Chapter Summaries

The students faced Golems in a classroom exercise, then Professor Abigail reviewed their mistakes and helped lead the renovation of the Basilisk Secret Chamber into a more challenging training ground. Abigail also pushed Dumbledore to address the divisions between Slytherin and the other Houses, leaving him to question whether his suspicion of her had been justified.

• The students struggled against the Golems at first, then grouped together and defeated them as Snape watched Draco Malfoy perform well against a Red Cap.
• Professor Abigail reviewed the students’ recorded performances, praising Malfoy’s idea while noting that he had failed to follow up with another attack.
• McGonagall used Wade’s edited video as Hogwarts began renovating the Basilisk Secret Chamber, with students from every House helping build and decorate it.
• Abigail planned complex environments, traps, and stronger Golems for the Secret Chamber, while insisting that mixed-House groups include Slytherins.
• Abigail told Dumbledore that his attitude helped isolate Slytherin students and could push them toward becoming the people others feared, and Dumbledore supported her efforts to bring the Houses together.
• Dumbledore later asked Wade whether suspicion of Abigail had been justified, and Wade replied that he had finished a very strong Vampire Golem.

Wade suspected Professor Abigail of seeking Golem technology, then helped the Gryffindor Quidditch team prepare for the storm and received a desperate message from Rita Skeeter. Rita remained trapped with the children on an island where technology-powered captors hunted her, but she believed help would come.

• Wade told Dumbledore that Professor Abigail was suspicious because she had shown unusual interest in Golems and taught Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• During a stormy Quidditch morning, Wade turned pea pods into enchanted goggles for the Gryffindor team and enlarged and enchanted Michael's umbrella.
• Wade went to the Room of Requirement to continue improving the Book of Friends, where an exhausted owl delivered a message from someone using a knockoff version.
• Wade learned that Glasses Beetle, the person he had given the Invisibility Cloak to, was pleading for help.
• On the island, Ponytail Man ordered the Black Guards to search for Rita and welcomed the prospect of more wizard visitors as experimental subjects.
• Rita endured another painful buzzing attack, then told the children hiding with her that someone would come save them.

After fleeing Britain, Rita Skeeter hid as a beetle aboard a fishing boat and discovered that the Muggles belonged to an organization seeking to capture wizards. She reached a remote island, where a powerful electromagnetic field overwhelmed her and left her unable to Apparate.

• Rita Skeeter recalled how she had gathered evidence of Umbridge's views, exposed her with a sex scandal, and been forced to flee Britain after Umbridge retaliated.
• Rita escaped as a beetle on an owl carrying a blank letter, but a Muggle vessel shot down the owl and recovered the letter.
• Rita overheard the fishermen discuss capturing wizards and learned that they belonged to an organization that wanted to study and steal magical abilities.
• After the boat reached a remote island, Rita flew ashore, changed back into human form, and wandered into the jungle while planning to pass her discoveries to Wade Grey.
• A hidden camera spotted Rita, and an island-wide electromagnetic field caused her intense pain and left her unable to Apparate.

Rita Skeeter struggled to escape the armed laboratory, endured another magnetic-field attack, and used Felix Felicis to send a message to Wade Grey. The chapter left her injured but moving deeper underground, where she discovered imprisoned children.

• Rita Skeeter escaped the soldiers by turning into a beetle and hid in a ventilation pipe, where a magnetic pulse forced her back into human form.
• Ponytail Man sent Scorpion Cars after Rita, and their attack damaged her Invisibility Cloak before she escaped the ambush.
• Rita drank Felix Felicis, stole two counterfeit Book of Friends, and sent one to Wade Grey by owl.
• Rita escaped with an owl but was caught in another magnetic pulse, then followed her luck-guided route deeper underground.
• Rita found prison cells holding young children as the magnetic attack ended.

Wade and Dumbledore followed the frightened owl across the sea to an island where Rita Skeeter might be trapped. After a strange hum from the island began disturbing their magic and bodies, they were left facing an unknown danger.

• Wade and Dumbledore suspected that the message from Rita Skeeter might have been altered, then set out to find her using the owl as a guide.
• Dumbledore and Wade Apparated to St Kilda, where Wade revealed he was an Animagus and transformed into a peregrine falcon.
• Wade and the owl flew west across the sea until the owl stopped at a buoy near a developed island and warned Wade not to approach.
• Wade snapped Dumbledore's locator quill, bringing him to the buoy, and they spotted surveillance cameras and buildings on the island.
• A strange humming spread from the island, making Wade and Dumbledore's magic and muscles twitch.

