Chapter Summaries

Wayne arranged for Lockhart to take possession of Tom Riddle’s diary, leaving Tom poised to manipulate the professor. Back in the Hufflepuff common room, Wayne began proposing a cooking competition for the students’ last night at Hogwarts.

• Wayne pretended to obey Tom’s demand to hunt in the Forbidden Forest, then left the diary where Lockhart would find it.
• Lockhart picked up the diary and ignored its warning to deliver it to Dumbledore, hoping to use it for power and a new book.
• Tom gained Lockhart’s trust through the diary, then recognized him as the professor who had made him sick with flattery.
• Gardevoir reported to Wayne that Lockhart had taken the diary, and Wayne felt relieved that his plan had worked.
• The Hufflepuffs discussed how to spend their final night, and Wayne stood up to suggest an activity involving their classmates’ cooking skills.

Wayne organized a Hufflepuff Chef King Competition, offering prizes and recruiting judges among Hogwarts’s professors. Dumbledore and several Heads of House agreed to attend, while Snape initially refused before Wayne hinted at a commemorative gift.

• Wayne proposed a Hufflepuff cooking competition and offered a Shield Charm item, Liquid Luck, a shop voucher, and consolation prizes.
• Wayne asked the prefects to register one male and one female contestant from each year, then went to invite judges.
• Wayne joked with the Gargoyle about finding it a companion, and Dumbledore overheard their talk about replacing him as headmaster.
• Wayne invited Dumbledore, Sprout, McGonagall, and Flitwick to judge; they agreed, and McGonagall deducted twenty points before awarding Hufflepuff thirty points for the idea.
• Snape rejected Wayne’s invitation, but Wayne produced a bottle of black ash and suggested he had prepared a commemorative gift.

Wayne organized a Hufflepuff cooking competition judged by Dumbledore and the heads of house. Cedric’s disastrous starry-sky pie ended the contest with three points and a ten-point penalty for Hufflepuff.

• Wayne persuaded Snape to join the judging panel by offering him ashes from Ho-Oh’s Nirvana, then took the bottle back before Snape could claim it.
• The Hufflepuff contestants prepared their dishes in the kitchen, and Dumbledore and the four heads of house arrived to judge them.
• Norman earned forty-nine points for his scotch egg, while a student’s overly sweet oxtail stew received mostly low scores.
• Cedric served the judges a starry-sky pie, and they discovered he had used sugar instead of salt.
• Cedric received three points, and Snape deducted ten points from Hufflepuff.

Wayne hosted the Hufflepuff cooking competition, earned a new talent from the system, and promised Grace a custom enchanted bra as her prize. After the Hogwarts Express arrived, Mrs. Greengrass welcomed Astoria home and planned a visit to Wayne, while Wayne returned home and installed puppets as guards.

• Wayne announced Emilia Grace, Hannah Abbott, and Art Burnham as the top three contestants, and Dumbledore pulled feathers from Fawkes for the remaining prizes.
• Wayne received the Malicious Injury talent from the system and agreed to make Grace an enchanted bra.
• On the train, Wayne told the twins that next year’s cooking competition could include all four houses, while Cho said she would attend her family’s ancestor-worship ceremony in Dragon Country.
• At King’s Cross, Mrs. Greengrass saw Astoria’s improved health and planned to visit Wayne, believing their closeness could help protect the Greengrass family from its Blood Curse.
• Wayne returned home and released his Paloo puppets to help Gardevoir care for the Fantastic Beasts and guard the house.

Wayne uncovered a Jewish interest group's plan to bind the Lawrence family to its network and told Humphrey to build a lobbying group for future influence in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Mrs. Greengrass then rewarded Wayne for saving Astoria and brought him the paperwork for his trip to Beauxbatons, before beginning to explain the Greengrass family Blood Curse.

• Wayne used Legilimency during meetings with Lawrence family managers and found eight people linked to Jewish-owned businesses and an effort to draw the family into Jewish interest groups.
• Wayne stopped Humphrey from removing the suspected conspirators at once and instead planned to take their offered profits before dealing with them.
• Wayne ordered Humphrey to form a Lawrence family lobbying group within a year, explaining that it would prepare the family to influence both ordinary politics and the Wizarding World.
• Wayne studied the black mud extracted from Astoria and Nagini's Blood Curses as he neared the creation of a Blood Curse of his own.
• Mrs. Greengrass gave Wayne ten thousand Galleons, three Diagon Alley shops, company shares, and completed immigration paperwork for his Beauxbatons trip in gratitude for saving Astoria.
• After Astoria explored Wayne's home, Mrs. Greengrass began recounting the Greengrass family Blood Curse and said it affected only female family members.

