Chapter Summaries

Vincent and Hermione investigated why Goblins Hall had obtained Magical Projections and concluded it planned to manipulate the World Cup betting odds with Ludo Bagman’s help. Vincent and Hermione then suspected Bagman was the person the Death Eaters had taken from the stadium.

• Vincent explained that Goblins Hall had bribed Ministry officials to obtain Magical Projections and their maintenance manuals.
• Fred and George admitted they had bet on the World Cup with Bagman, who had said he had plenty of backing.
• Hermione and Vincent inferred that Bagman and Goblins Hall had partnered to manipulate betting odds using the Magical Projections.
• Vincent suspected Bagman had been Goblins Hall’s Ministry mole and had concealed what happened to the organization.
• Vincent connected Bagman to Bertha Jorkins and the Triwizard Tournament tasks, and Hermione suspected the Death Eaters had taken Bagman from the stadium.

Moody, Vincent, and Hermione infiltrated the Ministry staff housing at Loch Ness to capture the Death Eater posing as Bagman. Vincent cornered Bagman behind a spell-reflecting shield and began breaking through it.

• Moody argued that the operation should continue to stop Voldemort's spies from infiltrating the Ministry, and Dumbledore asked him to protect Vincent and Hermione.
• Moody met Vincent and Hermione near Hogsmeade and led them to Bagman's residence in the Ardnamurchan Magical Enclave.
• Moody and the two students slipped past the security booth and found an unnamed room where Moody detected two people.
• Moody attacked as the door opened, but one figure reflected a spell and defended himself with a silver shield.
• Vincent recognized Bagman behind the shield, transformed the Serpent Staff into a pistol, and fired a powerful red beam that cracked the shield.

After Vincent’s prison break led Germany to place him on its wanted list, Wizards’ Purity Party branch heads Amina Ibn Hakim and Sheng Bai discussed the threat his ambitions posed to the organization’s fragile standing. They agreed that Amina would test Vincent, while Sheng Bai’s doubts about the young wizard remained unresolved.

• Germany became the second magical government to place Vincent on its wanted list after the British Ministry of Magic.
• Amina Ibn Hakim read a German newspaper report about Vincent’s prison break while relaxing in her Egyptian black-market fortress.
• Sheng Bai called Amina and warned that Vincent’s actions could upset the balance that had allowed the Wizards’ Purity Party to survive.
• Amina defended Vincent as someone acknowledged by Grindelwald, while Sheng Bai questioned whether someone so young could handle great affairs.
• Sheng Bai asked Amina to test Vincent’s abilities, and Amina challenged him over whether he intended to make things difficult for the young wizard.

Vincent met Amina Hakim at her fortress and discussed why he had rescued the Wizards' Purity Party elders. He revealed that he intended to expose magic to the public, leaving Amina to recognize that her organization was already caught up in his plans.

• Vincent visited Amina Hakim at her imitation Nurmengard fortress and asked her to call him by a different title than heir to Grindelwald.
• Vincent explained that he rescued the imprisoned Wizards' Purity Party elders because he respected their ideals and believed they now had new goals.
• Vincent compared Amina's fear of change to Albus Dumbledore's and asked whether she wanted to know how Dumbledore was doing.
• Vincent told Amina that he wanted to end the need for secrecy by revealing magic to the public.
• Amina realized that the Wizards' Purity Party branches could not avoid being affected by Vincent's plans and called him Vincent Wayne.

Vincent demonstrated the Dominator Pistol and prepared to absorb the African branch of the Wizards' Purity Party. After visiting his parents, he traveled to Alexandria Harbor and entered its underground black market, where a merchant recognized him from a wanted notice.

• Vincent explained how the Dominator worked, demonstrated its Annihilation Mode, and told the old gentlemen to familiarize themselves with it while he was away.
• Vincent visited Château Saint Jean, shared dinner with his parents, and flew to Alexandria Harbor in La Voiture Noire's fighter jet form.
• Vincent entered the underground black market and explored its stalls beneath the harbor ceiling.
• A stall owner tried to sell Vincent a supposed Hufflepuff's Cup for three thousand Gold Galleons, but Vincent walked away.
• The stall owner found Vincent's wanted notice on his Magical Communicator and realized Vincent had vanished.

Vincent asked Hunter to create a special unit for handling magical affairs, arguing that the Ministry of Magic could not stop Voldemort. Hunter resisted because of the political risks, until Vincent revealed he planned to make magic public, leaving Hunter trapped in the room and reluctantly conceding.

