Recaps

Sirius Black learned that Lockhart's travel journals were true, though the adventures described in them might not have been Lockhart's own. He asked Isaac whether his people could get a share of the profits from Lockhart's books.

• Sirius Black asked Jerry whether he had read Lockhart's books, and Jerry explained that Ministry employees generally avoided buying them because they were expensive and not to their taste.
• The narration described how wizarding pirates carefully sold copies of Lockhart's books, while their high prices and piracy helped make Lockhart popular.
• Isaac told Sirius Black that Lockhart's travel journals were true, and Sirius realized the adventures might have belonged to other wizards.
• Sirius Black asked Isaac whether his people could get a slice of the cake from Lockhart.

Sirius saw a chance to protect his former Aurors and Hit Wizards by having them earn credit in the case against Lockhart. Isaac gave Sirius leads to investigate and then told his team to prepare to suppress the Werewolves’ settlement if its residents resisted.

• Sirius concluded that Lockhart was doomed and decided to involve his team in the case to secure their standing with Fudge.
• Isaac wrote down places for Sirius’s people to investigate for old wizards and stories connected to Lockhart’s works.
• Sirius summoned his team and explained their mission at the Werewolves’ settlement.
• When the team asked how far to go, Isaac said they should be ready to suppress the entire settlement if the Werewolves were especially difficult to reason with.

Remus Lupin tried to persuade Selwyn, leader of a Werewolf village, to reveal what the village’s children had been sent to do before the Ministry intervened. Selwyn refused, believing he could use the Ministry’s conflict with the Goblins to bargain for better treatment, leaving Lupin caught between the Wizarding World and the Werewolves.

• Lupin urgently demanded that Selwyn tell him what the people from the village had gone to do, warning that the Ministry might discover it.
• Selwyn rejected Lupin and resented that Lupin had been able to attend Hogwarts, make friends, and fight alongside other Wizards.
• Selwyn explained that he had gathered abandoned Werewolves and their families into a village where they supported each other through transformations.
• Selwyn argued that the Ministry would seek Werewolf support during its conflict with the Goblins and said he was waiting for the highest bidder while keeping another option open.
• Lupin dismissed Selwyn’s plans as absurd but hesitated to subdue the village, fearing it would worsen the conflict between Wizards and Werewolves.

Sirius Black and Isaac raided Selwyn’s home to find out where the village’s missing Werewolves had gone. While Sirius confronted Selwyn, Isaac questioned the remaining families, and one frightened man claimed only Selwyn knew the answer.

• Sirius Black Apparated with his subordinates to Selwyn’s door, and Jerry blasted it open on Isaac’s order.
• Sirius confronted Selwyn and demanded to know where the village’s Werewolves had gone and what they were doing.
• Isaac sent the office staff to identify the missing Werewolves and question the villagers.
• Isaac met the four remaining families and gently asked where the Werewolves without families had gone.
• A frightened Werewolf told Isaac that only Selwyn knew, and a woman angrily accused him of betraying Selwyn and the others.

Isaac questioned the werewolves in Selwyn’s village about the six young werewolves who had left. Rayne Hawk condemned Selwyn’s plans and offered to share what he knew, leaving Isaac ready to ask for details about the missing werewolves.

• Isaac reviewed Rayne Hawk’s history and learned that he had settled in Selwyn’s village with his wife and child after being infected by a werewolf.
• Lena Blackwood accused Rayne Hawk of betraying Selwyn, but Rayne argued that Selwyn’s plan endangered the village and that trained Aurors could defeat them.
• Rayne told Isaac that six young werewolves had left together, had no families in the village, and had learned most of their magic from Selwyn.
• Rayne pledged that the villagers would cooperate with the Ministry, explaining that they wanted stable lives and hoped their children could attend Hogwarts.
• Isaac praised Rayne and asked him to identify the werewolves who had left and describe their magical abilities.

Isaac told Rayne Hawk and the other werewolves that the Ministry of Magic was planning policies to improve werewolves’ prospects, including subsidized Wolfsbane Potion for selected werewolf workers. He then asked Rayne Hawk to consider an externally hired position with the Ministry, and Rayne eagerly accepted the possibility.

