Recaps

As Hogwarts students endured pre-exam anxiety, Vaughn learned that Nicolas Flamel would assess him before teaching him alchemy, then spent the final weeks relaxing while WAC’s recruitment fair and the twins’ film stirred up gossip. The exams began, and Vaughn helped Professor McGonagall and Argus catch Malfoy and his companions trying to cheat.

• Dumbledore told Vaughn that Nicolas Flamel was willing to teach him after an assessment, but would wait another year before setting it.
• Vaughn asked Phil Travers and other Slytherins to promote WAC’s upcoming recruitment fair, while Ron defended Vaughn’s Wolfsbane Potion against Seamus Finnigan’s fears about werewolves.
• Harry and Ron discovered that Fred and George had made films about their adventures, and Vaughn refused Harry’s request to cut them from the footage.
• The Ministry examiners arrived at Hogwarts, and Professor McGonagall reviewed the rules before the final exams began.
• Vaughn helped Professor McGonagall and Argus search students for cheating materials, and Malfoy surrendered hidden quills and parchment.

Vaughn oversaw the end-of-year examinations, then the Weasley twins premiered a film showing Harry’s encounter with Voldemort and Ron’s supposed battle with a dragon. After Ron turned the film’s embarrassing dragon-dung scene into a point of pride, Vaughn discussed WAC politics with Dumbledore and proposed a deal to bring Tom back to life.

• Professor McGonagall and Vaughn searched students for cheating tools before the examinations, and Vaughn earned full marks on his Charms practical by making a pineapple tap-dance.
• Harry and Ron finished their examinations exhausted, while Harry noticed Fred and George had stopped working on their editing and suspected they had completed something.
• Fred and George unveiled their first film, Harry Potter and the World Within the Painting, in the Great Hall, revealing Harry’s confrontation with Quirrell and a scene of Ron facing a dragon.
• Ron fled the screening in embarrassment, then defended his survival strategy to other students and became a Gryffindor star; Vaughn explained to Dumbledore that Ron genuinely believed his own defense.
• Dumbledore told Vaughn that Josiah Potter had invited him to North America for an August 1 exchange visit, and Vaughn said he would wait until after the WAC meeting before replying.
• Vaughn offered Dumbledore a deal to bring Tom back to life, and Dumbledore recognized that Vaughn had identified his failed search for a way to destroy Voldemort’s soul fragment.

Vaughan struck a deal with Dumbledore, offering access to a hidden Death Eater in exchange for ten dragon species, while Dumbledore reflected on Vaughan’s influence over Harry and Tom’s fate. At Hogwarts, the students celebrated the final screening of the film depicting Vaughan defeating the Dark Lord, and Ron noticed Scabbers shaking before the chapter ended.

• Vaughan asked Dumbledore to obtain ten dragon species and promised to hand over a Death Eater whose identity he would reveal in a later deal; Dumbledore agreed.
• Dumbledore searched old trial memories for Vaughan’s supposed Death Eater, reconsidered Vaughan’s role in events surrounding Harry and Tom, and chose to trust him again.
• Fred and George screened the film’s finale, prompting Hogwarts students to cheer as Vaughn appeared and defeated the Dark Lord on screen.
• Professors McGonagall and Snape discussed the film’s violence and the hidden truth behind it, while Snape explained that the public would continue to see it as fiction.
• Ron told Harry how Vaughan had once promised to protect Ginny from the Dark Lord, then noticed Scabbers shaking in his cage before the rat settled down.

A rat escaped Gryffindor Tower after seeing a film of Vaughan Weasley killing Voldemort, while Dumbledore revealed Voldemort’s survival to Ministry allies and sought their support in training Vaughan as his successor. As summer break began, Vaughan studied Norberta’s magic and Harry asked Ron whether anyone had found the person who hurt Scabbers.

