Chapter Summaries

Wizet shared his Shadow World research with Dumbledore, who connected it to the Weather-Changing Charm and Ritual Magic. They discussed how magical worlds shaped wandmakers’ choices of wand cores, and Dumbledore left Wizet comfortable with continuing to learn from him.

• Luna offered Dumbledore Honeydukes’ guava juice jelly balls, which he enjoyed.
• Wizet told Dumbledore about his Shadow World research, and Dumbledore compared its implications to creating suitable conditions for the Weather-Changing Charm.
• Dumbledore asked why Wizet had withheld some of his thoughts, and Wizet explained that they were unverified conjectures.
• In the Headmaster’s Office, Wizet linked Ritual Magic and the choices of wand cores to the magical worlds where wizards and wandmakers lived.
• Dumbledore agreed that wands, wizards, and wandmakers influenced one another, then said he was willing to become a student again.

Wizet realized that Ritual Magic depended on a wizard directing nature and a medium, and proposed using it to help the Black Lake merpeople counter the beliefs that had changed their appearance and singing. He planned to create a warm-water region for them, then considered a phoenix statue as a ritual totem and looked to Fawkes for a suitable medium.

• Wizet concluded that Ritual Magic required nature, one or more mediums, and the wizard directing it.
• Wizet asked Dumbledore to compare the singing voices of cold-water merpeople with those of warm-water merpeople.
• Wizet and Dumbledore theorized that shared beliefs had shaped merpeople differently, with cold-water merpeople coming to see themselves as monsters rather than merpeople.
• Dumbledore told Wizet that Murcus, leader of the Black Lake merpeople, had described their anger at Durmstrang students mocking their appearance.
• Wizet decided to use Ritual Magic to create a warm-water region for the merpeople and drafted a spell using a phoenix statue as a totem.
• Dumbledore recognized that the statue fit merpeople culture, and Wizet looked toward Fawkes for a suitable medium.

Wizet and Dumbledore visited the merpeople’s village to discuss Wizet’s ritual plan with Murcus. When Wizet conjured a phoenix Patronus, Murcus and the gathered merpeople recognized it as the deity that had protected them in their dreams.

• Wizet realized Fawkes’s phoenix magic could serve as the medium for a ritual that would strengthen the merpeople’s shared desire for beauty.
• Dumbledore took Wizet to the bottom of the Black Lake, where a spear-wielding merperson led them to the village.
• Dumbledore discussed Wizet’s plan with Murcus, but she remained unconvinced and their conversation reached an impasse.
• Wizet greeted Murcus in Mermish and conjured a silver phoenix Patronus, drawing the village’s merpeople to the square.
• Murcus approached the Patronus excitedly, and Dumbledore explained that she recognized it as the deity that had protected the merpeople in their dreams.

Wizet and Dumbledore asked the Black Lake merpeople to help with a Ritual Magic, and the merpeople unanimously agreed after seeing Wizet’s Phoenix Patronus. The merpeople finished carving a phoenix statue, and a burning Phoenix Feather settled upon it as the ritual began.

• Dumbledore explained that the merpeople saw Wizet’s Phoenix Patronus as their dream-protecting deity and had begun carving its likeness.
• Murcus led a village meeting, and the merpeople unanimously approved the wizards’ intervention.
• Murcus promised that the merpeople would finish the statue before sunset, and the village worked together to carve it.
• Wizet observed the merpeople’s united will accelerating the carving while he explored their village and its murals.
• After the phoenix statue was completed, Dumbledore made a Phoenix Feather burn underwater, and the flames settled upon the statue.

Wizet used the Phoenix Feather to activate the phoenix statue’s Ritual Magic, which transformed the merpeople village and revealed how the magic worked in the Shadow World. He realized that the merpeople’s faith and desire for beauty could create a cycle that gradually changed their appearance and songs despite the lake’s cold-water consensus.

• The Phoenix Feather landed on the phoenix statue, brightening the village and prompting the merpeople to sing and dance.
• Wizet used All-Things Trace Seizure and the Mark Extraction Charm to follow the merpeople’s song into the Shadow World.
• Wizet saw the phantom phoenix guiding changes in the aquatic plants and connecting to the merpeople and other creatures through thread-like strands.
• Wizet observed that the red region around the merpeople village and the Shadow World’s lake currents remained in balance, and he connected the ecosystem to the Forbidden Forest.
• Wizet reasoned that the merpeople’s belief in the phoenix statue could turn their yearning for beauty into a new consensus, creating a cycle that would transform them into warm-water-like merpeople in the Black Lake.

