Chapter Summaries

Xenophilius Lovegood went to the Hog's Head Inn to privately counsel Luna about information concerning Wizet. After Aberforth Dumbledore revealed how he had kept Mundungus Fletcher quiet, Xenophilius explained that Minister Amelia Bones had also confirmed the information and ordered it suppressed; Aberforth gave Xenophilius a room so he could speak with Luna.

• Aberforth Dumbledore guessed that Xenophilius wanted to counsel Luna about Wizet and asked whether he knew anything.
• Xenophilius said Mundungus Fletcher had given him information, and Aberforth revealed that he had broken Mundungus's legs and threatened him into silence.
• Xenophilius explained that he had confirmed the information with Amelia Bones, who had ordered that news about Wizet not be disclosed.
• Xenophilius told Aberforth that a Hit Wizard was guarding his magazine office, so he had escaped with Dobby's help and left a trusted informant disguised with Polyjuice Potion.
• Aberforth gave Xenophilius a room upstairs, and Xenophilius hurried off to speak with Luna.

Xenophilius Lovegood, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black gathered at the Hog's Head Inn after receiving unofficial reports that Wizet had been involved in an accident and that a new Paris Region Incident might be imminent. As they waited for Luna and the others, they focused on how to tell Luna the news.

• Remus Lupin and Sirius Black arrived at the Hog's Head Inn and learned that Xenophilius Lovegood was upstairs.
• Remus told Sirius and Aberforth Dumbledore that North American contacts had reported the Muggle president was being lobbied, raising fears of another Paris Region Incident targeting Wizet.
• Xenophilius sat upstairs and struggled to find a way to tell Luna about Wizet's accident without devastating her.
• Remus and Sirius joined Xenophilius and confirmed that they had also received unofficial news about Wizet.
• Sirius said the Ministry of Magic could handle suppressing the news and asked Xenophilius whether he had figured out how to tell Luna.

Sirius Black, Lupin, Xenophilius, Neville, Hannah, Fred, and George discussed rumors that Wizet had been hurt in an accident in the Time Chamber. They realized Luna might be the only one who had not heard the rumors, leaving Xenophilius to decide how to approach her.

• Xenophilius and Sirius Black worried about how to talk to Fred and the others about the rumors.
• Neville, Hannah, Fred, and George arrived and revealed that their families had warned them not to believe rumors or investigate Wizet's disappearance.
• Hannah said Luna seemed much as usual, and Xenophilius asked whether anyone had hinted at what might have happened.
• Lupin said he had heard that Wizet had an accident during magical experiments in the Time Chamber.
• Neville recalled how Wizet had helped him resist the moon eye's effects and insisted Wizet would be all right.
• Sirius Black pointed out that Luna might be the only one unaware of the rumors and told Xenophilius it was now his turn to worry.

Xenophilius and the others struggled to figure out how to tell Luna about Wizet’s disappearance, while Fred and George urged him to pretend he had never written to her. Luna arrived before they could avoid the conversation, and Kreacher revealed Wizet’s absence by asking where he was, leaving the group stunned as Luna said it might be some time before Wizet could meet him.

• Fred and George suggested Xenophilius pretend he had never written Luna a letter, but Xenophilius refused to deny it as her father.
• Luna knocked and entered, noticing Xenophilius looked tired and had lots of Wrackspurts.
• Xenophilius tried to explain that he had been busy, while Fred and George joked and Sirius Black told them to be quiet.
• Kreacher appeared with a cake for Wizet and asked Luna where he was.
• Luna told Kreacher that it might be some time before Wizet could meet him, and Kreacher regretfully accepted that Wizet would miss the cake.

After Wizet disappeared in the Time Chamber, Luna reassured the M.S.C. members that he would return and warned that the Dark wizards behind the incident might exploit his absence. M.S.C. resolved to prepare and seek help from the people who had aided them in Paris.

• Luna reassured Xenophilius that she was fine, and Aberforth returned to the room in noticeably better spirits.
• Neville, Hannah, Fred, and George voiced their confidence that Wizet would come back.
• Luna warned that the Dark wizards who had caused Wizet's disappearance might now act against them.
• Lupin and Sirius Black suspected the Dark wizards from Paris had targeted Wizet because they feared him.
• Neville, Hannah, Fred, and George agreed to keep working and draw the hidden enemies into the open.
• Lupin asked Luna to contact the people who had helped them in Paris and offered M.S.C.'s support and resources.