Rita Skeeter endured electromagnetic attacks alongside imprisoned children and watched Hailey get taken away, while Mabel and Luke shielded Rita from the worst of the attack. Wade and Dumbledore fashioned metal cloaks to resist the interference and followed the trail of magic to a towering wall.

• Rita Skeeter told Hailey that Wade and a powerful wizard would save them, while Mabel described the experiments inflicted on her and Luke.
• Masked men arrived to take Hailey; when they attacked Mabel, Luke covered her and shielded Rita from the electromagnetic assault.
• After Hailey was taken away, Mabel said that children taken by the men never returned, and Rita silently urged Wade to find them soon.
• Wade and Dumbledore made metal cloaks from silver and copper to weaken the electromagnetic interference and conceal themselves from cameras.
• Wade and Dumbledore followed the trail of magic through the woods until they reached a towering wall.

After a Tabby Cat sabotaged the Island’s power system, Golems attacked the facility and freed Wade and Dumbledore to move through the base. The magnetic field disabled most of the attackers, and Wade questioned whether they should still show the people there mercy.

• Zeke and Veronica discussed the missing woman while Upton noticed a Tabby Cat cut a cable in the distribution box.
• The severed cable blacked out surveillance and machinery across the Island, briefly disrupting operations in the rooms where Hailey and another boy were held.
• Strange animals, people, and household objects attacked the Island’s guards, who fled until the magnetic field incapacitated most of the attackers.
• Wade and Dumbledore endured the magnetic field’s effects and prepared to use the half-hour cooldown to act inside the base.
• Wade saw bloodstained photographs and asked Dumbledore whether they still needed to show the people mercy.

Wade and Dumbledore uncovered a Muggle facility that imprisoned and exploited children, including young wizards, and began freeing its captives. Wade reached Rita Skeeter and the other children, who asked him to save Hailey as well.

• Wade and Dumbledore found records of children being imprisoned and harvested for organs, and the Administrator revealed how the facility operated.
• Dumbledore killed the Administrator and warned Wade against becoming desensitized to taking lives, then asked him to protect the children and find Rita Skeeter.
• Dumbledore destroyed the facility’s equipment and fought the guards while Wade went to the dungeon.
• Wade found Rita Skeeter among the imprisoned children, verified her identity, and opened the cells.
• A girl told Wade that the captors had taken Hailey, and asked him to save her.

Wade and Mabel raced through the burning base to find Hailey, while the children left behind fought the guards and protected Rita Skeeter. Wade found Hailey gravely injured but still showing signs of life, as Mabel collapsed with her damaged collar still around her neck and heard a familiar ringing.

• Wade left Mihail to protect Rita Skeeter and the children, then rode his Firebolt with Mabel to search for Hailey.
• After Rita hesitated to help the children, Luke and the other children attacked the guards and protected her.
• Wade and Mabel flew through the burning base, where Wade stunned fleeing researchers and released enlarged Insects to stop them.
• Mabel found a bloody human-processing room and collapsed when she saw a severed head; Wade stopped her collar from buzzing with a spell.
• Wade left Golems beside Mabel and found Hailey on an operating table with her abdomen cut open, then noticed her eyelids tremble.
• Mabel struggled to rise, collapsed again, and heard a familiar ringing sound.

Mabel’s collar broke under the Bell Man’s abuse, unleashing an Obscurus that tore through the laboratory. Wade recognized the danger and left Hailey under the Golems’ protection, while the chapter ended with him returning to give her another healing Potion.

• The Bell Man found Mabel, threatened her, and forced her to walk ahead while planning to use her as a shield and hostage.
• After the Bell Man kicked her, Mabel’s collar cracked, her Magic Power surged, and her Obscurus manifested and killed him.
• Wade realized he had used the Time-Turner to save Hailey and discovered that magic had been used to remove and replace her organs.
• Wade saw Mabel’s Obscurus rampage through the laboratory, destroying machinery and heading toward the levels below.
• Wade sent the two Golems to protect Hailey, then returned through a window and poured another healing Potion over her wounds.

Wade returned through time to Hogwarts to gather the Potion and help save Mabel, the girl hosting the rampaging Obscurus. Madam Pomfrey prepared to accompany him, and Snape arrived with his Blood-Replenishing Potion as Wade's brief window to return to the island approached.