• Hunter realized Vincent had not shared secret information merely to complain and asked what help he wanted.
• Vincent warned that Voldemort's return could spark another wizarding war and said ordinary wizards were vulnerable without their wands.
• Vincent proposed that Hunter use his own unit to handle magical affairs, but Hunter objected that Parliament and the royal family would oppose it.
• Vincent told Hunter he intended to make magic public within the next few years.
• Hunter tried to leave, found the door locked, then drank Vincent's whiskey and admitted Vincent had won.

Vincent traveled to Jerusalem ahead of his meeting with Erich von Grunewald, toured the city, and unexpectedly reunited with Hunter at his family’s hotel. He hinted that the crisis in the Wizarding World could affect Muggles and prepared to explain more in private.

• Vincent drove La Voiture Noire from Alexandria to Jerusalem after Amina’s attention made him change his plans.
• Vincent landed outside Jerusalem, entered the city, visited its major religious sites, and ate a large meal of local dishes.
• Vincent checked into the Jerusalem Lyne Hotel and ran into Hunter, Eric’s old friend and a former military man.
• Hunter asked Vincent about the crisis that had forced him to move to France, and Vincent said it was serious enough to affect the Muggle world.
• Hunter brought Vincent to a royal suite and checked the hallway surveillance camera before closing the door.

Vincent brought the forty-one rescued Wizards' Purity Party elders to Nicolas Flamel’s Paris workshop and began planning the Succession Society’s future. He introduced the Impostor, a mask that could disguise its wearer as anyone, giving the elders a way to return safely to Germany.

• Vincent led the wandless elders across the street to the Old Book Gallery, where Viktor and Helmut reunited with them after half a century.
• Old Kramer punched Helmut for fleeing first, then embraced him and asked how he had been.
• Vincent inspected Flamel’s workshop and considered expanding it into the Succession Society’s future headquarters and factory.
• Vincent designed equipment for the elders and revealed a white mask called the Impostor.
• Vincent demonstrated that the Impostor could copy a person’s appearance, clothes, and magical signature, then explained that it could help the elders integrate into the modern world and return to Germany.

Vincent’s group retaliated against the Black Swan Club members who had targeted them, while Snape searched the castle for the culprit. After discussing the Marauder’s Map and its mysterious creators, Vincent went to the kitchen with Hermione and Gu Gu.

• Vincent’s traps hit Crabbe and Goyle with a curse in the shower room, and Draco was struck when he went to investigate.
• Vincent used pepper smoke to incapacitate Marcus and sealed him inside his dormitory with Transfiguration.
• Snape treated Crabbe and Goyle, sent Marcus back to bed, and searched the castle for Vincent while Vincent’s group stayed in the Gryffindor common room.
• George and Fred used the Marauder’s Map to track the Slytherins, and the group wondered where the map and its secret passages were hidden.
• Vincent, Hermione, and Gu Gu went to the kitchen, where Vincent refused to give the hungry field mouse any food.

Vincent and Hermione discussed the Succession Society’s equipment, the political fallout from the Azkaban incident, and their plans for the future before Vincent staged a supernatural urban legend in Paris. The chapter left him considering how wizards and Muggles could coexist and develop together.

• Hermione took over designing the Succession Society’s clothing while Vincent continued working on the Dominator pistol.
• Hermione told Vincent that the British Ministry had blamed him for the Azkaban incident and still planned to target Dumbledore, while the Daily Prophet continued publishing stories against him.
• Vincent and Hermione teased each other about her becoming Minister of Magic, then exchanged promises to look after themselves before ending the call.
• Vincent drove La Voiture Noire through Paris, led police on a chase, and escaped into a café as the authorities and reporters gathered around the car.
• Vincent reflected that exposing magic could provoke fear and conflict, and considered how wizards and Muggles might coexist without one replacing the other.

Vincent clashed with Draco over his claim that he had blocked and cut apart a Killing Curse, while the students increasingly dismissed Draco’s boasts. Later, Vincent and his friends discussed the next Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and discovered that his family had a vast stock of weapons, leaving Vincent uneasy about going home for Christmas.

