Chapter Summaries

Wizet found Jupiter playing with Frigg and the garden Gnomes, then took the little Thunderbird along on his trip to New York. After sharing a sweet moment with Luna, he arrived with Jupiter in a dark alley and set out to meet Professor Lupin.

• Wizet found Jupiter dancing around a bonfire with Frigg and the Gnomes in the garden.
• Wizet asked Jupiter to accompany him to New York, and Jupiter eagerly agreed.
• Luna gave Wizet one of Dobby's berry hard candies, and they shared a kiss before Jupiter joined them.
• Wizet said goodbye to Luna and used magic to travel with Jupiter to a dark alley.
• Wizet told Jupiter they had arrived in its homeland and that they still needed to meet Professor Lupin.

Wizet encountered a torch-wielding crowd led by a wizard who denounced him and tried to seize the little Thunderbird. Wizet blocked the man’s magical detection, and the crowd failed to find him, leaving their leader’s motives and the Thunderbird’s connection to him unclear.

• Wizet and the little Thunderbird found a Brooklyn crowd listening to a man blame Wizet for threatening the wizarding world.
• The man detected the little Thunderbird with Bloodline Magic and Sympathetic Magic, then pointed his wand at Wizet.
• Wizet blocked the detection and told the little Thunderbird to fly higher while he handled the crowd.
• The man ordered the crowd to throw torches and prevent Wizet from Apparating as Wizet suspected the group might be connected to the Scourers.
• The crowd searched around Wizet without seeing or touching him, and a middle-aged man wondered aloud whether anyone was there.

Wizet secretly tested spells while the people in the square searched for him, until armed followers of Wizet clashed with Bellbourne's group. Wizet stopped a bomb and captured the fleeing attackers, then asked Smith to explain the conflict.

• Wizet used the Harmonic Space Charm and Confundus Charm to stay hidden while testing spells on the crowd.
• Wizet observed three men using antique wands, and one man's faulty spell accidentally set someone's clothes on fire.
• Bellbourne lit a homemade bomb as more than thirty armed followers of Wizet entered the square and a shotgun went off in the ensuing chaos.
• Wizet revealed himself, caught the bomb, and explained that its fuse came from Fred and George's Magic Fireworks.
• Wizet conjured vines to capture the fleeing attackers, then asked Smith what was happening and how he knew Bellbourne's group.

Wizet learned from Smith that Bellbourne had incited parents to attack wizards and injure Jack, while Smith’s young New York group had formed an alliance to protect magic. MACUSA arrived to investigate, and Wizet agreed to help secure the people trapped by his vines.

• Smith accused Bellbourne and his followers of attacking wizards and breaking Jack’s leg.
• Smith introduced the New York Youth Alliance and asked Wizet about his Hogwarts House and whether he had seen Wizet.
• An anti-Apparition ward spread through the square as Paul Smith and four Hit Wizards arrived.
• Paul recognized Wizet, and the Hit Wizards prepared to take Bellbourne’s group in for questioning.
• Wizet offered to use Stupefy to keep the group under control, and Paul welcomed his help.

Wizet helped Paul Smith and the No-Maj police subdue the people bound by vines, using an unusual Stunning Spell that tracked the magic left by the vines. Paul realized the spell had automatically targeted everyone who touched them.

• Paul Smith explained that cooperation between MACUSA and the No-Maj police had streamlined investigations, though authorities still reviewed magical arrests afterward.
• A young man asked Wizet to pass along the New York Youth Alliance’s support, and Wizet agreed.
• Wizet described the pressure of being admired as standing at a cliff’s edge and said he would rather face a dragon.
• With Paul Smith’s permission, Wizet cast a Stunning Spell whose red light spread through the crowd and knocked them unconscious.
• Wizet explained that he had combined the Stunning Spell with the principles of the Tracking Charm, causing it to follow the magical traces left by the vines.

Wizet taught Paul Smith and Will a gradual method for learning to sense and guide magical traces, then recorded the method in the Otherworld while noticing it had grown more dangerous. Back in reality, he gave Will the name Lovegood when Paul began to introduce him.

