Chapter Summaries

Wizet returned to the little garden, where Luna rushed into his arms and welcomed him home. After Ginny left to help Molly deal with the gnomes, Wizet joined Luna in grooming Frigg.

• Ginny and Luna spotted Wizet approaching the garden, and Luna recognized him in the sunlight.
• Wizet called to Luna, and she ran into his arms; they embraced and exchanged affectionate words.
• Ginny and the little Thunderbird teased the couple, and Luna shyly moved behind Frigg.
• The little Thunderbird greeted Luna and eagerly chattered to her.
• Ginny handed Wizet the brush, said Molly needed help tossing the gnomes out of the yard, and left the garden.
• Wizet took Luna's hand and continued grooming Frigg with her.

Wizet told Luna about Selina’s discovery of unusual werewolf wizards and explained that they would eventually have to confront Voldemort and the source called “My Lord.” As they feared that confrontation was drawing near, Wizet reassured Luna that any separation would be only a trip away from which he would return.

• The little Thunderbird watched Wizet and Luna groom Frigg and wondered why they kept touching foreheads and lips.
• Wizet told Luna that Selina had found unusual werewolf wizards on the battlefield and that he had gone to the safe house to explain what he knew.
• Wizet said Voldemort might use Ritual Magic to create more Muggles who could use magic, and that stopping him required confronting the source.
• Luna asked whether the time to confront “My Lord” was drawing closer, and Wizet agreed that it likely was.
• Wizet showed Luna the matching “W” and “L” marks on their palms and promised he would return, while Luna promised to call out to him.

Wizet and Luna returned home and helped Dobby prepare lunch, using magic to get the ingredients ready while sharing affectionate moments. As the ham baked and the little Thunderbird flew around the house, Xenophilius Lovegood arrived through the fireplace and nearly collided with the bird.

• Wizet and Luna returned home, and Dobby greeted them excitedly before realizing he had not prepared enough dishes.
• Wizet and Luna offered to help Dobby make lunch, and Dobby became emotional at their kindness.
• Wizet desalted the ham and chopped the side dishes with magic while teasing and kissing Luna.
• Wizet joined Dobby in preparing lunch as Luna worked on the ingredients, and Dobby put the ham in the oven.
• Wizet let the little Thunderbird in when it tapped at the window, and it flew around the living room.
• Xenophilius Lovegood arrived through the fireplace and nearly collided with the little Thunderbird, which stopped itself in midair.

Wizet returned from New York with a genuine magical werewolf and told Xenophilius Lovegood that he had also cured Lycanthropy and created an artifact to keep it curable. As lunch began, Xenophilius asked about the unexpected help Wizet had received from Mr. Smith.

• Wizet and Luna prepared lunch with Dobby while a little Thunderbird greeted Xenophilius Lovegood.
• Xenophilius spotted the werewolf outside and reached for his wand, but Luna explained that it was a genuine magical creature Wizet had brought back from New York.
• Wizet said his three tasks in New York included creating the werewolf, curing Professor Lupin and other werewolf wizards of Lycanthropy, and making an artifact to ensure it stayed curable.
• Wizet explained that he used Ritual Magic with help from MACUSA, leaving Xenophilius astonished at how quickly it had worked.
• Wizet began to explain that meeting Mr. Smith had brought an unexpected benefit, but Dobby announced that lunch was ready, and Xenophilius chose to eat first.

During lunch, Xenophilius Lovegood tried to learn more about Wizet’s experiences in New York, but Rita Skeeter contacted them with urgent questions and arrived to interview Wizet about the city’s criminal arrests. The chapter ended with Rita listing the explosive stories she had heard and pressing Xenophilius about their value.

• Xenophilius praised Luna’s idea to add hazelnuts to the cheesy baked potatoes and kept glancing at Wizet, eager to hear more about his experiences.
• Wizet began explaining that Mr. Smith was a dedicated MACUSA Auror before Fitzgerald contacted Xenophilius through the Floo Network.
• Fitzgerald told Xenophilius that Rita Skeeter wanted to know where Wizet was, and Rita then asked to speak with him directly.
• After Wizet received Luna’s approval, Xenophilius agreed to let Rita visit, and she immediately arrived through the fireplace.
• Rita told Xenophilius she had heard that a Muggle mafia boss, Dark wizards, and Dark Muggles had been arrested and imprisoned in New York.

