Recaps

Vaughan faced hostility from International Confederation of Wizards vice president Babajide Akingbade, then learned Akingbade might want to expand WAC worldwide with the Confederation’s backing. With Akingbade meeting the Malfoys and time running short, Vaughan turned toward his planned visit to North America as a way to find allies and advance his backup plan.

• Vaughan, Dumbledore, and Amelia received Babajide Akingbade and his delegation, and Akinbade challenged Vaughan’s Fog Charm and WAC’s authority before Dumbledore defused the confrontation.
• Amelia warned Vaughan that Akinbade’s visit might be tied to a pure-blood plot against WAC, while Vaughan considered whether the delegation’s choice of leader had been influenced by those families.
• The Daily Prophet reported WAC’s raid on Fenrir Greyback’s werewolves and published Akingbade’s public support for addressing the werewolf problem through WAC.
• Old Barty told Vaughan that Akinbade had accepted an invitation to dine at Malfoy Manor, and Vaughan concluded that Akinbade saw potential in expanding WAC internationally through the Confederation.
• Vaughan explained that the Confederation could use WAC to extend its influence over smaller countries, and he and Old Barty discussed seeking allies in North America during Vaughan’s planned visit to Ilvermorny.

Vaughan used Draco’s thoughts and a hidden Personality Armament to set up a chance of finding Voldemort’s diary, while Draco began questioning his family’s plans and considered helping Harry. As preparations for WAC’s founding assembly began, Vaughan kept researching Personality Armaments and put old Barty in charge of the event.

• Vaughan sent old Barty to contact families and Joshua Potter, and asked him to learn what would happen at the Malfoy Manor banquet.
• At the banquet, Draco met Astoria Greengrass, watched Lucius court Akinbade, and heard the adults discuss WAC and their hopes of using it to control werewolves.
• Draco learned from Dobby that his parents planned to give Harry a dangerous diary, and he urged Dobby to think about saving Harry despite denying that he cared.
• Vaughan told old Barty that memory magic could influence and correct human nature, then examined Personality Armaments containing copies of Barty Jr.’s, Harry’s, Peter’s, Ron’s, Hermione’s, Fruit Tea’s, and Draco’s minds.
• Vaughan explained that Draco’s Personality Armament would guide him toward Voldemort’s diary, while Draco secretly resolved to help Harry after realizing his parents meant him harm.
• Vaughan enlisted old Barty to organize WAC’s founding assembly, and arranged for Ludo Bagman, Hogwarts’ house-elves, and Professor McGonagall to help with the event.

As Harry spent his birthday feeling forgotten at the Dursleys’, Ron and Hermione arrived and helped him escape, bringing gifts that included a photograph of his parents supplied by Snape. In London, preparations for WAC’s founding convention continued, and Vaughan greeted attendees as Kingsley explained why his election as its first president seemed assured.

• Hermione read Rita Skeeter’s praise of Vaughan and chose to visit Harry on his birthday instead of attending the WAC convention.
• Arthur and Ron picked Hermione up, and she brought Harry a Quidditch book while Ron brought a Chudley Cannons Seeker doll.
• Harry left the Dursleys’ house with Ron and Hermione after Vernon tried to stop him, and the three friends celebrated Harry’s birthday together.
• Harry opened Vaughan’s gift and recognized the photograph of his parents; Hermione revealed that Snape had given it to Vaughan for him.
• Nymphadora and Kingsley patrolled the WAC barrier and redirected wizards whose clothes risked drawing Muggle attention.
• Kingsley told Nymphadora that Vaughan was strongly favored to become WAC’s first president as Vaughan greeted guests at headquarters.

At WAC’s first assembly, Vaughan gave a stirring speech explaining why he founded the organization and how lycanthropy threatened both werewolves and the wider world. The leadership elections began with Remus Lupin becoming a vice president, and the chapter ended as Vaughan Weasley and Babajide Akingbade were named candidates for chair.

