Chapter Summaries

Wizet researched Obliviate’s history and dangers, agreeing with its inventor that erasing memories could profoundly alter a person. As he studied the spell with Lockhart, Lockhart hinted at a subtler way to use it on wizards, leaving Wizet eager to learn more.

• Wizet read Nemon Radford’s autobiography and learned that she considered Obliviate a threat to a person’s identity and soul.
• Wizet examined the limits of the Memory Charm Counter-Charm and resolved to master Obliviate without using it crudely.
• Wizet reviewed Obliviate with Lockhart, who was surprised that Wizet had already taught himself the spell while keeping up with other studies and showing Luna Lovegood around Hogwarts.
• Lockhart explained that Obliviate could leave detectable flaws when used crudely on wizards, and Wizet asked how to avoid them.
• Lockhart hinted that he had a more refined approach to the spell and prepared to demonstrate his skill.

Wizet learned about Obliviate from Lockhart and used a seesaw analogy to develop his own theory of the memory charm and its counter-spell. The Wizard's Practical Guide then revealed the Ancient Magic: Mind Shift Charm, which could extract, erase, or alter memories.

• Lockhart explained his knowledge of Obliviate to Wizet, who connected it with Occlumency and recorded the lessons.
• Wizet transformed Lockhart's pink parchment into a seesaw and compared Obliviate's casting intent to its fulcrum.
• Wizet proposed that emotion could serve as the fulcrum for casting a counter-spell that broke Obliviate.
• The Wizard's Practical Guide revealed the Ancient Magic: Mind Shift Charm, which could extract complete memories and erase or alter them.

Wizet studied Obliviate with Lockhart, who dodged his questions by demonstrating how he fertilized a Mandrake with dragon dung. Wizet left convinced Lockhart was hiding secrets about the spell, then met Fred and George, who joked about Lockhart’s books and offered to help him write one.

• Wizet asked Lockhart about undoing Obliviate, making Lockhart uneasy as he tried to change the subject.
• Lockhart claimed Mandrakes preferred dragon dung and fertilized the plant while boasting about his knowledge.
• Wizet thanked Lockhart and left his office, suspecting he concealed secrets about Obliviate and its use on house-elves.
• Fred and George stopped Wizet in the corridor and teased him about Lockhart trying to turn him into an adventurer.
• Wizet told Fred and George he had learned Obliviate, and they suggested writing a book series with him.

Wizet and the Weasley twins discovered that a Mandrake had escaped its pot and knocked Lockhart unconscious with its cry. They took Lockhart to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey confirmed he would recover after sleeping, while Professors McGonagall and Sprout learned what had happened.

• Wizet recognized the dazing scream as a Mandrake’s cry, made earmuffs for himself and the Weasley twins, and returned the escaped Mandrake to its pot.
• Wizet and the twins found Lockhart unconscious and moved him toward the Hospital Wing on a Transfigured handcart.
• Filch confronted them, but Wizet explained that the Mandrake had knocked Lockhart out, and Filch went to find Professor McGonagall.
• Madam Pomfrey examined Lockhart and said that a good sleep would resolve the effects of the Mandrake’s cry.
• Professor McGonagall checked that Wizet and the twins had worn earmuffs, while Professor Sprout explained that she had entrusted the unusual Mandrake to Lockhart.

Professor McGonagall dismissed Filch’s accusations, and Professor Sprout entrusted Wizet with a Mandrake to care for. Meanwhile, Peeves and the escaped pixies continued causing trouble around Hogwarts, though students had begun capturing them.

• Professor McGonagall told Filch that Fred and George had only happened to pass by, and Madam Pomfrey sent everyone out of the Hospital Wing.
• Professor Sprout inspected Wizet’s Mandrake and said he would have to care for it himself.
• Fred and George asked to take Mandrakes, but McGonagall refused and warned them to focus on Transfiguration.
• Sprout told McGonagall that Fred and George had previously sneaked into Greenhouse Three and become trapped in her protective swamp.
• Wizet agreed to raise the Mandrake and planned to use Ancient Magic to help care for it.
• Peeves and the escaped pixies joined forces to torment students, while students across the Houses captured pixies and kept them in small iron cages.