• The rat left its cage to watch a film in the Great Hall, panicked when Vaughan killed Voldemort on screen, and fled before a huge cat and a phoenix blocked its way.
• Dumbledore showed Ministry officials evidence that Voldemort was alive, identified Vaughan as his intended successor, and asked them to make Unbreakable Vows and support his training.
• Alaric Travers backed Dumbledore’s plan and agreed to enter a Pensieve memory under an Unbreakable Vow; afterward, Dumbledore and Amelia wondered whether Alaric had acted on a prophecy and noticed that his grandson Phil Travers was on WAC’s list.
• Vaughan recorded observations from experiments on Norberta, checked his system’s July 1 updates, and awaited Slytherin’s House Cup result.
• Harry and Ron headed to the Great Hall amid classmates’ attention over their film, and Harry asked Ron whether the person who hurt Scabbers had been found.

After Slytherin won the House Cup and the students received their exam results, Harry left Hogwarts for the summer still wondering about Remus Lupin’s apparent connection to him. Back home, Vaughan reflected on his next magical studies and flew toward a mysterious tower near Ottery St Catchpole.

• Ron suspected Dumbledore’s phoenix had attacked Scabbers, while Hermione’s remarks made Harry wonder whether Vaughan had shared secrets with her.
• Dumbledore announced Slytherin’s House Cup victory, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Vaughan, and Neville all passed their exams, with Vaughan first and Hermione second.
• Professor McGonagall introduced Remus Lupin as a WAC recruiter; Lupin watched Harry depart without speaking to him and told Dumbledore he would not write again because of the werewolves.
• Harry and Ron returned to London, where Ginny ran to Vaughan and clung to him; the next morning Vaughan considered whether to improve his Charms or Dark Magic talent.
• Vaughan flew over Stoat Mountain and reached a crooked black tower near Ottery St Catchpole.

Vaughn visited Pandora Lovegood to recruit her for a summer study of dragons and secure her help rescuing Isabella, then traveled with Arthur to bring Hermione and her parents to the Burrow. The Grangers arrived by Knight Bus, exhausted by the ride, while Hermione and Vaughn grew closer during the visit.

• Vaughn spoke with Luna before finding Pandora in the orchard, where Pandora agreed to help rescue Isabella and assist with his dragon research.
• Vaughn told the Weasleys he planned to collect the Grangers, and Arthur demonstrated his flying car before it broke down and forced them to use the Knight Bus.
• At the Grangers' home, Mrs. Granger dressed Hermione up for the visit while the Knight Bus startled Mr. Granger outside.
• Hermione welcomed Vaughn upstairs, and they kissed in her bedroom while Arthur questioned the Grangers about their household appliances.
• Vaughn, Arthur, Hermione, and the Grangers arrived at the Burrow by Knight Bus, leaving Mr. and Mrs. Granger feeling sick from the journey.

Hermione visited The Burrow with her parents, where she bonded with Ginny and spent the evening with Vaughn, while Dumbledore explained to Lupin that Vaughn’s actions could alter the fates of Harry and Voldemort. The chapter ended with Harry receiving Ron’s long-awaited letter at 4 Privet Drive.

• Hermione and the Grangers arrived at The Burrow, where Molly welcomed them and the families shared gifts and a lively dinner.
• Hermione asked to meet Ginny, and the two girls became close as the Weasley brothers teased Ginny about her jealousy of Hermione.
• After WAC’s recruitment fair attracted nine graduates and left several more undecided, Lupin discussed the recruitment and a film about Harry with Dumbledore.
• Dumbledore told Lupin that Vaughn’s creation of the Werewolf Affairs Committee had disturbed the web of fate, then entrusted him with a sealed memory.
• Ron upset Hermione by asking her not to date Vaughn, but Vaughn comforted her, and Hermione later spent the night in Ginny’s room.
• Harry argued with Uncle Vernon about Hedwig, then hurried upstairs to read Ron’s reply after the owl returned to 4 Privet Drive.

