Chapter Summaries

Wizet and Dumbledore pieced together that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and that he had likely escaped Hogwarts after Crookshanks found Neville’s password list. The chapter ended with Harry realizing they needed to find Sirius Black to learn what happened with the Fidelius Charm.

• Lupin enlarged the Daily Prophet photograph and recognized that the rat had a missing finger, suggesting Peter Pettigrew had survived.
• Wizet revealed the Marauder’s Map and used a Tracking Charm, but it showed that Peter Pettigrew was not at Hogwarts.
• Luna and Harry recalled that Crookshanks had attacked Scabbers and that Scabbers disappeared after Ron found Crookshanks’ fur and blood on a bedsheet.
• Wizet and Luna connected Scabbers’s disappearance to Crookshanks finding Neville’s password list, and they suspected Pettigrew had fled after learning he was exposed.
• Dumbledore asked Lupin to question Ron about Scabbers, while Harry admitted that he had overheard the professors discussing Sirius Black.
• Harry concluded that they needed to find Sirius Black and ask him what had happened.

Dumbledore and the others discussed the evidence that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and planned how to locate him and Sirius Black without sending the wrong man to the Dementors. They agreed to search on two fronts, while Crookshanks indicated that he did not know where Sirius Black was.

• Ron defended Scabbers as an ordinary, long-lived pet, while Hermione pointed out that rats usually lived only three or four years and Crookshanks seemed to agree.
• Dumbledore reassured Ron that Scabbers’s identity remained speculation until they found him and asked Ron to bring Scabbers to him if he returned; Ron agreed.
• Wizet explained that he could use the Marauder’s Map around the next full moon to locate Sirius Black and, because Peter Pettigrew had helped make the map, locate Pettigrew too.
• Lupin realized that Wizet’s deductions and his own confession might prevent Sirius Black from being handed to the Ministry’s Dementors before he could clear his name.
• Dumbledore proposed preparing on two fronts and considered using Crookshanks’s Kneazle blood to help find Sirius Black; Crookshanks indicated that he did not know where Black was.

Hermione, Ron, and Harry discussed helping Sirius Black and the possibility that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew, leaving Harry hopeful that Sirius might become part of his life. At Hogwarts, Wizet explained Trelawney’s prophecy to Dumbledore, and they concluded that Peter Pettigrew would likely return to Hogwarts.

• Hermione praised Crookshanks for carrying a note with the password to Sirius, while Ron pointed out that Crookshanks seemed more attached to Luna.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron considered whether Sirius had been framed and whether Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew; Ron said he was prepared to lose Scabbers if he was only a rat.
• Ron and Hermione suggested Sirius might have come to Hogwarts to protect Harry, making Harry hope he could live with his godfather.
• Wizet told Dumbledore that Trelawney’s prophecy might concern Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew, and explained how its clues matched Pettigrew’s actions.
• Dumbledore agreed that Peter Pettigrew was likely seeking Voldemort but concluded that Pettigrew’s next stop would still be Hogwarts.

Wizet and Dumbledore discussed how to shape Trelawney’s prophecy by capturing Peter Pettigrew and finding another Death Eater to take his place. Dumbledore agreed to seek a suitable candidate and mentioned that a Uagadou academic delegation would soon visit Hogwarts.

• Wizet asked whether a genuine prophecy was bound to come true, and Dumbledore said it would.
• Wizet planned to capture Peter Pettigrew if he returned, both to punish him and to clear Sirius Black’s name.
• Wizet explained that he wanted to choose how Voldemort’s return unfolded by finding a Death Eater to replace Pettigrew in the prophecy.
• Dumbledore told Wizet that Bellatrix Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, and Rodolphus Lestrange were imprisoned in Azkaban after torturing the Longbottoms into insanity.
• Wizet asked whether the Soul Healing Technique could help the Longbottoms, and Dumbledore said its approval was still under review.
• Dumbledore agreed to help find a suitable Death Eater and told Wizet that a Uagadou academic exchange delegation would likely arrive at Hogwarts in a few days.

Hogwarts welcomed the Uagadou delegation for an academic exchange, drawing students’ attention to the school’s wandless magic and unusual traditions. Headmaster Kamba told Wizet that the visit had been arranged mainly because of him and asked whether he knew the secret of the Animagus Second Form.

