Chapter Summaries

Snape and Wizet parted on affectionate terms, with Snape deciding to continue his Potions research after Wizet explained that Horcruxes had lost their effects. Circe escaped Herpo’s control but was captured by Snape, who demanded to know why she had not come to find him.

• Wizet told Snape that he would always regard him as his Potions professor, and Snape affirmed that Wizet was a good student.
• Wizet encouraged Snape to keep researching Potions and told him that all Horcruxes had lost their effects.
• Snape said he would take better care of his experimental subject, then Apparated away from Hogwarts.
• Circe realized her Horcrux no longer bound her to Herpo, disguised herself, and tried to evade anyone following her.
• Snape found Circe in an alley, restrained her, and asked why she had not come to find him.

Snape confronted Circe in a dark alley and revealed that he knew her role in the plot against him. He took her away as his unwilling assistant, declaring that she would serve as a toad for his potion experiments.

• Snape magically restrained Circe and exposed her disguise, rejecting her claims that she was a Muggle government employee.
• Circe admitted she had followed orders and urged Snape to punish the plotters, but he told her they had already paid.
• Snape said he needed a capable assistant, and Circe tried to persuade him by claiming she was Lily.
• Snape reacted with killing intent to Circe using Lily’s name and declared that a potioneer’s assistant was a toad.
• Snape threatened to keep Circe alive for his experiments and Apparated away with her as she screamed.

Wizet explained how Odin and the other figures had appeared in the future and revealed his plan to share his gnosis with the world to help it resist Mictlantecuhtli. He used the Killing Curse on himself, and a mass of multicolored light appeared before him.

• Odin and the other figures returned to Wizet after witnessing the future they had hoped for.
• Wizet explained that Morgana le Fay's Ritual Magic Array, the world's despair, and Mictlantecuhtli's memories had brought them into the future and shaped their appearances.
• Odin worried that Mictlantecuhtli might someday be resurrected, and Wizet said he would use Mictlantecuhtli's magic to split his own gnosis and merge it with the world's life and death.
• Wizet said he wanted to give the world the ability to resist Mictlantecuhtli and to repay the kindness the world had shown him.
• Wizet pointed his wand at his temple, spoke the incantation, and produced a mass of multicolored light as Odin reached toward it.

Wizet explained to Odin why he had placed conditions on his gift: he wanted to give people a direction for exploring the vast universe without letting progress become destruction. He accepted that future generations might oppose him and left the story anticipating that they would try to defeat him.

• Odin sensed the conditions within the orb of light and asked Wizet whether they were deliberate.
• Wizet explained that his gift was meant to encourage exploration while giving people a direction and guard against destructive progress.
• Odin warned that people might resent Wizet's standards and become hostile toward him.
• Wizet said that those who believed him wrong should surpass him and overturn his ideas, because correction was part of change.
• Wizet said he was prepared to become the target people wanted to defeat and looked forward to seeing how they would challenge him.

Wizet told Odin and the others that his friends, promises, and the people he wanted to protect sustained him through criticism and hardship. After they departed and dawn arrived, Wizet spotted Luna in the crowd and walked toward her, recalling their first meeting.

• Odin asked Wizet whether he could endure being misunderstood, and Wizet explained that concrete bonds and promises kept him moving forward.
• Wizet said he accepted hardship because he wanted his friends and loved ones to live happily and keep looking forward to tomorrow.
• Odin and the other figures accepted Wizet's answer, said farewell, and vanished along with the separated Gnosis lights.
• Dawn broke, and Wizet saw Luna among the crowd and remembered how she had first come into view.
• Wizet walked toward Luna as she recognized him at a glance, just as she had when they first met.

Wizet and Luna reunited after his delayed return, and their embrace showed how deeply they had missed each other. As Fred and George teased Neville and speculated about Wizet’s next challenge, Ginny explained that Mr. Lovegood had gone to the castle with Mrs. Lovegood.

• Wizet and Luna confessed that they had missed each other and embraced, while Wizet apologized for returning late.
• Fred and George counted the seconds as Wizet and Luna continued embracing.
• Fred and George teased Neville about his relationship with Hannah, and Neville fled in embarrassment.
• Cho Chang and Cedric kissed as George announced that Wizet and Luna had reached two minutes.
• Fred and George wondered where Mr. Lovegood had gone, and Ginny said he had gone to the castle with Mrs. Lovegood.

Fred and George tried to figure out why Ginny was angry and urged Harry to copy what Wizet and Luna had done to make things right. Harry remained unsure but considered following their advice.

• Ginny told Fred and George that Mr. Lovegood and Mrs. Lovegood had gone toward the castle, and their talk of a date made her storm off.
• Fred and George decided to test a new plan on Harry and stopped him as he went to find Ginny.
• Harry explained that Ginny had become angry after he noticed a cut on her face and offered to take her to the Hospital Wing.
• Fred and George concluded that Harry should imitate what Wizet and Luna had done, then suggested he try only the second step.

