Chapter Summaries

Wizet and Harry went to the Room of Requirement to search for one of Voldemort’s talismans, and discovered Sybill Trelawney had been using the room to drink while seeking inspiration. Harry used his connection to Voldemort to summon the room they needed, and its door appeared.

• Wizet and Harry hurried to the eighth floor after learning Voldemort’s talismans had to be destroyed to defeat him permanently.
• Harry and Wizet found a plain door appearing in the wall opposite the tapestry of a wizard teaching a Troll to dance ballet.
• Sybill Trelawney stumbled out of the Room of Requirement with two bottles of sherry and claimed she needed them to seek inspiration for her “Eye of Heaven.”
• Wizet told Harry to focus on the room he needed and walk past the wall three times.
• Harry used his connection with Voldemort to summon the room, and the door appeared again.

Harry and Wizet entered the Room of Requirement to search for Voldemort’s Horcrux, Ravenclaw’s diadem. When Harry used his connection to Voldemort to locate it, he sensed the Horcrux among the junk and pointed it out.

• Harry and Wizet entered the Room of Requirement, where a mountain of clutter filled the vast chamber.
• Wizet demonstrated how the diadem could appear rusted and warned that it might resist a Summoning Charm.
• Harry repeatedly cast Accio Diadem, but nothing in the room responded.
• Wizet asked Harry to use the soul-searching approach he practiced for the Patronus Charm to sense his connection to Voldemort.
• Harry felt an eerie call from Voldemort and pointed to a distant pile of junk, certain the Horcrux was there.

Harry suspected that Voldemort had left something inside his scar, and Wizet confirmed that it was a fragment of Voldemort’s soul. After Harry affirmed that he was ready to face his fate, Wizet summoned the diadem, causing the Room of Requirement to shake.

• Harry told Wizet that he suspected his connection to Voldemort went beyond the prophecy and that something might be inside his scar.
• Wizet confirmed that a fragment of Voldemort’s soul remained within Harry.
• Harry realized that the soul fragment explained why Wizet had wanted him to learn Occlumency and asked why Wizet had told him the truth.
• Wizet said Harry’s success in sensing the hidden amulet proved he was ready to know, and Harry declared that he was prepared to fight for himself and his parents.
• Wizet cast Accio Diadem, and the Room of Requirement shook violently.

Wizet’s Ancient Magic Power transformed the Room of Requirement and brought him into contact with Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. After Harry was sent away, Rowena asked Wizet about his true mission, and he said Guardians must oppose whatever My Lord seeks to do.

• Harry felt the Room of Requirement tremble, and Wizet deduced that his Ancient Magic Power had triggered the change.
• The room transformed into a circular hall filled with portraits, tapestries, floating plants, and a starry dome.
• Rowena Ravenclaw dismissed Harry from the conversation, then asked Wizet whether she had treated his friend inappropriately.
• Wizet identified Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff as Hogwarts founders and former Guardians, and said he would tell Harry what he wanted to know.
• Rowena explained that the diadem had sensed Wizet’s Ancient Magic Power and asked him about his true mission.
• Wizet said Guardians must oppose whatever My Lord wishes to do.

Wizet spoke with the awakened Heads of House Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, who learned that nearly a thousand years had passed and that My Lord could descend soon. They discussed Hogwarts, Wizet’s conflict with the Isaiah Society, and the memories and armored colossi left by the founders.

• Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw welcomed Wizet and realized they had been asleep for nearly a thousand years.
• Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff asked Wizet about Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat, and its students, and he explained that students came from around the world.
• Wizet told them that Head of Slytherin had taught him useful magic, and he introduced himself as Wizet Lovegood.
• Rowena Ravenclaw offered Hogwarts’ armored colossi as support after learning about Wizet’s battle against the Isaiah Society.
• Wizet described how the Isaiah Society had planned to sacrifice a city to summon My Lord, and said they had ultimately stopped the plan.
• Wizet confirmed he had received the founders’ memory and praised the alchemical knowledge it contained.

Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff warned Wizet that the Isaiah Society remained dangerous despite his victory and explained that its core members used Horcruxes to survive. As Helga listed the Society's members, Rowena wondered whether Wizet already knew about them because he had dealt with Morgana le Fay.

• Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff praised Wizet but cautioned him not to underestimate the Isaiah Society or mistake a retreat for defeat.
• Wizet took notes as Helga Hufflepuff explained that the Society's core members had made Horcruxes, and he said Head Slytherin had taught him about them.
• Wizet told Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff that Godric had also taught him combat insights.
• Helga Hufflepuff listed several Isaiah Society members, including Circe, Herpo, Melvin, and Morgana le Fay, who had fought Merlin.
• Rowena Ravenclaw noticed Wizet's calm reaction and asked whether he had already dealt with Morgana le Fay.

Wizet told Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff how the Isaiah Society lured the Guardians to France and sacrificed Morgana le Fay and Gregory to unleash two attacks from 'My Lord.' He explained that the Guardians blocked both attacks, leaving only Herpo the Shepherd with his full combat strength.

• Wizet described how the Isaiah Society had prepared a trap in France and planned to sacrifice a city to summon an attack from 'My Lord.'
• Rowena Ravenclaw recognized that Morgana le Fay had been willing to sacrifice herself to launch an attack, and Wizet said she had apparently died completely.
• Wizet revealed that the Isaiah Society had also sacrificed Gregory, whom Rowena Ravenclaw recognized as a former Ravenclaw student.
• Wizet said the Guardians had more or less blocked the first attack from 'My Lord' and stopped the second through preparations made in advance.
• Wizet said the Isaiah Society had suffered another blow and that only Herpo the Shepherd retained his full combat strength.

Wizet described his battles with the Isaiah Society to Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, reassuring them that he remained cautious and that its forces were still being pursued. The founders praised his conduct, and Rowena was comforted when Wizet credited her information and alchemical memory with helping his efforts.

• Wizet told Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff about the Isaiah Society's attempts to cause a tsunami and unleash fire dragons, and explained how he and his allies stopped them.
• Rowena Ravenclaw condemned the International Statute of Secrecy, while Helga Hufflepuff wondered at Wizet's calm assessment of the fire-dragon danger.
• Wizet assured the founders that Selina and the others were continuing to dismantle the Isaiah Society's forces and prevent its return.
• Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff praised Wizet's caution and realized he had misunderstood their earlier warnings as doubts about his judgment.
• Wizet thanked Rowena Ravenclaw for her information and alchemical memory, and she said his words comforted her.

Wizet affirmed his resolve to protect others, and Rowena Ravenclaw entrusted him with a Guardian's will that could unite Guardians when he needed help. Before departing, she revealed that the girl in her portrait was her daughter, Helena Ravenclaw, and Wizet suggested Helena had stayed away for reasons beyond Rowena's failings as a mother.

• Rowena Ravenclaw asked Wizet why he had chosen Ravenclaw, and he explained that he had wanted access to more magical knowledge.
• Wizet told Rowena Ravenclaw that he now had many things he wanted to pursue and protect, and promised he would keep fighting even if his magic failed.
• Rowena Ravenclaw described the Guardians' perseverance against the Isaiah Society and created a silver thread containing a Guardian's will for Wizet to use in gathering other Guardians' wills.
• Helga Hufflepuff reminded Wizet that love could also give him strength, and he promised to remember her advice.
• Wizet asked about a girl in Rowena Ravenclaw's portrait, and Rowena revealed that she was her daughter, Helena Ravenclaw, who had left and never returned.
• Wizet told Rowena Ravenclaw that he believed Helena's absence was due to other reasons.

After being separated from Wizet in the Room of Requirement, Harry navigated its dangerous clutter and found Voldemort’s talisman, Ravenclaw’s Diadem. He resisted its influence with Occlumency and left to seek Dumbledore, but the Grey Lady appeared before him.

• A black-haired witch sent Harry away from the circular hall, leaving him alone in the Room of Requirement without Wizet.
• Harry used the method Wizet had taught him to locate the talisman and carefully crossed the room’s hazardous piles of clutter.
• Harry found the rusty Diadem on a bust and resisted Voldemort’s whispers by using Occlumency.
• Harry hooked the Diadem up with a broken chair leg and decided to take it to Dumbledore.
• As Harry hurried toward the Headmaster’s Office, the Grey Lady appeared before him.

