Chapter Summaries

After awakening as an Obscurus in the Harry Potter world, Wizet searched a ruined building for a way to control the destructive force before arriving wizards could kill him. He absorbed the knowledge of an ancient meditation method, but as the wizards prepared to attack, Headmaster Dumbledore appeared.

• Wizet remembered that dark wizards had experimented on his original body, triggering an Obscurus eruption that destroyed the building and killed his captor.
• Wizet realized the Obscurus was eroding his mind and searched the ruins for the dark wizard's notebook while three wizards contained him with Protego Totalum.
• Wizet found the cowhide notebook, which crumbled as a silver-blue vortex entered his mind and revealed the Wizard's Practical Guide.
• Wizet learned the Guardian Meditation Method and began absorbing and transforming the Obscurus's power.
• More wizards arrived and prepared to attack Wizet, but Headmaster Dumbledore stepped out of a sheet of fire.

Wizet absorbed the Obscurus and returned to normal while Dumbledore delayed the wizards and arranged for him to study at Hogwarts. Dumbledore carried the sleeping boy away after Fawkes healed his wounds, intending to take him to St. Mungo's and speak with Cornelius.

• Dumbledore reinforced the magical energy field around Wizet and persuaded Kingsley to give the boy a few more minutes before the wizards repaired the house.
• Wizet absorbed the Obscurus completely, fused its core into his body, and fell from the air, where Fawkes caught him.
• Dumbledore welcomed Wizet to Hogwarts and explained that he needed to learn to control the Obscurus inside him.
• Wizet fell asleep from exhaustion, and Fawkes healed his injuries with his tears.
• Dumbledore told Kingsley that Wizet needed treatment at St. Mungo's and said he would speak with Cornelius.

Cornelius Fudge assigned Xenophilius Lovegood as Wizet’s guardian after clashing with Dumbledore and Lucius Malfoy over Wizet’s Hogwarts enrollment. Wizet woke in St. Mungo’s, where Luna Lovegood introduced herself and told him she was his family.

• Dumbledore insisted that Wizet should enroll at Hogwarts, while Lucius Malfoy challenged his promise to protect the Obscurial and questioned his leadership.
• Fudge proposed that the Ministry assess whether Wizet could integrate into a wizarding family, then decided the Ministry would handle finding one.
• Angry at The Quibbler’s criticism of his dependence on Dumbledore, Fudge appointed Xenophilius Lovegood as Wizet’s guardian.
• Wizet woke in St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and recalled imprisoning his Obscurus with the Notebook Meditation Method.
• Luna Lovegood introduced herself to Wizet, who said he had no home or family, and she told him, “I’m your family!”

Wizet settled into the Lovegood home and practiced a wandless ancient shield spell, but could not complete it. Luna explained that a strong wish might help, then told him how a magical accident had taken her mother and her notebooks before the stream suddenly surged around them.

• Wizet moved into the Lovegood family home and learned from Luna about wizarding life, including owls and garden gnomes.
• Wizet discovered the Ancient Magic: Shield spell in Wizard's Practical Guide and began practicing its gestures beside a stream.
• Wizet used the Guardian Meditation Method to summon a silver-blue ball of ancient magic, but the power returned to his body instead of forming a barrier.
• Luna suggested Wizet needed a strong wish to complete the spell and revealed that her mother and her notebooks had disappeared in a magical accident.
• Diana shrieked as the calm stream churned and splashed Wizet and Luna.

Wizet and Luna were attacked by a Runespoor, and Wizet awakened powerful shield magic to protect her before Minerva McGonagall arrived. After healing Wizet, McGonagall introduced herself and delivered his Hogwarts admission letter.

• A Runespoor attacked Wizet and Luna, and Luna explained that its three heads often fought among themselves.
• The Runespoor chased the injured Wizet and Luna, and Luna tried to draw it away from him.
• Wizet cast a vast silver-blue shield around Luna, breaking the Runespoor’s fangs and forcing it back into the stream.
• Minerva McGonagall trapped the Runespoor in an iron cage of water and healed Wizet’s shoulder.
• McGonagall introduced herself as a Hogwarts professor and handed Wizet his admission letter.

