Recaps

Hogwarts sent out Isabella Rosier’s textbook list, and Harry received a diary that secretly drained his life force as he communicated with Voldemort’s soul fragment. Vaughn monitored the danger from a banquet with Dumbledore, while testing how fate would respond to his interference in Harry and Tom’s meeting.

• Pandora received Hogwarts’ notice introducing Isabella Rosier and was alarmed by the expensive books on her purchase list.
• At The Burrow, Molly discovered Vaughn’s works were also required textbooks, while Harry and Ron realized they had left their summer homework unfinished.
• Harry privately questioned the notebook about gaps in his memory but kept it secret from Ron and continued communicating with it.
• Fruit Tea watched Harry as the notebook’s black mist absorbed his spiritual light, and Vaughn monitored the process through the Dimensional Gate.
• Vaughn told Dumbledore that Tom’s Diary was draining Harry’s life force and would drain him faster as the Horcrux recovered.

Vaughn and Dumbledore discussed the opposition to a Hogwarts werewolf class, and Vaughn said he would seek to strip the Board of Governors of its authority. The next morning, Harry saw a report of werewolves marching on the Ministry of Magic, while the chapter traced the discontent that helped drive François toward confrontation.

• Old Vilma warned Dumbledore that he would oppose a Hogwarts werewolf class, citing the danger to students and criticizing Vaughn’s influence.
• Dumbledore told Vaughn that most wizarding families would resist the class, and Vaughn proposed removing the Board of Governors’ power through public and legal means.
• Vaughn reminded Dumbledore that Harry’s connection to the diary might lead to the Chamber of Secrets and urged him to consider the rest of their deal before school began.
• Harry saw a Daily Prophet photograph of hundreds of werewolves marching through Diagon Alley and London toward the Ministry of Magic, with a small group of Aurors retreating before them.
• François recalled how a werewolf’s attack had led him to kill his family, and how he had joined Vaughn’s cause hoping to live openly and change werewolves’ lives.
• François grew frustrated with North American werewolves who resisted their new lives in England and with English werewolves he believed had become too willing to accept the status quo.

François and Alexander witnessed growing tensions among the North American werewolves in England as local hostility and internal factionalism intensified. A mysterious darkness attacked Taylor and Alexander, and Lupin found two werewolves dead from the Killing Curse, leaving the source of the attack unclear.

• François reflected on the werewolves’ situation in England and struggled to find a way to help Vaughn before Matthew asked him to do something for Mr. Weasley.
• Alexander read hostile Daily Prophet interviews with Taylor, who accused Vaughn Weasley of deliberately making the North American werewolves dependent on him and hinted that Vaughn had enemies in England.
• Alexander feared the growing split between Vaughn’s supporters and opponents as he and Taylor walked home after work.
• Darkness overwhelmed Alexander and Taylor in a strangely silent Liverpool street, and Alexander glimpsed green light and heard Taylor begin the Killing Curse before losing consciousness.
• Lupin hurried to a gathering in the werewolves’ dormitory and found François, Matthew, William, and Barnard beside two bodies bearing traces of the Killing Curse.

After Alexander and Taylor were murdered, François convinced the North American werewolves that their deaths were part of a campaign against them, and led a massive march into Diagon Alley. As the Ministry struggled to respond and the killer remained unknown, Barty Crouch Sr. warned Vaughn that people suspected him.

• François accused English wizards of killing Alexander and Taylor, then rallied the werewolves by linking the growing hostility to Vaughn Weasley's plan for a Werewolf Class at Hogwarts.
• François led the North American werewolves and some WAC members into Diagon Alley, where their march alarmed the Aurors and the Ministry.
• Fudge ordered Vaughn to disperse the march, but Vaughn refused and urged the Ministry to investigate the murders and address the werewolves' grievances fairly.
• Vaughn told Amelia and Dumbledore that the killer had used a Confundus Charm and disturbed the magical traces, leaving investigators without a clear lead.
• After Dumbledore ended the meeting, Barty Crouch Sr. checked for surveillance magic and told Vaughn that people suspected him; Vaughn said he knew.

Vaughn explained to Barty Crouch Sr. that Amelia Bones and Dumbledore would tolerate his actions within limits, then returned to the Burrow as Harry and Ron rushed to finish their summer homework. While the boys worried about Vaughn’s judgment, he spent the night preparing research plans and plotting an international magical-school exchange to advance his quests and influence.