Wizet gave Rita Skeeter his account of the events in New York and controlled how she presented it, correcting her exaggerations while allowing some dramatic flair. He then explained his newly invented anti-firearm spell, Averte Telum, and began describing how it worked.

• Rita Skeeter arrived eager to interview Wizet, but Wizet warned her to report the facts and stopped her from using grandiose praise.
• As Wizet recounted the gun attack, he made Rita revise her embellished account to show both his injuries and the danger posed by firearms.
• Wizet described events from the old factory district to Appaloosa Estate while Rita's Quick-Quotes Parchment recorded his story.
• Rita became excited when Wizet said he had invented a spell to counter firearms and asked about its incantation and principles.
• Wizet named the spell Averte Telum and explained that it guided attacking objects by forming a deflecting magical field through the caster's survival instinct.

Wizet explained to Rita Skeeter that he had given his newly invented magic to Dumbledore because he did not want to name it, and described plans for others to name and improve it. He then recounted how dark Muggles attacked Appaloosa Estate with rockets containing goblin potion.

• Rita Skeeter recognized the importance of Wizet's magic, but Wizet told her he had already sent it to Dumbledore.
• Wizet said he handed the magic over because he did not want to name it, and Rita's Quick-Quotes Quill exploded as Xenophilius Lovegood laughed.
• Wizet explained that Dumbledore would work with the Ministers of Magic to name the magic and encourage wizards to improve it.
• Wizet told Rita that dark Muggles had launched a second attack on Appaloosa Estate using rockets, which contained goblin potion.

Wizet told Rita Skeeter how goblins supplied a Muggle Mafia boss with a potion and a magical contract, and explained how he exposed the contract’s instability. He revealed that his real reason for going to New York was to complete a ritual and cure Lycanthropy, leaving Rita eager to hear how he achieved it.

• Wizet explained that goblins had provided the Muggle Mafia boss with a potion used in the Thief’s Downfall and a magical contract.
• Xenophilius argued that the goblins had used the deal to test their magic, the Mafia, and the wizarding world’s limits.
• Wizet agreed with Xenophilius and described how he had indirectly investigated and broken the Goblin Magical Contract.
• Wizet told Rita that he had informed Dumbledore about the New York events and asked her to emphasize the contract’s instability.
• Wizet said he had gone to New York to complete Ritual Magic, verify his insights, and fulfill his promise to cure Lycanthropy.
• Rita asked Wizet whether he had completely cured the Lycanthropy that had long afflicted wizards.

Wizet confirmed that Lycanthropy had been cured and let Rita Skeeter describe the suffering of the werewolf wizards who underwent the ritual. Xenophilius condemned Umbridge’s werewolf law, prompting Rita to question Wizet about his views on the former Senior Undersecretary.

• Wizet explained the Ritual Magic used to cure Lycanthropy and answered Rita Skeeter’s questions about its principles.
• Rita read Wizet a passage about the isolation and pain endured by werewolf wizards, and Wizet approved it.
• Xenophilius reacted angrily to Rita’s second passage and said Umbridge’s law might have prevented werewolf wizards from surviving until the cure.
• Wizet recalled his encounters with Dolores Umbridge, including her role in a failed awards ceremony and an attempt to help Peter Pettigrew escape.
• Rita asked Wizet whether he was concerned about Umbridge’s Law Concerning the Implementation of Provisions Related to Werewolf Treaties.

Rita Skeeter explained the provisions of Umbridge’s former anti-werewolf law and proposed a newspaper column about cured werewolves to challenge public prejudice. Xenophilius Lovegood agreed to help, while Wizet questioned Skeeter’s motives as she argued that people would struggle to admit they had been wrong.

• Xenophilius Lovegood condemned Umbridge’s law, and Rita Skeeter described its registry, employment and residence restrictions, and bans on marriage and children.
• Xenophilius said the law would drive werewolves toward becoming like Fenrir Greyback, while Rita explained that it had been repealed after Umbridge’s demotion.
• Rita proposed a serialized column about cured werewolves to help them reintegrate into society, and Xenophilius agreed to write a proposal.
• Wizet pressed Rita about her purpose, and she said entrenched prejudice persisted because people found it hard to admit they had been wrong.

