Chapter Summaries

Wizet dominated the Ravenclaw-Gryffindor Quidditch match with professional techniques while Ron struggled to defend his shots. Harry caught the Golden Snitch, and Ravenclaw won 530–150.

• The High Inquisitors discussed Wizet’s professional skill and the physical demands of Quidditch.
• Wizet used a hovering instant burst and scored, bringing the score to 320.
• Fred and George encouraged Ron and persuaded McGonagall that the match could help him build determination.
• Wizet evaded the Gryffindor Chasers with a Whirlwind Turn Shot, and Ron missed the ball but seemed less upset.
• Harry caught the Golden Snitch, and Ravenclaw defeated Gryffindor 530–150.

After Gryffindor lost a Quidditch match against Wizet, Ron worried his teammates would remove him from the team, but Angelina instead decided to intensify their training. Ron was soon sent flying after a Bludger while Harry rode his Firebolt, as Professors McGonagall and Flitwick watched.

• Fred and George helped Ron after the match, and Ron realized his wrists did not hurt because he had barely touched Wizet's throws.
• Harry admitted he had been distracted by Wizet's flying and had delayed catching the Golden Snitch.
• Ron feared Angelina would kick him off the team, but she explained that Gryffindor was reviewing its failed Anti-Wizet tactics.
• Angelina decided to revise Wood's training plans and increase the team's training intensity.
• Fred sent Ron after a Bludger while Harry flew his Firebolt, and McGonagall and Flitwick watched them from the window.

Wizet met with Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, who demonstrated that the drawback preventing Animagi from casting magic had disappeared. The chapter left Wizet testing whether he could detect Professor McGonagall after she used a Disillusionment Charm.

• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick discussed Ron's improved confidence and Wizet's revised Patronus Charm notes.
• Wizet visited Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, and they shared tea and biscuits while discussing their discoveries.
• Professor McGonagall transformed into her tabby cat form and used magic to vanish and reappear, showing that the usual Animagus drawback had disappeared.
• Wizet examined Professor McGonagall with his wand, recognized that she had used an ordinary Animagus transformation, and earned five points for Ravenclaw.
• Professor McGonagall cast a Disillusionment Charm, and Wizet used Apparition Trace to search for her magical traces, but the golden powder revealed nothing.

Wizet tested Professor McGonagall’s enhanced Disillusionment Charm but could not detect her, prompting her to reveal herself and explain their research into Animagi. He independently identified the idea of using an anchor, and the professors began explaining how the Patronus Charm could help Animagi regain their ability to cast magic.

• Wizet tried increasingly obscure detection spells, and Professor McGonagall dispelled her Disillusionment Charm before he could uncover her location.
• Wizet praised the charm’s effectiveness and asked Professor McGonagall how she had achieved it.
• Professor McGonagall asked what defined wizards and why they could not cast magic in Animagus form, and Wizet reasoned that an anchor might counter animal instinct.
• Professor Flitwick confirmed that an anchor was central to their research and said another spell could restore an Animagus’s spellcasting ability.
• Professor McGonagall revealed that they had used the Patronus Charm, connecting the forms of a wizard’s Corporeal Patronus and Animagus through the concept of drawing analogies from categories and images.

Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick taught Wizet how the Patronus Charm and Animagus forms reflected a wizard’s soul, then demonstrated a method for using the Patronus as a guide during Animagus training. Wizet grasped the initial practice and began connecting the technique to casting other spells in Animagus form.

• Professor McGonagall explained that a Corporeal Patronus and an Animagus form came from aspects of the same wizard’s soul.
• Professor Flitwick recounted creating a bright light to guide a Muggle ship through thick fog, and used the experience to explain how the Patronus could guide Wizet through animal instinct.
• Professor McGonagall summoned a tabby cat Patronus and explained how Wizet should feel the joy and protective conviction behind the spell.
• Professor McGonagall transformed into a tabby cat beside her Patronus, demonstrating the connection between the two forms.
• Professor Flitwick explained that Wizet could first summon a Patronus before transforming, then later practice summoning one while already in Animagus form.
• Wizet suggested that Animagus Transfiguration might amplify spellcasting, linking the idea to why his detection spells had failed to reveal Professor McGonagall’s trail.

