Chapter Summaries

Wizet met Oliver Wood at the park, where Wood invited him to watch a friendly Quidditch match against the Quiberon Quafflepunchers in France. During a theater performance, Luna sensed something strange about Gabriel Bernard, and Wizet saw a living tangle growing on him as Gabriel grimaced in pain.

• Wood told Wizet that his team had lost the professional Quidditch finals to the Fitchburg Finches and invited him to their friendly match against the Quiberon Quafflepunchers.
• Wood explained that the match would take place three days after the International Confederation of Wizards Conference began, and that Joseph planned to put him on the field.
• At the theater, Luna told Wizet that Gabriel Bernard felt strange to her, so Wizet examined Gabriel with Magic Eye and the Soul Stone monocle.
• Wizet saw a living tangle on Gabriel grow from the size of an ink bottle to the size of a fist as Gabriel's face twisted in pain.
• Wood and Claire noticed Gabriel's condition, and Wood drew his wand and anxiously asked Wizet what was wrong with El.

Wizet contained Gabriel Bernard, who was parasitized by a newly identified Dark Magic creature, inside a tiny glass statue and arranged to separate the creature from him. After Wood and Claire left for Claire’s home, Luna noted that Gabriel had seemed especially hostile toward Claire.

• As Gabriel Bernard lunged at Claire, Wizet used the Harmonic Space Charm to trap him in a palm-sized glass statue.
• Wizet told Claire that Gabriel was likely parasitized by a new kind of Dark Magic creature and needed to be moved somewhere safe for treatment.
• Wood and Claire chose Claire’s home as their destination, and Wizet gave Wood the glass statue and instructions for a Ritual Magic circle.
• Claire gave Wizet her address, and she and Wood Apparated away while Wizet prepared to find Jupiter.
• Luna remarked that Gabriel had seemed unusually hostile toward Claire, and Wizet agreed.

Wizet and Luna investigated a person parasitized by a Dark Magic creature and compared notes with Selina Pendragon, who had been extracting similar creatures. After Wizet recognized their containment artifact as a Horcrux and proposed improvements, he and Luna prepared to leave with the young Thunderbird to investigate why the creatures were appearing.

• Claire Bernard offered to treat Wizet at her uncle and aunt's home because she was worried about her cousin's safety.
• Wizet wrote to Selina Pendragon about the parasitized person, and she reported that her group had extracted fragile Dark Magic creatures and devised a way to preserve them.
• Wizet recognized that the group's artifact-making process was based on creating a Horcrux and explained that it could contain Dark Magic creatures.
• Selina Pendragon admitted that the artifact was a Horcrux, and Ominis Gaunt suggested asking Wizet to help improve the process and conserve materials for a worsening crisis.
• Wizet sent Selina an optimization plan, then told Luna that they could use her help to investigate why the Dark Magic creatures were being born.
• Wizet and Luna invited the young Thunderbird to leave with them, and it eagerly settled into Luna's arms.

Wizet and Luna used a ritual in Claire Bernard’s home to free Gabriel Bernard from a glass statue. The ritual drew strange markings from Gabriel into a net-like array, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Wizet and Luna arrived at Claire Bernard’s Paris home, where Oliver Wood warned them about using magic outside school.
• Wizet explained that Dumbledore had authorized their magic use and began preparing the ritual ingredients with his wand.
• Wizet sent Wood and Claire to wait in the kitchen and asked Luna to speak with Claire while he and Wood looked for clues.
• The ritual activated, consuming the ingredients and dissolving the glass statue to release an unconscious Gabriel Bernard.
• As dark markings covered Gabriel, Wizet lifted them from his body with the ritual array, gathering them into a net-like clump.

Wizet contained the dark magic creature parasitizing Gabriel Bernard and confirmed that Gabriel would recover after resting. He and Oliver Wood searched Gabriel’s room for clues about when the creature had appeared.

• Wizet used a Dementor Filament to contain the dark magic creature, completing the Ritual Magic.
• Claire Bernard and Oliver Wood moved the unconscious Gabriel to a sofa, and Wizet used a Patronus to examine his condition.
• Wizet told Claire that Gabriel’s vitality was intact and that his soul had sustained only slight damage, then gave him a Soul-Soothing Potion.
• Claire led Wizet and Oliver Wood to Gabriel’s room, where they found a poster for The X-Files and several electronic devices.
• Oliver Wood’s Tracking Charm found no recent magical traces, and Wizet concluded the creature’s parasitism had begun weeks earlier.

Morgana le Fay explained to Herpo how she had concealed her plans and prepared a mass attack using Muggle sacrifices and the eerie figures in the mirrors. She planned to strike when the International Confederation of Wizards Conference convened the next day, leaving the newly awakened Guardian and Hogwarts to discover the danger too late.