Luna and the M.S.C. members discussed how dark wizards might target Muggles and try to awaken the moon eye, while worrying that Wizet’s absence would weaken Muggle cooperation. Xenophilius asked whether the truth about what happened to Wizet really mattered to the Muggles.

• Sirius, Luna, and the others suspected the dark wizards planned a larger attack on Muggles and might awaken the moon eye.
• Neville and Hannah agreed to do everything they could to delay the enemy despite their limited chances.
• Remus explained that Wizet’s absence could make it harder for Muggle leaders to justify cooperating with the M.S.C.
• Xenophilius warned that Muggle officials might avoid involvement, using Cornelius Fudge as an example, and the group raised their teacups to the former Minister.
• Xenophilius asked whether the truth about Wizet’s situation mattered to the Muggles, leaving Remus confused.

Xenophilius explained how the group could influence wavering high-ranking Muggles by affirming that they had received information without giving them conclusions, letting them analyze the clues themselves. Luna demonstrated that a fragment could let Neville Apparate through Anti-Apparition Magic, giving the group a striking piece of evidence to show others.

• Xenophilius advised the group to distinguish between easily swayed high-ranking Muggles and those who made their own judgments, and to affirm information without confirming any conclusion.
• Lupin, Sirius, Fred, and George followed Xenophilius’s reasoning that officials would be more receptive if they assembled clues and reached conclusions themselves.
• Luna sent Phoenix into Neville, who then vanished and reappeared behind Lupin despite the Anti-Apparition Magic protecting the place.
• Lupin and Xenophilius decided Neville’s feat could serve as a fragment of evidence, prompting high-ranking Muggles to question whether Wizet had really disappeared and whether they should choose sides.

Xenophilius proposed using fragmentary information to make Muggle leaders hesitate and buy time against the dark wizards. After the others left to put the plan into action, he comforted Luna and acknowledged that he had kept thinking of her as a child who needed his protection.

• Xenophilius persuaded Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Neville, and Hannah that incomplete information could make Muggle leaders pause and delay the dark wizards’ plans.
• Sirius Black and Remus Lupin left to contact the Muggle higher-ups, while Fred and George discussed sending Cornelius Fudge a sarcastic gift.
• Luna thanked Xenophilius for giving everyone a plan and told him she was not sad.
• Xenophilius recalled Luna’s childhood and said he had always felt he needed to protect her, especially after her mother died.

Xenophilius told Luna he was proud of her and would support her as she pursued her own path. Back at Hogwarts, Luna reunited the little Thunderbird with Phoenix and then encountered Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who awkwardly avoided asking her about the news they had heard.

• Xenophilius told Luna he had realized she no longer needed his protection and praised how others listened to her.
• Luna hugged Xenophilius, and he promised that he and Panny would always support her.
• Luna returned to Hogwarts, where the little Thunderbird greeted her and flew off to play with Phoenix.
• Luna met Hermione, Ron, and Harry on the eighth floor and noticed their evasive behavior.
• Harry and Ron awkwardly asked Luna about her revision, while Hermione stopped Harry from raising their real question.

Hermione led Harry and Ron to the library to show them passages that suggested someone had foreseen Wizet’s accident through an “inner eye.” She suspected avoiding direct mention of the source might help protect them, but she remained unsure what had happened to Wizet.

• Ron and Harry questioned Hermione about why she had refused to ask Luna about the rumors concerning Wizet, and Hermione took them to the library to explain privately.
• Hermione showed Harry and Ron passages about the “inner eye” in two books, leading them to suspect someone had foreseen Wizet’s accident.
• Hermione said Luna had given her a hint and suggested that avoiding the source’s name might be a defensive measure.
• Harry asked whether Wizet was safe and had merely gone into hiding, but Hermione gave no answer before the chapter ended.

Hermione, Harry, and Ron realized Luna’s hint meant Wizet was probably safe as long as his transformed Phoenix remained, and Sirius Black reassured Harry by letter. Snape advised the trio to apply as Gringotts security guards, then reflected that the goblins might soon be in such trouble that they would be unemployed.

