Chapter Summaries

Wizet returned to the Ravenclaw common room, where Anthony explained how nominations could lead to an Order of Merlin. Wizet revealed that many prominent figures had nominated him for the First Class honor, and the chapter ended with the students reading their names.

• Wizet took Luna from the Great Hall and returned to the Ravenclaw common room with a crowd of Ravenclaws.
• Anthony explained the Order of Merlin's review process and its nomination route, citing Gilderoy Lockhart and Peter Pettigrew as examples.
• Padma Patil revealed that the editor-in-chief of Witch Weekly, who had nominated Gilderoy Lockhart, was a man and a former professional Quidditch Keeper.
• Wizet opened the envelope and showed the students a second parchment listing his nominators.
• The students read that Albus Dumbledore, Amelia Bones, Barty Crouch Sr., Griselda Marchbanks, Elphias Doge, Tiberius Ogden, Sophie Cleona, Robert Bonham, and Rufus Scrimgeour had nominated Wizet for the Order of Merlin, First Class.

After learning that Wizet had received the Order of Merlin, First Class, Hogwarts students spread the news and Wizet and Luna sought a quiet break at the Hog’s Head Inn. The next morning, Ludo Bagman arrived to escort Wizet to the Ministry of Magic to receive his award.

• Anthony Goldstein showed Ravenclaw students the influential list of people who had nominated Wizet for the Order of Merlin, First Class, and the students spread the news around Hogwarts.
• Wizet and Luna heard students discussing Wizet’s fame and Gilderoy Lockhart, then visited the Hog’s Head Inn to escape the attention.
• Luna and Wizet joked with Aberforth Dumbledore about promoting the inn, and Aberforth guessed they wanted somewhere peaceful away from the crowds.
• Wizet dressed in formal robes and met Ludo Bagman in the entrance hall, where Bagman praised his lapel chain before escorting him toward the Ministry of Magic.

Ludo Bagman escorted Wizet Lovegood to the Ministry of Magic for his award ceremony, where Ministry employees celebrated his fame. In the award hall, Wizet decoded the runes on the ceiling and read their message aloud.

• Ludo Bagman brought Wizet Lovegood into the Ministry through the telephone box, where Wizet received a badge and registered his wand.
• A security wizard recognized Wizet as the recipient of the Order of Merlin, First Class.
• Ministry employees greeted Wizet enthusiastically and asked him for an autograph as he rode the lift with Ludo Bagman.
• Ludo Bagman led Wizet past Arthur Weasley and into the decorated award hall.
• Wizet decoded the moving runes on the ceiling and read, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars...”

At the investiture ceremony, Griselda Marchbanks told Wizet the history of the Runes on the awards hall ceiling and praised his interpretation of Oswald Beamish's message. Lucius Malfoy watched Wizet from among the guests, weighing how to approach him.

• Wizet greeted Griselda Marchbanks, who explained that Oswald Beamish had left the ceiling inscription using goblin magic and that the goblins had turned it into a Runes puzzle.
• Wizet suggested Beamish may have meant to inspire hope, draw attention to disadvantaged groups, or simply have found the saying fitting; Griselda praised his last possibility.
• Tiberius Ogden joined Griselda and Wizet, then began recalling that Dumbledore had received the same award as a student before Griselda cut him off and asked him to escort her away.
• Griselda urged Wizet to speak with the other guests as she and Tiberius left him behind.
• Lucius Malfoy watched Wizet and decided that taking the initiative mattered more than preserving dignity, reflecting on how Narcissa's advice to abandon darkness had helped the Malfoy family recover.

Lucius Malfoy wondered how St. Mungo's director Robert Bonham had become connected to Wizet, then learned that Bonham had nominated him for the Order of Merlin, First Class. Bonham explained how Wizet's Soul Healing Technique patent had finally been approved and left to return to St. Mungo's.

• Lucius Malfoy noticed Robert Bonham among Wizet's nominators and moved to approach Wizet as Bonham arrived first.
• Robert Bonham congratulated Wizet and thanked him for making the Soul Healing Technique available for Healers to use and study.
• Robert Bonham explained that pure-blood families had obstructed the technique's review to protect profits from soul-healing potions, but withdrew their complaints after Wizet defeated Voldemort.
• Robert Bonham said he and several Healers and Ministry employees had secured approval for the patent two days earlier.
• Robert Bonham told Wizet that Sophie had informed him of the nomination, then left because St. Mungo's needed him.

