Chapter Summaries

Amosta and Amelia met in a Muggle café in Brooklyn to hear from the person who had reported the missing Level 5X Magical Creatures. Amosta suspected the informant was involved in the crimes, and the awaited visitor arrived as the chapter ended.

• Amosta decided to attend the suspicious dinner invitation and brought Amelia because Remus was occupied with work for MACUSA.
• Amosta and Amelia arrived at the luxurious café and took their reserved table, ordering coffee and desserts.
• Amosta told Amelia he suspected the person who reported the missing creatures had committed the crimes and chose a Muggle venue as a precaution.
• Amosta and Amelia watched the café's pianist perform, and Amelia asked whether all boys liked girls like her.
• The café door opened as the wall clock struck eight, and Amosta recognized the arrival as the person they had been waiting for.

Amosta exposed that his invited contact had used the Cruciatus Curse to control a Muggle and demanded that the real wizard meet him in person. Sato Ryuhei arrived at the café just before Amosta’s deadline expired.

• Amosta recognized that the Muggle man who arrived was controlled by a wizard, while Amelia identified herself as an Auror assigned to protect him.
• Amosta revealed that the man had been subjected to the Cruciatus Curse and refused to speak with the hidden wizard until the Muggle was released.
• Amosta gave the wizard ten minutes to come in person, and the controlled Muggle left while Amelia waited anxiously.
• Sato Ryuhei rushed into the café with half a minute remaining and met Amosta and Amelia.

Sato Ryuhei asked Amosta Breen to help him escape New York in exchange for information about magical-creature poachers, but Amosta revealed that the Learning Machine had already won approval and restrained him. Ryuhei admitted he belonged to an organization that smuggled magical creatures, as two suspicious guests arrived at the restaurant.

• Sato Ryuhei asked Amosta Breen to help him leave New York, offering clues about the people poaching magical creatures.
• Amosta told Ryuhei that he had already reached a preliminary agreement with the Ministry of Magic Congress, so the Learning Machine's promotion was no longer in trouble.
• Ryuhei tried to reach for his wand, but Amosta struck the table and immobilized him; Amelia prepared to act until Amosta reassured her.
• Two young men entered the restaurant and joined a middle-aged couple at another table while Ryuhei offered Amosta gold for his freedom.
• Amosta questioned Ryuhei about the organization behind him and threatened to use Legilimency or Veritaserum, prompting Ryuhei to admit that it smuggled magical creatures.

Sato Ryuhei revealed that a group of buyers had been purchasing magical creatures for years and was suspected of drinking their blood, leading Amelia to identify them as Vampires. The Vampires ambushed Amosta, Amelia, and Sato in the café; Amosta fought back, but the chapter ended with his Fiendfyre Tengshe vanishing after a Vampire’s suicidal charge.

• Sato Ryuhei told Amosta Breen that his organization had supplied magical creatures to the same customers for years, including the rare Venomous Tentacula.
• Sato said they suspected the buyers drank the creatures’ blood, and Amelia realized the customers were Vampires.
• More than twenty Vampires attacked the group with Avada Kedavra, but Amosta raised a barrier that reflected their spells.
• Amosta told Amelia that an Anti-Apparition Charm had sealed the café and prevented them from escaping or summoning reinforcements.
• Amosta summoned Fiendfyre Tengshe, which burned through the first wave of Vampires, while the remaining attackers continued fighting.
• A stronger Vampire engulfed himself in blood-red flames and charged Fiendfyre Tengshe, destroying himself as the serpent disappeared.

Amosta subdued the Vampires in the café, but their leader exploded into blood and bound his barrier, allowing the survivors to recover and flee. A sinister-eyed Vampire then used a coffin of enchanted blood to extinguish Amosta’s Fiendfyre, just as an object burst from his space pouch and flew toward the blood river.

