Chapter Summaries

Charles visited Azkaban after seeing Gabrielle and Madame Delacour off, where he shared wine with Jack, Grindelwald, and Voldemort and revealed remarkable Time Magic. The gathering ended with Grindelwald challenging Voldemort to toast Charles.

• Hermione admitted she barely understood Charles's plans for an Artificial Intelligence Core Architecture, while Harry worried that Charles's future puppets would take away his homework and gardening jobs.
• Charles left Hogwarts after Seamus guessed he was seeing Gabrielle and Madame Delacour off to France.
• Charles escorted Gabrielle and Madame Delacour to the Ministry of Magic, then went to Azkaban to meet Jack, Grindelwald, and Voldemort.
• Charles used a spell to aerate and age wine, and Jack asked whether his memories had returned.
• Charles thanked Jack for letting him use the Secret Vault's power, while Grindelwald wondered about Charles's identity and speculated that he might once have been an adult wizard.
• Grindelwald noticed Voldemort's resentment and asked why he had not toasted Charles.

Charles negotiated with Grindelwald and Voldemort to gather knowledge for his planned Magic Large Model, trading Voldemort a body-restoration spell for his magical knowledge. After returning to Hogwarts, Charles received a letter from Koldostorets and decided to take time off to visit them.

• Charles challenged Voldemort to a duel after Voldemort recovered, and Voldemort backed down rather than risk death.
• Charles explained his Magic Large Model plan to Grindelwald, Voldemort, and Jack, and Grindelwald warned that it would need a large store of knowledge.
• Grindelwald offered to reveal a secret passage to Durmstrang's library, while Charles suggested Voldemort contribute knowledge in exchange for a body-restoration spell.
• Grindelwald examined the spell and vouched that it could safely restore Voldemort's body, so Voldemort agreed to the exchange.
• Charles left Azkaban with Voldemort's knowledge and returned to Hogwarts, where Dumbledore gave him a letter from Koldostorets inviting him to visit.

Charles discussed the mysterious power that restored his memories and his plans for a Magic Large Model with Dumbledore. Hogwarts agreed to support his research into alchemy and Potions, and Dumbledore approved his leave.

• Charles told Dumbledore that Jack was safe outside the British Isles and said he believed the power that restored his memories had been made available for good purposes.
• Dumbledore revealed that the power's previous owner had also owned Ruby, then asked Charles why Koldostorets wanted to meet him.
• Charles explained his plan to build a Magic Large Model, beginning with alchemy and later adding Potions, and said Grindelwald had offered help.
• Dumbledore questioned how the model's database would be filled and, after hearing Charles's plans, offered Hogwarts's support and assigned Severus to assist.
• Charles asked for leave, and Dumbledore approved half a month.

A giant ruby Charles sent to Hogwarts nearly landed on Harry, who was left responsible for safeguarding it. Students also discovered that wizarding food prices were rising while Muggle prices remained stable, and Voldemort suspected someone was plotting against him.

• Red-crowned cranes delivered Charles's package, and Dumbledore stopped the huge box from crushing Harry and the breakfast table.
• Harry read Charles's note asking him to safeguard a ruby worth £150,000, while Hermione and Ron sampled the Lard Cakes.
• Dumbledore helped move the ruby beside Charles's bed, and Seamus moved the bed into Harry's dormitory to avoid responsibility for the gem.
• Neville, Ron, Seamus, Dean, Hermione, and Harry compared reports and found that food prices had risen among wizards but not among Muggles.
• Voldemort sneezed, and after Jack asked if he had caught a cold, Voldemort said he felt someone was conspiring against him.

Charles warned Eleanor that Voldemort had returned and agreed to help her evade danger, then learned Fudge wanted her to recruit an informant at Hogwarts to monitor Dumbledore. After returning to Hogwarts, Charles recruited Dumbledore’s close friend to spy on him, and Dumbledore offered that same person a job spying on Charles.

• Charles met Eleanor at her vacation villa and told her Voldemort had returned but had not yet regained his full power.
• Charles advised Eleanor to prepare Portkeys, practice Animal Transfiguration, and suspend her wizarding activities while Voldemort’s return caused trouble.
• Eleanor revealed that Fudge had tasked her with building an informant network at Hogwarts, and Charles agreed to become her informant while learning that Fudge also wanted someone to monitor him.
• Eleanor reported to Fudge that she had arranged for Charles to send information after each Hogsmeade weekend, and Fudge gave her a spending card.
• Charles returned to Hogwarts and recruited one of Dumbledore’s close friends to report on the headmaster, while Dumbledore separately offered that person a job spying on Charles.
• Professor McGonagall objected that Charles and Dumbledore were treating her like a prop.