Wizet received his Hogwarts admission notice and learned that Luna would not start school until the following year. After a Runespoor attack, Xenophilius accepted Wizet as part of the family, while McGonagall and Dumbledore discussed the attack and Wizet’s unusual magic.

• Wizet asked McGonagall why Luna had no admission notice, and she explained that Luna was too young to start Hogwarts until next year.
• McGonagall suspected the Runespoor had been sent to provoke Wizet’s Obscurus and assured him Hogwarts would handle the matter.
• Xenophilius thanked Wizet for protecting Luna, and Wizet pointed out that Luna had protected him before McGonagall arrived.
• Xenophilius declared that he accepted Wizet, and Wizet realized he and Luna’s family had accepted one another.
• McGonagall told Dumbledore that a Runespoor had attacked Wizet and that Kingsley was investigating who had sent it.
• Dumbledore viewed McGonagall’s memories in a Pensieve, praised Wizet’s ancient protective magic, and asked which Hogwarts House Wizet might join.

Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed Wizet’s Hogwarts house and the Defense Against the Dark Arts position while Wizet prepared to shop for school supplies with Luna and Hagrid. Hagrid took Wizet aboard the Knight Bus, which sped toward Diagon Alley, leaving Wizet gripping the rail and studying the bus.

• McGonagall and Dumbledore agreed that Wizet showed Gryffindor courage but might also suit Ravenclaw, and Dumbledore planned to interview Quirinus for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post.
• Wizet learned that the Lovegoods were short of money and that he had received a thirty-Galleon Hogwarts student grant.
• Luna offered Wizet her gnome-shaped piggy bank, but Wizet declined and asked what present she wanted from Diagon Alley.
• Hagrid arrived early to escort Wizet to Diagon Alley and discovered that the Lovegoods had no Floo connection.
• Hagrid and Wizet boarded the Knight Bus, and Hagrid paid the conductor two Galleons for the fare.
• The Knight Bus lurched into motion, and Wizet grabbed the rail while Hagrid suffered from the bumpy ride.

Hagrid took Wizet to Diagon Alley to collect his student grant and introduce him to the wizarding world. At Gringotts, Hagrid produced a clutch of eggs that Wizet suspected were Runespoor eggs.

• Hagrid and Wizet found the Leaky Cauldron, where the patrons grew wary after learning Wizet was an Obscurial.
• Hagrid opened the hidden entrance to Diagon Alley by tapping the wall with his umbrella.
• Hagrid showed Wizet Gringotts and explained its goblin guards, defenses, and rules for exchanging Muggle money.
• Hagrid submitted Wizet's grant application to the goblin receptionist, who confirmed it and went to retrieve the money.
• Hagrid pulled out orange-red patterned eggs, and Wizet asked whether they were Runespoor eggs.

Wizet and Hagrid sold Runespoor eggs to fund Wizet’s school supplies, while the Daily Prophet’s hostile coverage revealed why wizards feared him. As Wizet waited in Flourish and Blotts, he discovered that skimming books made exact copies appear in his mind.

• Hagrid explained that the Runespoor eggs were compensation for Wizet and described their rarity and value.
• Wizet and Hagrid sold twenty eggs, receiving five hundred Galleons after showing Newt Scamander’s signed certification, and used the money to buy school supplies.
• A potioneer recognized Wizet as an Obscurial and reacted with fear, while Hagrid reassured him that he was a good child.
• Wizet read Rita Skeeter’s Daily Prophet article and learned it portrayed him as a dangerous dark wizard.
• After Hagrid left, Wizet finished Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and found an exact copy of it in his mind; skimming another book caused a second copy to appear.

Wizet tried to save money by studying his Hogwarts textbooks at Flourish and Blotts, where owner Clotilde Bagshot rewarded his ideas for improving the bookstore with free books and refreshments. After Bagshot escorted him to Ollivander's Wand Shop, he met Dumbledore and praised Wizet's intelligence.

• Wizet studied the first-year textbooks at Flourish and Blotts until a clerk mistook him for a customer freeloading on books and recognized him as an Obscurial.
• Clotilde Bagshot invited Wizet upstairs, where Wizet described how bookstores could offer refreshments and book-club spaces to attract readers.
• Bagshot thanked Wizet by covering his textbook expenses and reserving him a free seat with tea and desserts at the bookstore.
• Bagshot escorted Wizet to Ollivander's Wand Shop, then went to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour to meet Dumbledore.
• Bagshot told Dumbledore that Wizet was clever and mature, and that his suggestions had inspired a new idea for the family bookstore.

