Chapter Summaries

Vincent learned Occlumency by shaping and then erasing imagined worlds in his subconscious, and Grindelwald began training him in wandless magic by making him fight a powerful construct. After Vincent was knocked unconscious and woke to a meal, he considered how his actions had altered the Wizarding World.

• Grindelwald guided Vincent through his subconscious, where Vincent created and destroyed imagined versions of his life and the Wizarding World.
• Vincent emerged from the exercise at dawn and used wandless magic to move his Mithril Briefcase with his Alder Wand.
• Grindelwald made a white humanoid construct and ordered Vincent to fight it; the construct beat him unconscious.
• Vincent woke after dark and ate a lavish French dinner that Viktor had prepared.
• Vincent reflected on how his actions had changed Voldemort, Harry, the Flamel couple, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Hogwarts students.

At a banquet, Vincent decided to visit Harry after learning he had gone missing. Trapped at the Dursleys’ home, Harry was rescued when Gu Gu led a flock of owls to break through the window bars, though Harry stayed behind.

• Vincent told the Waynes he wanted to delay their trip to Hawaii so he could visit Harry, and Eric agreed.
• At Privet Drive, Harry received Gu Gu, who arrived in a tiny formal suit and saw that Hedwig was locked in a cage.
• Vernon threatened Gu Gu with a shotgun while Petunia fetched it, and Harry pleaded with them to stop.
• Gu Gu summoned a flock of owls, which smashed through the iron bars and knocked Vernon down the stairs.
• Harry freed Hedwig with the shotgun, but stayed behind because the Dursleys had locked away his luggage, while Gu Gu and Hedwig flew off with the owls.

Vincent Wayne, Newt Scamander, and Sam Chavez received Congressional Medals of Honor at a Magical Congress ceremony. The celebration ended with Sam being given a mysterious assignment by Bradley Graves.

• Vincent, Munson, and Sam reminisced about their Ilvermorny school days before Bradley caught Sam misbehaving and smacked his forehead.
• Randolph announced that Vincent Wayne would receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, and he pinned it onto Vincent.
• Randolph presented a medal to Newt Scamander, hoping to improve his opinion of the Magical Congress.
• Randolph revealed that Sam Chavez had been chosen as an outstanding young person, and Bradley reluctantly went onstage to pin Sam's medal on him.
• Bradley told Sam to come to his office for an important assignment, and Sam hurried away uneasily.

Vincent returned home after dinner with Newt and Tina, then attended the Order of Merlin ceremony with his parents and Gu Gu. The Wayne family reached the hidden venue and joined the Weasleys before the ceremony began.

• Vincent returned to 139 Oxford Street and found Gu Gu waiting for him.
• On July 15, Vincent’s parents dressed for the ceremony, and Vincent adjusted their outfits and Gu Gu’s formal clothes with magic.
• Eric drove the family in his silver Aston Martin DB5, while Gu Gu complained about the cramped back seat.
• Vincent led his parents into a hidden hall protected by a powerful Muggle Banishment Charm.
• A waiter guided the Wayne family to the first row, where they met the Weasleys and greeted Arthur, Molly, Fred, and George.

The Order of Merlin ceremony honored seven recipients, including Lockhart, Rolf Scamander, Cedric, Fred, George, Hermione, and Vincent. Vincent received the final medal to the loudest applause, after Rita abandoned her plans to write damaging stories about several recipients.

• Lockhart arrived late and apologized to the Wizengamot, blaming the delay on preparing a respectable outfit.
• The ceremony venue transformed to show live images of central London through projection magic.
• Fudge awarded Lockhart a medal for his work confronting dark creatures and writing about his experiences.
• Rita recognized Vincent’s warning and tore up her notes rather than attack the other recipients in her reporting.
• Fudge named Rolf Scamander, Cedric Diggory, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, and Hermione Granger as recipients before announcing Vincent as the final honoree.
• Vincent accepted his medal for defeating Quirinus Quirrell as Eric and Evelyn joined him onstage, and the crowd gave him its loudest applause.

Vincent received the Third Class Order of Merlin and spoke with reporters, while Dumbledore arranged for Lockhart to return to Hogwarts as a teacher. Vincent suspected Dumbledore was steering him toward conflict with Dark wizards, and Lockhart accepted the teaching position without realizing he had been targeted.

