Chapter Summaries

Wizet continued preparing an experimental Animagus transformation while Hagrid revealed that the location was James Potter’s secret storehouse. Wizet and Hagrid entered it and found the room empty.

• Snape examined the Mandrake leaf and approved continuing the experiment, while the professors discussed waiting for a thunderstorm.
• Hagrid told Wizet that the buried potion was at James Potter’s secret storehouse and asked him not to tell Harry and the others.
• Hagrid reminisced about James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, then wondered if magic could stop him from accidentally revealing secrets.
• Wizet tapped out the rhythm that opened the drum-kit painting, and he and Hagrid squeezed through the passage into the secret room.
• Hagrid looked around the storehouse and exclaimed that it was empty.

Wizet tried to help Hagrid keep certain memories from slipping out while preserving them. The spell reached the memories, but Hagrid was left unsure whether it had worked.

• Hagrid told Wizet he had come to search for old Animagus notes and described the dragon-hide notebook he hoped to find.
• Wizet realized Fred and George might have taken the notes from their former secret base, while Hagrid suspected Filch might have found them.
• Hagrid asked Wizet to lock away memories that could affect Harry, including memories about James Potter before he began dating Lily.
• Wizet warned Hagrid that he would see the memories and promised not to tell Harry, then asked Hagrid for keywords to identify them.
• Wizet used Obliviate and the Memory Charm Counter-Charm, relying on Ancient Magic Power to get through Hagrid's resistance to magic.
• Wizet found that Hagrid's keyword covered a broad range of memories, and Hagrid asked whether the spell was finished.

Wizet searched Hagrid’s memories for moments when James and Snape clashed and witnessed a confrontation between them at Hogwarts. The memory ended with Snape and James exchanging spells while Moony shielded James and tried to stop the fight.

• Wizet asked Hagrid for more specific keywords and used “James and Snape didn’t get along” to narrow the memory search.
• Wizet entered a memory of Hagrid walking Diricawls on the Hogwarts grounds and saw James, Padfoot, Moony, and a fourth student confront teenage Snape.
• James accused Snape of making a potion explode in class, while Snape blamed James for a glue prank in the corridor.
• James raised his wand, but Snape cast Langlock first and stuck James’s tongue to his palate.
• James charged at Snape, who cast Diffindo, and Moony blocked the spell’s sword-like arcs with a Shield Charm while urging James to stop.

Young Snape disarmed James Potter and taunted him and his friends until Hagrid and Lily arrived. Lily left with Snape, while James recovered from a jinx and blamed his defeat on the time he had spent becoming an Animagus.

• Wormtail's spell accidentally set the ground around James Potter on fire, and Padfoot put it out with water.
• Young Snape tricked James Potter into dodging a clod of dirt, then disarmed him and threatened to break his wand while mocking him and his friends.
• Moony tried to calm the confrontation, but James Potter and the others held back because Snape was bending James's wand.
• Hagrid and Lily arrived, and Lily asked Severus what the others had done before leaving with him.
• Moony cast General Counter-Spells until James Potter could speak, and James blamed his defeat on the time he had spent becoming an Animagus.

Wizet examined Hagrid’s memories and witnessed Dumbledore decide how Hogwarts would handle the night James and Sirius Black injured Severus Snape. The memory ended with James returning to help his friends while insisting that Hagrid keep the incident secret.

• Wizet concluded from Hagrid’s memories that Snape had exceptional knowledge of potions, dueling, and Dark magic.
• Hagrid carried an injured young Snape toward the hospital wing while James admitted that Sirius Black had gone too far.
• Dumbledore offered to report the incident publicly, expel Sirius, and let James stay, or keep it secret and give James and the others a month of detention.
• Snape and James rejected the public option, and Dumbledore ordered everyone to keep the incident secret while Madam Pomfrey treated Snape.
• Snape ran toward the castle, where Lily waited, and James asked Hagrid not to tell anyone before heading back to the Whomping Willow.

Wizet completed a Memory-Sealing Charm for Hagrid, then reflected on Snape’s painful memories and rushed to find Dumbledore. After gaining access to the Headmaster’s Office, he wondered whether Hagrid’s memories had affected him.

