Chapter Summaries

Wade impressed Professor Trocar with his advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts skills, including a corporeal Patronus, and received a schedule of practical lessons. Meanwhile, Trocar agreed to send supplies to his wanted nephew Garr, but Garr and Lockhart were intercepted by a group of Vampires who mistook Lockhart for food.

• Professor Trocar praised Wade's assignments and learned that Wade had mastered the spells from every year of the textbooks, Occlumency, and the Patronus Charm.
• Wade summoned a corporeal silver eagle Patronus, shocking Trocar, who then arranged a schedule of practical Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons for him.
• Trocar spoke with his nephew Garr, who asked for money, food, and Polyjuice Potion while hiding near Hogsmeade with Lockhart.
• Trocar agreed to send supplies after nightfall and warned Garr not to cause trouble or let anyone in Hogsmeade lose their memory.
• After dark, Garr collected packages from two owls, but an unfamiliar Vampire approached and said a group was gathering to handle business.
• Garr kicked Lockhart down as several Vampires surrounded him, treating him as their rations.

Garr disguised himself as a Vampire and was drawn into a gathering of former organization members planning to kidnap Wade Gray during Hogsmeade Weekend. The Vampires agreed to Byrd’s risky scheme, while Garr remained trapped among them with the plan still unfolding.

• Garr stopped Artemis from biting Lockhart by claiming the wizard was rare food meant to be shared, then gave his name as Oliver Williams.
• The Vampires took Lockhart to a remote house, where he was bound and thrown into a storage room with a crying Banshee.
• Garr entered the gathering, drank blood, and learned from Sophia that the invitation promised each Vampire at least thirty thousand Galleons.
• Byrd revealed that the job was to kidnap Wade Gray while Dumbledore met with the Headmaster of Beauxbatons, and said an accomplice would bring Wade to the house.
• The Vampires raised concerns about Dumbledore, escape, and being left behind, but greed led them to discuss the operation’s details.

Wade confronted Carlyle about the danger behind his invitation to the wooden house and urged him to explain his plans. Carlyle brought Wade to meet the people waiting inside, despite Wade knowing Dumbledore was investigating the situation.

• Wade and Carlyle walked toward Carlyle's house while reminiscing about their childhood friendship.
• Wade asked Carlyle why his parents had come to Hogsmeade and what he planned to do, then offered his help.
• Wade recalled Dumbledore's warning that Carlyle knew his current parents were not his real parents and might be planning something dangerous.
• Carlyle admitted he expected Wade to be in danger and warned him that Dumbledore might not be able to protect him.
• Wade walked past Carlyle to the wooden house, and Carlyle followed after struggling with whether to attack him.
• A Plump Woman greeted Wade and Carlyle at the house and invited them inside, saying the others had been waiting.

Carlyle helped Byrd and the Vampires capture Wade, hoping to take his Time-Turner, but their attempt to flee through the Floo Network failed. The apparent captive was revealed to be a Magic Golem, and it challenged Carlyle to figure out when it had switched places with Wade.

• Byrd and the Vampires captured Wade, took his Wand, and demanded letters granting them access to his Gringotts vault.
• Carlyle removed Wade's Time-Turner, revealing that he had cooperated with the Vampires to obtain it and had studied A History of Magic.
• Byrd tried to take Wade through the fireplace, but the Floo Network had been cut off, leaving the group trapped.
• The burned Vampire stabbed Wade, but the wound revealed pale, clay-like material, and the captive broke free of his ropes.
• Magic Golem Wade explained that a badge had played back Wade's heartbeat and asked Carlyle when they had switched places.

Wade revealed himself among the Vampires and cast the Sunlight Charm, allowing the Aurors to arrest the survivors. Carlyle was burned, told he faced expulsion and trial, and asked to apologize to Wade and retrieve his parents’ keepsake.

• The Golem trapped Byrd and the Vampires inside the cabin while Carlyle realized Wade had been impersonated.
• Wade appeared beside the Golem and cast the Sunlight Charm, badly injuring the Vampires and nearly blinding Carlyle.
• Tonks, Kingsley, Moody, and the other wizards entered the cabin, and the Aurors arrested the injured Vampires.
• A witch told Carlyle he had violated seven laws, would be expelled, and must stand trial; Wade explained that Carlyle’s Wand had been stolen by the escaped Vampire.
• Carlyle asked to apologize to Wade, see Dumbledore, and retrieve the keepsake his murdered parents had left him.

