Chapter Summaries

Wizet led a ritual to cure Argus Filch and Mrs. Figg of their Squib condition by triggering a magical outburst. Both emerged able to use magic, and Amelia Bones considered how the simple method could be put to wider use.

• Wizet explained that the Emotion Collectors would help Filch and Mrs. Figg experience the emotional eruption needed to ignite their magic.
• Wizet activated the ritual array and shattered the Emotion Collectors, whose creatures merged with Filch and Mrs. Figg; healers used Patronuses to ease their pain.
• As animal traits appeared on the pair, healers used bloodied Voodoo Dolls to transfer the traits away from them.
• Filch and Mrs. Figg leaped high into the air and landed lightly, confirming to Amelia Bones that they had undergone magical outbursts and become wizards.
• Dumbledore, Robert Bonham, and Amelia Bones discussed the ritual’s simplicity and the possibility of using it widely, with healers trained in basic alchemy or specialists hired.

Filch and Mrs. Figg proved that Wizet’s ritual had made them wizards by successfully casting the Illumination Spell. Wizet then asked Filch to try another spell, leaving their new abilities still being tested.

• Benjamin Graves questioned Seraphina Picquery about Lovegood’s magical outburst, and she confirmed that he had jumped and floated down.
• Filch asked Wizet whether he was truly no longer a Squib, and Wizet gave him a wand to prove it by casting a spell.
• Encouraged by Wizet, Filch cast Lumos and produced a bright light from his wand.
• Mrs. Figg followed Wizet’s guidance, cast Lumos, and tearfully declared that she was a witch.
• Wizet asked Filch to try another spell, such as the Fire-Making Spell.

Filch successfully cast the Fire-Making Spell and, overwhelmed with emotion, wept as the crowd applauded his transformation into a wizard. After Wizet ended the reporters’ questions, a Muggle official raised concerns about the miracle and asked to question him.

• Filch cast Incendio, creating a fireball, then broke down crying as Dumbledore and the other guests applauded.
• A Healer escorted Filch and Mrs. Figg from the hall to St. Mungo’s for examinations.
• Reporters questioned Wizet, while Rita Skeeter watched the Muggle officials and asked her photographer to send out her article.
• Wizet asked the reporters to end their questions and leave the hall.
• A Muggle official praised the demonstration as a miracle, said it gave him a bad feeling, and asked Wizet to answer his questions.

Wizet answered questions from Muggle officials about why Squibs were cured over Easter and whether their new magic would deepen inequality between wizards and Muggles. After Rita Skeeter challenged the officials’ motives, Wizet argued that curing Squib Disease showed the accepted limits of magic could change.

• Wizet told a Muggle official that Easter was chosen simply because it was a holiday for students.
• A Muggle official questioned why Squibs had been given access to magic while Muggles remained shut out, warning of despair and unfairness.
• Another official, Carl Gustafsson, warned that the new divide could tear society apart.
• Rita Skeeter identified Toivo Koskinen and called out his recent vote to cut disability benefits, questioning his sudden concern about social division.
• Wizet agreed that the officials’ concern about unfairness was valid if magic’s limits remained unchanged.
• Wizet said that curing Squib Disease had already overturned accepted beliefs and showed that supposed limits could be changed.

Wizet argued that Squibs and even Muggles could access magic, then demonstrated this claim by inviting Toivo Koskinen to test a Fake Wand. Toivo successfully used its spells and returned it reluctantly, especially impressed by its cleaning charm.

• Wizet told Toivo Koskinen that Squibs were the first, not the only, group who could benefit from the new era, and said Muggles could also reach magic.
• Wizet introduced the Fake Wand as a magical item and asked Toivo to try it to help prevent society from being torn apart.
• Toivo accepted the Fake Wand and learned it could cast Lumos, Nox, Scourgify, and Sonorus by speaking their incantations.
• Toivo cast Lumos, expanded its light, extinguished it with Nox, and tested the other spells as Wizet answered his questions.
• Toivo returned the Fake Wand reluctantly, saying its Scouring Charm felt like having a cleaner with him.

Wizet defended M.S.C.'s work on Ritual Magic and the Fake Wand, arguing that magic could become accessible to ordinary people. Carl Gustafsson then challenged who would control access to these technologies and proposed a joint committee with the power to approve or reject users.