Harry carried the cursed Ravenclaw Diadem while the Grey Lady tried to stop him, and Wizet explained that Voldemort had corrupted it with Dark Magic. The Grey Lady recognized what had been done to the Diadem and broke down in tears.

• The Grey Lady demanded that Harry put down the Diadem, but he refused and hurried away with it.
• The Grey Lady repeatedly passed through Harry to stop him, and Harry changed to a quieter corridor to avoid drawing attention.
• Wizet met Harry, praised him for handling the Diadem without touching it, and told him it had bewitched Harry into wanting to wear it.
• Wizet explained to the Grey Lady that Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle, had used Dark Magic to turn the Diadem into a safeguard for his return.
• The Grey Lady realized the nature of the magic and covered her face as she burst into tears.

Harry, Wizet, and the Grey Lady argued over Ravenclaw’s Diadem until Wizet revealed that Rowena Ravenclaw wanted to see her daughter. The Grey Lady learned her mother had waited for her in the Room of Requirement and prepared to meet her.

• Harry impulsively asked whether ghosts could shed tears, offending the Grey Lady, and suspected the Diadem had influenced him.
• Wizet told the Grey Lady that Rowena Ravenclaw wished to see her, and she eagerly asked whether her mother meant to meet her now.
• Harry learned that the witches he had seen were Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, and realized the Grey Lady was Rowena’s daughter.
• The Grey Lady explained that she had refused to hand over the Diadem because Voldemort had turned it into an amulet, while Harry and Wizet clarified that they had sought it to destroy it.
• Wizet told the Grey Lady that Rowena had waited for her in the Room of Requirement, and the Grey Lady grieved that she had returned only after becoming a ghost.

Wizet and Harry brought the Grey Lady to Rowena Ravenclaw, where Helena reunited with her mother and confessed her role in the Diadem’s history. Wizet destroyed the evil influence attached to the Diadem, leaving Harry surprised by how easily it was resolved.

• Wizet opened the Room of Requirement, and Rowena Ravenclaw welcomed the Grey Lady as Helena.
• Helena reunited with Rowena and admitted that she had stolen the Diadem and refused to return when Barrow told her that her mother was ill.
• Helena explained that Barrow killed her in the forest and then killed himself, while Rowena regretted sending him to find her.
• Helena confessed that she had revealed the Diadem’s hiding place to a student who used it to make an evil magical artifact.
• Wizet engulfed the Diadem in flame, causing black liquid to seep out and lifting the burden Harry felt; Harry asked whether it was really solved so easily.

Wizet repaired Ravenclaw's Diadem and returned it to Rowena Ravenclaw, while Harry learned that destroying a powerful amulet required dangerous Fiendfyre. The Grey Lady returned to life as the circular hall fell into decay, and Rowena and Helga said they would soon be free to die.

• Helga Hufflepuff explained that ordinary fire could not destroy an amulet and that Fiendfyre was powerful but dangerous.
• Wizet repaired Ravenclaw's Diadem, and Harry declined to try it on.
• Wizet returned the diadem to Rowena Ravenclaw, who revealed she had intended to give it to him.
• The Grey Lady regained a living appearance as the circular hall's decorations dimmed and withered.
• Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff declined Wizet's offer of help and said they would soon be free of their restraints and able to die.

Harry learned why the Grey Lady’s appearance had changed after meeting Rowena Ravenclaw, while Wizet explained the nature of ghosts and the cost of restoring her. Meanwhile, Snape returned to a deathly silent Durmstrang and was summoned to meet Voldemort.

• Harry asked Wizet whether he could tell Ron and Hermione about meeting the Hogwarts founders, and Wizet said he could but warned they would have no proof.
• Wizet explained that ghosts remained between Limbo and reality because they had refused death, and that the Grey Lady’s obsession had faded after meeting Rowena Ravenclaw.
• Wizet revealed that Rowena Ravenclaw’s Ancient Magic Power had restored the Grey Lady’s living appearance, but bound her to the circular hall.
• Harry wondered whether Voldemort might become a ghost after his Horcruxes were destroyed, and Wizet said he did not think Voldemort would have that opportunity.
• Snape entered Durmstrang and found the castle unnaturally silent; Barty Crouch Jr. appeared and ordered him to meet the Master.

