Chapter Summaries

Sean taught the second-years Transfiguration with a frightening demonstration, careful guidance, and an animal-restoration homework assignment that left them eagerly practicing. At lunch, Ministry officials tried to use the upcoming Triwizard Cup to place people at Hogwarts, but Professor McGonagall drove them out, leaving Sean wondering whether the tournament would take place.

• Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussed Sean’s harsh but effective lesson and realized his failed-Transfiguration creature had been an Illusion Charm.
• Sean coached the second-years, awarded House points, transformed their textbooks into animals, and assigned them to restore the books for a secret reward.
• Bram Led warned the class not to touch the animals with their wands while restoring them, showing that he had remembered Sean’s lesson.
• At lunch, Sean talked with George, Fred, Daisy, and Hermione about his teaching and learned that students were already practicing enthusiastically.
• Professor McGonagall angrily expelled Ministry officials who had come to disrupt Hogwarts’s teaching order, and the Weasley twins told Sean they wanted to use the Triwizard Cup to place people at the school.
• Sean recalled that the Four-School Tournament was due to return and wondered whether the tense circumstances would allow it to happen.

Sean concluded that authorities were steering the world back toward a normal 1995 to contain the Time Incident’s aftereffects, and Professor McGonagall recruited him to help Hogwarts enroll the Young Wizards who had missed admission. When Diongo Rubio went to deliver an admission letter, he learned that Newmontgard School of Magic had already taken the child.

• Sean noticed that two hours vanished and later half an hour returned, confirming his theory that the world was being adjusted to resemble a normal 1995.
• Professor McGonagall told Sean that Hogwarts planned to use Portkey envelopes to enroll Young Wizards who had missed admission and asked him to arrange deliveries and supply purchases.
• Sean agreed to help, then handed the admission letters and student information to Lupin that night.
• The Wizarding Welfare Organization sent trusted wizards to contact the Young Wizards, and Diongo Rubio visited Luke Santos’s home with an admission letter.
• Mrs. Santos told Diongo that a representative of Newmontgard School of Magic had already persuaded the family and taken Luke away.

Sean Wallop and Professor McGonagall welcomed new students arriving at Hogwarts by Portkey, helping them settle in as more children appeared. While greeting them, Sean planned to use the enrollment and his Transfiguration lessons to recruit young wizards for Golden Dawn and pursue changes to the Wizarding World.

• Sean and Professor McGonagall waited in a decorated side hall, but no students arrived until Claude McKinnon appeared by Portkey.
• Sean introduced Claude to Professor McGonagall and House-elf Boris, who took Claude’s suitcase before Claude changed into Wizard Robes.
• Two more students arrived, and Sean welcomed them while deciding to identify promising young wizards and strengthen Golden Dawn.
• More new students gathered in the hall, and a little girl gave Sean a message from Diongo Rubio for Hogwarts’s person in charge.

Sean learned that Newmontgard, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang had already recruited many young wizards in England, and he suspected the British Ministry of Magic had helped them get ahead of Hogwarts. He and Professor McGonagall changed Hogwarts’s recruitment strategy, while Sean’s organization began sending recruiters across Europe; a message from Germany suggested the rival schools had not yet reached their local prospects.

• Sean read Diongo Rubio’s report that other schools had already recruited young wizards from Muggle Families in England.
• Professor McGonagall explained the European schools’ recruitment areas, and Sean suspected the Ministry of Magic had enabled Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to act first.
• Sean proposed changing Hogwarts’s approach, and Professor McGonagall went to use the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance to find more young wizards.
• Lupin directed Shady and other recruiters to cross borders using Portkeys and seek new students with the Wizarding Welfare Organization’s funds.
• Sean welcomed students arriving at Hogwarts, including Carven Andres from Germany, whose note reported that rival schools had not yet approached the first Muggle Family he visited.

Sean helped Hogwarts recruit a record number of international students and prepared for their arrival, while Professor McGonagall welcomed the new students and began the Sorting ceremony. The Sorting Hat's new song warned them to unite against approaching danger before sorting began.

• Sean told Professor McGonagall that Hogwarts had recruited over eighty percent of the targeted Muggle-born and half-blood students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.
• Sean and Professor McGonagall welcomed the final group of new students, and Boris announced that he had prepared regional dishes for them.
• Professor McGonagall explained the four Houses and led the new students to the Great Hall for the Sorting.
• Sean joined Hermione and Daisy in the Great Hall while the new students assembled before the Sorting Hat.
• The Sorting Hat sang a new song recounting the Founders' ideals and urging everyone to unite against danger, then announced that Sorting would begin.