Wizet promised to send St. Mungo’s director Robert Bonham notes on improving the Soul Healing Technique, then learned that the Greengrass family wanted to thank him for helping Astoria. Horace Slughorn arrived and revealed that he had helped Wizet obtain his junior Potioneer certification.

• Wizet told Robert Bonham that he had found a way to reduce the casting difficulty of the Soul Healing Technique, and Bonham offered to visit him and help.
• Wizet explained that another unnamed inventor had contributed to the Soul Healing Technique and promised to mail his improvement notes to St. Mungo’s.
• Lucius Malfoy congratulated Wizet on receiving the Order of Merlin, First Class, and passed along the Greengrass family’s thanks and apology for doubting his potion formula for Astoria.
• Lucius told Wizet that the Greengrass family had consulted Horace Slughorn about the potion formula, and Slughorn arrived and introduced himself.
• Horace Slughorn told Wizet that he had put in a good word for him when Wizet received his junior Potioneer certification.

Wizet spoke with Horace Slughorn, who praised his Potions talent and examined the tonic formula Wizet had given the Greengrass family. Slughorn suggested an Augurey-feather accessory to improve the potion, giving Wizet a new connection to Voldemort’s Flight Charm.

• Horace Slughorn thanked Wizet for his work and praised his Potions skills, noting that Severus Snape had taught him privately.
• Lucius Malfoy considered Slughorn’s extensive connections and understood why he was eager to befriend Wizet.
• Slughorn told Wizet that he had examined the potion formula given to Thomas and recognized it as a unique tonic inspired by Augureys.
• Slughorn proposed soaking Augurey neck feathers in the potion and placing them in a locket to improve its activation speed and duration.
• Wizet connected Slughorn’s proposed improvement to the principles of Voldemort’s Flight Charm.

Wizet discussed Horace Slughorn’s potion modifications for Astoria Greengrass and realized that an enchanted locket containing potion-soaked Augurey feathers could help address her hereditary curse. Slughorn gave Wizet a badge for contacting him, then left the award hall early, leaving Lucius Malfoy wondering whether he had come specifically to see Wizet.

• Horace Slughorn praised Wizet’s use of bloodline magic and explained that his potion suggestions drew on African magic.
• Wizet recognized that potion-soaked Augurey feathers could provide Astoria Greengrass with a bloodline-linked magical aura he had not accounted for.
• Wizet proposed enchanting a locket to extend perception and create an environment suited to Astoria Greengrass’s non-wizard bloodline, and Horace Slughorn approved the idea.
• Horace Slughorn cautioned Wizet about influencing someone with the method, gave him a badge for sending future letters, and urged him to write.
• Horace Slughorn left the increasingly crowded award hall before the investiture ceremony, and Lucius Malfoy wondered whether he had come to meet Wizet.

Wizet examined the Slughorn Club badge and learned from Lucius Malfoy about Horace Slughorn’s select group and his esteem for talented students like Lily Evans. At the Ministry’s awards hall, Wizet saw the haggard Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge, whose careers were collapsing with Fudge expected to resign soon.

• Wizet used Magic Eye to inspect the Slughorn Club badge and confirmed it posed no hidden danger.
• Lucius Malfoy explained the club’s origins, its elite membership, and Horace Slughorn’s admiration for Lily Evans’s potion talent.
• Wizet reconsidered Slughorn’s generosity and felt reassured after hearing Lucius’s account of him.
• Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge arrived at the awards hall looking exhausted and haggard.
• Lucius Malfoy told Wizet that Fudge was expected to step down and Umbridge had been demoted and transferred to head the Centaur Liaison Office.

Wizet Lovegood received the Order of Merlin, First Class, for his actions during the Azkaban mass breakout. After the ceremony, Amelia Bones took him to discuss the Wizengamot, hinting that another matter was about to be handled.

• Lucius Malfoy said Dolores Umbridge would soon be dismissed and assigned to the deserted Centaur Liaison Office.
• Amelia Bones hosted the investiture ceremony and explained how Wizet's judgment and courage during the Azkaban breakout had helped the Ministry.
• Cornelius Fudge presented Wizet with the Order of Merlin, First Class, while photographers captured the ceremony.
• After the ceremony, Amelia Bones took Wizet toward the conference hall to discuss the Wizengamot, saying Dumbledore considered it no big deal and they could handle it while Wizet was at the Ministry.

