Chapter Summaries

Voldemort learned that the Hufflepuff's Golden Cup was missing from the Lestrange Family Vault, while Carcas watched Dumbledore visit St. Mungo's for a ritual intended to turn Squibs into Wizards. Carcas recognized the Guardian's magic array as Morgana's, leaving Voldemort's allies wondering what the Guardian planned.

• Herpo raged over the Gringotts break-in and the Goblins' expected purge as Voldemort remained silent.
• Voldemort recalled finding the Lestrange Family Vault empty of his Horcrux and felt exhausted and powerless.
• Carcas reported that Dumbledore had arrived at St. Mungo's with Wizards and Muggles to observe the Squib ritual.
• Carcas identified Olympe Maxime among the visitors and said Dumbledore had not greeted the Guardian.
• Carcas recognized the Guardian's ritual magic array as Morgana's and questioned why it had appeared at St. Mungo's.

Herpo and Voldemort learned that a ritual magic array at St. Mungo’s resembled Morgana’s work, while Dumbledore and Madame Maxime discussed Vizet’s planned treatment for a Squib. As the gathered witnesses waited in the Round Hall, Vizet’s procedure was about to begin.

• Carcas identified the ritual magic array at St. Mungo’s as Morgana’s, noting that it used some of her old materials but had been substantially expanded.
• Voldemort criticized Vizet for spreading powerful magical knowledge, while Barty Crouch Jr. privately admired Vizet for doing so.
• Voldemort suggested that Herpo revive Morgana, prompting Herpo to change the subject and ask Carcas to keep watching Dumbledore.
• Madame Maxime voiced concern about Vizet’s treatment plan, and Dumbledore reassured her that Vizet was cautious and Healers were present.
• Robert Bonham praised Vizet’s proposed method of turning a Squib into a Wizard as a potential breakthrough in magical medicine.
• The Round Hall quieted as its doors opened, and Dumbledore, Robert Bonham, and Madame Maxime prepared to witness the procedure.

Vizet explained his research into Squibs, arguing that they suffered from a magical disease that prevented the magical outburst needed to cast spells. He began outlining how the condition worked as Filch and Mrs. Figg came into the Round Hall to take part in the ritual.

• Vizet addressed the crowded Round Hall and criticized the Magical World's practice of ignoring Squibs and sending them to live among Muggles.
• Vizet compared his study of Squibs to his research into Lycanthropy Disease and said that exploring magic itself was his motivation.
• Vizet announced that Squibhood was a curable magical disease and that those affected could be restored as wizards.
• Vizet explained that Squibs lacked the childhood magical outburst that enabled wizards to cast spells.
• Filch and Mrs. Figg entered the hall and turned pale under the crowd's scrutiny.

Vizet activated a ritual that used Filch and Mrs. Figg’s negative emotions to help them undergo Magical Outbursts and become Wizards. The ritual succeeded, and Amelia Bones and Dumbledore considered how Healers or Alchemists could perform the method more widely.

• Vizet explained that Filch and Mrs. Figg would complete the ritual’s ignition through an Emotional Outburst, with their Emotion Collectors serving as the key ingredients.
• Vizet activated the Ritual Magic Array, and the Dark Magic creatures inside the Emotion Collectors merged with Filch and Mrs. Figg as Healers used Patronuses to calm them.
• The Healers used Voodoo Dolls to draw away the animal features that appeared on Filch and Mrs. Figg, then removed the dolls from their wounds.
• Filch and Mrs. Figg sprang three meters into the air and landed silently, prompting Amelia Bones to recognize their transformation as a Magical Outburst.
• Dumbledore and Amelia Bones discussed how the ritual could be widely performed, while Robert Bonham noted that Healers might need basic Alchemy training.

After the Ritual Magic caused their Magical Outbursts, Mr. Filch and Mrs. Figg learned from Vizet that they were Wizards. They each cast the Wand-Lighting Charm, and Vizet encouraged Mr. Filch to try another spell.

• Benjamin Graves asked Seraphina Piqueri whether Lovegood had really jumped three meters and floated down, and she confirmed that it had happened through magic.
• Mr. Filch asked Vizet whether he was no longer a Squib, and Vizet confirmed that he was a Wizard and handed him a Wand.
• Encouraged by Vizet, Mr. Filch cast the Wand-Lighting Charm and produced a bright light at the tip of his Wand.
• Mrs. Figg followed Vizet's guidance and cast the Wand-Lighting Charm, then cried with joy that she was a Wizard.
• Vizet suggested that Mr. Filch try another spell, such as the Fire-Making Spell.

