Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore told Snape that Quirrell was under suspicion and asked him to watch the professor while the headmaster focused on Harry Potter. On the first weekend, Wizet went to the library with his roommates to research their homework and ask Madam Pince about Animagus books.

• Dumbledore asked Snape to keep an eye on Quirrell and said he hoped to draw out the person behind him.
• Snape challenged Dumbledore over the danger to Harry Potter and left the headmaster's office.
• Wizet agreed to help Chris, Terry, Anthony, and Michael research their homework before the Quidditch tryouts.
• Wizet directed his roommates to journals containing material for their Transfiguration and Potions assignments.
• Wizet asked Madam Pince where he could find books about Animagus, and she warned him that studying it could be dangerous.

Wizet explored ancient magic in the library, unlocked Throwing Mastery, and studied Theory of Metamorphic Transfiguration. He began turning a bookmark into a living branch before Anthony interrupted him to hurry to lunch and the Quidditch tryouts.

• Madam Pince directed Wizet to the Transfiguration section to find Theory of Metamorphic Transfiguration for Professor McGonagall.
• Wizet explored the library’s ancient books and gained enough ancient magic power to unlock Throwing Mastery.
• Wizet studied Theory of Metamorphic Transfiguration and formed an idea for his own path in Transfiguration magic.
• Wizet used Vera Verto on a strand of hair to create a leaf-shaped bookmark, then tried to make it into a real leaf and branch.
• Anthony shook Wizet out of his concentration and urged him to hurry to the Great Hall before lunch and the Quidditch tryouts.

Wizet practiced Transfiguration on the way to the Quidditch pitch, where he learned the rules of the game and joined Cho Chang at the Ravenclaw tryouts. Cho Chang explained that the team had several vacancies and described how the captain tested candidates.

• Wizet transformed grass into primroses as he walked to the Quidditch pitch, and Anthony and Michael watched in amazement.
• Anthony and Michael explained Quidditch’s players, balls, and scoring rules to Wizet.
• Cho Chang called Wizet over at the Ravenclaw tryouts, where he joined her and his roommates on the bench.
• Cho Chang told Wizet that Ravenclaw had vacancies in several positions and that the captain screened candidates with flying maneuvers.

Wizet watched Ravenclaw’s Beater and Seeker tryouts, where Cho Chang secured the Seeker position. Professor Flitwick invited Wizet to join the tryouts despite his first-year status, and Captain Arsenal prepared to assess his flying.

• Oliver Wood watched the Beater tryouts and praised Jason Samuels and Duncan Ingleby, who earned the positions.
• Cho Chang excelled in the Seeker tests and secured the position.
• Wood praised Wizet’s flying and invited him to transfer to Gryffindor, but Wizet said he was happy in Ravenclaw.
• Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall arrived, and Flitwick invited Wizet to try out despite the usual year restriction.
• Arsenal asked Wizet to mount a Flying Broomstick and demonstrate his flying ability.

Wizet impressed Ravenclaw’s Quidditch captain and team during tryouts, then scored against them in a high-speed training drill. Arsenal planned to build the team’s tactics around Wizet, and the players left with confidence in him.

• Wizet excelled at flying maneuvers, and Arsenal offered him a place as a Chaser.
• Arsenal told Roger that Wizet had been recommended by Professor Flitwick, and Roger added him to the shortlist.
• Arsenal organized a practice drill in which the team targeted Wizet with the Quaffle and Bludgers.
• Wizet narrowly dodged Roger’s Bludger, raced across the pitch, and scored with a Quaffle throw empowered by Ancient Magic: Throwing Mastery.
• Professor Flitwick praised Wizet, while Wood and the team recognized that their tactics would need to account for Wizet’s extraordinary speed.

Wizet became a Ravenclaw Chaser, learned to cast the Healing Charm by studying older students’ notes, and helped Harry and Ron with their Potions homework. Harry and Ron revealed that a Three-headed Dog guarded a trapdoor connected to the package Hagrid had collected from Gringotts, leaving Wizet concerned that they were meddling in a forbidden matter.