• Draco accused Vincent of lying about surviving the Killing Curse, but Vincent calmly stood by his claim and told Draco he only needed to be greater than him.
• Draco left the Great Hall, and he avoided provoking Vincent over the following days after his family apparently warned him.
• Vincent and his friends ate noodles in the Hogwarts kitchens and discussed Snape possibly substituting for Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Fred told the group that his father had exchanged Gold Galleons for 4,500 pounds, prompting Vincent to consider buying instruments and hiding goods in a piano.
• Vincent revealed that his family had enough unsold stock for a Quirrell every year, then insisted that his family ran a gun shop rather than an arms company.
• Vincent grew uneasy when his friends joked about his family’s weapons, especially because he had to go home during the Christmas break.

Vincent explained to Cedric and Rolf why he suspected Quirrell was involved in the trouble at Hogwarts and invited them to help expose him. The group shared what they knew, revealed the Marauder's Map, and ended up discussing Rolf's secret Bowtruckle, Groot.

• Vincent told Cedric and Rolf that Quirrell's visit to Snape's office and other coincidences made him suspect Quirrell was dangerous, then invited them to help expose him.
• Rolf agreed to join Vincent's club, which Vincent expected to establish around Halloween, and Cedric said he wanted to learn Quirrell's true purpose.
• Vincent explained the events surrounding the Sorcerer's Stone and said the group could track Quirrell's location, though he did not know why Quirrell wanted the Stone.
• Rolf revealed a Bowtruckle he had brought back from the Forbidden Forest and admitted he hoped to become a magizoologist; Vincent named the creature Groot.
• George showed Cedric and Rolf the Marauder's Map, and Cedric learned that Vincent had nicknamed Quirrell's turban Two-Face.

Vincent and the other five children confronted Quirrell outside the Headmaster’s Office, but Quirrell’s master took control and revealed himself as Voldemort. Voldemort threatened the group, and Vincent fired at him as the chapter ended.

• Quirrell tried to persuade the children to lower their wands, then admitted he had controlled the magical creatures while secretly seeking a chance to escape.
• Hermione realized Quirrell had another wand, but Voldemort bound Quirrell’s soul and forced him to unleash a dangerous attack.
• Vincent detonated the landmines as Cedric and Rolf cast Shield Charms, blasting a huge hole in the corridor without stopping Quirrell.
• Quirrell revealed that Voldemort possessed him, and Voldemort identified himself to Vincent and the other children.
• Voldemort raised the Yew Wand and threatened the group, but Vincent fired at him while undoing the Transfiguration Charm on his blowpipe.

Dumbledore investigated the wreckage of the yacht that vanished with thirteen children and recognized the Dark Magic as Gellert Grindelwald’s, concluding that Grindelwald had staged the attack himself. He and Yuxuan reconstructed the Blasting Curse, but Dumbledore remained uncertain about what had happened to the missing children.

• Dumbledore received an urgent message that Vincent and other children had gone missing, then considered a possibility others would dismiss as impossible.
• Takuma and his team searched the seabed near Awaji Island, recovered yacht wreckage and clothing, but found neither bodies nor Mithril.
• Dumbledore examined the wreckage and recognized its Dark Magic as Gellert Grindelwald’s, deciding the attack was a farce staged by Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore reconstructed the curse and identified it as an exceptionally well-controlled Blasting Curse.
• Yuxuan used his Nine-Tailed Fox Patronus to reveal the Dark Magic traces and reconstruct a weaker version of the Blasting Curse, which Dumbledore contained.

Draco suffered another humiliating prank when a magically altered soap filled the shower stall with stinging vapor, and he blamed Wayne despite having no proof. That night, he went to Snape’s office and encountered a mysterious black-cloaked figure, whom he believed was the prankster.

• Draco bought an ornate bar of soap in the Slytherin shower room, but its vapor made his eyes and nose burn, and he hurt himself trying to escape.
• Draco emerged red-eyed in the Great Hall as Gryffindors laughed, while Snape said he could not help him.
• Draco learned that his parents refused to let him transfer from Hogwarts because the Malfoy family had donated teaching supplies, and he blamed Wayne for his misfortunes.
• Draco skipped Transfiguration, then avoided his usual bath that night despite added protective measures in the shower room.
• Draco went to Snape’s office and was knocked down when a black-cloaked figure burst out, vanished into the dungeon, and left Draco convinced it was the prankster.

Hagrid told Vincent that six children had collected venom from Aragog’s Acromantulas, then explained how Aragog and Mosag had started the colony in the Forbidden Forest. Vincent later confronted the overweight owl Gu Gu in the Great Hall as students looked forward to Halloween.

