Chapter Summaries

Hermione and Harry discussed the frenzy sparked by Taylor’s Tea Parties, where he urged wizards to establish a shared definition of magic. At Durmstrang, Artyom showed Mark a recording of Taylor’s first talk, and Mark decided to attend Taylor’s next session.

• Hermione and Harry noted that students from all four schools were searching reference books for a definition of magic to support Taylor’s proposal.
• Artyom told Mark that he had recorded Taylor’s words because he believed they deserved to be preserved, while Mark insisted the Champions should focus on the Triwizard Tournament.
• Professor Negodkin rebuked Mark for refusing to trust Artyom, and Mark agreed to watch the Dream Orb recording once.
• Artyom played a fragmented memory of Taylor explaining that wizards’ future might lie beyond their planet and reaching toward the Dream Orb.
• Taylor’s demonstration showed a view retreating from Hogwarts to reveal the blue planet and the sun, prompting Mark to decide he would attend Taylor’s talk that afternoon.

Andrew’s Tea Party discussed whether speed or sustained magical flight offered the best way to reach space. A Koldovstoretz student revealed that students had already flown a magically propelled tree high into the atmosphere, leaving Andrew convinced that wizarding technology could make a space expedition possible.

• Andrew observed that the Tea Party had become more focused, with younger students earning front-row privileges for strong contributions.
• Students from several schools debated whether speed or sustained flight was the better approach to reaching space.
• A Koldovstoretz student explained that students had flown a large tree upward using magic and protective spells, though the magic eventually failed at high altitude.
• Andrew realized that a Flying Charm could bypass the need for escape velocity, while improved materials and protective charms could address the main risks.
• Andrew ended the discussion and announced that the Tea Party would continue daily until Hogwarts began its term.

Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed Taylor’s tea parties and his efforts to use data and materials research to advance magic. Grindelwald searched reports for Taylor’s political views, found none, and turned to the latest issue of A Legend.

• McGonagall worried that Taylor had changed since the Yule Ball, while Dumbledore said his tea parties and lack of imposed views were encouraging.
• McGonagall described how studying materials had improved her Transfiguration and praised Taylor’s work to quantify magic.
• Dumbledore guessed that Andrew held tea parties to recruit others to help with measurements, then left to speak with Nicol.
• Grindelwald examined reports on Taylor’s research and tea parties but could find no distinct political views.
• Grindelwald guessed that A Legend had shaped Taylor’s lack of ambition, then began reading its new issue about Dumbledore’s early teaching career.

The latest A Legend stirred Hogwarts, inspiring students to recreate scenes and prompting debate over its portrayal of Dumbledore and former headmaster Phineas. Dumbledore admitted that some of the story’s unusually specific details about his early teaching days were true.

• Andrew saw Hogwarts students making ice sculptures based on A Legend and worried about the attention its photographs of Dumbledore would bring.
• Hal told Andrew that Praise Potato’s description of Dumbledore’s impact on Hogwarts resembled Andrew’s ideas, but Andrew warned him not to make careless remarks about headmasters.
• Phineas protested that A Legend had slandered him, while the Sorting Hat and the other headmasters mocked his unpopularity.
• McGonagall asked Dumbledore whether he had been nervous before his first lesson, and he reluctantly admitted that he had.

Andrew led the Tea Party in finalizing a definition of Fundamental Magic, establishing the unit dan and announcing a new Magazine called Future. The group planned to publish their standards and continue meeting after the new term began.

• Andrew called the Upper Years to make their final decision on Fundamental Magic and organized a discussion followed by a vote.
• The wizards agreed to define one unit of Fundamental Magic as the amount consumed by a standard Levitation Charm Alchemy Array lifting a one-kilogram Iron ball for one minute.
• A Beauxbatons Alchemist's proposal won, and the unit of Fundamental Magic was named one dan.
• Andrew announced that the standards and their contributors' names would be sent to Magazines, and that contributors could review submissions and receive a stipend.
• Andrew named the planned new Magazine Future and said Tea Parties would continue until term began, then meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.