Wizet returned from the Shadow World and learned that the Merpeople were preparing gifts to thank him and Dumbledore for helping them. Later, Headmaster Kamba told Dumbledore about an elusive magic shaped by collective belief and asked for help introducing the idea to Wizet.

• Wizet watched Murcus choose carved ores and shells, and Dumbledore explained that the Merpeople were selecting gifts rather than performing magic to change their appearance.
• Wizet accepted the gifts, recognizing their value to Luna and their potential uses in Ritual Magic and alchemy.
• Dumbledore accepted a carved ore on Fawkes's behalf, then received Headmaster Kamba of Uagadou in his office.
• Kamba observed that Hogwarts students had grown more magically capable and linked the change to Wizet's influence.
• Kamba explained that collective belief could create an elusive magic affecting confidence and magical ability, then asked Dumbledore to help Wizet understand it.

Dumbledore and Headmaster Kamba discussed the danger that wizarding magic and the Muggle world could pose to each other, and the need to prepare wizards for change. At Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall announced that the Five-Wizard Tournament would include a Yule Ball, exciting the students.

• Headmaster Kamba explained that Wizet was chosen because he had broken magical rules and uncovered magic that might respond to Muggle beliefs.
• Dumbledore and Kamba considered the risk of wizards being exposed to Muggles and agreed that more wizards needed to understand Muggle development.
• During Transfiguration, Harry and Ron fenced with their wands while Neville read a book about making longswords.
• Professor McGonagall transformed Harry's wand into a rubber haddock and Ron's into a tin-plated parrot, which won their match by cutting off the haddock's head.
• Professor McGonagall announced that the Five-Wizard Tournament would retain the traditional Yule Ball, and Michael Corner celebrated the chance to wear his formal robes.

Minerva McGonagall announced the Yule Ball’s rules and told Harry and Wizet that the Champions had to open the dance with their partners. Harry worried about dancing, while Wizet returned to his studies and headed to Care of Magical Creatures.

• The students excitedly discussed the Yule Ball while Wizet considered how the crowd’s shared mood might affect his magic.
• Minerva McGonagall demonstrated her precise transfiguration, then explained that students could invite anyone, including students from other schools, and that the ball would take place on Christmas night.
• Minerva McGonagall warned the students to behave and asked Harry and Wizet to stay behind after class.
• Minerva McGonagall told Harry and Wizet that Triwizard Champions had to attend with dance partners and open the ball; Harry panicked because he could not dance.
• Wizet and Harry left for their next classes, and Wizet later explained the Champions’ dance tradition to Michael, who lamented that he had not been selected.

Fleur Delacour approached Wizet and invited him to the Yule Ball, but he declined because he wanted to invite someone else and believed Champions had to choose different partners. Their conversation shifted to alchemy, and Wizet demonstrated a tangible Shield Charm made using a snowball, leaving Fleur astonished.

• Michael Corner decided to invite Fleur Delacour to the Yule Ball, but she shook her head at him.
• Fleur Delacour asked Wizet to attend the Yule Ball with her, and Wizet declined, citing his plans and the Champions' tradition of choosing different partners.
• Fleur Delacour asked Wizet about the Beauxbatons alchemy paper, and he described how it inspired him to combine an alchemical shield with the Shield Charm.
• Wizet used snow to demonstrate a tangible Shield Charm, then pierced the crude shield with his wand.
• Fleur Delacour asked whether Wizet had learned the method from the Hogwarts library, and Wizet said he had developed the idea by studying magic from different angles.
• Anthony, Terry, and the others moved away as Wizet and Fleur Delacour continued discussing magic.

During Care of Magical Creatures, Wizet struggled to focus as he worked up the nerve to ask Luna to the Yule Ball. He found her after class and began to admit how he felt, leaving them both flustered.

• Hagrid taught the students to soothe Fire Salamanders and draw their blood, while Wizet turned down a Hufflepuff girl's invitation to the Yule Ball.
• Wizet's dormmates teased him about the invitations he had received and asked if he planned to invite Luna; he admitted that he did.
• Wizet spent the rest of class rehearsing how to ask Luna, and Michael's explanation of the Yule Ball's significance made him even more anxious.
• After class, Wizet transformed into a phoenix and flew to wait for Luna outside the greenhouses.
• Luna joined Wizet, slipped her hand into his pocket, and joked that he looked like a Mooncalf waiting for the full moon.
• Wizet told Luna that he was a Mooncalf, and Luna blushed as she understood what he meant.

