Chapter Summaries

Wayne secured Dumbledore’s permission to visit Hogsmeade with Cho by agreeing to buy desserts for the Headmaster’s Office. After leaving the office, he met Astoria Greengrass and told her the disturbing story behind a portrait.

• Cho asked Wayne to accompany her to Hogsmeade on Saturday, and he agreed to seek permission to go openly.
• Wayne asked Cedric for a guide to Hogsmeade, then visited Dumbledore to request permission.
• Dumbledore initially refused because the request broke school rules, but offered Wayne permission in exchange for replenishing the office’s dessert supplies.
• Wayne gave Dumbledore a card for Hermione’s family’s dental clinic, and Dumbledore accepted it with interest.
• Wayne met Astoria Greengrass outside the office and explained the portrait’s story of Marisa Mankiewicz, a witch who used Love Potion on nearly five hundred victims.

Wayne arranged a future meeting with Astoria and helped Cho secure permission to visit Hogsmeade, while Hogwarts students endured Lockhart’s theatrical lessons and Snape’s harsh grading. After Hufflepuff began planning for next year’s Quidditch team, Wayne gave Tom Riddle dragon blood and invited him to ask about the Wizarding World.

• Astoria nervously met Wayne, agreed to meet him about the Unicorn next weekend, and tried to pay him a Galleon, which he refused.
• Wayne told Cho that Dumbledore had approved their Hogsmeade visit and kissed her while joking that she owed him compensation.
• Students complained that Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts classes were theatrical and that Snape was unfairly deducting points in Potions.
• Susan and Hannah discussed poisoning Snape, but Wayne stopped them and promised to find another way to distract him.
• Terwore and Cedric asked Wayne to recommend Hufflepuff Quidditch substitutes, and Wayne suggested Cadwallader and Shab.
• Wayne gave Tom Riddle dragon blood in the diary, then told him he was busy dating and invited him to ask about the Wizarding World.

Wayne teased Tom Riddle with the truth about Voldemort’s defeat, then took Cho to Hogsmeade while Hermione looked after his creatures. At Hogwarts, Gryffindor and Slytherin argued over the Quidditch pitch after Slytherin arrived with new brooms and Malfoy as its Seeker.

• Wayne told Tom that Voldemort had been defeated by a rebounding Killing Curse when Harry was a baby, and mocked him until Tom stopped replying.
• Wayne met Cho at Ravenclaw Tower, showed Professor McGonagall Dumbledore’s approval, and left for Hogsmeade with her.
• Wayne explained that Hermione was caring for the creatures in his trunk with Gardevoir while he and Cho joined the queue at Honeydukes.
• Wood put the Gryffindor Quidditch team through a long tactical lecture and drills while Colin took pictures of Harry from the stands.
• Flint arrived with Snape’s note authorizing Slytherin to train, and Malfoy defended his place as Seeker after the Gryffindors mocked him for buying his way onto the team.
• Hermione came upon the argument, and Fred told her that Slytherin was trying to take the pitch before Flint insisted Gryffindor was occupying Slytherin’s training time.

Hermione defended the Gryffindor Quidditch team from Slytherin, prompting Malfoy to punch Flint after he insulted her and reveal that she was Wayne’s girlfriend. Meanwhile, Wayne spent the day shopping and on a date with Cho, then returned to Hermione, unaware that the pitch incident was spreading around the school.

• Hermione criticized Malfoy’s arrogance, and when Flint insulted her, Malfoy punched him and told the Slytherins she was Lawrence’s girlfriend.
• The Slytherin team dragged Flint away without testing their new brooms, while Hermione asked Wood not to tell Wayne about the incident.
• Wayne bought sweets, ink, and parchment in Hogsmeade, then commissioned an Eastern-style cloak for Cho using Unicorn hair.
• Wayne and Cho shared a private date at Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop and returned to Hogwarts around noon.
• Wayne joined Hermione in the box, teased her about his date with Cho, and helped her practice spells and study.
• The story of the Quidditch pitch confrontation spread from Gryffindor and Slytherin to Hufflepuff.

Wayne had Harry and Malfoy begin joint Defense Against the Dark Arts training with enchanted practice wands, using their rivalry to motivate them. Malfoy paid a Galleon to take the first turn attacking Harry, and the wand ran out of power after a dozen shots.

