Chapter Summaries

Wizet deduced that Dumbledore’s selection test was designed to let students experience a safer version of the Triwizard Tournament. After Fred and George failed a challenge involving Devil’s Snare and longswords, Wizet helped them identify the household magic they needed to practice.

• Wizet explained that Dumbledore likely intended the selection test to examine students’ wisdom, magical ability, and courage.
• Fred and George revealed that a magical doorknob asked specific questions about the Triwizard Tournament and let them enter after they answered correctly.
• Fred and George admitted they had failed a challenge where they faced Devil’s Snare without magic and had to fight it with longswords.
• Fred and George privately asked Wizet for books on household magic because they feared being made to knit sweaters.
• Wizet recognized the challenge and recommended Practical Household Magic, pointing them to page ninety-six.

Wizet helped Neville find books about Muggle swordsmanship and watched students face a fear test during the selection assessment. Inside the classroom, Wizet discovered a Ritual Magic array that used Voldemort's bloodline magic to draw out fear.

• Fred and George went to the library to find a book for the selection assessment, and Wizet suggested several Restricted Section books about Muggle swordsmanship and survival.
• Neville said that Professor Moody's fighting style had inspired him to seek a practical way of fighting that suited him.
• Michael answered the doorknob's question correctly, entered the classroom, and fled after encountering a horde of bloody, brainless frogs.
• Harry entered after answering a question about the Triwizard Tournament and emerged shaken after facing Killing Curses and hearing his mother scream.
• Wizet answered a question about the 1792 Triwizard Tournament, entered the classroom, and recognized a Ritual Magic array as a method of using Voldemort's bloodline magic to draw out fear.

Wizet analyzed the classroom’s unstable alchemical array, then entered its selection exam and passed the fear test because the potion could not bypass the protection around his soul. He found himself in a memory of Dumbledore’s youth, where the magical ability test began.

• Wizet concluded that Dumbledore’s classroom array used fear and memories to create personalized tests and help students escape when they could no longer endure them.
• Wizet put on the helmet and discovered that the fear potion could not overcome the protection around his soul.
• Wizet defeated a Forest Troll with Sectumsempra and was transported to another test.
• Dumbledore told Wizet he had to find his own way out of the memory to pass the test.
• Young Albus Dumbledore appeared and cast Expecto Patronum.

Young Dumbledore tested how corporeal Patronuses attacked a trapped Dementor, while Wizet examined the magic behind their animal-like behavior. Wizet understood how the Patronus Charm could carry out other spells, but remained intent on finding why each Patronus attacked according to its form.

• Young Dumbledore used a phoenix Patronus to attack a Dementor trapped inside a magical energy field.
• Young Dumbledore repeatedly changed his Patronus's form, sending a reindeer, bear, cat, horse, dolphin, wolf, and other animals to attack the Dementor.
• The Dementor stopped searching for an escape and curled up in a corner as the different Patronuses attacked it.
• Wizet reasoned that a Patronus could carry out a wizard's protective will and inferred that Dumbledore's war magic made Patronuses perform other spells, deliver messages, and transport objects.
• Wizet considered the Patronus's animal-like attacks and began looking at the question from the perspective of an Animagus.

Wizet realized that magic could capture the marks left by souls and the world, and used that insight to make his Phoenix Patronus absorb him. He used the phoenix’s innate magic to escape the memory, though the trial continued as the scene began to change.

• Wizet studied the footprints, ripples, and trembling branches and realized that everything in the world left marks that magic could capture.
• Wizet used Extract Memory to draw out his Phoenix Patronus.
• Wizet extracted another silvery thread from the Patronus and joined it to his chest, guiding the Patronus to absorb him.
• Wizet used the phoenix’s innate magic to vanish from the memory, but the trial seemed to continue as the scene changed.

Wizet passed Dumbledore’s selection trial and received a card that would let him register for the Five-Wizard Tournament despite the age restriction. He told the gathered students what he had faced and explained how they could survive the Forest Troll trial without defeating the creature.

• Wizet learned the Ancient Magic: "Imprint" Extraction Charm, but the selection trial continued until Dumbledore adjusted the apparatus and issued him a gold-and-red registration card.
• Wizet used his new soul-power method to detect Dumbledore’s age imprint on the card and understood that it would let him pass the registration area’s age restriction.
• Wizet left the classroom and showed the gathered students his proof of passing, then described his fear of accidents during spellcasting and potion-making.
• Wizet told Ron and the others that the magical-ability test had involved a Forest Troll, which spells could only damage to a limited extent.
• Wizet explained that students could pass the Forest Troll trial by avoiding its attacks until an hourglass ran out, using terrain and magic to restrain it and buy time.