Hogwarts welcomed an unusually large group of new students, and Sean learned that he would teach their first Transfiguration lesson. After Dumbledore announced new safety rules and an indoor Quidditch pitch, Sean woke refreshed and found Scott and Ms. Hawke arguing in the Staff Room.

• Helena told Sean that the Sorting Hat could act as part of Hogwarts's consciousness and warn of danger.
• Hogwarts sorted 246 new students, including students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, while Madame Maxime accepted the loss of recruits and Igor Karkaroff angrily blamed Dumbledore.
• After the final student, Fremea Chilmer, was sorted into Gryffindor, Dumbledore welcomed the students and announced safety reminders and plans for an indoor Quidditch pitch.
• Dumbledore told the students to journey together toward an unwritten future, and Sean fell into a deep, restorative sleep.
• Sean went to the Staff Room to prepare for his first Transfiguration lesson and saw Scott and Ms. Hawke enter while arguing.

Sean reunited with Charlotte Hawk and Colton Sterling, who arrived at Hogwarts as Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching assistants and immediately resumed their long-running rivalry. After Professor McGonagall assigned them to practical lessons, Sean headed to teach his first-years their first Transfiguration class, intending to make it memorable.

• Charlotte Hawk and Colton Sterling greeted Sean in the Staff Room, then argued over their past encounters and Charlotte’s dangerous jobs.
• Colton revealed that he and Charlotte had both been hired as Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching assistants, prompting Charlotte to accuse him of following and interfering with her.
• Professor McGonagall entered, told Charlotte to behave professionally, and assigned her and Colton to teach the practical portion of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Sean prepared for his first Transfiguration lesson and went to the first-year classroom after saying goodbye to Charlotte and Colton.
• Sean entered the classroom, greeted the curious first-years, and planned to make the lesson interesting.

Sean Wallop introduced first-year students to Transfiguration through a magical demonstration, presenting magic as a source of miracles and showing how Transfiguration differed from ordinary spells. He ended the lesson by transforming the classroom podium into a Fire Dragon and turning his own arm into a dragon claw.

• Sean introduced himself as a fourth-year Ravenclaw and asked his students what they thought Transfiguration was.
• Sean filled the classroom with mist and starlight as he spoke about the mystery of magic and called its essence miracles.
• Sean demonstrated ordinary spells on a Wizard Hat, then transformed the students' hats into animals and objects they liked.
• Sean showed the students that stars linked to them represented their magic, though he secretly relied on an Illusion Charm and their personal information forms.
• Sean transformed the podium into a Fire Dragon and changed one of his arms into a dragon claw while warning that Transfiguration carried risks.

Sean demonstrated Human Transfiguration to his first-year students, then staged a terrifying illusion of Transfiguration going out of control to teach them its dangers. He ended by warning them that he would not allow careless Transfiguration in his classroom and told them to revere the subject.

• Sean transformed his right arm into a Fire Dragon-like claw and explained that Human Transfiguration was advanced magic usually taught in sixth year.
• Sean described how he had improved his Transfiguration Talent and explained the limits of imitating a real Magical Creature.
• Sean made his body appear to mutate into a monster and used an illusion to make the students believe their classroom was under attack.
• Sean revealed that the frightening scene had been an illusion and told the students that real Transfiguration accidents could turn wizards into monsters who killed their loved ones.
• Sean vowed to teach his students properly and warned them never to treat Transfiguration carelessly.

Sean taught first-year Transfiguration, explaining failed transformations and his theory of magic in a lesson that impressed students and professors across Hogwarts. The chapter ended with Stephanie telling him that Professor McGonagall expected him to pay for the table he had sent flying.

• Sean showed the students a simulated failed transformation, and Axston explained that its creature had no real-world form, earning five points for Ravenclaw.
• Sean taught that successful Transfiguration required a precise mental image and connected the process to his macroscopic essence of magic.
• Students and professors gathered outside Sean's classroom to listen, while Professor Flitwick angrily silenced Filch for interrupting.
• Sean's popularity rose after the lecture, and his teaching helped first- and second-years improve their Transfiguration work.
• Stephanie told Sean that the table he had sent flying had to be paid for.

Sean balanced his growing reputation and demanding work as Hogwarts’ Transfiguration teaching assistant while the wizarding world continued to recover from the Time Incident. The chapter ended with Professor McGonagall introducing a group of newly hired teaching assistants to help ease the professors’ workload.

