Chapter Summaries

Wizet recounted how his tasks had gradually become more difficult while Colin Creevey and Dennis Creevey finished processing frogs in Snape’s office. Snape caught Fred and George Weasley, forced them to take over the frog work, and saw through their attempt to escape punishment by flattering him; he ordered them to stay.

• Wizet told Colin Creevey and Dennis Creevey that his work had gradually advanced to handling ingredients such as Dragon Liver.
• Colin Creevey and Dennis Creevey finished processing the frogs and fell silent when Wizet warned that Snape was returning.
• Snape brought Fred and George Weasley into the office, silenced them, and floated five buckets of frogs in front of them as punishment.
• Snape let Colin Creevey and Dennis Creevey leave, then asked Wizet and the Weasley twins what they wanted to say.
• Fred and George praised Snape and thanked him for letting them experience scooping out frog brains, hoping he would send them away.
• Snape recognized their flattery and told Fred and George they could stay.

Snape punished Fred and George for stirring up dangerous experiments by assigning them daily frog-brain processing and candy research, while making Dumbledore responsible for obtaining ambergris. He excluded Wizet from the Potion work but promised him a sample to analyze, leaving Wizet eager to prove himself.

• Snape ordered Fred and George to help extract frog brain matter every afternoon, but they pleaded that they had Quidditch practice and N.E.W.T. revision.
• Snape shifted their detention to after lunch and assigned them to study their candy, including a possible frog-brain filling.
• Snape said the improved Potion required ambergris and planned to make Dumbledore procure the expensive ingredient.
• Snape refused to let Wizet participate in the research, then promised him a finished sample to analyze once the improvement was complete.
• Snape warned that if Wizet's analysis failed to satisfy him, Wizet would have to process all the frog brain matter himself.

Wizet read the Hogwarts Voice and saw how students had developed their own magical insights after his open class. After sharing a quiet moment with Luna in the Ravenclaw common room, he watched her leave with her roommates for Hogsmeade.

• Wizet read magical papers by Harry, Seamus Finnigan, Anthony Goldstein, and Hermione about their experiences and ideas inspired by the open class.
• Luna woke beside Wizet and described a dream in which growing stars brightened until they seemed like a rising sun.
• Wizet and Luna shared a quiet, affectionate moment as they watched sunlight make the words in the Hogwarts Voice appear to dance.
• Emika Miller called Luna, and Luna left with her roommates for their planned trip to Hogsmeade Village.

Wizet visited Dumbledore’s office and learned that Snape’s complaints about potion supplies and Gryffindor students were partly an outlet for his frustrations. Dumbledore said the funding issue was easy to resolve, while Wizet offered to further optimize the antidote he had developed.

• Wizet encountered Fawkes carrying one of Jupiter’s down feathers and offered him berries from Mr. Bane.
• Snape told Dumbledore that the school was nearly out of ambergris, and they argued over potion doses and Gryffindor students.
• Snape explained that Wizet’s antidote eliminated the potion’s side effects and said most of the ambergris went toward brewing antidotes.
• Dumbledore agreed to seek more funding from the Board of Governors, and Snape left satisfied.
• Wizet offered to refine the antidote further, and Dumbledore explained that he had played along with Snape and could ask Lucius Malfoy for funds.

Wizet and Dumbledore discussed Lucius Malfoy’s support and the increased Hogwarts student stipend before turning to the Resurrection Stone Horcrux and the danger it had posed to Dumbledore. Dumbledore then brought out the ring and a Cloak of Invisibility, beginning their work with the artifacts.

• Wizet reflected that Lucius Malfoy’s carefully chosen magical gifts and letters had helped him avoid social obligations while supporting his research.
• Dumbledore told Wizet that trust had improved his relationship with Lucius Malfoy and the Board of Governors, raising the student stipend from thirty to one hundred Gold Galleons.
• Wizet recalled how Dumbledore had nearly touched the cursed Resurrection Stone ring in Little Hangleton, and how Wizet broke Dumbledore’s soul-powered magical field to free him from his obsession.
• Wizet asked whether the Deluminator damaged during their confrontation still worked, and Dumbledore said it worked even better than before.
• Dumbledore took the Resurrection Stone ring from a jewelry box and placed a Cloak of Invisibility on a tray as they prepared to begin.

Dumbledore showed Wizet the three objects from The Tale of the Three Brothers, and Wizet concluded that the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone were parts of My Lord while the Cloak of Invisibility was an exceptionally crafted magical artifact. Dumbledore revealed the history of Ollivander’s research into the Elder Wand and identified Harry’s ancestor as a member of the Peverell family who made the Cloak.