• Toivo Koskinen demonstrated the Fake Wand, prompting senior Muggle officials to regard it with interest.
• Wizet explained that Squibs were the most likely group to master magic and said his Ritual Magic demonstration showed that the path existed for others to follow.
• Wizet argued that ordinary people could use the Fake Wand and that magic could enter every household, earning applause from the wizards.
• Carl Gustafsson questioned who would allocate access to magic and oversee the use of the Fake Wand, citing the International Statute of Secrecy and Cornelius Fudge's actions at a magical school.
• Carl Gustafsson proposed a joint Qualification Review Committee with the authority to reject Squib applications and bar people from possessing Fake Wands.

Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd challenged Carl Gustafson’s proposed Qualification Review Committee, accusing him of seeking control over wizards and their magic. Gustafson defended the review and invoked the Witch-Hunting Movement as a means for Muggles to protect themselves, leaving the hall tense as Rita wondered how Wizet would respond.

• Amelia Bones worried that Carl Gustafson’s proposal amounted to a seizure of power, but Dumbledore told her to trust Wizet to handle the situation.
• Rita Skeeter accused Gustafson of demanding control over wands and proposed a loyalty test asking whether applicants would side with wizards or Muggles.
• Alexander Dodd challenged Gustafson’s authority to review innate magical talent and asked whether the committee might later judge wizards and children seeking admission to magical schools.
• Gustafson said the review would apply only to things deliberately created, such as Squibs and Fake Wands, and defended the Witch-Hunting Movement as protection against persecution.
• Gustafson warned that Muggles would find ways to protect themselves if anything unexpected happened, heightening the tension as Rita wondered how Wizet would respond.

President Jacques and Minister Bonaparte discussed the Muggle officials who challenged the claim that nuclear weapons had been thrown onto the moon, while Prime Minister Major urged Amelia Bones to take stronger action. As Carl Gustafsson struggled to defend himself, he turned to Wizet and asked him to speak.

• Minister Bonaparte asked President Jacques whether he had arranged for Carl Gustafsson to make his claims, and Jacques denied it.
• President Jacques suggested that some Muggle leaders doubted the moon incident and believed Muggles could force wizards to submit.
• Prime Minister Major compared Carl Gustafsson and Toivo Koskinen to Cornelius Fudge, then asked Amelia Bones whether more authoritative action was needed.
• Amelia Bones told Prime Minister Major that the situation had not yet become serious enough to act, and he reluctantly agreed to wait.
• Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd continued challenging Carl Gustafsson, who grew pale and realized his political allies were not defending him.
• Carl Gustafsson stopped arguing and called on Wizet to say something as the experiment's initiator.

Wizet revealed that the Ritual Magic Array beneath the hall came from the magic used in the Paris Region Incident and that he had modified it. As the array continued to brighten, Minister Bonaparte began to suspect Wizet’s experiment could turn Squibs into wizards.

• Wizet told Carl Gustafsson he intended to act in the hall, while Rita Skeeter and Alexander Dodd returned to their seats.
• Wizet asked Carl about the Paris Region Incident, and Carl assumed he was being threatened before answering that he remembered it.
• Wizet explained that the Ritual Magic Array beneath his feet was based on the array used to create a dark magical creature during the Paris Region Incident.
• Minister Bonaparte wondered whether Wizet meant to create another dark magical creature, then recalled that President Jacques’s eldest daughter gained the ability to use magic despite previously showing no magical talent.

Wizet confronted the senior Muggle officials over their attempt to control magic and activated a modified Ritual Magic Array that drew on their negative emotions. The officials watched as gray-black mists began forming from within their souls.

• Minister Bonaparte questioned President Jacques about Laurence’s illness and learned that Mr. Lovegood had cured her, after which she became a witch.
• Carl Gustafsson accused Wizet of threatening the officials and insisted they would never submit, while his colleagues avoided supporting him.
• Wizet argued that wizard, Muggle, and Squib identities mattered less than how people used magic, and said emotions could help seeds sprout.
• Wizet declared that magic itself would conduct the officials’ qualification review and pointed his wand at the brightening Ritual Magic Array.
• Wizet activated the modified array, which filled the hall with light and drew the officials’ negative emotions into gray-black mists.

