Chapter Summaries

Wizet explained the reasoning behind his second treatment plan for Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom to a group of experienced healers, who had gathered to review it. The meeting ended with the healers hearing that he had drafted three earlier plans whose ideas helped shape the final one.

• Hippolyta teased Hildegard for preparing suggestions and a speech despite claiming she was still on vacation.
• Wizet, Galen Claudius, and Hecate Graves joined the healers as Wizet began presenting the second treatment plan.
• Wizet said Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom had made progress and were in a state of coexistence with the Cruciatus Curse, so he wanted the healers to help refine the next treatment.
• At Hildegard and Galen Claudius's request, Wizet explained how he combined Charms, Potions, and ritual magic in the plan.
• Wizet described adapting ingredients using Hippolyta's clinical suggestion and consulting Arithmancy and ritual-magic books.
• Wizet revealed that he had drafted three earlier treatment plans before finalizing the current one.

Wizet refined the Longbottoms’ treatment plan with St. Mungo’s healers, incorporating their advice on incense, herbs, and ritual materials. The healers finished the discussion before their lunch break ended, impressed by Wizet’s knowledge and the plan’s progress.

• Galen Claudius suggested burning frankincense with palo santo and tonka beans instead of relying on candles to guide Frank and Alice.
• Wizet used Arithmancy to identify the ingredients’ magical properties, then revised the plan by choosing amethyst for support and replacing mandrake and wormwood with willow branches and rosemary.
• Hildegard recommended Scottish thistle to maintain the passage, citing its association with courage and resistance to the Cruciatus Curse.
• Galen Claudius ended the meeting with more than twenty minutes of lunch break remaining, and Hildegard and Hippolyta praised Wizet’s work.

Wizet began a Ritual Magic treatment to help Neville reach and rescue his parents, guiding him through the Kappa Tree of Life. Neville passed the Moon and Death paths and moved beyond the Principle of Beauty, believing he was close to saving them.

• Hecate Graves sent Augusta Longbottom and Neville into the consultation room while Wizet prepared to lead the Ritual Magic.
• Wizet explained the Kappa Tree of Life and asked Neville if he was ready to face the Death Eaters and rescue his parents.
• Neville stood at the Principle of Kingdom with candy wrappers, pupae, and blood from himself and his parents as Wizet began the incantation.
• Roots wrapped around Neville as smoke formed passageways, and Wizet directed him through the nineteenth, fourteenth, and twelfth paths.
• Neville endured the Moon and Death paths, reached the Principle of Beauty, and passed a strange black sphere, convinced he was nearing his parents.

During Neville’s Ritual Magic treatment, Wizet reassured Augusta Longbottom that the smoke showed Neville was progressing smoothly and comforted her about her care for him. Neville emerged into a recreation of his childhood home, checked the date, and set out to find an Invisibility Cloak in his parents’ room.

• Wizet watched the smoke around Neville’s cocoon and told Augusta Longbottom that the Ritual Magic was proceeding smoothly.
• Augusta Longbottom worried that she had failed Neville, and Wizet reassured her that Neville appreciated everything she had done for him.
• Neville passed through the Twelfth Path with little resistance and arrived in a recreation of his family’s courtyard from more than ten years earlier.
• Neville checked that his wand was in his pocket, entered the house, and verified the date before planning his next move.
• Neville went to his parents’ room to look for the spare Invisibility Cloak and Flying Broomstick, then became emotional at the sight of the baby carriage.

Neville gathered supplies and prepared magical plants and potions for an urgent attempt to wake his parents, who had been tortured by Death Eaters and remained at St. Mungo’s. He set off toward them, determined not to delay their treatment.

• Neville discovered the unfinished pram his parents had begun after Voldemort’s defeat and broke down before resolving to focus on waking them.
• Neville retrieved the Cloak of Invisibility, a Comet 200, protective items, and two longswords from his home’s hidden storage.
• Neville flew to Great-Uncle Algie’s house because the Floo Network was still largely shut down and he had abandoned learning Apparition.
• Neville prepared potions for Mimbulus mimbletonia, Chomping Cabbage, and other magical plants, then harvested the plants he needed.
• Neville checked his supplies and flew toward his parents, aware that delaying treatment could make their recovery more difficult.