• Wizet explained how Paul Smith and Will could progress from practicing the Levitation Charm to sensing and guiding magical traces with the Illumination Spell and Stupefy.
• Wizet wrote down the four stages of the training method and demonstrated by redirecting and splitting Stupefy into a net of red light.
• Wizet entered the Otherworld, noticed its worsening fog and avoided confronting My Lord, then recorded the new magical knowledge and returned.
• Will praised Paul Smith for reaching the third practice stage, while Paul gave a wry reaction because he knew Wizet's true identity.
• When Will asked Paul to introduce his helpful friend, Wizet supplied the name Lovegood.

Wizet joined Paul Smith and the Hit Wizards on patrol in New York after helping them deal with the No-Majs. As they flew toward a set of docks and warehouses, Paul explained that dark wizards had recently joined the local gangs and that MACUSA was watching for the black market to return.

• Will praised Wizet’s powerful Stunning Spell, and Wizet said he had only just developed the training method behind it.
• Paul Smith assigned Will and Jack to escort the No-Majs to MACUSA with a Portkey and continued patrol with Brian and Jimmy.
• Wizet asked to join the patrol to learn more about dangers in New York before the full moon, and Paul agreed.
• Paul summoned four Comet 200 Flying Broomsticks, and he and the others flew out under a Confundus Charm while Wizet’s Thunderbird followed.
• Paul pointed out docks and warehouses where gangs had traded hallucinogens and firearms, explaining that dark wizards had recently dealt prohibited items there and MACUSA had raided the black market the previous month.

Wizet patrolled New York with Brian, Jimmy, and Paul Smith as they discussed dangerous sites and the capture of Bellbourne’s group. As they neared Queens, their broomsticks suddenly stopped supporting them and began falling.

• Brian and the others described the Bronx old factory district’s Dark wizards, dangerous creatures, and smuggling, then told Wizet about a recent trade in Antipodean Opaleye eggs.
• Brian and Jimmy argued about keeping dragons until Paul Smith reminded them that the patrol was supposed to remain professional and that keeping dragons was illegal without a permit.
• Paul Smith directed the group toward Queens, where illegal immigrants and hidden magical creatures made the community difficult to patrol.
• Brian, Jimmy, and Paul Smith said Bellbourne’s group had been responsible for attacks on wizards in mixed communities and discussed the need to avoid conflicts with No-Majs.
• As the group approached Queens, Wizet, Brian, Jimmy, and Paul Smith realized their broomsticks had stopped supporting them and were plunging toward the ground.

Jimmy, Brian, and Paul Smith survived their fall when Wizet stopped it, then found the factory attackers and Acromantulas defeated. Paul approached Wizet for information while Wizet calmly removed venom sacs from an Acromantula.

• Jimmy, Brian, and Paul Smith fell toward a barrage of gunfire after their Flying Broomstick failed, but none of them was hit.
• Wizet disappeared, the gunfire stopped, and the three men drifted safely to the ground as they heard screams below.
• Paul Smith stopped Brian from casting an Illumination Spell that might have exposed Wizet to the attackers.
• The three men landed among wounded No-Majs and wizards, scattered guns, and ten dead Acromantulas.
• Paul Smith approached Wizet and asked whether the attackers had revealed any clues, while Wizet continued removing an Acromantula's venom sacs.

Wizet discovered that the Acromantulas attacking Paul Smith’s patrol had been controlled by humans and that a ritual array had blocked flight and Apparition. Paul Smith began interrogating the captured dark wizards, but his first suspect seemed unable to identify who had ordered the ambush.

• Paul Smith wondered whether the attack was connected to a black market operation, but Wizet concluded the patrol’s fixed route had made them the ambush’s target.
• Wizet used a Tracking Charm to reveal Runes on an Acromantula’s head that signified obedience to humans and a channel linking humans to Acromantulas.
• Wizet showed Paul Smith the ritual array that had blocked flight and Apparition, and Paul ordered Brian and Jimmy to interrogate the captured suspects.
• Wizet watched Paul question a dark wizard with a spell that heightened the suspect’s senses, while the young Thunderbird explored the factory district.
• The dark wizard repeatedly claimed not to know who had ordered the ambush, and Paul’s Sneakoscope showed no change.