• Wade told Dumbledore that Mabel was the Obscurus's host and proposed using her bond with the little girl to calm the creature, but Dumbledore could not use Wade's restricted Time-Turner.
• Dumbledore gave Wade a Portkey and warned him that reversing time would not let him change events he had already witnessed.
• Wade reversed time on a reef, then used the Portkey to return to Hogwarts and flew into the Hospital Wing.
• Wade asked Madam Pomfrey for treatment and Potion for a patient whose heart and kidneys had been removed and returned, explaining that the injuries would happen in the future.
• Madam Pomfrey packed her medical supplies and summoned Snape, who reluctantly offered some of his Basilisk-blood Potion after hearing about the children harmed on the island.

Wade returned to the island with Madam Pomfrey and Professors Snape, Flitwick, and Sprout to rescue children from a research facility before an Obscurus rampaged. The professors began attacking the armed guards, and Wade entered the facility carrying a case of stolen organs as they searched for the surviving children.

• Wade explained that a tortured child would soon become an Obscurial and that he hoped to save another child whose organs had been taken.
• Wade and the four professors used a Portkey to return to the island after its dangerous magnetic field had passed.
• The group flew toward the facility under Disillusionment, while Professor Sprout and Professor Flitwick attacked soldiers outside.
• Professor Snape opened the facility doors, and the group stunned the Glasses Man and his companion as they discussed abusing children.
• Wade found a case containing fresh organs and entered the facility with Snape and Flitwick, where a worker was washing something in a sink filled with red water.

Wade and Professor Snape rescued Hailey from an organ-harvesting operation and captured the people responsible, while Snape interrogated the Glasses Man. The Glasses Man revealed a secret organization with wizard members before an unseen attacker killed him, and Snape followed Zeke and Veronica as they prepared to flee.

• Snape stopped a man from attacking Wade, and Wade led Snape and Madam Pomfrey to Hailey, whose heart and kidneys were being removed.
• Madam Pomfrey began treating Hailey while Snape captured the staff, and Wade gathered the dead boy’s remains and sent an animated Metal Wire Cloak after Snape.
• Snape questioned the Glasses Man under Veritaserum and learned that the group was researching ways to give ordinary people magic genes, taking orders from a Leader by email.
• The Glasses Man identified Zeke as the person behind the island and began revealing that the organization had wizards when an unseen attacker shot him.
• Zeke and Veronica blamed Upton for the breach and ordered the remaining staff to prepare to escape, while Snape followed them and Wade and Mabel arrived on a Firebolt.

Wade and Madam Pomfrey escaped the rooftop as Zeke’s helicopter fled, then Snape returned badly injured after the aircraft exploded. While wizards fought the rampaging Obscurus, Wade healed Hailey, who woke and asked where Mabel was as gunfire sounded nearby.

• Wade and Madam Pomfrey fled the rooftop as Zeke’s helicopter fired on the people left behind and escaped.
• Snape Apparated back with badly injured, burned legs after the helicopter exploded, and Madam Pomfrey treated him.
• Wade used Snape’s Potion and healing magic to heal Hailey while the Obscurus ravaged the area.
• Dumbledore, Fudge, and other wizards arrived and worked to contain the Obscurus.
• Hailey woke, remembered fragments of what had happened, and asked Wade where Mabel was as distant gunfire sounded.

Tonks and the Aurors joined Dumbledore’s fight against the Obscurus, but a wounded soldier shot several wizards before killing himself, worsening the chaos. Hailey called Mabel back from the Obscurus, and Dumbledore arranged for Wade’s role and use of the Time-Turner to be concealed before Snape took him back to Hogwarts.

• Tonks rescued an injured soldier, who later retrieved a machine gun and shot several wizards, including Tonks, before killing himself with a pistol.
• Scrimgeour ordered the Aurors to stun the Muggles while Madam Pomfrey treated Tonks, leaving fewer wizards to fight the Obscurus.
• Wade explained to Hailey that Mabel was inside the Obscurus, and Hailey called out to her from the window.
• The Obscurus rushed to Hailey, contracted into Mabel, and reunited the two girls.
• Dumbledore agreed to hide Wade’s involvement and the traces of his Time-Turner use, then Snape took Wade back to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

After Harry’s Quidditch victory, Wade returned to Hogwarts and drew Professor Abigail’s suspicions about the island. Dumbledore examined Mabel and Hailey, offered Mabel a place at Hogwarts, and the Ministry began taking control of the island as Fudge’s group pursued the vanished Obscurus.