• Herpo told Morgana le Fay that the newly awakened Guardian had found the anomalies and separated the sacrifices from them.
• Morgana used a corpse as a specimen, and Herpo found no loss of life force in it before it crumbled to ash.
• Morgana revealed that the figures in the mirrors were the key to her plan and said she had moved them to a place with no magical traces.
• Morgana explained that she intended to make the authorities gather by overwhelming them with Muggle sacrifices, then wipe them out in one strike during the conference.
• Morgana told Herpo that modern Muggle ideas and concerns gave her opportunities to exploit.

Morgana le Fay and Herpo discussed their plan to use Voldemort and Muggle weapons to provoke a war between Muggles and wizards. In Paris, Wizet found a possible lead in Ritual Magic while investigating Gabriel Bernard's room with Wood.

• Morgana le Fay demanded that Herpo gather the magical materials and warned him against any mistakes, while Herpo threatened her to fulfill her objective.
• Morgana le Fay learned that Voldemort had been investigating a Muggle weapon of mass destruction in Kievan Rus and that Dumbledore was tracking him in Paris.
• Morgana le Fay said her dream showed that Voldemort would help ignite a war and that the weather remained suitable for her plan.
• Wood noticed a poster for The X-Files in Gabriel Bernard's room and recalled an episode about Muggles using Ritual Magic to awaken a demon.
• Wizet found a magazine clue and proposed that a Squib such as El could take part in Ritual Magic even without being able to cast spells.

Wizet explained to Wood how a non-magical person could become a participant in Ritual Magic and concluded that someone else had directed the ritual affecting Gabriel Bernard. After finding a black candle tied to the Bloody Countess, Wizet returned to the living room, where Gabriel awoke and was asked whether he recognized it.

• Wizet compared participating in Ritual Magic to helping Fred and George prank Flint with a Canary Cream, explaining how a participant could be mistaken for the one who orchestrated it.
• Wood realized that someone else might be controlling the Ritual Magic, and Wizet confirmed he was searching for that person.
• Wizet found a reference to the Bloody Countess in a magazine, and Wood connected it to the Muggle game Bloody Mary that Claire had mentioned.
• Wizet summoned a dusty black candle from a corner of the desk and took it back to the living room as a possible source of the ritual.
• Claire asked whether the creature was still in El's room, and Wizet told her it was gone and showed her the candle.
• Gabriel woke on the sofa, heard that he had been parasitized by a Dark Magic creature, and stood up without feeling injured; Wizet asked whether he recognized the candle.

Wizet investigated Gabriel’s missing memories of the party game “Bloody Countess” and confirmed that a Dark Magic creature had erased them. He left to study the creature further, while Claire prepared to send him information about “Puberty Crisis.”

• Gabriel could not remember whether he had played “Bloody Countess,” so he called his classmates to ask about the party.
• Claire learned that Gabriel and Aaron were the only ones who did not remember playing the game, and Wizet connected Aaron to the restaurant near Place de Furstenberg.
• Wizet examined Gabriel’s memories and found that the memories related to “Bloody Countess” had disappeared, though he said the loss would leave no lasting effects.
• Wizet declined Wood’s invitation to dinner because he needed to investigate the Dark Magic creature in the container.
• Wizet gave Claire an address so she could send him the information she was gathering about “Puberty Crisis.”

Wizet and Luna discussed Gabriel Bernard’s “puberty crisis,” and Luna’s Niffler analogy helped Wizet interpret the Dark Magic creature’s behavior. Wizet then learned from Selina Pendragon that the creature was interested in life force and might spread through the Muggle game “Bloody Mary,” prompting her to investigate the Isaiah Society’s involvement.

• Luna told Wizet that Gabriel Bernard had been upset after a rejected love letter, and his family had tried to help him through it privately.
• Luna compared the experience to a Niffler discovering a new mine, inspiring Wizet to see the Dark Magic creature as a manifestation of the fear and secrecy surrounding Gabriel’s puberty crisis.
• Wizet reasoned that the creature’s parasitic state represented a hidden secret and that theater stage lights had triggered its fear of exposure, causing it to attack Gabriel’s cousin.
• Wizet asked Selina Pendragon about her research, and she said the separated creatures reacted to life force but did not absorb it.
• Wizet told Selina that playing the Muggle party game “Bloody Mary” might parasitize people, citing two cases, including the restaurant owner’s son.
• Selina said the Isaiah Society was likely behind the practice and promised to investigate while asking Wizet to contact her if he needed help.