Wizet reviewed the Patronus and Animagus training methods before preparing to practice, while Professors McGonagall and Flitwick studied his notes and discussed how his ideas could refine their research. They agreed that Wizet was capable of advancing far with clear guidance, and he was left ready to begin his practice by the window.

• Professor Flitwick explained how a Confundus Charm could help Wizet enter the state needed to cast a Corporeal Patronus, then remove its effects safely.
• Wizet reviewed his notes and organized the steps for using a Patronus as an anchor during Animagus transformation.
• Wizet considered how mastering the exercise could let him cast spells in Animagus form and enhance certain spells after returning to human form.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick examined Wizet's Notebook and identified his observations about sunlight and detection spells as ways to improve their work.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick agreed that Wizet could make great progress if they provided clear guidance.

Wizet practiced casting a Patronus while in his Animagus forms, succeeding quickly as a Golden Eagle but struggling to summon one as an owl. He found a happy memory that let him cast the Owl Patronus, filling the office with silver light.

• Wizet transformed into his Golden Eagle Animagus form and used the Patronus Charm to strengthen his connection to the Golden Eagle Patronus.
• The Golden Eagle Patronus flew out the window and released a brilliant flash of silver light across the sky.
• Harry saw the silver flash during Quidditch practice, dodged a Bludger, and told Angelina he had seen a silver sun.
• McGonagall and Professor Flitwick watched Wizet succeed on his first attempt and remarked that the result exceeded expectations.
• Wizet transformed into his owl Animagus form but struggled to cast the Patronus Charm as the owl's instincts clouded his thoughts.
• Wizet recalled a girl telling him, "I'm your family," and cast the Owl Patronus, flooding the office with silver light.

Wizet quickly overcame his Animagus form’s animal instincts and produced a Corporeal Patronus, then explained how happy memories and their surroundings had helped him succeed. He left Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall curious about another part of his exercise, asking what drinks they wanted from the Three Broomsticks.

• Professor McGonagall estimated that Wizet would overcome his animal instincts before sunset, while she and Professor Flitwick recalled how quickly he had mastered the Patronus Charm before.
• Wizet’s owl form glowed silver and produced a complete Corporeal Patronus, while also casting the Preservation Charm and concealing a subtle Whirling Wind Surge.
• Wizet returned to human form and told the professors that sunlight and a deeply memorable happy scene had helped him break through his animal instincts.
• Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick praised Wizet for sharing an approach that helped fill a gap in their understanding of the Patronus Charm.
• Wizet asked the professors what they especially wanted to drink, suggesting beverages from the Three Broomsticks.

Wizet revealed to Professor Flitwick that he could transform into a phoenix and use its magical gifts, prompting the professors to urge him to protect the secret. As the three discussed their Patronus research, Wizet proposed developing a potion to make the process easier and recalled a potion with animal-like side effects.

• Wizet transformed into a phoenix Animagus and demonstrated how he could control nearby flames.
• Professor Flitwick warned Wizet that powerful wizards might target him and advised him to keep his phoenix form secret.
• Wizet Apparated within Hogwarts, and Professor McGonagall recognized that he could use a phoenix's magical ability.
• Wizet offered to fetch drinks from the Three Broomsticks while Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall shared their Patronus research with him.
• Wizet suggested using a potion to make their magical process easier and connected the idea to a potion that caused animal-like side effects when brewed incorrectly.

Wizet proposed using an incorrectly prepared Polyjuice Potion to help students sense their true selves while learning Animagus transformation. Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall found the idea feasible, but the method still needed development and a simple recovery spell.

• Professor Flitwick recognized that Wizet was asking about Polyjuice Potion, and he and Professor McGonagall reviewed its effects and risks.
• Wizet showed the professors his notes comparing Polyjuice Potion transformations with Animagus transformation and explained how changes in body shape and abilities could affect spellcasting.
• Wizet described Professor Moody's practical lesson, where students used Polyjuice Potion to experience different bodies and quickly adapt to them.
• Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall understood that Wizet wanted to use Polyjuice Potion's side effects to create a controllable accident that would help drinkers sense their true selves.
• Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall said the idea seemed feasible but would need a simple supporting spell to ensure drinkers could recover.

Wizet continued his magical research with two professors before Dumbledore invited him to view memories of Voldemort’s past. The memory brought them to a 1938 London orphanage, where young Dumbledore arrived to meet the orphan Tom Riddle.