Dumbledore confirmed to Bagshot that Wizet was an Obscurial who had escaped the Obscurus through his own will. At Ollivander's shop, none of the wands suited Wizet, until Ollivander brought out a box bearing the same emblem as the Wizard's Practical Guide.

• Dumbledore told Bagshot he had seen Wizet recover from the Obscurus without help, and explained that he had asked Bagshot to look after Wizet because he worried the boy was too shy to ask for books.
• Bagshot left, and Dumbledore thought of Ariana and vowed not to repeat his past mistake.
• Wizet visited Ollivander's Wand Shop, where Ollivander measured him and tested him with many wands.
• After no wand worked, Ollivander asked Wizet about his past, and Wizet recalled an ancient book of magic that had interested him.
• Ollivander returned with a silver-blue box bearing the Cyclone Emblem, which Wizet recognized from the Wizard's Practical Guide.

Wizet claimed a strange Ollivander wand that revealed Diagon Alley’s history and awakened his Magic Eye. After he woke with the new ability, he asked Ollivander what to do because the wand had disappeared.

• Wizet took the special wand, which vanished into his mind as silver-blue light illuminated Diagon Alley and showed him its history.
• Dumbledore sensed the ancient magic at Ollivander’s and continued listening to Quirrell recount his encounter with poisonous snakes.
• Voldemort sensed the same power, abandoned the viper whose body he possessed, and transferred himself into another snake.
• Wizet woke with the ability to see magical circuits, and Ollivander explained that the Magic Eye was a rare gift treasured by his family.
• Wizet learned that his Magic Eye could absorb ancient magical power but not power from the Obscurus, then asked Ollivander about the vanished wand.

Wizet chose and improved a wand with his Magic Eye, prompting Ollivander to offer him wandmaking lessons and a valuable notebook. After leaving the shop, Wizet learned Hagrid had headed toward Knockturn Alley and went to look for him.

• Wizet chose a pitch-black dragon-heartstring wand and used his Magic Eye to smooth its Magic Circuit until it called to him.
• Ollivander praised Wizet's ability to improve wands and asked him to consider learning wandmaking after graduation.
• Ollivander gave Wizet a notebook of wandmaking knowledge, and Wizet memorized its contents and answered questions about wand woods.
• Wizet left the shop with his new wand and wondered why Hagrid had not returned.
• A potioneer told Wizet that Hagrid had headed toward Knockturn Alley and warned him to look only from the street corner.

Wizet encountered Hagrid being extorted over a three-headed dog and was captured by the gang as well. He revealed that the Daily Prophet had identified him as an Obscurial, but the gang had not yet seen proof of his dangerous magic.

• Wizet followed Hagrid’s shouting into a dark lane and was seized by a black-robed wizard.
• The gang surrounded Wizet and Hagrid while demanding six hundred Galleons for the three-headed dog, then threatened Wizet and raised the price to one thousand.
• Wizet refused to back down and asked Hagrid for the Daily Prophet.
• Wizet showed the gang the newspaper article identifying him as an Obscurial, and Hagrid confirmed that Wizet was the person in it.
• The black-robed wizard doubted the article, and Wizet began rolling up his sleeves to provide evidence.

Wizet used his shield magic and the threat of his Obscurus to force the Black-Robed Wizard and his accomplices to negotiate over the Three-headed Dog. He and Hagrid returned to Diagon Alley with the dog, which woke up and saw Wizet first.

• Wizet expanded a magical shield around himself and Hagrid, frightening the Black-Robed Wizard and his accomplices into backing down.
• Wizet bargained the Three-headed Dog’s price down from four hundred Galleons to one hundred and fifty, and the Black-Robed Wizard agreed.
• Hagrid thanked Wizet for helping him escape Knockturn Alley and returned Wizet’s wallet, which he had kept safe from the wizards searching him.
• Hagrid named the Three-headed Dog Fluffy, then the dog woke on Hagrid’s shoulder and saw Wizet.