Wizet feared the Isaiah Society planned to use the parasitized students at the International Confederation of Wizards Conference to provoke a worldwide conflict between Muggles and wizards. After Luna and their friends offered to help, he prepared to tackle the crisis together with them.

• Wizet concluded that the Isaiah Society's next target was the International Confederation of Wizards Conference and that its larger aim might be a global Witch-Hunting War.
• Wizet weighed the difficulty of persuading the French Ministry of Magic and Muggle government to find and treat the thousands of students affected by the Bloody Mary Ritual Magic.
• After dinner, Wizet considered whether he could use consensus magic to prevent the crisis from turning Muggles and wizards against each other.
• Luna joined Wizet in the courtyard and reassured him that the Isaiah Society would not stump him.
• Wizet agreed with Luna to solve part of the problem, and Fred, George, Neville, Hannah, Harry, and Ron arrived to offer their help.

After hearing the group’s offers of help, Wizet told them what he had uncovered over the past three days, and they agreed to involve Headmaster Dumbledore. As everyone prepared to rest before taking action, Fred and George sniffed Wizet’s Soul-Soothing Potion and promptly fell asleep on beds woven from vines.

• Fred, George, Neville, Hannah, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Frank Longbottom, Sirius Black, and Luna offered Wizet their help and showed their trust in him.
• Wizet recounted everything that had happened during his investigation over the past three days, and the group reacted with resolve rather than fear.
• Frank Longbottom urged Wizet to inform Headmaster Dumbledore, and Wizet confirmed that he planned to contact him after investigating further.
• Wizet told everyone to rest while he contacted the others, but Fred and George protested that they would not be able to sleep.
• Wizet gave Fred a Soul-Soothing Potion, and Fred fell asleep; George sniffed the potion next and also collapsed onto a vine bed.

Wizet coordinated with Selina Pendragon to prepare two large-scale Ritual Magic Arrays and summon a storm in Paris to counter the Isaiah Society. Luna stayed beside him in the common room as he prepared to contact Dumbledore, leaving Wizet with her and the little Thunderbird for company.

• Wizet arranged with Selina Pendragon to extract the Dark Magic creatures during the morning rush hour and predicted the Isaiah Society would act in the evening.
• Wizet asked Selina to find wizards skilled in Weather-Changing Charms so they could bring storms to Paris and disrupt the Isaiah Society's clear skies.
• Wizet designed a second large-scale Ritual Magic Array to guard against the Isaiah Society's response, and Selina agreed to prepare both arrays and seek help from the Ministry of Magic.
• Wizet put away Selina Pendragon's notebook and took out Dumbledore's bookmark, but Luna joined him and asked to keep him company and make sure he did not overwork himself.

Wizet told Dumbledore about the Isaiah Society’s planned operation in Paris and received approval to carry out his unconventional plan, while Dumbledore promised to handle the consequences. At the underground base, Dumbledore informed Moody and the retired Aurors that the society’s plot could endanger tens of thousands of Muggles, leaving them appalled by its scale.

• Wizet and Luna contacted Dumbledore, who said he would not reach Paris until the following morning.
• Wizet described the Isaiah Society’s plans, his suspicions, and his proposed response to Dumbledore, who approved the plan and offered to address its consequences.
• Wizet confirmed that Selina Pendragon would arrange for people to find him and seek Ministry wizards skilled in Weather-Changing Charms.
• Wizet and Luna fell asleep together after Dumbledore wished them good night and warned that the next morning would be difficult.
• At the underground base, retired Aurors found dead Muggles in research and combat uniforms and concluded that Voldemort had left no survivors.
• Dumbledore told Moody and the retired Aurors that the Isaiah Society planned to use Dark Magic creatures in an operation that could affect tens of thousands of Muggles, and they reacted with fury.

Dumbledore and the Aurors decided to pursue cooperation with the Muggle governments, using evidence from the laboratory and drawing in the Far Eastern Ministry to convince the French President of Voldemort’s plans. Meanwhile, Wizet and Luna woke among their friends and Wizet used magic to ease everyone’s aches.

• Moody argued that relying on Muggle governments would fail, while Dumbledore insisted they should still consider cooperation.
• Dumbledore said he had faith in Wizet’s companions and proposed taking the Muggle researchers’ bodies as evidence to the Muggle government.
• Dumbledore planned to involve Minister Bonaparte and Minister Sergeyevich, hoping the Far Eastern Muggle President could help persuade the French President.
• Dumbledore reflected that he and the others needed to confront the source of the future that had frightened someone.
• Wizet and Luna woke from sleeping at the desk, sore and stiff, as Fred, George, and the others gathered around them.
• Wizet cast a spell that soothed everyone’s aches, prompting Fred and George to marvel at the magic.

