Chapter Summaries

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.

Michael Graves met Chairman Josiah Parker as Congress argued over how to deal with Vaughan Weasley, while Graves warned that organized werewolves threatened Boston and proposed using Third Salem as cover for an attack. Meanwhile, Lupin and Kingsley investigated Third Salem before Vaughn contacted them and Akinbade shared intelligence about the Wilkinson Prophecy.

• Michael Graves arrived at the Woolworth Building and learned that the Potter, Weiss, and Stewart families opposed forceful action against Vaughan Weasley because of his diplomatic status.
• Michael told Josiah Parker that Vaughan was exceptionally powerful and that werewolves had organized attacks on Auror teams near Boston; he proposed using a Third Salem march to distract Vaughan and Akinbade.
• Josiah approved keeping Third Salem in place as bait but delayed deciding whether Congress would authorize an operation against Vaughan.
• Lupin and Kingsley left the Third Salem celebration without finding useful intelligence and discovered that many participants were students at Harvard and nearby schools.
• Vaughn contacted Lupin and Kingsley through a cat-shaped Patronus, discussed how Muggle beliefs might spread, and then listened as Akinbade explained the Wilkinson Prophecy.

Vaughan Weasley and Akinbade connected Third Salem to a secret plan by the Magical Congress of the United States, while Vaughan kept his delegation cautious and continued his research. Oliver arrived in Boston with a team of allies, then revealed that Dumbledore intended Vaughan to lead their Alliance, leaving his companions shocked that their families had concealed the decision.

• Akinbade told Vaughan that the Magical Congress of the United States had secretly planned around Wilkinson's 1968 prophecy, which may have targeted No-Majs and involved organizations like Third Salem.
• Vaughan's Patronus warned Kingsley Shacklebolt and Lupin that Third Salem might be bait, and Kingsley explained the danger of being drawn into a staged conflict.
• Vaughan advanced his dragon-research quest to 5/10, reviewed his growing reputation, and continued monitoring the delegation and Third Salem.
• Oliver arrived in Boston with dragons and members of the Greenwell, Baird, and McLean families, while Clint reported that surveillance ribbons surrounded the city.
• Oliver learned that his companions viewed Vaughan as an exceptional Potions master, a political talent, and a powerful wizard, then told them Dumbledore had chosen Vaughan to lead the Alliance in the future.

Oliver Greenwell’s team arrived in Boston with dragons while the Magical Congress’s Aurors followed to monitor the transaction. As Vaughan Weasley explored the mathematical principles behind Apparition, he began to consider whether it could be developed into a stable passage through space.

• Oliver told Clint, Melody, and Zach that the Greenwell and Travers families fully supported Vaughan, then ordered the team to keep the Ghost Ship hidden and deliver the dragons.
• Vaughan explained that he had used a Personality Armament to amplify Oliver’s distracting thoughts and hoped to spark conflict within the old families.
• Matthew informed Vaughan that Oliver had arrived with dragons and two Magical Congress Aurors, whom Vaughan instructed to be handled according to the usual transaction procedures.
• The Aurors insisted on observing the deal, and Matthew allowed them and Oliver’s team into the suitcase space while Vaughan continued working at his blackboard.
• Clint, Melody, and Zach watched Vaughan’s arm enter a stable distortion in space, unlike ordinary Apparition.
• Vaughan connected mathematical descriptions of wormholes with Apparition and wondered whether the spell could be developed into a lasting passage.

Vaughn used mathematical calculations and his understanding of spatial structures to create a new kind of magic, then began studying the Dragons delivered to his suitcase space. As the full moon approached, Matthew recalled his past with Greyback, while Lupin continued his undercover work at a bleak camp by the Charles River.

• Vaughn combined mathematical calculations with his perception of space to create a stable passageway unlike Apparition, which opened onto the seaside.
• Clint, Melody, Zach, and Captain Oliver left the hotel stunned after witnessing Vaughn's spell, and Oliver said he had already contacted Mr. Weasley.
• Vaughn explained to Matthew that mathematics could help guide spell development but could not fully describe magic, then ordered him to guard the entrance while he studied the Dragons.
• Vaughn examined five Dragons, considered the Chinese Fireball's human-eating habits and the Australian Opaleye's gentleness, then had Betty attack a Hungarian Horntail for his experiments.
• As the full moon neared, Matthew remembered Greyback recruiting him and thought of Lupin, who had been undercover for three days.
• Lupin washed with summoned water at the Charles River, disgusted by the polluted river and the camp's grim conditions.

Lupin, Kingsley, and Tonks infiltrated Third Salem and discovered that its leaders were using a rally to oppose wizards and Scourers while campaigning for William Clinton. Tonks arranged to inspect documents William claimed would reveal more, and Vaughn summoned Akinbade after learning the investigation might have uncovered real information.

• Lupin and Kingsley rescued Ryder from the river, and he invited them to a gathering of Third Salem's leaders.
• Tonks explained that she had gained the group's trust and brought Lupin and Kingsley into its leadership circle.
• At a Boston rally against abortion bans, William Clinton linked Scourers and wizards to the opposing Elephant Party, prompting Lupin and Kingsley to suspect the Scourers were connected to it.
• Tonks said William had offered to show her classified documents about Scourers and wizards at his home, and Kingsley agreed to let her go alone while he and Lupin followed invisibly.
• Vaughn reviewed the rally memory, discussed the possible Muggle origins of the artificial wizards with Akinbade, and began explaining his plans.