Chapter Summaries

Vincent disrupted Snape’s Potions class with silent magic, provoking Snape and humiliating Draco before the Gryffindors left. Later, Moody began his Defense Against the Dark Arts class by announcing that he would teach the students how to deal with Dark Magic.

• Vincent secretly caused magical mishaps in the Potions classroom, including turning Draco’s antidote into a dancing green puppy and making Blaise’s potion nearly explode.
• Snape threatened to expel whoever tampered with the potions, and Vincent openly challenged him while denying involvement.
• Snape assigned Harry and Ron an essay on antidotes, then Draco was struck in the face by the green puppy, which turned back into potion and went into his mouth.
• Draco gathered the Black Swans to discuss how to respond to Vincent, but they found no safe countermeasure because of his status as a School Board Member.
• Moody entered the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, dismissed the textbooks, and told the students he would teach them to deal with Dark Magic.

Vincent prepared a handcrafted gift for Hermione and arranged a private Valentine's Day date at the Wayne family home. He gave her a bouquet of ninety-nine silver roses that replayed their shared memories, and they kissed before heading upstairs.

• Vincent made a silver rose bouquet and invited Hermione to meet him in Hogsmeade.
• Hermione hurried from Hogwarts in a white dress to meet Vincent for their date.
• Vincent brought Hermione to the Wayne family home, where they were alone because Wayne and his wife had gone out.
• Vincent presented Hermione with ninety-nine roses that projected scenes from their years together, ending with their Yule Ball dance.
• Hermione accepted the bouquet, kissed Vincent, and went upstairs with him.

Vincent reassured himself that his parents would be protected, then traveled alone to Triberg to reach the Schmidt Family manor. He arrived undetected despite the German Ministry of Magic’s surveillance, and stood at the door ready to knock.

• Eric arranged for old comrades-in-arms to help protect Evelyn and himself while Vincent was away.
• Vincent ate with his employees, then drove invisibly to Berlin and considered the German Ministry of Magic’s control over Magical Projection.
• Vincent traveled to the Black Forest and set delayed Fiendfyre spells at twenty locations to distract the German authorities.
• Vincent concealed his magical presence and entered Triberg, avoiding its detection spell and the attention of its residents.
• Vincent reached the Schmidt Family manor and raised his hand to knock while German Ministry wizards watched it.

Scrimgeour left Fudge’s meeting after rejecting the Ministry’s approach to the search for Vincent Wayne. Vincent investigated a cursed attack at a London warehouse, but the suspect escaped, leaving Aiden Selwyn’s location unknown.

• Scrimgeour told Kingsley that the Department of Mysteries’ object was pure evil but posed no danger at present.
• Vincent continued searching for Aiden Selwyn, but MI6 investigations and the Succession Society’s surveillance found no useful leads.
• At a Ministry meeting, Scrimgeour walked out after Fudge focused on publicity and threatened to dismiss him if he failed to catch Vincent within half a month.
• Vincent arrived at Neptune warehouse and learned that the attacker had escaped after cursing two MAST-MA Unit members.
• Vincent used the Serpent Staff to cure the members and Fiendfyre to destroy the corrosive liquid, choosing not to pursue the attacker’s Apparition trace.

Vincent Wayne arrived in Hawaii with his family for summer vacation and met Jennifer, an Ilvermorny student, at the beach. After Jennifer told her friends about him, Kenny approached Vincent and tried to grab Gu Gu, leaving Vincent facing a brewing confrontation with the visiting students.

• The Wayne family flew to Hawaii while Vincent rested after working on Magical Circuits, then rented a Jeep and checked into a hotel.
• Vincent and Gu Gu went to the beach, where Vincent dragged the reluctant owl into the water to make it swim.
• Vincent met Jennifer and recognized her as a witch from Ilvermorny; she recognized the name Wayne and joked that he and Gu Gu looked alike.
• Jennifer told her friends about Vincent, while Kenny and Rinne Jingū argued over Hogwarts and Ilvermorny.
• Kenny approached Vincent and reached for Gu Gu, but Vincent caught his wrist before Jennifer tried to explain.

Vincent and an international team successfully ignited New Century Prometheus, a prototype reactor that sustained deuterium-tritium fusion, and celebrated the breakthrough at Buckingham Palace. At the banquet, Germany’s President sought clean-energy cooperation with Vincent while suggesting Germany’s magical government could handle its own response to him.