Students tried to pass the Forest Troll fear trial and sought advice on fighting Trolls, while Wizet and Luna planned to summon a thunderstorm so their Thunderbird egg could hatch. They carried the egg toward the altar behind the Centaur settlement, accompanied partway by Cornelia and her mother.

• Students crowded the selection-test corridor and searched for books about defeating Forest Trolls after learning the test involved facing their fears.
• Harry and Ron questioned Hagrid about Forest Trolls while feeding Blast-Ended Skrewts, and Hagrid advised them to target a Troll’s belly and head and use the terrain.
• Draco listened to Hagrid’s advice, while Harry narrowly dodged flames from a Blast-Ended Skrewt.
• Wizet and Luna decided to take their unhatched Thunderbird egg to an altar behind the Centaur settlement and summon a thunderstorm with Ancient Magic and a Weather-Changing Charm.
• Firenze stopped Wizet and Luna from giving snacks to the young Centaurs, and Cornelia and her mother joined them on the way beyond the settlement.

Wizet and Luna used the ancient altar, rain, and lightning to help Jupiter hatch from its egg. After bathing in lightning, the baby Thunderbird flew into their hands and bonded with them.

• Wizet and Luna placed crystals in the ancient altar and cast protective charms before Wizet infused it with Ancient Magic Power.
• Wizet and Luna summoned torrential rain and lightning, which struck the altar and stirred the Thunderbird egg.
• As the egg cracked, Wizet and Luna felt connected to Jupiter and sensed its struggle to hatch.
• Jupiter pushed its head through the shell, then called down lightning that shattered the remaining eggshell.
• Jupiter absorbed the shell, stood, and flew into Wizet and Luna's outstretched hands, rubbing against both of them.

Wizet and Luna discovered that Jupiter had marked them, helping Wizet work out how a magical-creature Animagus transformation could be completed. They brewed an Animagus potion to prepare for the Thunderbird transformation, and Wizet began the ritual as the chapter ended.

• Jupiter brushed Wizet and Luna's palms with its tail feathers, leaving matching marks that Wizet identified as the Thunderbird's gift.
• Wizet reasoned that a magical-creature Animagus transformation required an Animagus potion, the creature's mark, and Ancient Magic Power brewed through time.
• Wizet summoned potion ingredients and a cauldron, while Luna helped him brew an Animagus Second Form potion.
• Wizet instructed Luna to drink the potion after he recited the incantation, and he raised his wand toward the altar and spoke the first rune.

Wizet and Luna completed their Thunderbird Animagus transformations as the baby Thunderbird hatched and absorbed Ancient Magic Power. They flew together through the Forbidden Forest, where Wizet calmed the storm, and the baby Thunderbird soon took the lead again.

• Wizet used the Lightning spell while he and Luna drank the Animagus Second Form potion, and a bolt of silver-blue lightning struck them as the baby Thunderbird called eagerly.
• Dumbledore watched the storm from his office with Fawkes, who persuaded him to stay at his desk rather than visit the Forbidden Forest.
• Wizet and Luna completed their Thunderbird Animagus transformations while surrounded by electrical light, and the baby Thunderbird grew larger and fluffier.
• Wizet and Luna followed the baby Thunderbird into the sky, and Wizet used his Thunderbird magic to calm the wind, rain, lightning, and thunder.
• The baby Thunderbird rested on Wizet's back before flying ahead to lead them onward.

Wizet and Luna cared for their little Thunderbird and entered the common room after answering the bronze eagle’s riddle. Terry Boot passed the selection trials using ideas from the latest Wizard Vede and the Magical World, and Luna invited Wizet to read the issue with her.

• Wizet answered the bronze ring’s question with “trials,” and the eagle statue opened the entrance.
• The little Thunderbird greeted Wizet and Luna, then flew around the common room before settling beside Luna.
• Terry Boot returned with his gold-and-red patterned card and said he had passed the selection trials.
• Terry explained that he handled the female ghost by muffling her and avoided the forest Troll before using a Summoning Charm.
• Terry credited Wizard Vede and the Magical World’s dragon-fighting scene and broomstick movements for inspiring his approach.
• Luna summoned the latest issue of Wizard Vede and the Magical World and asked Wizet to read it with her.

