Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore parted the sea so the group could cross the reef, then explained to Wizet how Transfiguration involved understanding and struggling with the will of the thing being transformed. The group reached the dark crevice beneath the cliff, while Wizet gained new insights into advanced Transfiguration.

• Dumbledore used his wand to divide the waves into two walls of water and led the group down across the exposed reef.
• Wizet asked Dumbledore whether his magic counted as transforming the ocean, and Dumbledore described it as an effect of deeper self-understanding.
• Dumbledore and Wizet discussed how freedom, firm intent, and a binding purpose shaped Transfiguration.
• Wizet reasoned that transformed objects resisted the caster through their own will, and Dumbledore explained that he understood and followed the waves before transforming them.
• Wizet compared the process to Animagus transformation, and Dumbledore said transformation required self-knowledge and a strengthened will.
• Dumbledore led the group to the rock crevice, where they found only pitch-black darkness.

Wizet, Dumbledore, Harry, Sirius, Lupin, and Kreacher explored the hidden cave where Voldemort had brought Regulus Black. Dumbledore revealed a concealed doorway, and Wizet asked the group to pause as Kreacher prepared to cut his arm.

• Wizet discussed Transfiguration and Reparo with Dumbledore as the group entered the cave.
• Kreacher recognized the stairs leading to the hall where Voldemort had cut his arm.
• Wizet sensed that the cave resembled another place and asked Dumbledore to let him search for other exits.
• Dumbledore found the concealed doorway with a burst of icy white light, while Harry, Sirius, and Lupin discussed ways to detect hidden magic.
• Kreacher began preparing to cut his arm, but Wizet asked everyone to wait.

Wizet discovered a hidden stone chamber belonging to Zygmunt Budge and found his magically protected notebook. Reading its early entries, he learned that Budge had begun studying potions as a child and recognized an ancient laughing potion as a prototype for the recipe in Book of Potions.

• Wizet followed the Ancient Magic Power in the hall and opened a concealed bronze door to a stone chamber.
• He found that Hairy Crabs had destroyed the chamber’s books, though enchanted bottles and jars and their potion ingredients remained intact.
• Wizet uncovered a protected notebook signed by Zygmunt Budge and identified him as the author of Book of Potions.
• Wizet opened the notebook with Ancient Magic Power and read Budge’s account of brewing an ancient potion that made people laugh nonstop.
• Wizet read that Budge had deciphered a beauty potion recipe before starting Hogwarts and reflected on how Budge’s work had helped him.

Wizet read the final pages of Zygmunt Budge’s notebook and learned that a Potioneer’s emotions and intent shaped the effects of potions. The notebook offered no direct way to avoid Voldemort’s trap, but it revealed Budge’s unfinished theory for a future Guardian.

• Zygmunt Budge recorded how he angered students and professors at Hogwarts before dropping out at fourteen to pursue potion research on Hermetray Island.
• Wizet read Budge’s account of brewing the Laughing Potion and suspected that Budge had introduced uncontrollable laughter as an ingredient.
• Wizet searched the notebook’s final section for clues to avoid Voldemort’s trap and found Budge’s message to a future Guardian.
• Zygmunt Budge explained that brewing a Laughing Potion, Doxy Venom Antidote, or Sleeping Draught required the Potioneer to adopt the right emotional state.
• Zygmunt Budge concluded that ingredients and procedures only created the conditions for a potion, while the Potioneer’s understanding and intent controlled the result.

Wizet understood Zygmunt Budge’s theory that a potion-maker could use the power of the soul to improve potions, then discovered Budge’s Great Potion Lake and brought Dumbledore and the others there. Kreacher recognized the lake as the place where Regulus had been left.

• Wizet concluded that Budge’s potion theory involved using a wizard’s soul and knowledge to guide a potion toward its intended effect.
• Wizet read Budge’s note about using his body and soul as potion ingredients and found a sketch of the Great Potion Lake.
• Wizet discovered the vast lake and hurried to tell Dumbledore before Kreacher could cut open his arm.
• Wizet asked Kreacher to confirm whether the lake was the place Voldemort had taken him.
• Kreacher recognized the lake, pointed toward its green-lit center, and said that Master Regulus was there.

Harry, Sirius, Lupin, and Dumbledore explored the eerie Cave Lake, where Sirius recognized an Auror among the Inferi and recalled the victims of Voldemort’s violence. They found Voldemort’s sunken boat and learned it was a safe route across the lake, leaving Harry wondering whether they needed Polyjuice Potion to use it.