Wizet attended the Wizengamot vote on whether to appoint him England’s Wizengamot Youth Representative. Elphias Doge presented Wizet’s extensive academic record, and the members became absorbed in his published papers as the meeting continued.

• Amelia Bones reassured Wizet that the Wizengamot would decide his appointment by a simple vote.
• Amelia Bones brought Wizet into the conference hall, where Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, and other Wizengamot members were gathered.
• Cornelius Fudge opened the agenda on approving Wizet Lovegood as England’s Wizengamot Youth Representative.
• Elphias Doge cited the thickness of Wizet’s file and presented his papers published in Hogwarts Voice.
• The Wizengamot members read Wizet’s papers with growing interest, and Elphias Doge moved on to papers about Animagus included by the Animagus International Symposium.

Elphias Doge presented evidence of Wizet Lovegood’s international honors and public service to show he qualified as England’s Wizengamot Youth Representative. As the Wizengamot learned the Daily Prophet had omitted Lovegood’s role in the Quidditch World Cup campsite attack, suspicion fell on Cornelius Fudge.

• The Wizengamot examined Wizet Lovegood’s certification as Honorary Academic Advisor of the Animagus International Symposium.
• Elphias Doge explained how Lovegood earned the title and received MACUSA’s Five-Star Medal after the 1993 Fire Dragon Attack on New York.
• Elphias Doge described Lovegood’s role in quelling the Quidditch World Cup campsite unrest, and the Wizengamot questioned why the Daily Prophet had not reported it.
• Cornelius Fudge grew visibly uneasy as the Wizengamot’s members turned suspicious, while Barty Crouch Sr. confirmed Lovegood’s contribution.
• Elphias Doge cited Lovegood’s recent involvement in the Five-Wizard Tournament and investiture ceremony, then asked the Wizengamot to judge his qualifications.

Wizet Lovegood solved a potion antidote riddle before the Wizengamot, impressing the members. They unanimously chose him as the Wizengamot England Youth Representative, and Dumbledore presented his robe and badge.

• Cornelius Fudge called on Wizet to answer questions after Elphias Doge finished his statement.
• A Wizengamot member described a child poisoned by a Potent Herbicide Potion and challenged Wizet to derive an antidote from its brewing process.
• Wizet quickly gave the antidote ingredients, earning praise from the potion-making members.
• The Wizengamot members unanimously voted for Wizet to become the Wizengamot England Youth Representative.
• Dumbledore presented Wizet with a crimson-purple robe and a badge marked with the letter W.

Cornelius Fudge reflected on the crises that had wrecked his reputation and blamed Xenophilius Lovegood for his misfortunes. After seeing Xenophilius celebrated by his staff, Fudge ended the chapter furious at him.

• Fudge recalled how Sirius Black’s escape, Pettigrew’s capture, attacks at the Duelling Tournament and Quidditch World Cup, and Voldemort’s return had made his term disastrous.
• Fudge blamed Xenophilius for spreading rumors that damaged his standing and lamented that he had lost invitations and social company.
• Fudge left the Leaky Cauldron after drinking and headed toward Madam Malkin’s to order a robe for his speech.
• Xenophilius declined his staff’s invitation to celebrate, telling them to put their food and drink on his tab while he went home to care for his Crumple-Horned Snorkack.
• Fudge saw Xenophilius with his staff and angrily decided that Xenophilius had caused his current troubles.

Cornelius Fudge confronted Xenophilius Lovegood in an alley and accused him of turning Wizet against him. Xenophilius challenged Fudge over his past conduct and began to reveal that Fudge had handled a magical accident involving the Lovegood family before becoming Minister.

• Cornelius Fudge called Xenophilius Lovegood into an alley after seeing him leave a magical creature shop.
• Fudge seized Xenophilius by the collar and blamed him for Wizet’s prejudice and for Fudge losing his position.
• Xenophilius argued that Wizet had reason to distrust Fudge, citing the award ceremony and Fudge’s alleged pressure on recipients to praise him.
• Xenophilius recalled Fudge arranging for Damocles Belby to flatter him at his Order of Merlin ceremony.
• Xenophilius reminded Fudge that he had handled a magical accident involving the Lovegood family before running for Minister of Magic.