Filch successfully cast Fiendfyre and broke down in tears as the wizards celebrated his transformation from a Squib. After the reporters left, a Muggle official called the event a miracle but expressed concern and asked Vizet to answer some questions.

• Filch cast Fiendfyre, and his cries of relief prompted Dumbledore, the Minister of Magic, and the other wizards to applaud and cheer.
• He and Mrs. Figg left with a healer for examinations at St. Mungo's, while reporters surrounded Vizet with questions.
• Rita Skeeter quietly watched the Muggle officials and arranged for her photographer to send her draft after the reporters departed.
• Vizet asked the reporters to end their questioning out of consideration for St. Mungo's, and most of them left the Round Hall.
• A Muggle high-level figure praised the magic as a miracle, then told Vizet it had left him with a bad feeling and asked him to address some questions.

Vizet explained that he had chosen Easter because it was a school holiday, then acknowledged concerns that curing Squib Disease could create unfairness between Squibs and Muggles. Rita Skeeter challenged the Muggle officials’ claims of concern for social unity, and Vizet argued that the cure revealed a fundamental change in how magic could be understood.

• Vizet told the Muggle High-level that he chose Easter because it was a holiday for students.
• The Muggle High-level argued that Squibs receiving magic offered hope but highlighted how Muggles could not access it.
• Another Muggle High-level warned that curing Squib Disease could create a new inequality and split society.
• Rita Skeeter identified Karl Gustafsson and Toivo Koskinen, then challenged Koskinen over his support for cutting disability subsidies.
• Vizet agreed that a divide could emerge if magic remained inaccessible to ordinary people, but said curing Squib Disease showed that old assumptions about magic could change.

Vizet demonstrated to Toivo Koskinen that Muggles could use magic through a standardized artifact called a Fake Wand. After trying its spells, Toivo returned it reluctantly, especially impressed by the Scouring Charm.

• Vizet told Toivo Koskinen that Muggles, Squibs, and wizards differed in how they cast magic, not in whether they could.
• Vizet introduced the Fake Wand and asked Toivo to test it, and Toivo agreed despite Rita Skeeter's pointed remark about disability benefits.
• Vizet explained that the Fake Wand could cast four spells and showed Toivo how to use it by speaking an incantation and imagining the effect.
• Toivo used Lumos Solem to create and enlarge a light, then tested Nox, Scourgify, and Sonorus while Vizet answered his questions.
• Toivo returned the Fake Wand reluctantly and said the Scouring Charm felt like having a cleaner with him at all times.

Vizet defended using Ritual Magic and the Fake Wand to make magic accessible, but Karl Gustafsson challenged who would control their distribution and proposed a joint oversight committee. The debate ended with Karl demanding that the committee have power to veto Squib applications and bar people from possessing Fake Wands.

• Toivo Koskinen demonstrated the Fake Wand, and Vizet argued that Squibs were the best group to begin studying magic and that the technology could bring magic into ordinary homes.
• The guests applauded Vizet, while the Muggle High-levels remained doubtful and Rita Skeeter prepared to record the coming confrontation.
• Karl Gustafsson praised the Fake Wand but challenged Vizet over who would decide who could possess it and how its use would be controlled.
• Karl cited the Statute of Secrecy and Cornelius Fudge's use of a dangerous monster at a school, prompting the wizards to look toward Amelia Bones.
• Karl proposed a Qualification Review Committee jointly formed by Muggle representatives and the International Confederation of Wizards, with authority to veto Squib applications and bar people from possessing Fake Wands.

At the Round Hall, Karl Gustafsson proposed reviewing Squibs and Fake Wands, prompting Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd to challenge his plan as a bid for control. Gustafsson defended the proposal and invoked the Witch Hunt as a means of Muggle self-protection, leaving the negotiations more tense as Rita wondered how Vizet would respond.

• Amelia Bones recognized the ambition behind Karl Gustafsson's proposal, but Dumbledore urged her to trust Vizet to handle the situation.
• Rita Skeeter accused Gustafsson of seeking control over wands and suggested that his proposed review would include a test of loyalty to Muggles or Wizards.
• Alexander Dodd challenged Gustafsson's review as a way to turn innate magical ability into a permit and asked whether Wizards and children might later be reviewed too.
• Gustafsson insisted the review concerned only deliberately manufactured cases, questioned why Wizards had begun defending Squibs, and described the Witch Hunt as protection from persecution.
• Gustafsson warned that Muggles could use other means to protect themselves if an accident occurred, heightening the tension in the Round Hall.