Wizet used the Magic Eye and Ancient Magic: Soul-Enslaving Charm to study a pixie's Magic Circuits from within, recording the circuits linked to flight with Luna's help. He left to meet Professor McGonagall, who demonstrated her Animagus transformation and asked what he had observed.

• Wizet controlled a pixie with Ancient Magic: Soul-Enslaving Charm and used the Magic Eye to view its complex Magic Circuits from within.
• Wizet focused on the circuits around the pixie's shoulder blades and noticed hidden circuits flashing inside its body.
• Luna helped Wizet recover and refine his sketches of the pixie's Magic Circuits.
• Wizet left the Ravenclaw Common Room and went to Professor McGonagall's office for his private lesson.
• Professor McGonagall demonstrated transforming into and out of her tabby cat Animagus form, then asked Wizet what he had learned from the demonstration.

Wizet discussed Animagus transformation with Professor McGonagall, who warned him that attempting to become a magical creature could cause irreversible harm. She began teaching him the complicated process, which left off at the step of retrieving a bottle containing a blood-like potion during a storm.

• Wizet described what he had learned about Animagus transformation and asked Professor McGonagall whether an Animagus developed animal instincts.
• Professor McGonagall explained that animal instincts had to be resisted and warned Wizet about dangerous attempts to transform into magical creatures, citing Minotaur and the Sphinx.
• Wizet recalled seeing a magical creature’s Magic Circuit with the Soul-Enslaving Charm and Magic Eye, but decided to focus on building a solid foundation.
• Wizet began studying the Animagus process, which required holding a Mandrake leaf in his mouth for a month and preparing dew, a bottle, and a death's-head hawkmoth chrysalis.
• Professor McGonagall taught Wizet to bury the prepared bottle and wait while reciting the Animagus incantation at sunrise and sunset.
• The instructions reached the storm-triggered fourth step, when the wizard had to dig up the bottle and drink the remaining blood-like liquid.

Professor McGonagall explained the preparations for becoming an Animagus, and Wizet used his knowledge of Ritual Magic to interpret the materials and timing. He concluded that the process was a protected way to explore and understand the soul, impressing McGonagall with his insight.

• Professor McGonagall finished explaining the Animagus preparations and invited Wizet to take a break over tea and biscuits.
• Wizet explained that untouched dew represented purification and a pure connection to nature, while Professor McGonagall added that it conveyed a wizard's will and shaped the Animagus form.
• Wizet interpreted the Death's-head Hawkmoth chrysalis as a symbol of transformation and protection against the fear of changing into an animal.
• Wizet explained that the process used two full moons to provide protection and completeness, then concluded that Animagus transformation involved exploring and understanding the soul.
• Professor McGonagall praised Wizet's interpretation and said they had covered the material faster than she had expected.

Professor McGonagall gave Wizet her detailed notes on Animagus transformation and Ritual Magic, then encouraged him to begin the first steps. Wizet met Harry, Hermione, and Ron, learned how Ron had broken his wand in a fight with Slytherin, and examined it as a possible repair.

• Professor McGonagall gave Wizet her notebook of Animagus insights and Ritual Magic thoughts and told him to begin the first steps and gather materials.
• Wizet heard Ron asking Hermione and Harry whether they knew how to repair his broken wand, and Hermione said the books offered no way to restore it properly.
• Harry and Ron told Wizet that Draco Malfoy had joined the Slytherin team, whose new Nimbus 2001 brooms had sparked a quarrel with the Weasley twins and a fight with Slytherin players.
• Wizet caught Ron's wand with Accio and used his Magic Eye to find that its internal Magic Circuits might be repairable.
• Ron told Wizet he had planned to tape the wand together and use it for the rest of the year.

Wizet explained wand backlash to Ron, then took Ron’s broken wand to repair it before heading out on another nighttime wander. He heard a cold, malicious voice whose meaning he understood, and knew it was not a Mandrake.

