Chapter Summaries

Luan used Water Bottle Grass to help Hagrid protect his pumpkins from insects, then began making practice wands from magical wood. After several failures, he successfully split a willow branch and embedded Unicorn tail hair in it, but the chapter ended before he could confirm whether the wand worked.

• Luan brought Water Bottle Grass to Hagrid, and the flowers trapped swarms of insects in Hagrid's Pumpkin patch.
• Hagrid invited Luan to carve jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween, and Luan agreed.
• Luan successfully embedded Unicorn tail hair into ordinary wood, completing his preliminary wand-making experiments.
• Luan practiced on magical wood in the Greenhouse, ruining several grapevines, holly branches, and willow branches before achieving perfect splits with one of each.
• Luan embedded the Wand Core into willow wood while recalling Ollivanders' words, but the chapter ended before he tested the result.

Luan successfully made and tested a willow wand with a unicorn tail hair core, then discovered his Magical Strength had risen to Malfoy's level. He prepared for Xilin’s wand making and received Brad’s hard-to-decipher map, but still did not learn where the mysterious wild horses were.

• Luan tested his new wand by the Black Lake, where it stirred the water and successfully transformed dead branches into a silver needle.
• Luan noticed his Wizard Bar had passed halfway and matched Malfoy’s, then spent Sunday finishing his homework and preparing to help Xilin make a wand.
• Luan gave Cedric the remaining magical wood, leaving Cedric shocked that Luan had apparently succeeded in making a wand.
• Luan checked that the Great Willow Tree’s branch was safe at Xilin’s cabin, then polished three rough wand blanks while waiting for Brad.
• Brad brought Luan a tattered family map, but Luan could not understand its symbols and pressed Brad to reveal the wild horses’ location.

Luan and Brad rode toward Snow Eagle Mountain in search of the mysterious herd marked on Brad’s family map, while avoiding soldiers near the border. They found wild horses behaving strangely in a forest clearing, and a distinctive neigh sounded from beyond the hillside.

• Brad explained that the monastery had given its servants time off, and he agreed to guide Luan using his family’s map.
• Luan and Brad borrowed two horses from Neil and traveled north toward Snow Eagle Mountain.
• The pair spotted mounted soldiers chasing reindeer near a place marked on the map and detoured to avoid the army.
• Luan and Brad found wild horses by a stream, then followed them upstream when they moved into dense woods.
• The herd stopped in a clean forest clearing where the horses rested and played unusually calmly.
• A clear, pleasant neigh came from behind the hillside as Luan and Brad watched the herd.

Luan and Brad found a Unicorn at the destination marked on Brad's family map, and Luan befriended it by feeding it bark from a Great Willow Tree. The Unicorn returned to its herd and later reappeared carrying something, leaving Luan still waiting for the tail hair he needed for his wand core.

• Brad recognized the map's final symbols as the Unicorn's neigh and horn, then led Luan away from the hillside.
• The Unicorn blocked Luan and Brad with its horn, but passed them and tore open Luan's saddlebag to eat the Great Willow Tree bark.
• Luan washed and peeled more bark for the Unicorn, then explained that he wanted one of its tail hairs for a wand core.
• The Unicorn led Luan and Brad to its herd, where the wild horses surrounded them before the Unicorn ran off.
• As night faded, the Unicorn returned carrying something in its mouth.

Luan received a rare magical core from the white horse and made a new wand while he and Brad hid from soldiers searching the roads near Xilin. The wand healed itself before Luan could test it, and a stranger found their cave.

• The white horse gave Luan its father's silver filament, and Luan thanked the herd for the rare wand material.
• Luan and Brad left the grassland with their materials, but discovered the herdsmen's rest cabin burned and soldiers stopping travelers near Xilin.
• Luan and Brad took refuge in a spare cave, where they suspected the soldiers were searching for someone and prepared for trouble.
• Luan completed his wand, and its cut pieces magically healed together before he could test it.
• A stranger spoke from outside the cave and said he was relieved to find someone there.

Luan and Brad encountered an injured Night Owl in a cave, where Luan’s wand sent the enemy crashing from the ceiling and broke his spine. After they escaped to Xilin, the prisoner’s capture and the Night Owl threat prompted Neil to gather veterans to prepare for war.