• Vaughn told Barty Crouch Sr. that Amelia’s silence supported his actions and that Dumbledore would not interfere as long as events stayed within certain limits.
• Vaughn left Barty to guide the werewolf march and traveled by Floo to the Burrow, where Molly scolded Ron and Harry for leaving their homework until the last day.
• Harry and Ron overheard Molly tell Vaughn about the werewolves’ deaths, and Harry’s forehead scar began to ache as he recalled the Killing Curse.
• Vaughn went up to the attic to sort his experiment notes, while Harry and Ron continued their homework and wondered whether he would come to reprimand them.
• Vaughn planned to focus his second year on independent research, especially improving the Wolfsbane Potion, and reviewed his system quests.
• Vaughn decided to use Potions academic exchanges to build ties with China Central Magic Academy, invite eight major magical schools to a worldwide competition, and strengthen pressure for the Werewolf Class project.

Vaughn used Scabbers’s false consciousness to plant Personality Armament in Tom Riddle’s diary, then erased Dobby’s memory to prevent him from interfering with Harry’s trip to Hogwarts. At Hogwarts, Snape confronted Dumbledore about letting Harry carry the diary, and Dumbledore defended his decision by invoking Vaughn’s judgment.

• Vaughn provoked the diary with Scabbers’s Personality Armament and secretly planted it inside the diary as a monitor.
• Vaughn found Dobby trying to work out how to keep Harry from going to Hogwarts, then used magic to erase Dobby’s plan and memories of Harry.
• Vaughn wrote a report about his experiment and sent it to Hogwarts.
• Snape angrily accused Dumbledore of letting Harry enter Hogwarts with his enemy in his arms, while Dumbledore said Snape should trust Vaughn.
• Snape calmed somewhat at Vaughn’s name but accused Dumbledore of using people close to him as leverage.

Dumbledore told Snape he was tolerating Vaughn because Vaughn and WAC could help Harry, then received a letter from Vaughn. On September 1, the Weasleys, Harry, and Vaughn traveled to Hogwarts, where Ginny joined the first-years and Harry saw the winged horses pulling the carriages while Seamus could not see them.

• Dumbledore explained that he had eased restrictions on Vaughn in exchange for help with Harry and Tom's intertwined destinies, and Fawkes delivered a letter from Vaughn.
• The Weasleys and Harry left The Burrow for King's Cross, where Molly tearfully said goodbye to the children before the Hogwarts Express departed.
• Hermione joined Vaughn, Harry, Ron, and Ginny on the train, and she warned Vaughn that the werewolves' march might be using him as a weapon.
• At Hogwarts, Ginny went with Rubeus Hagrid and the first-years toward the Black Lake while Vaughn joined older Slytherin students.
• Harry, Ron, and Hermione saw the black, winged creatures pulling the carriages, but Seamus Finnigan said he could not see them.

Vaughn helped Harry, Ron, and Hermione board a Thestral-drawn carriage, then welcomed Isabella Rosier as Hogwarts’s new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Snape later caught Harry and Ron, seized Harry’s notebook, and stopped just before writing in it.

• Vaughn reassured Harry, Ron, and Hermione that the Thestrals were friendly and helped them board the carriage to Hogwarts.
• Vaughn greeted Isabella Rosier at the staff table, and she asked him about the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position.
• Harry and Ron joked about Snape in the corridor, but Snape overheard them and ordered them to follow him.
• Snape petrified Harry and Ron, emptied Harry’s backpack, and took the blank notebook he had been hiding.
• Snape threatened to write Harry and Ron’s insults in the notebook, but the pen stopped just before touching the page.

Harry and Ron arrived late to the welcome feast after Snape confiscated Harry’s notebook, while Snape’s interference brought him a run of misfortune. Vaughn then proposed a permanent, game-like practical training ground for Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Dumbledore considered the plan.

• Snape released Harry from the Petrification Charm, confiscated his notebook, and sent Harry and Ron from the Potions classroom.
• Harry and Ron arrived late to the Great Hall, where Professor McGonagall ordered them to their seats as Ginny was sorted into Gryffindor.
• Vaughn found Snape arguing with Dumbledore about interfering with fate, and learned that Snape’s meddling had caused him to suffer misfortune.
• Vaughn agreed to take the title of head of the Dueling Club and discussed with Dumbledore how to improve Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching.
• Vaughn proposed building a dangerous, treasure-filled training ground for practical lessons, and Dumbledore recognized the idea as an expanded version of the World Within the Painting.

