Chapter Summaries

Vaughn explained his injuries and Voldemort’s condition to Dumbledore, then gave Harry answers about the deception surrounding the battle and how Lily’s protection had saved him. The chapter ended with Harry telling Ron what he had learned, leaving Ron frightened that Voldemort might eventually return.

• Phineas Black pleaded with Dumbledore and Vaughn to save the last Black descendant, but Dumbledore put his portrait to sleep and insisted Sirius Black deserved imprisonment.
• Dumbledore recognized Voldemort’s curse in Vaughn’s wounds and advised him to consult Snape; he gave Vaughn the World Within the Painting scroll and discussed returning the Time-Turner and Philosopher’s Stone.
• Vaughn recorded theories about folded timelines, fate, and observers before visiting Harry, who had spent the day alone in the hospital wing.
• Vaughn told Harry that Voldemort had returned to a shadow-like state, explained why Dumbledore had withheld information, and promised to answer more once Harry became stronger.
• Vaughn explained that Lily Evans’s protective spell had killed Voldemort when Harry was a baby, and Harry later recounted what he had learned to Ron.
• Ron panicked when he learned Quirrell had been possessed by Voldemort and worried that Voldemort might eventually return.

Harry reconsidered Snape after hearing Vaughn’s story, but Snape humiliated him and Ron in Potions class. Vaughn planned his summer priorities while caring for Norberta and arranging time with Hermione, and the chapter ended as the curse on his hand began to lift after a final dose of potion.

• Harry told Ron that Snape’s hatred came from his love for Lily, but Ron warned him not to trust Snape.
• Snape mocked Harry and Ron during Potions class, accusing Harry of arrogance and bringing up Ron’s encounter with a dragon.
• Vaughn planned to study dragons, campaign to lead the Werewolf Affairs Committee, visit North America, and develop Wolfsbane Potion 2.0, while deciding to take Hermione and her parents to The Burrow at the start of summer.
• Harry and Ron realized they had neglected their studies and asked how they could get Hermione to help them prepare for exams.
• Hermione helped Vaughn take the last dose of Snape’s potion, and the black webbing around Vaughn’s wound began to recede.

Vaughn recovered from Voldemort’s curse, recruited Hermione to help WAC, and visited Remus Lupin to discuss the werewolves’ growing problems. Lupin revealed that several werewolf children had awakened magic and risked becoming Obscurials, and Vaughn proposed tackling WAC’s funding shortage first.

• Vaughn destroyed the black mist curse, healed his wounds with Snape’s help, and told Hermione that Snape had once been a Death Eater.
• Vaughn persuaded Hermione to work as an unpaid WAC clerk during the summer, and she eagerly began planning how to prepare for the job.
• Vaughn visited Remus Lupin in Manchester, where Lupin described the werewolves’ debt, unstable income, and difficulties living among Muggles.
• Lupin told Vaughn that three children in his community had shown signs of magical awakening and that children without magical guidance often died young.
• Vaughn explained that repression could produce Obscurials, encouraged Lupin to keep working through WAC, and suggested solving the Wolfsbane Potion funding problem first.

Vaughn took Lupin to meet Muggle precious-metals experts and used memory magic to make them cooperate with his plan to profit from the gap between Muggle and wizarding gold-silver exchange rates. Lupin restrained himself from confronting Vaughn, while the experts began explaining an arbitrage scheme that could drain Gringotts of its reserves.

• Vaughn brought Lupin to Diagon Alley and introduced him to eleven Muggle precious-metals experts assembled by William White.
• When the Muggles rejected Vaughn as too young to be their employer, Vaughn used memory magic on all eleven, and they began testing Galleons and Sickles.
• Lupin nearly drew his wand against Vaughn but stopped when James Brown restrained him and he realized Barnard and William White were watching for his reaction.
• Mr. Nye explained that the Muggles could exploit the difference between the wizarding world's seventeen-to-one gold-silver ratio and the Muggle world's eighty-to-one ratio to make repeated profits.
• Vaughn left with William White and said the goblins would likely seek a share of the profits rather than restrict precious-metal exchanges, while Dumbledore accidentally startled Nicolas Flamel and caused his bones to dislocate.

Vaughan assigned William to acquire werewolves and vampires for research and revealed his plans to explore how magical traits could be used to integrate werewolves into society. Lupin agreed to lead WAC’s precious-metals trading operation, while Harry and Ron began studying in earnest after recognizing their weaknesses in the trial.

• Vaughan told William to buy strong werewolves as test subjects and capture vampires, then explained that werewolves’ ability to sense magic could help them find a place in the wider world.
• Vaughan ordered William to prepare a committee list for WAC and announced that he would run for president at the July general meeting.
• Lupin agreed to lead the Muggles handling precious-metals trades after weighing the profits against his misgivings, and Vaughan gave him a list of WAC job applicants that included Hermione Granger.
• Vaughan returned to Hogwarts, persuaded Professor McGonagall that Dumbledore was responsible for deceiving her, and visited Ravenclaw Tower.
• Harry and Ron studied late with Hermione’s help, explaining that the trial and their poor quiz scores had made them determined to improve.
• Dumbledore secretly watched Harry, Ron, and Hermione study, wondered how their fates connected to Vaughan, and left after Fruit Tea shooed him away.

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.