• Lupin noticed that the lake suppressed their Illumination Spells, and Sirius recognized an Auror named Andy Jones among the lifelike Inferi.
• Sirius and Lupin told Harry that Voldemort had killed Andy Jones and his family, and Harry began to understand the suffering behind his titles.
• Kreacher noticed that the boat had disappeared, and Dumbledore reasoned that Voldemort had sunk it after Regulus Black’s sacrifice.
• Wizet used Magic Eye to spot an invisible chain, and Dumbledore summoned it and pulled the glowing boat onto shore.
• Dumbledore explained that the boat served as Voldemort’s safe route to the stone basin, and Harry asked whether they would need Polyjuice Potion to use it.

Harry, Dumbledore, Wizet, Sirius Black, Lupin, and Kreacher tried to cross a magically restricted lake to reach its glowing island. Wizet and Dumbledore could not ride the same boat, and the chapter ended with them investigating emerald liquid that appeared to be part of a magical contract.

• Harry laughed when Sirius Black and Lupin joked that Voldemort had already been bald, easing the tension before the group planned their crossing.
• Kreacher confirmed he could carry two people across the lake but could not cross with three, so Dumbledore proposed testing the boat with Wizet.
• Dumbledore and Wizet's boat would not move, but it sailed when Sirius Black took Wizet's place, leading Harry and Lupin to suspect Wizet's magical power was too strong for the boat.
• Wizet used Scarpin's Revelaspell to analyze the lake water and found unknown ingredients that might include Zygmunt Budge's body and soul.
• Wizet and Kreacher reached the island, where Dumbledore and Sirius Black examined an emerald liquid in a stone basin that resisted common spells.
• Dumbledore scooped up the liquid with a conjured goblet, and he and Wizet concluded it was likely a magical contract before Wizet cast Scarpin's Revelaspell on it.

Wizet and Dumbledore discovered that the lake water was a potion designed to preserve the souls of the dead, and deduced the terms of Voldemort’s magical contract. Dumbledore realized he had to drink the stone basin dry and endure the despair the Inferi felt before death, leaving Wizet and the others preparing for the danger.

• Harry followed Kreacher to the island and practiced dueling with Sirius while Wizet examined the lake water.
• Wizet identified the lake water as a potion that preserved souls to keep them from leaving, and judged it harmless to the living.
• Dumbledore deduced that Voldemort’s contract required the drinker to consume all the water in the stone basin and endure the Inferi’s despair before death.
• Wizet realized the contract had formed as soon as Dumbledore scooped up the water, while Sirius and Harry asked whether they could share or take Dumbledore’s burden.
• Wizet concluded that Dumbledore would need to resist the malice carried by the despair, then gripped his wand as Dumbledore urged everyone to stay calm.

Wizet and Dumbledore purified the emerald potion, allowing Dumbledore to retrieve Regulus's locket and note from the basin. The note revealed Regulus had taken and planned to destroy Voldemort's real Horcrux, and the island began to tremble.

• Wizet used Ancient Magic to envelop Dumbledore in a vortex after he drank the emerald potion.
• Dumbledore drank eleven goblets of potion while Harry, Sirius, and Lupin waited anxiously.
• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort's strengthened malice had made Wizet's purification magic more effective.
• Kreacher noticed Regulus's locket at the bottom of the basin, and Dumbledore handed it and the note to Sirius.
• Sirius read Regulus's message revealing he had discovered Voldemort's secret and taken the real Horcrux to destroy it.
• Kreacher fell to his knees, overwhelmed with relief, as the island began to tremble and waves spread across the lake.

Harry, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin fought off waves of Inferi as Wizet freed the despairing souls trapped within them using Ancient Magic and blue flames. With the Inferi held back, Dumbledore sent Sirius Black and Kreacher to search the lake for Regulus Black.

• Harry, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin attacked the Inferi, but more quickly surrounded the island.
• Wizet bound the Inferi with Devil's Snare and revealed the memories of Voldemort's torment within them.
• Wizet cast Protego Diabolica, burning the Inferi and the fragments of despairing memories to ash.
• Wizet repeated the cleansing process, and Dumbledore eventually told him to rest.
• Dumbledore raised a ring of warm red fire to hold back the Inferi and asked Sirius Black to search the lake for Regulus Black.
• Sirius Black realized Regulus might not have become an Inferius, and Kreacher hurried to the island's edge to look into the lake.