Vaughn persuaded Dumbledore to adopt a seasonal, points-based system for student adventures and began developing an incomplete spell to make the Magic Extraction Method accessible to other potion-makers, naming it Essence Charm. Meanwhile, Hermione returned to Hogwarts prepared for the new term and discovered that Harry had done none of his summer homework.

• Vaughn explained to Dumbledore how zones, seasonal points, rankings, and rewards could address differences in student progress, and Dumbledore asked him and Madam Rosier to prepare a detailed plan.
• Dumbledore told Vaughn that he had sent invitations to the requested schools for a Potions academic exchange, leaving Vaughn responsible for making the event worthwhile.
• Vaughn returned to his Slytherin dormitory, found the other beds removed, and checked his updated magic and reputation statistics before using the Spell Development Module.
• Vaughn supplied the module with his ideas and memories about the Magic Extraction Method, developed an incomplete spell, and named it Essence Charm.
• Hermione woke early and planned to use her free days to study, then was shocked to find that Harry had written only the title of his History of Magic essay.

Hermione grew unsettled after repeatedly seeing Vaughn with Professor Isabella Rosier, but Hagrid revealed that Vaughn was assisting Rosier with a dangerous-creature teaching plan. In the Forbidden Forest, Vaughn began recruiting unicorns for the World Within the Painting, while Rosier learned that they disliked her.

• Hermione argued with Ron about Quidditch, then became distracted and uncomfortable after seeing Vaughn and Professor Isabella Rosier together around the castle.
• Harry and Ron apologized to Hermione and took her to Hagrid's Hut, where Hagrid revealed that Vaughn and Rosier had visited and gone into the Forbidden Forest with Dumbledore's permission.
• Hagrid told the trio that Vaughn would assist Rosier with a teaching plan involving dangerous magical creatures, lifting Hermione's spirits.
• Vaughn warned Rosier to put caution first as they discussed finding creatures for their Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching ground in the World Within the Painting.
• Vaughn called to the unicorns in their language, and Ilia told him that she disliked Rosier; Vaughn explained that the unicorns liked young girls but disliked her.

Vaughn and Isabella recruited Demiguises and Occamies for a practical Defense Against the Dark Arts adventure, while Ilia revealed that Dumbledore had helped change relations between the centaurs and the Forbidden Forest’s wolf-beasts. After discussing rewards for the class, Vaughn led Isabella through a hidden passage beneath the Whomping Willow toward a secret destination in Hogsmeade.

• Vaughn explained his plan to hire intelligent magical creatures as training targets, and Ilia agreed that unicorns could help keep them in line.
• Ilia told Vaughn that Dumbledore had persuaded the centaurs to build villages and teach farming to the wolf-beasts, leaving Vaughn to wonder what had prompted the change.
• Guided by Ilia and the other unicorns, Vaughn and Isabella recruited several Demiguises and Occamies, though Hidebehinds and Big-Headed Hairy Monsters remained difficult to approach.
• Isabella proposed offering spells she had learned as class rewards, but Vaughn explained that students might not value magic they did not need and invited her to help develop another reward plan.
• Vaughn showed Isabella how to open a hidden passage beneath the Whomping Willow and led her toward a concealed location in Hogsmeade.

Vaughn brought Isabella to the Shrieking Shack, where Fred and George showed her their experimental Phone Mirror, an enchanted communication device built with principles Vaughn hoped to expand into something like the Internet. After Vaughn examined its magical signal channel, the twins’ research remained unfinished, but the prototype suggested new possibilities for transmitting information in the wizarding world.

• Vaughn brought Isabella into the Shrieking Shack and introduced her to Fred and George, who were testing electric generators and magical-field interference.
• Fred and George admitted that their attempts to shield electric fields from magic had failed, while Vaughn studied the room’s magical and electric interactions with his Multispectral Vision Charm.
• Fred and George revealed that Hogwarts students had already heard about Isabella and Vaughn’s planned practical lesson, upsetting Isabella because they had meant to keep it secret until next week.
• Fred and George demonstrated their Phone Mirror, which transmitted sound and images between two enchanted mirrors, and Isabella compared it to a two-way mirror.
• Vaughn explained that he wanted the Phone Mirror to become a multifunctional information device, prompting Isabella to recognize its potential resemblance to the Internet.
• Vaughn used his Spectral Vision Charm to inspect the magical signal channel between the mirrors and saw a shifting, image-like ripple that seemed analogous to the aether.