• Wizet finished recording his insights and cast the Memory-Sealing Charm on Hagrid, preventing him from actively revealing how he found Snape beneath the Whomping Willow.
• Hagrid tested the charm by trying to answer Wizet’s question and praised him, while Wizet explained that the spell could still be bypassed by Legilimency, Veritaserum, or magical artifacts.
• Wizet thought about Snape’s bullying and Dumbledore’s efforts to preserve Hogwarts’ stability, and felt increasingly distressed.
• Wizet left Ravenclaw Tower and guessed dessert passwords until the Gargoyle opened the way to Dumbledore’s Office.
• Wizet knocked on the Headmaster’s door, received no answer, and wondered whether Hagrid’s memories had affected him.

Wizet traced the resentment he absorbed from Hagrid’s memories to Hagrid’s own buried emotions and used Ancient Magic to remove it. The process gave him two offensive Ancient Magics, and he returned to Ravenclaw Tower planning to study the link between emotion and mental magic.

• Wizet concluded that direct contact with Hagrid’s memories had caused him to absorb Hagrid’s accumulated resentment.
• Wizet used mental magic, Ancient Magic from the Obscurus Core, and time-brewed Ancient Magic to remove the emotions.
• The Wizard’s Practical Guide absorbed the extracted resentment and revealed Ancient Magic: Blasting Curse and Ancient Magic: Powerful Blasting Curse.
• Wizet found that Headmaster Dumbledore did not answer his knock and reviewed what he had learned about Snape and Hogwarts.
• Wizet headed back to Ravenclaw Tower and planned to practice his Animagus transformation and explore how emotions connected to Obliviate and Occlumency.

As October brought damp, cold weather to Hogwarts, a flu outbreak hit Slytherin especially hard, forcing Snape and Wizet to brew Pepperup Potion in bulk. Wizet proposed a sweeter version using honeysuckle and echinacea infusions, and Snape agreed it could work if the brewing technique and wand movements were changed.

• Dumbledore used Apparition Trace to recreate Wizet’s casting posture, then fed Fawkes a berry and promised to care for him.
• The October chill spread through Hogwarts, and Slytherin students were struck particularly hard by the flu.
• In Potions Class, Snape deducted points from Gryffindor after Seamus and Dean’s cauldron exploded and put them to sleep, then sent Hermione and Parvati to take them to the Hospital Wing.
• Wizet helped Snape brew Pepperup Potion in bulk and questioned his use of several extra ingredients, including bitter chicory infusion.
• Wizet suggested sweetening concentrated Pepperup Potion with honeysuckle and echinacea infusions, and Snape approved the idea with adjustments to the technique and wand movements.

Wizet learned to modify the Pepperup Potion by studying Snape’s methods, revising his ingredients and proportions, and brewing a strengthened version with Ancient Magic. Snape explained how Wizet could dilute the unusual concentrated potion, leaving Wizet with a new lesson about potion-making.

• Snape showed Wizet how to process the Pepperup Potion ingredients, and Wizet realized pumpkin seeds could replace the toxic Kava Pepper Fruit seeds.
• Wizet explained his conclusions about the ingredient preparation, then revised the potion’s proportions in response to Snape’s criticism.
• Snape demonstrated the brewing process and taught Wizet that potion-making depended more on thought than tools.
• Wizet cast Ancient Magic: Potion Equilibrium Conversion while brewing, producing an unusually potent Pepperup Potion.
• Snape asked who else had seen Wizet’s ability, then explained that Wizet could dilute the potion with pure water and described the usual ingredients needed to dilute concentrated potions.

Wizet delivered three kinds of Invigoration Draught to Madam Pomfrey and experimented with turning one into a flu-prevention potion. After adding carbonated water and infusing it with happiness, he created a drink Madam Pomfrey found inexplicably more enjoyable.

• Wizet delivered three types of Invigoration Draught to the Hospital Wing, including a version reserved for Gryffindor.
• Madam Pomfrey suggested that Wizet try making preventative medicine to keep students from catching the flu.
• Wizet diluted a sweetened Invigoration Draught with carbonated water and stabilized it with Lacewing Fly infusion.
• Madam Pomfrey recalled that a Hufflepuff had once brought Cola to Hogwarts, prompting Wizet to realize his potion was missing happiness.
• Wizet used Ancient Magic: Potion Equilibrium Conversion and mind magic to infuse the preventative potion with pure happiness, and Madam Pomfrey found it tasted better.

Luna caught the flu after napping in the cold common room, and Wizet treated her with a specially sweetened Pepperup Potion. After she recovered, they shared food and tried a Sprite-flavored preventive potion, which Wizet had made for her to review.