Minister Bonaparte and President Jacques discussed the Muggle opposition to wizardkind and the possibility that a permanent member had encouraged Karl Gustafsson and Toivo Koskinen. As Karl’s debate with Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd left him isolated, he appealed to Vizet for help.

• Minister Bonaparte asked President Jacques whether he had arranged for Karl Gustafsson to make his remarks, and Jacques denied knowing what the two Muggles would do.
• President Jacques explained that some Muggle leaders might doubt the moon nuclear-bomb incident and believe their population and technology could force wizards to submit.
• Minister Bonaparte and President Jacques compared those leaders to Cornelius Fudge, while John Major told Amelia Bones that England had no need to provoke wizards and urged her to take the matter seriously.
• Amelia Bones insisted that the situation had not yet become serious enough to act, despite John Major’s concerns about leaving the matter to Mr. Lovegood.
• Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd continued challenging Karl Gustafsson, while Toivo Koskinen offered no support and Karl worried about the damage to his political career.
• Karl Gustafsson stopped arguing with Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd and called on Vizet to say something as the experiment’s initiator.

Vizet revealed that he had modified the ritual magic array beneath the Round Hall, drawing inspiration from the Paris Region Incident. As the array continued glowing, Minister Bonaparte suspected it might connect Dark Magic creatures with the transformation of Squibs into Wizards.

• Vizet told Karl Gustafsson he intended to act in the Round Hall, and Karl eagerly urged him to begin.
• Vizet paced through the hall and asked Karl what had brought them together to discuss magic.
• Karl identified the Paris Region Incident and challenged Vizet to explain why he had mentioned it.
• Vizet said the ritual array beneath his feet came from the magic used to create a Dark Magic creature during the Paris Region Incident, which he had later modified.
• Minister Bonaparte wondered whether Vizet planned to create a Dark Magic creature and asked President Jacques whether his eldest daughter had shown no magical talent before mastering magic.

Vizet used the negative emotions of the Muggle High-level officials to activate a modified Ritual Magic Array in the Round Hall. As light pierced their souls and drew their Negative Emotions into gray-black mist, the ritual began to take effect.

• Minister Bonaparte confirmed that President Jacques's eldest daughter Laurence had been cured of a magical illness by Mr. Lovegood and had become a Wizard.
• Karl Gustafsson accused Vizet of threatening the Muggle High-level officials, while his former allies avoided supporting him.
• Vizet told the officials that fear and other intense emotions could nourish Dark Magic creatures, and declared that magic itself would judge who was qualified to use it.
• Vizet activated the Ritual Magic Array, drawing the officials' negative emotions into it.
• The array's light filled the Round Hall and stirred the officials' souls, gathering their Negative Emotions into gray-black mist.

Vizet used a ritual array to make gray-black Dark Magic creatures from the negative emotions of Muggle officials, and some officials absorbed the mist and began to mutate. He summoned a huge Golden Eagle Patronus that reversed the changes, leaving the affected officials experiencing Magical Outbursts.

• Vizet's ritual magic formed gray-black mist creatures from the ill intentions of Karl Gustafsson and other Muggle officials, then sent the mist through the gathered officials.
• John Major and President Jacques realized the mist had merged with them, and Dumbledore and Minister Bonaparte suggested they might be able to use magic.
• Several officials transformed as the mist's effects took hold, throwing the Round Hall into chaos.
• Vizet cast Expecto Patronum and summoned an enormous Golden Eagle Patronus that sent Silver-Blue Light through the affected officials.
• The officials' mutations vanished as magic began emanating from them and the objects around them, signaling Magical Outbursts like those experienced by Filch and Mrs. Figg.

President Jacques and Prime Minister Major experienced Magical Outbursts as their magic awakened. Major controlled his glow with Dumbledore’s guidance, then discovered Vizet’s wand let him cast magic and asked how to perform the Wand-Lighting Charm.

• President Jacques felt magic awaken and saw nearby objects grow and shrink uncontrollably, while John Major’s body began to glow.
• Dumbledore guided Major in accepting the light and matching its flicker to his breathing until he dispelled it.
• Major feared he had lost his magic, and Dumbledore suggested he needed a wand to cast spells.
• Vizet offered Major a wand he had made, and Major produced sparks when he waved it.
• Major asked Vizet for the Wand-Lighting Charm’s incantation, and Vizet answered, “Lumos Solem.”