Harry ran off after Ginny, while Fred and George worried over how to help him and their new plan. Wizet reunited with Luna in front of their teachers and elders, and after a teasing interruption, he searched the crowd for Xenophilius Lovegood and felt relieved not to find him.

• Harry ran off in the wrong direction after Ginny, and George called out that she had not gone to the Hospital Wing.
• Fred and George discussed how to help Harry and wondered whether Wizet could advise them.
• Wizet embraced Luna, lifted her, and spun her around as they told each other how much they had missed one another.
• Wizet noticed Selina Pendragon, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the others watching, while Selina and Aberforth teased him and Luna.
• Wizet kissed Luna's cheek, then looked through the crowd for Xenophilius Lovegood and felt relieved when he was nowhere nearby.

Wizet and Luna reconciled and promised to face the future together, choosing to follow their own wishes and return to each other like boomerangs or Mooncalves. As they reached the castle gates, they found Pandora Lovegood waiting for them, and Wizet remembered the important matter he had forgotten.

• Wizet and Luna agreed to find her parents in the castle and fulfill Mr. Lovegood's wishes together.
• Wizet promised Luna he would tell her before leaving and would always come back to her.
• Luna offered to support Wizet even if others questioned his choices, and Wizet suggested they keep their future decisions private.
• Wizet and Luna embraced, compared themselves to boomerangs and Mooncalves, and decided to keep walking together.
• Wizet and Luna reached the castle gates and encountered Pandora Lovegood, while Wizet searched inside for Mr. Lovegood and recalled what he had forgotten.

Wizet recalled how he rescued Pandora from the explosion that had made her disappear and how she immediately guessed Luna liked him. Pandora revealed that she had overheard Wizet and Luna, leaving him flustered as she compared his behavior to Xenophilius’s when he courted Nora Treadwell.

• Wizet remembered that Pandora’s disappearance left room for him to rescue her at the moment of the explosion and bring her back to Luna and Xenophilius.
• Wizet recalled Pandora recognizing Luna’s feelings for him after he rescued her, partly because he had mentioned Luna and carried the wand decoration she gave him.
• Pandora teased Wizet and Luna by admitting she could not say when she began eavesdropping, making Wizet fear she had heard and seen everything.
• Wizet struggled to speak honestly while Luna looked at him fondly and Pandora enjoyed his embarrassment.
• Pandora compared Wizet’s flustered behavior to Xenophilius’s when he stood before Nora Treadwell and told Luna that her father had likely felt as she did.

Wizet spoke with Pandora while Xenophilius struggled to remove his armor after losing his wand. When Pandora worried about the vanished moon, Wizet said he planned to repair it rather than create a replacement, leaving her unconvinced that this would be any easier.

• Wizet asked Pandora whether Xenophilius was with her, and she explained that he had sent her outside while he removed his armor.
• Pandora praised Xenophilius’s cleverness in handling the armor, and Wizet admitted he had prepared instructions for removing it manually.
• Pandora noted that the Mooncalves might no longer dance because the moon had vanished after My Lord’s demise.
• Wizet confirmed he had considered the moon’s disappearance and said he planned to repair the moon and add markers to distinguish it from before.
• Pandora doubted that repairing a vanished moon was much easier than creating a new one.

Wizet repaired the battlefield and restored the wands that had vanished, leaving Hermione reassured and the Aurors celebrating. Meanwhile, MACUSA president Benjamin Graves told President Bill that wands had disappeared worldwide, and Bill hid his satisfaction as he questioned him about their importance.

• Pandora watched Wizet cast Reparo, restoring the ruined grassland, trees, and surrounding terrain.
• Fred and George teased Hermione about her homework and exam papers, but Ron calmed her down.
• Ron discovered his wand had returned, and the other Aurors recovered their wands while the dark wizards remained confused.
• At midnight, Benjamin Graves told President Bill that wands had disappeared around the world, and Bill asked how much magic depended on them.

President Bill used the wizarding world's loss of wands and the damage from the crisis to pressure MACUSA President Benjamin Graves, arguing that wizards had lost control and needed to rely on the Muggle government. Benjamin realized he could not count on Wizet to shield him from the political consequences.

• President Bill pointed out that Benjamin Graves had lost his primary means of using magic and hinted that Muggle policy toward wizards would change.
• Benjamin understood that President Bill intended to exploit the wand crisis and knew he would have to handle the fallout himself.
• President Bill gave Benjamin a report detailing widespread property damage, casualties, and shortages of personnel.
• President Bill blamed the accidents on the magical world's loss of control and treated the reconstruction effort as leverage over wizards.
• President Bill concluded that wandless wizards posed little threat and expected Wizet's limited capacity as one person to leave the Muggle government with influence.

President Bill used the crisis and the disappearance of wands to press Benjamin Graves for greater Muggle authority, arguing that wizards could no longer maintain order or lead recovery efforts. Benjamin left the discussion frustrated and powerless, while recognizing that magical leaders everywhere faced similar pressure.