Xenophilius Lovegood returned home with a Dirigible Plum sapling and found his house and Pandora’s laboratory devastated. He discovered Luna unharmed but grieving, and realized Pandora had died in a magical experiment accident.

• Xenophilius Lovegood walked home carrying a Dirigible Plum sapling and rehearsed how he would surprise Pandora and Luna.
• Xenophilius Lovegood noticed the laboratory window jutting out beneath the magical moon, grew anxious, and ran home.
• Xenophilius Lovegood found the house in disarray and rushed upstairs toward a faint sniffle.
• Xenophilius Lovegood found Pandora’s laboratory wrecked and Luna curled up in a corner, apparently unharmed.
• Luna told Xenophilius Lovegood that Mom was gone, and he understood that Pandora had died in an experiment accident.

Xenophilius Lovegood recalled telling young Luna that her mother had gone to the moon to find Moon Frogs, then confronted Cornelius Fudge over Fudge’s callous response to Pandora Lovegood’s death. The chapter ended with Xenophilius reminding Fudge that Pandora’s name had been written on the accident form he had dismissed.

• After Pandora’s death, Xenophilius comforted Luna by saying her mother had gone to the moon to find Moon Frogs, and they agreed to fill the garden with Dirigible Plums as a surprise for her.
• As Fudge asked about a magical accident, Xenophilius remembered the ruined laboratory and Luna’s tears, then accused Fudge of having forgotten Pandora’s death.
• Xenophilius seized Fudge’s hand and recalled Fudge’s dismissive and cruel remarks about Pandora’s fatal experiment.
• Fudge claimed he had been speaking about someone else and that Xenophilius had misheard him.
• Xenophilius corrected Fudge, explaining that Panny was Pandora’s nickname and that her full name had been on the form.

Xenophilius Lovegood confronted Cornelius Fudge over his past abuses and threatened to expose him, ensuring he would lose his reputation and power. After Xenophilius left, Fudge was too frightened of Wizet’s dark magic to draw his wand.

• Cornelius Fudge tried to excuse his past conduct, but Xenophilius Lovegood accused him of silencing victims and suppressing evidence.
• Xenophilius told Fudge that he would never regain the Ministry’s power and promised to record and expose his crimes.
• Fudge demanded that Xenophilius kill him, but Xenophilius refused and said he would make Fudge lose everything he desired.
• Xenophilius left, and Fudge feared Wizet’s skill with Dark Magic and torture too much to draw his wand.

After Wizet gave Rita Skeeter an interview about receiving the Order of Merlin, First Class, Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed the O.W.L. grades needed to continue studying different subjects next year. Hermione left to collect her homework and begin preparing for the exams.

• Wizet gave Rita Skeeter an interview, and students waited in the Great Hall hoping to hear details of his investiture ceremony.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussed how next year’s O.W.L. exams would affect which classes they could take afterward.
• Hermione explained that most subjects required an E, while Professor Sprout accepted an A for Herbology and professors could set higher requirements.
• Harry and Ron joked that Snape might demand an O for Potions, and Hermione left to get her homework and start preparing for the O.W.L.s.

Wizet and Luna helped Hagrid improve a herbicide for his garden and explained how Hagrid’s care for magical creatures gave him a special talent for healing and breeding them. After mailing revisions to the Soul Healing Technique, they returned to Hogwarts, where Wizet’s roommates asked about the Ministry award ceremony.

• Wizet and Luna adapted the Potent Herbicide for Hagrid’s garden and explained how to treat magical creatures if the potion harmed them.
• Wizet recalled how Hagrid’s wholehearted care for magical creatures had enabled him to breed Blast-Ended Skrewts and helped inspire Fred and George’s Puffskein pets.
• Luna told Hagrid that the Centaurs had praised how quickly injured creatures recovered under his care, and Wizet encouraged him to trust his instincts.
• Hagrid asked Wizet to repeat the remedy instructions and gave Wizet and Luna ingredients from his collection in thanks for the herbicide.
• Wizet mailed his revisions to the Soul Healing Technique before returning to the Great Hall with Luna, where his roommates asked about the award ceremony.