Chapter Summaries

Wizet spoke with Rita Skeeter, who warned him that Muggle representatives might question him during the awards ceremony and that trouble could arise. He joined Luna and the others for the conference security check, where the Diricawl and little Thunderbird greeted him.

• Hagrid introduced Mrs. Granger to the Diricawls and explained how they vanished to escape danger.
• Rita Skeeter asked Wizet to talk privately and told him that tensions between wizards and Muggles were growing.
• Rita warned Wizet that Muggle representatives might ask him questions during his awards ceremony speech and hinted that trouble could occur.
• Wizet followed the signs to the main hall and joined Luna and the others in the security-check line.
• The Diricawl popped into Wizet's arms while the little Thunderbird circled overhead and called to him.

Wizet learned that trouble might arise during the awards ceremony and asked Hagrid to bring him an olive branch. At Beauxbatons' Great Hall, he spoke with Jacob Kowalski about warnings and magical contracts, leaving the question of whether the contracts bound one or both parties unanswered.

• Hagrid worried that Rita Skeeter had troubled Wizet, and Wizet explained that she had warned him someone might cause trouble during the awards ceremony.
• Wizet asked Hagrid to find an olive branch, and Fleur Delacour agreed that Hagrid could pick one from the garden for Barry to deliver.
• Fleur Delacour led Wizet and the others into Beauxbatons' Great Hall, where magical and Muggle representatives sat separately and mostly spoke among themselves.
• Jacob Kowalski greeted Wizet, who explained that they had avoided reporters by traveling without magic.
• Percy Weasley told Wizet he had collected contact details and messages from department heads but had left the materials at the hotel.
• Jacob Kowalski warned Wizet that Muggles might cause trouble, and Wizet asked whether the magical contracts were one-sided or bound both parties.

Jacob Kowalski warned Wizet that Muggles could use others to evade the magical contract and explained his fears that the Muggle world might expose the magical world. The meeting began as Dumbledore arrived with five Muggles, while Wizet’s friends expressed confidence in him.

• Jacob Kowalski warned Wizet that influential Muggles could have others act against the magical world despite the contract.
• Jacob Kowalski described his fears after seeing North America's military dominance and worried that the magical world could be exposed.
• Wizet showed that he understood Kowalski's concern and noted that Chairman Graves likely faced difficulties dealing with President Bill.
• Jacob Kowalski told Wizet that President Bill wanted to interfere with Ilvermorny's educational reform before Barty Crouch Sr. announced the meeting was about to begin.
• Dumbledore arrived with five Muggles, and Harry, Hermione, Fred, George, and Neville gathered around Wizet and voiced confidence in him.

At the International Confederation of Wizards Conference, Dumbledore called for cooperation between magical and Muggle communities and announced plans for educational inspectors. Wizet and the others learned that Arthur Weasley and Quirinus Quirrell had been nominated, leaving Wizet to suspect that Quirrell was studying under Nicolas Flamel to control the Philosopher's Stone.

• Harry, Ginny, and Ron struggled to stay awake during the conference, while Sirius shielded Harry and Ginny with a flower basket and Percy woke Ron.
• Dumbledore urged the delegates to choose understanding and tolerance over fear and renewed conflict, crediting Wizet and the others for winning this opportunity.
• Dumbledore announced that magical and Muggle representatives would observe and study one another's schools as educational inspectors.
• Ron heard Dumbledore name Arthur Weasley as a nominee and learned that the England Ministry of Magic had recommended his father.
• Dumbledore named Quirinus Quirrell as a nominee from the French Ministry of Magic, surprising Wizet and Harry's group.
• Wizet recalled that Dumbledore had said Quirrell needed to study under Nicolas Flamel to control the Philosopher's Stone.

Wizet considered Nicolas Flamel’s role in France’s push for reform and listened as Dumbledore announced the Educational Investigator nominees. The conference ended with Dumbledore inviting the heroes of the Paris Region Incident forward, leaving Ron nervous about their upcoming appearance.

• Wizet reasoned that Nicolas Flamel had likely helped nominate Quirinus Quirrell to encourage reform and exchange in the French wizarding world.
• Dumbledore read the second list of nominees, and Percy Weasley was shocked to learn that he had been selected as an Educational Investigator.
• Dumbledore praised the exchange plan and called for the wizards to unite toward a better future, drawing applause from the Beauxbatons Great Hall.
• Dumbledore invited the heroes of the Paris Region Incident forward, and Ron grew anxious as Fred and George teased him with ideas for making an entrance.