• Hermione explained that Luna’s comment about long-lasting Transfiguration had hinted that Wizet was safe while his Phoenix remained.
• Harry and Ron recognized the Phoenix as one Wizet had transformed, and Hermione connected the danger to the Dark wizards they had encountered during the summer holidays.
• Hedwig delivered Sirius Black’s letter assuring Harry that Wizet would be all right and instructing them to use the Two-way Mirror to contact him.
• Harry considered asking Sirius for help, but Ron warned that Sirius would not want them taking risks.
• Snape appeared, suggested Harry and Ron apply to work as Gringotts security guards, and deducted five points from each of them for failing to greet him.
• Snape left the trio and murmured that the goblins’ worsening situation might soon leave the guards unemployed.

Herpo and Voldemort decided they could no longer wait for Wizet’s possible return and moved to accelerate their plans. Voldemort ordered Herpo to gather wizards by morning so he could retake Hogwarts.

• Herpo realized that Muggle leaders had hesitated despite confirmation from the other side, delaying their plans.
• Calchas reported that Dumbledore had not intervened and had only downplayed the Guardian’s disappearance.
• Herpo urged Voldemort to act before Wizet returned from the turbulent flow of time.
• Voldemort agreed and told Herpo to gather wizards in the Headmaster’s Office by morning for an attack on Hogwarts.
• Herpo agreed, and Voldemort reminded him of the consequences of breaking a previous promise.

Herpo left Voldemort’s office intending to use Voldemort’s planned attack on Hogwarts to distract Dumbledore while he advanced his own plan. At Nurmengard, Selina Pendragon worried about Wizet, but Grindelwald reassured her and warned that the Isaiah Society would soon intensify its actions.

• Herpo concealed his hatred for Voldemort and agreed to support the plan to attack Hogwarts, hoping the attack would occupy Dumbledore.
• Selina Pendragon visited Gellert Grindelwald at Nurmengard and told him Wizet had sent a brief message telling her not to worry.
• Grindelwald realized Selina was afraid something would happen to Wizet and guaranteed that Wizet would be safe.
• Selina explained that M.S.C. had delayed the Isaiah Society’s plan by openly acknowledging Wizet’s situation.
• Grindelwald predicted that the Isaiah Society’s core members would soon accelerate their actions and urged greater vigilance.

Gellert Grindelwald used his remaining strength to divine the coming attack and extract a memory for Selina Pendragon. He left her to choose likely targets as chaos threatened to engulf the world in the next few days.

• Selina Pendragon asked Gellert Grindelwald what the enemy would do, and he poured mead into an enormous oval to reveal his vision.
• Gellert Grindelwald explained that Wizet’s disappearance and his friends’ interference had driven the enemy to risk everything in an attempt to eliminate Wizet.
• Gellert Grindelwald admitted that he had told Albus about his eyes so he could learn when to appear and find Wizet at the most effective moment.
• Gellert Grindelwald’s vision left him bleeding from the eyes, and Selina Pendragon gathered the memory he drew from the cell.
• Selina Pendragon said she would go to the places she believed the enemy would choose, while Gellert Grindelwald predicted the chaos would begin within days.

Wizet’s prolonged absence from Hogwarts unsettled students and their families, who hoped he had left to share his magical research. A magazine rumor finally linked him to an accident at the Ministry of Magic, where he had vanished inside the Department of Mysteries.

• Ravenclaw and other Hogwarts students noticed that Wizet had stopped appearing in the common room, library, and magical exchange meetings.
• Students received letters from relatives asking whether Wizet was still at Hogwarts and replied that they had not seen him, while speculating he had gone to publish research.
• The students waited for news about Wizet in the weekend papers, but the Daily Prophet focused on a war in the Muggle world.
• Students reading other publications found a rumor that Wizet had met with an accident at the Ministry of Magic and vanished in the Department of Mysteries.

Wizet traveled into the past and found the ancient figures Hermes Trismegistus had described, communicating with them by releasing his Occlumency. He met Odin, who called him a Descender, and introduced himself as Wizet Lovegood.