• Roger introduced Wizet to Ravenclaw students as a new Chaser, and upper-year students gave him Quidditch notes and advice.
• Wizet combined several sets of notes to master the Healing Charm and used it to relieve his wrist soreness.
• Fred and George teased Wizet about becoming a Chaser and complained about Wood’s punishing training plans.
• Harry and Ron told Wizet that Malfoy’s false wizard’s duel had led them and Hermione and Neville to encounter a Three-headed Dog guarding a trapdoor.
• Harry suspected the dog was guarding the package he and Hagrid had collected from Gringotts, while Wizet warned that the area was forbidden and directed the boys to a potions article to help with their homework.

Wizet explained to Hermione why Ron and Harry might resent being lectured, then attended Quirrell’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson and asked about the original power of the Mucus Curse. Quirrell revealed that the curse had once been lethal, capturing the class’s attention.

• Wizet realized Fluffy was guarding the trapdoor and the treasure beneath it, but decided the matter did not concern him.
• Hermione accused Wizet of letting Harry and Ron copy his homework, and Wizet clarified that he had only helped them with questions.
• Wizet imitated Hermione’s blunt criticism to show her how her tone affected others, then left the library.
• In Defense Against the Dark Arts, Wizet asked Quirrell how powerful the Mucus Curse had originally been.
• Quirrell explained that the curse had been inspired by deadly plague and had once been capable of killing people.

Quirrell lured Wizet to his office with a lesson on compound magic, while Voldemort planned to use the Chronic Curse to uncover Wizet’s potential as an Obscurial and shape him into a vessel. The chapter ended as Quirrell began explaining the curse to Wizet.

• Quirrell praised Wizet’s attention during his lesson on the Mucus Curse and invited him to his office at noon for more reading.
• Voldemort summoned Quirrell and learned that Wizet had accepted the invitation, then ordered Quirrell to teach him the Chronic Curse and investigate the room on the fourth floor.
• Voldemort forced knowledge of the Chronic Curse into Quirrell, weakening Quirrell’s resistance and leaving him unconscious.
• Wizet visited Quirrell’s office, where Quirrell explained that he would use the Chronic Curse to demonstrate compound magic.
• Quirrell confirmed that the Chronic Curse was the true name of the weakened spell known as the Mucus Curse.

Wizet learned the principles of compound magic and the Chronic Curse from Quirrell, who assigned him homework and gave him permission to consult books in the Restricted Section. After Wizet left, Voldemort rebuked Quirrell for teaching too slowly and ordered him to make the Obscurial cast the curse, observe Harry Potter, and investigate the room on the fourth floor.

• Quirrell explained counter-spells and compound magic to Wizet before teaching him the principles of the Chronic Curse.
• Quirrell gave Wizet a signed slip for three Restricted Section books and assigned him to combine the taught jinxes into a phrase.
• When Voldemort awoke and caused him pain, Quirrell sent Wizet away; Wizet left him a Chocolate Frog and encouraged him.
• Voldemort mocked Quirrell for responding to Wizet's praise and demanded to know how much he had taught him.
• Quirrell told Voldemort he had covered compound magic and the curse's jinxes and hexes, but Voldemort ordered him to make the Obscurial cast the Chronic Curse as soon as possible.
• Voldemort also ordered Quirrell to keep observing Harry Potter and investigate the room on the fourth floor.

Wizet discussed Quirrell’s lessons with Snape, who questioned him about Quirrell and tested his understanding of composite magic. Snape invited Wizet to study with him on Sunday, then told Dumbledore that Quirrell had taught Wizet carefully and that he would supervise him himself.

• Snape confronted Wizet about visiting Quirrell, and Wizet explained that he had studied composite magic and noticed a strange smell and an unsettling chill in Quirrell’s office.
• Wizet described the Chronic Curse and explained that he wanted to understand magic without judging it by how it could be used.
• Snape criticized Quirrell’s explanation of counter-curses, then invited Wizet to his office on Sunday afternoon for lessons.
• Snape reported to Dumbledore that Quirrell had taught Wizet step by step and agreed to teach him himself.

Dumbledore asked Quirrell to help protect a valuable item hidden in the fourth-floor restricted area and warned him to keep Wizet safe from dark magic. Quirrell resisted Voldemort’s plan to use Wizet as bait, then helped Wizet test his newly devised curse on a venomous snake.