• Harry caught the Golden Snitch for Gryffindor, and Wade returned to the Great Hall with Theo and Ryan after drying their rain-soaked clothes with magic.
• Professor Abigail questioned Wade about the professors who had left the match, and Michael inferred that something was wrong with her.
• Dumbledore examined Mabel and Hailey, confirmed Mabel’s erased memories and Obscurus, and offered her a place at Hogwarts while arranging an adoptive family for Hailey.
• Ministry officials removed the island’s Muggles for judgment and sent the children who needed urgent care to St. Mungo’s.
• Rita Skeeter gathered photographs and accounts of the island events while Umbridge arrived too late to control the story.
• Fudge led a group of wizards toward the remaining building after they tracked the Obscurus’s direction.

After Fudge argued against Mabel attending Hogwarts and threatened to have her executed, Mabel transformed into an Obscurus and escaped from the ship. Hailey was left with Professor Sprout, while Dumbledore agreed to speak privately with Kingsley.

• Fudge insisted that Mabel should be executed and the rescued children held in dungeons, while Dumbledore defended them.
• Mabel realized she needed power to protect Hailey and the other children, then told Hailey they would have to separate.
• Mabel transformed into an Obscurus, broke through the ship's window, and escaped as the Aurors' spells missed her.
• Fudge blamed the Aurors for Mabel's escape and went to discuss capturing her with Scrimgeour.
• Professor Sprout took Hailey into her arms, and Dumbledore agreed to speak with Kingsley Shacklebolt.

Wade demonstrated his Werewolf and Vampire Golems to Professor Abigail, who paid him and marveled at how lifelike and capable they were. After returning to his Wardrobe Space, Wade comforted Mihail and decided to redesign the now-empty space to better suit his needs.

• Wade showed Professor Abigail the Werewolf Golems, which transformed, coordinated their attacks, and stung anyone they bit with irritating nettle juice.
• Wade demonstrated the Vampire Golems, whose flirtatious act and bat distraction let them hide around the room, and gave Abigail four shrunken trolls as a bonus.
• Professor Abigail paid Wade for the Golems and concluded that his Alchemy and intelligence mattered far more to the organization than Golem technology.
• Wade entered the Wardrobe Space, where Mihail mourned the Golems destroyed in the island battle and its aftermath.
• Wade promised Mihail that the space would become lively again and decided to reorganize it around his own needs.

Wade and Hermione were summoned to a meeting in the Head Boy’s Common Room, where Percy Weasley told students about the crimes uncovered on the island and the missing Obscurus. The students learned the danger could extend beyond Hogwarts as Penelope began explaining what an Obscurus was.

• Wade spent a day clearing and sorting Wardrobe Space, released creatures able to survive in the wild, and kept vulnerable ones while planning a research room and library.
• Rumours spread through Hogwarts about a missing Obscurus, and Theo gathered Wade and Hermione for a meeting in the Head Boy’s Common Room.
• Percy Weasley checked that the students were present and explained that the meeting concerned their safety.
• Percy read from Arthur Weasley’s letter, revealing that a criminal organization had tortured and killed people on the island, including young wizards.
• Penelope said an underage wizard had become an Obscurus and escaped toward Britain, then began explaining the creature to Colin Creevey.

Percy warned Hogwarts students about the danger to young wizards from Muggle abductors and urged them to obey the Statute of Secrecy. Wade later learned the victims might be more numerous than Percy suggested, while Ron began practicing spells more seriously; the chapter ended with Wade asking Professor Sprout about Dumbledore and the escaped Obscurus.

• Percy told the students that Muggle groups abducted young wizards and warned them that keeping magic secret helped protect them.
• After the gathering, Fred and George arranged to meet Wade about an idea, while Wade told Michael that the island might represent only a small part of the harm done to victims.
• Ron chose to practice spells with Harry, but after an hour of training, Harry easily broke Ron's Impediment Jinx, leaving Ron frustrated.
• Wade stayed behind after Herbology to ask Professor Sprout whether Dumbledore had returned, and she said Dumbledore was arranging a place for the children.
• Wade asked Professor Sprout whether Mabel, the Obscurus, had escaped.