Chapter Summaries

Wizet and Galen Claudius discussed why Dark Magic creatures were difficult to manage, and Galen described a patient parasitized by a creature called a Summers Island Sailor. Wizet devised a treatment ritual and quickly revised it into an approach close to the one Galen and Lupin had used.

• Wizet and Galen Claudius discussed how Dark Magic creatures differed from other magical beings and why their unpredictable habitats made them hard to manage.
• Galen told Wizet about a patient who dreamed nightly of a ghostly sailor from Summers Island and suffered painful swelling and abnormal growth on one side of his body.
• Galen explained that he and Mr. Lupin had identified the parasite as a Dark Magic creature they called a Summers Island Sailor.
• Wizet proposed a Ritual Magic spell using mist, a basin filled with Summers Island materials, and a compass to draw the creature in.
• Wizet revised the ritual to use a Smokescreen Charm, astonishing Galen, then asked whether the creature might resist it.

Wizet and Galen Claudius discussed a treatment for the Dark Magic creature known as the Summers Island Sailor and traced its origins to sailors lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Wizet proposed making the creature realize it was dead, and Galen offered to find out whether it still existed, despite the risks.

• Galen Claudius praised Wizet's treatment plan, which used a Smokescreen Charm to reduce the cost of driving the creature out.
• Galen explained that the Summers Island Sailor might be a vengeful spirit and reviewed Lyall Lupin's research into the patient's dreams.
• Wizet connected Summers Island to the Bermuda Islands and concluded that the creature had formed from sailors who perished in the Bermuda Triangle.
• Galen confirmed that Lupin had reached the same conclusion and said the spirit had parasitized the patient because it wanted to return to Summers Island.
• Wizet suggested making the spirit realize it was dead so it might collapse, and Galen warned of the danger before offering to ask whether the creature was still around.

Wizet learned from Galen Claudius how Dark Magic creatures appeared in patients and objects, including a typewriter animated by an obsession. The discussion led Wizet to consider how collective Muggle will could trigger powerful magic, and he planned to seek inspiration from Neville's family while preparing a research paper with Galen.

• Galen Claudius told Wizet that St. Mungo's and the Artifact Accidents Department had recently found their Dark Magic creatures gone from their containers.
• Galen described Muggle victims attacked by Dark Magic creatures and recalled a typewriter that had forced a patient to keep typing.
• Galen explained that Lyall Lupin believed the typewriter's creature had arisen from an obsession with work that was never published.
• Wizet connected Dark Magic creatures to Ritual Magic, emotions, and collective Muggle will, then planned to visit Neville's family for inspiration.
• Daedalus Wellesley invited Galen for a drink, but Galen declined so he could write a paper with Wizet.

Wizet and Xenophilius discussed Wizet’s recovery work at St. Mungo’s, then learned the Lovegoods would attend the funeral of Luna’s maternal grandfather. The Treadwells also wanted Wizet to come, leaving Xenophilius worried that the family would make a fuss over him.

• Xenophilius questioned how Wizet’s observation at St. Mungo’s had led to an honorary consultant title and the recovery of Frank and Alice Longbottom.
• Wizet credited Ms. Graves, the other helpers, and Luna’s candy-wrapper clue for helping him treat the Longbottoms.
• Xenophilius proposed an exclusive interview with St. Mungo’s and Frank Longbottom, and Wizet agreed to ask about it.
• Xenophilius explained that Pandora had been born into the old Treadwell family but had chosen to marry him despite her parents’ opposition.
• Xenophilius told Wizet that he and Luna would attend Pandora’s father’s funeral and planned to return within a few days.
• Luna learned that her grandmother wanted them to bring Wizet to the funeral so the Treadwells could get to know him.

Xenophilius kept the Treadwell family's request for the Lovegoods to attend the funeral from Wizet, while Luna recognized how much her father cared about him. At St. Mungo's, the Longbottoms thanked Wizet for helping restore their family, and Augusta turned the conversation toward Neville's experience in the Kabbalah Tree of Life.

• Xenophilius decided to keep the Treadwell family's funeral invitation and its insistence that the whole family attend a secret from Wizet.
• Luna told Xenophilius she understood his secret and said she would keep it from Wizet.
• Wizet returned to the fifth floor of St. Mungo's, where Neville welcomed him and led him to the ward where his family was gathered.
• Alice Longbottom and Frank Longbottom thanked Wizet for inventing the Soul Healing Technique and helping give them a new life.
• Wizet credited the Healers and Neville, who had entered the Ritual Magic to save his parents.
• Augusta Longbottom eased the family's emotional conversation and asked Wizet about the earlier magical riot and Neville's experience inside the Kabbalah Tree of Life.

