Chapter Summaries

Wayne humiliated Scrimgeour and the British Aurors by selling powerful props to their rivals, then visited Gabrielle before returning to Hogwarts with Newt’s Zouwu. Back at school, he learned that the Costume Card Packs had sold out and promised to release more styles.

• Wayne sold Cross powerful props, and Kingsley lost his duel before officials from other countries defended Romania’s use of equipment and praised Celia’s Shop.
• German and Bulgarian Aurors defeated the remaining British Aurors, leaving Scrimgeour’s team eliminated without a win.
• Wayne visited Gabrielle in Paris, and she brought him onto a video call with Pheobe before he left the next day.
• Scrimgeour bought props in Paris for the team competition, but the British Aurors lost again, bringing their total to four defeats.
• Wayne returned to Hogwarts with Newt’s Zouwu, which he brought along after it chose to stay with him.
• Hogwarts students welcomed Wayne back and told him the Costume Card Packs had sold out, so he promised to release more styles.

Wayne returned to Hogwarts, settled back into school life, and shared stories and photographs from his dragon reserve trip with Hagrid. Snape praised Wayne in Potions before asking him to donate dragon materials, and Wayne made clear that he expected payment.

• Wayne learned that Black had sneaked into Gryffindor Tower and decided the disruption had cost him opportunities to earn points.
• Wayne ordered Jerry to find Crookshanks, then questioned the cat about Black and Scabbers and promised it dragon milk as a reward.
• Wayne restocked the vending machine, reunited with Astoria, and later spent time soothing Hermione and Cho after his prolonged absence.
• Wayne showed Hagrid photographs from the dragon reserve and told him that Ho-Oh's flames had changed Norbert.
• Snape praised Wayne's answer in Potions and awarded him and Norman's group points before asking Wayne for dragon bones, blood, teeth, and scales.
• Wayne challenged Snape's claim that the materials would benefit Hogwarts and gestured for payment.

Wayne’s plan to turn Britain’s Auror conference losses into public outrage pushed Fudge to seek a deal with Celestia’s Shop, but Nagini refused to supply the Ministry until summer. Wayne then set aside the newspapers to spend the day with Astoria, taking her to the Hogwarts kitchen.

• Wayne traded dragon materials to Snape for Potions and demanded another bottle of Liquid Luck, while Snape took back Hufflepuff points for Wayne’s disrespect.
• Newspaper reports blamed the Ministry and Scrimgeour for Britain’s defeats at the European conference, provoking public anger and Fudge’s fury.
• Fudge stripped Scrimgeour of his authority as Auror Office director and announced that he would negotiate with Celestia’s Shop.
• Nagini told Fudge and Scrimgeour that the shop’s products were unavailable for at least half a year and directed them to speak with Wayne, who was at Hogwarts.
• Wayne read Rita Skeeter’s article, then took Astoria to the Hogwarts kitchen for its cooking competition.

Wayne judged a Hogwarts House-elf cooking competition, then heard Harry’s strange dreams and realized they were linked to Voldemort’s attempt to breed a Basilisk. The next day, Fudge and Scrimgeour visited Dumbledore to seek help persuading Wayne, leaving their request unresolved.

• Wayne judged the House-elves’ cooking competition, where Kellen won with braised Lion’s Head Meatballs, and asked him to deliver West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy to Dumbledore.
• During tutoring, Harry told Wayne he had dreamed of being a rooster carrying an egg, and Wayne suspected the dreams were connected to Voldemort.
• In Albania, Voldemort possessed a transformed hen to lay an egg, then possessed a toad and began hatching it; Harry dreamed of the toad and egg.
• Wayne reassured Harry that his dreams might be ordinary and suggested he ask Professor Trelawney for an interpretation.
• Fudge and Scrimgeour visited Dumbledore, and Fudge explained their situation in hopes that Dumbledore would persuade Wayne to grant his request.

Wayne confronted Fudge and Scrimgeour at Dumbledore's office, where he negotiated a Ministry purchase of magical equipment and rejected Scrimgeour's demand to supervise his shop. When Scrimgeour accused him of treason, Wayne beat him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Dumbledore refused Fudge's request to make decisions for Wayne and invited Wayne to meet him after class.
• Trelawney told Harry to eat well after interpreting his dreams, then warned Wayne that he would suffer a bloody disaster.
• McGonagall sent Wayne to Dumbledore's office, where he recognized that Fudge and Scrimgeour had come to see him.
• Wayne accused Scrimgeour of targeting his business and raised the equipment price to eight hundred Galleons per set; Fudge agreed to buy one hundred sets before the next term.
• Scrimgeour proposed Ministry supervision of Wayne's shop and implied that Wayne might be committing treason, so Wayne struck him, kicked him into a bookshelf, and stood on his face.