• Kingsley and the Aurors sealed the WAC grounds against Apparition and took up security positions inside the convention hall.
• Vaughan addressed the assembly, describing lycanthropy as a man-made magical calamity and presenting WAC as an effort to protect werewolves and the wider world.
• Amelia Bones opened the assembly and presided over the elections, while Nymphadora was briefly taken outside by Kingsley after becoming swept up in the crowd’s excitement.
• Remus Lupin gave a plain campaign report but was elected WAC’s third vice president, prompting murmurs and disagreement among spectators.
• Amelia announced Babajide Akingbade and Vaughan Septimus Weasley as candidates for chair, surprising the audience and exciting Nymphadora.

Vaughan debated Babajide Akingbade about WAC’s funding and plans, won overwhelming support, and was unanimously elected its first president. The chapter ended with Hermione reading newspaper coverage that praised Vaughan in increasingly extreme terms.

• Akingbade proposed a debate with Vaughan, hoping to learn his plans for WAC while pledging the International Confederation of Wizards’ votes to him.
• Vaughan explained his financial plans, including Muggle gold and silver trading and international sales of Wolfsbane Potion, and promised further efforts to help werewolves.
• Vaughan’s speech sparked a frenzy among the assembly, and he was elected WAC president unanimously.
• Arthur found Harry, Ron, and Hermione in Little Whinging and told them Vaughan had become chairman.
• Vaughan met the new WAC leadership, including vice-chairmen Remus Lupin, Tiberius Ogden, and Pierre Chevalier.
• Hermione read newspaper reports about Vaughan’s election and was unsettled by Rita Skeeter’s extravagant praise.

Hermione learned that Vaughan’s planned North American visit and WAC’s Wolfsbane Potion trade could reshape international politics, while Vaughan confronted the divide between wizarding and Muggle work practices and discussed North America’s collapse with Barty Crouch. In Minnesota, Isabella escaped a Scourer attack and remembered Natalie’s death as the hidden war engulfed the town.

• Hermione read reports portraying Vaughan’s WAC plans as an effort to rally countries against the International Confederation of Wizards, and she wished she could be by his side.
• Vaughan ordered WAC to replace quills and enchanted office supplies with Muggle alternatives, then discussed the problems of wizarding and Muggle separation with Lupin and William.
• Barty Crouch told Vaughan that Joshua Potter had agreed to arrange a more formal North American invitation, and described Ilvermorny’s isolation amid the region’s conflict.
• Joshua Potter told North American leaders that Vaughan was independent and influential, and they debated whether to accept his visit despite the political consequences of his Wolfsbane Potion trade plan.
• Isabella detected Scourers attacking her Minnesota apartment building, escaped in animal form, and hid while the battle spread through the town.
• Isabella remembered that Scourers had destroyed the militia that sheltered her and killed Natalie, who had chosen death rather than face the country’s transformation.

Isabella escaped a Scourer attack near the Canadian border, then learned from a newspaper that Ilvermorny had invited Vaughan Weasley to North America. Vaughan prepared for the trip, secured Newt Scamander’s enchanted suitcase for his research, and agreed to check on Tina’s sister; he left for America with Newt’s gifts and several missions ahead of him.

• Isabella hid from the Scourers as they restored the town and erased evidence of their attack, then found a newspaper reporting Ilvermorny’s invitation to Vaughan Weasley.
• Vaughan told old Barty Crouch that he planned to leave for North America in two days and would bring captured werewolves for Wolfsbane Potion research.
• Vaughan visited Newt Scamander, who lent him a suitcase containing a vast habitat and a magical moon, and asked him to visit Frank the Thunderbird in Arizona.
• Vaughan agreed to check on Tina’s sister Queenie and her husband Jacob Kowalski in New York.
• Dumbledore gave Vaughan an Erumpent horn and hide from Newt as Vaughan prepared for his North American journey.