In the snowy Hogwarts back garden, Wizet and Luna warmed each other’s hands and admitted they wanted to be dance partners. They agreed to attend the dance together and began planning for Luna to get a dress, leaving the garden hand in hand.

• Wizet caught Luna’s hand and led her toward the back garden, where they walked with their fingers interlaced.
• Wizet warmed Luna’s hands with his own, and Luna cupped his face as they confessed they wanted to say something to each other.
• Wizet and Luna asked each other, “Would you be my dance partner?” and both happily agreed.
• Wizet suggested going to Hogsmeade Village to buy Luna a dress, and Luna offered to write to her father about staying at school for the holiday break.
• Sprout came upon them in the garden, pretended she had not noticed them, and left after making an excuse about ordering flowerpots.
• Wizet formally invited Luna to head back, and they left together holding hands.

As students scrambled to find Yule Ball partners, Wizet revealed that he had used a Confundus Charm to avoid being overwhelmed by invitations. Harry struggled to ask someone to the ball, while Fred and George proposed helping him with music and demonstrated their plan by asking Angelina Johnson.

• Anthony Goldstein returned to the Ravenclaw table after learning that Lini had already found a partner, and Michael Corner admitted Zacharias Smith had told him the news.
• Katie Bell searched for Wizet, and Michael Corner asked her to the Yule Ball after telling her Wizet had invited Luna; Katie said she would think about it.
• Wizet told Michael and Anthony that he had used a Confundus Charm because students kept bothering him, even in the library.
• Harry asked Wizet how he had invited Luna, and Wizet explained that he had approached her when she was alone.
• Fred and George offered to help Harry approach a dance partner by playing ukuleles, then Fred asked Angelina Johnson to the ball and she accepted.

Fred and George’s ukulele matchmaking service helped Hogwarts students find Yule Ball partners, but many still did not know how to dance. Wizet and Luna attended a dance lesson led by Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout, who were about to demonstrate the steps.

• Fred and George offered Harry and the other boys ukulele accompaniment, advice, and encouragement while they invited girls to the Yule Ball.
• The twins’ Ukulele Companion Plan grew popular, and more students found dance partners as Christmas approached.
• A notice announced that students could attend dance instruction in an enlarged classroom after classes.
• Wizet’s attempts to modify the Dancing Feet Spell with consensus magic proved limited, and he considered using a full-moon image to enable Mooncalf dance steps at the ball.
• Wizet took Luna to the dance lesson, where Professor Sprout teased them about arriving together.
• Professor McGonagall welcomed the students and said she and Professor Sprout would demonstrate dancing and teach them.

Wizet and Luna attended Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout’s dance lesson, where their close seating left them distracted by each other. Wizet admitted he had not learned the steps, and Luna offered to teach him before the lesson ended for the day.

• Professor McGonagall began the lesson by demonstrating basic dance steps and explaining how to follow the music’s rhythm.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout demonstrated the partnered steps, emphasizing posture, enjoyment, and understanding between partners.
• Luna leaned against Wizet as she watched, and both grew flustered when they realized how close they were.
• Wizet admitted he had not learned the dance, so Luna offered to teach him.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout guided several student pairs through practice before ending the lesson as night fell.

As the Christmas holidays and Yule Ball approached, Hogwarts students grew distracted by holiday plans while their professors kept them occupied with lessons and homework. Flitwick told Wizet about a more advanced charm related to Newt Scamander’s suitcase, leaving Wizet curious about how it worked.

• Snape warned his students that he might give one of them a special Christmas gift involving the antidote, while Sprout taught students to make sachets.
• Moody made Michael Corner practice combat after catching him distracted, and Oppugno chased him for over ten minutes; McGonagall assigned a large amount of holiday homework.
• Vector taught Wizet a form of divination about what to avoid, and Michael concluded that he needed to avoid wood because Moody had a wooden leg.
• Hagrid took Luna’s Care of Magical Creatures class to care for Augureys, while Flitwick kept distracted students engaged with a paper-airplane game.
• Flitwick asked Wizet about his skill with the Weather-Changing Charm, then explained that a different, emotion-driven charm could alter pockets more safely than the Ministry-regulated Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Flitwick connected the charm’s origins to references in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Wizet realized it might explain Newt Scamander’s remarkable suitcase.