Wayne collected the Iron Eater Beast from Borgin and Burkes, killed two wizards who tried to abduct him, and traveled to Dorset to spend Christmas with Newt and Tina. There, he met their nervous grandson Rolf Scamander, who would attend Hogwarts the following year.

• Mrs. Greengrass offered to teach Wayne spells passed down from Merlin if his first child with Astoria took the Greengrass surname.
• Wayne collected the Iron Eater Beast and gave Burke three Fiendfyre Rings in exchange for the creature.
• Two dark-magic wizards tried to capture Wayne in Knockturn Alley, but he burned them away with a burst of light and heat.
• Wayne traveled by train to Newt and Tina's manor in Dorset to spend Christmas with them.
• Tina introduced Wayne to her grandson Rolf Scamander, and asked Wayne to look after him at Hogwarts.

Wayne visited Newt and Tina with Rolf, who was introduced to him as a new junior companion. Wayne revealed Nagini’s recovery, demonstrated his powerful wandless magic, and arranged for Newt to take responsibility for informing Dumbledore about her; the chapter ended with Wayne’s new pet delivery filling the yard with black-and-white bundles.

• Tina and Newt asked Wayne to help Rolf make friends at school, and Wayne reassured the shy boy.
• Newt showed Wayne the Kneazles while Tina prepared Christmas dinner and Rolf tended to sick Bowtruckles.
• Wayne told Newt that Nagini had recovered from her Blood Curse and was learning spells in his case, then asked Newt to reveal her existence to Dumbledore.
• Wayne lifted nearly the entire pond into the air with wandless magic and told Newt that Azkaban would struggle to hold him.
• Newt described Fairy Sprites near Beauxbatons, and Wayne said he would look for them during the upcoming competition.
• Owls delivered Wayne’s new pet to the manor, and Newt found black-and-white bundles tumbling all over the yard.

Wayne spent Christmas with the Scamanders, opened gifts that included two ancient nightmare spells, and received the Sorting Hat’s surprise revelation that it had given him the Sword of Gryffindor. Dumbledore learned the sword was gone and was left exasperated as the portraits argued over the Sorting Hat’s decision.

• Tina scolded Newt after the Iron Eater Beast wrecked her flower garden, then the Scamanders and Wayne shared Christmas dinner and fireworks.
• Wayne received gifts from friends and acquaintances, including Astoria’s doll and two difficult ancient spells from Mrs. Greengrass.
• Dumbledore reflected on Hogwarts’s quiet term and Harry’s progress, then helped the Sorting Hat add Wayne’s colorful feathers to its decoration.
• The Sorting Hat told Dumbledore it had given Wayne the Sword of Gryffindor when Dumbledore lent it to him.
• Dumbledore questioned why the Sorting Hat had not told him, while the awakened portraits protested that the sword had been given to a Hufflepuff.

Wayne showed Dumbledore the Sword of Gryffindor and negotiated to keep it until after his fifth-year birthday, while Dumbledore took it away temporarily to study. A letter about the Firebolt company’s breakthrough cut Wayne’s holiday short, and he left the Scamander estate for London.

• Dumbledore learned that Wayne had taken the Sword of Gryffindor and visited the Scamander estate to inspect it.
• Wayne revealed the sword, and he and Dumbledore negotiated an agreement allowing Wayne to keep it until after his fifth-year birthday, with Dumbledore borrowing it first.
• Dumbledore stayed for dinner, where he and Wayne discussed the sword’s ability to absorb substances and curses.
• A letter from Spinner’s End told Wayne that the broomstick company he had invested in had made a technological breakthrough, so he decided to return to London early.
• Wayne reassured Tina that his Firebolt investment was safe, said goodbye to the Scamanders, and promised the panda Tuantuan he would return.

Wayne visited the Firebolt Company, approved its improved broom design, and set a high price and a rushed production deadline. He then provoked Snape over a missing Christmas gift, and their confrontation ended with Snape offering him something from his home to make him leave.

• Wayne inspected the Firebolt prototype and learned it could reach 180 miles per hour, outperforming the original target.
• Wayne set the Firebolt's price at 4,999 Galleons, gave the company a Diagon Alley shop deed, and offered the Goblins a bonus to finish a broom by the day after tomorrow.
• Wayne went to Snape's home to complain that Snape had not returned his Christmas gift, distracting him and causing his potion to explode.
• Snape attacked Wayne with Sectumsempra, but Wayne blocked the spells with his Aegis Shield and fiery cloud.
• Snape told Wayne to take anything he wanted as a Christmas gift and leave, but Wayne rejected the offer as an insult.

Wayne obtained a bottle of Liquid Luck from Snape, then visited Nicolas Flamel and reunited with Pheobe. He and Nicolas began translating two ancient Lake Fairy spells, deciphering half of the Nightmare Curse before a friend arrived.

