Chapter Summaries

Wizet enchanted Luna’s painting with moving images and a recorded message, then slipped out at night to find the Guardian Chamber. He opened its hidden entrance and descended the dark staircase, prepared for whatever awaited him.

• Wizet used magical powder and the Recording Spell to animate Luna’s painting and preserve her message to her father.
• After Luna returned to her dormitory, Wizet reviewed his plans and decided to visit the Guardian Chamber using Selina Pendragon’s instructions.
• Wizet left the common room late at night while Peeves distracted Filch by throwing pieces of armor at him.
• Wizet used Primordial Power: Obscurus State to bypass the moving staircases and reached a mahogany cabinet with metal dials.
• Wizet opened the cabinet’s hidden door, transformed his fingers into Devil’s Snare, and descended the staircase with his wand ready.

Wizet discovered a mirror that led from the room he had explored to a hidden cave and a bronze gate, then decided to continue exploring later. The next morning, he spoke with Luna about Thestrals and reminded her that her Dirigible Plum was growing in Professor Sprout’s greenhouse.

• Wizet used the Imperius Curse to consider studying the soul, then found and raised an Ancient Magic mirror that showed a dark passage beyond it.
• Wizet crossed through the mirror, followed a staircase to a bronze gate, and opened it with Ancient Magic before choosing to return and rest.
• The next morning, Wizet found Luna watching Thestrals near the Forbidden Forest and explained that they pulled Hogwarts’s carriages.
• Luna said she could not see Thestrals and described how other wizards misunderstood them, so Wizet suggested making a different drawing move like the one from the previous night.
• Wizet reminded Luna that he had left her Dirigible Plum at Hogwarts, where Professor Sprout had kept it in her greenhouse.

Wizet and Luna helped Professor Sprout tend the plants in Greenhouse Two, where Sprout taught Wizet how Aguamenti could be combined with other spells while retaining its basic nature. Hannah Abbott arrived as Hogwarts began to wake.

• Wizet and Luna met Professor Sprout in Greenhouse Two and joined her in fertilizing and watering the plants.
• Sprout asked Wizet about his study of Aguamenti, and he explained that he had learned it through its original Ritual Magic.
• Sprout explained Aguamenti’s variations and compared combining it with other spells to changing a Rubik’s Cube’s patterns.
• Wizet connected Sprout’s explanation to Transfiguration and recognized that the idea could apply to other magical knowledge.
• Hannah Abbott arrived at Greenhouse Two and asked Wizet what he was doing there.

Wizet, Luna, and Hannah helped Professor Sprout tend Greenhouse Three, where Wizet identified its dangerous magical plants and learned that his dragon dung had helped Sprout cultivate Mandrakes. After breakfast, Wizet gave Luna directions to Potions Class and made sure she had food before her double period.

• Wizet, Luna, and Hannah finished tending Greenhouse Three, then Professor Sprout served them Dittany honey water and invited them into the cultivation area.
• Wizet recognized Sprout’s young Mandrakes, Venomous Tentacula, Chomping Cabbages, Belladonna, and Wolfsbane, and Sprout thanked him for the dragon dung that had helped the Mandrakes survive.
• Wizet used Scourgify to clean Luna and Hannah’s clothes as they left the greenhouse, and the three went to the Great Hall together.
• At breakfast, Wizet gave Luna a map and directions to Potions Class, warned her that Snape was strict about lateness, and shared bread with her before her double period.

Wizet explained his approach to Transfiguration to his roommates, then used it to experiment with combining the magic of a Scouring Charm and a transformed ladybug. Professor McGonagall discovered the spell hidden in his button, and Wizet began to explain how it worked.

• Wizet reassured his roommates that their first Transfiguration lesson would be manageable and explained how he had used a mouse’s shape and tail to make his snuffbox.
• Wizet and Luna parted for their morning classes, agreeing to meet at lunch.
• Wizet transformed a ladybug into a decorative button, then experimented with adding a Scouring Charm to the Transfiguration.
• Professor McGonagall praised the class’s progress and noticed that Goyle and Draco were doing well.
• Professor McGonagall picked up Wizet’s dark-eye button and discovered that he had hidden a Scouring Charm inside it.

Wizet impressed Professor McGonagall with a ladybug button that cast Scouring Charm, earning Ravenclaw twenty points and confirmation that he was ready to begin Animagus studies. In the next class, Hannah Abbott revealed that Wizet’s advice had helped shape Hufflepuff’s approach, prompting Professor McGonagall to ask about him.