• Wizet reached a clearing in the World Tree forest, where ancient figures gathered and watched him.
• Odin calmed the figures’ growing hostility, and he and Wizet exchanged gestures of goodwill.
• Wizet recognized the figures’ rhythmic magical fluctuations as a language and released his Occlumency to hear their voices.
• Wizet learned the figures yearned for change and asked where Hermes Trismegistus was; Odin said Hermes was away on more important matters.
• Odin called Wizet a Descender, introduced himself, and asked Wizet’s name; Wizet replied that he was Wizet Lovegood.

Wizet learned that Odin and the other figures recognized him as a Descender because his gnosis carried traces of the future. After he explained that his Occlumency was a form of armor, Odin asked him to share more about it and the future.

• Odin and Xochitlicutli explained that they could sense Wizet’s unusual gnosis and knew he had come from the future.
• Xochitlicutli said Mictlantecuhtli’s followers had sealed themselves in armor, preventing them from communicating without barriers.
• Wizet inferred that the Skeleton Figure was Mictlantecuhtli, and Odin confirmed that the figure called My Lord was Mictlantecuhtli.
• Wizet reassured Xochitlicutli that he valued the world and its magic, and that he was seeking a way to deal with Mictlantecuhtli.
• Wizet explained that his armor was Occlumency, a defensive magic and form of practice, and Odin asked him to tell them more.

Wizet showed Odin and the gathered figures memories of his magical future, revealing how magic and technology shaped two divided worlds. The figures were deeply moved by what they saw, and Odin thanked Wizet for showing them the future their seeds would grow into.

• Odin asked Wizet what the future was like, and Wizet drew out a silver thread of memory to show him.
• Wizet explained that the future had wizards and Muggles, magic and technology, and that the Isaiah Society had helped divide them into separate worlds.
• Odin asked to experience the memory himself, and Wizet allowed him and the other figures to try.
• The figures used the Rune ᚲ(Kenaz) to absorb the memories and saw Wizet’s experiences of magic, including Hogwarts, spells, magical plants, and creatures.
• After the memories ended, the figures wept, and Odin thanked Wizet for showing them the magnificent forest their seeds would grow into.

Wizet wanted to prevent Odin and the others from facing Mictlantecuhtli, but they insisted on embracing the risks of change and fighting for their own future. After Wizet accepted that he must pursue change in his own era, Loki, Amon, Chaos, and Sid returned with troubling news about the hidden treasury and a message from Mictlantecuhtli.

• Wizet showed Odin and the others his research into magic and technology and considered changing their fate by destroying Mictlantecuhtli in the past.
• Odin and Xochitlicutli explained that preventing a predicted disaster would betray their commitment to change, and they chose to fight Mictlantecuhtli themselves.
• Wizet recognized that the others had to fulfill their own missions and that he should return to the future to bring about change there.
• Loki, Amon, Chaos, and Sid returned after hiding the treasury and reported that Mictlantecuhtli had nearly infiltrated its pathway.
• A figure told Odin that Mictlantecuhtli had appeared as Amon and another figure completed the concealment, then revealed a message saying they had betrayed everyone's trust.

Wizet learned that Odin and the others’ empty “Treasury” would become the Otherworld, Alaya-vijnana, or Logos, and studied how they had built it. As Odin’s group worried about Mictlantecuhtli invading the “Pathway,” Wizet offered a magic bubble made with similar principles, though he had not mastered the “Treasury.”

• Xochitlicutli worried that Mictlantecuhtli had learned about the unfinished “Pathway,” while Odin reassured him that the “Treasury” would be difficult to invade.
• Wizet asked Odin about the “Treasury” and learned that it was meant to store thoughts and would later be known as the Otherworld, Alaya-vijnana, or Logos.
• Wizet recognized the “Treasury” as a place he had explored and analyzed the thoughts of Odin and the others to learn how they had constructed it.
• Odin told Wizet that he could study the “Treasury,” and Wizet continued examining its principles.
• As Odin and the others discussed how to defend the “Pathway,” Wizet created a white bubble with “Resonant Symphony” that reminded Odin and Xochitlicutli of the “Treasury.”
• Wizet explained that the bubble used similar principles but said he had not mastered how to construct the “Treasury.”