Charles, Dumbledore, and McGonagall responded to a warning that led them to the Hogwarts back gate, where they stopped an attempt to lure Harry out of the castle. They captured two Death Eaters impersonating Black and Trelawney, while Lupin’s warning left his own safety uncertain.

• Ron announced that Charles’s thirty-thousand-Galleon crystal was missing, and Harry and Seamus woke after hearing that Charles had returned.
• Charles explained to Dumbledore and McGonagall that Fudge had arranged for him to spy on Dumbledore and warned that the Ministry might try to install its own professor at Hogwarts next year.
• Dumbledore and McGonagall received secret messages from Lupin telling them to go to the back gate, and they set out with Charles.
• At the back gate, Dumbledore and McGonagall found Harry and the others waiting, and McGonagall suspected that Voldemort had kidnapped Lupin and used his notebook to lure Harry there.
• Dumbledore, Harry, McGonagall, and Charles attacked the approaching figures, who were Death Eaters impersonating Black and Trelawney, while Lupin fired multicolored fireworks.

Charles’s transformation into a rat exposed his efforts to spy on Black and Trelawney, but he explained that he was using Catherine Klett’s new Animal Transformation magic. Dumbledore and McGonagall agreed to protect Catherine as she prepared to reveal the revolutionary technique.

• Charles secretly relayed Black and Trelawney’s conversation from beneath a hospital bed until Peeves’s shout revealed the eavesdroppers and a rat escaped.
• Black accused Charles of secretly becoming an Animagus, while Dumbledore denied knowing about it and McGonagall was reported to have gone after him.
• Charles returned in owl form and told McGonagall that he had learned Catherine Klett’s Animal Transformation, then demonstrated it by changing into several animals.
• McGonagall brought Charles to Dumbledore, who learned about Catherine’s achievement and recognized that her new magic would bring fierce opposition.
• Dumbledore and McGonagall agreed to shield Catherine from the dangers of the coming controversy.

Charles taught Hermione, Harry, and Ron the basics of Animal Transfiguration and brought Hermione to see his alchemy research. He urged her to consider joining a future independent magical research institution after they graduated.

• Charles began teaching Animal Transfiguration to Hermione, Harry, and Ron, and assigned Harry to write a study report.
• Hermione struggled to understand the spell, so Charles promised to explain its prerequisites in their next lesson.
• Hermione accompanied Charles to his alchemy laboratory, where he showed her a floating Ruby and said Andrei Kolmogorov was helping with the research.
• Charles told Hermione that their magical abilities differed greatly and suggested she work at a planned independent research institution after graduation.

Charles joked that he would build Hermione a castle if she earned Outstanding marks in every subject on her Ordinary Wizarding Levels exams, then conjured a model castle for her. He later revealed that he had taken on a castle-building project whose details depended on Professor Dumbledore.

• Harry asked Charles whether he planned to build a house, and Charles joked that he would build Harry a prison until he finished his homework.
• After the students teased Charles about building Hermione a castle, he promised one to whoever earned Outstanding in every subject on the Ordinary Wizarding Levels exams.
• Charles shaped a mountain castle on the tabletop and added a huge golden statue of Hermione, making the students laugh and Hermione try to hit him with her book.
• Charles replaced the joke model with a proper castle based on Neuschwanstein, and Hermione approved of its view and design.
• Beauxbatons students and Cho Chang gossiped about Charles giving girls castles, while Pheobe noted that Gabrielle already had one.
• Professor Sprout assumed Charles was building a castle for Dumbledore, and Charles said the project’s requirements would depend on what Professor Dumbledore decided.

With another Azkaban escape raising fears of war, Charles prepared Farbaton Castle’s security systems and introduced a magical armor doll designed to protect households. He then returned to Hogwarts and went to the laboratory to work on increasing a metal’s magical capacity.

• Ginny gave Harry a list of books Percy had recommended and told him to finish them within a week.
• After another Azkaban escape, Moss Jeff and the Farbaton Castle team discussed preparations for war.
• Chris Hemsworth reported new security upgrades and Death Eater-tracking research, including a spell to detect Dark Marks.
• Charles demonstrated a Security Doll with multiple magical shields and asked the team to study how it could connect to the security system.
• Charles said doll production could meet demand, but household-service dolls would be delayed while the company focused on military needs.
• Charles returned to Hogwarts with experimental materials, told Pheobe he planned to increase a metal’s magical capacity, and went to the laboratory.