• The Queen, the British Prime Minister, the German President, and the Dean of Tokyo University's Chinese Academy of Sciences visited the Calum Science Center to witness Vincent’s fusion experiment.
• Vincent started the experiment, and the reactor’s Magical Circuits contained the plasma as fusion continued beyond the critical energy-gain threshold.
• After five minutes, the researchers celebrated the successful fusion, while Vincent concluded that New Century Prometheus was only a prototype and not yet a Sorcerer’s Stone.
• The Queen hosted the researchers and dignitaries at a Buckingham Palace banquet and toasted the new era of clean energy.
• Vincent joked that Germany might arrest him as a magical threat, and the German President replied that the government and Ministry of Magic were separate entities and welcomed cooperation on clean energy.

Sam received assignments to mentor new Aurors, help protect the Muggle President, and monitor the Muggle government over the Bifrost Project. In Britain, Scrimgeour refused Fudge’s order to continue pursuing Wayne for political reasons and left the Minister’s office.

• Graves assigned Sam to train new Aurors, protect the Muggle President, and watch the Muggle government, then gave him money to buy more respectable clothes.
• Sam learned that the assignments were connected to the Bifrost Project and tensions between Muggle governments and the Ministry of Magic.
• Scrimgeour told Fudge that he wanted to suspend the operation to capture Wayne.
• Fudge defended the hunt as a way to control Hogwarts and strengthen the Ministry’s position, while Scrimgeour condemned it as a political farce.
• Scrimgeour told Fudge he would no longer waste his Aurors’ time on the hunt and left the Minister’s office.

Professor McGonagall confronted Umbridge’s disruptive inspection of her Transfiguration class and refused to let the Ministry manipulate students and parents. Umbridge left promising to report the clash, while Fred and George later mocked her treatment of Professor Trelawney.

• Professor McGonagall began teaching the Cross-species Transformation Charm as Umbridge interrupted to question its dangers.
• Umbridge claimed that the educational commissioners would truthfully report Hogwarts’s teaching to the Ministry and parents, and Professor McGonagall told her to stop provoking people.
• Umbridge angrily left the Transfiguration classroom with the commissioners, promising to report Professor McGonagall.
• Hermione entered the common room and watched Fred and George reenact Umbridge’s humiliating interrogation of Professor Trelawney.
• Fred and George’s performance made the students feel sympathy for Trelawney and consider that she might have genuine ability.

Savage, Robards, and Prout found Gu Gu in Knockturn Alley, while Vincent returned safely with the four members of Fallen Paradise. Vincent later wrote to Viktor and met the four Fallen Angels at an ice cream shop, where they appeared together in awkward Muggle clothes.

• Savage found Gu Gu perched in a tree, and the three Aurors spent more than ten minutes coaxing it down.
• Vincent emerged with four members of Fallen Paradise and told Robards that they had kindly shown him the way back.
• Robards warned the four Knockturn Alley wizards to behave, and they returned to their underground base to pack.
• Vincent went to Diagon Alley to send Viktor a letter, then spoke with Tonks about the youth representative nominations and her mentor, Professor Moody.
• Vincent passed Tom Riddle Sr. reading The Quibbler's claim that Sirius had escaped to XZ, then Apparated to Oxford Street.
• Vincent met Abraham, Sassm, Fanny, and Cheshire at an ice cream shop and ordered five strawberry sundaes.

A curse struck crowded areas across London on Christmas, causing widespread agony and chaos. Vincent identified Aiden Selwyn as the likely culprit and began an openly authorized rescue effort, leaving the story as he used the Serpent Staff to counter the curse in Piccadilly Circus.

• A spreading curse caused people across Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square, and other London locations to collapse in agony.
• Vincent cut short his Christmas call with Hermione and his friends after alarms showed multiple districts under attack.
• Vincent identified Aiden Selwyn as the likely source, ordered Hunter, the MAST-MA Unit, and the Succession Society to assist, and coordinated quarantine measures with MI6.
• Vincent warned the Prime Minister that rescuing victims might require publicly using magic and risk violating the Statute of Secrecy.
• The Prime Minister authorized Vincent to take necessary measures and promised government support in reaching the Ministry of Magic.
• Vincent landed in Piccadilly Circus and spread magic through the square as rings of white light rippled from the Serpent Staff.