Wayne attacked Scrimgeour after the Auror director threatened him, then used his standing as the Earl of Northumberland to force Fudge to promise a trial and warn that he could expose the Wizarding World. After Dumbledore urged him to restrain himself, Wayne told him about Harry’s vivid dreams, and Dumbledore identified them as showing a Basilisk hatching.

• Wayne disarmed Scrimgeour, broke his arm, and threatened to have pure-blood families expelled from Britain as illegal immigrants, provoking Dumbledore’s alarm over a possible war between wizards and Muggles.
• Fudge apologized on Scrimgeour’s behalf and agreed to petition the Wizengamot to impeach him and pursue legal action; Dumbledore agreed to preside over Wayne’s trial.
• Fudge carried Scrimgeour back to the Ministry through Dumbledore’s fireplace, and Dumbledore repaired the damaged room.
• Wayne told Dumbledore that Harry had experienced a series of vivid dreams, including details from a Divination session with Trelawney.
• Dumbledore concluded that Harry’s dreams described the process of a Basilisk hatching.

Wayne told Dumbledore he had found and destroyed a Horcrux, then made an Unbreakable Vow granting him the objects left behind by future destroyed Horcruxes. After learning the Horcrux had been Ravenclaw’s diadem, Dumbledore realized Voldemort might have used other Founders’ relics and regretted giving Wayne the claim to them.

• Dumbledore suspected Harry was an unintended Horcrux and asked Wayne to keep the connection secret.
• Wayne revealed he had found Voldemort’s Horcrux and negotiated an Unbreakable Vow giving him the objects left after future Horcruxes were destroyed.
• Wayne used an improved Unbreakable Vow spell without a witness, adding that Dumbledore had to bring him along whenever he learned definite information about a Horcrux.
• Wayne showed Dumbledore Ravenclaw’s diadem and explained that Nicolas had destroyed its soul fragment using a potion made from basilisk venom.
• Dumbledore tried to claim the diadem for its original owner, but Wayne refused and said he would return it only if he met Ravenclaw.
• Dumbledore inferred that Voldemort had likely turned other Founders’ treasures into Horcruxes and regretted promising their remains to Wayne.

Dumbledore left Hogwarts on urgent business after asking McGonagall to oversee the school, while Wayne entered Ravenclaw Tower to seek the Grey Lady and learn more about the Diadem. He encountered the Grey Lady at the end of the chapter, but had not yet spoken with her.

• Dumbledore took medicine from McGonagall and left Hogwarts, entrusting the school to her, Snape, and Wayne while Sirius Black remained at large.
• Wayne asked Cho to help him visit the Ravenclaw common room so he could question the Grey Lady about the Diadem, and Cho explained that outsiders had to answer a difficult riddle.
• At midnight, Wayne confronted the eagle-shaped knocker, threatened to break the door, and persuaded it to let him inside; it later revealed that the riddle's answer was Pi.
• Wayne met Cho in the common room, explained the answer, and learned from her that the Grey Lady returned nightly to look at Ravenclaw's statue.
• After Cho went to bed, Wayne examined the common room and Ravenclaw's statue, then the Grey Lady appeared and told him he was not a Ravenclaw student.

Wayne questioned Helena about Ravenclaw’s Diadem and learned she had never worn it, while she asked him to destroy the Horcrux within it. The next day, Hermione took Wayne to Ravenclaw Tower to answer the eagle door knocker’s riddle.

• Wayne revealed that Voldemort had made the Diadem a Horcrux, and Helena urged him to destroy the soul fragment.
• Helena admitted she had never used the Diadem and explained that she stole it before the Bloody Baron killed her; Wayne told her he had already destroyed the Horcrux.
• Wayne asked Helena who her father was, but she reacted with shock and anger and left without answering.
• Hermione dragged Wayne to Ravenclaw Tower to try the bronze eagle door knocker’s challenge, while Ravenclaw students gathered to watch.
• The bronze eagle asked what connected minds beyond language and writing, and a Ravenclaw student guessed, “Emotion.”

Hermione solved the Ravenclaw common-room riddle, while Wayne negotiated with Phineas to protect Sirius Black in exchange for access to the Black family’s fortune and records. By May, Wayne was selling new cards as students faced the final Hogsmeade weekend of the school year with little money.

• Hermione correctly answered “music” to open Ravenclaw’s common room, and Professor Flitwick later rewarded her with ten points and a crystal ball.
• Wayne learned Dumbledore had left Hogwarts and returned to Lawrence’s private office to question the headmaster portraits about Ravenclaw.
• Phineas offered Wayne the Black family’s wealth and books if he brought Sirius to Grimmauld Place and helped preserve the family line.
• Wayne accepted Phineas’s offer to keep Sirius safe, despite objections from Dexter Forsco and other portraits.
• In May, Wayne released new cards while Hogwarts students spent a rainy stretch indoors and prepared for the final Hogsmeade weekend of the year.