Wizet suggested using a nuclear bomb to deter troublemakers, while Harry, Ron, and their friends received Medals of Bravery and listened to Wizet’s acceptance speech. As Wizet was leaving the podium, a Muggle representative unexpectedly asked to question him, leaving the conference hall waiting for his response.

• Wizet gestured toward the reporters as he proposed a new idea, and Fred and George realized he meant the nuclear bomb on the moon.
• Ron and the others received Medals of Bravery, which Percy confirmed were equivalent to Orders of Merlin, First Class.
• Wizet delivered his prepared speech of thanks, praising courage and dedication and calling for understanding and orderly communication.
• Harry wondered whether the warning that someone would cause trouble for Wizet had been false, while Percy urged everyone to leave calmly.
• A Muggle representative interrupted Wizet as he prepared to leave and asked whether he would answer some questions.

At the International Confederation of Wizards Conference, William Walker argued that Muggle global communications offered a better path to the future than wizarding message delivery. Wizet questioned the limits of that system and broadened the debate to accuracy, security, and what communication could carry, leaving Walker uncertain how to respond.

• Fred and George joked that Harry should take a part-time job as a Divination professor after his warning about trouble came true.
• William Walker claimed that Muggle global communications were faster and more reliable than messages carried by owls.
• Wizet asked Walker to identify himself, then confirmed that he had claimed to offer efficient, rapid communication worldwide.
• Wizet pointed out that phone signals might not reach a mountain summit, and Walker admitted they would not.
• Wizet acknowledged that owls were slower but asked whether communication also required accuracy, security, and the ability to transmit different kinds of things.

Wizet redirected William Walker’s criticism of wizarding communication toward cooperation between Muggle and magical methods. William accepted Wizet’s olive branch and agreed to give their mutual understanding time to grow.

• Jacob Kowalski and Barty Crouch Sr. recognized that Wizet had reframed the debate rather than merely defending owls.
• Wizet explained that owls could deliver people and supplies to hard-to-find locations, then proposed combining magical and Muggle communication for disaster rescue.
• Wizet described the Floo Network and Two-way Mirrors as further magical communication methods and offered William Walker an olive branch.
• Wizards and Muggle representatives reacted to Wizet’s proposal while Rita Skeeter hurried from the hall with photographs and a draft.
• William Walker took the olive branch and declared that they were willing to wait for the fruit to ripen.

Wizet and Luna stayed at Beauxbatons after the conference, where students admired newspaper coverage of Wizet’s debate with William Walker. Madame Maxime interrupted their library visit to ask for help with President Jacques’s eldest daughter, who was showing symptoms believed to be caused by magic.

• Beauxbatons students read glowing coverage of Wizet’s olive-branch gesture to William Walker and searched the school for him.
• Wizet and Luna went to the library, where students mistook them for someone else and muttered, “Ah! It’s not him!”
• Madame Maxime hurried to the library and asked Wizet and Luna for help with a serious matter.
• Madame Maxime explained that President Jacques feared magic had affected his eldest daughter and caused strange, possibly evil symptoms.
• Madame Maxime said President Jacques had sent his daughter to Saint Landry, France’s magical hospital, because the symptoms seemed like life-force absorption.

Madame Maxime brought Wizet and Luna to St. Landry's Hospital to investigate Laurence Jacques's life-force absorption and transformation. Wizet concluded that Laurence was likely a Squib mistaken for a Muggle, and her condition resembled a hereditary family curse.

• Madame Maxime told Wizet that Laurence, President Jacques's eldest daughter, absorbed life force and had grown larger and developed white fur.
• Madame Maxime took Wizet and Luna by Portkey to St. Landry's Hospital in a Paris opera house.
• Madame Maxime explained that Galen Claudius had recommended Wizet to help investigate Laurence's rare condition.
• Healer Antoine Martin said the Patronus Charm had slowed Laurence's symptoms, but her condition resembled a hereditary family curse despite her family being Muggles.
• Wizet reasoned that Laurence was probably a Squib mistaken for a Muggle.