• Wayne accepted Snape's only bottle of Liquid Luck and gave him Nirvana Ash in return.
• Wayne flew his new Firebolt broom to Nicolas Flamel's estate, where he found Pheobe waiting for him.
• Wayne and Pheobe overcame their initial awkwardness, and she left after dinner promising to return with Gabrielle.
• Wayne showed Nicolas the Firebolt and asked him to examine two spells said to have been created by Merlin.
• Nicolas identified the writing as the language of the Lake Fairies and began translating it with Wayne, who deciphered half of the Nightmare Curse overnight.
• Nabby told Wayne that a friend had arrived to visit.

Wayne reunited with Gabrielle and spent time with Fleur before helping Nicolas Flamel translate two ancient spells. Testing the Nightmare Curse and Nightmare Spell let Wayne witness a memory from Nicolas's past, and he began examining the limits of the dreamscape.

• Wayne reassured Gabrielle that Fleur was keeping a communication book for her until she learned magic, and Gabrielle fell asleep after playing with him.
• Wayne and Fleur visited the Hidden Place, where they shopped for clothes before returning to Nicolas's estate.
• A week later, Wayne and Nicolas finished translating the Nightmare Curse and Nightmare Spell, and Nicolas suggested Merlin had created them.
• Wayne cast both spells on Nicolas and entered a dream in which Nicolas confronted his former student Samu.
• Wayne explored the dream and found that its clear boundaries covered Nicolas's estate, while everything beyond it was blurred and chaotic.

Wayne and Nicolas tested the Nightmare Spell, which let Wayne reshape Nicolas’s memories and raised the possibility of entering dreams across time. Snape then took Henderson and Russell toward Beauxbatons, where Wayne joined them late after working on the manor’s protections.

• Wayne altered Nicolas and Samu’s dream until the dream space shattered, waking Nicolas with a severe headache.
• Nicolas and Wayne discussed the Nightmare Spell’s danger and wondered whether Merlin had used it to visit Hogwarts in the past.
• Snape waited at The Leaky Cauldron for Henderson and Russell, then flew them toward Beauxbatons in a spacious carriage pulled by Thestrals.
• Wayne arrived about half an hour late, apologized to Snape, and was told that Hufflepuff had lost twenty points.

Wayne arrived at Beauxbatons, reunited with Pheobe, and met the visiting Ilvermorny delegation, including Cassandra Warley. Pheobe and Cassandra clashed over Wayne, who calmly asked Cassandra what she thought he should be like.

• Wayne traveled with Snape, Russell, and Henderson to Beauxbatons, where Madam Maxime welcomed them and introduced Pheobe.
• Wayne greeted Pheobe and warmed her hands while they waited for the Ilvermorny delegation to arrive.
• Rafferty Warley arrived with his daughter Cassandra, greeted Wayne, and urged him to transfer to Ilvermorny, while Maxime argued that he belonged at Beauxbatons.
• Cassandra introduced herself and questioned whether Wayne lived up to her father's praise, prompting Pheobe to defend him.
• Pheobe and Cassandra traded insults until Wayne intervened and asked Cassandra what she thought he should be like.
• Cassandra described Wayne as an epoch-making prodigy and the next Dumbledore, and Rafferty and Maxime agreed with her father's praise.

Wayne demonstrated his power to Cassandra Warley by shaping Beauxbatons's mountain snow into dragons, then the visitors toured the school and attended a welcoming dinner. After Cassandra apologized and explained her tournament qualifications, the chapter left the students preparing to attend Beauxbatons classes during their month-long stay.

• Rafferty and Beauxbatons's vice principal praised Wayne as a wizard whose future influence could rival Dumbledore's, prompting Cassandra to challenge their assessment.
• Wayne shaped the mountain snow into enormous dragons to demonstrate his power, and Cassandra admitted his ability had been underestimated.
• Madam Maxime led the visitors through Beauxbatons, where Wayne and Pheobe admired the Magic Fountain's statues of Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle.
• Cassandra apologized to Rafferty for provoking Wayne, and Rafferty urged her to learn from the incident.
• The visitors ate dinner at Beauxbatons, and Madam Maxime announced that the competitors would attend classes during their month-long stay.
• Cassandra insisted to Wayne that she had qualified through her Herbology and Potions grades, and Wayne pointed out that she had become defensive without his accusing her.

Wayne joined Pheobe for a tour of Beauxbatons and breakfast, where Cassandra approached him and invited him to attend classes together. Meanwhile, the visiting schools’ professors discussed their bid to join the Triwizard Tournament, and at Hogwarts Harry welcomed Snape’s month-long absence.