• Hogwarts students learned about Uagadou and gathered in the Great Hall to discuss the visiting school.
• Lee Jordan described Uagadou’s wandless magic, and Harry speculated that it helped explain their Animagus transformations.
• Harry noticed Wizet leaving as Dumbledore and the professors went to meet the delegation.
• Students watched Uagadou’s delegation arrive on a flying carpet, with several members transforming from birds of prey before landing.
• Dumbledore introduced Headmaster Kamba and the visiting wizards to Wizet.
• Headmaster Kamba told Wizet that the exchange was mainly arranged because of him and asked whether he knew the secret of the Animagus Second Form.

Uagadou’s professors arrived at Hogwarts and impressed the students with a procession of Animagus forms, while Wizet observed how magical ornaments enabled a second form. In Dumbledore’s office, Headmaster Kamba told Wizet that his Animagus research had given Uagadou an opportunity to advance, and Wizet suspected it involved the Otherworld.

• Dumbledore invited Headmaster Kamba and the Uagadou professors to the Great Hall, where several professors transformed into animals for their welcome.
• Wizet used his Magic Eye to observe the professors’ transformations and saw magical threads connect one professor’s ornament to his body.
• Hagrid opened the Great Hall doors, and the Uagadou professors entered in animal forms, delighting the students before changing back.
• Dumbledore introduced the guests and explained the exchange program’s lectures, demonstrations, and discussion sessions.
• Wizet joined Dumbledore and the others in the Headmaster’s Office, where Kamba recalled Hogwarts’ changes and criticized Phineas Nigellus Black’s resistance to them.
• Kamba told Wizet that his Animagus research offered Uagadou an opportunity to advance, and Wizet asked whether it was because of the Otherworld.

Headmaster Kamba explained that a magical contract kept the secret of Animagus Second Form hidden and hindered research, but Wizet’s discoveries in the Otherworld had begun to loosen it. Kamba asked Wizet to help perfect a potion that might break the contract, leaving Dumbledore to wonder whether Gellert and the Guardian had intended this outcome.

• Headmaster Kamba told Wizet and Dumbledore that the magical contract combined the secrecy of the Fidelius Charm with the binding force of an Unbreakable Vow.
• Kamba explained that Wizet’s visit to the Otherworld had loosened the contract, though African wizards could neither break it alone nor ask outsiders for help.
• Wizet showed Kamba his potion formula for Animagus Second Form, and Kamba noted that it was too complicated for most potioneers.
• Kamba said African wizards would share every secret about Animagus Second Form with Wizet so he could help perfect the formula and potentially break the contract.
• Kamba and Dumbledore ended their discussion for the night, and Dumbledore wondered whether Gellert and the Guardian had planned for Wizet to break the deadlock.

Wizet attended Uagadou’s Gesture Casting lecture and learned how magical tattoos and gestures let African wizards cast spells without wands. He and Snape identified the method’s limits, including its reliance on tattoos and the constraints of the tattooing process, and Snape explained why African wizards had adopted wands.

• A Uagadou professor explained that Gesture Casting was a core subject and demonstrated the magical tattoos covering his body.
• The professor used gestures to awaken a tattoo and channel a torrent of flame from his hand.
• Snape asked Wizet to compare the tattoos to Bloodline Magic, and Wizet noted that both stored magical abilities in the body.
• Wizet reasoned that the number and nature of magical tattoos limited the spells their wearer could cast and their strength.
• Snape argued that these restrictions left traditional Gesture Casting unable to match wand magic, which was why African wizards had adopted wands.

Wizet learned why African wizards sought an exchange with Hogwarts and studied how Babajide Akingbade used a Soul Stone in Animagus Second Form jewelry. The chapter left Wizet with a clearer understanding of Soul Stones as links between jewelry, body, and soul.

• Snape told Wizet that African wizards had come to Hogwarts because they feared he would uncover their hidden secrets and recognized his influence.
• Wizet told Snape that Kamba had promised to share the secret of the Animagus Second Form so Wizet could refine its potion, and Snape judged the arrangement safe.
• Wizet reflected on how gesture magic and magical tattoos could broaden his understanding of bloodline magic.
• Wizet led Babajide Akingbade to a secluded pond and identified the ritual ores used to make a Soul Stone.
• Babajide explained that Soul Stones let jewelry communicate with a wizard's soul and strengthen the body-soul connection in magical tattoos.

Wizet observed Babajide Akingbade’s African Ritual Magic and learned how he prepared a Soul Stone. Later, Snape helped Wizet conclude that magical tattoos harm the soul, leaving him with new ideas for studying the Wolfsbane Potion.