Charles explained a folding-strip optimization method to Dumbledore and Professor Delacour while testing ways to strengthen aluminum alloy for Security Dolls. After eight trials, he found a suitable hardness treatment, and Dumbledore left to discuss the method with Snape as Charles went to check on research at Farbaton Castle.

• Dumbledore told Charles he had found a coastal site at Tiger Mountain for the Magical Research Institute, and Charles agreed to finish designing its castle when he had time.
• Charles told Dumbledore and Professor Delacour that he planned to improve aluminum alloy for Security Dolls and explained how he would test potion concentrations.
• Charles described the Folding Strip Method and explained how a related method could optimize experiments involving two factors.
• Charles treated aluminum plates with different potion concentrations, measured their hardness, and recorded the results.
• After eight trials, Charles found an aluminum alloy treatment that met his required hardness, and Dumbledore recognized the method's potential for alchemy and Herbology.
• Charles went to Farbaton Castle to check on research, while Dumbledore left to discuss the experiment with Snape.

Charles visited Erika at Farbaton Castle, while Voldemort dealt with a confrontation over the emptied Lestrange vault and worried that his Hufflepuff’s Cup had been stolen. He sent his followers to check on his Horcruxes and search for clues.

• Erika treated Charles’s neck and took him to have a hot bath.
• Bellatrix and Rodolphus discovered that the Lestrange vault was empty and accused Lucius of stealing its contents.
• Voldemort considered whether the theft had targeted his Hufflepuff’s Cup and decided to verify the safety of his Horcruxes.
• Voldemort sent Rodolphus to the abandoned Gaunt Family residence and Lucius to a seaside cave to check on Horcruxes.
• Voldemort ordered Bellatrix to search Knockturn Alley for clues about the Cup and told Narcissa to contact Draco about the Room of Requirement.

Charles secretly accessed Draco Malfoy’s Communication Notebook and used what he learned to stage a fake Horcrux hiding place for Lucius. After Lucius left, Charles and Jack discussed how Charles could mislead Voldemort and speculated about the source of Charles’s power.

• Charles exploited a vulnerability in the Communication Notebook to read Draco Malfoy’s conversation and learned that Voldemort’s allies were searching for Ravenclaw’s diadem.
• Lucius entered Voldemort’s cave, passed through the blood-sealed Stone Door, and crossed a lake filled with Inferi to reach the island.
• Charles secretly watched Lucius inspect a fake locket in a basin filled with kiwi juice, and Lucius left without discovering the deception.
• Charles met Jack at the island villa, where Jack said someone had also checked that the ring remained in place.
• Charles told Jack that he could use an information gap to mislead Voldemort, and Jack suggested Charles might have soul fragments or a Horcrux of his own.
• Charles threatened to arrange a worldwide spouse search and talent show for Jack, then returned to Hogwarts.

On Valentine’s Day, Charles was buried under gifts from his employees, while Moody used the occasion to teach the Shield Charm with a barrage of Bludgers. After a disturbance at the Dancing Grass Restaurant drew Charles and Dumbledore away from Hogwarts, Dobby revealed he had delivered a gift to Miss Delacour in France, leaving Charles surprised.

• A flock of owls dropped a mountain of Valentine’s gifts onto Charles, who explained that his employees had sent them as a joke.
• Pheobe received rose syrup chocolate from Erika, and Charles arranged for three phoenixes to visit Professor McGonagall.
• Moody taught the Shield Charm by firing Bludgers at the students, while Charles’s apparent protection sent the Bludgers into his classmates.
• Erika suggested that Charles might take Pheobe to Farbaton Castle that evening, making Pheobe nervous about what he might intend.
• Charles and Dumbledore went to the Dancing Grass Restaurant, where Dumbledore settled a dispute between two Ministry officials and their lovers.
• Dobby told Charles that he had delivered a gift for Miss Delacour in France, and Charles was left confused.

Charles sought help removing bubble glue stuck to his hand, then learned it could have been dissolved with alcohol. Later, he arranged for Hermione to meet with Dobby about hiring Winky, but urged her to speak with Winky first.

• Dobby explained that he had delivered Charles’s Valentine’s Day gift to Gabrielle because he thought Charles meant it for her.
• Charles asked Snape to remove the bubble glue with Sectumsempra, and Snape cut it away but slightly injured Charles’s hand.
• Pheobe told Charles that alcohol dissolved the bubble glue and declined his invitation to drink with her.
• Hermione told Charles that Winky was miserable at Hogwarts and asked him to help her find work with his company.
• Charles arranged for Hermione to meet Dobby on the next Hogsmeade weekend and advised her to speak with Winky before asking Dobby again.