Wizet investigated Laurence’s anorexia and unusual magical circuits, following Luna’s clue that the mysterious hair on her body felt like Abraxan hair to a possible connection with extinct Pegasus. He arranged a test using River Lethe water and alfalfa, suspecting Pegasus may have depended on the river water and become extinct when it ran dry.

• Antoine Martin gave Wizet Laurence’s medical record, which revealed that she had survived a fall from the sixth floor and was likely a Squib raised as a Muggle.
• Wizet examined Laurence with the Magic Eye and found unusual Magic Circuits, then agreed with Antoine that her anorexia might be a hereditary family curse.
• Luna touched Laurence’s arm and said her hair felt like Abraxan hair, leading Wizet to suspect a connection to Pegasus.
• Madame Maxime explained that Pegasus was an extinct ancient winged horse whose blood made Abraxans grow large.
• Wizet asked Antoine to bring River Lethe water and alfalfa so he could test his theory, and Antoine left to obtain them.
• Wizet and Madame Maxime connected ancient accounts of scarce River Lethe water and Pegasus mane hair to the possibility that Pegasus had depended on the water to survive.

Wizet confirmed that Laurence’s curse was linked to Pegasus bloodline power and that River Lethe water and clover could help treat her. He proposed making a Voodoo Doll, but Madame Maxime questioned whether they had enough time given Laurence’s urgent condition.

• Wizet inspected the River Lethe water and clover, then brewed a potion while Antoine Martin watched.
• Laurence awoke and drank the potion by burying her lips in the cup, confirming Wizet’s deduction.
• Wizet explained that Laurence’s bloodline power was excessively vigorous and wrote Antoine Martin a treatment plan using additional materials.
• Wizet admitted to Madame Maxime that he planned to make a Voodoo Doll to alleviate Laurence’s curse.
• Madame Maxime warned that making such a Voodoo Doll could take too long for Laurence’s urgent condition.

Wizet prepared a temporary Voodoo Doll and a magical environment to weaken Laurence’s bloodline power, while Madame Maxime learned that he had already obtained an Emerald Tablet maxim. The treatment proceeded smoothly, but Antoine Martin noticed the hospital bed physically growing as Laurence shrank and the doll expanded.

• Wizet explained that he would make a temporary Voodoo Doll specifically to weaken Madame Laurence’s bloodline power.
• Madame Maxime asked whether Wizet had obtained an Emerald Tablet maxim, and he confirmed that he had.
• Antoine Martin brought the requested materials into the ward after the director authorized resources for Laurence’s treatment.
• Wizet and the healers prepared an environment using River Lethe water and clover, then placed Laurence’s hair in the temporary Voodoo Doll.
• Wizet cut Laurence’s wrist, and Luna placed the doll over the wound as the treatment began smoothly.
• Laurence shrank as the doll swelled and grew white hair, while Antoine Martin saw the hospital bed physically grow larger.

Wizet’s treatment of Laurence’s curse triggered repeated magical outbursts, convincing Antoine Martin and Madame Maxime that Laurence was a nearly thirty-year-old wizard rather than a Muggle. Antoine fainted, and the chapter ended with news that President Jacques had arrived to visit Laurence.

• Antoine Martin saw the ward’s abnormal changes end and realized they might have been caused by Laurence’s magical outburst, though he tried to blame the Voodoo Doll.
• Wizet cut Laurence’s arm and the Voodoo Doll’s arm, then pressed the doll against her wound while Luna protected the hospital bed with Salvio Hexia.
• The ward’s objects swelled and shrank again as Laurence’s magical outburst continued, and Antoine Martin fainted after realizing she was a wizard.
• Madame Maxime caught Antoine Martin and voiced her disbelief that a Muggle nearly thirty years old could have a magical outburst.
• Luna said Laurence was late to begin learning magic but could still do so, then someone announced that President Jacques had arrived to visit her.

Wizet told President Jacques that Laurence had recovered and become a witch, explaining that her anorexia came from an ancient curse in her Pegasus bloodline. He left President Jacques trying to understand how the hereditary curse had affected his family.