• After gathering information about werewolves who had left the community, Isaac let Rayne Hawk and the others return home while asking them to stay in the village.
• Rayne Hawk asked whether the good news meant their children could attend Hogwarts, and Isaac explained that Hogwarts already admitted young wizards regardless of family background.
• Isaac said the Ministry planned policies to help werewolves, including long-term jobs for qualified werewolves whose employers would provide Wolfsbane Potion and receive subsidies.
• Rayne Hawk and the other werewolves welcomed the plans as a sign of hope and a friendlier attitude from the Wizarding World.
• Isaac offered Rayne Hawk the chance to become an externally hired Ministry worker, and Rayne eagerly agreed because he wanted the social status.

Isaac offered Rayne Hawk a Ministry of Magic position managing a werewolf settlement, and Rayne accepted, giving other werewolves hope of joining the Ministry too. Meanwhile, Sirius and Remus confronted Selwyn, who threatened them by invoking the werewolves outside and taunted Remus about his past.

• Rayne Hawk worried that he was not qualified for Ministry employment until Isaac offered him the job of managing a werewolf settlement.
• Rayne accepted the position, and Isaac encouraged the other werewolves to seek Ministry work if they proved outstanding or stable.
• Isaac left most of the werewolves to return home and went with the others to speak with Selwyn.
• Sirius realized Selwyn had no real backing and accused him of acting like a shameless rogue.
• Selwyn threatened that the village's young werewolves could watch their families and mocked Remus Lupin over how he had become a werewolf.

Isaac arrived at Selwyn’s house as Selwyn provoked Sirius and Remus Lupin, prompting Jerry and the Ministry officials to arrest him. Selwyn’s pleas for help failed, and Lena Blackwood recognized that the people he wanted her to fight were Ministry of Magic wizards.

• Isaac heard Selwyn insult Sirius and Remus Lupin, then told Jerry to arrest him before Sirius attacked.
• Jerry subdued Selwyn with a spell, and the former Aurors and Hit Wizards bound him in restraints that suppressed his magic.
• Selwyn called on Rayne Hawk and Lena Blackwood to rescue him as the officials escorted him away.
• Rayne stayed silent, while Lena refused to be drawn in after realizing the officials were from the Ministry of Magic.

Isaac offered Remus John Lupin a position as Hogwarts’ Defense Against the Dark Arts professor after Lupin tried to stop Selwyn from provoking the authorities. Lupin refused, fearing that his werewolf identity would bring public criticism down on Dumbledore.

• After Selwyn was escorted back to the Ministry, Isaac asked Remus Lupin whether he had found a permanent job.
• Lupin admitted he had no long-term position, and Isaac handed him an appointment letter offering him the Defense Against the Dark Arts post at Hogwarts.
• The werewolves nearby reacted with astonishment and envy when they heard Isaac’s offer to Lupin.
• Lupin refused the position because he feared that his identity as a werewolf would damage Dumbledore’s reputation.

Isaac persuaded Remus Lupin to accept Hogwarts’ offer to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, using a letter bearing Dumbledore’s signature and the Ministry’s seal. Lupin returned to the Ministry with Isaac and Sirius Black, while Isaac wrote to Professor McGonagall to report the successful appointment.

• Isaac showed Lupin an offer letter signed by Dumbledore and stamped with the Minister’s Office seal, explaining that Fudge had personally approved it.
• Isaac told Lupin that the Ministry had selected him as one of several Werewolves meant to reassure the community, and Lupin enthusiastically accepted the teaching post.
• Isaac celebrated bringing the Werewolf Village Chief back and securing a reliable Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for Hogwarts.
• Lupin went with Isaac and Sirius Black to the Ministry, hoping to thank Dumbledore and catch up with Sirius.
• In Sirius's Office, Isaac wrote Professor McGonagall a letter introducing Lupin as Hogwarts’ incoming Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Professor McGonagall approved Remus Lupin as Hogwarts’ new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and wrote to Isaac and Lupin. At the Ministry, Isaac learned that Fudge had sent a Memory Magic master to examine Selwyn, and Gilderoy Lockhart arrived at the Auror Office for the task.