After the Tea Party, Andrew worked to publish the new standardized units of magic while students across Hogwarts rushed to gather measurements for credit in his Thesis and the upcoming magazine. The trend had already spread through the school, prompting Andrew to plan rules and seek staff support.

• Andrew set aside his questions about the Department of Mysteries and resumed writing up the standardized units of magic.
• Students spread news of the one-dan definition and Future magazine’s offer to credit those who measured more than a hundred substances, while warning that falsified data would cost them credit.
• Hogwarts students formed teams, queued at the Owlery, sought help from the Alchemy Professor, and tested spells and substances around the school.
• The Fat Friar told Andrew that Gryffindor boys had crowded around him asking to measure his weight and other magical properties, making him feel frightened and offended.
• Andrew reassured the Fat Friar and decided to show the basic data to the Head of House and Professor McGonagall before drawing up rules.

Andrew submitted the Four Schools’ proposed magical measurement standard for publication while its student researchers continued checking the data. With the initial work underway, he rested and dreamed about ambitious future projects.

• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick urged Andrew to send the paper to the magazines, which planned to share it and arrange international reprints.
• The students at the Tea Party struggled through data checks and updates, recognizing the scale of the work behind the proposed standard.
• Andrew relaxed in the Library, considered dangerous plans for a flying machine, and decided the students should help shape the Wizarding world’s future.
• Andrew stretched in the sunlight, rested his head on the table, and fell asleep.

Andrew considered the risks of developing advanced testing methods and abandoned radiation research until Voldemort was dead and wizards could safely interact with Muggles. He shared plans for a magical refuge beyond Earth, while Dumbledore and McGonagall prepared for the new term and the Triwizard Tournament’s second event.

• Hughes told Andrew about Carbon-14 dating, and Andrew explained that wizards lacked the technology to use it safely.
• Andrew considered asking Ghosts to observe radiation experiments, then scrapped the idea because it could aid Voldemort and fuel war.
• Andrew told Hal about creating self-contained environments for wizards on the seafloor, the moon, or Mars.
• Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed Taylor’s new detection-magic team, the upcoming dueling-and-questions event, and plans for the next school term.
• McGonagall said Taylor would become a Ravenclaw Prefect and male Student Council President while being relieved of office errands.

Professor Flitwick told Andrew Taylor to stop treating his collaborators like workers and to make time for friendship and rest. Andrew agreed to take the students out for fun before they returned to their project.

• Andrew entered Professor Flitwick’s office, confused about why he had been summoned.
• Professor Flitwick praised Andrew’s work on a shared magical data standard but pointed out that Andrew had neglected rest and meaningful friendships with the students who helped him.
• Professor Flitwick urged Andrew to communicate with and support his collaborators instead of treating them as tools for his plans.
• Professor Flitwick ordered Andrew to take the students out for several days of fun, offering house funds if needed.
• Andrew agreed to take the students out and said his laboratory budget could cover it.

After realizing he had ignored the wishes of the people who helped create the new standards, Andrew asked his roommates to help plan a celebration in the Dreamscape. They proposed making a film together, and the chapter ended with Hal suggesting a story about young Dumbledore and students from Headmaster Black’s time.

• Andrew realized he had failed to consider the helpers’ wishes and rushed to find his roommates.
• Hughes drew his Wand, assuming Slytherin students were causing trouble, but Andrew explained that he needed help gathering information for a celebration.
• Andrew proposed a large celebratory Dreamscape and possibly a dance, while his roommates discussed what people would enjoy.
• Hal suggested making a film in a Dreamscape and inviting the contributors to help create it.
• Kevin proposed adapting the post-Christmas special issue’s A Legend, and Hal suggested filming events from before the story, including young Dumbledore and students from Headmaster Black’s time.