Vizet helped Prime Minister Major and other Muggle leaders cast the Wand-Lighting Charm during their Magical Outbursts, while Dumbledore explained to Amelia Bones why the wizards had chosen a more forceful response to Muggle suspicion. The outbursts subsided, leaving the wizards to watch the Muggle leaders practice magic.

• Prime Minister Major cast the Wand-Lighting Charm and asked Vizet how to change the light’s appearance.
• Dumbledore told Amelia Bones that suspicion and arrogance had obstructed magical negotiations with Muggles, prompting him and Vizet to prepare for the Muggles’ next move.
• Dumbledore said wizards needed to make magic itself grant Muggles a chance to qualify, rather than accept a Muggle Qualification Review Committee.
• Vizet helped high-ranking Muggles, including Karl Gustafsson, cast the Wand-Lighting Charm during their Magical Outbursts.
• The Magical Outbursts subsided, and the wizards watched the Muggle leaders continue practicing spells with clumsy movements.

Karl Gustafsson accused Vizet of manipulating the Wand-Lighting Charm and questioned whether the Muggles’ new magic was real, while Dumbledore and the others considered how the Ritual Magic Array might be affecting them. The Round Hall descended into chaos as Wizards angrily challenged and insulted Karl.

• Karl Gustafsson repeatedly cast the Wand-Lighting Charm and grew frustrated that his light remained dimmer than Toivo Koskinen’s.
• Karl accused Vizet of distributing magical power unfairly and suggested the eagle was a device creating the illusion that Muggles could use magic.
• Dumbledore said the Ritual Magic Array was designed to create Dark Magic creatures and could be intensifying negative emotions.
• Amelia Bones suggested the newly awakened Wizards’ arrogance and emotional instability might result from their unfamiliar power.
• Karl claimed the eagle was a magic transmitter, prompting Wizards to insult him and demand a duel.

Vizet demonstrated that the Ritual Magic experiment had left Karl Gustafsson and several other Muggle High-levels unable to cast magic, while John Major and the others retained their abilities. He explained that some participants had found their footing on the path to magic, while Gustafsson’s group had simply slipped down the slope.

• Karl Gustafsson narrowly dodged a red spell, and Vizet reassured him that St. Mungo’s Healers could treat him if needed.
• Dumbledore stopped the Wizards from attacking Gustafsson, who asked Vizet to make the Golden Eagle Patronus disappear.
• Vizet dismissed the Patronus, and Karl Gustafsson and several other Muggle High-levels discovered they could no longer cast spells.
• Vizet summoned the Golden Eagle Patronus again and explained that their loss of magic was an expected result of the experiment.
• Vizet said John Major and the others had found their footing on the path to magic, while Gustafsson’s group had slipped down the slope.

Senior Muggle officials condemned Karl Gustafsson’s accusations and declared support for Vizet’s magical experiment, leaving Gustafsson’s group isolated. Toivo Koskinen then stood to apologize, suggesting that their own side was beginning to fracture.

• John Major, President Jacques, and President Bill defended Vizet’s experiment and rebuked Karl Gustafsson and his colleagues.
• Senior Muggle officials joined them in publicly supporting Vizet, while Karl Gustafsson accused Vizet’s magic of bewitching them.
• Schmidt spoke against Gustafsson, explaining that magic followed its own rules and that Muggles needed to approach it with honesty and humility.
• Dumbledore told Amelia Bones that Schmidt’s group had previously stayed neutral because Teutonia feared magic after the Wizarding World War.
• Rita Skeeter observed that the experiment had separated allies from fence-sitters and fools as more officials switched sides.
• Toivo Koskinen rose to offer a sincere apology, and Rita Skeeter wondered whether Vizet had expected the split.

Toivo Koskinen accepted that the experiment had revealed something about magic and his own convictions, while Karl Gustafsson denounced the experiment and was stunned by a Wizard. Vizet then offered hope that the experiment could be improved, leaving the Muggle High-level reconsidering the possibility of gaining magic.

• Toivo Koskinen told Karl Gustafsson that the experiment had changed how he viewed magic and made him question their struggle.
• Karl Gustafsson accused Vizet and the others of staging a scam, but the Muggle High-level who had supported him stayed silent.
• A Wizard cast Stupefy at Karl Gustafsson, knocking him unconscious, and Toivo Koskinen apologized for the incident.
• Dumbledore reassured Toivo Koskinen that his loss might not be permanent, and Vizet said the experiment was only the beginning of further attempts to make magic accessible.
• The Muggle High-level began whispering with renewed hope as Vizet declared that magic was neither a divine miracle nor the privilege of a select few.