Harry read Ron and Hermione’s letters about their summer at The Burrow and eagerly anticipated his friends visiting for his birthday. Meanwhile, Vaughan brought Hermione to the Wizengamot, where he exposed Gilderoy Lockhart’s fraud and secured the revocation of his Order of Merlin before Cornelius Fudge challenged Vaughan over curing Lockhart’s victims.

• Harry read Ron’s complaints about staying at The Burrow and Hermione’s warning to preserve his letter for Ginny and her.
• Harry read Hermione’s detailed account of visiting magical places with the Grangers and Vaughan, then expected his friends to arrive on July 31st.
• Hermione delayed returning home after learning Vaughan planned to challenge Gilderoy Lockhart’s Third Class Order of Merlin, and she accompanied him to the Wizengamot hearing.
• Vaughan presented evidence that Lockhart had stolen other wizards’ stories and used Memory Charms on their authors, and the Wizengamot stripped Lockhart of his medal and political rights.
• When Vaughan began to address Lockhart’s crimes, Cornelius Fudge interrupted and questioned who had cured the witnesses; Vaughan said that he had.

Vaughan exposed Fudge’s attempt to delay Gilderoy Lockhart’s trial, removed him from the courtroom, and had Lockhart sent to Azkaban pending trial. After the case became a public scandal, Vaughan stayed with the Grangers and began arranging a Diagon Alley cinema business to promote magical films.

• Fudge challenged the legality of Vaughan restoring the witnesses’ memories and proposed postponing Lockhart’s trial until the Wizengamot clarified the law.
• Hermione suggested using Veritaserum, but Fudge refused approval and ordered her removed; Vaughan apologized for his procedural oversight and then banished Fudge from the courtroom.
• Vaughan resumed the proceedings and persuaded the Wizengamot to detain Lockhart in Azkaban while the law was reviewed, and Lockhart fainted at the decision.
• The Daily Prophet publicized Lockhart’s crimes, the revocation of his Order of Merlin, and Fudge’s interference, provoking widespread debate among wizards.
• After the Grangers returned home, Vaughan joined them and stayed at their house while handling business in London.
• Vaughan toured Diagon Alley with William White and James Brown, then accepted William’s proposal to bring shop owners in as shareholders so a cinema company could open there before the end-of-month conference.

Vaughn prepared for WAC’s first general meeting, explored Barty Crouch’s dark-magic-corrupted mind, and raised his Charms talent, triggering another magical outburst. After the disturbance brought Aurors to the Granger home, he met Kingsley Shacklebolt’s intern, Nymphadora Tonks.

• Vaughn told Fred and George that the cinema company would charge admission and offered them a chance to negotiate for shares in exchange for their alchemical work.
• Vaughn hosted a banquet at WAC’s new London headquarters and discussed his likely support in the coming leadership vote with Barty Crouch.
• Crouch let Vaughn enter his mind, where Vaughn found Crouch’s sanctuary contaminated by dark magic and learned that an ancient Crouch family magic resisted its spread.
• Vaughn used his unused talent point to raise Charms from 7 to 8, causing a magical surge that increased his Magic Power Level from 548 to 584.
• Vaughn’s unstable magic disrupted electricity at the Granger home, and Kingsley Shacklebolt arrived to investigate with his intern, Nymphadora Tonks, a Metamorphmagus.

Vaughn accepted Nymphadora Tonks as a WAC intern while Kingsley warned him that Fudge planned a raid on the black market, prompting Vaughn to protect his contacts. Dumbledore summoned Vaughn to Hogwarts with a clue about a Horcrux in Albania, where they connected the clue to Helena Ravenclaw and her mother’s lost diadem.