• Amosta questioned the Vampires about their collection of magical creatures, rejected their leader’s offer, and took Amelia’s wand.
• Amosta used the wand to crush the Vampires beneath a powerful pressure, breaking their legs and preparing to bind them.
• The female Vampire transformed, screamed, and exploded into blood that formed chains around Amosta’s barrier, releasing the pressure on the others.
• Amosta shattered the chains and trapped most of the fleeing Vampires in a cage of golden Fiendfyre, but many chose to burn themselves against its bars.
• A sinister-eyed Vampire threw a silver-plated black coffin at the fiery cage, unleashing blood that extinguished the Fiendfyre and surged toward Amosta, Amelia, and Sato Ryuhei.
• An object burst from Amosta’s space pouch and shot toward the raging river of blood as he prepared to respond.

Amosta’s forgotten vampire fang absorbed the vampires’ blood sea and helped him destroy nearly the entire vampire force. After capturing the last vampire, Amosta learned that a Muggle-born girl had helped locate him, then turned toward Graves as the barrier around the space was torn open.

• Amosta’s vampire fang burst from his pouch and devoured the blood sea, clearing the sky above the café ruins.
• Amosta used Starfall to turn the vampires attacking the fang to ash, then forced the last vampire to its knees.
• Amosta identified the surviving vampire as Narlack’s bartender, while Sato Ryuhei asked how the vampires had found him.
• Amosta explained that the unconscious Muggle-born girl had helped the vampires in exchange for the chance to receive a vampire’s Embrace and gain magic.
• As Amosta prepared to probe the vampire’s mind, he noticed the barrier opening, and Graves appeared through the torn veil.

After a battle in a Muggle café, Amosta explained the incident to Graves and learned the Vampire attack was tied to Narlack and the Blind Pig pub. Back at the hotel, he examined a Vampire fang and concluded it shared an origin with the soul-powered blood that had suppressed his magic.

• Graves and a group of Aurors arrived at the ruined café after clearing nearby Muggles and stopping reporters.
• Graves questioned Amosta about the destruction and his unpermitted wand use, then took him back to Congress for an explanation.
• Amosta spent most of the night answering the Department of Security’s questions, while Sato Ryuhei and the surviving Vampire, Morgans, were taken into custody.
• Amosta told Graves that Morgans worked at the Blind Pig pub, and Graves suspected Narlack had controlled the Vampires and sheltered underworld wizards.
• Amosta left to rest before dinner with Amelia’s parents, while Remus stayed at the hotel to discuss negotiations with the goblins.
• Amosta examined the Vampire fang and concluded that its shared origin with the soul-powered blood might explain how it absorbed the blood’s power.

Amosta investigated the Vampire fang and discovered the not-yet-revived Vampire’s blood pool across space, where their mental powers clashed. Later, he arrived at the Dett home for dinner, where Mr. Dett eagerly led him inside to see a gift.

• Amosta examined the fang and used his mental power to enter its inner space, revealing a blood sea filled with the Vampire’s victims’ lingering resentment.
• Amosta saw through the blood sea to a ruined hall and discovered a young Vampire lying in a pool of blood surrounded by Magic Corridors.
• The Vampire opened his eyes, and his mental power collided with Amosta’s, damaging the hall and nearly dispersing Amosta’s projected consciousness.
• Amosta returned to his bedroom as the fang fell and found the room wrecked, with his reinforced window badly cracked.
• Mr. Dett repeatedly asked Amelia whether Amosta would come, and she explained how wizards could travel to their home.
• Amosta arrived by taxi with a bottle of whiskey, and Mr. Dett welcomed him inside to show him a gift.

Amosta attended a family dinner with Amelia and her parents, who welcomed him warmly and gave him an expensive watch. After the gathering ended with Amosta staying overnight, an unknown intruder killed the sleeping MACUSA wizard Chago.

• Mr. and Mrs. Dett gave Amosta an expensive watch and spent dinner chatting with him while Amelia felt ignored.
• The Detts reminisced about Amelia’s failed broom practice, and Amosta said he was not good at flying either.
• After dinner, the Detts took dozens of photographs with Amosta and Amelia, then Mrs. Dett prepared a guest room for Amosta.
• Before dawn, a shadow approached the sleeping Chago at his desk in the MACUSA building.
• Chago woke and demanded to know who the stranger was, but a silver flash killed him before he could ask further.