• Professor McGonagall praised Wizet’s Scouring Charm button, demonstrated it to the students, and awarded Ravenclaw twenty points.
• After class, Professor McGonagall arranged to begin Animagus studies with Wizet on Saturday and warned him to keep the matter secret.
• In the second Transfiguration class, Harry Potter struggled with his ladybug, Seamus Finnigan blew his beetle into charcoal, and Hermione Granger performed well.
• Professor McGonagall praised Hannah Abbott’s button and asked her to explain her method; Hannah said she had followed Wizet’s advice.
• Hannah’s nervous attempt failed to transform the ladybug’s legs, and Professor McGonagall asked, “Wizet?”

Luna and Emika brewed a Boil-Cure Potion in Snape’s class, using an unconventional method that produced a potion better than the other students’ work. Snape recognized Luna’s use of Ritual Magic and asked whether Wizet had taught her the remedy.

• McGonagall awarded Hannah five Hufflepuff points and realized Ravenclaw had benefited from the arrangement of the Great Hall tables.
• Snape questioned Luna about the Boil-Cure Potion, and she explained that Wizet had mailed it to her for treating plant diseases.
• Luna and Emika prepared their ingredients and brewed the potion while Snape patrolled the classroom.
• Luna added Porcupine Quills and Snake Fang powder in an unusual final step, leaving the potion clearer and better than the other students’ results.
• Snape asked Luna why she had ignored the blackboard’s instructions, then identified her use of Ritual Magic and asked if Wizet had taught her the remedy.

Snape was reminded of Lily by Luna’s instinctive approach to magic and privately wounded himself before healing and cleaning the blood away. Meanwhile, Wizet reviewed ways to improve his Scouring Charm button and joined Fred and George as they prepared to distract Filch, leaving their new secret-base plans for later.

• Snape questioned Luna about how she had developed her approach to magic, then remembered Lily and struck his chest until his hand bled.
• Snape healed his wounds, cleaned the blood from himself, and picked up a potion labeled with Luna and Amica’s names.
• Wizet noted flaws in his Scouring Charm button and recalled learning Cube Theory from Sprout and arranging Animagus lessons with McGonagall.
• Fred and George asked Wizet about his plans for the magical item, discussed finding a larger secret base, and asked how he had vanished the previous night.
• Mrs Norris appeared, and Filch shouted for someone to surrender contraband, prompting the twins to step in without Wizet’s help.

Wizet shared his approach to Transfiguration with Hermione, Harry, and Ron, who debated what it meant to balance work and rest. In the Great Hall, Luna explained her Dirigible Plum earrings and cork necklace to Amica as part of her father’s effort to recreate Rowena Ravenclaw’s lost diadem, and Wizet joined their conversation.

• After Transfiguration Class, Hermione asked Wizet about the Transfiguration advice he had shared, and he explained his ideas to her, Harry, and Ron.
• Harry questioned Wizet’s claim that he balanced work and rest, while Ron and Hermione argued that switching subjects could count as a break.
• Luna told Amica that her earrings were Dirigible Plums, which she and her father planned to use while recreating Rowena Ravenclaw’s lost diadem.
• Luna explained that her cork necklace helped her keep a clear head, and Wizet appeared and said oak could also be used to make wand shafts.

Wizet and Luna discussed Professor Snape’s unusual teaching style, his storytelling voice, and his advanced Potions methods as they returned to the Ravenclaw common room. Luna described how Wrackspurts appeared around Snape while he lectured and gathered around students when he deducted points.

• Wizet introduced himself to Emika Miller, who mentioned hearing that he had led Ravenclaw to win the Quidditch Cup.
• Wizet asked Luna about her morning classes, and she said Snape’s distinctive voice suited telling stories like The Warlock’s Hairy Heart.
• Luna recalled that her parents listened to the Wizarding Wireless Network and suggested Snape would make a wonderful radio host.
• Wizet explained that Snape’s Potions methods improved on the textbook but that Snape had refused to write a new textbook.
• Luna said Wrackspurts appeared around Snape while he lectured, disappeared when he inspected the classroom, and swarmed around students when he deducted points.