• Hagrid heard Mosag recount that six children had bullied Zack’s colony and collected its venom, and he promised to keep them away.
• Vincent examined a missile launcher, a landmine, and a sniper rifle in his trunk, then decided against using the weapons.
• Hagrid found Vincent and Rolf in the Great Hall and said the Acromantulas were orderly and could have provided venom if asked.
• Vincent learned that Hagrid had brought Aragog to the forest and found him a wife, Mosag, and joked about Hagrid’s talent for breeding creatures.
• Vincent enlarged the owlery door so Gu Gu could enter, then questioned the fat owl about stealing food and needing to lose weight.

Vincent defended the imprisoned Wizards' Purity Party members from manticores, then used La Voiture Noire to break through Erkstag’s entrance and lift them toward freedom. Captain Muller discovered the invisible platform carrying them and realized their rescuer was Vincent, not Helmut Schmidt.

• Vincent used a flamethrower to hold back the manticores as the elderly Wizards' Purity Party members gained hope from learning he was Grindelwald's student.
• La Voiture Noire smashed through Erkstag's giant gear archway, shaking the sinkhole and letting moonlight into the prison.
• Captain Muller and four wizards rushed toward the lower levels, believing Helmut Schmidt had arranged the escape.
• Muller found the broken cages, chains, and rocks suspended above the sinkhole and discovered that an invisible, solid creation blocked his spells.
• The platform carrying the Wizards' Purity Party members began to rise, and Muller saw that their rescuer was Vincent rather than Schmidt.

Vincent demonstrated that his Alder Wand could cast Finite Incantatem and tested it against Percy, dispelling Percy’s spells. As Vincent prepared for his coming duel with Marcus, the Slytherins trained Marcus and planned to humiliate him, while Draco privately worried about Vincent’s strength.

• Vincent successfully cast Finite Incantatem with his Alder Wand, and Percy agreed to test its strength against his spells.
• Vincent used the wand to dispel Percy’s nonverbal Dancing Feet Spell and Stunning Spell, impressing Percy with his reaction speed.
• The twins tried to take bets on Vincent’s duel with Marcus, but Percy chased them away, while Cedric and Rolf left after cheering Vincent on.
• Marcus practiced dark curses in the Slytherin common room as Draco, Pansy, Daphne, and Blaise discussed Vincent’s abilities and their uncertainty about Marcus’s chances.
• Marcus claimed he had a seven-in-ten chance of winning and vowed to ruin Vincent’s standing at Hogwarts and in the Wizarding World.

Vincent and Hermione discovered that Dumbledore had hidden the Sorcerer's Stone inside the Sorting Hat, and Dumbledore revealed that he expected something to happen around Halloween. He urged Vincent to follow his heart and hinted that Fawkes could help if things went wrong, while Vincent remained suspicious of Quirrell and wanted to borrow the Elder Wand.

• After Hermione reached into the Sorting Hat, she found a rough red stone that Vincent recognized as the Sorcerer's Stone.
• Dumbledore returned and confirmed that the stone was real, then placed it back inside the Sorting Hat.
• Hermione inferred that Dumbledore had moved the stone from Gringotts to Hogwarts and was using the fourth-floor room to test students who sneaked out at night.
• Dumbledore told Vincent to follow his heart and said Fawkes would appear if something went wrong, while Vincent wondered whether Quirrell had another secret.
• Vincent asked to borrow the Elder Wand, but Dumbledore refused him for the day.

Vincent refused to help Dumbledore expose Quirrell, knowing Voldemort was hiding on the back of Quirrell’s head, while Dumbledore tested Vincent’s magic and planned to involve Harry Potter. Back in the common room, Vincent, Hermione, and the twins discussed how to make trouble for Quirrell, leaving Hermione worried for the professor.

• Vincent told Dumbledore that Quirrell could not be marked because he had a stronger body, and Dumbledore tested Vincent’s Transfiguration, finding it reached sixteen times its theoretical limit.
• Vincent noticed Dumbledore’s fifteen-inch wand was made of Elder wood, then left the Headmaster’s Office with Hermione.
• Dumbledore explained to the portraits that Vincent had courage, intelligence, warmth, and ambition, and said his plan was to expose Quirrell with Harry Potter’s help.
• Vincent complained that Dumbledore’s plan gave him the short end of the stick and admitted he knew Voldemort was growing from the back of Quirrell’s head.
• Vincent suggested putting a jinx on Quirrell, and Hermione worried that he would be bullied by the students.
• The twins returned, and Hermione joined them and Vincent in discussing their plans for Quirrell.