Chapter Summaries

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.

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.