Fred and George showed Vaughn their Phone Mirrors, which linked through shared dreams, and their prank products, while Vaughn focused on using practical lessons and new technology to influence Hogwarts students. The next morning, absurd rumors spread about the planned field class, Hermione confronted Ron for breaking their promise, and Harry worried about retrieving his notebook from Snape.

• Fred and George explained that their Phone Mirrors could communicate through the Edge of Dreams, though their calls were limited by distance and magical power.
• Vaughn and Isabella assessed the twins’ inventions as possible practical-class prizes, and Vaughn asked them to develop prank wands with specific embedded magic.
• Vaughn told Isabella that useful prizes would help sustain students’ interest in practical lessons, then returned to his dormitory and recorded plans to expand his influence and reform Defence Against the Dark Arts.
• Harry found that Ron had spread rumors about classes in Albania and Romania to conceal the real plan, and Hermione angrily confronted Ron for breaking their promise to Hagrid.
• Harry and Ron saw Snape leave the library, and Harry remembered that Snape still had his notebook as he returned to Gryffindor Tower.

Harry planned to sneak into Snape’s office to check whether Snape had discovered the notebook’s secret, but the Web of Fate distorted Harry, Ron, and Snape’s choices and drove events toward Harry reclaiming the diary. Vaughn and Dumbledore observed the disturbance and saw that Harry’s choice would determine what happened next.

• Harry decided to use his Invisibility Cloak to enter Snape’s office and asked Ron to help lure Snape away.
• Dumbledore sensed the Web of Fate pulsing against the World Within the Painting, and Vaughn recognized the disturbance as fate’s power.
• Under the diary’s influence, Harry became convinced that the diary was his and urged Ron to act.
• Ron set Snape’s office door on fire, and Snape rushed after him, leaving Harry free to enter the office.
• Dumbledore showed Vaughn the Web of Fate, where Harry and Tom’s Diary appeared as entwined forces distorting the web.
• Dumbledore explained that fate’s turbulence would end once its goal was achieved, leaving Harry to decide the outcome.

Vaughn watched Harry resist the diary’s pull and began questioning whether fate was an intelligent force, but the diary was stolen while he and Dumbledore left the underground chamber. By the end, Vaughn and Snape both suspected fate had manipulated events, while the thief remained unknown somewhere in Hogwarts.

• Vaughn considered provoking fate’s backlash by using the Personality Armament to remove Harry from the basement, but Harry chose to leave the diary behind on his own.
• Dumbledore explained that Harry had resisted fate’s push, then took Vaughn to watch Isabella Rosier and Snape fight after Ron sought Rosier’s help.
• Ron spread news of the professors’ fight, while Vaughn realized someone had stolen the diary from Snape’s office during the previous night.
• Snape suspected Ron, Harry, and then Vaughn, but ruled out Ron and Harry because neither carried the potion scent he had placed on the diary.
• Vaughn searched his memories and tried to locate the diary, but its signal wandered throughout Hogwarts, leaving him unsure who had stolen it.

Vaughn learned from Dumbledore that Peeves had stolen the diary, while Dumbledore urged him not to interfere with fate. Dumbledore then traveled to Nurmengard, where two watchers discussed Grindelwald and the upheaval caused by Vaughn Weasley and WAC.

• Ron told Harry and their classmates an exaggerated account of Professor Rosier and Snape's duel, and Hermione caught him admitting he had secretly wandered the castle.
• Vaughn confronted Snape about the missing diary, explaining that he had marked it but could no longer track it.
• Dumbledore revealed that Peeves had stolen the diary and asked Vaughn to stop pursuing it, then redirected their conversation to the training grounds and Vaughn's potions paper.
• Dumbledore left Hogwarts with Fawkes and arrived at Nurmengard, where Polo and Leonid watched the castle from the snowy mountainside.
• Leonid told Polo that Dumbledore had come to visit Grindelwald, and they discussed the werewolf march and the political threat WAC posed to pure-blood interests.