Charles taught Harry, Ron, and Hermione Animal Transfiguration, and Ron injured himself while transforming into a giant owl. Hagrid set Ron’s broken wings and mistook him for a creature he could keep as a pet, leaving Ron afraid he would be fed rats.

• Harry asked Charles to get Mr. Crouch to persuade Dobby to listen to Hermione, and Charles questioned whether Mr. Crouch had visited.
• Ron secretly used a pig’s feather to transform his arms into owl wings, then transformed again and crashed into the classroom door while trying to fly.
• Hermione conjured a stretcher and helped carry Ron to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey said Hagrid should set his broken wings.
• Hannah asked what kind of Magical Creature Ron was, and Charles told her he was new food for the Dancing Grass Restaurant.
• Hagrid arrived, set both of Ron’s broken wing bones, and said he would keep Ron as a pet and feed him rats.
• Charles learned that Charlie Weasley had arrived, while Ron worried Hagrid would bring him rats to eat.

Charlie and Hagrid accidentally mistook Ron for a giant owl in the Hospital Wing, angering Madam Pomfrey. As students speculated that the Triwizard Tournament’s next task involved dragons, the competitors began considering how to investigate the mist-shrouded camp in the Forbidden Forest.

• Hagrid and Charlie brought dead rats to the Hospital Wing for a supposed giant owl, only to discover it was Ron, who had transformed back into human form.
• Madam Pomfrey posted signs barring Hagrid and Charlie from the Hospital Wing after the incident.
• The Weasley siblings and other students speculated that the next Triwizard Tournament task involved dragons, while Charles said he could not share information because the Dancing Grass Restaurant was catering for the guests.
• Hermione planned to research dragons, Harry planned to ask Hagrid, and the students spotted a mist-shrouded area in the Forbidden Forest where vines seized a bird.
• Fred reasoned that the visible area was not the real dragon camp, and Cedric considered searching from broomsticks at night.
• A Slytherin first-year’s malfunctioning broom shot toward the Forbidden Forest as Cedric and the others watched.

Fred, Cedric, and their group followed Hagrid into the Forbidden Forest and discovered a dragon camp where Charles was checking on the workers and supplies. They returned to the castle to plan further searches, while Fred found Hermione sparring with Charles in the Common Room.

• Fred and the others waited until Hagrid had returned to his hut, then followed his footprints into the Forbidden Forest.
• The group found a camp with a Hungarian Horntail and overheard Charles asking workers about the dragons’ meat supply and meals.
• Cedric, Fred, and Cho discussed the possibility of multiple dragon camps and decided to keep tracking Hagrid and search the library for ways to deal with dragons.
• Fred returned to the Common Room and found Hermione throwing punches at Charles while he caught them.

At the dragon-rental campsite, Charlie and the staff were tricked by students impersonating Charles and revealed details about the dragons. Charles identified the likely culprits and confronted Erika, but a giant owl crashing into the window interrupted them.

• Charlie and the staff found a huge owl, named it Ron, and hid it from Charles while feeding it chicken legs.
• A German impersonator posing as Charles questioned Charlie about dragon food, and Charlie disclosed the seven dragons' species and their meat preferences.
• The staff mistook the real Charles for another impostor until Dobby confirmed his identity, and Charles learned that Cedric had also been impersonated.
• Charles guessed that Erika and Hermione were behind the disguises, then went to confront Erika while sparing the person who could summon Ruby.
• Charles pinned Erika down and challenged her after she admitted impersonating him, but a giant owl crashed into the window and startled them.

Charles's math booklet was mistaken for a dangerous Magic Book after Seamus and then Dumbledore and McGonagall fell asleep while reading it. Moody questioned Charles about the booklet, and Charles said the incident had given him an idea for a spell.

• Charles beat Cedric and the others with a conjured iron hammer after they impersonated him to eat an expensive owl without paying.
• Charles gave Seamus a booklet of mathematical material for his Magic Large Model, and Seamus fell asleep while reading it.
• Rumors spread that Charles's booklet was a Magic Book that made readers unconscious, and McGonagall confronted Charles about giving it to Seamus.
• McGonagall examined the booklet and called Dumbledore, who fell asleep while trying to decipher its coded contents.
• Moody found Dumbledore and McGonagall asleep, but Dumbledore woke hungry and said his neck hurt.
• Moody questioned Charles about the booklet, and Charles said it had inspired him to devise a spell.