Wizet and his classmates attended Gilderoy Lockhart’s first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, where Lockhart tested them on facts about himself instead of the subject. Wizet and Hermione earned full marks, and Lockhart ended the class by preparing to reveal a creature in a cage.

• Anthony wondered where Harry, Neville, Ron, and Hermione were as Wizet and the other students waited in the classroom full of Lockhart portraits.
• Lockhart entered with Harry, Hermione, Ron, and a group of girls, then introduced himself and gave the class a quiz about his life and preferences.
• Lockhart awarded ten House points each to Hermione Granger and Wizet Lovegood for earning full marks.
• Wizet explained that Lockhart’s books contained useful material when read alongside academic references, prompting Chris and the others to ask for a reading list.
• Lockhart brought a covered iron cage into the classroom and warned the students to prepare to face a dark creature.

Lockhart released Cornish Pixies in class, and Wizet used Transfiguration and the newly discovered Ancient Magic: Soul-Enslaving Charm to help the students capture them. The classroom was restored just as the bell rang, though Lockhart's portraits remained damaged.

• Lockhart opened the cage and released the Cornish Pixies, which attacked the students and wrecked the classroom.
• Wizet turned ink bottles into small iron cages and helped Ravenclaw students catch the pixies, while Harry, Ron, Dean, Seamus, and Hermione fought back with books and spells.
• Wizet recognized Lockhart's failed incantation as the basis for Ancient Magic: Soul-Enslaving Charm and discovered that it could gently control living creatures.
• Wizet used the charm to stop two pixies from carrying Neville away, then caught them in cages and helped the students capture every pixie.
• Wizet herded the pixies into the large cage and used Reparo to fix the classroom, leaving Lockhart's portraits damaged as the bell rang.

Lockhart explained the pixies’ strength by claiming that mockery empowered them, while he privately planned to use Wizet Lovegood’s connections to advance his ambitions. The chapter ended with Terry asking whether the students’ mockery had made the pixies harder to control.

• Lockhart stopped Wizet Lovegood and asked to speak with him, but Michael and the other roommates stayed to ask questions.
• Lockhart blamed the classroom chaos on the students and said pixies fed on laughter and mockery.
• Wizet recalled that Dymphna Furmage had been kidnapped by five pixies and later sought their extermination.
• Lockhart reflected that he wanted to use Wizet’s ties to Bagshot and the Ollivander family to strengthen his own influence and pursue his ambition of becoming Minister for Magic.
• Terry asked whether mocking the pixies had made them stronger.

Lockhart defended his earlier failure with the pixies, then demonstrated how he used Obliviate to alter their behavior. Wizet observed that the spell damaged and reshaped a pixie’s Magic Circuits and asked Lockhart to restore it to its original form.

• Lockhart claimed the pixies had resisted his magic by absorbing power from the students’ ridicule and awarded Wizet fifty points for Ravenclaw.
• Lockhart demonstrated subduing a pixie with Obliviate, then made it act like a loyal dog and a crow.
• Wizet recalled Lockhart’s story about using Obliviate against Forest Trolls, and Lockhart explained the importance of applying magic well.
• Wizet asked Lockhart to repeat the spell and used Magic Eye to watch it destroy and then reshape the pixie’s Magic Circuits.
• Wizet asked Lockhart to turn the altered pixie back into its original form.

Wizet and his friends watched Lockhart demonstrate Obliviate and wondered whether he was better suited to adventuring than teaching. Later, Dumbledore worked through his paperwork while caring for an aging Fawkes and listening to the Sorting Hat’s new lyrics.

• Lockhart invited Wizet to visit his office for another demonstration, then prepared a shorter lesson for his next class.
• Anthony, Michael, Chris, and Terry discussed Lockhart’s spell and teaching, while Wizet said he might be better suited to adventuring.
• Dumbledore fed Fawkes, whose feathers and eyes showed signs of age, and promised the phoenix would be young again soon.
• Dumbledore began reviewing Hogwarts, International Confederation of Wizards, and Wizengamot documents while eating mint licorice sweets.
• The Sorting Hat sang new lines about crossing the Black Lake, and Dumbledore praised the lyrics before the Hat remarked that his singing was too soothing.

Dumbledore and McGonagall discussed Lockhart’s teaching, the unusual Defense Against the Dark Arts position, and Dumbledore’s suspicions about Voldemort and Quirrell. Dumbledore also explained that details in Lockhart’s book about a spell for controlling werewolves were genuine.