• Vaughn and Kingsley agreed that Tonks would intern at WAC, and Kingsley warned Vaughn that Fudge planned a black-market raid in two days.
• Vaughn ordered William White to cut ties with black-market merchants and dark wizard groups before the raid.
• Vaughn reflected that his actions had changed events around Fudge, Lucius Malfoy, Harry, and Dobby, and considered whether he should seek Voldemort’s diary Horcrux.
• Dumbledore summoned Vaughn to Hogwarts after Fawkes delivered a letter saying he had found a Horcrux clue, and Vaughn traveled there through the Floo Network.
• Dumbledore explained that his investigation had led him to an Albanian forest where Voldemort had once possessed small animals and suggested that a Horcrux drew him back there.
• At Ravenclaw Tower, Dumbledore asked whether Vaughn knew that the Grey Lady was Helena Ravenclaw, who had stolen Rowena Ravenclaw’s diadem and died in Albania.

Vaughn bargained with Dumbledore over trading Horcrux information for access to Hogwarts’s secrets, and identified Morfin Gaunt as the person who could reveal the location of Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring. Dumbledore arranged a visit to Azkaban, while Vaughn returned to The Burrow and Molly prepared him and Fruit Tea for the trip.

• Vaughn told Dumbledore that Ravenclaw’s Diadem was hidden in the Room of Requirement and negotiated to exchange one Horcrux’s whereabouts at a time for access to Hogwarts’s secrets.
• Vaughn told Dumbledore that Morfin Gaunt, imprisoned in Azkaban, knew where Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring was, and Dumbledore applied to visit him and wrote to Bob Ogden.
• Dumbledore and Matilda Weasley discussed Vaughn’s motives, Morfin’s connection to Voldemort, and the murder of the Riddle family, while Matilda considered reconciling with Arthur and Molly.
• Vaughn returned to The Burrow late at night, where Molly fussed over his planned Azkaban visit and agreed to let him take Fruit Tea along.

Vaughan visited Azkaban with Dumbledore after secretly examining and erasing Peter Pettigrew’s memories, then used the trip to document the prison’s lax security. His inspection reached the Death Eater level, where he insisted on going despite an Auror’s warning.

• Vaughan examined Peter Pettigrew’s memories, checked the Personality Armament suppressing them, and erased Peter’s memory of the visit.
• Vaughan received Dumbledore’s invitation to visit Azkaban and traveled there with him and a Ministry official.
• Vaughan and Dumbledore arrived at Azkaban, where Vaughan refused to surrender his wand or submit to a search and criticized the prison’s security.
• Sirius Black heard that Dumbledore had arrived and was overcome by guilt over James Potter’s death.
• Vaughan challenged the Azkaban Aurors about the absent Dementors and recorded alleged security and administrative failures during his inspection.
• Vaughan learned that the next floor held Death Eaters, including Bellatrix and the Lestrange brothers, and ordered the Auror to take him there.

Vaughn Weasley entered Azkaban’s maximum-security ward, drove off a Dementor with his powerful Patronus, and confronted Sirius Black with proof that Peter Pettigrew was alive. He secretly altered Sirius’s memories to keep him waiting in prison, then left the ward as the Aurors asked whether he wanted to continue the tour.

• A Dementor attacked Vaughn, but his silver-blue Maine Coon Patronus drove it away and damaged the wall where the Dementors dwelled.
• Vaughn met Bellatrix Lestrange and Sirius Black, told Sirius about Harry, and revealed that Peter had survived by showing him a photograph of Scabbers.
• Sirius learned that Peter was alive and erupted in rage, while Vaughn secretly planted an idea that kept him waiting for a future opportunity to escape.
• Vaughn restrained Bellatrix, the Lestrange Brothers, Selwyn, and Rowle, silenced them, and implanted ideas in the Lestrange Brothers’ minds.
• Vaughn reinforced Sirius’s mental defenses against Dementors and returned to the lift, where the Aurors asked if he wanted to continue the tour.

Vaughn and Dumbledore reconstructed the memory of Voldemort’s first visit to the Gaunt Shack, discovering how Tom attacked Morfin and framed him for the Riddle murders while taking the Gaunt Ring. As Dumbledore reached into Morfin’s subconscious, Vaughn realized that the mindscape connected to the aether and wondered whether all intelligent beings once possessed the key to enter it.