• Harry arrived for training and was surprised to find Malfoy there, while Wayne told them they would learn together.
• Wayne explained that their rivalry would push them to improve and gave them practice wands that tracked hits.
• Wayne demonstrated a wand by shooting Harry, then explained that the training would build reaction speed and teach them to dodge.
• Harry and Malfoy both volunteered to go first, but Malfoy paid Wayne a Galleon and won the first turn.
• Malfoy fired repeatedly at Harry until the wand stopped, and Wayne pointed out its glowing groove that showed its remaining shots.

Wayne trained Harry and Malfoy in dueling, then told the Hufflepuffs he would confront Flint over insulting Hermione and Muggle-born students. Although he asked them not to get involved, his housemates rallied around him and urged him to go that night.

• Wayne put Harry and Malfoy through two hours of practice duels, teaching them to stay calm and dodge incoming spells.
• Wayne gave Harry and Malfoy healing potions and told them to meet again the following week for more training.
• Wayne summoned the Hufflepuffs and announced he planned to block the Slytherin entrance the next morning to confront Flint.
• Wayne asked the Hufflepuffs not to join him, apologizing in case his actions cost the house points.
• Grace embraced Wayne and declared she would go with him, prompting other Hufflepuffs to join in and call for confronting Flint that night.

Wayne led more than a hundred Hufflepuffs to the Slytherin common room to confront Flint, but the password had changed and they waited for someone to come out. When Astoria emerged alone, Wayne kept her beside him while the group continued waiting for someone else.

• Wayne gathered the Hufflepuffs for an early-morning march, then noticed Zacharias Smith had failed to show up despite promising to come.
• Wayne gave Ernie Macmillan the quill Zacharias had ordered and led the Hufflepuffs out of their common room.
• Wayne used the route Snape had shown him to lead the group to the Slytherin entrance, but the passwords he knew no longer worked.
• The Hufflepuffs waited by the entrance until Astoria came out alone, and Wayne recognized her as Daphne's younger sister.
• Wayne reassured Astoria and kept her beside him so the group would not target her, then waited for another Slytherin to appear.

Wayne confronted the Slytherins over Flint’s attempted murder and insults, then punished Flint for using a slur against Hermione. He left Flint hanging silently upside down outside the Great Hall as a warning to the school.

• Wayne froze Selwyn, Nott, and Robert Parkinson at the Slytherin entrance and made Selwyn fetch Flint.
• Selwyn and the other Slytherins dragged Flint from bed and brought him to Wayne, while Daphne retrieved Astoria.
• When Flint continued insulting Wayne and Hermione, Wayne slammed him into a wall until he passed out, then revived him and demanded a sincere apology.
• Wayne announced that anyone using the slur against students from any house would face Flint’s fate.
• Wayne carried Flint to the Great Hall and hung him upside down outside its doors, then silenced his screams.

Wayne refused to release Flint after Flint threatened Hermione, even when Professor McGonagall punished Hufflepuff for his defiance. The professors could not undo Wayne’s modified Levicorpus, leaving Flint hanging while they studied the spell.

• Professor McGonagall and the other heads of house arrived and questioned Wayne about Flint hanging from the ceiling.
• Wayne explained that Flint had tried to curse Hermione, and Hufflepuff students claimed they had joined in to protect him.
• McGonagall deducted fifty points from Slytherin, awarded Malfoy twenty points, and ordered Wayne to release Flint.
• Wayne refused, accepted a loss of one hundred Hufflepuff points and a week of detention with Filch, and left with the other Hufflepuffs.
• McGonagall, Flitwick, and Snape tried to counter Wayne’s modified spell but could not bring Flint down.

After Wayne hung Flint in the Great Hall for threatening Hermione, she kissed him and worried about retaliation, while Wayne dismissed the danger. Dumbledore agreed to shield Wayne from the Flint family, and Snape reluctantly accepted the task of handling them.

• Hermione learned Wayne had defended her by hanging Flint and kissing him, then ran to him and sealed his lips with a kiss.
• Hermione warned Wayne not to act so recklessly and worried the Flint family would retaliate, but Wayne said he would not yield to anyone weaker than him.
• Students gathered to mock and photograph Flint as he hung in the Great Hall, while Flint vowed to seek revenge once he could move again.
• Snape told Dumbledore what Wayne had done and urged him to control the student, but Dumbledore considered the incident a manageable outburst.
• Dumbledore said he would protect Wayne from the Flint family, and Snape reluctantly agreed to deal with any family members who came to Hogwarts.