Neville used Wizet’s clues about the memory-framed world to enter Lestrange Castle and locate his parents, who were being tortured. He poisoned goblets with Venomous Tentacula venom and waited as some of the Death Eaters prepared to leave the interrogation chamber.

• Neville tested the castle’s protections and realized that its hidden side entrance had disappeared because his parents did not remember it.
• Neville entered Lestrange Castle through the main doors and heard Bellatrix Lestrange and other Death Eaters torturing Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom.
• Neville found whiskey and golden goblets in the drawing room and dripped Venomous Tentacula venom into them.
• Rodolphus said he was going out for a drink, while Bellatrix ordered him to return quickly and the others continued torturing Neville’s parents.

Neville secretly knocked out Rodolphus Lestrange and Rabastan Lestrange with a sword pommel while they left the interrogation room. Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. emerged alert to danger, and Bellatrix tried to summon Neville’s Cloak of Invisibility.

• Neville waited for Venomous Tentacula venom to incapacitate Rodolphus Lestrange, then knocked him unconscious with a sword pommel.
• Neville disguised Rodolphus as if he had fallen asleep and waited for another Death Eater to leave the interrogation room.
• Rabastan Lestrange came out to check on his brother, and Neville struck him unconscious with Muggle Stupefy.
• Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. discussed giving up their interrogation of Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom, then emerged with their wands raised.
• Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange sensed something was wrong, and Bellatrix tried to summon Neville’s Cloak of Invisibility.

Neville used his magical plants and smoke spheres to fight Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. after they discovered him in the corridor. The Cloak of Invisibility was badly damaged, and Bellatrix and Barty continued searching for the Dark Lord as they dealt with Neville’s attack.

• Neville remembered that his family’s Cloaks of Invisibility resisted the Summoning Charm, but a loud footstep exposed his position to Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr.
• Bellatrix and Barty blasted the wall, and Neville escaped the force of the explosion before smashing a glass sphere to fill the corridor with smoke.
• Neville sent Chomping Cabbages, Mimbulus mimbletonia, and Venomous Tentacula toward Bellatrix and Barty while discovering that his cloak had been torn and rendered ineffective.
• Bellatrix was covered in Stinksap and bitten by the Venomous Tentacula, while Barty protected her and destroyed the magical plants.
• Bellatrix demanded that Barty help her remove the remaining plants and insisted they find the Dark Lord as soon as possible.

Neville entered the interrogation room and found his tortured parents, Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom, still alive. After locating Frank’s wand, Neville was attacked by Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr., and he smashed his last glass marble while immobilized.

• Barty Crouch Jr. noticed that Neville had taken advantage of the chaos to enter the interrogation room.
• Neville found Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom injured in the shadows and told them he had come to take them home.
• Neville used Lumos to show his parents his face, and Frank told him where to find his wand.
• Neville retrieved Frank’s wand as Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. returned to the room.
• Bellatrix blasted Neville with Confringo, and Barty immobilized his legs with a Leg-Locker Curse.
• Neville smashed his last glass marble against the floor.

Neville charged through the smoke and used a longsword propelled by the Knockback Jinx to destroy Bellatrix Lestrange’s wand and sever three of her fingers. As he prepared to attack Barty Crouch Jr., the sword transformed into a python, and Barty confronted him.

• Barty Crouch Jr. raised a shield and discussed the intruders with Bellatrix Lestrange while Neville continued resisting behind the smoke.
• Neville burst from the smoke wearing an anti-spell cloak, and Barty Crouch Jr. sent a transformed python at him.
• Neville knocked the python aside and charged at Bellatrix Lestrange with his longsword.
• Bellatrix Lestrange began casting the Cruciatus Curse, but Neville used the Knockback Jinx to hurl his longsword, splitting her wand and cutting off three fingers.
• Neville summoned the sword back, wounding Bellatrix Lestrange again, but Barty Crouch Jr. transformed the blade into a python and challenged him.

Neville fought Barty Crouch Jr. and Bellatrix Lestrange inside the Twelfth Path, where the lingering malice of the Cruciatus Curse shaped his enemies. As Neville fell into danger, Wizet explained that the path’s Justice would weigh the struggle and that Frank and Alice could help him.