• Wayne asked Maxime to let him attend Beauxbatons’ Alchemy classes, and she arranged for him to join Pheobe’s classes.
• Rafferty, Maxime, Snape, and other professors discussed the visiting schools’ difficult effort to join the Triwizard Tournament.
• Pheobe showed Wayne Beauxbatons’ gardens, then brought him to breakfast while holding his hand.
• Cassandra approached Wayne and Pheobe, argued with Pheobe, and invited Wayne to attend fifth-year classes with her.
• Wayne declined Cassandra’s invitation because he already had plans with Pheobe, who later pinched him after he complimented Cassandra’s looks.
• Harry felt cheerful at Hogwarts because Snape would be away for a month.

Wayne attended classes at Beauxbatons, toured the school with Pheobe, and learned that the Mahoutokoro delegation was delayed by a volcano. The delegation arrived just before the first written examination, and the chapter ended as their unusual school customs were introduced.

• Harry learned that Dumbledore was filling in for Snape’s Potions classes, while Lockhart made him act out piranha deaths and assigned an eight-inch reflection.
• Wayne, Pheobe, and Cassandra compared Beauxbatons’ classes with those at Hogwarts and Mahoutokoro.
• Snape told Wayne that Mahoutokoro’s arrival was delayed because the volcano near its school might erupt, and Maxime postponed the competition for five days.
• Wayne refused to help Snape tutor Russell and Henderson, then toured Beauxbatons with Pheobe and considered bringing Fairy Sprites back as gardeners.
• Maxime announced the first written examination after the Mahoutokoro delegation missed its five-day deadline, but three students and their apologetic escort arrived on the morning of the exam.
• The chapter described Mahoutokoro’s small, pure-blood student body, its storm petrel commutes, and robes that changed from pink to gold as students advanced.

Wayne attended the Potions Exchange Tournament’s first written exam and recognized that the hostile Beauxbatons student, Phineas Samu, was tied to Nicolas Flamel’s past. After learning Phineas had been harassing Pheobe, Wayne reported him to Madam Maxime, who summoned him to her office.

• Wayne watched the Mahoutokoro students arrive and found one brown-haired girl familiar, then completed the tournament’s first written exam with ease.
• Wayne asked Pheobe about the Beauxbatons student who had stared at him, and she identified him as Phineas Samu, who had pursued her for two years.
• Wayne recognized the Samu name from Nicolas Flamel’s past but kept what he knew secret and decided to intervene against Phineas.
• Wayne told Madam Maxime that Phineas had harassed Pheobe and could cause conflict between him and Beauxbatons.
• Madam Maxime summoned Phineas to her office, where he saw Wayne waiting and reacted with surprise and anger.

Wayne resolved Phineas Samu’s harassment of Pheobe, then met Sakura Kinomoto and secretly questioned her professor about her magic. He learned Sakura was fourteen and inherited the Clow Cards, and the chapter ended with Wayne seeking more details about them.

• Madam Maxime forbade Phineas Samu from approaching Miss Delacour and warned she would send him home if he disobeyed.
• Wayne met Sakura Kinomoto, helped her find the Great Hall, and later reassured Pheobe that he had only been helping her.
• Wayne told Pheobe that Samu’s problem was resolved, then used a paper crane to track the Mahoutokoro professor leading Sakura’s group.
• Wayne entered Noriyuki Morinaga’s room at night, immobilized him, and used Truth Serum to question him.
• Noriyuki told Wayne that Sakura was fourteen, a talented Kinomoto heir, and an inheritor of the Clow Cards, a magical art combining cards, magic, and Alchemy.
• Wayne asked Noriyuki whether he had heard of Clow Reed.

Wayne learned that Sakura Kinomoto belonged to the Kinomoto family and arranged to see her Clow Card magic. After earning full marks in the written Potions competition, he planned a tour of Beauxbatons with Sakura and Cassandra and began making an instant translator.

• Wayne questioned Noriyuki Morinaga about the Clow Cards and Sakura's background, then erased Morinaga's memory and left him unconscious.
• Wayne spoke with Sakura before the Potions exam, learned she had made the Wind, Water, and Forest Cards, and persuaded her to demonstrate Clow Magic.
• Wayne scored forty points on the written exam, while Cassandra Warley and Pato Henderson scored thirty-six and Sakura Kinomoto scored thirty-five.
• Professor Padilha announced that the fixed-topic practical competition would begin in four days and asked contestants to submit materials for their free-topic potions.
• Wayne and Sakura arranged to meet the next afternoon at the palace entrance, and Cassandra joined them for a visit to the Giant Garden.
• Wayne returned to his dormitory and began making an instant translator to ease communication with Sakura.