Vaughn prepared to travel to North America as head of the WAC delegation, while Dumbledore warned him of the dangers and hinted at his past with Grindelwald. After saying goodbye to his family, Vaughn boarded the Queen Mary with the delegation, leaving for a journey that would also include a secret transfer of werewolves for his research.

• Dumbledore gave Vaughn rare Erumpent horn and hide from Newt and Tina, then discussed the Gaunt Ring’s curse and his plan to seek Grindelwald’s help.
• Dumbledore told Vaughn about his shared ambitions with Grindelwald and gave him the official North American delegation documents, which named Dolores Umbridge as the Ministry representative and arranged protection for the voyage.
• Vaughn accepted the planned return itinerary of diplomatic visits and left Hogwarts, wondering whether Dumbledore had been testing his views on the International Statute of Secrecy.
• On August 4, Vaughn said goodbye to Molly, Hermione, Arthur, and the rest of the Weasley family before Arthur drove him to Southampton.
• Lupin told Vaughn that unregistered werewolves had been hidden in his suitcase for transfer, and Vaughn instructed him to keep them safe for the development of the second Wolfsbane Potion.
• Vaughn boarded the Queen Mary with the delegation while the Ministry officials were delayed, and a Wizengamot committee member described the liner’s history as a gift to the Muggle king.

Vaughn brought the WAC delegation aboard the Queen Mary, where Ministry officials’ attempt to punish the delegation with cramped cabins sparked a confrontation. After Vaughn transformed Dolores Umbridge into a toad, the Aurors struggled to undo the spell, and the chapter ended with Vaughn warning that it would last ten days while he began werewolf research.

• Vaughn welcomed Oliver Yaxley into his circle and asked him to seek out a former Death Eater from the Yaxley family to recruit for WAC.
• Vaughn upgraded the delegation’s fourth-class cabins to suites after the members learned that Fudge’s officials had arranged them cramped accommodations.
• Vaughn cast a spell to clear Muggles from the deck, then transformed Dolores Umbridge into a pink toad when she confronted him.
• Kingsley Shacklebolt determined that Umbridge’s transformation was too complex to reverse safely, and he ordered the Aurors to keep the incident quiet while he sought a peaceful resolution.
• Vaughn began preparing werewolf research and told Lupin that Umbridge’s transformation would last ten days, warning that her next appearance before him would bring worse consequences.

Vaughn Weasley studied the werewolf virus by experimenting on captive werewolves in his suitcase, while Matthew found renewed purpose and asked to join WAC. As the ship approached America, the International Confederation of Wizards invited Vaughn to a banquet, and he sent Matthew to live with Lupin while the experiments continued.

• Vaughn set up a laboratory in his suitcase and began dissecting captive werewolves to study the virus, while Matthew watched from his cage.
• Vaughn spoke with Matthew about WAC’s goals, and Matthew asked to follow him so he could find value in staying alive.
• Vaughn entered Matthew’s memories, and Matthew relived the family tragedy and persecution that had driven him to Greyback before Vaughn accepted his request to join WAC.
• Oliver Yaxley told Lupin that the International Confederation of Wizards had invited Vaughn to a banquet in America, and Lupin said Vaughn would not attend because of his research.
• Vaughn asked Lupin to take Matthew out of the cage, clean him up, and let him stay with Lupin as a new member of WAC.

Matthew escaped the suitcase’s sea of suffering and joined WAC as Vaughn conducted a full-moon experiment on werewolves to collect transformation data. After the Queen Mary entered American waters, Vaughn explained how the Dreamcatcher enforced border restrictions and began teaching Lupin about the history behind Rappaport’s Law.

• Matthew greeted Lupin, identified the werewolf Barry, and left the suitcase space with Lupin as Vaughn began an experiment that made a magical full moon affect them outside the suitcase.
• Vaughn used the full moon, magical detection, Muggle instruments, and Felix Felicis to record the transformations of eight werewolves, gathering data for future research.
• Matthew settled into Lupin’s room while other delegates, especially the werewolves, reacted with suspicion to his arrival.
• Vaughn met Lupin in the suite as the Queen Mary entered American waters, and explained that the Dreamcatcher blocked unauthorized travel across the border.
• Vaughn taught Lupin that the Dreamcatcher helped the Magical Congress manage restrictions imposed by Rappaport’s Law, then began explaining how No-Maj civil-rights activism led to the law’s repeal and return.