Wade arranged for Peter Two to infiltrate the escaped prisoners’ group and gave him the new name Locke. At Number 25, Mill Town, armed men waited for the group, but the villa door exploded before they could identify who had arrived.

• Kingsley confirmed that the escaped Vampire was Garr Troka and that he had taken Gilderoy Lockhart, while Wade suspected Peter Pettigrew was connected to them.
• Wade contacted Drayne about Number 25, Mill Town, then told Peter Two to change its appearance before discussing how it would join the escaped prisoners.
• Wade gave Peter Two a clever artificial rat to impersonate Peter Pettigrew and a pair of new eyes, warning that the deception would not fool powerful wizards.
• Peter Two asked for a real name, and Wade named it Locke; Locke said he liked the name.
• At the abandoned villa in Mill Town, armed men waited by the fireplace, and the door suddenly exploded as several figures shouted, “Akayas-Tomio!”

Carlyle reflected on how he uncovered the truth about his fabricated past and tried to use Hermione’s Time-Turner, only to discover the one he had was a fake. As an Auror escorted him to collect his belongings after his crimes were exposed, he noticed Hermione nearby wearing a faintly glowing golden object.

• Carlyle recalled how he tracked Hermione, identified the Time-Turner, and planned to use it to change the past.
• He remembered realizing that his supposed parents were impostors and that the Muggle woman reported murdered by a necklace had been his biological mother.
• Carlyle tried the counterfeit Time-Turner, but it did nothing while Professor McGonagall and an Auror discussed his betrayal outside the room.
• The Auror told Carlyle he could collect his things, then escorted him toward the Gryffindor Common Room with confinement bands around his ankles.
• Peeves disrupted the corridor with an ink-throwing prank, and Carlyle noticed Hermione approaching with a faint golden light at her collar.

Carlyle stole Hermione’s Time-Turner, rewound five hours, and escaped Hogwarts with Harry’s Invisibility Cloak and Firebolt. He chose to travel to Carlisle to find his mother, and the chapter ended with him seeing her frail and asleep in a sanatorium bed.

• Carlyle tricked Hermione into entering the Gryffindor Common Room, stunned her, and took her Time-Turner.
• Carlyle rewound time by two hours, stole Harry’s Invisibility Cloak and Firebolt, and enlisted Peeves to lure Professor McGonagall away later.
• Carlyle sent Filch and Professor Snape searching for a fabricated group of Slytherins, then stole Polyjuice Potion from Snape’s office.
• Carlyle rewound time by another hour, escaped Hogwarts through a secret passage, and used the Time-Turner to reach the five-hour limit.
• Carlyle chose to seek his mother in Carlisle rather than travel to Bristol, and found her weak and asleep in a sanatorium.

Wade and Dumbledore traced Carlyle’s escape to a journey far back in time, where he had arranged for his mother to be rescued at the cost of his own life. They recovered Mrs. Annie Johnson, Carlyle’s belongings, and his letter, which revealed why he had sacrificed himself.

• Wade and the others practiced the Patronus Charm against Lupin’s Boggart Dementor until Lupin ended the exercise.
• Dumbledore summoned Wade and explained that Carlyle had attacked Hermione, stolen her Time-Turner, and escaped Hogwarts.
• At a sanatorium, Wade learned that Carlyle had arranged for a doctor to hide his mother and leave a letter and belongings for him.
• Dumbledore identified the body in the morgue as Carlyle by the Auror restraints on its ankle.
• Wade and Dumbledore found Mrs. Annie Johnson living peacefully on a farm, and Dumbledore lifted the doctor’s supposed curse.
• Wade opened Carlyle’s box and read a letter explaining that Carlyle had gone back in time and traded his life to save his mother.

Wade and Dumbledore left Annie Johnson in the care of the Bull family, and Wade offered to pay for her care. Meanwhile, Lockhart and Garr fled through the forest as Locke and a Black Dog followed, with Locke arranging to keep Sirius Black from reaching them.

• Dumbledore arranged for Annie Johnson to live with the Bulls under the name Annie Bull, and Wade offered to provide a monthly care allowance.
• Wade told Dumbledore that sympathy and the sense that he could have suffered Carlyle's fate had motivated him to help.
• Lockhart and Garr escaped into the forest, where Garr used a spell to hinder Aurors tracking them and urged Lockhart to keep running.
• A huge Black Dog followed Lockhart and Garr through the forest.
• Locke followed their route with a gray rat and told it to lead Sirius Black away if he tried to contact them.

After Carlyle’s death, Hermione and Wade tried to ease their grief by tackling the maze together. A Ministry official then informed Hermione that the Time-Turner’s use had disrupted time and that she would lose possession of it.