Andrew learned that his standard units and recommendation had helped Castelobruxo researchers combine shared magical data to create a forest-sized Dream Banyan. The article left him eager to understand how they had integrated the research behind the experiment.

• Hal told Andrew that standardization was gaining attention across the Wizarding world, especially because of the thinking in Andrew's recommendation.
• Andrew dismissed the ideas behind standard units and shared research as familiar principles until he read Hal's magazine article.
• Andrew discovered that Castelobruxo had cultivated a giant Dream Banyan that devoured and stored dreams.
• Castelobruxo's professors used standardized magical data and Dream Orbs to combine Herbology research and make the Dream Banyan experiment succeed.
• Andrew wondered how Castelobruxo had integrated the research, but the article did not explain it clearly.

Andrew learned that Hogwarts and Castelobruxo had combined standardized Herbology data, Dream Orbs, and rapid plant cultivation to develop a Dream Tree that could organize and connect dream fragments. Professor Adams invited Andrew to help advance the project as an exchange student, but Andrew declined because he needed to take his OWLs.

• Professor Adams explained that Hogwarts and Castelobruxo used Magic Infection, intense light, and rapid cultivation to grow plants and share standardized data.
• Professor Adams told Andrew that the Dream Tree was a large dream repository that was struggling with too many dreams and accelerated growth.
• Professor Adams described plans to use Dream Interaction to help the tree process dream fragments and let people explore them.
• Professor Adams imagined building a Dream Network with Professor Sprout and invited Andrew to join him at Castelobruxo as an exchange student.
• Andrew declined the invitation because he had to take his OWLs next year.

Andrew declined Professor Adams’s invitation to visit the Dream Tree so he could finish his work before school started. Meanwhile, Hermione’s team prepared for the upcoming competition, and Andrew’s group pushed ahead with their magical dream project.

• Andrew told Professor Adams he could not join the Dream Tree research trip, and they discussed revisiting the idea during a school break.
• Hermione assigned the dueling order and urged her teammates to review questions based on the Golden Egg’s clues before classes began.
• Andrew reassured Hal that he would recruit more students to help complete their dream project.
• Hughes revealed that he had invited Professor Black to appear as his own grandfather in the dream, prompting Andrew to worry about the project’s casting and script.

Andrew invited several skilled students to help create a Long Dream film version of A Legend, and the group expanded the project to include students from other schools. They settled on keeping the existing script and aimed to finish the film by early February.

• Andrew asked Shandy, Raphael, and Bunir to stay after the Tea Party and invited them to help build the Dreamscape for a Long Dream film.
• Shandy and the others joined Andrew, Hal, and Hughes, who was adapting the script for A Legend.
• Sam suggested letting students from the other schools appear as Ravenclaw students, and most of the helpers approved.
• Hal proposed making Professor Snape the villain, but Andrew rejected the idea and forbade changing Snape's face.
• Andrew said Hughes should submit the script to the Head of House before they incorporated the Dreamscape, and the group set early February as their target finish date.

Hal directed students from three schools as they filmed scenes for a Long Dream, while Shandy complained about their unusable footage. Hughes proposed an elaborate story about Dumbledore saving Hogwarts students, and Andrew steered the script toward Dumbledore questioning unreasonable school rules; Hughes agreed to develop that plot.

• Hal directed the students as they acted out scenes from Hogwarts classes and practiced converting their memories into dreams.
• Shandy complained that the students' footage was poor, and Hughes argued that their suffering would help portray Black's era as oppressive.
• Hughes outlined a story in which student Dumbledore stopped time, rescued punished students, and protected Hogwarts from several dangers.
• Sam suggested adding a dragon, and Beauxbatons students proposed a romance, but Andrew rejected the romance and asked Hughes to keep the story focused.
• Andrew suggested that Dumbledore notice unreasonable school rules and consider changing them, and Hughes eagerly agreed to assemble the plot.

Students flocked to the Tea Party’s screening of a new Long Dream, and Harry, Ron, and Ginny watched its opening scenes. The film began depicting Hogwarts and a handsome young Albus Dumbledore, leaving the audience captivated.