On the voyage to America, Vaughn explained the tangled history of Rappaport's Law to Lupin, who began mapping the country's factions and questioning their motives. After the delegation received six Dragons, Vaughn and Akinbade watched evidence of Third Salem's disciplined assault on a wizard safe house and agreed to cooperate as they searched for Isabella Rosier.

• Vaughn told Lupin that he suspected No-Majs had betrayed wizard vanguard groups, leading to Rappaport's Law being reinstated, and Lupin considered the possibility that American political forces were still concealing the truth.
• Lupin identified the Magical Congress, civilian militias, Third Salem, and the No-Maj government as possible factions in America, then added Ilvermorny to his notes with a question mark.
• Four black-robed agents delivered six Dragons to Vaughn and reported delays caused by Fudge and stricter inspections ahead of East Asia's Grand Celestial Rite.
• The agents told Vaughn and Akinbade that Isabella Rosier had escaped a destroyed safe house and might be heading north or trying to find Vaughn, while Scourers guarded the Minnesota border.
• Vaughn showed Akinbade a memory of Third Salem destroying a safe house and methodically killing its defenders, then gave him a copy in exchange for the delegation's protection and shared intelligence through New York.
• Akinbade agreed to hold a press conference in Boston so Isabella might learn of Vaughn's arrival and join the delegation.

Vaughan Weasley studied a memory of the Scourers and concluded that they were Muggles capable of using borrowed magic, possibly created through genetic engineering. He warned Dumbledore about the threat and continued his research in America, where the story left him preparing to experiment on the Scourers while housing dragons in his suitcase.

• A black-robed informant warned Vaughn that America’s factions were consumed by hatred and advised him to leave, while Akinbade departed to report on the Scourers to the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Vaughn brought Lupin into his mindscape and analyzed the Scourers’ robes, identifying their fabric as polyester and concluding that the Scourers were Muggles who could use magic.
• Lupin left shaken, and Vaughn continued dissecting the memory as he considered how the Scourers might have acquired magical abilities.
• Matthew connected Lupin’s strange behavior to Vaughan’s recent writings on Muggle science and life sciences.
• Vaughan wrote to Dumbledore that the Scourers might be products of Muggle genetic engineering, then sent the letter and others back with Fawkes.
• Vaughan returned to his suitcase research, where six dragons had joined the werewolves and become his potential experimental subjects.

Vaughan studied Dragon anatomy and magic while arriving in Boston with the delegation, and speculated that Dragons might have migrated to Earth through the Aether. Akinbade then revealed that the Scourers were likely connected to the No-Maj government, prompting Vaughan to identify them as artificial magical creatures.

• Vaughan silenced the frightened werewolves and subdued a freed Hungarian Horntail, which cowered before the Dragon corpses in his laboratory.
• Vaughan examined Dragon research notes, found that Dragons generated and circulated magic through specialized organs and blood, and wondered whether they had evolved to fight an ancient natural enemy.
• Lupin told Vaughan that the Royal Mary had reached Boston and that Kingsley Shacklebolt wanted to ask him to reverse Umbridge's transformation; Vaughan agreed to meet Kingsley after dinner and hear his appeal.
• Akinbade invited Vaughan to walk with him, explained that his New England investigation would last ten more days, and said the International Confederation of Wizards planned to investigate the Scourers.
• Akinbade reported that specialists had linked the Scourers to the North American No-Maj government, and Vaughan confirmed the connection and identified them as artificial magical creatures.