Wayne manipulated Tom into trusting him, retaliated against the Flint family through letters to influential allies, and spent his accumulated system points on draws. He gained a sorcery talent and Lux’s Final Spark magic, which merged into him.

• Wayne feigned resentment over Hermione’s mistreatment, encouraging Tom to flatter him and offer support.
• Wayne wrote to Tina and Perenelle to enlist their help against the Flint family, and warned Borgin and Burkes to take advantage of the family’s decline.
• Wayne sent a video-contact notebook to Pheobe and checked his system balance, which had grown past eleven thousand points.
• Wayne recalled drawing Lily Evans’s template and fused with its Universal Charmer talent despite joking about becoming Harry’s mother.
• Wayne’s draws granted him Fiendfyre, the Cruciatus Curse, Chain Lightning, and the Sorcery Talent · Transcendence.
• Wayne drew Ultimate Magic: Final Spark and absorbed Lux’s light-magic inheritance.

Wayne tested his new Power of Light and Ultimate Flash abilities, then returned to school, where Douglas Flint confronted Snape over Marcus’s injuries and hinted at a plan involving Lucius to pressure the governors. Snape learned that the plan might threaten Dumbledore’s position as headmaster.

• Wayne used Ultimate Flash to blast apart a mountain in his suitcase and explored the light-based abilities he had gained.
• Wayne noted that Nagini was slowly recovering under Ho-Oh’s purification, while Gardevoir managed the suitcase’s creatures and grounds.
• After Marcus Flint’s injuries worsened, his father Douglas arrived at Hogwarts and demanded that Snape explain what had happened.
• Snape refused to expel Wayne, blamed Dumbledore for protecting him, and persuaded Douglas that Wayne was a notorious troublemaker.
• Douglas told Snape that Lucius had a plan and that their side would cooperate by pressuring the school governors.

After Wayne’s letter prompted Tina and Perenelle to retaliate against the Flint family, Nicolas received Wayne’s enchanted video notebook and spoke with him. At Hogwarts, Wayne teased Astoria after she accidentally interrupted the call, leaving her unsure why he wanted her to smile.

• Marcus left Snape’s office after Professor Sprout ordered him to stop interfering with students, then planned to pressure Dumbledore through pure-blood families.
• Tina and Newt read Wayne’s letter, recognized his hint for help, and decided to use their connections against the Flint family.
• Perenelle wrote to influential officials to retaliate, while Nicolas examined Wayne’s notebook and spoke with him through its video enchantment.
• Perenelle noticed Astoria in the notebook’s frame and ended the conversation, then went to find the Matisse family’s address.
• Wayne accepted Astoria’s wallet after she apologized, returned it when it earned him no system points, and asked her to smile instead.

Wayne coaxed Astoria into smiling daily in exchange for a chance to touch Lulu the Unicorn, then began his week of detention by patrolling the castle and catching students out after curfew. By morning, he had brought thirteen students to Filch, leaving the heads of house to decide their punishments.

• Wayne promised Astoria she could touch Lulu on Saturday if she smiled at him every day, and gave her lollipops after learning her diet was restricted because of her poor health.
• Wayne reported to Filch for detention and gave him Petrifying Gloves, which let Filch cast spells using his magic.
• Wayne took over the week's patrols, used the Marauder's Map to locate students breaking curfew, and caught thirteen of them by two o'clock.
• Filch recorded the students' names and told Wayne their heads of house would decide the punishments.
• McGonagall and the other heads of house were surprised to learn Wayne had caught all thirteen students, then discussed what punishment to assign.

Wayne used Lockhart’s vanity to secure points for Hufflepuff and provoke Snape into a rivalry with him. By the end, Lockhart and Snape were trading barbs as Hufflepuff’s score swung back and forth.

• Lockhart praised Wayne’s assignment, read it aloud, and awarded Hufflepuff twenty points, but Wayne refused them.
• Wayne persuaded Lockhart that Snape resented him for receiving the Order of Merlin, prompting Lockhart to award Hufflepuff fifty points instead.
• Snape noticed Lockhart flaunting his Order of Merlin at the Great Hall and took it as deliberate provocation.
• Wayne repeatedly asked Lockhart to restore points Snape deducted from Hufflepuff, and the two professors began competing and trading barbs.