• Sean’s popularity grew among Hogwarts students as he helped teach first-years, while he kept Lupin informed about the unstable ministries and outside threats.
• Sean, Hermione, and Daisy cared for the magical creatures, and Sean delayed Hermione and Daisy’s Animagus training for a year because of the risk of further time accidents.
• Sean offered his first-year students a bottle of Dumbledore’s potion as a reward for solving his Transfiguration puzzle before the end of the month.
• Sean entered the crowded Staff Room, where Professor McGonagall explained that Hogwarts needed more teaching assistants because the professors were overwhelmed.
• Professor McGonagall introduced Sean to the new teaching assistants, including Charlotte Hawk and Colton Sterling.

Sean and Professor McGonagall investigated whether Durmstrang teaching assistant Max Dawson posed a threat, then kept him under discreet surveillance as Hogwarts prepared for exams. In the Room of Requirement, Sean successfully made a powerful oak wand with Phoenix Feather and Unicorn Tail Hair cores, surpassing every wand he had used before.

• Max Dawson told Professor McGonagall that Durmstrang students had attacked him when he returned to retrieve his Charms notes and visit his old dormitory.
• Sean warned Professor McGonagall that Dawson might have been compromised, and they later found no signs of control or suspicious activity but kept monitoring him.
• A month passed as Sean's Transfiguration students progressed rapidly, the teaching assistants eased the professors' workloads, and Hogwarts grew tense before exams.
• Sean used Wandmaker's Glory to make an oak wand with Phoenix Feather and Unicorn Tail Hair cores after ruining more than a dozen wand blanks.
• Sean tested the new wand with Incendio and found that its casting speed, power, and control surpassed those of every wand he had used.

After testing his new wand, Sean discovered Professor Trelawney nearly entering a genuine prophetic state while Lavender pressed her for a prophecy. Sean followed them to Trelawney’s office, where Lavender vanished and attacked him; he subdued her and realized she was under the Imperius Curse.

• Sean tested his new dual-core wand in the Room of Requirement and was pleased with its power and control.
• Sean overheard Lavender urging Professor Trelawney to make a genuine prophecy and noticed magic influencing Trelawney.
• Sean watched Lavender help the disoriented Trelawney to her office, then entered through the castle wall after suspecting something was wrong.
• Sean found Trelawney unconscious and was struck by a Stunning Spell from an invisible Lavender, but the spell passed through him.
• Sean summoned Lavender’s Invisibility Cloak, restrained her with spells, and saw that she was smiling as her pupils dilated, indicating someone had used the Imperius Curse on her.

Sean uncovered a plot involving Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil, who had been controlled to help extract Professor Trelawney’s prophecy about the Time Incident. He saved Parvati from a lethal enchanted necklace, but the prophecy’s memories appeared to have been taken, and the culprit remained at large.

• Sean told Professor McGonagall that Lavender had been under the Imperius Curse and that Trelawney had entered a strange prophetic state; Snape confirmed Lavender had been controlled for at least two weeks.
• Trelawney recalled that Lavender and Parvati had visited her separately with alcohol to ask for prophecies about the Time Incident, leading Sean and McGonagall to suspect the Returners were behind it.
• Sean hurried to Gryffindor Tower after learning Parvati had also visited Trelawney, and he found her floating in the girls’ dormitory beside a strange Opal Necklace.
• Sean dispelled the curse and repeatedly treated Parvati, while Padma explained that Parvati had broken a bottle containing a strange silver substance before putting on the necklace.
• Sean concluded that the attackers had extracted Trelawney’s prophetic memories and tried to silence Parvati; McGonagall found another enchanted, potentially lethal accessory in Lavender’s luggage and ordered everyone to the Great Hall.

After a student under the Imperius Curse was discovered, Sean and the Hogwarts professors inspected everyone and investigated the suspected Teaching Assistants, but found no clear culprit. Dave noticed Max Dawson’s brain-matter scent seemed emptier than before, prompting Sean to wonder whether Max had erased and replaced his memories.

• Professor McGonagall gathered the students in the Great Hall, and Professor Flitwick checked them for the Imperius Curse while the professors watched the crowd.
• Professor McGonagall told Sean that Miss Brown had been controlled again that day and that Hogwarts was sealed, meaning the culprit was still inside.
• Sean asked Professor McGonagall to have Roland Joseph questioned because he had seemed suspicious before and might be connected to the Returners.
• Snape returned with Max Dawson and reported that he had given him Veritaserum and found no problems, but Dave sensed that Max’s brain-matter scent was slightly emptier.
• Sean asked Snape whether Max could have erased his memories and woven a new set, despite Snape’s claim that Max’s memories had remained continuous during questioning.

Sean uncovered evidence that Max Dawson had used Madam Rosmerta to contact the outside world and remained suspicious of Dawson despite the normal wand and room inspections. Sean and Professor McGonagall arranged to isolate Dawson, but Dawson’s magic erupted before Sean could stun him.