Students passed the selection test using varied methods, while Flitwick and Moody adapted their lessons to help them handle its challenges. Hermione passed by burning her test papers and summoning a Flying Broomstick to evade the Forest Troll.

• Harry passed the fear trial by dodging Blast-Ended Skrewt flames and defeated the Forest Troll by disarming it and repeatedly casting Stupefy.
• Neville ignored Snape during his fear trial with a Confundus Charm and muddled through the rest of the selection test.
• Draco Malfoy blinded the Forest Troll with the Illumination Spell, while Luna found Wizet and Xenophilius Lovegood by transforming into an owl Animagus to deliver letters.
• Students practiced evading Blast-Ended Skrewts and learned the Summoning Charm, prompting Flitwick to move its lessons earlier.
• Moody increased practical combat training, and his criticism that Hermione was too timid and hesitant inspired her to burn her test papers during the fear trial.
• Hermione used the Summoning Charm to call a Flying Broomstick and escape the Forest Troll's attacks.

Wizet investigated Ron’s account of an Acromantula crawling out of his wand during the selection test and recreated the scene in an empty classroom. Ron’s wand produced the spider when he confronted his fear, and Wizet ended the demonstration while Hermione noticed his advanced magic.

• Wizet met Ron, Harry, and Hermione in the corridor after Ron asked for help understanding what had happened during his selection test.
• Ron explained that a carriage-sized Acromantula had appeared, and another spider had crawled out of his wand before he was frightened unconscious.
• Hermione said the Flashback Charm had not made Ron’s wand reproduce the Acromantula.
• Wizet recreated the scene by turning a bookcase into a spider and changing its size as it swung around Ron.
• Ron repeated that he was not afraid, and an Acromantula emerged from his wand as Harry cast the Reviving Charm on him.
• Wizet smashed his conjured Acromantula into the one from Ron’s wand and ended the magic, while Hermione recognized his wandless, nonverbal casting.

Wizet explained that Ron's wand had produced an Acromantula because Ron's rhyme invoked ancient magic that manifested his fear of spiders. He identified the spell's incantation and linked its origins to a Dark wizard whose failed Patronus Charm summoned maggots.

• Wizet told Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Ron had cast ancient magic through a rhyme and explained that rhymes could serve as incantations.
• Ron remembered his mother's songs and the rhyme he had once used on Scabbers, and Harry recalled that Ron later succeeded in transforming him into yellow.
• Wizet explained that Ron's words meant both “Come out here” and “I'm not afraid of you,” making his fear of spiders manifest as an Acromantula.
• Wizet named the spell Fear Manifestation, or Manifestitch Timoris, and told Hermione its reference was in The Unspoken History of Magic.
• Hermione explained that Raczidian had summoned maggots with a failed Patronus Charm, and Wizet suggested the incident had inspired the Fear Manifestation Charm.

Wizet explained how the Fear Manifestation Charm worked and taught Harry, Hermione, and Ron how its incantation and wand movement were constructed. The group learned that the dangerous spell required a lasting fear with a distinct physical form, and Hermione worried that confronting fear could make it dangerous to master.

• Wizet explained that courage could let a caster control the fear manifestation and described the charm as a Transfiguration spell.
• Wizet used Arithmancy to show Harry, Hermione, and Ron how the incantation combined ideas of manifestation, switching, and stitching.
• Hermione worked out that the wand movement incorporated the letter W into the casting gesture to stabilize the spell.
• Ron realized he could now cast the charm with a clear understanding, then asked Wizet why nothing had appeared when Wizet cast it.
• Wizet explained that the charm required a long-lasting fear and a distinct physical form, noting that Ron's childhood fear of spiders met both conditions.
• Hermione worried that confronting fear could make the charm dangerous, and Wizet agreed that her concern was reasonable.

Wizet explained the lasting dangers of the Fear Manifestation Charm, and Ron decided he still wanted to learn it to overcome his fear of spiders. Wizet advised him to master the Patronus Charm first, while a little Thunderbird arrived and tugged at Wizet’s collar.