• Luna woke with a sore throat and stuffy nose, shut the open window, and warmed herself by the fireplace.
• Olivia Axsley and the other roommates found Luna listless; Emika Miller left her a box of Chocolate Frogs.
• Wizet checked Luna for a fever and gave her a sweetened Pepperup Potion, which quickly restored her and made steam puff from her ears and head.
• Wizet showed Luna a mirror, and she joked that she looked like the Hogwarts Express before calling herself the Lovegood Express.
• Wizet brought out a Sprite-flavored preventive potion and food from the kitchens, and he and Luna ate together as she reviewed the potion's taste.

Wizet, Luna, Fred, and George improved Wizet’s influenza preventive potion by adding a safe white-smoke effect and designing a Codd Bottle inspired by Luna’s sketch. They formed a club to carry out the potion’s first operation and tested it together before Halloween.

• Luna suggested that Wizet’s preventive potion should produce white smoke like a Pepperup Potion, and Wizet agreed it needed a magical feature.
• Fred and George explained that making the smoke effect safe was difficult, so Luna showed them a sketch of a Codd Bottle and Wizet described how its marble separated the potion from the smoke-producing ingredients.
• Fred and George used alchemy and Fwooper feathers to create white-smoke powder, while Luna refined the bottle design and Wizet Transfigured it into shape.
• The four combined the preventive potion and alchemical powder, finishing the new potion before Halloween.
• George proposed forming a club, Fred supported the idea, and Wizet, Luna, Fred, and George toasted their first operation by drinking the potion.
• White smoke rose from all four of their ears after they drank the potion.

Wizet, Luna, Fred, and George named their flu-prevention potion Coolik and chose Magic Steam Club, or M.S.C., as their club name. They designed and enchanted a logo for the club, then hung it in the Mystic Corridor.

• Fred and George played with the steam from their ears, and Wizet shaped it into a miniature train for Luna.
• Luna suggested naming the potion Coolik, and Fred, George, and Wizet agreed.
• The group decided to choose a club name by each saying a word, and Wizet and Luna said “Magic” while Fred and George said “Steam.”
• Luna sketched and revised an M.S.C. logo featuring a Mooncalf-shaped soda bottle, rising steam, and Gothic lettering.
• Wizet enchanted the finished logo, and Fred and George enlarged it and hung it in the Mystic Corridor.

Wizet learned from Fred and George about an Animagus Notebook and a mysterious altar in the Forbidden Forest that could control the weather. He planned to explore the altar when the weather improved and invited Luna to come with him, while promising to help her control her power.

• Wizet asked Fred and George about their magical biscuits and guessed they were connected to Animagus transformations.
• Wizet told the twins he had found clues about the Marauder's Map creators and was waiting for a thunderstorm to continue his own Animagus studies.
• George fetched the Animagus Notebook, which recorded James Potter, Padfoot, and Wormtail's experiences and described a huge altar deep in the Forbidden Forest.
• Fred and George explained that the altar resembled an alchemical magic array and that their simplified version produced Canary Creams, which transformed someone into a flightless canary for twenty seconds.
• Wizet asked the twins for a route map and planned to search for the altar once the heavy rain stopped.
• Wizet invited Luna to explore the Forbidden Forest with him and said he could help her control her power through private lessons.

Wizet and Luna linked their memories of exchanging letters so they could safely share ancient magic. They entered a Pensieve memory to begin practicing a movement spell, and Luna successfully recalled the Magic Circuit as Wizet guided her through the first steps.

• Wizet proposed linking memories with Luna to teach her ancient magic, and they chose their first letters to each other as the shared memory.
• Wizet extracted both memories and bound their silver threads with Ancient Magic Power, creating a magical connection between them.
• Wizet poured a memory of a white, Unicorn-like light into the Pensieve, and he and Luna entered it together.
• Wizet explained that the memory held ancient magic related to movement, then asked Luna to imagine the Magic Circuit she had helped improve.
• Luna recalled the pattern and repeated the incantation "Ansuz" as Wizet began instructing her to guide and command Ancient Magic Power.

Wizet helped Luna practice Ancient Magic: Swift Thunder through their magical connection, then made sure she felt well after returning from the Pensieve. As Halloween approached, Wizet tested a new enchantment on Filch’s Fake Wand, which lasted at least twice as long, and extracted Filch’s memory to investigate the result.