• The black-clad Night Owl recognized Luan’s connection to his enemies and threatened him and Brad in the cave.
• Luan activated his wand, knocking the Night Owl into the cave ceiling and leaving him unconscious with a broken spine.
• Luan and Brad fled through the darkness and reached Xilin as dawn approached.
• Lieutenant Colonel Landon Bruce learned the Night Owl had been captured and ordered a brutal interrogation.
• Luan told Neil what had happened, and Neil gathered trusted veterans, who discussed stockpiling food and protecting their families.

After Luan told Neil about his past and the Night Owl, Neil believed him but insisted that he remain a child and keep his secrets hidden. Luan discovered that his new wand boosted his magical strength, then returned to Hogwarts and planned to learn combat spells to survive the growing danger in Xilin.

• Brad realized that Luan had defeated the Night Owl with magic, and Neil told him to keep the incident secret.
• Neil asked Luan to explain everything, believed his account, and warned him to hide his secret and stay out of danger.
• Neil arranged for Zalan to stay at the Scarlett household while they investigated the Night Owl.
• Luan noticed that holding his new wand raised his Wizard Bar to three-quarters, temporarily strengthening his magic.
• Neil had Luan sleep in his room, allowing him to return to Hogwarts unnoticed during the night.
• At Hogwarts, Luan reviewed his known spells and decided to learn magic that could restrain enemies or protect him.

Luan showed his roommates the wand he had made, and their tests revealed that it could cast Lumos. After Luan effortlessly performed a splitting spell, Professor McGonagall announced a ban on powerful spells by the Black Lake, leaving Luan to suspect the notice was connected to something that had happened there.

• Ron, Harry, Seamus, and Neville crowded around Luan's new wand, and Hermione and Ron successfully tested it with Lumos.
• Hermione questioned how Luan had made a wand by hand, and Ron explained that his brothers had adapted the Splitting Charm into the Rope Cutting Charm.
• Luan followed Ron's instructions and split a sheet of parchment neatly with the charm, impressing Hermione and the others.
• Professor McGonagall announced that students were forbidden to cast powerful spells by the Black Lake, and Luan decided to avoid testing wands there.

Luan completed his wand-making assignment and received Professor Sprout’s invitation to join the Daffodil Club. Cedric showed him the club’s classroom and members’ work, leaving Luan with a clearer sense of how difficult it was to earn membership.

• Professor Sprout praised Luan’s wand, returned it to him, and invited him to join the Daffodil Club.
• Luan accepted the invitation and later went to the Great Hall for dinner before the evening meeting.
• Cedric arrived and took Luan to the club classroom, where he explained that Luan was the seventh current student member.
• Cedric showed Luan members’ herbological projects, including Bernard’s adhesive, Molinar’s incense, and Cedric’s Sleepyface Fungus discovery.

Luan joined Professor Sprout’s plant club after members confirmed he had made a Willow Wand, and Cedric showed him the Moonlight Grass prize left by Newt Scamander. Luan resolved to learn more about herbology and Plant Magic, while Cedric continued studying Sleepyface Fungus grown with Luan’s wood shavings.

• Professor Sprout introduced Luan and his Willow Wand, and club members examined it and praised its craftsmanship and spellcasting.
• Cedric told Luan that the club’s annual prize was Moonlight Grass, left by Newt Scamander for the student who cultivated the best plant.
• Cedric explained the club’s gatherings and how Luan’s age prevented him from attending the Hogsmeade event, while noting that Professor Sprout could guide him.
• Luan decided to seek more knowledge about herbology and Plant Magic so he could investigate ancient magical plants.
• Cedric showed Luan that he had buried Luan’s wood shavings in a pot of Sleepyface Fungus, but said the mushrooms needed at least another month to change.
• Luan offered to use Growth Potion on the fungus, but Cedric refused and encouraged him to choose another research direction.

Luan chose to learn the Petrifying Charm as preparation for the coming war, and Hermione taught him its history, incantation, and wand movements. After several failed attempts, Luan successfully cast the charm on a pottery shard, leaving Hermione astonished.