As exams approached, Wayne revised for perfect marks while Lupin arranged a secret outing with Harry and Ron to practice the Patronus Charm. At the supposedly empty Shrieking Shack, Lupin began revealing his close friendship with Harry’s parents and Sirius Black, leaving Harry shocked to learn Lupin had been part of their group.

• Wayne studied for his exams, supervised Lupin’s Defense Against the Dark Arts maze lesson, and worried that Lupin would leave before Wayne could finish testing his potion.
• Lupin questioned Ron about Scabbers and invited Ron and Harry to practice their Patronuses against a Dementor at the Shrieking Shack.
• Lupin obtained Professor McGonagall’s permission, collected a map and the castle-gate key, and led Harry and Ron to the Shack after dark.
• Finding no Dementor inside, Lupin offered to tell Harry about his father, and Harry asked how his parents had gotten together.
• Lupin revealed that he, James, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew had been close friends known by the code names Moony, Antlers, Padfoot, and Wormtail.

Lupin and Sirius revealed that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew, the man who had betrayed James and Lily, while Harry initially believed they were conspiring against him. The chapter ended with Peter exposed and bound, as Sirius demanded the chance to kill him.

• Lupin told Harry and Ron that he and their fathers had been Animagi, then revealed that he was a werewolf and asked for Scabbers.
• Sirius burst into the room as a black dog and pinned Scabbers, then transformed into human form; Harry attacked him with a Disarming Charm.
• Harry fought Lupin and Sirius until they disarmed him, but Sirius returned Harry and Ron's wands while Lupin bound Sirius and explained that they wanted to expose Scabbers.
• Lupin recounted how Sirius had claimed Peter Pettigrew was the real Secret Keeper and had escaped after faking his death.
• Lupin used Finite Incantatem on Scabbers, transforming him into Peter Pettigrew, then bound him as Sirius demanded to kill him.

Harry stopped Sirius Black from killing Peter Pettigrew and prepared to take Peter to the castle, but Snape burst into the Shrieking Shack and attacked Lupin. Harry told Snape that Sirius had been falsely accused and began explaining Peter’s betrayal.

• Peter Pettigrew confessed that he had betrayed James and Lily because he feared Voldemort, while accusing James, Sirius, and Lupin of treating him as a subordinate.
• Sirius beat Peter and tried to kill him, but Harry disarmed Sirius and insisted they take Peter to the castle instead.
• Sirius accepted Harry’s plan, and Lupin bound Peter securely before the group could leave.
• Snape entered the Shrieking Shack, blasted Lupin, and confronted Sirius and the others.
• Harry stopped Snape and explained that Peter had caused his parents’ deaths and Sirius was innocent, then recounted what had happened.

Snape subdued Harry and Sirius during their fight in the Shrieking Shack, but Harry summoned Wayne Lawrence’s help with a badge. The white light formed a towering phantom behind Harry as Snape launched another attack.

• Snape rejected Harry’s account that Sirius Black had been framed and prepared to send Sirius, Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew to the Dementors.
• Harry and Sirius attacked Snape, but he defeated them, disarmed them, and stood ready to stun Harry.
• Wayne announced Hufflepuff’s academic rewards, then used his points for a hundred draws and obtained a Philosopher’s Stone among his prizes.
• Harry called for Young Master Lawrence, and his badge shone brightly to summon a huge phantom behind him.
• Snape recognized the phantom and launched two invisible blades despite the sudden arrival.

Wayne intervened when Snape tried to seize Sirius and Harry, then heard the truth about Pettigrew and restrained the suspects. As the group headed to the Headmaster’s Office, Sirius told Harry he was his godfather, and Harry eagerly agreed to live with him once he was cleared.

• Wayne’s magical phantom blocked Snape’s attacks, while Wayne restrained Sirius and blasted Snape through a wall before binding him.
• Harry and Lupin explained that Pettigrew was the real culprit and Sirius had been framed; Wayne bound Pettigrew and warned Snape that killing him would cost Snape his place at Hogwarts.
• Wayne released Snape but left Sirius and Pettigrew bound, then vanished and told the others to meet him in the Headmaster’s Office.
• Lupin led the group toward the castle with Snape guarding them, while Sirius asked Harry whether he knew Sirius was his godfather.
• Harry said he wanted to live with Sirius and offered to use his vault money to buy them a house.