• Professor McGonagall read Isaac’s letter, decided Lupin was well suited to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and wrote replies to Isaac and Lupin.
• Isaac asked Percy about Selwyn, who was refusing to cooperate with the Ministry.
• Percy told Isaac that Fudge had ordered a Memory Magic master to examine Selwyn’s memories.
• Gilderoy Lockhart arrived at the Auror Office, where Scrimgeour learned he was the Memory Magic master sent from Obliviator Headquarters.

Rufus Scrimgeour doubted that Gilderoy Lockhart was a master of Memory Magic, but confirmed the claim and sent him to question Selwyn. Lockhart entered Selwyn’s cell and used Memory Magic on him, though the spell also made Lockhart forget more of his own memories.

• Scrimgeour considered the Auror Office’s workload and thanked Sirius Black for returning former Aurors to the Ministry and helping bring back Werewolf Village’s chief.
• Scrimgeour questioned why Fudge had assigned Lockhart to deal with Selwyn, then learned from his subordinate that Lockhart had proved himself a master of Memory Magic.
• Scrimgeour sent Lockhart to Selwyn’s cell to read the old Werewolf’s memories.
• Selwyn mocked Lockhart, who introduced himself as a bestselling author and Memory Magic master before casting a spell on Selwyn.
• Lockhart began reading Selwyn’s memories and noticed that his own Memory Magic had improved as he forgot more of his own past.

Lockhart examined Selwyn’s memories while the head of Obliviator Headquarters used him for difficult work, knowing the Ministry’s delayed background check could signal trouble. In Selwyn’s memory, a hooded wizard broke into his home and offered him a chance to pledge loyalty, leaving Lockhart wondering why anyone would recruit a werewolf.

• Lockhart used memory magic to search Selwyn’s memories and found the scene he wanted to copy.
• The head of Obliviator Headquarters suspected Ministry higher-ups were using Lockhart’s delayed background check to target him, and assigned him work while he remained useful.
• Lockhart watched Selwyn lie awake on a dark, windy night as a black-robed wizard entered his home and took control of the encounter.
• Selwyn, realizing he had no wand and could not overpower the intruder, surrendered and offered the wizard anything in his house.
• The intruder offered Selwyn a chance to pledge loyalty, leaving Selwyn and Lockhart baffled about why anyone would seek a werewolf’s allegiance.

A deranged Death Eater forced Selwyn to accept the Dark Mark and claimed Voldemort had prepared a way to return to life. Selwyn agreed to help find people for the resurrection, knowing he was already trapped and would have to drag others into it.

• The Death Eater seized Selwyn’s wand and began forcing him to pledge loyalty to Voldemort.
• The Death Eater branded Selwyn with the Dark Mark, and Selwyn realized no one would believe his claim that it had been forced on him.
• The Death Eater promised Selwyn magic, wealth, and status if he served Voldemort.
• The Death Eater told Selwyn that Voldemort had prepared a way to return to life and ordered him to gather people to help resurrect the Dark Lord.
• Selwyn agreed to help and resolved to bring others into the scheme.

After examining Selwyn's memories, Lockhart warned the Ministry that Voldemort was about to return and brought his claim to Cornelius Fudge. Fudge initially panicked, then regained his composure because Dumbledore was in the Ministry building.

• Lockhart finished viewing Selwyn's memories and told Scrimgeour that You-Know-Who was about to return.
• Scrimgeour took Lockhart to Amelia Bones, who asked whether he could verify the memories and take responsibility for his claim.
• Amelia Bones summoned a house-elf to arrange an urgent meeting with Minister Fudge.
• Scrimgeour returned to guard Selwyn while Amelia Bones took Lockhart to Fudge's office.
• Lockhart declared that Voldemort had returned, and Fudge panicked before remembering that Dumbledore was nearby.

Cornelius Fudge doubted Gilderoy Lockhart’s claim that Voldemort had returned and called Albus Dumbledore to judge the evidence. Dumbledore arrived at the Ministry office, where he joked to Fudge about being made to work overtime.