• Vincent accepted an interview with Rita and confidently said he would achieve more, while Rita questioned Lockhart harshly about his lateness and the children’s achievements.
• Dumbledore interrupted Lockhart’s interview, answered Rita’s questions, and winked at Lockhart before speaking with him.
• Vincent told Xenophilius Lovegood that Flamel had destroyed the Sorcerer’s Stone and had not yet decided whether to give him his manuscripts.
• Vincent realized Dumbledore might be manipulating him into opposing Dark wizards and joined Dumbledore’s table.
• Dumbledore offered Lockhart an open teaching position at Hogwarts, and Lockhart eagerly accepted.

Lucius stopped Arthur and the Ministry team from searching the Malfoy estate by giving Fudge money for a fund against Dark forces. Meanwhile, the Wayne family returned from America and faced reporters eager to hear about the Furaikan incident, leaving Vincent to consider Rita as a useful mouthpiece.

• Arthur and the other Ministry officials confronted Lucius at the Malfoy estate, and Arthur's team blasted apart the gates.
• Fudge sent Arthur and the others away, then persuaded Lucius to establish a fund to fight Dark forces.
• The Wayne family returned to London and Rita met them at the airport, hoping to interview Vincent.
• At 139 Oxford Street, Vincent answered questions from reporters about Furaikan while Eric and Evelyn served tea and snacks.
• After the reporters left, Vincent told Eric and Evelyn that Rita would pursue attention and that he saw weaknesses he could use.

Harry gave Ginny his books before Draco mocked them, while Lucius Malfoy insulted the Weasleys and Grangers in the bookshop crowd. Arthur and Lucius fought until Hagrid separated them.

• Harry gave his books to Ginny, then stood up for her when Draco teased them about being a couple.
• Vincent’s arrival prompted Draco to leave, while Lucius led Draco and Narcissa toward the bookstore.
• Lucius mocked Arthur Weasley and the Weasleys’ finances, then insulted the Grangers and their friends.
• Arthur tackled Lucius, and the two fathers fought viciously as Eric and Vincent protected Ginny from the crowd.
• Hagrid separated Arthur and Lucius and ordered them to stop fighting.

Vincent learned how Grindelwald’s charisma helped the Wizards' Purity Party maintain influence, then agreed to help build connections in Japan. Back at Nurmengard, Grindelwald struck Vincent with a Killing Curse to test whether he could withstand it, and Vincent awakened after nearly following a warm light into the afterlife.

• Viktor explained that American vampires had accumulated wealth but needed magical blood to survive, giving Vincent an idea for researching the magic in Squib descendants.
• Viktor suggested that Vincent use his connections to pursue cooperation in Japan, where the Ashiya and Abe families held power, and Vincent agreed to try.
• Viktor offered to travel to Japan as an intermediary, while Vincent listed his personal traits for Viktor to record.
• Vincent decided to develop his own power and agreed to undergo Grindelwald’s test of surviving an unspoken Killing Curse.
• Grindelwald hit Vincent with a Killing Curse, and Vincent’s spirit left his body and approached a warm light before his heartbeat woke him.

Vincent avoided Gilderoy Lockhart’s book signing while Hermione and the others gathered at Flourish and Blotts. Lockhart announced that he would become Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in September, leaving Harry trapped beside him as the crowd reacted.

• Vincent warned Hermione that she might one day become someone she once hated, then slipped away to avoid Lockhart’s attention.
• Molly, Jane, Evelyn, Eric, Arthur, and Chris arrived for Lockhart’s signing as witches crowded around the bookshop.
• Lockhart made a dramatic entrance, signed books, and posed for photographs with Harry, Fred, George, and Hermione.
• Fred, George, and Hermione escaped into the crowd, while Lockhart kept Harry beside him.
• Lockhart announced that he would become Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts professor that September.

Ginny met Luna, who remembered seeing Wayne mysteriously hiding in the air, while Hermione and the others reunited aboard the train. When Harry and Ron appeared in Arthur's Ford Anglia after missing the train, the twins feared the incident would lead to Ron's expulsion and give Malfoy an excuse to target him.