After questioning the captured attackers failed to reveal the mastermind because a Magical Contract protected them, Wizet began tracing a Ritual Magic Array to track the person behind the ambush. The chapter ended with Wizet attempting to use Sympathetic Magic and Arithmancy to locate the mastermind through the guns and Acromantulas, which were not bound by the contract.

• Paul Smith, Brian, and Jimmy questioned the captured Dark wizards and No-Majs but learned nothing because the Magical Contract blocked their inquiries.
• Brian and Jimmy worried that the mastermind would escape during the investigation’s golden window, while Paul Smith warned that Veritaserum and Legilimency would not overcome the contract.
• Jimmy noticed Wizet tracing magical markings on the ground and learned that Wizet was constructing a Ritual Magic Array to search for clues.
• Wizet explained that Sympathetic Magic and Arithmancy could use the guns and Acromantulas, which were not bound by the Magical Contract, to determine the mastermind’s location.
• Paul Smith recognized the method from old MACUSA case files and watched Wizet attempt a form of magic few Aurors could master.

Paul Smith organized the aftermath of the ambush while warning against summoning a large force before they knew whether a spy was among them. Wizet completed a Ritual Magic Array based on Voldemort’s “I Alone Am Supreme” path and began tracing the attackers’ magical marks to find whoever was directing them.

• Paul Smith assigned Jimmy to search the No-Majs and Dark wizards and sent Brian to bring Will and Jerry from MACUSA.
• Paul Smith argued that a spy might learn of a large mobilization, so they should follow Wizet’s leads before assembling more Aurors and Hit Wizards.
• Wizet finished the Ritual Magic Array, impressing Paul with how quickly he had completed it.
• Wizet explained that the array combined Voldemort’s “I Alone Am Supreme” magical path with his research into Communications War Magic.
• Wizet used the array, ancient magic power, and the Ancient magic: Mark Extraction Charm to trace disturbances caused by attacks on him and seek the hidden mastermind.

Wizet traced a magical mark through New York’s intense emotions and reflected on how Muggle technology and the internet were changing the wizarding world. He located the mark he sought and prepared to take Paul Smith, Will, Jerry, and the others to it by a method like a Portkey.

• Wizet sensed countless powerful magical traces while searching for the person behind the events, and told Paul Smith he needed time to sort through them.
• Wizet asked Paul Smith about their first meeting, and Paul explained how contact with No-Maj technology had changed his view of the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Wizet concluded that the internet’s spread was intensifying emotions and could lead to the rise of Dark Magic creatures and “‘consensus’ magic,” which might eventually bring down the Statute.
• Wizet found the mark he needed and placed it over the ritual magic, sending out a powerful wave of magic.
• Will asked if they could set off, and Wizet agreed to bring the group along using a method similar to a Portkey rather than Side-Along Apparition.

Joseph Bonanno frightened a young child while discussing the coming operation with a Colombo Family representative. He warned the young man that Albus Dumbledore, not M.S.C.’s student figurehead, was the real power behind the scenes, then sent the group upstairs to prepare.

• Joseph Bonanno offered Little Rose a Chocolate Frog, killed it with a knife, and frightened the child with talk of the Salem Witch Trials.
• A Colombo Family group arrived, led by a young man who reminded Bonanno of his promise and asked whether they were beginning the operation that night.
• Bonanno said M.S.C.’s person in charge was a former magic-school professor and argued that they should prepare carefully for M.S.C.’s technology.
• Bonanno told the young man that Albus Dumbledore was the real mastermind and warned him not to mistake the student pushed to the forefront for the power behind M.S.C.
• The young man asked about mobilizing everyone, and Bonanno directed him upstairs to receive instructions before returning his attention to Little Rose.

Joseph Bonnano intimidated Mrs. Appaloosa while mocking a Chocolate Frog card about Wizet and the wizarding honors Albus Dumbledore had arranged for him. As the gathered families left the estate, they heard Mr. Lovegood and Mr. Smith approaching the front door.

• Joseph Bonnano dismissed Mrs. Appaloosa's warning about a Hogwarts student and frightened her and her child.
• Joseph took Little Rose's Chocolate Frog card, saw that it featured Wizet, and read its list of magical achievements.
• Joseph speculated that Albus Dumbledore had arranged Wizet's many awards and asked Mrs. Appaloosa to explain Animagi.
• The other families finished preparing and began leaving the estate as Joseph tossed aside Wizet's card.
• Family members near the front door heard Mr. Lovegood and Mr. Smith speaking and signaled those behind them.