• Hermione grieved over Carlyle and told Wade she understood why he had tried to save his mother.
• Wade invited Hermione to play in the maze, where they fought its creatures and traps until they felt more relaxed.
• Professor Trocar urged Hermione to rest, but Mr. Broderick Bode arrived with Professor McGonagall and asked her about the stolen Time-Turner.
• Bode said the Ministry had detected a disturbance that would make each day shorter for two weeks, and told Hermione she could no longer keep the Time-Turner.

Hermione gave up her Time-Turner, while Wade negotiated with Bode to build a Golem for the Silent Ones in exchange for an ancient necklace and an end to the inquiry into Carlyle Johnson. Wade and Lupin took Mabel to see Hailey, then the chapter ended as Barty Crouch Jr. appeared among the Dementors searching Britain for criminals.

• Hermione handed her Time-Turner to Bode and chose to drop Muggle Studies and Divination.
• Bode offered Wade membership in the Silent Ones, but Wade deferred the decision until after graduation and agreed to make a research Golem in exchange for an ancient alchemical necklace and an end to the inquiry into Carlyle Johnson.
• Wade, Lupin, and Mabel watched Hailey play, and Mabel chose not to approach her so Hailey could move on without becoming attached again.
• Wade and Lupin took Mabel away on the Knight Bus and encouraged her to hope that Newt Scamander might find a way to help her condition.
• Barty Crouch Jr. appeared beside the Dementors as they rested near an amusement park.

Barty Crouch Jr. offered the Dementors happy memories and proposed they join Voldemort, prompting their leader to ask whether Voldemort was alive. At Hogwarts, Wade finished his exams and learned that Harry had heard a genuine prophecy about a loyal servant helping the Dark Lord rise again.

• Barty Crouch Jr. gave the Dementors a vial of twelve Muggles’ happiest memories and offered them freedom to consume happiness if they joined Voldemort.
• The Dementor leader accepted the memories and wrote, “Voldemort is alive?” in black mist.
• Hogwarts students sat their final exams, and Wade completed Muggle Studies before heading to Divination.
• Harry told Wade that Trelawney had prophesied a loyal servant would help the Dark Lord rise again and darkness would shroud the land.
• Wade urged Harry to tell Dumbledore the prophecy and went upstairs when Trelawney called him for his exam.

After seeing visions of the coming war, Wade identified Barty Crouch Jr. as the wizard who might help restore Voldemort and tried to warn Dumbledore. Distracted by news of a possible treatment for Mabel and other concerns, he repeatedly forgot to mention Barty Jr., and the chapter ended with Luna pointing out the newspaper he had been carrying.

• Professor Trelawney examined Wade's crystal-ball vision, while Wade remembered seeing a snake-faced baby, a cold-eyed wizard, a Dementor, and a corridor ending at a shell-marked door.
• Wade found an old newspaper showing Barty Crouch Jr. being taken away by a Dementor and realized the wizard could be the man holding the baby in his vision.
• Wade went to tell Dumbledore about Barty Jr., but Dumbledore first shared Newt Scamander's proposed treatment for Mabel's Obscurus, and Wade forgot his warning.
• Wade also asked Dumbledore about Broderick Bode's Humanoid Golem commission and Nicolas Flamel's invitation, then left without mentioning Barty Jr.
• In the Ravenclaw Common Room, Luna told Wade the newspaper in his pocket was falling out, and Wade pulled it out and stared at Barty Crouch Jr.'s picture.

Wade repeatedly forgot why he was visiting Dumbledore, but Luna helped him show the Headmaster an old newspaper and report his vision of Barty Crouch Jr. with Voldemort. Dumbledore uncovered a wide-ranging Notice-Me-Not Charm affecting their memories, and Wade realized it could also cause Voldemort’s followers to forget him.

• Wade asked Luna to accompany him to Dumbledore and remind him to show the Headmaster a newspaper, but he repeatedly forgot his purpose along the way.
• Wade proposed that Hogwarts teach students about morals and prejudice before Luna took the newspaper from his pocket and gave it to Dumbledore.
• Wade told Dumbledore that his Divination exam vision showed Barty Crouch Jr. holding a snake-faced baby, whom they identified as Voldemort.
• Dumbledore used a spell to clear the haze from their minds and concluded that Voldemort had cast a powerful Notice-Me-Not Charm, likely using a dangerous object from the Ministry’s Brain Room.
• Wade realized that the indiscriminate charm might make Voldemort’s Death Eaters and other would-be followers forget their master too.