• Wizet explained that taping Ron’s broken wand together could cause dangerous wand backlash, comparing it to an electrical short circuit.
• Wizet agreed to repair Ron’s wand and took it with him, while Hermione urged Ron and Harry to finish their homework before returning to the library.
• Wizet encountered Draco, who excitedly praised his Nimbus 2001 and began to offer Wizet a new Flying Broomstick, but stopped himself.
• Ron and Harry decided to do their homework, then planned to bring Hermione Chocolate Frogs after Ron worried she had skipped lunch.
• Wizet restored the wand’s body with Reparo and carefully reconnected its Magic Circuit, adjusting it to reduce the risk of future damage.
• After finishing the repair, Wizet went nighttime wandering and heard a cold, malicious voice that he recognized as something other than a Mandrake.

Wizet investigated a strange voice at Hogwarts, then returned to the Guardian Chamber and fought through its Ancient Magic Armor. He found a metal box that might hold something Selina and the others had hidden, but continued deeper into the chamber without opening it.

• Wizet used Guardian Meditation Method to listen for the strange voice, but heard Filch, Fred and George, Peeves, and Lockhart instead.
• Wizet entered the Guardian Chamber again, crossed to a newly revealed platform, and collected Ancient Magic Power from a crystal.
• Four suits of Ancient Magic Armor attacked Wizet, and he destroyed them with shields, a summoned battle axe, lightning, and Devil's Snare.
• Wizet defeated two more suits of armor and spotted a carved metal box that might contain what Selina and the others had hidden.
• Wizet left the box unopened and continued exploring the Guardian Chamber.

Wizet reached Selina’s Pensieve and used the memory she left there to learn the Memory Extraction Charm. After recording the spell and his ideas for combining it with other magic, he left with plans to study Pensieves further.

• After defeating eight more suits of armor, Wizet found Selina’s notebook and a Pensieve, along with rewards in nearby chests.
• Wizet read Selina’s messages, which explained that the notebook contained a memory of mind magic and could serve as a reusable Portkey.
• Wizet entered the Pensieve and watched a man develop the Memory Extraction Charm to remove painful memories.
• Wizet learned the spell’s incantation and wand movement, then returned from the memory and wrote down what he had observed.
• Wizet considered combining the charm with the Mind Shift Charm to create immersive experiences and recorded ideas for improving and making a Pensieve.

Wizet discovered that the hidden route from the Pensieve room led to Hogwarts’ Restricted Section, where he read and memorized books on Dark Magic and magical creatures. He left with a better understanding of dangerous ancient experiments and why the books were restricted.

• Wizet passed through a magical mirror into a dusty stairwell and erased his footprints with Reparo.
• Wizet climbed past magically burning candles and a statue of four human-faced goats into a room filled with dusty books and odd objects.
• Wizet opened another door and realized the passage led into the Restricted Section.
• Wizet read Magick Moste Evile, found the Chronic Curse and the Hanging Hissing Curse, and memorized its contents.
• Wizet studied books describing ancient wizards’ attempts to gain magical talents from creatures, including experiments that transformed wizards into new creatures.

Wizet found Miranda Goshawk’s original The Standard Book of Spells in the Restricted Section and copied its handwritten annotations. After leaving the library, he joined the Weasley twins in a nighttime confrontation with Filch, where he began considering ways to deal with the caretaker.

• Wizet decided to keep his research into taboo magic theoretical until he had more knowledge and safeguards.
• Wizet discovered Miranda Goshawk’s original The Standard Book of Spells and copied its marginal notes and additional spells into his notebook.
• Wizet left the Restricted Section, unlocked the library doors with Alohomora, and secured the lock again with Reparo.
• Fred encountered Wizet while fleeing Filch and Mrs Norris, then ran off to draw them away from him.
• Filch caught Fred and called for his brother, so George and Wizet appeared at opposite ends of the corridor.

Wizet, Fred, and George confronted Filch over the Kwikspell letter, and Wizet offered to help him master magic. Filch, a Squib desperate for a way to use magic, asked whether Wizet truly had a solution.