Neville explained how a figure appeared during his return through Ritual Magic and helped him remember other possible versions of his life. After accepting the frightened figure as part of himself and introducing it to Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom, the figure called them Dad and Mum before disappearing.

• Neville told Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, Wizet, and Augusta Longbottom about the black sphere and the figure he encountered in Beauty Prima Materia.
• Neville recalled telling the figure that it was part of him, but not all of him, and then grabbing it when it tried to flee toward his parents.
• Alice Longbottom embraced Neville and apologized for not being there, while Frank Longbottom told him how much he had suffered.
• Neville reassured his parents that he would not run from magic and said the figure was also him, deserving acceptance rather than denial.
• Neville introduced the figure to Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom, and it called them Dad and Mum before disappearing.

Wizet explained how Neville’s suppressed emotions and the aftereffects of the Cruciatus Curse formed the figure he encountered during the ritual. The revelation led Wizet to realize something about the Inferius Curse, leaving the Longbottoms stunned.

• Wizet tested Neville with his Obscurus and confirmed that Neville was not an Obscurial.
• Wizet explained that Neville, Frank, and Alice had become parts of the ritual’s structure and that their souls had all suffered damage.
• Neville told Alice that his injured soul had worsened his memory but improved his concentration for certain spells.
• Wizet explained that the Death Eaters in the ritual represented the aftereffects of the Cruciatus Curse and that a black ball had taken the tree cocoon’s place in absorbing Neville’s injuries.
• Wizet said the black ball had fed on the curse’s aftereffects and grown into the figure, then connected this discovery to the Inferius Curse.

Neville reassured his parents about Dark Magic by conjuring a corporeal Patronus, allowing Wizet to explain the Inferius Curse and its connection to Necromancy. Wizet demonstrated that the curse could animate a scarab by stirring its experiences with magic, revealing that it need not be limited to human corpses.

• Neville told Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom he had learned the Blood-Draining Spell, then conjured a silver hedgehog Patronus to reassure them.
• Wizet explained that Necromancy had many forms because wizards created Inferi for different purposes, and Frank Longbottom described how Inferi could be used in ambushes.
• Wizet showed that the Inferius Curse's wand movement traced parts of the Kabbalah Tree of Life and cast the spell on a scarab, which began flying.
• Wizet explained that the curse stirred a target's experiences with the caster's magic, allowing even a scarab to become an Inferius.

Wizet explained how the Beauty Prima Materia acts as a mirror for self-understanding and how the Inferius Curse uses a similar principle to animate a corpse. Neville understood that an Inferius only contains an empty imitation of a soul, and Wizet left the group with the distinction between that imitation and a living soul.

• Neville asked Wizet why an Inferius could move after being stirred by the curse, and Wizet prompted him to apply the idea of similarity from Sympathetic Magic.
• Wizet used the Kabbalah Tree of Life to explain its four worlds and described the dashed line beside the Beauty Prima Materia as a mirror.
• Neville realized that accepting the figure reflected by the Beauty Prima Materia meant accepting a hidden part of himself.
• Wizet explained that a corpse retains experiences after its soul is gone, and that the Inferius Curse stirs those remnants with the caster's malice and Dark Magic.
• Wizet said the Beauty Prima Materia reflects the remnants into an empty imitation of a soul, leaving an Inferius unable to truly live and vulnerable to its many weaknesses.

Wizet explained that Neville’s improved Patronus showed he had accepted the figure within his Beauty Prima Materia and that his magical disturbance was a magical outburst. Neville’s parents learned that his study of Dark Magic focused on applying it to Herbology, and Neville explained Wizet’s method of balancing his studies by using other subjects to strengthen his specialty.

• Wizet told Neville and the Longbottom family that Neville’s Patronus had improved and that his treatment-room disturbance was a magical outburst.
• After Wizet left, Neville wrote down his insights about the Inferius Curse, and Alice Longbottom warned him that Dark Magic could harm its caster.
• Neville explained that he had used the Blood-Draining Spell to study magical plants and improve the success of cuttings and layering.
• Frank Longbottom realized Neville intended to use the Inferius Curse for Herbology research, not for the purpose his parents had feared.
• Neville described Wizet’s study method as a tree absorbing nutrients from other subjects and returning knowledge through its fallen leaves.