Wizet planned to use Regulus Black’s locket and the lake water to preserve Regulus’s soul in a protected container, giving Sirius Black and Kreacher a chance to speak with him. As Sirius, Remus Lupin, and Harry retrieved Regulus, Wizet explained the risks and connected his plan to Zygmunt Budge’s research into the lake.

• Dumbledore explained that Voldemort’s magic, rather than the lake water itself, had turned the Inferi’s despair into a source of malice, and Sirius realized Regulus had been dragged into the lake afterward.
• Dumbledore’s ring of fire suppressed the Inferi and illuminated the lakebed, allowing Sirius and Kreacher to find Regulus.
• Wizet borrowed Regulus’s locket and instructed Sirius to keep Regulus underwater until Wizet opened it, then lift him out quickly into a protected container of lake water.
• Kreacher vanished to prepare a transparent, magically protected container, while Sirius, Remus, and Harry entered the lake with Bubble-Head Charms to retrieve Regulus.
• Wizet told Dumbledore that he hoped to preserve Regulus’s soul in a Spirit-Calling Casket, and explained that Regulus’s soul would leave the world if removed from the lake water.
• Wizet revealed that Zygmunt Budge had created the lake as a residence where he could remain until he was sure he would not be imprisoned after leaving the world.

Wizet opened Regulus Black’s locket while Sirius Black and the others raised Regulus’s body from the lake, revealing a soul being pulled toward a black vortex. Dumbledore destroyed the vortex with a powerful, unseen force, and the chapter ended with the danger apparently gone.

• Kreacher brought a magically protected crystal jar, and Dumbledore approved it for holding lake water.
• Wizet warned Dumbledore that a vortex might appear and explained that he could mark it with fire.
• Wizet opened the Spirit-Calling Casket locket as Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Harry pushed Regulus Black’s body above the lake.
• A glow gathered around Regulus Black and drifted toward a black vortex, so Wizet halted it briefly and marked the vortex with a ball of fire.
• Dumbledore extinguished the cave’s ring of fire and unleashed an immense force at the marked spot, making the vortex vanish.

Wizet and Dumbledore recovered Regulus Black’s soul from the locket and placed it in a crystal jar, where Regulus awoke. After learning how he had been rescued and what had happened since his death, Regulus warned that Voldemort had multiple hidden weapons and asked where Barty Crouch Jr. was.

• Wizet sealed Regulus Black’s soul inside the crystal jar, and Dumbledore said Regulus would need time to wake.
• Sirius and the others reached the island’s shore and brought Regulus’s body out of the lake.
• Regulus awoke in the jar, recognized Sirius and Kreacher, and wondered whether they had died too.
• Dumbledore, Sirius, and Kreacher explained how Wizet had revived Regulus and what had happened since his death.
• Regulus said Voldemort had more than one hidden weapon and asked where Barty Crouch Jr. was.

Regulus Black told Dumbledore and Wizet that Barty Crouch Jr. had been an ambitious, devoted Death Eater who admired Voldemort and welcomed his violent schemes. After Regulus vanished to rest, Wizet and Dumbledore stayed at the lake to purify the Inferi, and Wizet discovered that the cleansed souls remained as glowing orbs.

• Regulus Black recalled that Barty Crouch Jr. had sought information about his mission and had spoken admiringly of Voldemort while helping plan an ambush against Aurors with Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Regulus Black explained that he had tried to warn Barty Crouch Jr. about Voldemort and the Death Eaters’ cruelty, but Barty had dismissed his concerns and argued with him.
• Regulus Black vanished, and Wizet told Sirius that Regulus would appear again, though the timing and duration were uncertain.
• Kreacher took Regulus Black’s body and then Sirius and the crystal jar away from the island, while Dumbledore stayed behind to help Wizet.
• Wizet used Ancient Magic: Purification and Soul Cleansing Charm on the Inferi as Dumbledore lifted them from the lake, and the cleansed souls gathered into hovering orbs of light.

After freeing the Inferi in the Great Potion Lake, Wizet received a Hope Seed formed from the victims’ blessings, while Dumbledore discussed Voldemort’s possible plans for the All-England Wizarding Duelling Tournament finals. They left with Wizet set to compete as usual and Dumbledore planning to investigate Barty Crouch Jr. and seek information from Lucius Malfoy.