• Madame Maxime agreed with Wizet that they should tell President Jacques the truth about Laurence’s magical awakening.
• Wizet asked to speak with President Jacques and was allowed to explain Laurence’s condition.
• Wizet told President Jacques that Laurence had recovered and was now a witch who could perform magic.
• Wizet explained that Laurence’s anorexia came from a hereditary curse linked to Pegasus blood, not necessarily to dark wizards.
• President Jacques struggled to understand how the ancient bloodline curse had been passed down to Laurence.

Wizet explained how Bloody Mary had intensified Laurence’s hereditary curse, and Laurence woke to discover that she had recovered and become a wizard. He then asked President Jacques to keep Laurence’s condition and new status confidential for the time being.

• Wizet explained that Bloody Mary had amplified negative emotions and strengthened Laurence’s hereditary curse, causing her to absorb life force.
• Laurence woke and feared she would hurt President Jacques, but realized her abnormality was gone and embraced him.
• Wizet told Laurence she was a wizard, and she stood and walked without assistance, confirming her recovery.
• Wizet told President Jacques that Laurence would need to study magic and asked him to keep everything about her confidential for now.

Wizet persuaded President Jacques to keep Laurence’s transformation secret, warning that revealing it could destabilize France and undo his agreement with President Boris. He then hinted that he planned to make more Muggles into wizards, leaving Jacques wondering whether he could become one too.

• Wizet explained that revealing Laurence’s wizard status could provoke public questions and disrupt President Jacques’s political agreements.
• President Jacques worried that the unconscious Antoine Martin had witnessed Laurence’s transformation, and Wizet suggested Antoine would be happy to forget it.
• Wizet said he expected to accomplish his goal before Laurence’s transformation was exposed.
• President Jacques realized Wizet’s plan might overcome the hereditary family curse and asked whether he could become a wizard.
• Wizet confirmed that Laurence would gain more companions once his plan was complete, while Madame Maxime nearly fainted at the prospect of turning more Muggles into wizards.

Wizet told President Jacques that his research into making Muggles into wizards had a high chance of success, and urged him to keep it secret while they gathered allies against the Isaiah Society. He left Laurence in Madame Maxime’s care to learn magic at Beauxbatons and erased Antoine Martin’s memories without resistance.

• President Jacques asked Wizet whether he could become a wizard, and Wizet said the chances were high but asked him to keep the research confidential.
• Wizet explained that the Isaiah Society might spread fear and conflict, so he planned to gather more companions and secure a place in the changing order between magical and Muggle worlds.
• President Jacques agreed to keep the secret and asked what would happen to Laurence while the research continued.
• Madame Maxime claimed responsibility for teaching Laurence magic at Beauxbatons, and Wizet agreed.
• Wizet asked Antoine Martin to accept the arrangement, and Antoine agreed before Wizet cast Obliviate without sensing resistance.

Terry Boot, Michael Corner, and Chris Moen discussed Cornelius Fudge’s resignation and Wizet’s recent travels before discovering that Anthony Goldstein had become a Ravenclaw prefect. The chapter ended with the boys wondering who else had received prefect badges and joking about a possible duel.

• Terry Boot, Michael Corner, and Chris Moen discussed Fudge’s resignation and his visits to St. Mungo’s.
• Terry admitted that he had sent Fudge Tumor Powder, which he bought from M.S.C.
• The boys praised Wizet and discussed the Medal of Bravery Harry and the others had received from the French Ministry of Magic.
• Anthony Goldstein joined the compartment, and Michael, Terry, and Chris noticed his Hogwarts Prefect Badge.
• Michael said he had heard Padma might also be a prefect, while the boys guessed that Hermione and Harry were Gryffindor’s prefects.
• Anthony joked that Terry might have to duel him if he kept staring at his badge.

Anthony revealed that Wizet had become Hogwarts’ Head Boy, likely as the only one this year, and explained why the usual prefect and seventh-year requirements did not apply. He then suggested Dumbledore would introduce the Educational Inspectors at the start-of-term feast.

• Anthony explained that his hint about “criticism” meant he had earned the Prefect Badge, and confirmed that Wizet was already Head Boy.
• Anthony told Terry, Michael, and Chris that Head Boy selection depended more on influence and ability than on the usual prefect and seventh-year requirements.
• Anthony said Wizet would probably be the only Head Boy or Head Girl this year, possibly to make communication easier.
• Anthony brought up the Educational Inspector issue and guessed that Dumbledore would introduce the inspectors at the start-of-term feast.