• Sprout asked Luan about his next research direction, and he decided to keep studying Herbology while considering his options.
• Luan returned to the Common Room and asked Hermione to teach him the Petrifying Charm.
• Hermione explained the charm's history and taught Luan its pronunciation and wand movements.
• Hermione demonstrated the charm on pottery shards, explaining that she could make it last thirty seconds after a week of practice.
• Luan shattered three shards while practicing, then adjusted his technique and successfully petrified one without chipping it.

Muen practiced the Petrifying Charm and then asked Ron to teach him Minor Hexes. Ron’s unconventional lesson drew a crowd of young wizards, and Muen successfully cast Tarantallegra on a Matchstick Man before its effect faded.

• Muen continued practicing the Petrifying Charm after Hermione left, noting that his spell lasted less long than hers.
• Ron and Harry complained about early Quidditch practice, and Muen offered Ron a free wake-up service.
• Muen asked Ron to teach him Minor Hexes, and Ron listed five he knew before gathering two more from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students.
• Ron began teaching Minor Hexes in the Common Room, prompting Hermione to criticize his casual approach.
• Muen cast Tarantallegra on a Matchstick Man, and Parvati and Lavender later made their own Matchstick Men dance.

Luan struggled to master Locomotor Mortis, so Fred and George taught him to learn Minor Hexes by experiencing them himself. After Fred cast the spell on him, Luan discovered how it affected his legs and wondered whether other spells would behave similarly when cast on the body.

• Luan practiced Minor Hexes every day but could not make Locomotor Mortis lock both legs on his Matchstick Man target.
• Ron brought Fred and George to help Luan, and they explained that they had learned Minor Hexes by practicing them on each other.
• Luan agreed to be hit by Locomotor Mortis, and Fred cast the spell on his legs.
• Luan hopped back to the dormitory, where he realized the spell seemed to seal his muscles, bones, and meridians.
• Ron apologized and offered to help, but the spell weakened and disappeared in less than an hour.
• Luan sensed that the magical effect might still be present and wondered whether other spells would work the same way on a body.

Luan discovered that experiencing a spell firsthand improved his casting, then recorded ways to increase his Magical Strength. After returning to Xilin, he told Zalan that he was a Spellcaster, leaving Zalan surprised by the change.

• Luan used Matchstick Man to test Locomotor Mortis and found that its effect lasted more than ten minutes after he had experienced the spell himself.
• Luan reviewed Potions material and assessed how his classmates’ Wizard Bars had grown through learning, practice, and talent.
• Luan wrote down his conclusions about improving Magical Strength in his notebook.
• Zalan arrived at Neil’s house to protect the families in the alley and praised Luan for surviving an encounter with a Night Owl.
• After three days of Zalan’s curiosity about how he had escaped the Night Owl, Luan told him he was a Spellcaster.

Luan revealed his magic to Zalan, who became excited and took on the role of his spellcasting instructor as war approached. Zalan trained Luan to cast faster and fight ruthlessly, leaving him exhausted and awaiting a promised herbalism book.

• Luan showed Zalan the Lumos Charm and immobilized him with Locomotor Mortis, which lasted an hour before Zalan's legs recovered.
• Neil objected to Luan practicing magic, but Zalan argued that the approaching Night Owl threat made training necessary.
• Neil led eight adults to East Port City to buy grain while Zalan stayed behind to train Luan.
• At the cabin in Hazelnut Forest, Zalan demonstrated how quickly he could fire nine arrows and warned Luan not to rely on opponents underestimating his wand.
• Zalan made Luan repeatedly draw his wand and cast spells until he was too exhausted to continue, then promised to bring him an herbalism book the next day.

Luan studied three herbology manuscripts and compared their descriptions with plants he knew, discovering that Evening Primrose could help brew a burn-treatment potion that required Unicorn Tears. Zalan explained the Mages Association and why mages were persecuted, leaving Luan to understand that the powerful could turn soldiers against them.