• Fudge rejected Lockhart’s certainty that Voldemort had returned, reasoning that Lockhart had only a Werewolf’s memory as evidence.
• Lockhart insisted that the Werewolf’s memory had not been tampered with and pressed Fudge not to bury the news.
• Fudge called Percy and asked him to fetch Headmaster Dumbledore so Dumbledore could assess Lockhart’s account.
• Percy escorted Dumbledore to the Minister’s Office, and Dumbledore reflected on Percy’s progress and his own hopes for the Weasley children.
• Dumbledore greeted Fudge and joked that, at over a hundred years old, he should be retired instead of doing Ministry overtime.

Fudge, Dumbledore, and Amelia Bones investigated Lockhart’s claim that Werewolf Selwyn was a Death Eater, but Scrimgeour said Selwyn had no Dark Mark. Lockhart realized his memories were disappearing again and fled, leaving Fudge to ask Dumbledore whether the Sacrificial Ritual was responsible.

• Dumbledore rejected Lockhart’s claim that Voldemort had returned, then agreed to examine Lockhart’s memory with Fudge and Amelia Bones.
• Fudge and Amelia Bones said Scrimgeour had not reported seeing a Dark Mark, so Percy summoned Scrimgeour to explain.
• Scrimgeour said Aurors had checked Selwyn and found no Dark Mark, and that the mark could not be removed.
• Lockhart realized he had forgotten basic facts about the Dark Mark and that the Sacrificial Ritual was consuming his memories again.
• Lockhart hurried out of the Minister’s Office, and Fudge asked Dumbledore whether the memory loss was a side effect of the Sacrificial Ritual.

Dumbledore explained that the Sacrificial Ritual Lockhart used could only work for wizards already talented enough to become masters of memory magic. He left Fudge and Amelia Bones realizing the ritual was a trap that made gifted wizards sacrifice memories for a mastery they could have achieved without it.

• Dumbledore recalled studying the Sacrificial Ritual as a Hogwarts student when he was struggling to reach mastery.
• Amelia Bones asked whether the ritual had helped Dumbledore become a master of Transfiguration, and Dumbledore said it had not.
• Dumbledore explained that the ritual could not make every wizard a master of memory magic.
• Dumbledore revealed that only wizards with the innate talent to become memory-magic masters could initiate the ritual.
• Fudge and Amelia Bones realized that talented wizards could reach mastery through study, making the ritual’s memory sacrifice an unnecessary trap.

Dumbledore explained that Voldemort could return through a Horcrux but would be unable to exceed his former peak strength. He then revealed that he had destroyed Voldemort’s wandering soul, leaving Fudge and Amelia Bones shaken as they considered the remaining threat.

• Dumbledore explained that becoming a Memory Magic master was a prerequisite for its Sacrificial Ritual and teased Amelia Bones about his own mastery.
• Amelia Bones asked whether Voldemort was making a move after Lockhart saw a Dark Mark on Werewolf Selwyn.
• Dumbledore said his friend believed a Horcrux revival would cap Voldemort’s power at the strength he had reached in his prime.
• Dumbledore revealed that he had destroyed the wandering soul he found at Voldemort’s hiding place after the Death Eaters attacked Isaac.
• Dumbledore said the wandering soul might have grown stronger than a Horcrux-bound Voldemort, and Fudge and Amelia Bones realized the greatest threat was gone.

Dumbledore told Fudge that several of Voldemort’s Horcruxes had been found and destroyed, then suggested that Lockhart investigate the Ministry’s Holding Cell. Lockhart arrived there that night to expose the truth of Voldemort’s return and the Ministry’s dark side.

• Fudge feared Dumbledore’s power and regretted his earlier attempts to undermine him.
• Dumbledore revealed that several of Voldemort’s Horcruxes had been destroyed, and Fudge gratefully accepted the news.
• Fudge wondered whether Selwyn’s memories had been used to send a message through Lockhart.
• Dumbledore decided Lockhart should have a real adventure instead of accompanying the Aurors.
• Lockhart went to the Ministry’s Holding Cell at night, intending to reveal Voldemort’s return and the Ministry’s dark side, after his female fans avoided answering his questions about it.