• Luna told Ginny she had seen Wayne hide in the air and compared him to Nargles.
• Hermione rejoined Vincent and the others, and Vincent expanded their crowded train compartment with an Undetectable Extension Charm.
• The group realized Harry and Ron were missing and feared they had fallen asleep and missed the train.
• Harry and Ron flew Arthur's Ford Anglia alongside the train after its invisibility device broke when the car's acceleration device was activated.
• Fred and George panicked that Ron and Harry would be expelled, while Vincent warned that Malfoy might use the incident to target Ron.

Harry and Ron flew the enchanted Ford Anglia toward Hogwarts while Vincent arrived ahead of the other students by riding a Thestral. As the school year began, Luna told Ginny her father believed the Sorcerer's Stone had not been destroyed, while Ginny worried about Harry and Ron's reckless flight.

• Harry told Ron that Dobby had tried to stop him from returning to Hogwarts because something terrible would happen there, and Ron flew the car toward the train.
• At the station, Vincent recognized and touched a Thestral, then rode it through the air as Hermione, Neville, James, and Alfred watched.
• Draco resented Vincent's latest display and predicted that he would not stay happy for long, while Crabbe and Goyle expected the year to go better for them.
• Ginny and Luna saw the flying Ford Anglia carrying Harry and Ron, and Ginny worried that they would be punished for flying it.
• Luna told Ginny that her father believed the Sorcerer's Stone still existed and that Nicolas Flamel and Vincent had deceived Dumbledore.

Vincent said goodbye to the Waynes and the Ilvermorny students before flying back to England with his family. Meanwhile, Arthur led a Ministry team to search the Malfoy estate, where he and Lucius faced off at the gate.

• Vincent accepted materials from Sam for studying Intercontinental Apparition and left for London with his family.
• Arthur assembled eight Ministry officials for a search of the Malfoy estate, with Kingsley accompanying him.
• Dobby informed Lucius that the Ministry had arrived with a search warrant, and Lucius told him to keep Narcissa and Draco inside.
• Arthur showed Lucius Fudge's signed warrant to search for items connected to Dark Magic.
• Lucius ordered Arthur and his team to leave, and Arthur's seven companions drew their wands.

Vincent and the Wayne family discovered their fortune in Gringotts, then met the Weasleys and Grangers as Arthur’s investigation of suspected dark wizards came up in conversation. As the group left to shop, Harry and the others pressed Vincent to tell them about his recent adventures, but Hermione sensed he was holding something back.

• Vincent and his parents celebrated the gold and silver mine deeds and land they found in their Gringotts vault.
• The Waynes met the Grangers and Weasleys at Gringotts, where Fred and George told Vincent that Harry had accidentally traveled to Knockturn Alley and seen Draco Malfoy and his father selling items at Borgin and Burkes.
• Vincent explained that Fudge’s apparent greed might conceal a politically savvy warning to pure-blood families under Arthur’s investigation.
• The group agreed to meet at Flourish and Blotts, and Molly warned Fred and George not to visit Knockturn Alley.
• George asked Vincent about his adventures with Furaikan and his new acquaintances, and Vincent claimed the stories were already in the papers.
• Harry, Ron, Fred, and George accepted Vincent’s excuse for not writing sooner, but Hermione suspected he was avoiding the question.

Hermione questioned Vincent about his early magic studies and learned that he believed magic itself was not good or evil, while he refused to explain what he had done in North America. In Transfiguration, Vincent and Hermione earned Gryffindor points, while Ron’s damaged wand caused a smoky mishap that left McGonagall considering harsher consequences.

• Hermione confronted Vincent about using magic without an incantation, and he explained that he had begun learning such magic years earlier and could not yet tell her what he had done in North America.
• Vincent cleared the smell from Hermione with a spell, and they hurried to Transfiguration with Harry and Ron.
• James teased Vincent about what he had learned over the summer, while Vincent, Hermione, and Neville rejected James’s offer to show them something after class.
• McGonagall taught the class to transfigure beetles into buttons, and Vincent and Hermione each earned twenty points for their work.
• Ron’s damaged wand filled the classroom with smoke and crushed his beetle, and McGonagall decided he might need a harsher lesson to make him reflect.