• Students heard that the Tea Party was screening its Long Dream, and Andrew enlarged the room to accommodate the crowd.
• Harry met Ron, who brought Ginny along after she said she was frightened by the dark and had become separated from her friends.
• Ron, Harry, and Ginny took their seats, and Ron and Harry watched Dreamscape clips while Ginny shared their popcorn.
• The Long Dream opened with an aerial view of Hogwarts as Nearly Headless Nick narrated its history beside a young Albus Dumbledore.
• The audience reacted excitedly to Dumbledore, while Ginny offered Harry popcorn.

Andrew and Hughes watched a dream depicting Dumbledore resisting Headmaster Black’s harsh rule at Hogwarts while students prepared to challenge him. Dumbledore stopped them from boycotting the OWLs, promising that a major event would force Black to leave.

• Dumbledore used magic to help five students escape Administrator Gladwin Maughn, then went with Nick to seek Gryffindor’s hidden treasure.
• The dream showed Gladwin punishing students in the Confession Chamber while Headmaster Black praised him and condemned school activities.
• As Black imposed harsher punishments and restricted food, students from all four Schools secretly supported the resistance.
• After learning that the OWLs Examination Board was coming, the students planned to boycott the exams.
• Dumbledore persuaded the students not to risk their futures and promised that an important event would make Black leave.

The Hogwarts students enjoyed a Long Dream about Dumbledore overthrowing Headmaster Black, which ended with the Astronomy Tower exploding. Afterward, Andrew defended the value of entertainment, then realized Hal had been affected by a Love Potion.

• Dumbledore’s dream ended with the Astronomy Tower collapsing, the students cheering for Black’s dismissal, and a disclaimer blaming discrepancies on Peeves’s pranks.
• The students praised the Long Dream’s handsome Dumbledore and spectacular explosion as they left the makeshift theater.
• Hughes and Andrew discussed the success of the production and how they would explain the Astronomy Tower’s destruction to the professors.
• Hal questioned whether the project had been worth Andrew’s time, and Andrew argued that entertainment did not need a deeper purpose.
• Kevin revealed that Hal had been hit by an unusual Love Potion, and Andrew gave him an antidote before asking what everything meant and what it cost.

Andrew finished the Dreamscape Film and returned to his Alchemy studies, while students discussed making more Dreamscapes and the second Triwizard task drew near. Headmaster Black fumed over the Film’s portrayal of Sirius and suspected Taylor had another purpose for creating it.

• Andrew reflected on making Dream technology more accessible, then went to his Laboratory to study Alchemy.
• Gryffindor students praised the Dreamscape and urged Colin to share his knowledge of filming techniques with the twins’ planned project.
• Colin agreed to help and asked whether Harry could star in the next Dreamscape.
• Headmaster Black complained that the Film had made him look ridiculous, especially through its story about Sirius and the Astronomy Tower.
• The Sorting Hat and the old headmaster discussed the approaching second task, while Phoenix predicted Taylor had created the Film for a reason and called for Sirius.

Hermione prepared anxiously for the second task while Andrew watched the champions gather on the frozen Black Lake. Ludo Bagman announced that the task was an advertising-filled board-game course where champions answered questions, rolled dice, and dueled, leaving Andrew baffled as the competition was about to begin.

• Ron warned Hermione that her exhaustion showed, and Hermione tried to reassure herself that she was prepared for the exams.
• Hermione's roommate woke her on February 28 and wished her luck before the champions assembled.
• Andrew surveyed the frozen Black Lake and noticed the elaborate competition grounds and advertisements as the spectators and champions arrived.
• Mr. LeMei arrived late with a small case and handed it to Bagman.
• Bagman announced the Icefield Duel rules: champions answered questions to roll dice and advance across the course, using rewards or teammates in duels.
• Bagman revealed the course's advertising-themed spaces and told the champions to inspect the grounds and choose their first challengers.