• Ron asked whether the Fear Manifestation Charm counted as Dark magic, and Wizet explained that it could leave fear continually surfacing in the caster’s heart.
• Harry described how casting a corporeal Patronus had filled him with positive feelings when Dementors surrounded his group.
• Ron said he wanted to learn the Fear Manifestation Charm after seeing it conjure an Acromantula, and Wizet confirmed that its summoned creatures could grow in number as Ron overcame his fears.
• Hermione worried that Ron would have to confront his fear every day, but Ron resolved to face it and stop Fred and George from teasing him.
• Wizet suggested that Ron learn the Patronus Charm first for support, then warned that the Fear Manifestation Charm would require lifelong preparation to face fear.
• A little Thunderbird flew into the classroom, landed on Wizet’s shoulder, and tugged at his collar as Ron thanked him and urged him to go.

Hermione admitted to Wizet that she felt she had made little progress while Harry and Ron seemed to be finding their strengths. Wizet reassured her that progress could take many forms, leaving her to consider what suited her best.

• Wizet praised Ron for discovering the Fear Manifestation Charm and advised him to ask Professor McGonagall before pursuing it further.
• Hermione reflected that Wizet had far surpassed her and that Harry had grown especially capable in practical combat.
• Worried that she was falling behind Harry and Ron, Hermione told Wizet she felt she had made little progress.
• Harry and Ron quietly considered taking Hermione to the Hospital Wing, but Hermione did not hear them.
• Wizet explained that learning spells, applying them, and exploring possibilities all counted as progress, and said he focused on subjects that interested him.
• Wizet reminded Hermione of Dumbledore's advice to pursue work that felt comfortable, using his choice to avoid Divination as an example.

Wizet challenged Hermione’s plans for house-elf welfare and proposed examining the history of house-elves through magic. He left Hermione, Harry, and Ron puzzled as he began explaining how the Levitation Charm evolved.

• Hermione explained that she founded S.P.E.W. to improve house-elves’ treatment and legal status, citing Winky and Dobby’s past abuse.
• Hermione described her goals of giving house-elves clothes and helping them obtain paid work, but Wizet questioned whether those changes reflected what house-elves wanted.
• Wizet noted that Dobby and Hogwarts’ house-elves chose to serve their respective homes, while Hermione agreed that Hogwarts’ elves had not been treated unfairly.
• Hermione suggested that pure-blood families had helped spread house-elf enslavement and recalled that their treatment at Hogwarts changed under different headmasters.
• Wizet drew diagrams linking house-elves, pure-blood families, and Hogwarts headmasters, then wrote the incantation for the Levitation Charm and asked how it had evolved.

Wizet tested how confidence and belief affected the Levitation Charm by having Harry, Ron, and Hermione lift a bookcase. After Ron succeeded once his memory of failing was erased, Wizet explained the charm’s evolution and how a wizard’s will could influence others and themselves, leaving Hermione wondering whether her lack of confidence was holding her back.

• Wizet had Jupiter lift a bookcase, then asked Harry to try, and Harry successfully levitated it.
• Ron failed to lift the bookcase, while Hermione levitated it steadily.
• Wizet erased Ron’s memory of his failed attempt, and Ron then managed to levitate the bookcase; after Wizet restored his memory, Ron succeeded again.
• Wizet explained that the Levitation Charm had evolved through wizards’ influence and that a wizard’s will could affect themselves and others.
• Ron suggested that seeing Hermione and Jupiter lift the bookcase had given him confidence, and Hermione wondered if her own lack of confidence was limiting her.
• Harry told Hermione she might be suited to being a Keeper, and Hermione asked what a Keeper was.

Wizet reassured Hermione about her magical talent and gave her a booklet of Patronus Charm exercises tailored to her. He suggested Harry and Ron follow different approaches, and left them free to seek his help as they continued practicing magic.

• Harry and Ron struggled to explain their concern, and Wizet described Hermione as their solid support.
• Wizet reminded Hermione that her ability to learn quickly was itself a sign of magical talent.
• Wizet used Accio and Geminio to fetch and duplicate notes on the Patronus Charm, then gave Hermione a booklet to guide her practice.
• Hermione eagerly studied the booklet, while Wizet told Ron to use the Fear Manifestation Charm to explore his heart and advised Harry to focus on happiness when summoning a Patronus.
• Wizet told Harry and Ron they could ask him for help, explaining that he wanted to learn about every difficulty magic could reveal.