• Neville used a python, a Confundus Charm, and a Summoning Charm to wound Barty Crouch Jr. with a longsword.
• Barty Crouch Jr. trapped Neville with suits of armor and repeatedly cast Expelliarmus to wear down his spell-resistant cloak.
• Bellatrix Lestrange returned with a wand and began casting the Killing Curse at Neville.
• In the treatment room, Wizet told Augusta Longbottom that Neville was fighting the Cruciatus Curse’s lingering effects and the Death Eaters’ malice.
• Wizet explained that Justice would weigh the battle and that Frank and Alice could aid Neville through Soul Healing Technique treatment.

Neville's parents intervened when Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. attacked him in the interrogation room. Alice Longbottom shielded Neville, and the fight continued with Neville charging Rodolphus Lestrange and then targeting Bellatrix Lestrange.

• Bellatrix Lestrange returned and tried to cast the Killing Curse at Neville, but Alice Longbottom stunned her while Frank Longbottom freed Neville from his restraints.
• Barty Crouch Jr. turned the torture instruments into vines to capture Neville, but an unseen male voice cut the vines apart and sent fragments flying at him.
• Alice Longbottom blocked Bellatrix Lestrange's Blasting Curse and stood in front of Neville, who cried out to his mother.
• Alice Longbottom fought Bellatrix Lestrange and dodged Rodolphus Lestrange's Skin Rot Curse, while Neville stunned Rodolphus Lestrange and Bellatrix Lestrange turned the floor into quicksand.
• Neville drew a second longsword and charged Rodolphus Lestrange, then hurled his sword at Bellatrix Lestrange while casting the Knockback Jinx.

Neville and his parents defeated the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr. after Alice and Frank regained their strength. The family reunited in tears, with Alice holding the grown Neville and marveling at what her child had become.

• Bellatrix destroyed Neville’s thrown longsword while Rodolphus’s Killing Curse missed him, and Alice knocked Bellatrix down with a spell.
• Neville bound Rodolphus with a Full Body-Bind Curse as Alice struck him with a Reductor Curse, causing him to crumble into particles; Neville then stunned Bellatrix, and Alice destroyed her as well.
• Alice impeded Barty Crouch Jr. during his duel with Frank, and she and Frank destroyed him with Reductor Curses after Frank stunned him.
• Neville warned Frank and Alice that Rabastan Lestrange was outside, but they found him still unconscious, and Alice destroyed him with a Reductor Curse.
• Neville rushed into Alice’s arms and sobbed as she held him, and Frank embraced them both.

Neville convinced his parents, Alice Longbottom and Frank Longbottom, that they were alive and that he had entered their memories to help treat the effects of the Cruciatus Curse. They held the pupae Wizet had provided, and the lights from them began pulling them back toward reality.

• Neville realized his parents thought their reunion was an imagined final memory and told them they were alive and recovering at St. Mungo's.
• Neville reassured Alice Longbottom and Frank Longbottom by recalling visits, family details, and events from his life at Hogwarts.
• Neville explained that Wizet had designed the treatment plan and described Wizet's many achievements.
• Neville gave Alice Longbottom and Frank Longbottom three pupae and told them to hold them to return to reality.
• The pupae released lights that entered their chests and began drawing them upward.

Neville crossed the Beauty Sephirah with his parents and encountered a faceless figure whose memories revealed him repeatedly calling himself useless. As Neville questioned whether those memories were truly his, the figure appeared in a Potions lesson, where he insisted he had never felt that way during his first class with Snape.

• Neville introduced Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom to the Twelfth Path and the Beauty Sephirah, then became transfixed by a faceless figure.
• The figure relived Enid criticizing him for failing to perform the Levitation Charm, while Augusta comforted him and told him to straighten his back.
• Neville heard a memory of Algie questioning whether he should be examined by a Healer, and Augusta defended Neville after his lack of a magical outburst.
• The figure remembered triggering a magical outburst after Algie dangled him by his ankles, and Neville wondered whether he had called himself useless beforehand.
• The figure cried over a ruined potion while Snape berated him, but Neville was certain he had never wanted to drop out during his first Potions Class.