Polo feared the changes surrounding Grindelwald’s return, Wilkinson, and Vaughn Weasley, but Leonid persuaded him to consider sending his son to Vaughn’s school exchange programme. At Nurmengard, Dumbledore explained to Grindelwald why he had supported Vaughn and confessed his suspicion that Vaughn’s apparent concern for others concealed a deep indifference to the world.

• Leonid told Polo that Vaughn had led WAC to North America, killed hundreds of Aurors, and encountered Wilkinson, prompting Polo to fear what the future might bring.
• Leonid suggested Polo send his son to Vaughn’s international magical school exchange programme, and Polo agreed to write him a letter.
• Dumbledore revealed that Vaughn’s exchange programme included plans to influence Hogwarts’s curriculum, while Grindelwald questioned Dumbledore’s leniency toward him.
• Dumbledore admitted that his intimidation of Tom Riddle as a child might have helped shape Tom’s obsession with power, and said he did not want to repeat that mistake with Vaughn.
• Dumbledore told Grindelwald he had considered leaving Vaughn stranded in North America but chose to help him, partly because Vaughn had ideals and was decisive like Grindelwald.
• Dumbledore said he believed Vaughn cared little about the fate of wizards, Muggles, or the world, despite showing affection for his family, Hermione Granger, and Ravenclaw’s students.

Dumbledore explained to Grindelwald that Vaughn planned to challenge the International Statute of Secrecy by raising the status of house-elves and werewolves, then asked for Grindelwald’s help as his life neared its end. The story then shifted to Harry, who struggled with anxiety over a missing notebook and Hermione’s silence before receiving his second-year timetable.

• Dumbledore told Grindelwald that Vaughn sought to unravel the laws of magic and oppose the magical world’s stagnation, not through violence but by exploiting a loophole in the International Statute of Secrecy.
• Dumbledore identified house-elves and werewolves as groups left out of the statute’s legal framework and explained how Vaughn intended to use their restored identities and status to challenge the agreement.
• Dumbledore admitted that he remained uncertain about Vaughn’s ideals but rejected both his own past policy of isolation and Grindelwald’s violent revolution, then asked Grindelwald for help as twilight spread across his body.
• Harry told Ron that he had seen Dumbledore return with snow on his robes, while anxiety about his missing notebook and Hermione’s coldness continued to trouble him.
• Professor McGonagall handed out the second-years’ timetable, and Harry and Ron discovered that Potions lessons with Snape would each last an hour and a half twice a week.
• Harry went with Ron, Neville, Seamus, and the others to Herbology, while Hermione left without speaking to them.

Harry and Ron endured a disturbing Mandrake lesson and failed their first living Transfiguration exercise, while Neville excelled after studying with Vaughn over the summer. After Luna told them that Vaughn and Dumbledore were creating a world inside the castle, Harry and Ron guessed that it would be the setting for Professor Rosier’s practical Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

• Professor Sprout took the students to Greenhouse Three, where Neville answered questions about Mandrakes and earned thirty points during the lesson.
• Harry and Ron learned that Neville had studied Herbology with Vaughn over the summer, and Neville challenged them to ask Vaughn for help themselves.
• Harry and Ron lost ten points each when they failed to turn beetles into buttons in Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration class.
• At lunch, Luna told Harry and Ron that Vaughn and Dumbledore were making a world in a large room inside Hogwarts.
• Harry and Ron connected Luna’s clues to the World Within the Painting and decided it was probably the venue for the practical Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

Harry and Ron overheard Vaughn explain his ambitious plan to bring every Hogwarts subject into practical lessons, then Harry grew suspicious about Vaughn’s motives and whether fate was manipulating events. Vaughn continued reshaping the World Within the Painting while Harry wondered what Vaughn intended to do, and Ron focused on Gryffindor’s Quidditch chances.

• Harry and Ron discussed Vaughn and Neville while hiding under the Invisibility Cloak on a moving staircase.
• Harry and Ron overheard Vaughn persuade Professor Sprout that practical lessons should teach students through firsthand experience, including dangerous plants.
• Vaughn told Isabella Rosier he wanted to incorporate every subject into practical challenges, using examples from Astronomy, Muggle Studies, History of Magic, and Potions.
• Vaughn noticed Harry and Ron nearby and worried that fate might be manipulating their actions and feeding his suspicions.
• Harry concluded that Vaughn was leading the curriculum reform and wondered whether he meant to influence Hogwarts students as the Dark Lord had.
• Ron asked whether Vaughn would be too busy with the reform to play Quidditch, hoping Gryffindor could win the House Cup.