• Wizet and the two professors agreed to pursue their Animagus and Polyjuice Potion research gradually and share new discoveries.
• Dumbledore asked Wizet to visit his office, where he prepared a Pensieve and explained that he wanted Wizet to see Voldemort’s early life and magical path.
• Wizet entered Dumbledore’s memory and saw London in 1938, following young Dumbledore toward an orphanage.
• Mrs. Cole gave instructions about injured and sick children before young Dumbledore introduced himself to her.

Young Dumbledore visited the orphanage to arrange Tom Riddle’s admission to Hogwarts, while Wizet observed how cautiously Mrs. Cole protected the boy. After using a Confundus Charm to persuade her and offering her gin, Dumbledore asked Mrs. Cole to explain Tom’s background.

• Mrs. Cole escorted young Dumbledore and Wizet to her office after recalling his letter about their meeting.
• The children hoped Tom Riddle would be taken away, describing him as terrifying.
• Mrs. Cole questioned Dumbledore closely about Hogwarts, Tom’s admission, and the scholarship before refusing to let him take Tom away.
• Dumbledore used a Confundus Charm on a blank paper to convince Mrs. Cole that his documents were in order.
• Dumbledore conjured gin, and Mrs. Cole drank a full glass while Dumbledore asked about Tom’s origins.

Wizet watched young Dumbledore learn about Tom Riddle’s troubling behavior at the orphanage before meeting him to offer him a place at Hogwarts. The memory ended as Dumbledore explained his purpose to the wary Voldemort.

• Mrs. Cole told young Dumbledore that Tom had been born at the orphanage on a freezing day in 1926.
• Mrs. Cole warned that Tom frightened the other children and might have been involved in a rabbit’s death and a frightening seaside incident, though she had no proof.
• Young Dumbledore assured Mrs. Cole that Tom would attend Hogwarts and said he would return to the orphanage during summer holidays.
• Mrs. Cole led Wizet and young Dumbledore upstairs to Tom’s room, then left the two of them alone.
• Tom mistook young Dumbledore for a doctor and resisted him, until Dumbledore introduced himself as a Hogwarts professor who had come to invite Tom to study there.

Young Dumbledore told Tom Riddle about Hogwarts and confirmed that he was a wizard, prompting Tom to eagerly accept the offer and ask to see magic. Dumbledore revealed something was moving inside Tom's cabinet, leaving Tom panicked as he took out a box.

• Voldemort insisted that Mrs. Cole was lying and denied responsibility for the accidents involving Benson and Bishop.
• Young Dumbledore explained that Hogwarts was a school of magic, and Voldemort excitedly revealed that he could control magic without a wand.
• Voldemort accepted the offer to attend Hogwarts and respectfully asked young Dumbledore to demonstrate magic.
• Young Dumbledore set the cabinet on fire and restored it unharmed, while Voldemort angrily reacted to the cabinet being threatened.
• Young Dumbledore told Voldemort something was trying to get out of the cabinet, and Voldemort reluctantly took a box from its top shelf.

Wizet watched young Dumbledore confront Tom Riddle at the orphanage and realized that Voldemort had kept objects taken as trophies from companions he had conquered. The memories then followed Voldemort at Hogwarts, where he uncovered his ancestry and began building the organization that preceded the Death Eaters.

• Young Dumbledore ordered Voldemort to open a box of belongings, and Wizet suggested the objects were trophies taken from companions he had conquered.
• Dumbledore recalled that Voldemort had been convinced he had fooled him, while Wizet observed that Voldemort was skilled at convincing himself of things.
• Voldemort refused Dumbledore's help, asked about his father, and tried to use his Parseltongue to intimidate Dumbledore, who concealed his own knowledge of the gift.
• Wizet watched Voldemort's Hogwarts years, where he excelled in Slytherin and investigated his origins while young Dumbledore remained wary of him.
• Voldemort confirmed he descended from Salazar Slytherin, founded the Knights of Walpurgis, and began turning Slytherin against the other houses.

Dumbledore showed Wizet memories of Voldemort’s past and explained how Voldemort obtained his ring and turned it into a Horcrux. He revealed that the golden cup was in the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts, while Wizet recognized how studying other magical paths connected to Magical Tuning.

