet reflected on their time together and found a smiling W-and-L face in his palm.

• Vizet carried the dizzy Luna to the bedroom, where they kissed and held each other until they both grew breathless.
• Luna teased Vizet about pretending she had bitten him, and Vizet told her he wanted to save every special part of himself for her.
• After an hour of kissing, Vizet returned to his room, cast a Scouring Charm, and changed into his pajamas.
• Vizet cooled his overheated room with a Moisturizing and Preserving Charm and noticed that his lips were swollen.
• Vizet discovered a smiling face made from the letters W and L in his palm and laughed at it.

Serena Pendragon visited Gellert Grindelwald in Nurmengard, where they discussed the prison and the upheaval reported in the outside world. Grindelwald explained that the turmoil was an unavoidable release of pressure after the Statute of Secrecy, leaving Serena to consider his view of events.

• Serena Pendragon entered Grindelwald’s cell and commented on Nurmengard’s unstable structure and magic, but Grindelwald insisted it would stand as long as he remained there.
• Serena brought Grindelwald mead and Cockroach Clusters for Christmas, and they exchanged teasing remarks while he ate.
• Grindelwald said Nurmengard meant more to him than a prison because it let him observe the outside world from a distance.
• Grindelwald and Serena discussed reports of potion-related deaths among Muggles, Erumpent attacks, and conflicts over gold.
• Grindelwald described the current upheaval as pressure being released after centuries of secrecy and said such incidents were necessary at this stage.

Gellert Grindelwald and Serena Pendragon discussed Muggles obtaining dangerous potions through a new black market and suffering harm, which Grindelwald saw as part of the Magical and Muggle worlds’ uneasy integration. Serena then revealed that the Isaiah Society was conducting an experiment in the Middle East to mass-produce weak adult wizards.

• Gellert Grindelwald told Serena Pendragon that Muggles who died from potions such as Felix Felicis and Baruffio's Brain Elixir had likely bought them through a newly formed black market.
• Gellert Grindelwald argued that the Ministry of Magic’s weak enforcement allowed Muggles to encounter magic’s dangers and learn from the harm they suffered.
• Serena Pendragon confirmed that the Isaiah Society was conducting a magical experiment in the Middle East to mass-produce wizards.
• Serena Pendragon explained that the subjects were adults around thirty with greater physical endurance than Muggles but almost no magical ability, barely stronger than Squibs.

Serena Pendragon told Gellert Grindelwald about wizards who could cast only the Fire-Making Spell and showed him tissue with Fire Salamander scales growing on a human body. Grindelwald suspected Voldemort and the Isaiah Society had mass-produced them, and argued that the ensuing war and chaos could force Muggle governments and the Ministry of Magic to cooperate.

• Serena Pendragon recounted discovering a mercenary who could cast the Fire-Making Spell without a wand and was later killed by a bomb.
• Serena Pendragon showed Gellert Grindelwald a sample of human skin covered in Fire Salamander scales, and he identified it as Bloodline Magic.
• Gellert Grindelwald credited the intelligence to Albus and Vizet and concluded that Voldemort and the Isaiah Society had succeeded in producing wizards.
• Serena Pendragon warned that these wizards could carry Muggle ammunition into the Magical World because the Muggle-Repelling Charm would not affect them.
• Gellert Grindelwald said war and chaos would melt down the old order and drive Muggle governments and the Ministry of Magic to cooperate.

Gellert Grindelwald and Serena Pendragon discussed the collapsing old order and the Flying Charm Vizet had learned and improved. Grindelwald revealed that he was practicing the spell to make Nurmengard fly, allowing him to leave without technically leaving the prison.

• Gellert Grindelwald argued that the Inferi Army and other crises would force wizards and Muggles to abandon the old order and learn new roles.
• Serena Pendragon said she enjoyed fighting but did not want to fight to the death, and acknowledged that the Isaiah Society and Voldemort were taking care of their enemies.
• Serena Pendragon and Gellert Grindelwald discussed how Vizet learned Voldemort's Flying Charm in Avalon and improved it with Albus's help.
• Serena Pendragon asked how far Gellert Grindelwald had progressed in practicing the Flying Charm.
• Gellert Grindelwald revealed that he intended to use the spell to make Nurmengard fly, reasoning that he would not be leaving the prison if he flew with it.