Neville confronted a shadowy figure that embodied his fears and self-doubt, which claimed to be his true self. Neville accepted that fear was one part of him, not all of him, and resolved to keep moving forward with help from his friends.

• Neville watched a figure relive his humiliating Flying Class accident, forgotten password, and punishment alongside Harry, then realized the figure looked exactly like him.
• The figure told Neville that he had always thought himself useless and lonely, and Neville struggled to distinguish those thoughts from his memories.
• Neville resisted the figure’s claim that it was his true self and remembered Wizet’s lesson that a soul had many facets.
• Neville admitted that he was afraid of disappointing others but said he would keep trying and ask his friends for help when he failed.
• Neville explained that the figure was only one part of him, just as M.S.C. was made up of all its members.

As Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom's souls began healing, a magical fluctuation disrupted the treatment room. Wizet traced it to Neville in the Beauty Prima Materia and suspected he was experiencing a magical outburst.

• Galen Claudius observed that Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom's souls were drawing in the potion and their cracks were fading.
• Augusta Longbottom worried that Neville had encountered trouble on the Fourteenth Path, and Wizet explained how the cocoons were meant to protect him and guide him back.
• A magical fluctuation made the treatment room's objects and instruments float, while the reinforced Ritual Magic kept the passage stable.
• Wizet used Magic Eye to trace the fluctuation to Neville and recognized signs of a magical outburst.
• Augusta Longbottom asked if the disturbance was a magical outburst, and Daedalus Wellesley held his wand ready as he watched the floating instruments.

Galen Claudius questioned whether Neville’s condition was a magical outburst and warned that a Dark Magic creature might be involved, but the ritual ended without needing anyone to intervene. Three points of light entered Neville and his parents, and Neville woke to tell Augusta Longbottom that the treatment had worked.

• Galen Claudius said Neville’s condition might not be a magical outburst and raised the possibility of a magical creature parasitizing him.
• Hecate Graves recalled a young Selwyn patient who had suffered a magical outburst after being pressured and treated with Dark Magic.
• Galen Claudius and the others stayed alert but avoided intervening while the ritual continued.
• The magical fluctuations ended, the tree cocoon receded, and three points of light flew into Neville, Frank Longbottom, and Alice Longbottom.
• Hecate Graves declared the treatment a success, and Neville woke and excitedly told Augusta Longbottom that it had worked.

Neville and Augusta Longbottom witnessed Alice and Frank Longbottom wake from their long injuries, and Wizet spoke with Galen Claudius about Dark Magic creatures and their victims. Galen warned Wizet to keep secret that such creatures had caused deaths among Muggles and wizards.

• Alice Longbottom woke and called Neville's name, then Neville helped her sit up as Frank Longbottom also awoke.
• Wizet and the others left the treatment room so the Longbottom family could reunite privately, while Miriam Strout tearfully thanked Wizet.
• Galen Claudius discussed Dark Magic creatures with Wizet and praised Remus Lupin's expertise in treating their victims.
• Galen told Wizet that some apparent suicides were actually deaths caused by Dark Magic creatures, including attacks on Muggles.
• Galen warned Wizet to keep the cases secret because harm to Muggles was especially sensitive, and Wizet promised to do so.

Wizet proposed a potion formula that helped Galen Claudius treat Montgolfier’s severe allergic reaction to repeated Billywig stings. Galen praised the formula and agreed to co-author a paper with Wizet for Practical Potions Master.

• Montgolfier arrived at St. Mungo’s floating uncontrollably after developing an allergy to Billywig stings, while his son Jones pulled him with a rope.
• Galen Claudius recognized Montgolfier and warned that the reaction would be difficult to treat, then planned to ease his symptoms and keep him in the hospital.
• Wizet handed Galen a potion formula using Dismal Worm Syrup and other ingredients, and Galen concluded it could counteract the Billywig venom.
• Galen explained the potion’s risks to Montgolfier, who promised not to try making it at home.
• After Jones took Montgolfier out, Galen thanked Wizet and suggested publishing the formula in Practical Potions Master.
• Wizet agreed to co-author the paper with Galen.