Wizet briefed his allies on a dawn operation to expose and separate Dark Magic creatures across Greater Paris, while Charlotte Bonaccord and Vinda Rosier arrived to offer support. The plan was set for the morning rush hour, with the French Ministry able to provide only twenty wizards skilled in Weather-Changing Charms.

• Wizet told Fred, George, Harry, Hermione, Sirius Black, and Frank Longbottom that the operation would run from eight to nine in the morning.
• Wizet planned to bring a thunderstorm and heavy rain over Greater Paris to activate and separate the Dark Magic creatures.
• Wizet urged his allies to support one another through the enemies’ expected counterattack, and Fred and George eagerly agreed.
• Charlotte Bonaccord arrived, apologized for not discovering the plot behind the weather anomalies, and said Jacob had told him about Wizet’s findings.
• Vinda Rosier arrived after Selina Pendragon sent her to help Wizet and teased Charlotte Bonaccord about their family connection.
• Charlotte Bonaccord said the Ministry could assign twenty wizards skilled in Weather-Changing Charms and would supply magical artifacts for the rest.

Wizet explained his plan to use Thunderbirds and Weather-Changing Charms to bring rain, lightning, and thunder over the Paris region, stimulating parasitic Dark Magic creatures. Charlotte Bonaccord left to arrange help, while Wizet prepared Harry and the others for the plan’s next steps.

• Vinda Rosier showed Charlotte Bonaccord evidence of abnormalities among Muggles and Squibs throughout the Paris region, and he offered to seek Auror support.
• Wizet demonstrated how three Thunderbirds could draw rain clouds over the region, and Charlotte agreed to bring them over.
• Vinda Rosier hinted that Wizet was connected to the Thunderbirds, and Wizet understood her meaning.
• Wizet told Hermione, Fred, George, and Harry that changing the weather would produce intense light and thunder to stimulate the parasitic Dark Magic creatures.
• George suggested putting a dragon’s roar into fireworks, and Wizet introduced Vinda Rosier to Harry and the others.

Wenda Rosier gave the group magical communication pendants before they set off for Paris. At Calais, Wizet and Luna transformed Jupiter into a powerful Thunderbird and flew toward their meeting point while concealing their magic from the Isaiah Society.

• Wenda Rosier handed out communication pendants, and Harry tested his by speaking with Ron while Fred and George joked about the device.
• Wenda Rosier took Neville, Fred, George, and the others away with a belt-shaped Portkey.
• Wizet and Luna Apparated with Jupiter to a beach in Calais, where George contacted Wizet through his pendant.
• Wizet used Ancient Magic Power to enlarge Jupiter and cover it with a protective shell that would keep it from tiring or becoming hungry.
• Wizet cast a special Confundus Charm to hide Jupiter's control of the weather from the Isaiah Society's sea watchers.
• Wizet sent Jupiter toward Paris, and he and Luna transformed into Thunderbirds and flew off in different directions.

Charlotte Bonaccord and the French Ministry of Magic followed a golden Thunderbird as it gathered storm clouds and led them toward the Paris Region. Meanwhile, Morgana le Fay and the Isaiah Society discussed the next stage of their plan, which she intended to reveal at dusk.

• Charlotte Bonaccord spotted the Thunderbird at sunrise and ordered the French Ministry of Magic employees to follow it.
• The Thunderbird climbed into the sky and summoned thick storm clouds, while Charlotte Bonaccord and the employees used Weather-Changing Charms to guide them toward the Paris Region.
• The employees realized the Thunderbird could move the clouds without their help, but continued casting spells as they hurried after it.
• Adley Pratt and Calchas examined figures in six mirrors while Circe questioned Morgana le Fay about delaying the operation until dusk.
• Morgana le Fay dismissed the Guardians' efforts and said she would reveal what she had done at dusk.

Gregory warned the Isaiah Society that Vinda Rosier and the Guardians had found them and were preparing to bring rain to Paris. As the society argued over Morgana le Fay’s plan and Herpo’s intelligence suggested Albus Dumbledore was occupied, Calchas sensed the teams approaching a familiar tower.

• Gregory stumbled in and reported that Vinda Rosier had found them, the others had been caught, and fewer than twenty Guardians were preparing a Weather-Changing Charm.
• Morgana le Fay, Circe, Adley Pratt, Melvin, and Gregory argued over the plan and who deserved credit for keeping France sunny.
• Calchas foresaw three teams totaling more than fifty people moving through the wilderness and dark clouds gathering for heavy rain.
• Gregory questioned whether Albus Dumbledore might be with the Guardians, but Herpo said the conference was still scheduled to begin at nine.
• Calchas sensed a familiar tower in the distance as the Guardians approached.