• Wizet and the twins cornered Filch and demanded to know what had happened that night.
• George revealed Filch's Kwikspell letter, but Mrs Norris snatched it and brought it to Filch.
• Wizet realized Filch had hoped the course might help him overcome his inability to use magic.
• Wizet asked Filch whether he wanted to master magic, leading Filch to wonder if a potion could help him.
• Filch asked Wizet if he had a way to let him use magic, and Wizet clarified that he had said “master magic,” not “cast magic.”

Wizet let Filch use a fake wand to cast the Scouring Charm, then negotiated greater freedom around Hogwarts in exchange for improving it. Filch agreed to let Wizet and students on his list move more freely through the castle, while the Weasley twins began planning new Dungbombs.

• Wizet gave Filch a fake wand, and Filch successfully used it to clean himself with the Scouring Charm before it reverted to parchment.
• Wizet explained that the charm needed improvements, including the ability to clean other places and help Filch clean the castle.
• Filch agreed to give Wizet and students on Wizet's list greater freedom in Hogwarts Castle in exchange for Wizet continuing to improve the fake wand.
• Fred and George planned to develop Dungbombs that resisted the Scouring Charm and could be sold with something to eliminate their smell.
• Wizet considered the agreement an important first step toward putting his other ideas into practice.

After their nighttime excursion, Wizet explained Professor Sprout’s Cube Theory to Fred and George, who shared their greatest secret with him: the Marauder’s Map. The map revealed Hogwarts and the movements of people inside it, including Dumbledore and Snape still awake in their offices.

• On the moving staircase, Wizet explained how Professor Sprout’s Cube Theory had informed his spells, and Fred and George eagerly listened.
• Fred and George gave Wizet an old, complexly enchanted parchment as a sign of trust.
• George activated the parchment with the words, “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,” revealing the Marauder’s Map.
• Wizet examined the map’s magic and saw Hogwarts, sleeping students gathered near the common rooms, Dumbledore pacing in the Headmaster’s Office, and Snape pacing in his office.

Wizet received the Marauder’s Map from Fred and George and used Selina’s enchanted notebook to ask permission to use the Mystic Corridor. Selina also revealed that the notebook could take him to the Map Chamber, which Wizet planned to explore after learning Armor Magic.

• Wizet examined the Marauder’s Map, and Fred and George gave it to him after asking him to find a secret base.
• Wizet contacted Selina through her enchanted notebook and got permission to use the Mystic Corridor.
• Selina told Wizet that the notebook’s Portkey could also take him to the Map Chamber, and Wizet decided to wait until he learned Armor Magic before exploring it.
• Wizet brewed a term’s worth of developing solution, then took moving photographs with Luna by the Black Lake.
• Wizet arrived early at Professor Snape’s office and noticed a cloth-covered object rustling in the corner.

Snape taught Wizet the underlying principles of potion ingredients and explained how Developing Potion could be combined with Wit-Sharpening Potion to animate portraits. As Snape began to explain the materials needed, he clutched his left arm and stared at Wizet in disbelief.

• Snape dissected an armadillo and taught Wizet how ingredient properties and Ritual Magic informed potion-making.
• Wizet asked whether an older, more complex form of Developing Potion could make moving portraits, and Snape confirmed his reasoning.
• Wizet proposed combining Developing Potion with Wit-Sharpening Potion to create images with simple thoughts, and Snape confirmed it.
• Snape began explaining how materials could harmonize the potions, then clutched his left arm and stared at Wizet in disbelief.

After sensing something unusual in Professor Snape, Wizet proved that his Obscurus was under control. Snape took him to an abandoned classroom and began teaching him the Patronus Charm, instructing him to master it before the day ended.

• Wizet sensed a strange reaction from Professor Snape, who asked about the state of his Obscurus and demanded proof it was safe.
• Wizet summoned his Obscurus state, and Snape examined the black mist before hurrying him away.
• Snape deducted two points from Gryffindor for Harry’s muddy robes, and Wizet cleaned them with Scourgify as he followed Snape.
• Snape led Wizet to an abandoned classroom, where a Boggart waited, and announced that the lesson would be the Patronus Charm.
• Snape explained how to cast the Patronus Charm and told Wizet to explore his soul consciously by drawing on positive emotions.