• Zalan brought Luan two herbology manuals from Canary Pharmacy and a worn manuscript he had bought from Raul, whose family gathered herbs in Black Iron Mountain.
• Luan compared the manuscripts with A Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi and identified several possible matches, including plants he knew as daffodils and Blood-stopping Grass.
• After Luan collapsed from magical exhaustion, Zalan fed him Sweet Grass Root, and Luan explained that the plant, called Evening Primrose in his book, could be used in a burn-treatment potion requiring Unicorn Tears.
• Zalan suggested the Mages Association might have Unicorn Tears and told Luan that Spellcasters and Court Mages called its members sewer rats.
• Zalan explained that Magical Talent was extremely rare and that powerful people could order soldiers to kill mages, helping Luan understand why they were persecuted.

Luan trained his spells and studied herbs while Zalan warned him about the Mages Association and prepared live targets for practice. After Night Owl was abducted from Landon’s camp, Landon was demoted and relieved of responsibility for pursuing him.

• Luan asked Zalan how to find hidden wizards, and Zalan warned him that the Mages Association was dangerous.
• Luan organized seventy-eight herb entries, identified thirty-one as matching the book, and strengthened his suspicion that this world was connected to Hogwarts’s world.
• Zalan brought Hazel Grouse and Red Squirrels for Luan to practice spells on and advised him to use Locomotor Mortis against living opponents.
• On Luan’s seventh night in Xilin, he vanished after falling asleep, and Zalan woke with a dagger in hand.
• Night Owl was abducted from Lieutenant Colonel Landon Bruce’s camp after a week of captivity and torture yielded no useful intelligence.
• Major General Mikhail Ritz announced that Landon had been demoted to commander of the Third Century, Fifth Battalion, First Infantry Regiment.

Luan's intense spell training increased his casting speed and magical power, while Hermione told him about an advanced cutting spell he could not yet learn. As Halloween approached, Luan went to help Hagrid carve pumpkins and wondered how they had grown so enormous.

• Luan's full-strength spell practice improved his casting speed and increased the duration of his spells, though Zalan's arrows could still pierce him easily.
• At breakfast, Luan learned Halloween was on Thursday and remembered he had promised Hagrid he would help carve pumpkins.
• Hermione told Luan that her Petrifying Charm lasted three minutes and suggested he learn cutting spells, then described the Shattering Spell she had found in a third-year textbook.
• Luan asked the Weasley Twins to teach him the Shattering Spell, but they refused because it was too advanced for his magical power.
• After Herbology, Luan brought Bouncing to Hagrid's home and found Hagrid harvesting enormous pumpkins, which made Luan wonder if Hagrid had used Growth Potion.

Luan visited Hagrid, learned that Hagrid used magic to grow enormous pumpkins, and advised him on repairing a broken wand. He left after carving four jack-o'-lanterns, while Hagrid faced carving the remaining large pumpkins.

• Luan visited Hagrid and found that the Water Bottle Grass had helped produce Hagrid's biggest pumpkin harvest yet.
• Hagrid revealed that a little magic made some pumpkins much larger, but he avoided explaining more when Luan asked about using the magic to help feed people.
• Hagrid questioned Luan about making and repairing wands, and Luan described how to restore a snapped wand whose Wand Core was undamaged.
• Luan carved four jack-o'-lanterns while talking with Hagrid, then left the hut with Bouncing.
• Hagrid realized he still had five baskets of large pumpkins to carve and might need to stay up late for several days.

Luan searched for a new research direction in the Daffodil Club and asked Professor Sprout about Hagrid’s giant pumpkins. He decided to investigate magic that increased plant yields, hoping it could help resolve Xilin’s food shortage.

• Harry asked Ron whether Luan attended the Daffodil Club every Monday, and Ron explained that his mother had told him to learn from Luan.
• Hermione recalled the Daffodil Club’s influence across the wizarding world and felt jealous of Luan’s membership.
• Luan told Cedric that he had a preliminary research idea after studying the Club Classroom’s thirty-two plants.
• Luan asked Professor Sprout about the magic Hagrid used to enlarge his pumpkins, and she identified it as the Expansion Charm.
• Luan asked whether enchanted pumpkins could be eaten, and Professor Sprout suggested he investigate magic that increased plant yields.