Neville discussed using the Inferius Curse and Ritual Magic to calm aggressive magical plants, while Frank and Alice reconciled themselves to the time they had lost with him. As Wizet reviewed his old notes, he discovered that the symbols on the Emerald Tablet rubbing had begun moving and prepared a safety measure before studying it again.

• Neville told Frank and Alice that he hoped to use the Inferius Curse, Beauty Prima Materia, and Ritual Magic to calm aggressive magical plants, though he had not worked out the method yet.
• Augusta urged Frank and Alice to focus on the present and remember that their regrets would become only a small part of a long future.
• Wizet sorted his research materials while Luna wrote to him from the Treadwell family funeral, where the family treated her and Xenophilius with unexpected respect.
• Wizet examined the Emerald Tablet rubbing and recalled that it acted like a Two-way Mirror to the original, allowing it to enlighten a viewer's understanding of magic.
• When the rubbing's symbols began moving, Wizet set it down and prepared a magical item containing a General Counter-Spell and Soul-Soothing Potion before looking again.

Wizet focused on the Emerald Tablet rubbing and witnessed its symbols transform into a cosmic figure, which he touched before it vanished. The rubbing became ordinary parchment bearing the words, “As above, so below; as within, so without.”

• Wizet concentrated on the Emerald Tablet rubbing as its patterns floated in darkness and formed symbols associated with Ritual Magic.
• The symbols arranged themselves into spinning shapes that Wizet perceived as star clusters and nebulae.
• A figure filled with the universe appeared before Wizet and extended a finger toward him.
• Wizet extended his own finger and touched the figure, which dispersed into the darkness.
• Light returned to the ward, and Wizet found that the rubbing had become ordinary parchment bearing a single passage of writing.

Wizet was drawn into a strange meeting with the god Hermes Trismegistus, who explained that Wizet and others possessed full authority over the place where they spoke. Their conversation continued with Wizet asking about Hermes’s connection to Odin.

• The Emerald Tablet copy sent Wizet toward the Otherworld, but the force carrying him vanished and Hermes Trismegistus appeared.
• Hermes identified himself as a god and warned Wizet not to speak aloud about what he had deduced, prompting Wizet to recognize the Reverse-Vision Method.
• Hermes and Wizet agreed to ask and answer three questions each.
• Wizet asked how much authority they possessed in the place, and Hermes said they possessed all authority there.
• Wizet explained that he wanted to know Hermes’s attitude before trusting him, then asked whether Hermes was connected to Odin.

Wizet questioned Hermes Trismegistus about their shared origins and the past conflict between flame and rock. Hermes confirmed that the surviving rock was gathering embers to suppress change, leaving Wizet with a clearer picture of the force behind the conflict.

• Wizet reasoned that Odin and Hermes Trismegistus shared an origin and that the objects in the Departments of Mysteries were gifts from Hermes; Hermes confirmed his conjecture.
• Wizet said he followed his own will and treated learning and overcoming obstacles as his mission, satisfying Hermes's concerns about whether his path had been arranged for him.
• Hermes admitted that the limit of three questions was a joke and explained that he had wanted to see whether Wizet would be burdened by the outside world.
• Hermes described how flames and rocks shared an origin, but the rocks feared the flames' changes and attacked them, leaving only embers and one rock.
• Wizet guessed that the surviving rock intended to collect the embers, and Hermes confirmed that it sought to extinguish change and adorn itself with the embers.

Wizet and Hermes Trismegistus discovered that the Skeleton Figure was nearing the Otherworld and planned to slow its contamination by secretly attacking it. Hermes used Wizet’s stored Ancient Magic Power to strike the figure, then sent Wizet back before they could learn the result.

• Hermes Trismegistus noticed the Skeleton Figure approaching and used his staff to hide Wizet and himself from it.
• Hermes explained that the figure’s presence showed it was wary of the place and warned that it would be the first to contaminate the Otherworld.
• Wizet proposed injuring the Skeleton Figure to prove it could be harmed and slow its contamination.
• Wizet summoned the Wizard's Practical Guide, and Hermes used its stored Ancient Magic Power to attack the Skeleton Figure without leaving visible traces.
• Hermes told Wizet that the result would not be known immediately and sent him back to continue following his own path.