• President Bill accused Benjamin Graves and the wizarding world of allowing the Paris Region Incident to endanger Muggles and argued that Muggles should take charge of recovery and public safety.
• President Bill questioned how much wandless wizards could contribute, while Benjamin realized that magical leaders in other countries were facing the same dilemma.
• President Bill suggested that wizards could use their movement magic to transport people and supplies, reducing their role to that of transportation workers.
• Benjamin explained that Apparition became dangerous when carrying large objects, and President Bill replied that the wizards would have to solve that problem themselves.
• Benjamin clenched his fists and considered punching President Bill, but his missing wand left him unable to answer the insult with magic.

President Bill pressured Benjamin Graves to make wizards pay for the crisis and accept Muggle protection and support on the government’s terms. Benjamin felt unable to resist without his wand, but a familiar object suddenly appeared in his pocket as he prepared to argue again.

• President Bill told Benjamin Graves that wizards must take responsibility for the crisis and threatened to calculate the costs of injuries and other losses.
• President Bill showed Benjamin the ruined George Monument and accused wizards of destroying North America’s history and glorious past.
• President Bill demanded that wizards compensate for the damage and accept conditional Muggle protection, supplies, medical care, and help maintaining order.
• Benjamin Graves realized that wizards could scarcely resist without their wands and struggled with the burden of making decisions as MACUSA’s president.
• As Benjamin prepared to challenge President Bill’s demands again, his pocket trembled and he felt a familiar object inside.

Benjamin Graves refused President Bill’s attempt to secure a promise from the wizards after his wand returned and the city was restored. He credited Wizet Lovegood with the changes, and the chapter ended with President Bill asking where Lovegood was while Graves prepared to inspect the altered moon.

• Benjamin Graves refused President Bill’s request for a verbal promise and revealed that his wand had returned.
• Benjamin Graves credited Wizet Lovegood with restoring the wands and the damage outside, while President Bill received reports that the moon had also reappeared with a different pattern.
• Benjamin Graves accidentally summoned a telescope through a window, then repaired the glass with Reparo, confirming his wand worked.
• President Bill asked where Wizet Lovegood was, and Benjamin Graves replied that he did not know but that Lovegood would not be in North America.

President Bill learned that Wizet had restored damaged landmarks and conjured a new moon, then realized Wizet knew what he and others were planning. After seeing the changed moon for himself, Bill was left shaken and reconsidered what to do next.

• Benjamin Graves told President Bill that Wizet was likely at Hogwarts and might have repaired damage around the world, including the vanished moon.
• Wizet spoke to President Bill, revealed he knew what they were plotting, and warned that his future response would depend on their actions.
• President Bill realized Wizet was addressing multiple people, while Benjamin Graves inferred that Bill was having a frightening exchange with Wizet.
• President Bill looked through Benjamin Graves's telescope and confirmed that the moon had changed into one Wizet had conjured.
• President Bill returned to his seat in shock and decided he needed to reconsider his next move.

Snape kept Circe captive and revealed that Wizet had restored the moon, where a message had been written. After reading “Lovegood,” Snape asked Circe whether she was skilled at human Transfiguration.

• Circe begged Snape not to turn her into a toad, but he said death would be letting her off too easily.
• Snape explained that Wizet had restored only his wand because Circe did not deserve to get hers back.
• Snape Apparated with Circe to a mountain, where they saw the restored moon under the night sky.
• Using the Night-Sight Spell, Snape and Circe read “Lovegood” written on the moon.
• Snape spoke more gently to Circe and asked whether she was skilled at human Transfiguration.

Circe confessed that her contact-based Transfiguration was a form of Bloodline Magic, and Snape quickly deduced how it worked. To avoid being turned into a toad, she agreed to become a black stag with spectacles-like markings and chose the name Nyctelia before Snape took her away to demonstrate the form.

• Circe told Snape she was a Metamorphmagus who could use bodily fluids to transform others and reverse the effects.
• Snape inferred that Circe's magic was a type of Bloodline Magic, leaving her astonished.
• Snape suggested transforming Circe into a black stag with white spectacles-like markings instead of a toad, and Circe eagerly agreed.
• Circe asked whether the stag needed a name, then chose Nyctelia.
• Snape grabbed Circe by the collar and took her into the vortex to adjust and show him her stag form.

Pandora Lovegood recovered her wand, and she and Wizet found Xenophilius, who had freed himself from his armor. The Lovegoods prepared to go home for Dobby’s feast while Wizet and Luna teased each other about who liked the other more, and Xenophilius warned Wizet not to act alone again.

• Pandora Lovegood recognized the wand Wizet had restored as the one she had lost and suggested they find Phili.
• Wizet retrieved the Diadem and joined Luna and Pandora as they went to find Xenophilius.
• Xenophilius embraced Pandora and boasted that he had removed his armor, then awkwardly praised its power to Wizet.
• Pandora and Xenophilius headed home hand in hand, saying Dobby was preparing a feast for Wizet.
• Wizet and Luna playfully competed over who had more “very” in their declarations of affection.
• Xenophilius reminded Wizet that many people had worried during his disappearance and told him not to act alone again, and Wizet promised he would not.