Professor Flitwick taught Wizet the Harmonic Space Charm, explaining how music could connect emotions, memories, souls, and magic to create a space. Wizet inferred that the charm’s use of shared musical understanding could make its spaces more stable than those made with the Undetectable Extension Charm, and Flitwick suggested he experience music at the Yule Ball.

• Flitwick introduced the Harmonic Space Charm and explained that it drew on the Weather-Changing Charm and the Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Flitwick described how music could stir emotions and memories to guide magic in creating a space.
• Wizet connected the charm to Ritual Magic, alchemy, and consensus, then inferred that its spaces would be especially stable.
• Flitwick praised Wizet’s deduction and said he expected Wizet to publish his own findings in Hogwarts Voice.
• Flitwick advised Wizet to experience music at the Yule Ball as he continued learning the charm.

As Hogwarts prepared for Christmas and the Yule Ball, Wizet and Luna watched the castle’s festive decorations and the owls perform their new roles as golden ornaments. Thor competed with the little Thunderbird for attention, then demonstrated its owl skills by catching a parcel in midair.

• Luna described the snow-covered grounds as a land of sweets, while Wizet admired the castle’s Christmas decorations with her.
• The decorated suits of armor sang carols, Peeves added rude lyrics, and Dumbledore discussed the Yule Ball with Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall.
• The little Thunderbird raised a claw like the golden owl statues, and Thor rammed it before Wizet caught Thor and Luna soothed the bird.
• Wizet promised Thor it would get the first letter to deliver, and Thor returned to its place on a Christmas tree as an owl statue.
• After the snowfall stopped, Wizet gave parcels to Thor and other owls; Thor showed off by dropping its parcel and catching it again before flying off with feed.

Wizet and his dormmates opened Christmas presents, including gifts from friends, Hagrid, Hogwarts professors, and Lucius Malfoy. When Roger Davies arrived with more packages addressed to the Ravenclaw Common Room, he revealed that one came with a letter from a lady, leaving Wizet to discover who had sent it.

• Wizet and his dormmates woke early and opened their Christmas presents.
• Wizet received gifts from Mrs. Weasley, Lucius Malfoy, Hagrid, and Hogwarts professors, including a nest for his little Thunderbird and Professor Flitwick's revised Harmonic Space Charm notes.
• Anthony, Michael, Terry, and Chris helped Wizet sort his sweets and snacks and remarked on the many gifts he had received.
• Roger Davies told Wizet that gift packages had blocked the common room door because they were addressed only to the Ravenclaw Common Room.
• Roger Davies gave Wizet a gift box and a gold-threaded envelope, explaining that the sender was a lady.

Wizet’s roommates discovered that a beautifully packaged box of sweets sent to him contained a love potion, then helped him clear the gifts gathered outside the common room. Luna told Wizet she wanted to give him her Christmas present after he put on the formal robes, but kept the present a mystery.

• Wizet read a Quidditch fan’s letter praising his skill, while Roger Davies urged him to go downstairs before more students saw his parcels.
• Wizet opened an ornate box of sweets, recognized the scents mixed into them, and confirmed that they contained a love potion.
• Michael Corner joked that he wanted someone to send him a love potion, but declined when Anthony Goldstein suggested Wizet give him the sweets.
• Wizet met Luna and Dobby downstairs, where Dobby delivered a gift from Mr. Lovegood and Luna levitated the parcels blocking the common room entrance.
• With Wizet’s permission, Dobby sorted the parcels, wrapping paper, gift boxes, and envelopes into neat piles.
• Luna told Wizet she liked the formal robes and wanted to give him her Christmas present after he put them on, but refused to offer a hint.

Wizet and the Ravenclaws celebrated Christmas, and he prepared to give Luna formal robes made with Ritual Magic and alchemy that would adapt to her preferences. As Wizet headed to the Yule Ball, the little Thunderbird suddenly flew off, and he rushed after it.

• Wizet used a composite spell to identify gift boxes containing love potions, and Dobby sorted the other gifts into cupboards.
• The students enjoyed Christmas food and Cribbage's Wizard Crackers, which gave them hats, prank items, and magical tools.
• Wizet thought about the formal robes he had made for Luna using merpeople's materials, Ritual Magic, alchemy, and their aesthetic consensus.
• Wizet and his roommates changed into their formal robes, and Michael and Anthony commented on Wizet's plain-looking outfit.
• As Wizet and his roommates left for the Great Hall, the little Thunderbird flew off down a corridor, and Wizet hurried after it.