After returning from the Otherworld, Wizet considered what Hermes Trismegistus had revealed about the Skeleton Figure and recorded the information for future use. He then interpreted the Emerald Tablet’s maxim as a guide to Animagus transformation, explaining how the spirit, soul, and body worked together to shape the process.

• Wizet woke from his Otherworld encounter and recalled Hermes Trismegistus’s cryptic account of the Skeleton Figure and its threat to those who knew the past.
• Wizet concluded that Hermes Trismegistus and his companions had created the Otherworld as a public repository of wisdom, which the Skeleton Figure had tried to corrupt.
• Wizet read the Emerald Tablet’s maxim and understood that its revealed wisdom reflected each observer’s magical path.
• Wizet applied “As within, so without” to explain why an Animagus’s animal form was determined by the soul and matched their corporeal Patronus.
• Wizet applied “As above, so below” to explain how the spirit, soul, and body had to cooperate to complete an Animagus transformation.
• Wizet described the Animagus process as alchemy, with the potion as its medium, daily incantations as its magic circle, patience and focus as its operation, and a thunderstorm as its catalyst.

Wizet sought Agnes's medical records to develop a treatment for the effects of her failed Animagus transformation. The records showed that Agnes's animal instincts were taking over more often, and Miriam Strout recalled the robe Agnes had worn when she was admitted.

• Wizet decided to investigate Agnes's condition and draft a treatment plan based on his understanding of Animagus transformation.
• At Hecate Graves's consulting room, Wizet learned that St. Mungo's was willing to be interviewed and asked to see Agnes's medical records.
• Hecate Graves told Wizet that Miriam Strout had the records, so he met Miriam in the sixth-floor tearoom.
• Wizet reviewed the records and learned that Agnes's animal-instinct episodes had grown more frequent, from once a month to once a week, with a possible episode twice in the latest week.
• Miriam warned that Agnes's animal instincts might eventually take complete control, then recalled that Agnes had worn a polka-dot robe when she was admitted and that it was stored in the Janus Thickey Ward.

Wizet explained to Miriam Strout that Agnes’s failed Animagus transformation was caused by Baruffio’s Brain Elixir disrupting the balance between her soul and animal instinct. Agnes remained trapped in an unfinished transformation, and Wizet began refining a treatment plan.

• Miriam Strout answered Wizet’s questions about Agnes and described her cautious nature and preparation for the transformation.
• Miriam told Wizet that Agnes had taken Baruffio’s Brain Elixir to strengthen her resolve before drinking the Animagus potion.
• Wizet said the Elixir had caused Agnes’s soul to restrain animal instinct too early, leaving her clothes untransformed and derailing the process.
• Wizet explained Animagus transformation as a tug-of-war between the transformer’s soul and animal instinct, with Agnes trapped in a stalemate between them.
• Miriam understood Agnes’s condition, and Wizet confirmed her explanation while refining a treatment plan.

Wizet completed a treatment plan to restore Agnes’s appearance after her Animagus practice failed, using a mature Mandrake leaf, her original clothes, a mirror, and lightning during a thunderstorm. Miriam Strout approved the plan but remained curious about how lightning would help Agnes.

• Wizet used Miriam Strout’s information to devise a three-step treatment plan for Agnes based on Animagus magic and the maxims of the Emerald Tablet.
• Wizet explained that Agnes would use a mature Mandrake leaf and her original clothes before a mirror, then have a healer direct lightning toward it to trigger her return to her original appearance.
• Miriam Strout was amazed by the plan’s simplicity, low cost, and speed, and said she thought Agnes’s family could understand it.
• Miriam Strout asked why lightning could help Agnes, and Wizet said he had only recently recognized its role and would write to her after he understood it better.

After recovering from his work at St. Mungo’s, Wizet spent a leisurely morning with Luna before Fred and George arrived with news and plans. The group discussed strange hospital cases and considered whether to fly to France by plane or travel by Portkey.

• Dobby served Wizet a lavish dinner and a hearty breakfast after Wizet returned home from St. Mungo’s.
• Wizet and Luna took a stroll together and talked about Luna’s recent visit with the Treadwell family.
• Fred and George Apparated to Wizet and Luna with a fart-like sound and teased them about walking arm in arm.
• Wizet offered Fred and George stories about strange cases and treatments at St. Mungo’s, and George accepted a copied notebook for their Skiving Snackboxes plans.
• Fred and George told Wizet and Luna that Harry wanted to fly to France by plane, and they asked what form of transport the pair preferred.