Amosta stayed overnight at Amelia’s home, where her parents’ unusual warmth and his connection to the wizarding world left Amelia searching for answers. Before dawn, Aurors stormed the house and arrested Amosta, leaving Amelia and her parents stunned.

• Amosta accepted Amelia’s invitation to stay and settled into the guest room while Amelia nervously avoided him.
• Amelia lay awake wondering why her parents were so fond of Amosta and recalled the strange warmth she had felt when he took her wand.
• Before dawn, repeated crashes woke Amelia, who Apparated downstairs and found Aurors occupying the house.
• Amosta calmly asked the Aurors why they had come, and they drew their wands on him.
• The lead witch told Amosta Breen that he was under arrest.

After Chago Piolio was murdered with Fiendfyre and Amosta’s stored wands went missing, MACUSA’s Aurors arrested him as their prime suspect. Amosta disarmed the Aurors but agreed to stay at his hotel while the investigation continued, and asked Amelia to reassure Remus.

• Selena Hilde and Eriel told Amosta that Chago Piolio had been killed with Fiendfyre and that his two stored wands had been stolen, making him their prime suspect.
• Amosta challenged the Aurors’ grounds for suspicion, then magically seized their wands and nearly attacked them before Amelia’s plea stopped him.
• Mrs. and Mr. Dett defended Amosta, saying he had been upstairs and that the Aurors should pursue the thief who stole his wands.
• Amosta agreed to remain at his hotel and cooperate with the investigation while the Aurors prepared to inspect his belongings and search the house.
• Amosta apologized to the Detts and asked Amelia to tell Remus, who was with the goblins, not to worry about him.

After the Aurors searched the Dett home and left with Amosta Breen, Amelia questioned her parents about their connection to him. They showed her an old family album and revealed that the girl in the photographs was her older sister, Bellina Dett.

• The Aurors found nothing in the Dett home, restored the rooms, and left to continue their investigation of Amosta Breen.
• Mrs. Dett urged her husband to help Bena’s child, and Amelia realized her parents knew Amosta’s mother.
• Amelia confronted her parents, who admitted they had kept something important from her.
• Mr. Dett brought Amelia an old photo album showing a girl who grew up looking like her and became estranged from their parents.
• Mr. Dett revealed that the girl in the album was Amelia’s older sister, Bellina Dett.

After learning that Amosta was Bellina’s son and her nephew, Amelia left to seek help while Remus recovered from the full moon. Remus sent Amelia to meet Albus Dumbledore in Britain and tell him about Amosta’s detention.

• Mr. and Mrs. Dett told Amelia about Bellina’s life, her estrangement from the family, and the child she had brought back.
• Amelia realized that Amosta had recognized her as his aunt and felt guilty that he had grown up without a family.
• Amelia left her parents and went to find Remus Lupin for help with Amosta’s situation.
• Amelia found Remus ill in a Goblin Hotel after he had taken Wolfsbane Potion to survive the full moon.
• Remus told Amelia to travel illegally to Britain, meet Albus Dumbledore, and explain Amosta’s situation.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione spent a Hogsmeade visit day discussing Dumbledore’s political troubles and noticing rising prices. As they picnicked near the Shrieking Shack, a mysterious girl suddenly appeared, and the three pointed their wands at her.

• Harry and Ron hurried to meet Hermione for their Hogsmeade visit after Harry spotted students playing Quidditch.
• Hermione told Harry and Ron that Dumbledore could lose his position as Chairman of the International Confederation of Wizards if he kept telling people the truth.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione used a secret passage to reach Hogsmeade and found that prices had risen across the village.
• Hermione read the New York Ghostly Times while Harry and Ron picnicked and talked about Quidditch near the Shrieking Shack.
• A girl suddenly appeared nearby, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione aimed their wands at her and demanded to know who she was.

Amelia, an American witch sent by Remus, encountered Harry, Hermione, and Ron near Hogsmeade while trying to reach Hogwarts. After Hermione recognized her from a newspaper photograph, Amelia explained that she needed to deliver secret information to Albus Dumbledore and asked the students to help her reach him.