Scrimgeour struggled to satisfy Fudge’s demand for Vincent Wayne’s arrest while secretly serving as an impostor for Vincent inside the Ministry. After Vincent proposed staging his own capture, the real Scrimgeour refused and said he had another way to handle Fudge.

• Fudge confronted Scrimgeour at a meeting and demanded progress on arresting Vincent Wayne, but Scrimgeour left without yielding to his demands.
• Kingsley and Tonks expressed concern about Scrimgeour’s pressure and offered to help, while he said the investigation seemed impossible and he might resign if Wayne stayed hidden.
• Scrimgeour reviewed unusual injury cases in the archives, then left the Ministry and changed back into Vincent.
• Vincent visited the real Scrimgeour at the Lein Hotel and recounted his day at the Ministry.
• Vincent suggested they cooperate by staging his capture before the deadline, but Scrimgeour refused and said he could handle Fudge himself.

Hogwarts celebrated Christmas Eve while Dumbledore and Snape quietly left the feast, and the students gathered in the Room of Requirement to reconnect with Vincent and Rolf. The friends shared memories and counted down to Christmas together across their distant locations.

• Dumbledore gave a Christmas speech that acknowledged the empty seat Vincent had once occupied without naming him, and Snape later drew Dumbledore away from the feast.
• Fred and George set off a firework shaped like a fire dragon before joining everyone in the Room of Requirement to finish preparing their Christmas gathering.
• Hermione used the Magical Communicator to connect the group with Rolf and Vincent, who appeared on separate projected screens.
• The friends caught up on their lives, recalled school adventures, and joked about dragon flights and Rolf's work treating a Swedish Short-Snout Dragon.
• Hermione suggested they count down to midnight together, and the group welcomed Christmas as Vincent played a Christmas song.

Vincent and Hermione attended the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards as representatives of Prologue Investment Company, where Vincent eagerly anticipated seeing his idols Madonna and Michael Jackson. The chapter left him thrilled as Michael Jackson arrived at the music hall.

• Vincent and Hermione arrived at the VMA red carpet, and Vincent used magic to hide their entrance from the reporters’ cameras.
• Hermione learned that Viktor and the vampires had established Prologue Investment Company and merged it into the Succession Society.
• Vincent told Hermione that he had come to fangirl and admitted he wanted to meet Madonna and get a photo with her.
• Madonna arrived at the music hall, and Vincent watched her with excitement.
• Michael Jackson entered with Janet Jackson, and Vincent gripped Hermione’s hand as he spotted his idol.

Hermione challenged Umbridge’s textbook and teaching during Defense Against the Dark Arts, so Umbridge assigned her another detention. In Umbridge’s office, a frying pan dropped from the ceiling and hit her, and she accused Hermione of setting the trap.

• Hermione told Umbridge she had finished the textbook and challenged Slinkhard’s views on curses.
• Umbridge accused Hermione of questioning the Ministry-approved curriculum and assigned her another detention.
• The students argued over Hermione’s defiance, and James urged Gryffindor to rally behind her.
• Umbridge led Hermione to her office and prepared to begin the detention.
• A frying pan fell from the ceiling and struck Umbridge, who blamed Hermione for setting the trap.

Scrimgeour and Moody exposed the man impersonating Barty Crouch as Barty Crouch Jr., a Death Eater believed dead for thirteen years. Barty Crouch Jr. refused to explain how he had returned, but Moody saw that he was afraid.

• Barty Crouch threatened Peter Pettigrew and revealed that he knew Voldemort by name.
• Scrimgeour discovered the Dark Mark on Barty and suspected he was an impostor.
• Moody examined Barty and used the Veil Stealing Curse to peel away his stolen face.
• Moody identified the impostor as Barty Crouch Jr., who had supposedly died thirteen years earlier.
• Barty Crouch Jr. taunted Scrimgeour and refused to explain his return, while Moody recognized his fear.

Aiden Selwyn escaped to a hidden stone house after Muggles armed with heat-beam weapons injured him, then treated his wound and reconsidered his revenge. He feared Muggle technology could threaten wizards and realized he might have to abandon his plans and hide for the rest of his life.