• Wizet guided Luna through practicing Ancient Magic: Swift Thunder and stopped when the hourglass ran out.
• Wizet returned with Luna to the Pensieve room, checked that she felt well, and gave her a Soul-Soothing Potion.
• Wizet and Hagrid stayed busy as Halloween Eve approached, while Filch used the Fake Wand to clear standing water around the castle.
• Wizet explained that he had added new craftsmanship to Filch’s Fake Wand, and Filch agreed to test it.
• Filch reported that the wand lasted at least twice as long, so Wizet recorded the results and used Extract Memory on him.

Wizet tested the memory effects of a magical pattern on Filch and discussed the Weasley twins’ fireworks experiments, which had ended with their Fire Salamander escaping. The twins revealed that Percy had been writing letters constantly, while Wizet planned to investigate the pattern’s effects and activation conditions.

• Wizet extracted a copy of Filch’s recent memories and confirmed that Filch could still recall them afterward.
• Wizet found Fred and George experimenting with fireworks, and a tube dropped into water burst into sparks and soot.
• Fred and George explained that their Fire Salamander had been fed fireworks before it shot into the sky and escaped.
• Fred recalled that Percy had been writing a letter when the Fire Salamander’s commotion startled him, and George noted Percy had written letters nonstop since summer began.
• Wizet told the twins that a fake wand carved with a house-elf-derived magical pattern had extended Filch’s wand’s duration, and he intended to study its effects.

Wizet discussed magical-item research with Fred and George, then Coolik spread through Hogwarts as Hagrid served it while carving pumpkins. The chapter ended with Harry, Ron, and Hermione preparing to attend Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party.

• Fred and George explained the difference between short-term and long-term magical items and expressed interest in studying the magic pattern on Filch’s memory bottle.
• Wizet handed the Magic Circuits research plan to Fred and George as the club’s second activity.
• As Halloween Eve approached and the flu faded, Hagrid carved enormous pumpkins and drank Coolik in front of curious Hufflepuffs.
• Hagrid introduced Coolik’s flavor and flu-preventing effect, and students debated how it compared with Muggle soda.
• Coolik gained attention around Hogwarts, but Hagrid refused to reveal how to obtain it, even when Harry and the others asked.
• Harry felt downcast about attending Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party, and Hermione reminded him that Nick had helped arrange it.

Wizet and Luna made their way through the rainy castle to Hogwarts’ Halloween Feast, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione attended Nearly Headless Nick’s grim five-hundredth Deathday Party. The chapter ended with Wizet and Luna enjoying the festive decorations and catching enchanted sweets as the feast awaited its start.

• Luna used a map to guide herself and Wizet down the moving staircases, then cast the Water-Fire Immunity Charm on them both to keep off the rain.
• Wizet and Luna met Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who explained that they were heading to Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party instead of the feast.
• Anthony joined Wizet’s group and told them about the Halloween events, including Dumbledore’s invitation to the Skeleton Dance Troupe.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Nearly Headless Nick into a cold, eerie banquet hall, where Ron found that the chicken legs were covered in maggots.
• Wizet and Luna enjoyed the Great Hall’s Halloween decorations and caught enchanted candy while waiting for the feast to begin.

At the Halloween Feast, the Skeleton Dance Troupe performed an elaborate dance using Levitation and Transfiguration, inspiring Wizet to note down how precise control and practice could create magical effects. The feast continued with Halloween foods and Coolik, and Dumbledore began distributing holiday sweets as the celebration drew to a close.

• The Skeleton Dance Troupe performed with animated skeletons that assembled the four house crests from their bones before revealing the white-haired wizards behind the act.
• Wizet wrote notes about the troupe’s use of practice, concentration, and precise control with Levitation and Transfiguration.
• Flitwick praised precise control in charms, while Professor McGonagall said Wizet was suited to Ravenclaw and Lockhart mistakenly thought she meant him.
• Dumbledore began the Halloween Feast, where the students ate themed dishes and watched him, Professor McGonagall, and Snape drink Coolik.
• Fred and George said they had asked the Ministry to evaluate Coolik and planned to sell it after Madam Pomfrey’s supply ended.
• Dumbledore announced that he could finally hand out the holiday gifts he had prepared, then transformed the candy candles into flames that rained colorful sweets over the students.