Wayne took Astoria to see Unicorns, stopping at Hagrid’s hut to collect payment and hear Aragog’s plea for mercy. He and Astoria reached the Unicorns’ habitat by Apparition, where she was delighted to find three Unicorns.

• Astoria joined Wayne for breakfast and explained that she loved Unicorns, while Wayne described the Greengrass family’s neutral position among pure-blood factions.
• Wayne and Astoria visited Hagrid, where Wayne discovered his Fire Crab breeding experiments and demanded gems and other materials as hush money.
• Hagrid asked Wayne to spare Aragog, but Wayne refused and said he would deal with the Acromantulas after he graduated.
• Wayne gave Astoria Jerry and the Fire Crab gems, then summoned Gardevoir to Apparate them to the Unicorns’ habitat when Astoria grew tired.
• Astoria was thrilled to see three Unicorns gathered there.

Wayne examined Astoria to investigate the Greengrass family's Blood Curse and learned that it might originate from Morgana's curse on King Arthur's descendants. After Astoria agreed to the examination, Wayne brought out Ho-Oh and hinted that she would not be leaving yet.

• Wayne let Astoria visit Diana and then took her to see Mia, his Thunderbird.
• Astoria agreed to Wayne examining her because the Blood Curse had killed thirty-nine Greengrass family members and she expected to be the fortieth.
• Wayne sensed that Astoria's curse caused two opposing forces to fight inside her, both consuming her life force.
• Astoria said her family believed it descended from King Arthur and that Morgana's curse, altered with Merlin's help, became the Blood Curse.
• Wayne teased Astoria about leaving his territory, then summoned Ho-Oh beside him.

Wayne used Ho-Oh’s Holy Flame to weaken Astoria’s Blood Curse, leaving her feeling much better but still needing more treatments. After Astoria told Daphne what happened, Wayne began another training session with Harry and Malfoy.

• Wayne had Ho-Oh burn away part of Astoria’s curse while he studied and collected the black sludge it produced.
• Astoria woke, learned that the treatment had eased her symptoms, and thanked Wayne before he told her that several more treatments would be needed.
• Astoria returned to the Slytherin common room, where Daphne questioned her oversized clothes and then learned the truth about the treatment.
• Daphne celebrated the improvement in Astoria’s health and hurried with her to write their mother a letter.
• Harry and Malfoy each paid Wayne for training, argued over who would go first, and decided the order with rock-paper-scissors.
• Malfoy trained against Harry with a fake wand, while Wayne watched Harry use better timing and positioning to dodge spells.

Wayne finished the basic combat training for Harry and Malfoy, then warned Malfoy about the Flint family’s efforts to recruit his father. He spoke with Pheobe about Beauxbatons and learned that seven schools would attend the Potions Exchange Tournament, which he had already agreed to enter.

• Wayne ended Harry and Malfoy’s basic combat training and taught them his modified Disarming Charm.
• Wayne told Malfoy that the Flint family had approached Lucius, and Malfoy said his father had refused to target Wayne.
• Wayne used his video notebook to speak privately with Pheobe and saw her luxurious Beauxbatons bedroom.
• Pheobe tried to persuade Wayne to transfer to Beauxbatons, but Wayne insisted he would graduate from Hogwarts.
• Pheobe told Wayne that seven schools would attend the Potions Exchange Tournament, and she said she was not skilled enough to compete.

Hogwarts announced the Potions Exchange Tournament and held trials to choose its contestants, while Snape reserved one slot for Wayne because of his reputation. The chapter leaves Snape challenging the students to match Wayne’s achievement as he presents a journal article about improving the Werewolf Potion.

• Hogwarts announced that the month-long Potions Exchange Tournament would begin after New Year's Day at Beauxbatons, and Hermione persuaded Wayne to promise to modify a magical fountain for her.
• Dumbledore and Snape agreed that advanced Potions students could compete for two of Hogwarts’s three slots, while Wayne would receive the third.
• Snape summoned Wayne to the trials, where he told the gathered students to brew Shimmering Potions for the remaining slots.
• When students objected to Wayne receiving a slot outright, Snape defended his choice by citing Wayne’s work and challenged them to publish in the Extraordinary Potioneers Association’s journal.
• Snape showed Miss Bell a journal article titled “On the Directions and Specific Measures for Improving Werewolf Potion.”