• Dumbledore told Quirrell someone was targeting the item in the restricted area and asked him to prepare a protective measure before November.
• Dumbledore explained that Wizet was an Obscurial and asked Quirrell not to let dark magic corrupt him again.
• Quirrell told Voldemort about the item, and Voldemort ordered him to prepare a Halloween Eve incident involving a Troll.
• Quirrell refused to use Wizet as bait, but Voldemort taught him an ancient magic to create the accident and left him unconscious.
• Wizet visited Quirrell and tested his Chronic Curse-based spell on a venomous snake, causing its skin to ulcerate.
• Quirrell healed the snake and began teaching Wizet the Chronic Curse spell and its pronunciation.

Wizet learned to cast the Chronic Curse from Quirrell, discovering that his Obscurus amplified Dark Magic and stirred malicious thoughts. He then began practical ingredient-processing lessons with Snape, who put him to work handling dragon parts.

• Quirrell taught Wizet the Chronic Curse, and Wizet cast it on a venomous snake, reducing it to mucus.
• Wizet felt his Obscurus core throb and malicious thoughts surge after casting the curse, and Quirrell warned him that it enhanced Dark Magic.
• Quirrell advised Wizet to cast without imagining a specific scene, and Wizet weakened the curse while still badly injuring another venomous snake.
• Quirrell recommended Occlumency and discussed composite magic with Wizet.
• Wizet visited Snape's office, identified magical plants he could process, and entered the magical energy field.
• Snape taught Wizet how to maintain the field and ordered him to process dragon ingredients, criticizing his handling as he worked.

Wizet learned advanced potion-making techniques from Snape and invented a composite cleaning spell after struggling to remove dragon blood from his robes. He improved the spell with ancient magic, discovered it could cleanse the Obscurus core, and named it the Purification and Soul Cleansing Charm.

• Snape taught Wizet precise potion-making techniques while Wizet processed ingredients, then criticized him for failing to remove dragon blood from his robes.
• Wizet combined the Scouring Charm and the Scab-Removing Curse into the composite spell Tergeo-Scourgify and used it to clean his robes and the floor.
• Snape watched Wizet leave and murmured that his talent was terrifying.
• Wizet tried to tell Quirrell about his new spell, but Quirrell was absent, so he tested whether ancient magic could improve the composite spell.
• Wizet used the improved spell on his Obscurus core, drawing out black-red mist and easing his palpitations and malicious thoughts.
• Wizet realized the spell could purify the effects of Dark Magic and named it the Purification and Soul Cleansing Charm.

Wizet prepared for Hogwarts’s Halloween feast while reflecting on his studies and his classmates’ antics. After Ron admitted he had hurt Hermione and said she had vanished from classes, Wizet revealed that Hermione had spoken to him about Ron.

• Wizet sent Luna and Mr. Lovegood a letter about Halloween traditions and his hopes for an adventure to write about.
• Wizet attended Charms Class, where he mastered the Levitation Charm and earned ten points for Ravenclaw.
• Seamus accidentally set his feather on fire, while Hermione successfully cast the Levitation Charm after arguing with Ron.
• Ron asked Wizet whether he had seen Hermione, and admitted he had insulted her; Harry said she had cried and missed several classes.
• Wizet told Ron that Hermione had spoken to him about him, and Ron eagerly asked what she had said.

Wizet helped Ron realize he should apologize to Hermione, then joined Fred and George in their hidden workshop to advise them on making golden fireworks. Meanwhile, Voldemort forced Quirrell to cast a curse on the imprisoned Troll, leaving it convulsing violently.

• Wizet explained that Hermione cared about Ron and Harry, prompting Ron to regret cutting Hermione off and consider apologizing to her.
• Fred and George stopped Wizet, learned he was helping Snape process materials, and invited him to advise them on prank ingredients.
• Fred and George led Wizet through a concealed door to their workshop and showed him their firework materials.
• Wizet recommended adding Silk Tree Flower roots and Valerian juice to make the firework's gold color vivid and stable.
• Voldemort ordered Quirrell to open his soul and cast the Mania Silence Curse on the Troll in the dungeon, making it convulse violently.

At the Halloween feast, Ron and Harry learned Hermione was crying in a girls’ bathroom, but a Troll attack sent the students fleeing before they could reach her. Snape confronted Quirrell near the door to the school’s treasure, while Percy realized Ron, Harry, and Wizet were missing.