Wizet used an improved ritual to create gray-black Dark Magic creatures from the negative emotions in the circular hall, and some Muggle leaders absorbed them. After those leaders began transforming, Wizet’s enormous Golden Eagle Patronus stopped the changes and triggered magical outbursts instead, leaving the leaders’ surroundings transforming around them.

• Gray-black mist formed above the hall and passed through the Muggle leaders, while some of the leaders who had absorbed it felt it merge with them.
• Prime Minister Major and President Jacques realized they might be able to use magic, and their Ministers of Magic attributed the change to Wizet.
• The Muggle leaders who absorbed the mist began undergoing physical transformations, throwing the hall into chaos.
• Wizet summoned an enormous Golden Eagle Patronus, whose silver-blue light entered some Muggle leaders and ended their transformations.
• Magical ripples began emanating from those leaders as nearby objects transformed, resembling the magical outbursts Filch and Mrs. Figg had experienced.

President Jacques, Minister Bonaparte, and Prime Minister Major experienced magical outbursts after their magic awakened. Major learned to control his glowing body and used a wand made by Wizet, leaving him eager to try the Illumination Spell.

• President Jacques and Minister Bonaparte realized that their magic had awakened, and Jacques's outburst made nearby objects change size.
• Prime Minister Major began glowing all over, and Dumbledore guided him to accept and control the magical outburst.
• Major extinguished his glow and feared he had lost his magic, but Dumbledore suggested he needed a wand.
• Wizet offered Major a wand he had made, and sparks from its tip delighted Major when it seemed to choose him.
• Major asked Wizet how to cast the Illumination Spell, and Wizet gave him the incantation, "Lumos."

Wizet helped Muggle leaders cast the Illumination Spell as Dumbledore explained to Amelia Bones that the wizards needed to bypass Muggle suspicion and impose no qualification system. As the magical riots subsided, the leaders continued practicing magic, opening a path into the new era through a wizard’s method.

• Prime Minister Major cast the Illumination Spell and asked Wizet how to change the light it produced.
• Dumbledore told Amelia Bones that the wizards had prepared for the crisis but had chosen an aggressive plan after Muggle suspicion and arrogance obstructed communication.
• Dumbledore explained that magic should grant people the chance to learn it rather than letting Muggles create a Qualification Review Committee.
• Wizet helped Muggle leaders including Carl Gustafsson cast spells during magical riots.
• The leaders’ fear faded as they practiced the Illumination Spell, and the wizards watched them with memories of their own first attempts at magic.

Carl Gustafsson accused Wizet of manipulating the new wizards’ magic, while Morgana le Fay’s Ritual Magic Array intensified the Muggles’ negative emotions. His claims provoked the wizards, and the circular hall descended into chaos.

• Carl Gustafsson repeatedly cast the Illumination Spell and grew frustrated when Toivo Koskinen’s light remained brighter.
• Carl Gustafsson questioned whether Wizet had used a Fake Wand to control the strength of the Muggles’ magic, making the officials suspicious and the wizards wary.
• Dumbledore explained to Amelia Bones that the Ritual Magic Array was designed to produce dark magical creatures by influencing people’s emotions.
• Amelia Bones suggested the newly empowered Muggles’ instability could be like the unpredictable effects of early magic, alarming Prime Minister Major about his own emotions.
• Carl Gustafsson accused the eagle of acting as a signal transmitter that created the illusion of magic, prompting wizards to insult him and challenge him to a duel.

Wizet continued his experiment while Carl Gustafsson and several other high-ranking Muggles lost their ability to cast magic. He explained that some participants had found their footing on the path to magic, while others had merely slipped down the hillside.

• Carl Gustafsson dodged a red spell and urged Wizet to stop the wizards from attacking him.
• Dumbledore asked the wizards to lower their wands, and Wizet dismissed the Golden Eagle Patronus.
• Carl Gustafsson and several other Muggles discovered they could no longer cast the Illumination Spell, while Prime Minister Major and President Jacques still could.
• Wizet summoned the Golden Eagle Patronus again, and Carl Gustafsson and the others remained unable to cast magic.
• Wizet said the experiment showed that some participants had found their footing on the path to magic, while others had slipped down the hillside.