Vaughan discovered a group of wizards spying on him and captured most of them, then pursued Bruce Essex through repeated Apparitions and took him alive after Essex suffered a severe Splinching injury. While Essex recovered at a forest campsite, Vaughan began questioning him through seemingly casual conversation, but Essex refused to reveal his organization’s secrets.

• Akingbade’s magical outburst drew the attention of Essex and other members of his organization, who watched Vaughan from a cannery and discussed their suspicions about him.
• After one wizard silenced the cannery windows, Vaughan spotted the group, Apparated inside, shielded himself from their attacks, and captured everyone except Essex, who escaped.
• Vaughan pursued Essex through multiple Apparitions, invaded his spatial passage, and seized him after Essex’s desperate escape attempt caused a severe Splinching injury.
• Vaughan treated Essex’s wounds and waited for him to wake before identifying him as Bruce Essex and offering him water and a blood-restoring potion.
• Essex warned Vaughan that a mental barrier protected his organization’s secrets, while Vaughan tried to draw him into conversation about his family and Boston.

Vaughan questioned the captured Bruce Essex and learned how the Magical Congress of the United States oppressed No-Maj-born wizards through taxes and agreements that forced them to sever family ties, fueling Essex’s violent rebellion against pure-bloods. As Vaughan’s Personality Armament probed Essex’s memories, he witnessed the trauma behind Essex’s hatred and recognized that North America’s conflict could become even more severe.

• Vaughan and Bruce Essex discussed Vaughan’s reasons for coming to America, WAC, and the hope it had given werewolves ahead of the full moon.
• Essex explained that his organization had wanted a private meeting with Vaughan and intended to eliminate pure-bloods, including children, to protect their own people.
• Essex described the taxes and coercive Exemption Agreements imposed on No-Maj-born wizards, then admitted that he had signed one and been forced to kill someone close to him.
• Vaughan used his hidden Personality Armament to intensify Essex’s emotions and enter his chaotic Mindscape as Essex recounted the persecution that had shaped his hatred.
• Vaughan experienced fragments of Essex’s traumatic memories, including the torture and death of Olivia, and concluded that North America’s conflict had not yet reached its peak.

Vaughn infiltrated Essex’s mind and uncovered a plan by DeSantis and the Secret Brotherhood to control him and his werewolves. After speaking with a living memory entity calling itself DeSantis, Vaughn left with Essex, wary that the entity’s sudden offer of cooperation concealed another motive.

• Vaughn used a new Personality Armament called an Impostor to bypass Essex’s mental defenses and extract his hidden memories.
• Vaughn discovered that Essex had agreed to help DeSantis seize control of Vaughn and his werewolves, and learned that the organization was called the Secret Brotherhood.
• Vaughn met DeSantis, a living memory entity, which proposed cooperation and warned him to keep secrets away from Dreamcatcher’s coverage.
• Vaughn refused to trust DeSantis without speaking to the real DeSantis and withdrew from Essex’s mind, taking Essex back with him.
• Vaughn examined Essex’s unconscious mind and suspected DeSantis’s abrupt change of allegiance was too convenient to be genuine.

Vaughan sent Dumbledore a letter about meeting DeSantis, a mysterious wizard whose memory magic rivaled Dumbledore’s and who belonged to the unknown Secret Brotherhood. After deciding the encounter could signal a legendary wizard and danger in North America, Dumbledore visited Grindelwald at Nurmengard to ask his advice.

• Vaughan bribed the exhausted Fawkes with Felix Felicis to deliver his letter to Dumbledore, then wrote to Snape requesting more potion from him.
• Dumbledore visited Snape and showed him a cursed ring, but Snape warned that wearing it could kill Dumbledore within months.
• Fawkes delivered Vaughan’s letter, and Dumbledore and Snape read about DeSantis, his powerful memory magic, and the Secret Brotherhood.
• Dumbledore and Snape considered whether DeSantis could be a hidden legendary wizard and concluded that Vaughan might be in danger in North America.
• Dumbledore carried Fawkes to Nurmengard and showed Grindelwald Vaughan’s letter, asking for his advice.