• Ron and Harry arrived late, and Percy learned they had been searching for Hermione; he told them she was crying in a girls’ bathroom.
• Quirrell burst into the Great Hall, warned that a Troll was in the underground classrooms, and collapsed.
• Dumbledore ordered the prefects to escort students to their common rooms and sent Snape to investigate; Percy noticed Ron and Harry were missing and Penelope said Wizet was missing too.
• Quirrell recovered and used a Disillusionment Charm to head for the fourth-floor corridor, hoping to carry out Voldemort’s order.
• Snape intercepted Quirrell at the corridor door, and Quirrell accused Snape of wanting the school’s treasure before casting Avis.

Snape and Quirrell fought after Quirrell’s magic exposed the Three-headed Dog, but Snape stopped short of killing him. When a Troll threatened Wizet downstairs, Quirrell warned that the child’s Obscurus might run wild, and Snape followed him to intervene.

• Snape dispelled Quirrell’s light birds, but Quirrell turned them into a fireball that broke through the door and released the Three-headed Dog.
• The Three-headed Dog wounded Snape, who blasted it back into its room and struck Quirrell with Sectumsempra, leaving him badly injured.
• Snape restrained Quirrell and questioned whether he was working for Voldemort, but held back from killing him because of the consequences.
• A crash and the boys’ voices revealed that a Troll was targeting Wizet, and Quirrell warned Snape that the child’s Obscurus might run wild.
• Snape freed Quirrell, who rushed downstairs without his wand, and then followed him.

Wizet, Fred, and George encountered a Troll in the Hogwarts corridors and used their improved fireworks to bring it down. The Troll recovered, targeted Wizet, and Wizet stopped its thrown club and hurled it back with Ancient Magic.

• Fred and George celebrated their experimental fireworks and added Wizet to their patent application.
• Wizet, Fred, and George found the Great Hall empty and heard Hermione, Ron, and Harry fleeing from a Troll.
• The Troll smashed through a wall, trapping Harry, Ron, and Hermione, then turned toward Wizet.
• Fred and George attacked the Troll with firework lions, and falling rubble pinned it down.
• Wizet pulled Fred out of the way when the Troll swung its club, then stopped the Troll's thrown club with Wingardium Leviosa.
• Wizet used Ancient Magic: Throwing Mastery to hurl the club back toward the Troll.

Wizet used the Chronic Curse to dissolve the Troll, then struggled against the Obscurus’s malice until Fred and George helped him regain his composure. The chapter left the students gathered in the Great Hall as Dumbledore and the professors arrived, with Penelope worried about Wizet.

• Wizet struck the Troll with a levitated wooden club, but the Troll rose again and charged at him.
• Fred and George tried spells and then leapt onto the Troll, but it threw them into a wall and they fell unconscious.
• Wizet cast the Chronic Curse, causing the Troll to dissolve into foul green slime, but the spell stirred the Obscurus and left him reeling.
• Fred and George caught Wizet and helped him steady himself; Wizet used meditation and a cleaning spell to dispel the slime and the Obscurus’s malice.
• Dumbledore entered the Great Hall, where Fred and George guarded bottles of slime, Hermione, Harry, and Ron faced the professors, and Penelope asked Wizet if he needed the hospital wing.

Dumbledore and McGonagall questioned the students after the Halloween Troll attack. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were given a Gryffindor points penalty, while Fred and George were dismissed after explaining their encounter with the Troll; they thanked Wizet for saving them.

• McGonagall reprimanded Harry, Ron, and Hermione for staying behind, and Harry hesitated to explain why they had gone to find Hermione.
• Hermione took the blame for the incident, but Ron admitted he had insulted her and said he and Harry had gone to apologize before they encountered the Troll.
• Hermione and Harry told McGonagall that Ron had protected them, and Dumbledore suggested leniency; McGonagall took thirty points from Gryffindor and sent Percy to escort them back.
• Dumbledore questioned Fred, George, and Wizet about facing the Troll, while Fred and George gave a flustered account of why they had been away from the Great Hall.
• Snape vouched for Wizet's Potions ability, and Dumbledore dismissed the group; Fred and George hurried away with bottles of green slime and thanked Wizet for saving their lives.