Dumbledore sent Wizet to the Burrow through the Floo Network while he stayed behind with Hagrid and learned how Wizet had helped him buy Fluffy. Wizet arrived at the Weasley home, where Percy, Ron, Fred, George, and Molly welcomed him warmly.

• Dumbledore noticed Hagrid was hiding Fluffy and suggested Wizet use the Floo Network to travel to the Burrow.
• Wizet repaid Hagrid for the Knight Bus fare before leaving with Dumbledore for the Leaky Cauldron.
• Dumbledore sent Wizet through the fireplace, then asked Hagrid how Wizet had helped him avoid being cheated when he bought Fluffy.
• Dumbledore asked Hagrid to visit Harry Potter for his birthday and returned to school with Hagrid and Fluffy by Thestral.
• Wizet arrived at the Burrow and met Percy, Ron, Fred, George, and their mother Molly, who offered him dinner.

Wizet spent the last weeks of summer preparing for Hogwarts with Luna and her family, discovering ancient magic in the moon above their castle. On the morning school began, he left with Luna’s Gurdyroot gift and a promise to write home.

• Mrs. Weasley told Wizet about the Diggory and Fawcett families and recalled how Luna had often cried by the stream after her mother's accident.
• Wizet used his Magic Eye to see ancient magic in the moon above the castle, then walked home with Luna beneath the twin moons.
• Luna helped Wizet prepare his room and textbooks, drew illustrations for him, and said she hoped to find Crumple-Horned Snorkacks in Sweden.
• Xenophilius gave Wizet advice over a farewell dinner, and Wizet promised to write home from Hogwarts.
• On the morning Hogwarts began, Luna gave Wizet a Gurdyroot for luck as he prepared to leave.

Wizet reached Platform 9¾ with Cho Chang and discovered that its ancient magical power unlocked Improvement magic in his Wizard's Practical Guide. They settled into a Hogwarts Express compartment, where a Black student asked to copy their homework.

• Wizet watched Ministry of Magic staff use magic to drive curious Muggles away from the entrance to Platform 9¾.
• Cho Chang introduced herself to Wizet, criticized the outdated Muggle Studies curriculum, and led him through the barrier between Platforms Nine and Ten.
• On the magical platform, Wizet absorbed its ancient magical power and unlocked the beginner Improvement magic in his guide.
• Cho Chang found an empty compartment with Wizet and explained that Gryffindor students often left their homework until the last minute.
• A young Black student asked Wizet and Cho Chang to lend him their homework to copy, offering to let them touch his African bag spider.

Lee Jordan joined Cho Chang and Wizet’s compartment while seeking help with Professor Flitwick’s homework, and Wizet used his memorized spellbook to help him practice the Mending Charm. Lee left impressed by Wizet’s knowledge and eager for more answers.

• Lee Jordan entered Cho Chang and Wizet’s compartment and asked to borrow homework, offering his magical Bag Spider for anyone willing to touch it.
• Lee Jordan introduced Wizet to the four Hogwarts Houses and described You-Know-Who and Grindelwald as dangerous dark wizards.
• Cho Chang recommended A History of Modern Magic when Wizet asked about Grindelwald and You-Know-Who.
• Wizet recalled the Mending Charm’s incantation and explanation from The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 3.
• Lee Jordan practiced casting Reparo on torn tissue until it stayed pieced together, then asked Wizet to help with another question.

Wizet helped Lee Jordan finish his preview test, then used Magic Eye to examine the Bag Spider when Fred was bitten and the twins extracted its venom. After Fred and George confirmed Wizet had answered the test correctly, Fred invited him to Gryffindor.

• Wizet supplied answers for Lee Jordan’s preview test, impressing Cho Chang with his knowledge.
• Lee Jordan tried to demonstrate gesture-based magic but failed, and Fred and George arrived to ask about the Bag Spider.
• Wizet used Magic Eye to examine the Bag Spider, and Fred let it bite his hand so George could collect its venom.
• Lee Jordan treated Fred’s wound with Dittany, and Wizet recognized the rare healing plant.
• Fred and George checked Lee Jordan’s test against their own and discovered Wizet had answered every blank correctly.
• Fred invited Wizet to Gryffindor, saying the house needed talent like him.