• Vaughn joined Dumbledore in examining Morfin Gaunt’s memories and found that Voldemort had altered the confession about the Riddle murders.
• Vaughn used his Personality Armament to reconstruct Morfin’s scattered memories, allowing them to witness Tom’s first visit to the Gaunt Shack.
• Dumbledore and Vaughn saw Tom learn that his father was a Muggle, attack Morfin, and take his wand and the Gaunt Ring before the memory ended.
• Dumbledore entered Morfin’s subconscious through the reconstructed scene, summoning countless versions of Morfin from the mindscape.
• Vaughn recognized that Morfin’s subconscious existed in the aether and concluded that intelligent beings might once have had the authorization needed to enter it.

Dumbledore explained to Vaughn that talent resided in the soul and that the collective unconscious was the soul’s deepest layer, while encouraging Vaughn to discover his own way to reach it. After Dumbledore left Vaughn with Morfin Gaunt’s memories, Vaughn examined the spells they contained and saw how some might help him develop tools for his dragon research.

• Dumbledore taught Vaughn that talent determined a soul’s access to magic and described the collective unconscious as a layer beyond reality and the Aether.
• Dumbledore departed with Morfin Gaunt’s unconscious, leaving Vaughn behind with a memory thread containing traces of Dark Magic.
• Vaughn used Fawkes and Dumbledore’s Pensieve to examine Morfin Gaunt’s memories and found Parseltongue, necromancy, the Soul-Stealing Curse, and Slytherin bloodline-transplantation magic.
• Vaughn concluded that Voldemort may have learned bloodline transplantation from Morfin Gaunt’s memories and that the magic might have come from Hogwarts’s Chamber of Secrets.
• Vaughn realized that basic Slytherin spells for observing, analyzing, and preserving vitality could help him advance his dragon-research quest.

Vaughn studied dark magic from Morfin Gaunt’s memories, then showed Dumbledore the truth about Voldemort’s murder of the Riddle family and warned him that the Gaunt Ring’s Resurrection Stone could be a trap. After leaving Azkaban, Vaughn met Lupin in Hogsmeade and brought him to the Hog’s Head, where he confronted Mundungus Fletcher about the underground wizarding network.

• Vaughn mastered minor spells from Morfin Gaunt’s memories while Dumbledore recovered from exploring them.
• Dumbledore showed Vaughn Morfin’s true memory of Tom Riddle controlling him, murdering the Riddle family, and framing him before taking the Gaunt Ring.
• Vaughn identified the ring’s stone as the Resurrection Stone and warned Dumbledore that Voldemort might have cursed it to ensnare anyone who tried to wear it.
• Vaughn returned to England and met Lupin in Hogsmeade, using news from Azkaban and Harry’s birthday to draw him into discussing Sirius and the injured William and James.
• Lupin told Vaughn that Mundungus was waiting at the Hog’s Head, and Vaughn went there with him to meet Mundungus Fletcher.

Vaughan tracked down Mundungus Fletcher to learn who had attacked his werewolf subordinates, then used a newly advanced Aging Curse to kill the six Dark wizards hiding in Cornwall. He left Lupin and Mundungus to conceal the ruins, while Lupin remained conflicted about Vaughan and hoped he could help uncover the truth about Sirius.

• Vaughan protected his conversation with Mundungus and extracted a memory, learning that the Conard brothers and four other French Dark wizards had injured his werewolf subordinates.
• Mundungus led Vaughan and Lupin to the gang's hideout in St Ives, Cornwall, while Aberforth watched Vaughan depart and worried that he resembled a notorious ambitious wizard from the past.
• Vaughan raised the Aging Curse to level two and cast it at the hideout, rapidly aging the building and killing all six Dark wizards, including the Conard brothers.
• Lupin recoiled from Vaughan's ruthless attack but recalled that Vaughan had seen Sirius in Azkaban and struggled between his principles and his desire to learn the truth.
• Vaughan returned alone and ordered Lupin and Mundungus to conceal the ruins from Muggles, then told Mundungus to meet him later for further discussion.