• Sean questioned Snape and Nearly Headless Nick about Max Dawson, then learned Dawson had met Professor Trelawney at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade.
• Sean searched the Three Broomsticks and found Madam Rosmerta under the Imperius Curse and an extra wand hidden in her bedroom, whose spells included a likely communication signal.
• Sean returned to Hogwarts and told Professor McGonagall that Dawson was still suspicious, and they arranged to lure him away from the students.
• Sean walked with Dawson, Charlotte, and Colton toward the courtyard while Dave sensed that Dawson’s brain had suddenly become more vigorous.
• Sean tried to stun Dawson, but a familiar and terrifying surge of magic erupted from Dawson before he could finish the spell.

Sean confronted Max Dawson, who controlled a powerful Silent Mouth and trapped Sean inside a barrier that cut off outside magic and contact. Dawson revealed that Sean was his second target and prepared to capture him, but Sean’s calm response suggested he had noticed a possible flaw in the barrier.

• Sean escaped Dawson’s first Silent Mouth attack with Trace Flash and warned Charlotte and Colton to retreat while Dawson attacked them with black particles.
• Sean and Dawson exchanged spells as Charlotte and Colton defended each other and retreated toward the Great Hall, where they set off an Explosion Charm to summon the professors.
• Dawson activated a strange object that formed a Magic Barrier around himself, Sean, and the Dementors, cutting Sean off from his Shadow Bugs and the outside world.
• Dawson revealed that he had first targeted the prophecy and then Sean, whom he intended to capture alive with help from the Silent Mouth and Dementors.
• Sean treated his injuries and questioned Dawson’s confidence, then pointed out that people outside the barrier could not see what happened inside.

Sean confronted Dawson inside the barrier after Dawson unleashed Dementors and a Silent Mouth against him. Using Dark Sleeper, Sean took control of the Dementors and overwhelmed the Silent Mouth, while Hermione and Daisy entered a hidden observation space with Stephanie to watch the fight.

• McGonagall, Flitwick, Snape, and Bathsheba rushed out after Charlotte and Colton arrived without Sean, while Hermione and Daisy worried about him in the Great Hall.
• Stephanie used her access to the Room of Requirement to invite Hermione and Daisy into a hidden space where they could observe the confrontation.
• Dawson used a black crystal to send the Dementors and his Silent Mouth after Sean, but Sean activated Dark Sleeper and subdued the Dementors.
• Sean's amplified Killing Curse blasted apart part of the covered bridge, and Dawson stabbed the black crystal into his abdomen to drive the Silent Mouth into another attack.
• Sean unleashed repeated Killing Curses and summoned the Basilisk, the Salmar Lake Monster, and the Occamy against the Silent Mouth as the Dementors closed in on the kneeling Dawson.

Sean fought Max Dawson and the Silent Mouth inside an Ancient Greek runic barrier while Hogwarts professors searched for a way in. Professor Babbling proposed overloading the barrier, and as the others prepared to help, Sean’s creatures attacked the Silent Mouth and the Dementors closed in on Dawson.

• Dawson’s fiery-red magic punished him when he appeared to defy an Unbreakable Vow, but he used a Patronus grizzly to resist Sean’s Dementors.
• Sean and his creatures restrained the Silent Mouth while Sean repeatedly hit it with Killing Curses.
• Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and Snape prepared to attack the barrier, but Professor Babbling identified it as an Ancient Greek runic construction that could withstand their spells.
• Daisy asked Stephanie to let her out so she could save Sean, while Stephanie said she could not break the barrier.
• Professor Babbling proposed overloading the barrier through a magical conduit, and Professor McGonagall ordered everyone to help gather people and prepare the runes.
• Sean’s Basilisk drove its fangs into the Silent Mouth as the Dementors surrounded Dawson and began feeding on his soul.

Sean defeated the Silent Mouth and secured the Black Rhombus Crystal, then emerged from the barrier as Hogwarts’ professors and students broke it open. When Daisy saw Sean surrounded by hoodless Dementors, she cast a massive silver Fire Dragon Patronus to protect him.

• Sean and his three serpentine creatures overwhelmed the Silent Mouth, and the Basilisk’s venom helped destroy it.
• Sean found Dawson dead after the Dementors devoured his soul, then sealed away Dawson’s Black Rhombus Crystal in layers of storage containers.
• Sean left the Dark Sleeper state and took a Mind Purifier to calm the dark urges it had stirred in him.
• Professor Babbling coordinated the professors and students as they channeled magic into her Ancient Runes structure and attacked the barrier with Explosion Charms.
• The barrier collapsed, revealing Sean surrounded by hoodless Dementors and Dawson’s body, and Daisy cast a silver Fire Dragon Patronus before McGonagall could act.