After Carl Gustafsson’s group accused Wizet of manipulating the experiment, world leaders defended him and endorsed the results. Schmidt’s support turned the remaining fence-sitters against Gustafsson, and Toivo Koskinen rose to apologize, leaving their faction on the verge of splitting.

• Prime Minister Major, President Jacques, and President Bill condemned Carl Gustafsson’s accusations and praised Wizet’s experiment.
• Other Muggle leaders who maintained close ties with the International Confederation of Wizards voiced support for Wizet.
• Carl Gustafsson claimed a summoned bird had bewitched the leaders, but Schmidt rebuked him and defended the experiment’s rules and fairness.
• Dumbledore explained to Amelia Bones that Schmidt and his representatives had previously remained cautious because of Teutonia’s fear of magic.
• Schmidt and other former fence-sitters publicly criticized Gustafsson’s group, causing its scheme to collapse.
• Toivo Koskinen rose to offer a sincere apology, while Rita Skeeter wondered whether Wizet had anticipated the faction’s split.

Toivo Koskinen accepted the experiment’s result and questioned his earlier opposition, while Carl Gustafsson denounced the experiment before a wizard stunned him. Wizet promised that future experiments could help people regain magic, leaving the Muggle leaders hopeful but still discussing their concerns.

• Toivo Koskinen admitted that he had briefly cast magic during the experiment, but his Lumos failed and he had lost the ability again.
• Toivo told Carl Gustafsson that the experiment had helped him reconsider their struggle, prompting Carl to accuse the others of being deceived.
• A wizard stunned Carl after he screamed at the gathering, and Toivo apologized for the incident.
• Dumbledore comforted Toivo and suggested his loss of magic might not be permanent.
• Wizet explained that the experiment was only the beginning and that its method could be improved, giving the Muggle leaders hope.

After the Ritual Magic demonstration, Wizet’s words about Muggles learning magic inspired the guests, while Carl Gustafsson remained unconscious and ignored. As the guests departed, Rita Skeeter prepared to report on the event and concluded that Wizet wanted to decide who could join the magical world.

• Wizet promised that anyone could climb the mountain of magic, and the guests applauded his words.
• Dumbledore declared the Ritual Magic concluded and advised anyone feeling unwell to visit St. Mungo’s Spell Damage Ward.
• Prime Minister Major and President Jacques thanked Wizet, while late-arriving reporters failed to notice him under a spell.
• The guests considered visiting Ollivander’s shop to choose their own wands.
• Rita Skeeter told her photographer that the event was a miracle and said Wizet wanted to become the referee who decided who could sit at the table.

President Jacques returned to France to choose a wand at Morel's Wand Shop, while Minister Bonaparte tried to keep him from visiting Ollivander's. Ms. Morel and Minister Bonaparte tested Wizet's wand and concluded that its maker's skill surpassed hers.

• President Jacques asked Minister Bonaparte to take him to Ollivander's, but Bonaparte persuaded him to wait and choose a wand in France.
• Minister Bonaparte brought President Jacques to Morel's Wand Shop, where Jacques tried several wands and found one that felt like an extension of his hand.
• Ms. Morel examined Wizet's wand and asked Bonaparte about its maker and the claims that Wizet had learned from Ollivander.
• Ms. Morel tested Wizet's wand and praised its construction, flexibility, and feel when casting spells.
• Minister Bonaparte cast Avis with Wizet's wand and found that it adapted smoothly to him.
• Ms. Morel concluded that Wizet's wandmaking skill surpassed her own.

Madame Morel learned that Mr. Lovegood was responsible for transforming Muggles into wizards, making a remarkable wand, conducting research, and helping resolve the Paris Region Incident. The revelation left her struggling to believe that one person could master so many fields.

• Minister Bonaparte tried to reassure Madame Morel that the wand's unusual effectiveness was an accident, but she doubted him.
• Madame Morel considered leaving her shop to travel and seek inspiration, and Minister Bonaparte told her that new wand customers would soon arrive.
• Minister Bonaparte revealed that President Jacques had been a Muggle before Mr. Lovegood's magic transformed him into a wizard.
• Madame Morel realized that the Mr. Lovegood who transformed Muggles, made wands, and took part in research was the same person.
• Minister Bonaparte confirmed that Mr. Lovegood had also helped resolve the Paris Region Incident, leaving Madame Morel astonished.