• Aiden Selwyn fled through a vortex into a hidden stone house in the forest after Muggles attacked him at a warehouse in London's East End.
• Aiden treated his scorched right arm with an ointment and magical bandages, then removed his mask and studied his disfigured face.
• Aiden recalled how the Muggles' heat beams melted his Shield Charm and how he escaped using a potion and repeated short-range Apparition.
• Aiden remembered his plan to spread suffering through London with a specially made Opal Necklace, and the earlier interference of Muggle agents and Wayne's dragon flight.
• Aiden wondered whether Muggle technology could analyze and weaponize magic, and feared he would have to abandon revenge and remain hidden in the stone house.

After Umbridge's departure, Snape taught Defense Against the Dark Arts again, surprising Gryffindor with an encouraging practical lesson and a point. He left the classroom pleased with his teaching and prepared materials for the next lesson in his office.

• Snape returned to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and had the students discard Umbridge's old textbooks.
• Snape demonstrated the Leg-Locker Curse on Neville by turning his shoes into teddy bears, then had the students practise in pairs.
• Snape praised Ron and Harry for their attempts and offered Gryffindor 1 point if Seamus avoided causing trouble in the next exercise.
• Snape assigned a short essay on defensive uses of the Leg-Locker Curse and awarded Gryffindor 1 point for Seamus's performance.
• Snape returned to his office and reviewed werewolf and Animagus materials for his next Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson.

MI6 and Hogwarts reacted to Vincent Wayne’s dragon flight and attack on Gringotts, while Vincent warned Dumbledore that something in the bank’s vaults could drive fire dragons berserk. Dumbledore realized Voldemort might have hidden a Horcrux there.

• At MI6, Carlton suggested Vincent had used the dragon to send a message, but Director John decided the agency should focus on supernatural threats to civilians rather than investigate the dragon’s destination.
• Hogwarts students received urgent messages and circulated pamphlets about Vincent’s attack on Gringotts and his flight on a fire dragon.
• Ron rejected the reports as Ministry slander until videos showed Vincent riding the dragon, while Harry watched the Ministry’s official account claim the dragon had driven Vincent away.
• Lavender and Parvati teased Hermione about Vincent’s headline-making actions, and Hermione said flying over London on a dragon was something he would do.
• Dumbledore received Vincent’s message that something in Gringotts’ vaults could drive fire dragons berserk and suspected Voldemort had hidden a Horcrux there.

MAST-MA’s first class passed its assessment after subduing the werewolves, and Vincent kept Greyback for his own purposes. Back at Hogwarts, Harry returned with his scar nearly gone, and he told Draco that he had chosen to define himself as Harry Potter rather than by the labels attached to him.

• The MAST-MA Unit subdued thirty-six werewolves, and Baker and Jensen helped the badly injured Corporal Gene out of the factory.
• Hunter declared that MAST-MA’s first class had all passed, while Vincent ordered the remaining werewolves locked up and reserved Greyback for other uses.
• Harry returned to Hogwarts with his scar nearly invisible, and Snape watched him closely but offered little criticism during Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Harry demonstrated Obstacle Course successfully, and Snape left without assigning homework.
• Draco lingered after class, and Harry explained that he had chosen to be Harry Potter instead of the Boy Who Lived or the Chosen One.

Harry and Ron searched for Scabbers and suspected that Snape might have taken him, so they planned to investigate the Bat Cave. Their attempt was interrupted when they saw Vincent carry an injured Hermione to the Hospital Wing, leaving them embarrassed and envious beneath the Invisibility Cloak.

• The Daily Prophet published Rita’s sympathetic account of Ron and Scabbers, prompting Fudge to let Ron retrieve his rat from the Temporary Headquarters.
• Ron discovered that Scabbers had disappeared again, and he and Harry wondered whether Wales or Snape had taken him.
• Harry and Ron planned to investigate during the afternoon and hurried through their classes before sneaking out under the Invisibility Cloak.
• On the stairs, Harry and Ron saw Vincent treat Hermione’s injuries and carry her toward the Hospital Wing.
• Harry and Ron guessed that Vincent and Hermione had been using a Disillusionment Charm to meet privately, then continued their search for Scabbers.