Bode paid Wade for Caspian, an intelligent Golem, and gave him an ancient Stone Necklace that might protect the mind. After Wade struggled to decipher the necklace, Cloak’s mishandling of it caused an unseen object to crack, leaving the Golems waiting for Wade to return and discover what had happened.

• Bode successfully infused a Golem with thoughts, named him Caspian, and heard Wade’s warning that mistreating him could lead to disloyalty.
• Bode paid Wade and handed over the Stone Necklace and research notes, which described the necklace as protection against mental attacks.
• Wade researched the necklace for several days but could not work out how to restore its power or decipher the spell’s proper pronunciation.
• Cloak took the necklace from Wade’s shelf, and it fell during a tussle with Broomstick before Mihail pecked at it.
• Cloak returned the necklace to the shelf, where it struck an object and cracked; the Golems fled before Wade came back from school.

Wade investigated the damaged Rune Stone and continued studying the necklace’s runes with Rubik, then unexpectedly entered an endless corridor after falling asleep. Through one door, he saw a mother and child, and recognized the woman as his mother.

• The Cloak, broomstick, and Mihail argued over the broken Rune Stone, while Rubik reasoned that the stone had moved and shattered itself.
• Wade made the Golems face the wall, then worked with Rubik to test and record different spell combinations for the necklace.
• The broomstick provoked Mihail into chasing it, while the Cloak helped Wade organize his research materials.
• Wade fell asleep in the research room, and Rubik and Zoe moved him to bed and prepared his luggage for going home.
• Wade found himself in an endless corridor, opened a door, and saw a mother and child walking along a street.
• Wade recognized the mother and whispered, “Mom...”

Wade woke from a dream about a dying young man, boarded the Hogwarts Express, and headed into the summer with the Stone Necklace weighing on his mind. Meanwhile, Dementors returned to Azkaban after failing to find escaped prisoners or an Obscurus, and one fed on Bellatrix Lestrange and the other inmates.

• Wade was jolted awake by Zoe and Rubik's Cube Golem, then flew to the Hogwarts Express and joined Michael, Theo, Ryan, and Leitch.
• Wade told his friends he planned to visit someone before possibly attending the World Cup final, while the others discussed the tournament and their holiday plans.
• At Azkaban, Burlock received the Ministry of Magic's handover order and learned the Dementors' search had ended because of the approaching World Cup.
• The returning Dementors filled Azkaban, and a ring-wearing Dementor fed on Bellatrix Lestrange and the other prisoners, remaining hungry afterward.

Wade traveled to Hogsmeade to join Dumbledore, Lupin, Scamander, and Madam Pomfrey as they prepared to examine Mabel’s Obscurus and consider a cure. The chapter ended with Wade learning that Felix Felicis could make the surgery more dangerous by steering events toward the loss of both Mabel and the Obscurus.

• Wade read that his uncle Cornelius Davan, a gravely ill Muggle scientist treated at St. Mungo’s, was expected to be discharged within three days.
• Wade told his parents he was going to Hogsmeade alone, then Apparated there and met Scamander and Steven.
• Wade brought Scamander and Steven to Lupin’s home, where Mabel nervously agreed to be examined by Scamander, Dumbledore, and Madam Pomfrey.
• Steven worried that the attempt to cure Mabel’s Obscurus might fail, and Lupin urged him to trust the experts.
• Wade asked whether Felix Felicis could improve the odds, but Steven and Lupin explained that its influence could undermine the surgery and even lead to Mabel and the Obscurus dying together.

After the Obscurus separation spell failed and Mabel’s condition worsened, Dumbledore used Gold Powder to stabilize her while Wade proposed entering her Mental World to persuade her. Dumbledore tested the Stone Necklace in Steven’s and Lupin’s Mental Worlds, confirming that intruders could be expelled and that strong hostility could provoke a powerful response.

• Scamander told Lupin that separating Mabel from the Obscurus had failed because she was unwilling, and the spell had accelerated the Obscurus’s attack on her.
• Dumbledore spread Gold Powder over Mabel to slow her breathing and heartbeat, while Wade offered to enter her Mental World and speak with her.
• Dumbledore entered Steven’s Mental World with him and was expelled unharmed when Steven tried to feel hostile toward him.
• Hailey arrived to help Mabel, and Dumbledore entered Lupin’s Mental World to test its defenses.
• Lupin relived the memory of Greyback attacking him as a child and blasted the Greyback Dumbledore had placed in the maze, causing the Mental World to shatter and waking them both.