• Babajide Akingbade demonstrated how African wizards used forceful dance steps to place ritual materials and focus their magic.
• Babajide explained how baobab materials and moonlight were used to prepare a Soul Stone, and said the site should be kept free of humans.
• Wizet brought Snape his research on magical tattoos, which he suspected harmed the soul and resembled a composite potion.
• Snape explained that emotion served as the ink that made magical tattoos endure, while the soul’s injury limited tattooed wizards to magic derived from those tattoos.
• Wizet connected the damage to the soul and spirit with the limits of gesture magic and gained new ideas for analyzing the Wolfsbane Potion.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione prepared to attend Wizet’s full-moon potion demonstration while hoping to learn more about Sirius Black. When Sirius’s name appeared on the expanded Marauder’s Map, Lupin suspected he had found Peter Pettigrew’s trail and rushed to follow him, with Harry, Ron, and Hermione joining the pursuit.

• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed Wizet’s full-moon demonstration and planned to ask about Sirius Black afterward.
• Ron showed Harry and Hermione a protective Soul Stone charm that Wizet had given him for Scabbers.
• Lupin watched the Marauder’s Map as it expanded to reveal Sirius Black moving from Hogsmeade toward the Forbidden Forest.
• Lupin suspected Sirius had found Peter Pettigrew’s trail and hurried out to follow him.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione caught up with Lupin, and Harry and Ron insisted on going with him.

Wizet helped Neville use the Confundus Charm to calm his nerves before a public potion-brewing demonstration, and discovered a strange magical pattern on Neville’s soul. They arrived at the crowded demonstration site, where Neville mistook Cornelius Fudge for a spotted pumpkin.

• Neville worried that he would be unable to demonstrate the potion in front of a crowd, so Wizet suggested using the Confundus Charm to ease his anxiety.
• Neville cast Confundo on himself and felt relaxed after everyone appeared to be plants.
• Wizet looked at Neville through a Soul Stone lens and saw a glowing pattern like a soul tattoo that seemed to help him cast the Confundus Charm.
• Wizet and Neville went to the grass, where Hogwarts and Uagadou professors, reporters, and Ministry officials had gathered.
• Neville pointed out Cornelius Fudge and asked Wizet who the lopsided pumpkin with green spots was.

Wizet arrived at the Uagadou gathering, where Cornelius Fudge praised him and the Ministry before Headmaster Kamba interrupted and led everyone to the potion demonstration. As Wizet and Neville prepared the Animagus Second Form potion, Kamba speculated about Dumbledore’s absence and offered to help with the matter of Sirius Black.

• Cornelius Fudge welcomed Wizet, praised his Five-Star Medal, and touted the Ministry’s support for Hogwarts and the exchange with Uagadou.
• Headmaster Kamba stopped Fudge’s speech and brought Wizet and Neville to make preparations for the demonstration.
• Luna told Wizet that the atmosphere had bothered him, and Kamba guessed Dumbledore was absent because of Fudge’s order to have Sirius Black Kissed if captured.
• Kamba offered to testify or help Wizet, who chose to begin brewing the Animagus Second Form potion first.
• Wizet explained that he had simplified the potion using ideas from Polyjuice Potion, while Kamba praised the use of local ingredients such as oak resin and Soul Stone.

Wizet explained how River Lethe water changed a Soul Stone’s form without affecting its ability to communicate with souls, while Neville brewed the Animagus Second Form potion. The potion was ready, and Headmaster Kamba asked Wizet to demonstrate the crucial next step.

• Neville ground Moonstone and began preparing the potion as Snape deducted ten points from Gryffindor.
• Wizet explained how River Lethe water helped process a Soul Stone while preserving its magical property, earning approval from Headmaster Kamba and the gathered professors.
• Neville added the Soul Stone mixture and other ingredients to the cauldron, repeatedly reciting the Animagus incantation as the potion changed colors.
• Neville bottled the finished potion, and Headmaster Kamba asked Wizet to proceed to the most crucial step.

Wizet explained how a pet’s bond with its owner enabled an Animagus Second Form, then demonstrated the transformation for the Uagadou professors. As the professors displayed their new forms, a vast, Dementor-like shadow appeared in the distant sky.

• Wizet explained that a pet’s belongings and a strand of the wizard’s hair were needed to brew the potion, and that a lifelong bond with a pet revealed another side of the wizard’s soul.
• Wizet prepared the potion and warned that the transformation would bring a second heartbeat and brief pain but no animal instincts.
• Wizet drank the potion, transformed into his bronze-feathered owl form, flew into the sky, and returned to human form.
• McGonagall realized Wizet appeared to have three Animagus forms and wondered why he had to be a Ravenclaw.
• The Uagadou professors completed their Animagus Second Forms, and a vast shadow resembling Dementors appeared in the distant sky, alarming Fudge and the students.