Lockhart’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson went awry when his students’ attempts at the Spider Banishment Charm frightened Audrey, and Vincent comforted her before taking her back to the Forbidden Forest. Back in the common room, Vincent worked on Gwent cards until Draco and his companions challenged him to a bet, leaving him to answer their provocation.

• Lockhart called on Ron and Neville to cast the Spider Banishment Charm, but their attempts only made Audrey react in fear.
• Vincent told Lockhart that he knew Audrey, then calmed her and took her back to the Forbidden Forest.
• Fred and George asked Vincent to let them try his new broom, and he warned them that Wood would punish them if he found out.
• Vincent worked on iron-copper alloy and discussed the design of Gwent’s card backs with Hermione.
• Draco and five senior members of Black Swan mocked Vincent’s cards and challenged him to a bet.

Vincent and his friends entered the Slytherin dormitory and rigged Draco Malfoy's room with a rope and Dungbombs, then Lockhart publicly humiliated Draco over his perfume. Draco skipped class and sent Crabbe and Goyle after Lockhart, but Snape caught them, leaving him exhausted by another night of patrolling.

• Cedric used a Slytherin girl's password to get Vincent, Fred, George, Hermione, and himself into the dormitory, while the twins teased him about serving as their decoy.
• Vincent disabled the magical traps on Draco's door, and the group set up the rope and Dungbomb prank before quietly leaving.
• The next morning, Draco arrived at breakfast smelling of perfume, and Lockhart mocked him in front of the Great Hall.
• Draco skipped class, then received a letter from Lucius that further upset him and told Crabbe and Goyle to deal with Lockhart.
• Snape caught Crabbe and Goyle outside the dormitory and stayed on patrol until around three in the morning.

Vincent welcomed prominent wizarding families and opened his Gwent card shop, where guests tried the card pool and their luck. The launch ended with Fudge giving up after repeated pity pulls while customers, including Astoria, won rare cards.

• Vincent greeted Devin and his parents, Clement and Selena Rosier, followed by the Greengrasses and other invited guests.
• Vincent's family, the Grangers, the Weasleys, and the Diggorys joined the guests inside the shop as Rita followed them in.
• Dumbledore and Fudge tried the card pool, but both repeatedly received guaranteed gold cards instead of rainbow cards.
• The first customers won three gold cards and a rainbow, while Umbridge pulled a chibi Fudge card and Astoria won two rainbow cards.
• Dumbledore stopped after fifty pulls, and Fudge finally gave up after another hundred as Vincent's shop demonstrated its profitable card-pulling business.

Hayahiko considered how to bring Vincent into the Jingu Family’s effort against the Abe and Ashiya families, while Rinne worried that her father was treating her future as part of a marriage alliance. Back at Hogwarts, Vincent discovered that Little White was unusually eager to drink potions, including Felix Felicis.

• Vincent discussed with Hayahiko how the Abe and Ashiya families might join Wizard Cards, and he planned to make the card merchants suffer even if Wizard Cards took losses.
• Hayahiko told Rinne that Kenny could marry into the Jingu Family and revealed that he had investigated Vincent.
• Hayahiko said Vincent would earn another qualification to work with the Jingu Family if he thwarted the other two families, while Rinne warned that Vincent could not be bound by feelings or interests.
• Vincent repeatedly sneezed, and Neville offered him a potion for a cold.
• Little White came to Vincent’s room and eagerly stared at Neville’s potion and Snape’s Felix Felicis.

Vincent endured an exhausting late-night shopping trip with the girls in Shibuya before learning that the Shingu Family gym was ready. Hayahiko then revealed that Wizard Cards were being manipulated as a Ponzi scheme and wanted the Abe and Ashiya families drawn into it.

• Vincent waited outside the fitting rooms while Rinne, Jennifer, Cho, Marietta, Daphne, and Hermione tried on clothes and shopped through the night.
• Vincent returned to the Shingu Family residence at two in the morning carrying shopping bags alongside the other boys.
• Changkichi told Vincent that the family gym, expanded with the Undetectable Extension Charm, had been completed.
• Hayahiko showed Vincent newspapers reporting Wizard Cards' growing sales in France and the Daily Prophet's criticism of the delayed Gwent release.
• Vincent identified Wizard Cards as a Ponzi scheme, and Hayahiko said he wanted the Abe and Ashiya families to get involved.