Dumbledore confronted Grindelwald about DeSantis and learned that Grindelwald denied involvement, while warning that Vaughan Weasley was ambitious and might resemble him. Vaughan returned to the delegation, weighed an alliance with Akinbade, and resumed his dragon research, where officials arrived to find two dragons fighting.

• Grindelwald told Dumbledore that the amber light marked the approach of death and that DeSantis was suffering the same phenomenon.
• Dumbledore suspected Grindelwald of directing DeSantis, but Grindelwald denied any connection and argued that American pure-blood oppression had driven DeSantis to act.
• Vaughan returned with Bruce Essex, agreed to meet Akinbade after the Magical Congress of the United States registered their wands, and asked Lupin to let him sleep.
• Vaughan reviewed Kingsley Shacklebolt's background and decided that Kingsley needed to choose a side before Vaughan would trust him.
• Vaughan released the Tree Bee and a Norwegian Ridgeback to continue his dragon research, and Lupin and the registration officials arrived as the dragons fought.

Vaughan Weasley hosted a Magical Congress delegation while demonstrating his living-organism research, and Director Michael Graves used the inspection to threaten and pressure him into placing WAC North America under Congress influence. Vaughan rejected the proposal and complied with the required registrations and wand monitoring, while Graves left expecting an answer.

• The Spinyback Dragon lost to the Tree Bee, and Vaughan used his Living Organism Detection Method to disassemble the wounded dragon while it remained alive.
• Vaughan confronted Michael Graves about his great-uncle Percival, and Graves defended blaming victims for being too weak to prevent their misfortunes.
• Graves warned Vaughan that America’s pure-bloods and hostile groups could threaten WAC, then urged him to disclose the Wolfsbane Potion formula and let the Magical Congress control WAC North America.
• Vaughan rejected Graves’s proposal, and Congress staff reported that five werewolves were missing and four dragons had died during experiments.
• Graves inspected Vaughan’s Elder Wand, used Prior Incantato to review its recent magic, and had Witwicky place a monitoring mark on it.
• After Graves and the inspectors left, Vaughan told Lupin to register Matthew’s information and accommodate reasonable inquiries for now.

Lupin struggled with the contempt shown toward werewolves, while Vaughan explained why WAC had to maneuver carefully in North America and declined to cooperate with the Magical Congress of the United States. Akinbade then sought WAC’s help investigating the Scourers, and Vaughan proposed that artificial wizards might have been created with implanted magical organs.

• The Magical Congress delegation insulted Matthew during registration, but Matthew said he was used to how people treated werewolves and focused on Vaughan’s promise of a better future.
• Vaughan explained to Lupin that WAC needed to avoid alienating North American powers, though he would cooperate with anyone except the Magical Congress of the United States and might turn to the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Akinbade asked Vaughan to form a practical alliance and investigate the Scourers, whom the International Confederation suspected were products of No-Maj genetic engineering.
• Akinbade and Vaughan reasoned that the Magical Congress of the United States might have supplied the missing wizards needed for the Scourers’ creation, but its closed structure made direct investigation difficult.
• Vaughan compared werewolf and Dragon magical organs with diagrams of Muggles and wizards, suggesting that artificial wizards might gain magic from newly created organs rather than their souls.

Vaughan suggested that America’s artificial-wizard research might rely on magical creatures, giving Akinbade a practical lead for the International Confederation of Wizards to investigate. As Kingsley chose to work with Vaughan amid growing factional conflict in Britain, Akinbade later arranged to join Vaughan’s investigation while Dragons were brought to him.