• Dumbledore showed Wizet the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Cloak of Invisibility, and Wizet found that the first two resembled parts of My Lord.
• Wizet judged that the Cloak of Invisibility was an alchemical creation he might be able to replicate, though doing so would require great effort and resources.
• Dumbledore said Garrick Ollivander had studied the Elder Wand but uncovered no substantive secrets, and another wandmaker had also investigated it.
• Dumbledore explained that Garrick had developed new wandmaking theories before obtaining the Elder Wand, which only confirmed his ideas about using magical-creature materials.
• Wizet asked whether Harry’s ancestor had made the Cloak, and Dumbledore said it came from the Peverell family.

Dumbledore explained his investigations into the Deathly Hallows, and Wizet argued that the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone were dangerous bait while the Cloak of Invisibility was made to protect life. After discussing the Isaiah Society and the being it worshipped, Wizet suspected he knew what that being wanted.

• Dumbledore told Wizet he had retraced the origins of the Cloak of Invisibility, Elder Wand, and Resurrection Stone and had borrowed Harry's Cloak to investigate further.
• Dumbledore asked Wizet about the Deathly Hallows, and Wizet explained how he had learned of their symbol from Mr. Lovegood.
• Wizet said the Elder Wand lured wizards into destructive struggles and the Resurrection Stone exploited grief, while the Cloak embodied protection and respect for life.
• Dumbledore agreed that the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone were more like bait and suggested that Death and the Isaiah Society's 'My Lord' might be the same being.
• Dumbledore described the Isaiah Society's attempt to sacrifice everyone in the Paris Region to awaken 'My Lord' and admitted he did not know what it sought.
• Wizet recalled Hermes Trismegistus and told Dumbledore that he might know what 'My Lord' wanted.

Wizet told Dumbledore a parable about flame and rock, helping them infer that the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone were traps belonging to My Lord. Dumbledore revealed that using the wand as a coordinate and the stone as a bridge could open a path to Limbo, a boundary between life and death, while Wizet questioned the risks of seeking knowledge from My Lord.

• Wizet told Dumbledore a story about a rock gathering the ashes of extinguished flames, and Dumbledore concluded that the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone were traps laid by My Lord.
• Wizet connected the story to the Tale of the Three Brothers and wondered whether Ignotus Peverell had discovered My Lord's scheme before making the Cloak of Invisibility.
• Dumbledore explained that he had investigated the connection between the Deathly Hallows and discovered why their wielder might be called the Master of Death.
• Dumbledore used the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone together, creating a strange presence in the Headmaster's Office before stopping the effect.
• Dumbledore named the mysterious space Limbo and explained that the Hallows could provide a route across the boundary between life and death.
• Wizet suggested that My Lord might offer magical knowledge through a transaction, but said he preferred to discover and share magic through his own efforts.

Dumbledore explained how he discovered Limbo and proposed using the Deathly Hallows and Sympathetic Magic to explore it. He began describing the Resurrection Stone’s connection to Limbo, leaving the explanation unfinished.

• Dumbledore recalled resisting the Resurrection Stone’s temptation and said he had destroyed the Horcrux fragment in its damaged ring.
• Dumbledore told Wizet that he had entered Limbo and escaped its pull by using his soul power, with Fawkes helping him return.
• Wizet connected his bond with Fawkes to Dumbledore’s request to explore farther into Limbo.
• Dumbledore explained that the Elder Wand represented death and could provide the coordinate needed to enter Limbo.
• Dumbledore described how the Resurrection Stone summoned images of the dead and began explaining how its properties related to Limbo.

Wizet and Dumbledore concluded that the Deathly Hallows could provide a way into Limbo, with the Invisibility Cloak disguising living visitors as part of that realm. They left with a plan to use the Hallows’ connection to Limbo to enter it, while questioning whether the Isaiah Society’s My Lord deserved anyone’s trust.

• Dumbledore explained how the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Invisibility Cloak represented death, the boundary between life and death, and life's evasion.
• Wizet proposed that the Cloak camouflaged its wearer as part of Limbo, helping them avoid rejection and detection there.
• Wizet speculated that Ignotus Peverell had created the Cloak to explore Limbo and search for his brothers, but later left the realm and passed the Cloak down.
• Dumbledore and Wizet agreed that Ignotus’s achievement showed the potential of individual wisdom, not dependence on the Isaiah Society’s My Lord.
• Dumbledore reasoned that the Hallows’ shared origin and connection to Limbo let them open a path into the realm through Sympathetic Magic.