• Dumbledore showed Wizet Morfin Gaunt’s memory of Voldemort visiting him and wearing a gold ring set with a black gemstone.
• Wizet learned that Voldemort’s mother had sold the Gaunt family locket to Borgin and Burkes, after which Hepzibah Smith bought it and Voldemort turned it into a Horcrux.
• Dumbledore told Wizet that the golden cup was in the Lestrange family vault at Gringotts, though obtaining it would require lengthy procedures.
• Wizet deduced that Voldemort had altered Morfin Gaunt’s memory and framed him for killing the Riddle family before hiding the ring there as a Horcrux.
• Dumbledore praised Wizet for choosing a magical path suited to himself and confirmed that studying others’ paths was part of Magical Tuning.

Wizet and Dumbledore watched memories of Voldemort’s two failed attempts to find work at Hogwarts and discussed what Voldemort had wanted. Dumbledore suspected Voldemort had cursed the teaching post he was denied, and explained that he only recognized the curse after the position kept changing hands.

• Wizet proposed examining Voldemort’s path through the memories, and Dumbledore agreed to watch them to the end.
• In a memory, Horace Slughorn and Armando Dippet discussed Tom Riddle’s prospects; Dippet said Tom had asked to stay at Hogwarts as a teacher but had been turned down.
• Wizet identified Voldemort’s first job as working at Borgin and Burkes, where he later murdered Hepzibah Smith.
• Voldemort returned to apply for a teaching position, but his tense interview with the young Dumbledore ended with him leaving without the job.
• Dumbledore told Wizet he suspected Voldemort cursed the teaching post after being denied it, though he only recognized the pattern after it changed hands every year.

Wizet and Dumbledore traveled to Little Hangleton to investigate the likely hiding place of a Horcrux. Wizet explained how Voldemort’s solipsism led him to destroy the Gaunt house and remake Riddle House into an imagined ancestral manor, leaving them to approach the place where the Horcrux was hidden.

• Dumbledore and Wizet traveled with Fawkes to Little Hangleton, where Dumbledore said the Gaunt house had collapsed and that he had already searched it for the Horcrux.
• Wizet deduced that Voldemort had hidden the Horcrux at Riddle House, and Dumbledore asked him to unravel its dangerous protections.
• Wizet described Voldemort’s magical path as solipsism, saying Voldemort believed the world revolved around him.
• Wizet explained that Voldemort had destroyed the Gaunt house to erase his humiliating origins and had chosen Riddle House as a foundation for his imagined noble identity.
• Dumbledore confirmed that the imposing manor was Riddle House, and Wizet linked Voldemort’s adopted name and the murder of the Riddle family to his self-created worldview.

As Wizet and Dumbledore approached Riddle House, they discussed how Voldemort hid his identity and built a magical path around supremacy. Wizet concluded that Harry’s protection of love made him Voldemort’s natural enemy, and Dumbledore urged Wizet to use what his opponents could not understand to defeat them.

• Wizet and Dumbledore discussed how Voldemort had erased Tom Riddle’s name and past to become someone people feared.
• Wizet theorized that Voldemort’s magical path had begun at the orphanage and enabled him to control magic, create Horcruxes, and disregard others.
• Wizet explained that Harry’s protection of love opposed Voldemort’s magical path and made Harry his natural enemy.
• Dumbledore reminded Wizet that Voldemort had used Harry’s blood to resurrect himself, bringing the love he rejected into his own magical path.
• Dumbledore used Reverse-Vision Method to explain that Wizet should exploit similarities and defeat opponents with things they could not comprehend.

Wizet and Dumbledore approached Riddle House and heard local children accuse its gardener, Frank Bryce, of murdering the Riddle family. Andrew guided them into the abandoned house, and Dumbledore questioned him about Bryce and the grounds.

• Wizet and Dumbledore met children who said Frank Bryce was a dangerous murderer and urged the house’s new owners to fire him.
• Dumbledore offered the children sweets and asked about the Riddle family; Andrew arrived, sent the children home, and agreed to guide the visitors.
• Andrew told Dumbledore that Bryce was a war veteran who had lost a leg and had been questioned because he possessed a spare key, though police released him without charge.
• Andrew said that locals suspected Bryce of killing the Riddle family and described him as difficult to get along with.
• Andrew forced open the gates and front door of Riddle House, where a cold, damp, decaying smell greeted them, and Dumbledore asked whether Andrew usually entered that way.