Rita Skeeter explained how people justified prejudice against werewolf wizards by disguising exclusion as concern for safety and responsibility. Xenophilius Lovegood suggested interviewing Remus and the others, and Rita asked what she should interview them about.

• Rita Skeeter described how people used examples like Fenrir Greyback to excuse their resistance to accepting werewolf wizards.
• Rita compared those excuses with neighbors' accusations about Armando Dippet and acknowledged that Xenophilius had encountered similar reasoning.
• Rita acted out how sympathy for werewolf wizards could give way to suspicion, fear, and demands that they live farther away.
• Rita told Xenophilius that people wrapped prejudice in claims of safety and responsibility.
• Xenophilius asked Rita whether she had considered interviewing Remus and the others, and Rita asked what she would interview them about.

Rita Skeeter proposed using television-style stories about werewolf wizards to redirect public guilt toward Dolores Umbridge’s laws and encourage acceptance of werewolf wizards. She left Wizet and Xenophilius with a plan to frame Umbridge as a common enemy while treatment for Lycanthropy advanced.

• Xenophilius asked Rita about M.S.C.’s Revealing Projection Screen and its plans to recruit actors for television series.
• Rita rejected acting and told Wizet that people needed an outlet for their guilt over mistreating werewolf wizards.
• Rita suggested using stories about werewolf wizards to blame their suffering on Umbridge’s laws and lies.
• Rita proposed making Umbridge the evil figure people could condemn, redirecting their guilt into acceptance of werewolf wizards.
• Xenophilius recognized the strategy as similar to the approach used after the Paris Region Incident, and Rita pointed to the circumstances that had made it possible.

Rita Skeeter drafted a tragic story about Lyle, a werewolf wizard whose family was torn apart, and proposed blaming Dolores Umbridge for every part of his misfortune. Wizet insisted that the stories remain truthful, then offered to help Skeeter compile them into a book.

• Rita Skeeter invented Lyle, a potion-ingredient supplier bitten by a werewolf who lost his business, home, and family after Umbridge's law took effect.
• Xenophilius Lovegood suggested emphasizing how Umbridge's law silenced the neighbors' kindness, and Skeeter expanded the story to portray the family as forced to separate.
• Skeeter offered to write more than a dozen rough drafts in an hour, but Wizet warned her not to blame Umbridge unless the facts supported it.
• Skeeter agreed to write the werewolf wizards' stories truthfully, and Wizet offered further help if she compiled them into a book.
• Rita Skeeter asked Wizet what help he could provide beyond contact information for the werewolf wizards.

Wizet explained why Rita Skeeter had accepted his offer to help her reach more readers, then took Luna and Fenrir to meet Newt Scamander. Newt eagerly examined Fenrir, who hid from him, and invited them into his cottage.

• Rita Skeeter left after Wizet offered to help expand her readership, and Xenophilius Lovegood asked why she had stopped arguing so easily.
• Wizet explained that he had listened respectfully to Rita and offered help with what she wanted most: reaching more readers.
• Wizet and Luna led Fenrir through a magical entrance in the winter hills to Newt Scamander's cottage.
• Newt Scamander eagerly approached Fenrir and tried to examine the werewolf, but Fenrir fled behind Wizet and hid in the Moonstone Totem's glow.
• Newt apologized, learned that the werewolf was called Fenrir, and invited Wizet, Luna, and Fenrir inside.

Wizet and Luna visited Newt Scamander and Tina, who welcomed them into their cottage and met Fenrir. Newt eagerly studied Fenrir and recorded details about his diet, while Wizet gave him a notebook of information.

• Newt chatted with Fenrir on the way to the cottage until Tina came outside and reminded him to lead their guests in.
• Tina greeted Wizet and Luna, mentioning that Anthony and her North American friends had spoken of them and that Benjamin was grateful for their help.
• Tina welcomed everyone inside, where Luna held a Kneazle and Newt noted that the magical creatures did not seem wary of Fenrir.
• Tina asked what Fenrir ate, and Luna listed several foods, including rainbow trout, elk, lamb, and beef.
• Wizet handed Newt a notebook containing Fenrir's diet and other information.