Wizet reasoned that the Deathly Hallows formed a trap that dragged explorers toward death in Limbo, and that My Lord had deliberately let Ignotus Peverell return to lure other wizards into it. Dumbledore connected Wizet’s theory to the vortex representing death.

• Wizet questioned why Ignotus Peverell had escaped Limbo despite the force pulling explorers toward the abyss.
• Wizet used Sympathetic Magic and alchemy to explain how the Deathly Hallows could open a path to Limbo and depicted them as an unstable balance scale.
• Wizet argued that the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone tipped the scale toward death, making the path to Limbo an irreversible descent that could turn explorers into My Lord’s trophies.
• Wizet concluded that My Lord had deliberately arranged for Ignotus Peverell to return as a misleading example that concealed the danger of exploring Limbo.
• Dumbledore said Wizet’s conjecture reminded him of the vortex representing death.

Wizet and Dumbledore connected the Killing Curse, Horcruxes, and the Isaiah Society to a vortex representing death, then discussed Wizet’s theory that Magical Contracts outranked the Killing Curse. Dumbledore considered how that theory could explain the Society’s control over its members and reduce suspicion.

• Dumbledore linked the pulling force he felt near Limbo to the death vortex that had appeared in Voldemort’s sea cave.
• Wizet explained that the vortex also appeared during Horcrux creation and that Voldemort had used it to tear apart Squibs’ souls.
• Wizet and Dumbledore concluded that Herpo the Foul spread the Killing Curse to collect ashes and used Horcruxes to select and control Isaiah Society members.
• Wizet connected Morgana le Fay’s Magical Contract with Herpo to her plan to sacrifice the Paris Region and escape his control.
• Wizet explained his theory that Magical Contracts outranked the Killing Curse, and Dumbledore said the idea could reduce a great deal of suspicion.

Wizet and Dumbledore realized that Voldemort’s belief in the value of powerful wizards’ souls exposed limits on his control of Limbo, and they prepared to enter it. Dumbledore explained that Wizet’s many soul-deep connections, including Life Debt-like bonds, could help balance the Deathly Hallows and make their journey possible.

• Dumbledore and Wizet reasoned that Voldemort sought powerful wizards’ souls because he believed they contained more ashes, and that his methods revealed his limitations in Limbo.
• Wizet said he understood the soul-deep connection between himself and Fawkes, and recognized that his bonds with Hogwarts, his friends, and others were key to their journey.
• Dumbledore explained that the Deathly Hallows’ imbalance made it difficult for him to strengthen the Cloak of Invisibility enough to reverse it.
• Wizet asked whether his connections could truly compare to Dumbledore’s, and Dumbledore pointed to Life Debt-like bonds gathered around Wizet.
• Dumbledore recalled that Augusta Longbottom had carefully arranged the family’s holiday gift and sent him owls to ensure it was handled properly.
• Dumbledore named Bertha Jorkins, Soul Healing Technique patients, people affected by the Paris Region Incident, the Longbottom family, and werewolf wizards as sources of Wizet’s many bonds.

Wizet and Dumbledore prepared to enter Limbo, where Dumbledore explained that Wizet’s bonds with people who trusted him could serve as a life-aligned counterweight to the Elder Wand. When Limbo’s entrance opened, Dumbledore was pulled inside, but Wizet’s bonds left him barely affected and unable to enter passively.

• Wizet admitted that he had pursued his past deeds partly for his own reasons, and Dumbledore explained that his lack of expectation for repayment had formed powerful bonds of gratitude and trust.
• Dumbledore identified Wizet as the counterweight representing life, able to keep them oriented in Limbo and help them find their way home.
• Wizet connected the idea of finding a way home to his promise to Luna and agreed to travel to Limbo with Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore and Wizet touched the Cloak of Invisibility while Dumbledore used the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone to open Limbo’s entrance.
• The entrance pulled Dumbledore into Limbo, while Wizet felt only a gentle tug and realized he could not enter passively.

Wizet used his experience exploring the Otherworld to control Limbo’s pulling force and join Dumbledore there. After Dumbledore explained Limbo’s nature and its limits, Wizet suggested bringing Aberforth Dumbledore on their next visit.

• Wizet sensed that he could use the Cloak of Invisibility to pull Dumbledore safely out of Limbo, then used his soul power and Otherworld experience to enter Limbo himself.
• Wizet crossed a silent, fog-filled region and arrived on a Hogwarts lawn, where he reunited with Dumbledore.
• Wizet explained how he had controlled the pulling force, and Dumbledore concluded that Wizet might be better suited to lead their exploration of Limbo.
• Dumbledore explained that Limbo’s surroundings reflected their thoughts and that deceased people might appear there, but the dead could not be brought back.
• Wizet suggested that they bring Aberforth Dumbledore to Limbo next time in case Ariana Dumbledore appeared.