Vaughn recruited Mundungus Fletcher to arrange a werewolf and vampire hunting team and find smuggling routes to bring an English witch home from North America. After Mundungus and Lupin left, Vaughn investigated black traces in a memory and concluded that killing with a curse had caused Dark Magic contamination; he reassured Hermione that he was monitoring its effects.

• Lupin and Mundungus finished warding the ruins, and Mundungus told Lupin that Dumbledore had likely paired them because he distrusted him.
• Mundungus offered Vaughn contraband, creature-hunting, and black-market connections, then agreed to find a route from North America for a wanted English witch who had attacked the Woolworth Building.
• Vaughn gave Mundungus 1,000 Galleons for his work and used a powerful Summoning Charm to warn him not to be inefficient.
• Vaughn showed Hermione black traces in a magnified memory and explained that he believed they represented Dark Magic contamination caused by killing with a curse.
• Hermione returned after Tonks, disguised as Kingsley, left the Grangers' house; Vaughn said he had found no mental distortion and reassured Hermione before they sat together in the sunlight.

Vaughan showed Hermione a memory of using the Aging Curse to kill six dark wizards, then investigated the dark-magic contamination he detected in his mindscape. He suspected it came from outside the body, possibly from the world of souls, and ended the night with the unsettling possibility that contamination itself caused the rule against killing with Dark magic; he then left to prepare for WAC's assembly.

• Hermione agreed to help Vaughan investigate dark-magic contamination, and he drew her into his mindscape to witness a memory from earlier that day.
• Vaughan showed Hermione how he had used the Aging Curse to kill six dark wizards who attacked William and James while they worked for WAC, with Remus and Mundungus present.
• Vaughan and Hermione examined black traces in the silver information of his memories and reasoned that the contamination was not in his brain, perhaps originating in the world where souls resided.
• Hermione questioned whether the dead wizards' souls had become entangled with Vaughan's, and Vaughan considered that killing with Dark magic might cause contamination from the soul world.
• Vaughan used the Dream Tapir Charm to observe the contamination and wrote that it seemed to intrude from outside the body, then wondered whether the rule linking Dark magic killings to corruption existed to make the contamination appear.
• Vaughan sent Hermione to rest, prepared to leave for WAC's first full assembly meeting, and Apparated to Barty Crouch's home, where Winky welcomed guests.

Vaughan Weasley met with Dumbledore’s small alliance to coordinate preparations for the upcoming WAC meeting and assess the International Confederation of Wizards’ intentions. He exposed his formidable magic while pressing John Baird about Minister Fudge’s secret plans, then asked Baird to share his suspicions.

• Amelia Bones introduced Vaughan to Alaric Travers, John Baird, George Greenwell, and Henry Ross at the Crouch home.
• Vaughan discussed preparations for the WAC meeting and learned that the Wizengamot planned to remain mostly neutral while the International Confederation of Wizards would initially observe.
• Vaughan instructed Alaric Travers to arrange the delegation’s reception and, if possible, a meeting with its leader.
• John Baird reported that Fudge was quietly contacting people and that Dolores Umbridge, whom the Baird Family had supported, knew nothing of the Minister’s plans.
• Vaughan unleashed a strange reality-altering pressure as he questioned Baird, then asked him to explain what Fudge might be hiding.

Vaughn investigated how Dark magic corruption affected Personality Armament and set up tests involving Barty Crouch and his son, while John Baird warned that Fudge could sabotage the WAC conference by staging a werewolf attack. As the WAC debate intensified and Harry’s birthday approached, Vaughn prepared to send old Barty after Dark wizards, leaving the threat to the conference unresolved.