Lockhart infiltrated the Ministry’s holding cells and searched Selwyn’s memories for the address that could prove Voldemort had returned. Sirius, Remus Lupin, and Isaac monitored the staged infiltration and prepared to act after Lockhart found what he was looking for.

• Lockhart used information supplied by his female fans to sneak into Selwyn’s cell with a stolen key.
• Sirius, Remus Lupin, and Isaac watched Lockhart’s movements through magical surveillance while Sirius sent the Ministry employees who had lured him away.
• Lockhart entered Selwyn’s memories with wandless magic and found the address he sought.
• Lockhart hurried out of the cell area, unaware Sirius had arranged his access and escape.
• Isaac warned that Lockhart had found something, and Sirius gathered the remaining personnel while others continued watching him.

Isaac and his companions tracked Lockhart by following his taxi to the Gaunt family woodland in Little Hangleton. On the way, Sirius explained the Gaunts’ claimed links to Slytherin and how other pure-blood families had cast doubt on their ancestry to pursue their inheritance.

• Lockhart avoided magical travel because the Sacrificial Ritual made his magic unreliable, and he took a taxi toward his destination.
• Isaac and his companions followed the taxi on broomsticks under Disillusionment Charms.
• Jerry told Isaac that they had reached Little Hangleton, where the Gaunt family’s ancestral woodland lay.
• Sirius explained that Morfin Gaunt had died in Azkaban and that the family had no heirs left.
• Sirius told Isaac that the Gaunts relied on Slytherin’s Wand, Parseltongue, and Slytherin’s Locket to support their claimed descent.
• Sirius explained that pure-blood families had spread doubts about the Gaunts’ lineage to gain access to their inheritance.

Lockhart entered the Gaunt Shack, where Isaac and his companions watched from outside as they suspected something was wrong with Selwyn’s memories. Inside, Lockhart encountered a group of young werewolves who accepted him as a master of memory magic and told him to get ready to begin.

• Jerry reported that Lockhart had found the entrance to the Gaunt Shack and was going inside.
• Isaac and Lupin noticed that Lockhart’s behavior seemed suspicious and decided to observe from outside.
• Lockhart followed Selwyn’s memories through the shack, then wondered how he had reached the main house.
• A group of young werewolves confronted Lockhart and questioned whether he was truly a master of magic.
• Lockhart listed his credentials and flashed his trademark smile, convincing the werewolves to let him join them.
• The lead werewolf told Lockhart to get ready so they could begin.

Werewolves unwittingly resurrected a child-sized Voldemort by sacrificing Gilderoy Lockhart to the Resurrection Stone Ring. After they pledged loyalty, Voldemort learned that a Death Eater had trained and directed them, and realized someone had set him up.

• Lockhart mistook the werewolves' plan for a society initiation and, under pressure, put on the Resurrection Stone Ring.
• The ring drained Lockhart's life force until he appeared dead, then Voldemort emerged from his charred body as a tiny child.
• The werewolves knelt and pledged their loyalty to Voldemort, who questioned why they had offered him Lockhart as a sacrifice.
• The werewolves told Voldemort that a Death Eater had trained them and instructed them to perform the ritual.
• Voldemort realized that someone had used the Death Eater and the werewolves to set him up.

Voldemort discovered that the werewolves’ sacrifice had been a trap and that Lockhart’s body had forced him to resurrect as a child. After detecting Aurors and Hit Wizards outside the Gaunt Shack, he ordered the werewolves to delay them while he prepared spells to escape.

• Voldemort learned that the chosen sacrifice, Lockhart, was a master wizard but an empty shell consumed by a Sacrificial Ritual.
• Voldemort partitioned Lockhart’s body to escape the ritual, resurrecting in the weakened form of a two- or three-year-old child.
• Voldemort realized the werewolves’ plan had been a setup and told them to leave the Gaunt Shack with him.
• Voldemort detected Aurors and Hit Wizards outside and warned the panicking werewolves that the Ministry had arrived.
• Voldemort ordered the werewolves to hold off the Ministry while he prepared spells, and their temporary leader agreed.