Wizet tested Limbo’s boundaries by forcing a path toward Hogwarts Castle through the realm’s rejection, then used spells to protect Dumbledore from its pulling force. As they followed the path, they sensed a familiar anomaly that Dumbledore described as an error or a scar in the space.

• Dumbledore explained that Limbo showed familiar people and scenes, but a powerful Confundus Charm and a pulling force had prevented him from exploring farther.
• Wizet used Ancient Magic Power to create and stabilize a silver-blue path toward Hogwarts Castle, forcing back the grayish-white fog and weakening Limbo’s whispers and pull.
• Wizet tested the Summoning Charm and cast the Projectile Deflection Charm on Dumbledore, removing the pulling force before they set off.
• Wizet and Dumbledore followed the path for several minutes, then noticed a familiar-seeming anomaly in Limbo that Dumbledore likened to an error or a scar.

Wizet and Dumbledore uncovered Ignotus Peverell’s sanctuary in Limbo and learned the message he had left about accepting life’s limits and passing hope onward. After the sanctuary’s stone slab vanished, Wizet found a familiar smiling-face symbol beneath it, leaving its origin as the next mystery.

• Wizet used Ancient Magic Power to reveal the ruins and sensed Guardian power in their preserved stone slab.
• Wizet absorbed the slab’s Ancient Magic Power and experienced Ignotus Peverell’s memories of grief and building the sanctuary.
• Wizet and Dumbledore read Ignotus Peverell’s altered Deathly Hallows symbol and the Latin words, “Non Domini, sed Viatores.”
• The stone slab crumbled, and Dumbledore suggested that Voldemort’s attempt to change something had caused its disappearance.
• Wizet discovered a radiant symbol formed from a “W” and an “L” beneath the slab and stood stunned by its familiarity.

Wizet examined a smiley symbol made from “W” and “L” in Limbo and reconsidered who controlled the realm of death. He suspected the symbol was a clue left by his future self, and told Dumbledore he had made new discoveries.

• Wizet confirmed that the “W” and “L” smiley symbol was real and came from the Ritual Magic he shared with Luna.
• Wizet reconsidered the idea that My Lord controlled Limbo and suspected the flames had created it as a buffer and a transit region for souls.
• Wizet recalled Selina Pendragon’s prophecy that his actions on Midgard Island would free My Lord from his seal.
• Wizet conjectured that he might someday help the flames construct Limbo, and that his future self had left the symbol as a clue.
• Dumbledore asked whether Wizet needed to leave Limbo, and Wizet replied that he felt well and had made new discoveries.

Wizet met Ariana in Limbo, where Dumbledore saw her enjoying the Hogwarts Castle she had never been able to visit. Dumbledore began to confront his guilt over Ariana’s life and death, and prepared to tell Wizet the painful story himself.

• Ariana appeared and asked Dumbledore whether Wizet was his friend, and Dumbledore introduced her to Wizet as his sister.
• Ariana excitedly recognized Hogwarts Castle and ran toward it, so Dumbledore postponed discussing Wizet’s discovery and followed her.
• As they walked, Dumbledore lamented that Ariana should have been able to enjoy Hogwarts and asked Wizet what Aberforth had told him about her.
• Wizet recalled Ariana’s Obscurus, the deaths of their parents, and the confrontation with Gellert Grindelwald that ended in Ariana’s death.
• Dumbledore said he could no longer run away from his past and asked Wizet to hear his account, which Wizet agreed to do.

Dumbledore told Wizet about his guilt over his family’s past and asked him to judge whether Ariana was acting under My Lord’s control. As the group approached the castle, Wizet disrupted the welcoming illusion, leaving Dumbledore to realize he could discern when Ariana was being manipulated.

• Dumbledore admitted his past mistakes and asked Wizet to watch Ariana for signs that My Lord controlled her.
• As they neared the castle, Ariana urged Dumbledore to hurry inside, and visions of his parents appeared beside her.
• Dumbledore moved toward them as the castle doors opened and laughter sounded from within.
• Wizet cast Resonant Symphony, dimming the welcome and causing Ariana and the couple to break out of their beckoning poses.
• Ariana recognized her parents, who embraced her, while Dumbledore’s Disarming Charm stabilized.
• Wizet explained that the dead could be bait influenced by My Lord, and Dumbledore realized he could judge whether Ariana was being controlled.