Snape observed Barty Crouch Jr. behaving with unexpected restraint at Durmstrang, where students had been driven mad by studying Voldemort’s path of magic. After Barty Crouch Jr. expelled an attacking student, Snape realized he regretted recommending the practice, though the cause of his change remained unclear.

• Snape followed Barty Crouch Jr. through Durmstrang Castle and saw the damage and bloodstains left by violence.
• A bloodied student attacked Barty Crouch Jr. with the Killing Curse, but Barty raised the student’s aim, stunned him, and cleared sharp debris from his fall.
• Barty Crouch Jr. ordered a professor to expel the unconscious student, calling him unworthy of studying at Durmstrang.
• Snape challenged Barty Crouch Jr. about the students’ madness, and Barty admitted he had proposed sharing Voldemort’s path of magic with them.
• Snape concluded that Barty Crouch Jr. regretted his proposal and was trying to make amends by expelling students, while Barty said Voldemort ultimately wanted Hogwarts.

Snape learned that Voldemort planned to give him Lily Evans as a reward and deduced that a seer’s Eye of Heaven talent had exposed his feelings to Voldemort. He suppressed his anger and prepared to act as Voldemort expected when he faced him.

• Barty Crouch Jr. questioned Snape’s loyalty and warned that he would be watching him.
• Barty Crouch Jr. told Snape that Voldemort’s reward was something Snape desired but had never obtained, which Voldemort had once destroyed.
• Snape realized the reward was Lily Evans and considered why Voldemort had chosen to give her to him.
• Snape connected Dumbledore’s refusals to meet with the possibility that Voldemort had discovered a seer with the Eye of Heaven.
• Snape concluded that Voldemort had learned he still cared about Lily through the Eye of Heaven and forced down his anger to prepare for their meeting.

Snape arrived at the Headmaster's Office and was confronted with a magical appearance of Lily Evans, which Voldemort offered as a reward for his loyalty. Snape confessed that he had lied about his feelings when Lily was dead and pledged to do anything Voldemort demanded.

• Barty Crouch Jr. led Snape through a hidden stairway to the Headmaster's Office, where Lily Evans appeared at the door.
• Snape was overwhelmed by Lily's familiar appearance and entered the office after she invited him in.
• Barty Crouch Jr. and Snape knelt before Voldemort, who asked Snape whether he was satisfied with Lily's appearance.
• Snape asked Voldemort to forgive him for lying and explained that he had spoken differently because Lily Potter was dead.
• Voldemort said a reward required something in return, and Snape vowed to give anything, even his life.

Voldemort ordered Snape to lure Wizet to the Time Chamber on the day of the Ministry’s O.W.L. examinations, where Wizet would face a trap. After Snape left, Barty Crouch Jr. decided to go to the Ministry and thwart the plan.

• Lily Evans urged Snape not to make a promise to Voldemort lightly, and Voldemort reassured Snape before assigning him a task.
• Voldemort told Snape to lure Wizet to the Time Chamber during the O.W.L. examinations, explaining that Wizet could not join their side and should disappear.
• Snape admitted he would have hesitated a few days earlier but pledged to complete the task, while Voldemort stressed that it was crucial.
• Voldemort sent Barty Crouch Jr. to escort Snape out, and the two exchanged barbs on their way from Durmstrang Castle.
• After Snape Apparated away, Barty Crouch Jr. resolved to go to the Ministry on examination day and stop Snape from luring Wizet into the trap.

After Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. left, Circe shed her disguise as Lily Evans and described what she had learned by probing Snape’s memories. She explained how Lily’s childhood kindness and their divided Hogwarts houses shaped Snape’s attachment, leaving Voldemort and the others discussing what he had lost.

• Herpo entered the room and found Circe impatiently changing back from her Lily Evans disguise.
• Calchas joked that Snape was ready to offer Circe his soul, and Voldemort reassured him that he understood it was only a figure of speech.
• Circe clarified that Snape had opened his soul to her, allowing her to see many memories of Lily Evans.
• Circe recounted how the lonely young Snape met Lily beside a swing, then attended Hogwarts with her in rival houses, Slytherin and Gryffindor.
• Circe said Lily’s kindness, rather than Lily herself, was what Snape longed for most.