Harry let Colin Creevey photograph him, while Ron’s attempt to reconnect with Hermione failed when she revealed she knew about his and Harry’s secret investigation of the practical class. Professor Isabella Rosier introduced an aggressive, hands-on Defence Against the Dark Arts course and led the students through a protected doorway, where Harry was shoved into the dark and emerged in a moonlit wilderness.

• Harry agreed to pose for Colin Creevey’s photograph, and Hermione took the picture after stopping Ron from mishandling the camera.
• Ron tried to draw Hermione into a conversation about the practical class, but Hermione revealed she knew he and Harry had used the Invisibility Cloak to investigate it and defended Vaughn.
• Professor Isabella Rosier announced that her Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons would focus on practical training and defeating threats rather than memorizing textbook material.
• Isabella led the Gryffindor and Slytherin students to a protected classroom doorway and warned them not to enter without her or Vaughn.
• Vaughn assured Harry that he and Isabella would protect the students, but someone shoved Harry through the doorway, and he landed in a moonlit wilderness.

Professor Isabella Rosier brought the second-year students into the World Within the Painting for a wilderness survival practical class, where teams had to stay alive for two hours. As the students struggled to form teams, Vaughn began the exercise and ghostly green eyes appeared in the surrounding forest.

• Vaughn and Isabella led the students through a portal into the World Within the Painting and explained that the practical class would test wilderness survival.
• Isabella gave the students ten minutes to form teams of two to four, while Vaughn supplied parchment instructions and a map.
• Vaughn watched the students through the control scroll as Isabella commented on their confused efforts to form teams.
• Harry, Hermione, and Ron formed a team, while other Gryffindors and Slytherins argued or hesitated over their partners.
• When time ran out, Vaughn started the exercise, and pairs of emerald-green eyes appeared in the forest around the students.

Harry, Hermione, and the other students faced giant wolves during Vaughn’s first practical lesson, while Vaughn and Isabella watched the creatures herd them through a shifting maze. As Vaughn discussed the wolves’ origins and resistance to magic, he argued that humans were distinguished from beasts by their free hands.

• Giant wolves poured from the forest and attacked the students, and Hermione rallied Harry, Ron, and the others with spells.
• Hermione realized the wolves were driving the students toward the forest rather than simply trying to kill them, but one wolf dragged Neville away screaming.
• Vaughn reshaped the small world into a maze that separated the student groups, while Isabella worried that the wolves might injure them or infect them with lycanthropy.
• Vaughn explained that the giant wolves were a distinct species born to werewolf parents transformed under the full moon, and that they were no longer affected by lycanthropy.
• Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe attacked their pursuing wolves with dark spells, but the magic failed to stop them and the wolves carried the three into the forest.
• Vaughn asked what separated humans from magical creatures and concluded that humans had hands free to use.

Vaughn explained why Dire Wolves were not the werewolf-virus creator’s final creations, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione fled through a magically altered forest during a practical lesson. As the trio faced a Devil’s Snare, Sebastian, Jack, and Freya discussed their duty to guide and protect the students and Vaughn’s plan to establish a Hogwarts Werewolf Class.

• Vaughn told Isabella that Dire Wolves had lost the ability to spread the werewolf virus and could still help him in other ways.
• Ron, Harry, and Hermione ran through earthen corridors pursued by Sebastian, Jack, and Freya, until Hermione spotted Devil’s Snare blocking their path.
• Hermione used fire to reveal the Devil’s Snare and explained its danger, while Harry and Ron hesitated between facing it and turning back toward the Dire Wolves.
• Hermione insisted that the trio continue forward because she wanted to win first place, and Harry and Ron considered whether the other teams might be facing easier trials.
• Sebastian, Jack, and Freya discussed whether to keep driving the students onward, with Freya reminding Jack that Vaughn had asked them to protect the young wizards as well as test them.
• Jack recalled Barnard’s account of werewolf children becoming Obscurials and Vaughn’s plan to establish a Werewolf Class at Hogwarts.