Joseph Bonanno’s gathering of dark wizards and Muggle criminals prepared to fight after an unknown intruder arrived at the Appaloosa estate without triggering its defenses. The attackers opened fire and cast curses as the mysterious figure greeted them in the dawn light, and the battle began.

• The gathered elites halted and formed a fan-shaped combat formation after hearing an unfamiliar voice.
• Joseph Bonanno learned that his hidden sentries had detected the intruders only after they had bypassed the estate’s defenses, and he escorted Mrs. Appaloosa and the child toward a nearby room.
• Mrs. Appaloosa feared that the intruder was “that person,” while Joseph Bonanno insisted that their guests would be entertained.
• The locked and magically protected mahogany doors opened with Alohomora as sunrise filled the foyer.
• The gathered fighters fired guns and cast curses at the silhouettes in the doorway, then attacked again after the leading figure said, “Good morning, gentlemen.”

Wizet and the Hit Wizards arrived at the Appaloosa Family estate, where Paul Smith explained the family’s history and the fate of its surviving members. Suspecting the estate was connected to their attack, Wizet chose to investigate and asked Paul to record what happened next.

• Wizet and the others arrived at the Appaloosa Family estate near the Palouse River in Washington State.
• Paul Smith identified the manor and explained that Haydn Appaloosa’s wife and son, Rhodes Appaloosa, had been allowed to live there after the family’s downfall.
• Paul Smith and Jimmy considered whether Haydn Appaloosa’s wife might be seeking revenge, while Will asked whether they should investigate or return for reinforcements.
• Wizet said he had learned something connected to him and wanted to settle matters at the estate immediately.
• Wizet asked Paul Smith to document the events, and Paul used a Recording Charm to begin recording.

Wizet led Paul Smith and the four Hit Wizards into the Appaloosa Family estate, where an ambush unleashed bullets and spells against them. Protected by a powerful magical field, Wizet prepared to test a spell he had developed to drive away bullets.

• Paul Smith noticed the estate's door had a No-Maj steel lock protected by magic, but Wizet opened it with a nonverbal spell.
• The group found the estate's occupants waiting in formation, and they fired a barrage of bullets and spells as the door opened.
• Wizet's magical energy field shielded him and the Hit Wizards from the attack without being disturbed.
• Wizet explained that he wanted to study the gunfire and revealed he had developed a spell to drive bullets away.
• As the attackers paused to observe them, Wizet stepped forward and greeted them.

Wizet demonstrated the Projectile Deflection Charm to Paul Smith and his companions, explaining how it could shield them or send bullets back at their attackers. The attackers were left helpless, while Paul Smith reminded his group to finish their guard duty before discussing the spell further.

• Wizet cast the Projectile Deflection Charm and showed Paul Smith and his companions how it deflected incoming bullets.
• Wizet cast the charm again, redirecting the bullets back toward the gunmen, and explained how survival instinct and fear shaped its effects.
• The returning bullets shattered the gunmen’s weapons and injured the Muggle family members, while the Dark Wizards remained frozen in terror.
• Will, Jerry, and Jimmy tried to repeat the incantation, but Paul Smith reminded them to focus on their duty.

Wizet’s magical shield stopped a rocket attack after a mysterious liquid corroded a gap in it, and he then suspected that goblin-made potions and craftsmanship had helped the No-Majs attack. The group survived, but the source of the goblin-like materials remained unconfirmed.

• A rocket approached Paul Smith and the others, and a strange liquid from its probe dissolved part of Wizet’s Projectile Deflection Charm.
• The rocket passed through the gap but remained inexplicably separated from Brian, leaving him and the No-Majs stunned.
• Wizet summoned four rockets and confirmed that four sentries had launched them as a final attack.
• Wizet collected the corrosive liquid and identified it as resembling goblin potions such as Thief’s Downfall.
• Paul Smith suspected goblins had cooperated with the No-Majs, but Wizet said the materials needed proper examination before their origin could be confirmed.