• Amelia tried to leave after Harry and his friends confronted her, but Hermione recognized her from a New York Ghostly Times photograph.
• Hermione identified Amelia as someone connected to MACUSA, and Amelia learned that the three students were friends with Remus.
• Harry and his friends explained their connections to Remus, and Amelia confirmed that he had asked her to visit Hogwarts.
• Amelia said she had secret information for Albus Dumbledore and asked the students to pass along her message.

Amelia reached Hogwarts with Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Professor McGonagall to deliver Remus’s urgent message to Dumbledore. She revealed that Amosta had been imprisoned by MACUSA’s Department of Security on suspicion of murder.

• Harry and Hermione escorted Amelia toward Hogsmeade while Ron went through the Honeydukes passage to alert the school.
• Hermione deduced that Professor Breen was in trouble because Remus had sent Amelia instead of seeking his help.
• Professor McGonagall arrived with Fawkes and escorted Amelia, Harry, and Hermione to Dumbledore’s office.
• Amelia met Dumbledore and told him that MACUSA had imprisoned Amosta.
• Amelia explained that MACUSA suspected Amosta of committing a murder inside the organization.

Amelia told Dumbledore and the Hogwarts staff that Amosta had been detained in New York after a wizard was murdered with Fiendfyre and Amosta’s confiscated wand went missing. Dumbledore suspected Amosta had a plan and summoned Sirius to help Amelia return to the United States.

• Amelia explained that the Department of Security suspected Amosta of killing a wand-office employee and stealing back his confiscated wand.
• Professor McGonagall condemned the arrest as baseless, while Harry and Ron expressed their disbelief.
• Dumbledore questioned Amelia about Amosta’s arrest and listened as she recounted her experiences with him in the United States.
• Professor McGonagall suspected Vampire’s accomplices had taken Amosta’s wand for revenge, but Dumbledore believed Amosta could protect himself and might have planned to remain under guard.
• Dumbledore sent Fawkes to summon someone who could return to New York with Amelia, and Sirius arrived in the office.

Amelia Det told Dumbledore that Amosta was in New York, where MACUSA Aurors had surrounded her home and Amosta had chosen to remain under observation. Dumbledore sent Sirius with Amelia to help Amosta, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione were told to keep the matter secret.

• Sirius arrived at Dumbledore's office, greeted Harry, and learned that Amelia Det had come from MACUSA.
• Dumbledore explained that Amosta was staying at his New York hotel after MACUSA Aurors surrounded Amelia's home, and suspected someone was plotting against him.
• Dumbledore asked Sirius to accompany Amelia to New York, help Amosta, and follow his instructions.
• Amelia insisted on leaving at once, and Dumbledore used Fawkes to send her and Sirius toward New York.
• Dumbledore reassured Professor McGonagall about Amosta and told Harry, Ron, and Hermione to keep the situation secret.

Graves discovered a significant item among Amosta Breen’s personal effects and chose to visit the detention room despite mounting political pressure. Meanwhile, Amelia and Sirius reached New York to see Amosta, and Sirius hinted that he had a way to evade the Aurors watching him.

• Marcyll White threatened to impeach Graves if his conduct caused Mr. Breen to suspend cooperation with MACUSA.
• After the department heads left, Graves found an item of interest in the report on Amosta Breen’s personal effects and resolved to act.
• Graves used the Floo Network to travel to the detention room.
• Sirius caught Amelia when exhaustion made her nearly collapse as they arrived in New York.
• Amelia explained that Aurors were watching Amosta’s room, and Sirius said he had a better way to hide than a Disillusionment Charm.

Amelia brought Sirius to Amosta’s hotel room, where he revealed that he had learned she was family but had kept his distance to avoid disrupting her life. Amelia confronted him, urging him to let her parents atone for their past rejection and accept him as family.

• Amelia escorted Sirius through the hotel after assuring the staff that he was a harmless dog.
• Eriel encountered Amelia in the corridor and questioned the enormous dog before returning to a room full of Aurors.
• Sirius transformed inside Amosta’s room and explained that Remus had sent him at Dumbledore’s request.
• Amosta realized Amelia had gone to Hogwarts and learned the truth about their family connection from her parents.
• Amelia accused Amosta of hiding what he knew and urged him to give her parents a chance to atone for rejecting him and Bellina.