• The freed Inferi’s starlight gathered around Wizet, and Dumbledore suggested using a vessel capable of carrying souls.
• Wizet opened Slytherin's Locket with Parseltongue, and the starlight entered it and formed a seed-like object.
• Dumbledore called the object a Hope Seed and urged Wizet to accept it as a gift from those he had freed.
• Dumbledore warned that Voldemort might cause an incident during the tournament finals and explained his fondness for spectacle and meaningful occasions.
• Wizet and Dumbledore discussed investigating the Cup, Barty Crouch Jr., and Lucius Malfoy; Dumbledore said he would handle Crouch Jr. and told Wizet to compete as usual.

Wizet watched the seed-like thing escape Slytherin's Locket and sprout in the garden, where Frigg protected it from the Gnomes. The seedling began moving toward Wizet's broken wands, while Luna and Wizet wondered about its need for hope.

• Kreacher thanked Wizet for helping the Black Family and eagerly agreed to prepare Luna's favorite dishes.
• Wizet noticed Slytherin's Locket trembling, opened it, and watched the seed-like thing fly into the house.
• Wizet found Luna, Frigg, and the Gnomes gathered around a new seedling in the garden.
• Frigg stopped the Gnomes from trampling the seedling, and Wizet used Transfiguration to keep one from crashing into it.
• Luna sensed the seedling's fear, and Wizet saw it moving toward the broken wands in the garden.

Wizet and Luna transplanted the newly sprouted magical seedling among the broken wands before joining Xenophilius for lunch. The chapter then turned to the crowded All-England Wizarding Duelling Tournament final, where Wizet worried Voldemort could exploit the large audience to cause chaos.

• Luna lost her balance and fell into Wizet's arms, but Dobby appeared and helped them both back to their feet.
• Wizet examined the seedling and helped Luna transplant it among the broken wands, where it began glowing steadily.
• Xenophilius came out to find Wizet and Luna planting the seedling and called them inside for lunch.
• The approaching Quidditch World Cup final drew many visitors to England, and the duelling tournament organisers expanded and redecorated the arena for the crowds.
• Wizet worried that Voldemort could take advantage of the packed tournament to create chaos.

Wizet and Viktor began the All-England Wizarding Duelling Tournament final with matching Severing Charms, then escalated into a clash of refined magic. After Viktor split his own spell into smaller blades, Wizet used an Apparition technique to approach, but Viktor slowed his movement and appeared to counter it.

• Wizet entered the packed arena for the final, where crowds cheered for him and Viktor, the Silver Blade Dancer.
• Viktor sliced part of the commentator’s booth with a Severing Charm after the commentator used his disliked nickname.
• Wizet and Viktor cast Severing Charms at the same time, and both spells missed and struck the magical barrier, forcing referees to reinforce it.
• Wizet cast Ancient Magic: Improved Severing Charm, while Viktor altered his own Severing Charm into a swarm of smaller blades.
• Wizet dodged the blades with an Apparition technique and moved toward Viktor, but his movement suddenly slowed as Viktor countered the technique.

Wizet fought “Viktor” with Transfiguration and powerful Severing Charms, while his opponent countered with soul magic and close-range attacks. Wizet realized “Viktor” was Snape, who urged him to focus on the duel.

• Wizet used Magic Eye to locate “Viktor” and transformed the smoke and dust into stone spikes, but “Viktor” severed their connection to Wizet, turning them back into dust.
• “Viktor” charged through Wizet’s defenses with a Severing Charm, while Wizet blocked the slash and transformed the surrounding environment into stone pillars and spikes.
• “Viktor” cut down the spikes and transformed their fragments and dust into a black python, but Wizet used an improved Severing Charm to split it apart and attack with Sectumsempra.
• “Viktor” deflected the Sectumsempra, which tore into the barrier protecting the spectators, forcing the referees to repair it.
• Wizet recognized “Viktor” as Snape, and Snape told him to get serious and remember that they were still fighting.

Wizet and Snape fought at close range in an increasingly destructive duel, with Snape using his soul-related abilities to anticipate and counter Wizet’s spells. Wizet finally turned the exchange in his favor by forcing Snape to retreat and catching his robes in a ring of fire.

• Wizet and Snape traded rapid spells, while the referees struggled to repair the damaged magical barrier and platform.
• The commentator and audience watched as both duelists anticipated attacks and used curses that tore up the arena.
• Wizet realized Snape was exploiting his advantage in exploring souls and prepared to rely on his own strength.
• Wizet used an Ancient Magic: Instant Shield to cancel Snape’s eerie green flames, then followed with an Incendio that Snape dodged.
• Wizet spread a ring of fire around himself, forcing Snape to retreat and cut away the burning hem of his robe with a Severing Charm.