Newt Scamander studied Wizet’s notes on the Fenrir Werewolf and invited Wizet and Luna to see how it ate. He revealed a hidden courtyard where magical creatures lived and asked them to keep it secret from the Ministry of Magic.

• Newt Scamander read Wizet’s notes about the Fenrir Werewolf’s diet and inferred details about its habits and abilities.
• Wizet praised Newt’s approach to understanding magical creatures, and Luna reflected that creatures lived according to their own nature.
• Newt decided to observe the Fenrir Werewolf eating and led Wizet, Luna, and the creature through a concealed door.
• Newt revealed a courtyard of varied habitats where Graphorns and other creatures lived, and told Wizet and Luna that the Ministry of Magic did not know about it.

Newt Scamander showed Wizet and Luna around his magical creature sanctuary while helping timid Fenrir adjust to his new surroundings. Wizet and Newt introduced Fenrir to Jasper, a gentle Antipodean Opaleye dragon, and left him time to get comfortable.

• Tina explained how she and Newt kept the Ministry from discovering the creatures, then praised Newt's care of the Graphorns.
• Newt tried to coax Fenrir with lamb, but Fenrir hid behind Wizet, who explained that Fenrir was drawn to the Moonstone Totem and feared humans.
• Tina took Luna to explore the grassland while Wizet accompanied Newt into the forest to see its magical creatures.
• Newt introduced Wizet to Jasper, a gentle Antipodean Opaleye whose parents had been killed by poachers.
• Newt let Fenrir approach Jasper at his own pace, explaining that the young creature needed time to feel secure.

Wizet explained how he inferred dragon-egg hatching conditions from the creatures’ habitats, prompting Newt Scamander to confirm a more effective method for hatching Antipodean Opaleye eggs. Newt was left amazed by how much Wizet knew and how quickly he connected the clues.

• Newt Scamander fed Fenrir lamb and explained that Jasper had already eaten and was resting in the sun.
• Newt told Wizet about dragon eggs and asked how he knew that Norwegian Ridgebacks might nest near coastlines or fjords.
• Wizet described how he used a creature’s habits and habitat to deduce its needs, suggesting seawater around fires for Norwegian Ridgeback eggs.
• Newt confirmed that Antipodean Opaleye eggs hatched better in a fire pit lined with river pebbles and volcanic sand, surrounded by opals and moonstones and kept moist.
• Newt recalled Dumbledore’s warning to say things quickly and asked Wizet how he connected so much knowledge together.

Wizet explained how Newt Scamander and Luna had changed his perspective on magical creatures, plants, and their environments. He revealed that he had used Ritual Magic and ideas drawn from the creation of Dark Magic creatures to create Fenrir, while Newt asked whether Wizet could still introduce Fenrir without explaining those principles.

• Wizet described how studying Fenrir and dragon eggs had taught him to consider magical creatures in relation to their environments.
• Newt Scamander fed Fenrir and said its healthy coat showed that it was not malnourished.
• Wizet told Newt that Fenrir was a magical creature he had created through Ritual Magic a few days earlier.
• Newt sensed that Fenrir was unlike a Dark Magic creature, and Wizet explained that he had drawn on the way such creatures were created.
• Newt stopped Wizet from explaining how Dark Magic creatures came into being and asked whether that would affect his introduction of Fenrir.

Wizet explained how Fenrir had been created and asked Newt Scamander to investigate whether Fenrir could reproduce with the special wolves in the Forbidden Forest. He left the Moonstone Totem with Newt, who revealed its healing use and welcomed Wizet and Luna to visit again.

• Wizet described how negative emotions gathered like dark clouds to create Dark Magic creatures, explaining that Fenrir had formed in a similar way.
• Wizet asked Newt Scamander to find out whether Fenrir could reproduce, and shared Miss Tonks's account of intelligent wolves descended from werewolves.
• Newt agreed to investigate the special wolves and invited Wizet and Luna to visit Fenrir whenever they wished.
• After Wizet and Luna left, Newt told Tina that Wizet had left the Moonstone Totem to help Fenrir adapt and that it could cure Lycanthropy.
• Newt said Wizet reminded him somewhat of Professor Dumbledore, though he also felt they were quite different.