• Vaughan proposed that magical creatures, rather than missing wizards alone, might have been used as research materials, and Akinbade hurried to secure the International Confederation of Wizards’ approval to investigate creature-trading records.
• Vaughan told Lupin that the Scourers were probably unfinished artificial wizards and explained that he welcomed the prospect of more people gaining magic because greater numbers could advance the search for truth.
• Akinbade returned and found Kingsley Shacklebolt and Nymphadora Tonks outside Vaughan’s room, where Tonks held Umbridge, who remained transformed into a toad.
• Kingsley told Tonks that Vaughan was pressuring him because he valued him, then warned her that Britain’s growing divide between progressives and conservatives could lead to violent conflict.
• Kingsley agreed to notify the International Confederation of Wizards’ people in the Federation, while Vaughan said his next group of visitors would bring Dragons to cooperate with the investigation.
• Akinbade asked why Vaughan needed more Dragons when the Tree Bee was already present, and the Tree Bee glared at him.

Kingsley chose to side with Vaughn, who offered the Shacklebolt family protection and a share in his potion business. After Nymphadora discovered a No-Maj protest movement called the Third Salem Movement in Boston, Vaughn and Akinbade considered whether it was connected to America’s history of anti-wizard groups.

• Akinbade suggested using arriving werewolves for investigations, and Vaughn agreed they could help with peripheral work without being bound by harsh contracts.
• Kingsley pledged his support to Vaughn and chose to move the Shacklebolt family’s businesses into fields Vaughn controlled in exchange for support and potion trade opportunities.
• Nymphadora mistakenly thought Kingsley had been humiliated, kicked Lupin, and then learned Kingsley had resolved his family’s problems; she later apologized by agreeing to buy him a gift.
• Nymphadora and Kingsley encountered a Third Salem Movement protest in Boston, and Kingsley confirmed that a No-Maj organizer’s memories showed nothing unusual.
• Vaughn sent Kingsley to investigate the movement with Remus and offered to lift the Transfiguration Charm on Umbridge to ease pressure on the Shacklebolts.
• Vaughn and Akinbade discussed the Third Salem Movement’s possible links to Second Salem, the Scourers, and the history of Rappaport’s Law.

Vaughn suspected that the Magical Congress of the United States had eliminated the original Scourers and manufactured the Barebone and Second Salem crises to preserve pure-blood control, while warning Akinbade that artificial wizards might still threaten secrecy. Kingsley, Lupin, and Nymphadora joined a protest undercover as Vaughn sensed an unseen presence over Boston; elsewhere, Isabella was captured by a mysterious wizard after protecting Muggle residents from his attack.

• Vaughn told Akinbade that the Magical Congress of the United States might have staged the Second Salem crisis and retained controlled Scourers to justify pure-blood rule, but admitted he had no evidence.
• Kingsley found Lupin and recruited Nymphadora to investigate the protest, while Lupin struggled to conceal his attraction to her.
• Nymphadora dressed Kingsley and Lupin in counterculture outfits and led them into the Boston protest, where the crowd welcomed them.
• Matthew watched the undercover team as Vaughn sensed unseen curtains of light covering the city and said someone was observing their actions.
• A cloaked wizard pursued Isabella, set fire to a residential district, and struck her with a Petrification Charm after she shielded the Muggle neighborhood and tried to escape.

Isabella was captured by the Magical Congress of the United States, then freed when werewolf wizards attacked their base and recognized her as the witch Pandora had been seeking. Meanwhile, Vaughn prepared to confront the Scourers in Boston as the city came under the Dreamcatcher's surveillance, while Michael Graves reflected on the pure-blood ideology shaping American policy.

• Georgi captured Isabella and brought her to a base, where she realized the Magical Congress had likely tracked her through her wand.
• Werewolf wizards attacked the base, killed or drove off most of its guards, and took Georgi and the bald fat man prisoner.
• Peters and a witch found Isabella in an enchanted container and contacted Ms. Pandora after recognizing her from a photograph.
• Vaughn told Akinbade that his allies and recruited werewolves were heading to Boston, while the Dreamcatcher’s symbols spread over the city.
• Michael Graves rode through New York and recalled how Patrick Wilkinson’s prophecy had shaped the Magical Congress’s anti-No-Maj policies.