• John Baird warned Vaughn that Fudge could undermine the WAC by framing werewolves for an attack, and Vaughn ordered him to monitor Fenrir Greyback and his followers.
• George Greenwell gave John a memory about Vaughn’s magic, and Henry Ross discovered that his teacup had vanished after Vaughn’s spell altered the room.
• Vaughn removed Little Barty Crouch’s corrupted Personality Armament, explained his theory that killing amplified Dark magic corruption, and placed new Personality Armaments in both Barty Crouch and his son.
• Vaughn told old Barty to kill Dark wizards as an experiment and to give Fudge something to deal with.
• On July 27, reports intensified the dispute over the WAC conference, while Harry anxiously awaited his birthday and Hermione read arguments for and against werewolf self-determination.

Hermione questioned the opposing views on WAC, while Vaughan considered how pure-blood power and resistance had shaped wizarding history. In London, Lupin and Mundungus prepared to stop Greyback’s supporters from disrupting the WAC conference after learning that about twenty werewolves had infiltrated the city.

• Hermione admitted that both WAC supporters and opponents made arguments she could understand, and Vaughan told her that the groups stood in different positions while he had to stand with werewolves.
• Vaughan reflected on pure-blood influence over wizarding history and wondered whether the forces behind Grindelwald and Voldemort would try to reshape the wizarding world again.
• Lupin watched a magical fog spread across London as Mundungus argued that Vaughan’s payment showed respect for his choices and urged Lupin to value Vaughan’s trust.
• Lupin and Mundungus met Phil Travers and a hooded green-eyed wizard, who reported that Greyback’s followers had gathered in London to disrupt the WAC conference.
• Phil said allied families had identified around twenty werewolves divided among five teams, and Lupin prepared to capture them alive with Mundungus’s help.

Lupin and his allies used Vaughn’s Fog Charm and memory magic to capture Greyback’s werewolf followers in Watford, though Greyback was not among them. Lupin’s team subdued Matthew, whose memories revealed how Greyback had turned him into a follower, and took him away unconscious.

• The green-eyed wizard showed Lupin and Mundungus the suspected hiding places of Greyback’s groups and identified Watford as their team’s target.
• Matthew recalled how Greyback infected him, how he killed his parents during his first transformation, and how hatred drew him into Greyback’s ranks.
• After sensing magic in the fog, Matthew rushed toward his safehouse and believed he fought Lupin, but Lupin’s illusions and Legilimency had trapped him outside a convenience store.
• Lupin uncovered Matthew’s memories and left him unconscious, while Mundungus and Phil Travers reported that Greyback was absent from their captured group.
• Mundungus and Phil prepared to carry Matthew away, hoping Vaughn could use the captured werewolves’ memories to find Greyback.

Lucius Malfoy faced pressure from Fudge to oppose Vaughn Weasley and Dumbledore, while Vaughn’s political maneuvering prompted the Malfoys to send a dangerous notebook to Harry Potter. After the werewolf raids, Vaughn reunited with Dumbledore and learned that the International Confederation of Wizards delegation was led by an ambitious official.

• Fudge asked Lucius Malfoy to support him against Vaughn Weasley and Dumbledore, warning that Arthur Weasley’s proposed artefact-inspection bill could threaten the Malfoys.
• Lucius lost his temper and beat Dobby, but Narcissa stopped him; Draco then overheard his parents decide to send a notebook to Harry Potter, while Dobby saw dark mist and an evil shadow rising from it.
• Vaughn explained to Amelia Bones that he had pushed the bill to make a certain family panic and send out the notebook, and Dumbledore arrived after recovering an old ring from a house.
• Lupin and Mundungus brought captured werewolves to WAC headquarters, but reported that Fenrir Greyback had escaped; Vaughn ordered them to interrogate the prisoners without killing them.
• Vaughn discussed the political fallout with Amelia and Dumbledore, who warned him to be careful around delegation leader Babajide Akingbade because of his ambition.