• The Sorting Hat discussed adapting a song and asked Dumbledore whether he had chosen a band; Dumbledore said he planned to invite The Weird Sisters.
• McGonagall brought Dumbledore the Hogwarts partnerships list and reported that Lockhart’s books were too expensive for the existing financial aid grants.
• McGonagall told Dumbledore that Fred and George had blown up a cage in Lockhart’s class, freeing pixies that injured Lockhart, and warned the incident would spread around Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore told McGonagall that he suspected Voldemort would return, that Albania was his hiding place, and that he had kept Quirrell under observation after the Gringotts break-in.
• Dumbledore credited Wizet with uncovering Quirrell’s other side and showed McGonagall that Lockhart’s book described the real but temporary Human Restoration Spell for controlling werewolves.

Dumbledore explained to McGonagall that Lockhart’s books described real people whose memories had been erased, and that he had allowed Lockhart to teach so students could learn to question what they read. He also discussed Wizet’s influence, the search for a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and his hope that someone else would eventually carry the wizarding world forward.

• McGonagall urged Dumbledore to send Lockhart to Azkaban, but Dumbledore said the people whose experiences Lockhart had stolen had lost their memories and could not yet provide proof.
• Dumbledore said he had kept Lockhart at Hogwarts so students could learn to distinguish truth from falsehood, and McGonagall noted that Ravenclaws had begun studying his books.
• McGonagall told Dumbledore that the Animagus matter he had mentioned would begin that weekend, and they discussed Wizet’s large-scale Transfiguration and how Gryffindors were eager to imitate it.
• Dumbledore described Thunderbirds and their affinity for rain and lightning while McGonagall regretted that the creature was not a lion.
• McGonagall and Dumbledore discussed the difficulty of finding a new professor and how Fudge’s distrust of Dumbledore was tied to the proposed Muggle Protection Act.
• Dumbledore said the road ahead had to be walked by someone else, and McGonagall fell silent as she considered his words.

Ravenclaw and Slytherin students repotted Mandrakes in Herbology, learning about their restorative properties, dangerous cries, and use in Ritual Magic. Wizet calmed his Mandrake with Ancient Magic Power and began examining it with Magic Eye, which revealed a different scene.

• Mandy Brocklehurst explained Mandrakes’ properties, and Pansy added that they were used in Ancient Ritual Magic.
• Sprout taught the students how to handle Mandrakes safely and demonstrated repotting one.
• Draco’s Mandrake bit his finger, while Wizet soothed his own with Basic Plant Cultivation.
• Wizet infused fertilizer with Ancient Magic Power to calm his Mandrake after repotting it.
• Wizet cast Magic Eye on the Mandrake to study it, and a different scene appeared before him.

Wizet studied the Mandrake’s unusual Magic Circuits and received fresh leaves from Sprout for Animagus practice. After Herbology, Lockhart approached him about learning Obliviate, and Wizet explained he had been busy studying.

• Wizet observed that the Mandrake’s leaves had orderly Magic Circuits that connected with and flowed back and forth through the root’s circuits.
• Sprout gave Wizet fresh Mandrake leaves and explained that young leaves could aid Animagus practice, while mature leaves became hallucinogenic and could impair magic.
• Sprout taught the students to tap the Mandrakes’ exposed roots with wooden mallets to curb their curiosity and encourage growth.
• Wizet organized his Herbology notes, including the Magic Circuits he had observed, as he walked along the corridor.
• Lockhart caught up with Wizet carrying a Mandrake and asked why he had not come to learn Obliviate; Wizet said he had been busy studying.

Wizet studied magical artifact-making and Obliviate with Professor Lockhart, whose lessons mixed genuine theory with suspicious claims about his past. Lockhart began teaching Wizet Obliviate, and Wizet quickly impressed him with his casting practice.

• Lockhart told Wizet about magical artifacts, alchemy, and the principle of equivalent exchange while Wizet took notes.
• Wizet carried a Mandrake flowerpot for Lockhart and helped lighten it with a wandless Levitation Charm.
• Lockhart found a fluffy lilac toilet seat cover sent by devoted fans and angrily flung it down the corridor.
• In Lockhart’s office, he demonstrated wandlore and began teaching Wizet Obliviate, but his wand fell and he blamed it for resisting the spell.
• Wizet practiced the Obliviate gesture and incantation so quickly that Lockhart was visibly surprised.