Wayne arranged Sirius Black's arrival at Hogwarts and secured Phineas's promise to surrender Black family wealth in exchange for protecting Sirius and helping clear his name. Professor McGonagall joined the group and heard Harry begin explaining how Peter Pettigrew had betrayed James and Lily.

• Sirius told Harry that he had inherited the Black family fortune and had wanted to buy him a Firebolt.
• Wayne told Phineas that Sirius was innocent, then made him honor their agreement to surrender three vaults' worth of gold and Black family collections and help acquit Sirius.
• Wayne waited in the Headmaster's Office with Harry, Sirius, Lupin, Snape, and Peter, then summoned Professor McGonagall through Phineas.
• Professor McGonagall learned that Lupin had forged her signature to help Harry and Ron investigate, and she rebuked him for putting them in danger.
• Harry recounted the events to Professor McGonagall, who grew tearful when she heard that Peter had betrayed James and Lily.

Harry revealed Peter Pettigrew’s betrayal, and the Dark Mark provided evidence for his crimes. After a night in Snape’s custody, Peter confessed to Dumbledore, who awaited Cornelius Fudge’s arrival to decide the case; Sirius Black was brought in, still blaming himself for James’s death.

• Harry told Professor McGonagall and the others that Peter feared Voldemort, and Wayne revealed the Dark Mark on Peter’s arm as proof he had served the Death Eaters.
• Professor McGonagall kept Sirius Black in custody and handed Peter Pettigrew to Snape, who took him away with Wayne’s Whip of Kindness.
• Snape used the whip on Peter through the night, reviving him with a potion whenever he died, then brought him to the Headmaster’s Office in the morning.
• Dumbledore questioned Peter, who confessed to betraying the Potters and exposing Order of the Phoenix members, including Edgar Bones, to the Death Eaters.
• Dumbledore said Peter would spend the rest of his life in Azkaban, and Professor McGonagall brought in Sirius Black, who silently regretted not becoming the Potters’ Secret Keeper.

Wayne helped Fudge see how reversing Sirius Black’s wrongful conviction could benefit him politically, and Fudge promised to clear Black’s name and pursue those responsible. Wayne then hinted that his role in capturing Peter Pettigrew deserved recognition, and Fudge offered to apply for a second-class Order of Merlin for him.

• Fudge agreed that Sirius Black’s conviction should be overturned and vowed to hold the officials responsible for the old mistake accountable.
• Sirius worried that Fudge might send him back to Azkaban, but Fudge assured him he intended to give him justice.
• Wayne promised to ask Mrs. Greengrass to help promote Fudge, who welcomed the prospect of favorable media coverage.
• Wayne claimed that capturing Peter Pettigrew had required a dangerous duel and invoked his Order of Merlin, while magically stopping Peter from speaking.
• Fudge said the Ministry would reward Wayne’s service and promised to apply for a second-class Order of Merlin for him.

Wayne secured Dumbledore’s guardianship of Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew until their retrial, while Fudge agreed to support Wayne’s recommendation for a First-class Order of Merlin. The truth about Black and Lupin spread among Wayne’s friends, and Snape guarded Pettigrew as the school approached its exams.

• Dumbledore agreed to recommend Wayne for a First-class Order of Merlin, and Fudge agreed to leave Black and Pettigrew in Dumbledore’s care until their retrial.
• Fudge revealed that he planned to appoint Kingsley Shacklebolt to replace Scrimgeour, and he warned Umbridge and the Aurors not to provoke Wayne.
• Wayne told Harry that Black was still awaiting a retrial but could be visited in Dumbledore’s office, then explained the events to Hermione, Cho, Penelope, and Astoria.
• The Dementors withdrew from the school, Harry visited Black daily, and Dumbledore refused Black’s request to take Harry away from his aunt’s home.
• Snape rented Wayne’s Whip of Kindness to punish Pettigrew, and he began the final Potions lesson before the exams by writing a complex formula on the blackboard.

As Hogwarts final exams began, Wayne breezed through his tests, received full marks in Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures, and improvised a dramatic prediction during Divination. He secretly stayed behind to see whether Trelawney would make a genuine prophecy when Harry took his exam, wondering if he could make his own prediction come true.

• George and Fred told Wayne they hoped to earn at least four Es, and Wayne reminded them that the Ministry supervised the O.W.L.s rather than Snape.
• After his Charms exam, Wayne received full marks in Ancient Runes from Professor Babbling and explained rune principles to her.
• Wayne earned full marks from Hagrid in Care of Magical Creatures, while Hagrid pressed him for an explanation about seeing Norbert at the end of the year.
• Wayne finished his Arithmancy exam and told Trelawney he foresaw blood, wounds, war, and a death, earning full marks for his performance.
• Wayne turned invisible and remained in the Divination classroom to watch Harry's exam, wondering whether his prediction could shape future events.