Dementors reappeared at Hogwarts despite the Ministry’s patrol arrangements, and Wizet suspected they were connected to Voldemort. As the Dementors were driven away, a werewolf emerged, but the professors quickly trapped it, leaving Wizet and Luna reassured by their protection.

• Cornelius Fudge questioned Dolores Umbridge about why Dementors had appeared on the patrol route, while Anthony Goldstein and Terry Boot speculated about Fudge’s apparent surprise.
• Wizet suspected Voldemort might have formed a connection with the Dementors and flew to Fudge to investigate.
• A stag Patronus and Dumbledore’s phoenix Patronus drove the Dementors away, and Wizet pointed out that Fudge recognized the phoenix.
• Snape reacted to a howl by identifying a werewolf, while Wizet and Luna believed it was not the person they had in mind.
• The werewolf charged toward the gathered students, but the Hogwarts professors trapped it in a net and a cage of grass.

Wizet and Snape severed the werewolf’s limbs, while Cornelius Fudge demanded an explanation for the Dementors and werewolves at Hogwarts. Earlier, Lupin and the children found Sirius Black with Scabbers, but their attempts to reveal Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew failed before a mysterious voice stopped them from leaving.

• Wizet and Snape used Sectumsempra to tear through the barriers and sever the werewolf’s limbs, while its wounds began to regrow.
• Lupin tracked Sirius Black into the Forbidden Forest, where Harry recognized him as the large black dog.
• Sirius transformed into human form and insisted that Ron’s rat, Scabbers, was Peter Pettigrew, but the Marauder’s Map showed no sign of Pettigrew.
• Lupin and Sirius tried spells to reveal Scabbers’s true form, but the rat remained unchanged.
• Lupin proposed taking Sirius to Dumbledore, but a gloomy voice warned that they would not get the chance to leave.

Sirius Black stunned a man who exposed Lupin as a werewolf, then the group discovered that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew and captured him. Lupin collapsed and began transforming under the full moon as Dementors swarmed the forest, leaving Harry, Sirius, Hermione, and Ron in danger.

• A bearded man revealed Lupin’s werewolf identity, and Sirius Black stunned him before he disappeared into the shadows.
• Lupin and Sirius Black used the Marauder’s Map to realize Scabbers had no name on it and might have contacted Voldemort.
• Scabbers transformed into Peter Pettigrew, but Lupin collapsed and Harry disarmed Pettigrew before Sirius stunned him.
• Hermione warned that the full moon would make Lupin transform, and his body began growing fur and claws.
• Harry recognized the cold as a sign of Dementors, and Hermione’s light revealed them swarming among the trees.

Harry and his friends faced a swarm of Dementors while Lupin lay unconscious, and Harry struggled to cast a corporeal Patronus before they could kiss Sirius Black. Harry’s determination to save his godfather produced a glowing stag Patronus that drove back the darkness.

• Hermione explained Lycanthropy and the Wolfsbane Potion as Dementors passed over the unconscious Lupin and closed in on Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
• Sirius Black supported Harry as the Dementors’ presence overwhelmed him with painful memories, then used the Marauder’s Map to spot three approaching werewolves.
• Dementors surrounded the group and attacked Sirius Black, while Hermione urged Harry to use the Patronus Charm.
• Harry cast the Patronus Charm twice, producing silver mist and then a stronger shield that still failed to become corporeal.
• Harry recalled Wizet’s advice and focused on his determination to keep Sirius Black with him.
• Harry cast Expecto Patronum and conjured a glowing stag whose silver light illuminated the forest.

Harry's stag Patronus helped him and his friends survive an attack by Dementors and werewolves until Dumbledore arrived. Sirius reunited with Dumbledore, but before Sirius could explain his role in James and Lily's deaths, Dumbledore proposed they return to Hogwarts and tell Minister Fudge what had happened.

• Harry conjured a stag Patronus that drove back the Dementors, and Sirius recognized it as James Potter's Animagus form, Prongs.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione fought off werewolves as Dementors attacked from above, while Sirius's black dog form tackled one of the creatures.
• Two crimson birds burned two werewolves, and Dumbledore arrived with a phoenix Patronus that drove away the Dementors.
• Sirius reunited with Dumbledore and admitted he believed he was responsible for James and Lily's deaths.
• Dumbledore noticed a message in his bookmark and suggested they return to Hogwarts to explain the matter to Minister Fudge before Sirius could answer Harry's questions.